The release date is the point in time after which the game is considered released, which usually means that it can already be downloaded and tested if you purchase a licensed copy. For example, the release date for Last Day on Earth: Survival is May 25, 2017.

V Lately Increasingly, developers allow you to buy the game in advance - make a pre-order. In response to the support from potential buyers, who believe so much in the success of the project that they give money for it even before the release, the developers share various bonuses and exclusive materials. It can be a soundtrack, an artbook, or some mini-addons for the game.

Thus, a pre-order actually allows you to buy the game before its official release, but this does not mean that the announced release date loses its meaning, since you can fully play only after the release.

Why do you need to know release dates for games?

If only because it is more convenient to plan your time and finances. If you know, for example, when Last Day on Earth: Survival will be released, then it will be easier for you to navigate: set aside money to buy it in advance, plan things so that you can immerse yourself in the game as soon as it comes out.

A lot of gamers keep track of game release dates with special calendars and feature articles about the most important releases of the month or season. You can find both on our game portal site.

How do developers choose when to release?

They are guided by many factors at once. Firstly, it is important for them to know that their target audience will be able to immediately join the gameplay, so games are less likely to be released during the holiday season, as well as in those months when work is usually all hands on deck and students have a session.

Secondly, for a successful release, developers are trying to compare their plans with the announcements of potential competitors. For example, if we are talking about a shooter, then releasing it simultaneously with the new Battlefield or Call of Duty is not very reasonable.

Thirdly, the release date indicates the so-called deadline - the very line after which the game is already ready. This means that it must be completed within the stated time. Alas, this does not always work out, and therefore the release date of the game can be shifted one or even several times.

In addition to this, the release of Last Day on Earth: Survival on PC and consoles may differ - often developers try to release one version first, and only then move on to the next.

— new game in the genre of Survival ("Survival") for Android and iOS from the Russian studio of developers "Kefir!". The project has not yet left the beta test stage, but the number of players is already in the hundreds of thousands. Especially for recruits and those who have been in business for a long time, but are still not aware of some features of the game, we have prepared this material.

General:

• To change the name of the character in the equipment menu, you need to click on the blue icon above the indicators of hunger and thirst.
• At the very beginning of the game, having made a backpack, go to the Alpha bunker. The corpse lying at the beginning of the location has a map to enter it, and in the bunker itself you can freely take useful equipment.
• Save energy when returning from a field trip. It is most convenient to play in the mode: run to the place of the farm (extermination of opponents), have fun and fill the backpack, go home on foot - nothing will happen on the way, which means that the game can be turned off by doing other things.

• Don't let the character stand idle - he can simply die of hunger and thirst, which will not happen if the game is closed. In the inactive state, nothing happens.
• Do not try to shirk housing construction and crafting (creating items) in general - without this, you cannot survive in the game.

Building:

• If possible, place two campfires, two smelters and two garden beds - this will allow you to cook food twice as fast, process stones / scrap metal and grow carrots.
• Be sure to make a radio and meet with the merchant more often, sometimes for next to nothing (boards, stones, metal) you can buy useful weapons from him.

• Improve the floor for specific workbenches and furniture - for some things you will need a floor of the second and third levels, and some buildings need bare ground at all (the floor is improved in build mode by clicking on the desired square and the up arrow, the icon with a cross - to remove ).
• Walls are improved and demolished similarly to the floor. Strengthening them is only worth it if you plan to meet hordes of zombies.
• The zombie horde that advances on the base every day destroys only the walls, without touching anything else. However, if you leave the game 10-15 minutes before they appear, and return after another 10 minutes, only one wall will be demolished. It is worth meeting a zombie horde only with a large supply of bandages and weapons, although there is little point in messing with them. Benefit - only experience and modest loot (prey from the body of the slain).
• When enclosing the area of ​​\u200b\u200byour dwelling with stakes, it is worth placing them in at least two rows, since they do not detain zombies, but only injure them.

• Place as many drawers in your home as you need to store all the items you don't know about, including smartphones, flashlights, flash drives, watches, and so on. Many items can only be used after reaching high levels.
• The best way not to get lost in a lot of boxes is to place them near the production and store the appropriate items there (food is closer to the fire, iron is closer to the smelters, and ropes and leather are not far from the dryer).

Battles:

• An ax with a pickaxe is not only a tool, but also a weapon - in hard times they can be picked up and beat the enemy much faster than with fists. Although you can arm yourself with them in peacetime, thereby freeing up a slot in your inventory for something more useful.

• Before leaving for battle, check the condition of the equipment. If its resource is close to the end, it will be very prudent to take a replacement with you. Of course, in green locations, you can hope for luck and undress someone along the way, but in orange or red, such a hope can cost you your entire supply of first-aid kits or your life.
• Always keep food, bandages or a first aid kit ready - all this can be placed in the equipment slot under the backpack, then in research mode a special button will appear above the attack button quick use selected item.
• Shoes are often more useful than other items, as they significantly increase the speed of movement, allowing you to take your feet away from runners and other evil spirits.

