Day of Dragons News

[p][/p][p]Brood Watcher's long anticipated "Brooding" ability has arrived! Brood Watchers (male and female!) are now able to assist other Dragons with the incubation and even enhancement of their eggs! [/p][p][/p][h3]NEW BROOD WATCHER ABILITY: BROODING[/h3][p][/p][p]Brood Watcher now has the ability to pick up laid eggs and incubate them in its pouch regardless of temperature requirements or species. Brood Watchers will have the ability to see the stats of eggs before they are fully incubated, as well as identifying if they have a mutation or not (though the mutation will not be specified). Once an egg is ready, the Brood Watcher caretaker will have the option to choose which player to invite to the egg and, (if Dom in Nesting), can even select the gender that the player will spawn as! [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]The primary purpose of Brooding is to compliment nesting by allowing Brood Watcher to attempt to enhance the stats of an egg utilizing an adaptive RNG system. Crits & Super Crits can occur and raise the stats of an egg, but the chance for this to occur lessens the more the Brood Watcher attempts to increase a stat. Failures or Critical Failures become more common instead (and these will lower the eggs stats!) Having more points in nesting can assist in prolonging Brood Watcher's enhancement success rate. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][h3]Additional notes with this new mechanic[/h3]

• [p]Added Brood Watcher Pouch Persistence, which means eggs will remain in the pouch even if a Brood Watcher player disconnects or logs off. [/p]
• [p]Nesters must "flag" an egg for Brood Watchers to have the ability to pick them up. Nesters must also be grouped with the Brood Watcher before they may store the eggs. Only one egg may be flagged per nest at one time.[/p]
• [p]Added the ability to locally save discarded brooded eggs, which can then be transferred to a private server for use (should the server owner allow it). All eggs expire after 48 hours local time. Instructions for how this will work will be posted at a later date in the support docs in our Official Discord.[/p]

[h3]BROOD WATCHER STAT ADJUSTMENTS:[/h3]

• [p]Slightly increased Brood Watcher base stamina[/p]
• [p]Slightly increased Brood Watcher mitigations[/p]

[h3]NEW BROOD WATCHER SKINS:[/h3]

• [p]Added Brood Watcher "Broken" rare spawn skin[/p][p][/p]
• [p]Added Brood Watcher "Bone Breaker" rare spawn skin[/p][p][/p]

[h3]NEW INFERNO RAVAGER SKINS:[/h3]

• [p]Added Inferno Ravager "Tigerclaw" rare spawn skin[/p][p][/p]
• [p]Added Inferno Ravager "Burning Ash" uncommon spawn skin[/p][p][/p]
• [p]Added Inferno Ravager "Hot Iron" skin to the Inferno Ravager Emote Pack DLC. This skin is automatically available as a spawn option for all owners of the DLC, and can be obtained by all players via nesting. [/p][p][/p]

[h3]QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS:[/h3]

• [p]Menu Setting Sliders are now more responsive to your mouse movement.[/p]
• [p]Further improvements have been made to flight takeoff so that braking can be done immediately after takeoff, but not while taking off (which causes stalls)[/p]

[h3]OPTIMIZATION:[/h3]

• [p]More optimizations have been made to improve performance on all GPU's.[/p]
• [p]Fixed some performance issues users on old hardware were experiencing after the last hotfix patch.[/p]

[h3]SERVER CHANGES:[/h3]

• [p]Server Announcements are now logged under \[EventServerAnnouncement][/p]
• [p]Server Log now tells you how many players are remaining when someone logs out. (This is helpful if watching the console to know when a server is empty)[/p]

[h3]FIXES:[/h3]

• [p]Fixed an issue where after closing the game with EasyAntiCheat, the game process would hang for 20-30 seconds before terminating. [/p]
• [p]Fixed a texture issue causing a spot on the back of female Flame Stalkers.[/p]
• [p]Fixed the collision on Brood Watcher nests.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where wetness could be permanently applied.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a dragon pearl duping exploit.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where flight became difficult to trigger when 20 or more players were within 500m.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue which made Piebald look speckled on some darker skins[/p]

[h3]OTHER:[/h3]

