With 'Fury, Then Silence' now out, that just leaves one chapter remaining in Hinterland's plans for story mode updates. Speaking of, Hinterland say that in the coming week's they'll talk more about 'the future of Survival Mode, next-gen enhancements, mod support, and other things we’re doing at Hinterland.'
Quite a difference from the extremely solitary and quiet survival mode. It sure looks like this episode will involve dealing with a lot of people on either side of this prison standoff. Hinterland have previously said that Episode Four runs about seven to ten hours of playtime and includes an hour of voice-acted cutscenes. The story does a swell job of directing you through each map area at the proper pace and with a more directed approach to gathering food and equipment. I found I always struggled a bit getting past certain hurdles in the sandbox mode.
The narrative bits are quite nice though. I'd been quite into The Long Dark's survival mode sandbox even before its story mode episodes began launching.
