Death Road to Canada news & patch notes

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

Full List of Changes for TRACHEA Update

Rare characters

• The Stug: A quiet rally driver who modifies your car over time!

• Mobster: A charming dink who can lay down walls of bullet hell!

• Swiss Guard: Protects your team and has a halberd combo to master!

• Crash Dummy: Really loves being bitten, I promise

• Blacksmith: Gungineer Brainiac who makes firearms and ammo!

• First Mate: Leap at enemies with a giant anchor! Hit mid-air for powerful AoE!

New Personality Archetypes

This is a big one! We haven't done new Personality checks in quite a long time

These are similar to the old ANGRYSTRONG and CALMSHOT checks

• AGILE: HIGH FITNESS, HIGH ATTITUDE! HYPERACTIVE! Quick reactions, quite athletic!

• TINKER: HIGH MECHANICAL, HIGH WITS! Engineer your way out of things...sometimes!

• Each archetype has 8 new interactions with events, for 16 in total! Many old events affected.

• Check the library for more details on the archetypes.

New Locations

• Forge rare location! Has some new buildings in it. Who could be residing here?

• Martial Arts shop, a new city shop location. Some new weapons and upgrades for martial characters! Longbows can also spawn there! Irregularly, but it can happen.

• Harbor! Find the masterkey and "masterkey"...great place to find souped-up cars!

New Weapons

• Tonfa & Quarterstaff! Great for early-mid game.

• Kama! A powerful throwable!

• Wakizashi: breakable but deadly!

• Mortar: a gas based grenade launcher! Exotic.

• Added heat ray

• Added freeze ray

• Added new weapon class: flails.

  • Flails have high cooldowns and can be clunky but they have scaling strength-based damage and can be useful even when tired.

  • Three flails added to the game

Reworks and Adjustments

• LOOT GRAVITY WELL: High WITS followers will now pull loot towards them, like some sort of vacuum or magnet

  • The radius of this effect scales with WITS

  • The loot pull effect requires clear line of sight to work

  • The loot requires you to be relatively safe, it won't work with too many zombies nearby

  • This can be turned off or adjusted in Zombo Town, in the new Accessibility Options

• Anime Fan rework: if you have a paranoid, irritating or oblivious character in the party, they can extend the countdown to disaster!

• Friend Of Dog rework: now always has permanently friendly dog companion in missions

• Trademark Weapon rework - now always gives a sturdy machete if no other weapon is available. Levels 2 & 3 now give +1 STR and FIT, respectively!

  • DINK now gets a Megaphone as their trademark weapon!

• Sound Sleeper rework: now gives 3 to 6 loyalty at random, and gain a random stat-up whenever you dodge the TIRED trait

• Gas siphon rate now scales with mechanical skill

• The car now indicates how many people are or should be inside of it

• Anime Bandits now have two counters for angry-strong and bandit chars

• Improved look and balance of abandoned warehouse

• Debutante Tweaks

  • Debutante umbrella now completely counters the walking rain event

  • Debutante now starts with the civilized character personality setup, which her description already alludes to

• Phoenixes can now access the pyro counter for pyro bandits; Pyromaniacs can still access it as usual

Text Events

• Pyromaniac bandits! Beware the bonfire!

• Cop bandits!

• THE MECHA BANDIT (ALL YOUR LOOT IS BELONG TO US)

• The Mystery Box

• Added 5 new despair events for recently added characters: Ember, Johannes, Admiral, Pewter, Clock King

Gameplay Mode Changes

• Horror Mode and Mutation EX now play Lost Hope theme

Other New Content

• Accessibility options added to Zombo Town! See the Giant Eagle

• Added new tilesets for reworked cities

• Added ambience for storms, applies to all modes except Horrors and Extreme Weather

• Added new torsos and legs (unisex)

• Improved look and balance of abandoned warehouse

• New book available in Zombo Town, outlines personality stats and what they do/mean

Tweaks and Bugfixes

• Adjusted the appearance of storms

• Big fix for buildings sometimes not generating in cities

• Fixed typo in YER MONEY OR YOR LIFE

• Fixed clock king bug

• Adjusted size of sycacity1 to prevent blockages

• Lots of small bugfixes

• Containers in the railyard glow properly now!

• (Hopefully) fixed performance issues relating to the train location on certain devices

• Fixed some fluff pixels around the weapons spritesheet

• Expanded some old cities slightly to prevent inaccessible buildings

• Added hint for chess master event to suggest even high wits chars can't beat it

• Fixed bomber zombie text bug

• Fixed issue where dog van dogs get fixated on floor loot

• Fixed issue where anime fans could fix themselves

• Fixed some internal weapon string issues

• Fixed old bug where car armour did not upgrade properly in some events

• Fixed issues relating to Admiral flare gun ammo and firing

• Fixed issue pertaining to craftsman and save scumming

• Fixed issue where banks could be heisted with stolen cutlery

• Fixed a bug where Puppy and Kitty could grow up despite being stone cold dead

• Fixed a bug where umbrellas were not counted properly

• Fixed bug where temporary playable rat characters did not properly contribute their loot to the trunk

• Fixed bug where goat could be milked infinitely

• Added protections to Magus' fade bolt to prevent other chars using it

• Fixed issue with new female leg sprites

• Fixed issue where freeze'd zombs could unfreeze themselves

• Sgt. Oates now clears his cyoa correctly

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

New Changes for Test Branch Update #2

• Adjusted storm frequency again

• Friend Of Dog rework: now always has permanently friendly dog companion in missions

• New feature: gas siphon rate now scales with mechanical skill (thanks for the suggestion!)

• Adjusted fridge frequency at the forge

• Car feature: car now indicates how many people are or should be inside of it

• Fixed some fluff pixels around the weapons spritesheet

• Fixed grammar error in cop bandits

• Expanded old city slightly to prevent inaccessible buildings

• Added hint for chess master event to suggest even high wits chars can't beat it

• Fixed bomber zombie text bug

• Library now has info on TINKER and AGILE

• Loot magnet adjustments

  • Loot vacuum aura radius reduced at base, also scales slower with wits

  • Loot vacuum now requires relative safety before activating (can't have too many zombs nearby)

• (Hopefully) fixed performance issues relating to the train location on certain devices

• EXPERIMENTAL: Getting medical to 8 or more will let you "Fortify" characters for free, granting them one free hit from any damage source

Full List of Changes for TRACHEA Update

Rare characters

• The Stug: a quiet rally driver who modifies your car over time!

• Mobster: a charming dink who can lay down walls of bullet hell!

• Swiss Guard: protects your team and has a halberd combo to master!

• Crash Dummy: really loves being bitten I promise

• Blacksmith: gungineer brainiac who makes firearms and ammo!

• First Mate: leap at enemies with a giant anchor! Hit mid-air for powerful AoE!

New Personality Archetypes

This is a big one! We haven't done new Personality checks in quite a long time

These are similar to the old ANGRYSTRONG and CALMSHOT checks

• AGILE: HIGH FITNESS, HIGH ATTITUDE! HYPERACTIVE! Quick reactions, quite athletic!

• TINKER: HIGH MECHANICAL, HIGH WITS! Engineer your way out of things...sometimes!

• Each archetype has 8 new interactions with events, for 16 in total! Many old events affected.

• Check the library for more details on the archetypes.

New Locations

• Forge rare location! Has some new buildings in it. Who could be residing here?

• Martial Arts shop, a new city shop location. Some new weapons and upgrades for martial characters! Longbows can also spawn there! Irregularly, but it can happen.

• Harbor! Find the masterkey and "masterkey"...great place to find souped-up cars!

New Weapons

• Tonfa & Quarterstaff! Great for early-mid game.

• Kama! A powerful throwable!

• Wakizashi: breakable but deadly!

• Mortar: a gas based grenade launcher! Exotic.

• Added heat ray

• Added freeze ray

• Added three new flails

Reworks and Adjustments

• LOOT GRAVITY WELL: High WITS followers will now pull loot towards them, like some sort of vacuum or magnet

  • The radius of this effect scales with WITS

  • The loot pull effect requires clear line of sight to work

  • The loot requires you to be relatively safe, it won't work with too many zombies nearby

• Anime Fan rework: if you have a paranoid, irritating or oblivious character in the party, they can extend the countdown to disaster!

• Friend Of Dog rework: now always has permanently friendly dog companion in missions

• Trademark Weapon rework - now always gives a sturdy machete if no other weapon is available. Levels 2 & 3 now give +1 STR and FIT, respectively!

  • DINK now gets a Megaphone as their trademark weapon!

• Gas siphon rate now scales with mechanical skill

• The car now indicates how many people are or should be inside of it

• Anime Bandits now have two counters for angry-strong and bandit chars

• Improved look and balance of abandoned warehouse

Text Events

• Pyromaniac bandits! Beware the bonfire!

• Cop bandits!

• THE MECHA BANDIT (ALL YOUR LOOT IS BELONG TO US)

• The Mystery Box

• Added 5 new despair events for recently added characters: Ember, Johannes, Admiral, Pewter, Clock King

Gameplay Mode Changes

• Horror Mode and Mutation EX now play Lost Hope theme

Other New Content

• Added new tilesets for reworked cities

• Added ambience for storms, applies to all modes except Horrors and Extreme Weather

• Added new torsos and legs (unisex)

• Improved look and balance of abandoned warehouse

Tweaks and Bugfixes

• Big fix for buildings sometimes not generating in cities

• Fixed typo in YER MONEY OR YOR LIFE

• Fixed clock king bug

• Adjusted size of sycacity1 to prevent blockages

• Lots of small bugfixes

• Containers in the railyard glow properly now!

• (Hopefully) fixed performance issues relating to the train location on certain devices

• Fixed some fluff pixels around the weapons spritesheet

• Expanded some old cities slightly to prevent inaccessible buildings

• Added hint for chess master event to suggest even high wits chars can't beat it

• Fixed bomber zombie text bug

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

New Changes for TRACHEA Update

Rare characters

• The Stug: a quiet rally driver who modifies your car over time!

• Mobster: a charming dink who can lay down walls of bullet hell!

• Swiss Guard: protects your team and has a halberd combo to master!

• Crash Dummy: really loves being bitten I promise

• Blacksmith: gungineer brainiac who makes firearms and ammo!

