Two tiny changes that we somehow missed in the update!

• The 3 new weapons can now be sold

• The 3 new characters are now in OPP Mode

We're back, with a new update to Death Road, and the announcement of an all new game.

Read below to see plans for our next updates, wishlist the spiritual sequel to Death Road, and read a full list of changes for the PANCREAS update!

As always, thanks for all your support!

Space Dingus will feature online co-op multiplayer, more interactive toilets than ever before, mouse-aiming for sick headshots, customizable spaceships, and more than 1 enemy type (I fought against this).

Watch the Trailer and Wishlist the game here on Steam[store.steampowered.com] - and tell your friends!

We built a new engine, so that the game now supports seamless drop-in online multiplayer. We also plan extensive mod support, with Steam Workshop. During the engine switch (which a big reason as to why I've been so busy for awhile), I decided to go for a sci-fi theme as a way to refresh development, instead of the planned fantasy theme we were working on in the Anniversary teasers.

If this does well, we hope to both restart the fantasy themed take I was planning, and start on a true sequel to Death Road to Canada.

Tentative Title: Death Road 2 Canada: 2: 2WICE

Also, keep an eye out on the Official Rocketcat Discord[discord.gg] and the announcements on the Space Dingus Steam page. We plan to announce a big surprise event in the coming months, and it will only be in those two places.

We're planning on more frequent updates again for Death Road to Canada this year. Professor Sycamore, from the modding community, is currently working on one now. He has helped with both an update in the past, and the current update is pretty much all him!
I will talk more about this during the Anniversary news post, which is in about a month.

See you then!

• New Trader added to the trading camps! He sells 3 different weapons with unique mechanics, all involving new RELOAD mechanics:

  • DUCK HUNTER: A shotgun with short range, but shooting zombies has shrapnel ricochet everywhere. Additionally, reloads a shell at a time, and fires them faster as long as you don't run out completely.

  • DOLT BIG IRON: A pistol that fires six shots, extremely fast if you hold ATTACK down. It then takes awhile to reload. You also fire much slower if you do careful attacks, so make sure to GO NUTS.

  • FLIP RIFLE: A strong rifle that fires MUCH FASTER if you fire it immediately after it reloads. Use the firing indicator over your head to help you figure out the timing.

• 3 New Special Recruits that you can find in trader camps. They all cost 15 food:

  • VAN SMELT: A big game hunter whose rifle has both a headshot mechanic, and a distance bonus mechanic. Go for the LONG SHOTS and BIG HEADSHOT COMBOS. Past 20 or 30 headshots, long distance shots will explode for noticeable AOE damage.

  • HONCHO: A gunslinger who can dual wield ranged weapons, for double the carnage. He also has a +2 bonus to max shooting, and a no-drop dagger, for when you invariably run out of ammo completely.

  • POOL CHAMP: A pool player. The bar sport. He has a pool cue that is UNBREAKABLE, which isn't that impressive as it was in my head now that I've typed it. You can also TIPPER HIT zombies at the very edge of your melee distance, for a bonus.

• O*P*P Mode updated for new characters.

• FOR MODDERS

  • Trying out a new way to organize update files, so that they're more self-contained again. This should cause less problems for mods in the future.

This is likely the last update before launch! Thanks for all your testing!

I'm going to post our future update plans at the launch for this update, along with a big announcement.

TO ACCESS THE TESTING BRANCH:

1. Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

2. Go to Properties

3. Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

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

• Bugfix for the Duck Hunter, now its shots should properly shrapnel through everything

• New art for all the new weapons, including Honcho's dagger.

• WE'RE BACK AGAIN

• Special Gimmick Weapons Trader, who can sell 3 different weapons with unique mechanics, all involving RELOADS:

  • DUCK HUNTER: A shotgun with short range, but shooting zombies has shrapnel ricochet everywhere. Additionally, reloads a shell at a time, and fires them faster as long as you don't run out completely.

  • DOLT BIG IRON: A pistol that fires six shots, extremely fast if you hold ATTACK down. It then takes awhile to reload. You also fire much slower if you do careful attacks, so make sure to GO NUTS.

  • FLIP RIFLE: A strong rifle that fires MUCH FASTER if you fire it immediately after it reloads. Use the firing indicator over your head to help you figure out the timing.

