Updates

Congratulations to Battousai with level 400! We give the first player on the server a unique gift and a set of gears for the 400th level! We wish all players to achieve new heights in DarkSwords.

• Fixed the function of Hephaestus Maul when repairing Momentary Crafted Artifacts.
• Fixed some of the bugs with messages that are shown after using a Dispel Magic.
• A number of changes aimed at speeding up server performance.

• Accuracy potions that have been on for 24 hours can now be sold for 15 millions of gold;
• For the fulfillment of the task, the Mortal Enemy is now being given gold again, but due to changes in the calculation formula, gold is given less than it was before the latest updates;
• Now, on working days, for the fulfillment of the task, the Mortal Enemy is given 1 Valor with a chance of 50%, on weekends - 2 Valor with a chance of 100%;
• The duration of Insurance Contract effect no longer decreases when the character is out of the game or in peaceful zones;
• The "Outlaw" status shall no longer be removed when killed by a monster
• The "Outlaw" status remaining time will stop going down when in a Clan Castle, and might even go up;
• When the effect is Outlaw, the player activates religion even if there are three skulls;
• When an Outlaw effect is obtained, all players over the 100 level are informed of the place where this effect is obtained;
• Now you can buy new tasks on the Bulletin Board with a certain reward, even for players 360+;
• Quest "Heresy" deleted;

• Fixed the malfunction of the ability 'Extreme Metabolism'.
• The ability Titanic Might raises the base of character's carrying weight by 2 (maximum is 264 + level of the character).
• The bug of modifier on Momentary Crafted artifacts was fixed.

A lot of controversy over the big update. Lots of resentment or joy. I would like to sum up the results and hear the opinion of the players after several days. The result of the survey will affect the further development of the project and the priority of development.

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Due to increased evidence of 3rd party program use and breaking of the game rules, that proclaim of a user playing active and independent,with genuine regret we have to implement the following measures:

• The fossils, that were retrieved by the character are visible and can be peeked up only by him/her.
• The plants that were gathered by the character can also be seen and peeked up only by that character who found them.

Updates and fixes:

• The skill 'Sleight of Hands' can be used on a territory of Personal Shops and Exchangers, but only if the user is fighting with the target.
• The 'Free for All' stage in the tournament was extended on 1 minute.
• Character's HP and MP regeneration is not reducing when they are starting a fight.
• The temporary solution was found in displaying of damage parameter of elf-characters.
• Zodiac items can no longer be repaired using by the Welkin Hammer.

• Increased the amount of gold from monsters for players with an inactive religion (3 skulls);
• Fixed a bug due to the fact that it was impossible to pick up objects from a character’s corpse;
• After finish Bulletin Boards quests now gives 1 Merit for characters up to level 200, 2 Merits for characters up to level 300 and 3 Merits for characters level 300 and up. Store assortment and prices will be revised soon;

• The price to change a clan leader is 1,000,000 gold pieces. The money should be in the clan bank.
• Promoting someone to Second-in-command now costs 200,000 (used to be 20,000).
• Leaders and second-in-command officers of clans, which are in an alliance that controls a kingdom, receive unlimited ability to teleport to the capital region of their domain (can be found in Magic window) if they hold the kingdom for more than 7 days.
• Characters who have raised 540th guild level get the opportunity to leave their mentor by thanking him. The cost: 5,000,000 gold pieces 2,500,000 of which will go to your mentor.
• Married characters should no longer gain Criminal status when defeating their significant others.
• Added weight encumbrance check for character when buying set of potions.
• Fixed a few errors with region/kingdom control bonuses.

Today at 20:00 by server time, the DarkSwords client will be available on Steam. This client can be launched simultaneously with the client downloaded from the game site. Steam, unlike WindowsStore, is available in all versions of Windows, starting with Win7.

We do not expect too many players, but, nevertheless, we ask you to respect the newcomers in the game and help them with advice and actions. We will be very grateful to you.

• The Golden Potion Shop is now selling sets of buff potions. The price displayed in the shop is for the set of 10, 5 or 3 potions (e.g. Feline Grace x10 = 1 tourney point).
• Based on what was said above, Heroes Luck can also give a set of buff potions as a random prize.
• In Artifacts Alchemist shop instead of Injections you can now buy sets of 60 Perfect Life and Mana Potions, the price of the set: 1 pt. Some other elixirs are also selling in the sets.
• The cost of some recipes was raised.