Renowned Explorers: International Society

Patch 522 (21 December 2018)

FIXED:

• Fixed missing treasure in Holy Lands
• Fixed exploit that could grant infinite tokens on expeditions

Patch 520 (18 December 2018)

FIXED:

• Fixed crash upon entering Holy Land for people missing The Emperor's Challenge
• Fixed crash while loading some specific save games
• Fixed Holy Grail sometimes not being awarded
• Fixed enemies attacking each other in Holy Land
• Fixed some missing event pictures
• Fixed some typos and missing strings

BALANCE:

• Slightly eased up Holy Land by lowering supply cost and lowering Cat speech attack

Patch 516 (13 December 2018)

NEW:

• New expedition! Explore the Middle-East in the new 5-star Holy Lands expedition!
• Added main menu theme selection to the settings
• Added setting to disable campfire reminders

BALANCE:

• Harry's captain perk brought down a bit to 75% more gold from Treasure Hunt
• Harry's Cone upgrade now has a lower range.
• Phailin's captain perk brought down to 3%
• Changed the Voodoo Treasure Pool A to focus more on Study & Discovery
• Lucky Gold down to 20% extra gold.
• JP's card gets Astonishing besides Storytelling
• Star of Africa gives another bonus
• Nerfed paramawhatsherface a little
• Necromancer's temple is a bit easier
• Incan Spirit Scepter now doesn't give collect for Cultural bonus anymore, but all other bonuses are increased by 1 (3 Encounter, 4 Study, 4 Campaign) and insight increased by 1.
• All villages in Mali give some supplies
• Pedrinho's FUNraiser slightly better

FIXED:

• St. Irene skull giving wrong choices

Patch 512 (12 November 2018)

FIXES:

• Fixed issue with game not being able to find d3dcompiler_47.dll
• Fixed various Linux and MacOS startup issues

Patch 508 (14 September 2018)

• hotfix for version 503

Patch 503 (9 September 2018)

NEW:

• Made Renowned Explorers fully GDPR (new EU privacy regulations) compliant
• Updated some runtime libraries for future proofing
• Slightly improved overall performance

FIXED:

• Fixed Kwame/Executioner's Axe exploit

Patch 489 (18 May 2018)

BALANCE:

• Pumpkin King gives 2 campaign per Quick Thinker instead of 3.
• Crown of Thorns no longer gives Renown
• Charles gets Hunting instead of Cooking
• Power of Secrets gives 15-20 Status/Gold instead of 20-25
• Improved Vikings Landing Gold and Research output a bit

FIXED:

• Fixed crash on first launch if there is no internet connection
• Fixed something that refrained Pedrinho's event to fire in Egypt.
• Fixed Crown of Thorns hunger issues.
• Fixed ice cream truck event
• Fixed abbess event

Patch 483 (14 December 2017)

NEW:

• Challenge #100 celebration!
• Added Hall of Fame to main menu for community members

FIXED:

• Fixed save game corruption when deleting profiles in some cases

Patch 466 (16 October 2017)

NEW:

• A few new events have been added for your entertainment!
• A new treasure has been added for your entertainment!
• You can now see your Renown milestones after each expedition in the leaderboards

BALANCE:

• Hunger penalties are more consistent now. Probably going to hurt a lot more and less ALT +F4 prone.
• You now start with 8 supplies. HURRAY!
• Changed Yu's perk to +2 Encounter if Yu succeeds on the adventure wheel. +4 research from Encounter tokens.
• Egypt and Andes a bit cheaper to travel
• The Treasure Hunt/Secret/Discovery per Encounter Entourage has been lowered to only give those tokens per boss encounter. Price down to 500 Campaign.
• Ivan gets +3 supplies after the second and third expedition
• Hojo's card only fires on rank A treasures
• Harry and Min-Jeong's card now only give +1 Status for Study/Collect per roll
• Boost from Secret Report lowered to 25%
• Switched the side effects of the llama tradepost and the forsaken village in the Inca expedition
• Corsair Coin now gives surprise and an aura that negates the Escalated Speech Defense penalty. Price up to 450.
• Muscat is now a 2 level store. Haggler's Pot is now always unlocked, while the Turban is now after the upgrade with the Corsair Coin and Telescope
• All higher level Moscow trinkets are 50g more expensive (from level 4 and on).
• Fire Piston gives Survivalist - Camping
• Sheriff badge now also gives military history
• Movement bonus from binoculars moved to boomerang
• Hammer and Binoculars moved a step down in Sidney
• Barometer moved a step down in Sidney
• King of thieves triggeres on 30/45/60 speech
• Grand Minister gives Generous instead of Negotiations
• Spyglass also gains Survivalist - Spotting instead of bluffing.

