Updates

Quests for diseases
Now you can temporarily accept them from the ‘old’ NPC in the Traveler’s Well.

Kingdoms siege
Can be taken from Heralds, as it was before.

Quests: Marid’s Gift, Treasure Hunt.
Quests for shovels and Compasses are available in Desert region. Attention! Desert is a Zone of Chaos.

Elixir of Pure Fun
Quest "Dragon Mark" is available in the City in Clouds by analogy with the quest "Elixir of Pure Fun". The necessary scrolls are available in stores: City in the Clouds, City of Eternal Spring and Black City.

The Spirit of Five Spheres
In regions: City in Clouds, City of Eternal Spring and Black City is available repeatable quest "The Spirit of the Five Spheres". The quest is required to bring "Sealed Bottle", which is made from five different spheres, scattered around the world. After passing the quest you can be use the bottle. Quests in all cities are the same.

Rune of Destruction
In each of the seven cities is available quest "Rune of Destruction". The quest can be repeated one time a week. So you can either take it once a week, or every day in each city to get seven Runes per week. To finish it you should just do one step. The cost for quest varies depending on the city:

• Seastone - 100,000 gold
• Arkijah - 500,000 gold
• Ruby Fort - 1 000 000 gold
• City of Eternal Spring - 2 000 000 gold
• Black City - 2 000 000 gold
• Underground City - 3,000,000 gold
• City in Clouds - 3 000 000 gold

Don’t miss your chance to play first! Check the news for the primary fixes. All details HERE

The server will be shutdown for an update. Once offline, the server will be accessible again in 45-60 minutes. Release notes for the update will be published after downtime is over.

You probably know that we are working on a large content update, which will be the starting point for even greater changes in the game. But apart from that, we are also working on some client changes, few of them you might try. In the client 2.0.0.0, that will be released along with the update in early September. So, you will have to wait for a lot of the changes affecting the gameplay that we have not announced before. See details HERE

We would like to thank everyone for their help in testing of new version. We tried to take all of your comments and suggestions in consideration and are now happy to announce the immediate availability of new version for testing purposes. We strongly suggest to install this client app into a separate folder and uninstall it when the release version is here.

Changelog:

• It is now possible to resize World Map window {Beta1}
• The regions that haven’t been visited remain concealed {Beta1}, but you can reveal whole map by picking the relevant option in Game Login screen options menu {Beta2}. We would really appreciate if you tried playing without this option enabled to be able to test how good the map works
• The region your character is currently in will be highlighted on the world map {Beta1}
• Fixed an issue with map window showing grey square instead of any information {Beta1}
• User List window has been removed and pressing the button will open Chat Window
• We’ve replaced character pictogram with the old one {Beta2}
• It should now be possible to minimize chat window while leaving player list open to be able to use its features in main screen chat area {Beta2}
• The chat window search widget is now always visible. Pressing Ctrl+F will put focus onto the search field, pressing Esc will clear the search query {Beta2}
• The search feature will now search for query string in any position of character’s name {Beta2}
• When plotting a route or utilizing auto-walk feature a dedicated window for controlling the feature will now appear {Beta2}
• Fixed a number of issues with auto-walk feature {Beta2}
• Fixed issues with location tagging {Beta2}
• Fixed a whole slew of bugs that were reported during the testing of previous beta

You may download the beta-version of client app from here. Please report all found issues on the forums in the thread dedicated to this article.

On August, 12th Beacon of Death effects are being removed from the game. It will no longer be possible to use the relevant items or return to locations where these beacons were previously set up. Set Beacon and Return to Beacon will continue operating normally. It will no longer be possible to purchase Beacon of Death in a shop. Beacons of Death in players' possessions can be sold back to stores at their original price of purchase.

Platinum Heart now costs 1 Pt and Elixir of Repentance was removed from Artifact Alchemy and is now for sale in normal alchemist shops for 250.000 gold.

We are happy to present an update - the biggest in last 3 years of Dark Swords – to the content. All recent changes such as Cloud City update, new quest system and so on have actually been done as preparation for the upcoming systems overhaul. We would certainly love to do it all at once, but the plentiful Dark Swords mechanics and features are all connected in a living breathing game system and whenever you do something about one part of it, the rest may very well break. Rest assured this won’t be the end all be all update but it will help us start on a path of frequent and massive changes. Lots of work have been done to get this all ready, and the users as well may want to prepare for this update (see below) and try and understand the underlying reasoning.

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We'd like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who took part in testing of new client application. There've been many comments on the forums. We are going to draw obvious conclusions and withhold the release of new client until some more changes are made. We will still release new versions of client application based on the older source code, though. After we complete the changes deemed necessary by the public we will publish another beta for testing. Please note, if you have the opportunity to continue playing on the current beta version of client, this is really appreciated, please make sure to contact us about all and any issues you stumble upon when using it. Thank you for your active position.

A beta version of newest client revision 1.2.8.4 is available for public testing. We strongly recommend setting it up into a separate folder and remove the folder after the update is released officially.

Changes:

• World Map window can now be resized;
• The map is initially covered and areas require exploration to be revealed. There is a command \show_map that can be used to reveal whole map. It will be discountinued come Autumn;
• The region that the players character is in currently will be highlighted on the map;
• Changed the icon representing player character on the map;
• Fixed an issue with map going haywire and showing grey boxes;
• Removed "Players List" window. The button will instead open chat window.

Download the beta version of client application here.
Please let us know about any bugs or issues in the forums thread dedicated to this update.