Dark and Darker Wipe: When Is The Server Wipe? Times, Dates and Reset Explained

The Early Access Wipe #1 Update will commence at August 28, 2023 7:00 PM. When the patch starts, you will not be able to login to the game and players in-game will not be able to enter the matchmaking pool during this time. Players in a match or in-game will have 30 minutes to complete the match and exit safely. The servers will return to full service 2 hours 3 hours after the start of the patch.

All character levels, items, gold, and skills have been reset. This first wipe occurred much sooner than we expected due to challenges we faced from exploiters. We have learned from this experience and have updated the game and our services to be more robust against these adversaries. In the future, it is our hope to have more time between the Early Access wipes and to give more ample notification.

We also want to let you know how we plan to use this Early Access period going forward. We will be doing frequent balance updates during the upcoming weeks as we adapt and learn from your feedback. We hope that together we can find the right sweet spot in supporting multiple paths of having fun.

Finally, we are thrilled to announce the return of VoIP. We hope you enjoy screaming to your hearts delight in the dungeons.

Patch Notes:

Developers Comment: We have decided to revert the spell attribute ratio back to 100% after realizing that a universal nerf to all spells in this manner was too broad a change and made it difficult to easily gauge the effectiveness of bonus magic stats on items. We have reverted the change and will attempt to use a more surgical approach to spell balancing in the future. As you can see, this update we have started with a slight debuff to the Wizard’s Zap spell to try testing this approach. We will continue making changes to more spells in the upcoming weeks in a similar manner.

We have also decided to try a new approach to the healing items which we hope makes it a little more palatable for solo and newer player players while still hopefully reducing the need to bring in an excessive amount of consumables. Bandages will still only apply to recoverable health, however we hope they have more application through the increased amount of recoverable health you keep. Potions have been updated so they heal for a set 15 HP and the duration is variable now based on the grade.

Finally, we have started some general balance changes to the Bard and some weapon changes. We believe the Bard is still in a fairly strong position and wanted to reduce the upper end of some of their more powerful songs. We understand that we may have gone overboard with the nerf hammer and we’ll also look into trying to make some of the more underused items a little more viable. We have started with some of the most unpopular weapons and will continue on this path for the foreseeable future.

Original Story Follows - Throughout your time playing Dark and Darker, you'll have your characters go from zero to hero. By extracting from dungeons successfully, you can build a stronger loadout of weapons and armor helping you be even more powerful in your next run. As a result, new players end up getting seriously outpaced by more established PvP opponents. The upcoming server wipes will see this change.

A feature rather common in seasonal games like Rust, server wipes involve a wholesale reset of all your characters' progress. In some cases, player-made base structures are also cleaned off the map but of course, that's not applicable to Dark and Darker.

Each of your character's levels will be reset to zero. In addition to this, all of their skills and abilities will return to default. Any gold you have been lost post-wipe. Objects such as weapons, armor, utility items, trinkets, and consumables will also be gone from of all characters' inventories.

The good news is you'll still keep some of your progression. You'll still have any of the Bluestone Shards you've earned. Also, the Triumph Levels you've accumulated won't be wiped, at least in preseason updates. Although server wipes after this will take away your Triumph Levels.

Dark and Darker's first server wipe will happen on Monday, 28 August. This was communicated by the development team on the game's official discord channel.

There hasn't been clarification surrounding what time the wipe will happen. However based on the usual timing of Dark and Darker's patch implementation, the wipe will likely happen around 7 pm (BST).

Servers will be wiped at the start of each season. As it stands, seasons are set to last three months each. However, developers at Ironmace have said this timeframe isn't set in stone just yet. Dark and Darker is still in preseason at the moment, so an established wipe schedule has yet to be put in place.

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