Miscellaneous

• Seasonal cheer and merriment have been added to the Tavern.

Fixes

• Fixed base damage on an exploitable weapon

Balance Changes

• Reduced the clip size of the 'Witch's Broom' gun from 80 to 60.
• Decreased Hermit's damage scaling by 10%.
• Decreased Hermit's health scaling by 15%.

Fixes

• Removed access to the Gunwitch as it's not ready for release.

Balance Changes

• Increased the clip size for 'Witch's Broom' from 30 to 80.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Removed Halloween Seasonal Tavern.

Fixes

• Fixed Akatiti Jungle campaign starting on the Final Wave for the map.

Quality of Life

• Added a new option to drop half of your carried mana when pressing the N button

Fixes

• Fixed enemies dropping 'Nightmare' difficulty loot on 'Ruthless' difficulty

Balance Changes

• Reduced difficulty of Akatiti on 'Ruthless' difficulty by 17%.
• Increased the loot quality of Deeper Well, Foundries and Forges, Magus Quarters, Alchemical Lab, Winter Wonderland and Buccaneer Bay on 'Ruthless' difficulty

Fixes

• Fixed Lifestream Hollow enemy count being higher than intended on survival.
• Fixed Aquanos giving Seahorse pet on wave 20 on 'Ruthless'.
• Fixed weapon multiplier on 'Geiser' being higher than intended.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where enemy group numbers on 'Ruthless' were being improperly floored.
• Fixed Classic Eagle Crescent Standard projectile not applying elemental damage or scaling properly.
• Fixed a bug where off-host players wouldn't properly receive the Zamira's Mount pet after completing all Warping Core II maps
• Fixed Infested Ruins ogres 'Ruthless' health being higher than intended.
• Made chests use 'Ruthless' map modifiers when on 'Ruthless' difficulty so the quality on them is as expected.
• Fixed Etherian Holliday Extravaganza Snowman boss 'Ruthless' resistances.

Balance Changes

• Made base Campaign and Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards maps mob number on 'Ruthless' difficulty higher so you can armor farm on them more efficiently.
• Made pets on base Campaign and Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards maps drop on wave 25 instead of 15 on 'Ruthless' difficulty and increased their quality.
• Made 'Baby Boss' pets choose between the best 2 for every one you get, to make up for increased map times
• Decreased Hermit healing by 25%.
• Decreased hermit damage resistance by 25%.
• Added 'Ruthless'-exclusive Dragon boss to Boss Rush.
• Reduced 'Ruthless' Kraken boss damage multiplier on Boss Rush.
• Made Jester's Spooktacular rewards on 'Nightmare' and lower difficulty random between the sword and spear.
• Added 'Ruthless' Volcanic Eruption rewards.
• Increased quality on Halloween Spooktacular 2 to be in line with Halloween Spooktacular 1.
• Added 'Ruthless' Giraffe pet to all base Campaign maps, Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards maps, City in the Cliffs and Talay Mining Complex.
• Increased heal amount on Desert Goblin Cupid by 7%.
• Decreased 'Ruthless' Steam Saw damage by 4%.
• Made Etherian Ancient, Mr. Owl, Mr. Peckers, Talay Forge Robot and Robot pets max knockback when upgrading 128.
• Decreased the damage of Flying Pumpkin pet by 5%.
• Halved the number of tiles needed for secret boss guarantee on Jester's Spooktacular.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where 'Ruthless' Boss Rush rewards wouldn't save properly.

Balance Changes

• Added 'Ruthless' rewards to Sky City, Portal Defense, War of the Djinn, Riddle of the Deep and Boss Rush.
• Increased damage of 'Flying Pumpkin' pet by 15%.
• Swapped the projectile of 'Ogre Party Hat' spear to be an alternative to 'Honey Spear'.
• Nerfed 'Eternian Sword' ranged damage by 13%.
• Nerfed 'Oculus of the Genie King' elemental damage by 10%.
• Made 'Dragon Halberd' spear always spawn with at least 1 projectile.
• Slightly reduced difficulty of Forest Ogre Trick-or-Treat wave on Jester's Spooktacular.
• Increased Ranger's 'Piercing Spreadshot' ability damage by 7%.

Fixes

• Fixed 'Ruthless' rewards on Glitterhelm Caverns not rolling as intended, where the 'Ultimate Chance' was incredibly low.
• Swapped the icon on 'Flying Pumpkin' boss on Jester's Spooktacular to reflect the boss instead of showing a 'Cupid' boss icon.
• Players now respawn properly before 'Flying Pumpkin' boss on Jester's Spooktacular.
• Flying Pumpkin' boss on Jester's Spooktacular no longer instantly kills 'Minions' and 'Forest Golems'.
• Fixed 'Flying Pumpkin' pet projectile exploding on contact with other players.

Fixes

• Fixed an edge case where enemies wouldn't spawn properly in Jester's Spooktacular.
• Fixed damage per level for 'Ruthless' Eternian Staff, as it was lower than intended.
• Increased boss countdown on the fourth checkpoint of True Boss Rush from 3 to 10 (can still be shortened).
• Fixed 'Overlord Mode' boundaries on Jester's Spooktacular.
• Fixed description of 'Devil Mask'.
• Fixed unintended increase of mob spawns on 'Ruthless' difficulty.

Jester's Spooktacular DLC

New Challenge Map: Jester's Spooktacular

Map Rewards

• The Corrupted Axe, Dragon Halberd, Punk Jester Costume and Devil Mask are all unlocked upon completing Challenge Map: Jester's Spooktacular.
• The Flying Pumpkin Pet is unlocked via completing Challenge Map: Jester's Spooktacular after having defeated the Flying Pumpkin Boss!

Balance Changes

• Initiate's 'Enemy Drain' ability now affects enemy towers on Assault maps.
• Buffed 'Ruthless' rewards on Crystalline Dimension.
• Fixed buff made to 'Abyssal Finn' not applying correctly.
• Reduced nerf on 'Malificar's Rapier' from 8% to 4%.

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Fixes

• Fixed Ruthless difficulty floor drops on all maps.
• Removed duplicate trophies from the Halloween Tavern.
• Fixed Ruthless Defender accomplishment not being awarded properly on the Halloween Tavern.

Fixes

• Fixed Genie King Boss teleporting on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed enemies not dying in build phase on Greater Turkey Hunt.
• Fixed Hermit's Forest Golem tower healing Old One's Crystals.
• Fixed 'Ruthless Defender' trophy being broken in the Tavern.

Balance Changes

• Doubled accessory rewards from Greater Turkey Hunt on 'Ruthless' difficulty to be in-line with other accessory-farm maps.
• Increased swing speed of Abyssal Finn by 20% and increased damage multiplier by 1.05x.
• Adjusted damage multiplier on Malificar's Rapier by x0.92.
• Increased damage threshold for Moraggo's Genie King boss by x10.
• Lowered Health of Sand Wyverns by 50% on Emerald City.
• Increased 'Ruthless' difficulty quantity of drops for Wyverns to 3.
• Increased damage multiplier of Zamira's Mount to make it in line with Crystalline Dragon. This change is because the damage base on Zamira's Mount is lower than intended due to no 'Hardcore Mode' modifier being applied when the pet is awarded.

Fixes

• Fixed unintended issues with Harris costume colorization options.
• Adjusted colorization masks on Lincoln and Harris costumes.
• Fixed Greater Turkey Hunt ground.
• Fixed Turkeys, Spiders and Djinns not having their 'Ruthless' difficulty material and icons on Greater Turkey Hunt.
• Fixed 'Ruthless' difficulty rewards on Greater Turkey Hunt.
• Updated an obsolete support link.

President's Day Surprise 2024 DLC

• Kamala - Costume for the Initiate. No stat changes.
• Trump - Costume for the Squire. This costume exchanges a portion of the Squire's health for a boost in movement speed, similar to the Squire's Mitt costume.
• Elon - Costume for the Monk. No stat changes.
• Lincoln - Costume for the Ranger. This costume exchanges a portion of the Ranger's movement speed for a boost in health and damage, similar to the Ranger's Tuxedo costume.

Balance Changes

• Increased speed of Siege Mechs on Ruthless.
• Reduced the max health of Orcs and Dark Elf Mages by 50% on Tavern Incursion assault phase.

Fixes

• Added Ruthless speed multiplier to Sand Wyverns.
• Fixed material and icons for Ruthless for Tavern Incursion djinns.
• Fixed an issue where the Squire would die immediately after completing invulnerability phases on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed an issue where the Squire would occasionally be killed for being stuck in the cage too long on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed an issue where the floor objective zones would sometimes not turn on when switching phases on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed new 'The Downpour' event item doing more damage than intended.

Tavern Theme Change

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Balance Changes

• Increased 'Baby Demon Lord' ranged damage back to where it had been before being unintentionally nerfed.
• Increased 'Baby Demon Lord' melee damage by 20%.
• Reduced 'Zamira's Mount' attack animation speed by 33%.
• Increased 'Hot Air Balloon' attack animation speed by 62.5%.
• Made True Boss Rush bracers always roll Ultimate quality, so you are always able to upgrade a stat to its maximum potential.

Fixes

• Doubled Boss Rush Genie King damage threshold.
• Fixed 'Ruthless' goblins appearing on all difficulties of Raining Goblins.
• Implemented a potential fix for the texture of the scroll bar on the game select menu UI.
• Fixed spawner issues on Ruthless Moraggo and King's Game maps.
• Removed sound from 'Baby Ancient Dragon' attack animation.
• Fixed an issue where enemy Ruthless damage multipliers were not being applied properly.

Eternia Gauntlet

• Fixed the teleport location when you fall off the map on Wave 15.
• Implemented a potential fix for the Squire not teleporting out of their cage in last phase of the fight.
• Players may now continue fighting the assault bosses for their buffs after killing all cores.
• Moved the lamp post by the forge on assault.
• Reduced Wave 17 yellow attack duration from 7s to 6s.
• Reduced difficulty of Wave 17 yellow attack floor patterns.
• Snowman slowing effect changed from a 50% to 30% reduction in movement speed.
• Adjusted visual for Squire fire to further disambiguate it from 'Mischief Maker' fire.
• Reduced damage radius of Final Jade's floor fire by 25%.
• Increased Final Amethyst's projectile speed by 50% and reduced fire rate delay from 3.25s to 2.5s.
• Reduced Squire's melee step velocity by 80%.
• Changed damage threshold for orbs from 5,000,000 to 2,000,000.
• Fixed the eastern heal orb on 'Euclase' fight not healing players.

Balance Changes

• Made all Halloween Spooktacular weapons have level 70 requirement on qualities above mythic for consistency.
• Reduced 'Lumeric Staff' base damage by 7.5% to make in on par with the 'Ember Sceptre'.
• Reduced the health of the Ranger, Monk, and Knight bosses on Ruthless True Boss Rush checkpoint 4 by 15%.
• Adjusted Challenge: Wizardry enemy number scaling on Ruthless.
• Reduced all wave 17 enemy HP scaling by 12% in 3-4 player matches on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Reduced 'Assault Rifle' projectile slowing effect from 80% to 50% on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Reduced Final Jade health by 33% on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Reduced Final Amethyst health by 20% on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Increased Barbarian move speed and increased her knockback on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Made Warping Core: Challenge Pack II maps start one wave later. Warping Core: Arcane Library starts 2 waves later.
• Reduced 'Baby Demon Lord' melee damage by 50% (as it was out damaging every pet in the game twofold).
• Buffed 'Zamira's Mount' damage by 10%.
• Added 10% movement speed bonus to all Emerald City campaign weapons.

Fixes

• Fixed enemies not dying after waves end on Spring Valley.
• Fixed an issue with the assault Jade and Amethyst fight where killing Amethyst would disable invulnerability phases, soft-locking the fight on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed an issue in wave 17 where a player respawning inside damage volumes would lose control of their character on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed an issue in Euclase fight where the start of each phase would have a long delay before floor attacks began on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed an issue in wave 17 where floor runes would not appear at the start of the second or third phase on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed Barbarian icon on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Adjusted wave 17 Ruthless floor pattern's damage volume size on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed visual for Barbarian turtle aura on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed issue where the player would sometimes shoot upwards while standing inside floor patterns on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Added lock icon to Ruthless difficulty label if Nightmare difficulty is not unlocked.
• Changed Eternia Gauntlet to Challenge: Eternia Gauntlet for consistency with other challenges.

Quality of Life

• Removed build timers from most maps if Hardcore Mode is not active.
• Reduced ogre counts on Ruthless difficulty by 40% for most maps. The Campaign versions of the base Campaign; Glitterhelm, and the four 'Shards' maps are unaffected, as well as all Challenge maps except Temple of Polybius.
• Made enemies have a chance to drop extra items on Ruthless difficulty to make Ruthless Survivals more appealing.

Fixes

• Fixed Survival Mode on most maps ending too early while playing on Ruthless.
• Fixed Ruthless True Boss Rush rewards.

Dungeon Defenders Patch 9.5.1

Fixes

• Fixed Ruthless True Boss Rush giving double rewards to non-hosts.
• Fixed incorrect speed stat on 'Legendary Huntress' costume.
• Fixed rewards being restricted to 'Insane' rarity on Temple of Polybius.
• Fixed bottom forge rotation on the Tavern.
• Fixed notification text for jade and amethyst buff on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Fixed a typo on 'Raining Goblins' notification.
• Fixed 'Ruthless Defender' accomplishment not being awarded.
• Added random rewards to Eternia Gauntlet.
• Removed 'Skip to Euclasse' toggle on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Implemented a potential fix for post-assault teleport not occuring in group play on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Enemies no longer drop items on the floor on Eternia Gauntlet.
• Implemented a potential fix for those experiencing progression errors.
• The 'Easy' difficulty icon is no longer stretched.
• True Boss Rush bracers can now roll negative stats.
• All maps now progress to wave 35 on Survival when in Ruthless Difficulty.
• Baby boss pet rewards are now correctly distributed on their respective maps' final wave of Survival Mode.
• Fixed level requirement of 'Baby Demon Lord' being set to 78 on all qualities.
• All enemies now unalive after assault on Ruthless difficulty Temple of Polybius.

The Ruthless Update

New Content

Ruthless Difficulty

• Alchemical Laboratory, The Throne Room and The Summit maps drop new baby pet variants of their respective bosses when beating the maps during Campaign mode on Ruthless difficulty;
  • Baby Demon Lord - Obtained via Campaign Mode on Alchemical Laboratory.
  • Baby Mech - Obtained via Campaign Mode on The Throne Room.
  • Baby Ancient Dragon - Obtained via Campaign Mode on The Summit.
  
  
• Temple of Polybius, True Boss Rush, Halloween Invasion, and todays new addition; Eternia Gauntlet have increased rewards on Ruthless Difficulty.
• While playing on Ruthless, items from all maps have higher chance to be 'Ultimate++' quality. Additionally, rewards from original Campaign maps and challenges have been scaled up to current gear standards.

New Map: Eternia Gauntlet

New DLC

Warping Core Challenge Pack II

• Zamira Bracers - Obtained by completing Warping Cores: Arcane Library.
• Zamira Mask - Obtained by completing Warping Cores: Omenak.
• Zamira Hat - Obtained by completing Warping Cores: Infested Ruins.

Balance Changes

• Reduced the damage of Huntress' 'Piercing Shot' by 50%.
• Chests in War of the Djinn and Rumble in the Jungle now give 130 mana instead of 100.
• Added a 1.5x damage multiplier to Nightmare True Boss Rush Great Old One.

Quality of Life

• Added selection UI to True Boss Rush checkpoints.
• Added a mini-map for Temple of Polybius boss gauntlet.
• Significantly sped-up War of the Djinn and Rumble in the Jungle on all difficulties.
• Significantly increased the time the Djinn spends in the lamp during Rumble in the Jungle.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Barbarian could get stuck upon level victory.
• Fixed max core HP on Deeper Well: No Towers Allowed challenge.
• Fixed an issue where pressing V at any time during the map would always skip the 'boss timer' on Crystal Cave.
• Fixed an issue where players could not interact with presents while in build phase.
• Fixed an ability bug for Crystalline Resurgence III and Nightmare True Boss Rush Great Old One.

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Dungeon Defenders Patch 9.4.1

Balance Changes

• Increased health on 'No Towers Allowed: Crystal Caves' spawned mobs by 200%.
• Changed 'Ultimate++' armor drop rates on 'No Towers Allowed: Crystal Caves' to be approximately 1/48 runs as opposed to 1/32 runs.

Dungeon Defenders Patch 9.4.1

Balance Changes

• Increased damage and health on 'No Towers Allowed: Crystal Cave's bosses.
  • Increased 'Kraken' damage by 25%.
  • Increased 'Demon Lord' and 'Goblin Mech' damage by 100%.
  • Increased 'Genie King' damage by 200%.
  • Increased 'Demon Lord', 'Genie King' and 'Mini Djinn' health by 50%.
  • Increased damage resistance on all 'Crystal Cave's bosses by 25%.

Fixes

• Fixed enemies spawning after the boss has died on Crystal Caves.
• Fixed 'Crystal Cannon' having unintended damage.
• Fixed lava being rendered on top of mana crystals on Crystal Caves.
• Changed 'Cystal Staff' to 'Crystal Cane' to avoid confusion with another item, and fix typo.
• Fixed typo on achievement for 'No Towers Allowed: Crystal Cave'.

Dungeon Defenders Patch 9.4.0

New Content

Crystal Caves

• Rewards new crystal weapons for each class; Crystal Sword, Crystal Gun, Crystal Staff, and Crystal Spear.
• Rewards new 'Etherian Ancient' and 'Chromatic Gemstone' pets. on Survival waves 25 and 35, respectively. Rewards 'Hero Animus' pet(s) on Survival wave 30.

Crystal Caves: No Towers Allowed

• Has the potential to drop high-quality armor--an 'Ultimate++' piece approximately every 32 runs.

Palantir

• Added 'Squire' boss.
• Buffed accessory quality on Palantir to be on-par with other endgame accessories.

Quality of Life

• Made 'Step Towards Melee Target' option a button-toggle atop the UI option (default keybind 'Control + Z').
• Equipping items no longer drops equipped items when the item box is full.
• Armor can now be earned from 'True Boss Rush' mode.
• Added option to remove only armor or accessories by holding down 'Shift' or 'Control' when clicking 'Unequip All gear' button.

Balance Changes

• Goblin Copters now use their held enemy's elemental damage resistance.
• 'Tropics of Etheria' has received a loot-quality nerf on Survival Mode to be on-par with 'Coastal Bazaar'.
• Reduced Ranger's 'Spread Shot' base damage by 25%.
• Increased Barbarian's 'Hawk' base damage by 5%.
• Huntress' Shadow Step now costs 30 mana.
• Reintroduced Huntress' 'Invisibility' ability alongside 'Shadow Step'.
• Apprentice's 'Overcharge' now grants a speed boost.
• Changed bonus damage on staves from 18% to 23% to make it more feasible to beat the 'Rainmaker'.
• Reduced Countess' 'Call to Arms' damage resistance by 20%.
• 'Crystalline Resurgence Four' rewards are no longer limited to one per account.
• Hermit's 'Whirlwind' now grants invulnerability to negative states effects.
• Implemented a damage nerf for high-end 'Honey Guns'.
• 'Shield of Hearts' now has a one-second cooldown for its healing effect.

Fixes

• Siege Mechs are now properly affected by Hermit's 'Web Wall'.
• Fixed 'Piercing Shot' ability appearing too large when off-host.
• Fixed Deeper Well map giving unintended experience,
• Fixed frame-rate limit not being selectable on controller.
• Experience orbs and pirate mana tokens now use the same sound the mana token.

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Dungeon Defenders Patch 9.3.0

New Map - Tropics of Etheria

• New Weapons for all classes.
• A super secret reward!
• New 'Colored Owl', 'Polly', and 'Beach Island' pets obtainable from Survival Mode.

Quality of Life

• 'Sell All' button no longer sells forged items.
• Added colorblind settings for item box frame colors and minimap colors in CDT settings.
• Event items with custom beam colors are now reflected on the minimap.
• Made 'Mythical', 'Ult+', and 'Ult++' colors within description reflect the actual default quality color.
• Made 'Ult++' in shop get automatically locked when generated.

Balance Changes

Pure Strategy Rework

• All towers cost more DU to build on repeated placements. Sharken, Djinn and Copter Ogre spawn rate increased.

Barbarian

• Added 'Chain Lightning' damage on hit with 'Lightning Stance'.

Huntress

• Hero damage scaling increased.
• 'Super Legendary Huntress' movement speed increased by 20%
• 'Piercing Shot' projectile speed increased
• 'Piercing Shot' size/hitbox and damage now scale with distance travelled.
• 'Piercing Shot' now scales more efficiently with 'ab2', and less so with gun damage.
• 'Invisibility' ability changed to 'Shadow Step', a new damage-dodge mechanic with a set duration and cooldown. Provides a short distance 'blink' upon activation.

Ranger

• Hero damage scaling increased.
• Ranger movement speed increased by 25%.
• 'Piercing Spreadshot' increased projectiles by 2.
• 'Each projectile of 'Piercing Spreadshot' has a different damage type.

Initiate

• Changed HP scaling to that of the Monk's.

Miscellaneous

• Slightly increased experience gained and drop quality on early game maps.
• 'Moonbase' awards more experience; 1.00 -> 1.25.
• Made Owls larger; 1.65 -> 1.8.
• All staffs excluding the 'Rainmaker', 'Moon Staff' and 'Ember Sceptre' do 18% more damage.
• Reverted Fireball tower damage reduction (damage increased by 18%).
• 'Temple of Water' now has the same quality of drops as 'Infested Ruins'.
• Harpoon tower now pierces terrain.

Fixes

• Size sorting now uses actual drawscale of pets for sorting.
• Pet size info now based on actual drawscale of pet as opposed to a percentile value which was inaccurate.
• Removed out-of-bounds collisions for Omenak.
• Fixed 'Wood Rifle' not granting 1.1x movement speed multiplier.
• Fixed bHardcore on CDT settings always using the open/local option when initializing the game for the first time.
• Fixed 'Emerald Staff' and 'Staff of Hearts' not showing their gems when dropped on the ground on lower graphical settings.
• Fixed issue where taking damage as a player attempts to jump would cancel the jump.
• Made 'Tavern Owl' smaller.
• Fixed an issue in Crystalline Dimension's Fourth Area where mobs would continue to spawn after killing the bosses if they had been killed too quickly.
• Removed north fish spawner from Temple of Water.

