Endless Expeditions is the largest update to Pacific Drive since it launched a year ago. It's available now on PC and PlayStation 5!
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Version 1.9.1 - Highlights
- Expeditions[list]
- Expeditions start in the garage with an ever-changing set of challenges and restrictions, generating new routes, and ramping up the difficulty to ensure that every journey feels fresh. This new way to play is perfect for roguelite fans, offering players endless possibilities to keep playing.
- reviously, Pacific Drive saved upon entry to every new junction and you were able to manually save at any time in the garage. Now you can also suspend your trip at any time in a junction and keep all your progress up to that point. Upon loading back into the game you’ll find yourself on the same trip, in the same location, with your inventory up to date, and your progress in the junction saved.
- Over an hour of new music, new fax machine entries, updates to tools, UI, performance fixes, and so much more! Endless Expeditions is truly our biggest update ever and we're so excited to share it with you.
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Features and Content
- Expeditions Mode[list]
- Expeditions start in the garage with an ever-changing set of challenges and restrictions, generating new routes, and ramping up the difficulty to ensure that every journey feels fresh. This also includes new Anchor types, Francis VO, and the ZETI device.
- da is a trader who has appeared in the Zone to swap resources for hard to find parts, cosmetics, and more
- new type of obstacle - locked Anchors that appear in Expeditions
- Pit Stop Junctions
- Ida’s Exchange Junctions
- Anchor Junctions
- A.R.D.A Junctions
- Desolate, Junkyard, and Residential Junctions
- This is a new part category that helps specifically with Expeditions restrictions
- Specifically used as a tutorial and for players using the Jumpstart feature to get into the game
- At the start of every junction, you will find a Gas Island to help you on your Expeditions
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- Suspend Run[list]
- Exit your game at any time, and “suspend” your progress for the next time you join the game.
- Experienced players have the opportunity to start a new game from the main menu and skip the first quest.
- Autosaving during transition points can now be turned off via gameplay settings
- Player Info HUD
- Mission HUD
- Item & Interaction HUD
- Minor Post process GPU optimizations for damage and other player effects
- Asynchronous loading for held-in-hand items has been improved to prevent gameplay hitching
- Prompt to opt out can be found in the Game Data section of the Accessibility settings as well as on first startup for the Endless Expeditions update
- Anonymized information that is helping Ironwood improve Pacific Drive
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- ARC Device Updates[list]
- ARC Device map icons now display tooltip information when hovered over and have been increased in size for better visibility
- ARC Device map now consolidates groups of icons into a single icon
- Plasma Scrapper[list]
- The Plasma Scrapper now automatically collects scrapped resources, has received damage, activation time, and distance buffs.
- Thermal Vacuum[list]
- The Thermal Vacuum can now open unlocked containers while gathering materials, and automatically add them to your car’s inventory if it’s close by, also has a higher durability, wider range
- A new Breebunn Bobblehead is acquirable for the car
- Two new mirror ornaments from Elliejoypanic and Outhouse069
- Additional radio interstitials have been added
- 6 of these songs have been added to the Streamer Safe music list
- Split Route Planner information into 2 screens, Route Features and Route Details that you can toggle between
- NEW: The Features Screen [list]
- Displays your critical story mission
- Junction Features displays key info about the current hovered junction
- Junction Conditions now include a brief description
- General pass on colors and states of Junctions to make it a bit easier to understand
- The route planning screen now more clearly shows undiscovered junctions and how to reveal them
- Once the Bypass Junction garage upgrade is built, you now only need to drive through a single Highway map even if multiple stretches of highway are on the route
- Will now rotate through all available DLC options
- Streamers featured in game
- New music credits
- Added additional IW Pets
Bugs and UX Improvements
- Fixed Battery Jumper charging animation for XL Roof Battery
- Abandon, Save and Quit Options have been removed from Pause Menu
- Fixed an issue where a Quirk with the “Brakes Weaken” behavior could cause problems with the car’s physics (i.e. launch across the map randomly) when braking
- Fixed gas pump interactivity, including cables and vacuuming nozzles
- Fixed Radio audio doubling when installing the ARC Device
- Removed Legend UI prompts from ARC Device and Route Planner
- Fixed Sprint unintentionally toggling on if you were sprinting while opening a menu [list]
- Also fixes some instances of sprint getting toggled while trying to use certain tools, preventing use
- his includes new Expeditions exclusive conversions
- Randomization seeds have been improved for expeditions and campaign maps
- Updated Storm Speed, as occasionally storms would move slower than intended
- Olympium Vein density has been increased
- Adjusted anchor spawn frequency for main questline
- Improved Spawn rates, certain materials now appear more frequently
- Swamp Coral, Olympium, and Red Balloons
Known Issues
- When reloading from a suspended run, the car might experience an incredible amount of upward movement depending on how closely to the car the game was suspended[list]
- This situation is dependent upon frame perfect scenarios and is affected by car and player collision
- etails may appear in route planner information if junction is repurposed from a Campaign Mission
- ecommended troubleshooting - update all drivers and verify game files via Steam or Epic
- Temporary solution: Using the tool will make the text scale properly
