DEFENDERS,

A patch was pushed this morning to address some issues in the 9.0.0 release ːsteamhappyː


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)

BUG FIX

• 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 map’s weapons drop on survival for the map, the same way as Eternia Shard maps

Spooky Buccaneer Bay

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

Challenge: Halloween Invasion

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

Challenge: Tavern Incursion

• 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

Balance
Akatiti

• Added a new mask drop to the map rewards

Arcane Library

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

City in the cliffs

• Changed survival quality to Aquanos quality

Challenge: Temple of Polybius

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

Crystalline Dimension

• 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

Crystalline Resurgence 1-3

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

Embermount Volcano

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

Emerald City

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

Flames of Rebirth

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

Infested Ruin

• Removed melee attack from Mini Wasp Queen Pet

Karathiki Jungle

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

Magus Citadel

• Buffed accessories to max accessory quality

Talay Mining Complex

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

Tavern Defense

• 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

The Tinkerer’s Lab

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

Tomb of Etheria

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

Winter Mire

• 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

QoL

• 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

Bug Fixes

• 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, Rudolph’s Spare Nose and Rudolph’s 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 : 

1. Go to your steam client 
   
2. Find Dungeon Defenders 1
   
3. Right click the name
   
4. Select properties
   
5. Go to betas
   
6. Choose the moosebetabranch from the drop down
   
7. Enjoy

New Maps :

The Striking Tree

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

Spooky Buccaneer Bay

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

Challenge: Halloween Invasion

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

Challenge: Tavern Incursion

• 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 - Jeweled Bident and Calamity Blade. 1 set of rewards per account

Balance :

Akatiti

• Added a new mask drop to the map rewards

Arcane Library

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

City in the cliffs

• Changed survival quality to Aquanos quality

Challenge: Temple of Polybius

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

Crystalline Dimension

• Buffed accessories to max accessory quality
  
• Made accessories only drop 2 times per player account

Crystalline Resurgence 1-3

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

Embermount Volcano

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

Emerald City

• Added Emerald accessory set

Flames of Rebirth

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

Infested Ruin

• Removed melee attack from Mini Wasp Queen Pet

Karathiki Jungle

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

Talay Mining Complex

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• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality

Tavern Defense

• 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

The Tinkerer’s Lab

• Changed survival quality to Infested Ruins quality
  

Tomb of Etheria

• Added missing 10% bonus movement speed to spear of the new Kingdom

Winter Mire

• 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

MISC

• Huntress, Apprentice, Squire, and Monk Guardians can now be upgraded to boost up to 6 towers.
  
• Removed Discord integration
  
• Changed the ranked home screen to have more useful links

QoL

• 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 the minimap
  
• Added difficulty-based coloration to the harbinger mob
  
• Added item censoring feature. It can be turned on or off on 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

Bug Fixes

• 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, Rudolph’s Spare Nose, and Rudolph’s 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

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!


Since Going Rogue is built out of DDA, we wanted to make sure we provided not only a fair price to purchase the game, but also something that rewards people for already owning DDA. That’s where the Dungeon Defenders Bundle comes in! If you own DDA, you’ll be able to purchase Going Rogue for a reduced price, and even better saving during our release sale. However, we’re also releasing with a sale, so purchasing Going Rogue through the bundle will be even less!

For our new Defenders that purchase Going Rogue, but do not own Dungeon Defenders Awakened, you’ll be able to pick DDA up for a reduced price as well through the Dungeon Defenders Bundle as well (and again, even cheaper when there is a sale going on).


We’re currently working on getting an update out for DD2 that includes new maps, a new enemy, a new boss, some new gear, which we’ll be talking about in the coming weeks. Past that we have some MAJOR things we’re going to be working on and getting your feedback, because we’ve got big plans and want our Defenders to be part of that process. We’re not going to talk about this much for right now, but stay tuned, big things are coming!