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Bug Fixes

Balance

Quality of Life

Minor update to fix some issues. - Removed some unnecessary DLC checks for the chests in the tavern - Added some further protections and handled odd edge cases where enemy health is being updated on 0 health - Changed the frame rate and graphics quality option to save to the engine ini - Made mana tokens and eggs not display pet size - Moved bottom platform archer spawn notes so they don't go up with the platform collision - Fixed the number of enemies on spider queens for 3p - Swapped Lifestream Hollow's minimap to the new one - Changed it so enemies with negative hp for any reason die after a certain period - Updated wheel entries for Blood Rage, Instant Upgrade, and Overcharge - Updated Instant Upgrade name to Upgrade Aura - Removed top selection from Nature Pylon - Fixed Nature Pylon not being able to be placed on slopes - Fixed random rewards on tinkerer's lab lab - Fixed Lifestream Hollow's core drops nor rolling random names - Fixed an issue where the pirate mana token was disappearing

Minor update to fix some issues that were introduced in the previous patch. - Fixed an issue with the honey sword showing the ranged icon and changed the text to base damage - Fixed an issue with devil's spine base damage stat saying ranged damage - Fixed an issue with effects that used weapon base damage as a scalar breaking - Fixed an issue where some tower stats would reset to their default value after a few seconds. - Fixed Navi Fairy Level Requirement, being locked to 93 - Potential fix for some unlocked frame rates on new profiles - Reduced Size of LifeStream Hollow Mask - Fixed an issue where garbage collection wasn't working correctly and caused problems with crashing on losing and client-side persistence - Fixed an issue where the hermit was showing up as a countess in the online game list

New Hero - The Hermit

New Maps

Balance Changes

• Accs - Made Santa Glasses random level roll be 14 to be in line with other accessories - Made Santa Hat, Eye Patch, Top Hat and Bow level rolls consistent with the other end-game accessories - Removed Top Hat, Bow, Mask and Love Links from Lover's Paradise rewards
• Weapons - Made swords of master projectile not be dependant on having full health - Nerfed the damage of Moon Staff by ~15% - Made charge rate for Moon Staff not roll negative - Buffed Staff of Love Hero stats a bit. Tower stats remain the same
• Pets - Made Fenix and Ember Pony around 10% better so they're an alternative to Crystalline Dragon. This should make all of them have around the same DPS with the same level - Buffed Little Wizard by x1.3 and Mummy by x1.17 absolute damage multiplier so they're an alternative for Snowman and Free-range Chicken (Needs testing) - Changed spread on Mummy's projectiles to be a diamond instead of a line - Increased the ult rate for Djinlett, Donkey and Shroomite - Made the spread on Shroomite a bit better - Added projectile speed and made the extra projectile guaranteed on Shroomite and Donkey pets - Increased animation speed of Elephant attack to 1.2 and divided damage multiplier by 1.25 (should be around the same dps as before but more usable) - Increased Mr. Owls size to 1.4 from 1.3 - Made event Unicorns a little better - Made supreme seahorses get 72 damage per upgrade
• Maps - Changed Wandering Heart weapon rewards to award both per split - Made Pirate Invasion increase the number of rewards for every wave after wave 17 - Pirate invasion now gives 1.35B mana tokens per reward on nightmare mode - Added weapon reward switch trigger to Crystalline Resurgence 1 to 3 and changed survival weapon reward to be class based to be in line with new default - Increased the activation range on switches on the Crystalline Resurgence maps - Increased mana drops from Turkey on Tavern Incursion - Changed generic resist on Tavern Incursions Old One's feet from 50% to 35% - Added crates on the outside of windows on Tavern Incursion to make going through them easier off-host - Made the window collision on Tavern Incursion a bit more lenient - Moved teleport note for hands on old one closer to the center of the arena to prevent a kill on teleport with a platform bug on Tavern Incursion - Multiplied health of all walls on the assault wave of Tavern Incursion by x0.8 - Changed damage reduction on 5 and 6 players for Old One on Tavern Incursion - Wasp Boss and Barb Health Multiplier 5p decreased from 5 to 4.5 on Tavern Incursion - Wasp Boss and Barb Health Multiplier 6p decreased from 6 to 5 on Tavern Incursion - Wasp baby Health Multiplier 6p decreased from 3.5 to 3.25 on Tavern Incursion - All Old One green lasers will no longer spawn instantly (same spawn delay as blue/red lasers). - On Tavern Incursion, falling off of the Old One platform will result in taking a large % of your maximum health in damage, losing all Mana, and being teleported back to the Tavern instead of instantly dying. The damage taken increases each time this is triggered, ramping up faster with the bargain active. - On Tavern Incursion, killing the waves of bosses in the Tavern area on Wave 18 will now reset ability cooldowns. -Increased health of Old One's head crystal by 20% on Tavern Incursion - Boss spawns on Wave 18 health reduced by 20% on Tavern Incursion on solo mode - Damage dealt to Old One increased by 20% on Tavern Incursion on solo mode - Tavernkeep Impostor on Tavern Incursion no longer uses Hawk Stance, but basic attack is now unaffected by Strength Drain Aura - Added 4 more chests to Omenak to make the survival numbers more on pair with the other armor farm maps - Moved the chest from the bridge up top on Lovers Paradise to near one of the cores - Moved spawn points to around the core near the forge on Lovers Paradise - Chests are no longer random on Lovers Paradise on Survival Mode - Multiplied Dark Elf Warrior and Dark Elf Mage numbers by 2.5 on Winter Mire to get the survival more in line with other maps of the same quality - Rebalanced Embermount Volcano Survival difficulty - Coastal Bazaars campaign rewards are now rewarded to the hero type youre using - Moved Striking Trees spawn point so alts don't spawn inside towers - Lowered the overlord minimum height boundaries for Lover's Paradise - Swapped the first wave of Halloween Invasion to be 2 Poly Spider Queens - Made the first wave of Halloween Invasion upgrade all towers 3 times like Tavern Incursion - Made Dread Dungeon chests give 70 mana - Added a guaranteed armor drop to lab assault - Removed 2 chests from Spooky Pirate Base and increased the mana to 130 per chest
• Barbarian - Turtle Stance now reduces your movement speed by 34% - Turtle Stance now boosts all sword damage besides Hawk Stance by 20% - Turtle Stance makes you swing 10% slower - Made it possible to use Tornado Stance on build phase - Made Tornado Stance speed multiplier weaker to compensate for the base speed buffs - Tornado Stance now reduces your damage by 38% instead of 45% - Tornado and Turtle Stances now turn each other off on activation - Increased the damage on Battle Leap and Battle Pound - Made Hawk Stance, Battle Leap and Battle Pound animations Faster - Combined both instances of the Hawk Stance damage into one damage that hits based on the main hand swords hitbox - Lightning Stance no longer damages you or stuns enemies - Lightning Stance now converts all your damage into lightning damage and reduces your damage by 10% - Changed the base movement speed values for the following skins: Tavernkeep and Pirate Imposter from 320 to 440 Santa from 408 to 500 Regular from 450 to 550 Amazoness from 550 to 650
• App - Changes to Apprentice Overcharge. Increases weapon damage based on the Ability Stat Value and the equipped Staffs Charge Rate stat - Changed Overcharge mana cost to match hero boost - Mana Bomb damage now scales with Damage Multiplier boosts - Mana Bomb cooldown is now 15 seconds - Mana bomb can now be cast while moving
• Adept - Changed the Instant Upgrade ability to Upgrade Aura. It will upgrade your defences on a radius around you as long as you have mana available. The mana cost per upgrade decreases with you Ability 1 Stat - Made the hero damage scaling 10% better than a Jester with the same stats - Purity Bomb now increases your mana attraction, making gathering mana easier
• Countess - Buffed damage output by around 15% - Joust cooldown is now 10 seconds
• Squire - Circular slice now makes you invulnerable while casting

Hey Defenders, my name is Nolan, best known as (CG) Paimon at Chromatic. Im here to talk about some of the behind the scenes and philosophy of our revisit to the roster of Dungeon Defenders 1 and define a bit about who the elusive hermit is. To start, lets cover the why: It's been a long time since a new hero has emerged in the original Dungeon Defenders, so why now? Well, to put it simply; we are a bunch of Dungeon Defenders fans internally as well! After all this time the game continues to have a high player concurrency and active community. This considered, we wanted to help that wonderful community by breathing more life into the game with hopes that the community and the community-made content will continue to flourish. So let's look at the Hermit himself.

The Hermit

• Seed Bomb Tower Description Blasts enemies in a wide radius and poisons them. Enemies who are felled by this poison explode! 4 DU
• Mushroom Spore Tower Description Launches poisonous spores at enemies, infecting them. Infected enemies spread the infection to other foes nearby. 6 DU
• Forest Golem Description Possessing colossal health and attack power, this guardian of the forest passively heals nearby allies. 8 DU
• Nature Pylon Description Greatly increases range and resistance of all nearby Defenses, &and increases speed and casting rate of nearby Heroes! 4 DU
• Wall of Webs Description Damages and webs enemies that pass through it, &reducing their speed and resistances. 2 - 4 DU (Min and Max range)

• Thorn Shot - Shoots 5 poisonous thorns in a spread pattern that pass through enemies!
• Nature's Gift - Increases speed, restores health, and adds poison damage to the Hermit's attacks!

Revisiting Old Etheria

When?

A small hotfix update to fix some things in the 9.1.1 and 9.1.0 releases along with some balance changes. Features : - Added accomplishment and trophies on the tavern for Arcane Lib, Dread Dungeon, Emerald City, Flames of Rebirth, Pirate Invasion, Spring Valley and Temple of Polybius, all on Nightmare only - Added some new tables on the third floor of the tavern - The tavern's item recovery should not affect items inside the tavern anymore - You can now have 240 items on your tavern floor - You can now trigger having tables on the empty center on the second floor of the tavern on the new Bucket and Mop on the basement Balance : - Made supreme and under eyes get more damage per upgrade - Made bow of hearts unable to damage enemy cores - Moved pet rock back to wave 30 Spooktacular Bay : - Moved west flight nodes closer to the map to avoid the volume djinns were getting stuck on - Changed collision for last kraken - Moved killzone so third kraken cant be killed with it Buccaneer Bay : - Added a box inside the opening closest to spawn to prevent the building camera to go inside the wall - Moved all windows on main building a bit up - Added a hanging shelf on top of the entrance closes to spawn - Moved hay stacks down on the wall to let minions be built there again - Made the ceiling collision prevent the building camera from going up Lover's Paradise : - Added killzone under forge to kill stuck mobs - Made Boss Mech Gentleman take tower damage - Made Boss Mech Gentleman target priority have towers at -1 - Made Boss Mech Gentleman force untargetable targets - Fixed Lover's Paradise achievement typo Bug Fixes : - Swapped back Eye Patch to old archetype with coloring - Fixed custom chest drops not always dropping - Tentatively fixed an issue where a phoenix spawns when going into build phase on the Flames of Rebirth challenge - Clamped tower range to max projectile distance, also made towers not target enemies that ignored tower damage - Fixed slippery core and projectiles on Spring Valley - Fixed issue with workshop maps that forced difficulty defaulting to easy - Removed duplicate TI trophy on the tavern

Small patch to address some issues in the recent 9.1.0 patch. Bug Fixes - Fixed bug which caused split-screen to be forcibly hidden every time a cutscene plays - Reverted Kraken and Genie melee range change to void instanced of melee hitting while doing no damage - Fixed Cupids boss dying instantly on Wandering Heart if the boss countdown is skipped - Fixed Wandering Heart achievement not being awarded on map completion - Fixed Lover's Paradise top bridge not blocking the building camera - Did more collision work on valentines to prevent stuck mobs - Disabled Wheel of Fortuna ability on wandering heart - Added thicker outline to pumpkin skeleton on a treadmill - You can no longer use the easter egg on Lovers Paradise after the boss countdown starts - Changed name on black Enchanted Bishop variation to Tormented Bishop - You can now use the forge on Wandering heart when playing with controllers - Pet Rock and Jade Island now have proper shadows when in first-person view - Made hysteresis less prone to get stuck - Fixed double-buffered physics due to an engine change. This was the cause of the core slipping issue on Spring Valley Balance Changes - Buffed the damage on the Steam Bot pet from Talay Mining Complex - Increased max base damage spawn on Lovers Paradise cupid pet - Decreased absolute damage on Lovers Paradise cupid pet - Increased number of max extra projectiles on Lovers Paradise cupid pet from 2 to 7 - Increased the heal amount on Lovers Paradise cupid pet - Made all wasp enemies weak to fire damage (x1.5) - Reduced the resistance to lightning towers on wasps, making them take double the damage compared to version 9.0, but 10x less than on version 8.7 - Made all siege mechs weak to electric damage (x1.3) - Boss fight on Lovers Paradise now includes Copter Gentleman Mechs that target the player - Boss fight on Lovers Paradise should have mob difficulty increased a little - Removed tower resistance debuff that was applied on a hit from Cupid Boss on Lovers Paradise - Copter Gentleman Mechs don't damage cores anymore, to be in line with Copter Ogres - Lovers Paradise only has 5 respawning chests on survival mode now - Reduced damage on Apprentices Fireball Tower by 15% Quality of Life - Changed default tower upgrading behavior to be the same as patch 9.0.0 and before. This can be changed on CDT settings to use the new behavior instead - Changed default tower level to upgrade from 4 - Added final wave to survival mode UI on all maps that have the game mode - Made it so if you have split-screen hidden, any unpause input from any split will close the pause menu - Moved west Flying enemy spawns closer to the map on Spooktacular Bay and Buccaneer Bay - Removed Icon Quality Rating from Top Hat, Bow, Santa Hat, and Santa beard. This should remove color mistakes on the item icon - Made hysteresis weight adjustable in the CDT settings - Player health is now drawn to the HUD of spectators in the competitive game-mode

This is another update that we had planned for February, but came out a bit later than expected, but it has a wide variety of new content, QOL, and fixes. New Maps : Lovers Paradise - Rewards: Bow of Hearts, Spear of Hearts, Heart Fragment (campaign only), a random Temple of Love accessory, and a chance for a Shield of Hearts - Survival Pets: Cupid at Wave 25, New Hamster at Wave 30, Fluffy Dragon at map completion Crystal Escort: Wandering Heart - Rewards: Staff of Hearts, Sword of Hearts, Heart Fragment, a random Temple of Love accessory and guaranteed a Shield of Hearts New Items : You can use 88 Heart Fragments on the new forge on the Taverns second floor to spawn a Crystal Heart The new Hearts weapons do Love Damage. Its generic damage that has pink damage numbers The staff of Hearts, Spear of Hearts, and Sword of Hearts have a 10% movement speed increase The staff of Hearts right-click heals allies instead of doing AoE damage Shield of Hearts heals a percentage of your health on successfully blocking damage New Hamster, Steam Robot, and Cupid Quality of Life : - Removed the ship from Striking Tree and moved the spawn to the center of the map - Gas and Darkness traps now reset when entering a build phase - Healing pets no longer try to heal you when they cant - You can now see the lab assault EV bosses on the minimap - Added hysteresis to trip wire towers (buff beam, reflection beam, etc), which can be toggled with Control + B. This means they snap to the max length for each DU option - Added more Ultimate++ armor seeds - Staff left + right click charges to 70% - Made most events unsellable. The only exceptions are Admiral Djinn, Blu, and Aladdins Wish - Made the practice dummy more accurate the longer you attack it for - Tentatively made all the skins that unlock on only Insane difficulty or under also unlock on Nightmare - Made Summoners Overlord Mode ability not get canceled/prevented from use on map completion, letting people use it to pick up items that drop on the last wave - Made it possible for weapons from this patch onward to have a fire rate higher than 10 shots per second - Split screen status ( Hidden / Shown ) doesnt get changed on in-game cinematics - True Boss Rush now has a working timer - The upgrade tower ability now prioritizes towers that you have enough mana to upgrade - Prioritisation of towers in the upgrade tower ability is now customizable from UDKCDTSettings.ini - Added config option to bring back old upgrade tower behavior - Shift/Ctrl upgrading a hero stat on cats now upgrades boost/range/number of players for you - You now get an experience orb as a one-time reward upon getting the Ultimate Defender achievement - Minimum lobby level requirement is now saved - Level rewards are no longer automatically locked when they get added to your inventory - Added unequip all button to hero info UI - Call of arms now has an indicator when activated, similar to hero and tower boost - Made unearned achievement appear first when inspecting the crystal Bug Fixes : - Added collision volumes where Boss Ev's usually get stuck on Lab Assault - Removed collision from rocks under the map on Lab Assault so Boss EVs dont get stuck - Fixed kill volume on Spooktacular Bay killing auras and Krakens - Fixed a bunch of miscellaneous collisions on Spooktacular Bay - Expanded Overlord bounds on Spooktacular Bay - Fixed roof collisions on Spooktacular Bay - Added collision where ogres get stuck under the bay on Spooktacular Bay - Potentially fixed copter ogres getting stuck in the air on Spooktacular Bay - Fixed getting stuck when going to the roof on Spooktacular Bay - Made Mushroom and trees collisions smaller on Striking Tree - Fixed invisible mushrooms on Striking Tree - Fixed a bunch of minor collision issues on Striking Tree - Added back the missing triggers for steam achievements from update 7 - Fixed a typo in one of the names for a Staff of Flowers core drop - Fixed the old one not shooting fireballs - Fixed bug where tower boosters would not always affect aura attack rates - Fixed the broken report bug button to link on the pause menu - All Update 9.0 weapons now have size randomization similar to Update 8.7s weapons - Melee pets now properly hit Kraken, Spider Queen, and Goblin Mech bosses - Fixed Jade Serpent being white when dropped on the ground - Pets that look identical can now both contribute to familiar related achievements (ex: robot from tinkers lab and alc lab) - Fixed bug where pets that did the line of sight checks could never target the cruiser ship boss core - Fixed broken links on the welcome screen - Fixed issue where toggle other players towers sellable was impossible to select on a controller - Fix for copter ogres getting stuck on one spot outside the map on Winter Wonderland - Remade collision for trees on Striking Tree, stuck mobs and drops should be less frequent - Possible fix for Jester Fool skin call-out animation with guns - Made Pumpkin Snowman boss drop mana on Spooktacular Bay and Halloween Invasion Balance Changes : - Mini Kraken, Mini Genie King, Mr. Owl, Dice, Christmas Elephant, Mega Chicken, Forge Robot, and Tiger had their melee range increased - Increased range for Wasp Pet and decreased melee range - Removed ranged attack from Mega Chicken - Limited upgrading Mega Chickens shots per second to 4, to avoid using upgrades when that wouldnt do anything - Made Ult rates for Ember Pony and Fenix better - Buffed Ember Pony damage multiplier - Tentatively made Ember Pony float higher when equipped - Karathiti Monkey buffed to be on the same level as Akatiti Monkeys - Removed movement speed from Final Patch - Made all characters and skins, with the exception of Jester, move 10% faster by default - Decreased mana cost scaling of Squires Blood Rage ability - Decreased the movement speed multiplier on Squires Blood Rage ability - Increased damage scaling of Countess Call to Arms ability - Decreased mana cost of Countess Call to Arms ability - Added a flat 20% speed multiplier to other heroes in Countess Call to Arms ability range - Made base Series EV and Bounty Hunter EV skin have better-cast rate scaling than a jester - Added Joust fire trail from Redux, it now scales with ability 2. - Talay Mining Complex survival now has 35 waves. Added a Steam Bot pet to wave 25 - Made Hashat's Recurve max projectile speed upgrade be 75000 - Made Hashat's Recurve elemental damage type roll between only fire and lightning - Buffed ember shield to be in line with other shields - Added Black Knight and Black Bishop weapons to Kings Game - Kings Game Survival now gives the Campaign weapon rewards - Coastal Bazaar now has in-game trophies - Chests now drop more items when open after the first wave on maps - Made Pirate Patch from Challenge: Pirate Invasion drop with colors - Added Turkey Bracers to Challenge: Greater Turkey Hunt - Buffed the following accessories to be in line with other end-game accessories: Pirate Hat, Pirate Patch, Defender's Cornucopia, Defender's Headdress, Gobbler Shield, Turkey Mask, Santa Hat, Santa Beard, Top Hat, and Bow - Added for weapon rewards Halloween Spooktacular on Nightmare - Staff charge rate can now be upgraded to 128 - Made all Mr. Owl pets 30% bigger - Reduced Coastal Bazaar survival difficulty - Old generic Dragon Bracers now are part of the Spooky Accessory Set - Armguards of Love now are part Pink Temple of Love Accessory Set - Made Ember Crescent always spawn with 1 extra projectile - Buffed mage towers drop chance to 15% - Buffed siege mech drop chance to 80% and drops to 6 - Made Outlander Ranger flight time the same as EV 1.75 skin - Removed movement speed from Calamity Blade - Changed type sort to consider armor set bonus types (pristine, mail..) before the actual slot type (helmet, gloves..) - Changed type sort to separate accessory types (hats, masks, shields..) - Reduced Apprentices Fireball Tower attack rate, boosted tower damage, and gave it 25% extra projectile speed

DEFENDERS, This patch intends on fixing some issues in the game. PATCH NOTES FEATURE - Added the ability to privately drop mana (default hotkey control + m) BUG FIX - Fixed a typo in Evil Eye's description - Fixed an issue where swapping weapons doesn't cancel the cast of the previous one causing weird projectile interactions - Added new description to DevilSpinelevel drop variant

DEFENDERS, A patch was pushed this morning to address some issues in the 9.0.0 release steamhappy PATCH NOTES FEATURE

• Added controller support for the emulator that allows the player use a controller to control all emulated characters (Keyboard key binds still apply for spawning)

• Fix for accessories being able to spawn with more upgrades than intended
• Fixed Spooktacular Bay not giving random rewards to players besides host
• Fixed an issue where the anti cheat was kicking people with certain colors on character skins
• Fixed some emulator would break some key bind commands
• Fixed an issue where the map selection UI would update client UI's
• Fixed an issue where the map selection wouldn't recover from adding players
• Fixed an issue where the gargoyle accessories were rolling lower than intended
• Fixed an issue where the elf accessories wouldn't show the number of upgrades when on inventory
• Fixed an issue where the elf crown icon was too large
• Fixed an issue where the core drops were not correct on then new maps

DEFENDERS, With great anticipation the new Dungeon Defenders 1 patch 9.0.0 update is now live! We are excited to hear about what the community thinks of this new development and the patch itself. A special thanks to the community member that helped make this new Development possible : Thales, Escev, Jeol, Tbolt, Moose, bee, Harry, Gigazelle, Alhanalem, Sam, and all previous CDT efforts in the past. A huge thank you to the community testers and anyone that participated in the beta! WARNING - This update has changes in the save file format and upon loading this update your save file will no longer be compatible with older game versions. New Maps All new maps have trophies that you can unlock for your tavern, with a second trophy for completing on Nightmare.
The Striking Tree

• Campaign Rewards - Staff of Flowers, Forest Rifle, Turtle Shell Polearm, Leaf Blade and Elf accessory set
• Survival Rewards - Jade Serpent, Fairy and Jade Island.
• Generic versions of all of this maps weapons drop on survival for the map, the same way as Eternia Shard maps

• Campaign Rewards - Demon Sword, Devils Spine and new Spooky accessory set
• Survival Rewards - Little Wizard, Evil Eye and Pumpkin Skeleton on a Treadmill
• Generic versions of all of this maps weapons drop on survival for the map, the same way as Eternia Shard maps

• Rewards - Moon Staff, Witchs Broom and 2 accessories from the new Spooky accessory set. 1 set of rewards per account

• 6 Player map in the style of Temple of Polybius.
• One extra life per player on Hardcore up to 3 lives, with a button at the start to remove the lives for an extra reward
• Rewards - Jewelled Bident and Calamity Blade. 1 set of rewards per account

• Added a new mask drop to the map rewards

• Added Fedora accessory
• New accessory set bonus for Fedora and Librarian Glasses

• Changed survival quality to Aquanos quality

• Polybius pets drop at map completion. They work like guardians but can be upgraded to boost up to 6 towers

• Buffed accessories to max accessory quality to be on par with other maps
• Made accessories drop twice for everyone, even split screens
• Made shields drop like on Omenak, where they are a random additional drop

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

• Buffed accessories to max accessory quality
• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

• Added Emerald accessories with its own set effect
• Sandstorm effects now are disabled on ultra low and low graphics qualities

• Buffed accessories to max accessory quality
• Added Sword of Embers to challenge reward

• Removed melee attack from Mini Wasp Queen Pet

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

• Buffed accessories to max accessory quality

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

• Added Party Horn with the same quality as Librarian Glasses from Arcane Library
• Buffed Party Hats to be on par with Fedora acc from Arcane Library
• Confetti set bonus now needs party horn and party hat

