Day of Dragons News

• Fixed Shadow Cloak bug for players entering render
  

KNOWN ISSUES

Most Flame Stalker and Biolumin Skins show as Iconic. This should be fixed in the next hotfix.

In addition to the hotfixes below, we updated the LOWSPEC branch of DoD, it includes support for both DX12 SM5 and Vulkan for older machines. We cannot guarantee it will work on your system, but it is worth trying.

To play on LOWSPEC, In Steam Library, right click Day of Dragons > Properties > Betas > Change to lowspec

In Lowspec, you have the option of running with startup option -vulkan or -dx12. It is worth trying both.

This Hotfix focuses on scalability settings and bug fixes. We have elected to focus on performance improvements and optimizations before adding new content into the game.

• Fixed Shadow Cloak breaking when using a pearl skin overlay when it is active
  
• Reworked Graphics Settings for Improved Performance
  
• Added New Very Low "Potato" Graphic Setting for Maximum Framerate and Minimum Eye Candy
  
• Dragon Eyes are no longer cloudy
  
• Removed the Brown Tint from Melanistic skins
  
• Improved the look of Shadow Scale Gold skins
  
• Added /ct 2400 command to chat /help for admins
  
• Blitz/Brood Spawn Menu Options have been Disabled with "COMING SOON" tooltip added until they are added to help avoid confusion
  
• Fixed Biolumin Mythical Skin
  

KNOWN ISSUES
Most Flame Stalker and Biolumin Skins show as Iconic. This should be fixed in the next hotfix.

Client Only

• Fixed a critical issue in Forest map around waterfall due to broken reflections causing multi-colored flashing light reflections to players in the area
  
• Fixed Skin Appearance for Shadow Scale, they no longer all appear Iconic
  
• Fixed Inferno Ravager Arm IK popping when running
  
• Fixed Inferno Ravager Nightvision
  
• Fixed Shadow Cloak for Shadow Scale
  
• Fixed Shadow Scale Body Heat Signature being black
  
• Shadow Scale Bioluminescence is no longer blinding
  
• Shadow Scale wing textures are no longer messed up when exiting Shadow Cloak
  
• Fixed Inferno Ravager Hatchling Sit/Sleep/Rest/Idle broken animations
  
• Chat Box no longer clears your chat when you are sleeping
  
• Updated Various Emote Sounds
  
• Emote Default buttons have changed. Emote pack emotes are now keyboard 6-9, 0 is the unlockable "No" emote, and -/= are the Patreon emotes.
  

KNOWN ISSUES
- Flame Stalker and Biolumin Skins all show Iconic. This will be fixed in the next hotfix.

This is our biggest update yet! We are switching to Unreal Engine 5, adding two new dragons, and a remastered map! This update also brings updated textures for all of the dragons and tons of new content.


[h2]Creatures[/h2]

• Added Inferno Ravager (starter dragon)
  
  • Special ability (Q): Inferno (flame cloak)
    
• Added Biolumin (KS)
  
• Special ability (Q): glow
  
  • New glow effect to all dragons
    
  • New emotes and animations
    

[h2]General Mechanics[/h2]

• Added Physics Hover Flight v1.0 (G) for Biolumin and upcoming Blitz Striker
  
  • Hovering ignores pitch inversion setting
    
  • Hover pitch controlled using Shift/Space; angle controlled using A+D or W+S
    
  • Biolumin can hover-eat (holding E) when given prompt on a flower
    
• Added new “Camera-based” (current) and “Input-based” Movement Modes
  
  • Options are toggled in Controller Menu
    
  • Input-based allows players to move and rotate their character independently of the camera
    
• Added settings to enable Camera Clipping when looking up in 3rd person
  
  • Allows players to see underneath their dragon
    
• Enabled flight physics substepping
  
  • Meant to enhance flight experience for those with low FPS
    
• Added 5-minute AFK timer to spawn menu
  
  • Prevents players from taking up server spots while AFK
    

[h2]UI and HUD[/h2]

• Added Title selection and display from Social Panel
  
• Tweaked UI layout
  
  • Added new tabs to character panel: inventory, genetics, and survival
    
• Added a player name filter to Social Panel group invite list
  
• Going into Photo mode no longer notifies that you are in photo mode
  
• Updated controller input icons
  
• New Cursor should show on things that used to have touch hand cursor
  

[h2]Survival and Combat Mechanics[/h2]

