Our second major update Desert Reign is now live! Today, either start a new journey or continue your current odyssey into the Ancient Desert! Nyx guides you to the Temple of Poseidon, but to uncover more answers to the missing Olympians, you’ll need to first survive the desert heat, complete the labors of Artemis, Aphrodite, and Demeter, and then challenge Poseidon’s most loyal guardians!
For players with existing saves! You will be prompted by the character creator before choosing your world save. After creating your Spartan, you’ll then be able to play them in any new or existing world; however, the skills of your new character will have reset to 0. This is because we’ve reworked the skill system and have also tied them to the individual characters. Going forward, when moving between worlds, your character will take their skills with them.
New Bundle!
Alongside our exciting Desert Reign release, we’re bundled with Voyagers of Nera for an extra 10% discount. If you love the myth, ruins, and monsters of Dawn of Defiance, we think you’ll like their game too! Consider grabbing both games at a perfect time to play our Desert Reign update and Voyagers of Nera’s winter update which is on its way next week!
Now before you go forth into danger on the Crossroads, here’s a rundown of our update’s best features, followed by a more thorough changelist. We will keep the bottom of this page up-to-date with known issues to the best of our ability throughout next week.
Dawn of Defiance "Desert Reign"
Features
CREATE YOUR ANTI-HERO
Give your Spartan personality with our new character creator, featuring the long-awaited female player model and dozens of characterization options, from hairstyles, face shapes, to makeup and more.
DEFEAT THE CHAMPIONS
Within the Temple of Poseidon, master the aqueducts, navigate the labyrinth, and challenge the greatest of his champions: the Ironwake golems, Queen Nyssara, and the minotaur Taurok, the Crownbreaker.
WIELD THE TRIDENT
Through this raid, earn powerful new rewards including the legendary Spirit Bow of Artemis, the Stillblade of Aphrodite, and the newly improved Trident of Poseidon, in addition to two new armor sets and three unique-tier weapons.
SURVIVE THE DESERT
With the overhaul of the Ancient Desert, prepare to face the devastating heat as you take on nine new shrine quests in the name of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Demeter to unlock the gates of Poseidon's Temple.
CONTROL THE WEATHER
Call upon the power of Demeter with the Kythera, a new facility granting you the ability to control the weather in the Mediterranean, plus a new, dedicated facility to craft inlays: the Arcanist bench.
EXPAND YOUR SKILLS
Desert Reign increases the skill cap to level 25, adding new level 10 and level 25 skill perks, plus the ability to raise your skill in Dash, Downward Strike, Fishing, and the new Legendary skill which lets you maximize the potential of your strongest items!
Changelist
New Content
Expansion of the Ancient Desert
New Raid “Fallen Royalty,” including
3 New boss fights
New raid zone, the Temple of Poseidon
New puzzles
Character Creator
Female Character
Demeter’s Kythera, weather facility
Arcanist Bench facility
Plus new, lesser inlay shards
Biome Hazard mechanics
Cold Effects in the Dark Forest
Heat Effects in the Ancient Desert
Biome Hazard mitigation
New Legendary Weapons
Aphrodite’s Stillblade
Poseidon’s Trident
Artemis' Spirit Bow
New Unique Weapons
the Ironwake shield
the Crownbreaker mace
the Eternal Verdict bow, plus Inversion & Statis Arrows
Two new armor sets
Primus gear
Signifier gear
New Merchant and Quest-giver, Jason
New Resource & Items
Quartz
Lotus Flowers
Infernal Embers
New Fauna, the Crocodile
Quests
9 New shrine quests, 3 each for:
Artemis
Aphrodite
Demeter
Repeatable & daily quests
New Decor
Two new beds
Two Ottomans
New Roman Braziers
Skill Level cap increased
New Level 10 perks
New level 25 perks
4 New skills to earn
Downward strike
Fishing
Dash
Legendary
Improvements
Increased Pomegranate resource locations
Shields no longer block enemy's entire body. You can aim for feet and legs when shield is raised.
Bracers now affect unarmed combat
New Art, Charcoal Kiln
New Art, Improved enemy camps
Quests redistributed between Jason & Aeacus
Aeacus sells more items
Supplementary lore
Lore tablets
Prologue VO
Optimization
Gameplay Cues
Damage/Combat numbers
Raid Optimization
Inlay changes
Including equipment slots - Forged items now have two inlay slots, while Unique items only get one (see below)
Unique equipment changes - Unique items have had new buffs added to them (hence the single inlay slot)
Current “Sisters of the Deep” Unique items and “Desert Reign” Unique items have the same buffs, but expect changes in the future.
Changes to the Bronze Ingot recipe
Bug Fixes
Players can no longer place Town Center in the Crossroads Portal
Show Controls Input works on every character blade tab
Turning 180 no longer breaks Sprint
Soldier heads less likely to disconnect on death
Some Z-fighting issues fixed with buildable items
Golden Bow VFX stay on when switching weapons
Fixed Hephaestus' Shrine of Soot run-off text
Fixed Fishing pole stats overlapping window
Hephaestus forge now blocks foliage
Added increased damage to Heavy/Sprint unarmed attacks
Fixed buildables staying on cursor after switching from hammer
Fixed bear kills counting more than once
Fixed Golden Bow’s shots not counting towards wrath unless bow is fully drawn
Fixed “Add Stacks” pulling non-stackable items
Fixed players losing access to radial wheels if they rebind [F]
Fixed Solarium staggering ranged attacks
Various world fixes
Audio fixes
Strange SFX on game exit
Bears making boar sounds
Known Issues
We will continue to monitor the game over the next week and record common issues to advise other players. For now, here's a few things we're still working on!
As of December 15th, we're tracking a few players who appear to have their character information blanking on a relaunch of the game. If you are rejoining a world, and appear to have retained your inventory and spawn in the correct location, but your character is "blank," and skills have reset to 0, could you please help our developers track down this issue by sending us your latest log file through: Discord: https://discord.gg/dV6s7CHHZj
Our email: [email protected]). If you want more info about this issue or where to find you log file, please go here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2059530/discussions/0/705506553887834467/
We're still improving our portal system. Bugs may occur when teleporting.