FIXED:

• Fixed achievements sometimes not triggering when skipping Emperor's Challenge Trophy Room animation
• Fixed hang upon returning to Overworld after saving/loading on an expedition after all shops had been unlocked
• Fixed Helper challenges not triggering when using Min-Jeong as captain
• Duplicating Irene's Skull fixed
• Voodoo Queen now only spawns once
• Fixed Java Man skull cave. For real this time!
• Fixed trinket swap exploit
• Fixed crash when deleting local leaderboard entry
• Lots of other small event fixes

Patch 459 (12 September 2017)

FIXED:

• Fixed small bug in achievements, also added more debug info for future achievement bugs

Patch 457 (06 July 2017)

FIXED:

• Fixed crash in Entourage shop
• Fixed Emperor Pleaser, Emperor's New Favourite Groove and some expedition achievements
• Fixed the legendary armor - archeology trinket

BALANCE:

• Min-Jeong captain's perk lowered to 3-5 Status/Gold
• Halved all Secret/Discovery/TreasureHunt multipliers
• Output from Irene's Skull lowered to 1 per 3 levels.
• removed 40 renown from secrets from Final Anagogic treasure
• Insight doubling entourage costs 1000 Status
• Government Secrets now only works on journalists
• Price of new entourage for insight increased.

Patch 455 (22 May 2017)

NEW:

• New events in the Hungarian Fort and Mali! New treasure as well!
• A brand new shop is open through the engineering research! New orleans does not unlock through hyperspeed though.
• A brand new entourage hall has opened in Madrid! A few old entourage members return... Some have become a bit more expensive though...
• Fancied up loading screen!

BALANCE:

• Kiwi gets Occult instead of Architecture
• Nerfed Phailin's bonus to 5%
• Nerfed Min-Jeong a bit
• Hungarian Mix now applies to ALL crew members
• Songhai Sword gives 2 insight - Secretum gives 2 - Ace gives 1
• Legendary boots give 30 Armor and speech Defense instead of 40
• Changed achievements
  
  • "10 challenges in one expedition/overworld session" is now "20 porcelain points in one expedition/overworld session"
  • "Receive 5/10/25 unique trophies" is now "beat Rivaleux in 5/10/25 unique emperor challenges"
  • Achievements related to winning a game will also be achievable when winning an EC game (with exception of achievements specifically for renown mode / getting to the coronation).
• JP's merchant story now gives +3 Teach in Cape town

FIXES:

• Fixed save game compatibility for secret shop
• Fixed item ship crash
• Fixed crash when using the entourage specialist Minet
• Miles and Shadowmaster54 entourage now work as intended
• Removed an undisplayed Friendly Attitude condition for Emilia's level 5 Tranquility upgrade.
• Small text and event fixes
• Fixed a bug with JP's insight
• Fixed resolve counter not resetting properly after retrying arena in Discovery Mode
• Fixed Perk UI not updating when equiping items
• Fixed crash on Archipellago when More To Explore wasn't present
• Fixed issue that could cause expediton flow to get messed up
• Fixed crash when removing leaderboard entry
• Many event and typo fixes

Patch 443 (11 May 2017) Win & Mac for now

NEW:

• Tons of content added to Transylvania and some to the Hungarian Fort. Go find it!
• You can now see what items/entourages the item and entourage shop contain before upgrading them
• Added Light Sensitive Mode, which disables some flashing animations. This replaces the option that turned off flashing warnings for resolve and research.

BALANCE:

• Jan-Piet's captain perk changed to 5-10 Gold from Campaign and +4 Campaign tokens while using insight.
• Agatha's captain perk changed to +2 Study from using insight
• Cooking Pot now gives Tough instead of Stamina
• Captain Roche is now weak to Enraged, but has a bit more Spirit
• Transylvania wolves are easier to bully
• Hildegards card now creates a strong dislike with... you know who

FIXES:

• Fixed double treasure exploit during end of expedition
• So. Many. Bugfixes.

Patch 440 (10 May 2017)

• Tons of content added to Transylvania and some to the Hungarian Fort. Go find it!
• Jan-Piet's captain perk changed to 5-10 Gold from Campaign and +4 Campaign tokens while using insight.
• Agatha's captain perk changed to +2 Study from using insight
• Cooking Pot now gives Tough instead of Stamina
• Captain Roche is now weak to Enraged, but has a bit more Spirit
• Transylvania wolves are easier to bully
• Hildegards card now creates a strong dislike with... you know who
• Added Light Sensitive Mode, which disables some flashing animations
• Fixed double treasure exploit during end of expedition

Update (10 April 2017)

• Added a mini-comic called The Emperor's Challenge to the bonus goodies section.

