Dungeon Defenders News

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




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.
  

Greetings Defenders!

Earlier this week we revealed what we were working on so far this year, Dungeon Defenders: Awakened! As Chromatic Games, we're a new studio (which can you read about here) with entirely new leadership, vision, developers, goals, and focus: to make player-centric games. This new Dungeon Defenders title is our first step in the right direction and we hope that you'll join us along for the journey.



Being a new studio we have a lot of big ambitions for what we want to accomplish, and for that we'll need your help! We just launched our Kickstarter, so if you haven't, give it a look and see if it's something you want to back. We're consistently posting updates and are going to reveal more and more over time!

We're taking tons of feedback on this new project at our forums, so if you're interested in joining the conversation head on over to the new snazzy forums and your voice will be heard!

There's so much left to go and we can't wait to get there with you.

For Etheria!

The Chromatic Games Team

Greetings Defenders!!

There is a new update coming your way. This update is a little different than our previous ones. We are breaking up the update we had originally planned into a smaller update that we can get to you quicker (much quicker).

• Owners of Dungeon Defenders on Steam and Discord can now play together!

• New map Emerald City (rewards 4 new weapons)
  
• New Challenge: Flames of Rebirth - Embermount Challenge (rewards new shield and random ember accessory)

• Fix play random player spawn in the void on CD
  
• Added coal to Etherian Holiday

• Several difficulty reductions for CR2 and CR3 bosses, particularly for solo

• Fixed Genie King not coming out of his lamp after time limit
  
• Fixed reward sound not when Fenix and Ember Pony are rewarded

• Controllers should be able to target Dragon on Crystalline Resurgence 3
  
• Phoenix should have targeting priority over other targets
  
• Controllers should now be able to use the 'set active folder' properly in AFK shop management.

• Gear limited to 1600 on a stat.
  
• Characters limited to 16000 total on a stat.

• NEW - Arcane Library - New map with a new acc as a reward.
  
• NEWish - CD Resurgence Part 1, 2 and 3 - Each map has a boss with updated rewards from Mistymire, Moraggo and Aquanos.
  
• Tavern - while the tavern is not new, the outside has been removed along with the outside portal and other effects to help improve load times

Note: The Crystalline Maps still require the DLC and the maps unlocked in order.

• Loot table added to show the number of drops of each quality on the ground. Use Shift to see along side the map of a level. It also works in the tavern.
  
• Move tavern items in Overlord mode
  
• Added Host Ready Up override - CTRL G
  
• Add MU to HUD under DU
  
• New Tower DPS calculation shown at the bottom of tower info.
  
• Enemy spawn billboards on the map will toggle on/off when toggling them with O on the minimap
  
• Added CD to map list so the Portal isnt required
  
• Increased AFK shop price limit to 1 trillion.
  
• Circular Slice can be activated in the air
  
• Lock tavern item drops/pickups by default.
  
• Detonate Traps will now open presents in the tavern to help test towers
  
• Add page of items in inventory to trade - CTRL T
  
• CTRL drag to move an entire page of items
  
• Hide green dot item overlay
  
• Jester “move tower” ability should cycle through overlapping towers
  
• Players should automatically drop mana when being kicked
  
• Updated mask sockets to make some accs fit chars better
  
• Hardcore option should be remembered across sessions now
  
• Added lightning towers to dynamic lighting toggle under options
  
• Damage number 4 has been updated so it doesn't look similar to the 9
  
• Added forges to assault maps
  
• Dont wait on receiving stats to be able to go to next level
  
• Flash jeal and all wheel patterns (except kill %) now work on tavern dummy
  
• Presents never drop junk items in tavern
  
• Increase mana token limit to 1T
  
• Slow ogre fix - if only ogres are left at the end of a wave and the map is empty
  
• Temple of Water frame rate improvements for low/medium graphics
  
• Potential frame rate improvements on many maps

• Lightning tower boss damage reduced by 50%.
  
