Roadmap Update November 2024

awesome, Love all of your work!

Polar Potato

Not at the moment but it’s something we’re looking into

Oskar Potocki

With Imperial Vehicals, is there any thought towards vehical transportation similar to 'RimThunder - Liberty of Delivery' I enjoy Vehicles however after getting a helicopter the time cost needed to get a convoy of armor to any quests makes them difficult to use.

Polar Potato

I’m curious to know what bits and pieces from The Witcher hunt mod will be included in Medieval 2. Are you guys willing to share any insight? Also. What about the creatures added from Vikings. Are they returning? This might be the wrong blog to post this question on. If so my bad.

Jenambus

With all the new xenotypes and factions, one thing that got to me was the ammount of additional factions. Maybe, a possible VE mod could be a small faction working not as a nation state, but as an outcast faction for different xenotypes? i.e. 1/5 Saurian, 1/5 VE Pigskin, 1/5 Boarskin, 1/5 Lycan and 1/5 VE Hussar ? Possibly called Rough Outcasts, and friendly variant Civil Outcasts ?

Jiří Bohaček

diplomacy expanded finna be' aweseomsauce 😁

Wargamer

sounds spooky

dj

what the hell is a flesher

dj

Oh we have quite a few members! I personally write design documents, come up with mods, write implementation tasks, manage the programmers and do all the art. Coding is handled by RedMattis, Erdelf, Sarg, Taranchuk and Arquebus. Xml is handled mostly by xrushha. Reel does our screenshots. Bread mo sometimes helps with art when I'm too overloaded with work.

Oskar Potocki

Hey, can I ask how big your team is? I'm baffled by the quality and rate of the new content but also I'm amazed by how you keep coming up with new stuff to implement.

Geiles Lama

I see that, it's a nieche within a nieche so putting that much effort in is not a good priority.

Sindre Måge

See and that’s the thing, you’re already stating the obvious: that some sort of new exclusive content to that tech lock playthrough is necessary. We don’t really want to put in the effort into something that will only be seen by maybe 10% of our users. You’re absolutely right though, there’s gaps that would need to be filled with content of some kind.

Oskar Potocki

Very understandable, I've found that sometimes slashing content makes the game feel a bit more manageable. There is so much technology and content, so doing a pure medival run felt refreshingly "simple". Obviously endings, quests etc. Become less varied. But I could imagine the Ideology type ending could be implemented somehow, but I have no idea how demanding or difficult that is. And am 100% certain that the mod will be fantastic no matter what!

Sindre Måge

Once Sarg finds the time, yeah

Oskar Potocki

I’ll try. We will have to design a new way for that to happen but we will try. The problem is: we’re not really adding enough medieval content to really warrant slashing 50% of the game away, which means if you limit tech, your game will simply feel less complete.

Oskar Potocki

Really looking forward to Medieval 2 Vikings and Freya were my favorite mods. Will it include an option to limit technology of the generated world? If so that would be fantastic! You guys are doing amazing work!

Sindre Måge

Are the old gene manufactured insectoids being added to Vanilla genetics expanded?

Joel Fitzgibbon

Glad that Diplomacy isn't quite yet forsaken. It has always been the thing that most sticks out to me on these roadmaps, since it would really make the planet mean something besides just "caravan days travelled for resources". I get that it has technical hurdles associated however. If I may I'd like to suggest a peek at this mod, Map Mod Framework. The creator NozoMe is also working on a Faction Territory mod, outlined at the bottom of the description page: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3296654393

Marco Antonio Magallon

Aha, basically put the request for resources on the elevator(which works between both maps) and if it can't find it on on the mine map it creates a build task on the main map

Gertjan Van Damme

Could have the building that travels between z levels be a massive cargo elevator which acts as a stockpile sharing it's items between all z levels. Workaround like that might help the performance limitations.

Ennek

Yes of course! All our mods work hand in hand!

Oskar Potocki

Were Exploration and Diplomacy going to work hand in hand? Really wish the worlds felt more alive, Being able to visit and interact with other factions would be awesome but sounds daunting to make.

Jordan Blackmon

The new race looks cool! 😄

Jippy

The idea is that each factions leader will have agendas that will dictate how their faction sees you. They would also control territory, which means traveling through enemy land would result in ambushes etc, while travelling through friendly lands results in caravans and so on. But that’s so far it: in fact, the mod is halfway on the chopping block due to lack of technical knowledge to actually code it.

Oskar Potocki

What's the overall idea behind expanded diplomacy? From what it looks like it seems that it'll deal with factions laying claim to tiles on the world map, could you explain more about the idea?

michael Wrightson

The Flesher looks interesting. At a guess she eats raw meat for upgrade points (maybe getting more from Twisted Meat?) which she then spends on extra limbs and healing, transforming the limbs back (at a refund) to switch to new configurations. With some of the better stuff maybe requring skill levels e.g. melee and medical.

Stephan Schany

When I’m done with it and it’s fully coded I think

Oskar Potocki

Jotek

Yeah!

Oskar Potocki

Will Medieval 2 have ideology integration? I always thought some of the vikings stuff could be a style. Like the columns

Mocho

Major changes to factions - there will be 3 in total, with another 6 disabled at game start but can be enabled at world creation.

Oskar Potocki

Still many months to go I reckon. At least two months.

Oskar Potocki

When will the Medieval 2 mod be released? I'm looking forward to it very much <3

Hanss Kloss

Medieval 2 - a new faction for 1 in total, or in addition to those we already know from the old version?

dyx

It’s on the roadmap!

