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   DD1 Update Beta

   By 1aydan, Wednesday at 04:17 PM

   DEFENDERS,

   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

   

   Beta Patch Notes : 

   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

   Huntress, Apprentice, Squire, and Monk Guardians can now be upgraded to boost up to 6 towers.

    

   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

   Changes

   • Removed Discord integration

   • Changed the ranked home screen to have more useful links

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