Hey everyone, We just pushed a minor updated. We fixed a few things in order to make the game run smoother on the soon to be released Valve Steam Deck. We are pretty excited about the Steam Deck and Pathway plays great on the device. With this update we wanted to make sure that when you get your hands on your Deck, Pathway will just run.
Changelog for 1.4.1

• A few improvements and fixes for Steam Deck compatibility

Hey Adventurers!

Happy 2022! steamhappy

• Added steam workshop support for community translations
• Fixed an OpenGL crash bug that occurred randomly when loading maps
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to unequip items from locked characters
• Fixed a handful of spelling errors
• Updated the visuals of medic enemy units slightly

This latest update is a small patch for the MacOS version to properly launch on OS X 10.10 to 10.13 again.

Hey everyone, This is a very minor bug fix update especially for users of older OSX versions. If your game did not run on OSX please give this build a spin: Change list for 1.3.3

• Fixed an issue that prevented the game to start on older OSX versions.
• Fixed some minor visuals issues.
• Updated some missing translations.

Hey everyone, Its bug fixin time again! First of all, huge thanks to all the players who left nice comments after our latest release, and an even bigger thanks to everyone who spotted and reported bugs that slipped our released patches - youre the unsung heroes making the game better for everybody! Thanks to your reports we manage to catch the bugs and eliminate them: Change list for 1.3.2

• Fixed several issues with the UI that caused tooltips for the mouse to show up incorrectly
• Fixed several cases where you could soft lock the game when playing with the controller
• Removed an exploit where you could steal locked characters equipment
• Fixed an exceedingly rare bug that caused the player to become stuck in between map changes, creating a none working save game
• Fixed some memory leaks that after very long stints of gameplay could cause the game to crash
• General quality of life fixes!

We missed some situations where you could lock up the game while in combat and a crash in the final release of the controller version. This new patch should solve these problems. Changelog Version 1.3.1:

• Fixed crash caused by switching Shadow Settings during an active game.
• Fixed a soft lock when using the ESC key to access the menu during combat.

Controller support has now been officially added to Pathway! Last week we announced that Pathway will be coming to Nintendo Switch on May 27th - this huge update gave us the opportunity to work on an all-important and often-requested controller support for Pathway. The update also brings some UI tweaks and range of bug fixes with it. See full changelog below. [h4]How to play Pathway with a controller[/h4]You first have to activate controller mode through the options menu. Navigate to the controls tab and select one of the supported controllers from the controls mode list:
Currently we have (official) support for Playstation, XBox and Switch controllers, but other controllers will probably work as well. After selecting your option click apply at the bottom and you should be good to go! Full Changelog 1.3.0

• Controller Support: The game can now be played fully with a variety of controllers.
• Overhauled load out screen: The load out screen has received an overhaul. Both the character selection and the equipment phase are now combined into one. You can toggle between the jeep storage and the character info.
• A few additional UI tweaks: Some fatter borders around buttons and some additional feedback in some places. A few actions have better target indication now.
• Added some missing translations
• Added some new glyphs to the fonts (Spanish)
• Memory and performance improvements/tweaks
• Fixed loot drops in Adventure 4 final fight
• Fixed Bastet's Amulet missing from Artefact drops
• Fixed some potential map blockers in bunker maps
• Fixed a problem that caused the adventure run time to sometimes be formatted wrongly
• Lots of smaller fixes we're forgetting

We released a minor update for the controller preview branch that mostly fixes a bunch of issues. Switch controllers are now also supported. Changelog Version 1.1.7b15:

• Switch Controller support added
• Fix bug that prevented naming of profiles when not using a controller
• Fix dragging of items in load out
• Fix controller button prompt not always showing in the adventure screen
• Fix inconsistent tooltips when using controllers at merchants and loot screens
• Improved selection UI for some options (replaces drop downs)
• The game can now be exited again from the main menu

We just released a minor update on the preview branch. The controller support has been extended and should work fine now on macOS and Linux. Thank you for the bug reports! Changelog Version 1.1.7b14:

• Fixed some issues with the Linux build
• MacOS build is now also working with controllers
• Added support for more controller types: PlayStation controllers now supported.
• Fix a crash with OpenGL
• Fixed a bug that caused tooltips to not work as intended in some situations

Just a little over two years ago the first version of Pathway came out, and it's been a wild journey since then! We've pushed out over 50 updates since the initial release, and thanks to everyone in our amazing community we now have a game that is far better than what we started out with. Your feedback has been a tremendous help in shaping the game. So thank you everyone for your amazing support throughout the last 2 years! We wanted to take this moment to highlight two community efforts that we think everyone should know about and a little something from us ...