• [p]Added a new Steam Deck optimization setting under "Display" that lets the user choose between handheld or external display. [/p]
• [p]Tweaked the color of Brood Watcher's "Firstborne" skin to allow it to be color shifted. [/p]
• [p]All Brood Watcher Legendary skins now have an emissive on the horns and spikes.[/p]
• [p]Offline social status now prevents you from showing up on your group member's map if not in the same clan.[/p]
• [p]Males now get a generic notification when using courtship calls.[/p]
• [p]Added an Admin Private Whisper function to the Admin Panel or via chat with @\[SteamID] \[Message]. This allows Admins to direct message players. Players can respond with @a or @admin \[Message]. All whispers can be seen by all Admins.[/p]
• [p]Added a new server config bDisableEggSaves so server owners can prevent local egg saving. Players can see this setting in the server browser.[/p][p][/p]

[p]The Beawesome Games Team[/p]

[p]Happy Monday all! [/p][p]The cost of living is skyrocketing ever higher, and games (which should be a place of escape) are almost becoming an investment themselves. After a discussion with our team, we have decided to permanently lower the cost of some of our DLCs to hopefully make them more affordable for our customers![/p][h3]Acid Spitter Drake: WAS $7.99, NOW $5.99[/h3]

• [p]Spawn Access to the Acid Spitter Drake (Nesting Access is still available for players without the DLC)[/p]
• [p]Access to the "Hyena" exotic spawn skin[/p]
• [p]All Acid Spitter emotes PLUS 4 bonus emotes (Love, Mourn, Challenge, Distress)[/p]

[h3]Blitz Striker Amphithere: WAS $9.99, NOW $5.99[/h3]

• [p]Spawn Access to the Blitz Striker Amphithere (Nesting Access is still available for players without the DLC)[/p]
• [p]Access to the "Aftershock" exotic spawn skin[/p]
• [p]All Blitz Striker emotes PLUS 4 bonus emotes (Love, Mourn, Challenge, Distress)[/p]

[h3]Day of Dragons Original Soundtrack: WAS $8.99, NOW $4.99[/h3]

• [p]16-track original soundtrack composed by Rey Fernández Jr. and orchestrated by Norman Ludwin.[/p]
• [p]Includes both MP3 (lossy) and high-quality WAV (lossless) files.[/p][p][/p]

[p]Bundle prices have been adjusted accordingly. New players can now purchase the game + Acid Spitter + Blitz Striker packs for only $25.57 USD. [/p][p][/p][p]While many companies are raising prices to supplement their revenue due to inflation (putting themselves first) we're slashing prices to make our products more affordable to our customers (putting the customers first). We hope everyone enjoys these new prices and we thank you for playing Day of Dragons![/p][p][/p][p][/p]

[p][/p][h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

• [p]Improvements have been made to dedicated server performance and resource usage[/p]
• [p]Improvements have been made to corpse replication and optimizations have been made so they don't cause lag[/p]
• [p]Textures have been optimized for older graphics cards[/p]
• [p]Major frame rate/performance improvements have been made to the game[/p]
• [p]Added a new Texture VRAM Setting in Graphics so that the game can optimize textures based on your selected VRAM (be sure to apply this once after the update for best performance)[/p]

[p][/p][h3]CHANGES[/h3]

• [p]Elder Crystals now have a 3 second cooldown between calls indicated by a subtle "pulsing" effect on the crystal body[/p]
• [p]Some SFX have been updated[/p]
• [p]Males no longer get a "nesting invitation" notification after courtship calling Females. Players were using this to get names and gender of other dragons. Males will still get a notification if the Female accepted the invitation.[/p]
• [p]Players can now carry corpses of Acid Spitters of all ages (we are experimenting with the new corpse fixes)[/p]
• [p]Due to skin bug issues caused by preventing pie from applying to Metallic skins, we are now allowing piebald patterns on Metallic (Gold Pearl) skins.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]FIXES[/h3]

• [p]Players can no longer open/close social menu to bypass stun[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where adult Flame Stalkers could not bite Scrabs[/p]
• [p]Fixed corpses disappearing under certain conditions, they still will be removed if not eaten within 5 minutes (by default)[/p]
• [p]Fixed missing swim volumes in several water areas[/p]
• [p]Fixed the infamous "Flight Glitch"[/p]

