Update #5 ‘Navigating The Wild’ coming tomorrow, 24 December, for Early Access players
Patch notes
- Brand-new camping UI which makes it easier to perform camping actions and keep an overview of your gear and perishables.
- The camping UI is accessed when resting at inns and farms, so you will have most camping options available at those locations, too.
- Camping mechanics are streamlined for a smoother experience.
- A risk indicator visible during camping should make it easier to understand when to expect enemies to appear at your camp.
- The map UI has a new set of icons to indicate locations, factions, and activities.
- The travel effects have a new set of icons so that they communicate more clearly what to expect during a journey.
- Travel gear and relevant skills are visible during travel and communicate their current state so it is easier to understand what is going on.
- Travel mechanics have been streamlined for a smoother experience.
- The time lapse between runs makes use of the new faction ‘meeples’ to indicate what happens between runs.
- Presence now directly affects the risk of an encounter while camping.
- Presence is location-bound: if you start a journey your presence is set to 0.
- While casting magic, rifts appear much less frequently. And when they do they are less dangerous.
- Being wounded causes loss of hope when you become fatigued, not automatically every day.
- When repairing travel gear you repair all uses at once.
- The ‘worn’ and ‘well-worn’ status have been added to reflect frequent use of travel gear.
- The mechanics for Mercy Tombs have been streamlined.
- The mechanics for discovering iron, copper, silver, and magentol haven been streamlined.
- Improving the way standing stones work.
- New item: pick axe.
- Firewood stacks, and is really required to make a fire and keep it burning in environments without wood.
- The HP gains for foods have been rebalanced.
- Streamlining Oddreek mechanics; oddreek fruits can be harvested and eaten later.
- Improving most basic destination templates.
- Improving many adventure site templates (Mercy tombs, castles, …).
- Adding new basic encounters: rat infestation, boar seekers, kobold marauders
- Improving the connectivity of mountain passes.
- Fixes several text issues.
About the game
One quest. Unlimited adventure. Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy is a challenging roguelite RPG with a table-top feel, procedural node-based open world, and a cool twist on permadeath. Leave the Dungeon of Doom behind and venture into a vast, wondrous world as you embark on a heroic quest to destroy the mysterious Staff of Yendor.
Explore beautiful landscapes and discover hidden marvels. Encounter magical creatures and dangerous foes. Make brave choices and put your faith in good fortune. Featuring a unique legacy system, advanced procedural generation technology, and rich, generative storytelling, Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy is an adventure like no other.
Key features
- Legacy system: the actions of past heroes impact the fortunes of those that follow in their footsteps. Use your legacy wisely to give successive adventurers greater hopes of completing their quest
- Permadeath in a persistent world: when a hero dies, they stay dead. But you can choose to return to the same world with a new adventurer, forearmed with knowledge of what lies ahead. Or, if you prefer, begin a new adventure in a completely uncharted world
- Generative storytelling: there is no premeditated script in Unexplored 2. Every adventurer’s ultimate goal may be the same – to destroy the Staff of Yendor – but every hero will have their own unique story of the events and encounters that happened along the way
- Procedural generation: Ludomotion’s proprietary technology generates content that feels designed by humans, not algorithms, and can create a near infinite number of new lands, new places, new stories, and new challenges to discover
- Orchestral adaptive soundtrack: an intricate system allows Unexplored 2‘s music to be arranged reactively, making subtle changes to the score at appropriate times, whether a moment of high emotion, or to provide foreshadowing (Official Unexplored 2 Soundtrack Playlist on Youtube)
Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer’s Legacy is available now as an Early Access title on the Epic Games Store. Xbox versions are also confirmed, and will launch in 2022.