What Features Are Expected With 1.0

[Bones]

"Last major update until 1.0"
So does this mean we can finally expect other NPC's outside of safe zones? Missions? Story?

[Deathwhisper]

Hello OP, :)

It is on the Planned List! I Recommend you to keep an eye on the official channels to get insights into the happening Like Official X Account but also the Discord channel.

Official X Here
Discord Here [discord.gg]

For now we reached 0.95v and the road to 1.0 is beginning. There is a bit way to go still but the further time passes, the more we will see news and what will come within the next month. :)

[Linea]

Of course plans can change but last update from a dev was
quests, missions and roaming NPCs for 1.0
Story will be added after 1.0

With a big patch devs as of lately mean a patch that brings an expansive technical mechanic into the game. So for 1.0 that would be kind of a mission manager, that creates random quests and missions and handles NPCs for this. The avaliable missions and NPCs would only be the start of what this system is able to do.

There wont be big patches before 1.0 but there can be small patches that seem rather big to players content wise, since content addons are consideres "small". So we mights see vehicles or survival features still beeing added.


I guess the mission manager is roughly due in 6 months and will bind all programmers for that time.
Personally i hope the devs wont leave Early Access by that point but rather use free programmers before or after the mission system to polish and finish existing features then drop the game around christmas '24.
After all you can only release once and would want to make that count rather than change the lable as soon as possible giving up on much potential revenue and success releasing it before its ready.

[Delaradra]

Originally posted by Bones:

"Last major update until 1.0"

I assume you are saying this because you think with .05 increments that after 0.95 is 1.00. This is not how software versioning works.

Dots are separators typically indicating major.minor.patch values. Scum appears to be using a variant where 1.0.0.0, FullRelease.Major.Minor.patch. Where minor is also incremented/reset by .500 with a major patch. Their marketing is merging the first digit of their minor version number with the major. So 0.9.500.80346 (The Horde) is marketed as .95v

The next major patchs will be 0.100v, 0.105v, 0.110v, etc.. Full name: 0.10.000.#####, 0.10.500.#####, 0.11.000.##### etc..

You can see this if you look at the versioning history.

Dec 15	0.9.500.80425
Dec 14	0.9.500.80346	.95 Released
Oct 31	0.9.131.76977
…
Oct 16	0.9.122.76078
Oct 13	0.9.121.76003
…
Aug 3	0.9.000.72816	.90 Release
July 11	0.8.532.70438
…
May 11	0.8.500.67830	.85 Release

[k.not]

Originally posted by Delaradra:

Originally posted by Bones:

"Last major update until 1.0"

I assume you are saying this because you think with .05 increments that after 0.95 is 1.00. This is not how software versioning works.

Dots are separators typically indicating major.minor.patch values. Scum appears to be using a variant where 1.0.0.0, FullRelease.Major.Minor.patch. Where minor is also incremented/reset by .500 with a major patch. Their marketing is merging the first digit of their minor version number with the major. So 0.9.500.80346 (The Horde) is marketed as .95v

The next major patchs will be 0.100v, 0.105v, 0.110v, etc.. Full name: 0.10.000.#####, 0.10.500.#####, 0.11.000.##### etc..

You can see this if you look at the versioning history.

Dec 15	0.9.500.80425
Dec 14	0.9.500.80346	.95 Released
Oct 31	0.9.131.76977
…
Oct 16	0.9.122.76078
Oct 13	0.9.121.76003
…
Aug 3	0.9.000.72816	.90 Release
July 11	0.8.532.70438
…
May 11	0.8.500.67830	.85 Release

this is true and i totally agree, but last time a dev answered to the question if there would be a version 0.10.xxx they just made silly jokes about it (either they really don't know about versioning, or they are pushed by daddy jagex to "finish" development. also from what you hear lately, i highly doubt project management [if there is any] is planing for another major sub 1.0 version). so my guess, they are really just one major "update" away from releasing 1.0. which is hard to believe, if you see in what state SCUM is right now. give them 6 month to a year, and they will just label it as full release. Early Access fun fun

[Dracsimus]

Based on what I see in game is train already works just not implemented, so by 1.0 we should have missions, roaming npcs, new vehicles, hopefully faction system, and story.

[Marcus]

I'm a PVE player and I want to add zombie siege or AI soldier siege

[Bones]

Originally posted by Delaradra:

Originally posted by Bones:

"Last major update until 1.0"

I assume you are saying this because you think with .05 increments that after 0.95 is 1.00. This is not how software versioning works.

Posted on Thursday, December 14:
"THE WAIT IS OVER!!!! 0.95 THE HORDE UPDATE IS OUT!!!!! Check out everything that awaits you on the island in the last major update until 1.0"

Which is why I used the quotation marks.

Deathwhisper: Thank you for the discord invite. That is probably the best way to keep up with development. I have been enjoying SCUM since release and play single player mode exclusively. The "bones" of SCUM are fantastic, and I have been really looking forward to expanding game-play beyond base-building and item collection. With npcs outside of trading posts, missions, and a story, SCUM can be something really special.

[Cezar]

Unfortunately, at this rate of development, there will be either 1.0 without very many promised things or there will be 0.10

[Mars Mullo]

Maybe with the new owners... and so much further possibilities for improvement...

We should be considering what to expect in a SCUM 2.

Imagine while playing scum for a few years after 1.0 there could be a fully functional version 2 being made with no EA period.

[Deathwhisper]

Originally posted by Cezar:

Unfortunately, at this rate of development, there will be either 1.0 without very many promised things or there will be 0.10

Just because 1.0 will be reached it does not mean the End. It just mean that the Mainwork is done and the core of the game has entered "Stable" status.

[Against All Evil]

I hope everyone learned by now to not buy Early Access games anymore.

[Against All Evil]

Originally posted by Mars Mullo:

Maybe with the new owners... and so much further possibilities for improvement...

We should be considering what to expect in a SCUM 2.

Imagine while playing scum for a few years after 1.0 there could be a fully functional version 2 being made with no EA period.

No one ever makes games without EA anymore apart from the big dogs, so i would say there's a 0.000000000% chance this will happen.
But it would be cool, sure.

[Pythagoras]

I've played almost 1000 hours in early access and honestly I can say I'm super excited for 1.0. They've given themselves a whole year to work on 1.0 rather than releasing it "when it's in the game" like they've been doing for all the other updates, so I think they're giving themselves time to really beef up and polish the game. At least, I really hope so.