• 3 New Special Recruits that you can find in trader camps. They all cost 15 food:

  • VAN SMELT: A big game hunter whose rifle has both a headshot mechanic, and a distance bonus mechanic. Go for the LONG SHOTS and BIG HEADSHOT COMBOS. Past 20 or 30 headshots, long distance shots will explode for noticeable AOE damage.

  • HONCHO: A gunslinger who can dual wield ranged weapons, for double the carnage. He also has a +2 bonus to max shooting, and a no-drop dagger, for when you invariably run out of ammo completely.

  • POOL CHAMP: A pool player. The bar sport. He has a pool cue that is UNBREAKABLE, which isn't that impressive as it was in my head now that I've typed it. You can also TIPPER HIT zombies at the very edge of your melee distance, for a bonus.

• A new TEST NEW STUFF option at the start of each game, that will give you easy access to all of the above.

• FOR MODDERS

  • Trying out a new way to organize update files, so that they're more self-contained again. This should cause less problems for mods in the future.

Hello again! We're testing a coming-soon update to Death Road. This one features 3 new special characters and a new weapon trader, all centered around new unique mechanics!

TO ACCESS THE TESTING BRANCH:

1. Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library

2. Go to Properties

3. Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window

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

When this update is out, we'll also have a big announcement to share. Additionally, after this PANCREAS update, we have a possible plan to get more frequent updates out that we're going to try.

• WE'RE BACK AGAIN

• Special Gimmick Weapons Trader, who can sell 3 different weapons with unique mechanics, all involving RELOADS:

  • DUCK HUNTER: A shotgun with short range, but shooting zombies has shrapnel ricochet everywhere. Additionally, reloads a shell at a time, and fires them faster as long as you don't run out completely.

  • DOLT BIG IRON: A pistol that fires six shots, extremely fast if you hold ATTACK down. It then takes awhile to reload. You also fire much slower if you do careful attacks, so make sure to GO NUTS.

  • FLIP RIFLE: A strong rifle that fires MUCH FASTER if you fire it immediately after it reloads. Use the firing indicator over your head to help you figure out the timing.

• 3 New Special Recruits that you can find in trader camps. They all cost 15 food:

  • VAN SMELT: A big game hunter whose rifle has both a headshot mechanic, and a distance bonus mechanic. Go for the LONG SHOTS and BIG HEADSHOT COMBOS. Past 20 or 30 headshots, long distance shots will explode for noticeable AOE damage.

  • HONCHO: A gunslinger who can dual wield ranged weapons, for double the carnage. He also has a +2 bonus to max shooting, and a no-drop dagger, for when you invariably run out of ammo completely.

  • POOL CHAMP: A pool player. The bar sport. He has a pool cue that is UNBREAKABLE, which isn't that impressive as it was in my head now that I've typed it. You can also TIPPER HIT zombies at the very edge of your melee distance, for a bonus.

• A new TEST NEW STUFF option at the start of each game, that will give you easy access to all of the above.

• FOR MODDERS

  • Trying out a new way to organize update files, so that they're more self-contained again. This should cause less problems for mods in the future.

• The max limit for both Perks and Traits have been increased to 64, up from 32
  
• OPP's Familiar Lounge renamed to Character Lounge
  
• Fix for an edge case where you didn't get extra supplies for some characters in OPP and the Jerks modes
  
• Back to the Wall no longer enforces a boring personality
  
• Ex-Wrestler AI can now pick up zombies 4 real 4 real (5 real)
  
• A fix for Brck pmons
  
• MULTIPLE fixes for Brck pokeymons
  
• Johnny logic for recruitment with a full group
  
• Fix for teammates that died in a trader camp still able to talk in CYOA events in a camp
  
• Assault Shotgun added ot weapon_list_firearm
  
• Lowered the brck countdown by 1

1. Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library
   
2. Go to Properties
   
3. Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window
   
4. Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

• The max limit for both Perks and Traits have been increased to 64, up from 32
  
• OPP's Familiar Lounge renamed to Character Lounge
  
• Fix for an edge case where you didn't get extra supplies for some characters in OPP and the Jerks modes
  
• Back to the Wall no longer enforces a boring personality
  
• Ex-Wrestler AI can now pick up zombies 4 real 4 real (5 real)
  
