Announcements
We want to start by saying thank you. We see every single piece of feedback shared across socials, and we genuinely appreciate all of it. Your thoughts and perspectives help guide us as we move forward. To make sure your feedback always reaches us, the best places to post are the Steam forums and the official Dungeon Defenders Discord server. We check the Steam forums multiple times a week, and Discord remains our main hub for day-to-day communication with the community.
We also want to address something we saw a lot of discussion about last week: involvement on the Steam forums during events like the Corgi Cipher. We hear you, and we’re sorry that some of you felt left out. The next community event will be fully open to the Steam community, so everyone has a chance to take part.
We received a lot of feedback about the Lycan King changes as well. Some of those adjustments made the test mode challenges extremely difficult, which was never our intention. Because of that, we’ve begun the process of un-linking the base Lycan King from the Rift and Test mode variants so each version can be tuned separately with better control and balance.
Finally, we want to acknowledge the reports concerning crashes and hacker-flag issues. This week’s patch fixes the hacker-flagging problem, but the crash fixes weren’t ready in time. Before the first CDT update, some essential editor files were missing or corrupted, and those assets are tied to key functions under the hood of DD:A. When the game calls them and they aren’t there, it crashes. We’re currently loading an older version of the game to recover those missing assets, which is a slow but necessary process. Tool-tips also remain unfixed in this update, but we are working tirelessly to correct all of these issues as quickly and safely as possible. Out next Update will go to the test server for you all to test the update ahead of time and give us feedback.
Game-play & Balance Changes
Hero stat points restored to maximum values Prior to the first CDT Update.
Anti-cheat: fixed false flags caused by duplicated traded items.
Adjusted stunned-state duration across all versions of the fight:
Test: 12 seconds
Base: 10 seconds
Rifted: 8 seconds
Lycan King – Test Mode Game-play Effects
Stalking speed de-buff reduced to 1.1 from 1.75.
Stalking speed buff reduced to 2.5 down from 1.
Fleeing speed reduced to 4.5 down from 6.
Fleeing armor reduction decreased to 25%.
Lured speed buff reduced to 3.5 from 5.5.
Lured armor reduction reduced to 25% from 75%.
Stunned state (test mode): Lycan King now takes 250% bonus damage when stunned.
Howling armor reduction in test mode is now 15%.
Howl AOE in test mode has a damage scalar of 15%
Pet Changes & Additions
Golden Hera attack rate exponential final result is now 1.57 (1.77 for base, 1.67 for Rifted).
All golden DPS pets can now spawn in all elements.
Obsidian Gemstone description now reflects correct information.
Raging Zeus attack rate exponential final result is now 1.57 (1.77 for base, 1.67 for Rifted).
Rifted Propeller Cat negative post-multiplicative additive is now -0.9 (10% more than original Rifted cat).
Golden Cat additive value is -0.8 (20% more than original).
Rifted Propeller Cat cool-down: 1.75 s
Golden Propeller Cat cool-down: 1.5 s
Hero stat points restored to maximum values.
Ede CorgE now rolls tower damage, range, and speed.
Ede CorgE now gives a 20% player speed boost (up from 15%).
Golden Douglas now gives a 15% speed boost (up from 10%).
Milton Corgi now provides the correct 2x Vitality increase
Throne Room Rifted Survival Changes
Victory chest drops either:
Rifted Ramster Can
Rifted Bomber
Wave 100 completion drops either:
Golden Ramster Can
Golden Lil’ Bomber
Yellow Ramster Can Rework
Now applies Sugar Rush, increasing attack rate for a short time.
Post-multiplicative additive:
Rifted: -0.9 (down from 1)
Golden: -0.8
Sugar Rush Buff Duration
Base: 10 seconds
Rifted: 12 seconds
Golden: 15 seconds
Sugar Rush De-buff (“Sugar Crash”)
Applies movement speed reduction after buff ends:
Base: 30% for 8 s
Rifted: 20% for 15 s
Golden: 10% for 2.5 s
Sugar Rush cool-down is 20 seconds across all variants.
Helping Hand Rework
Base: drains 3 mana/sec
Rifted: drains 2 mana/sec
Golden: drains 1 mana/sec
Now provides a speed boost:
Base: 10%
Rifted: 15%
Golden: 20%
Helping Hand stat rolls
Base: tower health, tower damage, tower range
Rift: tower health, tower rate, tower range
Golden: tower damage, tower range, tower rate
Hera Adjustments
Happy Hera projectile count scalar increased from 0.5 → 0.7
Rift/Gold from 0.5 → 0.8
Happy Hera attack rate scalar increased from 0.5 → 0.7
Rift/Gold from 0.5 → 0.8