Update (27 February 2017)

• Fixed a sound issue with the Mac version of the game.

Patch 416 (24 February 2017)

FIXES

• Fixed an Egypt treasure pool.

Patch 415 (21 February 2017)

NEW:

• Added Insight Limit. This is not exactly a limit, as you can always gain more insight. However before you leave an expedition you need to spend Insight so that it drops below your current limit. The limit starts at 3 and increases by 2 per expedition.

BALANCE

• Improved the gains of Special tokens from treasures a bit in late game.
• Viking's secret room doesn't give C ranked treasures anymore.

FIXES

• Fixed Treasure option for the Crab treasure.
• Fixed a missing string.
• Fixed campfire card: Tactical Insight!

Patch 407 (8 December 2016)

FIXES

• Fixed infinite loop in Anna's crew story
• Fixed a lot of typos

Patch 406 (2 December 2016)

NEW

• Added 4 items: Cork Hat, Boomerang, Biscuit Box and History Book!
• Added a 2 new small events in Transylvania
• Agatha's crew story now has an alternative, more dramatic ending

BALANCE

• Will-o-the-Wisp now gives study for every 2 levels.
• Rio's common token entourage weaker and a lot more expensive
• Rio's encounter token entourage a bit more expensive
• Stockholm Perk entourage a bit cheaper
• All stat boosts from treasures doubled
• Token boosting treasure options of treasures in the first 2 expeditions have been decreased by roughly 50%.

FIXES

• Fixed UI lockup after using Mali tunnel or Llama Express.
• Fixed crash for GOG users when receiving achievements
• Added some missing animations
• Lots of small event fixes

Patch 403 (13 November 2016)

• It fixes the game getting stuck in a state where the UI is disabled after specific events.

Patch 401 (27 October 2016)

• Fixed "French Toast (+)" and "Loud and Clear (+)" achievements not working in certain cases
• Level Up and Research Available notifications should now only pop-up once all events are done
• Fixed item types not being checked correctly in both directions when swapping items
• Fixed broken crew portrait buttons in Passport UI when in the Shop UI
• Clarified mood switch tooltip for new players
• Fixed Collection UI on narrow screens
• Fixed bug with profile switching not correctly updating the crew selection UI

Patch 394 (20 September 2016)

NEW:

• Lobbyists and Journalists price increased by 20%.
• Ulfberht Sword removed from tactician check in Saxon Island.
• Starter island doesn't hide any more what treasure you'll get in the boss event.

  BALANCE:

• Increased price for later level research trees

FIXES:

• Fixed loads and loads of texts
• Fixed the King Crab's debuff
• Fixed crash on Mt. Kailash
• Fixed card duplication when stock was depleted
• Fixed wrong stat calculation for Ivan's crew story

Patch 391 (01 September 2016)

NEW:

• Plenty of new stuff to discover in the Emerged Island! A handful new events, 3 new treasures and a new and vicious opponent in a new area!
• A new treasure is to be found in Shangri-La!
• The Insight spending screen shows a tooltip for expected token value.
• There is an option to increase the speed of Insight spending.
• The Treasure Collection UI in the Main Menu now shows information about the bonus that can be obtained from it. Hover the bonus pool icons for any previously discovered treasure.
• The Treasure collection UI in the Main Menu now also shows all unlocked Campfire Stories and your progress in unlocking them. (MTE)

BALANCE:

• There is more gold available in Shangri-La.
• Helpers have been reset to their values from patch 19.
• Students now give 1-2 research, but cost 100 status to recruit. (first value)
• Ulfberht Sword removed from tactician check in Saxon Island.
• Lobbyists and Journalists price increased by 20%.
• The pre-determination feature of Patch #18 has been removed from Discovery Mode. This means reloading now gives fresh roll game chances and encounter layouts.

FIXES:

• Chairman Pinkerton's advice crashed when evaluating some Ruby Lotus bonuses.
• Chairman Pinkerton can now advise on all different bonus types, where he ignored some previously.
• Starter island doesn't hide what treasure you'll get anymore in the boss event.

