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Lauren Morton

Dark and Darker devs apologize for buggy playtest, but I for one am glad I torrented it

Dark and Darker - a wizard casts purple magic missile bolts and skeletons in the Ruins while a bard plays a lute.

After the game was pulled from Steam due to an ongoing legal fight with Nexon, Dark and Darker's developers decided to go underground, asking players to torrent the latest playtest. Shocking probably no one, that didn't make for the most logistically sound weekend. "We want to apologize for all the bugs, instability, and hurdles that you had to endure during this playtest," Ironmace CEO Terence Park posted in the official Discord server today.

The weekend was indeed fraught with hurdles, from the initial torrent download link getting pulled first from Discord and then Twitter, two subsequent hotfixes that were also distributed by torrent, and some lengthy server downtime on Saturday. All that on top of the normal bugs, PvP imbalance, and crashing you'd expect from an online game's alpha test.

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