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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.

It's been a while since we had a fun event with bonuses! Don't get bored, here they come! For the next three days only (12, 13 and 14 of September, 2014) enjoy these bonuses:

• Artifact Creation fee -20% (either requested personally or via a dealer);
• 20% reduction in upgrade costs via dealer. Your character must have full amount on hand and the funds will be returned after upgrade goes through;
• Damage vs Monsters: X 1.5;
• Combat Experience: X 2.0;
• Religion Experience: X 2.0;
• Clan Expreience: X 2.0;
• No durability loss in either PVP or PVE;
• Bounty mission rewards: X 2.0 (valid for missions started during event)

Dear friends, as you know we are fully supporting the http://darkswords.net/ game server. Announced changes imply a large number of new quests. Some of them have already been written and translated, and some - still in the process. Sad news that we do not have enough translators into English from Russian to finish them in time.

So, we don’t need simply to translate the quests, but also adapt them to English-speaking audience. We don’t need a word for word translation, but need the atmosphere transmission in order to the NPC will not talk every time in the same way.

If you want to make our progress faster and earn some platinum, please contact us [email protected]. For every 1000 characters including spaces (approximately 1.5 of Quest) we are willing to pay 10 pt. As a test task you had to translate the three quests from this page. Be sure to include your skype login or email, and brief info about yourself.

It's been a while since we had a fun event with bonuses! Don't get bored, here they come! For the next three days only (29th, 30th and 31th of August, 2014) enjoy these new bonuses:

• Artifact Creation fee -20% (either requested personally or via a dealer);
• 20% reduction in upgrade costs via dealer. Your character must have full amount on hand and the funds will be returned after upgrade goes through;
• Damage vs Monsters: X 1.5;
• Combat Experience: X 2.0;
• Religion Experience: X 2.0;
• Clan Expreience: X 2.0;
• No durability loss in either PVP or PVE;
• Bounty mission rewards: X 2.0 (valid for missions started during event)

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

It's been a while since we had a fun event with bonuses! Don't get bored, here they come! For the next three days only (15th, 16th and 17th of August, 2014) enjoy these new bonuses:

• Damage vs Monsters: X 1.5;
• Combat Experience: X 2.0;
• Religion Experience: X 2.0;
• Clan Expreience: X 2.0;
• Profession Expreience: X 2.0;
• No durability loss in either PVP or PVE;
• Bounty mission rewards: X 2.0 (valid for missions started during event)

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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