Jul 21, 2023

Closed Beta Test – Next Iteration of Expedition Event!

Shakes and Fidget - DarkwingDang Playa Games

You will have the chance to test this iteration of the expedition event for 3 weeks. You will start with level 1 but throughout the test the character level will increase twice, gaining +250 levels with each level up and the 98% bonus from the scrapbook will be unlocked.

The following features are still in development:

Tutorial
All graphics are placeholders and not final
Only two regions available

The mushroom dealer will not be available.

Find the changelog towards the last test and a general overview of all tasks and encounters in our help center.

Closed Beta Facts

We increased the number of participants to 1,000 and will provide a registration key in-game prior to the closed beta start. The principle will be first come, first serve. Once the limit has been reached, you won’t be able to create an account anymore. Some personal codes may be distributed on Twitch or YouTube, though. Keep your eyes open!

The next closed beta will start on Wednesday, 26 July 2023 at 4PM (CEST) and will be open for 21 days.

Jul 19, 2023

Update 17.0 and Hellevator Announcement

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Hello heroes!

Our NEW UPDATE v17.0 is available now! Here is a sneak peek at what's new:

o Twitch drops tempt you with exclusive rewards for each of your characters (will work from next Friday, 16 CEST)
o The Limbo Plain has been added to the Hellevator, along with new enemies and texts
o and much more

You'll find the complete list of new features, improvements and fixed bugs at the bottom of this post. *

Wait, there's more! The HELLEVATOR will open its infernal elevator doors on Friday, July 28, at 16 CEST. The final preparations are being made so that you will be able to visit the new Limbo Plain and bag big loot with your guild soon!

* Changelog 17.0:

New features

General

O Legendary Dungeon “Diabolical Company Party”
o New weapons with new effects and sounds, new items, new enemies, new intro
O Hellevator plain “Limbo”
o Enemies, bosses, graphics and texts
O Twitch Drops
o S&F Account can be connected with a Twitch account now
o You can redeem a new frame, a new achievement and different resource packs for your characters by watching the official S&F Twitch stream and receiving Twitch Drops
- Twitch Drops will be reset regularly, so they can be redeemed by characters again
The frames for characters can be enabled or disabled in the gameplay options
O Fusion of worlds
Implementation of initial preparations for world fusions
O Community button
o Will be displayed from level 20, is used to log in the character to the Community Portal
- Mobile app (portrait): community button is located at the bottom of the city screen
- WebGL: WebShop button can be clicked at the mushroom dealer
- WebGL, Steam and mobile app (landscape): community button can be clicked under the menu

Improvements

O Optimized balancing of the upcoming Summer Collectifun event
o Easier tasks
o Higher gold rewards
O Class icons
o Berserker icon changed based on community survey
o Decreased size of Battle Mage icon
O Character ID can be hidden in game options with an eye button now
O Changes to S&F Account
o Clear separation between “character” and “account”
o Login button is located within S&F tab of character selection now
o S&F Account works on beta server now
O Auto login behavior
o WebGL: players remain logged in if auto login is ticked in character options and login data are not deleted when refreshing or closing the website
o Steam and mobile app: auto login is automatic, login data are saved, and the auto login tick was removed
O Optimized visibility of server starts
o Countdown and redirection to character creation can be accessed with a button above character selection now
O Buttons that lead to the S&F Community website and the WebShop are also located on the landing page now
O Changes to Terms and Conditions

Fixed bugs

O Maximum damage reduction of Demon Hunter’s armor is displayed as 50% again instead of 25%
O The following pet requirements will be tied to the runtime of the Legendary Dungeon from next year:
o Easter: Earth pet 15 (Forror)
o Birthday: Water pet 17 (Cannoturtle)
O Dungeon
o Key requirements are correctly displayed now if already completed
O Fortress
o Resources gained from upgraded woodcutter’s hut and quarry are always correctly displayed now
O Inbox
o The latest guild or raid fight that hasn’t been watched yet and is not older than 24 hours is correctly displayed in the city now
o Fight messages are correctly overwritten now
o Fight messages have a glow effect after the fight icon again
O Hall of Fame
o The Hall of Fame for pets displays a player’s correct number of pets now
o The ranks of characters and guilds with an underscore are correctly displayed again
O S&F Account
o A forced logout of the S&F Account no longer leads to duplicated guild chat messages
o After creating an S&F Account via SSO, the option to add an email address is no longer displayed if an email address has already been added
O Display bugs
o Lucky Coins are instantly credited after watching the Flying Tube
o Fixed item descriptions in the character screen
o NPCs in the tavern change their facial expressions again when interacting with them several times in a row
O When switching characters, the features selected last are reliably displayed again when clicking buttons that lead to a different feature when clicked again
O After watching a guild fight in the city, you are correctly redirected to the guild instead of the inbox again
O Empty slots in the inventory no longer trigger the wrong interactions of slots behind → concerns shops and the toilet
O The deletion process of characters that are connected via SSO is successfully canceled after entering the code and closing the screen without logging in (e.g. via Facebook)

