Combat

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Curious Expedition 2 has a dice-based combat system. During an expedition, you might face dangerous wild animals or get into a fight with someone. It is possible to play the whole game as a pacifist but there are also classes like the big game hunter that are very combat-focused.

Quick Start

How does it play?

1. Roll your dice at the start of your turn.
   • Actions: Every face that is not white is an action you can perform. Some are attacks that deal damage, others are status effects that apply buffs for your trek and the rest are debuffs against the enemies.
   • Boosting: Another thing you can do is boosting a die. When you select an action, you have the possibility to boost that action with 1, 2 or 3 dice of the same color as the selected action. When you boost an action you chose to let go of the other die’s action but therefore you will have a much stronger effect on the selected action.
2. You can reroll your dice once. It will automatically select the ones that yielded no results but you can also choose to add others.
3. Once you have played all your actions you can finish your turn and it is the enemy's turn.
   • You can see what actions the enemies will perform next by hovering over the enemies. This is useful to plan your own actions.
   • When ending your turn you will gain or lose some sanity. This is your combat spirit. It decreases every turn, so you should always try to beat your enemy as fast as possible.
   • The enemy then performs their actions.

Images

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  The dice each character rolled.

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  A boosted rifle attack. Each added dice gives a boost of 15 damage.

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  Reroll your dice.

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  Hover over enemies to see their next attack.

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  Fighting spirit.

The Dice

the anthropologist's dice

Where do the dice come from?

• The explorer and trek members: everyone in your trek has a unique die, some animals even have 2.
• Hand equipment: every item that you can equip with your hand also has a unique die (mostly weapons). Make sure to have the item equipped to use it during combat.

There is a lot to strategize for combat in the choice of characters and weapons. Generally, you should always try to have as many trek members as possible and make sure they all have a weapon equipped.

Upgrade Dice

Generally, dice will start with 3 blank faces, low values, and the possibility to boost only with one other die.
When upgrading:

• The dice will replace its blank faces with more actions and make it more likely to get the dice actions.
• The action values will increase (for example a damage value will get higher and higher).
• The dice can be boosted with two dice and then with three dice to make extremely strong attacks.

Character Dice

You can upgrade your character's die by promoting them.

Item Dice

You can upgrade your item's die by upgrading it against tickets at lux labs.

Dice colors

The colors are important for Dice Challenges and boosting in combat. In combat, you can always boost a dice with another die of the same color.

Meaning of the colors:

• Red dice are mostly about very physical actions.
• Green dice are about actions that need delicate executions.
• Blue dice are mostly about smart actions.

Dice Action types

Die can perform a variety of actions that range from dealing Damage to causing various Status Effects.

Common Actions

Action	Type	Effect	Example
Damage	Attack	Damages the enemy and makes them lose health.	Throwing Axe
Strength	Buff	Strengthen yourself or your companions and make their attack more powerful.	Stimulant Capsules
Weakness	Debuff	Weaken your opponent and make their next attack less powerful.
Vulnerable	Debuff	Make an enemy vulnerable so that every attack on them will make more damage.	Flash Powder
Stun	Special	Stun an enemy for a combat round. They won't perform their next attack. Preventing multiple enemy attacks requires more stun.
Poison	Debuff	When empoisoning an enemy they lose health every turn.
Bleeding	Debuff	When making an enemy bleed they will lose health again every time they take an action.
Burning	Debuff	When attacking an enemy with fire they lose health every turn. But the received damage decreases every turn until the fire is gone.	Torch
Shield	Buff	Sets up a shield for the whole trek. Every enemy attack first goes into the shield. Only after destroying it, they will continue making damage to the trek members.	Protective Totem
Armour	Buff	When a character has armor the received damage is reduced.	Tortoise Breastplate
Heal	Buff	Regenerate some health for yourself or your companions.	Healing Incense dice action from the Censer
Taunt	Buff	All enemy attacks target specific ally.	Bait
Revive	Buff	Revive will bring a character at 0 Health Inline74.png back to the amount listed.	Adrenaline Syringe
Untargetable	Buff	Cannot be targeted in combat.	Smoke Satchel

Special Actions

Action	Type	Effect	Example
Bring back dice	Special	Brings back a random already used die.
Duplicate dice	Special	Chose a die to duplicate.
Reroll dice	Special	Choose one (or more) die to reroll.	Rabbit's Foot