Crossplay Update is OUT

1.5.74.56713 version

Hello Dragon Hunters,

It's been a little while since the launch of Dragonkin: The Banished. After our post-launch patches, we sat down to think about what could be next for our ARPG. The fact that we're able to even write this, is a testament to the support we received during our release into 1.0. We're not the biggest studio, but we have one of the best communities. Thank you so much for your support.

There are things we want to add, but there are also things you talked to us about, wishes you had for the game. This first major update is designed to take that into account, with Crossplay, New Unique Weapons, and an new event alongside some Quality of Life updates and other fixes.

[Highlights]

• 🔥 Crossplay has been added to Dragonkin: The Banished allowing for play with users on Console

This is one of the features that we were eager to include and one that was also hotly requested by our community. It was also a first for us as a studio, making it a unique challenge for us to tackle. Crossplay in Dragonkin works via an invite system that generates a code which can be shared with your friends to have them join your city regardless of the platform they are playing on.

Read Me: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/653727478219538917

• New Endgame Activity: Dracomundus Purgatory

Step into Purgatory, a green ominous portal that occurs during key story moments and randomly after end-game hunts. The goal is to complete challenges across cursed islands with the potential reward of our first unique, the Ravenous Weapons.

Learn More: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1863430/view/679628250084807113

• 🔥 Introducing Unique Items: The Ravenous Weapons

The first uniques make their way into Dragonkin! Ravenous Weapons are defined by their name, visual effect, affixes and passive. They're also hungry. Ravenous Weapons can be enhanced by feeding them other items, giving them new affixes and making them even more powerful.

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• City Transfer feature added to allow swapping of cities between Online and Offline

One of our goals for Dragonkin is giving people flexibility in HOW they want to play. That's why we give people the option to play Dragonkin entirely offline should they choose to. We're expanding on that by allowing people to shift their city between online and offline play. If your character is in another players online city and they transfer offline, you'll be able to copy the city, so you there's no progress to be lost.

Learn More: view

New cosmetic DLC - War Ancestors Pack

Coming with this update, a new paid DLC is available, composed of the four following sets:

• The Knight: Flame of the Eternal

• The Oracle: Duality

• The Barbarian: Toriel's Hammer

• The Tracker: Queen of Qhongirat

If you want to support Dragonkin, you can find it here:

Dragonkin The Banished War Ancestors Pack

If you want the full breakdown, please check the patch notes below - but before that, we have one last thing to share.

We mentioned it was only the first update because we are already working on what's coming next, or should we say... who?

For now that will be all, stay tuned!

[Update]

Balance

• Added Apocalypse rank (I-V) difficulty

• Difficulty updates to include enemy resistance at some thresholds

• Pendants can now have affixes and a talent on each rarity

• Fixed modifiers that were activating too much on some skills

• Modifiers now apply on skills while another channelled skill is active

• Wyrmling Level now scales with the Character's level rather than its own level

• Tweaked Permanent Shroud (Wyrmling passive): damage -50%, area +50%

• Updated push-back mechanism behaviour in'Prison Céleste'(decreased projectiles spawn rate and push-back force)

• Removed projectile scaling on Lightning Storm and Thunderous Ricochet (Electric wyrmling)

Heroes

• 🔥 Area of Effect of Merciless Evasion (Tracker) can now be increased with modifiers

• AdjustedSlight nerf to Electric Wall (oracle)lesser hasten (flat instead of multiply), damage reduced by 20%

• Fixed performance issues related to the visual effects of the Tracker’s Hunting Trap skill

• Fixed an issue where the Tracker skill “Noxious Star” would only appear to move for the player casting it in online

• Fixed visual replication for Hunting Trap (Tracker) and Meteoric Projection (Barbarian) during online play

• Fixed Solar Flare and Explosive Overload (Knight) not scaling correctly with projectile damage

Menu & UI

• Added a city count to the character selection screen

• Added access to the Game Guide from the main menu

• Added a portal icon to Dracomondus portals

• Added an Online Help button to the character selection screen

• Replaced the Leave City button with a Cancel button when accepting an invitation

• Enemies are now pointed on the minimap during the “Interrupt the Dragonkin ritual” objective of the “Blood Sorcery” quest (Act 1)

Quality of Life

• Added controller shortcuts to the Death log respawn buttons

• The Loot Filter can now be used while another menu is open

• 🔥 Transmogs are now unlocked for items that are donated to the Grand Benedictor or converted via the loot filter

• 🔥Characters now spawn in the War Room when playing in an endgame group

• Tributes wall and Eternal Gift customization are now available for both players in local coop (one at a time, based on who opened the gift first)

• Loot filters can now be used by both players in local coop

• Loot preview is now available for both players in local coop

Misc

• 🔥 Updated the Dungeon Purification Quest Title (Quadriple Purification) with a suffix (?/4) on the "Enter The Dungeon" objective.

