Roadmap March 2023 (Patreon)

Hello everyone and welcome to a new roadmap post, this time showing the status of our projects on 3rd of March, 2023.

Just last week we have released one of our bigger Vanilla Factions Expanded mods - one focused on Empire. You can now get 100% out of your empire-themed run. From new titles, permits and structures, to the vassalage system as well as covert terrorists, I think that gives you enough tools to really roleplay as the Empire.

But, I also heard your requests. We have now started development of Vanilla Factions Expanded - Deserters. I won't tell you much, but I can confirm following things:

VFE-Deserters will be a smaller faction mod, with content surrounding the Deserters.

It will be heavily focused on new quests, all themed around sabotaging the Empire.

A new resource called Intel will be able to be gathered from imperial installations and can be used for a vast number of things - reducing your visibility, obtaining new quests, purchasing deserter or imperial contraband and most importantly: progressing in plots, which will take you through the Great Hierarchy, assassinating imperial loyalists in order to eventually bring the Empire to their knees in an epic final quest, which involves bringing down the one thing Empire uses to harass everyone on the planet - the Emperor's Flagship.

The storyteller for this mod is Damocles Deserter. Inspired by the Sword of Damocles story, Deserters are the proverbial sword of damocles hanging over the Empire.

His look is inspired by the beautiful country of Scotland. Go Scotland, best rugby team.

The mod is inspired by XCOM 2, and will feature new battle music inspired by the XCOM games.

Other than that, we have started work on Vanilla Rituals Expanded, as well as design work for Vanilla Events Expanded - Caravans, which will bring numerous new random encounters to RimWorld, making caravans great!

Development of Vehicles Expanded is going great and we are down to the last couple of bugfixes, after which the mod will be ready for release.

We encountered a few hiccups in updating Rim-Effect: Asari and the Reapers, but those should be fixed shortly.

I will see you all very soon with more cool content so be sure to keep an eye out!