We are still hard at work on Episode 2 and so far we have revealed:

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

As you’ll notice in Dungeon Defenders Going Rogue, there’s an overlap in features with runes being very core to the gameplay. These runes serve as an example of what you’ll be seeing in Dungeon Defenders Awakened as well. We’re still working diligently on Episode 2 and didn’t want to leave our brave DDA players hanging without spoiling some new content. So we’re going to talk about something you’ll be getting for free right now, and also giving a sneak peak at our next hero!


First, the thing that you’ll be getting right away. In Dungeon Defenders Awakened, we will be providing the Going Rogue versions of the base four characters FOR FREE. All you’ll need to do is update your game, and you will have them. That’s it. This is something we’re doing for ALL PLATFORMS. While Going Rogue won’t be on consoles right now, we want to make sure that all our Defenders are able to have fun with these new cosmetics! Getting the cosmetics onto consoles is going to be reliant on the certification process, so once they pass the individual platform certifications, we’ll have them out to you.

Second, we gave a very small tease on our next hero, which people had guessed, but we’ll announce it here as part of our Going Rogue celebration.

An exiled general from the armies of the Old One after questioning if war was the answer, The Outcast uses his crystalline arm to call upon forces to aid him on the battlefield.



We’re not going into his kit just quite yet, but the Outcast will be the answer to what many fans have been asking for — a remake of The Summoner that fits within Dungeon Defenders Awakened. This is also another hero that we’ll be bringing into Going Rogue as well. We’re serious about making the most out of all the things we’re creating!

We are very excited about the future of DDA, DD2, and now DDGR. Thanks for all of your support, and we look forward to showing off even more in the near future!

To stay up-to-date on the latest news from Chromatic Games and the Dungeon Defenders franchise, follow us on all our social channels:

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For Etheria!
Chromatic Games

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

• 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, Devil’s Pitchfork, Heartbringer, etc.).

• 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.

• 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.
  
• Initiate’s Remote Defense Boost now reduces the damage nearby defenses take, but no longer increases their damage. Rate and range are still increased as before.
  
• Apprentice’s 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 EV’s S.A.M. Unit, have had several problems with collision, target acquisition, and “spinnies” resolved. This should greatly increase their consistency.

• 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.

• 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 Mech’s projectiles has been increased.
  
• The Genie’s 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, Devil’s 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%.
  
• Winter’s Flame damage-over-time has been increased by 100%.
  
• Moby’s 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%.

• 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 won’t be kicked.
  
• Fixed The King’s Game Ascension Giraffe not rolling properly.
  
• Fixed the unlock requirements for Barbarian’s Pirate Impostor skin.
  
• Removed FPS cap on all 6-player and PvP maps.

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For Etheria!
Chromatic Games

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

• 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.

• “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 Devil’s Pitchfork VFX less annoying.
  
• Dummies in the Tavern can be affected by the Oil Trap debuff (no visual).
  
• Added more cheater prevention.

*Some of these changes in the balance sections are technically bug fixes, but they are listed here due to their impact on game 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%.

• 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 Bazaar’s.
• 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 Jungle’s.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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 Blade’s 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).

• 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 Summoner’s 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

We've heard several requests for having Redux not be on a branch but access through various different methods that other games have used for a community made update like Redux, mods, or a new version of the same game that can be toggled. Unfortunately we're in a bit of a unique situation regarding that and isn't something that can just be done right now with a flip of a switch. However we are looking into the possibilities that something can be done to help players access Redux easier but there is no time frame of when or any guarantee that another method of access can happen. We'll definitely let the community know if a method is found that does work for Redux and all the details regarding that when it comes time.

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We have some exciting news for DD1 fans! Ice has worked with the team behind DD1 Redux and found a way for CG to provide official branch support here on steam for the overhauled version of DD1. What’s DD1 Redux? Check out the summary, the story and the massive change log below. Shoutout to all of the fans who worked on this project, we are proud to support their work and provide a new opportunity for veterans of DD1 and newcomers alike!

Redux is a re-imagining of what is possible using the base form of Dungeon Defenders with no limits. The CDT updates were limited in balance changes, map changes, and types of additions. However without these limitations Redux could be designed differently. This time design is heavily influenced by player feedback from all aspects, resulting in an experience that may feel better for the player overall.

