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Extra Extra! Dragonia News No. 21
A new tome of the Dragonia's Newspaper has been released, read it and know more about the world of Dragonia
Polishing the Pumpkin Tower v216.1
Pumpkin Tower change(s):
• [Adventurer's Soul] has renamed to [Abominous Soul] (Icon has been redesigned)
• All Pumpkin Heads' has been recoloured
• Added [Ghost Mount]
• Added [Aracnom Earrings]
• Added [Aracpum Earrings]
• Added [Aracbaz Earrings]
• Added [Crying Soul]
Added new achievements:
• Great Escape
• Bone Remains
• Solving Puzzle
• Carve a Pumpkin
• 6th DarkStory Anniversary
• Ghost Tamer
The Fair event has ended, we've removed all the stuff related ([Jimbo] will be around there for a few days for players who had no time to claim rewards)
Added a new equipment bonus that increases Poisonous Damage
Pumpkin Tower:
• Stage 2: Gloomy Cemetery
- The mole health points will be fully regen when entered to this map
- Experience reward has been increased from 7000 to 8000
• Stage 3: Pumpkins' Maze
- Timer has been increased from 400 to 720 seconds
- Experience reward has been increased from 10k to 12k
• Stage 4: Lair of King
- Experience reward has been increased from 10k to 12k
- [Abominous] will now summon more frecuently
Added new premium equipments:
• Pumpkin Shield
• Gray Pumpkin Shield
• Shonen Pants
We've improved the icon design of the following equipments:
• Kitty Shield
• Jack-o-lantern
• Royal Crusader Shield
• Chef Uniform
[Shonen Uniform] price has been decreased from 350 to 300
We've fixed some of the typos' reported, thanks for your help!
Fixed an issue that caused follower enemies stop follow players
Fixed an issue that caused some tombs from Gloomy Cemetery didn't drop bones
Fixed an issue that caused some map animations didn't show
Fixed an issue that caused some aggressive enemies stop following players
Fixed an issue that caused players can not trade skull amounts higher than two thousand
Happy 6th Birthday DarkStory!
The day were DarkStory celebrates another one year since the first alpha version was released,
Join DarkStory to unlock the exclusive "6th DarkStory Anniversary" achievement, only available up to next Saturday.
Happy 6th Birthday DarkStory! 🍰
PS: Don't miss the next november's posts related to anniversary celebration on discord group
HALLOWEEN UPDATE
We've improved the performance when player swap items of inventory (Update speed performance)
We've improved the following quest dialogues:
• Making a Elixir
• Aracnos' Training (Spanish only)
Holy Rain buffs' will now shows duration timer
Halloween Tower rework:
• We are working in new dungeon rewards, please be patient and wait for the next client revision
• Has been renamed to Pumpkin Tower
• Tracks' interface has been removed
• Party can now leave tower in any of the first three stages (With exception of final phase)
• Tower Entrance:
○ We've redesigned and resized this map
• Puzzles' Room:
○ We've redesigned and resized this map
○ Puzzles will now change randomly in every try
○ Puzzles difficulty has been increased
○ Party Leader can now choose which puzzle to reboot
• Gloomy Cemetery:
○ We've redesigned and resized this map
• Pumpkins' Maze:
○ We've completely redesigned this map
○ [Abominous] are now inmortal (Only for this map)
○ Added [Aracbaz] and [Aracnom] enemies
○ Weve' reworked the spiny snake way
• Lair of King:
○ We've completely redesigned this map
○ We've improved the [King Morburn] combat skills
Added new achievements: (Currently under development)
• Hunting Aracpum
• Hunting Aracbaz
• Hunting Aracnom
• Hunting Abominous
Halloween Shop change(s):
• Added [Skull Shield]
• Added [Power Skull Shield]
• Added [Magic Skull Shield]
• Added [Blood Hatchet]
• Removed [Red Eye Candy]
King of the Hill's quest level has been increased from 25 to 46
Against the Abominous' quest level has been increased from 30 to 51
Pumpkin Tower change(s):
• Level requirement has been increased from 25+ to 46-56
• [Skull Shield] enhancement slots has been decreased from 7 to 6
• [Sweet Eye] has been renamed to [Red Eye Candy]
• [Pumpkin Arrow III] damage has been increased from 33 to 35
• [Pumpkin Arrow III] level requirement has been increased from 40 to 46
• [Pumpkin Arrow IV] damage has been increased from 38 to 43
• [Pumpkin Arrow IV] level requirement has been increased from 50 to 56
• [Abominous] change(s):
○ Level has been increased from 30 to 56
○ HP has been decreased from 40k to 32k
○ EXP has been increased from 100 to 3170
○ Physical and Magical defense has been decreased from 125 to 116
○ Damage percentage has been increased from 12% to 15%
• [Aracpum] change(s):
○ Level has been increased from 25 to 46
○ Damage has been increased from 48 to 92
○ Physical and Magical defense has been increased from 31 to 77
○ Target detection range has been increased from 1 to 3 tiles
○ Experience reward has been increased from 120 to 445
• [Aracpum] change(s):
○ Level has been increased from 30 to 51
○ Damage has been increased from 55 to 102
○ Physical and Magical defense has been increased from 43 to 98
○ Experience reward has been increased from 200 to 524
Bank can now be expanded up to 24 additional slots
Added new premium items:
• Basketmob Polymorphism
• Woodo Polymorphism
• Ghost Polymorphism
• Pumpkin Jr. Head
Fixed a visual issue that caused key setting didn't shows changes while editting
Fixed an issue that caused puzzles' sometimes didn't saved correctly
Fixed an issue that caused client suddenly crashes when player deposit a item into bank
Fixed an issue that happen showing the premium equipments of character on player information interface
Fixed an issue that caused inmortal creatures shown alert messages even if a player didn't attack they
Fixed an issue that caused cash inventory crashes sometimes
Halloween Event: Trick or Treat
We have prepared a new seasonal event to celebrate Halloween with all of you, in this event you can get candies to unlock prizes in the Slimo store in Esia City.