• Buffed ToL accs and Pirate Patch to match Santa accs
  
• Santa Spectacles have been added as a winter face acc to Winter
• Wonderland and Silent Night
  
• Dice pet added to King’s Game survival
  
• East core Randomly dies on Temple of water
  
• Orcs/Ogres should not move when in “hold defensive”
  
• Buffed several pets to roll ultimate more often (Monkey, Parrot, Ember Pony, Fenix)
  
• Warrior Minion Revamp - cannot be targeted by or collide with enemies, damage scaling increased, unaffected by buff beam, loses health when it attacks
  
• Guardians no longer try to boost towers that they cannot affect

• Fixed - Tower/Hero boost should always use highest boost now
  
• Fixed - Items get stuck behind spawns. You can now pick up items from further away or use
  
• Summoner’s Overlord mode to pick up items during build phase only
  
• Fixed - Jim Darkmagic and Demoness speed advantage. The value to give them the extra speed was being overwritten
  
• Fixed - Two actors getting stuck and unable to move
  
• Fixed - Updated Mana token mesh and minimap icon which previously showed as an egg
  
• Fixed - Only host can change song on juke box
  
• Fixed - ESTs attacking players in certain scenarios
  
• Fixed - Trap no longer shows up in the light beams from the ceiling in Temple of Water
  
• Fixed - Spiders showed wrong range value when inspected
  
• Fixed - Hardcore always should always be displayed on the client when selected by the host
  
• Fixed - Water surface in Temple of Water should not block aiming now
  
• Fixed - Gun jamming bug
  
• Fixed - Monky/Parrot should no longer try to shoot an enemy through a wall
  
• Fixed - Game Setup UI would randomly freeze
  
• Fixed - Mana failing through center of map in Aquanos
  
• Fixed - Spider web on Huntress Santa’s little helper costume was very and not properly scaled
  
• Fixed - Salem Event Cat range was capped at 90
  
• Fixed - Weapon stacking bug
  
• Fixed - Prevent Phoenix from getting stuck
  
• Fixed - CD portal didnt update when difficulty was changed
  
• Fixed - Stuck mobs on Moonbase survival
  
• Fixed - Temple of Water pathing on the North side
  
• Fixed - Shift click and CTRL click should work with pets that have stored mana
  
• Fixed - Reflect beams should now update the kills value
  
• Fixed - Hovering triggered Old One platform glitch
  
• Fixed - Spiders should not get stuck if their target is unreachable
  
• Fixed - Fairy healing displays correctly now
  
• Fixed - Unintended attack rate reduction on Ember Flame
  
• Fixed - Orgres spawning after Polybius challenge is complete
  
• Fixed - Soft lock bug (waves that never end after enemies run out forcing restart)
  
• Fixed - Players dying if they hover during teleports on Polybius /events maps

Greeting Defenders!! We know the wait has been quite long but you dont have to wait any longer. The Tavern Expansion has arrived! Thank you for your patience and feedback this past year as we worked through it all. Please read the note below

• New Tavern Expansion : First floor expanded, All new second floor,
• Diamond Forge, Exterior Space, More combat dummies, Expanded
• Ultimate Defender Room with New Juke Box
  
• New Challenge Map - Temple of Polybius with new weapon rewards
  
• New Campaign/Survival Map - Temple of Water with new weapon rewards and pet reward
  
• New Intermediate Campaing/Survival Map - Dread Dungeon with new accessory reward
  
• New Steam achievements and tavern trophies for Moonbase, Buccaneer Bay, and Temple of Water
  
• New tavern trophies for Embermount

• Added Hero Info button back to ESC screen
  
• Added Box to Enter Mana in Trade (ex 5.0b will add 5 billion)
  
• Max Hero limit raised to 40
  
• Max tavern limit doubled to 180
  
• Tavern: Items Dropped by Host Hidden in private rooms should be hidden from guests making private rooms.. private.
  
• Tavern: Item Recovery added to the void, if something escapes reality, it’ll re-appear by the first floor forge!
  
• Item upgrade count now visible in trade under Item Info
  
• Added count of items contained within Folders in Inventory
  
• Remove items from shop even when Inventory is full
  
• Auto lock all items going into inventory except when picking up off the floor
  
• Sped up Summoner casting in tavern
  
• Wheel o Fortuna Damage All percentage reported on the tavern dummy
  
• Added animations to Anamorphic Ember
  
• Spider and DEWs should now find you anywhere on the map if you there is a path
  
• Stuck Enemies should now die
  
• Fixed missing ceiling in Glitterhelm and performed a texture art pass to make Glitterhelm live up to its name.
  
• Added Santa bracers to Winter Wonderland and Silent Night
  
• Add new mask and cufflinks to Temple of Love
  
• New Santa accessory cosmetic set bonus
  
• New Valentine accessory cosmetic set bonus for male and female
  
• Added shields to count towards cosmetic set bonus
  
• Holding down survival wave increase/decrease buttons now works
  
• Colorized circle component on dropped equipment to match particle beams
  
• Updated beam toggle to cycle through beams and circles underneath items.
  