Warpath Mod (by Petru)

Community Italian Translation (by Darth Vader, Metallo, PiuMeglio)

But wait .. there's one more thing

• Controller Support: Finally! This version adds "beta" controller support to Pathway. After launching the game, go to options->controls and change the controls mode to turn on controllers. At the moment only Xbox (compatible) Controllers are fully supported. It may work with other controllers if you remap some of the buttons yourself with a third-party tool. We'll work towards fixing this up before we push it onto the main release branch.
• Overhauled load out screen: The load out screen has received an overhaul. Both the character selection and the equipment phase are now combined into one. You can toggle between the jeep storage and the character info.
• A few additional UI tweaks: Some fatter borders around buttons and some additional feedback in some places. A few actions have better target indication now.
• Added some missing translations
• Added some new glyphs to the fonts (Spanish)
• Some memory and performance improvements/tweaks
• Fixed loot drops in Adventure 4 final fight
• Fixed Bastet's Amulet missing from Artefact drops
• Fixed some potential map blockers in bunker maps
• Lots of smaller fixes we're forgetting

We just released a small update which addresses a few bugs players have encountered. Changelog:

• Fixed user interface not fully rendered when using the "UI scaling" option.
• Fixed wrong position of enemy target indicator arrows when using the "UI scaling" option.
• Fixed crash when the game is run from an installation path containing special characters. (Note: Do NOT install into folders ending with "!", like Y:/ou/have/been/warned!/Pathway.)
• Fixed crash in video options when running the game with exceptional monitor configurations.
• Fixed rare crash when launching the game.
• Fixed missing font glyphs when using certain Windows system language settings.
• Added social buttons to main menu which link to our Twitter account and Discord server.

We just released a small maintenance update to address a bunch of crash bugs players have encountered. Changelog Version 1.1.5:

• Fixed crash caused by switching characters when in Burst Fire mode.
• Fix visual issues when pressing the "Take All" button repeatedly
• Fix crash during AI turn
• Fix crash when using Reaction Shot and standing inside an enemy ambush
• Possible crash fix some users randomly experienced when going into combat

We've just pressed the release button for the Hardcore Mode Update! This is a sizable update that brings an exciting new way to play the game, a bunch of QoL changes and many bug fixes!

Hardcore Mode

• All jeep upgrades and characters are unlocked from the start.
• Failing or successfully finishing will lock the profile.
• Permadeath: When a character dies, they are dead for good.
• Higher base difficulty
• No achievements

• Hardcore Mode added: A fresh take on Pathway! See above blog for full description.
• Extended difficulty: We have extended the max difficulty, which means you may encounter higher difficulty enemies at the pointy end of the game.
• Added Resource tooltip: When hovering over resources on the exploration bar or in the journal you will now have a tooltip which also tells you the resource's max capacity.
• Added action tooltips: When hovering actions in combat you will now also see available ammo/supplies.
• We've improved selling of valuables hinting. There's now a tooltip when hovering the bag and if you leave a merchant without selling it'll prompt whether you intended to leave without selling (similar to leaving loot behind).
• A total of 12 new weapons have been added: Each weapon category (like shotgun, rifles etc.) have received 2 additional variations.
• New Artifact "Bastet's Amulet" added
• New Hardcore Mode achievement added
• "An Ending and a New Beginning" achievement has been changed: There is a new Achievement that rewards you for finishing x adventures. We've also tweaked the numbers on that achievement. Note that this is a conversion of the fail achievement, so if you've previously unlocked the achievement or made progress towards it, it'll carry over.
• Item Type information is now more consistent across tooltips
• Map/Sector count is now once again visible in the Team Journal
• Fix bravery cost in tooltip for Reaction Shot/Parry
• Fix some collision issues
• Fix some smaller UI issues/alignment/scaling.
• Fix bug that allowed sporebearers to be pushed around with Sucker Punch.
• Fixed a bug that caused Psychic Control to trigger evade
• Fixed a bug that caused the Adventure play time to be skewed when using accelerated AI turns.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when exceeding a certain amount of endurance points.

As of today the next version of Pathway is available on the Preview Branch. This build includes the new Hardcore Mode! Before we dig into the new version, we have a favour to ask of you. Pathway's OST has been nominated for best OST over at gamesmusic.net. If you enjoy the soundtrack of the game as much as we do, we'd be excited if you voted for it over here. steamhappy

So what exactly is Pathway's Hardcore mode?

• All jeep upgrades and characters are unlocked from the start.
• Failing or successfully finishing will lock the profile.
• Permadeath: When a character dies, they are dead for good.
• Higher base difficulty
• No achievements

• Hardcore Mode added: A fresh take on Pathway! See above blog post for full description.
• Extended difficulty: We have extended the max difficulty, which means you may encounter higher difficulty enemies at the pointy end of the game.
• Added Resource tooltip: When hovering over resources on the exploration bar or in the journal you will now have a tooltip which also tells you the resource's max capacity.
• Added action tooltips: When hovering actions in combat you will now also see available ammo/supplies.
• We've improved selling of valuables hinting. There's now a tooltip when hovering the bag and if you leave a merchant without selling it'll prompt whether you intended to leave without selling (similar to leaving loot behind).
• New Artifact "Bastet's Amulet" added
• Item Type information is now more consistent across tooltips
• Map/Sector count is now once again visible in the Team Journal
• Fix bravery cost in tooltip for Reaction Shot/Parry
• Fix some collision issues
• Fix some smaller UI issues/alignment/scaling.
• Fix bug that allowed sporebearers to be pushed around with Sucker Punch.
• Fixed a bug that caused Psychic Control to trigger evade
• Fixed a bug that caused the Adventure play time to be skewed when using accelerated AI turns.