• First Mate: leap at enemies with a giant anchor! Hit mid-air for powerful AoE!

New Personality Archetypes

This is a big one! We haven't done new Personality checks in quite a long time

These are similar to the old ANGRYSTRONG and CALMSHOT checks

• AGILE: HIGH FITNESS, HIGH ATTITUDE! HYPERACTIVE! Quick reactions, quite athletic!

• TINKER: HIGH MECHANICAL, HIGH WITS! Engineer your way out of things...sometimes!

• Each archetype has 8 new interactions with events, for 16 in total! Many old events affected.

• Check the library for more details on the archetypes.

New Locations

• Forge rare location! Has some new buildings in it. Who could be residing here?

• Martial Arts shop, a new city shop location. Some new weapons and upgrades for martial characters! Longbows can also spawn there! Irregularly, but it can happen.

• Harbor! Find the masterkey and "masterkey"...great place to find souped-up cars!

New Weapons

• Tonfa & Quarterstaff! Great for early-mid game.

• Kama! A powerful throwable!

• Wakizashi: breakable but deadly!

• Mortar: a gas based grenade launcher! Exotic.

• Added heat ray

• Added freeze ray

• Added three new flails

Reworks and Adjustments

• LOOT GRAVITY WELL: High WITS followers will now pull loot towards them, like some sort of vacuum or magnet

  • The radius of this effect scales with WITS

  • The loot pull effect requires clear line of sight to work

• Anime Fan rework: if you have a paranoid, irritating or oblivious character in the party, they can extend the countdown to disaster!

• Trademark Weapon rework - now always gives a sturdy machete if no other weapon is available. Levels 2 & 3 now give +1 STR and FIT, respectively!

  • DINK now gets a Megaphone as their trademark weapon!

• Anime Bandits now have two counters for angry-strong and bandit chars

• Improved look and balance of abandoned warehouse

Text Events

• Pyromaniac bandits! Beware the bonfire!

• Cop bandits!

• THE MECHA BANDIT (ALL YOUR LOOT IS BELONG TO US)

• The Mystery Box

• Added 5 new despair events for recently added characters: Ember, Johannes, Admiral, Pewter, Clock King

Gameplay Mode Changes

• Horror Mode and Mutation EX now play Lost Hope theme

Other New Content

• Added new tilesets for reworked cities

• Added ambience for storms, applies to all modes except Horrors and Extreme Weather

• Added new torsos and legs (unisex)

• Improved look and balance of abandoned warehouse

Tweaks and Bugfixes

• Big fix for buildings sometimes not generating in cities

• Fixed typo in YER MONEY OR YOR LIFE

• Fixed clock king bug

• Adjusted size of sycacity1 to prevent blockages

• Lots of small bugfixes

• Containers in the railyard glow properly now!

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

STOMACH RC2 New Changes

• Adjusted wheel positional issue in train

• Stopped duplicate spawns in mansion

• Fixed text bug in new event

• Laid groundwork for new event

• CONSOLE OFF

• Windows gets DINK Trait again, Mac and Linux do not (hoping to fix this next update)

STOMACH RC1 New Changes

• Art updates for 2 new characters, the shipping containers in Harbour, and the Taxi and Camper vehicles

• Fixed bug where post mission screen wouldn't show in some locations

• Fixed bug where keys could spawn twice

• Fixed bug where Mecha Mountie could kill people still

• Fixed bug where halberd was inadvertently affected by axe rework

• Fixed typo in hints

• Reworded medieval axe sell text

• Made masterkey shotgun a sellable item

• Museum treasure spawning reliability improved

• Improved consistency in Mansion loot spawning, both rare and uncommon

• Improved consistency in for rare Altar location

• Removed leftover "warden" in prison

• TRACHEA character and other groundwork for next update

All Changes for STOMACH Update

Rare characters

• Admiral : prevents bandits and car breakdowns! Loves water!

• Zeus : SMITE ME OH MIGHTY SMITER

• B*yonetta : Combo madness!

• Magus

• Pewter

New Weapons

• Dolt ACP, fires twice as slow, always pierces two targets

• Target rifle, 1-3 penetration range

• Battle rifle, faster than hunting rifle but much lower pen

• New Police Station loot:

  • Added Machinepistol, an interim between uzi and pistol

  • Added SWAT shotgun, an interim between the shotgun and top tier shottys

New Locations and Adjustments

• Train Ride! Hop aboard an automatic train. The first of "Holdout" type missions!

• Antiquated Citadel! Defend until the gate can open. Lots and lots of ammo!

• 2 New Starting Locations

  • Railyard: Pry open containers w/ a crowbar.

  • Parking lot: A wide variety of cars are available, including the new vehicles!

• Adjustment to City generation, including new setpieces!

• Integrated reworked cities into the pool of available layouts. There are now 36 cities in total, up from 18. Easy cities also have rework equivalents

  • Reworked cities have all sorts of new decorations

Gameplay Modes

• Mutation Mode EX! More zombies, and the zombies now also gain much more HP over time!

• THE HORRORS MODE. Zombies always know where you are, and spawn from the ground even in missions!

• RPG mode has been reworked! Many of the classes have received balance changes or been

  redesigned outright. Furthermore, your starting perks, traits and stats matter much more now!

Weapon Reworks and Adjustments

• GUN ANIMATIONS FOR MOST MAJOR FIREARMS! Weapons affected:

  • Pistol, silenced pistol, shotgun, slug shotgun, hunting rifle, minigun, uzi, ak47, dolt, snubnose, flechette shotgun

• Axe Rework!

  • Axes now all hit one singular target, but create an AoE effect around the target!

  • In many cases, this allows them to cleave more than before!

• Many axes have also had their cooldowns reduced!

• WHIP NERFS

  • Leather whip power -> 0.2

  • Gave leather whips a 0.5% break chance

  • Infernal whip multihit -> 3

  • All CDs increased by ~10%

Trait Reworks and Adjustments

• Resilient type rework; now provides 1 damage reduction from events

  • Removed +1 HP for resilient type

• Hidden potential rework; check in game for details, now provides max bonus to stats when training

• The Big Shot reworks; now is much more consistent and applies to shotguns, also has different colour bullets

• Trademark Weapon rework: the following traits now have a weapon...

  --------------------------------

  Bandit || Switchblade

  Warrior || Steel Pike

  BERSERK || Skullcutter

  BTTW || Switchblade

  Hero Type || Silver Longsword

  Oblivious || Frozen Ham

  Resilient || Mailbox

  Fierce Temper || Sledgehammer

  Hyperfixated || Phaseblade

  Craftsman || Stillson Wrench

  TBD || Megaphone

  ---------------------------------

Location Adjustments

• Added alternative prison layout

• Mysterious factory has received improvements to it's loot table. No more umbrellas!

• Removed buoys from beach after consistency complaints

• Added pool noodles to the beach

• Nerfed prison loot slightly

• Exchanged some old trees for better looking ones; relevant to beach, bus depot

• Added 4 new vehicles to mechanical rare trader camp

Text Events

• BISON CROSSING

• CULTIST BANDITS

• DARK CARNIVAL

• SKELETON CAPTAIN

• Added calmshot interaction to merciless bandits

• Ringmaster can now command his spider to eat other spiders in events

QOL Improvements

• Expanded list of tips and tricks at game start screen - now 100!

• Fixed many temporary chars being able to steal your loot!

• INFOMATIC LIBRARY added to Zombotown/Unlocks Zone, a place where you can read about extended info about game mechanics!

Other New Content

• Reworked Nimbus

  • Nimbus can now sometimes pick a stat-up when a mission ends, representing his RPG level grinding

• Added new vehicles, exclusive to harbour and parking lot...

  • Ambulance. Fast but fragile, 13 MPG. Characters operate at one medical skill higher than normal when healing

  • Taxi. Average speed. 12 MPG. Choose one more location for city shop looting events

  • 18-wheeler. Hard to repair but chonky

  • Camper Van. Slow, extremely easy to repair, eats gas. Provides chance to dodge TIRED effect

• Changed Van Smelt scaling to make it more effective, especially past 30 headshots

• Road dialogue for all chars from QUADRICEPS, RETINA and STOMACH

• Added VISUAL ONLY military zombies to military depot and citadel

• More ending conversations for all modes! Quick Death also has an expanded conversation tree as a reward for beating it!

• Flavor text for when TIRED is successfully avoided

Tweaks and Bugfixes

• Pet shop dogs no longer pick up items until recruited

• Added flavour text for when a stat is maxed out but tries to increase

• Fixed "brandish guns" option showing when you don't have any guns

• Fixed "JUMP IT MAN" outcomes not dealing car damage

• Fixed various bugs and text issues in other events

• Improved wording of the tutorial and throwing objects guide

• Reduced prices of gimmick trader items

• Improved compatibility between Back To The Wall and other perks

• Chickens should now properly not pickup loot

• Fixed bug where cities would not always generate their selected store

• Improved visibility of keys and safe combos in edge scenarios

• Fixed several events not accounting for gourmands, pets or tiny eaters

• Fixed ancient bug pertaining to healing events

• Fixed campfires in trader camps not using the right food amount when resting

• Adjusted distant thunderstorm FX frequency in weather mode (applies to non-thunder weather)

• Fixed Lynn Thompson grammar error

• Fixed G*rf text event bug

• Major WIP feature for modders: Prefab Builder. Visit events/stomach/parking_lot_test for a more complete overview & notes. This is useful since nearly all base game buildings are controlled by hardcoded words

• Fixed zombie sprite bug

• Fixed weapon lists bug

• Fixed various other bugs

• Fixed Phoenix bottle bug

• Fixed ancient bug that made keys not spawn in houses

• Fixed bug with Quiet Hotel and similar locations

• Fixed Isabelle smite applying to incorrect weapon types

• Adjusted Isabelle smite sfx for less audio fatigue

• Fixed car key spawning bug in specific area

• Fixed bug where post mission screen wouldn't show in some locations

• Fixed bug where keys could spawn twice

• Fixed bug where Mecha Mountie could kill people still

• Fixed bug where halberd was inadvertently affected by axe rework

• Fixed typo in hints

• Museum treasure spawning reliability improved

• Improved consistency in Mansion loot spawning, both rare and uncommon

• Improved consistency in for rare Altar location

• MODDERS: Drastically improved the Prefab Generator tool. Check parking_lot_example for details

• MODDERS: rifles now preserve more values when penetrating, such as shooterid or anim.substate

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

STOMACH Testbranch #4 New Changes

• Adjusted railyard loot to make chainsaw much less common

• Started work on new location: harbour. Use "to_the_harbour" if you are interested. Feedback is welcome

• Added new vehicles, exclusive to harbour and parking lot...

