DEFENDERS,

With great anticipation the new Dungeon Defenders 1 patch 9.0.0 update is now live! We are excited to hear about what the community thinks of this new development and the patch itself. A special thanks to the community member that helped make this new Development possible : Thales, Escev, Jeol, Tbolt, Moose, bee, Harry, Gigazelle, Alhanalem, Sam, and all previous CDT efforts in the past. A huge thank you to the community testers and anyone that participated in the beta!

WARNING -  

This update has changes in the save file format and upon loading this update your save file will no longer be compatible with older game versions.

Patch Notes : 

New Maps

All new maps have trophies that you can unlock for your tavern, with a second trophy for completing on Nightmare.

The Striking Tree

• Campaign Rewards - Staff of Flowers, Forest Rifle, Turtle Shell Polearm, Leaf Blade and Elf accessory set

• Survival Rewards - Jade Serpent, Fairy and Jade Island. 

• Generic versions 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

• Generic versions 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 to be on par with other maps

• Made accessories drop twice for everyone, even split screens

• Made shields drop like on Omenak, where they are a random additional drop

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 accessories with it’s own set effect

• Sandstorm effects now are disabled on ultra low and low graphics qualities 

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

Magus Citadel

• Buffed accessories to max accessory 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 minimap

• Added difficulty based coloration to the Harbinger mob

• Added item censoring feature. It can be turned on or off in 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

• Changed Siege Mech (Omenak) enemies to have four equipment drop chances

• Changed Magic Missile enemies (Magus Citadel) enemies to have two equipment drop chances

• Guardians now won't try to boost an already boosted tower (unless their boost is better)

• Ability cooldowns reset on entering build phase

• Added keybinds to select heroes on the main menu hero selection screen (0-9)

• Lowered poly teleporting trigger volume's retrigger delay

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

• Fixed Ogres spawning slowly at the end of wave in Wintermire survival.

• Fixed an issue where the omenak brooch showed up as bracers

Misc Changes

• Removed Discord integration to improve game stability

• Changed the ranked home screen to have more useful links

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