It's been an exciting couple of weeks for us and Pathway!

Hardcore Mode

New Weapons/Items

Hey everyone! Simon here, Art Director at Robotality. What a ride the last few months were. We released over a dozen of updates, including one big update called Adventurers Wanted that reworked the core gameplay using your feedback you gave us. We feel honored to have such a nice and supportive community. Thank you! As you have seen now the Steam Autumn Sale is live and as with every year, you can now also vote for the games you love to nominate for a Steam Awards. Lets see if we can get a game with pixel art into the Outstanding Visual Style category together What makes the art style of Pathway so special? The visual art style of Pathway was a pipe dream of mine I had long before we even started working on the game. During the development of our first game, Halfway we had our first experiments going with the ideas to combine classical pixel art with dynamic lights and shadows, but due to time constraints we never followed through. After we finished Halfway we started to look into what to do next, and while we worked on the game design for Pathway, we also picked up the old idea again: Can we actually do proper shadows and dynamic light within a pixel art game that are also as close as possible pixel perfect. No one before us had fully done this so it was an interesting challenge to take up. There are some other games that uses dynamic lighting and normal maps combined with pixel art, but no one did a full dynamic light and shadow setup until now! After a few months of prototyping we actually had a proof of concept for this:
As you can see, it looked more like Halfway and our concept for Pathway was not even close to the finished product we have now. But... we now knew that it could be done! Little did we know back then, that it would take us another 4 years to complete and for Pathway to become the game it is now. Here are some more very old prototype screenshots of the Pathway tech:
Even though the game does not look like it in the end, we are using a very limited color palette for the whole game. All assets are made out of a set of 32 colors for the environment and another 32 colors for the character. Here you can see the rough sketches I did to test my 32 colors for the environment back in early 2016:
Next up is a short behind-the-scenes video of how we create our levels and visuals in our custom editor. To achieve the look, we actually use voxels and 3D meshes to generate the scenes and instead of pixels - you see colorized polygons for each pixel on the screen. https://youtu.be/sHYhSnl7cZo If you think the result is worth an award nomination on Steam feel free to click on the widget above. Thank you again for the support, its been a cool ride together. We are looking forward to sharing more news with you folks soon about what we have in store with Pathway. PS: If you want to have a more detailed look at what we did to achieve the look we have. Let us know in the comments and we will see what we can do.

A smaller maintenance update that includes a handful of bug fixes and some minor improvements to UI!

• Added tooltip for burst fire to indicate it can be rotated
• Added an alternative way to rotate burst fire (Q/E)
• Added weapon type descriptor in the weapon tooltip window for better clarity.
• Added a new pixel zoom-option to the settings.json allowing users to set a custom zoom if the default is causing problems.
• Fixed a bunch of localization errors and typos
• Fixed a rare crash when moving the enemy group size slider all the way down.
• Fixed a rare enemy spawn issues that caused enemies to be spawned inside walls
• Fixed a rare crash that sometimes happened when switching between the Pathway window and other windows.

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We just released a minor maintenance update that fixes and tweaks an handful of things. Full changelog below! Changelog Version 1.1.2:

• Grenade impact can now be evaded.
• Splinter DMG buffs on legendary items now also increase the base DMG.
• Tooltips for actions are now shown even if the action isn't available
• The Artifact "Shield Of Perseus" now has the proper buffs.
• Fixed bug that caused Sporebearers/Cultists to still attack vanished characters
• Fixed a bug that caused multiple stat boosts of same type to not be combined in tooltips.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the Team Journal screen to not refresh after a recruit event

We just released a smaller update on Steam which includes important bugfixes and the addition of a new default option for AI turn speed.

• Default AI Speed Option: We've added the option to set a default for the AI turn speed. Every combat will begin with this default speed. You can always slow/down speed it up for a specific combat and it'll reset again to the default for the next battle.
• Updated JP/CH loca with a few more missing details
• Added bravery cost to the new abilities in the skill tree.
• Tweaked the timing of some tutorial overlays slightly
• Fixed a crash when using Sudden Strike against Zombies
• Fixed some missing collisions in certain combat arenas
• Fixed a bug that caused the skilltree to not hide properly when opening the menu/codex
• Fixed a bunch of typos in loca
• Fixed a bug that caused unexpected behaviour when creating a new profile after switching between profiles in the main menu.
• Fixed a bug that caused hotkeys to not working properly after a profile switch

After months of work, today is the day we're finally releasing the Adventurers Wanted Update!

