Before we enter the new year for good, let's stay in 2021 for a while. Of course, we’ll not do a summary again - we did so in the last report. Instead, we want to take a little look at the end of the year. Because then we received from you two of the best gifts that a small studio like ours could receive from its fans.
In a few hours we will welcome 2022. We’re very, very excited about what the new year will bring us. We hope you do too, especially if you've seen our roadmap. However, before we look into the glass ball in search of an answer to the question of what awaits us in the near future, we would like to go on a journey with you. 12 months back to be exact.
A lot of work and new challenges await us in the new year. So we use this holiday season to relax a bit and gain strength for what awaits us in 2022. But before we went for a well-deserved rest, we wanted to give you a present. And it's quite big one. Because we gave you a free update called "Ghost Town"! And it gives you the opportunity to visit a completely new location - Pripyat Residential Area.
Another fantastic addition to the Chernobylite world in the form of a DLC will soon appear in our game. The pictures that we showed you in the previous report prove that we’re not exaggerating - this is going to be a big deal. We actually planned to surprise you by showing the contents of the new DLC before we officially release it into the world. That’s why we sent our correspondent to take some photos of the new location for our report. However, we made one miscalculation...
In the previous report, we gave you a riddle. We wondered if you could recognize the location in the pixelated image that will be featured in the upcoming DLC. Most of your answers were correct. Yes, it was the "Lazurny" Pool (Басейн "Лазурний") located in the 3rd microdistrict of the city of Pripyat. As a reward, we will tell you a bit about this place.
We’ve reached the hundredth report! We've come a long way - Report #1, which we released on October 24, 2019, is dedicated to the first week after the game's release in Early Access. A few years later, we celebrated the premiere of the full version of the game, the console release, and the first DLC. A crazy and very tiring journey, but extremely rewarding at the end.
If you think that our job consists only of sitting at our desks and typing lines of code on the keyboard, you are wrong. Do you remember our behind-the-scenes materials from the creation of Chernobylite? We made several trips to Chernobyl to collect a lot of photos and videos, which then served as the basis for our game. Then came the pandemic and we had to suspend our trips to this place...
Every day we get a lot of comments about you playing Chernobylite. We’re especially pleased when you write that we’ve effectively scared you. Often you add a screenshot from your favorite spooky location or scenes in the game. But we still didn't have enough: we not only want to read about how spooked you were — we want to see it as well! That's why we spent some time on the internet looking for your reactions to our jumpscares we set on you.
