The fourth episode of The Long Dark can already be played from beginning to end - Igromania

Studio Hinterland has already released three episodes of the story campaign Wintermute his famous survivalist The long dark – and the first two twice, redoing them for the version Redux… And now she told how work is progressing on the fourth episode, which will take place in the area of the Black Stone prison.

According to the developers, the episode can already be played completely from beginning to end. And now the authors of the game can assess how solid it looks, what should be added, redone, or, on the contrary, removed in favor of the atmosphere of the narrative.

The studio especially notes the difficulties the animators faced during the quarantine: instead of an equipped studio, they had to improvise with motion capture at home and spend a lot of time on manual animation of movements and facial expressions.

The work on the content of the episode will last a couple of months after which the developers will be engaged in testing and optimization. Nevertheless, this stage can already be considered final. And the writers are already preparing the fifth episode so that work can be continued immediately.

The studio is already starting to think about the future life of The Long Dark, and first wants to know from the players what they would like to see after the end of the story campaign.

In the meantime, the developers have reported that sales of the game have exceeded 5 million copies. Another 3.5 million players came after the free distribution to Epic Game Storeand also thanks to the subscription Xbox Game Pass… Thus, the audience of the game is about 8.5 million players.

The fourth episode of The Long Dark can already be played from beginning to end – Igromania

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