With our 25th update (that's a quarter hundred!) we're going full circle and are finally using dice not only for combat, but also for regular diary events. Also the game has never looked this good before!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=latyqOYlDmY
Alpha 25
- Dice actions
- Some diary actions now depend on dice rolls!
- These actions will portray the required dice face required on the action button. All dice of your party are rolled excactly once.
- If you get all required faces a positive outcome is triggered. If not a negative outcome is triggered.
- This makes its easier for you to understand what the odds are for certain actions to succeed depending on your trek setup.
- We've updated various old events to use this new mechanic. More events will be added in the coming updates.
- Resolutions
- So far the game had two resolution modes. Stretched and native. If you played on higher resolutions (i.e. 1080p) both of these modes had disadvantages: Stretched mode made the pixel art appear blurry, while native mode was hard coded to a 1:2 pixel ratio, making the HUD elements and event images appear relatively small to your display size.
- The new version now supports 4 modes and allows to set custom pixel ratios, resulting in pixel perfect art, big event images, proper HUD element sizes and sharp text.
- When you play on 1080p the game has literaly never looked as good as it does with this new version. Hundreds of changes where necessary to make this work, so please excuse any hickups that might still have made it through our testing. Let us know if you're missing any more options.
- Also the size of the info box now adapts properly to the resolution.
- Persistence
- The player data and save game data is now stored inside a TheCuriousExpedition folder inside your user data folder. In case you want to move your profile to another computer simply copy that folder. Also this should make it easier to create backups of your data.
- Steam Cloud support for savegames and player data will also be enabled within the next couple of days.
- Phobias
- When ignoring phobias of party members, they will reduce their individual loyalty instead of reducing the overall party sanity. This should make phobias more readable and relevant.
- We added a new phobia Dendrophobia, which is the fear of trees.
- New content
- New item: voodoo dolls curse your rivals
- New item: tin cans are nutrious, but pretty bland in flavor
- New quest: a gentleman may ask you to escort a native to London
- New blessing: your trek member might grow some animal claws
- New perk: ruffian, adds a attack die
- New perk: protector, adds a defense die
- New perk: adept, adds a support die
- Tuning
- Buffed native enemies, they have spears now!
- If overburden, mounted animals don't yield extra dice. This counters the exploit of mounting the animals while overburden and then unmounting them after combat.
- Rivals don't all start at the same time, spacing them out more on the race track bar
- Misc
- There is a screen prompt warning you about stashes that were destroyed in the world containing items of yours
- Reworked the gentleman scene at the start of a new game
- Bug fixes
- Fixed musician quest could not be completed correctly in some situations
- Certain disasters like voids were spreading way to fast and have been reduced to their original growth speed.
- Fixed some overlong description texts in world map screen
- Fixed lots of typos
- Fixed overburden status was not properly updated after putting items into stash
- Fixed character unlocks were not checked when using hot air balloon during final expedition
- Fixed sometimes unreachable villages were spawned in tutorial
- Fixed additional trek members not shown in side bar when trek was already at regular maximum size
Update 25.1
- Bugfixes
- Fixed treasure map not scaled properly
- Check unlock conditions after ranking screen instead of before
- Fixed random crash when having abomination in party
- Fixed scaling issues after changing resolution during a running game