Oskar Potocki

Is there still hope for Childhood Expanded?

tiltowhirl

The only mod that’s there is giddy up which is discontinued by roolo who will not work on it again. We can’t just take his code, because that’s not how it works. We can exactly code it ourselves because it took roolo a year to code it and it was very heavy on the maintenance as it broke often. Definitely outside of the scope for a medieval faction mod.

Oskar Potocki

how about mounting animals? I know there is a mod for that, but maybe you could add your VE touch to it? No worries though, my knights can do the job with a greataxe too

The Blue Tempalr

Vikings is integrated into Medieval 2 now but you probably already knew that.

Computica

I’m toying with the idea, but until it moves into design stage, its fate isn’t certain.

Oskar Potocki

VE - diplomacy is still up there, so I suspect it isn't scrapped yet but still very much could be?

Nathan Gadoury

I'm gonna cry a river when Medieval 2 is released !!

Zita2046

Thats completely understandable, im really looking forward to a medieval run 😁

Paton Yecla

Ok, thanks for the answer!

RainPain

We currently don’t have the technology to make animals wear armor and we don’t want to add stuff that relies on a third party mod. I don’t have any resources to devote to make the tech on our end.

Oskar Potocki

i think it would fit very well that the medieval start had some barded horses, or that some of the viking animals could equip some armour if you tame them

Paton Yecla

I’m not going to lie animal armor is not something I’m looking to explore anytime soon, sorry.

Oskar Potocki

Actually it doesn't, just introduces the platform for it. The author has a couple mods of animal gear as well

Paton Yecla

Animal Gear already introduces animal armor, no?

Oskar Potocki

A suggestion for VFE: Medieval: would it be possible to include animal armour? Animal Gear is a mod that allows this, i've used it in a rimhammer playthrough and works quite well. It would be fantastic to face the dangers of the rim on our armoured steeds!

Paton Yecla

Shame to hear about Exploration getting pushed back, but I know it's better to get it right. Still looking forward to it. Basic exploration is just so... flat.

Katieclysm

Size does matter but not as much. Scanning for two locations is still 2x more scanning. Then there’s also the matter of priority of jobs too - each job needs to decide which ‘floor’ to prioritize.

Oskar Potocki

Ayo new race being planned lets GO

Kintyj the aardvark

Technical question if you don't mind, would the performance loss more managable if it was only one small map? Background for the question: There is an mod for an RV with an own dimension, I really like the idea of a movable base, but having to manually move pawns in and out makes it very tedious. I assumed this wasn't possible at all, but after reading your answer here I had to ask :D

RainPain

Vanilla Health Expanded sounds like it will be really interesting. I'm excited to see what it will do once it releases

warren overstreet

Really looking forward to seeing the imperial vehicles mod, one thing that I always felt was missing in my empire run was a massive trading convoy travelling to an imperial settlement, only for it to be ambushed by deserters. Is there any idea what kind of vehicles, aside from those already shown in the previous mods and base game, that will be added?

Lord Duckian

I can't wait for Medieval 2.

Rothmal

Flesher is looking grand. Eager to learn more.

Brandon Pollastri

Thanks for the Anomaly themed mods, Flesher seems very exciting!

PaperClipChip

Really excited to learn more about that Flesher xenotype. I've created my fair share of horror custom xenotypes and can't wait to see what the team will come up with for this one.

Valentin Maire

It was years, but that's fine because we released dozens of other mods in the meantime! It's not like I'm dragging you along with nothing else to show for the time spent!

Oskar Potocki

I've been hoping for the Megacorp mod for what feels like years!

Colin Lehr

well least stuff is being worked on, also hope the move is working out.

BrenTenkage's Gaming

Bummer, i imagined it would be something like this

Gertjan Van Damme

Thoughts and prayers for Exploration Expanded :*(

Jason McGinn

Things like that can’t come without massive performance loss - at the end of the day, you wouldn’t just be scanning one map for jobs for your colonist, but several, greatly reducing your performance. At this point I’m unable to say how we will tackle this.

Oskar Potocki

Just one question: for the mining mod, the current one i use requires the manual movement of pawns and resources betweenthe levels. is the plan for pawns to autonomously move and haul goods between the levels?

Gertjan Van Damme

Mostly here waiting for the vikings, but sure got my interest with the rest. Ultratech is also something I can't wait for

Stim

Really enjoying the current road map situation. It's weird we have a month where we aren't testing something directly related to VE but I'd like to give Helexian a special honor when it comes to that. Edit: Aye the Flesher thing is new to me, it looks cool.

Computica

Looking forward to Medieval 2, Ive been holding off on experiencing Insectoids 2 as I want my first experience to be brave knights against the chitinious menace

Verity Ottaway

Tier does not represent level of power, it represents specialization and difficulty to obtain. Imperial vehicles are tier 2. This means that, upon getting techprints for them, they can be constructed easily in your base. They are spacer vehicles. All you have right now are industrial vehicles.

Oskar Potocki

What to expect from imperial vehicles? They are better than tier 3? Will we have own flying shuttle to fast deploy and retreat troops? Helies have slow animation of landing and sometimes is better to use a permit for shuttle from nobles.

Sylant99

Thanks for the update, Oskar. Moving house can turn your whole life upside down. Been there, done that. It's actually quite impressive that you're already focused enough to continue your work. The "demotion" of Exploration Expanded is sad, though. I hope it is indeed only temporary and not the first sign of it being dropped for good. Especially as 'The Generator' encourages the player to travel overland a bit more (if I understood you correctly). Both mods will benefit greatly from each other, I imagine.

Deggial