0.3.0.0 "Desert Reign" Update Release! Play Now!

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: support@traega.com). 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.