Roadmap

Roadmap

This outlines the current plans for the mod's development. Its thoroughness and accuracy are both questionable - take this all with a grain of salt.

• 1.2.0 (Coming of the Vanguard, 26.10.2017)

  • Restores the Bluuhbi, finally restoring all of ABEM's content

  • Revamped research grid

  • Return of boarding parties

• 1.2.1 (04.02.2018)

  • Reworked cargo resources, converting most of them to secondary global resources

  • Reworked orbitals using a combination of a GalCiv3-esque core-module system and standalone orbitals

  • Revamped planetary defenses that can actually threaten an invading force

  • FXAA antialiasing

  • Various Bluuhbi fixes and improvements

  • First release to be simultaneously accessible to both Steam and non-Steam users through the newly-developed SR2 Mod Manager (link leads to latest version as of the last roadmap update)

• 1.2.2 (02.08.2018)

  • Fixed a number of key bugs from 1.2.1

  • Hybridized with Shores of Infinity for AI improvements, galaxy rescaling, and various smaller enhancements.

  • Ported various smaller enhancements from DOF (in those cases when they were not already in SoI).

  • Improved shield mechanics based on DOF's Shield Mitigation system

• 1.3.0 (The Khalerii Endeavour, hopefully Q1-Q2 2020)

  • The Khalerii - another Vanguard race emphasizing industrial capacity and attrition warfare, capable of rapidly replacing lost ships and losing them just as easily

  • First release to require the SR2 Community Patch

• 1.3.1 (hopefully a few months after 1.3.0, if at all)

  • Hopefully resume the Power/FTL revamp initiated back in ABEM 0.5.0

• 1.4.0 (Situational Gravity, hopefully Q4 2020 or early 2021)

  • Add another Vanguard race with a focus on subspace and gravitational manipulation

  • Add some form of hero system (might delay until 2.0.0)

• 2.0.0 (Vengeance of the Overlords, hopefully sometime in 2022)

  • Overlord invasion

  • New tech, including a new FTL method

  • Large-scale specializations tailored to each race, similar to the Rebellion system from Sins of a Solar Empire

• The fuuuuuuuuture (AKA things I'd like to do eventually)

  • Story campaign covering the rise of the various empires and going all the way through to the Overlord invasion

  • Various singleplayer or multiplayer scenarios or galaxy layouts (might be sprinkled throughout previous releases)

  • Tutorial revamp, probably tying into the campaign above (I'm hoping to give each race a couple of missions at minimum, so that gives me plenty of time to introduce the quirks of each species; Mono may wind up having the 'basic' tutorial due to being the first race to get on their feet chronologically)