RECLAIMWARD / DEVELOPMENT

Early development

Development status

RECLAIMWARD is currently in an early but already technically extensive stage of development. Many core gameplay systems are functional. The current focus is on adapting these systems to the final Reclaimward gameplay, world, balancing and planned online infrastructure.

Concept art · Workshop under reconstruction

Overall status

Core Gameplay Systems: ✅ Technical foundation in place
Multiplayer: ✅ Functional foundation
Inventory & Items: ✅ Functional
Crafting & Building: ✅ Functional
Combat: ✅ Functional
Vehicles: ✅ Functional
Quests & Skills: ✅ Technical foundation in place
NPC & AI: ✅ Technical foundation in place
Persistence: ✅ Foundation in place
Reclaimward-specific gameplay: 🔧 Being adapted
World Restoration: 🚧 In development
World & Content: 🚧 In development
Online account system: 🚧 In development
Server platform: ⏳ Preparation
Polishing & Balancing: ⏳ Later development phase

Already functional

The following gameplay systems are already functional. Open a category to see its features.

Multiplayer foundation

Multiplayer gameplay
Network replication of important game states
Synchronized player interactions
Shared use of gameplay objects
Multiplayer-ready character controls

Character & movement

First-person and third-person support
Walking
Sprinting
Crouching
Jumping
Swimming
Climbing
Basic character animations
Entering and exiting vehicles

Survival systems

Health
Hunger
Thirst
Stamina
Temperature
Oxygen
Damage
Healing
Death and basic respawn mechanics

Inventory & items

Complete inventory system
Item stacks
Item quantities
Equipment slots
Quick slots
Picking up and putting down items
Item drops
Containers
Loot
Data-driven item definitions
Item durability

Equipment

Clothing
Equipment
Backpacks
Weapon slots
Visible equipment
Changing equipment

Crafting

Crafting recipes
Required resources
Item crafting
Crafting stations
Crafting times
Multiplayer support

Repairs

Item repairs
Weapon repairs
Vehicle repairs
Building element repairs

Weapons & combat

Firearms
Melee combat
Ammunition
Magazines
Reloading
ADS / aiming down sights
Recoil
Hit detection
Damage system
Hit zones
Headshots
Weapon attachments
Weapon durability

Vehicles

Driveable vehicles
Entering and exiting
Drivers
Passengers
Multiplayer vehicle use
Fuel system
Vehicle damage
Repairs
Basic vehicle management

Building

Placeable objects and building elements
Placement preview
Placement validation
Resource consumption
Building damage
Building repairs
Doors
Locks
Code locks
Multiplayer support

Farming

Seeds
Plants
Planting
Growth
Watering
Harvesting
Basic persistence of farming states

Quests & missions

Quest and mission system
Quest givers
Mission objectives
Progress tracking
Quest completion
Experience points
Item rewards
Dialogue integration

RPG & skills

Experience points
Levels
Skill points
Skills
Requirements
Unlocks
Character progression

NPCs & dialogue

Basic NPC system
Dialogue
Dialogue options
Conditions within conversations
Connections between NPCs and quests

Traders

Buying
Selling
Prices
Currencies
Trader inventories

Human enemies
Perception system
Teams
Patrols
Aggro
Combat behaviour
Camps
Navigation

Persistence

Basic persistence is already in place for various areas, including:

Character data
Inventory
Equipment
Skills
Quests
Vehicles
Buildings
Containers
Farming
Various world states

Currently being adapted for RECLAIMWARD

The existing systems are being brought together into a unified Reclaimward experience. This includes:

A distinct game identity

custom UI design
custom menus
a distinct visual language
original items
original weapons
original vehicles
original buildings
original sounds
original animations
game-specific balancing

Gameplay

final gameplay loop
survival balancing
loot balancing
crafting balancing
progression system
character development
interaction between the different professions

Missions

Reclaimward-specific quests
mission chains
world stories
NPC tasks
dynamic mission objectives

Professions

A deeper RPG system with different specializations and roles within a group is planned.

The technical skill and progression foundation is already in place and is being adapted to the final profession system.

In development

World restoration

One of RECLAIMWARD’s central systems is in development:

Players should be able to permanently restore destroyed locations, as well as visit and loot them.

Planned features include:

damaged infrastructure
repairable facilities
restorable buildings
supply systems
changes to the world caused by player actions
returning NPCs
new traders and services
new missions after successful restoration

Progress is intended to be visibly reflected in the game world.

Game world

first final regions
residential areas
industrial areas
farms
petrol stations
workshops
hospital
fire station
other important infrastructure
loot areas
dangerous zones

Dynamic events

Planned events include:

raids
random encounters
supply events
rescue missions
special loot events
world-state changes

Technical testing

The following areas will receive particularly intensive testing as development progresses:

Dedicated servers
Multiple simultaneous players
Join in progress
Disconnect and reconnect
Multiplayer interactions
Multiple players accessing containers
Vehicles with multiple players
Multiplayer quest progress
Persistence after server restarts
Save/load
Performance
Network load

Online infrastructure

The long-term online infrastructure is still being built.

Planned features include:

Reclaimward accounts
Persistent character profiles
Character selection
Server browser
Official servers
Private servers
Rentable dedicated servers
Different server rules
Server-bound worlds
Central character identity

Content production

A large part of the upcoming development concerns the game content itself, in addition to its technical systems:

World design
Buildings
Interiors
Items
Weapons
Vehicles
NPCs
Missions
Animations
Sounds
Music
Effects
UI
Balancing

RECLAIMWARD / NEXT CHAPTER

Turning the foundation into RECLAIMWARD

RECLAIMWARD already has a large part of the technical survival and multiplayer foundation it needs. The next major development step is to shape it into the distinct RECLAIMWARD experience: with its own world, original content, its own professions, lasting changes to the world and scalable multiplayer infrastructure.

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