Curious Expedition 2 News

Welcome to all the new players who've joined us since the free DLC launched last week! We hope you're enjoying the game — we've already published a couple of updates over the weekend for some of the bigger issues, and today we've released another patch.

Thanks to everyone who's been sending us bug reports! If you find a bug, please report it in-game using the button in the Options menu. That way, we get your savedata, logfiles and other useful information that helps us solve the problem faster.

If you haven't done it already, please remember to leave a review for the game on Steam, it really helps other people discover it!

Here's the changelog for the latest patches:

[h2]1.1.3[/h2]
[h3]Changes[/h3]

• A trek member now always gets only 1 Loyalty for being promoted
  
• Increased the price of the items for "Unpredictable Conditions" from 15 to 25
  
• Reduced the Sanity cost of Glowing Maggots to 5
  
• The Jellyfish's "Gatherer" perk now kicks in more frequently
  
• Items from the Jellyfish's ability will now be given at the end of the trip instead of during it (which could cause you to be overburdened during a trip)
  
• When all dice and rerolls are used in combat, an "End Round" button appears instead of "Choose a Dice" prompt
  
• Items that are part of the Unpredictable Conditions Director Mode Modifier can no longer be dropped or traded
  
• Malin can no longer be sent into the Cenote location
  
• Club Inspector will no longer ask to stay at a village
  
• Lemonade can no longer ever be on sale
  
• Animal Scent can now be used to add a dice when attempting to tame roaming wildlife
  
• You can now skip the tutorial as long as you've started it once (you don't need to finish it)
  
• Reroll Retaliation glossary entry now mentions that Stunned characters won't retaliate

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed Fog Infected status not being curable at Avalon
  
• Fixed not being able to loot a Shrine Altar Room sometimes
  
• Fixed abandoning game during first expedition allowing you to continue playing after Hall of Fame
  
• Fixed Egg of Corruption not being properly exchanged for Fame during Triumph
  
• Fixed Egg of Corruption being able to remove objective-relevant locations
  
• Fixed Shrine aftermaths sometimes blocking off the only path to the objective
  
• Fixed being able to open Manage Trek while travelling
  
• Fixed objectives not being properly setup when using Restart Expedition Death Consequence and restarting the same expedition
  
• Fixed data from Club Competitions that have ended being used
  
• Fixed some levels of corrupted equipment not having the new corrupted effect
  
• Fixed Corrupted equipment being able to apply the Fog Infected status to invalid characters
  
• Fixed the extra teeth that the Taxonomist gets after combat not being given at the correct time
  
• Fixed being able to give a Native Trinket to a character without loyalty
  
• Fixed characters without loyalty being able to be Mercurial
  
• Fixed standing not being revealed when appropriate in some rest events
  
• Fixed characters sometimes floating in the tavern after recruiting the Mercenary
  
• Fixed standing-related achievements not being possible to get in Director Mode
  
• Fixed inventory & back button sometimes being hidden in Manage Trek screen
  
• Fixed missing mousewheel icon in map zoom tutorial
  
• Fixed making an offering at a Stone Statue while being Followed not having the correct effect
  
• Fixed combat item cooldowns not being properly decremented when getting a Free Round in combat
  
• Fixed wrong or no item infobox being shown when cooking meat sometimes
  
• Fixed Annie Oakley's perk causing non-hostile zones to be bigger (eg butterflies)
  
• Fixed bad cropping of character portraits in Leader Selection screen
  
• Fixed not always getting treasure when completing the "The Guardian and the Treasure" expedition

[h2]1.1.2[/h2]

• Fixed game not starting sometimes after posting a score to the Hall of Fame

[h2]1.1.1[/h2]

• Fixed not being able to finish expeditions when the Club Inspector is not in the party sometimes
  
• Fixed characters losing their perk levels when becoming Pale Masks

Dear Explorers,

We just launched The New Director free DLC for Curious Expedition 2! It's a free update, so it will be available to you immediately if you already own the game or if you just bought it.

This update features a new game mode (Director Mode) and plenty of new content. For those who like to discover things on their own, we suggest to stop reading here and just go play the game, you will eventually encounter some of the newest additions regardless of if you're playing the Campaign Mode or the Director Mode. For those who'd like a bit more information and are not afraid of spoilers, keep reading...