  • Ambulance. Fast but fragile, 13 MPG. Characters operate at one medical skill higher than normal when healing

  • Taxi. Average speed. 12 MPG. Choose one more location for city shop looting events

  • 18-wheeler. Hard to repair but chonky

  • Camper Van. Slow, extremely easy to repair, eats gas. Provides chance to dodge TIRED effect

• Flavour text for when TIRED is successfully avoided

• Fixed ancient bug that made keys not spawn in houses

• Fixed bug with Quiet Hotel and similar locations

• Fixed Isabelle smite applying to incorrect weapon types

• Adjusted Isabelle smite sfx for less audio fatigue

• Fixed car key spawning bug in specific area

• Added more harbour rooms

• Added Easter egg to harbour for Dexter enjoyers

• Updated camper van sprite; thanks Zeich!

• Added 4 new vehicles to mechanical rare trader camp

All Changes for STOMACH Update

Rare characters

• Admiral : prevents bandits and car breakdowns! Loves water!

• Zeus : SMITE ME OH MIGHTY SMITER

• B*yonetta : Combo madness!

• Magus

• Pewter

New Weapons

• Dolt ACP, fires twice as slow, always pierces two targets

• Target rifle, 1-3 penetration range

• Battle rifle, faster than hunting rifle but much lower pen

• New Police Station loot:

  • Added Machinepistol, an interim between uzi and pistol

  • Added SWAT shotgun, an interim between the shotgun and top tier shottys

Weapon Reworks and Adjustments

• GUN ANIMATIONS FOR MOST MAJOR FIREARMS! Weapons affected:

  • Pistol, silenced pistol, shotgun, slug shotgun, hunting rifle, minigun, uzi, ak47, dolt, snubnose, flechette shotgun

• Axe Rework!

  • Axes now all hit one singular target, but create an AoE effect around the target!

  • In many cases, this allows them to cleave more than before!

• Many axes have also had their cooldowns reduced!

• WHIP NERFS

  • Leather whip power -> 0.2

  • Gave leather whips a 0.5% break chance

  • Infernal whip multihit -> 3

  • All CDs increased by ~10%

Trait Reworks and Adjustments

• Resilient type rework; now provides 1 damage reduction from events

  • Removed +1 HP for resilient type

• Hidden potential rework; check in game for details, now provides max bonus to stats when training

• The Big Shot reworks; now is much more consistent and applies to shotguns, also has different colour bullets

• Trademark Weapon rework: the following traits now have a weapon...

  --------------------------------

  Bandit || Switchblade

  Warrior || Steel Pike

  BERSERK || Skullcutter

  BTTW || Switchblade

  Hero Type || Silver Longsword

  Oblivious || Frozen Ham

  Resilient || Mailbox

  Fierce Temper || Sledgehammer

  Hyperfixated || Phaseblade

  Craftsman || Stillson Wrench

  TBD || Megaphone

  ---------------------------------

New Locations and Adjustments

• Train Ride! Hop aboard an automatic train. The first of "Holdout" type missions!

• Antiquated Citadel! Defend until the gate can open. Lots and lots of ammo!

• Railyard! A new starting location to mix things up! Pry open containers w/ a crowbar.

• Added alternative prison layout

• Adjustment to City generation, including new setpieces!

• Integrated reworked cities into the pool of available layouts. There are now 36 cities in total, up from 18. Easy cities also have rework equivalents

  • Reworked cities have all sorts of new decorations

• Mysterious factory has received improvements to it's loot table. No more umbrellas!

• Removed buoys from beach after consistency complaints

• Added pool noodles to the beach

• Nerfed prison loot slightly

• Exchanged some old trees for better looking ones; relevant to beach, bus depot

• Added 4 new vehicles to mechanical rare trader camp

Gameplay Modes

• Mutation Mode EX! More zombies, and the zombies now also gain much more HP over time!

• THE HORRORS MODE. Zombies always know where you are, and spawn from the ground even in missions!

• RPG mode has been reworked! Many of the classes have received balance changes or been

  redesigned outright. Furthermore, your starting perks, traits and stats matter much more now!

Text Events

• BISON CROSSING

• CULTIST BANDITS

• DARK CARNIVAL

• SKELETON CAPTAIN

• Added calmshot interaction to merciless bandits

• Ringmaster can now command his spider to eat other spiders in events

QOL Improvements

• Expanded list of tips and tricks at game start screen - now 100!

• Fixed many temporary chars being able to steal your loot!

• INFOMATIC LIBRARY added to Zombotown/Unlocks Zone, a place where you can read about extended info about game mechanics!

Other New Content

• Reworked Nimbus

  • Nimbus can now sometimes pick a stat-up when a mission ends, representing his RPG level grinding

• Added new vehicles, exclusive to harbour and parking lot...

  • Ambulance. Fast but fragile, 13 MPG. Characters operate at one medical skill higher than normal when healing

  • Taxi. Average speed. 12 MPG. Choose one more location for city shop looting events

  • 18-wheeler. Hard to repair but chonky

  • Camper Van. Slow, extremely easy to repair, eats gas. Provides chance to dodge TIRED effect

• Changed Van Smelt scaling to make it more effective, especially past 30 headshots

• Road dialogue for all chars from QUADRICEPS, RETINA and STOMACH

• Added VISUAL ONLY military zombies to military depot and citadel

• More ending conversations for all modes! Quick Death also has an expanded conversation tree as a reward for beating it!

• Flavor text for when TIRED is successfully avoided

Tweaks and Bugfixes

• Pet shop dogs no longer pick up items until recruited

• Added flavour text for when a stat is maxed out but tries to increase

• Fixed "brandish guns" option showing when you don't have any guns

• Fixed "JUMP IT MAN" outcomes not dealing car damage

• Fixed various bugs and text issues in other events

• Improved wording of the tutorial and throwing objects guide

• Reduced prices of gimmick trader items

• Improved compatibility between Back To The Wall and other perks

• Chickens should now properly not pickup loot

• Fixed bug where cities would not always generate their selected store

• Improved visibility of keys and safe combos in edge scenarios

• Fixed several events not accounting for gourmands, pets or tiny eaters

• Fixed ancient bug pertaining to healing events

• Fixed campfires in trader camps not using the right food amount when resting

• Adjusted distant thunderstorm FX frequency in weather mode (applies to non-thunder weather)

• Fixed Lynn Thompson grammar error

• Fixed G*rf text event bug

• Major WIP feature for modders: Prefab Builder. Visit events/stomach/parking_lot_test for a more complete overview & notes. This is useful since nearly all base game buildings are controlled by hardcoded words

• Fixed zombie sprite bug

• Fixed weapon lists bug

• Fixed various other bugs

• Fixed Phoenix bottle bug

• Fixed ancient bug that made keys not spawn in houses

• Fixed bug with Quiet Hotel and similar locations

• Fixed Isabelle smite applying to incorrect weapon types

• Adjusted Isabelle smite sfx for less audio fatigue

• Fixed car key spawning bug in specific area

• MODDERS: Drastically improved the Prefab Generator tool. Check parking_lot_example for details

• MODDERS: rifles now preserve more values when penetrating, such as shooterid or anim.substate

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

STOMACH Testbranch #3 New Changes

• Exchanged some old trees for better looking ones; relevant to beach, bus depot

• Fixed zombie sprite bug

• Drastically improved the Prefab Generator tool for modders. Check parking_lot_example for details

• Prefab Generator now supports room generation and entry tags, as well as irregular shapes

• Laid groundwork for several TRACHEA locations. ( to_the_forge if you are curious )

• Added Parking Lot to starting locations. Experimental!

• Improved consistency of parking lot spawns

• Fixed Phoenix bottle bug

• Resilient type rework; now provides 1 damage reduction from events

• Hidden potential rework; check in game for details, now provides max bonus to stats when training

• The Big Shot reworks; now is much more consistent and applies to shotguns, also has different colour bullets

• Changed Van Smelt scaling to make it more effective, especially past 30 headshots

• Added flavour text for when a stat is maxed out but tries to increase

• MODDERS: rifles now preserve more values when penetrating, such as shooterid or anim.substate

• Added interactable posters to Parking Lot

• Adjusted parking lot loot

• Adjusted parking lot layout to be more logical

• Added extra decor to parking lot

• Added bathrooms to parking lot

• Improved parking lot consistency

• Added tire irons to the parking lot

• Removed +1 HP for resilient type

• Fixed medical text in the library... I'm not a doctor!

• Resilient type now grants damage reduction once per event as intended

• Adjusted wording on posters in parking lot

• Fixed bug with ammo in railyard

• Fixed weapon lists bug

• Fixed various other bugs

All Changes for STOMACH Update

Rare characters

• Admiral : prevents bandits and car breakdowns! Loves water!

• Zeus : SMITE ME OH MIGHTY SMITER

• B*yonetta : Combo madness!

• Magus

• Pewter

New Weapons

• Dolt ACP, fires twice as slow, always pierces two targets

• Target rifle, 1-3 penetration range

• Battle rifle, faster than hunting rifle but much lower pen

• New Police Station loot:

  • Added Machinepistol, an interim between uzi and pistol

  • Added SWAT shotgun, an interim between the shotgun and top tier shottys

Weapon Reworks and Adjustments

• GUN ANIMATIONS FOR MOST MAJOR FIREARMS! Weapons affected:

  • Pistol, silenced pistol, shotgun, slug shotgun, hunting rifle, minigun, uzi, ak47, dolt, snubnose, flechette shotgun

• Axe Rework!

  • Axes now all hit one singular target, but create an AoE effect around the target!

  • In many cases, this allows them to cleave more than before!

• Many axes have also had their cooldowns reduced!

