Hey Jluger! I do thank you for keeping the comment sections alive XD
But if you could please, keep everything in one general comment so you don't flood, other people do have questions too.
I have a bunch planned for 0.8, but its really just a starting point. We rebuilt the game basically entirely in unreal 5. We will be sticking to a fnaf-like gameplay style with a few bells and whistles that will individualize us. (If we get the luck of making a sequel, thats when freeroam will be likely added on)
For now rather than focusing on In-Game lore. I want to correct what the previous builds had issues with. Hopefully this rebuild will correct the cache issue that insinuated the failure to load videos on various builds. (Which if you have those issues, please do check out our electra test, you should be able to view all of the gallery there)
Not only that, It should give us a stable base for modding and future titles hopefully.
For lore, While I have designed a rather comprehensive story to In Heat. I want to leave a huge chunk of it unknown for the sake of the full release. But I do want to make several videos on our Youtube channel to go over a bit about the story of Diamond Straits.
Maps maps maps. Well the admin room is likely going to get cluttered up by useless junk, its more of a storage facility in lore. We touched up a bunch of the textures so it should be looking more gritty when it comes out on ue5.
Nightclub, I felt was very weak in its gameplay. And I want to take it back to the drawing board and fix it up a bit. Maybe make it more scary since it originally missed the mark on its theming. I want to do a scenario where you are locked in one of the many prisons located under the nightclub (which it was originally meant to be a refurbished prison).
Forest, Is likely going to be the second map, since Nightclub will likely be in RND. I will talk more about that in the devlog coming up.
Oh yeah, Finally we got Ari, and Misty set up as big threats for most of the maps now. Which wasn't really showcased in previous builds.
Anyway, Devlog soon, save your questions and such for that. You can always communicate with us on discord Via https://discord.gg/monsterbox
Thank you again for playing!