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Dark and Light Fresh Screenshots/Gifs 6/30/2017(Closed Beta Hype) Dragons, Wildlife, Cities/Features
SerMedieval
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Let's jump right into it. The CBT has begun and we're finally treading some real ground with Dark and Light again.
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Dragons, Undead, Wolves, Goblins, oh my:
Bestiary:
New Feature - Bestiary (Like Ark's Bestiary System)
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It is turning out very very similar to Ark, which is just fine by me as I really enjoy Ark.
If this game gets proper polish and optimization I can see myself playing it for a very long time.
Fantasy setting? Check
Sandbox? Check
Nice graphics? Check
Dragons? Check
Taming Dragons? Check
Riding Dragons? Check
In terms of resource-gathering mechanics, the way we gather from trees and rocks functions differently in Dark and Light than in other games. We use magic to extract the resources from them.
The taming system is also pretty cool, if you're trying to tame a large creature such as a Wyvern or Dragon, you must first load grapples into a crossbow and repeatedly shoot it until you chain it down.
This usually takes a lot of people to accomplish so you'll have to bring a few other people. After it's chained down you'll have to mount it and fly it back to your base, where you can start feeding it with a trough to complete the taming process.
We're not yet sure how many large creatures this same process will be required for but the other creatures will most likely require the same or they'll have tranquilizer darts for us to load into the crossbow. The Bestiary features information like what food each creature likes to eat, so we'll have to feed the creatures at some point to tame it.
When the game goes into Early Access there wont be any race system per say, but you will be able to create characters like Humans, Elves, and Dwarves through pre-sets in the character creation. Like this:
Human:
Elf:
Dwarf:
For PVP content we know we'll have access to turrets, similar to Plant X turrets in Ark Survival. We'll also be able to create contracts with creatures like Goblins to defend our homes while we're offline. And on top of that everything is fully destructible so you'll be able to do some pretty insane stuff like conjuring a huge boulder to toss at someone's wall. Or morph into a wyvern to fly over their walls and cause havoc.
For PVE you'll be able to tame about anything and everything in the game, like the ones in a section of the bestiary below:
Horsejoke (Associate Producer at Snail Games) also relayed the information to us recently that there have also been some new additions to house spots. So hopefully we'll have plenty of places to build out of. You can interact with everything in Dark and Light's world. Even the NPCs in it's cities serve a purpose.
You can purchase and sell items to vendors to help you survive, gather currency from smashing barrels in the cities and other means.
There's a lot below the surface for this game, I've barely scratched it with this post. But hopefully it answers some of your questions, cause I'm running out of room