Curious Expedition 2 News

Dear Explorers,

We just released Dark Caves, a small surprise content update themed around caves! The game is currently 25% off to celebrate.

Here's what you can expect:



5 new events for the Cave location, to increase unpredictability and encourage exploration. You will encounter bats, fireflies, hermits and of course treasures, so make sure to always carry some torches with you and enter any cave you find!




New enemy: Infested Moles. These are moles that got infested by mushrooms, which they use to mind control you in combat. They look pretty disgusting.




New item: Pneumatic Pickaxe. Can be used on the map to destroy mountains, or during combat.




Finally, we just launched a new weekly Club Competition, and the reward is... a Mole hat!

We plan to release a couple more small content updates during the summer, and a few bigger ones afterwards, so stay tuned, the adventure is not over yet — there's still lots to come.

One last thing: thanks to everyone who played the New Director free DLC, the feedback has been overwhelming, we couldn't be happier about it!

As always, if you'd like to support us please make sure to leave a review (no matter how short), 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.

A few changes today to fix some of the various ways you could get into a sticky situation sometimes.

[h2]1.1.7[/h2]

• Reworked Acrophobia
  - Will only instill loyalty loss when entering a elevated region initially instead of every day while being on it
  - Does now trigger always trigger when entering the elevated region instead of only 33% of times (which was confusing)
  
• You can no longer be surprise-attacked when returning to the map after some days have passed during an event
  
• The items for Unpredictable Conditions are no longer sellable (so they won't clutter the barter screen). They will also no longer ever have their price reduced in the ship shop before expeditions.
  
• Keys for the Sealed Pyramid can no longer be dropped. This prevents a number of ways in which it was possible to lose keys that were required to complete the expedition
  
• Recently recruited characters don't lose loyalty when you dismiss another character
  
• Improved performance on the map, in particular when revealing tiles
  
• Improved status clean-up after finishing a island
  
• Added new elephant attack animation
  
• Fixed treasure maps sometimes showing the wrong tile for treasure (again, hopefully)
  
• Fixed Scroll of Renewal being able to put you in an unreachable map situation
  
• Fixed a black screen when returning to the map sometimes
  
• Fixed missing text bugs in various events
  
• Fixed issue where the wrong tile was chosen in prehistoric for portals
  
• Fixed character being invisible when mounted in combat sometimes
  
• Fixed Japanese translation for "Mysterious Fog"
  
• Fixed some tiles in Cavern map being shown as having been discovered when they hadn't

Today's patch should hopefully finally get the last issue with the Missing Explorer. Turns out sometimes the treasure was in the correct place, but the map itself was wrong! Sorry about that! Please report any more issues you find with that one.

[h2]1.1.6[/h2]

• Rebalanced the Jellyfish's combat combos
  The Jellyfish's emphasis on Burning means that it had a way higher potential damage output than we intended, especially when using multiple of them. We reduced the impact of boosting on its burn effects, but gave "Massive Electroshock" a chance to stun instead. That way it should remain a strong attack option, but without the same potential for stacking to unintended heights.
  
• Added new travel effects to the Corrupted biome
  
• Made some Wandering Islander events that only give standing not happen when you are already at 10 standing
  
• Fixed volcanos sometimes having traversable tiles within them
  
• Fixed treasure maps sometimes showing the wrong tile for the treasure
  
• Fixed the infobox for dice that come from character Perks not showing any details about where it came from in Event challenges
  
• Fixed some sorting issues in some events
  
• Fixed issue where the UI wouldn't appear when going back and forth between expedition and club selection screens
  
• Improved loading times on some larger maps

Another patch today, including a fix for the issue where the Lost Explorer's treasure map would be offshore. Doesn't he know you can't swim???

[h2]1.1.5[/h2]

• The Duke will no longer buy back items he creates for you
  
• Can now use a Health Potion to help your Rival in Act 4
  
• Fixed the Missing Explorer's Treasure Map sometimes spawning offshore
  
• Fixed the Orb of Corruption removing the Prismatic Falls location
  
• Fixed not being able to send a bug report sometimes
  
• Fixed events not properly starting on the map sometimes, leading to a situation where you can't do anything
  
• Fixed Dinosaur Recruitment not always giving you the dinosaur you chose
  
• Fixed Escort ruler to Paris quest not counting towards anthropology checklist

A small update to brighten up your weekend!

[h3]1.1.4[/h3]

• Added a unique travel icon for the Fish Lantern
  
• Added a unique effect to Egg of Corruption usage on map
  
• Improved Chinese translation of the Wandering Duke and Rampaging Duke on the map
  
• Stability improvements for Club Competitions
  
• Reduced memory usage on large maps
  
• Characters can no longer leave the party due to Anger in the tutorial
  
• Fixed losing standing with Polyglot when resting at 10 standing
  
• Fixed only path to ship or objective being blocked by falling lava in some situations
  
• Fixed invalid "party full" message after combat sometimes
  
• Fixed the item vibration being incorrect when scrolling in the Duke's gifting interface
  
• Fixed lost explorer map sometimes not digging treasure
  
• Fixed sounds being playing multiple times at the same time when leaving locations sometimes