Launch Scope

These documents describe more game than launches. This page says which parts are the launch, which arrive later and when, and which may never be built. It is written in the Service's register. Nothing in it changes a rule of the Night: it only says when each rule first applies.

The order comes from Seasons and New Content (The Order of Arrival) and The Business Case (Building It). Where the two documents give a date or a condition, this page repeats it and does not change it.

The Launch

Survivor in the Raccoon City of September 1998, rebuilt whole. Everything a night in that city needs is the launch, and nothing else is.

System	Where it is defined	Launch notes
The Night and the Service, ΜΝΗΜΗ, Pithos, the sleepers, the Remembered	Project Overview, ΜΝΗΜΗ, Pithos, The Sleepers and the Remembered	Whole. The Growth is in the lore from the first day; its first anomalies are not (Year Two, below)
The Sealed File	The Sealed File	Written in full before launch. Revealed by the seasons, in its own order
The session, waking points, the Reserve, the Seats, the Clock	The Session	Whole
The director: Laws, Pulse, stillness, planning, leavers, her bodies, visions, asking her, leads, a file's first nights	ΜΝΗΜΗ as Director	Whole
Infection, the Mark, Resonance, antivirals, Down	The Infection	Whole. The anomalous strains wait for the anomalies
Elpis, the road, the paced Reserve, the Last Trial, the drop, the scar	Elpis in the Night	Whole
The six strains, Petitions, pure strains, the Embrace	The Strains	Whole
The Turn, the four shapes, who plays on, Hunts, the Second Night, the Lost	The Turned	Whole
Extraction, the six ways out, the three improvised ways, the Climb, the End of the Night, the Last Scene	The Extraction	The Raccoon City rows only
The edge of the world and the Crossing	The Worlds	Raccoon City's three rings
The four days: the hours, the moon, the pace, the weather track	The Worlds	Raccoon City, 1998
The dead, threat levels, containment, B.O.W. events	The Dead and the Engineered	Whole. Anomalies wait
Survival: health, hunger and thirst, Self-Examination, inventory, worn gear, stashes, scarcity, safe rooms and Wardens, vehicles, fighting, the Heavy	Survival	Whole. Crafting waits for the Ruins
Destruction	Destruction	Whole, with Raccoon City's breaches and collapse sites
Objectives, restrictions, puzzles, vaults, secret weapons, events	Objectives, Restrictions, and Events	The Raccoon City weapons. The Unknown Event waits for the anomalies
The living, voice, betrayal, dilemmas	The Living, Dilemmas	Whole
Survivors, creation, Hardening	The Survivors	Whole
Squads made in the night, the Squad Sign, parties, companions, the Stranded, ties	Survivor	Raccoon City's roster and ties
The story night of 1998, live scenes, Moments, As Recorded	Story Nights and the People of the Records, The People of Raccoon City, 1998	Whole. If the first gate prices the story night above its line, the launch ships Late Wakings in its place (The Business Case)
Echoes, offline play, queue fill	The Echoes, Offline and Ownership	Online first. Raccoon City opens offline when watched enough, or within a year
The After-Action Report and the Ledger	The After-Action Report	Whole
The First Run, the Promises, Conduct, the economy and Exposure, cosmetics, the Dossier, the diorama, seasons and Casefiles	The Service, The Economy, Cosmetics and the Dossier, Seasons and New Content	Whole. The Wardrobe opens with what Raccoon City, 1998, can wear, and Dossier pieces; looks of the Ruins and the Valley, the BSAA among them, are sold when their world arrives (Cosmetics and the Dossier, Each Thing to Its Time). Hallowed Night needs a map whose calendar allows it, so it waits for the Ruins
Presentation and technology	Presentation and Technology	Whole for Raccoon City

Year Two

Arrives during the First Run's second year.

What	Where it is defined	What it switches on
The Ruins of 2026, the hardcore map	The Worlds, The People of the Ruins, 2026	Crafting, ARK Falls, the Ruins' ways out and improvised ways, the Ruins' weapons, the queue choice between the classic rotation and the Ruins
Crosstime Weekends	Story Nights and the People of the Records, Seasons and New Content	Needs a second time in the game
The anomalies and their strains	The Dead and the Engineered, The Infection	The Unknown Event becomes possible
Hallowed Night	Seasons and New Content	Its Ruins half. Its Valley half waits for the Valley

After the Opening, If It Sells

What	Condition	Where it is defined
The Valley of 2004, its story night, the Plaga, pesetas and the Merchant	Built only if the First Run sells more than six million copies in its first year (The Business Case, Running It)	The Worlds, The People of the Valley, 2004, What ΜΝΗΜΗ Leaves Out

Variants and Fallbacks

What	Status	Where it is defined
Late Wakings	A variant held for later development, and the launch's fallback if the story night is too costly	Story Nights and the People of the Records

Possible Future Development

Not scheduled. Each is built only if it can be paid for without taking anything from Survivor (Future Development).

What	Where it is defined
Outbreak, Versus, Mercenaries, Recollections and Endless	Future Development and each mode's own document
The Refuge	The Refuge, last of all

The Scope Rule

The launch is proved before anything is added to it.

• No new system joins the launch until the launch's own numbers have been tested: the night simulated against its Reserve, Seats, and Clock.
• A change to a launch system is a correction, not an addition: it fixes a contradiction, a number that proved wrong, or a gap a writer had to fill.
• Everything later stays later. A system listed after the launch is not pulled forward to solve a launch problem. The launch's problems are solved with the launch's own rules.