Dungeons 2

Installer update (16th December 2017) [macOS Only]

• Installer update - No game files were changed.

Windows Update (04th December 2017) [Windows Only]

• Installer maintenance update - No game files were changed.

Update (13 March 2017)

• Fixed an issue with the Mac version of the game and DLC installation for the offline PKG installer.

Patch 1.6.1.31 Hotfix (13th September 2016)

Windows and Mac only

• Fixes Galaxy achievements issues

Patch 1.6.1 (26 August 2016)

• Linux version of Dungeons 2 + all DLC added to everyone's accounts.
• Controller controls completely revised and improved, in particular:
• Button assignment completely revised
• Context-sensitive display of button assignments
• Selection radius in RTS mode now increases over time, no longer manually
• New screen center marker in RTS mode: Prettier, no longer disappears in objects, gives feedback on the targeted object similar to the mouse cursor
• Start a New Game menus controls greatly improved (skirmish, campaign and multiplayer)
• Revised menu screens and modal dialogs for controller controls
• When last unit dies in a neutral dungeon, you can still use the D-pad to change region
• Magic bar with hotkeys is no longer displayed in gamepad mode
• Unit list GUI now usable with controller
• Build-Queues now supported
• Deadzone logic improved
• Tools (Crate-o-Mats, etc.) can now be scrolled through
• Tutorial messages and controller controls tip of the day adjusted
• Performance optimization, in particular:
• Dungeon rendering greatly accelerated under DirectX 11
• Improved performance when displaying damage values
• Pre-placed outside world units are only activated shortly before player contact
• A variety of little delays corrected (for example, when large areas are marked for excavation, new songs are loaded, when scrolling at start of a level, etc.)
• Evilization optimized
• Optimized rendering of simple outside world objects and dungeon decorative objects
• Other tasks optimized for multicore systems (e.g., animations)
• Optimized dungeon unit path calculation in the rough planning phase
• Overall unit path calculation optimized
• Corrected performance hit occurring with many un-stored resources
• Logic physics system optimized
• Various other small optimizations
• Stability improvements:
• Greatly reduced memory consumption under DirectX 11
• Leak in Sound Effects corrected
• Reduced overall music and sound effect memory use
• Some assets were not unloaded properly after use
• Object pools release previously unused objects
• Reduced GUI texture memory use

Multiplayer:

• Team Domination: now works properly
• In 3/4-player games, the game is now always won/lost as soon as the first player has been defeated
• Removed distinction between LAN/Internet game
• Disconnections are now better communicated to players
• The initial camera position is now correct for all players when loading a multiplayer game
• A changed player color is now displayed correctly when loading a multiplayer game

Balancing:

• Barthas Snow will be revived after 3 minutes maximum (previously 6 minutes)
• The ghoul skill "Braiiins!" now has a cooldown and costs energy
• Research duration for some spells increased, for others decreased

Level design:

• "King Robert must die!“: Cannon tower weakened by 50%
• "The Battle of King’s Ending": Regeneration for the Ultimate Evil increased significantly
• Battle map: spawners better coordinated
• Corrected spawners in several maps, especially the Paladin mob in "The Poshlands"
• Some creatures in individual maps mistakenly failed to attack players
• Various script corrections
• Fixed several minor bugs and imperfections

Miscellaneous:

• Japanese localization added
• More light sources are now placed on the dungeon walls
• GUI: Barthas now visible in the dungeon minimap
• Snowball trap no longer rolls immovable objects such as doors and brewery boilers away
• GUI: Text spacing increased for better readability
• Loading of large savegames accelerated
• Units hidden in excavated areas can no longer be targeted with spells
• Fixed several problems with Ragdolls
• Level loading now less tricky
• Repaired various visual glitches

Patch 1.5.2.5 (18 November)

• This update should correct any and all compatibility issues between the base game and its DLC.

