Live Patch 12/30/25: The New Years Update — Dungeon Defenders: Awakened Steam update #947867

Greetings Defenders, Thank you again for everything you did on PTR. The testing, the build sharing, the bug reports, and the blunt feedback made this update possible, and we genuinely wouldn’t be here without you. As we close out 2025, this patch sets the stage for us to keep expanding these systems in 2026 with more rewards, more tuning, and more ways to play. We still have some early-game flow tweaks to make and a few bugs to iron out, but this gets us much closer to bigger goals like strengthening our foundation for future updates and continuing the work needed to support consoles and new content.SUMMARYBig tower balance passes (Series EV, Warden, Summoner, Guardian, and more)Hero cooldown tuning across multiple classesPure Strategy and Challenge Mode reward/scaling fixes and improvementsRift Mode tuning (spawn rates, resistance math, and problem enemy cases)Tower weapons reworked to ...