Better Multiplayer

Changelogs

Duelist Event Network

Version 2.1.0 - May 12, 2026

  • New: Covenant system foundations are in place.
    • Multiplayer participation now rewards two new currencies: Jar Coins and Tarnished Severed Fingers.
    • Spend them at the Roundtable Hold jar shop or trade with White Mask Varré for multiplayer-focused items.
    • Example earn rates:
      • 1 Jar Coin for helping a host to beat a boss.
      • 2 Jar Coins for defeating an invader as a hunter.
      • 2 Severed Fingers for killing the hunter as an invader.
      • etc.
  • New: Free-aim deadzone can now be disabled via the “Manual Attack Aiming” setting.
  • New: Team colors are now displayed in arena team match mode.
  • Significantly improved overall game and mod performance.
  • Reworked item restoration: “O’Jar of Plenty” has been replaced with a better system that tracks items used during a match and restores them when you use “Regressive Grease”.
  • Duel mode in arena now automatically triggers “Wondrous Physick” use at the start of each match.
  • Ghosts have been fully removed from the arenas.
  • More multiplayer fog walls have been removed.
  • Fixed several bugs around boss defeats and persistent session connections:
    • Beating the boss and dying simultaneously no longer causes a softlock.
    • Progressing through the game no longer triggers desyncs.
    • etc.
  • Fixed incorrect bounding boxes in the arena.
  • Fixed performance issues in the “Grand Library” map.
  • Fixed a session cleanup bug that was allowing faster rejoins in invasions and arena matches.
  • Matchmaking level ranges now more closely mirror vanilla behavior.
  • Fixed a Colosseum matchmaking issue when matched with someone in you blocklist.
  • Fixed an invalid starting class error display in the stats tracker.
  • Steam SDR initialization has been overhauled to reduce desyncs and improve connection stability.
  • Hardened launcher auto-update security.
  • Added self-diagnostic checks for common launcher issues.

Version 2.0.2 - January 13, 2026

  • Fixed Torrent desync and an issue where he had a role name.
  • Changed hunter selection to pick randomly from the server’s pool instead of always choosing the first available.
  • Added recent invasion history to reduce repeated invasions against the same hosts.
  • Fixed a race condition that caused some phantom types to ignore limits in certain situations.
  • Added 1v1 duel maps to the arena, vanilla maps will put you into DEN Maps according to this mapping:
    • Royal Coliseum -> Dueling Square
    • Limgrave Coliseum -> Crystal Lake
    • Caelid Coliseum -> Seaside Arena
  • Made custom 2v2 respawns work in Brawl mode as well.
  • Fixed issue preventing Rune Arc from being used in the arena.

Version 2.0.1 - January 10, 2026

  • Added a feature that prevents phantoms from being sent back home after killing the boss in co-op sessions.