Steam

Improvements

O You can contact support in the game options via a QR code now
o The button under the QR code redirects to Helpshift via the browser

Jul 11, 2023

Alternative Feature for Daily Tasks

Shakes and Fidget - DarkwingDang Playa Games

We've been thinking about how we can make the checklist and the secret mission of the day more interesting and less monotonous. With more variance and a goal to work towards, we believe that motivation can be increased to devote oneself to daily tasks and to no longer view them as a necessary evil.

The Concept of Daily Tasks

We have set the following requirements for ourselves in the development of the event:

The checklist and the secret mission of the day should be completely replaced by the new feature.
The tasks of the checklist should remain.
Every game feature should be depicted and packaged into tasks.
There should be fixed, daily tasks, as well as randomly generated ones with various goals, which should be comparable to the secret mission of the day.
The rewards of the daily tasks should be based on the "secret mission of the day" and also scale with the heads of the Hydra.
In addition to the daily tasks, there should be varied tasks that the player can fulfill over an event period from Monday to Thursday each week. This should give the player the opportunity to work towards something and make the gaming experience more varied. These tasks should mostly have an overarching theme.
The rewards of the event tasks should depend on the respective event. However, the player should be able to earn another beer if enough tasks have been completed.

Here you get a small glimpse of the tasks that can be completed: {LINK REMOVED}.

Jul 7, 2023

Producer's Note #13

Shakes and Fidget - DarkwingDang Playa Games

It has been a while since server merges were discussed and enthusiastically announced. Due to the challenges we had to face during and after the backend migration, the topic of server consolidation fell somewhat into the background.

We are all the more pleased to announce that we have not been idle over the past few months and have been working on a concept together with community representatives. Now, as the first test merges look promising, we would like to provide you with more detailed information.

The goal of the server merges is clear. After 14 years, naturally older servers are not as active and by merging these servers we hope to ensure more rivalry and activity in the daily gameplay for the players who are still active there.

Concept

Next, we briefly introduce our concept. Both technical aspects and aspects to ensure fair competition have been taken into account:

General

Any number of servers can be merged.
All characters will be transferred to a new server, the following rules apply:
For each origin server, one character can be played on the merged server.
Characters below level 10, which have not been active for a year and for which no money has been spent, will be deleted.

Character Names

In the case of multiple characters with the same name, these characters will be renamed. The following conditions apply:

The character's name can be renamed once at the first login according to the usual rules.
The rename is possible by using the old character data + old game world for a certain period of time to log in. If a character is connected to an S&F account, the login is done via this.

Guilds

Guilds will be transferred, provided there are still members after the character deletion (see above), but they must have a unique name.

If several guilds have the same name, these guilds will be renamed and can be renamed once by the guild leader.

The guild's honor corresponds to the old honor, but can be at most as high as the smallest honor value of a migrated top-1 guild.

If a guild leader is deleted, the officer with the highest level becomes the new guild leader; if there are no/further officers, the guild member with the highest level becomes the new guild leader.

Hall of Fame

The calculation for the Heroes' Hall of Fame is as follows: Honor/2, but at most as high as the honor value of the top-1 player of an old server with the lowest honor value.
For all other Halls of Fame, the honor of the old server is adopted.
The income that can be earned per day through Hall of Fame battles is limited to 100 million gold to prevent abusive behavior when multiple characters of a player have been moved.

Communication

On servers where a merge is imminent, a pop-up will be displayed daily for a certain period, pointing out the server merge. In addition, there will be an in-game message.

On the day of each server merge, a world will be frozen at midnight. As soon as the work in the background is completed, the characters on the new server will be released again.

Which servers will be merged?

We will initially merge all US servers and the Canadian server. This is likely to happen at the end of July.

We will merge the aforementioned servers in a test merge, with the origin servers remaining parallel so that a data comparison is possible.

Creating a new character will not be possible on the new server during the test.

Important! We reserve the right to make changes to the concept if it should be necessary for compelling reasons!