New features are far more extravagant than anything could ever have been done before, still maintaining the soul of how people enjoy the game most. Redux is filled with new content in the form of new maps, game modes, difficulties, quality of life changes, and other systemic overhauls.

This project began before my CDT endeavor and the original idea was to make a different version of DD1 that I wanted to play. Ever since the official updates for the game (content-wise) have ceased I decided to pick up this project again. Picked it up again I did and every week Redux continually got more and more ambitious as more & more changes were added. I did all of this out of love for the community because I was afraid to see the game die. Lastly, I want to give my full thanks to CG, the Redux community, and especially Ice for giving us this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Right-click Dungeon Defenders - Properties
Click the BETAS tab
Click the drop-down and select DD1 Redux Official
If you do not see DD1 Redux Official listing please restart Steam


When you first connect to Ranked on Redux you will get a 1 time only automatic copy from Ranked to Redux 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.

Your save will automatically copy from DunDefHeroes.dun to DunDefHeroes.dun.rdx and be your new save location. Attempting to copy from redux back to normal will likely cause data loss, missing items, broken stats and isn’t recommended.

Currently there is no specific date on a future update for Redux but there are plans to have them in the future as the Redux team needs and wants to add additions.

• 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.

IHDC – Creator
Mischief – Content creator & Master Mind
Gigazelle - Art & Game direction
Moose (Your friendly antler horse) - Q/A & Game direction
Kamil "Escev" - Q/A, Balance , Maths , & Game direction
Lolzcoolcat - Q/A , Balance , & Game direction
The Wild Emu - Art
Redux Testers - Q/A , & Balance



Now, onto the massive changelog and details of the work that went into this DD1 overhaul.


Health/Damage Multiplier
*LT, DST and Buff Beams not included

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• Lightning Stance: Now adds additional lightning damage to each attack based on your lightning stance stat up to 50% of the attack’s 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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 weapon’s 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, Winter’s 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 weapon’s 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 Spartan’s Sword from the campaign. Spartan’s Sword has a special effect called Spartan’s 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 Sword’s 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 Staff’s 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 weapon’s base damage stat. Completing all three in a row on Ascension yields a bonus reward.

• 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
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• Sky o’ Love and Temple o’ Love:
  New rewards: Spear, Sword, Bow, and Staff of Hearts. The Spear and Sword’s 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 Staff’s 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

• 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

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

• 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

• All original campaign maps on Ascension have the same loot quality as Infested Ruins on Nightmare Hardcore. Their pets are also buffed.
  
• Most other maps have a new, higher loot quality.
  
• Moonbase is set to Kings game quality
  
• All survival pets now roll higher on ascension

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

• Divine:
  Each Divine armor piece gives you a passive healing bonus for 2.5% of your heroes maximum health every 5 seconds and gives your towers 0.25% of their maximum health every second. Auras, traps and minions instead get 2.5% increased maximum health. This bonus is instead raised to 15% (1.5% for towers) for wearing a full set of Divine armor. They spawn with higher stats, upgrades and have a set bonus of 1.45x 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 2.5% bonus hero damage dealt and gives your towers 2.5% increased range. This bonus is instead raised to 15% for wearing a full set of Divine armor. They spawn with higher stats, upgrades and have a set bonus of 1.45x 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.

• Massively reduced amount of enemies and enemy spawn rate.
  
• Increased enemy difficulty
  
• Decreased enemy movement speed.
  
• Increased loot multiplier 10% points higher then hardcore

• 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

• - 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.

• 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 or Ruthless 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 mana 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 now adds an extra bonus to loot

• 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

• Re-Roll System:
  Added a new feature that allows you to re-roll an Ultimate++/Divine/Void armor for the price of a Void Shard. These items will become any of the 20 standard armor types but will retain their original quality. Beware, every re-roll has a chance to curse the item and ruin its stats.
  
• 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 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%.

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For Etheria!
Chromatic Games

DEFENDERS!