• Added champion tag to Arkeocruog in the objective “From One Breach to Another”

• Added the missing chance tag to 'Spontaneous Combustion'

• Improved online performance and desynchronization issues

• Updated FSR from version 3.1.3 to 3.1.4

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a local coop player may get stuck outside a boss arena

• Fixed an issue where quest objectives may not validate during an online session

• Fixed an issue where the final boss achievement would not trigger correctly for all players in online play

• Fixed an issue where clicking on a quest objective could sometimes not mark it as completed in online

• Fixed an issue with damage dealt and kill events not being handled correctly during online play

• Fixed an issue where the lasers from the rotating stone puzzle could collide with characters

• Fixed an issue where Steam invitations during the tutorial would not always display the player name correctly

• Fixed an issue where the Test of Will timer would run when the game is paused in online solo

• Fixed a rare issue where NPCs could disappear during certain objectives, potentially blocking quest progression

• Fixed a rare issue during “Kill the dragon in the egg” quest where rebounding skills could accidentally hit the dragon eggs before the objective started, potentially blocking progression. The objective area has been slightly adjusted to prevent this from happening

• Fixed an issue where the Barbarian’s dodge would not instantly face the direction of movement when dodging

• Fixed an issue where Jorn and his loot could sometimes spawn in mid-air if he died while using his jump attack during Act 3

• Fixed an issue affecting Defensive Stance and potion buffs when repeatedly spamming skills

• Fixed an issue where the Focus modifier would not correctly apply Attack Speed reduction when repeatedly using the same skill

• Fixed an issue where the Knight’s Surcharge Explosive initial hit would sometimes not trigger correctly

• Fixed an issue allowing Ancestors to level up to level 21 (above the cap)

• Fixed an issue where some Ancestors could incorrectly grant Eternal Gift bonus rerolls

  Fixed an issue where Mo'riya Undes'leg’s summon buff would stop working when crowd control, as well as during dialogues or cinematics

• Fixed an issue where the Divine Familiar could sometimes stop working and be stuck on a loot drop

• Fixed an issue with Potion Buff affecting Critical Chance and Critical Damage

• Fixed an issue where color options were not displaying correctly for some transmogs in the character customization menu

• Fixed an issue where some passives, such as “Invisible Watchman” (Oracle), were being saved twice in the Arsenal, which could cause the game to freeze when opening it

• Fixed an issue where some inputs could stop responding when visiting the Dark Merchant right after donating items to the Grand Benedictor

• Fixed the Memorialist displaying the wrong icon on the minimap

• Fixed ring tooltips showing incorrect minimum stat values

• Fixed an issue where Ancestors level-up notifications that would not always trigger

• Fixed tooltip values for Ancestor “Hori'tan Su'sa ”, specifically the duration and area duration

• Fixed an issue where equipped skills were not properly highlighted when hovering them from the skill bar

• Fixed an issue where the Area Map could be incorrectly initialized in Windowed mode

• Fixed a Tracker statistic being incorrectly displayed to all classes

• Fixed missing space between two words in German caused by improper {PlayerGender} tag handling in dialogue

• Fixed a translation issue in the Loot Filter where part of a modifier filter was not displayed in multiple languages (English, Italian, German, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish)

• Fixed an incorrect quest objective text in french during some end-game quests: “Protéger la skalde” → “Protéger le skalde”

• Fixed an issue where the Ultimate Enhancement 2 icon would incorrectly display the Ultimate Enhancement I icon when applied to equipment

• Fixed an issue with Ethereal Darts (Oracle) where holding Shift + Left Mouse Button could cause the character to unexpectedly step forward after releasing the input, instead of remaining stationary as intended

• Fixed Voices of the Dragons (Barbarian) missing the Utility keyword

• Fixed Ancient Runes skills (Barbarian) not always properly buffed by the Specialist passive (wyrmling)

• Fixed Electrified Blades (Electric wyrmling) projectile scaling

• Fixed Accuracy talent not triggering properly

• Fixed Nothog champion ignoring cooldown during teleport

• Fixed an issue where the Force Attack action could stop responding if it was used right as a cinematic or dialogue started

• Fixed an issue where players couldn’t find items with two specific Draconic Affixes from the Draconic table

• Fixed wrong altar briefly appearing in “The Noose Tightens” quest (Act 4)

• Fixed an issue that could block the player if interacting too early with the tunnels to seal them off during the “Smoked out like rats” quest in endgame

• Fixed an invisible wall issue that could block progression in the Catacombs of Fire

• Fixed an exploit that would allow infinite channelled skills to generate infinite energy

• Various fixes to character abilities and modifier interactions

• Several crash fixes

• Other miscellaneous fixes