Dear Explorers,
This update includes the fourth and final story mission, Act IV: The Engine of Creation. There are also new events, tribe types and other content to discover.
We made several additions and changes to improve the overall experience for both old and new players — make sure to check out the new Combat UI and the Settings screen in particular, and let us know your thoughts on the Steam Forums or on Discord.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1040230/Curious_Expedition_2/
Here's the full changelog:
New
- Added Act IV: The Engine of Creation
- New Explorer Select screen
- New Difficulty Select screen
- Added 'Death Consequences' options
- New setting: 'Instant Text' that makes event text appear instantly
- New setting: 'Fast Rest' that makes resting & waiting happen much faster
- New setting: 'Travel Speed' that makes moving on the map faster or slower
- New setting: 'Challenge Notifications' that toggles notifications about new club challenges on or off
- New option: 'Reset Clubs' to reset all your club progress (available in the main menu only)
- New hand equipment: Parrot
- New tribe type: Distrustful
- New tribe type: Pacifist
- New tribe type: Unisex
- New event type: Dreamscape
- New map zone: Human Exposition Recruiter
- Added hub narrative for 1889
- Lots of new events
Changes
- New Combat UI
- New Dice Challenge UI, including chance display for each required colour & information about how many bonuses are possible
- New map travel UI
- Hovering a character's Promote button will display a preview of the character after promotion
- After an expedition you can look around the map
- Reworked the tribe trait system so that each tribe has a single standout trait instead of combining 3 different ones
- Stunned Panthers no longer do Reroll Retaliation
- Villages become angry more easily now, unless they have the Pacifist trait
- Can no longer interact with locations or zones when party is overfilled with people
- Maps are slightly smaller on 'Tourist' difficulty and slightly larger on 'Lunatic' difficulty
- Improved art for the Scout Post and Huntmaster locations
- Geo Machine now always has 2 different actions available out of a pool
- Added a congratulations message shown in the main menu when completing the campaign
- Added a display for current fame & total fame this campaign when hovering over the fame bar in Paris
- The shape of an Island is revealed at the start of the expedition when in Tourist difficulty (except Caverns)
Notable Bug Fixes
- Fixed Cartography and Anthropology bonuses that increase the fame for their Studies & Kit items
- Fixed some items not being usable in Dice challenges, or being usable but not adding dice
- Fixed not being able to upgrade Curious or Improved items to level 8
- Fixed Caverns map overlay not showing the difference between tiles you have never explored and tiles that you did explore but are now in darkness again
- Fixed Lost Explorer map not generating or not being diggable with shovels
- Fixed Trader being attracted by the Phonograph and interrupting movement