Patch 1.5.2.4 (29th October 2015)

Free "A Clash of Pumpkins" DLC:

• Three Halloween motto battle cards: "Island of Horror", "Ghost Forest", and "Killer Penguins!"
• Hero costume variants for the Halloween cards:
• "Pikemen" are dressed up as "Soldiers"
• "Elven Archers" are dressed up as "Elven Magi"
• "Dwarven Warriors" are dressed up as "Cannon Dwarves"
• "Penguins" are dressed up as "Snowball-Throwing Penguins", "Batting Penguins", "Kamikaze Penguins", and as a "Penguin King"

Improvements in "A Game of Winter":

• Nosferatu and Grimlin now perform their duties in the graveyard
• Greater space efficiency in the graveyard now has a positive instead of a negative influence on resurrection times
• Resurrection times in graveyard are now shorter
• Researching "Drink Blood" for leeches had no effect
• The "Gruesome Bear" fear skill visual FX for were broken
• Leeches were not counted in the population overview
• Damaged creatures without a need for a Final Resting Place defiled all available resting places by mistake
• Clay pots will now no longer appear outside the player dungeon when skeletons are teleported using the "The Undead Are Here!" spell when carrying them.
• Minor text errors corrected: "Strong Leeches" and "Insidious Leeches" research options did not show the research level; description of "Final Resting Place" suggested that each creature would build its own resting place
• Special SSAO flickering effect for ice surfaces has now been reduced
• Visual FX of the right Undead throne room treasure chamber did not work for certain fill levels
• "The North Forgets": Floor areas now cave in
• "The North Forgets": The area that can be walked into at gold mine entrance has now been corrected
• "The North Forgets": A decorative guard has now been removed to give Barthas slightly more space to work
• "The Fall of the Wall": Floor areas now cave in
• "The Fall of the Wall": Entrance area of the gold mine now adjusted in order to improve the chaos when a large number of units enter
• "Death Becomes You": Dragon Lizards placed in pre-existing spawner building
• "Don't Let Go!": Worker troop interval will now never fall below eight minutes
• "Splashing in the Fountain of Youth": Visual FX of an Ent skill was broken
• "Splashing in the Fountain of Youth": Spiders and Dragon Lizards now attack the throne room when they are attacked
• "Summiteers": Overlapping of palisade wall with cliff has now been corrected
• "Summiteers": Dialogs in closing sequence after defeat can now be heard properly
• "The Ultimate Evil": Meltysand is now asked not to leave the ritual site during the ritual
• "The Ultimate Evil": Dialog was missing when Meltysand was resurrected for the first time
• "The Siege of New King's Ending": Battle actions are now disabled at the end of the map
• "Plains of Elsa": Dragon Lizard room is now removed when all Dragon Lizards are dead
• "Plains of Elsa", "Hero's Tomb": Meltysand now returns to her original position after fights and can no longer be lured too far away

Overall improvements:

• Saved games from version v1.4.1 or older could no longer be loaded with version v1.5 in some cases
• Effect area of area traps has now been increased slightly so that even the smallest penguin can now no longer sneak past them
• Surface decoration objects sometimes had the wrong texture and shading
• Certain texts which were cut off are now displayed in full
• Damaged doors are now displayed correctly after a game is loaded
• Horde creatures can now also be further upgraded to better creatures even when the maximum level has been reached
• Toolbox icon for production in the Tinkerer's Cave has now been reduced in size so that it can fit in the frame
• Line spacing of subtitle text has now been increased slightly for better legibility in certain languages
• Subtitle portrait was displayed in the wrong position for one frame
• Minimap positions were displayed incorrectly for one frame when different entrances were used
• Malakay now has a name and a description in his details window

