- Regular update of the full version is out now! - 23 March 2023
Hello everyone, Thanks to the great feedback we received from you we are bringing a new update with fixes and new features requested by players. Improvements: Shopping with multiple player units Automatic healing is activated at 33% of unit health or is used as an extension to amount of health a unit has - thus it can withstand blows that would kill it before Optimisation and proper spawning of enemies in Mission 01 Optimisation and improved behavior of enemies in Mission 02 Improved overall gameplay and enemy behavior in Mission 05 Inter-level transferring limits for guns and ammo fixed and optimized Improved gun and properties of Assault vehicle Vehicles don`t slow down when damaged. Although reasonable, in fact, it harms gameplay Improved Anika`s paralyzation particle effects Highlighting control desks of city gates in Skirmish Mission 02 Rebaked lightmaps for Mission 04 Fixed bugs:…
- Regular update of the full version is out now! - 31 January 2023
Hello everyone, Our top priority is to deliver a great gaming experience to our players. In this effort, we are bringing a major update with improvements and fixes based on the performance of the game among players after lunch. Many thanks for your feedback, you are helping us to perfect this game. Addressed issues: Bugs: Knocked-out enemies rarely fell into the surrounding geometry in such an unfortunate way, that they got invisible. Searching issue in "Petrol Quest" from mission 02 Units carrying a mobile-mounted gun would lose it under some rare conditions. Automatic healing now works differently. Before a unit had to survive an attack to apply a medkit afterwards. Now a medkit in personal inventory effectively extends the unit's health. The unit can take damage, that would be lethal otherwise. Silent eradication of stunned enemies is now really silent. Unwanted open fire after Knock…
- Gray Zone Leaves Early Access on Steam Today - 16 December 2022
Hello everyone, We are delighted to announce that Gray Zone, a story-driven tactical RTS with stealth and RPG elements, is leaving Early Access on Steam today. The full version of the game costs $19.99 USD. The story campaign contains 8 - 12 hours. The games provide both action and a stealthy mode of play. The gameplay is enriched with two skirmish missions. The original soundtrack for the game costs $2.99 USD. You can look forward to at least 15 hours of entertaining gameplay throughout 7 story missions and 2 challenging skirmish actions. Enjoy a deep story and dialog, eye-catching fauna and flora, and a custom vision & elevation system. Don't forget to share your feedback with us. Best Regards! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1207320/ Community Follow our Steam page and stay tuned for upcoming updates. Report any bugs & share your ideas with us. Subscribe to the newsletter on our o…
- GrayZone full release announcement! - 6 December 2022
Hello everyone, We are thrilled to announce that GrayZone, a story-driven tactical RTS with stealth and RPG elements, will be leaving Early Access on Steam on December 16. Gray Zone is the adventurous journey of a slave in the hands of a corrupt government who turned against his masters. The game features memorable characters, fun dialogues, action, and lots of voice acting. You can look forward to at least 15 hours of entertaining gameplay throughout 7 story missions and 2 challenging skirmish actions. Enjoy the atmosphere of the rough wasteland of planet Deleon and join the company of rebels to strengthen their difficult position. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1207320/ Community Follow our Steam page and stay tuned for upcoming updates. Report any bugs & share your ideas with us. Subscribe to the newsletter on our official web page. Follow us on social media:
- Developers Diary #03 - 27 January 2022
Hello everyone, After a few months of hard work, we’re heading towards the finalisation of our project - Gray Zone. It`s exciting that it will become the Gold/Final, completed version of the game, so you can look forward to a brand new story mission with all included game features. The game is scheduled for release at the end of February. There’s a lot of game-play testing ahead of us to eliminate any issues that may be found. Together with polishing of the environment we’re finishing the last story comics as well. Mission 7 – Camouflage The Union`s humanitarian convoy, sent to help the rebels turned out to be fake. Their intention is to secure the research centre surroundings and to seize the rare artefacts and information contained there. A scout team of rebels fall into the trap. Your goal is to cross over the river which is heavily guarded by Union troops, save the scouts from enemy…
