Winter (2025) Roadmap Speculation & Year 6?

easier to assume no, and the Celeb-ET formula will continue given it’s more beneficial marketing wise.

I genuinely do hope we get the Ether Facility that was teased but it’s pure copium at this point. Like just one more Location :sob:

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If I’m looking forward for the new DLC-tied mission in Dartmoor, I don’t expect something radically new in the upcoming roadmap.
Maybe there will be some intels about the co-op mode, but TBH I’m not interested about that feature.

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My predictions for the Year 6 roadmap. It will contain:

The new CelebrET and accompanying purchasable pack that gives us reskins of items we already have/will never use and a two-tier Arcade contract.

The lineup for the next 2-3 months of ETs that we’ve already done over and over for the last 4 years at least.

Featured contracts with some silly theme.

Twitch drops that will either be some purple version of something we already have/ will never use, or a duck of some sort, purple or otherwise.

A bunch of fixes to things hardly anybody even noticed was an issue and likely won’t notice is fixed either.

It won’t contain:

Any actual new content outside of the CelebrET.

Additional Arcade contracts that let us play without restriction the ETs that are currently beholden to certain restrictions preventing 5 star gameplay without following specific kill requirements/loadouts.

Fixes to issues that have been reported and waited on for years, including broken story mission kills that don’t trigger under the conditions that they should, or result in loss of SA that did not used to.

The Tactical Turtleneck with gloves as an unlock.

Does anyone dispute that this will be the exact scenario with the roadmap when it comes?

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Was expecting it for the last week of February around the 26-27.
But now I wonder if more precisely we are going to have a launch with an “available now trailer at the IGN Fan Fest.


Outside of the usual ETs, FCs, and new challenge/unlock:

  • I expect an Anniversary Stream for mid-march.
    Maybe with a dedicated drop.
  • Speaking of drop, we still have the one from the speed-run competition to arrive
    (either a blindfolded suit, or a quick unpack loud Sieger sniper)

IOI has given good surprises lately, and good quality for new items.
I don’t expect anything exceptional. But I expect a solid roadmap. Professional.

Wouldn’t say no to a quick-look at the co-op (please be via a new Freelancer tile with all it entails, a safehouse as lobby would be great, and I’m all for random objectives in bricked maps).


Best case, above and beyond, scenario: Anniversary is an Event with in-and-out-game bells and whistles.

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@IOI_Artjoms has confirmed it’s coming with the next Celebrity ET at the end of the month :raising_hands:t2:

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@IOI_Artjoms Just to repeat some feedback from past years for you (since it never got acknowledged by Samir):

There has been repeated feedback at the start of each year that “unroadmapped” ETs (ones that aren’t present on a roadmap but are activated in the in-between period before the next roadmap drops and are only known if you look at social media or happen to look at the right place in-game) is unpopular and leads to people missing the activation.

The problem is exacerbated by the in-game Live tab. If the ET tile was on the main menu when you log into the game, it would be unlikely you would miss an ET if you play the game during the period because its there without you having to go search for it. Having it tucked away on a separate menu which you wouldn’t even look at if you think your knowledge of what is going live and when is up-to-date is just a bad idea in combination of the “unroadmapping” of the ETs.

One way around it would be to do a partial roadmap release that is mostly covered up with REDACTED images to cover up anything relating to the CelebrET/anything that IO wants to keep quiet on for now, and then do a full reveal of the roadmap later on.

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To further add to this, I didn’t knew The Undying was gonna be live until I saw this post and decided to check further in the forum.

Is a shame because we didn’t have any shadow dropped ETs for a while so I though that chapter was finally over, but it seems not. I woudn’t mind unroadmapped stuff if it was something permanent like FCs, that would be just a nice surprise, but they are doing it with time limited content.

Oh, and by the way, Samir did aknowledge it but nothing changed, which is even worse lol. He answered a post I made about it back on the comunication thread.

This was on July 2024 :joy:

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Heh. In all honesty, he probably replied and did nothing with it. Since ETs got unroadmapped at the start of 2025 as well - when we had 6 (!!!) of them. One of which was a CelebrET re-run, so it wasn’t reactivated as part of the current Galore.

Fun fact: The Heartbreaker hasn’t appeared on a roadmap since 2023, despite going live in both February 2024 and 2025.

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Are you serious, Twitch Drop get its name from its platform.

I’d prefer getting exclusive rewards through my Nintendo Platnium coins.

I have deleted that post, I’m sorry