• WHIP NERFS

  • Leather whip power -> 0.2

  • Gave leather whips a 0.5% break chance

  • Infernal whip multihit -> 3

  • All CDs increased by ~10%

Trait Reworks and Adjustments

• Resilient type rework; now provides 1 damage reduction from events

  • Removed +1 HP for resilient type

• Hidden potential rework; check in game for details, now provides max bonus to stats when training

• The Big Shot reworks; now is much more consistent and applies to shotguns, also has different colour bullets

• Trademark Weapon rework: the following traits now have a weapon...

  --------------------------------

  Bandit || Switchblade

  Warrior || Steel Pike

  BERSERK || Skullcutter

  BTTW || Switchblade

  Hero Type || Silver Longsword

  Oblivious || Frozen Ham

  Resilient || Mailbox

  Fierce Temper || Sledgehammer

  Hyperfixated || Phaseblade

  Craftsman || Stillson Wrench

  TBD || Megaphone

  ---------------------------------

New Locations and Adjustments

• Train Ride! Hop aboard an automatic train. The first of "Holdout" type missions!

• Antiquated Citadel! Defend until the gate can open. Lots and lots of ammo!

• Railyard! A new starting location to mix things up! Pry open containers w/ a crowbar.

• Added alternative prison layout

• Adjustment to City generation, including new setpieces!

• Integrated reworked cities into the pool of available layouts. There are now 36 cities in total, up from 18. Easy cities also have rework equivalents

  • Reworked cities have all sorts of new decorations

• Mysterious factory has received improvements to it's loot table. No more umbrellas!

• Removed buoys from beach after consistency complaints

• Added pool noodles to the beach

• Nerfed prison loot slightly

• Exchanged some old trees for better looking ones; relevant to beach, bus depot.

Gameplay Modes

• Mutation Mode EX! More zombies, and the zombies now also gain much more HP over time!

• THE HORRORS MODE. Zombies always know where you are, and spawn from the ground even in missions!

• RPG mode has been reworked! Many of the classes have received balance changes or been

  redesigned outright. Furthermore, your starting perks, traits and stats matter much more now!

Text Events

• BISON CROSSING

• CULTIST BANDITS

• DARK CARNIVAL

• SKELETON CAPTAIN

• Added calmshot interaction to merciless bandits

• Ringmaster can now command his spider to eat other spiders in events

QOL Improvements

• Expanded list of tips and tricks at game start screen - now 100!

• Fixed many temporary chars being able to steal your loot!

• INFOMATIC LIBRARY added to Zombotown/Unlocks Zone, a place where you can read about extended info about game mechanics!

Other New Content

• Reworked Nimbus

  • Nimbus can now sometimes pick a stat-up when a mission ends, representing his RPG level grinding

• Changed Van Smelt scaling to make it more effective, especially past 30 headshots

• Road dialogue for all chars from QUADRICEPS, RETINA and STOMACH

• Added VISUAL ONLY military zombies to military depot and citadel

• More ending conversations for all modes! Quick Death also has an expanded conversation tree as a reward for beating it!

Tweaks and Bugfixes

• Pet shop dogs no longer pick up items until recruited

• Added flavour text for when a stat is maxed out but tries to increase

• Fixed "brandish guns" option showing when you don't have any guns

• Fixed "JUMP IT MAN" outcomes not dealing car damage

• Fixed various bugs and text issues in other events

• Improved wording of the tutorial and throwing objects guide

• Reduced prices of gimmick trader items

• Improved compatibility between Back To The Wall and other perks

• Chickens should now properly not pickup loot

• Fixed bug where cities would not always generate their selected store

• Improved visibility of keys and safe combos in edge scenarios

• Fixed several events not accounting for gourmands, pets or tiny eaters

• Fixed ancient bug pertaining to healing events

• Fixed campfires in trader camps not using the right food amount when resting

• Adjusted distant thunderstorm FX frequency in weather mode (applies to non-thunder weather)

• Fixed Lynn Thompson grammar error

• Fixed G*rf text event bug

• Major WIP feature for modders: Prefab Builder. Visit events/stomach/parking_lot_test for a more complete overview & notes. This is useful since nearly all base game buildings are controlled by hardcoded words

• Fixed zombie sprite bug

• Fixed weapon lists bug

• Fixed various other bugs

• Fixed Phoenix bottle bug

• MODDERS: Drastically improved the Prefab Generator tool. Check parking_lot_example for details

• MODDERS: rifles now preserve more values when penetrating, such as shooterid or anim.substate

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

STOMACH Testbranch #2 New Changes

• Reworked Nimbus

  • Nimbus can now sometimes pick a stat-up when a mission ends

• Major WIP feature for modders: Prefab Builder. Visit events/stomach/parking_lot_test for a more complete overview & notes. This is useful since nearly all base game buildings are controlled by hardcoded words

• Adjusted distant thunderstorm FX frequency in weather mode (applies to non-thunder weather)

• Added road signs

  • In reworked cities, 1 road sign is guaranteed to spawn

• Adjusted frequency of The Horrors. Further adjustments may be necessary in future

• Fixed Lynn Thompson grammar error

• Fixed Zeus, Admiral and Rubick sometimes being female

• Refined train premission text

• Fixed critical issue with cultist bandit event

• Fixed G*rf text event bug

• Minor rewordings elsewhere

• Lots of other stuff I am forgetting

All Changes for STOMACH Update

Rare characters

• Admiral : prevents bandits and car breakdowns! Loves water!

• Zeus : SMITE ME OH MIGHTY SMITER

• B*yonetta : Combo madness!

• Magus

• Pewter

New Weapons

• Dolt ACP, fires twice as slow, always pierces two targets

• Target rifle, 1-3 penetration range

• Battle rifle, faster than hunting rifle but much lower pen

• New Police Station loot:

  • Added Machinepistol, an interim between uzi and pistol

  • Added SWAT shotgun, an interim between the shotgun and top tier shottys

Weapon Reworks

• GUN ANIMATIONS FOR MOST MAJOR FIREARMS! Weapons affected:

  • Pistol, silenced pistol, shotgun, slug shotgun, hunting rifle, minigun, uzi, ak47, dolt, snubnose, flechette shotgun

• Axe Rework!

  • Axes now all hit one singular target, but create an AoE effect around the target!

  • In many cases, this allows them to cleave more than before!

• Many axes have also had their cooldowns reduced!

• WHIP NERFS

  • Leather whip power -> 0.2

  • Gave leather whips a 0.5% break chance

  • Infernal whip multihit -> 3

  • All CDs increased by ~10%

New Locations and Adjustments

• Train Ride! Hop aboard an automatic train. The first of "Holdout" type missions!

• Antiquated Citadel! Defend until the gate can open. Lots and lots of ammo!

• Railyard! A new starting location to mix things up! Pry open containers w/ a crowbar.

• Added alternative prison layout

• Adjustment to City generation, including new setpieces!

• Integrated reworked cities into the pool of available layouts. There are now 36 cities in total, up from 18. Easy cities also have rework equivalents

  • Reworked cities have all sorts of new decorations

• Mysterious factory has received improvements to it's loot table. No more umbrellas!

• Removed buoys from beach after consistency complaints

• Added pool noodles to the beach

• Nerfed prison loot slightly

Gameplay Modes

• Mutation Mode EX! More zombies, and the zombies now also gain much more HP over time!

• THE HORRORS MODE. Zombies always know where you are, and spawn from the ground even in missions!

• RPG mode has been reworked! Many of the classes have received balance changes or been

  redesigned outright. Furthermore, your starting perks, traits and stats matter much more now!

Text Events

• BISON CROSSING

• CULTIST BANDITS

• DARK CARNIVAL

• SKELETON CAPTAIN

• Added calmshot interaction to merciless bandits

• Ringmaster can now command his spider to eat other spiders in events

QOL Improvements

• Expanded list of tips and tricks at game start screen - now 100!

• Fixed many temporary chars being able to steal your loot!

• INFOMATIC LIBRARY added to Zombotown/Unlocks Zone, a place where you can read about extended info about game mechanics!

Other New Content

• Reworked Nimbus

  • Nimbus can now sometimes pick a stat-up when a mission ends, representing his RPG level grinding

• Road dialogue for all chars from QUADRICEPS, RETINA and STOMACH

• Added VISUAL ONLY military zombies to military depot and citadel

• More ending conversations for all modes! Quick Death also has an expanded conversation tree as a reward for beating it!

• Trademark Weapon rework: the following traits now have a weapon...

  --------------------------------

  Bandit || Switchblade

  Warrior || Steel Pike

  BERSERK || Skullcutter

  BTTW || Switchblade

  Hero Type || Silver Longsword

  Oblivious || Frozen Ham

  Resilient || Mailbox

  Fierce Temper || Sledgehammer

  Hyperfixated || Phaseblade

  Craftsman || Stillson Wrench

  TBD || Megaphone

  ---------------------------------

Tweaks and Bugfixes

• Pet shop dogs no longer pick up items until recruited

• Fixed "brandish guns" option showing when you don't have any guns

• Fixed "JUMP IT MAN" outcomes not dealing car damage

• Fixed various bugs and text issues in other events

• Improved wording of the tutorial and throwing objects guide

• Reduced prices of gimmick trader items

• Improved compatibility between Back To The Wall and other perks

• Chickens should now properly not pickup loot

• Fixed bug where cities would not always generate their selected store

• Improved visibility of keys and safe combos in edge scenarios

• Fixed several events not accounting for gourmands, pets or tiny eaters

• Fixed ancient bug pertaining to healing events

• Fixed campfires in trader camps not using the right food amount when resting

• Adjusted distant thunderstorm FX frequency in weather mode (applies to non-thunder weather)

• Fixed Lynn Thompson grammar error

• Fixed G*rf text event bug

• Major WIP feature for modders: Prefab Builder. Visit events/stomach/parking_lot_test for a more complete overview & notes. This is useful since nearly all base game buildings are controlled by hardcoded words

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

1/10 Hotfix Changes

• Integrated reworked cities into the pool of available layouts. There are now 36 cities in total, up from 18. Easy cities also have rework equivalents.

