Roadmap

What we are building

Three stages, each meaning something specific. Nothing moves into a stage it is not actually in, and nothing stays here once it ships.

Everything tRadio tCAD tDetector tRadar tDB tUnit tAFK tChirp tELS

47 items

Backlog
4 items
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  Sub-card of The world map
  Enterable houses
  Shelter from a tornado, and somewhere to be when the roof goes. No buildings are placed in the map, the houses spawn from the road system, so interiors need a…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 2 months ago
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  Sub-card of Character
  Being knocked down instead of killed
  A hard hit puts you down rather than killing you outright, so a teammate can get you back up. Held for much later; death and respawn work without it.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 2 months ago
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  Sub-card of Character
  Facial expressions for mood
  Faces show mood, not just mouth movement while talking.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 2 months ago
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  Sub-card of Teaching the game
  Driving, radar and storm-chasing lessons
  Short lessons for driving, reading radar, approaching a storm, placing a probe and warning a town. Drive and find your way Read the radar, and what a hook echo…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 5 weeks ago
Planned
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  MacOS Desktop App
  Build and sign a macOS build of the dispatch app Notarize it so it opens without a Gatekeeper warning Serve the download and the update feed per platform, so a…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 3 days ago
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  Cross PTT Functionality In-Game
  A player can transmit on a channel they are not selected to, without leaving the one they are on A second push-to-talk key, bound separately from the main one…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 3 days ago
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  Sub-card of Weather & storms
  Custom formations & cloud shapes
  Wall clouds, shelf clouds, visible rotation. Off the same storm seed so everyone sees the same sky.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 2 months ago
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  Sub-card of Probes & storm data
  Rocket probes
  Launch probes into a storm instead of placing them in its path.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Stereo Channel Scanning
  Add L/R scan / join buttons if enabled Logic for audio to route to either left or right
  StudioFeatureUpdated 2 months ago
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  Sub-card of Character
  Low quality camera mode
  Camcorder look. Grain, chromatic aberration, rolling shutter, date stamp. Post process and a rig variant, not a new camera system.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 2 months ago
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  Sub-card of Sound design
  Different siren types
  More than one siren model, each with its own tone and rotation, the way real towns have a mix.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 7 weeks ago
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  Sub-card of The world map
  AI traffic
  Traffic on the roads.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Sub-card of The world map
  Wildlife
  Deer, cattle, dogs. React to the weather and clear out ahead of a storm. Bird flocks already do ambient flocking, reuse that.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 2 months ago
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  Radio text messaging
  Short text between units, and from the dispatch panel, without taking a voice channel. Send to one unit, or to everyone on a channel Read messages on the radio…
  StudioFeatureAdded 4 days ago
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  Paging and tone-out
  Tone out a channel the way a real station alert works, then speak over it. Page a channel or a single unit from the dispatch panel Tones first, then the announ…
  StudioFeatureAdded 4 days ago
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  Sub-card of Character
  Cinematic photo mode
  Free camera with cinematic controls for screenshots and footage.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Sub-card of Vehicles
  Per-part damage and dents
  Damage that lands where you hit rather than one number for the whole vehicle, and bodywork that actually shows it. Damage to specific parts rather than one ove…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 1 month ago
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  Sub-card of The world map
  Wind turbines
  Wind farms out on the county roads. Blades turn with the wind that already drives everything else, so you can read the storm off them from a distance. A tornad…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Sub-card of Vehicles
  Breakable glass
  Vehicle windows first, then buildings and storefronts. Glass is already its own mesh with its own material, keep it that way. Done when debris breaks the pane,…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 5 weeks ago
In Progress
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  Destructible Signal Towers
  Destroy / Damage Signal Towers Auto or Manual Repair Destruction FX
  StudioFeatureUpdated 2 months ago
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  Animation Marketplace
  Add Animations section to marketplace
