Hello Dragon Hunters,
We're super happy to say that we've just deployed the multiplayer update!We want to take the opportunity to thank you all for your support! It's things like this that fuel our team to push forward, and we can't thank you enough.
This is our THIRD major update since we launched into Early Access. These patches are shaped by the feedback gathered from you all on Steam and Discord!
As always, please check out our latest video:
Spender ‘only’ system
New City of Montescail Progression System
Post-50 Progression
New Hunting Board & Endgame Hunts Reworked
New Champions
Fragment Rotation
New Service & QoL feature : Master of Fragments & Divine Familiar
New Talents & Modifiers
And of course the free Founder Pack 4!
The Founder Pack 4 will be available soon (a matter of hours)! We’ll keep you updated.
There are also loads of under the hood changes, QoL improvements, tweaks and more! So below...
Patch notes will feature a [🔥] emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback!
💡Pro tip:
If your city is at level 0 and you transfer a character from a higher-level city, you won’t have the city upgrades that unlock attribute points and extra grid slots. This means:
If you remove a fragment from the Ancestral Grid, normally shown as “locked” due to a city upgrade, you won’t be able to place a fragment in that slot again until the upgrade is unlocked, which can disrupt your current build.
The same applies to attribute points for Characters and Wyrmlings ; you’ll keep your stats (despite showing a penalty, e.g., -30). Respec or using the +/ - button will cause you to lose these points, until the upgrade is unlocked (again).
RESTART your Steam App
Go to your Steam game library
Right click on Dragonkin: The Banished and click Properties...
Select the tab Game Versions & Betas
In the first dropdown box select multiplayer_beta
Click close and wait for the update to finish downloading
Alternatively, you may have a `Launch Option` box appear!
Select 'Play Dragonkin with multiplayer
If you decide to check the box `Always use this option`, you'll always start the game the version you chose
And that's it! That's how you access multiplayer in the game.
To switch back between offline & online, you can always go back to the game’s Properties... and reselect the Default Public Version.
You can freely switch between default (offline) and beta (multiplayer) modes without affecting your character’s overall progression. This includes your level, wyrmling level, inventory, and resources.
Are there any restrictions? Yes, there're a few important points:
Cities & Progression:
Online and offline cities are separate. You can transfer characters between cities, but cities created in online mode will not be accessible offline
If you create a character in an online city, you must transfer it to an offline city to play in default mode.
Story Progression:
Story progression is tied to the group associated with each city. Moving a character to a different city (and thus a different group) does not carry over story progress for that group.
Your story progression is not lost!
Returning to the original group lets you continue the story exactly where you left off.
In short: Characters can move freely between offline and multiplayer modes, but cities and story progress remain linked to the mode and group where they were created.
💡Pro tip:
We recommend our players to make a copy of your save directory and storing it somewhere safe on your computer if you plan to jump into multiplayer.
How to back up your save files:
→ Right-click on the game's icon in your Steam library
→ Select ‘Manage’ and then ‘Browse Local Files’
→ Navigate to the following path: Dragonkin - The Banished\\DragonkinTheBanished\[/c]
→ Copy the entire 'Saved' directory to a safe location.
That just about wraps things up for this update!
As we continue development and keep pushing forward to our 1.0 launch, you'll be pleased to hear that we made plenty of improvements on the narrative design and cinematics.
What's in 1.0 already?
✒️Full Story (4 acts)
🛋️ Local Co-op
When we update Dragonkin to 1.0, the branches will be merged together and your save data will be preserved regardless of which branch you were playing on.
Here’s a teaser for one of the new cinematics you can already watch during the first act of the story:
And of course, if you'd like to meet us and chat with other players make sure you join us on Discord!
Thank you again for all the feedback, thoughts and love you share with us!