New Abilities

Reworked Skill Trees

New and reworked events

New Consumables System

New Combat Modes

Game Rebalanced

New Armor system

New Item System

Artifacts

New Languages

We're excited to announce that the 1.1 update to Pathway titled Adventurers Wanted is coming out October 9!

Reworked Skill Trees

New euippable item: Artifacts

More Difficulty Customization Options

We have some exciting things to share with you today. As previously mentioned we are working on a fairly substantial free update to Pathway that will be released later this Summer (Version 1.1). This devlog presents a handful of new things we're adding to the game. We'll reveal more details over the coming weeks.

Japanese/Chinese Localisation

New Combat Skills

More Combat Arenas

Enemy Indicators

Respec Skill Tree, Improved Dog Friendly mode and a new No Bloodshed mode make it into the latest build! It's been a while since our last update, but we've got some goodies going into today's version! As mentioned in our previous devlog, our focus in general has shifted towards a bigger free update that we're releasing at the end of summer. We're making fantastic progress on this and we're putting together a blog post soon (next week) to talk about some of the things we're working on. We're still however adding new things to the game and fixing bugs. Thank you everyone for reporting issues and helping us improve the game! So... what's new in today's build?

Respec Skill Tree

Improved Dog Friendly Mode

New No Bloodshed Mode

• Added option to reset skill tree: It is now possible to reset the skill tree of a character during the setup phase before the adventure begins. There's a cost attached to it and every time you reset a character the cost increases exponentially. We may change/adapt how exactly all this works again in the future.
• No Bloodshed option: When active, the game removes or replaces blood and gore. It changes nothing in terms of gameplay, but simply removes some elements of gore.
• Improved Dog Friendly option: When active, the dog friendly mode now in addition to removing sfx also makes the dogs disappear rather then die. We've also disabled any character prompts that may be seen as hurtful towards dogs.
• Characters can now be leveled-up during the adventure setup phase: You'll now notice a little level-up indicator on characters that haven't had their level up choices picked. You may level them up by accessing the skill tree in the skills tab.
• Fixed a bug that caused the loading screen in the final encounter in Adventure III to hang.
• Improved start-up loading time: Especially on older systems the initial start-up time of the game should be improved now.
• Damage calculation has been slightly tweaked. In most situations this won't be noticeable, but in some circumstances it can lead to a slightly increased damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Damage Preview for punching to be wrong
• Fixed a bunch of UI issues that caused the journal to not get updated. Amongst other issues, it fixes the problem that level-up selections weren't reflected immediately on the stats and skills.
• Fix a bug that allowed the punch to explode barrels at a distance.
• Fix a bug that showed the Damage Preview for enemies out of range sometimes
• Fixed a crash bug that could occur in rare situations after loading from save game
• Ambushes are now also correctly invalidated by Grenade damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash due to the No Bloodshed option in some situations.
• Fixed a bug that caused the XP indicator to still show when characters were at max level.
• Fixed a bug in the skill tree of Donut/Fenris.
• Fixed a bug in LeFantome's skill tree that caused a glitch in some situations
• Fixed a bug that caused infected to die twice when being killed with a bleed and triggering an explosive barrel at the same time.

Preview branch receives Skill Tree respec option and a few words about our future update cycles. Over the last month and a bit we've worked very hard at adding lots of Quality of Life features to Pathway as well as squishing tons of bugs. It made sense for us to release updates on a weekly basis during this time. The things we're working on now however are a bit more fundamental in their nature and take time. As our focus is now shifting more towards the bigger Summer update, we're not continuing the weekly patch updates and instead we will simply release when there is something significant to show. Practically speaking this means less frequent updates but bigger ones when they do come around. We will continue to push updates to the preview branch on a regular basis. We also have something exciting to share today: We just pushed a new build to the Preview Version of Pathway that includes an often requested feature: Respeccing Skill Trees.
Below is a full changelog of what's in the latest preview version. Version 1.0.13p1 (Preview Version): - Added option to reset skill tree: It is now possible to reset the skill tree of a character during the setup phase before the adventure begins. There's a cost attached to it and every time you reset a character the cost increases exponentially. We may change/adapt how exactly all this works again in the future.w - Characters can now be leveled-up during the adventure setup phase: You'll now notice a little level-up indicator on characters that haven't had their level up choices picked. You may level them up by accessing the skill tree in the skills tab. - Fixed a bug in LeFantome's skill tree that caused a glitch in some situations - Fixed a bug that caused infected to die twice when being killed with a bleed and triggering an explosive barrel at the same time.

