Ironmace, the developer of Darkish and Darker, launched the primary replace for the sport’s first alpha take a look at, together with a variety of fixes and tweaks to content material.
The sport, which has been faraway from Steam attributable to a authorized dispute with Korean writer Nexon, is at the moment being examined by its group with downloads supplied by way of Torrent. To obtain the replace, you need to discover the hyperlink on Twitlonger.
Nexon definitely appears to be preventing towards this distribution technique, because the tweet that contained the unique alpha has been taken down attributable to a “report from the copyright holder.” That being stated, the torrent remains to be accessible on Discord (pinned within the Communuty-Bulletins channel).
On Discord you too can discover a description of what to anticipate from the patch and a set of replace notes.
In our rush to point out off the Ruins map we moved just a little too rapidly and pushed it out earlier than it was totally prepared. We realized we’d like extra time to get it to the usual you anticipate from us. Because of this, we now have determined to check it as its personal experimental stand-alone locale, just like the Goblin Caves. We want your assist to check out the map and provides us your suggestions so we are able to higher incorporate it into the sport sooner or later.
The experimental Ruins could have an identical Survival of the Fittest ruleset just like the Goblin Dungeons, aside from events as an alternative of simply solo adventurers. Now we have eliminated the steps to go down and solely escape portals will seem for the strongest or most devious adventurers to outlive. As a result of elevated depth of the brand new Ruins map, we’ve tuned the steadiness so the loot attained from this map will now be higher than the primary flooring of the Regular issue Howling Crypt dungeon. The loot from the Regular Inferno dungeon will nonetheless be higher than the loot from the Ruins.
Because the Ruins will turn into a stand-alone locale, the Regular dungeon mode will return to the unique Crypt all the way down to Inferno format present in our earlier playtests. We might have additionally gone just a little overboard with the brand new lighting schemes as we have been excited to make every of the brand new settings have a special really feel. We are going to proceed to experiment with the lighting and visuals sooner or later however for now we’ll return to a extra basic fantasy look as they higher match the tone of our present monsters down there.
We’ve additionally added the return of Valentine to present testers a neater technique to take a look at among the higher-grade objects as a result of vastly decreased drop charge for this playtest. We’ve additionally fastened some annoying bugs and improved the steadiness a bit. We apologize for the dearth of polish from this playtest in comparison with earlier ones and promise to make use of this as a studying second. We are going to proceed to work on fixing bugs and enhancing steadiness at some point of this take a look at. Thanks as soon as once more for all of your assist.
- ‘The Ruins’ has been modified to a single layer dungeon.
- The ‘Regular’ and ‘Excessive-Curler’ dungeons in ‘The Ruins of Forgotten Fort’ are renamed ‘The Howling Crypts’ and return to their earlier look.
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers might get caught in infinite matchmaking when no server record was chosen.
- Mounted a difficulty the place Bard’s Tranquility was not correctly therapeutic gamers.
- Mounted a difficulty the place Arrows and Bolts couldn’t be offered within the store.
- Mounted a difficulty the place Jokester, Holy Aura, Slayer might stack unintentionally.
- Mounted a difficulty that might trigger the lantern to stay lit whereas sporting it on the waist.
- Blue gentle has been modified to yellow gentle. – Fog has been faraway from dungeons.
- Relaxation now solely restores well being that may be recovered by resting.
- Achilles Strike length modified from 2 seconds to three seconds, motion pace discount modified from -40% to -10%.
- Defend Slam motion pace discount modified from -10% to -20%.
- Looking Traps now have elevated length and talent checks are triggered extra incessantly.
- Japanese can be used once more.
The alpha take a look at will proceed till April 19.
Just lately, Ironmace has shared a big batch of paperwork concerning the improvement of Darkish and Darker to bolster its case towards Nexon, however we’ll have to attend and see what’s going to occur going ahead. In the intervening time, followers can not less than benefit from the alpha take a look at.