A few final issues resolved in another hotfix. Thanks for your patience.

STATUS:
Windows: YES
Linux: YES
Mac: YES

Changelog for 2.2.6 6/1/2018:
- Fixed crash in battles when you defeat an enemy with original sprites mode enabled
- Fixed bug where recruitable characters could have no colors set
- Fixed bug where renaming characters in party screen could cause their name to be "Null"
- Fixed annoying bug where the finger cursor always flashes on screen for a fraction of a second in keyboard/mouse mode

And another one.

STATUS:
- Windows: YES
- Mac: YES
- Linux: YES

Changelog for 2.2.5 5/31/2018:
- Fixed crash in recruit screen if you try to hire someone you can't afford
- Fixed overlapping "buy" and "can't afford" buttons in shops

Status:
- Windows: YES
- Mac: YES
- Linux: YES

Changelog for 2.2.4 5/30/2018:
- Fixed missing cutscene art in legacy art mode
- Fixed healer bug where boost-1 level healers wouldn't heal a defender placed after then damaged by thorns
- Fixed upgraded special armor items that were missing their special abilities

Please let me know if there are any remaining issues.

We recently released Defender's Quest DX on PS4, XB1, and PSVita, and that required some major performance optimizations. We are now rolling those back into the PC version of the game. Let us know if there's any bugs and regressions.

This is the last major patch for DQ1, but I will be happy to make any necessary hotfixes for lingering bugs.

STATUS:
-Windows: YES
-Mac: YES
-Linux: YES

CHANGELOG:
2.2.3 5/28/2018:
- Add "skip cutscene" option to misc. menu
- Fix missing dialogue popup that makes the final battle unecessarily hard if you don't see it
- Fix bug with status effects (removing one effect visually removes all)
- Fix range previews to be less wasteful/laggy
- Fix hotkey labels missing from spells in Mcguffin menu (regression)
- Fix crash when using original art mode during certain battle previews
- Fix cursor bug in keyboard/mouse mode
- Fix "knocked back enemy flies all over the screen randomly" bug
- Better sound management
- Fix various visual glitches due to improper rounding
- Fix "Need PSI" icons
- Performance optimizations, including but not limited to:
- Fix sorting algorithm in battle
- Optimize QuadTrees
- Inline lots of functions
- Font optimizations
- Optimize damage & regeneration signals to not be as wasteful
- Don't show battle numbers if speed >= 8x
- Fix various memory leaks
- Fix big memory leak in cutscenes
- Optimize cutscenes
- Clean up audio memory at end of cutscenes
- Use integer comparisons rather than strings as often as possible

Hey everyone,

I just pushed out a quick hotfix for the Windows version of the game. Apparently there was a regression which made it so that people who had unicode characters in their windows username directory (ie, lots of people from Russia, China, Japan, Korea, etc) were not able to save the game.

You COULD recover from this if you went to the in game menu, selected miscellaneous, and then manually changed your save file location, but this is not ideal.

So, today we've pushed out a fix that seems to work. There is one remaining known bug related to this issue: if you use the options menu to change your save file location, the directory picker will not recognize any path you select with unicode characters in it. "C:\this\is\a\path" is fine but "C:\カタカナ" is not.

HOWEVER! The game will still recognize a custom path with unicode characters if you manually edit the paths.xml file. You can do this by clicking on the floppy disk folder button in the save slot screen, and opening paths.xml in a text editor of your choice, you would want to set it to something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<data>
<save value="C:\MyCustomPath\DefendersQuest"/>
<mods value="C:\MyCustomPath\DefendersQuest\Mods"/>
</data>

Sorry for any inconvenience. Please report any further issues you have and we will try to fix them.

NOTE: This only ever affected WINDOWS users, as far as we can tell.

Hey everyone,

I just pushed out a quick hotfix for the Windows version of the game. Apparently there was a regression which made it so that people who had unicode characters in their windows username directory (ie, lots of people from Russia, China, Japan, Korea, etc) were not able to save the game.