We just published a smaller update for Pathway. This build mostly addresses bugs and changes the Ambush behaviour slightly. We've also added some additional details to the Knife tooltips! Stay tuned for more soon & thanks for playing! steamhappy Full Changelog Version 1.0.12

• Ambush behaviour is modified slightly. You can now perform any action after setting an ambush except for moving. If you move, your ambush will be canceled. Previously setting an ambush would prevent most successive actions, but not consistently so. The changed behaviour is now more in line with other special abilities and their behaviour.
• Added a warning message when a move cancels an Ambush
• Added bleed duration and damage to the knife tooltip
• Fixed a bug that caused the damage preview to use the wrong knife when two were equipped
• Fixed a bug that caused the level up and KO indicators to stay after a character died or was dismissed
• Fixed a bug that caused an endless loop when an ambush triggered a zombie retaliate
• Fixed a bug that allowed Burst Fire to be used anywhere on the map
• Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed the AI to do a third move.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the Necromancer to not take any actions.
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause faulty event behaviour when loading from save.
• Updated LWJGL version. This may improve video card compatibility, high-DPI handling and scaling on some systems.

Stack Splitting and AI Turn Speed-Up are in! Before diving into the details of today's update, we'd like to mention our plans for the near future. Our weekly updates will continue with QoL features as well as the usual bug fixes. At the same time we're working on some more significant changes that we will release in a bigger update later in the summer. This update will address deeper issues we see with the game as well as bring in a bunch of new content. The Japanese and Chinese translation of the game will also be released as part of that update. We're pretty excited about the things we've got planned and we will start talking about some of the changes soon. steamhappy To clarify: This update will not be a "DLC" but instead a major free update to the base game that will include some new content and improve the existing game in various ways. In the meantime here's what we've added in today's update:

Stack Splitting

AI Turn Speed-Up

• Stack Splitting consumables added (see above)
• AI Turn Speed-Up button added (see above)
• We've changed the way bravery is handled outside of combat. From now on, your bravery is always fully reset after the completion of a battle. This means that you always enter the battle with the same starting point and should help in making successive battle feel less frustrating due to limiting options.
• Fix a bug that caused units to be revived by the Necromancer on the wrong tile.
• Fixes a bug that caused a crash in some instances after loading from save.
• Fixes a bug that sometimes made it impossible to finish Map 2 in Adventure III
• Fixes a bug that would sometimes cause achievement rewards to disappear if claimed during combat
• Fix a bug that caused evades triggered by a Sporebearer to not count towards the evades achievements
• Fixed a bunch of typos
• Fixed some UI issues on the Adventure Stats screen when playing in French
• Fixed a bug when swapping out a KO character at the recruiter that caused the character to stay in a wrong state on successive adventures.
• Fixed a bug that caused character quotes to spill out of the UI in some languages.
• Fixed a whole bunch of battle arena generators that could cause faulty collisions
• Removed a faulty tooltip when hovering enemy portraits that would mistakenly indicate "Press Tab for Move Range".

This week's build brings hitchance previews, reworked events and a whole bunch of other improvements.

Hitchance Preview

Improved Event Distribution

• Added a new hitchance preview when moving (see above)
• First step towards event distribution overhaul (see above)
• We reworked a number of events that previously had "hidden" perk options. These invisible options were automatically activated if a character on the team had the appropriate skill. Unfortunately this also meant that a lot of players missed out on content due them not being identifiable in any way. We've changed this and the options are now explicit as part of a choice the player can make if the appropriate perk is part of the team. Practically speaking, this means that some events have received new perk options!
• We've reworked the structure of some events to be spread out over fewer pages, effectively reducing the amount of clicks needed. Some events had also their texts shortened where it made sense to do so in order to improve the overall flow.
• Added a confirmation question if the player tries to leave the loot screen without touching any of the loot. It'll also ask for confirmation if the player leaves behind an epic or legendary item.
• New savegame backup system: The game will now automatically create backups at relevant points. This is mainly in place so we can recover saves that may get corrupted when using the preview branch or for some other situations where a bug caused an unfair loss.
• Bellamy can now also be unlocked by purchasing a Disintegrator weapon
• Codex has been updated to include recent changes.
• Time elapsed formatting in adventure stats now shows as hh:mm:ss
• Fixed a bug that caused audio settings to not be properly preserved across game sessions.
• Fixed a grammar mistake in one of Veduti's character comments.
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to revisit character rescue missions. They can now be revisited even if you didn't recruit the character right away or decided to not engage in combat previously.
• Fixed some combat arena generators causing enemies to get trapped.
• Fixed a country name on one of he loading screens maps
• Fixed a rare crash that occurred when loading the game after updating to a new version
• Fixed a bunch of wrong gender pronoun uses in event texts
• Fixed a bug that caused the camera to move outside of the map bounds
• Fixed a bug that caused the "The Coming War" achievement to not be attainable
• Fixed a bug that allowed people to purchase fuel beyond the jeep's capacity at the merchant
• Fixed a bug that caused the recruit icon to be invisible when on neighbouring location.
• Fixed a bug that caused some event texts to overlap
• Fixed a bug that would allow you to move items into the valuables bag when recruiting people.
• Fixed a bug that caused Sporebearers to not automatically die when the last enemy was killed with a bleed attack.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the player to open the codex during the enemy's turn even though the button was disabled.