Patch 381 (22 July 2016)

• Fixed faulty data-file.
• Fixed text in some places
• Fixed wrong spin in Shangri-La
• Fixed Monymusk appearing in the wrong place up again
• Fixed Renown from Keys in Shangri-La

Patch 380 (21 July 2016)

• (MTE denominates More To Explore-only content)

NEW:

• Hatice has a new captain perk! Investor: +10 Collect at the start of each expedition. Gain 2 insight if you end an expedition with 50 Collect or more.
• Added a new treasure in Shangri-La!
• Added a few events in Shangri-La!
• The L A N D D E L V E R now actually puts some time pressure on you. Be quick to explore the Lost Island!

BALANCE:

ENTOURAGE:

• Auctioneer and Impressionist Entourage removed from Stockholm due to misfitting
• All Stockholm entourage now give +1 token at level 4 instead of +1/+2 on level 2/5 (More To Explore)
• All Rio entourage now gives +2 tokens at level 6 instead of +1/+3 on level 3/6 (More To Explore)

CARDS:

• Lowered Earl's bonus from Weird Patents to 3% (More To Explore)
• Agatha's German Import will now only penalize 5 Study, 25 Speech Defense, and give 3 Campaign instead of 1 (More To Explore)
• It's not longer possible to bring the same Campfire Story twice. Any doubles will be left out of your deck at game start.

TREASURES:

• Garb and starter treasures that give X tokens at the end of an expedition are a bit toned down (More To Explore)
• Shambhala Keys give 250 Renown instead of 150
• All final treasures from Shangri-La now have pool bonuses (More To Explore)
  MISC:
• Removed the skip encounter events in Shangri-La
• TRex and Darwin are significantly tougher
• Roll-games and encounter arena seeds are now pre-determined, which means loading to an earlier point no longer gives you a different chance. There's an exception for 'Retry Encounter' in Discovery mode, which still refreshes the seed.

  FIXED:

• Can't get a rank A treasure in Turf house any more
• missing images, spelling errors
• Phillipe's card now works correctly
• Perk UI scroll resets to top when switching crewmembers.
• Exploit where opening inventory during events, saved the game state (but not the event progress).
• Issue where items could be lost by dragging and dropping an item from an incompatible slot on it.
• Issue where profile switching could recover a pre-win save from a finished adventure mode run.
• Issue where double clicking crewmember for targeted Campfire Stories triggered the story twice.

Patch 374 (16 June 2016)

(MTE denominates More To Explore-only content)

NEW:

• You can now unlock Muscat, hosting a trinket bazaar in the Middle east.
• You can now unlock San Francisco, offering new entourage members
• A dark new force is terrorizing the Andes. (MTE)
• New events scattered all over the game, allowing you to meet more Specialists on their own journeys
• Added option to dampen low Resolve and available Research warning pulse
• You can now swap your items by dragging
• Added Crewmember Details box to Advanced Crew Selection screen
• Added DLC and version indicators to leaderboard entries
• Visual tweaks to the icons displaying information about unvisited nodes

FIXES:

• Fixed bug where "sharpshooters alerted" message would pop up after every Friendly won encounter after Lost Island in Marathon mode
• Slightly dampened default low Resolve warning pulse
• Fixed Raptor Queen event
• It should no longer be possible to get stuck with unplayable cards in hand
• Fixed bonus descriptions in leaderboards
• Fixed Encounter token Renown gain for Captain perk for Maria and Victor
• Fixed Victor's captain perk only awarding 25% extra gold from Encounter
• Fixed a ton of missing/wrong text and pictures

BALANCE:

• Toned down Inca Dagger and Emperor Garb
• Pedrinho will hate coffee haters
• Decreased Renown gain from Encounter tokens from Maria's and Victor's Captain Perk to 5.
• The machine in Lost Island doesn't allow for Resolve suicide anymore
• Shangri-La treasures are worth a lot more

Patch 365 (02 June 2016)

FIXES:

• Fixed exploit in campfire screen
• Fixed crew story of Maria, Hildegard and Bia
• Fixed tooltip for Anna
• Fixed Philippe's upgraded Amnesia Shot being able to target 3 instead of 2 opponents
• Fixed camera being able to go out of bounds on very low frame rates
• Other minor text fixes

Patch 362 (31 May 2016)

NEW:

• Fancy new loading screen!
• Added random button to crew selection screen
• Added a new performance option to the settings menu

FIXES:

• Fixed Turf House event
• Improved feedback on maxed level crewmembers tooltip
• Fixed some perks not fitting in the item shop UI
• Fixed Event scrollbar placement
• Fixed Mood UI text placement in specific cases

Patch 343 (19 May 2016)

NEW:

• Perks now have icons to make them better identifiable

FIXES:

• Fixed hotkey in main menu being improperly active.
• Fixed small issue with passport UI opening on top of shop UI on narrow aspect ratios.
• Disarming Smile by Pedrinho was secretly an Attack ability.
• Zombie NO_I18N
• Monastery in Shangri-La now gives speech as advertised
• You can reconsider your options when distracting Roche's crew in the Emerged Island
• Reconsidering while mining the Quartz Mine won't remove the option to examinate the Skeleton.
• Chuckles' sister is now blue.
• Fish in the tree gives supplies on the right moment
• Fixed phillipe's enraged resistance.
• Fixed Celtic Cross.

