As we eagerly await the news for the next roadmap drop, which is likely to be Easter themed, there is nothing quite like a bit of good speculation and theories to fill in a bit of time before the roadmap drops!
Discuss below potential ideas below on what youād like to see, or what you might think weāll see in the next roadmap!
Iām obviously hoping for the Easter Safehouse cosmetics for Freelancer!!
I say green emetic egg please but DO NOT make it lock on target; the durian locked on target when I was in Paris taking care of the pharmacist and blew the whole thing, leaving me to struggle shooting her with the small ducky gun through the curtains and windows frames awkwardly then sliding down the pipethe whole way down. (Sorry for the rant)
The blue egg does lock on but its a knockout anyway but would not be the the same application with emetics.
And as much i love the easter egg hunt every year, why not mix it up a bit, say do it in whithelton creek or dartmoor!? Say what?
Y5 main events will be the 25th anniversary of the franchise in Fall, and the 10th anniversary of WoA next March. None are here.
CelebrET reruns looks to be the enhanced Y5 version of the free location rotation. So a bit separated to the actual roadmap communication (but present on it)
What I do expect for the next Roadmap:
The Easter decoration for the Safehouse are as close to guaranteed as one thing can be.
The usual ETs and FCs.
The first Y5 roadmap showed IOI work on new interesting items. So I hope for more of the same. And I am sincerely delighted by it.
The Drop and the Forger are the 97th and 98th ET from the current career tab. We will soon have the 100th ET.
But I donāt expect anything special for it though.
Separated, but maybe a new celebrET?
IOI seems to hit stride on production.
Y5 seems to have a double track for both attracting new players and for the āhardcoreā community.
So I expect some good surprise to arrive this year.
What needs to happen quickly:
more and more clothes meshes are broken and need to be patched.
Mostly around elbows and shoulders.
(so patching it, would be in a way a literal patching )
What I wish to see:
If the next Roadmap goes to June, and the solstice, I will still hope for the Solstice Suit (modified to have a Providence Pin)
(the providence pin is a quick swap that makes the suit loose the artefact of its initial season2 ET reward, now obsolete. A Providence Suit is frequently asked. Itās an easy win)
(and we donāt have enough suit using Hitman 3 fit, so why not an āevilā version)
Eliminate three ICA Agents with loud pistol headshots
Eliminate one ICA Agent with a thrown axe
Eliminate one ICA Agent with a fall accident
Mission: Apex Predator / Berlin Reward: The Solstice Suit
I mean, the solstice suit is wholesale from John Wick, so here is a challenge inspired by it.
Itās just the Berlin scene from John Wick 4.
Besides, if a providence pin swap is done, itās a great āevilā version of the Hitman 3 suit
Release: 21st of June, Solstice Suit for the summer solstice.
Green egg unlock would be nice. Red would be amazing but would probably send all the other poisons the way of the dodo (unless in a contract specifying ingested / injected).
I expect weāll see the first new Celeb ET in the next roadmap. Maybe not releasing right at the start of it but a month or two in, maybe not even confirming who it is just a shadowy teaser like The Splitter had, but I think itās likely weāll get something on it.
A new Twitch Drop: my guesses are a Purple Fish, Purple Kalmer, or a Purple Striker
Something I hope to see is The Berlin Egg Hunt getting Contracts mode support. Other than that the Green Egg unlocked from a new challenge seems likely.
Personally Iād like to see the White Rabbitās suit rather than the Bank Robber, I suggested a challenge for it a while back using the Egg Hunt mission:
This is a very good idea.
I too would like to see more options for the stages where contracts can be drawn up.
I personally have a lot to look forward to in future updates, but I would also like to see additional elements added to freelancers.
New freelancer challenges, new syndicates, new target NPCs, elusive target NPCs as additional reward targets that appear very rarely, etc.
I have finished completing all the freelancer challenges and then I feel sad that I have lost my purpose.
Due to IOās fondness of using the exact same order for the ETs (excluding CelebrETs), we can reasonably assume the Y5 ETs on the roadmap will be, and in this order:
The Serial Killer
The Deceivers
The Rage
The Revolutionary
The Liability
The Stowaway
Depending on how many theyāre going to run in the roadmap of course.
Weāve already seemingly had the threads for this roadmapās FCs: Anonymousā all female batch, Quartzās meme maximizer, and Magicdaveās magical mystery tour
Probably in the coming months weāll be having submission threads for the summer batches.