Road to Vostok

I get the permadeath concept in the Vostok area, but not being able to retrieve you gear is douchy. Makes the game un-enjoyable especially in the early stage. Get snuck up on by a bandit as soon as you leave your stash? Stuff lost. Find a decent weapon/item, head back to your stash, get caught between 2 bandits? Stuff lost. Finally make it through the 3rd day task, have a kid (IRL) ask a random question, turn your head back to the screen? Stuff lost. I already play a game were a single stupid mistake means the end of things....it's called life. I play video games to get a break from that. I'd not recommend this unless you are a psyco that literally doesn't care about wasting hours in a game only to loss everything.

I love these types of games. But this one is too raw. The main problems for me are the AI and general visibility, and they go hand in hand. The game looks great, but it greatly incentivises having a large FOV so you can scan with your peripherals for loot and enemies. On the flip side, enemies engage you from quite a distance, even if a single pixel is popping up above a berm. I've never been so confused about 'where' I am being shot from before in a videogame. RtV desperately needs a 'freezoom' feature for ironsights and reddots, similar to ARMA, so that you engage the AI fairly. I can get the same effect by playing on a lower FOV, but then I get motion sickness. The AI has additional issues other than visual clarity. I mean, at the moment they are so basic that they don't even reload their weapons. A Colt-45 M1911 handgun (with 7 or so in the mag) turns into a machinegun in the hands of the AI because they don't need to reload. Now that's pretty raw.

Road to Vostok has been in early access for about 3 months at the time of writing this. Even in this early stage the game is definitely solid. The game heavily rewards patience and caution. If you rush things, don't pay attention to your environment, and fail to use your situational awareness, you're gonna have a bad time. Taking things slowly, observing your surroundings, and managing risk vs. reward are at the core of the gameplay here. The cool part is that scarcity is also something you have to manage, at times you may be low on food or water, forcing you to take risks you wouldn't normally because you're desperate. In terms of weapons, gear, and gunplay, the developer has clearly done his homework. The gunplay here is fantastic, optics behave realistically, ballistic helmets and ceramic plates have durability and once they're gone they're gone. And armor behaves realistically too. Even with level 4 plates and a helmet on, you can still take damage since they only cover a small area. The game already features a healthy array of weapons and attachments for you to customize your loadout. My biggest critique is in the AI. Enemy bots are ok but not great and their behavior is kind of all over the place. Sometimes they just bum rush you, other times they appear to try and move around behind cover and try to flank. Sometimes they run away, other times they stand out in the open and fight to the death. They'll take pot shots at you from across the map with a pistol they have no chance of hitting you with. It's weird and inconsistent. I'd like to see their behavior more refined with things like a sense of self preservation. Early stage basic bandits in track suits armed with a cold war pistol should be skittish and run at the first sign of trouble instead of standing and fighting to the death. Late stage military forces should aggressively push you. Again, they're ok right now and it is early access so I'm sure it'll get worked out eventually. The game runs well on my ancient PC on lower specs and still looks very good. Sound design is top-notch. When someone starts shooting at you while you're slowly creepy crawling through a building at night - you'll definitely jump out of your skin the first few times. Weather effects add an additional layer of tension, rain and thunderstorms create another layer of noise making it more difficult to detect footsteps. Overall, Road to Vostok is a fun and challenging survival simulator which is in very good shape for early access. All the bones for an incredible game are already there. With a better, more believable AI it has future 10/10 potential.

Важно заметить что игра находиться в РАННЕМ ДОСТУПЕ, что говорит о том, что она может быть сыровата. Графика в игре мне понравилась, особенно понравилась детализация оружия. Стрельба из оружия тоже ощущается приятно. ИИ мягко говоря недоработан, местами перекручен, а местами невероятно тупой. Они двигаются по карте, кашляют, говорят всякие ругательства и конечно же охотятся на игрока. Они ощущаются как болванки для отстрела, но стоит быть аккуратнее. Боты могу заметить вас с достаточно большего расстояния и начать достаточно точно стрелять. В основном пока что вопросы только к наполнению игры и к ИИ. А так намечается достаточно интересный проект-песочница. Где уже сейчас можно рыбачить, а позже охотиться и т.д. Будут добавляться новые НПС исправляться ошибки и т.д. Насчет опасений, что разработчик выкатил игру в ранний доступ чтобы срубить бабла и уехать в закат. Они у меня были, пока я не узнал что разработчик жертвовал карьерой военного и учителя и разрабатывал игру один, достаточно долгое время. Плюс большое количество девлогов врядли он выпускает по приколу.

Absolute bug fest, spent 15 hrs of game play, had level 4 weapon fully upgraded, scope, silencer, looted several air drops, had many rear items, returned to cabin having keys to tunnel and the one for room in school. entered my cabin to deposit items, and game crashed. loaded save and inventory completely empty clothing, backpack , map, gps, slots , everything gone, so am not prepared to sink any more hours into a game when the saves are so unreliable , a bug will leave you with less than a new start.

I was excited when I saw another open world game being developed and put it on my wish list. Unfortunately after installing and playing the game for few hours i was left wondering what the point of the game was. From what I can tell you just need to get from one point to another and kill the bandits on the way, getting better gear along the way, but I found myself running out of ammo in a fire fight and then trying to load the weapon was just to difficult and then when dead I had nothing and had to go out into the map with no way to defend myself.

Solid concept but get rid of Minefield in its entirety

only 10 hours but RTV CO-OP MOD MAKES THIS GAME 5X MORE GREATER THEN IT REALLY IS AND NEEDS STEAM WORKSHOP MODS

not a fun game its really annoying how the gun mechanics work. i know its trying to be realistic and like tarkov but tarkov doesn't have enemies with infinite ammo and aim Bot also i know this is a pretty low take but the permadeath isn't a good feature in my opinion can you just have a game mode where its like DayZ and when you die you spawn somewhere completely different but you're loot will remain where you died or on a bandits back.

really surprised by all the positive reviews. i wont say this game doesn't have potential but in its current state it isn't good at all the big thing that everyone is mention is the enemy AI, it just isn't fun, they'll see you from like a mile away through everything, they don't seem to ever have to reload. literally no point stealthing at all, they'll see/hear you from across the map, opten times you'll be taking fire and have no idea where its coming from cause theyre so far away you cant even see them. do not like how the world, or at least the enmies and loot resets everytime i go in my cabin, i dont know how it could be better but i just dont like how it is. don't like how all the stuff you had on you is just gone when you die, no body or back pack where you died to get it. i guess it's realistic that the enemy would take your ♥♥♥♥, but eh, for a video game it is just unecessarily frustrating. makes it hard to even move to far from your starting cabin because you constantly just running back to store whatever small amount of loot you find in that closest yellow house havent even come close to the end game perma death stuff, i havent even traveled more than like 100 yards from the starting cabin....seeing as how hard it is from the get go i cant imagee being happy about the perma death, spend all this time gathering ♥♥♥♥, cant even imagine how much time it takes becaue i havent even come close to gathering a good set up, i die often and and am just strugglign to find more guns ammo and food to stay above water, so cant even imagine how much time it takes to gather up a good load out to be able to travel far in the world and then be killed and save file is gone, so i just cant see how that is good. again, game is kinda addicting i do want to play it, but i hate it while i play it, has potential, but very rough and bad right now.