While we aim to release a big content patch in the middle of October, there's a lot of things that we could do to improve your experience right now.
For the full change notes, go to the change notes topic. Below follows a description of the important changes.
Captain Perks - Many people noticed that Anna's Captain Perk, a bonus that you get for selecting her as captain, is stronger and more fun than other perks. We thought about nerfing it, but since a lot of people enjoy playing like that, we decided to keep it in. Instead we experimented with some replacement Captain Perks for other Captains that play equally nicely to Anna's and Kiwi's captain perks. So try out Yvonne, Charles and Dolores to find their new captain perks that will influence your strategy during the whole game.
Character Inspection during Menus - There were complaints about not being able to inspect perks, stats or items while shopping around, making a choice in a Story or doing something else. Frankly, we were clicking around too much ourselves as well. From this patch on, you can click your character's portraits while in a Entourage/Item Shop, Story or any other UI to make a better choice. You can't however swap items while doing something else.
Loads of balance - Adriaan, our lead designer whom you may know as AbbeyAdriaan in the Community Hub,has been keeping an eye on how people play by looking at your posts and our testers. Informed by you, he made many small changes to increase the number of viable strategies and tweak the challenge curve. Check the full patch notes to see what changed.
Achievements - A number of people discovered that a few achievements didn't trigger correctly. We can now say with certainty that you can 100% complete Renowned Explorers. Good luck, expedition leaders.
A Bunch of Fixes - Rutger, one of the gameplay programmers at the Abbey, has been fixing a bunch of small issues that were reported here on the forums or elsewhere. Again, view the full notes for this. Think of serialization problems, interfaces for small screens.
As reward for reading through this, here's a preview for what we'll release in October. Make sure you join our Steam Group to hear about all updates.
We hope all these improvements help you enjoy the game more and longer.
Venture forth!
First update: Content about Difficulty
Renowned Explorers has been out for just a week. We're glad and proud to say that there are many players enjoying the game. The community already welcomed a lot of people posting their adventures, helping each other and discussing balance. The subject of difficulty came up often. Many liked it, many found it too hard, and some of the more masochistic people found it too easy.
A perfect fit for Difficulty Options. We now offer Easy, Normal, Classic and Impossible to make sure that every player can adjust the experience to their liking. You select it at the start of every game, and it will be shown in your score screen. For the people that liked the game as it was: Classic has exactly the same balance as the game at launch.
To make sure that ambitious expedition leaders always have More to Explore, we also added in a bit of new content in the existing expeditions. You'll have to discover it to know what it is :) For the rest of our intentions, please consult the Game Roadmap pinned in the Community Hub. Patch notes can be discovered there as well.
Other than adding in difficulties and content, we fixed some issues that people were experiencing.
We wish you many more happy and appropriately hard adventures!
- Abbey Games
Start your adventure today
We just launched our strategy adventure game; Renowned Explorers: International Society and we would love to welcome you as our next explorer!
Assemble your team and use their beauty, brains or brawn to resolve any encounters they come across during their expeditions. Become famous by discovering the most prestigious treasures in a fictitious 19th century!
In the first week we are offering a 10% starter discount on the game and players in possession of our previous game Reus will receive a 25% loyalty discount.
We also made sure to schedule some adventurous competitions to celebrate the release of Renowned Explorers; Launch celebration program Find one of the five exclusive treasures, share you adventurous stories, communicate with the locals and show us your attitude! You might just become famous…
Explorers we have ourselves a treasure to find..!
H1 Launch celebration program H1
We are very excited with the release of Renowned Explorers: International Society and would like to celebrate this milestone together with you!
This is why we’ve planned several competitions are planned between September 2 – 6, in which prizes can be won such as a custom Renowned Explorers compass, a Steam/ GoG key for a friend or rival and the opportunity to be listed in the Explorer of Legend ranking written up by the Renowned International Society…
Below you can find the full program:
<*> Treasure hunting for fame and fortune! Explorers can win recognition in the Renowned International Society by finding one of these five exotic treasures.;
Finding one of these five priceless treasures can win you a Renowned Explorers compass, Steam or GoG key and of course a spot in the ‘Explorer of Legend’ ranking written up by the Renowned International Society to show off your everlasting fame.
Remember though, it is the journey that counts. Share your adventurous stories in an original way by making use of screenshots, video, writing, etc. on the Adventurous Stories subforum and who knows your bragging will get you a reputation that will be rewarded with prizes as well.
Objective:
- Find one of the 5 hidden treasures in-game
- Share your adventurous story in search of the treasure(s)
