Grey Zone Warfare, a brand new extraction shooter in the identical vein of Escape From Tarkov, has obtained its first updates following its latest Steam Early Access launch, with two hotfixes trying to handle among the greatest points gamers have encountered thus far.
Hotfix 1 launched the identical day as the sport’s launch, and glued numerous issues inflicting server crashes, anti-cheat points that had been stopping gamers from becoming a member of servers, and a bug that precipitated gamers to spawn with out head, garments, or the power to safe containers.
Hotfix 2 launched Could 2, addressing GPU-related sport crashes and including the power to wipe characters, after which gamers are in a position to undergo character creation and select a faction as soon as once more. The wipes are irreversible, developer Madfinger Video games warns.
Regardless of the makes an attempt of Hotfix 1, gamers are nonetheless reporting numerous spawn points like spawning and not using a head or garments. Madfinger Recreation’s said on X that it is actively engaged on an answer.
Regardless of “Mixed” reviews on Steam, Grey Zone Warfare is definitely the sport of the second. It is presently the top-selling sport on Steam, with Madfinger asserting greater than 400,000 copies have been sold so far. It is also rising up the Steam top-played charts. As of writing it is simply shy of breaking into the top-20 video games on the platform by way of concurrent gamers.
Very like Escape From Tarkov, Grey Zone Warfare is a tactical FPS the place gamers drop right into a warzone and battle each in opposition to NPCs and different gamers in an try to extract with gear and loot. Gamers can select to hitch certainly one of three totally different PMC factions, however be warned: solely gamers on the identical faction can group up. Fortunately, gamers can now re-select their faction through the character wipe perform added with the newest hotfix.
Grey Zone Warfare’s recognition is barely being helped by latest controversy surrounding Escape From Tarkov, which has seen its neighborhood flip in opposition to it following unpopular bulletins from developer BattleState Video games. The embattled developer tried to promote unique entry to PvE mode for Escape From Tarkov as a part of a $250 version of the sport, regardless of house owners of a earlier version being promised all future DLC.
BattleState Video games has since walked again its preliminary plans and apologized, with the developer stating it did not “foresee” the detrimental response to locking Tarkov’s PvE mode behind a $250 paywall. The studio is now trying to win again gamers by providing the PvE mode free of charge (however granting entry to it in waves) and eradicating a controversial perk of the $250 version, precedence matchmaking. Whether or not or not BattleState’s apology resonates nonetheless stays to be seen, however it appears many gamers are keen to maneuver on to greener pastures, and for a lot of meaning giving Grey Zone Warfare a strive.