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This is a compilation of all the update-related interaction with the Devs that happened this week on the official Dauntless Discord.
Closed Beta
In response to a request to leak Bayan's lore:
"Trying hard to finish writting this, but I get pulled in so many other priorities haha. Legends won't be on the Beta day 1" – Kazack
In response to whether the Closed Beta testers will be bound by NDA:
"Nope! Share info often, prepare content for launch, update the wiki/builder, be happy" – Kazack
"Yes, the closed beta content will be free to share. Which is why Crudge won't be there, at least at the beginning" – Kazack
In response to a question about content that strictly won't be available in the Beta test:
"We are moving everything under a disabled flag, so, it won't be in the build" – Kazack
In response to whether alt accounts will be considered for the Closed Beta tests:
"Lol, probably not. We are going to check if the account is active. We want a spread of different player profiles" – Kazack
"I think the Beta will be the first time players see the changes we did to Ramsgate, plus Frost elemental proc update, and develop a deep hatred towards Vespers" – Kazack
In response to a question asking about the number of registrations submitted (as of 10-09-2024):
"5 digits, I won't get more specific than that" – Kazack
https://reddit.com/link/1fgp595/video/hdsuioemnrod1/player
"Forgot to turn audio on the recording and kinda low res, but here's a sneak peak of the beta 2 weeks before it's finalized" – Kazack
Weapons
"Very minor video just because y'all like footage, unsheathing Silver Sword vs. unsheathing The Hunger. Had to get Animation help digging up the old sword unsheath to make this not weird" – Ahrelia
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"It's not something we'd do as a global thing, but I could see a case of having certain weapons we make in the future have that as an explicit thing that's unique about them" – Ahrelia
In response to whether all weapon classes will have different unsheathing animations:
"No, in this case though, The Hunger uses the old Sword animation set, which has a different default idle stance, so we needed to dredge up the old unsheathe to go with it" – Ahrelia
To and Fro – Frost CBs Talents
This was a video shared by Ahrelia, but Reddit only allows one video per post and longer videos result in huge GIFs, so typing the Talent descriptions instead.
Special Talents:
🔹 Cause a second impact of 500 damage 5 seconds after executing Reaper's Dance
🔹 Gain 1 ENDURANCE when performing Reaper's Dance at maximum charges
🔹 You gain Resolve, preventing you from being staggered for 5 seconds per charge spent on Reaper's Dance
🔹 You retain 1 charge after Reaper's Dance
🔹 Increase the damage of Reaper's Dance by 20%
Active Ability Talents:
🔹 When Zeal is active, your maximum SPEED is increased by 2
🔹 Reduce the cooldown of Zeal by 20 seconds
🔹 Increase the radius of Zeal by 30%
🔹 Heal self and all allies within Zeal's range by 350 on activation
🔹 Zeal also grants 2 held CRITICAL to players within its range
Passive Ability Talents:
🔹 Gain 1 additional Sprite when you use your weapon Special
🔹 Gain 1 additional Sprite when you use your weapon Special
🔹 Gain 40 Shield per Sprite consumed in attacks
🔹 Increase the Frost damage dealt by each Sprite by 20
🔹 You have a 2% chance to generate a Sprite every time you do damage
Primary Buff Talents:
🔹 You have 1 additional point of held SPEED
🔹 Your temp SPEED stacks last 10 seconds longer
🔹 You have 1 additional point of held SPEED
🔹 Your temp SPEED stacks last 10 seconds longer
🔹 You have 1 additional point of held SPEED
Secondary Buff Talents:
🔹 You have 1 additional point of held ENDURANCE
🔹 Your temp ENDURANCE stacks last 10 seconds longer
🔹 You have 1 additional point of held ENDURANCE
🔹 Your temp ENDURANCE stacks last 10 seconds longer
🔹 You have 1 additional point of held ENDURANCE
Bane and Balm – Terra CBs
"Bane and Balm's Passive ability causes it to do 10% of the damage of any hit you do again over the next 5 seconds. It's basically a 10% damage increase but over time to everything you do, and the talents further expand on what that can do and mean. But, today's issue was just that the way that it looked in damage numbers was quite dull. Forged Pixels made a really useful suggestion to me about offsetting those numbers, and immediately the ability felt a fair bit better" – Ahrelia
"Was one of those things that was an extremely small amount of work for a pretty meaningful player experience change"
"It's 10% of your hit, done over 5 seconds (One damage tick a second)
Hit for 1000, Poison drip will deal 100 total, 20 damage per second.
To figure out your tick, it's basically like x * .1 * .2""I'm just using base attacks from a level 1 weapon here so the damage is quite low."
"There is no cooldown. It effects all your weapon hits with Bane and Balm" – Ahrelia
In response to whether one weapon's passive abilities will affect the second equipped weapon:
"They will not" – Ahrelia
Miscellaneous
In response to a question about the Pack Caller perk rework:
"The bombers will be replaced with a raptor, and it will be for a duration. I think it's 2 (raptors max). If you want more raptors than that, you'll need to use the Alluring Moons repeaters, which also spawn raptors with their special, and can corrupt other raptors to fight for you" – Ahrelia
In response to whether transmog concepts that never made it in the game will be added in the future:
"We are exploring some concepts that never made to the game, but nothing confirmed yet" – Kazack
In response to how long the big Reward Cache sale will be:
"Aiming to start the 26th and run until Awakening launch" – Joshlhood
In response to a comment stating "its kinda been like forevah... since we got a new flare":
In response to the availability of new cosmetic passes and store items in Closed Beta:
"Store/Hunt Pass etc. are not planned to be active in the beta" – Joshlhood
In response to whether all items will be readily available and unlocked in the Closed Beta:
"Not by default no, as the progression and unlock flows are part of what we’re testing!" – Joshlhood
In response to whether Dauntless will be available for cloud play (like XBox Cloud):
"Don't think we can do Xbox Cloud Streaming - it's Game Pass games + Fortnite (for specific mobile reasons) only atm. I've asked a few times.
I believe they plan to roll out streaming games you "own" at some point, so hopefully that'd include free games like us!
And yeah I think GFN works in the meantime, as it's just a regular Epic Store game and those are compatible iirc, but haven't tried it personally" – Joshlhood
Controller Bindings Rejig:
"One less exciting thing from me today, but seeing as we're bullying the star bot - some slight control rejigging happening with 2.0 for controller players now weapon swaps are a thing!" – Joshlhood
Closed Beta registration for PC players will end tomorrow on Sept 15.
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