MMORPG.com Latest News https://www.mmorpg.com/ The latest content from MMORPG.com's industry leading editorial team. en-us Tue, 19 Mar 2024 07:14:49 -0000 Dark & Light Devs to Reduce Official Servers from 344 to 100

The Dark & Light Steam page has been updated to inform the community that servers will be consolidated from 344 official servers to 100 when the consolidation process is complete. The merging process will be completed in two phases. The first round will take place near the end of January to close completely inactive servers. The other will take place in February to consolidate low-population servers so "each server has a healthy population".

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Shard of Faith Content Expansion Launches in Dark & Light

Dark & Light has gotten a significant new content expansion thanks to the arrival of Shard of Faith. The action is set in The Dark Plane and includes a huge new map area and storyline for players to investigate. Players who already own the game will receive the expansion free of charge and new players can leverage a sweet $15 Early Access price tag and get started today.

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The Dark Plane is the First DLC Expansion & It's Coming This Summer

Dark & Light will be expanding with a beefy DLC called The Dark Plane later this summer. The new content will be included for all owners of the base game or purchasable as a standalone addition to the game. Players will be heading to a new location in the game to battle against "the mysterious Faiths" and to uncover "ancient secret rites to put the world back into balance".

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Dev Kit to be Released Tomorrow - Let the Modding Begin!

The Dark & Light page has been updated with great news for the modding commmunity: The Dev Kit is now stable and will be released to the community on Tuesday, June 5th. The kit will allow content creators to make things for Dark & Light that can be uploaded to the Steam Workshop for players to download and try.

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Optimization is the Goal Throughout Upcoming Patches

The latest Dark & Light update notes have been published. Players should notices several optimization improvements. The goal, according to the dev team, is to continue to make performance improvements throughout the month of May. In addition, players will also notice improvements to overall gameplay and that several issues have been resolved.

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Mistvane Shrine Challenges Players to High Altitude Battle

In the clouds above the Floating Isles, there is a prison called Mistvane Shrine that can be discovered by Dark & Light adventurers. Those willing to ride a conveyor belt into the prison will find it packed with "terrible creatures that could not be controlled". It will be a battle to the end, but a lucrative one for those who persevere.

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Latest Patch Fixes Tons of Bugs and Introduces a Few New Ones Too

The latest Dark & Light newsletter has been published on the Steam page. The purpose of the letter is to inform the community that the team is aware of newly introduced bugs and issues after the most recent patch. There are at least two more patches planned for March and the team is actively monitoring forum posts about issues players have encountered so that they can track down and eliminate the bugs.

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Exclusive Interview Explores the Scalding Abyss and the MMO's Future

Dark and Light may be in early access, but that doesn't stop Snail Games from treating the project like a live game. In this interview we discuss the Scalding Abyss, the latest big update, and how the project is working towards its hybrid MMORPG/Survival sandbox goals.

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Latest Patch Invites Players to Take to the Skies in Mobile Fortresses

A new content patch is in the process of being deployed that brings a number of content updates and bug fixes to the game. Most notably, however, players will also find the new "mobile fortresses" available. "Goblin engineers of Archos have been quietly working on a machine that would allow them to take to the skies." Players will need to unlock Rank 4 in Goblin Engineering in order to begin creating the new mobile fortress.

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Winter is Coming Today with Holiday Cheer & Content

Dark & Light players will be able to cozy up to the fire as snow begins falling across Archos. Major cities will be decorated for the winter holidays and wizened players can scout around for some limited-time gifts while there. In addition, the Reindeer Games hearken to Rudolph where players can catch an Elk with a bright red nose, saddle it up (thanks to special drops) and take to the skies! At the end of the event, it goes away unless purchased from town vendors.

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Master Builder Servers Coming to Promote Building the Greatest Structures Possible

The Dark & Light team has posted a new forum notice to let players know that a new server type, the Master Builder, will be launching later this week. It is designed to "promote building the greatest structures possible". US / EU / AS versions will all launch on November 30th.

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The Scalding Abyss High Level Dungeon Revealed

The Dark & Light Steam page has been updated with a further look at today's update that includes the game's second PvE dungeon called The Scalding Abyss. As the name implies, this is one hot dungeon as it is set within the volcano at World's End. Players will be facing off against a number of new enemies including the Ashen Fist Goblin, Molten Artificer, Emberling, Scalding Wyrm and the big boy himself, Bel'xahl the Scorched, dominion holder of the volcano.