You COULD recover from this if you went to the in game menu, selected miscellaneous, and then manually changed your save file location, but this is not ideal.

So, today we've pushed out a fix that seems to work. There is one remaining known bug related to this issue: if you use the options menu to change your save file location, the directory picker will not recognize any path you select with unicode characters in it. "C:\this\is\a\path" is fine but "C:\カタカナ" is not.

HOWEVER! The game will still recognize a custom path with unicode characters if you manually edit the paths.xml file. You can do this by clicking on the floppy disk folder button in the save slot screen, and opening paths.xml in a text editor of your choice, you would want to set it to something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<data>
<save value="C:\MyCustomPath\DefendersQuest"/>
<mods value="C:\MyCustomPath\DefendersQuest\Mods"/>
</data>

Sorry for any inconvenience. Please report any further issues you have and we will try to fix them.

NOTE: This only ever affected WINDOWS users, as far as we can tell.

Hey everyone,

I'm back from paternity leave, and as my first official task, I've fixed the Mac build (at least, it works for me now, previously I had the same issue others were reporting). Turns out this was a simple fix, so sorry for the delay.

EDIT 2:12 PM:
Turns out there was another bug lingering across mac/win/linux. If you were using gamepad controls, and hit the button for "equip" on the town shopping screen the first time you arrived there (ie, when you don't have any equipment yet), it would cause a crash.

This has been fixed just now in the 01/30/2018 timestamped subversion of build 2.2.2. There's no other substantial changes.

Hey everyone,

I'm back from paternity leave, and as my first official task, I've fixed the Mac build (at least, it works for me now, previously I had the same issue others were reporting). Turns out this was a simple fix, so sorry for the delay.

EDIT 2:12 PM:
Turns out there was another bug lingering across mac/win/linux. If you were using gamepad controls, and hit the button for "equip" on the town shopping screen the first time you arrived there (ie, when you don't have any equipment yet), it would cause a crash.

This has been fixed just now in the 01/30/2018 timestamped subversion of build 2.2.2. There's no other substantial changes.

So apparently the hotfix needed a hotfix. Sorry for the delay.

STATUS:
-Windows: YES
-Mac: YES
-Linux: YES

Changelog:
- Fix glitch with boost indicators in battle
- Fix overlapping tutorial navigation chrome
- Fix startup crash in level editor
- Fix mod interface showing steam options when steam is not active
- Fix text overfills in mod interface
- Fix text size issues in journal
- Fix missing paragraph of German text in "third dream" journal entry
- Fix incorrect german speaker line in opening cutscene
- Fix loading times on party screen a bit
- Fix overworld text scroll float
- Fix missing text in party rewards
- Fix "merge" method for xml files in mods
- Fix memory leak
- Fix wave text in enemy wave bar in 4:3 aspect ratio
- Fix overflow text in enemy menu
- Fix spell text showing wrong stats in YouGot screen in NewGame+
- Fix scrap overflow
- Fix cutscene text overflow
- Fix achievements
- Fix battle crash

Let me know if there's any further bugs!

So apparently the hotfix needed a hotfix. Sorry for the delay.

STATUS:
-Windows: YES
-Mac: YES
-Linux: YES

Changelog:
- Fix glitch with boost indicators in battle
- Fix overlapping tutorial navigation chrome
- Fix startup crash in level editor
- Fix mod interface showing steam options when steam is not active
- Fix text overfills in mod interface
- Fix text size issues in journal
- Fix missing paragraph of German text in "third dream" journal entry
- Fix incorrect german speaker line in opening cutscene
- Fix loading times on party screen a bit
- Fix overworld text scroll float
- Fix missing text in party rewards
- Fix "merge" method for xml files in mods
- Fix memory leak
- Fix wave text in enemy wave bar in 4:3 aspect ratio
- Fix overflow text in enemy menu
- Fix spell text showing wrong stats in YouGot screen in NewGame+
- Fix scrap overflow
- Fix cutscene text overflow
- Fix achievements
- Fix battle crash

Let me know if there's any further bugs!