Trivia / DNF Duel

• Author's Saving Throw: Several months after the game's launch, many players voiced concerns that the game wasn't going to get any support for the foreseeable future, leaving the game's competitive balance in a rather boring meta state with only a select few viable characters and optimal combo routes where one touch, even on block, resulted in nearly endless pressure due to a lack of good defensive options. As a gift to the players, in the holiday season of 2022, Arc System Works released a "Grand Balance Patch" containing massive system mechanic reworks, health and guard gauge buffs, and over 100 buffs to every character in the game. On top of that, they also announced a port of the game to the Nintendo Switch, and a Season Pass of brand new characters, the first being the fan-favorite Spectre.
• Colbert Bump: While it's not unusual for a licensed fighting game from Arc System Works to generate buzz these days, the fact that 8ing/Raizing is involved in the project caught the attention of several from the larger fighting game community since they seemingly disappeared from fighting games after the success of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. This resulted in DNF Duel attracting fighting game fans who had never even heard of Dungeon Fighter Online and were surprised to discover that the game is a Cash-Cow Franchise.
• Content Leak:
  • The game's entire base roster was accidentally revealed through a PlayStation Store listing a few months before launch, spoiling the existence of the Launcher, Swift Master, Troubleshooter and an unnamed unlockable character^note Lost Warrior. Not too long after that, a trailer leak happened (which seems to be the "Launch" trailer ^note and which also played at Gamestop stores according to some people), showing the rest of the base roster that had yet to be properly announced out of the abovementioned characters.
  • Someone with an early (PC/Steam) copy showed a few images of the full game in June 2022. These images revealed the aforementioned unlockable character in full. Eventually, his trailer did get revealed.
• Demand Overload: The first beta was subject to this, with very few people being able to play any matches and the servers going down for maintenance roughly 30 minutes after launch.
• Dueling Works: With The King of Fighters XV. Both games are colorful, fast-paced fighters poised for release in early 2022, and shortly after the reveal of KOF XV's second beta, Duel revealed the time for its own first beta—on the exact same weekend.
• No Dub for You: The game does not have an official English dub, and there are evidently no plans of adding one (though a mod that adds one exists for the PC version). The 3 language options that can be chosen are original Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Also, despite the game being developed in Japan, the character announcement trailers are voiced in Korean rather than Japanese, possibly to make the people aware that the game is based in an existent Korean-made game.
• The Other Darrin: All of the Japanese cast from DFO were recast with younger actors for this game.
  • This gets taken a step further with each character having their own voices in every language, even if they're the same character but different subclasses.

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