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Blog Previews Changes to Chaos Servers, Announces Incoming Wipe

The Dark & Light Steam page has a preview of the next major content update that will be landing in game on November 16th. While all servers will be receiving an update, Chaos Servers are the main focus of the new post. Chaos servers are "in the very early testing phase" and are undergoing a number of changes due to player feedback and the team has more plans to further continue to tweak systems and features over time.

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New Chaos Servers to Provide Devs with Data for PvP Balance & More

The Dark & Light forum has been updated with a new post to reveal the first information about Chaos Servers, a new type of PvP-only server that will provide data and feedback for the dev team. As information is compiled, devs will "help inform PvP balancing and content development plans". There will be a number of changes on Chaos Servers, most specifically to experience rates, structure health and creature levels. Testing servers will be wiped once a month.

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Patch Spotlight - Gobboween Special!

Dark and Light's latest update brings the goblin festival of Gobboween to Archos! Learn about all of the special, limited-time creatures and items you'll encounter in the Gobboween Update!

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Ghosties & Ghoulies & Things That Go Bump in the Night Coming Your Way

Over the next weeks, the Dark & Light team will be releasing more information about big things coming to the game. Players can look forward to new town decorations that add a Halloween theme to any town or structure. Goblin candies, a Jack-o-lantern helmet, a new weapon called Fusil that can shoot silver or candy bullets, werewolves, Halloween goblins, elite Dark Reapers and a new Magicka base House Shield that keeps unwanted folks or hostiles out are also being added.

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Basics Series Continues with Info About Goblin Engineering

The Dark & Light team is at it again with the continuation of its Basics series, this time with a look at goblin engineering. Goblins are experts with technology in ways that no one else is. Do yourself a favor and check out the Basics of Goblin Engineering.

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Blackice Peaks Delayed Due to 'Last-Minute Complications'

The Dark & Light forum has an update for players who have been looking for the Blackice Peaks update that was supposed to have been released early this week. Due to "last-minute complications", the update has been delayed for the time being to address the issues. Associate Producer "Horsejoke" apologized for a failure to communicate and said that the team will be working harder and internal / external communications in the future.

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The Mysteries of Blackice Peaks Autumn Update Trailer

Snail Games has unleashed a new trailer showing off its forthcoming 'autumn update' that will bring a new biome, new construction abilities, new creatures and much more to the game. They call it a "chilling update" as the icy environs show to full advantage.

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Basics Series Explores House Management, Taming & Crafting

We've been a bit remiss this last week or so about bringing in the Dark & Light "Basics" videos that Snail has sent out lately. Making up for lost time, you'll find a trio of great stuff in the form of Home Management, Taming the Wild and Crafty Crafting.

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Today's Patch to Address Balance Feedback

Dark & Light is in maintenance right now to deploy a patch that is designed to directly impact community and player feedback about a variety of balance issues. Most notably, building strength will be increased as will certain protection spells.

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Basics Series: Earth & Beast Magic

In the final Basics video of the week, the Dark & Light team DIGS into Earth & Beast Magic. It's a terrific series designed to give new players a leg up in the game.

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New 'Basics' Video Explores the Damp World of Water Magic

Does the Dark & Light team rest!? Those busy folks have sent out yet another video in the "Basics" series, this time to explain the creation of and use of Water Magic. It's time to don flippers and DIVE right in!

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Game Play Basics - Fire Magic

The Dark & Light team is at it again with their Basics series. The latest video features a quick look at fire magic and how to create it. This video is the latest in a series of informational presentations to help players during their earliest stages of Dark & Light. Check it out!

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Nitrado Server Packages Starting at ~ $20

Dark & Light has an "official" server hosting option for players interested in a more robust way to keep a persistent server running. Nitrado is offering server hosting packages with several options for numbers of slots, FTP access, physical server location and at a variety of price points.

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Basics - Light and Dark Magic

The Dark & Light team is back with the latest installment of the "basics" series. Previous topics included harvesting and building. In the new episode, get the skinny on the uses for and dangers of Dark and Light Magic.

