This build has the very fancy Hero Type trait and Shield of Hope perk. Both hijack the health loss/death systems in different ways. There's also some fixes and balance tweaks. Finishing Traits tomorrow, then moving on to the next part of the unlock system. ːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannː IMPORTANT NOTE: The testing branch and retail version of the game now use different save files! This is for easy swapping back and forth between the versions without errors, and also for testing purposes. HOW TO INSTALL: Right click Death Road to Canada on Steam. Go to Properties. Go to Betas. Select Testbranch, no password necessary. ːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannː Changes: New Perks - T*S*T*C: Gives you max strength. Then lets you train strength 6 times over the normal maximum. In return, nukes your fitness and doesn't let you train it. Leveling the perk to max lets you start with 2 fitness, which you still can't increase. - Shield of Hope: You can't die as long as you have over :( morale. Fatal hits will take morale, instead. This includes both text events and zombie bites in the locations. - Higher levels take less morale per hit, and it goes from 4 to 2. - Doesn't work on text events that instant-kill you! Also, multiple damage requires a lot of morale to deal with safely. - Temporarily made Shield of Hope the first thing the Debutante sells, for easier testing. New Trait - Hero Type: Just one time per game, you will prevent a teammate's death, automatically. Only applies to text events. At the same time, you'll heal them to up to 2 health. - Works on stuff it probably shouldn't work on, like instant kills. - Also provides maximum loyalty. - Trademark Weapon: Sledgehammer Tweaks of Recent Changes - Top Seller now prevents morale loss if you're paying food to bandits. - You now unlock the first +5 to Zombo Points Cap Increase by beating any of the normal modes, not Deadlier. - You now unlock the second +5 ZP Cap Increase by beating Deadlier. - Beating KEPA no longer unlocks anything for now, but it will do something in the future. - The old-stats converter will now check your save to see if you beat the above modes when the game updates, and will raise your ZP cap automatically. - BERSERK! Trademark Weapon changed to Parking Meter. - Warrior Trademark Weapon changed to Fire Axe. - Trait/Perk sellers now get a ? over their heads if they run out of stuff to sell. Balance - One of the random trading camp days removed, so that will be less common - Surprise Trading Camp day is now a floating day, so more random - One less familiar-recruit event in the rotation - Random day type rotation is 10 days instead of 11 now Fixes - Fixed a long standing stack problem with .sting2- - Fixed some dup issues with .sting - Fixed a couple camp events where a dead group could try to eat, causing empty text. - Lots of small under the hood changes to how damage and death work. ːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannːːhorsemannː NOTES Need a lot of testing of all the old text events, with and without Shield of Hope and Hero Type. Also, could use opinions on T*S*T*C. Too strong? Too weak? Both?