Dear Explorers,
There's so much new content for you to discover in this update: 4 leader classes, 4 recruitable characters, 2 new famous explorers, plenty of items, equipment, enemies and more... on top of that, another big addition is controller support! Let us know your thoughts if you get the chance to play with a gamepad.
As mentioned in last week's announcement, this is the final alpha content update before the 1.0 release in early 2021. From now on we will now be focusing on balancing the game's systems, fixing bugs and adjusting all the small details to provide you the best possible experience. You can expect more content updates next year, after version 1.0 is out ;)
This is also the last chance to get the game at its current Early Access price, before it increases later this week. Remember that if you own the first Curious Expedition on Steam, you can get the Collection Bundle and get 10% off on Curious Expedition 2.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1040230/Curious_Expedition_2/
Here's the full changelog:
New
- Added controller support
- New leader class: Red Flag Pirate
- New leader class: Nahua Seeker
- New leader class: Taxonomist
- New leader class: Shennong Herbalist
- New hand equipment: Whip
- New hand equipment: Rope
- New hand equipment: Hunting Knife
- New hand equipment: Ornamental Revolver
- New hand equipment: Magma Thrower
- New hand equipment: Coral Bludgeon
- New famous explorer: Wong Fei-hung
- New famous explorer: Sacagawea
- New enemy: Tiger
- New Salamander enemy types: Sea Priest, Claw Master
- New Mole enemy types: Battle Mechanist, Burrower, Headhunter, Tinkerer
- New hazard: Magnetic Mountain
- New shrine aftermath: Volcanoes
- New location: Mole Outpost
- New location: Sinking Shrine
- New recruitable character: Street Rat
- New recruitable character: Mole Tinkerer
- New recruitable character: Mole Headhunter
- New recruitable character: Mole Burrower
- New village quest: Deliver gift
- New village quest: Dig up artefact
- After completing the campaign, you get medals in the Difficulty Selection and Leader Selection screens
- New Lux Labs item: Electro Barrier (club levels have been slightly changed to accommodate)
- New items: Cheese, Cow Hide, Metalsmithing Kit, War Horn, Religious Icon, Horse Pelt, Theodolite
- Added new hub narrative events
- Added new optional tutorial boxes
Changes
- New explorer types must be unlocked by performing certain tasks
- Club Shop items are now split into categories
- Reduced base expedition fame/ticket rewards to emphasize other sources of fame more
- When using the 'Wipe Year' death consequence, restarting the year will reset your tickets to the number you had at the beginning of the year, instead of zero.
- Reduced difficulty of expeditions in 1886
- Improved pacing of Paris location unlocks
- Recruitable Club characters will sometimes be available for recruiting in the Tavern
- Unused tickets are converted to fame at the end of the Campaign
- Can now sell Equipment at the Shop in Paris for Tickets
- Significant retuning of fame rewards - expeditions now grant less tickets/fame, but fame items grant more
- Doubled health bonus of equipment that grants health (Girdle, Harness, Kara Bracelet)
- Late game dice challenges are now a bit easier
- The Sandalwood Bracelet now also changes the sanity threshold where you'll get negative events while resting
- The Giant Crab Pincer is now usable as hand equipment instead of being a fame trophy
- Hunter's Cunning perk now has a limit to how many dice can be rerolled
- Hiking Stick now only reduces per-tile cost partially
- Increased price / upgrade price of Heavy Crates
- The Shipwreck now has a rare special location variant
- Added a reminder to the Ship Shop about the current Island's objective & biome