[OFFICIAL][ROADMAP] Project Plan for 2023 and Release Cycle

[komioski]

Happy Geheimnisnacht Eve Heretics.
Its our 10th anniversary!

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This post is made every year to explain in detail the roadmap and any changes made to it as well as to firmly establish some relevant information for the community on progress across all our projects.

As always I highly recommend you join the Official Discord to keep up to date and catch any teasers.

I'm very proud of just how far the game has come and delighted to see so many fans still playing after so long. The last few years have been productive, but haphazardly so, thanks in large part to the worldwide pandemic and the somewhat surprising release of CK3. These past few years however have allowed things to settle down for us to get our affairs back in order and form a good routine to deliver on the long terms goals of the project.

Since I have assumed management of the project, we have yet to miss a major deadline, or fallen behind on a milestone. I have delivered on numerous promises made on planned features as well as performance and balance changes, and have built a network of contributors and dedicated Warhammer fans to help along the way. I am still confident that I can finish v2.0 of the CK2 version of the game by the end of 2024 (roughly 2 more years of development).

At which point it may just be the greatest Warhammer Fantasy game of all time, completely free thanks to Paradox (admittedly DLC is another story).

This post will have no new or relevant info to our CK3 projects, those will be covered next year for our Patreons and we will make our first official showing at next years ModCon.

If you missed this years ModCon, you can find a dedicated channel on our discord. I had a lot of fun in the modjam and was blown away by some of the reveals. We also welcomed members of the industrious Imperator modding community into our ranks to help breath some life into the sunset game.

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The past three years of development have tackled a lot of our most important systems and balance issues with the factions in the Old World, while creating the template for everything that will follow for the other factions, we have a few major pieces to finish and then more minor mechanics which will come sporadically during later milestones. Generally though everything after v1.4.0 should begin to pick up the pace. There are still plans to rework all the portraits and to get unique unit models in-game for all factions, these will come in time and are tied to no particular milestone. Most likely, they will happen after release, or else push development past 2024 by a few months. There are also plenty of projects that are not listed here that are either being researched or being tested before being approved. As well as secret Ideas and projects that we simply want to save for the WOW factor on release day. Later milestones are a bit more empty primarily for these reasons.

I recently announced a Patreon Exlusive "Expanded Gameplay" Submod, you can find out more in the STATE OF THE GAME post.

Based on community feedback the #1 requested feature at the moment is for performance enhancements above all else. I have been aware for years of the performance issues and have dedicated major development resources to addressing it with much success, the game is now stable enough to host over 25 players at a time for hours (at speed two/three) and I can reach year 2250 in an observe game in record time compared to 3 years ago. I spent numerous days before release in the Validator and can confidently say this is our most stable and balanced release we have pushed so far in our decade long history! But its still far from perfect.

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This year I have consumed the entire patch cycle with a major performance overhaul that will address several key weak points in the game engine and codebase. I have also been documenting every single event and decision completely. This work will continue next year. Before resuming the traditional milestones.

I will outline all the notable changes in a separate STATE OF THE GAME post. For now, I'll give a general overview of where things stand.

Realistically, progress is somewhere around 40% complete. I began by jumping from section to section of the code base as I liked to keep me working on new things and stop boredom from creeping in from working so long in a vacuum with little to no input. Thankfully, a wonderful group of SVN testers has grown as they slowly grew tired of waiting for a public release. To facilitate this for those having difficulties with the SVN setup I overhauled our GitHub for early access testers to stay up to date.

As the year passed I began to focus on player facing changes first, things such as Artifacts, Buildings, Retinues, Validation issues and Bugs, and so on. To facilitate a playable release, for now this will continue into the new year until all of it has been overhauled and documented. This should leave us somewhere close to 65% complete. Ill then use the next patch cycle to focus on events and decisions which should bring things very much close to complete. We can resume the normal milestone plan from there with a focus on only new mechanics since the groundwork for all factions will have been laid.

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WHG 2022 ROADMAP
DECEMBER COMMUNITY WISHLIST UPDATE
Everchosen extended chain and 1.3.7 hotfixes
Patreon exclusive "Expanded Gameplay" SUBMOD v1.0

WHG 2023 ROADMAP
MARCH UPDATE
Performance Rebuild second pass

JUNE/JULY UPDATE
Performance Rebuild third pass

OCTOBER HALLOWEEN UPDATE
Wonders overhaul

DECEMBER COMMUNITY WISHLIST UPDATE
Patreon exclusive "Expanded Gameplay" SUBMOD v2.0

WHG 2023 ROADMAP
JANUARY
Roadmap update

MARCH UPDATE
v1.4.0 Milestone

JUNE/JULY UPDATE
v1.5.0 Milestone

OCTOBER HALLOWEEN UPDATE
v1.6.0 Milestone

DECEMBER COMMUNITY WISHLIST UPDATE
Patreon exclusive "Expanded Gameplay" SUBMOD v3.0

WHG 2024 ROADMAP
JANUARY
Roadmap update

MARCH UPDATE
v1.7.0 Milestone Complete
v1.8.0 Milestone
Merge "Expanded Gameplay" SUBMOD

JUNE/JULY UPDATE
v1.9.0 Milestone

OCTOBER HALLOWEEN UPDATE
v2.0.0 Milestone

DECEMBER COMMUNITY WISHLIST UPDATE
Whatever you want! Then I'm done.

