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Hello everyone,
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for!
After one year in Early Access, three major content updates, we’re out now in 1.0!
We’re thrilled to welcome you into Dragonkin, whether you're a brand-new player or a veteran ready to discover what the full release has to offer.
But before that… Check out our brand new Trailer for (almost) all the info:
So, let’s take a look at what to expect from today’s 1.0 release!
During Early Access, players could only experience the prologue and the first act of the story, concluding with the defeat of Kaaralang, Banished Lord of the Jungle.
With the addition of three more acts, Dragonkin’s story arc is now complete and available to play through in its entirety. So, if the game has been on your wishlist while you waited for it to leave Early Access, now’s the perfect time to embark on your adventure.
For our veterans, we hope you’ll enjoy revisiting our game and each boss with more context, new cinematics, and the narrative design improvements we’ve implemented in 1.0 to make the world of Dragonkin more lively. We're also adding achievements with proper names!
Here’s a preview of one of the cinematics featured in Act 2:
Most of you probably already know this, but we’re thrilled to bring Couch Co-Op to Dragonkin: The Banished. Now, up to 2 players can team up to hunt the Banished Lords together and tackle the story.
If you’d like to learn more about it read our DevBlog:
Along with 1.0, we are releasing the "Blood Scales Edition" on Steam!
This edition includes all cosmetic content from Founder Packs 1, 2, 3 and 4 + Lord Pack.
Full game
40 pieces of armor (cosmetics)
5 cosmetic packs for the City of Montescail
17 visual effects for your character
4 visual effects for your divine familiar
What if I already have Dragonkin & Founder Packs on Steam?
You can “complete the collection” with Steam if you own the game already.
Additionally, if you’ve played the game in Early Access and have already claimed one or more Founder Packs, the price of the Blood Scales Edition will be adjusted accordingly.
That’s right! Many Twitch Drop rewards are available for you to obtain!
As we’re leaving Early Access March 16 we’ve prepared cosmetics for you to obtain on Twitch. All you need to do is watch any Dragonkin: The Banished streams between those two dates to unlock the following rewards:
Rewards are awarded based on watch time.
1h = Death Animation
2h = Portal
3h = Wing & Wyrmling Trail
Find the Twitch Drop campaign here, and rewards can be redeemed through your Twitch Inventory.
You’ll need to create a MyNacon account to redeem your code.
One year of Early Access. Wow. When we launched on March 6, 2025, we handed you the keys to our vision of an ARPG. And you didn’t just play, you helped us shape and make it better over time!
Developing Dragonkin: The Banished has been an incredible journey and we can’t believe what an amazing and passionate community we have. We’re very excited to welcome a whole new batch of Hunters to the world full of dragons and, if it’s your first time here, make sure you head over to our official Discord community.
We can’t wait to hear what you think of 1.0! Thank you so much and don't forget to join us:
Please, check our Patch Notes below:
Patch notes will feature a [🔥] emoji whenever the change is based on community feedback!
Full Story
Players can finally experience the complete story of Dragonkin: The Banished.
This update adds the remaining acts, bringing the total to four acts!
Co-op
Players can now play the game in Couch Co-op, up to 2 players.
New Talents
This update introduces a total of 8 new talents:
Talents:
Resonance (Oracle)
Summoner Strategist (Oracle)
Lethal Toxins (Tracker)
Inhuman Reflexes (Tracker)
Ultimate Overheating (Knight)
Ferocious Protection (Knight)
Bloodcurdling Cry (Barbarian)
Vengeful Thorns (Barbarian)
Blood Scales Edition
Cosmetic content from Founder Packs 1, 2, 3 to 4 + Lord Pack:
40 pieces of armor (cosmetics)
5 cosmetic packs for the City of Montescail
17 visual effects for your character
4 visual effects for your divine familiar
Twitch Drops
Exclusive cosmetic content :
1 visual effects for your character
1 visual effects for your wyrmling
1 visual effect for “On death”
1 visual effect for the portal
To claim Twitch Drops you must have a MyNacon account
🎮 Gameplay
Steam Achievements are now available with proper names.
