What changed in Dungeon Defenders in 2016

119 updates · 8 main milestones · Feb 2, 2016 to Aug 4, 2016

  1. 60 events
    Embermount Volcano Campaign Map with Phoenix Bossnew contentMilestone
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    Fixed Level 60 Armor Dropping on Low Difficultiesbug fix
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    Fixed Public Games Visibility in Matchmakingbug fix
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    Proximity Mine Trap Base Charges Increasedbalance change

    Base charges increased from 2 to 4.

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    Increased Base Charges for Darkness, Inferno, and Gas Trapsbalance change

    Base charges increased to 3 from 1/2/2

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    Invasion Shows Current Phase Number in UIquality of life
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    Storyline Cut Scenes for Embermountnew content
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    Cosmetic Accessory Set Bonusesnew content
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    Four New Weapons (One for Each Class)new content
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    New Enemy - The Harbingernew content
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    Cosmetic Accessory Set Bonusesnew content

    Crystal, Embermount, and Palantir based on hat, mask, and bracers

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    Multiple Upgrades Can Be Applied to an Item in a Single Clickquality of life

    Shift down applies up to 9 upgrades per click.

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    Items Can Be Renamed at Maximum Upgrade Levelquality of life

    Cost of one upgrade to rename

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    Fixed Diamonds Spawnbug fix
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    Bowling Ball Tower Attack Speed Increasedbalance change

    Animation time exponent increased for faster attacks

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    Story Line Cut Scenes for Embermountnew content
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    Embermount Volcano Campaign Map with Phoenix Bossnew contentMilestone
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    Three New Accessories for Embermountnew content
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    Fixed Excess Mana Removal Functionperformance

    Introduced a biasing system to keep larger value tokens around longer.

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    Updated Minimap Colors for Ult+ and Ult++quality of life

    Colors changed to orange and red respectively

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    Three New Accessories for Embermountnew content

    Brooch, Mask, and Bracers

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    Proximity Mine Trap Base Charges Increasedbalance change

    Base charges increased from 2 to 4

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    Fixed Unintended Increase in High Level Armor Droppingbug fix
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    Fixed Proton Beams and Inferno Traps Damagebug fix

    Now deal damage every tick with high attack rates

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    Fixed Flying Enemies Not Triggering Trapsbug fix
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    Bowling Ball Tower Attack Speed Increasedbalance change

    Animation time exponent increased from 0.8 to 1.0.

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    New Setting to Move While Buildingquality of life
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    Fixed Ghost Pillars in Hall of Courtbug fix
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    Magic Missile Tower Damage Scaling Increasedbalance change

    Damage scaling exponent increased from 1.105 to 1.15.

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    Removed Frame Rate Dependency from Many Damaging Towersperformance
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    Fixed Ghost Pillars in Hall of Courtbug fix
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    New Weapons for Each Classnew content
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    Ethereal Spike Trap Base Charges Increasedbalance change

    Base charges increased from 2 to 4, damage scaling improved

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    Fixed Level 60 Armor Dropping on Low Difficultiesbug fix
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    Toggle Key for Particle Beams Addedquality of life

    Added toggle key (b) for particle beams

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    Fixed Djinn Casting Time Accelerated by Ensnare Aurasbug fix
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    Magic Missile Tower Damage Scaling Increasedbalance change

    Damage scaling exponent increased from 1.105 to 1.15

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    Ethereal Spike Trap Base Charges Increasedbalance change

    Base charges increased from 2 to 4.

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    New Enemy - The Harbingernew content
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    Items Rated as Transcendent or Above Have Particle Beamsquality of life

    Helps in picking them out of the pile.

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    New Setting for Tower Dynamic Lightingperformance

    Significant performance benefits when disabled, requires restart

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    Fixed Diamonds Spawnbug fix
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    Items Rated as Transcendent or Above Show Particle Beamquality of life

    Beam shown on items not filtered from the minimap by quality

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    Slice’N Dice and Lightning Tower Damage Buffbalance change

    Higher damage output and scaling revised

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    Mana Bomb and Purity Bomb Damage Scaling Increasedbalance change

    Significant increase in damage scaling.

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    Three New Pets in Embermount Survivalnew content
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    Three New Pets in Embermount Survivalnew content
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    Fixed Flying Enemies Not Triggering Trapsbug fix
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    Moon Pet Added to Moonbase Survivalnew content
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    Slice’N Dice and Lightning Tower Damage Output Increasedbalance change

    Damage per tick now increases with the attack rate stat.

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    Added Report Issue Button to Pause Menuquality of life
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    Fixed Excess Equipment Removal Functionperformance

    Much faster and fixed an unconfirmed issue.

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    Fixed Proton Beams and Inferno Traps Damagebug fix

    High attack rates now deal damage every tick.

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    New Setting to Enable Tower Dynamic Lightingquality of life

    Significant performance benefits when disabled.

