Dauntless (Switch) patch notes

1.2.1 (9 April 2020)

New to Dauntless

Springtide is here, and the Shattered Isles are filled with pufflehops! Collect eggs and protect our furry friends in a new kind of hunt. To get started, talk to Bosun Markus.

Team up with friends to play through three rounds of challenges, earning carrot chips based on your performance.

You can also earn 50 carrot chips by completing any other type of hunt. Carrot chips can be spent in the Springtide shop to get unique cosmetics, emotes and more!

Quality of Life

Bug Fixes

Escalation

Behemoths

Weapons

Armour

Gameplay

Ramsgate

UI

Quests & Bounties

Misc

Source: official website

1.2.0a (30 March 2020)

Bug Fixes

Escalation

Behemoths

HUNT PASS

Source: official website

1.2.0 (19 March 2020)

New to Dauntless

Balance Changes

Weapons

Aether strikers
War pike
Sword
Repeaters
Hammer
Malkarion weapon legendary ability
Charrogg weapons
Stormclaw weapons: Sword, axe, chain blades, and war pike
Koshai weapons
Riftstalker weapons
Hellion weapons
Boreus weapons
Embermane weapons
Nayzaga weapons
Shrike weapons
Skraev weapons

Bounties

Bounties have been tuned across the board. Some bounties were overwhelmingly popular due to their ease of being knocked out in a single Escalation, and others were overwhelmingly discarded due to the number of hunts required to finish them. We've rebalanced the objectives with the aim of making bounty choices more varied and meaningful, rather than being herded to an obvious choice of what was most achievable.

Additionally, bronze bounties will be easier to complete than silver bounties, and silver will be easier than gold. Getting a gold bounty should feel good, but also be more of a challenge to complete. We'll be keeping a close eye on player choices through this patch, and making more adjustments as necessary.

Hunt Pass / Systems Hunt Pass Prestige Launches Alongside...

Behemoths

Quality of Life

Performance

UI

Bug Fixes

Stability

Fixed crashes that could occur when:

Behemoths

Weapons

Armour

Gameplay

UI

Quests & Bounties

Misc

Source: official website

1.1.5 (27 February 2020)

New to Dauntless

More newsletter subscription rewards. Subscribe to the Dauntless newsletter and you'll get more than just a badass sword skin. New subscribers will receive a bundle of 10 premium bounty tokens, 30 ace chips, and 5 patrol chests in addition to the Bound Fury sword skin. If you're already subscribed, check your email — the latest newsletter includes a code you can redeem to get the bonus supplies. We'll occasionally include codes in future emails too, so make sure you sign up!

Bug Fixes

Quality of Life

Performance

Source: official website

1.1.4 (11 February 2020)

Bug Fixes

Gameplay Bugs

Quality of Life

Performance

Source: official website

1.1.3 (30 January 2020)

New to Dauntless

Gameplay Changes

Wounded Status

Some status effects have obvious ramifications. "On Fire," for example, needs no explanation. Wounded? Not so much. We didn't do a great job of explaining that Wounded caused damage if you exhausted your stamina, and even if you did understand, it wasn't really something you needed to work around.

We've removed the old effect, and reworked Wounded to give it a stronger identity, with more obvious consequences.

While you are Wounded:

The counterplay to On Fire and Frozen is to spam dodge roll, but Wounded now forces you to both avoid taking damage and be much more judicious about how you dodge.

Wounded is still cleared the same way as before – by healing (including healing from lifesteal) or standing still for five seconds.

Kharabak Swarm

Previously, when Kharabak's Swarm was on a player, the bugs would randomly interrupt attack animations. It wasn't clear whether those attacks went through or were blocked, which gave a real feeling of randomness to the effect. This has been removed, and replaced with something that feels more immediate and consistent.

Swarm now prevents you from sprinting, and still applies the same small amount of damage over time.

Quality of Life

Performance

Bug Fixes

Hunts

Escalation

Source: official website