The new talents can now be obtained through loot, including pendants
Certain User Interface elements are now hidden on player’s death, including health / mana texts, pinned stats, and unspent attribute notifications
The finale Endgame Hunt is now unlocked once the 8-hunt requirement is completed on the map (War room)
In multiplayer, City Customization now only appears on player side, allowing them to set the Online city appearance on their side
⚖️ Balance
Reduced primordial dust reroll cost by 60% (Enchanter)
Increased material and resource maximum cap to 99,999
Increased base loot quality on Draconic Fate Card: -20% → -10%
Talents
Corrupted Blood now affects all basic skills and has a higher cost at lower ranks
Accuracy ‘chance’ is higher at rank 2 and 3: 1 / 2 / 5 → 1 / 3 / 10
Statistics
Updated maximum HP attribute value for bosses to prevent health from being capped in multiplayer
Overall tweaks
Fate Tempter (potion effect) has been adjusted to now reduce healing by 50% instead of 75%, applied multiplicatively
Tracker
Dance of Daggers
Movement speed while channeling: -50% → -40%
Damage per dagger: 25% → 35%
Wyrmling
Electrifying Charge
Damage decreased: 20% → 15%
✨ Quality of Life (QoL)
Endgame Dungeons / Test of Will teleportation icons now point properly to the city and the War Room
Added a feedback in the death menu when your character is about to be resurrected
🗺️ Environment
Adjusted lighting and its intensity in the Catacombs of Fire dungeon
The teleport to the Master of Fragment has been updated
🖥️ Menu & UI
Added a “Confirm” button in resolution settings
Displayed owned gold and primordial dust in all Dark Merchant tabs
Added floating text feedback when buying or selling items
Displayed actual attribute values in the Arsenal instead of just base values
Removed “Rename” text in the chest tab
Updated credits to add voice actor casting
🎥 Cutscenes & VFX
Updated visual effects for the Oracle talent: Marching Spirit
Updated visual effects for two Ancestors: Torvald Egilsson and Ildur Skalddottir
Cinematics for all bosses now play during endgame hunts (can still be skipped)
Updated dialogue animations for squad members and some NPCs
Various tweaks to the camera in the prologue cinematics
🔊 Music & SFX
Added sound effects for minor champions: Jaka Lingung, Amphisbaina and Nidhogg
Updated sound effects in the “Meridies Cornelys’s Plot” quest
Added sound feedback in the “At the Heart of Dark Worship” quest
🚀Optimization
Fixed various crashes
Fixed crash related to Steam Input
Fixed the talent “Accuracy” that could cause performance issues when triggered
Made network optimizations to improve stability and performance
Updated FMOD to version 2.03.12
Updated Oodle SDK to 2.9.15 for Intel 13 & 14th gen
🐛Bug Fixes
Online:
Fixed an issue where aggro would sometimes not work as intended during online sessions
Fixed some issues with the Battle Log during online sessions
mproved layout elements to the “Multiplayer management” for better readability
Fixed an issue where Bosses and Semi-bosses could spawn with 1 HP when playing online
Fixed an issue where the “City list” would not refresh correctly when transferring a character to an online city
Fixed Knephiel (champion) visual effects not visible to all players online
Fixed Tracker Innate Ability not working during online sessions
Fixed the Barbarian’s Axe of Toriel skill sometimes disappearing during online sessions
Fixed an issue where reloading after a quest update could sometimes take you to the wrong map if another map was already loading
Fixed an issue where the “Vidskrig – Banished Lord of Nurõrgartt” boss would not properly register death, preventing players from leaving the area or claiming loot
Fixed quests being left in an incorrect state when starting an endgame hunt while another player was in an endgame quest lobby
Fixed on Sayapburuk (minor champion) who could permanently stay invisible to some players in online
Fixed Kalaarang – Lord of the Jungle (boss) “spawn eggs” ability, during phase 2, not working properly in online
Fixed some cases where players in a same Online City were not in the same instance, preventing them from seeing each other
