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DD1 Public Beta is Here!

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

  • 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