• Fixed ancient bug pertaining to healing events

• Fixed campfires in trader camps not using the right food amount when resting

• Fixed several events not accounting for gourmands, pets or tiny eaters

• Fixed bug where cities would not always generate their selected store

• Improved visibility of keys and safe combos in edge scenarios

• Evil Sycamore can now unlock all perks and traits for you (testbranch)

• Adjusted wording of Bison Crossing

• Chickens should now properly not pickup loot

• RPG and Scepter Mode files now in correct place

• Fixed new gamemodes not having icons

New Changes for STOMACH Update

Rare characters

• Admiral : prevents bandits and car breakdowns! Loves water!

• Zeus : SMITE ME OH MIGHTY SMITER

• B*yonetta : Combo madness!

• Magus

• Pewter

New Weapons

• Dolt ACP, fires twice as slow, always pierces two targets

• Target rifle, 1-3 penetration range

• Battle rifle, faster than hunting rifle but much lower pen

• New Police Station loot:

  • Added Machinepistol, an interim between uzi and pistol

  • Added SWAT shotgun, an interim between the shotgun and top tier shottys

Weapon Reworks

• GUN ANIMATIONS FOR MOST MAJOR FIREARMS! Weapons affected:

  • Pistol, silenced pistol, shotgun, slug shotgun, hunting rifle, minigun, uzi, ak47, dolt, snubnose, flechette shotgun

• Axe Rework!

  • Axes now all hit one singular target, but create an AoE effect around the target!

  • In many cases, this allows them to cleave more than before!

• Many axes have also had their cooldowns reduced!

• WHIP NERFS

  • Leather whip power -> 0.2

  • Gave leather whips a 0.5% break chance

  • Infernal whip multihit -> 3

  • All CDs increased by ~10%

New Locations and Adjustments

• Train Ride! Hop aboard an automatic train. The first of "Holdout" type missions!

• Antiquated Citadel! Defend until the gate can open. Lots and lots of ammo!

• Railyard! A new starting location to mix things up! Pry open containers w/ a crowbar.

• Added alternative prison layout

• Adjustment to City generation, including new setpieces!

• Integrated reworked cities into the pool of available layouts. There are now 36 cities in total, up from 18. Easy cities also have rework equivalents

• Mysterious factory has received improvements to it's loot table. No more umbrellas!

• Removed buoys from beach after consistency complaints

• Added pool noodles to the beach

• Nerfed prison loot slightly

Gameplay Modes

• Mutation Mode EX! More zombies, and the zombies now also gain much more HP over time!

• THE HORRORS MODE. Zombies always know where you are, and spawn from the ground even in missions!

• RPG mode has been reworked! Many of the classes have received balance changes or been

  redesigned outright. Furthermore, your starting perks, traits and stats matter much more now!

Text Events

• BISON CROSSING

• CULTIST BANDITS

• DARK CARNIVAL

• SKELETON CAPTAIN

• Added calmshot interaction to merciless bandits

• Ringmaster can now command his spider to eat other spiders in events

QOL Improvements

• Expanded list of tips and tricks at game start screen - now 100!

• Fixed many temporary chars being able to steal your loot!

• INFOMATIC LIBRARY added to Zombotown/Unlocks Zone, a place where you can read about extended info about game mechanics!

Other New Content

• Road dialogue for all chars from QUADRICEPS, RETINA and STOMACH

• Added VISUAL ONLY military zombies to military depot and citadel

• More ending conversations for all modes! Quick Death also has an expanded conversation tree as a reward for beating it!

• Trademark Weapon rework: the following traits now have a weapon...

  --------------------------------

  Bandit || Switchblade

  Warrior || Steel Pike

  BERSERK || Skullcutter

  BTTW || Switchblade

  Hero Type || Silver Longsword

  Oblivious || Frozen Ham

  Resilient || Mailbox

  Fierce Temper || Sledgehammer

  Hyperfixated || Phaseblade

  Craftsman || Stillson Wrench

  TBD || Megaphone

  ---------------------------------

Tweaks and Bugfixes

• Pet shop dogs no longer pick up items until recruited

• Fixed "brandish guns" option showing when you don't have any guns

• Fixed "JUMP IT MAN" outcomes not dealing car damage

• Fixed various bugs and text issues in other events

• Improved wording of the tutorial and throwing objects guide

• Reduced prices of gimmick trader items

• Improved compatibility between Back To The Wall and other perks

• Chickens should now properly not pickup loot

• Fixed bug where cities would not always generate their selected store

• Improved visibility of keys and safe combos in edge scenarios

• Fixed several events not accounting for gourmands, pets or tiny eaters

• Fixed ancient bug pertaining to healing events

• Fixed campfires in trader camps not using the right food amount when resting

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

November 17 Hotfix

• Adjusted weather mode extra food eating to be more text-compact

• Adjusted weather mode extra food eating to be "all or nothing" - either everyone freezes or nobody does

• Fixed bug where trees on the beach would spasm uncontrollably

• Fixed bug related to selling weapons

• Adjustments to character event text to make them more in-line with base game

New Changes for Testbranch #5

• LINUX and MAC versions added

• Exe file changed to Retail (Live) version, which uses Retail saves and turns off debug and console stuff

• Buffed Dingus Savant

• DINK chars now start at 2 morale, not 0; prevents 0-day despair events,

• Adjusted weapon sprites

Previous List of Changes for RETINA

New Content

Special Characters

• Added Isabelle, the Paladin. Smite away!

• Ending Dialogue added for Isabelle

• Added Time Stop character, work in progress, it will get new art and a retheme

• Added Defective, an eldritch horror multi-splitting character

Gameplay Modes

• Added MUTATION mode, where zombies get more resistant and more GRABBY over time

• Added INFECTION mode EXTREME

Locations

• Added Bank, Marshland, Viaduct locations

• Added Gauntlet Siege version of Viaduct location

Weapons

• Added 3 new whips, in a new weapon category based on the Ringmaster's unique weapon

• Added pike

• Added kukri

• Added buff banner support weapon

• Added Barret 50 cal (named "M.O.A.R")

• Made new weapons sellable

• Made new weapons findable

Perks and Traits

• Duelist perk added, go for those tipper hits

• Big Shot perk added, slower ranged, but bonus damage scaling with shooting

• Hyperfixated Trait added, get really good at ONE thing

• D.I.N.K. Trait added, great combat stats mixed with TERRIBLE morale

• Craftsman Trait added, never break a weapon again

Other

• Car Boat with turret added as a reward to the Marshland location

Tweaks

• Improved the DNK16 "burst" feeling and very marginally buffed it

• Hektatrius event updated for one of the new characters

• Adjusted Anime Girl store timer setting

• Made it easier for AI to get into the car during floods, in Severe Weather Mode

• Reworked 4JS Mode: scepters now have a random powerup they spawn with

• Prison ammo piles are now rifle ammo crates and drop 25-30 ammo

• Nerfed beach loot

• Added a sound when a powerup drops in RPG mode

• Reworked RPG mode powerup table to be more fair

Perks and Traits

• Gourmand now provides morale to the team at meals

• Kensai Perk reworked according to community discussion, including a -10 penalty to shooting

• Phoenix now gets a bottle of hot sauce on start

• Hero Type now has an aura of protection

• Bow and Arrow dropped arrows now only require you to touch, not pickup, to recharge (good for AI)

• Reworked bows to act like the rifles do. Bows scale linearly with your STR stat, up to 11 STR, at which they pierce 11 targets

• Buffed Dingus Savant

Sweet Vans

• Reworked the regular, dog, and ice cream vans. They all do something special now, to help justify the increased gas costs.

• Regular Van: Spawns furniture

• Dog Van: Spawns a friendly dog

• Ice Cream Van: Spawns delicious flavors

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug for gun racks sometimes losing rifles

• Bugfix for lightning bolts being pushed inward from map edge

• Fixed a bug where bow&arrow arrows were invincible

• Fixed a bug where not enough zombies spawned in the warehouse location

• Fixed a bug where too much loot spawned in the warehouse loc

• Fixed a weapon seller list bug

• Fixed some bugs in events pertaining to Friend of Dog

• Fixed bug where cameras spontaneous turn into books

• Fixed bug where ammo crates still had their hitboxes after being used,

• Fixed bug where gamemode wins didn't display for new modes

• Fixed beaches not having umbrellas

• Fixed beach street lamps

• Fixed bug where the stack became a bathtub of character pointers, which could cause further bugs

• More fixes I'm forgetting about

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

The console is also turned on for this testing period. Use the ` key to open the console, and then read below for a list of some commands to try out.

New Changes for Testbranch #4

• New art for the new characters, along with art updates for various other new things such as weapons and the locations

• Viaduct Siege is now a Gauntlet Siege, where you must reach the right side of the map while getting swarmed by zombies

• Added D.I.N.K trait

• Added Craftsman trait

• Fixed whitespace in whip name

• Did some internal renaming and other text changes

• Carboat turret now dies when the carboat does

• Kensai now has a -10 shooting penalty

• Fixed beaches not having umbrellas

• Fixed beach street lamps

• Fixed bug where the stack became a bathtub of character pointers

• Adjusted Time Stop character to fit new theme, name and sprite

• Adjusted Isabelle name to "Paladin"

• Adjusted Isabelle recruitment dialogue

• More fixes we're forgetting

Previous List of Changes for RETINA

New Content

Special Characters

• Added Isabelle, the Paladin. Smite away!