- GRAYZONE PLAYTEST - 14 July 2021
GRAYZONE an RTS tactical game is holding a playtest on Steam. It is a good opportunity for players to decide whether the game is worth it for them. It should be noted that the beta version of GRAY ZONE does not include all of the game’s content. Players will only have access to a few missions, though all playable operators and mechanics are available. HOW TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE GRAYZONE PLAYTEST The GRAYZONE playtest will run for a short period on Steam before starting on G Round on the 29th of July, 2021. To get a Steam Key, head over to the GRAYZONE steam store and request access. Rewards will be distributed in discord and randomly across social platforms. So try to follow on social media as well REWARDS GRAYZONE playtesters will be able to get rewards such s steam keys after providing a thorough review of the game. The rewards can be earned after playing the game and following our soc…
- GRAY ZONE MAJOR UPDATE - 9 July 2021
Embark on the great adventure of Valern, a slave in the hands of a corrupt government, and explore colonized planets as you command your heroes to complete story objectives. Gray Zone features 2D Artwork and comics that chronicle the story’s progress between missions. The game also contains its own electro-orchestral soundtrack. As the development of Gray Zone progresses, mission 7 and Skirmish will be integrated into the current chapter of the game. 3 additional chapters will be released as standalone, episodic game content. • New Update • Game size reduced by 3,5 GB (video subtitles) • Weapons can be stored in quick inventory • Units collect experience and are leveling up • Heroes can earn specific skills and enhance their effectiveness in battle • Automated looting • Item exchange between two units based on their locality • Small not interactive animals implementation/snake, fish, bu…
- GRAY ZONE DISCOUNT 40% - 9 July 2021
DISCOUNT 40% There will be a 40% discount from Jul 9, 2021, 10:00 am PST - Jul 16, 2021 10:00 am PST Embark on the great adventure of Valern, a slave in the hands of a corrupt government, and explore colonized planets as you command your heroes to complete story objectives. Gray Zone features 2D Artwork and comics that chronicle the story’s progress between missions. The game also contains its own electro-orchestral soundtrack. As the development of Gray Zone progresses, mission 7 and Skirmish will be integrated into the current chapter of the game. 3 additional chapters will be released as standalone, episodic game content. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1207320/ Community Follow our Steam page and stay tuned for upcoming updates. Report any bugs & share your ideas with us. Subscribe to the newsletter on our official web page. Follow us on social media:
- Developers update - 13 May 2021
Hello there once again! As we mentioned once, we stopped updating the image with what we’re planning on doing for each month. We found it too static and it didn’t engage our community as much as we would like so we made a decision. We came up with another way of how to inform our players about what’s going on in our game development kitchen. We’re sure many of you heard about Trello, which will be, from now on, a place for you, our players, to see what’s really going on. You will find new ideas that we have, small things we’re working on and others there. As always, we love your feedback, which is why you can easily write your ideas, complaints or show us some love through Discord. If you want to access our Trello Roadmap click here or you want to be part of our Discord community click here. We’re also about to show you a bit of what we’ve been working on these days. New items Working o…
- Developers Diary #02 - 30 April 2021
Hello to you all! It’s been a month since we last updated you on what we’re working on. To sum it up, we devoted a lot of time to the behavior of the enemy while the alarm is going down. We’re successfully working on the 7th mission of the first chapter and there are many small changes that were implemented. There is a big testing and bug fixing period ahead of us for May. We also believe that there will be a new major update available on steam next month. To jump right in, this is what we’ve been working on! Catching the eye of your enemy by simple stone throw. If the player prefers sneaking, there is a slight chance that in some moments the enemy will need to be distracted in order to look the other way. That’s the most secure way for players to sneak unseen. But pay attention to this warning, we do not recommend throwing more stones one after another, this will cause the enemy to spo…
