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3 years ago
Feature: Chernobyl intentions
Each week, Marsh Davies stalks through the reality-warping anomaly of Early Access and comes back with any stories he can find and/or gets turned inside out by a pocket of non-euclidean space. This week’s precious artifact is free-to-play online shooter Survarium, in which the remnants of humanity tussle over abandoned radar stations and chemical plants, long reclaimed by nature (and other, less natural phenomena). It’s…
4 years ago
Feature: Stalk To Me
The first part of Vostok's grand post-apocalyptic shooter plan, Survarium, has now started inviting batches of sign ups to their beta. It's the multiplayer FPS portion of the game, and as such basically a test of the shooting, running about, and weapon unlocking game systems. It's an experience that will be familiar to anyone who spent time playing first-person games online in the past decade,…
5 years ago
Feature: Who stalks the Stalkers?
Last week I finally got a chance to meet two heroes of the Stalker years, Joe Mullin and Oleg Yavorsky, who are now working hard as Vostok on the free-to-play shooter, Survarium. There's an immediate tension when you mention the F word, and I think the legacy that resides in Survarium means that Vostok have to go that extra mile to prove themselves. Good looking…
Feature: "good-old post apocalypse areas"
Of all the spin off studios that materialised after the disintegration of STALKER 2, it was Vostok who remained most faithful to the vision. This time, though, they're taking quite a different angle. Survarium will be a journey into a zone of alienation with other people along for the ride. It will be co-operative and competitive and very bleak indeed. I spoke to Oleg Yavorsky…
Rising like a hideously mutated phoenix from the ashes of STALKER 2 is Survarium. Although, as is well established in Jim's interview with the team from earlier this year, the F2P MMO is deliberately a very different game. And now it's a game for whose alpha you can register.
6 years ago
Feature: Vostok Interview
When GSC collapsed and seemed to take STALKER 2 with it, there was immediately a ray of light: Vostok, a team consisting of a large section of the original Stalker development team, now making their own game, Survarium. While the art style and atmosphere look astonishingly similar to that classic open-world shooter, what we're looking at here is a free-to-play MMOFPS. Quite a different proposition…
So Survarium - the pre-apocalpytic project that's emerged from the ruins of STALKER 2 - is an MMOFPS. In spite of that, Vostok Games told us that it's the STALKER franchise's "next evolutionary step." The results of a recent Twitter Q&A session, however, have me wondering if fans will soon be cursing evolution in much the same way I do every time I remember that…
Feature: Don't Just Stand There
Yesterday, we all poured one out and strummed our acoustic guitars in the irradiated rain for STALKER 2. From its ashes, however, Survarium has risen. Be warned, though: this isn't STALKER 2.5. It's a brave new MMOFPS world, and the newly christened Vostok Games has no intention of treading water. So then, will it be different? Probably. Will it be excellent? Hopefully. And will it…
The GSC veterans have sent word that they are forming a new studio, Vostock Games, and will be making a game called Survarium, which is apparently a Stalker-like MMOFPS. Stalker 2 itself is "frozen" and the team will be focusing on the new game. They have tweeted: "All those asking about funding etc. That is not the issue. We were unable to secure the IP…