If you haven’t 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/

Recently the latest and last update was sent out for the original Dungeon Defenders from our Community Development Team (who are incredibly awesome, and you should check out their work). This was done in anticipation of Dungeon Defenders: Awakened entering Closed Beta, with the game releasing in February 2020. DD:A is a return to the soul of Dungeon Defenders, bringing back heroes, towers, enemies, and levels you’ve cherished into a new engine with all new assets.



We’ve received a ton of praise for DD:A with phrases like “the magic is back” and “this IS Dungeon Defenders”. Our continued work is to iterate on the feedback that many Defenders have provided so far while we finish polishing prior to our February release. We’re calling all Defenders to join us in helping make Dungeon Defenders: Awakened the best game it can be. The reception so far has been stellar, and it’s only fueled us even more to make sure we pour our hearts and souls into making DDA something players feel pure joy playing!

The past has been changed! Choose your hero and construct an epic defense to fend off hordes of enemies while you jump into the fray to protect Etheria. Fight alongside friends in four player combat to claim legendary loot, level up, and take on the legions of enemies that await you! Revisit familiar places, but also unseen destinations throughout Etheria, new in Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.



Master the Squire, Huntress, Apprentice, and Monk to fight off any enemy that approaches. Build and utilize each character’s unique arsenal of blockades, towers, traps, and auras to keep the Eternia Crystals safe. The only requirement is to win, but it’s up to you to choose how!

Defending Etheria is better with friends! Bring three of your friends to jump into the fray with you. You can play online, local LAN, or offline 4-player splitscreen. The choice is yours! With Cross Save functionality, you’re able to take your save here on Steam over to your Nintendo Switch on release, if you own DD:A on the Nintendo Switch. The same functionality can be done later when we release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One!



Collect mountains of loot while battling waves of attackers! Swords, crossbows, staves, polearms, axes, grenade launchers, beam sabers, and so much more are yours for the taking. There’s even more epic loot coming to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened, with brand new rewards from monsters, bosses, and challenges — weapons, pets, armor, and more!



In Dungeon Defenders: Awakened, customization is king! Choose what gear you bring into battle, your hero’s appearance, the defenses you build, and where you build them. In Etheria, you’re the master of your own destiny!

By preordering Dungeon Defenders: Awakened, you gain access to our limited Closed Beta, letting you give us feedback and helping make it the best game it can be! To keep things simple, when you activate your Beta key, it automatically converts to your release copy when we release the game in February. Make sure to not give away your key or cheat!

To get reliable updates on what’s to come, be sure to check out our social platforms for the latest juiciest beans to be spilled:

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The entire team cannot wait to see you tear apart the Beta or play our latest creation on release. We’re excited for release in February, we’re grateful for all the tremendous feedback we’ve received so far (and the more to come), and want to thank you for joining us on this journey!

For Etheria!
Chromatic Games

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 they’ve done. I wish to express my sincerest gratitude and appreciation to all the CDT members past and present for everything you’ve done. Especially Acen, Alhanalem, Antony, Crzyrndm, Gigazelle, Gunnerq69, Harry, IHDC, Mischief, Nexus, OtterDarkness, Plane, TheBeev.

Sincerely,
-Ice



Omenak (New Map)

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

Infested Ruins (New Map)

• 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.

Magus Citadel (New Map)

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

WinterMire (New Map)

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

Tomb of Etheria (New Map)

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

Spring Valley Escort Challenge (New Map)

• 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.

True Boss Rush Challenge (New Challenge)

• 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)

Pirate Invasion

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

Balance

• 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.

Quality of Life

• 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.

Bug Fixes

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

Patch 8.7.1

Bug Fixes:

• ToE accessory set crash fix when you add in additional characters.
  
• Free-range chicken targeting fix for the CR2 genie king.
  
• Mummy pet targeting fix for the CR2 genie king.
  
• Fixed Wasp Queen boss AI and hitbox.
  
• Fixed wave spawn interval on Infested Ruins.
  
• Fixed turkey on a tread model size after being upgraded.
  
• Various visual fixes.

Balance:

• Free-range chicken 10% damage reduction and projectiles now travel at half of their previous speed.
  
• Removed Free-range eggs from easy-hard on Spring Valley.