4 Player Testing on HUMERUS Testing Branch
The Testing Branch now supports 4 player mode! We're currently working on more multiplayer improvements. This has taken up most of the update due to the work involved, though we also have some content coming to the testing branch soon. Likely still doing a new location, and at least a couple new special trading camps.
EDIT: Let me know if the game doesn't run with this testing branch, and take screenshots. Tracking down a bug with this.
Let us know all the feedback you have, for both 4 player and the new gameplay modes.
INSTRUCTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTE: The testing branch and the retail version use different save files! Testing Branch saves also get cleared out on occasion, usually with new updates.
HOW TO INSTALL: Right click Death Road to Canada on Steam. Go to Properties. Go to Betas. Select Testbranch, no password necessary.
CHANGES FROM THE 8/20 AND 8/21 BUILDS
- The game now supports 4 players at a time.
- Camera support for 4 players
- Joystick can now be unassigned from Player 1 and assigned to Player 2 instead.
- The ability to press escape to quit a menu added to more menus, for now mostly the supply and weapon traders.
- Menus that let you press escape to leave now have a special icon for the EXIT option: a backwards arrow
- Fixed a bug with OPP mode that occured if you started solo.
- Removed nodeathdrop from Rambeaux
- Changed .trademarkwep word to be more efficient
- Changed effect of camp2-zwatch for Sound Sleepers that have no loyalty
- Text adjustments in camp2-bwatch and camp3-trap for Sound Sleepers
- Weegee event now gives a different effect for the fire result if Fireproof
CHANGES FROM BEFORE 8/20
- 3 new gameplay modes added! All don't require any unlocking for now, and are labelled as BETA TEST instead of having a win counter.
- Endless Mode in. Let me know how far you get!
- Over Powered Party Mode added. This lets you start in a special map that lets you recruit any rare character in the game.
- Quick Death Mode added. It's Short Trip to Heck, but with the difficulty tripled.
- Branchname changed to HUMERUS
- Endless Mode difficulty scaling made slower, previous faster rate was for testing. The difficulty gain stays near the same for the first 50 days, and then slows down to roughly half. Let me know what you think of the new difficulty!
- Irritating Trademark Weapon is now a recharging Air Horn
- IRRITATION HORN has 20 charges for maximum cooling it
- OPP Mode now only lets you recruit 4 people
- OPP town no longer lets you back out at last moment if group is full
- Genie and Mechamountie now warn you that they're buggy
- G*rf, Gordon, Fairy Queen, Panda, George added to OPP town
- Mecha Mountie named properly in OPP
- News check disabled (unless we have something new to announce for August)
- Changed all the nodrops to the correct "1" instead of a weapon name. The old method still worked but was completely unnecessary.
- The 3 new modes put into Car Stats
- Endless Mode displays days in, instead of days left
- Temporary ending stubs for the new modes
- Revamped recruit system on recruit-yes and recruit-replace, now most will give "pick more" with a full group and let you cancel the recruit.
- Exceptions to above: Familiar Face recruiting, which uses a different system that would have problems with this. Recruiting dogs by feeding them and recruiting rare camp recruits, which have food costs, so the game forces you as to not waste the food.
- Jerk recruiting uses the new system, but it probably shouldn't? Not sure.
- Changed two recruit1 events to no longer use the old "3 choices or leave behind system", as the new system makes this even more obsolete.
- Buffed Ninja-countdown from 4-5 to 6-8
- Added a new-familiar-recruit word for forcing a familiar spawn
EDIT: Let me know if the game doesn't run with this testing branch, and take screenshots. Tracking down a bug with this.
Let us know all the feedback you have, for both 4 player and the new gameplay modes.
INSTRUCTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTE: The testing branch and the retail version use different save files! Testing Branch saves also get cleared out on occasion, usually with new updates.
HOW TO INSTALL: Right click Death Road to Canada on Steam. Go to Properties. Go to Betas. Select Testbranch, no password necessary.
LIST OF CHANGES
CHANGES FROM THE 8/20 AND 8/21 BUILDS
- The game now supports 4 players at a time.
- Camera support for 4 players
- Joystick can now be unassigned from Player 1 and assigned to Player 2 instead.
- The ability to press escape to quit a menu added to more menus, for now mostly the supply and weapon traders.
- Menus that let you press escape to leave now have a special icon for the EXIT option: a backwards arrow
- Fixed a bug with OPP mode that occured if you started solo.
- Removed nodeathdrop from Rambeaux
- Changed .trademarkwep word to be more efficient
- Changed effect of camp2-zwatch for Sound Sleepers that have no loyalty
- Text adjustments in camp2-bwatch and camp3-trap for Sound Sleepers
- Weegee event now gives a different effect for the fire result if Fireproof
CHANGES FROM BEFORE 8/20
- 3 new gameplay modes added! All don't require any unlocking for now, and are labelled as BETA TEST instead of having a win counter.
- Endless Mode in. Let me know how far you get!
- Over Powered Party Mode added. This lets you start in a special map that lets you recruit any rare character in the game.
- Quick Death Mode added. It's Short Trip to Heck, but with the difficulty tripled.
- Branchname changed to HUMERUS
- Endless Mode difficulty scaling made slower, previous faster rate was for testing. The difficulty gain stays near the same for the first 50 days, and then slows down to roughly half. Let me know what you think of the new difficulty!
- Irritating Trademark Weapon is now a recharging Air Horn
- IRRITATION HORN has 20 charges for maximum cooling it
- OPP Mode now only lets you recruit 4 people
- OPP town no longer lets you back out at last moment if group is full
- Genie and Mechamountie now warn you that they're buggy
- G*rf, Gordon, Fairy Queen, Panda, George added to OPP town
- Mecha Mountie named properly in OPP
- News check disabled (unless we have something new to announce for August)
- Changed all the nodrops to the correct "1" instead of a weapon name. The old method still worked but was completely unnecessary.
- The 3 new modes put into Car Stats
- Endless Mode displays days in, instead of days left
- Temporary ending stubs for the new modes
- Revamped recruit system on recruit-yes and recruit-replace, now most will give "pick more" with a full group and let you cancel the recruit.
- Exceptions to above: Familiar Face recruiting, which uses a different system that would have problems with this. Recruiting dogs by feeding them and recruiting rare camp recruits, which have food costs, so the game forces you as to not waste the food.
- Jerk recruiting uses the new system, but it probably shouldn't? Not sure.
- Changed two recruit1 events to no longer use the old "3 choices or leave behind system", as the new system makes this even more obsolete.
- Buffed Ninja-countdown from 4-5 to 6-8
- Added a new-familiar-recruit word for forcing a familiar spawn
