Day of Dragons News

Snow has come to the Forgotten Forest and it is a time for celebration for all dragonkind! Explore an updated Forgotten Forest map with winter weather, snow, and quests! From December 4th through January 1st, login to meet new dragons, earn a new title, earn a new emote, receive a free Snowslayer Skin pearl, and enjoy the Winter Holiday season.

[h2]1.1.8 WINTER HOLIDAY EVENT PATCH NOTES[/h2]


[h3]NEW[/h3]

• Added Biolumin NPC Nest on Cherry Island. The Nest spawns one Bio egg every 2 hours. These eggs have random spawn stats, are always Iconic skin, and are always Male. The Dialogue is only available to players who do not have a Biolumin.
  
• Added new Winter's Gift quest line, players can earn the No Thank You emote, the Winter Dragon title, a freee Snowslayer Skin pearl.
  
• Questing and progress is now in the game in an early implementation state
  
• Type /quest to print your current quest
  

[h3]CHANGES[/h3]

• Winter has come to the Forgotten Forests! The world is covered in snow with special NPC quest givers in the world. Light Rain is now Light Snow, Heavy Rain is now Heavy Snow, Thunderstorms are now Blizzards.
  
• Updated Forgotten Forests map
  

[h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

• Players can now Group Invite other players by Aiming at them and Friendly Calling. You must be already in a group to do this.
  
• Updated some minor SFX
  
• Updated EAC with latest anticheat measures
  
• Updated EAC to fix some rare crashes
  

[h3]FIXES[/h3]

• Inferno Ravager now uses proper sniff sound fx
  
• Hints are now removed if player character dies while hint is active
  

Day of Dragons is wishing everyone a Happy Holiday season with our first annual Winter Holiday event!



Snow has come to the Forgotten Forest and it is a time for celebration for all dragonkind! Explore an updated Forgotten Forest map with winter weather, snow, and quests! From Decemeber 4th through January 1st, login to meet new dragons, earn a new title, earn a new emote, receive a free Snowslayer Skin pearl, and enjoy the Winter Holiday season.

During the Winter Holiday Event, we have given our Content Creators, 144 Creator Skins to give-away during the 12 Days of Dragons Christmas livestream event December 13th - 24th. Each day a different Content Creator will be giving away 12 Creator Skins.

This Winter Holiday Event will include:

• Winter-themed Forgotten Forest Map with snowfall and a Christmas Tree
  
• In-game Title "The Winter Dragon" via the Winter's Gift Quest
  
• New "No Thank You" Emote via Quest
  
• Free Snowslayer Skin Pearl Gift (1 per account)
  
• "12 Days of Dragons" Content Creator Skin Give-away
  
• Something special to look forward to for lore-lovers and roleplayers
  

The Winter Holiday Event begins on our 5 Year Anniversary, December 4th, 2024 and continues through January 1st, 2025. Don't miss out on these exclusive Holiday gifts!

We wish everyone a Happy Anniversary, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

This small patch adds a new spawnable Flame Stalker skin to the game, Lava Rock as well as some audio tweaks.


[h3]NEW[/h3]

• Added Lava Rock Rare Spawn Skin for Flame Stalkers
  

[h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

• Improved Flame Stalker mourn sounds
  
• Added unique sniff sounds for Flame Stalker juvi adult and elder
  
• Added unique sniff sounds for Blitz Striker
  
• Added unique Biolumin sniff sounds for all ages
  

[h3]KNOWN ISSUES[/h3]

• Players with less than 4GB VRAM on their graphics card will have blurry textures. Having less than 4GB VRAM does not prevent gameplay, but reduces the visual fidelity of the game. We highly recommend playing DoD with at least 4GB VRAM.
  
• Swamp Snappers may get stuck at the bottom of deep water sources, we are working to have this issue fixed in Update 1.2
  

This cumulative patch improves Update 1.1 with fixes to Easy AntiCheat connection and kicking issues and Flight Desync.

[h3]CHANGES[/h3]

• Changed Blitz Striker Plasma Mitigation from 50% to 60%
  
• Changed Blitz Striker Fire Mitigation from 25% to 15%
  
• Reduced client Log spam
  

[h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

• Weather should be a little more performant on Potato settings
  

[h3]FIXES[/h3]

• Fixed a rare issue where servers were not always registering the proper Client ID causing some players to get kicked
  
• Fixed a rare issue where clients were not always registering the proper Client ID causing them to be unable to join new servers
  
• Fixed EAC server authentication timed out error kicking players when server Registered client before client began their EAC session
  
• Updated EAC to latest version to fix crashes when using Windows 11 v24H2
  
• Fixed an issue where flight data was only replicating to peers once per second
  
• Improved flight rotation data calculations on peer
  
• Improved flight positioning data calculations on peer which in turn makes flight hit boxes more accurate
  
• Improved flight correction on peer
  

[h3]KNOWN ISSUES[/h3]

• Players with less than 4GB VRAM on their graphics card will have blurry textures. Having less than 4GB VRAM does not prevent gameplay, but reduces the visual fidelity of the game. We highly recommend playing DoD with at least 4GB VRAM.
  
• Swamp Snappers may get stuck at the bottom of deep water sources, we are working to have this issue fixed in Update 1.2
  

This patch improves Update 1.1 with fixes to Easy AntiCheat connection and kicking issues.

[h3]CHANGES[/h3]

• Re-added old Inferno Distress and Submission SFX due to community feedback
  
• Re-added IK to Blitz Striker eat/drink animations
  

[h3]IMPROVEMENTS[/h3]

• Improved Flame Stalker Juvi taunt SFX
  
• Blitz Striker now has custom Sniff SFX
  
• Swamp Snapper now has unique footstep SFX
  

[h3]FIXES[/h3]

• Fixed an issue where Easy AntiCheat was sometimes unable to connect to Epic Online Services due to the Epic login token expiring before the game cached it
  
• Fixed an issue where players were being kicked from servers due to their EAC tokens expiring during gameplay
  
• Various Dragon Audio Fixes
  

[h3]KNOWN ISSUES[/h3]

• Players with less than 4GB VRAM on their graphics card will have blurry textures. Having less than 4GB VRAM does not prevent gameplay, but reduces the visual fidelity of the game. We highly recommend playing DoD with at least 4GB VRAM.
  
• Swamp Snappers may get stuck at the bottom of deep water sources, we are working to have this issue fixed in Patch 1.1.4