* Added "Assault Mission Pack" premium content, free for owners of Eternia Shards Complete Pack
* Added "Barbarian Hero Class" premium content
* Added "Hardcore Mythical Defender", "Dungeon Raider", and "Mythical Dungeon Raider" Accomplishments + Steam Achievements
* Added one-button "Sync All Items to DefenderStore.com", and no longer pops up Steam Overlay after you login to the site!
* Hardcore mission completions now save and are visible in your completion stats


* Total fix for network bandwidth issue involving high-attack-rate projectile towers: tower projectiles are now locally spawned and locally-calculated client-side, completely elminating their bandwidth cost.
* Spider Webbing no longer stacks on players -- you can only be webbed once-at-a-time
* 'Group Hug' Achievement can now optionally be earned using the corresponding Gender-Swapped Heroes
* Fixed bug where Squire's Blood Rage damage resistance calculation was inverted, erroneously making him take MORE damage as the Blood Rage stat was level updated. This is resolved, and now e.g. 1800 point Blood Rage will cut incoming damage by about 50%, enabling better Squire tanking especially on the high-end.

* Added "Q" key to toggle "Front View" mode where you can view the front of your character and rotate around them for tasty pics
* Added "H" key to Toggle HUD visibility
* Added Item-Box/Hero-Shop "Folder" support (+ Subfolders too)
* Added Item Drag-&-Drop support (Drag off Hero Inventory to drop, Drop onto buttons to activate that button's action on the item, etc)
* Made Hardcore mode available in all Difficulty settings
* Resolved UMF Ogre pathing stuckage case
* Added 'Mythical Defender' reward! 'Outlander' costume with special ability
* Reduced Healing Ramp Cost by 20% (less Healing Cost per HP increase), and reduced Healing Cost by a straight 40% in NM
* Darkness Trap now strips mobs of elemental immunity, and reduced DU cost to 5
* Player Shop Maximum Item Sale Cost is now correctly 200,000,000 (the UI was previously erroneously limiting the number to 8 digits, preventing reaching this maximum)
* Added UI Option to disable controller rumble feedback
* Fixed the cost of upgrading "Halloween Spooktacular!" items, now is the same as other equivalent items
* Fixed another kind of 'Return-To-Tavern-Crash' (perhaps the last)
* Buffed Squire Circular Slice damage ramp by 15%, Reduced its cooldown by 1 second, and increased its animation speed by 25%
* [Subject To Beta] All Squire Towers HP buffed by 60% in NM, Harpoon Turret rotate speed increased by 40%

Barbarian is Missing (Release Date now Tuesday 1/31)



Sadly, the Barbarian never learned to read or write. (Another victim of the Etherian public education system.) Our in-house handwriting analyst believes the loops and swirls means he’s taking a break today to hone his skills a little more. The life of the Barbarian is no easy livin'. From slaughtering hordes of senseless beasts to keeping those pec muscles toned, every day is a struggle to meet those lofty expectations of greatness.

Our search party has been sent out to find him. We're confident that we'll find him, reprimand him and release him to you sometime tomorrow. That means the Assault Mission Pack and the patch will also be coming out tomorrow.

Until then, enjoy these snippets from the release trailer. (What’s that? I don’t recall saying trailer.)







Note: AMP and the Patch will be released tomorrow as well. We're taking some extra time to incorporate some feedback from the Beta, among other things, so it'll be worth the wait!

For example, my guardian buffed magic missles have gone from ~11k/71k dps to ~6k/33k dps. My lightning towers went from ~14k to ~2k.

So basically, you have squire-level tower DPS now, welcome to my world!

EDIT: Reading what some of the changes are, they seem kind of intentional. It's just weird that they didn't bother putting any of it in the patch notes (I can understand not announcing the nerf beforehand, but it should at least be in the release patch notes).

Apparently Ogres now correctly attack Magic Blockades. I'd noticed this myself, Ogres used to just get kind of stuck on them, occasionally acid and maybe attack once every so often. Compared to a Spike Blockade where they'd just wail on the thing for massive damage.

I've also read that people with lower stats don't seem to have much of a damage nerf. So what's actually probably happened is that having extraordinarily high gear stats is now ramped properly to give diminishing returns. It did this anyway: pre-nightmare, having 100 tower attack didn't give you +100% over 50 tower attack, it was more like +20%. But when people have tower attack in the thousands, it probably wasn't diminishing properly.

But, again, it's possible a nerf was needed, but I think the issue here is that Trendy didn't (and still hasn't) tell anybody.