Gray Zone Warfare, the open-world tactical shooter, could be getting a long-awaited feature soon. The game’s next major update beyond 0.4, which was revealed Friday by MADFINGER Games, should accommodate deeper hideout mechanics and in-game crafting – and that’s 0.5 that we’re talking about.
This builds on the faction base feature and the combat outpost elements added in recent months, giving players more of a home inside the world of Lamang. It also allows for further customization and ownership, empowering players to not just buy and find gear, but to craft it with their own hands (digital hands) and resources.
Gray Zone Warfare Players Are Getting a Home Away from Home
Plenty of extraction shooters out there use hideout mechanics, and even though Gray Zone Warfare isn’t officially an extraction shooter anymore, that doesn’t mean it can’t adopt the concept.
MADFINGER Games just unveiled everything that’s coming with the 0.4 update in Gray Zone. It’s a substantial patch that changes many of the game’s core elements, adds 100 new tasks, new movement mechanics, biomes, and more. In the words of the team, it effectively makes it feel like a new game.
But there’s much more planned, of course.
In the 0.5 update, which doesn’t have a date at present, players are expected to receive a hideout mechanic and crafting. The details are thin, but based on what we can assume compared to other, similar games, this will give players a customizable place to call home in Lamang.
It’s unclear if the hideout will be incorporated within the faction bases that have existed since the game launched in April 2024, or if they’ll be more dynamic and can be placed around the game world.
In ARC Raiders, an extraction adventure title, the player’s hideout is located in Speranza, a safe zone away from the trials and tribulations of ‘topside’, and it’s the place from which they launch missions into the game’s maps. That’s also how it works in Escape from Tarkov and Incursion: Red River, for example.
But Gray Zone Warfare has proven more than once that it’s willing to break molds and be innovative when it comes to core concepts, so the notion of a hideout mechanic could be blown out of the water by MADFINGER Games.
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Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.
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