Archive 2014

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2014-05-14: Development Update #1 (Updates)
We are continuing our work on the product and are proud to present the roadmap for features coming to the game in the nearest future. But first let’s talk about things that have already been completed:
By no means this concludes our plans for improving the game, though! There are some features coming up we’d like to share with you:
  • New type of in-game entertainment – “Challenges”;
  • New innate Dwarf ability – “Spiked Armor”;
  • Auto Drink feature: HP and MP thresholds lowered;
  • New familiars: mounts and transport;
  • Profession level milestones will cease to be simple presents and instead will be achievements with tangible achievement point rewards;
  • It is going to be possible to browse characters’ achievements via web site;
  • Brand new types of achievements becoming available;
  • New client application revision to be focused on your suggestions and feedback;
  • Each and every in-game quest to have its translation improved.
      This is nowhere near the full list of changes, just a small teaser of what’s to come. We are dedicated to bring the best experience to our players and will do so tirelessly.

      Sincerely,
      Administration,
      Dark Swords
2014-05-14: Prisms. Updates #1 (Updates)
  • Cost of the quest for Rune of Destruction increased to 200,000 gold;
  • Cost of Rune of Destruction at the Platinum Alchemist Store reduced to 2 pt;
  • All players who have bought runes for 5 pt will receive pt refund;
  • Fixed a bug where Prisms dropped from monster lvl < player lvl;
  • Minor chance correction for prism drop.
2014-04-30: Happy May Day! (Events)

May 1st through May 11th there will be a number of bonuses active on the server: no durability loss for equipment and weapons used in PVE and PVP alike, Double Damage Dealt to Monsters, Double Profession Experience Gained, Double Experience Gained, Double Religion Experience Gained, Double Rewards from Bounties. Furthermore, the Wanted Dead Quest will be running for whole days of 1st, 3rd and 9th of May, and the Dark Soul Quest will be running during the day of 2nd, 4th and 10th of May.

Apart from all this great stuff, all Momentary Artifacts recipe results bought during 1st and 2nd of May will have double the usual durability. Hurry and buy some!

Details:
Date Bonus
1st of May
  • Instant Artifacts recipe will have double the usual durability
  • No durability loss for equipment and weapons used in PVE and PVP
  • Wanted Dead Quest will be running for the whole day
  • Double Profession Experience Gained, Double Damage Dealt to Monsters, Double Experience Gained, Double Religion Experience Gained, Double Rewards from Bounties
2nd of May
  • Instant Artifacts recipe will have double the usual durability
  • No durability loss for equipment and weapons used in PVE and PVP
  • Dark Soul Quest will be running for the whole day
  • Double Profession Experience Gained, Double Damage Dealt to Monsters, Double Experience Gained, Double Religion Experience Gained, Double Rewards from Bounties
3rd of May
  • No durability loss for equipment and weapons used in PVE and PVP
  • Wanted Dead Quest will be running for the whole day
  • Double Profession Experience Gained, Double Damage Dealt to Monsters, Double Experience Gained, Double Religion Experience Gained, Double Rewards from Bounties
4th of May
  • No durability loss for equipment and weapons used in PVE and PVP
  • Dark Soul Quest will be running for the whole day
  • Double Profession Experience Gained, Double Damage Dealt to Monsters, Double Experience Gained, Double Religion Experience Gained, Double Rewards from Bounties
5-8th of May
  • No durability loss for equipment and weapons used in PVE and PVP
  • Double Profession Experience Gained, Double Damage Dealt to Monsters, Double Experience Gained, Double Religion Experience Gained, Double Rewards from Bounties
9th of May
  • No durability loss for equipment and weapons used in PVE and PVP
  • Wanted Dead Quest will be running for the whole day
  • Double Profession Experience Gained, Double Damage Dealt to Monsters, Double Experience Gained, Double Religion Experience Gained, Double Rewards from Bounties
10th of May
  • No durability loss for equipment and weapons used in PVE and PVP
  • Dark Soul Quest will be running for the whole day
  • Double Profession Experience Gained, Double Damage Dealt to Monsters, Double Experience Gained, Double Religion Experience Gained, Double Rewards from Bounties
11th of May
  • No durability loss for equipment and weapons used in PVE and PVP
  • Double Profession Experience Gained, Double Damage Dealt to Monsters, Double Experience Gained, Double Religion Experience Gained, Double Rewards from Bounties
2014-04-28: Platinum for an accurate translation! (Updates)
Hello! We'll pay 15 pt for each incorrect translation. And also for marking the places with no translation at all, including items, quests or client buttons. Just make a post in special topic at our forum to help us and make pt!

Screenshots and nickname are required.
2014-04-24: Weekend rates (Events)
The weekend is upon us! It's time to relax and have fun! We've enabled X2.5 rates on Damage vs Monsters, Gold dropped by Monsters, Experience Gained, Religion Experience Gained, Clan Experience Gained, Bounty Rewards, Quest and Tournament points.
2014-04-24: Prisms (Updates)
Prisms - special items which can be obtained in PVM or PVP in a random order. Each prism contains one or more different items. Prisms themselves are divided into three types: the most common is Blue Prism of Power, rarely - Yellow Prism of Might and the rarest - Red Prism of Majesty.
More info: HERE.
2014-04-23: Open Letter to Amber Games (Updates)
Since we've been advised by our law team to cease any communication with Amber Games until the court proceedings are over, we'd like to ask the players themselves to forward this message to Amber Games representatives.

It came to our knowledge that the people posting on behalf of Amber Games on their website of dubious legality published a news piece in an attempt to defame our company with accusations of hacking the users. It goes without saying, such aberrant behavior needs to stop immediately. We sincerely sympathize with those who have been affected by the hacks, since, you know, some of them we consider our users as well. We certainly don't want this situation to tarnish the reputation of Dark Swords as a whole.

If those "awesome" engineers employed by Amber Games go ahead and deploy an unstable server platform alongside with the out-of-date revision of game client which may have had known vulnerabilities, it is now absolutely the duty of theirs to sort out this situation and restore the belongings of affected users. Just like we did every time similar problems occured in the past. If you need assistance please feel free to contact our staff to help find the lost items and currency with the necessary tools such as log file analyzer.