[h2]New game mode: Director Mode[/h2]

Since releasing version 1.0 earlier this year, many of you have asked for an alternative game mode, less focused on the story compared to the existing Campaign Mode, and providing more replayability. We've listened to your feedback, and that's where the Director Mode comes in.

Narratively this mode takes place after the original campaign, starting in 1890. You take over as the Director of the Exposition as you explore islands containing greater dangers than you've ever faced before. For each year you complete, you have to add a new negative modifier to your trek. The end goal is to collect all the different Director Modifiers, and then complete one final year with them. It's not going to be easy!

We also introduced a new Hall of Fame screen where you'll be able to keep track of all your runs in both game modes.



[h2]New Biome: Corrupted Portal Worlds[/h2]

This is a chaotic and unfriendly place, but one that offers new opportunities for those who know what they are looking for. It's a mysterious landscape heavily influenced by the purple fog, and dominated by features that aren't quite right. It definitely stands apart for most things that you've seen in Curious Expedition 2 so far. It's only accessible through portals that will appear throughout the game, so keep your eyes open for those.

This biome features a brand new location (the Mirror Circle) and corrupted versions of existing locations, new items, new events, new enemies and new creatures, such as the Jellyfish (which can be tamed to join your trek) and a massive monstrous creature known as The Duke.

We don't want to reveal everything about this biome, if you want to know in detail what has been added check out the change notes (linked at the bottom of this post), otherwise just go play and enter those portals!



[h2]New Tribe: Pale Masks[/h2]

Who are these people? Can you trust them?

The Pale Masks are creepy occupiers who are related to the fog, spending their lives travelling through the corrupted biome. They are itinerant until they decide to settle down on an island, displacing the islanders who lived there before. They wear masks with wide smiles at all times. Exposure to the fog has left them fog-infected, with purple veins sometimes visible under their skin. Who knows what they look like behind their masks?



[h2]Additional content[/h2]

• New enemy: Tyrannosaurus Rex
  
• New recruitable character: Stygimoloch
  
• New recruitable character (temporary, will join you for one expedition only): Zouave Veteran
  
• New item: a cute truffle hog named “Joobee” (thanks to everyone who sent a naming suggestion!)
  
• Various other new items
  

[h2]And there's more![/h2]

• We've added a Hall of Fame where you'll be able to see information about your past expeditions in both Campaign Mode and Director Mode. It's accessible from the main menu and the Tavern.
  
• Last but not least, we made some changes to the way weekly Club Competitions work, let us know your thoughts!
  

We hope you'll enjoy this update and rest assured, we're not done yet! There will be more content updates coming in the upcoming months...

If you'd like to support us please tell your friends about the game, ask your favourite streamers to play it and if you encounter any issues, you can submit them using the Bug! button in Options screen.

You can find the change notes on our wiki.

Adventure awaits!

Dear Explorers,

We're excited to inform you that the first Curious Expedition 2 post-launch content update is coming on Friday, May 21st, and it's going to be a real big one! We don't want to reveal everything right now, but here's some of the things you can expect to find:

• A new game mode where you'll embark on a chain of expeditions in order to achieve as much fame as possible, bringing back some of the roguelike elements of the first Curious Expedition.
  
• A new biome, chaotic and unfriendly, offering new opportunities for those who know what they're looking for.
  
• A new masked tribe, related to the fog.
  
• Lots of new events, locations, enemies, recruitable characters and items to discover.
  

This will be a free update for all owners of the game.

Adventure awaits!

As you've probably heard, since the 1.0 release we've been busy working on new content and on a new game mode for Curious Expedition 2. We've been doing some playtesting already and are now looking for more players to join and give us their feedback.

In order to participate you need to own the game already, but besides that we don't have other requirements. It's not necessary to have completed the campaign.

If you're interested and would like to help please join our Discord server and follow the instructions in the #announcements channel. The playtesting phase is now over, thanks to everyone who participated!

We need your help! We're currently busy working on new content for Curious Expedition 2, such as the truffle hog you see pictured above, which is going find different items by digging around the map. But we have a problem: we don't know what to name it!

Please share your name ideas by commenting on this post or on our Discord server in the #namethishog channel — if your suggestion is picked we'll add you to the special thanks in the game and send you some merchandise (plus Steam keys of both games if you don't have them already).

Oh, one more thing: Curious Expedition 2 is currently 15% off!


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1040230/Curious_Expedition_2/