ZeroFront Roadmap 2020-2025

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From this week's SWBFSpy newsletter:

For being 20 years old now, SWBF is far from dead and has continued to evolve over time. So we are excited to announce that ZeroFront version 0.99 (build 240921) will be officially released on September 21st 2024, exactly 20 years after the game was first released on console/PC. We will also celebrate with a special event on the SWBFSpy PC ZeroFront & Walking Dead servers. Thanks to SWBFModders for keeping this game alive!

Version 1.0 we expect to be ready by Halloween 2025 (251031) but this could change. It should contain all 13 seasons of TWD campaign with at least 150 unique missions. Subsequent releases after 1.0 would include new updates to non-TWD related campaigns/missions/galactic conquests, new memory hacks and neural network AI etc.

ZeroFront Roadmap 2020-2025 Build# Version# 201220 v0.976 231231 v0.98 240921 v0.99 251031 v1.0

The Walking Dead campaign is playable but only on SWBFSpy due to Steam disabling support for custom campaigns for their version of the executable architecture. This [ZMR] (ZeroFront Map Randomizer) at least allows all of the maps to be playable, although players can't choose them directly. However, the mission LUA is included along with a munger, so if players want, they can manually go and disable maps they don't like from being chosen, or increase the chance of other maps by repeating them, etc. MP is only functional if one map is always chosen, no randomization. This mod will be updated in the future for ZeroFront v0.99 and beyond.

Fun Fact Walking Dead comic was first released on October 8th 2003 Star Wars Battlefront (Game Engine: Zero) debuted on September 21st 2004

That is almost 1 year apart. The Walking Dead ZeroFront v0.98, 20 years later, is the greatest combination of both universes. We now have over 200 maps for CW and GCW, and a campaign of over 100 maps for TWD. The mod is supported both with the 2004 legacy swbfspy version and the newer 2019 steam version.

chatgpt automation of SWBF modding tasks « on: September 24, 2023, 09:20:16 pm » Using ChatGPT, Phobos and the SWBFModders community is pioneering a whole new world of possibilities!
see these threads for more info https://swbfspy.org/swbfmodders/index.php?topic=1939 https://swbfspy.org/swbfmodders/index.php?topic=1970

Yearly Progress: 2009-2014: NOTLD and prototype mods 2015: v0.5 - v0.8 2016: v0.84 - v0.9 2017: v0.91 - v0.96 2018-2019: v0.97 2020: v0.976 2021-2022: v0.979 2023: v0.98

Walking Dead ZeroFront - Campaign Roadmap - October 2023 Season 1 - Days Gone Bye (Levels 1-6) Season 2 - Miles Behind Us (Levels 7-12) Season 3 - Made To Suffer (Levels 13-20) Season 4 - Too Far Gone (Levels 21-28) Season 5 - Fear The Hunters (Levels 29-36) Season 6 - No Way Out (Levels 37-44) Season 7 - March To War (Levels 45-52) Season 8 - All Out War (Levels 53-60) Season 9 - What Comes After (Levels 61-72) Season 10 - The Whisperer War (Levels 73-90) Season 11 - New World Order (Levels 91-110) Season 12 - World War Z (Levels 111-130) Season 13 - Beyond The Horizon (Levels 131-150)

TV to Campaign Adaptation Structure Season 1 and 2 are 6 levels each. Season 3-8 are 8 levels each. Season 9 is 12 levels. Season 10 is 18 levels. Seasons 11-13 are 20 levels. 40% of the campaign is contained in the last 3 seasons. It's possible there will be a Season 14 added for ZeroFront v1.1, and it would be epic to see The Walking Dead ZeroFront v1.5 released by Halloween 2030, featuring 15 seasons of TWD campaign for a total of 193 levels! Mod S9A = Fear S4 Mod S9B = TWD S9A Mod S9C = TWD S9B Mod S10A = Fear S5 Mod S10B = TWD S10A Mod S10C = TWD S10B Mod S10D = TWD S10C Mod S11A = Fear S6 Mod S11B = Fear S7 + Dead in the Water Mod S11C = TWD S11A Mod S11D = TWD S11B Mod S11E = TWD S11C Mod S12A = Fear S8 Mod S12B = Dead City S1 Mod S12C = Daryl Dixon S1 Mod S12D = The Ones Who Live S1 Mod S12E = Kingdom & Train To Busan & Egypt (Non-canon story adaptation) Mod S13+ = TBA

The Walking Dead ZeroFront Bookmark these URLs to stay up to date with The Walking Dead ZeroFront development news: https://www.gametracker.com/clan/twdswbf/ https://vimeo.com/WalkingDead https://github.com/SWBFSpy/ZeroFront https://fcphobos.itch.io/ https://fcbf.tk/TWD https://swbfmodders.com/index.php?board=11.0 http://newsletter.swbfspy-organization.tk/ https://swbfspy.org/Leaderboards