• Ending Dialogue added for Isabelle

• Added Time Stop character, work in progress, it will get new art and a retheme

• Added Defective, an eldritch horror multi-splitting character

Gameplay Modes

• Added MUTATION mode, where zombies get more resistant and more GRABBY over time

• Added INFECTION mode EXTREME

Locations

• Added Bank, Marshland, Viaduct locations

• Added Gauntlet Siege version of Viaduct location

• You can type the following commands into the console to check out the different locations:

  • to_the_marshes

  • to_the_viaduct

  • to_the_treasury

  • road{ siege2-viaduct }

Weapons

• Added 3 new whips, in a new weapon category based on the Ringmaster's unique weapon

• Added pike

• Added kukri

• Added buff banner support weapon

• Added Barret 50 cal (named "M.O.A.R")

• Made new weapons sellable

• Made new weapons findable

Perks and Traits

• Duelist perk added, go for those tipper hits

• Big Shot perk added, slower ranged, but bonus damage scaling with shooting

• Hyperfixated Trait added, get really good at ONE thing

• D.I.N.K. Trait added, great combat stats mixed with TERRIBLE morale

• Craftsman Trait added, never break a weapon again

Other

• Car Boat with turret added as a reward to the Marshland location

Tweaks

• Improved the DNK16 "burst" feeling and very marginally buffed it

• Hektatrius event updated for one of the new characters

• Adjusted Anime Girl store timer setting

• Made it easier for AI to get into the car during floods, in Severe Weather Mode

• Reworked 4JS Mode: scepters now have a random powerup they spawn with

• Prison ammo piles are now rifle ammo crates and drop 25-30 ammo

• Nerfed beach loot

• Added a sound when a powerup drops in RPG mode

• Reworked RPG mode powerup table to be more fair

Perks and Traits

• Gourmand now provides morale to the team at meals

• Kensai Perk reworked according to community discussion, including a -10 penalty to shooting

• Phoenix now gets a bottle of hot sauce on start

• Hero Type now has an aura of protection

• Bow and Arrow dropped arrows now only require you to touch, not pickup, to recharge (good for AI)

• Reworked bows to act like the rifles do. Bows scale linearly with your STR stat, up to 11 STR, at which they pierce 11 targets

Sweet Vans

• Reworked the regular, dog, and ice cream vans. They all do something special now, to help justify the increased gas costs.

• Regular Van: Spawns furniture

• Dog Van: Spawns a friendly dog

• Ice Cream Van: Spawns delicious flavors

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug for gun racks sometimes losing rifles

• Bugfix for lightning bolts being pushed inward from map edge

• Fixed a bug where bow&arrow arrows were invincible

• Fixed a bug where not enough zombies spawned in the warehouse location

• Fixed a bug where too much loot spawned in the warehouse loc

• Fixed a weapon seller list bug

• Fixed some bugs in events pertaining to Friend of Dog

• Fixed bug where cameras spontaneous turn into books

• Fixed bug where ammo crates still had their hitboxes after being used,

• Fixed bug where gamemode wins didn't display for new modes

• More fixes I'm forgetting about

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

The console is also turned on for this testing period. Use the ` key to open the console, and then read below for a list of some commands to try out.

New Changes for Testbranch #3

• Added a new trait, Hyperfixated

• Added Evil Sycamore to the beta branch. From now on, you can use this character to unlock game modes, instantly, during the test branches

• Fixed bug with zombie aggro in the Bank,

• Added ending rewards for new gamemodes,

• Mutation Mode now raises max zp properly,

• New modes now have extra ending bits,

• Fixed null tile viaduct bug,

• Fixed text for bank event,

• Fixed banner in testregion not having any charges,

• Fixed omitted ending dialogue for new chars,

• Fixed bug where Ember couldn't die,

• Fixed streetlights in Bank having weird hitboxes,

• Fixed typo in mutation mode desc,

• fixed bug where carboat turret would appear on new cars,

• fixed bug where spider can pick up loot, same goes for bus characters

Previous List of Changes for RETINA

New Content

Special Characters

• Added Isabelle, the Paladin. Smite away!

• Ending Dialogue added for Isabelle

• Added Time Stop character, work in progress, it will get new art and a retheme

• Added Defective, an eldritch horror multi-splitting character

Gameplay Modes

• Added MUTATION mode, where zombies get more resistant and more GRABBY over time

• Added INFECTION mode EXTREME

Locations

• Added Bank, Marshland, Viaduct locations

• Added Siege version of Viaduct location

• You can type the following commands into the console to check out the different locations:

  • to_the_marshes

  • to_the_viaduct

  • to_the_treasury

  • road{ siege2-viaduct }

Weapons

• Added 3 new whips, in a new weapon category based on the Ringmaster's unique weapon

• Added pike

• Added kukri

• Added buff banner support weapon

• Added Barret 50 cal (named "M.O.A.R")

• Made new weapons sellable

• Made new weapons findable

Perks and Traits

• Duelist perk added, go for those tipper hits

• Big Shot perk added, slower ranged, but bonus damage scaling with shooting

• Hyperfixated Trait added, get really good at ONE thing

Other

• Car Boat with turret added as a reward to the Marshland location

Tweaks

• Improved the DNK16 "burst" feeling and very marginally buffed it

• Hektatrius event updated for one of the new characters

• Adjusted Anime Girl store timer setting

• Made it easier for AI to get into the car during floods, in Severe Weather Mode

• Reworked 4JS Mode: scepters now have a random powerup they spawn with

• Prison ammo piles are now rifle ammo crates and drop 25-30 ammo

• Nerfed beach loot

• Added a sound when a powerup drops in RPG mode

• Reworked RPG mode powerup table to be more fair

Perks and Traits

• Gourmand now provides morale to the team at meals

• Kensai Perk reworked according to community discussion

• Phoenix now gets a bottle of hot sauce on start

• Hero Type now has an aura of protection

• Bow and Arrow dropped arrows now only require you to touch, not pickup, to recharge (good for AI)

• Reworked bows to act like the rifles do. Bows scale linearly with your STR stat, up to 11 STR, at which they pierce 11 targets

Sweet Vans

• Reworked the regular, dog, and ice cream vans. They all do something special now, to help justify the increased gas costs.

• Regular Van: Spawns furniture

• Dog Van: Spawns a friendly dog

• Ice Cream Van: Spawns delicious flavors

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug for gun racks sometimes losing rifles

• Bugfix for lightning bolts being pushed inward from map edge

• Fixed a bug where bow&arrow arrows were invincible

• Fixed a bug where not enough zombies spawned in the warehouse location

• Fixed a bug where too much loot spawned in the warehouse loc

• Fixed a weapon seller list bug

• Fixed some bugs in events pertaining to Friend of Dog

• Fixed bug where cameras spontaneous turn into books

• Fixed bug where ammo crates still had their hitboxes after being used,

• Fixed bug where gamemode wins didn't display for new modes

• More fixes I'm forgetting about

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

The console is also turned on for this testing period. Use the ` key to open the console, and then read below for a list of some commands to try out.

New Changes for Testbranch #2

November 1 Mini-Hotfix

• Fixed bug where ammo crates still had their hitboxes after being used,

• Fixed bug where gamemode wins didn't display for new modes,

• Fixed typo with Duelist unlock text,

• New locations added to respective decks,

• New characters added to respective decks

• Added blue sparks for tiphits on Duelist chars,

• Reworked RPG mode powerup table to be fairer,

• Marginally improved The Big Shot ranged damage per stat to 17% (vs 16),

• Added a sound when a powerup drops in RPG mode

Initial Changes

• Added MUTATION mode,

• Added INFECTION mode EXTREME,

• Fixed bug with marshland gunner appearing when they weren't meant to,

• Fixed bug where Hero Type chars couldn't work off screen,

• Fixed bug where some Viaduct tiles swallowed you whole,

• Improved depth illusion in Viaduct,

• Fixed bug where MOAR was invisible,

• Fixed bug where some marsh cliffs didn't have overhangs,

• Renamed Fencer to Duelist,

• Prison ammo piles are now rifle ammo crates and drop 25-30 ammo,

• Nerfed beach loot,

• Reworked bows to act like the rifles do. Bows scale linearly with your STR stat, up to 11 STR, at which they pierce 11 targets.,

• Reworked 4JS Mode: scepters now have a random powerup they spawn with. Test the mode yourself to see the full extent,

• Bow and Arrow dropped arrows now only require you to touch, not pickup, to recharge (good for AI),

• Fixed bug where cameras spontaneous turn into books

Previous List of Changes for RETINA

New Content

Special Characters

• Added Isabelle, the Paladin. Smite away!

• Ending Dialogue added for Isabelle

• Added Time Stop character, work in progress, it will get new art and a retheme

• Added Defective, an eldritch horror multi-splitting character

Locations

• Added Bank, Marshland, Viaduct locations

• Added Siege version of Viaduct location

• You can type the following commands into the console to check out the different locations:

  • to_the_marshes

  • to_the_viaduct

  • to_the_treasury

  • road{ siege2-viaduct }

Weapons

• Added 3 new whips, in a new weapon category based on the Ringmaster's unique weapon

• Added pike

• Added kukri

• Added buff banner support weapon

• Added Barret 50 cal (named "M.O.A.R")

• Made new weapons sellable

• Made new weapons findable

Perks

• Fencer perk added

• Big Shot perk added

Other

• Car Boat with turret added as a reward to the Marshland location

Tweaks

• Improved the DNK16 "burst" feeling and very marginally buffed it

• Hektatrius event updated for one of the new characters

• Adjusted Anime Girl store timer setting

• Made it easier for AI to get into the car during floods, in Severe Weather Mode

Perks and Traits

• Gourmand now provides morale to the team at meals

• Kensai Perk reworked according to community discussion

• Phoenix now gets a bottle of hot sauce on start

• Hero Type now has an aura of protection

Sweet Vans

• Reworked the regular, dog, and ice cream vans. They all do something special now, to help justify the increased gas costs.

• Regular Van: Spawns furniture

• Dog Van: Spawns a friendly dog

• Ice Cream Van: Spawns delicious flavors

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug for gun racks sometimes losing rifles

• Bugfix for lightning bolts being pushed inward from map edge

• Fixed a bug where bow&arrow arrows were invincible

• Fixed a bug where not enough zombies spawned in the warehouse location

• Fixed a bug where too much loot spawned in the warehouse loc

• Fixed a weapon seller list bug

• Fixed some bugs in events pertaining to Friend of Dog

• More fixes I'm forgetting about

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

The console is also turned on for this testing period. Use the ` key to open the console, and then read below for a list of some commands to try out.

List of Changes for RETINA

New Content

Special Characters

• Added Isabelle, the Paladin. Smite away!