  StudioIdeaUpdated 4 days ago
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  Editor chrome: labels, units and shortcut hints disagree between panels
  The pattern badges (trigger-only, livery, synced, frame count) now say what they mean on hover The painting shortcuts were listed twice on one screen in two no…
  StudioUpdated 3 weeks ago
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  Stream Deck plugin
  Physical keys for the lightbar, with live state on every key rather than blind buttons. Opt-in, off by default, and entirely local to the player's own machine.…
  StudioFeatureAdded 3 weeks ago
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  Civilian Scanners
  Reception decided by where the player is and which systems cover that area, not by distance to the talker Range control, so leaving a system's coverage drops i…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 4 days ago
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  Low Powered LOS Channels
  Suggestion from @Darkside: add a channel type that is line of sight so in areas that have low repeater signal they could use that. pretty much a VHF system.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 4 weeks ago
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  Custom layouts for the detector and the radar
  tDetector and tRadar layouts now work in the UI Studio and on the marketplace, same as the radio and the siren controller. Design mode, the live preview and th…
  StudioFeatureAdded 3 weeks ago
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  Custom In-Car Props
  Operators list their own models and the prop editor offers them per vehicle A model that is missing, stopped or misspelled falls back to the built-in rather th…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 3 days ago
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  Sound design
  Weather, vehicles, instruments, surroundings, interface sounds and music.
  StudioFeature1/3sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Settings & accessibility
  Controls, display, sound, readability and accessibility options.
  StudioFeature1/2sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  The world map
  Terrain, towns, roads, navigation and world detail.
  Studio5/10sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Probes & storm data
  Deploy instruments, collect storm measurements and recover equipment.
  StudioFeature1/2sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Weather & storms
  Storm development, tornadoes, rain, hail, lightning and warnings.
  StudioFeature6/7sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Sub-card of Settings & accessibility
  Settings and accessibility features
  Controls, readability and camera comfort settings. Split out: subtitles REQ-84019, radar legend REQ-80327, shake and head bob REQ-28566, settings saving BUG-91…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Sub-card of Sound design
  Weather, vehicle and world sounds
  Weather, vehicle, equipment and world sounds. Buses, limits and volume routing Wind that follows wind strength Rain that follows the rain Radio transmit and re…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  The chase laptop
  Radar, storm information, maps and chase planning on the laptop.
  StudioFeature15/15sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Voice, radio & text chat
  Voice chat, radio, text chat and crew communication.
  StudioFeature2/2sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Character
  Movement, interaction, appearance and character feedback.
  StudioFeature7/11sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Economy
  Chase earnings, purchases, inventory, payouts and recovery costs.
  StudioFeature4/4sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Vehicles
  Driving, vehicle choice, garage access, fitted equipment and recovery.
  StudioFeature8/11sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Teaching the game
  Learn to drive, read radar, approach storms, deploy equipment and warn towns.
  StudioFeature0/1sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Sub-card of The world map
  World terrain, towns and map content
  Distance detail turned out to be set up already and just never generated. The layers are there and the world is pointed at them, so it is a job to run rather t…
  StudioUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Sub-card of Drone
  Hold a controller while flying the drone
  Hold a controller while flying the drone.
  StudioFeatureUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Dashcams / Tower Cams
  Dashcams, tower cameras and shared external views.
  StudioFeature1/1sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Drone
  Drone flight, camera controls, readouts and recovery.
  StudioFeature4/5sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Sub-card of Vehicles
  Vehicle lineup
  Lineup is the heavy anchored intercept plus six road vehicles. The old named builds are out. Heavy anchored intercept, reference build Box truck Sedan Coupe Co…
  StudioFeatureUpdated 2 weeks ago
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  Save & progression
  Player saves, achievements, titles and persistent progression.
  StudioFeature12/12sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago
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  Main menu
  Menu navigation, profile presentation, news and the menu scene.
  StudioFeature1/1sub-items doneUpdated 5 weeks ago

Work leaves this page when it ships. The changelog is where it lands, with the release note for every version.

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