Hey everyone. Made a reddit account just for this. Lets get started. First I'll talk about future content that was planned to be added, then later on I'll talk about the lawsuit.
Jason X
Jason X was going to be unlocked at level 110. There was a mistake Gun Media made a while ago that unlocked Jason X for people to be playable, and I forget exactly what level he was unlocked at, but his current unlock level at that time was just a placeholder. Again, Jason X was going to be unlocked at 110.
Jason X was planned to have a Pre-Uber version. It's been said in the past that Jason X would only have his Uber version, but this is false. His Pre-Uber version would be unlocked at 109, though he was going to be worked on after Jason X was completed.
The Lazarus Experience
Fans of the movies may be familiar with Part 8's SS Lazarus. This was a ship that the movie took part in, the same movie that had Jason visiting Manhattan.
The Lazarus Experience was going to be a Virtual Cabin 3.0. It was going to feature many more puzzles than the 2.0, and have an AI Jason. Well, kind of. If you've payed attention to what's been officially said in the past, you'd know that they didn't want to make an AI Jason because it would be too complicated. They'd have to account for all the paths that the AI would need to take, and it just wouldn't work. But for the Lazarus, they figured out how they could do it. They'd have you do various puzzles, and in certain puzzles, you'd be in tight corners, hallways, etc, which Jason would chase you down. They were actually planning on revealing a NHA Jason at the end of VC 3.0. If you're not aware of what NHA means, it means Never Hike Alone. They were working with the directors of Never Hike Alone to get Ghost Jason into the game, and it would've felt very similar to how Jason X was announced.
Lan Mode
This is self explanatory. I won't waste your time with it.
Sandbox Mode
There really isn't much to talk about regarding this. Sandbox mode was just going to spawn you into one of the game's maps as a counselor of your choosing, and you'd be free to explore without Jason coming after you. This was going to allow you to explore the maps in case you haven't gotten the chance to do so in online matches, it would also allow you to infinitely repair vehicles, so you could practice your repairs.
Paranoia
This is the one that may upset a lot of people. Paranoia was going to be a Part V gamemode, where there's 7 players, while one player is secretly the killer. They came out and said the reason we never got it is because it "wasn't fun enough". That's bullshit. The state of the gamemode was as fun and buggy as the normal gamemode we currently have, it just would've gotten stale after about 30 rounds. One player would be chosen as Killer, and they'd spawn in as a counselor, just like everyone else. As a counselor, they can sabotage vehicles, hide repair parts (this would replace Jason's traps, basically you'd press down on the D-Pad while holding a repair part, and you'd hide the part under a pile of leafs.) and at the press of a button, you could turn into Part V Jason, and start your slaughters. Being Jason, you'd have a serious debuff. You could only morph every 80 seconds, and you had no shift, which is why it was important to sabotage the cars. Though you had infinite stalk, so this would encourage trying to be stealthy.
Future Unannounced Content
There's quite a bit to go with this one, so I'll list them off but I won't go into detail. If you want detail, PM me and I'll inform you.
- Part 3 Kill Pack
- Part 5 Kill Pack
- Part 6 Kill Pack
- Part 8 Kill Pack
- Part 9 Kill Pack
- Attempts to add FvJ Jason and Remake Jason to the game, though they were VERY skeptical
- Never Hike Alone Map
- Part 9 Map
- Lingerie Clothing Pack (this got leaked a while ago, you could find an image very easily online)
- Futuristic Clothing Pack
- Christmas Clothing Pack (Skipped to work on the Engine Upgrade, planned next Christmas)
- New Single Player Challenge every 2 Months
- New Grab Kills (duh)
- New Items for counselors such as fanny packs (Equip it like a flashlight or Walkie talkie, hold 1 additional item)
- A new variant of the Pamela/Tommy tapes, these would be like Newspaper Scraps
Wow... Alright. Now that's out of the way, I can talk about the situation with the lawsuit.
On June 21st, Wes Keltner came out and said we'd be getting no more future content for the game, as you should know.
The reason for this is a lawsuit that came about, I won't go deep into it because you can find many articles online regarding it, but they stopped content not because they HAD to, but because they didn't want to risk investing money into more content development and then being told to stop.
They had lots of content done for the game but it all had to be thrown to the bin. But in their current situation, they can in fact develop and release more content for the game. They chose not to. They wanted us to stop asking so much, so they dropped Illfonic (the developers of the game and the content). NECA did in fact have to stop working on their Jason figures, but they were told that they can FINISH all figures that was currently being developed, and Gun Media was in the same right. They are legally allowed to finish all content that was being worked on and release it, and by the time they would've completed all of that, the lawsuit would've been cleared up and they could continue working on content that hadn't even been thought of yet.
TL;DR Lots of planned content that was going to be worked on and was almost complete, but was dropped.
They can still work on content, they choose not to.
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