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----- TWDZF DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE ----- April 2013 - Ideas about TWD mod first discussed by Phobos and Wolf in the Zombie Conquest mod OpenSpy server July 2013 - Ideas about TWD mod discussed publicly by Phobos and Helios, ZeroFront outline "Improvements to 1.2 SWBF source" posted by Phobos @ https://fcbf.tk/index.php?topic=1380 September 2013 - SWBFSpy master server project created by Phobos and Wolf, Zombie Space Conquest outline posted by Phobos @ https://fcbf.tk/index.php?topic=461 November 2013 - SWBFSpy master server outline notes by Wolf @ https://fcbf.tk/index.php?topic=579 + https://fcbf.tk/index.php?topic=609 + https://fcbf.tk/index.php?topic=618 December 2013 - SWBFSpy leaderboards outline notes by Phobos @ https://fcbf.tk/index.php?topic=628 March 2014 - Development of TWDBF begins as a private mod project @ https://fcbf.tk/index.php?topic=743 April 2014 - ZeroFront outline "BF2 to BF1 stock maps shell mod" posted by Phobos @ https://fcbf.tk/index.php?topic=789 Halloween 2014 - NOTLD mod released publicly November 2014 - TWDBF mod development announced publicly January 2015 - v0.50 First mod demo, Private development board added for TWDBF discussions @ https://fcbf.tk/index.php?board=70 June 2015 - v0.60 July 2015 - v0.65 September 2015 - Release of ZeroFront (previously called ZeroEdition) INVISadmin v0.1 by Phobos @ https://fcbf.tk/index.php?topic=1175 October 2015 - v0.75 "ZeroFront Ultimate Skill Guide" posted by Phobos @ https://fcbf.tk/index.php?topic=1360 June 2016 - v0.84 Launch of fake sites which no longer exist July 2016 - v0.85 August 2016 - v0.86 September 2016 - v0.88 October 2016 - v0.90 January 2017 - v0.91 Early Access mod demo released to the public March 2017 - v0.92 April 2017 - v0.93 May 2017 - v0.94 Seasons 1-2 (levels 1-12) finished, Final mod build released to the public due to hostility towards SWBFModders June 2017 - Previous fake domains are deleted permanently, Launch of real main websites TWD.SWBFModders.com and FCBF.tk/TWD, Mod distribution becomes private only forever July 2017 - v0.95 Several trolls banned from the SWBF community for trying to censor, plagiarize and hijack Phobos' creations Halloween 2017 - v0.96 December 2017 - v0.963 Launch of https://github.com/swbfspy February 2018 - v0.967 Launch of mod promotional channel @ https://vimeo.com/swbfspy May 2018 - SWBFSpy master server becomes fully operational, official TWD server upgraded March 2019 - SWBFSpy leaderboards finished Halloween 2019 - v0.97 Seasons 1-4 (levels 1-28) finished, First build to merge both TWD and ZeroFront mods, adding new campaigns/eras for Alien Wars and DiabloFront. January 2020 - v0.971 February 2020 - v0.972 March 2020 - v0.973 September 2020 - v0.974 First build to release the mod installer as a stand-alone game to C:\ZeroFront October 2020 - Secondary public mod page relocated from trolldb (which, along with several more jealous poser trolls who failed to censor and plagiarize TWDZF + ZeroBuilder, is now banned from SWBFSpy) to GameTracker. Also various public mirror relocations for all previously released public mods/tools which were censored on now-banned fake troll spam sites. Halloween 2020 - v0.975 Features 175+ stock maps with 5 eras, 10+ custom campaigns, custom galactic conquest, and other new game modes. TWD campaign features 175+ weapons, 100+ units, and 8 seasons of playable maps (61 levels, with 50 playable in MP), with more prototypes under construction for Seasons 1-12. All epic new original SWBF content by Phobos! December 2020 - v0.976 First build to include 13 encryption ciphers with 20 passwords/keys for absolute protection from unauthorized access. Major bugfix and mission rebalance patch. April 2021 - v0.977 June 2021 - v0.978 Halloween 2021 - v0.979 February 2022 - Launch of secondary mod promotional channel @ https://vimeo.com/walkingdead March 2022 - v0.9793 March 2023 - v0.9794 June 2023 - v0.9796 September 2023 - v0.9797 December 2023 - v0.98 The largest update in the history of the game, first build to include both a seperate SWBFSpy and Steam version. Enormous bugfixes, new features, new missions, unlocked limitations, rebalances, and more. Also the first build to include a public sample demo since v0.94. Features 300+ stock maps with 5 eras, 10+ custom campaigns, custom galactic conquest, and other new game modes. TWD campaign features 200+ weapons, 100+ units, 50+ vehicles and 11 seasons of playable maps (100+ levels, with at least 90% playable in MP)