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

• Added missing 10% bonus movement speed to Spear of the New Kingdom

• Made Ban Hammer give a 10% movement speed bonus
• Made Candy Cane give a 10% movement speed bonus
• Made Winter Flame give a 10% movement speed bonus

• Added Inventory Quality Sorting button
• Ultimate Crystalline Defender and Experience Orbs are now both tradeable and droppable.
• Added a Damage Number Size Slider
• Improved Graphic Settings
• Native support up to 4k (3840 by 2160)
• Support for changing graphic settings in-game (Low, Medium and High)
• Option to disable outlines
• Ability to change the size of damage numbers across the entire game
• Added item recovery on all maps
• Players can send much longer messages now, up from 64 characters to 320
• Added a built-in emulator to the game. Old emulators still work, so you can just keep using your current input settings.
• New assignable bindings for controlling the built-in emulator. By default, they are:
• Bindings=(Name="F2",Command="ControlEmulatorPlayer1")
• Bindings=(Name="F3",Command="ControlEmulatorPlayer2")
• Bindings=(Name="F4",Command="ControlEmulatorPlayer3")
• Bindings=(Name="F5",Command="ControlEmulatorPlayer4")
• Bindings=(Name="F6",Command="QuickAddSplits")
• Bindings=(Name="F7",Command="KickAllSplits")
• Bindings=(Name="F8",Command="ToggleSplitScreen")
• Added dropped armor Icons to minimap
• Added difficulty based coloration to the Harbinger mob
• Added item censoring feature. It can be turned on or off in the options menu or with the default binding while in your item box / item info screen:
• Control + C
• Added boss timer skip feature. It can be used with the default binding:
• Bindings=(Name="V",Command="BossTimerSkip")
• The game now unpauses all emulator characters if anyone resumes while an emulator character is present to avoid getting stuck at the pause screen.
• Reduced save frequency for redundant data, such as scores causing a save whenever an enemy is killed during a wave.
• Added simple damage numbers feature
• Overall game engine upgrade that should improve performance
• Changed Siege Mech (Omenak) enemies to have four equipment drop chances
• Changed Magic Missile enemies (Magus Citadel) enemies to have two equipment drop chances
• Guardians now won't try to boost an already boosted tower (unless their boost is better)
• Ability cooldowns reset on entering build phase
• Added keybinds to select heroes on the main menu hero selection screen (0-9)
• Lowered poly teleporting triggervolume's retrigger delay

• Fixed issues with Wasp pet, Spear of the New Kingdom and Winter Flame on certain bosses
• Fixed some spots that mobs end up stuck on infested ruins
• Improved default network bandwidth and lowered network update intervals
• Made Enchanted Bishop colorable
• Removed double dropped equipment circle color on Spare Christmas Lights, Rudolphs Spare Nose and Rudolphs Spare Antlers
• Fixed a bunch of invalid enemy entries in the player stats UI
• Fixed an issue where the map list snaps to another location
• Fixed Crystalline Dimension only dropping 1 accessory for host
• Control + T no longer adds untradeable items to trade
• Fixed Wasp enemies taking more damage than intended from Lightning Towers
• Placed Crystalline Dimension back on Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards
• Fixed black screen issue on poly
• Fixed Ogres spawning slowly at the end of wave in Wintermire survival.
• Fixed an issue where the omenak brooch showed up as bracers
• Misc Changes
• Removed Discord integration to improve game stability
• Changed the ranked home screen to have more useful links
• Huntress, Apprentice, Squire and Monk Guardians can now be upgraded to boost up to 6 towers.

Info about future DD1 Development here. The Dungeon Defenders 1 beta is now live! This beta will be altering .cbb save files so if you wish to copy over your current save locally make a copy of your dundefheroes.dun and add .cbb to the end of it in your save folder likely located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dungeon Defenders\Binaries\Win32. HOW TO JOIN : [olist]

DEFENDERS, Today we are surprising everyone with our newest game: Dungeon Defenders Going Rogue! This is the Chromatic Games take on the roguelite genre using your favorite Etherian Heroes. In Going Rogue you will battle through familiar dungeons, fight waves of enemies, and defeat reimagined bosses in your never-ending quest for loot. To celebrate our expansion of the Dungeon Defenders Universe, we are now offering bundles with DDA and Going Rogue!

DDA and Going Rogue Bundles

Dungeon Defenders II Development

Dungeon Defenders Awakened Development

• New Map: The Bazaar
• New Map: The Lost Metropolis
• New Feature: Runes

Free Going Rogue Cosmetics

The Outcast

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• Discord
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Greetings Defenders! Another Redux update for you to enjoy! The Redux update is available now under the Betas tab on Dungeon Defenders. If you want to know more about this update, Redux in general, or find new friends to join on your DD1 Redux adventure we highly recommend you join both discords: Dungeon Defenders RnG and Dungeon Defenders Official Discord

Patch Notes

New Content

• The Old One on a Treadmill will no longer be obtainable. In its place, the Baby Old One will be craftable with 40 Void Crystals. Compared to the Old One on a Treadmill, it has the same stat rolls but gives 1.25x ground speed instead of 1.45x. It collects mana for players, similar to the dice
• Radioactive Coal has been added to the game. Players will receive one Radioactive Coal per account (i.e. no bonus rewards for splits), from any coal map on Ascension.
• A new tier of diamond has been added to the Coal Forge! The Radioactive Diamond is a builder pet which is spawned with 22 Radioactive Coal. It has approximately the same rolls as the Old One on a Treadmill.
• Boomerang weapon has been added. It is included in the same drop table as the Redux special weapons (Plane Gun, Devils Pitchfork, Heartbringer, etc.).

Quality of Life

• The Coal Forge, Void Forge, and Divine Forge have all received UI overhauls to make them more intuitive to use.
• Build phase now resets cooldowns! Your tower boosters will be grateful.
• Build timers are no longer present when hardcore/ruthless are not enabled.
• The extra effects tab when clicking on a pet now displays its size as a percent of the maximum possible size for that type of pet.
• Reduced the size of the Mini Goblin Mech pet projectiles to improve visual clarity.
• Added hotkey to toggle the Censor Items option; default bind is Alt + P.
• Added hotkey to forcibly close the map setup UI; default bind is semicolon ( ; ).
• Added screen notification text when a hotkey is pressed which displays what was changed.
• Reduced Unicorn Staff size by 40% to make it less clunky to use.
• Several maps have had their descriptions modified or entirely rewritten to improve readability.
• Changed Ruthless game mode description.
• Various network fixes and improvements have been implemented.
• Added additional cheater prevention.

General Balance

• Mobs on Ascension now spawn faster innately, and have more consistent mob schedules.
• Mob counts will once again be reduced for challenges when Ruthless is enabled, though the reduction amount varies from map to map.
• Divine Crystals are no longer purchasable from the Tavern shop; however, their drop rates from Ascension end-of-map rewards have been buffed by 50%.
• The Ascension-only special weapons are no longer purchasable from the Tavern shop. Instead, they now drop as end-of-map rewards using the same rates as Divine Crystals.
• All tiers of coal now sell for more mana.
• Initiates Remote Defense Boost now reduces the damage nearby defenses take, but no longer increases their damage. Rate and range are still increased as before.
• Apprentices Overcharge mana cost has been decreased by 20% to put it on par with hero boost.
• Pet targeting of Kraken and Spider Queen has been fixed. This makes melee pets usable versus them.
• Homing projectiles, such as those from the Series EVs S.A.M. Unit, have had several problems with collision, target acquisition, and spinnies resolved. This should greatly increase their consistency.

Map Balance

• Crystalline Resurgence: Part 1
  • Crystal Blade and Eternian Sword are now awarded upon map completion.
• Crystalline Resurgence: Part 2
  • Crystal Gun and Eternian Cannon are now awarded upon map completion.
• Crystalline Resurgence: Part 3
  • Crystal Staff and Eternian Staff are now awarded upon map completion.
• Crystalline Resurgence: Part 4
  • Jade Spear and Eternian Spear are now awarded upon map completion.
• Halloween Spooktacular 3!
  • Now properly gives rewards to off-host players.
• Temple of Water
  • Removed the Wyvern spawner directly above the north Crystal and placed the Wyverns in the north-most spawner instead.
• Temple of Love
  • Weapon drops are no longer targetable.
• Assault Challenge Pack: Part 1
  • Part 1 is now required (in addition to Parts 2 and 3) to get the end-of-challenge Unicorn reward.

Item Balance

• Zamira helm, chest, and boots now spawn identically to match gloves; go-negative has been increased to avoid overcentralization.
• Unicorn Staff and Glaive of Unicorn projectiles no longer slow enemies (they were never intended to).
• Mega Chicken, Harpoon, and Deadly Striker pets now roll fixed Supreme with 250 upgrades on Ascension.
• Owls are now capable of reaching and exceeding the size of Mr. Crackers.
• The Mini Dragon pet now rolls with more upgrades on average.
• The damage radius of the Mini Goblin Mechs projectiles has been increased.
• The Genies Scimitar has gained enhanced homing, with up to 5 total hits on enemies (but the same enemy cannot be hit more than once per projectile). Its damage has been reduced by 60% as a result of its vastly increased ease-of-use.
• Ember Crescent now shoots three phoenixes in a tight spread that explode on contact with enemies. Additionally, Crescents will now be guaranteed to spawn with an Additional Projectiles stat.
• Mini Wasp Queen melee attack has been removed. Players rarely utilized its melee attack, and it was often outright detrimental when it overrode the much stronger ranged attack when in melee distance.
• Trident has been renamed to Spear of Atlantis, and now drops from Temple of Water; it is no longer included in the special item pool (with Plane Gun, Heartbringer, Devils Pitchfork, etc.). The former Spear of Atlantis is now a core drop.
• Mini Kraken pet melee range has been increased by 8% (1250 to 1350).
• Christmas Elephant melee range has been increased by 50% (450 to 675).
• Mischief Maker ranged damage has been increased by 7%.
• Kraken Kannon damage per upgrade has been increased by 57%, and now gives a 1.10x ground speed multiplier.
• Ember Flame damage has been increased by 100%.
• Winters Flame damage-over-time has been increased by 100%.
• Mobys Mobile Missile Launcher damage has been increased by 50%.
• Ascension Honey Gun damage per upgrade has been increased by 25.7%.
• Scarab Bow damage has been increased by 7%.
• Enchanted Bishop damage has been increased by 40%.
• Honey Staff damage has been increased by 25%.
• Emerald Staff damage has been increased by 35%.
• Spear of Atlantis (formerly Trident) ranged damage has been reduced by 18%.
• Airplane pet damage has been reduced by 7%.
• Demonic Heirloom and Spinal Column damage have been reduced by 25%.

Bug Fixes

• Re-added Tiki Mask to the game.
• Fixed ultimate-quality Gargoyle masks only being upgradable to 500.
• Fixed Harbingers getting stuck on Crystal Cave.
• Fixed Divine Crystals not being randomly awarded from True Boss Rush checkpoints 1 through 4.
• Fixed the wave 33 Ogre mob count spike on Summit.
• Fixed wall texture in Magus Citadel.
• Fixed mob billboards displaying incorrect mob counts on Magus Citadel and other maps.
• Added to the scalar requirement for the anti-cheat on PvP maps so players with high stats wont be kicked.
• Fixed The Kings Game Ascension Giraffe not rolling properly.
• Fixed the unlock requirements for Barbarians Pirate Impostor skin.
• Removed FPS cap on all 6-player and PvP maps.

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Greetings Defenders! Another Redux update for you to enjoy this weekend! A bit of balance, a bit of quality of life, and of course lots of fun! If you want to know more about this update, Redux in general, or find new friends to join on your DD1 Redux adventure we highly recommend you join both discords: Dungeon Defenders RnG and Dungeon Defenders Official Discord

Patch Notes

New Content

• Sky O Love now has a secret which rewards a special accessory at the end of the map (repeatable).
• Summit now has a secret which rewards a special item upon successfully completing the map, (once per account) and doubles the accessories rewarded (repeatable).
• A new pet, the Fluffy Dragon, has been added to the game, and is rewarded from Crystal Escort: Wandering Heart.

Quality of Life

• Slowgres should release faster at the end of waves on Ascension.
• The displayed base damage on weapons has been changed to allow for more consistent comparison across the board. This is just a visual change, and will not affect the DPS the weapon deals. Some weapons affected by this include Obsidian Sparus, Gladius, and Void Staff.
• Unequip all button hides when leveling up to make room for the Reset Level-up button.
• Quick-adding alts with F6 adds all alts with a single keystroke.
• Mission setup remembers if you were on Ruthless in your previous session, rather than switching your preference back to Hardcore.
• Game browser can filter lobbies by Ascension difficulty.
• Fixed the loud sounds on the Summit Dragon pet.
• Made Devils Pitchfork VFX less annoying.
• Dummies in the Tavern can be affected by the Oil Trap debuff (no visual).
• Added more cheater prevention.

General Balance

• Ruthless now only multiplies boss HP by 1.5x instead of 3x below Nightmare.
• Fixed some challenges getting affected by Ruthless mob count scaling. (For the moment, it is intentional that challenge map mob counts are unaffected by Ruthless due to the logistic challenges of rebalancing every single map on a case-by-case basis.)
• Cyclops gas damage-over-time no longer deals bonus damage to minions.
• Nerfed loot goblin special weapon rewards max stats by 40% and base damage spawn by 50%.
• Melee pet healing is now properly reduced on maps where pet healing is reduced.
• Increased projectile speed of Apprentice/Adept Fire Ball ability by 50%.

Map Balance

• Temple of Polybius
  • No longer has double rewards on Ascension Ruthless.
• Return to Crystalline Dimension
  • Off-host players can earn rewards again.
  • Buffed Divine Crystal reward chance from 5% to 10%.
• Crystal Cave
  • Harbingers have been added. Launch event is over, pack your bags.
  • Survival wave pet rewards have been rebalanced; 25 - Crystal Core; 30 - Spider Queen. 35 - Crystalline Griffon. (previously 25 - Spider Queen; 30 - Crystalline Griffon; 35 - Crystal Core)
• True Boss Rush
  • Each checkpoint now has a 10% chance to reward a Divine Crystal.
  • Divine armor now gives bonus HP (2.5% per piece) on TBR specifically. Previously, it provided no bonus at all, since divine healing was disabled (except for off-host players, which has also been removed).
  • Lifesteal is now disabled.
• Temple of Water
  • Reduced the health of the top spawn wyverns on Temple of Water and disabled their spawn invincibility.
• The Great Turkey Defense
  • Now rewards Rumble in the Jungle weapons (Apocalypse, Slash and Burn, Maquahuitl, Karathikan Stone Thrower).
  • Reduced HP on Warriors, Spiders, and Copters on Ruthless.
  • Increased base health of small Turkeys, but disabled Ruthless modifiers.
  • A message now plays at the start to indicate that the small turkeys increase enemy difficulty when killed.
• Greater Turkey Hunt
  • Rewards generate negative stats far less often.
  • Ascension bosses now have their correct, increased HP values.
• Uber: Death from Above
  • Reduced difficulty.
  • Fixed a spot where wyverns could get stuck.
• Sky O Love
  • Reduced HP of Ogres on Ruthless.
• Halloween Spooktacular 3!
  • Pumpkin boss is no longer able to hit the core.
  • Pumpkin boss now has a boss icon.
• Tavern Defense
  • Genie rewards from survival have been adjusted to match Coastal Bazaars.
• Town in the Cliffs
  • Slightly reduced the number of mobs that spawn in higher waves of Survival.
  • Genie is now rewarded from Survival on Wave 30.
• Akatiti Jungle
  • Monkey rewards from survival have been adjusted to match Karathiki Jungles.
• Sky City
  • Weapon rewards generate negative stats far less often now.
• Crystalline Resurgence
  • Slightly reduced the difficulty of CR 1, 2, and 3 survivals.
• Palantir
  • Made Knight boss easier on lower difficulties.
  • Survival max wave increased to 35.
• Lab Assault
  • Now rewards two accessories instead of one on Ascension.

Tower Balance

• S.A.M. Unit now correctly has a 120 degree targeting cone.
• Physical beams now get divine healing. Divine waller, anyone?
• All other EV beams get the health bonus instead.
• Oil Trap and Snowball Tower have been added to Jester Presents.

Item Balance

• Lifesteal from the Halloween Spooktacular 3! weapons (Vampiric Bone Spiker, Vampiric Grim Reaper, Vampiric Bone Sword) reduced by 50%.
• Reduced stat rolls on Genie Scimitar + Spartan sword by 10% (base damage and upgrades unchanged).
• Reduced Demonic Training Blades base damage.
• Added elemental hero damage scaling to Archmage Blade Staff; damage per upgrade has been balanced accordingly.
• Buffed turkey accessories to end game standards.
• Changed the multiplier of the turkey pet on ascension and raised the quality instead.
• Added ability for the Elephant pet to heal on melee hits.
• Supreme Propeller Cats are now possible.
• Increased Owl size by 15% to make them more competitive with Mr. Crackers.
• Imps now prioritize the lowest-HP tower first, and will not repair until a tower reaches 75% HP or below (in order to preserve mana).

Bug Fixes

• Challenge: Assault will no longer immediately end and display a Game Over screen, and is therefore possible to complete again.
• Resolved an issue causing Etherian Holiday Extravaganza to be impossible to complete on Ascension.
• Fixed off-host players not earning rewards on the Assault Pack and Halloween Assault Pack.
• Fixed Copter Ogres on Crystal Cave receiving the full 9x Ruthless HP multiplier instead of the correct 1.85x.
• Fixed the Game Over screen sometimes locking players out of controls if they were not selected on their player 1 character.
• Fixed Imp pet being unable to heal its primary target.
• Fixed off-host players getting kicked from lobbies if they try to add a split in a full game.
• Fixed certain messages persisting when moving between areas of Return to CD.
• Palantir Knight boss can no longer hit cores.
• Fixed void bracers requirement on winter holiday tavern.
• Harbingers on NM TBR now get their correct Ruthless HP scaling of 1.85x.
• Fixed Minion repair cost.
• Fixed ghost items on Winter Mire and Winter Wonderland 2, and fixed their random rewards.
• Mistymire Ascension weapons can no longer be equipped on characters who were too low level to equip them normally.
• Glaive of Unicorn drop template no longer incorrectly displays as a Unicorn Staff.
• Spider Queen pet now benefits correctly from Summoners Pet Boost.

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Greetings Defenders! The launch of the Redux version of DD1 by the community run Redux Development Team has been quite the success! We've received positive feedback from all areas of the community including new and returning players. Outside of the package mismatch error the overall launch has been going quite smoothly from what we've seen and has been reported to us at Chromatic Games. With all that in mind, all launches of something new or major updates cause bugs to come along that need to be squashed that affect the player experience and of course unforeseen balance issues. Instead of waiting for the next bigger update of Redux a bunch of changes are coming in today to make Redux even better experience especially during the holiday break. Since a lot of maps are affected by this update this patch is going to be quite large. If you want to know more about this update, Redux in general, or find new friends to join on your DD1 Redux adventure we highly recommend you join both discords: Dungeon Defenders RnG and Dungeon Defenders Official Discord

Patch Notes:

General Changes:

• Package mismatches are fixed. You should no longer run in to this error when joining another defender's game.
• There is a new icon for Ranked.

New Features:

• Special one-time reward Divine and Void quality bracers have been added. The Divine Misplaced Old One Bracer can be acquired by completing the four Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards maps as well as their respective challenges on Ascension Hardcore or Ruthless. (Mistymire to Sky City, Portal Defense to Boss Rush). The Void Misplaced Old One Bracer can be acquired by completing Crystalline Dimension on Ascension (Neither Hardcore nor Ruthless required), Crystal Cave as well as No Towers Allowed: Crystal Cave on Hardcore or Ruthless.
• True Boss Rush now rewards Divine and Void Misplaced Old One bracers with random stats as well as the otherwise Tavernkeeper shop exclusive weapons on map completion on Ascension difficulty.
• A portal has been added to all taverns that teleports players to the Forge Room. This will allow people to access the Coal Forge, Divine Forge and Void Forge without having to change their tavern.
• Added a button to the hero info screen to move all items on a character to your item box.
• The Jester's presents can now spawn all of the new towers.
• Akatiti Jungle on Ascension difficulty will now reward the Sea Turtle on a Treadmill from Temple of Water if the secret code is performed.
• The Apprentice's Snowball tower now freezes wyverns and makes them fall to the ground after two hits. Their targeting has also been adjusted to prefer wyverns and targets that are not currently frozen.

Balance Changes:

• Fixed an issue causing weapons and pets to roll Divine half as often as intended.
• Ruthless mode will now correctly increase the wave stat multiplier for items that drop on the ground. In addition, the item quality (bias of how high a stat rolls on average) buff that Ruthless applies to ground drops has been increased by 10%.
• Ruthless mode's maximum simultaneous override enemy limit has been changed from 60 to 80. This should result in maps being faster to complete on Ruthless than before.
• Disabled the Ruthless mob count scalar on challenges. This should make challenges more consistently difficult on Ruthless mode.
• Cyclops' aggro patterns will now behave the same as Ogres.
• Guaranteed Divine Crystal rewards have all been removed. The random chance for getting one on level victory has been adjusted for all maps individually to accommodate for this. The odds for each map will be publicly available in Discord servers related to Dungeon Defenders.
• The poisonous gas thrown by cyclops has had its damage dealt to all targets reduced slightly and damage dealt to Summoner's minions reduced massively.
• The Devil's Pitchfork has had its ranged and elemental damage decreased.
• Summoner's pet boost ability has been adjusted to perform more consistently across all pets.
• The Huntress' Oil trap fire damage increase now scales in effectiveness with tower damage. (5% with 0 tower damage, capped at 50% when around 6300 tower damage)
• The Huntress' Dark Shot ability had its projectile speed increased by 25%.
• The Series EV's Tesla Bomb ability is no longer disabled on Temple of Polybius.
• The Series EV's S.A.M unit now has a wider effective range. Its damage output has been reduced by 25% to compensate. Enemies will also be more likely to target the S.A.M unit when hit by it.
• The Squire's Slice n' Dice tower should now suck enemies towards it more consistently. This should stop small mobs from getting tossed around the map.
• The Squire's Mortar Tower has had its projectile range buffed by 20%. It also had a targeting offset added that should make it easier for the tower to hit enemies when close to it.
• The Ancient Dragon on The Summit on Ascension difficulty will now deal 25% less damage with its fireballs.
• The Goblin Mech on The Throne Room on Ascension difficulty had the range of its rockets reduced by 25%.
• The go-negative function for the Kraken Kannon and Mischief Maker from Temple of Polybius has been reduced for Harcore (to 7%) and Ruthless (to 0%).
• The Demon Lord and Goblin Mech pets have had their system for rolling upgrades reworked. This should result in higher average upgrades on these items.
• Nerfed Sea Turtle on a Treadmill pet to cap at 800 instead of 900.
• Nerfed Spinal Column right-click damage.
• The Imp pet will now heal towers and minions in an area around it. The healing has been reduced to account for this.
• The Monkey pet has had its healing reduced to more acceptable levels.
• Many fights in the secret challenge map True Boss Rush have been adjusted on Ascension difficulty.
• Crystalline Resurgence: Part 4's Ancient Dragon had its health increased.
• Reduced Mischief's multiplayer health scaling on Temple of Polybius to compensate for his immunity to Series EV's Proton Charge Blast ability.
• Assault missions Return to Mistymire, Moraggo, Aquanos, Sky City and Crystalline Dimension as well as the Halloween Assault Mission Pack will now reduce player damage taken when multiple players are present in the game. This should make encourage playing these maps with a group of players. (100/90/80/75 for 1/2/3/4-6 players)
• Assault missions Return to Mistymire, Moraggo, Aquanos, Sky City and Crystalline Dimension as well as the Halloween Assault Mission Pack will now set the remaining lives to 0 after a few seconds when on Hardcore or Ruthless.
• Return to Crystalline Dimension's life amount on Hardcore or Ruthless now scales with amount of players.
• Nerfed Moonbase XP income on Ascension difficulty.
• Glitterhelm Caverns has been made less difficult on Ascension difficulty.
• Crystal Cave defense and minion units decreased from 90 to 80. Goblin Copters were also added to this map.
• Crystal Cave enemy count per wave on survival has been reduced.
• Rumble in the Jungle's forced cyclops spawner has been removed, resulting in significantly less Cyclops spawning.
• Town in the Cliffs' djinn boss has been replaced with a Desert Cupid.
• Town in the Cliffs on survival mode now goes to a max of Wave 35 instead of 30. The Donkey pet is now rewarded for survival completion.
• Buffed the aggro of the top crystal on Town in the Cliffs.
• Fixed an issue with the donkey pet's rolls on Crystalline Resurgence 2 survival on Ascension Difficulty.
• Lab Assault on Ascension difficulty will now only drop high quality accessories. The amount of accessories per player has been reduced to 1.
• The challenges; Assault, Assault Mission Pack 1-3 and Halloween Assault Pack 1-3 have been adjusted to make their rewards per account. This should encourage playing in groups more as well as bringing their rewards more in line for their speed and difficulty.
• Halloween Assault Pack: Part 2 now only rewards 1 accessory.
• Tinkerer's Lab has been made significantly easier on Ruthless. Some bugs were causing the health of certain enemies to be too high.
• Added a speed multiplier of 1.1 to the Void Bow.
• Removed the speed multiplier from the Giraffe on a Treadmill's Ascension version.
• The Ancient Dragon on The Summit can now be hit by towers on Ascension difficulty.

