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It's in Finnish, but auto-translated subtitles should help our international friends

Been doing these compliations for many majors now and people have always liked them, so here you go again! 😃

Antti's message on Discord:

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Hi! Here's a development update and some recent news:

**Back in Business**

I originally planned to have this 2-3 week continuous break this month, but since there are so many miscellaneous task on weekly basis that require my attention, this plan isn't possible as long as there's still just one developer.

This being said, I instead decided to approach this development break in a way that I have been taking few days off here and there but I'm now mostly "back in business" related to full time development and working with the upcoming game content.

**Miscellaneous Tasks**

Given the successful launch (~300k copies sold), I was surprised how many small things are related to this "launch aftermath". These topics range from accounting, taxes, banking and in-general gathering business knowledge that is linked to sudden change of company revenue and scaling.

All these topics are definitely positive problems, but since this was my first time launching a game, I had no prior understanding how many meetings and consulting was needed to gather that necessary business knowledge.

However, I should have now all the legal stuff prepared and once those first Steam payments start rolling at the end of this month, I can start making some major moves to scale up the production and development speed.

**Patch 0.1.2.0**

The next and most likely final patch before the Build 2 (Q3) will be a patch called 0.1.2.0. This patch is roughly ~75% done and includes some major backed improvements, audio optimization, RAM optimization, bug fixes and bunch of missing content that didn't make it to the release build.

Related to this patch, I'm now also pretty much up to date with all the bug reports and contact emails which was quite overwhelming thing to push through, but now for example my email inbox is reduced from ~11K unread emails / bug reports to roughly ~500. In other words, I'm finally catching up with the upcoming information.

Thanks to everyone who have provided feedback and bug reports, many of these topics will be addressed in this upcoming patch and Build 2.

In terms of modding, this patch will probably break a lot of existing mods, especially those that are linked to custom audio setups, but most of those should be still relatively easy to fix. This patch will also be placed to the experimental first, so before overriding the public game version, people / modders can test the build on experiment branch.

**Build 2 Pre-Production**

On top of the topics above, I have started the Build 2 pre-production which involves prototyping the Nomad features and overhauling the AI system. I have already tested multiple Nomad features in sandbox / debug environment and no major issues so far.

This Build 2 pre-production phase will probably extend to June, but after that those existing prototypes will be transformed to game-ready features and implemented to actual Nomad models, voice acting and so on.

**Road to Vostok Merch**

Multiple preparations have been done with the official Road to Vostok merch. If everything goes to plan this merch store will be opened on Q3 at the same time when the Build 2 releases later this year.

The goal with this merch is mostly linked to brand building and providing some high-quality clothing, accessories and "collector" products related to this game.

More info about the merch products will be shared as soon as I have "field tested" each of those products, meaning that they are indeed high-quality and can withstand rough handling 🙂

**Shelter Competition Voting**

There's still little over a day left to vote for the finalist and your favorite shelter. Once the voting ends, three shelters with most votes will be awarded with Savotta merch kit and I will contact each winner personally for mailing details.