You can get [Halloween Candies] by defeating any creature higher than level ten.
[table]
[tr]
[th]Item[/th]
[th]Price[/th]
[th]Exclusiveness[/th]
[/tr][tr]
[td]x1 Malevolent Potion[/td]
[td]5 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]x10 Green Candy[/td]
[td]30 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]x10 Halloween Lollipop[/td]
[td]30 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]Halloween Candies Pin[/td]
[td]100 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]Pumpkin Shoes[/td]
[td]300 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]Endurance Halloween Scarf[/td]
[td]500 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]Spirit Halloween Scarf[/td]
[td]500 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]Agility Halloween Scarf[/td]
[td]500 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]Ghost Earrings[/td]
[td]1000 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]Specter Earrings[/td]
[td]1000 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]x1 Witch Winking Emoji[/td]
[td]1000 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]Toxic Pumpkin Head[/td]
[td]1500 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]Toxic Halloween T-Shirt[/td]
[td]1500 Halloween Candies[/td]
[td]YES[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
[Monthly Promotion] Lich's Helmet
OCTOBER MONTHLY PROMOTION
From the shadows, the most powerful necromancer of Dragonia are looking to train a new pupil, do you think you have the enough power to become a necromancer? Try your luck using the Lich's Helmet and unlock your darkness power, or maybe... die while try
Purchase a +1050 Game Card and get for FREE an incredible Lich's Helmet
[215.2] LOOT SELECTOR
Loot Selector:
We've implemented a new feature to make pick up loot way more friendly, this feature can be enabled on game settings.
• Default Pick up loot action will get all the stuff instead one by one
• Loot Selector allows player to pick up a specific item from floor or take all loot instead
Key Setting change(s):
• Added Save and Cancel buttons
• Improved the hotkeys' buttons picture
• Removed the auto-save functionality
• Take Screenshot default hotkey will now be F10 instead of F12
• Selected hotkey will now turn green
• Added Pins' List hotkey
Added log message when player drops an item from inventory
We've improved the code performance of drop and pick up items from floor
Insects' behaviour change(s):
• Insects will not be removed from inventory when player join game
• Fixed several issues that caused player lost more than one insect per time
• Insects will freed after 2 minutes (Can be improved with exploring upgrade)
Insects will not be removed from inventory when player join game
Added new premium items:
• Red Parasol
• Burning Sword
• Burning Bow
• Burning Daggers
• Burning Cane
Monthly promo price has been decreased from 60 to 50 [Patreon Coin]
Fixed an issue that caused hover visual effect of close button didn't show correctly on higher resolutions
Fixed an issue that caused server boosts' timer shows negative value sometimes
Fixed an issue that caused player can't move after using a teleport skill
Fixed an issue that caused currency menu sometimes shown blank
THE STATE OF DARKSTORY
I hope you are doing well! We make this post to talk about the state of DarkStory. I want to start by explaining how the development of DarkStory works. See, in BraveWolf, we are a team of twelve people, of which today only half are working on DarkStory, and here is the workload is distributed:
Four members mid part-time
One member works part-time
One member works full time
Being the only member currently working full-time on DarkStory, the project has become my only source of income.
With the above in mind, things have not been going well this year, our numbers have been low and even though we've tried different strategies, we are struggling to retain new players.
That being said, I don't want you to think that the intention is to stop the development of DarkStory, however, given the circumstances, we have to shift our focus and prioritize resolving issues coming from the feedback from those who are giving up on the game. We want to find whether it is because of bugs, limitations, or features.
With this new direction, we will not be able to continue releasing new content at the same speed as we have been doing over the past two years on Steam. We do want to provide a better game experience and better optimization.
Share DarkStory with your friends, so that we can grow together. Thanks to all the player for being part of this journey. Huge thanks to those who support us by purchasing Game Cards and support us on Patreon, you help us continue working on this great project!
[Monthly Promotion] Zombie Mole
SEPTEMBER MONTHLY PROMOTION
The zombie moles of the Gaia Cave are leaving its refuge to move around the world looking for partners to trade its digging work for food, but no worries, because its diet is now based on fishes and mushrooms. Don't miss the chance and get your own zombie mole partner.
Purchase a +1050 Game Card and get for FREE a mole partner skin: Zombie Mole
[215] BIGGEST INTERFACE
Added new premium promotion for September, read more here
Interface change(s):
• Drag and drop equipments from inventory to character interface will equip items automatically
• We've did small visual improvements for the Minimap and Quests Log interfaces
• Premium Inventory small visual improvements
• We've fixed the position of all the in game descriptions
• Increased the chat text size for all game resolutions
Fixed an issue that caused hover visual effect of close button didn't show correctly on higher resolutions
Fixed an issue that caused server boosts' timer shows negative value sometimes
Fixed an issue that caused chat fonts shows blurred on some resolutions
Fixed an issue that caused some buffs timer shows extremely long values