Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked Just Added A Festive New Quest With First Major Update

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Although fans are still waiting for the upcoming Warlock game, 2025 has already given us one new Dungeons & Dragons video game. D&D x Demeo: Battlemarked, which combines tabletop and video game elements, launched earlier this year, letting players enjoy a virtual dice-rolling experience together. It initially included two full campaigns and a few shorter adventures. Now, the game has received its first big update since launch, called the Holiday Patch. This update includes several improvements to make the game easier to use, as well as a new, temporary quest.

Battlemarked combines the world of Dungeons & Dragons with gameplay inspired by Demeo, offering a traditional tabletop experience. While our initial review found it enjoyable but a bit unpolished, several small updates have addressed some bugs since launch. Now, a large, free update adds new adventures, significant quality-of-life improvements, and further bug fixes for players.

Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked Adds New Holiday Quest & Improvements

A big update for Battlemarked launched on December 15th, adding new content for players who’ve finished the main quests. A limited-time side quest with a holiday theme has been added to the Crown of Frost campaign. You can start this festive mission by speaking with Dwelf Jollykeg at the Ramshackle Inn. Completing the quest unlocks a new holiday-themed skin for your dice.

This update includes a new side quest and several improvements to make the game easier to enjoy. A major change addresses player feedback about the single-player experience in Battlemarked. Instead of using pre-made companions, players can now create completely customized parties using their own hero profiles. This allows you to earn experience and level up your characters while playing the single-player campaign, if you prefer.

You can find a complete list of the bug fixes and improvements in the latest Battlemarked update in the official patch notes below.

Features

  • Single player uses all custom heroes instead of hirelings
  • One of each class of custom Heroes is automatically created when you create your first Hero. This will also happen the first time a returning player starts the game with this update.
  • Added a way to remove Heroes/Hirelings from the party while on the map
  • Old Single Player save files with Hirelings in them will load normally, please remove the Hirelings and replace them with Heroes if you want to continue that save using custom Heroes.
  • Added a way to adjust the turn order while on the map
  • Added a way to change who is controlling a Hireling in Multiplayer, both on the map and in level
  • The player can change/confirm their Hero’s secondary ability before being able to spend trait points. This choice is still permanent.
  • Added a new side quest to Crown of Frost with a nice reward
  • Added a way to copy the multiplayer room code to more easily share it.
  • Side quest givers and locations are now marked with blue ! and ?
  • Scrapping cards in VR now has a delay to prevent accidental scrapping of cards. Additional audio has been added for both VR and gamepad when scrapping a card.
  • Bonfires in the Frost Keep boss fight now interact with other elements as well
  • You can now manually rotate and inspect unlockable dice and baseplates in the Player Profile page on flatscreen.
  • Achievements, unlockable dice, and unlockable baseplates now show in a more consistent order.
  • Improved diagonal targeting of melee attack cards with mouse and keyboard.
  • All cutscenes polished and improved (more changes than you can count on your fingers and toes combined!)

New Quest:

  • Try out the new side quest by going to the Ramshackle Inn and speaking to Jollykeg to start it.
  • New card added as part of the new quest line!
  • Complete the quest and receive the reward!

Bug Fixes:

  • Overall Stability improvements
  • General performance improvements
  • Fixed a bug where text would not update properly sometimes when you change languages while in the shop
  • Trait point notifications on the party menu will be hidden after viewing that character sheet, until the next level up
  • Fixed bugs related to the ‘Confused’ Status Effect:
    • Confused units now only attack when adjacent to a target
    • They can’t attack while incapacitated (stunned, sleep, etc.)
  • Fixed a bug where the final boss of ‘Crown of Frost’ sometimes dealt damage to himself (stupid!)
  • Fixed a bug where boss levels of dungeons would sometimes not appear when playing a dungeon a second time in a session
  • Ice Troll Heart now always works correctly on targets other than yourself
  • Potion of Speed VFX now always plays on the correct target when used on others, and also uses the correct animation.
  • If a Hero possesses multiple traits that activate when reviving an ally, all of them will trigger properly now.
  • All forms of healing that revives a downed hero should now trigger traits that activates when reviving an ally.
  • Fixed a bug where ‘Prismatic Spray’ cards could sometimes disappear from your hand as you progressed through the game if you did not have the trait Prismatic Spray+.
  • ‘Lunging Attack’ and other similar attacks used by enemy units such as wolves should no longer displace the attacker.

Changes to Traits and Weapons:

  • The ‘Honed Instinct’ trait now works as intended, and the trigger chance has been changed to 10%.
  • The ‘Merciful Reaver +2’ weapon previously had a 10% chance to activate its effects, which was an unintended downgrade. This has been changed to always trigger to match the other versions of Merciful Reaver.
  • ‘Honed Instinct’, ‘Double Tap’, and ‘Extra Attack’ traits now operate independently rather than stacking, meaning if you have several of the traits you can get multiple follow up melee attacks if you are lucky. Furthermore, many of the melee attack cards can now trigger the traits.
  • The ‘Warborn Surge’ trait now only applies to non-props on the same team. Furthermore, it should now trigger for any type of melee attack, rather than just the basic melee attack and a select few cards.
  • Both ‘Combat Magic’ traits should now stack properly. The associated status effect icon has also been updated.

The cooperative dungeon crawler Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked is now available on PC and PlayStation 5. A new update launched on all platforms on December 15th.

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2025-12-16 19:16