Hello everyone,

Today we are thrilled to announce our crowdfunding campaign for the next game in the Wasteland series: Wasteland 3!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxYUgRdp0EE

Following the critically acclaimed releases of 2014's Wasteland 2 and 2015's Wasteland 2: Director's Cut, fans have been clamoring for a direct sequel. Now we can bring it to you, with your help!

https://www.fig.co/campaigns/wasteland-3

• A party-based role-playing game, with a renewed focus on our trademark complex story reactivity and strategic combat.
  
• By including vehicles, environmental dangers, and a revamped, more fluid action system, we are evolving on Wasteland 2's deep tactical turn-based combat and unique encounter design.
  
• Play by yourself or with a friend in story-driven synchronous or asynchronous multiplayer. Choices open up (or close off) mission opportunities, areas to explore, story arcs, and lots of other content.
  
• Your Ranger Base is a core part of the experience. As you help the local people and establish a reputation in Colorado, quests and narrative will force you to make decisions on how to lead.
  
• The game will be set in the savage lands of frozen Colorado, where survival is difficult and a happy outcome is never guaranteed. Players will face difficult moral choices and make sacrifices that will change the game world.
  
• Wasteland 3 will feature a deep and engaging story utilizing a newly-revamped dialog tree system from the celebrated writers of Torment: Tides of Numenera.
  
• Simultaneously releasing to Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

For the full details on the game and the crowdfunding campaign, please see here: https://www.fig.co/campaigns/wasteland-3

Whether you choose to pledge or simply spread the word, we hope we can make Wasteland 3 with your help. Thank you all!

Today, we have a new update for Wasteland 2: Director's Cut on PC. This brings the first release of our long-awaited modding support to the game. This mod support allows for users, among other things, to change and override template and prefab files used in the game.

We invite any interested community members to read up on our mod support guide by our Technical Director John Alvarado, and check out our Community Content forums for Wasteland 2 for further discussion.

Today, we're pleased to release a new Wasteland 2: Director's Cut update for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. This is a small hotfix release, and primarily corrects a memory leak some users were experiencing.

If you run into issues with the game not running after the update, the first thing to do is verify your game cache files to ensure the update was downloaded and installed correctly. Instructions here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335

• Updated engine to Unity 5.2.2p2. This is a patch release of the engine and fixes a memory leak issue with dynamic shadows.

Today we are happy to release the first major update for Wasteland 2: Director's Cut on PC. This release brings a number of bug fixes, balance improvements and a new feature in the form of official Steam Controller support (Steam only).

Note: If you experience issues after the update, please be sure to verify your Steam game cache files per these instructions: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335

Full notes can be found below.

Highlights

• Fixed companions not spawning correctly at HQ after dismissing them.
  
• Fixed disappearing Perks on companions after dismissing them.
  
• Fixed inability to open doors in Ranger Citadel and Ag Center Central Complex after using Examine while playing with a controller.
  
• Added Steam Controller support! Select Steam Controller from the Options menu to use it (Steam version only).
  
• Export option has been re-added to Character Creation. Look for it on the final step for that specific character you want to export (Select Quirk).
  
• Perk and Quirk balance updates and improvements.

Known Issues

• Some users may notice a memory leak while playing for longer periods of time. This is a known Unity engine bug and will be addressed in a hotfix in the near future.
  
• Steam Controller support may not function correctly on some Windows 8, Mac or Linux systems. We are currently investigating this.

General

• Fixed companions not spawning correctly at HQ after dismissing them.
  
• Fixed disappearing Perks on companions after dismissing them.
  
• Fixed inability to open doors in Ranger Citadel and Ag Center Central Complex after using Examine while playing with a controller.
  
• Fixed a bug which could cause Precision Strikes with melee attacks to not apply correctly in certain conditions.
  
• Fixed a bug with Rangers sometimes running in place when conversation or cutscene stopped them.
  
• Fixed a bug where Ranger running animation could stutter when playing with a controller at low framerates.
  
• Fixed a bug which could cause killed enemies to respawn if the player manually saved over and loaded the AutoSave slot.
  
• Fixed a bug where saving the game was greyed out after fixing the robot arm in the Ag Center Central Basement.
  
• Fixed a bug where resetting keybindings to defaults and then customizing them immediately after could result in corrupt keybindings after restarting the game.
  User Interface
  
• Export option has been re-added to Character Creation. Look for it on the final step for that specific character you want to export (Select Quirk).
  
