The Final Update

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

Patch Notes

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.