Project Winter – Roadmap

To Exit Early Access

Things we would like to complete for 1.0

Player Feedback

We are listening and watching you as you struggle in the frozen wastes, and adapting to the big issues that you bring up to us!

Server Browser

Host your own lobbies, with the option of password protecting them for private sessions with friends. See what the primary language of a lobby is and join the one you prefer.

New ways to interact!

Implement tasks that focus on how players interact with each other.

Traps / Landmine tweaks

Traitors will be able to see the traps placed by their comrade!

Additional Traitor Airdrop Abilities

New traitor airdrop abilities (ex: reveal the survivor’s health bars above their heads)

Drunk & Poison Effects

New visuals and controls for players who become drunk or poisoned

Swapping Clothes

Swap outfits with a corpse and confuse your enemies!

New Items

New unique items that promote interaction, paranoia, and treachery

New Global Events

New events that can randomly occur during a match that affect all players

New Cooperative Actions

Tasks to complete that focus on implementing more co-operative actions for players.

More Combat

Survivors will need to come together and fight against more AI wildlife in order to escape the wilderness

New Interactive Co-Op Objects

A new cooperative action that benefits the survivors, still TBD

High Coordination Actions

Survivors and traitors will have access to powerful cooperative actions that require a high degree of coordination to carry out, with equally powerful rewards

More Traitor Actions

Traitors will have an expanded arsenal of unique contextual actions for interfering with the survivors, enabling them to better slow the survivors down at the risk of being identified

New Items

Implementation of new items

New Weapons

Powerful Automatic weapons, and silent crossbows will be added to the world for those willing to find and acquire them

Truth Serum

A scarce item that will privately reveal another player’s role to the user

Stat Boosters

Items like energy drinks can be found and used to give players extra health, warmth or hunger stats, allowing them to stay out and survive longer

End Game Improvements

Improvements to the end game flow.

Emergency Airdrop

When few survivors remain, they will receive a special airdrop that can’t be accessed by traitors, giving them a chance to repair the objectives on their own or go out in a blaze of glory

Game End Transition

A quick transition explaining why a game is ending will appear (ex: all survivors killed/escaped)

Spectator Mode

Improvements to make spectator mode more engaging

Animal AI Improvements

Improvements to Animal AI

Collision

Adding collision to animals so that they can’t be walked into

Behavior

Improving animal behaviors and path finding

Player Customization

Holiday Themed Items and Progression Tree

New cosmetic skins, special reward drops, and progression trees for different occasions

Audio Pass

Improvements to the game audio and sound effects, balancing volumes and adding more feedback to various actions

Polish

General Polish

Aiming / Throwing Polish

Hiding mouse cursor when aiming a gun or preparing to throw an item

X-Ray Shader - MODIFIED

Changed maps to reduce the number of hiding places instead of adding the Xray Shader. This makes for a better gaming experience based on player feedback.

UI Polish

Overall improvements to the UI in order to make things quicker and easier to understand

Things we want to work on post-1.0 release

Upgrade to latest Unity version.

Engine has been upgraded to Unity 2019

Special Roles

Survivors and Traitors will be assigned random special roles, with unique abilities.

Player Toxicity Management

Tweaks and improvements to the player toxicity management system

Player Rating System

Add a social rating system that allows players to reward each other for playing the game well, with the ability to set a required rating when creating a game. To keep the dinguses out of your games.

Expand Game Settings

Open up game settings so that you can change and set your own preferences when creating a game

Emote System Overhaul

Update the emote system so that players can communicate quicker and easier without the use of a microphone

New Maps

New map tiles and map configurations

General Improvements

General improvements to the game

Tool-tip Improvements

Overall improvement to the tooltips to make things more clear and easier to understand

Intro

Improve intro cut scene to reflect new or changed features

Fall animation (Updated card to match implementation)

Add a falling animation

Statistic Page

Add a statistics page so you can keep track of all your progress throughout the games you've played

New Items

Additional Items Added

Backpack

A craftable backpack that will add an additional inventory slot.

Animal Skin

Animals will drop skin, which is used to create a backpack

Pistol

Cheap & weak but will do the job in a tight spot!

Melee Tools

New melee tools and the ability to upgrade the existing ones to become stronger

Trap Disarm Kit

An item with limited use that triggers all traps within a radius of the player

Booby Trap

An Item that can be used on objects like consoles which cause an explosion the next time someone uses it

Cabin PA System (NEEDS INVESTIGATION)

The ability to set a global message from the cabin that all players can see, to pass information (or misinformation) quicker

Snowmobile (NEEDS INVESTIGATION)

A repairable snowmobile that will allow a driver and passenger to quickly travel the map

Psychedelic / Insanity Effect

A trippy screen effect that will get applied to players under certain circumstances

New Cosmetics

Even more items to make your character look awesome!

Release on Other Digital Stores

Changes to our system to allow us to release on other digital stores.

Port to Xbox

Port Project Winter to Xbox.

Port to Playstation

Port Project Winter to Playstation

Future

Things we would like to complete in the future

Port to Nintendo Switch. (NEEDS INVESTIGATION)

Port Project Winter to Nintendo Switch

Supernatural Expansion

An expansion that will center around supernatural and paranormal themes.

Additional Game Modes

Different games modes to play. New modes TBD

Steam Workshop (NEEDS INVESTIGATION)

Steam workshop enabled, exact function TBD