News

2007-01-26: Cursed Regions (Updates)
In game there are regions which are dangerous to life. In these regions your character will lose on 1 % of life for each 2 seconds. At present, cursed regions are: the Flame River (fire burns your legs and heat melts your armor) and the Poison Brook (poison gas is dangerous to your health).

Enhanced Monsters
Due to an outbreak of pure magic at Magic Barrier area theres been following changes for about 1/20th of the population of worlds inhabitants. You might now meet monsters much more difficult and rewarding than you ever had seen. Its to our demise they are using their strength and only the strongest, or most protected or vigilant will survive. Now we introduce you to a whole new hell of enhanced monsters.

These include:
- The Vampire - that will stockpile damage as their health;
- the Champion - triple as tough and strong as noone;
- the Fanatic - who is a zealot of his cult and thus not afraid of anything;
- the Possessed - whos demon controls and bestows unnatual health on the host;
- the Death Aura boss - which diverts all damage done to it to the attacker;
- the Spectre - which is transparent and will flee thru teleporting;
- the Absorb Aura boss - which averats two thirds of damage dealing same to the attacker;
and many more to come.

With the command auto_focus it is now possible to establish a mode of automatic use of skill Focus of Attack in fight
2007-01-24: Light Client (Updates)
A light game client with some limits of your characters game play and general abilities has been introduced to the game.
To get full access please download the full and latest game client version. To access the light game client select and press Enter on the top of the page.
2007-01-23: Platinum Purchase (Updates)
A new option to buy platinum is now available. You can purchase platinum through our new purchase through credit card system. Platinum Purchase For more information about this contact players with Dealer/Trader status to the right of their nickname.
2007-01-22: Underground Tournaments (Updates)
This weekend there will be a series of underground PvP tournaments. We encourage all players to participate in this event. Prizes will be given to the winners! More details on forum.

Time schedule:
Saturday 26.05
15.00 GMT for levels 280+
16.00 GMT for levels 140-179
21.00 GMT for levels 260-279
22.00 GMT for levels 100-139

Sunday 27.05
15.00 GMT for levels 220-259
16.00 GMT for levels 75-99
21.00 GMT for levels 180-219
22.00 GMT for levels 50-74

NOTE: more details about the tournament on forum
2007-01-22: Mail and Invisibility (Updates)
You can send mail to any player even if he is not online. They will get the message next time they log in. To send mail use the compose "recipient" "message" command. The cost of one mail is 5 pt.
If someone has sent you a mail you will get a notification when you log in. Use mail command to read it.
To avoid detection through player list use invisible command. For the cost of 10 pt your nickname will disappear from the player list for one hour

Official Personal Artefact web site:
http://www.darkswords.net/pindex.php
2007-01-22: Studying of characters and monster (Updates)
A new option in game called: “Examine”. It is used through the magic menu but will not interfere with use of any current fighting spells.
“Examine” enable you to learn a lot of information about monsters (everything from their parameters and down to quantity of money and chances of drops), but only if you have killed enough of monsters of adequate level.
2007-01-19: Victory Day (Updates)
In celebration of the defeat of fascism in World War II the gold and experience point rates are increased (to 3x and 2x normal amount respectively). Also, the chaos zones today become religion war zones.

Added nomelee command that toggles nomelee mode, which allows user to select whether they want their character to use physical attacks or not.

Made fixes to magical damage elemental differential modifier, burning damage, protect, riposte, and monster religion skills. Some monsters will no longer have their abilities being set randomly, and some other ones has had their parameters boosted.
2007-01-15: Runaway Prison and soccer balls… (Updates)
Today (01.05.07) there is going to be a small quest for high levels.
Background information: Runaway Prison has escaped from Prison and managed to steal football balls from FIFA Federation. FIFA Federation has placed a bounty of total 100.000 gold on his head. Soccer balls have to be found and returned, so the championship will go as planned. Everybody who is online will get one official euro football as appreciation from FIFA Federation in case of success.
Time: At 21.00 GTM (London time), Runaway Prisoner will appear at Travelers Well and make his way to Port Zarijam.
Mission: It is essential that he is stopped before he reaches harbor and escapes once again on a boat.
2007-01-05: Backstab Fix (Updates)
Fixed a bug with Frenzy affecting backstab damage. Anyone who spent any Reset Uses has received an additional one.