Hi people!
I would like to share with you the latest news about the development.
As some of you know, for some time the development has been focused on the nightly build, therefore the public version will not receive updates for a while until the development of the nightly build ends and merges as usual.
Here are some details of what you will find in the next nightly build.
Hidden missions around the world have been added, as well as other secrets, rewarding the exploration.
Now there are new types of files, such as images, chat logs and PDFs.
In many cases the information found here as in other types of files will be banal and will not have any relevance, other times they will offer interesting information about the world and what happens in it, and other times they will be clues that will lead to discovering a hidden mission.
Not only are these new types of files can be tied to missions, but any existing system could provide a valuable clue, such as emails, system logs, web pages, etc.
These hidden missions have a history, are more complex than missions on request (hackshops) and may require access to different networks in order to be completed.
The player will be able to choose how the mission will be finished, for example, in the case of discovering a crime, you can notify the police or or extort the criminal among other options, in which case the actions you take will have an impact on your karma level. Note that these actions may trigger future events even if the mission has been completed.
In addition to the missions hidden around the world, other types of missions of similar complexity and difficulty will be triggered based on your karma + reputation and will be much easier to access in addition to frequently having a continuity in their history between them.
For those who want to do direct and simpler missions, in addition to the hackhops, to which new missions will also be added, now the web pages of the police stations are also enabled to accept jobs, giving positive karma and reputation. On the other hand, certain missions of the hackshops, although they also give reputation, in many cases will provide negative karma.
The value of karma represents what type of hacker you are on the network and this together with your reputation can open or close doors in game events as well as the options that can be presented at the time of completing a mission.
To achieve this variety of missions, the npc system will be rewritten so that the AI has a more natural behavior and that its habits can be included as variables to take into account to solve certain missions or trigger a specific event.
Although these missions may eventually be repeated, as they are generated in procedurally created systems, the ways to access the systems involved in the missions will be different each time.
For the first public version of the nightly build, around 40 new missions of various types will be included, as well as other types of content that we could call lore.
During the development of the nightly build the number of missions will gradually increase until reaching an approximate number of 80 missions.
The number of missions will continue to increase in the next development cycles, although these are focused on other systems.
More news soon!