Bug fixes and Quality of Life:

• Custom taverns will no longer spawn a diamond automatically when returning to them with 88 coal in your inventory. The coal forge in the forge room accessed through a portal in all taverns can be used for this purpose. (Default/Outside taverns still have all their previously existing features)
• Custom taverns will now act appropriately with items rewarded when returning to it such as Rainbow Unicorns earned by completing the Assault Mission Pack and Free-Range Chickens earned by holding 10 eggs in your inventory.
• Custom taverns will no longer show the incorrect Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards related progression visuals such as the Shards on the wall and the Dragon/Old One head.
• Custom taverns will no longer display the mission details at the top of the screen incorrectly.
• Custom taverns should now be less likely to destroy items when they fall out of the map.
• Return to Crystalline Dimension assault will now correctly give rewards to off-host clients.
• Frostdale Capture the Flag and Hold the Flag now properly show up in the challenges section.
• Palantir's second boss on Ascension, the Knight of the North will now properly have its white aura disappear on death for off-host clients.
• True Boss Rush will now correctly reward items for off-host clients.
• Lives on Crystalline Resurgence: Part 4 and Crystalline Dimension are now properly reduced on Ruthless.
• Fixed the spawners on the Goblin Battlecruiser during True Boss Rush on Ascension difficulty.
• Town in the Cliffs' pathing for enemies has been adjusted to stop enemies from getting stuck.
• Fixed an issue with the collision of the Series EV's S.A.M Unit.
• Fixed an issue causing Mortar Towers to be able to damage allied Reflect Beams situationally.
• Fixed the spawn point for player 2 on Halloween Assault Pack: Part 3.
• Fixed an issue with the split-screen emulator that could kick you from the game by using it when the match is full.
• Fixed an issue with the split-screen emulator that resulted in locking up the victory/defeat screen when opening it as a split character.
• Implemented a fix to stop the internal Nightmare multiplier from affecting items on Ascension difficulty to fix some broken interactions.
• Implemented a potential fix for abnormally high game crash rates on Infested Ruins and Omenak when on survival mode.
• Removed ground drop loot on Crystal Escort: Spring Valley to improve performance.
• Changed scaling in the crystal stats UI to look more in line.
• Fixed an issue causing the Wyverns on Wandering Heart on Ascension difficulty to stop moving.
• Fixed an issue causing spawners on Crystal Cave to keep spawning after map completion.
• Fixed an issue causing pylons to not be targetable by some pets.
• The Spear of Atlantis will now properly be rewarded on Easy-Nightmare difficulty on Temple of Water.
• The Spider Queen minion's behavior state icon has been adjusted to not appear too high above her.
• Fixed the size of the Fedora accessory from Arcane Library when dropped.
• Fixed the Demon Lord pet's visuals when dropped.
• Fixed the fire size of the Demon Lord pet's ranged attack from appearing to be massive.
• Staves will no longer consume upgrades for no benefit when they hit 128 charge rate.
• Omenak's Siege Mech enemies will now properly get the 1.85x health multiplier instead of 9x.
• Siege Mechs will now correctly be affected by the oil trap.
• Fixed a typo in the effect description for the Genie's Scimitar from Town in the Cliffs.
• Fixed an issue preventing the Genie's Scimitar from hitting opposing towers on assault missions.
• Removed the minion state icon for the Kobold ability on Summoner.

Closing Note:

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What is Redux?

Back Story from IHDC

Instructions:

Save Handling:

Ranked:

• There is no method of Ranked to trigger this copy a second time.
• There is no method to transfer anything save related from Redux Ranked to the original Ranked save.

Local:

Future Updates:

FAQ:

• Q: Will redux ever replace the current live version of DD1.
• A: No. Due to the drastic changes and the original state of what DD1 is today the game is considered complete and in a stable state.

• Q: How can I have both versions side by side?
• A: After downloading Redux you can navigate to the installation location on Steam (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Dungeon Defenders) and copy this entire folder to a new location. Then switch back the beta branch to NONE - Opt out of all beta programs. Create a shortcut to the bigger exe file DunDefGame.exe in both folders and name them accordingly to which version you wish to launch.

Credits:

Changelog

Towers

Tower Upgrading Changes:

Apprentice

• Magic Missile: Increase Projectile Speed
• Magic Blockade: Increased Health Scaling
• Fireball Tower: Increase Projectile Speed
• New Tower! SnowBall Tower: Throws an AOE Snowball that damages and slows enemies.

Squire

• Spike Blockade: Increased Health Scaling, Aggro Generation, and Damage Scaling
• Bouncer Blockade: Increased Health Scaling and Damage Scaling
• Harpoon Turret: Increase Projectile Speed
• Bowling Ball: Increase Projectile Speed
• Slice N Dice: Increased Health Scaling, Damage Scaling and added Suction Mechanic
• New Tower! Mortar Tower: Shoots a bomb that deals AOE damage.

Huntress

• Proximity Mine: Increased Damage Scaling
• Inferno Trap: Increased Damage Scaling
• Ethereal Spike Trap: Increase Damage Scaling and Rate Scaling
• New Tower! Oil Trap: Damages enemies and applies a debuff for a limited amount of time-based on the tower health stat that makes them take increased fire damage.

Series Ev

• Proton Beam: Increased Damage Scaling
• Physical Beam: Increased Health Scaling
• Shock Beam: Increased Damage Scaling
• New Tower! SAM Unit: Fires a heat-seeking fire damage missile that explodes on impact.

Barbarian

• New Tower! Damage Totem: Increases damage of nearby heroes (Scales off hero damage, radius scales off lightning stance)
• New Tower! Speed Totem: Added New Tower That Increases Speed of all heroes on the map. Multiplier scales with Tornado Stance.

Summoner

• New Tower! Spider Queen: New Minion unit that can fire a range web attack and melee mobs also takes 10% reduced damage.

Heroes

Apprentice

• Overcharge: Increases damage and hero speed in addition to cast rate, costs more mana
• Mana Bomb: Cooldown lowered to match Purity bomb cooldown
• Hero Damage Scaling: Matched Jester Hero damage scaling
• Fire Bomb: A fireball projectile that slowly travels to the aimed direction and explodes (Scales off Hero damage)

Squire/Countess

• Bloodrage/Call to Arms: Reduced mana cost
• Joust: Added higher weapon damage scaling. Added fire trail (Scales off Hero damage)
• Blade Vortex Ability: Drops a set of Spinning blades that lasts for 10 seconds (Scales off Hero damage)

Huntress/Ranger

• Invisibility: Now also grants movement speed increase
• Dark Shot: New Ability that makes enemies (and bosses) take up to 40% more damage (Scales off Hero damage)

Monk/Initiate

• Fire Aura: an AOE effect around the monk that deals fire damage to any mob inside it (Scales off Hero damage)
• Remote defense boost: no longer requires the creator hero

Series Ev

• Holographic Decoy: Increased damage, aggro radius now can be dropped while flying
• Electric Bomb: A grenade-like projectile that bounces around before exploding (Scales off Hero damage)

Barbarian

• Lightning Stance: Now adds additional lightning damage to each attack based on your lightning stance stat up to 50% of the attacks damage for melee and 35% for hawk stance. It also shoots a ranged lightning bolt in the direction you aim.
• Siphon Stance: Reduced resistance debuff
• Turtle Stance: Reduced mana cost
• Battle Leap: Added improved weapon damage scaling
• Battle Pound: Added improved weapon damage scaling

Jester

• Confetti Cannon: New short-ranged burst shotgun ability (Scales off Hero damage)
• Wheel Of Fortuna: Change Damage all to only affect enemies once

Summoner

• Summon kobold: New Ability that spawns a kobold suicide bomber dealing damage on explosion (Scales off Hero damage)
• Pet Boost: For the ability duration it increases self pet damage by 25% - 450% and caps at around 6.6k hero damage. It also increases the pet attack rate by 25% - 250% and caps at around 7.1k hero damage

Skins

• Added 4 new skins for the original 4 heroes on the Ascension Crystalline Dimension completion. They have the same bonuses and drawbacks as the Super Legendary skins
• New Crystalline Ninja Monk skin: ???
• Pirate Barbarian from Halloween Spooktacular 3. They have the same bonuses and drawbacks as the Tavern Keeper Barbarian

New Maps & Rewards

• Halloween Spooktacular 3:

  
  New boss fight. Rewards: Pumpkin hat accessory. Vampiric Bone Sword, Vampiric Bone Spiker, Vampiric Grim Reaper, Pumpkinator 2000. All of these weapons apply lifesteal based on the weapons base damage stat. Eye of Devastation from Wave 30.

• Winter Wonderland 2:

  
  New boss fight, a new nutcracker mob that ignores gas traps. Rewards: Candy Cane, Winters Flame, Foam Sword. Nutcracker hat accessory. Ice Cube from Wave 30.

• Spooky Invasion Challenge:

  
  Pirate Invasion, but spooky. Rewards: Pumpkin hat accessory. Vampiric Bone Sword, Vampiric Bone Spiker, Vampiric Grim Reaper, Pumpkinator 2000. All of these weapons apply lifesteal based on the weapons base damage stat.

• Returnia Assault Pack:

  
  Assault missions on Mistymire, Moraggo, Aquanos, and Sky City. Completing all four in a row on Ascension yields bonus rewards.

• Return To Crystalline Dimension:

  
  Assault mission on the first four sections of Crystalline Dimension New rewards: 4 void shards and the Crystalline Dimension Set of weapons

• Town In The Cliffs:

  
  New Boss Fight. Rewards: Upgrader Djinnlet from Wave 35. Magic Sword(monk) and Spartans Sword from the campaign. Spartans Sword has a special effect called Spartans Rage which gives it a 5% chance per swing to deal 25% increased damage for the next 5 seconds. Magic Sword shoots a homing sword at the enemy you aim at.

• Crystal Cave:

  
  A crystalline cave. 1 core. 4 Crystalline heroes to fight as bosses. Rewards: Eternian Sword, Spear, Staff, Energy Cannon and Divine Shards Crystalline Griffon on wave 25 Crystal Pet Rock wave 35

• No Towers Allowed: Crystal Cave:

  
  DPS only for the waves with a Kraken boss

• Great Turkey Defense Challenge:

  
  Defend the Turkeys! Rewards: Pet Turkey. Turkey accessories + new turkey bracers.

• Wandering Heart:

  
  New Crystal Escort Map Rewards: Spear, Sword, Bow, and Staff of Hearts. The Spear and Swords melee attacks have a 50% chance to charm enemies to fight for you for 10 seconds. Charmed enemies take 2x damage but deal 25x damage. The Staffs right-click heals all nearby players for 100% of the damage that attack would deal.

• Halloween Assault Pack:

  
  Assault missions

• Halloween Ramparts:

  
  Rewards: Buffed Halloween Spooktacular weapons.

• Halloween Endless Spires:

  
  Rewards: Halloween accessories

• Halloween Shipwreck Ruins:

  
  Rewards: Vampiric Bone Sword, Vampiric Bone Spiker, Vampiric Grim Reaper, Pumpkinator 2000. All of these weapons apply lifesteal based on the weapons base damage stat. Completing all three in a row on Ascension yields a bonus reward.

Updated Maps & Rewards

• Palantir:

  
  New boss fight on Ascension, new rewards: Ice Pick, Ice Rifle, and Staff of Ice

• Emerald City:

  
  New green accessory set based on the Crystalline Dimension set. Set bonus of orbiting emerald shards.

• Tavern Defense:

  
  New accessory set with the Party Hat and Party Horn (new). Party Hat rolls buffed on Nightmare.

• Alchemical Laboratory:

  
  New Pet Mini Demon Lord found on Wave 35 (Ascension Only)

• The Throne Room:

  
  New Pet Mini Goblin Mech found on Wave 35 (Ascension Only)

• The Summit:

  
  New Pet Mini Ancient Dragon found on Wave 35 (Ascension Only)

• Aquanos:

  
  New rewards: Shield of Atlantis and Sea Snail found on Wave 30 ( Nightmare ) Wave 35 ( Ascension )

• Sky City:

  
  New rewards: Pressurized Cog Shield and AirPlane found on Wave 30 ( Nightmare ) Wave 35 ( Ascension )

• Great Turkey Hunt:

  
  New Pet Turkey. Buffed existing turkey accessories and added new turkey bracers.

• Greater Turkey Hunt:

  
  New Pet Turkey found on map completion

• Lab Assault:

  
  EVs now show on the map. Ascension Only: EVs will now teleport back up if they fall off the map. Pets and abilities can now be used. Can now drop every accessory in the game.

• Temple of Polybius:

  
  New rewards: These pets buff towers the same as a guardian would, but up to 6 targets instead. They are called Speedy Polybius (rate buff), Destruction Polybius (damage buff), Expansive Polybius (range buff), and Defensive Polybius (resistance buff). Ascension Guarantees 2 Divine Shards on non Hardcore and 4 for Hardcore

• Sky o Love and Temple o Love:

  
  New rewards: Spear, Sword, Bow, and Staff of Hearts. The Spear and Swords melee attacks have a 50% chance to charm enemies to fight for you for 10 seconds. Charmed enemies take 2x damage but deal 25x damage. The Staffs right-click heals all nearby players for 100% of the damage that attack would deal.

• Temple Of Water:

  
  New rewards: Trident found on map completion

• Crystalline Resurgence 1-4:

  
  New rewards: 1 Void Shard on nightmare 2 on Ascension

• Crystalline Demsnsion:

  
  New Rewards: 4 Void Shards on Ascension 8 Void Shards on Ascension Hardcore

Ascension

Difficulty

• Original Campaign was balanced towards current nightmare endgame
• Shards Maps have been balanced to match the difficulty of Lost Quests maps on Ascension
• All mobs and bosses have had massive heath damage and speed buffs on Ascension

New Enemy - Cyclops

• Shoots a ball of poison at a target that spawns an AOE poison damage cloud that deals damage over time

Loot

• All pre-Lost Quests map rewards have received huge buffs to make them more viable in end game content
• All Lost Quests map rewards had their go-negative stat reduced by 50%. This should result in massively increased ult rates

Survival

• All original campaign have infested loot quality
• All other maps have a new higher loot quality *moonbase is set to Kings game quality
• All survival pets now roll higher on ascension

Tavern Keeper Shop

• Shop items will roll comparable to nightmare random rewards at their highest quality.
• Divine Shards can be purchased in the shop

New Qualities

• Divine:

  
  Divine armor gives you a 2.5% passive healing bonus and a 0.25% passive tower healing bonus every 5 seconds / 2.5% health bonus to traps and auras. This bonus is set to 15% instead of a full set of Divine armor. They spawn with higher stats, upgrades, and a set bonus of 1.5x instead of the 1.4x of Ultimate-Ult++.

• Divine Shards:

  
  New coal-like currency drops from the end of map rewards and tavern shop

• Void:

  
  Void armor gives you a 2.5% hero damage bonus and a 2.5% tower range bonus. This bonus is set to 15% instead of a full set of Void armor. They spawn with higher stats, upgrades, and a set bonus of 1.5x instead of the 1.4x of Ultimate-Ult++. Only armor and the items from the Void Forge can be Void quality.

• Void Shards:

  
  A new coal-like currency that is rewarded on Crystalline Resurgence maps, Crystal Cave (50/50 for Divine or Void Shards), and Crystalline Dimension.

Ruthless

• Massively Reduced mob count
• Increased Enemy Difficulty
• Decreased Enemy movement speed
• Lower mob spawn rate
• Increased Loot multiplier 10% points higher then hardcore

Tavern

• Void Forge:

  
  The Void Forge takes Void Shards to craft them into a Void Spear, Void Bow, Void Sword, or Void Staff. The Feeling Lucky? button allows you to get one of these 4 at random with higher quality. What could ??? be!?

• Divine Forge:

  
  The Divine Forge takes one Divine Shard and crafts it into 10 armor pieces of high quality. On average at least one of these will be Ultimate or higher quality.

• Tavern Changer:

  
  You can now change your tavern themes to any of the previous 13 Taverns! Check it out in the Options menu in-game to see them for yourself.

• Diamond Forge Update:

  
  Added the ability to exchange Coal for mana 1 coal for 10 Billion Mana Small Coal for 2 Billion Mana

• True Boss Rush Menu:

  
  Added new UI. Allows you to choose checkpoints and trade XP orbs for mana. 1 XP orb for 100 Billion Mana

Integrated Emulator

Controls

• - F2 = Player 1
• - F3 = Player 2
• - F4 = Player 3
• - F5 = Player 4
• - F6 = Quick add Alts
• - F7 = Remove all Alts
• - F8 = Toggle Active Split Screens This hides the screens of your split-screen characters without removing them.

Pure Strategy

• Players are now capable of all normal actions in Pure Strategy, including attacking and being attacked by enemies
• Enemies no longer ignore/pass through players in Pure Strategy
• Hardcore and Iron Man may now be selected while playing Pure Strategy
• Enemy amounts and strength in Pure Strategy should now mirror Survival mode on all maps
• All chests in Pure strategy now give 2020 man on the first wave, regardless of starting wave number
• Upon starting the first Combat Phase in Pure Strategy, Defense Units and Minion Units will be reduced to 0 and remain there for the entire map
• Pure Strategy Rewards now match Mix Mode loot + bonus

New Mobs

• Cyclops:

  
  A new Mini-Boss mob on all Ascension maps that Shoots a ball of poison at a target that spawns an AOE poison damage cloud that deals damage over time

• Nut Cracker:

  
  New Mob only found on Winter Wonderland 2 this mob ignores gas traps and explodes on death

• Loot Goblin:

  
  Found on Mix Mode only. Drops a high number of items. Can drop Ascension version blade of the North, Snowball Launcher, North Pole, and Spear of Light

QOL

• Re-Roll System:

  
  Added a new feature that allows an Ultimate++/Divine/Void Armor reroll for the price of a Void Shard, beware, every reroll has 40% to curse the item instead.

• Inventory Sorting:

  
  Added a new feature to the item box that sorts the items based on their quality

• Armor visual update:

  
  Updated Visuals of every armor model in the game

• Graphic settings:

  
  Added 1440p option to the resolution list, added the ability to change graphics quality in-game, added the ability to remove the outline effect, extended the FOV range and added the ability to uncap fps.

• Item Effect Screen:

  
  Added a window that displays additional, previously hidden, item properties ( like movement speed, etc.)

• Boss Timer Skip:

  
  Added a new keybind ( n ) to skip incoming boss timers

• Item Recovery:

  
  Added item recovery to most maps that did not have it

• Auto Censor:

  
  Changes last digit of an Ultimate++/Divine/Void item stats to x when viewing an item.

• Ascended Defender:

  
  New Achievement Complete all maps + challenges Deeper Well - Glitterhelm Caverns unlocks 1000 inventory slots

• Damage Number Size Slider:

  
  You can change it from anywhere between 100% to 300%, the default in the live game is 200%.

Social Defenders

• Discord
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitch
• Forums

DEFENDERS! If you havent heard, Dungeon Defenders: Awakened, the latest in the Dungeon Defenders series, is now in Closed Beta! Continue reading for more info, or click the small picture below to check it out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1101190/

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Greetings, Defenders! Today marks the final Community Development Team update for Dungeon Defenders. For over four years now the CDT has been creating content, fixing bugs, adding new features, and so much more to keep the game alive longer. Weekly meetings, reviewing feedback from the community, and internal debates on the best way to implement new changes felt like watching a small indie studio creating the best updates they could. Seeing what they have accomplished in Dungeon Defenders is nothing short of amazing in my mind and truly makes me happy to see everything theyve done. I wish to express my sincerest gratitude and appreciation to all the CDT members past and present for everything youve done. Especially Acen, Alhanalem, Antony, Crzyrndm, Gigazelle, Gunnerq69, Harry, IHDC, Mischief, Nexus, OtterDarkness, Plane, TheBeev. Sincerely, -Ice

Patch Notes

• Campaign Rewards - Soul Dissolver, The Goblin Wrench and new Palantir accessory set.
• Survival Rewards - Forge Bot, Battle Droid, and new mini flying mech pet.

• Campaign Rewards - Honey Staff, Honey Spear, Honey Gun, and the Honey Sword.
• Survival Rewards - Serpent, a new wasp themed pet, and a new mini wasp queen pet.

• Campaign Rewards - Arch Mage's Blade Staff, Ace of Spades, and a Jeweled sword.
• Survival Rewards - Random Animus, Harpoon Pet and Deadly Striker Pet.

• Campaign Rewards - Candy Cane, Winter's flame, Ice's ban hammer, and coal.
• Survival Rewards - Snowman pet, Christmas Elephant, and Turkey on a Treadmill.

• Campaign Rewards - Sand Blade, Scarab Bow, Spear of the New Kingdom, Serpent Staff, Egyptian themed accessory, and a mummy pet.

• Campaign Rewards - Chicken Baller, Egganator, Bunny squire skin (Insane/Nightmare completion) and Free Range Eggs.
• Tavern Reward - 10 Eggs from Spring Valley turn into a Free Range Chicken.

• Reward - Experience orb to level a char up to 100 when used in specific spot in the basement. (The orb is not tradeable or droppable)

• Challenge Rewards - Added Buccaneer's pirate hat & pirate accessory set bonus.

• Lowered quality drops of CD Dragon and Spider pets on Insane difficulty.
• Crystalline dragon attacks 20% faster.
• Adjusted Harbingers on Coastal Bazaar so they do not get stuck.
• Removed Ember shield from Random accessory drop pool on Flames of Rebirth challenge.
• Survival Rebalance - Emerald, CR2 and CR3 difficulty decreased.
• Survival Rebalance - Coastal difficulty increased.
• Squire ability circular slice will now always hit 2x instead of intermittently.