- Developers Diary #01 - 26 March 2021
Greetings our fellow Rebels and followers! First of all, we would like to say big thank you to our fans for their long-lasting support and endurance while waiting for a new update. We’re working on a major game update which is taking much longer than we were expecting. When we say major, we mean that we’re on our way to advance GrayZone’s gaming experience. What’s more, we are starting to write Developer Diaries, which will be an follow up on Roadmap or any other updates to summarize, what we’ve done and what you will see in next updates. Present mission content was based primarily on action but the update we’re about to give you will not only offer the action but also “stealthing” experience. This will bring a new gaming experience along with collecting rewards in “XP” form. For this, we needed to imply bigger changes on missions such as adding bushes for hiding, adding objects, stones…
- Dev Update - New mission coming soon & 30% OFF - 23 December 2020
Greetings our fellow Rebels and followers, We've been working hard on some new stuff and we're excited to share it with you. So let's dive right into it, shall we? Bad news - a lot of time wasted Most of you might not have been aware of it, but in the last 7 months we've put a lot of time, energy and effort negotiating with various investors / publishers about financing our first game. We've attended many events and discussions that costed us a big chunk of time we could have put elsewhere - into the development of course. Due to this matter, a lot of content we've wanted to release this year was either delayed or cut out completely. Unfortunately, we haven't signed contract with any of the related parties as their terms & conditions were unfair and unfavorable. Good news - development status However, we have good news for you as well. We dedicated whole December into the production - m…
- Vote for us on Steam Awards 2020 - Outstanding visual style - 25 November 2020
Attention Rebels, Steam Awards 2020 are behind the corner and we invite you to give us a vote for an outstanding visual style. Many talented graphics artists had worked on this project to bring this high quality and we believe Gray Zone offers unique visuals. Our graphical pipeline We want to give you some insights on how we've created the graphics for Gray Zone. Technology used We used the latest software available in computer graphics such as Autodesk 3ds Max, Substance Painter, Blender, Adobe Photoshop & Pixologic ZBrush. Models for most 3D objects were made in 3ds Max but some were made in Blender. ZBrush allowed us to create high-poly models and sculpt them with greater details using specialized masks. Textures were made in Substance Painter and Photoshop. PBR textures Every 3d object in Gray Zone contains a texture which represents it's color and behavior in various light conditio…
- More hero customization & strange forces fix Update - 6 November 2020
Hello again rebels! After a long and sometimes neverending battles in gamedev, we would love to share with you a small victory in form of new update! Let's dive in! Hero customization We've been working so hard to bring you better hero customization. Every hero has now his own personal inventory and you can preview him, how he'll looks like when he has items equipped. Bugfixing Lots of strange forces were with us, so we have decided to fight them. We have fixed navigation problems and load and save problem. You can now only loot bodies, when you are next to them. We've fixed weapon stand strange behaviour. Special thanks to SetherusDPS for this bug report. Have you found more bugs? Feel free to contact us anytime. New features: New exchange / shop / inventory GUI Added model preview Personal inventory of a hero Bugfixes: Fixed Navigation problems Fixed load and save bugs Srange forces a…
- Change of plans: Release update, G.Round program & 30% discount - 27 October 2020
Dear rebels, We, the Gray Zone Team, as well as you - our brave protectors of freedom and peace, have fought hard battles. And for the right cause, no doubt. After all, we are in this together, aren't we? With this short announcement, we'd like to inform you about some important changes concerning the date of a full release. What has changed Brand new tutorial mission: Play as The Union! We've decided to create a completely new 'Tutorial/Intro' mission where you play as our antagonist - wait for it - The Union. What we are talking about is a 'bigger' mission where the most basic and advanced mechanics of the game will be explained in detail. Why tutorial mission? Entire available feedback and player experience that we have at our disposal has been considered. Clearly, most players are not aware of all the capabilities that the Gray Zone offers. There are situations, where the player kno…