• Fixed a bug where male portrait snapshots weren't taking height of the character into account properly. Snapshots should now correctly show the character's face.
  
• Fixed a bug where custom portraits would sometimes temporarily disappear from the portrait gallery.
  
• Fixed a bug/exploit where Attribute points could be gained or lost permanently with certain status effects.
  
• Fixed a bug which could sometimes prevent selecting certain skills in the Skills screen while playing with a controller.
  
• Fixed a bug which could sometimes cause the Skills Radial menu to only show Lockpicking as a valid option while playing with a controller.
  
• Fixed companion members showing conversation cursor while in the squad.

Audio

• Fixed voice-over lines not playing in some conditions after returning to a location.
  
• Conversation voice-over dialog now plays as 2D audio.
  
• Bark voice-overs now play as 50/50 2D and 3D so they can be better heard at a distance.
  
• Fixed Sniper Rifle reload sound on certain weapons.

Gameplay

• Added Steam Controller support! Select Steam Controller from the Options menu to use it (Steam version only).
  
• Fixed Meson Cannon not properly firing on the player.
  
• Fixed Attack of Opportunity melee Perks from interfering with Ambush functionality.
  
• Added some more Shovels to vendors throughout the game, just in case the player lost theirs.
  
• Added missing Open tooltips to the Highpool Underground doors. Players were missing that the doors could now be opened simply by left-clicking on them.
  
• Turned off Investigate Sounds property from the Rodia vendor guards near the gate. This was causing them to run around awkwardly if the player fired weapons nearby.
  
• Lucky CON bonus on characters is now saved properly.
  
• Fixed a bug where a cutscene sometimes wouldn't end in Temple of Titan the second time you visited Dr. Kyle.
  
• Veteran characters are exported correctly on game end.
  
• Veteran characters no longer get exported with missing clothes. They were being dealt a certain damage type in the endgame which also just happened to vaporize clothing.

Balance

• Increased the effects of Manic Depressive to +2/-2 to Attributes, to make it a bit more compelling to select.
  
• Reduced the effects of Disparnumerophobia to +1/-1 to Attributes.
  
• Increased the Applied Force line of Perks slightly.
  
• Increased time range for Animal Husbandry effects to take place.
  
• Increased Tactical Positioning damage bonus slightly.
  
• Increased the Whack-a-Mole bonus to Chance to Hit slightly.
  
• Increased the Bomberman bonus to Area of Effect range slightly.
  
• Increased the Long Arm bonus to Throw Distance range slightly.
  
• Increased the Loose Change drop chance slightly.
  
• Increased the bonus granted by Intimidating, Affable and Know-it-All, to make them more compelling to select.
  
• Reduced the Improvised Explosives salvage chance slightly.
  
• Removed Friendly Fire chance from Master Hunter entirely.
  
• Fixed Bandit line of Perks to no longer affect Submachine Guns.
  
• Increased the Bandit line of Perks bonus attack chance.
  
• Opportunist now shows the correct bonus damage. The text was previously incorrect.
  
• Increased the effective range of Opportunist bonus damage slightly.
  
• Increased Big Game Hunter and Roboticist bonus damage.
  
• Updated the Alarm Disarming line of Perks, Ghost and Quick Reflexes. Ghost is now placed at a lower skill requirement and Quick Reflexes now grants permanent bonus Evasion. This should make them more compelling to take.
  
• Removed Conductive flag from Goat Hide Armor, since it's not made out of metal.
  
• Improved some old unique weapons so that they are more worthwhile to use.
  
• Removed an erroneous 1.2x Field Medic skill multiplier on Mysophobic. The flat bonus healing effects still remain as described.

Localization

• Added Turkish localization. Thank you to Cem Filiz and the Crewals localization team for their kind efforts.
  
• Localization updates to in-game text. Thank you to our player community for these improvements.
  
• Misc. typo and localization fixes.

Hello everyone,

We've released a small hotfix for the Director's Cut. The only change is:

- Adjusted camera zoom distance. Maximum zoom distance now matches that of the original Wasteland 2, but with the slightly closer minimum zoom distance of the Director's Cut.

Windows should be going live right about now, with OS X and Linux to follow shortly.

Thanks,
inXile