Hey everyone,
Today marks the day SurrounDead has been out for 2 years. The game has changed massively since launch day (And I hope for the good for the most of you).
There's still quite a bit more to go to create SurrounDead into the game the community wants and something I'd be happy to buy with my own money too as a full product.
So what's next?
The Near Future:
- Infected Dead zone: The next large-ish update before the major one is the addition of a large irradiated zone with a small military town and military base. Destroyed due to outside attacks and attacks from within, discover the zone and fight your way through it.
- An Actual New Trailer: I've been terrible with this. At the moment, if you're not to look on youtube or anywhere there are only 2 very outdated videos of SurrounDead. At this moment in time, I am currently creating an updated trailer that shows the world of 'The Valley' and the dangers you will face. I expect this to be out around July/August.
- End Game Update: End game areas are gonna get a face lift, a larger reason to go to them and a more in depth design to them. No more, copy and paste bunkers but expect unique bunkers that differ depending on where you are. More information will come after the 'Infected Dead Zone' update.
- New & Reworked Locations: Apart from new POIs at locations that haven't been touched yet, I have plans to go and add to current POIs and improve or completely rework the design of current locations. The plan at the moment for locations currently is here:
- The City: Another new location and final "large" addition to 'The Valley'. Towering skyscrapers will cover the city to a surrounding suburban area. I will leave it at that, but extremely looking forward to everyone seeing how it turns out.
The Far Future:
- The Roadmap: There are still multiple major updates coming from; quests, to vehicle mods and a world electricity system you can control. I hope everyone is looking forward to these updates as they will add so much to the game. More news at later dates.
- Multiplayer: With major updates still to go, multiplayer is still coming but quite far still to go.
- Outside World Of 'The Valley' : What happens outside of 'The Valley'? In future updates you'll be able to travel outside of the world to smaller maps with unique locations. Get to these locations, get all the gear you can find, new lore to discover and then extract back to 'The Valley'. So yes, it sort of is a take on the extraction mode, but I don't want to overcomplicate it too much as this isn't replacing the 'base game' of SurrounDead at all but adds to it, with something you wouldn't even have to touch if you didn't want to. This also doesn't rule out anything about new 'large maps' but I am not currently creating a large one at least before 'The Valley' is completely finished. I will also share more information as stuff starts to get finalized, like how you get to these locations, what happens if you die and more. One thing at the moment is that however you will not be able to save at these locations or create a permanent base.
More news about certain things will be shown with time. Especially with new features like being able to go outside of 'The Valley' which I'm sure there will be quite a few questions about
Community Suggestions:
- Below is a link to a google form where you can suggest new content, improvements and bugs
Also, I'm looking at getting into a discord call soon with the community to talk about the game and more. I've been wanting to do this again for some time but still in real life has always got in the way of this.
And finally, I don't say this enough but thank you for everything, from praise to criticism, anything to make SurrounDead a better game.
Zurvivor