The ultimate Steam Release checklist

MaxIsJoe commented 9 months ago

As we inch closer and closer to our first stable release in over 2 years, we've discussed on discord a general plan on what we'll be doing to push a steam release. However, there wasn't any officially documented track lists for our plans and required bug fixes, until now. This issue is meant to officially track all related submitted issues and tasks that are required to be done for unitystation's steam release.

We will not impose a deadline on ourselves, nor will we promise a speculative date on when all these tasks are finished. However, we have an unofficial gentlemen's agreement to not do any more major reworks or touch core systems unless it is to fix a big design flaw, fix performance issues and/or the intention is to improve the user experience (UX), or stabilize an already broken or outdated system.

We'd like to avoid any and all feature freezes as it slows down the game's development significantly. As a result, our main focus at the moment is polish, finishing gameplay loops and stability. We heavily discourage any major changes outside what is outlined in this checklist.

Once we've finished up a big chunk of tasks listed down below, we're planning on releasing a new stable build (0.5) while also opening access to unitystation via steam to those who request access to it. If 0.5 does not have all mandatory tasks done, we'll skip the steam release to 0.6.

Note: This list will be updated as time goes by when more issues popup, and we receive more feedback from players.

Security

Mandatory for Steam Release.

[x] Sandboxing (https://github.com/unitystation/stationhub/pull/212)
[X] Safe Url Open #9987
[x] Removing Firebase and installing our own django service/solution ( #9824 )
[x] #10012
[ ] Update mirror to latest version.
[ ] Patch unsecue unity functions like: UnityEngine.Events.UnityEvent, GetValidMethodInfo

Bugs

[ ] #9966
[x] #9964
[x] #9962
[ ] #9835
[x] #9751
[ ] #9712
[x] #9690
[ ] #9593
[ ] #9458
[x] #2423
[ ] #9692
[x] #9691
[ ] #9548
[x] #9515
[x] #9499
[x] #9498
[x] #9467
[x] #4914
[x] #4676
[ ] #5512
[ ] #6822
[ ] #8137
[x] #10043
[x] #10079
[x] Find what's interfering with the Laydown component that causes players to always appear standing up when they should be laying down or being set sideways.
[x] Airlocks will randomly flash their red lights after a player with no access interacts with it, and will stay stuck in that state until someone opens the door.
[x] Fix players failing to do any interactions inside moving shuttles.
[x] Server has a 50/50 chance to crash whenever free-power admin command is used.
[ ] Players have issues logging in for the first time when attempting to create characters.
[x] Ash Walkers break way too often.
[x] if you buckle yourself into an office chair, lay down, and then start rapidly grappling yourself and throwing/moving around, it puts massive strain on the server and can reliably crash it. ( wasn't able to replicate it )
[ ] Attempting to teleport as an admin to other players may result in the admin getting teleported to their last ghost's location instead of where the player actually is.
[x] Fix multiple mobs pushing each other through walls when they're crammed in a small room.
[x] Airlocks get their "access denied" animation stuck after multiple uses.