WHG PROJECT
COMPLETE
- v1.0.0 - Legacy Release
- v1.0.1
- v1.1.3 - Vampire Wars
- v1.1.5
- v1.1.6
- v1.2.2 - Ruinous Powers
- v1.2.3
- v1.2.4
- v1.2.5
- v1.2.6
- v1.2.7
- v1.2.8
- v1.2.9
- v1.3.0 - Chaos In The Old World
- v1.3.1
- v1.3.2
- v1.3.2
- v1.3.3
- v1.3.4 - Winds of Magic
- v1.3.41
- v1.3.42
- v1.3.5 - A Cold Tyrant
- v1.3.51
- v1.3.6
- v1.3.7 >> CURRENT Release
PLANNED
- v1.3.8 - Performance Rebuild
- v1.3.9 - Performance Rebuild, Wonders, and bug fixes
- v1.4.0 - Pirates, Adventurers, Colonies, Ogres

WHG PROJECT MILESTONES
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Milestone One: Vampire Wars - v1.1 >> COMPLETE
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- Empire vs Vlad Gameplay (Geheimnisnacht)
- Update Buildings and Retinues across the old world for balance
- Organization and Formatting of files
- Wonders
- Bloodlines
- Duels
- Societies
- Warpstone
- Mordheim
- State Troop laws and Retinues
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Milestone Two: Ruinous Powers - v1.2 >> COMPLETE
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- Chaos Offmaps
- Automatic Battle Magic
- New Game Rules
- Ruler Designer
- Beastmen
- Beastmen Offmap
- Chaos Factions
- Chaos Wastes overhaul
- Daemon Princes
- Warbands
- Cultists
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Milestone Three: Chaos in the Old World - v1.3 >> CURRENT
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- Old World vs Chaos Gameplay (Storm of Chaos)
- Update Buildings and Retinues across the game world for balance
- Magic system
- Colleges of Magic
- Organization and Formatting of files
- Bretonnia Overhaul
- Kislev Overhaul
- Tilea Overhaul
- Eastalia Overhaul
- Myrmidens Overhaul
- Norscan Overhaul
- Pirate Overhaul
- Border Prince overhaul
- Vorscan Overhaul
- Ogre Changes
- Eonir
- Naval Combat
- Undivided Stuff
- Society overhaul
- Magic Power Places - Phase One (oghams, leylines, waystones)
- Doom Changes
- Spells
- Interface Overhaul
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Milestone Four: Foundations - v1.4
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- Colonies
- Pirates
- Ogres
- Adventurers
- Great Hunts
- Artifacts/relics
- More Magic
- More Wonders
- Naval Overhaul
- Empire Late game mechanics
- Human polish
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Milestone Five: Greenskin Menace - v1.5
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- Orks
- Goblins
- Hobgoblins
- Dwarves
- Chaos Dwarves
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Milestone Six: Children of Asuryan - v1.6
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- High Elves
- Dark Elves
- Wood Elves
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Milestone Seven: Death and Deserts - v1.8
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- Arabyans
- Nehekharans
- Desert Nomads
- Cathayans
- More Vampires
- Nagash
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Milestone Eight: The Ancients - v1.9
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- Albion
- Skaven
- Lizardmen
- Slaan
- Amazons
- Pygmies
- Secret Things
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FINAL VERSION: WH: Geheimnisnacht - v2.0
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- Polished
- No Known Bugs
- Localized fully

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To everyone reading this and to my Patreons especially. Thank you for playing the game, whether its your first day or your 10th year!

Cheers,
-Komioski

 

[qer]

The performance updates sounds exactly what this mod needs, excellent news !

 

[IgishaA]

I'm glad you'll keep updating this for CK2 since I'm still playing it
CK3 is still lacking in content compared to CK2 and at this rate I don't think it will surpass it anytime soon

 

[Ottoman Master]

Is 1.7 a secret? Love the work btw.

 

[komioski]

Is 1.7 a secret? Love the work btw.

Good eye! Yes, it is.

 

[zonkie]

Thank you for the hard work!

 

[Shael666]

Just wanted to say thank you.
When you took over, I would have been content with an update to play the mod with a latest version of CK2. But you really are improving on the basis of the mod.
I think I spent a good hundred of hours on WH:N the last few weeks.
Thank you for your work, and I will wait patiently for the update on the dwarves!

 

[__WEIMER__]

Good mod. the only thing that needs to be done better is optimization and everything will be cheeki breeki

 

[Pungabi]

Hopefully we get Ind in CK3 version as I can wait