In the last 30 minutes I have had the most marvellous gaming experience of my entire life (and I’m an old dude, played Doom when it first came out on 4 x 3.5" floppies). Nothing happened at all in the game session - no encounters, no machines, no missions, no looting. Nothing.
Except it snowed.
I am in the farmlands region and was near Stora Dyrbo just walking along a road in the afternoon when it began to get dusk. It was a very quiet day and I’d been walking maybe 20 minutes and not seen nor heard a single machine, so it was a bit of an odd day already.
Then in complete silence the first snowflakes of the year began to fall and for a moment I stopped and watched the snow. The light began to fade as dusk came quickly on and seeing the lights of a farmhouse up the hill ahead I cut across the stubble fields towards some warmth for the night. It began to snow more heavily and then I realised the snow was settling.
SETTLING!
I have never seen this ever before in a video game. The ground textures were changing dynamically as the snow fell and soon the bare brown fields were covered with snow patches, the grasses and shrubs turned white and the trees wore a mantle of snow.
I just stood there watching the scene transfixed. I think this game is possibly the finest ever created where the weather, lighting sound and general mood of the countryside is concerned.
The light had almost completely gone now and the world was totally silent, just like it really is in snow. My footfalls crunched through the snow and the real me sitting at my computer actually shivered!
When I got to the farmhouse I saw with relief there was a good stack of firewood in the porch and I went around the rooms making sure the outside doors were all closed. The only things I couldn’t do were draw the drapes and light a fire.
Then it stopped snowing, the clouds rolled away and the moon came out. It was magical. I went outside and took some photos before it got too cold and I retired to a warm bed for the night.
I presume this is the Havock engine doing all this amazing stuff, but a massive thank you to the guys at Avalanche as well for such an immersive game and one of the finest gaming experiences of my life.
Recently I revisited a viewpoint in the mountain regions with a couple of benches, an extinct campfire, and an absolutely marvelous view over the surrounding landscape. It was at night and suddenly the full moon broke through the cloud cover. I almost began to physically feel cold! I turned towards the fireplace and it became selected. I clicked and a bonfire began to lit. These sceneries and details like this … well done, guys!
I think we should be able to light fires in houses, just for the fun of it and for moments like that. Some bonfires already light, so the coding already exists…
The first time it rained for me in the game I thought, “Oh no!” and looked to get indoors, wondering if the clothing pick-ups included a kagool! Perhaps they should. I thought there’d be a game downside to being wet through - perhaps losing speed running or shivering while trying to aim. That might work actually - after all, we put on gasmasks. A downside to being wet through in November in Sweden?
I never use roads, but always the woods, which in snow are magical…
I know its a lot to ask but it would be great if there were more variations of the players footsteps linked to the ground type. There’s a lot of muddy fields and puddles so the sounds of wet mud and water splashes as you run through these would be very cool.
I know it’s been said dozens of times on this thread, but thank you so much developers! This game is amazing, it plays well (besides some little bugs), and it looks amazing! I believe this game has so much more potential, and this is an amazing start! Thank you!
Thanks to the devs for making an amazing game. Don’t listen to all the haters saying generation zero is a bad game. You guys are doing an amazing job. Keep up the good work.
I have to agree, once I got everything running this update has been very fun to play through. It’s just what the game needed. It’s got a little bit of everything that people have requested, and the missions and world are crafted very well. Only cons; some horrible voice acting. But that’s forgivable
Just curious, do you have the voice acting in Swedish? The English version is pretty alright. I play it in English because it’s my first language and it helps me understand the story better.
And to me, even if some of the English isn’t the best, that’s forgivable because English wouldn’t be the character’s first language. I just love it when Benny says ‘Shit’. It makes me laugh. Not because of the voice acting, but more so his accent.
Nearly 750 hours played within 3 Years. One and a half story written. The Midsummer Incident will be continued soon. What i have to say. The game is amazing and a real piece of artwork. Lots of thanks to the @devs dev team…
I’ve no idea how many hours I’ve put in, I started just after launch on PS4, I’ve now switched to Xbox X mainly now, the game has something I don’t find in anything else I’ve played, sure games such as the last of us 2, pretty amazing to play also story, however Gen Z has something very unique.
I hope at some point like everyone we have a new Island, or maybe be even a fresh Gen Z sequel, who knows
A very different, realistic open-world experience like no other from day one. Thank you team for your creativity, and ongoing dedication to the game -kv
751 hours of gameplay and I’m still finding new places and new situations. Hard to say that about most other games.
As a lover of first-person shooters and the open-world experience, you guys nailed it with this game! Thanks Devs for an awesome game!
On a side note, I have no problem with paying for DLC if the new content keeps coming. You’ve built a great thing here!
some years have passed , i was a beta tester and have been here for ages. annoyed you on the streams and on forums , and am very grateful for gen zero. ty guys.
Played for over 200 hours. The game is a real masterpiece. The graphics are amazing, it’s impossible to break away from this game! Often I want the game world to become real. I would like to be in it…(Without the robot war, of course)
I beg you, don’t stop updating the game and adding new features and locations, tasks and characters! Madly waiting!
PS: Clouds, sunset, sunrise, snow, leaf fall… No comments…
I want to extend a heartfelt thanks for getting rid of the falling through ground bug. No idea when it was fixed or how, but I haven’t seen it happening for a long time now, and no reports about it either.
You folks have made a great game and I thank you for it. What I love the most is the NOT NORTH AMERICA vibe in everything: the cars, the weapons, the forest, the village names, the buildings, the voice acting, the SAAB fighters, the Stridsvagn wrecked everywhere, and everything else. So cool to not see USA USA USA everywhere (no offense to my American cousins - love you guys - but having you as a next door neighbor is pretty overwhelming sometimes).
I think it contributes to the “on edge” feeling I have throughout the game, the setting is unfamiliar to someone like myself who lives in Northern Canada (except for the weather, that’s VERY familiar unfortunately).
I’m also a huge fan of Swedish made firearms and have owned a Model 96/38 Mauser, AG42B, M67/89 Rolling Block, and a model 1600 Husqvarna amongst others at one time or another, so getting to use an AK4 and AK5 along with a Swedish K Submachine gun in a video game is a real treat.
