Take command of a hand-picked group of diverse explorers and travel across the globe in search of legendary treasures while staying ahead of your rivals. Earn prestige in the International Society and become the world's most Renowned Explorer!

Visit lost temples, forgotten cities and untamed wilderness to discover magnificent treasures. Find your way past wolves, smugglers and angry locals to become known as a fearless explorer. Every expedition has challenging encounters and your nemesis Rivaleux will take any chance to thwart your efforts.

Select your band of adventurers carefully! Each of the 20 explorers has their own expertise and character traits when dealing with conflicts. Choose among Fighters, Scouts, Speakers and Scientists and find out the best way to use their talents.

Acquire knowledge, get rich, or become famous by completing procedurally generated expeditions. Use these resources to get the skills, support and equipment you need for your next endeavor.

Approach the locals consciously when running into a conflict;
- Fight them with Melee, Ranged and Area of Effect attacks,
- win them over using Cheers, Charms and Compliments,
- or scare them away by Insults, Taunts and Humiliation

Every encounter is a new challenge with many solutions and it's up to you to build a reputation. Are you a diplomat, a schemer or a fighter..?

Start your adventure now!

Patch 522 (21 December 2018)

FIXED:

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

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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

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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

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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

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Patch 508 (14 September 2018)

• hotfix for version 503

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Patch 459 (12 September 2017)

FIXED:

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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Update (10 April 2017)

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

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Update (27 February 2017)

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

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Patch 416 (24 February 2017)

FIXES

• Fixed an Egypt treasure pool.

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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!

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Patch 407 (8 December 2016)

FIXES

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

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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

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Patch 403 (13 November 2016)

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Patch 275 (28 January 2016)

• hotfix for patch 274.

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Patch 274 (26 January 2016)

• fixes a crash when encountering The Sunken Cathedral

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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.

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Patch 264 (22 December 2015)

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

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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.

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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)

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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

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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.

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Patch 229 (02 November 2015)

• Fixes a few small text issues and one unlock condition

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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

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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.

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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.

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Patch 190 (25 September 2015)

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

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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

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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.

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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.