• The "crouch" button (lower right) allows you to become less visible to zombies and forest animals. In this mode, movement speed is reduced, but you can sneak up from behind and deal triple damage with one hit (damage depends on the weapon in your hand).
• Lure zombies out of the crowd one by one. It is only necessary to slowly sneak up to the group until one of them or even two of them rushes in your direction - we run back, wait for them and bring them down.

• When entering the red level locations, you should wait - after some time, toxic zombies will come running to you. It is better to wait and kill them immediately at the entrance than later they will run into the battle with other ghouls.
• After death, you can take things from your own corpse only if you died in your home location. Accordingly, in other zones, be always ready to lose everything forever.

Collection of resources:

• After clearing the map, the routine collection of resources can be given to automatic mode (button at the bottom left). And in order not to recruit everything in a row, you can use the “split” button to fill all the free inventory slots with the necessary materials. Automation will only have to increase their number, without improvising with the assortment.
• Do not overuse the throw away - when the backpack is full, you can hide something in the corpse of a dead zombie or wolf, picking it up as the inventory slots become free. For example, having unloaded, you can chop even more trees, and then return and change the ax that has become unnecessary for the logs hidden in the body of the dead log and take home at least 20 pieces more.

• It is not necessary to recycle all resources at the first opportunity. It may turn out that something simple and in a ridiculous amount is missing for the necessary craft - it will be a shame to go to the collection for the sake of this.
• It is better to cook meat and carrots on a fire, but it is necessary to use berries wisely: when raw, they restore health better, and in the form of a decoction on a fire, they quench hunger and thirst.

• It is better not to throw away empty bottles and cans, the former can be filled with water using the Water Collector at the base, and the latter are needed to create a spiked hammer, trip wires and some other items.
• It is not necessary to constantly carry water with you - you can always get drunk before going into battle, immediately leave an empty bottle to fill in the Water Collector and free up a slot in your inventory. In extreme cases, if you get thirsty on a hike, you can hold out on berries. Similarly, with food, you can always get by with raw meat.

• Check your mail every day (the coin icon to the left of crafting) - the developers send you Beans in Sauce and Water. And in the case where you die often, there may be a weapon.

Last Day on Earth: important to know:

• At the time of writing, the online mode in the game has not yet been launched. All players who try to kill you upon meeting you are bots. You can't meet other players.

• Three neighbors are all the same, but with different nicknames. One of them can make a good living.
• Packages from the sky and crashed planes mostly appear when energy drops to 50 and below.
• There is no code for the computer inside the bunker in the game yet, it will appear in the future with one of the updates.

• A motorcycle (chopper), an all-terrain vehicle, a truck and a clan tower cannot yet be made - some parts for them are not yet in the game.
• It’s also impossible to collect a lot of workbenches and weapons - the components necessary for them are located across the river, where you can’t get there without transport.
• It is also impossible to repair things yet, so save powerful weapons for really dangerous locations.

• Before leaving the beta and fully launching the game with an online mode, developers can partially reset the progress of the players. What exactly will disappear and what will remain is still unknown. You can learn about this and much more in the official VK community, where developers publish data on updates and upcoming changes.

Oh yes, if you kill the Thug — without a screenshot it doesn't count =)

Let's start with those things that have already been talked about this week. We changed the chopper assembly recipe - the exhaust pipe was replaced with 4 backpacks. Now you can carry more things. Increased the drop rate of gasoline and added the ability to paint the chopper - 10 skins and 5 paints are already available.

Bunker "Bravo" has been updated and is available for replay. The changes affected the behavior of some zombies. Toxic Acid Spit now not only deals damage, but also stains the player. We remind you that the smell attracts all the undead in the area, and sometimes even other survivors, so we advise you to carefully monitor this parameter.

We continue to work on the development of realism. In this update, we decided to adjust the work of the torch. Now it burns out in the hand, regardless of whether you attack the enemy or not. In order to extinguish it and reduce the wear time, the torch must be removed in inventory.

Let's move on to the technical aspects. We solved the problem with the freezing of the joystick. We continue to work on optimization. Improved the use of weapons and armor in the inventory. You can put them on and take them off in two ways: by double-clicking on the desired item or by transferring to the character. Weapons can also be added to the quick slot and quickly switched during combat.

In the "Settings" section, it became possible to untie an account. We strongly recommend that you be careful when using this feature. In the event that you unlink your account, delete the game or erase data, it will be impossible to restore progress. But this is a suitable way if you want to start the game again (however, remember that all your purchases are also reset).

Dear iOS users, the update will appear in the App Store within 2-3 days. Thank you for your support. Read about upcoming updates in our next blog posts!