BALANCE:

• The journalist bonus will only apply on the 5th expedition, not on insight spent
• Ivan's upgrade gives +2 Supplies instead of +1.
• NEW: Flavia awaits you as a new Entourage member in Rio!
• Rio now has 4 levels of Entourage.
• Finishing Observation now gives +50% renown from a resource.
• Writing History now gives +1 Campaign on entering an Encounter node, and +3 campaign on entering an Epic node.
• The off-resource Entourage members in Istanbul (Rami, Zafira, Amon etc.) now are selected by token type
• The off-resource Entourage members in Istanbul (Rami, Zafira, Amon etc.) are significantly weaker
• Moondisk is now worth 375.
• Removed the newbie trap on the Shrunken Head

Patch 321 (15 April 2016)

NEW:

• Ivan has a new captain perk! -1 Resolve. Gains +1 Supply Capacity after the 2nd and 3rd expedition.
• Added 2 small events.

BALANCE:

• Insight jobs in Europe and Africa now give one extra token. (Timbuktu > Study, Zanzibar > Collect, Cape Town > Campaign)
• Research for end of 3rd tree and up is a little cheaper
• Laboratory changed -> German Laboratory: +2 Study when spending insight in Berlin
• Science Assistance now give 2 insight
• Renown from Status is now 6%. Renown from Science is now 14%.
• Hungarian Fort is a bit more generous towards Devious crews, especially the Beast.
• Egypt is a bit more rewarding now.

FIXED:

• All calls to online services now have a proper time-out
• Fixed leaderboard issues for users with a huge friends list
• Clarified message when saving and quitting in encounter
• Buffs are now sorted behind UIs
• Undo button is now correctly positioned in narrow aspect ratios
• Item Shop UI is now correctly positioned in narrow aspect ratios
• Fixed minor memory issue related to loading save games
• Fixed a lot of typos and missing strings (including my arch-nemesis "behaviour")
• Abominable mountain (it doesn't exist, why am I typing this?) now is revisitable.
• Fixed Armor debuffs being shown as percentage debuffs
• The smuggler boat now also gives the Secret/Treasure Hunt tokens when you found the hidden options
• Fixed an issue where stacked poison costs you multiple resolve
• More clear range tooltip for AoE attacks centered around the caster
• Some more memory optimisations

Patch 309 (06 April 2016)

NEW:

• A new main menu with:
• New layout to make everything feel less crowded.
• A news feed to show news relevant to players.
• A reference to any Community Events, often the Weekly Challenge on our forums.
• Added incompatibility warnings (and solutions) for users with potentially incompatible hardware or drivers.
• Disabled metrics system

BALANCE:

• Yvonne has Charms instead of Sense of Humor
• Bia gains Defense instead of Formations
• Admiral Reis gives Military History instead of Formations
• Lute gives Storytelling instead of Astonishing
• Kwame no longer gets double helpers on high levels diplomat or quick thinker

FIXES:

• Pagans believe in the occult.
• The "truth in the occult" option gives tokens now.
• Oengus Crown treasure is BACK
• Fixed a bug in which Quick Thinkers had to be either really cool or really lame to run through the Meadow's Castle.
• Fixed the text of mood buffs.
• Fixed using the machine from machine vs. magic in the talking tree event.
• Fixed a place where the Monymusk treasure shouldn't be available but was.

OPTIMIZATION:

• Long audio files like music and ambient are now streaming to reduce memory load.
• More aggressive unloading of unneeded files to free up memory faster.
• Miscellaneous memory optimizations.

Patch 277 (29 February 2016)

• fixes a GOG specific issue where the game would hang during loading when a user had uninstalled the GOG Galaxy client or had the client installed and running, but was not logged in.

Patch 275 (28 January 2016)

• hotfix for patch 274.

Patch 274 (26 January 2016)

• fixes a crash when encountering The Sunken Cathedral

Patch 267 (22 January 2016)

• Added some new adventures on the Highlands, as well as a new treasure.
• When you revive a crew member, the reviver gains bonus defenses for 2 turn.
• You can no longer equip trinkets brought from the overworld when on expedition
• Emotion Resistances are more clearly displayed during encounters.
• Most Shangri-La treasures got extra Renown bonuses.
• Gold, Status and Research tooltip now show extra info about Renown gain.