Features / UX

[ ] Finalize Trauma ( #6272 )
- [ ] Add trauma treatments.
- [ ] Add proper trauma stages/logic for blunt force trauma
- [ ] Add the ability to incapacitate limbs and render them unusable when reaching 3rd stage of blunt trauma
- [ ] Add infections and their treatments.
- [ ] Add sound feedback for effects of trauma.
- [ ] Update the UV pen light to be used for preventing infection or treating light infections.
[ ] Resume and finish work on sicknesses.
- [ ] Random Cures for rarer and more dangerous sicknesses + Cure Clues system
- [ ] Sickness immunity based on species, age, etc.
[ ] Xenobiology requires more content for players to engage with.
- [ ] Unique sprites are required for its content (and maybe just some sprite passes on stuff like potions)
- [ ] Move xenobio mobs to MobV2
[ ] Genetics requires a lot more polish.
- [ ] Rebalancing is required.
- [ ] Geneticist related UI requires an overhaul both in the visual and UX side.
[ ] In-game mapping
- [ ] JSON map loading/saving
- [ ] Improve current in-game mapping tool to be as powerful if not better than the editor's current mapping tools.
[x] Improve the UX of piloting shuttles.
- [x] Piloting a shuttle should be done inside a large radar window that uses a normal minimap with RenderTextures for accuracy and stability.
optional: Allow for rotational movement.
[ ] Lawyers need more tools to be a legal professional ~~pain in the ass~~ on the station.
- Lawyers need documents in their office with all crewmate's contracts in a cabinet.
- Court rooms need to be properly mapped near security departments.
- Stamps, signing, clipboards and files need to be added. This is generally a good thing for all departments but lawyers and cargo need it most now.
- Gavel!
[x] #4885
[x] Visor Huds and Interactions
- Security should be able to see and set the wanted status of other crewmates.
- Medical should be able to see the current HP of a crewmate + their bleeding stacks
[x] #9933
[ ] Finish polishing Cyborgs and fix all related issues with them.
- [ ] Work on medical cyborg functionality to be more useful and polished.
[ ] Add the librarian job and finish all remaining jobs.
[ ] Detectives need their universal recorder for interviews.
[ ] Improve the UX and UI for surgery.
[X] Add the option for a dropdown menu as an alternative to the radial menu.
[ ] #7878
[x] #9988
[x] #6416
[ ] #9264
[ ] #9865
[ ] #9088
[x] #8640
[ ] Add protips to more items and objects
[ ] Add IHoverTooltip info on more items and objects to allow new players to learn how to interact with objects more quickly.
[ ] Add Status Icon functionality and Crafting instructions to IHoverTooltip
[ ] All UI should be windows. Do NOT shove anything at the top right tab thingy.
[ ] #6990
[x] Remove public terminals.
[ ] Tutorial Station
[ ] Expanding space/lavaland exploration content
- [ ] #8919
- [ ] Give ash walkers more content and reason to exist.
- [ ] Add randomly generated structures in space for players to explore and obtain resources from.
[x] Reactor balancing so newbies don't blow up the station instantly. ( change the default state just sits there and produces a lot of radiation making engineering radioactive and dangerous, to get an explosion traitor has to buy high yield uranium that they put into the reactor that causes the explosion when it melts down , still needs a bit of balancing to put some safeties on it )
[ ] UI and Fonts need some QT and QA, as a lot of elements keep overlapping each other and text is often harder to read according to players who played on SS14 and SS13.
[x] Adding Plasma to containers and container pressure mechanics.
[ ] Move important mobs to MobsV2
- [ ] Mediborg, Floorbot and Beepsky.
- [ ] All department pets
- [ ] Lavaland mobs
- [ ] Anicent Engineer mobs
- [ ] Xenomorphs
[ ] Make sure that ID interactions work in more scenarios where the ID is placed inside a PDA.
[ ] Allow consoles to be hacked to bypass ID verfication and add special interactions.
[x] Items are missing price labels, we should add/rebalance them.

Admin Tools

The majority of these issues require us to solve #7179 first.

[ ] Invisible mode for admins
[ ] Admin ranks
[ ] Admin Permissions
[ ] Finer control over server components. (Such as gamemodes, chat filters, subsystems, etc)
[ ] RCON Support
[ ] Expanded Admin Logging
- [ ] Logs for specific antagonist actions
- [ ] Logs for different player interactions with critical station systems, such atmospherics and electrical.
- [ ] Logs for players joining, respawning and ghost roles.
- [ ] Logs for players getting spaced out of mainstation.
- [ ] Logs for players being put in harmful devices such as the incinerator
[ ] Make admin ghosts their own separate entity to support things such as admin inventories and such.
[ ] Updated the interaction system to accept inputs from ghosts if they're admins.

Things to consider:

These aren't mandatory for the steam release, but they are preferable.

Add shipwreck/shiptest gamemode. A singelplayer/co-op game mode designed for 1-8 players that involves players traveling across the stars to upgrade their small humble ship, conquer randomly generated dungeons, and re-establish connection with NT once more.
Finish adding relays and the rest of the communications officer gameplay.
Finish chemistry related bounties and add more reagent reactions.
- If possible, simplify the creation of reagents and their reactions.
Add the ability to auto-ghost upon death.
6787
8930
8744
8641
8400
8165
7903
9667
6155
7556
Progression system for loadouts and skillcaps.
Rework shuttle movement to use line paths.
Some elements in movement needs to be re-adjusted and re-balanced.

Criteria for expanding this list:

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The following criteria should help us easily know what is high priority and what isn't:

Issue must be focused on improving the user experience for new players first
Issue must provide additional value with minimal time spent on it (unless it's a bug or core gameplay content)
Issue must be something that players have constantly requested in the past 4 years or from recent feedback.
Issue must address critical missing features, jank or game breaking bugs.
Issue must address an unfinished or poorly designed feature that is in dire need to be worked on.
Any requests for new changes or features must be something a new player can easily detect without explanation.
Any cosmetic changes should be purely for improving UX, and not to add it just for the sake of having it.
Any one-liner requests are automatically denied and dismissed. Explain what you want and stop assuming that everyone understands what you're talking about (the hell is an RCON?)
It is preferable to link to already submitted issues in our issue tracker. If there are no already opened issues for what you want to be added to this list, discuss it on discord first instead of needlessly filling up the comment section of this tracker.

Your issue/request must meet three of the above crieteria to be added to the features list, while bugs only require one.

Pockets-byte commented 8 months ago

admin logging, RCON improvements. better direct game world interactions(IE an adminghost that acts like a player but is a ghost that can complete actions without a distance limit or timer) more alerting and awareness tools. at minimum for steam to be viable with an increased scale admin team