• A fix for Brck pokemon

New Rare Characters
Brick the Pukeymon Trainer, Carter the Cartographer, Johnny the Soldier, Arq the Programmer
• Brick is a recruit in trader camps where you can buy Pukeyballs from him and/or recruit him, he has a special Pukeymon that follows him in missions that gradually evolves and gets more powerful
  
• Carter is a trader camp recruit, you can buy a map from her that will act as a free reroll for any ABL event. Recruiting her yields the Explorer and Pathfinder perks alongside the City Seeker trait
  
• Johnny is a rare character findable via rare city event. He has exceptional combat stats, 7 max for strength, fitness, and a max of 12(!) for shooting. He is based off a modified Berserk! Trait, with his medical and mechanical further not being trainable above 2
  
• Arq can be found via rare city event. He starts ith Gourmand, is slightly slow, and has a 2 point fitness penalty
  
  
  Major Changes
  
  
• The game now has an icon!
  
• 11 new events added! 2 Bandit events, 7 common events, 1 rare event, 1 camping event
  
• New functionality: Being able to get an extra "Always Be Looting" from an event!
  
• Lots of unused cyoa-images added to old events
  
  
• Back to the wall and Unpredictable traits added
  
• Supporter, Fierce Hitter, and Jack of All Trades perks added
  
• Support for Critical Hits added
  
• Fierce Tempered also adds some crit now
  
• AI Followers with Ex-Wrestler or Grappler can now pick up and throw zombies on their own!
  
  
• New Weapon: Fire Extinguisher. Finally added to the game!
  
• Support added for actually extinguishing permanent fires. Not so permanent now!
  
• The Four Jerks modes have had their zombie amounts lowered as per a popular suggestion from the server, 15% down from 30% for the normal Jerks and 200% down from 250% for the extreme Jerks.
  
• AI Followers can now pick up and throw Zombies on their own
  
• OBAMA is now case insensitive(!)
  
  
• Shorter version of zforecast, called zforecast-short, added to the Canada Crossing Event. This makes more room for the text after an image was added, and you didn't really need to know the time for the final event at that point, anyway
  
  
  Bug Fixes
  
  
• The tons of Custom Characters in the OPP mode removed, replaced with a teleport to the Familiar Hut. We had to separate these because there were so many characters in one scene that it was causing problems
  
• Better stack handling/error preventing in Familiar Hut
  
• Tweaked where the bonus loot Perks give you the bonus loots after Familiar Hut and OPP, to prevent possible exploits
  
• Fix for OMENT-secretdoc leading to the wrong event with picking 4 people
  
• Fixes for special character despair events for characters that didn't have one
  
• Removed some extraneous duplicate image calls for several old events
  
• Fixed some old events that had their images not show up due to a bug
  
• Fix for an all-buddies-dead join crash
  
• Center the window after creation, to avoid some weirdness on older SDL versions
  
• Better dead loot/weapon text updates in trunk screen when driving or in mission
  
• Potential fix for character statmod icons/descriptions not displaying if mod ID over 31
  
• Check word "someperkchecks" for Ultrafit, Healthcare, and Gun Collector perks to not give you supplies unless you actually recruit the recruits
  
• Bow and Pyro regen events moved a bit to play nice with Back to the Wall, along with adding it to Dailymedic
  
• Fixed some weirdness with blurbs leaving a bunch of stuff on the stack, but this may still happen
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to forget a character's .skeleton_spriteid when saving and loading a game
  
• Fixes for some old camp event CYOAS
  
• Santa event fix
  
• Fixes for BURN UNIT when you pick from 4 people
  
• Fix for an incorrect link when picking from 4 people in the Chessmaster Event
  
• Fix for Apocalyptic Coffee event if you were a Dog or Cat
  
• Fixes for special character despair events for characters that didn't have one
  
  
  Note for Modders
  
  
• EXPERIMENTAL: If you fill up the game's atlas size, it should now double in size automatically on Windows. Let us know if this works! This shouldn't change anything with the normal game, unmodded
  
• MODDERS/MYSELF: Extra comments added to old files so I don't forget basic things like "how do event card draws work

1. Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library
   
2. Go to Properties
   
3. Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window
   
4. Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

EDIT 6/19 New Quick Changes:
• Up for Mac and Linux!
  
