Starting up testing for the upcoming EYEBALL update, which will hit sometime in October or November. We're loading up the early builds with things that will need a lot of testing. Post to the comments if you run into anything strange.
To encourage testing, the Zombo Points giver is in. Also, there will likely be a testing branch save wipe in the next big testing branch, likely in a week or two.
INSTRUCTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTE: The testing branch and the retail version use different save files! Testing Branch saves also get cleared out on occasion.
HOW TO INSTALL: Right click Death Road to Canada on Steam. Go to Properties. Go to Betas. Select Testbranch, no password necessary.
CHANGES
Big Changes
- Trying out a new, smaller font size.
- Trying out a new city generator. An option to test this currently replaces the start of game hint.
- AI tweak to let the AI not drop certain items. This applies to most of the items the AI will not use. The result is that you can now have the AI carry grenades for you and they shouldn't dump them to the floor for a femur.
- Dogs and other animals will no longer dump their items for another item, unless they drop the item by trying to attack something.
New Upgrades
- Series of upgrades to make rare locations and events more frequent.
- Series of upgrades to make rare traders less rare. In addition, they're now a little more common even without the upgrades.
- Unomey gets some more phrases due to new upgrades.
Tweaks
- The CYOA text heal now acts just like the blurb heal
- Events that gave you a choice of 3 characters will now give you a choice of all characters in your party, if your group is full.
- Almost all recruit "who do you ditch" when group is full events have been changed to give you a choice of 4 people, rather than 3 or ditch no one.
- Rare Trader camp generation tweaked. You now get up to 2 rolls in a game to find one, but the chance of failure has risen from 40% to 60%.
- City Seeker buffed. Now gives a 50% chance to find something rare in a city, and also removes the chance of failure of a rare trading camp to generate.
- Gourmand now also gives you +1 max health.
- Unomey shows up earlier. You only have to get one unlock or two upgrades now, down from 2 unlocks only.
- Unomey's ZP gain upgrade series is cheaper, and shows up earlier.
- That early dirt road zombie siege got a 10% reduction in difficulty.
- Solo dogs can now recruit the Pet Store dogs for free.
- Giga Guy is now more expensive, 20 food instead of 10.
- Anime Girl explosion no longer hurts teammates.
- Hay bale is now very flammable.
Fixes
- Woof no longer gets that bugged out book item on "death"
- Woof dying no longer clears the special character off your controlled player character.
- If someone's turned into a dog, they'll drop their weapon inventory to the trunk if in the car, to the floor if they're in a location.
- If someone's turned into a dog and they have no drop weapons in the B and C slots, these weapons will be deleted.
- Game now supports more than 127 special characters
- Traders that don't give a positive Cool it!!! result will no longer show the flashing !!!
- Phoenix explosion will no longer damage teammates.
- Possible fix for weird gas detour values, where you'd lose all your gas but it would show you gaining gas.
- Fixed a bug where it would mention your car if you got a superdog right after you lost your car.
- Finally fixed the ending epilogues always using male pronouns.