Greetings Defenders, In just a few short hours we will be kicking-off the first public test weekend for the rebalance we have been discussing all month. Starting tonight at 8pm we will be rolling out the rebalance patch. It will stay live until Monday morning at 11:30am when we roll the live client back to the previous version. What this means for you: Heroes, pets, towers, enemies, abilities, and everything else except gear will be conforming to the new design set forth this month in a series of “Let’s talk about” posts on the DDE forums. Due to the method in which gear is stored in code, it will remain in the old balance regime because there will be no good way to revert it once we convert. What this means for you: You could find yourself in possession of some seriously overpowered gear. Given that we know that much of the existing gear could be OP, we are asking you, fine dungeon defenders, to work with us in testing this rebalance and avoid posting feedback on the forums based on experiences with already existing gear. Starting a new hero or farming new gear for an existing hero are good ways to get a feel for what new progressions systems will feel like. While we encourage you to discuss this topic amongst yourselves all weekend, on Monday, when we revert back to the current patch, we will posting a consolidated feedback thread on the forums where we will be tracking community sentiment on the rebalance. This thread will directly influence how we move forward with testing and possibly applying the rebalance. Thank you for reading up on this topic and bearing with us as we completed the patch. For more information about the Rebalance, check out this comprehensive post.

Key Features

• Defend with towers
  
• Four-player online co-op
  
• Ground-breaking story about a group of children who try to save the world
  
• Level up 12 different hero classes
  
• Argue about which hero is the best on our forums
  
• Kill an Ogre with a chainsaw sword
  
• Fight a gigantic dragon (Spoiler!)
  
• Put some wings on your heroes and dye their clothes pink -- because you can
  
• Look up the best map builds online; pass this knowledge off as your own

What's New

• 5 campaign missions including Embermount Volcano with an all new Boss Fight & cinematics and Omenak with an all new Boss Fight
  
• 2 new bonus missions and a new challenge mission
  
• A new community made mission (Moonbase)
  
• Visible armor system with 70 new armor pieces
  
• 10 combat consumables (throw grenades, summon lightning storms, instantly heal your defenses, and more)
  
• Amulets that let you find and equip unique hero abilities

• Secure dedicated servers for anti-hacking protection
  
• Dyes that allow you to customize costumes and visible armor
  
• Crafting system to create and modify high tier items from blueprints
  
• Pet hatching and growth system, with activatable abilities
  
• Dashing and manteling systems for better mobility
  
• Weapon swapping between two weapon sets
  
• Community tavern, where you can talk and trade with up to 16 other players before starting a mission
  
• Private tavern, where you can start missions with just yourself and your friends
  
• Quickmatch feature where you can quickly join a mission with other players (optional)
  
• Cross-Platform play with PC, Mac, Linux, and Mobile all playing on the same servers
  
• One Dungeon Defenders account, with your progression accessible from any account. Playing on supported Android devices requires purchasing the game on Google Play.
  
• Transmog System which allows you to change how your visible armor looks (or make it invisible!)
  
• 34 new equipable emotes (not included with purchase of base game)

• Rebalanced missions for shorter match times, less farming, and more interesting enemy clusters
  
• Rebalanced stat system, so increasing stat points in the end game has a larger effect
  
• Rebalanced, instanced loot system that drops less loot at higher quality
  
• A revised Survival Mode, with shorter play times.
  
• A revised Hardcore Mode with better rewards
  
• A revised User Interface

What's Returning

• All 12 Dungeon Defenders heroes
  
• All 12 original Dungeon Defenders campaign missions and challenge missions
  
• All 5 Quest for the Lost Eternity Shards campaign missions and 7 challenge missions
  
• 5 bonus missions (Glitterhelm, Karathiki, Tavern Siege, City In The Cliffs, Tinkerer’s Lab)
  
• 2 community made missions (Akatit Jungle, Palantir)
  
• 22 original Dungeon Defenders hero costumes (found in your item box and equippable as a costume item)

Coming Soon: Begin Your Dungeon Defenders II Experience!

Important Notes:

• Dungeon Defenders Eternity is rebuilt from the ground up for security, so you will not be able to continue your previous Dungeon Defenders saves.
  
• Dungeon Defenders Eternity requires an internet connection to play online. There is a offline mode beta, where after updating the game you can play offline with separate heroes.
  
• Dungeon Defenders Eternity requires you to create a playverse account.

• OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Processor: 2 GHz CPU
• Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2400 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600. equivalent or greaterNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 6 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Internet connection is required to play.