• Fixed a bug in the ANIME BANDIT event for a crash if you had multiple anime girls in different stages of decomposition
  
  EDIT 6/18 New Quick Changes:
  
  
• OMENT-lonedog now has a result for Friend of Dog
  
• Removed the OPP mode teleport to Familiar Hut for real now
  
  
  New Rare Characters
  Brick the Pukeymon Trainer, Carter the Cartographer, Johnny the Soldier, Arq the Programmer
  
  
• Brick is a recruit in trader camps where you can buy Pukeyballs from him and/or recruit him, he has a special Pukeymon that follows him in missions that gradually evolves and gets more powerful
  
• Carter is a trader camp recruit, you can buy a map from her that will act as a free reroll for any ABL event. Recruiting her yields the Explorer and Pathfinder perks alongside the City Seeker trait
  
• Johnny is a rare character findable via rare city event. He has exceptional combat stats, 7 max for strength, fitness, and a max of 12(!) for shooting. He is based off a modified Berserk! Trait, with his medical and mechanical further not being trainable above 2
  
• Arq can be found via rare city event. He starts ith Gourmand, is slightly slow, and has a 2 point fitness penalty
  
  
  Major Changes
  
  
• The game now has an icon!
  
• 11 new events added! 2 Bandit events, 7 common events, 1 rare event, 1 camping event
  
• New functionality: Being able to get an extra "Always Be Looting" from an event!
  
• Lots of unused cyoa-images added to old events
  
  
• Back to the wall and Unpredictable traits added
  
• Supporter, Fierce Hitter, and Jack of All Trades perks added
  
• Support for Critical Hits added
  
• Fierce Tempered also adds some crit now
  
• AI Followers with Ex-Wrestler or Grappler can now pick up and throw zombies on their own!
  
  
• New Weapon: Fire Extinguisher. Finally added to the game!
  
• Support added for actually extinguishing permanent fires. Not so permanent now!
  
• The Four Jerks modes have had their zombie amounts lowered as per a popular suggestion from the server, 15% down from 30% for the normal Jerks and 200% down from 250% for the extreme Jerks.
  
• AI Followers can now pick up and throw Zombies on their own
  
• OBAMA is now case insensitive(!)
  
  
• Shorter version of zforecast, called zforecast-short, added to the Canada Crossing Event. This makes more room for the text after an image was added, and you didn't really need to know the time for the final event at that point, anyway
  
  
  Bug Fixes
  
  
• The tons of Custom Characters in the OPP mode removed, replaced with a teleport to the Familiar Hut. We had to separate these because there were so many characters in one scene that it was causing problems
  
• Better stack handling/error preventing in Familiar Hut
  
• Tweaked where the bonus loot Perks give you the bonus loots after Familiar Hut and OPP, to prevent possible exploits
  
• Fix for OMENT-secretdoc leading to the wrong event with picking 4 people
  
• Fixes for special character despair events for characters that didn't have one
  
• Removed some extraneous duplicate image calls for several old events
  
• Fixed some old events that had their images not show up due to a bug
  
• Fix for an all-buddies-dead join crash
  
• Center the window after creation, to avoid some weirdness on older SDL versions
  
• Better dead loot/weapon text updates in trunk screen when driving or in mission
  
• Potential fix for character statmod icons/descriptions not displaying if mod ID over 31
  
• Check word "someperkchecks" for Ultrafit, Healthcare, and Gun Collector perks to not give you supplies unless you actually recruit the recruits
  
• Bow and Pyro regen events moved a bit to play nice with Back to the Wall, along with adding it to Dailymedic
  
• Fixed some weirdness with blurbs leaving a bunch of stuff on the stack, but this may still happen
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to forget a character's .skeleton_spriteid when saving and loading a game
  
• Fixes for some old camp event CYOAS
  
• Santa event fix
  
• Fixes for BURN UNIT when you pick from 4 people
  
• Fix for an incorrect link when picking from 4 people in the Chessmaster Event
  
• Fix for Apocalyptic Coffee event if you were a Dog or Cat
  
• Fixes for special character despair events for characters that didn't have one
  
  
  Note for Modders
  
  
• EXPERIMENTAL: If you fill up the game's atlas size, it should now double in size automatically on Windows. Let us know if this works! This shouldn't change anything with the normal game, unmodded
  
• MODDERS/MYSELF: Extra comments added to old files so I don't forget basic things like "how do event card draws work