Balance:

• Cooldown of Strike of Fear raised to 6.
• 3rd and 4th tree of research significantly more expensive. This will allow you to actually OVER commit into science.
• Lowered the Renown Gain from the research masteries to 50% to reduce dependency on them.
• Gold and Status now have the same Renown modifier: 8%. Research still has 12%
• Boosted the healing power of all speech abilities: "Try to.." from 20% > 30% (Impress stays at 25%) and normal from 25% > 35%.
• Tranquility base power down to 40%.
• Rivaleux has a ranged Physical attack
• Scientist senses give +1 Study on a node of choice instead of +2.
• Writing History gives +1 Campaign token instead of +2.
• Apparatus Artists triggers on lvl 3 instead of lvl 2.
• Changed psychology a bit.
• The entourage for attitude (Pinkerton, Vaduva, etc.) is now pooled with same attitude: you will always have something useful per attitude instead of per resource type.
• Moved Monymusk Relinquary to the Scottish Castle and McRea.
• Cassandra in Egypt has lower defenses, mixed up resistances, Rivalini's have lower spirit
• Demon battles in Shangri changed, both the characters and the way they respond to your attitude.
• Red, green and blue demons all have different stats.
• The Red Demon can now pin you down.
• Shangri-La better advertises possible Supply stashes.
• Changes to a few Shangri-La stories to have slightly more control over Resolve loss.
• Shambhala key bonusses for Rivaleux lowered:
• Strength: Armor 25->20, Attack 10->6
• Heart: Terrified Nullify -> Resist, Speech 10->6
• Mind -> Impressed Nullify -> Resist, Speech Defense 25->15

Captains:

• Anna's captain perk nerfed, AGAIN. If she's still that much out of line, I declare her a cockroach and unnerfable. Bonus for gold and status reduced to 1-2 from 1-3.
• Charles's captain perk bonus for gold and status reduced to 1-3 from 2-4 and curio reduced to 0-1 from 1-2.
• Lowered Hildegard's science gain from 2-6 to 2-4.
• Philippe now gains +4 Study token per medkit left at the end of an expedition.

Fixed:

• Galaxy achievements are now stored correctly when the internet connection is interrupted
• Renown multiplier bonuses for Gold didn't work. Now they do.
• Slight changes to the way stories are placed in expeditions.
• 'Practical supplies' icon during expeditions changes to 'supplies' as they were only used to advertize supplies.
• Zombie encounter no longer freezes when the Zombie frightens a Cultist
• Fixed an exploit where Undo move could be used to use abilities from farther away.
• Fixed an exploit where moving in steps avoided the slow of difficult terrain.
• Items don't count as treasures any longer.
• One.. More... Expedition is no longer still enabled after starting a new game
• Revisitable nodes are now actually revisitable!
• Fixed an exploit where you could get treasures multiple times by click spamming
• Item Shop, Passport and Entourage Shop work a little better on smaller aspect ratios
• Final node in Shangri-La now shows an objective cross.
• Abilities that couldn't be used from next to opponents (like Piercing Shot) can now be used while standing next to Friendly defeated opponents on the edge of the arena.
• Some typos.

Patch 264 (22 December 2015)

• Hotfix for the latest patch, which fixes a crash when entering an encounter with a specific buff.

Patch 261 (18 December 2015)

New:

• Added Galaxy leaderboards: compare your expedition scores with your friends'!
• You can now continue your expedition after it's over.
• Restart button added
• Undo movement button added
• You can now do movement in steps
• Added extra tools for save game management

Balance:

• Insight from Roche's Treasure and Water of Life reduced to 1.
• Trinkets are cheaper and weaker. Removed a lot of the weird side effects.
• Throwel and Broom aura reduced to -10 Speech Defense.
• Tactician notes reduced to 15% Attack boost.
• Selling price of items is now 75%
• Movement in Shangri-La a bit cheaper
• Offensive items are stronger, decent and good offensive items are 33% cheaper
• Defenses of some later level characters increased.
• Lecture Expert no longer doubles Discovery, Secret and TreasureHunt tokens
• Kwame's double helper boost now fires at lvl. 5 Quick Thinker instead of lvl. 3.
• Ramped up late game helper cost a bit

Treasures:

• Globus Cruciger gives 3 Campaign and 3 Collect per lvl of Diplomat, and 2 Insight
• Roche's Anchor gives 5 Collect per lvl of Stalwart, but 2 insight and 200 renown
• Roche's coat gives 5 Study per lvl of Naturalist, but 2 insight
• Roche's chest gives 1 insight
• Ritual book gives 1 insight
• Charlemagne's Hand no longer gives +5 Status from Campaign

Fixed:

• Fixed the issue where you would quit/crash out of the overworld and be unable to get a new city.
• Fixed Expedition Reports not working correctly.
• Fixed cultural awareness triggering on wrong jobs.