Version 1.0.9 is now live! This update brings the default branch up to date with all the changes we added to the preview branch last week. If you are on the preview branch note that from now on we will post changelogs for what's included there only in the forums and on our Discord server. We will keep these weekly devlogs for changes made to the live branch in order to avoid confusion. If you want to know what's currently cooking on the preview branch head on over here: Preview Branch Changelog If you missed last week's post, here's the full changelog of what's included in this week's update (you can also read more about some of the changes here). Full Changelog for Version 1.0.9:

• Added new improved Damage Information when hovering enemies (see above)
• Perk Branches in events have been reworked and are now in most situations a success. Some instances of uncertainty remain.
• Rebalanced loot drops in first 2 adventures to be more generous.
• Added a "Confirm End Turn" option that when enabled forces the player to confirm the end turn when there are characters with unspent action points.
• Added more helpful tooltips when an achievement can't be claimed.
• Changed the "Watch Collectors" achievement to only require 3 watches to be collected.
• Changed the "An Ending and a New Beginning III" achievement to only require 100 failures.
• We're continuing to work on fixing "out of memory" issues some people have encountered. For people who previously had issues, we'd love to hear if there are improvements in this build.
• Block keyboard scrolling when menu or journal is open during an encounter.
• Fixed some battle arenas where enemies would spawn inside walls
• Fixed some localization issues
• Fixed some events where the wrong gender was used in texts.
• Fixed a bug that allowed people to select multiple choices during level-up. This fix will reset people's skill trees that made use of this.
• Fixed an exploit that allowed people to produce money using the Valuables bag undo function.
• Fixed a bug where in some instances the Valuables bag undo button wouldn't reset properly.
• Fixed some Mineshaft battle arena layouts that made battles unplayable.
• Fixed a bunch of collisions that allowed enemies to walk into walls.
• Fixed some inconsistencies in the attack range display.
• 5+ kills in one shot now also count towards the 4 kills in one achievement.
• Fixed a bug that caused achievements to show up as claimed event though they weren't.
• Fixed an issue that caused lost fuel not to count towards the "Environmental Hazard" achievement.
• Fixed a bug that caused a character to show up at the beginning of Adventure V Sector 2 even though they're already in the player's party.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to trigger a double ambush.
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to continue traveling on foot even though they had received fuel through an achievement.
• Added "--aggressive-gc" command line option. Using this option forces a memory garbage-collection after each event. When used, you'll likely experience a short delay each time the event window closes. While this parameter doesn't fix anything per se, it is supposed to help us narrowing down the out-of-memory crashes and performance issues.
• Disabled use of separate render thread on MacOS. May be related to performance issues some user reported on MacOS 10.14 Mojave.

The first preview build is now available on our "preview" branch and we're moving to our own Discord Server!

New Discord Server

Preview Build

What's new in the Preview Build?

• Added new improved Damage Information when hovering enemies (see above)
• Perk Branches in events have been reworked and are now in most situations a success. Some instances of uncertainty remain.
• Rebalanced loot drops in first 2 adventures to be more generous.
• Added a "Confirm End Turn" option that when enabled forces the player to confirm the end turn when there are characters with unspent action points.
• Added more helpful tooltips when an achievement can't be claimed.
• Changed the "Watch Collectors" achievement to only require 3 watches to be collected.
• Changed the "An Ending and a New Beginning III" achievement to only require 100 failures.
• We're continuing to work on fixing "out of memory" issues some people have encountered. For people who previously had issues, we'd love to hear if there are improvements in this build.
• Block keyboard scrolling when menu or journal is open during an encounter.
• Fixed some battle arenas where enemies would spawn inside walls
• Fixed some localization issues
• Fixed some events where the wrong gender was used in texts.
• Fixed a bug that allowed people to select multiple choices during level-up. This fix will reset people's skill trees that made use of this.
• Fixed an exploit that allowed people to produce money using the Valuables bag undo function.
• Fixed a bug where in some instances the Valuables bag undo button wouldn't reset properly.
• Fixed some Mineshaft battle arena layouts that made battles unplayable.
• Fixed some inconsistencies in the attack range display.
• 5+ kills in one shot now also count towards the 4 kills in one achievement.
• Fixed a bug that caused achievements to show up as claimed event though they weren't.
• Fixed an issue that caused lost fuel not to count towards the the "Environmental Hazard" achievement.
• Fixed a bug that caused a character to show up at the beginning of Adventure V Sector 2 even though he's already in the player's party.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to trigger a double ambush.
• Fixed a bug that caused the player to continue traveling on foot even though they had received fuel through an achievement.
• Added "--aggressive-gc" command line option. Using this option forces a memory garbage-collection after each event. When used, you'll likely experience a short delay each time the event window closes. While this parameter doesn't fix anything per se, it is supposed to help us narrowing down the out-of-memory crashes and performance issues.
• Disabled use of separate render thread on MacOS. May be related to performance issues some user reported on MacOS 10.14 Mojave.