Changed elites to simple enemies with level multipliers (+20) and added a death modifier to the vision objectives in the endgame quest “Hunt for Skokiel”
Fixed Action and Toxic hazards in endgame quests
Fixed a blocker where returning to the city after the endgame quest “Hunt for Styganthropos” could soft-lock the player
Fixed an issue when leaving mid escort during the endgame quest “Hunt for Kaldorttir”
Fixed a rare bug where online players weren’t teleported to the start position in dungeons, causing some desynchronization
Fixed some disconnections occurring during loadings
Offline:
Fixed an issue where some talents weren’t correctly applied from equipment and Wyrmling passives and wouldn’t work
Fixed an issue where AI would stop at immovable objects even when it could attempt to glide through them
Fixed an issue where loot could appear underground, inaccessible to players, at the start of the “Vidskrig – Banished Lord of Nurõrgartt” boss final phase
Fixed health, shield, and mana loss occurring when reattributing points
Fixed invisible wall issues in the Catacombs of Fire that would prevent players from progressing further in the dungeon
Fixed some minor translation errors in English and French
Fixed some Spanish translation issues where Core abilities were translated differently in the keywords list compared to the rest of the game
Fixed several icons in the endgame map that would remain oversized when closing the endgame map with the cursor over them
Fixed help button overlapping with world map menu tabs
Fixed Aionikles Ancestor level 20 effect reducing damage instead of increasing it
Fixed the Ancestry Shortcut displaying an incorrect description in settings
Fixed an issue where a Gift of Eternal could remain locked when opening multiple Gifts at the same time.
Fixed the Loot Filter modifier rarity rule not working properly and the selection popup blocking gameplay
Fixed Chaos Hunts rules not reloading properly when opening the menu
Fixed !!Invalid!! message appearing when Chaos Hunt rule would change
Fixed the description for Oracle’s Psychokinesis skill
Fixed various spelling mistakes in dialogue and skill descriptions
Fixed the red dragon texture quality during the jump sequence in the Tracker introduction (prologue)
Fixed some Draconic Corrupted affix values being incorrect
Fixed spawn and death locations for both champions: Skokiel and Sirkiel
Fixed Tracker’s Treacherous Rain skill visual effect occasionally not stopping
Fixed Fire Wyrmling skill “Avenging Catapult” being incorrectly tagged as a DoT
Fixed several Wyrmling skills missing tags
Fixed Transcendance and Focus modifiers to work correctly with summons
Fixed Ultimate Enhancement tooltips to display the correct values
Fixed the projectile of the Toxic Wyrmling skill: Plague Glands
Fixed Son’kan not teleporting at the end of “The Battle of Pont-Noir”
Fixed Wyrmling stuttering during dialogue
Fixed AI that wouldn’t stop “Fear” behavior while in dialogue
Fixed an issue where the Divine Familiar was lost if the player moved too far away suddenly
Fixed an issue where the breach indicator arrow was not appearing on the mini-map and world map during the final endgame hunt in the War Room.
Fixed an issue where the Test of Will quest would sometimes fail to progress / complete
Fixed an issue where characters rotated toward the player when they shouldn’t during dialogs
Fixed tributes not being visible when dragged
Fixed an issue where buff tooltips weren’t updated when the buff disappeared
Fixed unwanted textures appearing above some tents in the Tracker Camp
Fixed an issue where a summon would stop attacking
Fixed Mo’riya Undes’leg Ancestor projectile visuals to be adaptive element
Fixed an issue where the city view displayed a black fade when transitioning from district zoom to the overview
Fixed trophies displaying placeholder values instead of empty slots in the Arsenal
Son-kan doesn’t have a bow anymore until the player give it back to him in “By Kalaarang’s Design” quest
Son’kan now teleport with his scale rather than walking in “Blood Sorcery” quest
Fixed an issue where the champion didn’t spawn properly at the end of the “The Battle of Pont-Noir” quest
Fixed an issue where the Inspect option didn’t disappear properly upon completing the endgame quest ‘Hunt for Dewata Cenkang”