• Changed the \\ to / in the inventory!
• Gold enemies now show on minimap.
• New achievements and tavern trophies.
• Expanded item box space for the Eternal Defender achievement.
• Shift-click to upgrade armor now stops at levels ending in 9 to make it easier to upgrade without missing resists.
• Tavern - Moved some trophies upstairs to create more rooms for items downstairs.
• Tavern - Updated cosmetics on second floor.
• Added Item Quality outline filter option to options menu.
• Added item recovery to Sky City and Kings Game for items that fall off the map.

• Swapped Random Rewards and Ember rewards to address timing issue.
• Fixed issue with snowball projectile.

Greetings Defenders! Earlier this week we revealed what we were working on so far this year, Dungeon Defenders: Awakened! As Chromatic Games, we're a new studio (which can you read about here) with entirely new leadership, vision, developers, goals, and focus: to make player-centric games. This new Dungeon Defenders title is our first step in the right direction and we hope that you'll join us along for the journey. [img=https://i.imgur.com/Vk27Ke3.gif][/img] Being a new studio we have a lot of big ambitions for what we want to accomplish, and for that we'll need your help! We just launched our Kickstarter, so if you haven't, give it a look and see if it's something you want to back. We're consistently posting updates and are going to reveal more and more over time! We're taking tons of feedback on this new project at our forums, so if you're interested in joining the conversation head on over to the new snazzy forums and your voice will be heard! There's so much left to go and we can't wait to get there with you. For Etheria! The Chromatic Games Team

Greetings Defenders!! There is a new update coming your way. This update is a little different than our previous ones. We are breaking up the update we had originally planned into a smaller update that we can get to you quicker (much quicker).

New Functionality

• Owners of Dungeon Defenders on Steam and Discord can now play together!

New Content

• New map Emerald City (rewards 4 new weapons)
• New Challenge: Flames of Rebirth - Embermount Challenge (rewards new shield and random ember accessory)

Quality of Life Changes

• Fix play random player spawn in the void on CD
• Added coal to Etherian Holiday

Balance Changes

• Several difficulty reductions for CR2 and CR3 bosses, particularly for solo

Fixes

• Fixed Genie King not coming out of his lamp after time limit
• Fixed reward sound not when Fenix and Ember Pony are rewarded

Fixes (Controller Specific)

• Controllers should be able to target Dragon on Crystalline Resurgence 3
• Phoenix should have targeting priority over other targets
• Controllers should now be able to use the 'set active folder' properly in AFK shop management.

Hard Caps

• Gear limited to 1600 on a stat.
• Characters limited to 16000 total on a stat.

Maps

• NEW - Arcane Library - New map with a new acc as a reward.
• NEWish - CD Resurgence Part 1, 2 and 3 - Each map has a boss with updated rewards from Mistymire, Moraggo and Aquanos.
• Tavern - while the tavern is not new, the outside has been removed along with the outside portal and other effects to help improve load times

Quality of Life Changes

• Loot table added to show the number of drops of each quality on the ground. Use Shift to see along side the map of a level. It also works in the tavern.
• Move tavern items in Overlord mode
• Added Host Ready Up override - CTRL G
• Add MU to HUD under DU
• New Tower DPS calculation shown at the bottom of tower info.
• Enemy spawn billboards on the map will toggle on/off when toggling them with O on the minimap
• Added CD to map list so the Portal isnt required
• Increased AFK shop price limit to 1 trillion.
• Circular Slice can be activated in the air
• Lock tavern item drops/pickups by default.
• Detonate Traps will now open presents in the tavern to help test towers
• Add page of items in inventory to trade - CTRL T
• CTRL drag to move an entire page of items
• Hide green dot item overlay
• Jester “move tower” ability should cycle through overlapping towers
• Players should automatically drop mana when being kicked
• Updated mask sockets to make some accs fit chars better
• Hardcore option should be remembered across sessions now
• Added lightning towers to dynamic lighting toggle under options
• Damage number 4 has been updated so it doesn't look similar to the 9
• Added forges to assault maps
• Dont wait on receiving stats to be able to go to next level
• Flash jeal and all wheel patterns (except kill %) now work on tavern dummy
• Presents never drop junk items in tavern
• Increase mana token limit to 1T
• Slow ogre fix - if only ogres are left at the end of a wave and the map is empty
• Temple of Water frame rate improvements for low/medium graphics
• Potential frame rate improvements on many maps

Balance Changes

• Lightning tower boss damage reduced by 50%.
• Buffed ToL accs and Pirate Patch to match Santa accs
• Santa Spectacles have been added as a winter face acc to Winter
• Wonderland and Silent Night
• Dice pet added to King’s Game survival
• East core Randomly dies on Temple of water
• Orcs/Ogres should not move when in “hold defensive”
• Buffed several pets to roll ultimate more often (Monkey, Parrot, Ember Pony, Fenix)
• Warrior Minion Revamp - cannot be targeted by or collide with enemies, damage scaling increased, unaffected by buff beam, loses health when it attacks
• Guardians no longer try to boost towers that they cannot affect

Bug Fixes

• Fixed - Tower/Hero boost should always use highest boost now
• Fixed - Items get stuck behind spawns. You can now pick up items from further away or use
• Summoner’s Overlord mode to pick up items during build phase only
• Fixed - Jim Darkmagic and Demoness speed advantage. The value to give them the extra speed was being overwritten
• Fixed - Two actors getting stuck and unable to move
• Fixed - Updated Mana token mesh and minimap icon which previously showed as an egg
• Fixed - Only host can change song on juke box
• Fixed - ESTs attacking players in certain scenarios
• Fixed - Trap no longer shows up in the light beams from the ceiling in Temple of Water
• Fixed - Spiders showed wrong range value when inspected
• Fixed - Hardcore always should always be displayed on the client when selected by the host
• Fixed - Water surface in Temple of Water should not block aiming now
• Fixed - Gun jamming bug
• Fixed - Monky/Parrot should no longer try to shoot an enemy through a wall
• Fixed - Game Setup UI would randomly freeze
• Fixed - Mana failing through center of map in Aquanos
• Fixed - Spider web on Huntress Santa’s little helper costume was very and not properly scaled
• Fixed - Salem Event Cat range was capped at 90
• Fixed - Weapon stacking bug
• Fixed - Prevent Phoenix from getting stuck
• Fixed - CD portal didnt update when difficulty was changed
• Fixed - Stuck mobs on Moonbase survival
• Fixed - Temple of Water pathing on the North side
• Fixed - Shift click and CTRL click should work with pets that have stored mana
• Fixed - Reflect beams should now update the kills value
• Fixed - Hovering triggered Old One platform glitch
• Fixed - Spiders should not get stuck if their target is unreachable
• Fixed - Fairy healing displays correctly now
• Fixed - Unintended attack rate reduction on Ember Flame
• Fixed - Orgres spawning after Polybius challenge is complete
• Fixed - Soft lock bug (waves that never end after enemies run out forcing restart)
• Fixed - Players dying if they hover during teleports on Polybius /events maps

Greeting Defenders!! We know the wait has been quite long but you dont have to wait any longer. The Tavern Expansion has arrived! Thank you for your patience and feedback this past year as we worked through it all. Please read the note below

Highlights

• New Tavern Expansion : First floor expanded, All new second floor,
• Diamond Forge, Exterior Space, More combat dummies, Expanded
• Ultimate Defender Room with New Juke Box
• New Challenge Map - Temple of Polybius with new weapon rewards
• New Campaign/Survival Map - Temple of Water with new weapon rewards and pet reward
• New Intermediate Campaing/Survival Map - Dread Dungeon with new accessory reward
• New Steam achievements and tavern trophies for Moonbase, Buccaneer Bay, and Temple of Water
• New tavern trophies for Embermount

Quality of Life Improvements

• Added Hero Info button back to ESC screen
• Added Box to Enter Mana in Trade (ex 5.0b will add 5 billion)
• Max Hero limit raised to 40
• Max tavern limit doubled to 180
• Tavern: Items Dropped by Host Hidden in private rooms should be hidden from guests making private rooms.. private.
• Tavern: Item Recovery added to the void, if something escapes reality, it’ll re-appear by the first floor forge!
• Item upgrade count now visible in trade under Item Info
• Added count of items contained within Folders in Inventory
• Remove items from shop even when Inventory is full
• Auto lock all items going into inventory except when picking up off the floor
• Sped up Summoner casting in tavern
• Wheel o Fortuna Damage All percentage reported on the tavern dummy
• Added animations to Anamorphic Ember
• Spider and DEWs should now find you anywhere on the map if you there is a path
• Stuck Enemies should now die
• Fixed missing ceiling in Glitterhelm and performed a texture art pass to make Glitterhelm live up to its name.
• Added Santa bracers to Winter Wonderland and Silent Night
• Add new mask and cufflinks to Temple of Love
• New Santa accessory cosmetic set bonus
• New Valentine accessory cosmetic set bonus for male and female
• Added shields to count towards cosmetic set bonus
• Holding down survival wave increase/decrease buttons now works
• Colorized circle component on dropped equipment to match particle beams
• Updated beam toggle to cycle through beams and circles underneath items.
• Added profile save event after rewarded equipment
• Fusion Rod base damage display is now the same as all other staves. Now you can compare base damage 1:1 with existing staves (Classic, bloodshot, etc). DPS is exactly the same
• Removed TV monitor to improve tavern performance, especially when in other player’s taverns with the new tavern.
• Improved network performance on Temple of Love for clients
• Hit T when hovering over an item in the itembox to add to Trade
• Hit O to toggle Enemy Wave Billboards on minimap
• Hit P to toggle Towers on minimap
• All heroes drop mana in a nice pile like the summoner
• Added Boss Rush countdown shortening switch
• Reduced Silent Night countdown to 15
• Allow purchases from Tavern Keeper even when item box is full
• Fast menu transitions enabled by default
• Added Harbinger spawn notification

Option Menu Updates

• Reordered options to put them under appropriate sections
• Change Voice tab to Sound
• Added Display CD portal
• Added Display Cosmetic Set Bonus
• Added Tower Upgrades Displayed
• Added Significant Digits Displayed
• Added Tower Transparency options

Balance Updates

• Boosted DST projectile speed and damage as well as added new enemies to targeting system. from Djinns => Wyverns => Mages TO Djinns => Wyverns => Sharken => Copter => Mages
• Adjust Gold Enemy Buff as fixed increase of 200% on NM and Insane, 100% for Hard, 50% for Medium and Easy
• Buffed Tinker’s Lab Blasters on NM to be better than Insane
• Buffed Tinker’s Lab Mega Chicken stats around 30 points on NM
• Buffed Eternian staff to be closer in damage to Classic Standard
• Buffed Winter Wonderland weapon damage to lower part of high tier weapons
• Reduced Phoenix charge attack vertical damage
• Reduced Copter spawn rate during Phoenix boss fight
• Buffed Fenix and Ember pony to be closer or little better than seahorse due to challenge of farming
• Removed Map exclusive accessories from Lab Assault (ie CD, ToL, GTH, WW/SN and Palantir)
• Buffed Spooktacular 2 accs to Lab Assault levels
• Revert Hyper Rifle elemental damage halving due to 2 projectiles.
• Ember Accessories ult cap is 600 instead of previous 500.
• Reduced small coal requirement to make a small diamond from 88 to 44

Bug Fixes

• Possible fix for trade glitch where both players lose their items
• Fixed max upgrade count not shown in trade on item info
• Fix for armor being removed more than weapons (weapons were rated higher in quality)
• Fixed Talay and Moonbase survival start waves
• Fixed EST traps on Assault maps not damaging
• Fixed Hero Info Screen tower stat overlap so numbers aren’t hidden
• Sealed off Tavern Defense secret room so players cant fall out of the map there
• Fixed not being able to build on left bridge in Tavern Defense
• Fixed Tavern Defense Snowman not attacking
• Fixed Imp stat prediction
• Fixed gobler shield handle positioning
• Commented out K key binding to killme command
• Fixed opacity scaling
• Fix for items removed during build phase
• Evil Hero bosses on Winter Wonderland and Silent Night no longer despawn after 2.5 minutes
• Fixed Tower Wars Spider Queen health overflow causing them to never act or be able to take damage
• Fixed spelling of "marshmallows" on Anamorphic Ember
• Fixed AFK shop bug that crash the game for some players
• Fix to mitigate wave skipping
• Fixed Battle Droid not weakening enemies
• Fix for Phoenix killing itself
• Towers should now move with vertical moving platforms in ToW
• Fix to Allow Jester to get Apprentice weapons as rewards
• Fix for unintended increase in leather armor on survivals
• Fixed hats being backwards on Super Legendary Huntress
• Fix mana from chests going under the floor
• Fix for Mistymire survival weapon drop rate to be in line with other Shard maps
• Fix for 60% of random elements rolling Lightning
• Fixed moon pet to spawn with tiered level requirements. Max level requirement bumped down to ult90 to line up better with other pets.
• Fix for Embermount boost pad to activate every time.
• Fix for damage numbers disappearing above 5mil
• Fix for excessive mana on the ground in Moonbase NMHC Survival
• Fix for AFK shop not allowing players to buy anything if host has too many items in item box

Greeting Defenders!! We know the wait has been quite long but you dont have to wait any longer. The Tavern Expansion has arrived! Thank you for your patience and feedback this past year as we worked through it all. Please read the note below

Highlights

• New Tavern Expansion : First floor expanded, All new second floor,
• Diamond Forge, Exterior Space, More combat dummies, Expanded
• Ultimate Defender Room with New Juke Box
• New Challenge Map - Temple of Polybius with new weapon rewards
• New Campaign/Survival Map - Temple of Water with new weapon rewards and pet reward
• New Intermediate Campaing/Survival Map - Dread Dungeon with new accessory reward
• New Steam achievements and tavern trophies for Moonbase, Buccaneer Bay, and Temple of Water
• New tavern trophies for Embermount

Quality of Life Improvements

• Added Hero Info button back to ESC screen
• Added Box to Enter Mana in Trade (ex 5.0b will add 5 billion)
• Max Hero limit raised to 40
• Max tavern limit doubled to 180
• Tavern: Items Dropped by Host Hidden in private rooms should be hidden from guests making private rooms.. private.
• Tavern: Item Recovery added to the void, if something escapes reality, itll re-appear by the first floor forge!
• Item upgrade count now visible in trade under Item Info
• Added count of items contained within Folders in Inventory
• Remove items from shop even when Inventory is full
• Auto lock all items going into inventory except when picking up off the floor
• Sped up Summoner casting in tavern
• Wheel o Fortuna Damage All percentage reported on the tavern dummy
• Added animations to Anamorphic Ember
• Spider and DEWs should now find you anywhere on the map if you there is a path
• Stuck Enemies should now die
• Fixed missing ceiling in Glitterhelm and performed a texture art pass to make Glitterhelm live up to its name.
• Added Santa bracers to Winter Wonderland and Silent Night
• Add new mask and cufflinks to Temple of Love
• New Santa accessory cosmetic set bonus
• New Valentine accessory cosmetic set bonus for male and female
• Added shields to count towards cosmetic set bonus
• Holding down survival wave increase/decrease buttons now works
• Colorized circle component on dropped equipment to match particle beams
• Updated beam toggle to cycle through beams and circles underneath items.
• Added profile save event after rewarded equipment
• Fusion Rod base damage display is now the same as all other staves. Now you can compare base damage 1:1 with existing staves (Classic, bloodshot, etc). DPS is exactly the same
• Removed TV monitor to improve tavern performance, especially when in other players taverns with the new tavern.
• Improved network performance on Temple of Love for clients
• Hit T when hovering over an item in the itembox to add to Trade
• Hit O to toggle Enemy Wave Billboards on minimap
• Hit P to toggle Towers on minimap
• All heroes drop mana in a nice pile like the summoner
• Added Boss Rush countdown shortening switch
• Reduced Silent Night countdown to 15
• Allow purchases from Tavern Keeper even when item box is full
• Fast menu transitions enabled by default
• Added Harbinger spawn notification

Option Menu Updates

• Reordered options to put them under appropriate sections
• Change Voice tab to Sound
• Added Display CD portal
• Added Display Cosmetic Set Bonus
• Added Tower Upgrades Displayed
• Added Significant Digits Displayed
• Added Tower Transparency options

Balance Updates

• Boosted DST projectile speed and damage as well as added new enemies to targeting system. from Djinns => Wyverns => Mages TO Djinns => Wyverns => Sharken => Copter => Mages
• Adjust Gold Enemy Buff as fixed increase of 200% on NM and Insane, 100% for Hard, 50% for Medium and Easy
• Buffed Tinkers Lab Blasters on NM to be better than Insane
• Buffed Tinkers Lab Mega Chicken stats around 30 points on NM
• Buffed Eternian staff to be closer in damage to Classic Standard
• Buffed Winter Wonderland weapon damage to lower part of high tier weapons
• Reduced Phoenix charge attack vertical damage
• Reduced Copter spawn rate during Phoenix boss fight
• Buffed Fenix and Ember pony to be closer or little better than seahorse due to challenge of farming
• Removed Map exclusive accessories from Lab Assault (ie CD, ToL, GTH, WW/SN and Palantir)
• Buffed Spooktacular 2 accs to Lab Assault levels
• Revert Hyper Rifle elemental damage halving due to 2 projectiles.
• Ember Accessories ult cap is 600 instead of previous 500.
• Reduced small coal requirement to make a small diamond from 88 to 44

Bug Fixes

• Possible fix for trade glitch where both players lose their items
• Fixed max upgrade count not shown in trade on item info
• Fix for armor being removed more than weapons (weapons were rated higher in quality)
• Fixed Talay and Moonbase survival start waves
• Fixed EST traps on Assault maps not damaging
• Fixed Hero Info Screen tower stat overlap so numbers arent hidden
• Sealed off Tavern Defense secret room so players cant fall out of the map there
• Fixed not being able to build on left bridge in Tavern Defense
• Fixed Tavern Defense Snowman not attacking
• Fixed Imp stat prediction
• Fixed gobler shield handle positioning
• Commented out K key binding to killme command
• Fixed opacity scaling
• Fix for items removed during build phase
• Evil Hero bosses on Winter Wonderland and Silent Night no longer despawn after 2.5 minutes
• Fixed Tower Wars Spider Queen health overflow causing them to never act or be able to take damage
• Fixed spelling of "marshmallows" on Anamorphic Ember
• Fixed AFK shop bug that crash the game for some players
• Fix to mitigate wave skipping
• Fixed Battle Droid not weakening enemies
• Fix for Phoenix killing itself
• Towers should now move with vertical moving platforms in ToW
• Fix to Allow Jester to get Apprentice weapons as rewards
• Fix for unintended increase in leather armor on survivals
• Fixed hats being backwards on Super Legendary Huntress
• Fix mana from chests going under the floor
• Fix for Mistymire survival weapon drop rate to be in line with other Shard maps
• Fix for 60% of random elements rolling Lightning
• Fixed moon pet to spawn with tiered level requirements. Max level requirement bumped down to ult90 to line up better with other pets.
• Fix for Embermount boost pad to activate every time.
• Fix for damage numbers disappearing above 5mil
• Fix for excessive mana on the ground in Moonbase NMHC Survival
• Fix for AFK shop not allowing players to buy anything if host has too many items in item box

Dungeon Defenders II is officially out of Early Access and free-to-play on Xbox One, PC & PS4! With this major milestone in our game’s history, we’re releasing Update 1.0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftaYaX5A84c Update 1.0 focuses on our New Player Experience. This update fixes a ton of bugs, adds a lot of polish, introduces more quality-of-life changes, improves our early-game experience, and gets new players through Campaign and deep into Chaos. After today, we’re spinning up on features and changes you’ve been asking for (Endless Mode says hi). We’ve been in Early Access for more than two years. With more than 60+ updates, Dungeon Defenders II has grown up before our very eyes. It’s been exciting and, quite frankly, a little unnerving to develop a game with you watching every step of the way. Our growth and improvement is because of your support, your feedback and the dedicated members of our team who went above and beyond to drive our game forward. We’re proud of where Dungeon Defenders II is today, but launch is just the beginning. With your support, Dungeon Defenders II is only going to get bigger and better! Here are the notes for Update 1.0:

Xbox One Version Available Now!

Features

• Chi Stomp: A powerful slam that can be activated in mid-air!
• Crippling Chi Wave: The Initiate builds up a glowing ball of Chi and launches it at her enemies, which damages and debuffs any enemies hit!
• Talisman of Empowerment: The Initiate places a talisman on the ground that temporarily boosts the power of nearby defenses!

• Channel - Icon Type Change
• Inspiration - Icon Type Change
• Hero Critical Strike - Minor Border Change
• Life Leech - Icon Type Change
• Speed Boost - Icon Type Change
• Superconductor - Icon Type Change
• Construction - Icon Type Change
• Explosive Guard - Icon Type Change
• Defensive Critical Damage - Minor Border Change
• Destruction - Minor Border Change
• Fortification - Minor Border Change
• Deadly Strikes - Icon Type Change
• Panic Fire - Icon Type Change
• Press Your Luck - Icon Type Change

Quality of Life

• Added a new Minimum Ascension Level host option.
• Added the ability to rename your heroes for free in the Inventory.
• Added controller sensitivity option on PC.
• Revamped range indicator decals for visibility.
• Now you can play and access everything on PC with a controller, including the Options Menu!
• Added the names of defenses under relic slots.
• Added Server Region display to the Main Menu.
• Improved the Flamethrower Tower’s visual effects.
• Added a minimap and NPC blips to the Heroes Marketplace.
• Improved player name display with proper capitalization!
• Added a “Hold to rotate tower” for PC controller users.
• Improved and unified the look of many different UIs.
• Updated the first quest in the game to have smarter text and a better UI.
• Victory chests show up on all minimaps.
• The War Table in the Private Tavern should now default to Private Games. Such private. Many seekrits.
• Updated the game icon to the Squire’s Head. This was the most important change of all.

Balance

• Increased the core health in Chaos to protect against enemies one-shotting the core.

• Ballista - Black Arrow damage increased from 50% to 60%.
• Cannonball - Stun Fire proc increased to 25% and stun duration from 2.4 to 3.0 seconds.
• Cannonball - Heavy Cannonball damage increased from 950% to 1250%.
• Earthshatter - Earth Toss proc chance increased from 35% to 100%. Knockup duration increased slightly.
• Fire for Effect chance increased from 25% to 45%
• Flame Aura - Encroaching Flames proc chance increased from 25% to 30% and damage increased from 40% to 60%.
• Skeletal Archer - Explosive Arrows proc chance increased from 15% to 30% and damage increased from 110% to 450%.
• Snakes on a Plane - Proc chance increased from every 5 seconds to every 3 seconds and damage increased from 525% to 3000%.
• Enduring Bubble - Levels increased from 8 to 10. Buff duration decreased from +5 seconds to +2 seconds.
• Lateral Blast - Damage increased from 725% to 2250%.
• Mega Rock - Proc chance increased from every 10 volleys to every 5 volleys. Damage increased from 1150% to 4000%.
• Frosty Proton Node - Proc chance increased from 5% to 25%, duration decreased from 5 to 2 seconds.
• Gunwitch’s Hunting Blind Tower damage unchanged from 0% to 0%.

• Betsy weapons now have their shards locked in a shard slot to mimic their old, pre-shard passive effects.
• Apprentice and Huntress Betsy Weapons have had updated firing rates and damage to better match our new balanced solutions.
• Updated Betsy’s Empowered Lightning Shard description to make more sense.

