Halloween Hardcore Race - The Tear Beyond Time

Halloween Hardcore Race – Begins This Thursday!

We’re thrilled to announce the Halloween Hardcore Season Race — kicking off this Thursday, October 23rd, at 1 PM EST! This is a Hardcore-only event, where death is permanent and glory lasts forever.

Schedule

• Leaderboard Lock: Tuesday, October 21st, at 11 PM EST

• Server Wipe: 12 PM EST (one hour later)

• Chaos Gates Open: 1 PM EST

• Hardcore Race Launch: Thursday, 1 PM EST, with a full reset

If you’d like to help us test, join during the Chaos period. If you’re here to compete, sharpen your blades — the real race begins Thursday. And if Hardcore isn’t your style, don’t worry — Season 5 is right around the corner, currently planned for early December.

⚔️ What’s New in the Hardcore Race

• Offhand & Monogram updates – deeper build diversity and reworked affixes

• New Time Tear event – greater risks, greater rewards

• New visual style – a fresh look for the Realm powered by our new Toon Shader

A Message from the Team

Every test, bug, and wipe helps us shape Dwarven Realms into something greater. Thank you for standing with us through every season and every patch — we can’t wait to see who rises in the Hardcore Race.

See you in the Chaos, – The Crater Studios Team

Patch Notes:

New Content

Four new Time Tear types have been added, each focusing on a different kind of reward:

• Mining Nodes - Harvest waves of mining nodes to collect valuable materials.

• Monograms - Interact with waves of monograms to obtain new modifiers for your items.

• Elite Rush - Survive consecutive waves of elite enemies and gain more rewards

• Slugs Rush - Waves of slugs; simple but deadly fun.

General Changes

• Containers now auto-destroy after 45 seconds (Light beam indicator goes down with remaining time)

• Boss containers spawn slightly faster to accommodate auto-destroy timer

• Container spawn rate increased

• New visual style/look for the game

• Season mode changed to Hardcore only - no softcore, leaderboard is Hardcore exclusive

Offhands Changes

Cooldown Changes

• AdjustedArcane TotemCooldown increased by 23.3% average
• AdjustedArcane ApocalypseCooldown increased by 17.9% average
• AdjustedLightning PlasmaCooldown reduced by 20.0% average
• AdjustedBlood DragonCooldown reduced by 16.7% average
• AdjustedRain of FlamesCooldown reduced by 22.6% average
• AdjustedCarnage of FireCooldown reduced by 16.7% average

Changes & Balance

• Death Blade: When Death Blade despawns, it will summon an arcane spike on a nearby enemy, dealing 100% damage + 20% additional damage for every second the blade was on the field. (Previously: 80% base damage)

• Static Charge: Static charge will now stay for an additional 0.6 seconds, damaging more enemies and dealing an additional 5% per enemy inside Static Charge range. (Previously: *Static charge will now stay for an additional 0.6 seconds, damaging more enemies*)

• Spark: When Sparks collide, they have a 33% chance to spawn a plasma sphere that deals 100% damage. After 2 seconds it explodes for 200% damage. Plasma sphere may consume sparks to gain +50% damage bonus. (Previously: plasma sphere that deals 75% damage)

• Toxicity: Pools last 5 seconds longer and deal 35% more damage based on pool size. (Previously: 20%)

• Toxicity: Trigger a chain reaction, each projectile spawned receives additional 25% damage for each active pool on the battlefield. (Previously: 10%)

• Death Blade: Summon a smaller Death Blade that circles around the primary Death Blade and deals 130% damage. Each time a small death blade spawns, it adds 25% damage to Arcane spike. (Previously: adds 15%)

• Ferocity of Wolves: Your wolves increase their damage by 45% with each leap. (Previously: 25%)

• Blood Dragons: The dragons jump towards the player, and deal bonus damage the closer they are to their target up to +100%. (Previously: +45%)

• Kraken Seed: Kraken Seed shoots 3 tentacle darts, dealing 60% damage each. (Previously: 4 darts) (Dart amount now stacks)

• Lightning Plasma: Lightning Plasma stays for an additional 1.5 seconds and deals +40% damage. (Previously: +20%)

• Lightning Plasma: Fires an additional Lightning Plasma, and deals an additional 25% damage based on Lightning Plasma range. (Previously: *Fires an additional Lightning Plasma*)

• Fiery Totems: Fiery Totems triggered by you gain an additional 25% damage for each Fiery Totem on the battlefield. (Previously: 40%)

• Vortex: When vortexes collide, they turn into a thunderstorm, that deals an additional 100%. (Previously: 300%)

• Amadora Snail no longer counts as an elite for the mod "Killing an elite has a 10% chance to spawn another elite

• Killing an elite has a 10% chance to spawn another elite' now stacks up to 4 times (Previously: 8 times)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where "Kraken Seed: Kraken Seed shoots 4 tentacle darts, dealing 60% damage each" didn't deal damage most of the time

• Fixed a bug where "Kraken Seed: Running over a Kraken Seed will shoot projectiles that explode on impact, dealing the same damage as Kraken Seed" dealt 30% damage instead of full kraken damage

• Fixed code issue causing problems with name selection

Performance Fixes

Fixed memory issues for the following abilities:

Magery: Starfall Strike, Basic Mage projectiles

Necro: Leeching Wraith

Axe: Blazing Earthshaker, Demonic Strike

Archery: Blade Kick, Infused Arrow

Swords: Shadow Slice, Scorching Swipe, Ascending Power, Thousand Cuts

October 22nd - Patch Notes

Visual Changes

• Reduced Dash VFX intensity

New Content

• 6 new nodes added to Elven tree:

  1. Increase the chances to encounter Monogram Time Tear by 1%

  2. Increase the chances to encounter Elite Rush Time Tear by 1%

  3. Increase the chances to encounter Mining Nodes Time Tear by 1%

  4. Increase the chances to encounter Slugs Time Tear by 1%

  5. Increase the chances to encounter Time Tears by 1%

  6. Increase the chances to find a container by 1%

General

• Softcore character creation now allowed in offline mode

October 23rd - Patch Notes

Optimization

• AdjustedHomefortLight complexity reduced for optimization

General

• Enrage elites now have a chance to spawn an additional container

• Time Tears after campaign completion now have a larger pool of possible container rewards

• New Time Tear types now only available after Rupture 15

Bug Fixes

• Fixed character creation bug where it always created a human female character