Dear Survivors,
Summer is just around the corner, and we want to give you a good reason not to expose yourself to the sun’s harmful UV rays. Instead, take a seat at your computer, draw the curtains, and check out the latest, comprehensive major update, “SUNSCREAM”.
Headquarter Run — The Endgame Finale
This update adds the Headquarter Run, the game's new endgame and story climax. After surviving enough runs, you'll have gathered everything you need to strike back at MKing Corp — the fast-food franchise whose "Secret Sauce" started the whole outbreak.
Build a bomb, infiltrate the MKing headquarters across a multi-stage assault, defeat its CEO (final boss), and blow up the whole place sky-high. Oh yeah...!
This includes 3 new achievements. Also while beating bosses over and over you will be able to collect little memo snippets which you can read in the base, which should give you some sense of the backstory of the game.
While preparing for the Headquarter run the "MKing Response Level" will rise which gradually increases the difficulty of the game. This whole topic includes much more, but go and explore for yourself...
New Playable Character
A new survivor joins the roster: Penny the Clown. She comes with the Funny Balloon: periodically (and on trigger) releases a balloon that slowly homes in on enemies and explodes on contact, with damage that scales as Penny levels up. Balloons also pop on their own after a few seconds. Make sure to check out the Character Item Modifiers, that you unlock after beating a boss.
Penny is unlocked by completing the new Juggler achievement: "Have 3 Rubber Balls in your backpack and active."
New boss
Our new boss, "Mr. Kyde", store manager, who has developed somewhat dualistic tendencies. Throws bombs from his briefcase. Sheds his suit and pirouettes across the arena once damaged enough.
Boss reworks
We gave all bosses a fresh intro screen with a nice artwork and some flavour text. Furthermore we "rebranded" them to fit the corporate MKing theme (changed visuals and names).
Please note: The intro screen works best with fresh savegames, because if you have already beaten bosses it will assume you have seen them already.
The Boss-Defeat Summary Screen
A new end-of-run summary screen appears after you defeat a boss, showing animated banners for stuff the run achieved / unlocked.
Please note: This works best with fresh savegames, because if you have already unlocked biomes or beaten bosses it will assume you have seen stuff already.
New biome specific enemies
We are gradually introducing biome specific enemy types. We implemented:
The Firefighter (Sands biome)
The Chiller (Snowy peaks biome)
The Yodler (Meadow biome)
The Farmer (Mountains biome)
Firefighter replaces the Runner and Chiller the bloater in said biome maps. However at night these replaced types can come back and even types of adjacent biomes can appear.
New items
We added the dice item (grants more rerolls, unlocked with any reroll unlocked at the workbench in the base) and the coffee item (Increases Day Time, Movement and Looting Speed, base item pool).
Base layout changes
The character wardrobe has moved to the campfire, and the bomb-assembly spot now sits where the wardrobe used to be (alongside the Investigation Board).
Birds & Bananas Bundle
Have you heard about Star Birds? A chill factory building and resource management game by our Friends at Toukana Interactive, creators of Dorfromantik.
To celebrate our new bundle, we've added a toucan to our game (he's peaceful and hangs out at our base camp). Unlock him in the main menu using the code “nozombiebirds”.
In return, Bananaperson is hanging out in the cockpit of the spaceship in Starbirds. Unlock him there using the code “bananaperson26”.
Check out the bundle below. If you already own DD:Roadtrip you'll get an extra discount on Star Birds:
Other
Balancing: Dumpling boss puddles damage increased 1->5
Improved: Several tooltip reworks (fight flickering, but also added juicy wobble etc.)
Improved: Character hands receive matching colors to character material now
Performance: Reduced memory requirements, especially VRAM
Performance: Several performance improvements (spatial grid system instead of physics raycasts and shortened the damage pipeline so lesss "bloat" is executed)
Performance: Some minor performance improvements regarding chaos destruction
Fixed: Zombies could pass through walls in the sewer labyrinth.
Fixed: Apple Pie lava didn't scale with Magnet / Pump anymore.
Fixed: A loot zombie could drop many many apples.
Fixed: Stash-management controller glyph showed even when stash management was disabled (e.g. airdrop mode).
Fixed: Reaper spawn failures when the player is close to the bus or nearby navmesh-cutting objects.
Fixed: Pumpkin count being incorrectly buffed by projectile count modifiers (e.g., Fork item)
Fixed: Sometimes invisible obstacles, especially on sidewalks
Fixed: Weekly mode knifes only excludes no weapon drops (and vice versa) now
Fixed: Some plants in base not correctly rendered
Fixed: Pressed input ignored when leaving airdrop
Fixed: Red eyes not visualized on animated enemies (e.g. Bloater)
Fixed / Improved: Descriptions for sherrif star item and modifiers (especially in German)
Fixed: Several text overflows in non-English languages
Fixed: The flowerbeds in the base were colliding with the player
Start the game and see for yourself—there's plenty to discover:
Updated Roadmap:
Our next major update will be called BITE & BRIGHT and launch late summer.
Becoming a part of development
Some of you already know this, but here's a reminder for everyone: We use a great tool called Open Decks. Via Discord, you can submit your ideas and feedback directly to our ticket system or vote up existing suggestions.
Our goal is to create the best possible version of “Deadly Days: Roadtrip” - Together with you.
Last, but not least: Check out the supporter pack:
Thanks for your support, feedback and patience <3
Team Pixelsplit