These are split into main story missions and option supply sidequests. At the beginning of a new day at the base, you will send yourself and your allies to different areas around Pripyat to gather supplies and complete missions. The best sections in Chernobylite are the more scripted moments where they throw more interesting scenarios at you.Ĭhernobylite takes places on smaller confined maps that you will be exploring on a daily basis. The poor AI doesn’t help either, forgetting about you in a mere minute after losing sight, and not calling in backup making the penalty of getting caught fairly minimal. It’s functional, but it doesn’t have enough depth to keep it engaging, especially later in the game, when the discouraged method, combat, becomes a much better option. To be honest, much of the gameplay is actually designed to emphasise stealth, with basic line of sight and sound mechanics. Thankfully, there are recipes you can craft which completely negate it. Any enemy you kill will degrade Igor’s psyche, causing an annoying screen effect to appear and not much else. Shooting your way out of the problems is usually discouraged. This makes Chernobylite feel a little bit samey, especially towards the end of its twenty hour campaign. Outside of a couple of NAR soldier variations, you get a couple of Chernobylite-infected enemies known as Shadows and a completely underwhelming final boss fight. Firefights are usually really short, thanks to the low amount time required to kill but this keeps every single encounter exciting. You can lean out of cover using the E and Q keys, allowing you to safety line up a headshot. The gunplay has been vastly tweaked, for instance. Whilst it’s a very story-driven game, just like Farm 51’s previous effort Get Even, the gameplay experience has been massively improved, which is good news, as Chernobylite is also significantly bigger in scope. It does fall on the cheesy side at times, with some over-the-top voice acting and plot twists that were just a bit too predictable, but I really enjoyed the story regardless of these setbacks. What ensues is an engaging and compelling story with plenty of twists and turns, going from more personal stories to espionage, and even delving into the supernatural, as Igor finds out the truth about Tatyana, the Chernobyl incident and the element Chernobylite complete with its own dimension Igor can travel through. He returns to Pripyat after finding evidence that his wife Tatyana, who went missing under mysterious circumstances, is still alive and being held at the reactor.

You play as Igor, an physicist who has previously worked at the Chernobyl Power Plant, and an expert on the Chernobylite resource. Pripyat is now occupied by a private military force known as the NAR, right when the mysterious element known as Chernobylite is discovered.

The game is set thirty years after the devastating Chernobyl incident.

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