We have a lot of Death Road news to cover. There's a major update, the iOS launch, and even more things like TRADING CARDS coming in about a week. The iOS version is finally out! Now you can loot toilets while on the toilet. Get it here for its low launch price: Death Road to Canada on the App Store [url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/death-road-to-canada/id1128464707?ls=1&mt=8]
To coincide with the iOS launch, here's the BRAINSTEM update! We decided to move the perk/trait revamp to the next update, and instead brought some more content to this one. We also implemented a long requested feature: Being able to sell spare weapons to a trader. See all the update notes on this at the end of this post.

COMING UP IN ABOUT A WEEK

1) Trading Cards, Badges, and Death Road Emoticons are on their way! Above is a preview of the badges. You have to craft anime girls, and then the ultimate anime girl is the Horse Mann (this is canon, official lore). 2) A little after that, maybe a week and a half from this post, I'm going to do another big news post about update plans. We shuffled some things around. Short summary: More content, sooner. Splitscreen co-op and Perks/Traits are the main focus of the next update. 3) We're working on a fix for an annoying (though thankfully rare) VC Redist problem. We hope to get that out ASAP. Keep an eye out for news on this. I'll edit this post when each of the above things are out! Stay tuned.

BRAINSTEM UPDATE CHANGES

New weapons! More trader types! A new special recruit that constantly spams his or her Custom Limited Edition Sports Air Horn! The big feature of this update is the new Weapon Buyer. A way to sell extra weapons has been requested for awhile. I didn't want to do it at first, as I intentionally avoided a selling mechanic for launch. This usually doesn't do much but introduce tedium, where you loot vacuum everything up to sell later. For Death Road, the Weapon Buyer doesn't just buy anything. So no picking up 100 bones and selling them for a fraction of a can of food. This should prevent the "loot-chore" problem, while giving you more choices. Weapon Buyer Details - Weapon Buyer buys weapons she considers valuable. She's picky! - Minimum melee weapons: Roughly nightstick/sledgehammer/fire axe. - Minimum firearms: Roughly Dolt 45/cowboy rifle/shotgun. No pistols. - Gives about 20-25% market food value for your weapons, as a rule. - Buyer looks at the inventory of whoever you're using to talk to her. - Weapon Buyer shows up as often as the Gas Buyer does, but in different camps for the most part. - Weapon Buyer shows up in the Final Trading Camp, always. - Buying from the weapon buyer will update your food count so it counts as being in the trunk, letting you use the new food on other merchants. - If you have no weapons she's interested in, she'll give a hint as to whether another character has something she wants, or if there's something in the trunk. New Characters - Common Trader: Polearm Pal. Sells Bardiche (25 food), Modern Spear (9 food), Stick Boot (6), Pitchfork (3) - Rare Trader: Skeleton Knight. Sells Skull Hammer (25 food), Gladius (15), 5 Bomb Skulls (5 food). - Rare Recruit: Ultimate Sports Fan. - Skeleton Knight can also be recruited, technically. New Weapons - Modern Spear: Designed as a great single-target weapon for lower fitness/strength characters. Lighter than a baseball bat, while doing 50% more damage. Has the special half-fatigue trait, so it takes half the energy it should to stab things with it. - Bardiche: A mix of Medieval Axe and Claymore. It's a cheaper endgame weapon, with the downside of it being really heavy. - Stick Boot: The ultimate weapon????! No refunds. - Poolcue Spear: A rare spear sometimes found near pool cues. Like a Modern Spear, but with a much higher chance to stab an extra target. Can break, but is as sturdy as a Cleaver. - Sports Horn. More airhorn blasting than ever before, even the AI can use it. If wielding by the Ultimate Sports Fan, this will recharge at the start of each location. - #1 Foam Hand: We're #1! The USF's secondary weapon. - Skull Hammer: Like the Mega Maul, but better. - Gladius: Similar to the Sturdy Machete, with higher cleave and damage and a little less weight. - Bomb Skull: Beware the bomb skulls. Misc Changes - Shovel no longer breaks. - Shotgun Peddler's shotgun price reduced from 10 -> 7 - Pubert and Puberto added to the name lists for male characters. - Some new trader camp NPC sayings. - Goat attack is now half-fatigue, instead of 0.1 fatigue (!) - Fixed a NOT NOT typo in AI logic that was messing up their former ability to switch to guns when fatigued - Cheevo popup for skills should now show the skill icon - Special case for taking a car detour with a car that takes no gas - "chosen character" stat changes will also check for new stat cheevos - farmer event mechanic check now should no longer get messed up by the charm check - Special case for taking a car detour with a car that takes no gas - Rambeaux now likes his knife more - Fix for the mechanic cool-it event actually giving mechanic skill, rather than medical. - CHOOSE YOUR PALS WISELY tutorial guy is no longer seen by zombies until you talk to the person, like all other rescue recruits now. - No more zombie spawning from the starting door in the tutorial (unless you wait for hours). - Tweaks for iOS/touchscreen controls. - Grammar/typo fixes. - Various other bugfixes. Let us know what you think in the comments, below. We're very open to feedback. Also, it's a huge help to us if you leave ratings for this or the iOS version!