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It's Like the Ultimate Constructor Set - Building Basics Explored

The Dark & Light team has put out the second in a series of videos aimed to help the game's newest players get started in the world without stumbling around too aimlessly. In this edition, players are taught the importance of building their first house. Check it out!

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Today's Minor Patch Paves Way for Larger One Coming Soon

Dark & Light has been updated today with a small patch that addresses a number of technical issues including elemental creature respawn that appears to be causing lag or crashing servers and changes and improvements to Wall of Lightning to reduce serious lag issues. This update is laying the groundwork for a much larger update coming soon.

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Archos Herald - A Letter with Patches, Community & a Contest

The Dark & Light team has a cool update called "The Archos Herald" that will be a regular series to update the community about what is happening in the development pipeline as well as what is happening in the community, what contests may be available and much more.

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Massive Update to Address Optimization

Dark & Light is getting a massive update today that is designed to target optimization issues across a number of game features including game performance, world design, and system fixes. In addition, game features have been updated including items, creatures, defenses, cities and NPCs and the game UI.

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Global Mobile Version 'Tales of Gaia' Announced

Snail Games announced late last year that it was working on a mobile version of Dark & Light, but had only confirmed the Chinese version. However, it is now confirmed as a global mobile MMO that is "coming soon". The game's Facebook page has been quite active over the past month, revealing mounts, classes and more. On July 17th, the game finished its "Test Flight" with several key issues identified and addressed. The Android closed beta is scheduled to begin "soon".

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Early Access Impressions - It's Rough Right Now, But There's Hope

Dark & Light has finally arrived on Steam Early Access. It's one of those games a lot of people have really been looking forward to playing. While we truly believe that there is a good, if not great, game inside the current version, it just feels like Dark & Light should have stayed in development for a longer period of time before releasing into Early Access.

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Early Access Launch Trailer - Prep Yourself for July 20th

The big day is finally here. Snail Games has announced that Dark & Light will officially launch into early access on Steam on Thursday, July 20th.

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Brand New Feature, The Bestiary, Detailed

The Dark & Light Steam page has been updated with a new developer blog to show some of the work in progress that the team has been working on over the last little while. In this edition, a brand new feature called "The Beastiary" has been published to give players a look at some of the creatures they will encounter in the game. The team does give the warning that there are a few minor spoilers so read at your own risk.

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First Closed Beta Event Kicks Off

The first closed beta event for Dark & Light has officially kicked off. The team indicated via Twitter that the response from interested fans was overwhelming and that a second, larger closed beta event will be held in the future.

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New Video Spotlights Nvidia's Ansel Technology

During E3, Snail Games partnered with Nvidia to create a brand new Dark & Light video created using Ansel technology. With Ansel, players can literally take a screen, freeze time in game and apply filters, enhance the image and save it in a huge number of ways including panorama, wallpaper and "massive gigapixel" size.

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Closed Beta Sign Ups Open, CBT to Begin June 20th

The Dark & Light team has announced that closed beta sign ups for the first closed beta have opened up. Signs ups will be available from today through Thursday, June 15th, with the closed beta set to begin on June 20th. There will be a limited number of slots available to head over today to get signed up.

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Development Update - HUD & UI Polish

Snail games is offering a sneak peek at a few of the improvements that the Snail development team has made to Dark and Light, including new creatures and a brand new HUD/UI. Players interested in exploring and uncovering Dark and Light’s world, spoiler-free, may want to avoid the article.

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New In-Game Trailer Reveals 'Coming Next Month'

Youtube user "Victor Z" has posted a new Dark & Light trailer that indicates the game will be "coming next month" (to Early Access) in its final moments. The video features a number of in-game vistas and footage accompanied by a haunting score.

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Giving Magic a Unique Place in a Survival Game

The Dark & Light site has been updated with a new blog post to give fans a look at how magic will present itself in the game. The team is vested in making the use of magic unique to survival games. They plan to do this by taking elements from both RPGs and survival titles and "fusing" the systems together in a smoother, less common way than other games in either genre.

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New In-House Q&A Details World Building

The Dark & Light team has participated in an in-house interview with Director Shen Yan about how the game world is being built, his favorite locations in D&L and the overall process of design. Yan turns his eye to The Sacred Path, a location filled with twenty unique areas.

