Death Road to Canada has been on sale for 25% off in the Winter Sale! Tell your friendz. This is near the maximum discount for this game. We won't do super-deep discounts for Death Road, since we plan on updating it for a long time and we don't want to go much lower than the price it was on Kickstarter.
Pictured: Adding the most overpowered weapon yet, the Pink Purse. ---------------------------------------- It's the last day of December, so the Aorta update won't make it for this month. Things have been slow partly because of bugfixes and testing for all the new systems we've been putting in. The other part is that I always forget just how much the holidays slows things down for a tiny team. However, we're still way ahead on our plans to do an update every 2-4 months. There's not much we still need to do/test for this update: - Final Steam implementation of all the achievements we put in the game. - Various new weapons going in! Mostly lower to mid tier stuff, this time. We are adding one more big end-game rare weapon, sold by a rare trader. - Some new content and recruitables. One or two new road events, one more rare camp recruit, another rare city find character. And then one more cat encounter, not quite sure where it's going to show up but it will be the last remaining non-evil cat on earth. That's it! Then we can get this update out after testing the above. I may also try to sneak in the very beginnings of better mod support, and/or trading cards. Though, both of those may be delayed to the quick update after this one. After AORTA is out, we're planning on doing a smaller (but still major) update that will come out at the same time as the iOS version. This will be in the first quarter of 2017, the sooner the better. It will be much more focused than previous updates. Planned things: - New progression system! You'll earn Trait Points when playing the game that you use to unlock or level up your traits and perks. This will replace the old system where you just kind of get stuff for training your skills. - Lots of new traits and perks to get. - Things we may have missed above from the AORTA update - Some extra surprises We're going to try to have a more sane update schedule, focusing on less things at once. Since Death Road was out we've done a massive amount of updates for it. Also, we need to start naming each major update because we're still on SPLEEN even though we've added major new systems a dozen times over. After the above update, we're going to work on another big update. This should take 3 or 4 months, though we'll have things on Testing Branch along the way. Quick summary of our plans: - Big focus on new content. Road events, recruit-able characters, and some new locations. - Splitscreen support. Possibly 4-player support, but need to test this. - We're going to see if we can change how the spritesheets work, since this would fix the white boxes bug some people are having. This would also pave the way for mods that add sprites without changing the base spritesheets. - More mod support! Possibly Steam Workshop, but if not then we'll shoot for the update after. Those are the big things, but we'll also aim for adding a lot of little things. Mostly adding to existing systems, rather than all-new systems. One example is that I'd really like to add more things that people say on the road. That's it for this announcement! Reply below with your thoughts and suggestions. As always, follow me on Twitter if you'd like more frequent news: http://www.twitter.com/rocketcatgames/