• Added Dragon Pearl and Inventory/Loot system
  
  • Pearls may be cosmetic, provide skin overlays, or give buffs
    
  • A dragon’s tier class determines inventory size and which modifier pearl tiers may be carried
    
  • Shimmer, Gold Skin, and Sky Jelly effects are now a pearl overlay
    
  • Skin overlays reset after death
    
• Added Second Wind for all fliers
  
  • An extra stamina reserve, recharged by resting on the ground
    
  • Can recover up to ¼ stamina by gliding while flying at upper altitudes
    
• Added Stamina Exhaustion
  
  • Running out of stamina adds stamina decay, which is removed via sleeping
    
• Updated hitbox detection for bile attacks and in-flight biting attacks
  
• Added new damage type “Armor Piercing”
  
  • Acts similarly to Pierce damage except that some damage is not mitigated by pierce defense and is more likely to cause bleeding
    
• Biolumin meat applies poison effect
  
  • Acid Spitters are immune to poison
    
• Biolumin’s Glow ability (Q) can be stacked 5 times
  
  • 5th stack causes glow to last 15 minutes instead of 60 seconds
    
  • Can be removed by going in water
    
• Inferno Ravager’s Inferno ability (Q) removes Consuming Decay
  
  • Consuming Decay consumes all armor, resulting in more susceptibility to Acid damage
    
  • Provides immunity to Consuming Decay while ability is active
    

[h2]Setting and Server Configs[/h2]

• Added PvP, PvE, DvE, CvC game modes
  
  • CvC: only clans can non-faction PvP; clans may only invite same clanned, allied clanned, or nonclanned dragons, preventing nesting with non-allied clans, nonclanned players have red glowing eyes and nametags always visible, unable to pickup hatchlings unless in a Clan or in same group
    
  • PvE: Elemental faction is disabled
    
  • Faction PvP enabled for PvP, CvC, DvE modes
    
• Added Survival (no quests/loot) game mode, Fantasy (quests and loot) coming soon
  
• Added Roleplay Naming System and UI Prompt
  Players can name individual dragons when playing on RP servers
  RP names replace Steam name in group/local chat, player list and, nest lineage
  
  • Min Characters: 2
    
  • Max Characters: 17
    
  • No Spaces allowed
    
  • First letter must be capitalized
    
  • Only one capital letter allowed
    
  • Only one dash "-" allowed after the first 2 characters
    
  • Allowed Characters:
    
    • Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
      
    • Áá Éé Íí Óó Úú Ćć Ĺĺ Ńń Ŕŕ Śś Ýý Źź
      
    • Ââ Êê Îî Ôô Ûû Ŷŷ Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŵŵ
      
    • Ää Ëë Ïï Öö Üü Ÿÿ Ẅẅ
      
• Added new Server Configs:
  
  • Force same species grouping
    
  • Admins to spawn all dragons with E stats
    
  • Growth Rate Scale Multiplier config
    
  • Disable growth
    
  • Disable nesting
    
  • Set an auto server restart shutdown time
    
  • Chat Filter to redact words from chat
    
• Added Static Coordinates option
  
• Added Fullscreen option
  
• Added Lighting and Reflections in Graphics settings
  
• Added New Graphic Settings for Nanite
  
• Added Auto Resolution scaling
  
  • Will dynamically adjust asset resolutions without sacrificing visuals in attempt to maintain 30+ FPS at Quality and 45+ FPS at Performance
    
• Added Auto-Detect Optimized Graphic Settings button
  
• Added Fur/Feather graphic setting
  
• Added muli-keybind input support
  
• Hovering over a keybind and pressing Delete will remove the keybind
  

[h2]Environment[/h2]

• Added Biobloom flowers
  
  • Added effect of eating is restoration of a small amount of stamina
    
• Added New Forgotten Forest map
  
• Added clouds capable of being flown through
  
• Added Interactive Water
  

[h2]Changes[/h2]

• Changed to Unreal Engine 5.2.1
  
• DX11 and Vulkan are no longer supported
  
  • Players must use DX12
    
• Made some optimizations for lots of players in the same area
  
  • Optimized Animation Logic to increase performance by 25-50% when 20+ players are being rendered
    
• Thornbacks and Spined Scrabs no longer leave a red blood pool on death
  
• Court emote (5) now uses half stamina
  
• New genetic updates, including skins and recessive genes
  
  • Spawning applies the Dominant Skin as the Recessive, Spawned Random Dominant Genes are capped at C (+5%) and Hidden Spawned Random Recessive Genes are capped at A.
    