• Ending Dialogue added for Isabelle

• Added Time Stop character, work in progress, it will get new art and a retheme

• Added Defective, an eldritch horror multi-splitting character

Locations

• Added Bank, Marshland, Viaduct locations

• Added Siege version of Viaduct location

• You can type the following commands into the console to check out the different locations:

  • to_the_marshes

  • to_the_viaduct

  • to_the_treasury

  • road{ siege2-viaduct }

Weapons

• Added 3 new whips, in a new weapon category based on the Ringmaster's unique weapon

• Added pike

• Added kukri

• Added buff banner support weapon

• Added Barret 50 cal (named "M.O.A.R")

• Made new weapons sellable

• Made new weapons findable

Perks

• Fencer perk added

• Big Shot perk added

Other

• Car Boat with turret added as a reward to the Marshland location

Tweaks

• Improved the DNK16 "burst" feeling and very marginally buffed it

• Hektatrius event updated for one of the new characters

• Adjusted Anime Girl store timer setting

• Made it easier for AI to get into the car during floods, in Severe Weather Mode

Perks and Traits

• Gourmand now provides morale to the team at meals

• Kensai Perk reworked according to community discussion

• Phoenix now gets a bottle of hot sauce on start

• Hero Type now has an aura of protection

Sweet Vans

• Reworked the regular, dog, and ice cream vans. They all do something special now, to help justify the increased gas costs.

• Regular Van: Spawns furniture

• Dog Van: Spawns a friendly dog

• Ice Cream Van: Spawns delicious flavors

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug for gun racks sometimes losing rifles

• Bugfix for lightning bolts being pushed inward from map edge

• Fixed a bug where bow&arrow arrows were invincible

• Fixed a bug where not enough zombies spawned in the warehouse location

• Fixed a bug where too much loot spawned in the warehouse loc

• Fixed a weapon seller list bug

• Fixed some bugs in events pertaining to Friend of Dog

• More fixes I'm forgetting about

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

Latest Changes

• UPDATE 9/30: Changed an incorrect perk description

• Various new art

• Console is on longer accessible

• Beta branch is now using retail/live saves again, which we always do for the last or near last testing branch updates.

• Linux and Mac versions available

Previous List of Changes for QUADRICEPS

• 4 new gameplay modes!

  • INFECTION: Time is ticking until you all turn into zombies. Every zombie you kill increases the timer, but only once you leave the mission to rest!

  • SEVERE WEATHER MODE: Less zombies, but now it's you versus the elements. New, dangerous weather patterns. And all this inclement weather makes everyone more hungry.

  • RPG Mode: Classes and powerups, in my Death Road? TRIPLE the zombies.

  • 4 Jerks SCEPTER Mode: Start with 4 people, all with strange new powers. ALSO TRIPLE the zombies.

• New locations:

  • Beach

  • Warehouse

  • Bus Depot

  • Prison

• 3 new special characters, works in progress

  • Dr Hawke: Healer extraordinaire

  • Ember: Gas powered robot

  • Ringmaster: Has a whip, and a pet

  • New rare characters can now be found via random road recruit events

• New HATS

• New vehicle with a special property (also not accessible yet)

• New Weapons

  • 3 Round Burst rifle

  • Mamba

  • Autorevolver

  • Flechette Shotgun

  • Longbow

• Slow Rifle Rework!

  • Rifles now have much more consistent ranges for zombie penetration

  • Affects Cowboy, Hunting, Sniper rifles, and Slug shotguns

  • QUICK CHART (penetration depends on shooting skill):

    • Cowboy: 1-3

    • Hunting: 2-6

    • Sniper: 2-5

    • Slug: 3-8

• Bow Rework!

  • Cupid Bow arrows nerf 60 -> 50

  • Arrows move faster and have air trails during flight

  • Arrows may drop on the floor, so you can pick them up again

  • Arrows that don’t kill a target may embed in them, slowing them down

  • Specialist weapon for Bow+Arrows gives a Longbow

• New Perks (now 30 Perks and 30 Traits total!)

  • CHAIRMASTER: Gives new powerful bonuses to throwing furniture

  • RANGER: 30% faster ranged weapons firing, 50% longer cooldown in melee

  • KENSAI: 15% faster melee weapons, 80% longer cooldown on all ranged

• Loot table updates for Police Station and Military Depot, to support the new weapons

  • Also updated for nicercommon-gun, niceranged, and exoticweapons loot pools

• PANCREAS weapons added to sellable lists

• New car wrecks

• Jukebox added to bars

• Honcho fix

• Fixes for punchbot bugs

• Endings for the Pancreas and Quadriceps characters

• Blowtorch is now 1.5x more ammo efficient

• Duckhunter art update

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

Latest Changes

• Kensai nerf: Ranged cooldown penalty is now 80% slower, up from 50%

• Added 4 new loot table options to Ark's Wares

• RPG Mode bugfixes, mostly involving bombardier

  • Changed some text, including a spell name

  • Bugfix related to class picking

• Fixed wording for some gamemodes

• Added unlock conditions for new gamemodes

• SCEPTER MODE

  • Some new Scepters

  • Scepters may no longer be stacked

  • Fixed bug where scepter mode displayed infection mode streak text

• Fixed bugs relating to Ringmaster

• Fixed bug that made bandit events cause you to lose time in Infection Mode

• Duckhunter art update

Previous List of Changes for QUADRICEPS

• Last Testbranch Tweaks:

  • Powerups can now drop in RPG mode

  • SEVERE WEATHER Mode Changes

    • Weather can affect the cars starting

    • Eating penalties added for "staying warm"

  • Streaks added for the new modes

  • Icons added for the new modes

  • 4 Jerks SCEPTER mode added to car stats and ending

  • RPG Mode fixes for recharging items, along other adjustments and tweaks

  • Crash Fixes for new mode endings

  • Q Update weapons now sellable

  • Gstats additions for new modes

  • Perk description tweaks

  • Arrows are now more fragile

• 4 new gameplay modes!

  • INFECTION: Time is ticking until you all turn into zombies. Every zombie you kill increases the timer, but only once you leave the mission to rest!

  • SEVERE WEATHER MODE: Less zombies, but now it's you versus the elements. New, dangerous weather patterns. And all this inclement weather makes everyone more hungry.

  • RPG Mode: Classes and powerups, in my Death Road? TRIPLE the zombies.

  • 4 Jerks SCEPTER Mode: Start with 4 people, all with strange new powers. ALSO TRIPLE the zombies.

• New locations:

  • Beach

  • Warehouse

  • Bus Depot

  • Prison

• Console now accessible! Press ` or CTRL+9. Some handy commands:

  • to_the_beach

  • to_the_warehouse

  • to_the_prison

  • to_the_depot

• Kensai nerfed from +30% melee speed to +15%

• Various small nerfs to the new perks

• Bow toned down a bit. We will likely add a more reliable piercing system for bow NEXT update, similar to the Rifle Rework, but not for QUADRICEPS.

• New rare characters can now be found via random road recruit events

• Fixes for punchbot bugs

• Testing Region updated for QUADRICEPS

• 3 new special characters, works in progress

  • Dr Hawke: Healer extraordinaire

  • Ember: Gas powered robot

  • Ringmaster: Has a whip, and a pet

• New HATS

• New vehicle with a special property (also not accessible yet)

• New Weapons

  • 3 Round Burst rifle

  • Mamba

  • Autorevolver

  • Flechette Shotgun

  • Longbow

• Slow Rifle Rework!

  • Rifles now have much more consistent ranges for zombie penetration

  • Affects Cowboy, Hunting, Sniper rifles, and Slug shotguns

  • QUICK CHART (penetration depends on shooting skill):

    • Cowboy: 1-3

    • Hunting: 2-6

    • Sniper: 2-5

    • Slug: 3-8

• Bow Rework!

  • Cupid Bow arrows nerf 60 -> 50

  • Arrows move faster and have air trails during flight

  • Arrows may drop on the floor, so you can pick them up again

  • Arrows that don’t kill a target may embed in them, slowing them down

  • Specialist weapon for Bow+Arrows gives a Longbow

• New Perks (now 30 Perks and 30 Traits total!)

  • CHAIRMASTER: Gives new powerful bonuses to throwing furniture

  • RANGER: 30% faster ranged weapons firing, 50% longer cooldown in melee

  • KENSAI: 30% faster melee weapons, 50% longer cooldown on all ranged

• Loot table updates for Police Station and Military Depot, to support the new weapons

  • Also updated for nicercommon-gun, niceranged, and exoticweapons loot pools

• PANCREAS weapons added to sellable lists

• New car wrecks

• Jukebox added to bars

• Honcho fix

• Punchbot fix

• Endings for the Pancreas and Quadriceps characters

• Blowtorch is now 1.5x more ammo efficient

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

Latest Changes

• Powerups can now drop in RPG mode

• SEVERE WEATHER Mode Changes

  • Weather can affect the cars starting

  • Eating penalties added for "staying warm"

• Streaks added for the new modes

• Icons added for the new modes

• 4 Jerks SCEPTER mode added to car stats and ending

• RPG Mode fixes for recharging items, along other adjustments and tweaks

• Crash Fixes for new mode endings

• Q Update weapons now sellable

• Gstats additions for new modes

• Perk description tweaks

• Blowtorch is now 1.5x more ammo efficient

• Arrows are now more fragile

Previous List of Changes for QUADRICEPS

• 4 new gameplay modes!

  • INFECTION: Time is ticking until you all turn into zombies. Every zombie you kill increases the timer, but only once you leave the mission to rest!

  • SEVERE WEATHER MODE: Less zombies, but now it's you versus the elements. New, dangerous weather patterns. And all this inclement weather makes everyone more hungry.

  • RPG Mode: Classes and powerups, in my Death Road? TRIPLE the zombies.

  • 4 Jerks SCEPTER Mode: Start with 4 people, all with strange new powers. ALSO TRIPLE the zombies.

• New locations:

  • Beach

  • Warehouse

  • Bus Depot

  • Prison

• Console now accessible! Press ` or CTRL+9. Some handy commands:

  • to_the_beach

  • to_the_warehouse

  • to_the_prison

  • to_the_depot

• Kensai nerfed from +30% melee speed to +15%

• Various small nerfs to the new perks

• Bow toned down a bit. We will likely add a more reliable piercing system for bow NEXT update, similar to the Rifle Rework, but not for QUADRICEPS.

• New rare characters can now be found via random road recruit events

• Fixes for punchbot bugs

• Testing Region updated for QUADRICEPS

• 3 new special characters, works in progress

  • Dr Hawke: Healer extraordinaire

  • Ember: Gas powered robot

  • Ringmaster: Has a whip, and a pet

• New HATS

• New vehicle with a special property (also not accessible yet)

• New Weapons

  • 3 Round Burst rifle

  • Mamba

  • Autorevolver

  • Flechette Shotgun

  • Longbow

• Slow Rifle Rework!

