When I reviewed it in May, I pretty much liked the broken road. Its Australian take on the post-apocalypse was rich and individualistic, and I admired the attempt to ground your in-game choices with a real moral philosophy. But there is no doubt that it was an unsettling experience, with a world often felt fragmentary, a confused quest system, boring combat, and a sudden ending.

Since its launch, the developer Drop Bear Bytes has been working to address the game's problems and has removed a new patch that will make some significant changes earlier today. This includes fixes for some issues that specifically bothered me during the review.

As explained by the team, Patch 1.2 "focuses on all four origin stories" leading up to Merredin's gate, where the second act of the game begins. In the release version, these origin stories were a strictly linear issue guiding you right up to Merredin, but Drop Bear Bytes changed this to "access the Overworld map to explore the game's opening." The companions you encounter are also "much more reactive in the origin story," but certain characters that didn't appear in some of the origin stories do so now.

In addition to these additions, there are some small mechanical changes, but they should still make a big difference to the experience. First, the Drop Bear Bite has added a "fast" mode to the exploration movement, which is very welcome because trekking around some of the larger areas at the koala's pace can be tedious. The studio's also worked around the issue of not being able to click on a target when they overlap with the landscape/other characters, and clicking on their portraits

In addition to these more substantial changes, an array of more specific adjustments for specific companions and quests, as well as some new combat options with new Raider enemies. It includes encounters.  Finally, there are some new

this patch doesn't address some of my problems with the game, such as its overwhelming third act, which includes the ability to keep dogs, cats and koalas (the developers emphasize) and the definition of phrases like "Woop woop" and "Sex Trophies" in the game's Australian slang dictionary. But Drop Bear Bytes states that work on broken roads is "not done at all," so perhaps more patches will come in the future. At this point it is clear that the broken road (which was delayed 12 times from last year to 41 this year), which was launched with developers not completely satisfied, is not recommended to buy based on this update alone, but it is worth revisiting if Drop Bear Bytes can apply similar changes to the rest of the game.