1. Right Click "Death Road to Canada" in your Steam Library
   
2. Go to Properties
   
3. Click on the Betas tab on the left of the Properties window
   
4. Click on the dropdown in the top right, and change the Beta Participation branch from "None" to "beta - TESTBRANCH"

New Rare Characters
Brick the Pukeymon Trainer, Carter the Cartographer, Johnny the Soldier, Arq the Programmer
• Brick is a recruit in trader camps where you can buy Pukeyballs from him and/or recruit him, he has a special Pukeymon that follows him in missions that gradually evolves and gets more powerful
  
• Carter is a trader camp recruit, you can buy a map from her that will act as a free reroll for any ABL event. Recruiting her yields the Explorer and Pathfinder perks alongside the City Seeker trait
  
• Johnny is a rare character findable via rare city event. He has exceptional combat stats, 7 max for strength, fitness, and a max of 12(!) for shooting. He is based off a modified Berserk! Trait, with his medical and mechanical further not being trainable above 2
  
• Arq can be found via rare city event. He starts ith Gourmand, is slightly slow, and has a 2 point fitness penalty
  
  
  Major Changes
  
  
• The game now has an icon!
  
• 11 new events added! 2 Bandit events, 7 common events, 1 rare event, 1 camping event
  
• New functionality: Being able to get an extra "Always Be Looting" from an event!
  
• Lots of unused cyoa-images added to old events
  
  
• Back to the wall and Unpredictable traits added
  
• Supporter, Fierce Hitter, and Jack of All Trades perks added
  
• Support for Critical Hits added
  
• Fierce Tempered also adds some crit now
  
• AI Followers with Ex-Wrestler or Grappler can now pick up and throw zombies on their own!
  
  
• New Weapon: Fire Extinguisher. Finally added to the game!
  
• Support added for actually extinguishing permanent fires. Not so permanent now!
  
• The Four Jerks modes have had their zombie amounts lowered as per a popular suggestion from the server, 15% down from 30% for the normal Jerks and 200% down from 250% for the extreme Jerks.
  
• AI Followers can now pick up and throw Zombies on their own
  
• OBAMA is now case insensitive(!)
  
  
• Shorter version of zforecast, called zforecast-short, added to the Canada Crossing Event. This makes more room for the text after an image was added, and you didn't really need to know the time for the final event at that point, anyway
  
  
  Bug Fixes
  
  
• The tons of Custom Characters in the OPP mode removed, replaced with a teleport to the Familiar Hut. We had to separate these because there were so many characters in one scene that it was causing problems
  
• Better stack handling/error preventing in Familiar Hut
  
• Tweaked where the bonus loot Perks give you the bonus loots after Familiar Hut and OPP, to prevent possible exploits
  
• Fix for OMENT-secretdoc leading to the wrong event with picking 4 people
  
• Fixes for special character despair events for characters that didn't have one
  
• Removed some extraneous duplicate image calls for several old events
  
• Fixed some old events that had their images not show up due to a bug
  
• Fix for an all-buddies-dead join crash
  
• Center the window after creation, to avoid some weirdness on older SDL versions
  
• Better dead loot/weapon text updates in trunk screen when driving or in mission
  
• Potential fix for character statmod icons/descriptions not displaying if mod ID over 31
  
• Check word "someperkchecks" for Ultrafit, Healthcare, and Gun Collector perks to not give you supplies unless you actually recruit the recruits
  
• Bow and Pyro regen events moved a bit to play nice with Back to the Wall, along with adding it to Dailymedic
  
• Fixed some weirdness with blurbs leaving a bunch of stuff on the stack, but this may still happen
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to forget a character's .skeleton_spriteid when saving and loading a game
  
• Fixes for some old camp event CYOAS
  
• Santa event fix
  
• Fixes for BURN UNIT when you pick from 4 people
  
• Fix for an incorrect link when picking from 4 people in the Chessmaster Event
  
• Fix for Apocalyptic Coffee event if you were a Dog or Cat
  
• Fixes for special character despair events for characters that didn't have one
  
  
  Note for Modders
  
  
• EXPERIMENTAL: If you fill up the game's atlas size, it should now double in size automatically on Windows. Let us know if this works! This shouldn't change anything with the normal game, unmodded
  
• MODDERS/MYSELF: Extra comments added to old files so I don't forget basic things like "how do event card draws work