Patch 3.2 | Endless Survival

Endless Survival

Your hero against everyone else's

Pick one of your characters and step into a floating arena. Your opponents are real 3D heroes built by other players, so no two runs look the same. Clear a wave, catch your breath for a few seconds, and the next one comes in bigger: more fighters, more health, harder hits and quicker attacks. How far can you get?

Play right away

No account or 3D hero needed

No 3D hero of your own yet? Pick one of the heroes the community made and fight right away, even without an account. Sign in to put your runs on the leaderboard, and when you are ready, make your own hero from a single image and forge it in 3D. If you pick one of your characters that has no 3D model yet, we take you straight to the forge.

Fight with style

Combos, launchers and air juggles

Your hero carries a new greatsword and shield. Chain three slashes, lock on to launch an enemy into the air, click again to leap after it and keep it up there with an air combo you can loop, then slam it into the ground. Dash in with a thrust when a target is out of reach. Every click counts: press during a swing, or right after you take a hit, and the attack is queued for the first moment your hero can move. Every blow lands with weight: the action freezes for a heartbeat and sparks fly, while the camera stays steady.

• Left click attacks, up to three hits in a row
• Hold right click to lock on to an enemy, Tab switches target. Locked on, the direction you hold picks the move:
• S + left click (away from your target) launches it into the air
• Left click right after a launch leaps after the enemy
• W + left click (toward a distant target) dashes in with a thrust
• Left click in the air starts the air combo, and keeps it going
• S + left click in the air (locked on) slams the enemy into the ground
• Space jumps, and cancels an attack into a jump
• X dodges in the direction you are moving
• On phones: on-screen buttons for attack, jump and roll, and a Lock button to hold for launchers. The health, wave and style displays shrink to stay out of your way

Style rank

From D to SSS

Hits fill your style meter and climb the ranks from D to SSS, from Drifter all the way to Legend. Mix your moves up: repeating the same attack earns less, the meter drains when you stop, and taking a hit costs you a big chunk of it. A higher rank means more points for every enemy you defeat.

Leaderboard

Wave first, then score

When your hero falls you see the wave you reached, your kills, your score and your best style rank. Signed in, every run goes to the Survival leaderboard on the 3D page. Ranking goes by wave, then score, and the faster run wins a tie.

Everything 3D in one place

One menu entry, one way in

3D Showcase, 3D Home and the test drive used to be spread across the menu bar, the account menu and your character pages. Now there is one entry, 3D, that leads to a page with everything on it:

• Play: Endless Survival with its leaderboard, Test Drive, 3D Home and the Worlds Showcase
• Make your own: forge a 3D hero from a character image, or turn one of your dndai.app images into a 3D scene
• Community heroes: the heroes players made, the same ones you face in the arena

Every mode starts the same way: sign in if you need to, pick your character and go. The picker shows each hero as a clean cut-out portrait. If you have just one character, Test Drive skips the picker. Old links still work.

3D scenes from the 3D page

Pick an image, get a world

You no longer have to find the image first. Hit Create a 3D Scene on the 3D page and pick one of the images you created on dndai.app. A tavern, a forest or a dungeon works best. About five minutes later you can walk through it.

Also new

• Community heroes now show as clean cut-out portraits on a stage instead of in-game snapshots
• Companions keep their own portrait when you forge them in 3D, and no longer replace their owner's
• Loading screens, tutorials, controls and other 3D menus now match the rest of dndai.app
• Zombies has been retired from the menu