Development Roadmap as of 19th September

[Cael_Aislinn]

Alpha (Late February 2016)
Gamemodes / Jobs

• Insurrection gamemode stage 1 (reskinned nuke ops with findable insurrection base)
  
• Restricted/reworked jobs list
  

Overmap

• Basic overmap capital ship flight
  
• Basic overmap shuttle flight
  
• Basic overmap combat
  

Species

• None
  

Weapons/items/gear

• UNSC weapons and equipment
  

Map

• Cruiser map (just basic stuff needed for gamemode)
  

Beta (Mid 2016)
Gamemodes

• Battle Royale stage 1 (Covenant ship vs UNSC ship pvp)
  

• Insurrection stage 2 (integrate traitor gameplay)
  

Overmap

• Capital ship combat
  
• Boarding
  
• Pelican, longsword
  
• Multi-tile vehicles (longsword, pelican, seraph, spirit)
  

Species

• Covenant Elites (playable, no NPCs)
  

Weapons/items/gear

• No remaining SS13 weapons and equipment for UNSC crew
  
• Insurrection gear and equipment
  
• Basic Covenant gear and weapons
  

Release (Late 2016/Early 2017)
Gamemodes

• Insurrection stage 3 (several NPC star systems to search for insurrection base)
  
• Battle Royale stage 2 (dogfighting, improved boarding)
  
• Great War stage 1 (explore randomised star systems and fight Covenant/Insurrection ships/bases)
  

Overmap

• Slipspace drive for capital ships
  
• Dogfighting
  
• Improved boarding mechanics (Covenant parasite ships)
  
• Planetary away missions
  
• Friendly space stations to rearm/repair/refuel at
  
• Friendly NPC ships that can be traded with, enemy NPC civilian ships which can be raided.
  

Species

• Grunts, hunters, jackals (NPC only)
  

Misc

• VR training
  

Post Release

Covenant Update (TBA)

• Playable grunts, jackals, hunters
  
• Additional weapons, armour, vehicles
  
• Additional ships for UNSC and covenant (cruiser, frigate, corvette, carrier)
  
• Covenant equivalent of the Great War mode
  

Space Update (TBA)

• Explore, mine and trade onboard a human freighter
  
• Change sides and do the same onboard a yonhet or jackal freighter
  

Forerunner Update (TBA)

• Flood!
  
• Fortress/shield worlds
  
• Sentinels
  
• Monitors
  
• Prometheans?
  

[Sonosfree1]

Prometheans please! And the flood can be like a blob, a people, but he s the flood mother who make the spiders(NPC) factory for take the corposes and turn him in a flood(NPC)

[BDpuffy420]

Prometheans please! And the flood can be like a blob, a people, but he s the flood mother who make the spiders(NPC) factory for take the corposes and turn him in a flood(NPC)

All in good time friend, we just need to take things one step at a time.  But a flood gamemode was already talked about ages ago, we sill have the sprites for them.

[Cael_Aislinn]

Almost 4 months behind schedule, but we just ticked off all the stuff for Open Alpha status! (hooray). We still need to go through a variety of QA checks and internal tests, but I'm hoping we can get the go-ahead for official public launch event sometime within the next few weeks!