Painter Boss Paradise, Castle Crashers’ first new DLC since 2012, is out now, bringing with it custom characters, Steam Workshop integration, and an overall graphics refresh for the 17-year-old game.
Named after original Castle Crashers boss the Painter, the new DLC follows a pretty clear artistic theme. The DLC introduces Paint Junior as a new playable character, complete with a new weapon and unique magical moveset. Paint Junior is the first new addition to the Castle Crashers roster since Blacksmith and Pink Knight were added in 2011.
The meat of the DLC is the brand-new Painter Boss Toolkit–a feature that allows players to design their own custom characters and weapon skins. Players will be able to customize their character’s head, body, weapon, shield, portrait, beefy form, and Back Off Barbarian art, by using a template provided by The Behemoth. The DLC also integrates Steam Workshop for the first time, allowing players to explore and enjoy other fans’ custom creations.
Painter Boss Paradise comes with a handful of pre-loaded custom characters designed by The Behemoth’s art team, but the indie studio is encouraging fans to get their own characters into the game. Any characters who are uploaded in the first week of the DLC may have a chance to be featured on the studio’s next livestream.
The DLC also includes brand-new art for playable characters, weapons, and the world map, but players will have the option to toggle off the DLC at any time if they wish to go back to the vanilla Castle Crashers experience.
Players who choose not to purchase the new DLC will still get to benefit from a general update to the base game, including refreshes to art and animation, UI improvements, and a few other quality-of-life improvements. Check out all the changes for the base game and the Painter Boss Paradise DLC below:
Global Updates (Classic + Fresh)
The following updates are now present in the base game of Castle Crashers, in addition to the DLC version!
1. Main Menu Art
8 new background vignettes based on lore from the Castle Crashers universe have been added to the main menu!
2. Video Settings: Borderless Window Mode and Max Framerate
Windows users now have access to Borderless Window Mode in Video Settings. Windows and Mac users can now set a Maximum Framerate.3. Keyboard Settings
Magic macro binding options have been added for keyboard users.
4. Gameplay: Z-axis Hitbox
The size of the Z-axis hitbox has been increased. Your attacks will have a better chance to be “lined up”!
5. Gameplay: Health Potions
Main story solo play now has auto-heals enabled for Health Potions.
6. Green Knight Update
Green Knight is no longer allergic to all forms of juggling. What about Allergic Green Knight, you may ask? That’s a story for another time.
7. Art: Chainsaw Weapon
The Chainsaw Weapon now animates when held. WD-40!!!!
8. Art: Back Off Barbarian
All Back Off Barbarian character art has been updated. (Except Hatty because Hatty is perfect.)
9. UI and Menus
The Main Menu, Pause Menu, and Settings Menu buttons have been reorganized and updated.
10. Reset Stats Confirmation
The Reset Stats menu now has a hold-down confirmation when resetting character stats.
11. Attract Screen Update
The attract screen featuring the four base knights has been updated!
12. Steam Input Support
Steam Input Support has been added, supporting more controllers and official actions when editing.
13. Enhanced Rich Presence
Steam now displays player character, XP level, and bosses, in addition to area.
14. Legacy Bug Fixes
Various bug fixes have been implemented to enhance your beat ’em up experience! To the community members who have sent in bug reports over the years – thank you so much from our (actually smoll) big chicken dev team!
Painter Boss Paradise DLC Updates
The following features are only present if you own the Painter Boss Paradise DLC.
1. Character: Paint Junior
A brand new official character has been added to the Castle Crashers roster, complete with a new weapon and fresh magic moveset that can also be used for Custom Character creation!
2. Art: Playable Characters
All official playable characters in the classic Castle Crashers roster have new portraits and in-game art.
3. Art: Equippable Weapons
All equippable weapons from the base game have updated art.
4. Art: World Map
The world map has been completely redesigned for fancier adventuring!
5. Painter Boss Toolkit
An entire DLC toolkit has been added to assist in Custom Character creation! To learn more about the toolkit and download the character template, please visit beh.gg/PBP.
6. Manager Menu
In the “Manager” menu, players can enable DLC characters and override existing playable characters with Custom Character skins.
7. Weapon Skins
Custom Characters can toggle their weapon to be reskinned in the Weapons Frog via the Paint Brush. The weapon skin applied is always tied to the Custom Character’s art template. Only going to the Weapon Frog and choosing a different weapon or using the Paint Brush clears the Weapon Skin.
8. Steam Workshop Capabilities
The Painter Boss DLC brings Steam Workshop capabilities to Castle Crashers for the first time ever! Publish your creations if you wish to share them with the world, or download and enable community creations!
9. Behemoth DLC Character Collection
Enjoy an entire lineup of DLC characters created by our art team, in addition to some of the classic knight designs brought to the Steam Workshop! To get started with downloading DLC creations, you can find all of our Workshop characters here. Toggle them on and off at your whim! Make every enemy in the game Herbert! Save the princess as Ladderlad! Go on, now – Painter Boss Paradise awaits!
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