Season of the High Stakes - Roadmap (Summer 2025) - *July 15th Update*

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Completed the Big Boom challenge using the House for Sale oportunity and the bunker security system.

Gave the real state broker some muffins so he would sell the house to Cassidy. I isolated and knocked out Cassidy’s bodyguard, the seller and then Cassidy and placed him in the bunker.

Then isolated Janus’ bodyguard and pacified him and made Janus follow me using a gun lure, when he saw Cassidy’s body Janus aproached him and I activated the security system.

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Also, this propane tank exploded on its own?

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Not sure where to put it, but official accounts acknowledged livestream of vtuber Nimi Nightmare

Not sure if someone is fan or something else.

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Noticed the stream on Youtube. It had 10k or so viewers, so seems like quite the following and nice of the IOI team to show their appreciation.

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Finally got round to finishing a review for this patch and roadmap.

This is a 25 minute monstrosity of a video that I had to re-write and re-record narration for, no less than seven times because of its pacing. It is…not perfect, but it’s out now. That’s a problem for future me to solve. Enjoy it all the same!

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I just wish they’d move off using the same ETs year after year (yeah they added in The Fixer this year, but its the only one they’ve added in the Year 5 line-up). They have enough ETs and weeks in the year that they could run every ET… but they just don’t for some reason. Running them in the same order each year doesn’t really help either.

And who knows if we’ll even get The Serial Killer this year - it was skipped earlier in the year. Either by accident or on purpose. Guess we’ll find out soon enough on that one. My money is that it was an accident and they won’t realise it.

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What annoys me about this design is the black stripe, which clashes with the black beak. It’d probably look fine if the beak were white or yellow to contrast it. But as it is, it makes it look like the beak was dipped in oil, and gives off an unnerving effect.

The IOI Showcase Duck on the other hand, is fairly nice looking.

Also, nice to know auto-CC’s work =)

And even then, it was done as a poll on this forum, not to shake things up.

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That’s fair, I felt that it looked a bit off as well. But I enjoy the duckies enough to overlook minor flaws every so often.
(After all, it’s not the ducky’s fault that it was based on TikTok.)

Except when you take it in a dark area, then you notice that it is absurdly bright for some reason.

They work at least 75% of the time.

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From the company that brought you Deepwater Horizon, BP presents: The Neon Duck.

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The good news about the Neon Duck is that it could be the last TikTok Drop IO do.

Seems like it ended up being too much of a pain in the ass for combatglue to ensure that there were at least some streams available to claim it on.

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Exactly. They’re using the same ones every roadmap and meanwhile, some got rerun only once.

The annoying thing is, they could easily fit them all into the schedule, and still allow for new CelebrETs to run without anything taking the spotlight from them. Plus it would be almost something to play every single week of the year.

Here’s how Year 5 could have looked if every ET was going live (bold and italic’d ETs are ones that won’t come this year or aren’t scheduled yet):

@Combatglue If there is a Year 6 - please make this something that happens.

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I just noticed: with the exception of The Deceivers - which was already ran this year and was reworked from solo ETs - every ET that was originally built around having two targets is running during this season: The Procurers, The Ex-Dictator (and The Gold Digger), and The Surgeons. Considering the season is of the High Stakes, and the emphasis on card games due to Le Chiffre’s inclusion, is the presence of all the double targets in the same season supposed to represent a two-of-a-kind theme? Or a double down/double-or-nothing theme?

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:lol: just posted this updated version of the season of the high-stakes roadmap on twitter getting rid of the stuff that’s already happened and adding a rerun of the splitter and banker and it also now shows the iOS version

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Ok, I can understand then adding in the Splitter, but we just had the Banker, what is the deal with an immediate rerun?

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made an updated image but didn’t fix my FC batch title :pensive_face:

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It could be that we get another preview for the Bond game around that time. I think they did mention gameplay would be shown in the summer.

PS:
Gamescom is August 20-24.

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Nice to see that the VHS tape still isn’t named correctly.

I’m gonna be real here, this looks a bit…desperate? Not sure how else to put it. Le Chiffre re-running so soon, The Splitter being re-run, the fact they’re advertising the iOS port now, it all just speaks to me as if it’s trying too hard to catch everyone’s attention.

Maybe I’m being too cynical about all this, but this new roadmap has had the precise opposite effect on me; I’m not hyped for the new (re-run) content…I’m just…slightly curious and confused.

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I don’t think it’s you.

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