Appearing on Valve’s digital services Page You Are Empty, an old-school shooter set in the Soviet Union in the 1950s, is getting an update. It was released on October 27, 2006, and the remake is scheduled to be released on October 27, 2026, exactly 20 years later.
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The “Ultimate Edition” of “You Are Empty” will provide full support for modern PCs. The author claims to have eliminated numerous graphical bugs and crashes present in the original version, and reduced loading times “About 800%”.
Important technical improvements in the updated version of “You Are Empty”:
- achievement support;
- Supports modern gaming controllers;
- Full support for all current resolutions;
- Adjustable player field of view (FOV – Field of View);
- Supports up to 8x MSAA anti-aliasing and up to 16x anisotropic filtering;
- Improved window mode;
- A single standard has been adopted for rendering on Nvidia, AMD, and Intel graphics cards;
- No more installing third-party components and outdated Windows APIs;
- Reduce camera shake.
Among the many technical improvements, the author of the reprint singles out running. This feature was added due to player complaints that the protagonist’s walking speed was too slow.
The game takes place in an alternative Soviet Union, Kyiv, in the 1950s. After a secret experiment to create an ideal society fails, the metropolis’s entire population disappears and horrific monsters begin to roam the abandoned streets. The player takes on the role of a surviving Soviet officer and must alone explore the city that survived the disaster, fight off the mutants that inhabit it, and try to repair everything.
You Are Empty: Definitive Edition will be released on PC on October 27 (steam,EGS). The shooter will feature all official localizations of the original game, including full Russian translations (text and dubbing).
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