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    Added Report Issue Button to Pause Menuquality of life
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    Moon Pet Added to Moonbase Survivalnew content
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    Steam Trading Cards, Wallpapers, Emoticons, Badgesnew content
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    Fixed Ogres Dropped by Goblin Copters Damaging Crystalsbug fix
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    Base Charges Increased for Darkness, Inferno, and Gas Trapsbalance change

    Base charges increased to 3 from 1/2/2.

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    Fixed Djinn Casting Time Being Accelerated by Ensnare Aurasbug fix
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  2. 45 events
    Items can be renamed at maximum upgrade levelother

    Cost of one upgrade to rename

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    Fix for Proton beams and inferno traps dealing damage every tickbug fix
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    4 New weapons (1 for each class)new content
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    Tower Buff Beam base boost values increasedbalance change
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    Moon Pet added to Moonbase Survivalnew content
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    New setting to move while buildingother
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    New setting for tower dynamic lightingother
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    Bowling Ball Tower attack speed increasedbalance change

    Animation time exponent increased for better scaling

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    Electric auras can damage the tavern dummyother
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    4 New weapons (1 for each class)new content
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    New Setting - Enable tower dynamic lightingother

    Significant performance benefits when disabled

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    Proton beams and inferno traps now deal damage every tickbug fix

    Multiple proton beams can damage the same target

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    Items rated as transcendent or above have a 'god beam'other

    Helps in identifying items in the pile

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    Electric auras can damage the tavern dummyother
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    Camera rotation locked in top down placement modeother
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    Bowling Ball Tower attack speed increasedbalance change
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    Magic Missile Tower damage scaling increasedbalance change
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    Moon Pet added to Moonbase Survivalnew content
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    New Setting - Can move while buildingother

    Disables movement while in top down placement

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    New enemy - The Harbingernew content
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    Ethereal Spike Trap base charges increasedbalance change
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    Two new pets in Embermount Survivalnew content
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    Magic Missile Tower damage scaling increasedbalance change
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    Slice’N Dice and Lightning Tower damage output increasedbalance change

    Damage per tick now increases with attack rate stat

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    3 New accessories - Brooch, Mask and Bracersnew content
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    Camera rotation locked in top down placement modeother
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    Public games on different versions no longer visible in matchmakingbug fix
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    Deadly Striker Tower attack speed and damage adjustmentsbalance change

    Animation time exponent increased, base damage decreased

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    Items rated as transcendent or above have a 'god beam'other
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    Embermount Volcano campaign map with Phoenix Bossnew contentMilestone
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    Deadly Striker Tower attack speed and damage adjustmentsbalance change
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    Slice’N Dice and Lightning Tower damage output increasedbalance change
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    Items can be renamed at maximum upgrade levelother
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    Maximum starting wave set per mapother
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    New enemy - The Harbingernew content
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    Two new pets in Embermount Survivalnew content
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    Public games on different version no longer visible in matchmakingbug fix
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    Mana Bomb and Purity Bomb damage scaling increasedbalance change
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    Steam Trading Cards announcednew content
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    Steam Trading Cards announcednew content

    Will be released when Update 2 goes live

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    Embermount Volcano campaign map with Phoenix Bossnew contentMilestone
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    Maximum starting wave set per mapother

    23 on 25 wave maps, 28 on 30 wave maps, etc.

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    Added report issue button to pause menuother
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    3 New accessories - Brooch, Mask and Bracersnew content
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    Tower Buff Beam base boost values increasedbalance change

    Upgrading effectiveness reduced

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  3. 2 events
    New DD1 Community Event: Dark Elf Huntingseasonal event

    The Community Development Team is hosting a brand-new community event this weekend!

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    New DD1 Community Event: Dark Elf Huntingseasonal event

    The Community Development Team is hosting a brand-new community event this weekend!

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  4. 12 events
    Tower Rebalancingbalance change

    Rebalancing of several towers that needed adjustments.

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    QoL Fixesquality of life

    Implementation of various quality of life fixes.

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    Depths and Bubbles Eventseasonal event

    New community event scheduled for February 12th - 14th.

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    New Enemy, Weapons, Accessories, and Petsnew contentMilestone

    Addition of new enemy types, weapons, accessories, and pets.

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    Embermount Volcano Map Introductionnew contentMilestone

    Bringing Embermount Volcano over from DDE.

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    New Tavern Themenew content

    Introduction of a new tavern theme.

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    Depths and Bubbles Community Eventseasonal event

    New community event scheduled for Feb 12th - 14th.

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    QoL Fixesquality of life

    Various quality of life fixes implemented.

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    New Enemy and Petsnew contentMilestone

    Addition of a new enemy, weapons, accessories, and pets.

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    Embermount Volcano Map Introductionnew contentMilestone

    Bringing Embermount Volcano over from DDE as a new map.

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    New Tavern Themenew content

    Introduction of a new tavern theme alongside the new map.

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    Tower Rebalancingbalance change

    Rebalancing of several towers that needed adjustments.

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