Wow, Pathway has been out for only a little over a week! Up to now we've been in overdrive-mode fixing bugs. Additionally, we've also started introducing a handful of quality of life updates such as the undo button when recycling items as well as improved tooltip comparisons. Updates have been almost daily during this period to make sure critical issues are addressed promptly. With today's post we want to explain what the next few months are going to look like.

New Update Cycle

Improved Damage Information

Rebalanced Loot Distribution

Reworked Perk Branches in Events

Pathway has only been out for a little over 24 hours and we can't express enough how grateful we are to all of you! Thank you so much for taking the time to check out our little game! Of course, we have also noticed the concerns many of you have voiced and we want to address some of the issues raised and hopefully clarify our plans for the future. Most importantly: We hear you and we are listening. We are entirely committed to Pathway and we will continue supporting and tweaking the game to make it the absolute best it can be. Your incredible support makes this possible. Over the next few days we will be focused on getting as many bugs fixed as possible. We've already released two hotfix patches and have just now released another version on Steam addressing more issues (changelog below). We will keep working on smaller quality of life updates as things come up. In the medium term (over the next weeks) we want to look at ways to address some of the more fundamental concerns brought up. Many of you voiced that the game can feel repetitive and that there's not enough variety. Some things like the same event popping up multiple times in the same adventure are simply bugs. Other issues have to do with how the procedural generation works. We believe that with some work on our side we will be able to much better present the variety the game possesses. There is a lot to discover in Pathway, but we can do better at making sure you experience it. Another issue we want to address in the medium term are the tactical battles. We had a very distinct design goal when designing the combat for Pathway: Make them fast-paced and fun. Our aim never has been to make an incredibly deep combat system but instead an approachable and fun battle system to go alongside our event driven exploration. Big picture, we think we succeeded. However, there are definitely some issues we want to fix and areas to improve. The AI needs work, some mechanics are not clearly communicated and we believe we can do more to characterise the uniqueness of the enemy classes. Of course, we are also planning on releasing the Japanese and Chinese versions of the game in the near future. More localisations are currently being looked at but we don't have anything confirmed just yet. Long term we are committed to more content. We have so many ideas on how to expand on Pathway. Northern Africa was a pretty obvious choice for our initial adventures, but there are many more exciting places we want to send our adventurers to. As mentioned above we have also just released a new patch. Below are the fixes and changes included in this update. Version 1.0.4 Changelog: - We added an optional "Confirm Move" toggle in the Game options. When activated, you will have to click again to confirm your move before it is executed. This is to prevent accidental moves. - We added a "Dog friendly" mode. This can be activated in the Game options. At the moment this simply disables the dog hit/die sfx. But we are planning on expanding on this and completely removing the die animations/blood. - We've added additional fallback options for our shadow rendering that should fix issues we've seen on certain hardware configurations causing the game to crash at load and during gameplay. - Added option to disable Reverb SFX effect. This may help on systems that have experience audio issues. - Fix a bug that would let you recruit a character twice in a row - Fixed a bug with character unlocks. Some people had met the conditions for unlocking a character but still couldn't use them when starting a new adventure. These characters are now properly unlocked and the issue has been fixed. - We fixed a bug that caused crit hits that also killed a target to not count towards achievements, combat stats and adventure stats. - We improved loading times in some events

We've just uploaded a new version of Pathway to Steam. This is mostly to address problems/crashes people have encountered. NOTE: Version 1.0.2 will reset your "Fullscreen" settings toggle and start the game in windowed mode instead. You can of course change this again in the options any time. This reset happens due to some people having problems with the game starting in fullscreen mode by default. Version 1.0.2: - Game now starts in windowed mode to prevent some issues people were having with fullscreen (see above note) - Adds the option to cycle through your team with the left/right arrow during battle. - Fix a crash that happened when you entered a battle after running out of fuel and having your team members die. - Fixed a crush bug when trying to claim an achievement - Custom key bindings are now properly saved Version 1.0.3: - Prevent trashing the dog's fur and teeth by accident - Fix a crash that could happen in the AI turn when fighting with characters that had no weapon in their primary slot - Fix crash when looting certain legendary items and moving them to the valuables bag - Fix a bug that caused a black screen on Windows 7 and macOS Thanks everyone for reporting issues/bugs - we're hard at work addressing the problems popping up.

Begin Your Adventure Today!

Which path will you choose?

• 1. Via Pathway purchase https://store.steampowered.com/app/546430/Pathway/
• 2. Via Robotality Bundle (10% Off both Halfway and Pathway) https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10665/
• 3. Via Chucklefish Bundle (15% Off Chucklefish Games) https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/4460

INCOMING!

What's in the bunker?!

Say "Hello" to...

Boots On The Ground

On RNG...

Give us a follow!