Patch 1.5.1.392

General

• Performance improvements
• Added reset button for campaign progress
• Enemy units can now be selected to see their names, descriptions and stats
• Changed font type and font handling for readability and performance
• Improved automatic work unit selection for research
• Free Chaos Forge/Hell Forge researches now save their progress when interrupted
• Cast mode now remains active when casting spells while holding down shift key, similar to building traps/doors/work units with shift key
• It is no longer possible to "dismiss" a health potion or medal
• Minor controller improvements
• Singleplayer games will now be paused if the player opens the steam overlay
• It is no longer possible to control the paused game and game menus while the steam overlay is opened
• Added new sounds
• Corrected some sounds
• Added a "Play" button next to owned DLC that allows jumping to skirmish/campaign menus directly to start playing the new content for clarification of the DLC sub-menu
• New grayscale effect for some deactivated GUI to make their state clearer
• Dependency errors are now being shown in tooltip while research is in progress
• Unit list UI at top of screen now lets you select and multiselect units via the portraits with Shift/Ctrl-LMB
• Multiselection now has tooltips
• Shift/Ctrl-LMB-selecting unit groups now works in all RTS places in the game
• Area traps like the thrasher can no longer be built next to a room
• Chat log is now limited to 100 lines
• Chaotic / Absolute / Ultimate Evil now has a minimap icon
• Rework of mission goal display
• Build exactly the room tiles that are displayed as buildable in case insufficient gold for the whole room is available
• Improved error message when not enough gold is available to build even 1 room tile
• Game now shows a unit as having 1 HP when it's actual HP would be rounded down to 0
• Armor is shown as precise number with one digit after comma
• Unit details tab now shows real speed, not base speed of unit
• Research is now disabled but visible if only requirement is not met
• Maximum unit level is at 11 and is shown as yellow number instead of white
• Units without level information are by default displayed as maxed out (NPCs like Barthas, ...)
• New icon for room upgrade submenu
• Evil hand now can hold no more than one special item (medals, health potions) at a time
• Introduced minimap icon for spider spawner
• It is no longer possible to zoom with the mousewheel while using the unit pickup UI
• Multiplayer map "Ultimate Carnage": Added granite behind all portals
• Reworked various visual objects for performance and improved looks (particle effects, vegetation, etc.)
• Sent Halloween invitations to elven ranger, pikeman and crossbowman. They'll bring their costumes!

Balancing

• Changed conversion rate of demon "gold to mana" spell
• Bards now switch to a better trap if they find one while deactivating another trap

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that lead to players being stuck in loading screen when switching back to main menu
• Fixed a bug that could freeze the game when opening and closing singleplayer campaign screen very rapidly
• Fixed stat-based steam achievements sometimes being unlocked incorrectly
• Fixed floating numbers sometimes being shown incorrectly
• Fixed a problem with fog of war being uncovered due to switching resolutions
• Players may now drag monsterst with more than 1 HP onto healing stations
• Servants now have a post-teleport buff that lets dem ignore combat as they were sometimes stuck in combat after teleport
• Map "Hatchlings": Fixed broken lava sound
• Map "The Oasis": Fixed alliance units bringing spiders along to combat
• Fixed wall of ice sometimes being shown as pink
• Map "The Mountain Pass": Fixed minor graphic inconsistencies
• Map "Smog!": Fixed a group of 3 drakes in the sothernmost secret room not acting as a group
• Map "Hatchlings": Fixed a bug with the spider room walls
• Fixed damage numbers sometimes stacking indefinitely
• Fixed enemy unit's weapons sometimes being visible through fog of war in multiplayer
• Fixed various graphical glitches with floors and walls
• Fixed particle rendering glitches
• Fixed decoration clipping in the throne room
• Fixed some problems with destructable objects
• Fixed transparency issues with mission goal icons
• Units are no longer able to shoot through doors (not working for older savegames)
• Fixed a bug that resulted in units being stuck to the hand of terror
• Units can no longer be selected through fog of war
• Fixed several cases in which the AI would not recover from an error (units being stuck in place, etc.)
• Reworked digged mana crystal default representation
• GUI of guard room now works correctly
• Fixed a problem when hand of terror pickups something already gone in multiplayer
• Fixed wrong activity icon being displayed when switching arena puppet targets while unit is working
• Job information for units not currently working is now being hidden
• Fixed a potential blocker on map "In the swamplands" due to the crystal chamber
• Fixed highlights around weapons
• Guarding monster now work correctly with savegames
• Fixed a problem with doors staying open
• Fixed a problem with gimmick holograms floating in some cases in build mode
• Fixed a problem with displaying tooltips during multiselection
• Units will no longer follow destroyed entities
• Taunt effect now stops when the target dies
• Fixed a problem that confused certain spells during cast (e.g. if the player selected meteor and then selected fireball with the cast cursor activated, he would still cast meteor)
• Fixed dead units rotating in place
• Fixed invisibility shader
• Fixed some areas between UI elements not to be treated as UI space
• Fixed an experimental fullscreen error
• Fixed problems when saving a game while capturing an area in skirmish and multiplayer maps
• Fixed error message if skill target is not reachable
• Fixed various problems with character physics simulation in combination with teleportation, death, dragging, slapping
• Fixed save game names not fitting into the designated text box