Alpha 24

• New final swamp and sulfur swamp art backgrounds
  
• Collection items
  
  
  
  • Painter now creates a single stack of paintings
    
  • Butterflies are now also collected in item
    
  • Anthropological studies now show the portrait of a tribe member
    
  • Collection item's worth depends on the collected items
    
  • Fame/Fund tuning remained the same as before
    
  
  
• Combat
  
  
  
  • Auto advance if all enemies are dead
    
  • New health bar graphics
    
  • Increased health of all player characters
    
  • Show full character info box when hovering over player character
    
  • Dice that were pinned, are auto rolled when unpinned
    
  • New particles
    
  • Added new stun effect to headbutt attack (more special effects to come)
    
  
  
• Loyalty
  
  
  
  • Removed chance for internal loyalty boost when promoting characters
    
  • Added new perk 'careerist' which always add loyalty boost when promoting
    
  
  
• Events
  
  
  
  • New events for Tim/Luis
    
  • Added new nature resting events
    
  • New secret alternative game ending
    
  
  
• Added wiki button to main menu
  
• Cleaned up font usage in the game, reducing visual clutter (ongoing)
  
• Added new blessing "leather skin"
  
• Bugfixes
  
  
  
  • Bongos should not stack
    
  • Removed binoculars from Earhart starting equipment
    
  • Fixed NaN output when doing events in warp worlds
    
  • Clear chat queue when entering combat
    
  • Fixed enemy head shown in combat instead of body
    
  
  

• Bugfixes
  
  
  
  • Dynamite now correctly injures party members when used in combat
    
  • Store location inventory correctly in savegames
    
  • Fixed buffalo sprite appearing cut off
    
  • Fixed vulture event not working with marked ammo
    
  • Fixed Garvey being able to have more party members during harbor event
    
  • Fixed rare crash when using portal
    
  • Fixed celebration chat line about buffalo
    
  • Fixed disappearance of initial ship storage
    
  
  

• Bugfixes
  
  
  
  • Fixed loading old save games for maps without water access
    
  • Fixed correct overburden status after mounting/dismounting and using items
    
  • Fixed endless world gen loop
    
  • Fixed pointless attack button for mosquitoes and desert storms
    
  • Fixed celebration audience speaking gibberish
    
  • Fixed treasure map location correctly restored from save game
    
  • Fixed missing title for Konrad NPC
    
  • Improved region score calculation by tracking it per location
    
  
  

• Ship
  
  
  
  • Instead of spawning in the middle of nowhere, each expedition now starts with a ship arrival sequence that stops at the shore line.
    
  • You can accelerate the sequence by clicking or pressing space
    
  • You can also use the ship as means to escape from a running expedition
    
  • You can access the ship storage at any time
    
  
  
• Content
  
  
  
  • Added new loot type: jewels
    
  • New events, new chat lines, new text variations, new epilogue texts
    
  • New title box for the loading screen
    
  
  
• Tuning
  
  
  
  • Reduced value of animal teeth
    
  • Tweaked chasm shrine entry text to be more memorable and fitting to what kind of disaster it triggers.
    
  
  
• Final art quality for various images
  
  
  
  • Cenote location
    
  • Shallow river location
    
  • Cave entrance
    
  • Some cave interiors (not all done yet)
    
  • Blessing temple interior
    
  • Hill location
    
  
  
• NPC info box now also shows capacity for recruits
  
• Bugfixes
  
  
  
  • Fixed endless loading (hopefully)
    
  • Shaman cleanse was applied to all characters instead of just one
    
  • Fixed music and sound effects playing with the correct volume setting
    
  • Harbor shop can't be accessed multiple times anymore
    
  • Fixed Konrad quest not cleaning up correctly
    
  • Play explorer jingle at start of expedition
    

• Gameplay
  
  
  
  • It is now possible to rest in villages even without having a translator or the polyglot perk. However, the basic resting will restore only 30 sanity and cost 2 standing points
    
  • The Polyglot perk will remove the standing costs from resting in villages and add a small bonus to sanity when resting in villages (+20)
    
  • Added the option to visit a pack saddle artisan at the harbor. Here you can increase the capacity of your pack animals by up to three additional crates. However, this will cost you a significant amount of funds
    
  • When being visited by natives in rest events you will be able to do both, trade and recruit. Also, inviting them to the camp does not require a translator or polyglot perk anymore
    
  • Improved handling of mission storage. You will now be able to access the mission storage even after killing the missionary or if the mission was taken over by cultists
    
  • New location: The shipwreck. Explore it to find valuable equipment
    
  
  
• Items
  
  
  
  • Added new item: The native trinket. This can be gifted to a unit to improve loyalty
    
  • Dynamite is now usable in combat
    
  
  
• Units
  
  
  
  • A translator will remove the standing costs from resting in villages. Also, the gained sanity when resting in a village will be increased greatly by the level of the translator
    
  • Added more visual variations to lizard people
    
  • Improved the dice of all lizard people
    
  • Added lizard shaman
    
  • Improved the dice of abominations and added a special tentacle attack
    
  
  
• Perks
  
  
  
  • Improved effectiveness of native warrior stealth perk
    
  • The Bullet Hoarder perk will now generate "marked" bullets instead of normal ones. Marked bullets are weightless and will be obtained up to a maximum amount of 5
    
  
  
• Portals
  
  
  
  • Added new, beneficial world variations when entering a portal
    
  • In addition to the automatic return to the normal world when entering a portal, another portal will appear at your starting position in the teleported world. Enter this portal to manually return to the normal world
    
  • It is no longer possible to balloon out of teleported worlds
    
  
  
• Content
  
  
  
  • Added many new chat lines to specific events
    
  • Added new, unique sound effects to many attacks
    
  • Replaced jungle placeholder background with final art
    
  
  
• Bugfixes
  
  
  
  • Fixed issue where entering a village would result in leaving it immediately without being able to access the village options
    

• Fixed sometimes stuck in loading before Expedition-6
  
• Fixed recruiting Scottish soldier in harbor
  
• Fixed endless tortoise spawning
  
• Fixed multiple Sterling appearing at harbor
  
• Fixed missing icons for some perks
  
• Fixed occult vision perk not working correctly
  

• Fixed barter values for missions
  
• Fixed missing icon for infected status and charismatic perk
  
• Fixed combats sometimes having wrong background image