Dfiance: Dominance is still in development — Beta launches October 20th.
Beta Keys drop on Discord one week before. Join us: https://discord.gg/qt9ZGP7JA6
This week brings Steam friends integration, faster card play, a Gwyneth rework, chest statistics, and broad improvements across mobile, friends, and match presentation.
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🔷 NEW FEATURES
◆ Steam friends integration — Steam friends who play Dfiance now appear as in-game friends automatically. Steam activity status shows whether they're in the lobby, matchmaking, or a match — including the game mode.
◆ Faster card play — valid card drops now move immediately toward the predicted row while server confirmation arrives. Rejected plays return to hand. Both players can also complete opening redraws simultaneously, cutting sequential wait time.
◆ Chest statistics — sixteen chest-statistic rows in player profiles now show real totals covering openings, Gold spent, fragments, and cosmetic reward categories.
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🔷 CARD CHANGES
◆ Gwyneth The Outcast rework — changed from Factionless to Celestial. On Dominate, she now gains Ascend 1 and returns to hand. She joins the starter-card pool and leaves booster set 20.
◆ Aznas Sanza — leaves the starter-card pool and replaces Gwyneth in booster set 20, "Controlling the Field."
◆ Row-movement abilities — move-to-other-row effects can now choose any non-full row, regardless of the card's normal deployment rows.
◆ Factionless deck building — the 15-card Factionless limit has been removed from deck validation.
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🔷 FRIENDS & SOCIAL
◆ Friends' names, avatars, titles, frames, levels, and ratings now update live
◆ Friend lists gained online/offline groups, favorites-first sorting, and Away status
◆ Match invitations can now be accepted or declined directly from the end-game screen
◆ Blocks persist after friendship removal and exclude blocked players from presence updates
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🔷 VFX & INTERFACE
◆ Battlefield fog is now connected to the match scene
◆ Card upgrades gain an animated arrow effect
◆ Inline desktop deck renaming added with name validation
◆ Daily Rewards no longer reopen on every lobby visit for the same reward within a session
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Beta is one month away. If you haven't wishlisted yet — now's the time. Every wishlist helps us reach more players at launch.
Questions about any of these changes? Drop them on discord — we read everything. 👇