- Rab under attack! Update 1.4: Hire mercenaries, trade loot and more! - 29 September 2020
Rebels, unite! Your sanctuary, the Rab, is under attack. Do you have what it takes to defend it from waves of enemy forces? Thank you! First of all, we'd like to thank anyone who have tried our demo in the last couple of weeks. With the new update, the demo has been also updated and a new shop is now available in the first story mission. You can find it in the camp where Breg takes you. Skirmish #2 Task in hand, commander. Your job in this situation is crystal clear. Defend the Rab at all cost and protect its civilians. Six heavy machine guns are at your disposal. Hire additional soldiers in the heart of Rab if you need to. You can also exchange your credits for ammunition, medical equipment and even weapons! An enemy attack may come from any direction. Each subsequent wave is stronger than the previous one. City gates - there is a control terminal for each gate, interact with it to ope…
- Let's Play with the devs: Join the developer's stream! - 18 September 2020
Developer's stream We are streaming a campaign from the Gray Zone today. Night Rab and Underground Tridium mines are featured according to the plan. We may continue even further if there is an interest from your part. You will find the stream directly on our Steam page. 35% OFF until September 22nd We are also putting Gray Zone on a sale during the Digital Dragons event and the special deal will last until September 22nd. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1207320/ Community Follow our Steam page and stay tuned for upcoming updates. Report any bugs & share your ideas with us. Subscribe to the newsletter on our official web page. Follow us on social media Stay sharp and frosty!
- Gray Zone FREE DEMO available now + 35 % OFF - 16 September 2020
Attention attention, the wait is finally over and the FREE DEMO is now available to public. The sale with a 35% off for the full game is also live and going to last until September 22nd. FREE DEMO Our initial decision to release a free demo has originated from the Digital Dragons 2020 ONLINE which Gray Zone has qualified for. Definitely check out the event. There are many interesting games, speakers and developers from around the world. However, the demo will not be available only during this event which is from 15th to 18th of September. The demo will be accessible indefinitely. If you like the feeling of the Gray Zone & you're a fan of an RTS & tactics, definitely try it out. 35% OFF until September 22nd We are also putting Gray Zone on a sale during the Digital Dragons event and the special deal will last until September 22nd. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1207320/ Community Fol…
- Gray Zone joins Digital Dragons: Free demo & new content - 2 September 2020
Hello everyone, you haven't heard from us for quite some time but no worries, we were working on some exciting new stuff. Digital Dragons 2020 ONLINE We are pleased to announce that Gray Zone will be joining Digital Dragons 2020 ONLINE in a time frame of September 15-18 2020. Digital Dragons is the leading game industry event in Europe. From over 200 submitted games, only 66 qualified and Gray Zone is one of them. Chosen games have also been automatically nominated for The Best Indie Game Award. Free demo Concurrently with Digital Dragons, we will be releasing a free demo on September 15, 2020 on Steam. The demo will include one full story mission from the first chapter. The first mission introduces some core game mechanics to the player step-by-step via interactive tutorials so it shouldn't be too hard even for casual players. Next major update Version 1.4 is coming soon. We can't talk…
- Scalable GUI, enhanced AI behavior & Roadmap Update - 23 July 2020
Greetings rebels, We come with yet another patch, 1.3.2 that comes with new features, AI enhancements, few tweaks and bug fixes. IMPORTANT: Bear in mind that we are going for a two-weeks holiday and we won't release a new update sooner than in the middle of August 2020. Until then, stay sharp and enjoy summer! New features: Missile launcher / RPG now estimates future positions of the target NPCs controlling a weapon in a stand react to disturbance behind their back. they leave the stand, sort out the situation and get back to the weapon, if they survive (until now, units in this situation were desperate and unable to react to enemies behind their back) Scalable GUI - you can now set the size of GUI elements to fit your own preference, no matter the resolution you play with Added + & - buttons to adjust minimap size within the GUI and a button to reset the rotation (added in patch 1.3.1)…
