Hello! It's been already over a month since the early access release and I want to express my gratitude to all of you for your support, feedback and ideas during that time. I am trying to keep updating game often, release updates and fixes to have the game constantly improving. I will continue doing that. I hope that you enjoy how the game changed so far! On that occassion, I'd like to show you the short-term roadmap of some of the content I plan to release. By short-term I mean that I plan to deliver below items by the end of February 2024 :) It is a challenging, ambitious but possible to achieve goal. They will be coming frequently, in iterations, week by week. The below list is not in particular order, however in general you could expect that items at the beginning of the list would be delivered before the items at the end of the list. Also this list includes only big items and while I also want to deliver other changes, I think it would make the list very unreadable if I included everything here.

Social Engineering

There are already some prerequisites completed for social engineering, but more needs to be done. It is because I don't want it to behave like any other tool, and be more like a process with (sometimes) unexpected outcomes and pitfalls. NPCs have to react dynamically, based on your information on them, and their statistics.

More balancing changes, immersive "tutorial"

The goal is to remove the current tutorial and replace it with more immersive missions that are part of the game. Also different tools versions with more dynamic help system (like tooltips or better suggestions for commands) that will allow to tailor the level of hints for yourself.

Shops and hacker groups

New shops systems, better use of tor regarding the market and shops, as well as different hacker groups with unique benefits, that you can join.

Quality of Life

More quality of life changes, like: terminal improved copy&paste, better prompts for metaexploits and sudo su (which I know sometimes are confusing and misleading), webpages overhaul, saving the commands output to the files, better commands autocompletion, UI scaling, and more.

New missions and new missions types

New content for missions, also change with how the missions work: introduction of dialogues, missions will not come in automatically, and will not complete automatically, as it is for some of them now. Different channels to get the missions and interact with npcs - like dedicated websites, IRC, and so on.

In-game programming

I know some of you are awaiting this and eventually it will come - ability to create your own scripts and automation in-game. I have multiple options and ideas to test before I decide details, but in high level I want to build two scripting systems: with writing a code, and visual programming with blocks. You could use one or another, depending on your preference, or both, or not use it at all. At this moment my stance is that game will not require programming to progress and it will be optional activity.

Better networks system

Introduction of subnets, and less linear progress over the network computers, honeypots and traps for player. In short, more realistic way how the networks are built.

Introduction of disk sizes, file sizes, tools use change and different OS, new tools

Currently you can use your tools on all computers. I want to change it so the tools are normal in-game files and are required to be uploaded to the host before you can use them there. This will introduce new depth of the gameplay, so called "living off the land" attacks, reverse shells, better privileges escalation and more. With different OS, not all tools can be executed on any OS, so you will have to adjust your tactics. Disk size would be expandable (similarly as CPU and RAM).

Introduction of 3D world

As you can see on the general roadmap, there's an "open world" gameplay planned. This item is a first step towards it. It's going to introduce a new level of gameplay complexity and tactics that you could use. With that, some of the existing systems have to change: hardware delivery, police and game over system etc. [hr][/hr] I will try my best to allow most of those changes to work with the existing save files, although I don't think it's possible with all of these. I will let you know in advance when the upcoming update will require new game and I will enforce it with the update. Thank you for reading and for playing the game. As always, I encourage you to reach out to me (Steam Discussions or Discord) if you have any questions, concerns, issues or ideas.

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