[h2]1.2.18 PATCH NOTES[/h2][p][/p][p]This Patch adds new skins and texture optimizations. Check out the patch notes below![/p][p][/p][h3]NEW SKIN FOR BIOLUMINS[/h3]

• [p]Added a new rare spawn skin for Biolumins, "Iris Blossom" which can be obtained by spawning from the owned DLC or from the NPC Nest on the island.[/p][p][/p]

[h3]NEW SKINS FOR FLAME STALKER[/h3]

• [p]Added 2 new rare spawn skins for Flame Stalkers, "Ashfall" and "Blue Flame" which can be obtained by spawning from the menu or from player nests.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]BONUS "BURNOUT" SKIN ADDED TO FLAME STALKER EMOTE PACK[/h3]

• [p]As we have done with other Emote packs, we have added a new skin to the Flame Stalker Emote Pack. The pack price has not changed, but we have added more value to the emote pack.[/p]

[p][/p][h3]OTHER STUFF IN THIS PATCH[/h3]

• [p]AI can now be Bioluminesced by Biolumins![/p][p][/p]
• [p]Unique Bind on Acquire pearls are no longer deleted from your species inventory on death/renest. They now carry over. This does not affect Bind on Equip uniques like slayer pearls which will still be lost on death/renest. All uniques still transfer on respawn.[/p]
• [p]Optimized Textures for all characters to reduce VRAM usage which should allow lower-end cards with less than 6GB VRAM to run the game better.[/p]
• [p]Due to community feedback, Emote pack skins can now be piebalded. Go make those Stellar Nebula pies![/p]
• [p]Fixed piebald patterns showing on some dragon's metallic skins[/p]
• [p]Fixed inverse pie patterns causing the mouth parts to turn white[/p]
• [p]Tweaked Default Network Configuration so older server hardware can run the game better[/p]
• [p]Fixed various texture issues[/p]

[p][/p][p]The Beawesome Games Team[/p]

[h2]1.2.17 PATCH NOTES[/h2][p][/p][p]The Winter Holiday Event is over and Spring has returned to the Forgotten Forests. Thank you all for celebrating the holidays with us! We hope you all enjoyed your gifts. Today's patch not only bids farewell to Winter, but also adds some new stuff for you to enjoy...[/p][p][/p][h3]ADDED INVERSE PIEBALD PATTERNS[/h3]

• [p]Each piebald pattern now has an inverse pattern which doubles the total number of piebald mutations in the game for each dragon! (was 4, now 8)[/p][p][/p]

[h3]NEW SKIN FOR BIOLUMINS[/h3]

• [p]Added a new uncommon spawn skin for Biolumins, "Monarch" which can be obtained by spawning from the owned DLC or from the NPC Nest on the island.[/p][p][/p]

[h3]OTHER STUFF IN THIS PATCH[/h3]

• [p]Free-play has ended for the Acid Spitter, Blitz Striker, and Biolumin. You get to keep your free-play dragons until they perish. Afterwards you will need to either obtain the DLC or get nested in by another player. But don't worry, we plan to bring Free-play back for our 2026 Winter Holiday Event along with a new questline entitled, "Return of the Dragonking" where you get to meet Vhrelyn and earn the "Bow" emote![/p]
• [p]Island NPC Biolumin nest now has a small 5% chance to spawn females (previously was 0%)[/p]
• [p]Max Player Server Config Hard Cap increased (was 200, now 300). For most modern servers, we still recommend 100 players max for best playability. However, for high performance Zen5 servers, we recommend no more than 125 players per dedicated cpu physical core (up to 300).[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][p]We have a lot of cool things in store for you this year in 2026, including Skin Crafting, the Singe Crest, the Mimikor, and much much more! 2026 is the year of the DRAGONS!🐉[/p][p]Oh... did we mention that Sanctuary, our most popular PvE server, can now support up to 200 players? Our Lead Dev SuperRhino did some lengthy maintenance on the server Friday and players are reporting stable gameplay performance with 200 concurrent players! Awesome right!? When our Fantasy server comes online, we plan for it to support 250-300 players. ːsteamhappyː [/p]

• [p]The Beawesome Games Team[/p]