Greetings Defenders,
We have now added in solo play and private play to Dungeon Defenders Eternity. You can access these by pressing the “Host Private Session” button on the play menu.
We’ve also added in support for fully downloading the game from the launcher. If you hate the textures streaming in (some of us do too!), then please wait for the full download to complete. If you let the download complete you will never see a texture, map, or movie file stream in when you play.
A lot of players have asked why we have this new download process, and the answer is simple. In the original Dungeon Defenders, every time we updated the game players would have to redownload gigabytes of data. We constantly got complaints from fans (and rightly so), about this wasteful process. For Dungeon Defenders Eternity, we spent a lot of time and manpower creating a system where we are able to deliver players the smallest patch possible, where only the changed files are downloaded. For those who know about the Unreal 3 game engine, this is no small feat. Even though, in the short term, we’ll probably release a few large patches that require big downloads, in the long term, we’ll have a significantly smaller download footprint than the original. Also, with this new system, players can play soon after an update without completely downloading all of the game’s content, skipping the long wait.
As we’ve been going through this launch, we’ve been paying close attention to what you have been saying. Yesterday morning we went through Steam and began tallying reported issues:
We are trying to go through and address all of these issues. You can already find the answers to many of these questions, in this FAQ thread on the Steam forums.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (Steam Forums)
FULL PATCH NOTES:
2.1 - (7/24/2014):
*Updated launcher to allow full downloading of game before launch
*Made improvements to playverse matchmaking performance and stability
*Fixed crash on exit when broadcasting to twitch
*Hardcore warning popup now shows when joining Hardcore games from active session list
*Specially marked equipment won't be allowed to be sold in bulk (currently these include costumes, emotes, valve pets)
*Monk aura range changed: linear multiplier decreased, exponential multiplier increased
*Host private session button visuals updated
*Fixed an issue where folder names with non-standard characters were wiping player profiles
*A small exploit has been fixed
2.0 - (7/22/2014):
*Added ability to host private sessions from play screen
*Corrected Game ID for twitch to Dungeon Defenders Eternity
*Twitch integration no longer activates a players webcam after launching the game
*Losing your last hero in a hardcore game now generates a new apprentice, fixing the stuck at black screen issue.