Playtest #4 is live today in 1 hour for a week!

Larger list of updates, early access confirmed April-May

@everyone, We would like to share the updates for the Dark and Darker Alpha #4 Playtest.
There are also many minor changes that we weren't able to document everything here. Have fun! 🙂

**Alpha Playtest #4 Changelog**
# New Features and Updates
- New Gathering Hall System - Hang out at the Gathering Hall and build the perfect dungeon party.
- New Karma System - Rate your fellow allies after your adventure. Beware! Scoundrels and deviants are unable to participate.
- New VoIP - In-game voice chat to interact with other adventurers.
- New experimental Goblin Caves for a solo adventurer experience!
- New Trading Channel QoL features.
- New Report system to help us round up and punish the wicked.
- New Cosmetics
- New Weapons - Short Sword and Quarterstaff,
- Some Unique Weapons have been greatly improved.
- Attack animation improved for the War Maul, Double Axe & Battle Axe.
- Weapon attack animations now do more varying amounts of damage.
- New Armors for the 'head' slot.
- New 'Sanctuary' spell for the Cleric.
- New Ore and Craft Items.
- New 'Valentine' NPC.
- The secretive 'Goblin Merchant' now sells mysterious wares.
- An improved party invite system.
- Added bundled items to the merchants.
- Added Flavor texts for more immersive game mood.
- Added a new Tokyo Region + preliminary Japanese localization - first draft.

# Balancing
- Moved the starting spawns from the edge of the map to the interior and added more variations to test.
- 2-handed weapon attack movement penalty has been reduced.
- Added +1 base stat point to 'agility' to the Cleric to normalize the class with all other classes.
- Rebalanced the Wizard's starting stats.
- Added a projectile damage falloff system where damage slightly decreases based on distance. Currently the effect is very small.
- Plate armor improved to give more bonuses,
- Lightfoot Boots, Regal Gambeson and Templar Armor are a little slower.
- Rapier damage slightly buffed.
- An installed Pavise can now be knocked down by an attack.
- Buffs for many of the less frequently used Perks and Skills.
- Wizard's 'Light' spell now removes the 'Hide' status. Does not remove the 'invisibility' status.
- Increased the duration of an installed campfire but the recovery effects per tick has been reduced. You will need to sit at a campfire for a longer period compared to the last playtest for the same recovery effects.

Way over 100k players at most given times

Voted yes. Honestly this forum needs to get rid of inactive game sections and add active ones.

Devs seem really reliable for the game so far.
Hotfixed alot of issues during this playtest so far, 3 times already in 3 days.

Playtest will probably get some form of minor extension, hopefully.
I’m sure the number of unique players this playtest will eclipse 500k

Bump, another hotfix today was done.
Hoping for an extension of the playtest so I can play some more since I have to work 4 12s and missed more than half the playtest 😫

Seems like a fantasy version of the cycle, and the cycle is pretty good, support but might as well wait for the game release.

Early access is only 2 months or so away, if it releases at the hinted time of late April/early May.

I think my brother played The Cycle, he called it “Space Tarkov”

I like to consider this game a mesh of Dungeons & Dragons, A Battle Royale & Escape from Tarkov all rolled into one.

They still have alot of work to do but they have been putting forth the effort and listening to the suggestions of the player base (their discord is pretty big).

I wish Paul would do an overhaul on all the games that don’t get any form of attention at all. So many dead sub-forums that just have 20 threads with 100 bumps. Could easily just condense all the nonsense games into the other games thing.

This post was edited by straightedgerevenge on Feb 11 2023 01:49am

Another game for sn4il to scam in..gg

Good to know you still think that I am some scammer, best check your own accounts history and stop spamming threads in sub-forums that don't need spam

Bold of you to assume i was talking about you m8

Ill just post pm proof if you insist though instead of spam