Patch 252 (11 December 2015)

Additions:

• Completely new Research trees. All trees have been replaced with new ones that allow more different strategies.
• Supply gain and usage over the whole game changed.
• Pedrinho has a new Captain Perk! His parties in Paris, Mumbai, Zanzibar and Cape Town are OFF. THE. CHARTS. (Rivaleux is not invited)
• Asian jobs now also give a lesser token, triggering some upgrades and treasures.
• Crew members now gain an extra Trinket slot through levelling (instead of through Research). Level depends on class.

Balance:

• Roll games give 2 XP (instead of 1). XP required for Levelling increased.
• Fixed the most annoying thing ever in the game: Equipment shops now level through Gold! No more thinking: "darn, I still needed the Status I just blew on a helper."
• Agatha's Inspiring Course now comes one level later.
• Ivan base spirit raised to 45.
• Emilia base speech defense lowered to 20, base armor to 5, and speech to 22.
• Maria's base speech raised to 30.
• Mali villagers believe in the good heart of people a little longer (switch attitude later)
• Pedrinho's Party-Time cooldown increased to 4, cooldown Disarm increased to 5, power of partytime decreased to 50% and power of disarm decreased to 75%.
• Pedrinho gets the Survivalist - Navigation perk instead of Survivalist - Hunting on lvl 2.
• Emilia's academic bonus reduced to +1 Study
• Because of all the changes, Renown gain from resources has been reduced: Gold: 0.075, Status: 0.08, Research: 0.12
• Enemies on the Emerged Island are stronger
• Demons in Shangri-La are a bit weaker.
• Rose gives the Beguiler - Beautiful Smile perk instead of Beguiler - Storytelling
• Druid's sheep are now Highland Sheep

Fixes:

• Fixed Roche's Anchor treasure
• Fixed more achievement issues
• Fixed Dolores and Kwame's animations
• Rivaleux no longer shows any mercy! (fixed AI bug where Rivaleux wouldn't act)

Patch 243 (30 November 2015)

• Added tons of new speech bubble visuals
• Science now yields less renown
• The level 2 entourage of Constantinople is now level 3 and vice versa
• Cernunnos Skull gives slightly lower gains
• Executioner's axe gives collect instead of battle token
• Crown of thorns gives 2 supplies on top of current effect, but only triggers 3 times and loses resolve boost
• Defensive items have a bigger disparity between their first and secondary buffs
• Philospher Stone now gives +2 Campaign when a lvl 2 Archaeologist succeeds on the adventure wheel
• Seth Maribre's Scepter now triggers on lvl 3 Tactician and Diplomat
• Helpers get more expensive more quickly
• Rio entourage is more expensive
• Constantinople Entourage more expensive
• Earl gained a little more speech defense, and his captain perk is boosted
• Hungarian Fort is a bit more balanced out with treasures
• The Group Insult debuff is now defensive

Patch 240 (23 November 2015)

• The Linux version is at version 239 but the following patch notes also apply to the Linux version.

ADDITIONS:

• Kwame has a new captain perk! He will attract helpers by being friendly.
• Bia has a new captain perk! She becomes stronger by fighting, and gains Campaign tokens by taking down bosses.
• Molly has a new captain perk! Aside from her cutthroat ability, Rogues will now net you more Collect tokens.
• Reworked and added events in Transylvania.
• Reworked Emerged Island events a bit.
• Improved speech feedback a little.

BALANCE:

• Kwame has 'try to Enrage' instead of 'try to Terrify', and is all round a bit more scout-y.
• Anna's boosts to gold and status have been reduced to +1 to +2 Gold/Status.

TREASURES:

• Rank of some treasures change to better match their power.
• Stegoceras Skull, Saxon Ring, Dragon Head, Brooche in Urnes Style, Celtic Cross, Saxon King's Mantle and Sun Stone give different tokens.
• King's Mantle, Stegocerus, Sun Stone, Saxon Ring, Dragonhead and Urnes Brooch is easier to trigger.
• Lotharskreuz and Charlemange hand are now somewhere else....
• Effects of all Transylvania treasures changed.
• Effects of most Emerged Island treasures changed.

