Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance has released patch notes for the newly released Echo of the Blood War expansion. This addition to the game brings the new Auralla playable character, who is a Tiefling warlock that casts spells and does well with controlling crowds of enemies. There’s also two new dungeons to play, so gear up and get ready to face some tough challenges. The expansion can be purchased via Steam for $19.99 USD.
Echo of the Blood War Expansion Patch Notes
The Dark Alliance expansion adds one new playable character and two new challenging dungeons with a total of six levels. Echoes of the Blood War: The Dark Alliance adds to your Dark Alliance experience.
- Auralla, a Tiefling warlock who specializes in spellcasting and crowd control, is a new playable character.
- The Abandoned Mines, a new dungeon. Deep in a duergar mine, investigate strange cultist experiments on trolls.
- Spawn of Yeenoghu is a new dungeon. Stop a group of Gnolls from summoning their demon lord in the Hinterlands.
Updates & Bug Fixes
- Gnolls will now approach a player character who has the grappled debuff
- Fixed Goblin Archers not returning to the center of their encounter when the player leaves the area
- Fixed Keepers of the Shard occasionally using the self-destruct hit-react from Corrupted Cultists
- Added missing combat barks and character/mission banter lines to the game’s audio
- Added missing Footstep SFX to the game’s PlayStation 4 version.
Balance
- Increased Kelvin’s boss health
- Increased Invincible buff duration after being revived
Localization
- Fixed missing replies for French map banter when in a party with Wulfgar and Drizzt in The Goblin’s Shard Act 1 Matchmaking and Networking
- Fixed a rare issue where players were unable to join multiplayer sessions on PlayStation 5
- Fixed kneeling Frost Giants appearing as standing to some players in multiplayer
- Fixed player characters remaining stuck in a revive animation when the player and host are teleported during the revive
Stability and performance
- Fixed a crash on PlayStation 4 in multiplayer when loading into Verbeeg Jamboree Act 1
- Fixed a crash on all platforms when idling for 15 minutes on the equipment screen
- Fixed a rare crash that occurred for all players in the boss encounter of The Crystal Wraiths Act 3 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles
- Reduced the likelihood of rare out-of-memory crashes on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles
- Fixed an issue where the title would occasionally become unresponsive after losing focus on the Game Wind
User Experience and User Interface
- Fixed a rare progression blocker after defeating the boss while an Ethereal Ally remains in The Order of the One Light Act 2
- Fixed a black screen blocking progression after performing certain actions and resting at a Short Rest at the same time
- Fixed Revives by Short Rests failing to fully replenish health in multiplayer
- Updated the conditions menu to include more conditions
- Fixed Icewind’s name UI persisting on the HUD upon returning to Kelvin’s Cairn after the boss fight on PlayStation 4
- Fixed game menus shifting to the right by 3 and highlighting all the panels in between after using LB + RB in the game menu
- Fixed game menus shifting to the right by 3 and highlighting all the panels in between after using LB + RB in the game menu
- Fixed the “The Reward Chest is Empty” prompt rarely remaining on-screen when approached in a multiplayer session
- Fixed a spelling error present in the lore text for Catti-Barbarian brie’s Diplomat Leg Guards
- Fixed a spelling error present in the lore text for Drizzt’s Dragonsbane Piwafwi
- Fixed a spelling error present in the lore text for Catti-Barbarian brie’s Diplomat Leg Guards
- Fixed a spelling error in the subtitles for Wulfgar’s State Objective banter in Zone A2 of The Fury of Icewind Act 1
- Fixed a spelling error in the subtitles for Wulfgar’s Start of Map banter in The Fury of Icewind Act 1
- Fixed missing text for Wulfgar’s Captive of the Abyss 3-piece set bonus
- Fixed missing text for Wulfgar’s Captive of the Abyss 3-piece set bonus
- Fixed the Teleporting message remaining on screen after the player character is revived while being tethered to the party leader
- Fixed the Merchant/Map hints becoming permanently stuck on screen when opening the character menu before they are triggered
- Fixed the inverted Tab section headers in the Combat Power details panel in the Character Sheet
- Fixed the Party leader UI marker persisting on previous party leaders when transferred within an Act
- Fixed the Credits scrolling at an inconsistent rate when viewed in an aspect ratio other than 16×9 in Windowed Mode
- Fixed character portraits remaining darkened on respawned heroes until they are revived After the player character leaves an encounter, the objective markers are fixed and remain visible. After failing to connect to a session when all sessions were busy, the UI incorrectly informed players that they were in a public session. In The Crystal Wraiths, the fixed pressure plates in the shrine puzzle remain lit after the puzzle is solved.