  • Rifles now have much more consistent ranges for zombie penetration

  • Affects Cowboy, Hunting, Sniper rifles, and Slug shotguns

  • QUICK CHART (penetration depends on shooting skill):

    • Cowboy: 1-3

    • Hunting: 2-6

    • Sniper: 2-5

    • Slug: 3-8

• Bow Rework!

  • Cupid Bow arrows nerf 60 -> 50

  • Arrows move faster and have air trails during flight

  • Arrows may drop on the floor, so you can pick them up again

  • Arrows that don’t kill a target may embed in them, slowing them down

  • Specialist weapon for Bow+Arrows gives a Longbow

• New Perks (now 30 Perks and 30 Traits total!)

  • CHAIRMASTER: Gives new powerful bonuses to throwing furniture

  • RANGER: 30% faster ranged weapons firing, 50% longer cooldown in melee

  • KENSAI: 30% faster melee weapons, 50% longer cooldown on all ranged

• Loot table updates for Police Station and Military Depot, to support the new weapons

  • Also updated for nicercommon-gun, niceranged, and exoticweapons loot pools

• PANCREAS weapons added to sellable lists

• New car wrecks

• Jukebox added to bars

• Honcho fix

• Punchbot fix

• Endings for the Pancreas and Quadriceps characters

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

Latest Changes

• 4 new gameplay modes!

  • INFECTION: Time is ticking until you all turn into zombies. Every zombie you kill increases the timer, but only once you leave the mission to rest!

  • SEVERE WEATHER MODE: Less zombies, but now it's you versus the elements. New, dangerous weather patterns. And all this inclement weather makes everyone more hungry.

  • RPG Mode: Classes and powerups, in my Death Road? TRIPLE the zombies.

  • 4 Jerks SCEPTER Mode: Start with 4 people, all with strange new powers. ALSO TRIPLE the zombies.

• New locations, now accessible:

  • Beach

  • Warehouse

  • Bus Depot

  • Prison

• Console now accessible! Press ` or CTRL+9. Some handy commands:

  • to_the_beach

  • to_the_warehouse

  • to_the_prison

  • to_the_depot

• Kensai nerfed from +30% melee speed to +15%

• Various small nerfs to the new perks

• Bow toned down a bit. We will likely add a more reliable piercing system for bow NEXT update, similar to the Rifle Rework, but not for QUADRICEPS.

• New rare characters can now be found via random road recruit events

• Fixes for punchbot bugs

Previous List of Changes for QUADRICEPS

• Testing Region updated for QUADRICEPS

• 3 new special characters, works in progress

  • Dr Hawke: Healer extraordinaire

  • Ember: Gas powered robot

  • Ringmaster: Has a whip, and a pet

• New HATS

• New vehicle with a special property (also not accessible yet)

• New Weapons

  • 3 Round Burst rifle

  • Mamba

  • Autorevolver

  • Flechette Shotgun

  • Longbow

• Slow Rifle Rework!

  • Rifles now have much more consistent ranges for zombie penetration

  • Affects Cowboy, Hunting, Sniper rifles, and Slug shotguns

  • QUICK CHART (penetration depends on shooting skill):

    • Cowboy: 1-3

    • Hunting: 2-6

    • Sniper: 2-5

    • Slug: 3-8

• Bow Rework!

  • Cupid Bow arrows nerf 60 -> 50

  • Arrows move faster and have air trails during flight

  • Arrows may drop on the floor, so you can pick them up again

  • Arrows that don’t kill a target may embed in them, slowing them down

  • Specialist weapon for Bow+Arrows gives a Longbow

• New Perks (now 30 Perks and 30 Traits total!)

  • CHAIRMASTER: Gives new powerful bonuses to throwing furniture

  • RANGER: 30% faster ranged weapons firing, 50% longer cooldown in melee

  • KENSAI: 30% faster melee weapons, 50% longer cooldown on all ranged

• Loot table updates for Police Station and Military Depot, to support the new weapons

  • Also updated for nicercommon-gun, niceranged, and exoticweapons loot pools

• PANCREAS weapons added to sellable lists

• New car wrecks

• Jukebox added to bars

• Honcho fix

• Punchbot fix

• Endings for the Pancreas and Quadriceps characters

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

There is going to be a lot to test, so I'm just going to go right into the list of changes so far:

List of Changes for QUADRICEPS

• Testing Region updated for QUADRICEPS

• 3 new special characters, works in progress

  • Dr Hawke: Healer extraordinaire

  • Ember: Gas powered robot

  • Ringmaster: Has a whip, and a pet

• New HATS

• New locations (not accessible yet, but soon)

  • Beach

  • Warehouse

  • Bus Depot

  • Prison

• New vehicle with a special property (also not accessible yet)

• New Weapons

  • 3 Round Burst rifle

  • Mamba

  • Autorevolver

  • Flechette Shotgun

  • Longbow

• Slow Rifle Rework!

  • Rifles now have much more consistent ranges for zombie penetration

  • Affects Cowboy, Hunting, Sniper rifles, and Slug shotguns

  • QUICK CHART (penetration depends on shooting skill):

    • Cowboy: 1-3

    • Hunting: 2-6

    • Sniper: 2-5

    • Slug: 3-8

• Bow Rework!

  • Cupid Bow arrows nerf 60 -> 50

  • Arrows move faster and have air trails during flight

  • Arrows may drop on the floor, so you can pick them up again

  • Arrows that don’t kill a target may embed in them, slowing them down

  • Specialist weapon for Bow+Arrows gives a Longbow

• New Perks (now 30 Perks and 30 Traits total!)

  • CHAIRMASTER: Gives new powerful bonuses to throwing furniture

  • RANGER: 30% faster ranged weapons firing, 50% longer cooldown in melee

  • KENSAI: 30% faster melee weapons, 50% longer cooldown on all ranged

• Loot table updates for Police Station and Military Depot, to support the new weapons

  • Also updated for nicercommon-gun, niceranged, and exoticweapons loot pools

• PANCREAS weapons added to sellable lists

• New car wrecks

• Jukebox added to bars

• Honcho fix

• Punchbot fix

• Endings for the Pancreas and Quadriceps characters

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

Current List of Changes:

• Bugfix for the Duck Hunter, now its shots should properly shrapnel through everything

• New art for all the new weapons, including Honcho's dagger.

Previous Changes this Update:

• WE'RE BACK AGAIN

• Special Gimmick Weapons Trader, who can sell 3 different weapons with unique mechanics, all involving RELOADS:

  • DUCK HUNTER: A shotgun with short range, but shooting zombies has shrapnel ricochet everywhere. Additionally, reloads a shell at a time, and fires them faster as long as you don't run out completely.

  • DOLT BIG IRON: A pistol that fires six shots, extremely fast if you hold ATTACK down. It then takes awhile to reload. You also fire much slower if you do careful attacks, so make sure to GO NUTS.

  • FLIP RIFLE: A strong rifle that fires MUCH FASTER if you fire it immediately after it reloads. Use the firing indicator over your head to help you figure out the timing.

• 3 New Special Recruits that you can find in trader camps. They all cost 15 food:

  • VAN SMELT: A big game hunter whose rifle has both a headshot mechanic, and a distance bonus mechanic. Go for the LONG SHOTS and BIG HEADSHOT COMBOS. Past 20 or 30 headshots, long distance shots will explode for noticeable AOE damage.

  • HONCHO: A gunslinger who can dual wield ranged weapons, for double the carnage. He also has a +2 bonus to max shooting, and a no-drop dagger, for when you invariably run out of ammo completely.

  • POOL CHAMP: A pool player. The bar sport. He has a pool cue that is UNBREAKABLE, which isn't that impressive as it was in my head now that I've typed it. You can also TIPPER HIT zombies at the very edge of your melee distance, for a bonus.

• A new TEST NEW STUFF option at the start of each game, that will give you easy access to all of the above.

• FOR MODDERS

  • Trying out a new way to organize update files, so that they're more self-contained again. This should cause less problems for mods in the future.

Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

Go to Properties

Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

When this update is out, we'll also have a big announcement to share. Additionally, after this PANCREAS update, we have a possible plan to get more frequent updates out that we're going to try.

Current List of Changes:

• WE'RE BACK AGAIN

• Special Gimmick Weapons Trader, who can sell 3 different weapons with unique mechanics, all involving RELOADS:

  • DUCK HUNTER: A shotgun with short range, but shooting zombies has shrapnel ricochet everywhere. Additionally, reloads a shell at a time, and fires them faster as long as you don't run out completely.

  • DOLT BIG IRON: A pistol that fires six shots, extremely fast if you hold ATTACK down. It then takes awhile to reload. You also fire much slower if you do careful attacks, so make sure to GO NUTS.

  • FLIP RIFLE: A strong rifle that fires MUCH FASTER if you fire it immediately after it reloads. Use the firing indicator over your head to help you figure out the timing.

• 3 New Special Recruits that you can find in trader camps. They all cost 15 food:

  • VAN SMELT: A big game hunter whose rifle has both a headshot mechanic, and a distance bonus mechanic. Go for the LONG SHOTS and BIG HEADSHOT COMBOS. Past 20 or 30 headshots, long distance shots will explode for noticeable AOE damage.

  • HONCHO: A gunslinger who can dual wield ranged weapons, for double the carnage. He also has a +2 bonus to max shooting, and a no-drop dagger, for when you invariably run out of ammo completely.

  • POOL CHAMP: A pool player. The bar sport. He has a pool cue that is UNBREAKABLE, which isn't that impressive as it was in my head now that I've typed it. You can also TIPPER HIT zombies at the very edge of your melee distance, for a bonus.

• A new TEST NEW STUFF option at the start of each game, that will give you easy access to all of the above.

• FOR MODDERS

  • Trying out a new way to organize update files, so that they're more self-contained again. This should cause less problems for mods in the future.

Current List of Changes:

• The max limit for both Perks and Traits have been increased to 64, up from 32
• OPP's Familiar Lounge renamed to Character Lounge
• Fix for an edge case where you didn't get extra supplies for some characters in OPP and the Jerks modes
• Back to the Wall no longer enforces a boring personality
• Ex-Wrestler AI can now pick up zombies 4 real 4 real (5 real)
• A fix for Brck pokemon