Bug Fixesss

• Fixed another magical Proton beam crash. Huzzah!
• Fixed an issue with an endless black screen after multiple loading screens.
• Hero Information and Currency indicators should no longer overlap.
• Improved fullscreen and windowed game display modes.
• Fixed another Siege Roller stuck issue.
• Power Transfer Shard functions when equipped to Boost Aura now.
• “Speeds” are now “Orbs” again.
• “Skulls” are now “Marks” again. We have no idea how that happened.
• This also means the Orb and Mark filters work again!
• Abyss Lord’s Abyss Stones are now able to crit.
• This update fixes a bug where multiplayer enemy health scaling was scaling higher than intended. Per-player enemy health scaling is now +25% rather than +50%. Go forth and defend with friends!
• Fixed an issue where you could not drop a Shard onto a bag icon.
• Shard Packs and Shards should go through the proper auto-collect flow now.
• Fixed a text pop up at a really high Ascension level.
• Jumping and using the right click dash on the Lavamancer should work properly now while dashing around the map. No more randomly hitting invisible walls! HOORAY!
• The Ogres on the Forest Ambush Incursion thought it’d be really cool to just T-pose for fun. We set them straight.
• The crosshair reticle should now turn the correct colors when targeting allies and other things in game. It will be colors other than red now! ADDITIONAL HOORAYS.
• Updated several error message text to make more sense.
• The resolution selector in the Options Menu is now scrollable with scroll wheels.
• The World Tree now properly gets destroyed during the Victory animation if it’s too close to the Victory Chests.
• Updated the description on the Shadowflame Dagger.
• Updated the consumable tooltip to use the new UI.
• Combined Power - Serpent’s Coil beams will now attack training dummies.
• Updated the error text if there are no marked targets for Arcane Volley.
• Gunwitch’s Snipe Critical Damage Shard no longer applies to all elemental damage.
• Fixed the Level 50 Level Up Pop Up to show Level 50 instead of “Level 0”.
• Renamed the default hero names to their classes. Squire is now “Squire.” Monk is now “Monk.” Barbarian is now “Pete.”
• Fixed a challenge display issue where it would render completed challenges twice in the UI.
• Flame Aura properly calculates crit damage and chance into its inspected DPS number.
• Fixed a matchmaking issue where if Player 2 declines, then Player 1 gets an “Unknown Error.”
• Fiery Brimstone Shard now only works for the Abyss Lord as originally designed and fixed the critical damage scaling on the procs from 100% to 12% where it should be.
• Unequipping items will go through the auto-collect flow and go to the bags that they should be.
• Fixed an issue where swapping to EV2 Mark III was causing a rogue torso to display.
• Fixed Drakken’s eyes and mouths to be glowing properly.
• Added a notification that a party request has been sent to another player.
• The “Could not authenticate with Steam… try again?” pop up was missing some buttons. We gave them back.
• Fixed a crash if you had selected Exit on a menu screen while an immediate message was being displayed.
• Mystic’s Dark Torment damage over time critical effect is no longer scaling inversely with hero damage.
• Fixed a billboard issue on Siege of the Throne Room.
• Fixed an area where Kobolds could get stuck in the Ruins.
• G4T0’s facial animations have been restored! Beep boop. Bloop.
• Fixed a boost aura description typo. “Precentage” is right… right?
• Fixed small lighting issues on the Dryad Hornet’s Nest and Slime Pit.
• Monk’s alternate attack is no longer blocked by towers.
• Fixed the wyvern death animation.
• The Weapon Filter on the Filter By… bag no longer has defense stat options.
• Fixed a spot on Dragonfall Plaza where the Dryad could exit the map.
• Fixed several small issues with tower damage challenges.

• No “Press G to End Match” message is displayed after beating wave 4 on Airship Battle. This is only a visual problem and G still functions correctly.
• Glaive of Storms isn’t currently purchasable in the wayfarer shop. It still unlocks and drops from the Power Surge Incursion.
• Glaive of Storms’ unique shard is missing its icon.

Dungeon Defenders II is officially out of Early Access and free-to-play on Xbox One, PC & PS4! With this major milestone in our games history, were releasing Update 1.0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftaYaX5A84c Update 1.0 focuses on our New Player Experience. This update fixes a ton of bugs, adds a lot of polish, introduces more quality-of-life changes, improves our early-game experience, and gets new players through Campaign and deep into Chaos. After today, were spinning up on features and changes youve been asking for (Endless Mode says hi). Weve been in Early Access for more than two years. With more than 60+ updates, Dungeon Defenders II has grown up before our very eyes. Its been exciting and, quite frankly, a little unnerving to develop a game with you watching every step of the way. Our growth and improvement is because of your support, your feedback and the dedicated members of our team who went above and beyond to drive our game forward. Were proud of where Dungeon Defenders II is today, but launch is just the beginning. With your support, Dungeon Defenders II is only going to get bigger and better! Here are the notes for Update 1.0:

Xbox One Version Available Now!

Features

• Chi Stomp: A powerful slam that can be activated in mid-air!
• Crippling Chi Wave: The Initiate builds up a glowing ball of Chi and launches it at her enemies, which damages and debuffs any enemies hit!
• Talisman of Empowerment: The Initiate places a talisman on the ground that temporarily boosts the power of nearby defenses!

• Channel - Icon Type Change
• Inspiration - Icon Type Change
• Hero Critical Strike - Minor Border Change
• Life Leech - Icon Type Change
• Speed Boost - Icon Type Change
• Superconductor - Icon Type Change
• Construction - Icon Type Change
• Explosive Guard - Icon Type Change
• Defensive Critical Damage - Minor Border Change
• Destruction - Minor Border Change
• Fortification - Minor Border Change
• Deadly Strikes - Icon Type Change
• Panic Fire - Icon Type Change
• Press Your Luck - Icon Type Change

Quality of Life

• Added a new Minimum Ascension Level host option.
• Added the ability to rename your heroes for free in the Inventory.
• Added controller sensitivity option on PC.
• Revamped range indicator decals for visibility.
• Now you can play and access everything on PC with a controller, including the Options Menu!
• Added the names of defenses under relic slots.
• Added Server Region display to the Main Menu.
• Improved the Flamethrower Towers visual effects.
• Added a minimap and NPC blips to the Heroes Marketplace.
• Improved player name display with proper capitalization!
• Added a Hold to rotate tower for PC controller users.
• Improved and unified the look of many different UIs.
• Updated the first quest in the game to have smarter text and a better UI.
• Victory chests show up on all minimaps.
• The War Table in the Private Tavern should now default to Private Games. Such private. Many seekrits.
• Updated the game icon to the Squires Head. This was the most important change of all.

Balance

• Increased the core health in Chaos to protect against enemies one-shotting the core.

• Ballista - Black Arrow damage increased from 50% to 60%.
• Cannonball - Stun Fire proc increased to 25% and stun duration from 2.4 to 3.0 seconds.
• Cannonball - Heavy Cannonball damage increased from 950% to 1250%.
• Earthshatter - Earth Toss proc chance increased from 35% to 100%. Knockup duration increased slightly.
• Fire for Effect chance increased from 25% to 45%
• Flame Aura - Encroaching Flames proc chance increased from 25% to 30% and damage increased from 40% to 60%.
• Skeletal Archer - Explosive Arrows proc chance increased from 15% to 30% and damage increased from 110% to 450%.
• Snakes on a Plane - Proc chance increased from every 5 seconds to every 3 seconds and damage increased from 525% to 3000%.
• Enduring Bubble - Levels increased from 8 to 10. Buff duration decreased from +5 seconds to +2 seconds.
• Lateral Blast - Damage increased from 725% to 2250%.
• Mega Rock - Proc chance increased from every 10 volleys to every 5 volleys. Damage increased from 1150% to 4000%.
• Frosty Proton Node - Proc chance increased from 5% to 25%, duration decreased from 5 to 2 seconds.
• Gunwitchs Hunting Blind Tower damage unchanged from 0% to 0%.

• Betsy weapons now have their shards locked in a shard slot to mimic their old, pre-shard passive effects.
• Apprentice and Huntress Betsy Weapons have had updated firing rates and damage to better match our new balanced solutions.
• Updated Betsys Empowered Lightning Shard description to make more sense.

Bug Fixesss

• Fixed another magical Proton beam crash. Huzzah!
• Fixed an issue with an endless black screen after multiple loading screens.
• Hero Information and Currency indicators should no longer overlap.
• Improved fullscreen and windowed game display modes.
• Fixed another Siege Roller stuck issue.
• Power Transfer Shard functions when equipped to Boost Aura now.
• Speeds are now Orbs again.
• Skulls are now Marks again. We have no idea how that happened.
• This also means the Orb and Mark filters work again!
• Abyss Lords Abyss Stones are now able to crit.
• This update fixes a bug where multiplayer enemy health scaling was scaling higher than intended. Per-player enemy health scaling is now +25% rather than +50%. Go forth and defend with friends!
• Fixed an issue where you could not drop a Shard onto a bag icon.
• Shard Packs and Shards should go through the proper auto-collect flow now.
• Fixed a text pop up at a really high Ascension level.
• Jumping and using the right click dash on the Lavamancer should work properly now while dashing around the map. No more randomly hitting invisible walls! HOORAY!
• The Ogres on the Forest Ambush Incursion thought itd be really cool to just T-pose for fun. We set them straight.
• The crosshair reticle should now turn the correct colors when targeting allies and other things in game. It will be colors other than red now! ADDITIONAL HOORAYS.
• Updated several error message text to make more sense.
• The resolution selector in the Options Menu is now scrollable with scroll wheels.
• The World Tree now properly gets destroyed during the Victory animation if its too close to the Victory Chests.
• Updated the description on the Shadowflame Dagger.
• Updated the consumable tooltip to use the new UI.
• Combined Power - Serpents Coil beams will now attack training dummies.
• Updated the error text if there are no marked targets for Arcane Volley.
• Gunwitchs Snipe Critical Damage Shard no longer applies to all elemental damage.
• Fixed the Level 50 Level Up Pop Up to show Level 50 instead of Level 0.
• Renamed the default hero names to their classes. Squire is now Squire. Monk is now Monk. Barbarian is now Pete.
• Fixed a challenge display issue where it would render completed challenges twice in the UI.
• Flame Aura properly calculates crit damage and chance into its inspected DPS number.
• Fixed a matchmaking issue where if Player 2 declines, then Player 1 gets an Unknown Error.
• Fiery Brimstone Shard now only works for the Abyss Lord as originally designed and fixed the critical damage scaling on the procs from 100% to 12% where it should be.
• Unequipping items will go through the auto-collect flow and go to the bags that they should be.
• Fixed an issue where swapping to EV2 Mark III was causing a rogue torso to display.
• Fixed Drakkens eyes and mouths to be glowing properly.
• Added a notification that a party request has been sent to another player.
• The Could not authenticate with Steam try again? pop up was missing some buttons. We gave them back.
• Fixed a crash if you had selected Exit on a menu screen while an immediate message was being displayed.
• Mystics Dark Torment damage over time critical effect is no longer scaling inversely with hero damage.
• Fixed a billboard issue on Siege of the Throne Room.
• Fixed an area where Kobolds could get stuck in the Ruins.
• G4T0s facial animations have been restored! Beep boop. Bloop.
• Fixed a boost aura description typo. Precentage is right right?
• Fixed small lighting issues on the Dryad Hornets Nest and Slime Pit.
• Monks alternate attack is no longer blocked by towers.
• Fixed the wyvern death animation.
• The Weapon Filter on the Filter By bag no longer has defense stat options.
• Fixed a spot on Dragonfall Plaza where the Dryad could exit the map.
• Fixed several small issues with tower damage challenges.

• No Press G to End Match message is displayed after beating wave 4 on Airship Battle. This is only a visual problem and G still functions correctly.
• Glaive of Storms isnt currently purchasable in the wayfarer shop. It still unlocks and drops from the Power Surge Incursion.
• Glaive of Storms unique shard is missing its icon.

This update and message is brought to you by the Community Development Team. The CDT is a group of volunteer community members dedicated to bringing new content and experiences to Dungeon Defenders! The Rising Phoenix update is here! Time to grab some snacks, sit down and enjoy yet another free update made possible by you, the community. The CDT would like to thank you for your help with testing and providing feedback to make this release happen. We hope you enjoy! (And if you're interested in helping the CDT with the next update, or if you have a suggestion of what the CDT should do next, let us know in the CDT forums!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfRekaUKPJ4

New Content

• Steam Trading Cards, Wallpapers, Emoticons, Badges
• Embermount Volcano campaign map with Poenix Boss
• Embermount Tavern Theme
• Steam Achievement and Phoenix feather plaque when beating Embermount
• New enemy - The Harbinger
• 4 New weapons (1 for each class)
• 3 new pets in Embermount Survival
• 3 New accessories for Embermount - Brooch, Mask and Bracers
• Story line cut scenes for Embermount
• Moon Pet added to Moonbase Survival
• Cosmetic Accessory Set Bonuses: Crystal, Embermount and Palantir (based on hat, mask and bracers)
• News page updated

Improvements

• Items rated as transcendent or above have a particle beam showing over the item to make picking them out of the pile easier. Beam only shown on items not filtered from the minimap by quality
• Added toggle key (b) for particle beams
• Updated minimap colors for ult+ and ult++ (orange and red respectively)
• Electric auras can damage the tavern dummy
• The highest damage dealt to a target by chained proximity mines will be dealt instead of the first to deal the damage
• Maximum starting wave is now set per map (24 on 25 wave maps, 28 on 30 wave maps, 32 on 35 wave maps, 36 on 40 wave maps)
• Camera rotation is locked when in top down placement mode (building / repairing / upgrading)
• New Setting - Can move while building (disables movement while in top down placement)
• New Setting -Enable tower dynamic lighting (significant performance benefits when disabled.) Affects traps and projectile towers (most notably inferno traps and fireball towers) Requires restarting DD after enabling to take effect. Disabling requires a new tower of that type to be built.
• Cursor placed relative to the hero in the placement casting state
• Removed slight frame rate dependency from many damaging towers. All projectile towers, Lightning Tower, Slicen Dice, and Proton Beam. Every point in tower rate counts. There are no breakpoints.
• New item comparison calculation for armour and accessories
• Items can be renamed when at their maximum upgrade level at the cost of one upgrade
• Item naming character limit has been increased to 36
• Added a report issue button to the pause menu
• Palantir, Greater Turkey Hunt, CD, Temple of Love, Winter Wonderland, and Silent Night accessory multipliers now match those awarded by lab assault
• Moonbase now has a survival mode
• Added confirmation message when hitting 42 on Moonbase DDR machine
• Initiate Enemy Drain ability, Spider Minion web, and Wheel of Fortuna buff/debuff enemies resistance factor applied to the training dummy
• Jesters Move Tower and Wheel abilities can be used in the tavern
• Trap/Aura selection priority is identical for repairing. Selection will be based only on current health percentage.
• Trap/Aura upgrade priority favours traps when upgrades are equal, otherwise whichever tower has the least upgrades.
• Instant upgrade will favour towers that can be upgraded over repairing towers that are at their maximum upgrade level.
• Traps and auras can overlap spawns and show a warning when doing so
• BucBay - Repositioned the hero spawn points to face the main crystal and open area instead of the dead end.
• Golding an enemy (by Djinn / Wheel) increases its power by a percentage so the power boost scales into higher level games
• Djinn ability casting durations depend on difficulty (enemy gold beam and tower desummon). That is to say, buffing/desummoning takes more time on a lower difficulty
• Summoner minions can move sensibly over short distances with no pathfinding mesh present (ie. when placed on walls, they wont always jump off before moving along)
• On Nightmare difficulty, the 50% of loot that was not receiving wave/difficulty multipliers has been replaced with fully scaled items
• Party Popper tower animation scaling reduced so it doesnt spaz out with only a few points in tower rate
• EV beam collision is now much more consistent between pre/post placement
• Armour vs. weapon comparison skewed more in favour of armour to bias the drop removal priority
• Traps on uneven terrain can now trigger on any walking enemy inside its radius
• Slow ogre spawns on some maps on NM difficulty are much improved in many cases
• Armour type drops rates boosted by 25% for random equipment drops.
• Character health over 1 million is displayed using the high value format to 4 significant figures (eg. 1.234 M) to prevent the health value running off screen
• Excess equipment removal function has been rewritten. Fixed an unconfirmed issue which removed many more items than intended under some circumstances, and it is much faster.
• Excess mana removal function rewritten. Introduced a biasing system to keep tokens with a larger value around for longer. Large tokens will still be deleted eventually. This is not a bug, but a design decision that was made to prevent players waiting until the end of the round to collect mana and not being significantly penalised for doing so.
• Multiple upgrades can be applied to an item in a single click when using pro mode. No key down - 1 upgrade per click. Shift down - Applies up to 9 upgrades per click. Ctrl down - Applies up to 50 upgrades per click
• Predicted stat value will account for the number of upgrades to be applied
• Invasion shows the current phase number in the UI
• Inferno trap damage and attack rate updates for (de-)buffs in real time

Balance Updates

• SliceN Dice and Lightning Tower - Higher damage output. Damage per tick now increases with the attack rate stat so that damage output continues to scale into lategame (including buffs and debuffs). Scaling revised to account for this.
• Bowling Ball Tower - Faster attacks. Animation time exponent increased from 0.8 to 1.0 (significant increase in high end attack rate). Bowling ball tower damage had fallen well behind at high levels due to its below average animation duration scaling. Increasing the scaling exponent to 1.0 brought the damage up to comparable levels and makes it easier to compare across towers for future changes.
• Magic Missile Tower - More powerful attacks. Damage scaling exponent increased from 1.105 to 1.15. Single target towers need to do more damage than multi target towers. The MMT wasnt, so it gets a small buff.
• Darkness, Inferno, and Gas traps - Base charges increased to 3 from 1/2/2.
• Ethereal Spike Trap - Base charges increased from 2 to 4. Attack radius now scales with trigger radius so it can always hit the enemy that triggered the trap. Damage now scales much, much faster
• Proximity Mine Trap - Base charges increased from 2 to 4
• Mana Bomb and Purity Bomb - Significant increase in damage scaling. Blocked in assault challenges due to combination of absurdly high damage and long range

Bug Fixes

• Possible fix to lock down hero info and equipment info UI istances to help prevent future chances of item stealing
• Fixed Diamonds spawn
• Fixed level 60 armor dropping on low difficulties
• Fixed flying enemies not correctly triggering traps
• Fixed Pure Strategy on Embermount and Buccaneer Bay
• Proton beams and inferno traps with high attack rates now deal damage every tick. Multiple proton beams can also damage the same target because of this fix
• Public games being played on a different version no longer visible in matchmaking
• Items with all negative stats no longer show as an upgrade if no equipment is present to compare to
• Large auras (>18 units in radius) are always picked up immediately when entering upgrade/repair/sell casting modes
• Fix lightning tower not being able to chain off an enemy if it kills it in the same tick
• Fix for semi-random interval between first and second shot after reloading a gun
• Fix for other heroes banked mana being displayed incorrectly in the pause menu
• Fixed ghost pillars in Hall of Court
• Palantir no longer warns of fish wyverns
• Old Ones belly crystal can be attacked by all weapons
• Instant upgrade will no longer attempt to repair towers that have health above the normal repair threshold
• Fixed south west doors on Buccaneer Bay that wouldnt animate on wave start..
• Fixed unintended increase in high level armor dropping
• Fixed Ogres dropped by Goblin Copters damaging crystals in CD and WW.
• Fixed Djinn casting time being accelerated by ensnare auras Enemies set to golden state dont retrigger the Wave 10 and Wave 20 survival difficulty spikes
• Prevented any item spawning with negative damage, upgrades, or ammunition (observed as 1/1 upgrades, 10 damage, or 1 ammunition spawning too frequently)
• Summoner minion collision on client games now matches the host (no more rising out of defences)
• Phase shifted summoner can no longer be killed by explosive attacks exceeding 100,000 damage
• Fix apprentice / squire / huntress weapons spawning with incorrect (high) quality ratings
• Fix items with 8 negative stats being evaluated as godly
• Fix double multiplication bug causing items in the tavern shop to show up with much higher than intended prices
• Mix mode skeletons will now always timeout if they get stuck in an unrevived state
• Moonbase gravity is not dependant on frame rate
• Tavern XP bonus doesnt award a score
• In Local/Open game modes, having the mod missions selected will not lock out the Shards and Lost quests buttons
• Loot multiplier scaling now increases with every wave of a map (integer division)
• Fix stretched Squire masks
• Fix for wyverns, djinn, and goblin copter pathfinding logic stalling and appearing stuck. Fixes the infamous CD wyvern along with almost every other stuckage for these three enemy types
• Fix floating damage numbers disappearing offscreen when attack rates continuously exceed 10 times per second
• Fix health decay rate for proton beam depending on the attack rate
• Possible fix for goblin copters forgetting to drop their ogre when the drop zone is reached
• Possible fix for DEW / Spider targeting when there are no targetable players on larger maps
• Jester Move Tower ability now uses the same placement rules as when the tower is being built.
• Fix map name not being visible to clients in the tavern in some circumstances
• Fix accented U in Uber maps being incorrectly formatted and not showing as an accented U
• Fix projectile speed multipliers on Moonbase Quietus reward being unexpectedly low
• Fix issue preventing item particle effects showing up correctly while dropped on the floor (to be used for new items)
• Fix weapons equipped to the series EV not always hiding all particle effects correctly
• Fix map selection UI jumping to Deeper Well if a player joins the game when looking at the Lost Quests maps
• (Partial) Fix for repair/upgrade auto selection finding a tower out of range
• Fix for minimap quality filter breaking for qualities above Ultimate

This update and message is brought to you by the Community Development Team. The CDT is a group of volunteer community members dedicated to bringing new content and experiences to Dungeon Defenders! The Rising Phoenix update is here! Time to grab some snacks, sit down and enjoy yet another free update made possible by you, the community. The CDT would like to thank you for your help with testing and providing feedback to make this release happen. We hope you enjoy! (And if you're interested in helping the CDT with the next update, or if you have a suggestion of what the CDT should do next, let us know in the CDT forums!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfRekaUKPJ4

New Content

• Steam Trading Cards, Wallpapers, Emoticons, Badges
• Embermount Volcano campaign map with Poenix Boss
• Embermount Tavern Theme
• Steam Achievement and Phoenix feather plaque when beating Embermount
• New enemy - The Harbinger
• 4 New weapons (1 for each class)
• 3 new pets in Embermount Survival
• 3 New accessories for Embermount - Brooch, Mask and Bracers
• Story line cut scenes for Embermount
• Moon Pet added to Moonbase Survival
• Cosmetic Accessory Set Bonuses: Crystal, Embermount and Palantir (based on hat, mask and bracers)
• News page updated

