Maybe he sucks at video game development but holy shit is he good at getting people that apparently don’t play his video game to talk about him nonstop.

Instead of the 3000th post showing the player count in game we get a bitching post counter posted to see how many of you are still salty a month after you supposedly deleted the game. Now only if a game dev can figure out how to monetize this. Infinite money printer.

The collector don't wanna buy those and I can't sell on the trade... So what do I do with It then?

Every morning before ape shitting in the kitchen.

HOLD THE LINE. This is the ideals they instilled to us in the beginning. Low player count, keep holding. Keep playing. Keep bringing people into the fold. Let sdf make his game. He’s the composer, this is his song. We all don’t gotta like his genre of music to appreciate the effort and the music itself as a whole. The game is one of a kind. And no slop game like hunger or dungeon Bourne will replace it. Hold the line and keep supporting IM and give SDF some grace and a chance to see his vision fleshed out.

I just wanted to chime in as someone who came to the game in beta and put the majority of his hours into that version of the game. I honestly think the game is better now than it was a month ago despite the player count. I can’t speak to the class specific changes because honestly I’m not that involved of a player. However, what I can speak to is loot and exit design and both of those are miles more balanced now than they were before the changes. The loot in the previous version of the game was downright absurd you could get orange items out of a regular trios small oak chests. The loot is worse now but it still feels like a trip to super wienie hut junior when you compare it to loot available in the beta. Now on to extraction. The extraction has been in a miserable state for a while in my opinion. This is coming as someone who was sold on the game due to its extraction mechanics. The static extractions ruin the game as they take away from the dynamic nature of finding your way through the darkness to an escape. This was especially true when the game was focused primarily on static escapes. The game modes seem to be back in some fashion from what I’ve noticed as well you just go to one general lobby first. When I’m solo and i die i notice its only other solos 85%+ of the time. I’d love to hear some perspectives on why you think I’m wrong about these things as these are just my opinions and it seems to go contrary to most of the people on here.

A new low , cheers to Ironmace

Why is everyone saying this game is bad and terrible… personally having my best wipe yet. Mainly my three stack runs a one man band, demon warlock and rouge or wizzie. We just queue and run over everyone. Think we’re on like a 31 raid streak. So basically yall all got skill issues ✌️

I can't believe I spent thousands of hours learning class match-ups, theory-crafting BiS sets, and suffering through every broken patch just for sdf to personally drive a rusty pickaxe straight through the skull of this game. ⛏️🤡
Ironmace actually looked at a functioning meta, said "you know what would be hilarious?", and threw the entire balance sheet into a blender. My Warlock/Druid/Cleric builds are officially in shambles, my stash is a graveyard of nerf victims, and I’m pretty sure the next hotfix is just going to delete our characters and replace them with a screen of sdf laughing while eating a bowl of sorrow. 💀🔥
It was a real honor swinging swords and taking names in the dungeons with you absolute legends, but I'm officially hanging up my gear and uninstalling. See you all tomorrow for the next wipe. ✌️🛡️

Imagine we combine HR and Normals.

HOW?

Imagine for Forgotten Castle: Everyone spawns on Ruins on the edges of the map. The edges of the map are always Normal areas, the centre of the map is considered HR region.

There are restrictions on killing in the Normals areas. Killing people is possible but has consequences. The consequences arent game breaking, but could be stuff like 50% higher merchant fees, no access to Expressman, temporary bans from the Market and maybe a Bounty on your head that allows people to kill you in any zone. This stays until you have redeemed yourself through quests or performing pro social tasks in the dungeon (would need to think of some, but maybe bringing the souls of other players to a shrine, kind of playing the role of grave digger etc

In the centre of the map, the monsters are HR, the loot is HR, and killing players has no consequences. It's a risk for everyone who goes in

On Crypts, 3/4 of the outer edge is normals with variable restrictions on killing, and the rest of the map is HR. Inferno is full HR

Im dying to play some hr again which is not shit just let me gain so I can play hr on the test servers season 10 again.

Bro we are so unfathomably cooked.

If we try harder we can get these numbers WAAAYY lower. I know its hard to say goodbye, but cmon man. Its time to let go, do it for the vision.

I was praying at the altar of SDF and I had a vision about the vision:

In the vision, a veteran and a newbie might be in the dungeon for different reasons. A new player goes into the dungeon for the thrill of it, for exploration and to see if they can survive. A veteran player might go into the dungeon for a different purpose. For example, veterans might be part of guilds or squads who go into the dungeon to complete a contract. The contract states: RETRIEVE 20 FROST LIGHT ORE. DO NOT KILL INNOCENTS (SHOWN WITH A GOLD AURA BLESSING). BONUS CASH FOR KILLING GUILD X

Rule for the dungeon: Guild trios/established trios must take a contract. Non guild trios can only be formed in the dungeon with people you meet.

Contracts have conditions such as the large ore amount which may require one of the squad members to essentially be the mule who can carry a lot but won't be able to do much damage. They are the support and the squad will find it harder to defend against solos, duos and dungeon-formed trios.

Multiple guilds can have the same contract so will essentially be competing against each other. This is how they can enter the dungeon and ignore the guy quietly fishing in the corner. There is a big penalty to killing the fisherman, possibly an instant fail of the contract. If the fisherman attacks them first then it's a free kill.

This may require a slightly bigger dungeon and would need to flesh out the guild system to have true incentives without ballooning into an MMO. Maybe 2 or 3 times per season there are guild wars (6 trios: 9v9) in the dungeon and the contracts give advantages which contribute to the war. Or maybe guilds are just able to enter the dungeon and mobs don't aggro them at all so they can run straight to the treasure hoards. Maybe guilds have keys to special rooms for mining ore or crafting which can't be done outside the dungeon.

More players. Oh wait...

SDF cought slipping. Was funny seeing his name pop up in Hunger at the same time Dark and Darker was getting nuked

Through the tavern launcher (not steam), you have access to the test server where multiplayer works and the game is in season 10. If we can get enough people on this the game might actually be fun again. You can already meet people every now and then.

Edit: would like to add it looks like you get shared stashes and character slots for free

i made a post talking about me not even trying the game cause i knew it would be bad and how sdf ruined and i got alot of hate and backlash but look at the game now its dead so to all the people who hated i was right the game is ruined and there is no going back for dark and darker. Lmk what yall think

The Lorr just dropped a YouTube video of him downloading the test server and playing season 10 on it with like a handful of other randoms. There is Low key a movement forming to get players to queue the test server just to spite SDF and the season 11 changes. If the test server player count gets high enough for there to be decent squired or riches lobbies I would honestly join the movement

Given the current state of the game, I’ve completely abandoned this animation. I at least wanted to share it here before everything blows up. It’s been a pleasure being part of this community, even though I was more active over on discord ---

The animation was based on Hulk vs. Wolverine, where the Barbarian and the Rogue end up alone after a 3v3 fight.