TRACHEA Update Testbranch begins! (Windows)

We are starting testing for our next gigantic update, TRACHEA. The planned launch for this one is in July, during the 10 Year Anniversary of Death Road to Canada's launch! Lots and lots of new stuff in this one, with a bit more content coming. After that, we will also roll out Mac and Linux builds, like normal. Also like normal, the Beta branch will use its own save files, separate from the normal launch branch. This changes close to the end of the testing, right before launch. TO ACCESS THE TESTING BRANCH:

• Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

• Go to Properties

• Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

• Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

New Changes for TRACHEA Update

Rare characters

• The Stug: a quiet rally driver who modifies your car over time!

• Mobster: a charming dink who can lay down walls of bullet hell!

• Swiss Guard: protects your team and has a halberd combo to master!

• Crash Dummy: really loves being bitten I promise

• Blacksmith: gungineer brainiac who makes firearms and ammo!

• First Mate: leap at enemies with a giant anchor! Hit mid-air for powerful AoE!

New Personality Archetypes

This is a big one! We haven't done new Personality checks in quite a long time

These are similar to the old ANGRYSTRONG and CALMSHOT checks

• AGILE: HIGH FITNESS, HIGH ATTITUDE! HYPERACTIVE! Quick reactions, quite athletic!

• TINKER: HIGH MECHANICAL, HIGH WITS! Engineer your way out of things...sometimes!

• Each archetype has 8 new interactions with events, for 16 in total! Many old events affected.

• Check the library for more details on the archetypes.

New Locations

• Forge rare location! Has some new buildings in it. Who could be residing here?

• Martial Arts shop, a new city shop location. Some new weapons and upgrades for martial characters! Longbows can also spawn there! Irregularly, but it can happen.

• Harbor! Find the masterkey and "masterkey"...great place to find souped-up cars!

New Weapons

• Tonfa & Quarterstaff! Great for early-mid game.

• Kama! A powerful throwable!

• Wakizashi: breakable but deadly!

• Mortar: a gas based grenade launcher! Exotic.

• Added heat ray

• Added freeze ray

• Added three new flails

Reworks and Adjustments

• LOOT GRAVITY WELL: High WITS followers will now pull loot towards them, like some sort of vacuum or magnet

• The radius of this effect scales with WITS

• The loot pull effect requires clear line of sight to work

• Anime Fan rework: if you have a paranoid, irritating or oblivious character in the party, they can extend the countdown to disaster!

• Trademark Weapon rework - now always gives a sturdy machete if no other weapon is available. Levels 2 & 3 now give +1 STR and FIT, respectively!

• DINK now gets a Megaphone as their trademark weapon!

• Anime Bandits now have two counters for angry-strong and bandit chars

• Improved look and balance of abandoned warehouse

Text Events

• Pyromaniac bandits! Beware the bonfire!

• Cop bandits!

• THE MECHA BANDIT (ALL YOUR LOOT IS BELONG TO US)

• The Mystery Box

• Added 5 new despair events for recently added characters: Ember, Johannes, Admiral, Pewter, Clock King

Gameplay Mode Changes

• Horror Mode and Mutation EX now play Lost Hope theme

Other New Content

• Added new tilesets for reworked cities

• Added ambience for storms, applies to all modes except Horrors and Extreme Weather

• Added new torsos and legs (unisex)

• Improved look and balance of abandoned warehouse

Tweaks and Bugfixes

• Big fix for buildings sometimes not generating in cities

• Fixed typo in YER MONEY OR YOR LIFE

• Fixed clock king bug

• Adjusted size of sycacity1 to prevent blockages

• Lots of small bugfixes

• Containers in the railyard glow properly now!