When venturing across the desert plains or through long-abandoned temples in search of forgotten artifacts, you may sometimes find yourself in tough situations - and tough situations often require tough choices to be made. We call these situations, Events. In this devlog, we’re going to dive into Events, and expand on how your characters abilities might influence the outcomes…

The Old Sewer

Lone Temple

Events Wrap-up

• Often times, your Event choices will have a ‘chance of success or failure’ being calculated in the background, so keep that in mind when making your decisions.
• Your Event choices may play a brief animation sequence in the left panel of the Event window. This helps immerse you into the action!
• There are over 300 Events in Pathway (so far), and there are also many different types of events: Combat, Trading, Resting, Recruiting, Encounters… which sometimes result in Experience Gain or Loot (or both).

With every great adventure, you are bound to come across a few interesting characters. Whether you are closely following the story arc of the protagonist, or butting heads with some mysterious and sinister menace, memorable characters are an essential part of any story. We’d like to take an opportunity today to fill you in on how Characters are an important part of your experience in Pathway, and explain our level advancement system in some more detail.

Assemble Your Troupe!

Learning As You Go…

• Nazi Hunter: +25% dmg vs Nazis
• Animal Lover: -25% dmg vs Animals (usually cute German Shepherds… until they bite!)

Occultist: Enables his team to select actions related to occult knowledge. [/olist]
Beyond the various tactical choices you’ll be presented throughout your game, Pathway’s leveling system presents you with a choice on how your characters will evolve. This gives them new and exciting ways to tackle the various encounters you will face... Normally your team would be wise to sneak past the fortified Nazi encampment, but Jackson, feeling a bit like a Daredevil, thinks he can rig the fuel depot to explode… What do you do? ːsteamhappyː Oh and whilst we have your attention: What would you like to hear more about? Any aspect of the game you are curious about?

[ 2018-07-25 15:20:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Come gather around! We have a nice little treat for your ears in this Devlog! We (virtually) sat down with Pathway's brilliant music composer and sound designer Gavin Harrison and asked him a bunch questions about his approach to composing. We're also really excited to share some tracks from the game for the first time! So ... put on your headphones, click play on this video, grab a coffee and read on: https://youtu.be/ezZdm69UaE0

How did you end up making music for Games?

What music inspires you? Any particular inspirations for Pathway?

What makes a good game soundtrack in your opinion?

Can you tell us a bit about your process for composing the Soundtrack for Pathway?

What are you trying to achieve with the Soundtrack?

What's been your biggest challenge thus far working on Pathway?

What tools do you use for making the music?

Will the Soundtrack be available for purchase once the game is out?

And lastly, where can interested people find more about you and your work?

Starting today, we want to begin sharing a bit more about the development process of Pathway and what's happening behind the scenes at Robotality. To get the big question out of the way: We're not quite ready yet to announce when the game is being released, but we're getting very very close to being able to do so. We're still on course to release the game in 2018. We've made amazing progress and are really happy with how the game is taking shape! In today's devlog we're going to give a quick recap of what's been happening since the announcement of the game. In case you hadn't seen this, we had the opportunity to chat to PC Gamer about Pathway and shared quite a bit of thoughts around our game design decisions and inspirations behind Pathway: PC Gamer interview
In April we were demoing Pathway for the first time publicly at EGX Rezzed in London. Showing a game in public is always a nerve wrecking experience but thankfully the game was received really well and we've written down pages of notes of feedback. Being holed up in our dev caves it can be super easy to develop a tunnel vision of the game. Getting lots of other people to play the game for the first time is really refreshing and helpful. Thank you to everyone who came and played the game! Speaking of events, we are showing the game at Overflow #003 on May 30th. Overflow is a local chiptune event in Vancouver, Canada. We're showing the game alongside a few other indie games and of course there's lots of chip inspired music. So if you live near Vancouver this is a great opportunity to play Pathway pre-relase! (You can get tickets here: Overflow #003 Tickets). And to finish up today's devlog, here's a first look at a new environment we've been working on "The Mines":
Until next time!

FROM THE MAKERS OF HALFWAY...

THE YEAR IS 1936...

THEY TOOK OUR FRIEND...

KEY FEATURES:

• THRILLING VISUALS - Classic 16-bit pixel art enhanced with unprecedented depth, lighting and shadows using Pixel/Voxel Hybrid Technology.
  
• DYNAMIC ADVENTURES - No two adventures are the same; each campaign generates a new procedural map and a different set of unique story encounters.
  
• TOUGH CHOICES - Every location you visit presents a new hand-crafted story event to explore. Search the well? Save the villagers? It's up to you!
  
• DECISIVE CONFLICTS - Use cover and positioning in exciting turn-based squad combat. Learn to maximize your items and abilities, as well as your team members' strengths, in ruthless and clever ways!
  
• HIDDEN TREASURES - Discover rare artifacts to unlock new content and adventures! Recruit from 16 unique companions, each with their own starting equipment and skill trees!

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