Hola, Capos! Happy to announce that Prosperity Update with major new content and features will arrive in two weeks, on June 23.
Today, we want to tell you more about both our short-term and long-term plans: what we have prepared in store for June 23 and also share more details on how our roadmap has recently evolved (multiplayer and enemy AI are getting more love now!).
Also, you can buy Cartel Tycoon on Steam with a 20% discount right now to prepare for the new update! Tell your friends!
Prosperity Update
- Our new buildings bring new exciting ways to fit the style of your Capo and your own playstyle: introducing Paranoid, Party, Pretentious and Modern Residences. We did not want the difference to be purely cosmetic, so we ended up giving each type of Residence its own unique mechanics. More details in this post and devlog episode:
Watch on YouTube - With the previous update we introduced customized difficulties - this time we are taking it even further and making lots of parameters in Sandbox customizable at the game start. Want to keep the authorities passive while keeping the challenge of production optimization? Maybe you want to play normally but start with all researches unlocked? Or how about putting everything on the highest difficulty but start with a big load of money to build lots of stuff right away? Now you can do all that, and more, and we cannot wait for you to share to hear your reports on the most fun ways to play Cartel Tycoon with us... and other players! Yes, other players will be able to try out your customized settings!
- And for those who want a pure hardcore permadeath experience, we have added Survival Mode! No manual saves, a couple of dollars in your pocket, lots of enemies and imminent death on the horizon. Your Capo took a deal he shouldn’t have taken and now you have to use all of your abilities to survive. Take a long walk before starting a game in a Survival Mode and be sure you’re experienced enough to be ready to face the challenges. Or, maybe you just like that sweet-sweet suffering.
- Last but not least, we’re introducing Global Progression! In this update we’ve added Special Challenges to the Story Mode! If you complete them - you will be able to unlock new starting bosses and regions for Sandbox & Survival Modes! For now, there are 4 unlockable characters in total: would you be able to catch ‘em all? More updates to Global Progression are on the way!
The Prosperity update is being released on June 23. What happens after it is live? As usual, we will closely watch your reports and great feedback and make sure the major bugs are being fixed right away. But let’s talk about our long-term plans - moving forward to the topic of our...
Development Roadmap
First of all, our Development Roadmap now also lives on our own website, as well as in Trello. Some of you have already noticed that we've made some significant updates to it, so please take a look at the updated version (and as usual, please keep in mind that, like anything else in game development, these plans are subject to change)
After the Prosperity update is released, we want to deliver another two major updates around August and October, and then finally release 1.0, targeting somewhere between Q4 2021 and Q1 2022 for it. It is a few months later than we initially had planned, but hear the good news - we are setting ourselves a goal to ship multiplayer as a part of our 1.0 release!
Going to be challenging, but absolutely worth it; can’t wait to give you all the way to give good ol’ plata o plomo to your Steam friends.
Another big addition many of you are going to be happy about: advanced AI for enemy gangs is now officially part of the plan!
They are going to become like cartels equal to your own: you will be able to communicate with their leaders, make alliances, and of course burn them to the ground to make a space for yourself. This is also a challenging task, but having good AI opponents just goes so well with the possibility of co-op gameplay we are investing in! Won’t disappoint you.
In conclusion, a few words about our August update: it doesn’t have a name yet and the scope can change depending on your feedback to Prosperity Update, but we can already tell that it is going to be no less than it! Military Base, Guerrillas and other unique buildings are going to be part of it, as well as the grand finale of our storyline (you’ll like it), and more!
That’s it for today. Hope you enjoyed this peak to our plans - let us know in the comments if you have more questions. Keep an eye on our social channels for all the latest news and updates, and be sure to join the official Cartel Tycoon Discord to join the community, share your feedback, and chat with the development team.