• Added profile save event after rewarded equipment
  
• Fusion Rod base damage display is now the same as all other staves. Now you can compare base damage 1:1 with existing staves (Classic, bloodshot, etc). DPS is exactly the same
  
• Removed TV monitor to improve tavern performance, especially when in other player’s taverns with the new tavern.
  
• Improved network performance on Temple of Love for clients
  
• Hit T when hovering over an item in the itembox to add to Trade
  
• Hit O to toggle Enemy Wave Billboards on minimap
  
• Hit P to toggle Towers on minimap
  
• All heroes drop mana in a nice pile like the summoner
  
• Added Boss Rush countdown shortening switch
  
• Reduced Silent Night countdown to 15
  
• Allow purchases from Tavern Keeper even when item box is full
  
• Fast menu transitions enabled by default
  
• Added Harbinger spawn notification

• Reordered options to put them under appropriate sections
  
• Change Voice tab to Sound
  
• Added Display CD portal
  
• Added Display Cosmetic Set Bonus
  
• Added Tower Upgrades Displayed
  
• Added Significant Digits Displayed
  
• Added Tower Transparency options

• Boosted DST projectile speed and damage as well as added new enemies to targeting system. from Djinns => Wyverns => Mages TO Djinns => Wyverns => Sharken => Copter => Mages
  
• Adjust Gold Enemy Buff as fixed increase of 200% on NM and Insane, 100% for Hard, 50% for Medium and Easy
  
• Buffed Tinker’s Lab Blasters on NM to be better than Insane
  
• Buffed Tinker’s Lab Mega Chicken stats around 30 points on NM
  
• Buffed Eternian staff to be closer in damage to Classic Standard
  
• Buffed Winter Wonderland weapon damage to lower part of high tier weapons
  
• Reduced Phoenix charge attack vertical damage
  
• Reduced Copter spawn rate during Phoenix boss fight
  
• Buffed Fenix and Ember pony to be closer or little better than seahorse due to challenge of farming
  
• Removed Map exclusive accessories from Lab Assault (ie CD, ToL, GTH, WW/SN and Palantir)
  
• Buffed Spooktacular 2 accs to Lab Assault levels
  
• Revert Hyper Rifle elemental damage halving due to 2 projectiles.
  
• Ember Accessories ult cap is 600 instead of previous 500.
  
• Reduced small coal requirement to make a small diamond from 88 to 44

• Possible fix for trade glitch where both players lose their items
  
• Fixed max upgrade count not shown in trade on item info
  
• Fix for armor being removed more than weapons (weapons were rated higher in quality)
  
• Fixed Talay and Moonbase survival start waves
  
• Fixed EST traps on Assault maps not damaging
  
• Fixed Hero Info Screen tower stat overlap so numbers aren’t hidden
  
• Sealed off Tavern Defense secret room so players cant fall out of the map there
  
• Fixed not being able to build on left bridge in Tavern Defense
  
• Fixed Tavern Defense Snowman not attacking
  
• Fixed Imp stat prediction
  
• Fixed gobler shield handle positioning
  
• Commented out K key binding to killme command
  
• Fixed opacity scaling
  
• Fix for items removed during build phase
  
• Evil Hero bosses on Winter Wonderland and Silent Night no longer despawn after 2.5 minutes
  
• Fixed Tower Wars Spider Queen health overflow causing them to never act or be able to take damage
  
• Fixed spelling of "marshmallows" on Anamorphic Ember
  
• Fixed AFK shop bug that crash the game for some players
  
• Fix to mitigate wave skipping
  
• Fixed Battle Droid not weakening enemies
  
• Fix for Phoenix killing itself
  
• Towers should now move with vertical moving platforms in ToW
  
• Fix to Allow Jester to get Apprentice weapons as rewards
  
• Fix for unintended increase in leather armor on survivals
  
• Fixed hats being backwards on Super Legendary Huntress
  
• Fix mana from chests going under the floor
  
• Fix for Mistymire survival weapon drop rate to be in line with other Shard maps
  
• Fix for 60% of random elements rolling Lightning
  
• Fixed moon pet to spawn with tiered level requirements. Max level requirement bumped down to ult90 to line up better with other pets.
  
• Fix for Embermount boost pad to activate every time.
  
• Fix for damage numbers disappearing above 5mil
  
• Fix for excessive mana on the ground in Moonbase NMHC Survival
  
• Fix for AFK shop not allowing players to buy anything if host has too many items in item box