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FYI - Other localized blogs in other languages will be out in the next day. Unfortunately we had a lot of last minute items and some bank holidays in specific regions yesterday that delayed localization for those.

Team is looking into this.

Our goal with dungeons is that they are ideally four-player experiences. We like that being with other people shakes up your moment to moment experience. Even little things like "I'll go left, you go right" makes a dungeon run a more dynamic experience.

I totally recognize there are reasons for wanting to play solo. It can be a lot of effort to find other players between chat and Party Finder. Maybe you want the freedom to close the game without feeling like you let a team down. Others might simply like being able to control how much downtime is in between each dungeon run. Beyond all of those friction points - some players just straight-up prefer playing single-player. There are other activities (such as Bounties) that are good for single-player but for dungeons we want them positioned as a multiplayer activity.

As such we want to make getting in and out of parties easier, but we are not trying to accommodate players who want to play solo even when a group is open and available. The two-player minimum gets people over a lot of the initial mental hurdles. Our hope is that this patch may even promote more 4-player parties than before. Sometimes you finish a dungeon, one person drops out and you need a replacement. By allowing the remaining three people to run again immediately while being open to a 4th, this group may actually stay together rather than falling apart.

To further promote 4-player parties, we're also providing a bonus chest at the end of the dungeon for those situations. Rather than making 4-player a requirement to do the dungeon at all, we'll make it a bonus for filling the group out.

In addition to ordinary item drops the bonus chest has a small chance to drop set items. The chance is much lower than the primary boss drop. But if Lloyd Christmas were playing Immortal he'd know that I'm saying there's a chance.

As a side note - late in testing we identified an issue that the bonus chest would actually physically block you from being able to pick up items from the boss. As a band-aid fix we took all the loot from the final boss kill and put it inside the final chest as well. The downside is that it becomes a bit harder to tell what was a normal boss drop and what was inside the chest. Post-patch launch we'll look at trying to do a better job of differentiating the two drops.

It is not region specific. Blog updated to include the note that got left off.