Improvements

• Items rated as transcendent or above have a particle beam showing over the item to make picking them out of the pile easier. Beam only shown on items not filtered from the minimap by quality
• Added toggle key (b) for particle beams
• Updated minimap colors for ult+ and ult++ (orange and red respectively)
• Electric aura’s can damage the tavern dummy
• The highest damage dealt to a target by chained proximity mines will be dealt instead of the first to deal the damage
• Maximum starting wave is now set per map (24 on 25 wave maps, 28 on 30 wave maps, 32 on 35 wave maps, 36 on 40 wave maps)
• Camera rotation is locked when in top down placement mode (building / repairing / upgrading)
• New Setting - Can move while building (disables movement while in top down placement)
• New Setting -Enable tower dynamic lighting (significant performance benefits when disabled.) Affects traps and projectile towers (most notably inferno traps and fireball towers) Requires restarting DD after enabling to take effect. Disabling requires a new tower of that type to be built.
• Cursor placed relative to the hero in the placement casting state
• Removed slight frame rate dependency from many damaging towers. All projectile towers, Lightning Tower, Slice’n Dice, and Proton Beam. Every point in tower rate counts. There are no breakpoints.
• New item comparison calculation for armour and accessories
• Items can be renamed when at their maximum upgrade level at the cost of one upgrade
• Item naming character limit has been increased to 36
• Added a report issue button to the pause menu
• Palantir, Greater Turkey Hunt, CD, Temple of Love, Winter Wonderland, and Silent Night accessory multipliers now match those awarded by lab assault
• Moonbase now has a survival mode
• Added confirmation message when hitting 42 on Moonbase DDR machine
• Initiate Enemy Drain ability, Spider Minion web, and Wheel of Fortuna buff/debuff enemies resistance factor applied to the training dummy
• Jester’s Move Tower and Wheel abilities can be used in the tavern
• Trap/Aura selection priority is identical for repairing. Selection will be based only on current health percentage.
• Trap/Aura upgrade priority favours traps when upgrades are equal, otherwise whichever tower has the least upgrades.
• Instant upgrade will favour towers that can be upgraded over repairing towers that are at their maximum upgrade level.
• Traps and auras can overlap spawns and show a warning when doing so
• BucBay - Repositioned the hero spawn points to face the main crystal and open area instead of the dead end.
• Golding an enemy (by Djinn / Wheel) increases its power by a percentage so the power boost scales into higher level games
• Djinn ability casting durations depend on difficulty (enemy gold beam and tower desummon). That is to say, buffing/desummoning takes more time on a lower difficulty
• Summoner minions can move sensibly over short distances with no pathfinding mesh present (ie. when placed on walls, they won’t always jump off before moving along)
• On Nightmare difficulty, the 50% of loot that was not receiving wave/difficulty multipliers has been replaced with fully scaled items
• Party Popper tower animation scaling reduced so it doesn’t spaz out with only a few points in tower rate
• EV beam collision is now much more consistent between pre/post placement
• Armour vs. weapon comparison skewed more in favour of armour to bias the drop removal priority
• Traps on uneven terrain can now trigger on any walking enemy inside its radius
• Slow ogre spawns on some maps on NM difficulty are much improved in many cases
• Armour type drops rates boosted by 25% for random equipment drops.
• Character health over 1 million is displayed using the high value format to 4 significant figures (eg. 1.234 M) to prevent the health value running off screen
• Excess equipment removal function has been rewritten. Fixed an unconfirmed issue which removed many more items than intended under some circumstances, and it is much faster.
• Excess mana removal function rewritten. Introduced a biasing system to keep tokens with a larger value around for longer. Large tokens will still be deleted eventually. This is not a bug, but a design decision that was made to prevent players waiting until the end of the round to collect mana and not being significantly penalised for doing so.
• Multiple upgrades can be applied to an item in a single click when using “pro mode”. No key down - 1 upgrade per click. Shift down - Applies up to 9 upgrades per click. Ctrl down - Applies up to 50 upgrades per click
• Predicted stat value will account for the number of upgrades to be applied
• Invasion shows the current phase number in the UI
• Inferno trap damage and attack rate updates for (de-)buffs in real time

Balance Updates

• Slice’N Dice and Lightning Tower - Higher damage output. Damage per tick now increases with the attack rate stat so that damage output continues to scale into lategame (including buffs and debuffs). Scaling revised to account for this.
• Bowling Ball Tower - Faster attacks. Animation time exponent increased from 0.8 to 1.0 (significant increase in high end attack rate). Bowling ball tower damage had fallen well behind at high levels due to it’s below average animation duration scaling. Increasing the scaling exponent to 1.0 brought the damage up to comparable levels and makes it easier to compare across towers for future changes.
• Magic Missile Tower - More powerful attacks. Damage scaling exponent increased from 1.105 to 1.15. Single target towers need to do more damage than multi target towers. The MMT wasn’t, so it gets a small buff.
• Darkness, Inferno, and Gas traps - Base charges increased to 3 from 1/2/2.
• Ethereal Spike Trap - Base charges increased from 2 to 4. Attack radius now scales with trigger radius so it can always hit the enemy that triggered the trap. Damage now scales much, much faster
• Proximity Mine Trap - Base charges increased from 2 to 4
• Mana Bomb and Purity Bomb - Significant increase in damage scaling. Blocked in assault challenges due to combination of absurdly high damage and long range

Bug Fixes

• Possible fix to lock down hero info and equipment info UI istances to help prevent future chances of item stealing
• Fixed Diamonds spawn
• Fixed level 60 armor dropping on low difficulties
• Fixed flying enemies not correctly triggering traps
• Fixed Pure Strategy on Embermount and Buccaneer Bay
• Proton beams and inferno traps with high attack rates now deal damage every tick. Multiple proton beams can also damage the same target because of this fix
• Public games being played on a different version no longer visible in matchmaking
• Items with all negative stats no longer show as an upgrade if no equipment is present to compare to
• Large aura’s (>18 units in radius) are always picked up immediately when entering upgrade/repair/sell casting modes
• Fix lightning tower not being able to chain off an enemy if it kills it in the same tick
• Fix for semi-random interval between first and second shot after reloading a gun
• Fix for other heroes banked mana being displayed incorrectly in the pause menu
• Fixed ghost pillars in Hall of Court
• Palantir no longer warns of fish wyverns
• Old One’s belly crystal can be attacked by all weapons
• Instant upgrade will no longer attempt to repair towers that have health above the normal repair threshold
• Fixed south west doors on Buccaneer Bay that wouldn’t animate on wave start..
• Fixed unintended increase in high level armor dropping
• Fixed Ogres dropped by Goblin Copters damaging crystals in CD and WW.
• Fixed Djinn casting time being accelerated by ensnare auras Enemies set to golden state don’t retrigger the Wave 10 and Wave 20 survival difficulty spikes
• Prevented any item spawning with negative damage, upgrades, or ammunition (observed as 1/1 upgrades, 10 damage, or 1 ammunition spawning too frequently)
• Summoner minion collision on client games now matches the host (no more rising out of defences)
• Phase shifted summoner can no longer be killed by explosive attacks exceeding 100,000 damage
• Fix apprentice / squire / huntress weapons spawning with incorrect (high) quality ratings
• Fix items with 8 negative stats being evaluated as godly
• Fix double multiplication bug causing items in the tavern shop to show up with much higher than intended prices
• Mix mode skeletons will now always timeout if they get stuck in an unrevived state
• Moonbase gravity is not dependant on frame rate
• Tavern XP bonus doesn’t award a “score”
• In Local/Open game modes, having the mod missions selected will not lock out the Shards and Lost quests buttons
• Loot multiplier scaling now increases with every wave of a map (integer division…)
• Fix stretched Squire masks
• Fix for wyverns, djinn, and goblin copter pathfinding logic stalling and appearing stuck. Fixes the infamous CD wyvern along with almost every other stuckage for these three enemy types
• Fix floating damage numbers disappearing offscreen when attack rates continuously exceed 10 times per second
• Fix health decay rate for proton beam depending on the attack rate
• Possible fix for goblin copters forgetting to drop their ogre when the drop zone is reached
• Possible fix for DEW / Spider targeting when there are no targetable players on larger maps
• Jester “Move Tower” ability now uses the same placement rules as when the tower is being built.
• Fix map name not being visible to clients in the tavern in some circumstances
• Fix accented ‘U’ in Uber maps being incorrectly formatted and not showing as an accented ‘U’
• Fix projectile speed multipliers on Moonbase Quietus reward being unexpectedly low
• Fix issue preventing item particle effects showing up correctly while dropped on the floor (to be used for new items)
• Fix weapons equipped to the series EV not always hiding all particle effects correctly
• Fix map selection UI jumping to Deeper Well if a player joins the game when looking at the Lost Quests maps
• (Partial) Fix for repair/upgrade auto selection finding a tower out of range
• Fix for minimap quality filter breaking for qualities above Ultimate

A message from the Community Development Team: Greetings, Defenders! I know many of you have been wondering when the second CDT Update 2 is coming out. We are happy to announce the release date has been set for this Thursday, August 4th! Look for the full patch notes when the update comes out. Thanks for helping us work through the beta, and we look forward to the release with you!

A message from the Community Development Team: Greetings, Defenders! I know many of you have been wondering when the second CDT Update 2 is coming out. We are happy to announce the release date has been set for this Thursday, August 4th! Look for the full patch notes when the update comes out. Thanks for helping us work through the beta, and we look forward to the release with you!

A message from the Community Development Team: Greetings Defenders!! After working through many obstacles, it has finally arrived!! The Community Development Team is proud to announce that our second content update is ready for Public Beta testing! There are lots of new features, content and improvements made at the request of the community. So please take some time to look through the changes and enjoy testing. To join in on the fun and provide us your valuable feedback, follow these simple steps! [olist]

Select "community_beta_branch" from the list.[/olist] The download should begin automatically or at least get queued for download. Note that you can not change this setting while the game is running.

New Content

• Embermount Volcano campaign map with Phoenix Boss
• Embermount Tavern Theme
• Phoenix feather plaque when beating Embermount
• New enemy - The Harbinger
• 4 New weapons (1 for each class)
• Two new pets in Embermount Survival
• Moon Pet added to Moonbase Survival
• 3 New accessories - Brooch, Mask and Bracers
• Steam Trading Cards (will be released when Update 2 goes live)
• Cosmetic Accessory Set Bonuses: Crystal, Embermount and Palantir
• News page updated

Improvements

• Electric auras can damage the tavern dummy
• Items rated as transcendent or above have a god beam showing over the item to make picking them out of the pile easier. Beam only shown on items not filtered from the minimap by quality
• The highest damage dealt to a target by chained proximity mines will be dealt instead of the first to deal the damage
• Maximum starting wave is now set per map (23 on 25 wave maps, 28 on 30 wave maps, 33 on 35 wave maps, 38 on 40 wave maps)
• Camera rotation is locked when in top down placement mode (building / repairing / upgrading)
• New Setting - Can move while building (disables movement while in top down placement)
• New Setting -Enable tower dynamic lighting (significant performance benefits when disabled.) Affects traps and projectile towers (most notably inferno traps and fireball towers) Requires restarting DD after enabling to take effect. Disabling requires a new tower of that type to be built.
• Cursor placed relative to the hero in the placement casting state
• Removed slight frame rate dependency from many damaging towers. All projectile towers, Lightning Tower, Slicen Dice, and Proton Beam. Every point in tower rate counts. There are no breakpoints.
• New item comparison calculation for armour and accessories
• Items can be renamed when at their maximum upgrade level at the cost of one upgrade
• Item naming character limit has been increased to 36
• Added a report issue button to the pause menu
• Palantir, Greater Turkey Hunt, CD, Temple of Love, Winter Wonderland, and Silent Night accessory multipliers now match those awarded by lab assault
• Moonbase now has a survival mode
• Added confirmation message when hitting 42 on Moonbase DDR machine
• Initiate Enemy Drain ability, Spider Minion web, and Wheel of Fortuna buff/debuff enemies resistance factor applied to the training dummy
• Jesters Move Tower and Wheel abilities can be used in the tavern
• Trap/Aura selection priority is identical for repairing. Selection will be based only on current health percentage.
• Trap/Aura upgrade priority favours traps when upgrades are equal, otherwise whichever tower has the least upgrades.
• Instant upgrade will favour towers that can be upgraded over repairing towers that are at their maximum upgrade level.
• Traps and auras can overlap spawns and show a warning when doing so
• BucBay - Repositioned the hero spawn points to face the main crystal and open area instead of the dead end.
• Golding an enemy (by Djinn / Wheel) increases its power by a percentage so the power boost scales into higher level games
• Djinn ability casting durations depend on difficulty (enemy gold beam and tower desummon). That is to say, buffing/desummoning takes more time on a lower difficulty
• Summoner minions can move sensibly over short distances with no pathfinding mesh present (ie. when placed on walls, they wont always jump off before moving along)
• On Nightmare difficulty, the 50% of loot that was not receiving wave/difficulty multipliers has been replaced with fully scaled items
• Party Popper tower animation scaling reduced so it doesnt spaz out with only a few points in tower rate
• EV beam collision is now much more consistent between pre/post placement
• Armour vs. weapon comparison skewed more in favour of armour to bias the drop removal priority
• Traps on uneven terrain can now trigger on any walking enemy inside its radius
• Slow ogre spawns on some maps on NM difficulty are much improved in many cases
• Armour type drops rates boosted by 25% for random equipment drops.
• Character health over 1 million is displayed using the high value format to 4 significant figures (eg. 1.234 M) to prevent the health value running off screen
• Excess equipment removal function has been rewritten. Fixed an unconfirmed issue which removed many more items than intended under some circumstances, and it is much faster.
• Excess mana removal function rewritten. Introduced a biasing system to keep tokens with a larger value around for longer. Large tokens will still be deleted eventually. This is not a bug, but a design decision that was made to prevent players waiting until the end of the round to collect mana and not being significantly penalised for doing so.
• Multiple upgrades can be applied to an item in a single click when using pro mode. No key down - 1 upgrade per click. Shift down - Applies up to 9 upgrades per click. Ctrl down - Applies up to 50 upgrades per click
• Predicted stat value will account for the number of upgrades to be applied
• Invasion shows the current phase number in the UI
• Inferno trap damage and attack rate updates for (de-)buffs in real time

Bug Fixes

• Proton beams and inferno traps with high attack rates now deal damage every tick. Multiple proton beams can also damage the same target because of this fix
• Public games being played on a different version no longer visible in matchmaking
• Items with all negative stats no longer show as an upgrade if no equipment is present to compare to
• Large auras (>18 units in radius) are always picked up immediately when entering upgrade/repair/sell casting modes
• Fix lightning tower not being able to chain off an enemy if it kills it in the same tick
• Fix for semi-random interval between first and second shot after reloading a gun
• Fix for other heroes banked mana being displayed incorrectly in the pause menu
• Fixed ghost pillars in Hall of Court
• Palantir no longer warns of fish wyverns
• Old Ones belly crystal can be attacked by all weapons
• Instant upgrade will no longer attempt to repair towers that have health above the normal repair threshold
• Fixed south west doors on Buccaneer Bay that wouldnt animate on wave start..
• Fixed unintended increase in high level armor dropping
• Fixed Ogres dropped by Goblin Copters damaging crystals in CD and WW.
• Fixed Djinn casting time being accelerated by ensnare auras
• Enemies set to golden state dont retrigger the Wave 10 and Wave 20 survival difficulty spikes
• Prevented any item spawning with negative damage, upgrades, or ammunition (observed as 1/1 upgrades, 10 damage, or 1 ammunition spawning too frequently)
• Summoner minion collision on client games now matches the host (no more rising out of defences)
• Phase shifted summoner can no longer be killed by explosive attacks exceeding 100,000 damage
• Fix apprentice / squire / huntress weapons spawning with incorrect (high) quality ratings
• Fix items with 8 negative stats being evaluated as godly
• Possible fix for a wave skipping bug
• Fix double multiplication bug causing items in the tavern shop to show up with much higher than intended prices
• Mix mode skeletons will now always timeout if they get stuck in an unrevived state
• Moonbase gravity is not dependant on frame rate
• Tavern XP bonus doesnt award a score
• In Local/Open game modes, having the mod missions selected will not lock out the Shards and Lost quests buttons
• Loot multiplier scaling now increases with every wave of a map (integer division)
• Fix stretched Squire masks
• Fix for wyverns, djinn, and goblin copter pathfinding logic stalling and appearing stuck. Fixes the infamous CD wyvern along with almost every other stuckage for these three enemy types
• Fix floating damage numbers disappearing offscreen when attack rates continuously exceed 10 times per second
• Fix health decay rate for proton beam depending on the attack rate
• Possible fix for goblin copters forgetting to drop their ogre when the drop zone is reached
• Possible fix for DEW / Spider targeting when there are no targetable players on larger maps
• Jester Move Tower ability now uses the same placement rules as when the tower is being built.
• Fix mapname not being visible to clients in the tavern in some circumstances
• Fix accented U in Uber maps being incorrectly formatted and not showing as an accented U
• Fix projectile speed multipliers on Moonbase Quietus reward being unexpectedly low
• Fix issue preventing item particle effects showing up correctly while dropped on the floor (to be used for new items)
• Fix weapons equipped to the series EV not always hiding all particle effects correctly
• Fix map selection UI jumping to Deeper Well if a player joins the game when looking at the Lost Quests maps
• (Partial) Fix for repair/upgrade auto selection finding a tower out of range
• Fix for minimap quality filter breaking for qualities above Ultimate

Balance Updates

• Tower Buff Beam - Base boost values increased while upgrading effectiveness has been reduced. Fully upgraded buffs are nearly identical, but unupgraded beams are significantly more powerful and the scaling with stats is much more noticeable
• SliceN Dice and Lightning Tower - Higher damage output. Damage per tick now increases with the attack rate stat so that damage output continues to scale into lategame (including buffs and debuffs). Scaling revised to account for this.
• Bowling Ball Tower - Faster attacks. Animation time exponent increased from 0.8 to 1.0 (significant increase in high end attack rate). Bowling ball tower damage had fallen well behind at high levels due to its below average animation duration scaling. Increasing the scaling exponent to 1.0 brought the damage up to comparable levels and makes it easier to compare across towers for future changes.
• Deadly Striker Tower - Slightly slower, more powerful attacks. Animation time exponent increased from 0.67 to 1.0. Attack Rate exponent reduced from 0.77 to 0.6. Damage scaling exponent increased from 1.1 to 1.36 Base damage decreased from 350 to 300. An even worse case than the bowling ball tower for the attack rate being restricted by the firing animation. Overall attack rate scaling was reduced to compensate for the faster animation and keep the tower in its niche (slow, high damage). Damage scaling increased to bring it closer to other towers at high stats (because of a quirk in how damage is calculated, base damage remains the same even though it was decreased)
• Magic Missile Tower - More powerful attacks. Damage scaling exponent increased from 1.105 to 1.15. Single target towers need to do more damage than multi target towers. The MMT wasnt, so it gets a small buff. Darkness, Inferno, and Gas traps - Base charges increased to 3 from 1/2/2. Trigger radius scaling reduced to match cloud radius scaling
• Ethereal Spike Trap - Base charges increased from 2 to 4. Attack radius now scales with trigger radius so it can always hit the enemy that triggered the trap. Damage now scales much, much faster, starting off at ~3.5x a proximity mine trap, and ending up around 10x the same trap
• Proximity Mine Trap - Base charges increased from 2 to 4
• Mana Bomb and Purity Bomb - Significant increase in damage scaling. Blocked in assault challenges due to combination of absurdly high damage and long range

We look forward to hearing your feedback! - Acen

[ 2016-05-15 16:47:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

A message from the Community Development Team: Greetings Defenders!! After working through many obstacles, it has finally arrived!! The Community Development Team is proud to announce that our second content update is ready for Public Beta testing! There are lots of new features, content and improvements made at the request of the community. So please take some time to look through the changes and enjoy testing. To join in on the fun and provide us your valuable feedback, follow these simple steps! [olist]

Select "community_beta_branch" from the list.[/olist] The download should begin automatically or at least get queued for download. Note that you can not change this setting while the game is running.

New Content

• Embermount Volcano campaign map with Phoenix Boss
• Embermount Tavern Theme
• Phoenix feather plaque when beating Embermount
• New enemy - The Harbinger
• 4 New weapons (1 for each class)
• Two new pets in Embermount Survival
• Moon Pet added to Moonbase Survival
• 3 New accessories - Brooch, Mask and Bracers
• Steam Trading Cards (will be released when Update 2 goes live)
• Cosmetic Accessory Set Bonuses: Crystal, Embermount and Palantir
• News page updated

Improvements

• Electric auras can damage the tavern dummy
• Items rated as transcendent or above have a “god beam” showing over the item to make picking them out of the pile easier. Beam only shown on items not filtered from the minimap by quality
• The highest damage dealt to a target by chained proximity mines will be dealt instead of the first to deal the damage
• Maximum starting wave is now set per map (23 on 25 wave maps, 28 on 30 wave maps, 33 on 35 wave maps, 38 on 40 wave maps)
• Camera rotation is locked when in top down placement mode (building / repairing / upgrading)
• New Setting - Can move while building (disables movement while in top down placement)
• New Setting -Enable tower dynamic lighting (significant performance benefits when disabled.) Affects traps and projectile towers (most notably inferno traps and fireball towers) Requires restarting DD after enabling to take effect. Disabling requires a new tower of that type to be built.
• Cursor placed relative to the hero in the placement casting state
• Removed slight frame rate dependency from many damaging towers. All projectile towers, Lightning Tower, Slice’n Dice, and Proton Beam. Every point in tower rate counts. There are no breakpoints.
• New item comparison calculation for armour and accessories
• Items can be renamed when at their maximum upgrade level at the cost of one upgrade
• Item naming character limit has been increased to 36
• Added a report issue button to the pause menu
• Palantir, Greater Turkey Hunt, CD, Temple of Love, Winter Wonderland, and Silent Night accessory multipliers now match those awarded by lab assault
• Moonbase now has a survival mode
• Added confirmation message when hitting 42 on Moonbase DDR machine
• Initiate Enemy Drain ability, Spider Minion web, and Wheel of Fortuna buff/debuff enemies resistance factor applied to the training dummy
• Jester’s Move Tower and Wheel abilities can be used in the tavern
• Trap/Aura selection priority is identical for repairing. Selection will be based only on current health percentage.
• Trap/Aura upgrade priority favours traps when upgrades are equal, otherwise whichever tower has the least upgrades.
• Instant upgrade will favour towers that can be upgraded over repairing towers that are at their maximum upgrade level.
• Traps and auras can overlap spawns and show a warning when doing so
• BucBay - Repositioned the hero spawn points to face the main crystal and open area instead of the dead end.
• Golding an enemy (by Djinn / Wheel) increases its power by a percentage so the power boost scales into higher level games
• Djinn ability casting durations depend on difficulty (enemy gold beam and tower desummon). That is to say, buffing/desummoning takes more time on a lower difficulty
• Summoner minions can move sensibly over short distances with no pathfinding mesh present (ie. when placed on walls, they won’t always jump off before moving along)
• On Nightmare difficulty, the 50% of loot that was not receiving wave/difficulty multipliers has been replaced with fully scaled items
• Party Popper tower animation scaling reduced so it doesn’t spaz out with only a few points in tower rate
• EV beam collision is now much more consistent between pre/post placement
• Armour vs. weapon comparison skewed more in favour of armour to bias the drop removal priority
• Traps on uneven terrain can now trigger on any walking enemy inside its radius
• Slow ogre spawns on some maps on NM difficulty are much improved in many cases
• Armour type drops rates boosted by 25% for random equipment drops.
• Character health over 1 million is displayed using the high value format to 4 significant figures (eg. 1.234 M) to prevent the health value running off screen
• Excess equipment removal function has been rewritten. Fixed an unconfirmed issue which removed many more items than intended under some circumstances, and it is much faster.
• Excess mana removal function rewritten. Introduced a biasing system to keep tokens with a larger value around for longer. Large tokens will still be deleted eventually. This is not a bug, but a design decision that was made to prevent players waiting until the end of the round to collect mana and not being significantly penalised for doing so.
• Multiple upgrades can be applied to an item in a single click when using “pro mode”. No key down - 1 upgrade per click. Shift down - Applies up to 9 upgrades per click. Ctrl down - Applies up to 50 upgrades per click
• Predicted stat value will account for the number of upgrades to be applied
• Invasion shows the current phase number in the UI
• Inferno trap damage and attack rate updates for (de-)buffs in real time

