Greetings Defenders,

Thank you for your support through the release of Dungeon Defenders Eternity. It’s been a humbling experience, one that has highlighted that we need to do better as a studio. The lessons we’ve learned, from greenlighting projects to managing external partners, have been invaluable.

As such, we have discontinued our relationship with Nom Nom Games. At Trendy, we will be producing one more patch, which will remove the playverse login and overlay. (The monster is dead!) This patch will not contain any gameplay modifications or the in-progress rebalance. In the future, you will receive your Hall of Triumphs rewards for owning Dungeon Defenders Eternity automatically in Dungeon Defenders II.

As a thank you for your continued support, we will be giving owners of Dungeon Defenders Eternity a free code for the Dungeon Defenders Collection later this summer. This will be a giftable code, so if you already own the full collection, you will be free to give it to a friend or sell it to a stranger.

We’re also updating the original Dungeon Defenders. For the full details, please head to this post.[www.dungeondefenders.com]

Sincerely,
The Trendy Team

Update: Steam gave us the all-clear, so we went ahead and sent out the Dungeon Defenders Collection codes. You'll find the code in your Steam Inventory.

Update 2: If you received a giftable copy of DDE (either as a gift from another user or if you purchased a Steam copy of DDE on another website), you should now have a copy of the DD1 Collection in your Steam library. Unfortunately, Valve was unable to give gift-copy players a giftable copy of the DD1 Collection.

Update 3: The free DD1 Collection code offer will end on June 5th. If you haven't received your free code, you have until June 5th to contact support@trendyent.com to receive your code.

Greetings Defenders,

In just a few short hours we will be kicking-off the first public test weekend for the rebalance we have been discussing all month. Starting tonight at 8pm we will be rolling out the rebalance patch. It will stay live until Monday morning at 11:30am when we roll the live client back to the previous version.

What this means for you:
Heroes, pets, towers, enemies, abilities, and everything else except gear will be conforming to the new design set forth this month in a series of “Let’s talk about” posts on the DDE forums.

Due to the method in which gear is stored in code, it will remain in the old balance regime because there will be no good way to revert it once we convert.

What this means for you:
You could find yourself in possession of some seriously overpowered gear.

Given that we know that much of the existing gear could be OP, we are asking you, fine dungeon defenders, to work with us in testing this rebalance and avoid posting feedback on the forums based on experiences with already existing gear. Starting a new hero or farming new gear for an existing hero are good ways to get a feel for what new progressions systems will feel like.

While we encourage you to discuss this topic amongst yourselves all weekend, on Monday, when we revert back to the current patch, we will posting a consolidated feedback thread on the forums where we will be tracking community sentiment on the rebalance. This thread will directly influence how we move forward with testing and possibly applying the rebalance.

Thank you for reading up on this topic and bearing with us as we completed the patch.

For more information about the Rebalance, check out this comprehensive post.[www.dungeondefenders.com]

Patch 8.2

Bugs

• Fixed an issue on some maps where there were less enemies appearing with 3 and 4 players.
  
• Etherian Holiday Extravaganza: Fixed an issue in Firefox where mountains are not seen in the background.
  
• Akatiti: Fixed an issue where the Turtle and Shroomite NPCs were behaving inconsistently with activations/re-activations.
  
• Assault Challenge Map: Fixed the enemy AI
  
• King’s Game: Fixed an issue with Mix Mode display messages appearing at incorrect times
  
• Fixed a crash issue on Android platforms
  
• Fixed socketing issues on holiday costumes
  
• Arcane Library/Hall of Court: Adjusted collisions to prevent players from getting out of the map
  
• Genie Pet: Fixed an issue where a player’s towers were unintentionally receiving the mana buff
  
• Fixed some AI flight pathing issues on Coastal Bazaar