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Creatures Exhibit Features of Their Environment

The Dark & Light Facebook page has been updated with a brief post and a pair of screenshots showing off creatures that players can tame. One is the product of a volcanic location and is a fire-imbued catlike creature. The other seems to have a more rock-like appearance.

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Beta Delayed, Though How Long Remains Unknown

The Dark & Light team has posted a note on the games Chinese site that announces a delay to the start of the beta. While originally slated to begin beta testing in Q4 2016, a delay was implemented for Q1 2017. That has again been extended. If you use Google Chrome's in-built translator, you can read the announcement for yourself.

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Brief Update Reminds Us that Development is 'Going Strong'

In a brief -- no, really, we mean it -- brief post on the Dark & Light Facebook page, the team reminds fans that the game is still a work in progress and that "development is still going strong".

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https://www.mmorpg.com/news/brief-update-reminds-us-that-development-is-going-strong-2000092974 News Dark and Light Suzie Ford https://www.mmorpg.com/news/brief-update-reminds-us-that-development-is-going-strong-2000092974 MMORPG.com Tue, 07 Mar 2017 04:35:06 -0000
The Magical World in 15 Seconds

Dark & Light is a magical world, it is part of everything in it. On the Sacred Path, players will find the center of all the magic, things that make the world behave as it does. According to developers, there are 25 unique places to discover along the path, each with its own creatures, plants, resources and weather.

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https://www.mmorpg.com/videos/the-magical-world-in-15-seconds-2000112391 Videos Dark and Light MMORPG.com Staff https://www.mmorpg.com/videos/the-magical-world-in-15-seconds-2000112391 MMORPG.com Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:53:56 -0000
Hurts so Good

MMOs have spent the last decade heading down the ever-more-accessible theme park road, hoping perhaps, to “solve” the intimidatingly competitive aspects of old school games in the genre. Undoubtedly, that's been the developer's path to a healthy bottom line. Still, many a venerable RPG-er (and plenty of MMO newbies) hanker for a more dangerous role-play experience, and Snail Games' upcoming survival MMO Dark and Light plans to give it to them.

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https://www.mmorpg.com/previews/hurts-so-good-2000106218 Previews Dark and Light Neilie Johnson https://www.mmorpg.com/previews/hurts-so-good-2000106218 MMORPG.com Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:00:00 -0000
Building a Mighty Fortress - Learn How in New Blog

The Dark & Light site has been updated with a brief look at how construction of bases will take place in the game. According to the blog, a based can be constructed nearly anywhere in the world provided the right materials are collected in sufficient quantity.

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https://www.mmorpg.com/news/building-a-mighty-fortress-learn-how-in-new-blog-2000092646 News Dark and Light Suzie Ford https://www.mmorpg.com/news/building-a-mighty-fortress-learn-how-in-new-blog-2000092646 MMORPG.com Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:27:42 -0000
Gameplay Exclusive (Part 2 of 2)

Ripper stopped by Snail Games in Los Angeles for a first look at some exclusive Dark and Light Gameplay Footage!

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https://www.mmorpg.com/videos/gameplay-exclusive-part-2-of-2-2000112371 Videos Dark and Light MMORPG.com Staff https://www.mmorpg.com/videos/gameplay-exclusive-part-2-of-2-2000112371 MMORPG.com Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:47:00 -0000
Gameplay Exclusive (Part 1 of 2)

Ripper stopped by Snail Games in Los Angeles for a first look at some exclusive Dark and Light gameplay footage!

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https://www.mmorpg.com/videos/gameplay-exclusive-part-1-of-2-2000112370 Videos Dark and Light Ripper X https://www.mmorpg.com/videos/gameplay-exclusive-part-1-of-2-2000112370 MMORPG.com Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:52:18 -0000
More About Capturing & Taming Mounts

Snail Games has sent out a bit more information about how Dark & Light creatures can be captured and tamed. Over forty creatures can be captured and tamed, from the familiar to the exotic. Players can locate, capture and tame boar, elk, unicorns, dragons and others that are as yet unrevealed.

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https://www.mmorpg.com/news/more-about-capturing-and-taming-mounts-2000092571 News Dark and Light Suzie Ford https://www.mmorpg.com/news/more-about-capturing-and-taming-mounts-2000092571 MMORPG.com Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:57:34 -0000