• Upstatting mechanic has changed.
  
  • Broodwatchers (coming soon) have the ability to upstat any Gene by 1-2 grades
    
  • Upstatting without a brood watcher is still possible.
    
• Dominant Mutation now allows players to see their recessive genes
  
• Pressing F to pop out of flight while flying no longer gives you free altitude
  
• Backing up speed is faster and turning is slower
  
• Updated Game Menu splash
  
• Made changes to flight acceleration
  
  • Fixes some issues where boosting would not accelerate properly
    
  • Acceleration should be much more fluid and responsive
    
• Admin heal now removes all status effects
  
• Admin Password prompt now shows mouse cursor
  
• Devs/Admins can now skip special access allowing them to play as normal players
  
  • Great for playing while off-duty
    
• Fixed Admin spectator mode
  
  • Added speed controls (mouse up/down/middle reset)
    
  • Admin tags now show up on spectating bodies
    
• Added server warning messages that are sent to admins to notify of unusual activity
  
  • Admins may toggle this using the /warnings chat command
    
• Added server file encryption, making it unable to replace save files with those of other players
  
  • Still able to back up and restore saves from the same player or transfer files across servers
    
• Admin chat now shows 4 digit player ID's
  
• Added mutation stat encryption
  
• Slightly increased fly bank speed for Shadow Scale and Flame Stalker
  
• Tweaked Shadow Scale’s combat values
  
  • Reduced frost mitigation
    
  • Slightly reduced pierce armor
    
  • Slightly increased blunt armor and pierce/fire mitigation
    
  • Increased Shadow Scale’s health
    
  • Increased Shadow Scale’s plasma damage
    
  • Reduced Shadow Scale’s charged plasma shot damage
    
• Shadow Scale’s Cloak ability (Q) no longer costs stamina to maintain
  
  • Costs stamina to activate and prevents stamina regen while active
    
• Flame Stalker Thermal ability (Q) stamina costs tweaked
  
• Scenting no longer costs stamina
  
• Biting another dragon should now produce blood splashes
  
• Tweaked bile regen rates for all
  
• Reduced penalty for flying in high altitudes to allow for cloud flight
  
• Tweaked flight braking, now more responsive
  
• Night Vision now works at anytime of day
  
• Creatures now look wet when going in water
  
• Updated skins, models, and textures on all dragons
  
• Added/Updated many SFX
  
• Updated FMOD banks
  
• Increased Shadow Map page pool
  
  • Virtual Shadow Maps is disabled by default
    
  • Can be re-enabled in Graphics settings if you have a beefy GPU
    
• Can no longer move head while eating, drinking, and sleeping
  
• Can no longer chat while sleeping
  
  • @ and / commands are enabled during sleeping
    
• Can no longer pick up and carry juvenile or adult dragon corpses
  
• Removed /pearlon and /pearloff commands
  
• Player progress is now saved per server while dragons are saved per map
  
• Updated credits
  

Fixes

• Tweaked Auto Res Scaling feature so quality no longer drops below 50%
  
• Fixed FMOD audio bug trying to play invalid sounds after divided by zero
  
• Fixed Sound FX Slider, can now go to 0
  
• Audio no longer continues to play when emote is interrupted
  
• Scent sound no longer continues to play when sniffing stops
  
• Fixed a bug preventing foliage interaction from working if camera was beyond 4m from the plant
  
• Fixed an issue where being bitten with very little armor would result in being one-shot
  
• Fixed flight not working on peers after they enter render distance
  
  • No more watching people scoot along the ground in hover animation
    
• Fixed a bug where player could continue to run after losing stamina if they never release shift
  
• FOV no longer resets after flying
  
• Mouse cursor should no longer be locked to game window
  
• Added root motion to some emotes to correct issues with hit box detection
  

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

• Rivers can be walked on top of in some areas
  
• Some SFX may be missing or need further polish
  
  • Some emote sounds missing
    
• Some skins/textures/animations may be missing or need polishing
  
• Some Baby Biolumin animations missing
  
• Flame Stalker, Bio, and Shadow Scale skins all show as iconic but are unique skins
  
  • Will be fixed in a hotfix
    
  • Players should select the skin they want and it will show after the hotfix
    
• Shadow Scale cloak is not working properly