Bug Fixes

• Proton beams and inferno traps with high attack rates now deal damage every tick. Multiple proton beams can also damage the same target because of this fix
• Public games being played on a different version no longer visible in matchmaking
• Items with all negative stats no longer show as an upgrade if no equipment is present to compare to
• Large auras (>18 units in radius) are always picked up immediately when entering upgrade/repair/sell casting modes
• Fix lightning tower not being able to chain off an enemy if it kills it in the same tick
• Fix for semi-random interval between first and second shot after reloading a gun
• Fix for other heroes banked mana being displayed incorrectly in the pause menu
• Fixed ghost pillars in Hall of Court
• Palantir no longer warns of fish wyverns
• Old One’s belly crystal can be attacked by all weapons
• Instant upgrade will no longer attempt to repair towers that have health above the normal repair threshold
• Fixed south west doors on Buccaneer Bay that wouldn’t animate on wave start..
• Fixed unintended increase in high level armor dropping
• Fixed Ogres dropped by Goblin Copters damaging crystals in CD and WW.
• Fixed Djinn casting time being accelerated by ensnare auras
• Enemies set to golden state don’t retrigger the Wave 10 and Wave 20 survival difficulty spikes
• Prevented any item spawning with negative damage, upgrades, or ammunition (observed as 1/1 upgrades, 10 damage, or 1 ammunition spawning too frequently)
• Summoner minion collision on client games now matches the host (no more rising out of defences)
• Phase shifted summoner can no longer be killed by explosive attacks exceeding 100,000 damage
• Fix apprentice / squire / huntress weapons spawning with incorrect (high) quality ratings
• Fix items with 8 negative stats being evaluated as godly
• Possible fix for a wave skipping bug
• Fix double multiplication bug causing items in the tavern shop to show up with much higher than intended prices
• Mix mode skeletons will now always timeout if they get stuck in an unrevived state
• Moonbase gravity is not dependant on frame rate
• Tavern XP bonus doesn’t award a “score”
• In Local/Open game modes, having the mod missions selected will not lock out the Shards and Lost quests buttons
• Loot multiplier scaling now increases with every wave of a map (integer division…)
• Fix stretched Squire masks
• Fix for wyverns, djinn, and goblin copter pathfinding logic stalling and appearing stuck. Fixes the infamous CD wyvern along with almost every other stuckage for these three enemy types
• Fix floating damage numbers disappearing offscreen when attack rates continuously exceed 10 times per second
• Fix health decay rate for proton beam depending on the attack rate
• Possible fix for goblin copters forgetting to drop their ogre when the drop zone is reached
• Possible fix for DEW / Spider targeting when there are no targetable players on larger maps
• Jester “Move Tower” ability now uses the same placement rules as when the tower is being built.
• Fix mapname not being visible to clients in the tavern in some circumstances
• Fix accented ‘U’ in Uber maps being incorrectly formatted and not showing as an accented ‘U’
• Fix projectile speed multipliers on Moonbase Quietus reward being unexpectedly low
• Fix issue preventing item particle effects showing up correctly while dropped on the floor (to be used for new items)
• Fix weapons equipped to the series EV not always hiding all particle effects correctly
• Fix map selection UI jumping to Deeper Well if a player joins the game when looking at the Lost Quests maps
• (Partial) Fix for repair/upgrade auto selection finding a tower out of range
• Fix for minimap quality filter breaking for qualities above Ultimate

Balance Updates

• Tower Buff Beam - Base boost values increased while upgrading effectiveness has been reduced. Fully upgraded buffs are nearly identical, but unupgraded beams are significantly more powerful and the scaling with stats is much more noticeable
• Slice’N Dice and Lightning Tower - Higher damage output. Damage per tick now increases with the attack rate stat so that damage output continues to scale into lategame (including buffs and debuffs). Scaling revised to account for this.
• Bowling Ball Tower - Faster attacks. Animation time exponent increased from 0.8 to 1.0 (significant increase in high end attack rate). Bowling ball tower damage had fallen well behind at high levels due to it’s below average animation duration scaling. Increasing the scaling exponent to 1.0 brought the damage up to comparable levels and makes it easier to compare across towers for future changes.
• Deadly Striker Tower - Slightly slower, more powerful attacks. Animation time exponent increased from 0.67 to 1.0. Attack Rate exponent reduced from 0.77 to 0.6. Damage scaling exponent increased from 1.1 to 1.36 Base damage decreased from 350 to 300. An even worse case than the bowling ball tower for the attack rate being restricted by the firing animation. Overall attack rate scaling was reduced to compensate for the faster animation and keep the tower in it’s niche (slow, high damage). Damage scaling increased to bring it closer to other towers at high stats (because of a quirk in how damage is calculated, base damage remains the same even though it was decreased)
• Magic Missile Tower - More powerful attacks. Damage scaling exponent increased from 1.105 to 1.15. Single target towers need to do more damage than multi target towers. The MMT wasn’t, so it gets a small buff. Darkness, Inferno, and Gas traps - Base charges increased to 3 from 1/2/2. Trigger radius scaling reduced to match cloud radius scaling
• Ethereal Spike Trap - Base charges increased from 2 to 4. Attack radius now scales with trigger radius so it can always hit the enemy that triggered the trap. Damage now scales much, much faster, starting off at ~3.5x a proximity mine trap, and ending up around 10x the same trap
• Proximity Mine Trap - Base charges increased from 2 to 4
• Mana Bomb and Purity Bomb - Significant increase in damage scaling. Blocked in assault challenges due to combination of absurdly high damage and long range

We look forward to hearing your feedback! - Acen

[ 2016-05-15 16:47:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Community Development Team is hosting a brand-new community event this weekend! For more details, check out the official thread!

The Community Development Team is hosting a brand-new community event this weekend! For more details, check out the official thread!

A word from Acen and the Community Development Team: "Greetings Defenders, While things didn't go according to our original schedule, we are still moving forward and closing out the last items to get the beta ready for you. So today the CDT would like to present this teaser video for your viewing pleasure as we continue to work to get the beta out to you. We hope you will enjoy the new content and improvements and will keep you informed when the beta is ready for you to test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfRekaUKPJ4 Thanks and Happy Defending!!"

A word from Acen and the Community Development Team: "Greetings Defenders, While things didn't go according to our original schedule, we are still moving forward and closing out the last items to get the beta ready for you. So today the CDT would like to present this teaser video for your viewing pleasure as we continue to work to get the beta out to you. We hope you will enjoy the new content and improvements and will keep you informed when the beta is ready for you to test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfRekaUKPJ4 Thanks and Happy Defending!!"

Greetings from the Community Development Team, Defenders! We are now into February of the new year and we continue to press on with the task of providing you new content and changes to enjoy as you defend Etheria. We have a couple of things we would like to share with you today to get you ready for what is coming.

When is the next update?

What is in CDT Update 2?

How can I help?

Dev Help Needed!

New Community Event: Depths and Bubbles Event

More to Come

Greetings, Defenders! The first community-driven update for Dungeon Defenders is here! This update was created by the Community Development Team, a passionate group of volunteer Defenders who have been given the tools to change the Ranked version of the game. This update includes new content, major improvements and much-requested bug fixes for the game. (Note: This update is for Windows. We're still looking into providing the new updates for Mac/Linux. We'll have more news soon.) If you have any ideas on what you’d like to see in the game, check out the Community Development forum! There's also a new DD1 Event! For more information, check out the event's forum thread. On a side note, The Trendy Team is hard at work on next week’s Dungeon Defenders II update. We're also unlocking free galactic weapons for simply joining the Steam Group! DD2 Early Access is free-to-play now, so be sure to check it out if you’re interested. Thanks for your support, Defenders! By the way: We hear the CDT is already working on the next update...

CDT Update #1 Notes

• Temporary Moonbase themed tavern
• Buccaneers Bay Campaign Map (Including Survival)
• Pirate Invasion Challenge
• Two new weapons
• Two new pets
• New accessory
• Two new towers for the Jester (details in the next section)

• All boss cutscenes are now skippable
• The trading UI supports adding 48 items to trade using the “Add to Trade” button
• Projectile towers now accurately report the period between attacks (previously the firing animation time was not included)
• Added a thousands separator (,) to all numbers using high value formatting when between 1,000 and 1 M
• Tavern Dummy report text moved above hit damage text to allow for easier viewing
• Tavern Dummy averaging period increased from 2 to 4 seconds to improve consistency
• Tavern Dummy now reports the total damage dealt as well as the DPS
• If Nightmare difficulty is selected in the tavern, all towers, heroes and pets will deal the damage they would in the map. Any towers or heroes spawning while Nightmare is selected will use Nightmare levels of all other stats but will not update when switching between difficulties.
• Mana token and player shop max price increased to 2B
• EV builders can now move while placing the child node of a beam. The player must be within casting range of either node to begin construction Imp and Tower boost repair traps and beams the same way they do other towers
• Traps and beams now use identical repair logic to other towers and will not allow repair focus for only a single charge during combat (can be repaired during combat from 95% health)
• Tavern shop can now sell items with prices sensible for their quality (tavern shop quality consistency to be improved later)
• Greater Turkey Hunt wave 9 time limit increased by 30 seconds
• Item Value is reported using the high value formatting (eg. 2.1204 M) to improve readability. This is applied to the item box, player and tavern shops, item tooltip, and item inspect panels
• Tower Wars and Moonbase now have level previews in game setup
• Hit damage text is of a constant size. Size is about half of the previous maximum
• Hit damage text is placed relative to the target, not the hit location
• Jester present boxes have new defenses and adjusted spawn chances (Lower chance of item/ogre/mana spawns, and the spawn chances are now different for each type of present
• Jester present box unlock levels increased to make room for the new Defenses
• New Defenses added to the Jester
  • Jack-in-the-Box (Level 1, 3 DU, 40 mana): A Defense with a fairly short-range, forward-facing punching glove. It has high health and a slow attack rate, but makes up for this with high damage and knock-back capability, with a 20% chance to knock back enemies normally immune to knockback effects, such as Ogres.
  • Party Popper (Level 3, 4 DU, 50 mana): A standard, mid-range projectile defense which shoots a wide range of projectiles with different attributes at random: Magic Missile (generic), Archer Minion arrow (generic), Fireball (fire, small splash radius), Djinn magic bolts (Fire, Lightning, Poison and Purity- all piercing), Deadly Striker bolts (generic, passes through walls), and Ogre poison balls (poison, huge splash radius). Inspecting this tower will show the element and damage for the next shot to be fired.
  • (Note: Only new Jester heroes will have the new defenses set to their hotbars autmatically. We have not altered the hotkeys for existing Jesters, so you will need to manually add them by opening the radial menu with the middle mouse button, go to Summon Defenses, and then hold the desired number key down for one second with the cursor over the Defense you wish to assign to the bar)

• Reload speed, charge speed, knockback, blocking, guardian and propeller cat boosting stat generation clamped within their allowable range (no more picking up a sword with 1000% Blocking Bonus only to find it turned into 30% in your item box)
• Tavern Dummy is only hit once per tick by the Slice’N Dice and Lightning Towers to match all other targets
• “Pro-Mode” and “Invest All” function as expected when the cost to upgrade exceeds 1B mana
• Greater Turkey Hunt correctly spawns 8 turkey bosses
• “Invest All” will bring the bank mana to zero if the upgrade cost is greater than the banked mana
• “UnLock/Lock All” item box functions no longer cause long freezes when used
• Akatiti water no longer removes the slowing effect of a spider web
• Projectiles reflected by a reflect beam no longer trigger the genie pet granting mana if they hit an enemy
• Enemies with suppressed elemental effects are always affected by gas traps
• Guns with negative ammunition counts (displayed as 1 ammo) can now be upgraded
• Fix banking mana at the forge eating the invested mana
• “Report Issue” button in options menu now points to a public form (and results are sent directly to the CDT)
• Online mode defaults to steam
• Fix for certain weapons forcibly spawning with max stats

A message from the Community Development Team: CDT Update 1 testing continues! We've included some additional fixes, as well as made some changes based on your feedback (The genie has decided to grant your wishes and returned to his old self)! If you haven't checked it out previously, it's not too late! Simply right-click on Dungeon Defenders in Steam, click Properties, click the Betas tab, and select "community beta branch" from the list! Here's the lowdown:

Jester

• You asked for it, you got it: Now has 20% chance to "crit", dealing slightly more damage and applying knockback to all enemies (including Ogres!), as well as affecting heavier enemies such as Orcs more strongly.
• An errant muzzle flash left behind by the JITB's "projectile" has been told what to go do with itself.
• Overall attack speed slowed through a combination of adjusting Tower Rate stat scaling and animation scaling. The animation should be visible for a much wider range of attack rate stats. We felt that this was important since there is no other visual indicator of the tower attacking.
• Damage increased significantly to compensate for the slower attack rate. Now those punches really... pack a punch.
• Range is no longer affected by buff beams or Monk Guardians. No more super sonic punches that extend several times the reach of the punching animation!
• Base range slightly increased, range scaling slightly reduced; the Jack-in-the-Box should be able to bloody the noses of ogres attacking at their max range sooner. After all, they're Ogres, not Trolls.

• The Party Popper has given up dancing, and will no longer "Do the Twist" while attacking.
• Projectile ratios adjusted favor splashing/piercing projectiles slightly more for extra party fun:
  • Magic Missile and Archer Arrow ratio decreased very slightly (Deadly Striker Bolt unchanged)
  • Fire, Poison, Thunder, and Purity Djinn shot ratio increased very slightly
  • Ogre Snot Ball and Fireball increased very slightly
• The pierce limit for Djinn shots has been increased by 50% (4 to 6). Magnum Bullets!

Maps

• Fixed an invisible wall on Buccaneer Bay. You'll have to practice your miming skills elsewhere, sorry!
• Fixed an edge case in Pirate Invasion where finishing a phase with only a few seconds left would cause the game to glitch out.
• Gave aerial enemies in Buccaneer Bay a strategy lesson. They should now spawn in a much less erratic pattern.

Bugs / Issues Fixed

• Say ARRRRrrrr: the Pirate Patch has been buffed up to Turkey Mask levels.
• Shiver me Timbers: The Pirate Skeleton on a Treadmill is sporting a new icon and a colorization issue on the skeleton has been addressed.
• The original Christmas map boss will now listen to you yelling at him to hurry up (or at least pressing the skip button) and thus his intro cutscene can now be skipped.
• Shock beams now use standard healing logic, which is a really fancy way of saying pets and abilities can now repair them.
• The Shock Beam was also told to stop using its cheat code, and no longer heals itself to full after every attack.

Bugs Added

• Genies will once again grant you three wishes, as we have reverted him to his previous state. This may be revisited in the future when/if the bug can be fixed without causing undue burden to our hardcore fans.

Known Issues

• Mac / Linux builds of Moonbase and later patches are still in progress. We hope that this will be able to be addressed at some point, but there is no guarantee.
• The Pirate Patch reward is currently clamped to Insane.
• The beta branch is defaulting to GameSpy (which no longer exists) as the Online Provider. To fix this, please go into the game's configure tool and change the Online Provider back to Steam in order to play online. Sorry for the inconvenience!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk_nyh41Mg8 The Community Development Team is a volunteer group of community members dedicated to bringing you new Ranked Mode content and changes! Below, the group talks about the beta for their first update to the game! ---------------------- Greetings Defenders. The Community Development Team is proud to announce that our first content update is ready for Public Beta testing! We’ve got lots of great stuff for you to try out today, including a new map and challenge, new items, and improvements to the Jester hero class! Check out the video for a preview of the Jester changes, and read on below for the full details! To join in on the fun and provide us your valuable feedback, follow these simple steps! [olist]

Greetings, Defenders! Our newest update for Dungeon Defenders is out now! Here are the patch notes: Patch Notes

• Added Moonbase to Ranked.
• Player mana ceiling increased to 1 trillion.
• Inventory limit increased to 600 for Ultimate Defenders.
• Added an option for hosts to disallow the selling of allied towers.
• Added “unlock all” and “lock all” buttons.
• Potential fix for the items being lost during a trade.
• Auras are now darker in the middle and shouldn’t cause framerate drops.
• Players can now hide their accessories without losing the stat bonuses they provide.
• Players can set a rarity tier filter for the minimap.
• Higher-tiered items are layered over lower-tiered items on the minimap.
• Highest-tier items have their own color on the minimap.
• Players can now move while trying to find where to build a tower.
• “An Ogre Has Arrived” text and noise has been removed.
• Items dropped by the player now drop directly in front of the player to improve accuracy and reduce frustration with setting up tavern shops.
• Reduced the number bosses on Greater Turkey Hunt.
• The display method for damage and mana numbers have been changed to extend their range.
• Removed DungeonDefenderStore buttons

• IMPORTANT: The Mac patch will be coming out later. At this time, you cannot switch between the Mac and Windows versions. What this means is that you cannot play on Windows and then load up your account on Mac as your Ranked save file will be deleted. This also applies to playing on a Mac and then loading up your account on Windows. This will be fixed when the Mac patch goes out.
• We want to fix the hard crashes for Crystalline Dimension, but we are unable to repro the issues. Any information you can share based off the public beta will lead to this being solved permanently.
• We want to fix the heroes dying when swapping at the Forge, but we have been unable to 100% repro the issue. If you have more information about this, please let us know.

Bug Fixes

• Moonbase items no longer reroll stats when dropped on the floor
• New Options menu items are selectable by controller
• Fixed an issue where F1 wasn’t bringing up the Chat History
• Fixed issue where players weren’t able to build towers on Servants Quarters
• 0 Credits text now goes away on the Moonbase dance machine
• Removed DungeonDefenderStore buttons

We've created a new Moonbase Update beta branch to give you your Ranked save data and to solve a number of access issues that have been reported on our forums. You will need to opt-in to the “community_beta_branch” branch in order to test the Moonbase Update beta. The current beta branch will be taken down sometime next week. Here’s how to opt-in to the new beta branch: [olist]

Thanks for your support! We’re thrilled to see the positive reception to our latest news, and we can’t wait to watch Dungeon Defenders grow. As promised, here is the public beta build of our first planned update to Dungeon Defenders. This current version of the beta build is for Windows only. We’re currently looking into providing Mac and Linux builds. This is a beta build, so you can expect to see bugs and issues. Early next week, we are incrementing save files for the beta branch, which means that you will enter this branch with all the stuff you currently have in the live game. Incrementing, though, also means that you will now have two parallel save files -- one for live, and one for beta -- where gains in one will not translate to the other. In the meantime, you can start fresh heroes on Ranked or play on Open. If you don’t see a requested bug fix or quality of life change below, please share it in the comments! It’s our goal to provide the Community Development Team with the tools required to make requested changes after our patches, and in order to do so, we need to make sure we have as many bases covered with our upcoming DDDK changes. It’s also important to test this patch as much as possible, so please take the time to run through the patch and post your bug reports in this Bug Report form. Patch Notes

• Added Moonbase to Ranked. We need your help in verifying loot drops on the map. If you could please post your loot drops in this Loot Reporting form, it would be greatly appreciated. Loot balance is the most critical element of this update.
• Player mana ceiling increased to 2 trillion.
• Inventory limit increased to 600 for Ultimate Defenders.
• Added an option for hosts to disallow the selling of allied towers.
• Added “unlock all” and “lock all” buttons.
• Potential fix for the items being lost during a trade. If you see this happening in the public beta test, please let us know.
• Auras are now darker in the middle and shouldn’t cause framerate drops.
• Players can now hide their accessories without losing the stat bonuses they provide.
• Players can set a rarity tier filter for the minimap.
• Higher-tiered items are layered over lower-tiered items on the minimap.
• Highest-tier items have their own color on the minimap.
• Players can now move while trying to find where to build a tower.
• “An Ogre Has Arrived” text and noise has been removed.
• Items dropped by the player now drop directly in front of the player to improve accuracy and reduce frustration with setting up tavern shops.
• Reduced the number bosses on Greater Turkey Hunt.
• The display method for damage and mana numbers have been changed to extend their range.

• Custom maps from the Steam Workshop will not work with the beta branch. We’re investigating this.
• We want to fix the hard crashes for Crystalline Dimension, but we are unable to repro the issues. Any information you can share based off the public beta will lead to this being solved permanently.
• We want to fix the heroes dying when swapping at the Forge, but we have been unable to 100% repro the issue. If you have more information about this based on the public beta test, please let us know.

Greetings Defenders, As we teased last week, we have an exciting announcement to share with you: We are hard at work on two more free updates to Dungeon Defenders! After these updates, it’s our goal to pass the torch onto you and give the community the tools to update Dungeon Defenders. The first update is planned to be released onto a public beta branch in late May. It will include some of the bug fixes and quality of life changes requested by you, and finally put Moonbase where it rightfully belongs -- in Ranked. The second update will be a free content update, partially made by the community! To assist, we are actively seeking community members who are interested in contributing to this patch. If you’re interested, please contact Acen, who has volunteered to help us get the team off the ground. After this, we will be assisting this team and you to release future updates. There are already many of you crafting unique creations for Dungeon Defenders every day, and we’re excited to give you a path to get these officially released into Ranked. The Dungeon Defenders community is filled with passionate, talented, dedicated people. While many of you have already visited Dragonfall and rebuilt your defenses, you mean everything to us and we want to set up a future where you can always revisit the original in all its glory. Sincerely, The Trendy Team

Greetings Defenders,
We’ve just updated Dungeon Defenders II Early Access with two of your most requested features -- pets and a boss! We’d really love feedback on these new features from owners of the original Dungeon Defenders, so for a limited time you can log in to DD2 to receive: $6 premium in-game currency “Veteran Defender” Title We thank all of you for your support and look forward to your feedback. You might see our faces around here a bit more in the coming weeks, with some nifty news relating to the original Dungeon Defenders. -Pmasher

Surprise! Today marks the release of Dungeon Defenders Eternity, the definitive version of the original Dungeon Defenders. Eternity takes the best missions from the original game and includes a host of new features, content and anti-hacker security as requested by our loyal Defenders! Visit the Steam page to learn more!

So far we’ve given you quite a bit of insight into how our levels are developed visually from start to finish. There is, however, one final element that greatly contributes to the atmosphere of our beautiful maps: audio. Once our level designers have finished building and scripting a map, and our VFX artists have gone through to make sure everything is appropriately shiny, it’s finally time to implement sound. When a map is ready for sound, my first step is to generate an audio asset list for our talented sound designer, Afshin Toufighian. It is during this process that I decide which environment pieces and effects will require an audio element and which areas of the map will require their own stereo ambient sound waves. Read More (And Listen To These Sounds!) Here

In the original Dungeon Defenders, we used different colors to designate enemy difficulties. This was a clear way to show that one enemy was harder than another, but it didn’t allow for variety in the way enemies were presented during each wave. In Dungeon Defenders II, we’ve thrown out the color system, and we’re now using a tier system. A tier is basically an “upgraded” version of an enemy. We’ve shown you different enemy tiers in previous blogs from Javelin Throwers to the nightmare-inducing Ogres. These enemies and almost every other enemy in the game will come at your defenses in different tiers. Below, you can see a Tier 1 Orc, a Tier 2 Orc and a Tier 3 Orc. Read More Here! P.S. We're still working on the DD2 community hub to post all of this DD2 into. Thanks for your patience. We really appreciate it! And to everyone who just joined us over the Steam Summer Sale, we hope you're enjoying the game!