FIXES:

• Bia's triple slash works as intended.
• Virginia in Mali is now a boss encounter.
• Dolores' mask is now acknowledged by the Mali masked villagers.
• Some items have new buff icons.

Patch 229 (02 November 2015)

• Fixes a few small text issues and one unlock condition

Patch 226 Halloween Update (30 October 2015)

• Discover the Gargoyle's Code in a series of brand new Halloween themed events!
• Improvements to the stability of the save system
• Fixed some issues with Mali (Mask of Madness and boss)
• Small rebalance
• Fixed the supreme tactician buff

Patch 214 (22 October 2015)

• Added a new expedition: Mali Mystery.
• Playthroughs are now recorded in local leaderboards.
• A new trinket in New Orleans: The Spyglass
• Some new endings and a new event in the Highlands and Egypt.
• A lot of trinkets have their price down, usability improved, and usage simplified.
• Trowel and Broom boost fixed to melee range, and power decreased to -20 Speech Defense.
• The Highlands has it's treasures scattered over more events. Plays a bit more like Caribbean now.
• Fixed some small achievement issues.

Patch 194 (02 October 2015)

• Hotfix. It fixes a game breaking issue some people were having with shops and expeditions not unlocking after completing an expedition.

Patch 190 (25 September 2015)

• Hotfix (some critical problems from version #188 fixed)

Patch 188 (25 September 2015)

ADDITIONS:

• You can now inspect crew member perks and stats during stories, Shops and other menus by clicking their portraits.
• Yvonne has a new captain perk! Her Devious boost now gets better with each expedition completed.
• Charles has a new captain perk! His perk improves campaign tokens every time you buy a specialist, much like Anna's captain perk.
• Dolores has a new captain perk! She can make Collect tokens give great Status, which improves every time she succeeds on the Adventure Wheel.

BALANCE:

• Transylvania treasures give a lot more Insight.
• Buff gained from gloves in Sydney now add 40% damage instead of 25% damage.
• Hungarian Fort (**) has more battles and gives more tokens.
• There are a few less study tokens in the Caribbean
• Made getting Research Papers progressively more expensive.
• The starting bonus of the Science tree in the papers has changed to give +1 study on technique challenges
• "Field Rations" now requires "Opening Doors"
• Bonus from "Training Regimen" paper is now +2 Attack whenever a Fighter succeeds on the adventure wheel.
• Fighters' attack slightly boosted.
• Earl's captain perk now gives 4 Collect tokens per Paper.
• Amir's Compliment isn't awesomely strong anymore
• A certain non-existing creature in Shangri-La is now more approachable. (Adventure Wheel is actually passable).

FIXES:

• Fixed a few impossible achievements. 100% completion rate is possible.
• Fixed quest/story state on expeditions sometimes not saving properly
• Improved some user interfaces on small screens
• Fixed Agatha's inspiring course not being buffed by Knowledge is Power
• Font rendering now uses less memory
• Fixed miscellaneous bugs and typos

Patch 183 (11 September 2015)

Gameplay:

• Added some new events and encounters. You'll have to explore to find them ;)
• Added Difficulty settings: Easy, Normal, Classic, Impossible. This is selected at start, unchangeable. The 'Plus' achievements from Adventure mode can only be awarded on Classic or higher.
• Added a cheat mode which enables a 'Win Encounter' mode.
  

  Issues:

• Fixed exploit where people could continue after their 5th expedition
• Game is playable with mouse only
• Crash fix in Job UI
• Better handling of corruption in save games
• Miscellaneous fixes for crashes and bugs and broken content.

Patch 179 (10 September 2015)

• Small fixes to missing/wrong texts
• Small balance change so that Gun Smuggler in the Caribbean has lower range.
• Fixed a few rare crashes regarding loading games, spending Insight, exiting expeditions and selecting leveling options.
• Add option for mail address in crash-reports, so that we can contact you directly regarding crashes made during Renowned Explorers. Should work for Windows and OSX instances.
• Can now determine correct windows version, so we can assist you better with crashes (Windows 10).
• Added diagnostic and information so that we can check driver versions, and assist with updating when necessary. We are also generating better error reports for driver crashes.
• Can now properly report out of memory issues that are occurring for some users.
• Some users are running out of memory in video RAM or RAM, we are looking into unloading this data more efficiently.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn't click on units during a battle.
• Solved several saving/loading bugs.
• Fixed ability animations freezing after a frame drop.
• Improved some animations and added missing speech bubbles.
• Small balance tweaks
• Fixed various small bugs.
• Still looking into issues that user are having with integrated Intel graphics cards on Windows.