Must

• Full game internationalization, in at least the major European languages WIP
• German, Spanish, French, Polish WIP
• Support for glyphs from other languages (e.g. Russian)

Should

• Far-eastern languages

Want

• Voice internationalization - A lot of notifications are generated using robotic text-to-speech with added post-processing, English voice. English still isn’t fully ready. Internationalization will be quite the work.

Must

• Seamless first play experience: The first play experience, from the point the player clicks Download in their Steam library to issuing the first command to their Commander, must be seamless - it must be error free with zero points of friction. (This encompasses the download, the install, the first launch, the first menu navigation, the first game load, and the first game start)

• Single-player campaign (2 faction-specific storylines around 15-20 missions each) 
• (Fully scripted) Tutorial mission. WIP
• All (or most) missions except the tutorial must be playable in coop mode with an arbitrary number of players.
• Improve AI’s further so chances of bugging/stalling/getting stuck is further reduced. As AI is very(!) important, we need it to work as well as possible. There still are multiple situations AI handles poorly. WIP
• ✅ Make AI work on metal maps!

• Finalize on Raptor & Scavenger game-modes

Should

• In-game cutscenes between missions.
• Narration.
• Add multiple AI behavior presets (like turtle, aggressor, defensive, balanced, easy, medium, hard)
• Improve specific gameplay options/modes and make them work (f.e. Play as Scavengers or Raptors)
• Remake Ruins and all blueprints with better balance/unique styling and ideally new/more varied models/structures

Want

• Ability for players to create their own missions, using a mission editor system, along with the ability to share these missions and play them cooperatively with friends.
• Ability for players to create/save presets of settings for their favorite play-style, so they can jump in their ideal game faster (and share this with friends/community)
• Addition of a 3rd PvE/Coop game-mode that involves fully dynamic battles, based on a ‘seed’ so other players/teams can share/compete in their survival / victory-rates / times. Game-master-AI controlled events like dynamic weather changes (solar eclipse, sand/thunderstorms, acidic-rain, solar-flare), random dropship-events, awakening of underground Raptor hordes, Scavenger attacks, etc.
• Control gamemode needs to be fleshed out

Must

• Finalize design on UI and build it - Possibly re-build with GL4 WIP
• Investigate and decide on RLMGUI framework WIP
• Upgrade un-finished/polished UI parts for uniform styling
• A lot more Sound notifications + upgrade from Allison V3 to new Allision V4 (roughly 30-40 notifs)
• Depending on choice for tutorial missions and/or dynamic tutorial notifs
• Improve/replace old/legacy textures with improved ones in quality/resolution WIP
• Some new/missing cursor animations WIP

Should

• Upgrade GUI to have a more character/design WIP
• Add more/unique sounds to Scavenger and Raptor units and weapons
• Design modal(s) for use in Scenarios/Campaign (f.e. Tutorial Guide-book)
• Clean up & upgrade of some particle effects for mainly shell/unit explosions
• Find a proper/universal fix for live-stream stutter when recording/streaming with specific settings (jitter)

Want

• Improve overall quality of the UI with better scaling/anti-aliasing
• Add (more) subtle animations & sounds
• Easier UI configurability

Must

• No github blockers
• Clustering/scaling of middleware server
• Tachyon protocol WIP
• Basic matchmaking/match finding WIP

Should

• Scalable moderation (automated/semi-automated)
• Ranked matchmaking

Want

• Tournament integration

Must

• Fix a handful (or two) of maps with older tech / or (slightly) broken parts/features WIP
• Finalize a list of ‘BAR Certified’ maps, likely (some) included in the release
• Centralize map data into BAR infra WIP

Should

• Add ±10-20 more maps to support asymmetrical play, slightly aimed at PvE/Coop/Solo players. WIP
• Also some more FFA and Metal maps are welcome. 
• Upgrade (some) maps with proper atmospheric & sound effects (like fog, mist, fireflies, dust, sand-whirls, river/water/sea sounds, etc.) WIP

Want

• A fully new set of Civilian Structures to be used as ‘ruins’ or previous civilizations/settlements/outposts.
• A high-quality set of modelled/crafted cliffs, boulders, rocky-ridges and other natural/organic features, for more rich maps, with a higher quality design / atmosphere. WIP
• Possibly centralize all Mapping objects/models/textures to game (instead of map) WIP

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User Map Creation

Must

• Support the texturing and splatting process, and result in at least somewhat passable looking maps
• Must be able to create decent splats, and the texturing must be pathing-aware.

Should

• Single-click exports of distributable maps.

Want

• Fully working on all possible channels from height, diffuse, normals, specular, reflectivity, metal, splat weights, features, grass, water, et al.

Must

• No github blockers
• Find weird small bugs with culling and grass popping
• Changing resolution can have very noticeable buggy effects

Should

• Extensive cross-platform and cross-hardware testing and validation
• Per-frame sim load variance reduction
• Better/new way for rendering Special Effects like Cloak/Distort/Shields
• Inclusion of volumetric lighting for map ambient effects, units, weapons/projectiles and explosions

Want

• Some additional multithreading optimizations [Tarnished Knight]
• Improve unit pathing and movement, minimising path issues such as clumping of air units and eight-way movement of sea/land units [Tarnished Knight]

Must

• Feature parity with Chobby (current lobby)
• Completed interface
• Basic integration with Steam
• Matchmaking
• UI for keybind customisation

Should

• Internationalization

Want

• Integrate superbly well with Steam

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Dedicated Server (SPADS)

Must

• Support of new Tachyon protocol

Should

• Reduce RAM usage of SPADS (currently 100MB per room)

Want

• Better horizontal and vertical scaling