Roadmap – Page 2 – MMO Fallout

The APB: Reloaded team put out its 2020 roadmap this week detailing the kind of updates players can expect in the coming eleven months. Chief among the updates is the upgrade to Unreal Engine 3.5 which has been in the works for quite some time. CEO Matt Scott has been maintaining a thread on the official forums logging where the team currently is at with the update, as well as what still needs to be fixed before the upgrade can go live.

Further updates include quality of life improvements and balancing the shotgun. For more details, check out the official website below.

Source: APB Reloaded

Frostkeep Lays Out Early Access Roadmap For Rend

It’s been two months since Rend launched into early access, and this week the folks at Frostkeep Studios laid out their roadmap for the rest of the year and into 2019. Among other updates, the goal for the road ahead includes combat improvements for more impactful gunfights, streamlined features overhauling crafting, inventories, and storage, legendary artifacts based in Norse mythology, dynamic siege content, and refined social mechanics.

The roadmap can be seen here, and the fall developer letter here. The team at Frostkeep also plans on releasing a Trello board for community issues where players can see the status of bug reports, opening up a new avenue of communication between the base and the developers.

Rend is currently in early access on Steam for $29.99.

Funcom Celebrates Traffic Surge, Plans Roadmap

This may come as little surprise to gamers, but Funcom today is celebrating the initial success for Secret World Legends, boasting that the game is at the highest player activity in years.

“We are very encouraged by the initial success of Secret World Legends; it has been years since we last saw a surge in player activity like this in the Secret World universe and it is a very good start leading up to Steam launch on July 31^st,” says Funcom CEO Rui Casais

For players more interested in seeing what content Funcom has in store, you’re in luck. Along with the news of the population surge, Funcom released its roadmap for the months to come. This week marks the launch of elite dungeons with scaling difficulty.

Later this month will see the release of the Transylvania story missions with the special event to unlock Tokyo either in July or August and related world content. You can check out the roadmap at the link below, which goes through to next year.

(Source: Roadmap)

Albion Online Will Be Buy To Play, At Least At The Start

The latest Road to Release from Albion Online has given us a look at what launch has in store for the MMO, and that includes quite a hefty and elongated beta period. According to a post on the main forums, the closed beta has been extended to at least August 2016, with the launch hopefully following close behind. In addition, the team has decided to bench the idea of launching as a free to play title, and instead Albion Online will be buy to play.

For this reason, we are putting the free to play plans on hold as well. Making the game ready for a free to play model would take up significant development time which we would much rather use to make a better game. Free to play would also create a lot of risks for the game – spamming, botting, world too small, etc – which we do not want to take if it can be avoided.

Update plans include a significantly expanded world with diverse biomes, more unique cities and dungeons, and a reputation and crime system similar to that found in Ultima Online.

(Source: Albion Online)

DC Universe Unveils 2013 PvP Roadmap

DC Universe is set to release the next big DLC pack, Origin Crisis, which admittedly focuses mostly on PvE encounters. Until then, Sony Online Entertainment has some big plans in store for lots of steamy hero on villain content in the coming year. For a couple of weeks now, heroes and villains all around Gotham and Metropolis have been enjoying the brand new ranked matchmaking system, which runs in the background collecting match results and using that data to create more balanced teams. Expounding on ranked matchmaking, Sony plans on implementing arranged matchmaking, allowing groups to bypass the on duty system and set up matches against other groups directly. You’ll be able to skirmish against your friends, or recreate your own version of Crisis on Two Earths, all within the confines of structured PvP.

Also coming is the introduction of seasonal gear. Tiered PvP gear that is replaced with new gear once a season begins. The goal, according to the announcement, is to allow players to progress without increasing gaps between seasoned veterans and new fighters, as well as giving players a fresh start every so often. Finally, in order to reduce queue times, the team has announced map rotation. Essentially this means that the number of available maps will be reduced, however they will be cycled on a regular basis. With five maps available at any time, Sony hopes that this will allow them to add new PvP maps over time without the issue of spreading the base too thin.

Sony is welcoming feedback to any of the proposed changes. You can find links to their specific forum threads below.

Please join Mark [Tunso] Halash for a discussion about PvP progression and Rewards: [Link]
Please join me, Jens [Spytle] Andersen, for a discussion about the Map Rotation: [Link]
Please join Steve [Why] Wyckoff to talk about the Ranked Matchmaking feature: [Link]
Please join Larry [Captain Liberty] Liberty and give him hell about Arranged Matchmaking: [Link] (okay, maybe just talk normally to him about it.)

(Source: DC Universe)

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