- Fixed combat stats not updating when an ally changes characters
- Fixed “Charmed resisted” not being displayed in the UI when an enemy resists the Charmed Condition
- Fixed the Short Rest icon’s on-screen position changing depending on the title’s screen resolution throughout the title
- Fixed some consumables not being displayed in the UI when an enemy resists the Charmed Condition
- Fixed some consumables not being displayed in the UI when an enemy resists the Charmed Condition
General Fixes
- Fixed Dual Edge Strike not reducing cooldown timers when used from Aether Slash
- Fixed Wulfgar’s Primal Instinct animation not playing if used while blocking
- Fixed Bruenor’s taunt not working while blocking
- Fixed Catti-animation brie’s not playing when using Healing Spirit while blocking
- Drizzt’s ultimate could be used multiple times if used near an enemy with a Globe of Invulnerability
- Sphere of Darkness was frequently unable to hit enemies
- Fixed enemies regaining full health from player character abilities while in multiplayer
- Fixed the acid damage buff from Catti-Vertical brie’s Sting Down not adding acid damage to attacks while in multiplayer
Cinematics - Fixed the effect of the Verbeeg Trap ability being delayed if the user is aiming when they walk through it
- Fixed the effect of the Verbeeg Trap ability being delayed if the user is aiming when they walk through it during the 5 second countdown to start a mission
Conditions - Conditions no longer deal damage multiple times per second depending on the number of players in the session after enemies are afflicted in multiplayer
- Fixed conditions triggered by player attacks incrementing the counter when applied to enemies
- Charmed enemies now deal Friendly Fire damage Death, Revive, and Force Respawn are now possible.
- Fixed players being able to continue reviving their teammates after their player character’s health points are down to 0
- Fixed allies being revived by only briefly holding down the revive button
- Fixed reviving a teammate not being interrupted when under a control-affecting state or when falling unconscious
- Fixed the camera moving through terrain when force respawning Enemies and allies
- Fixed low-resolution textures on Catti-common brie’s and uncommon Cold Resistance helms
- Fixed Catti-Battlehammer brie’s Princess Bracers stretching and misaligning Hazards
- Fixed the Lightning Runes Hazard active window persisting after the explosion effect occurred in The Goblin’s Shard Act 1, Crystalline Dreams Act 2, The Crystal Wraiths Act 1, Act 2 and Act 3, The Mask of Kelvin Act 2 Level Design and Art
- Fixed instances of excess, missing, and invisible collision in The Goblin’s Shard Act 1, Crystalline Dreams Act 2, The Crystal Wraiths Act 1, Act 2 and Act 3, The Mask of Kelvin Act 2
- Fixed a rare issue of graphical corruption on the ground in the first encounter of The Crystal Wraiths Act 1
- Fixed Roots not being destroyed when hit by Catti-ranged brie’s attack
- Added a missing switch for an elevated platform in the fourth encounter in Companions of Icewind Dale Act 2
- Fixed defeated enemies not respawning after being defeated
- Fixed player characters falling through the map if another player is in the same respawn location as them.
- Fixed player characters respawning where they were before a tether after falling into the death plane.
- Kessel’s headlights were fixed, despite the fact that he was still a Total Party Down in The Order of the One Light Act 3 Merchant.
- When unlocking new Useables while the Persuasive feat is unlocked, the full gold price is now paid.
- Wulfgar’s backwards evade animation no longer pops after dodging to the sides has been fixed.
Progression - Improvements to the Trials of Tempus Tutorial: Removed a progression blocker that prevented the objective ‘Eliminate the cultists to stop their sacrifices ritual’ from being completed in Crystalline Dreams Act 2 Tutorial.
o During the Trials of Tempus Tutorial, Wulfgar’s Cross-check heavy attack now counts as a heavy attack o The Perform a 4-hit combo objective now counts all combos
o Performing a jump attack during the Trials of Tempus Tutorial now counts as a jump. o Jumps performed in rapid succession now count as jumps during the Trials of Tempus Tutorial.
o Fixed unlockable Fierce Attacks not counting in the Trials of Tempus Tutorial VFX o Catti-backwards brie’s dash now counts toward the “Perform a Dash” objective in the Trials of Tempus Tutorial - Fixed the icicle VFX for Frost Giant attacks displaying incorrectly on Xbox One
- Fixed the Duergar Bomb damage and VFX sometimes being out of sync
- Fixed the secondary VFX explosion and damage area on the Frost Giant’s Grind Swipe attack being out of sync
Will there be more expansions for this game?
Not sure on that, sorry. I’m sure if this one does well then there will be.