Today, we were thrilled to be featured at the OTK Winter Games Expo to share some exciting news! Our first major content update "Sisters of the Deep" is coming your way in early Q2 2025. It marks the first of our planned updates on our Early Access roadmap to our 1.0 Release. Please check out this video we premiered at the event with current gameplay and a short teaser for the upcoming update:

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"Sisters of the Deep" will be bringing massive improvements to the Dark Forest, notably an overhaul of four shrines, culminating with boss fights and new legendary weapons and armor. Athena has been watching your defiance on the Crossroads closely, and its time to face the consequences. Soon, she awakens the Gorgon Sisters within her shrine for a challenge like nothing you've faced yet in Dawn of Defiance. We're super excited to bring you this update, and we believe it will be a great start to addressing the features we've outlined for Early Access.

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Our Living Roadmap: Revealed!

Our living roadmap, which we've been revising behind the scenes using your player feedback, is now available! It lists 33 features we plan to implement before 1.0, along with the current status of those features in development. As you can see, Sisters of the Deep will be the first of five currently planned updates, each focused around biomes on the Crossroads. We are currently expecting to release updates in 3-4 month intervals, but we will officially set the expected dates for each update as we move along.

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To walk you through this announcement and the introduction of our roadmap, please check out this video from our Game Director Tony:

We hope these resources help set expectations for new and current players alike for our intentions in early access and provide transparency into our development as we go along. We will be updating this roadmap with new statuses as we make significant progress or release updates. We will be following up this information with more detail on "Sisters of the Deep" in coming months as we get closer to shipping.

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You can always refer back to our website to easily find this graphic and feature status. Visit: www.dawnofdefiance.com/roadmap

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If you would like to see past patches, visit our News page.