Welcome to the 35th issue of The Archos Herald - your source for all the latest updates on Dark and Light’s development and community features!
Development Updates
We released a patch yesterday, Thursday 5/24, with some more optimizations to Archos. The big change in this patch was the adjustments that we made to decay timers. We know that there were many Adventurers in the past felt that they were too short, but that our past adjustment made them all too long. We feel like we’re starting to find a nice middle ground, and we appreciate all of the feedback that we’ve gotten on this topic.
There have also been some issues resolved on the Official Forums! Players that head over there should no longer have to login multiple times, and it should be an all around better experience. We’d like to thank Jessy, one of our modders, for giving us some support on addressing these issues.
I’m more than happy to announce that we have some more news on the Dark and Light Development Kit! As many already know, the Steam Workshop for Dark and Light is officially up and running. With this new addition, I’m happy to say that the Dev Kit build is stable, and is already being tested by our internal community of modders. These Adventurers are already cooking up some great content for the workshop, and we can’t wait to get the kit into everyone’s hands.
We know that this is coming out a bit later than we stated in the Monthly Development Timeline, and we’d like to thank you all for your patience and support as we fine tuned the kit. I spoke with our Lead Producer, Jimmy, to get a little more info on the kits development.
Erebus - “Alright so we’re finally here, it’s true that the build is finally good and stable?”
Jimmy - “Sure is! We sent it out to our internal modders yesterday to give us their feedback and really push the kit to it’s limits.”
Erebus - “ We have been trying to get this out for a while now, and it turns out that making this kit took a little longer than we expected. What were some of the real tricky parts of making this kit?.”
Jimmy - “The biggest issue honestly was that we just wanted to make sure it was done right the first time. We’ve had a kit that we could use since late March, but it definitely wasn’t refined or where we wanted it to be. With the help of the modders, we were able to not only able to build the kit together, but help each other understand the kit and make tutorials for it. We wouldn’t be where we are with the help of the great community. We know there is still much more we can do the make the Dev kit better but we will continue working with our modding community to make it happen. We’re just really excited to finally be at this point, and ready for our community to get their hands on it.”
We still don’t have an exact date for when the kit is dropping, but I can say that you should see it available for download next week. We’ll obviously let everyone know as soon as it’s live!
Tales From Archos
The ever-changing land of Archos is full of adventures and trials. Over this past week, we’ve continued to see and hear tales from Adventurers across the land. Here are this week’s Tales from Archos!
BeardsmanB25 fears nothing on the back of his Infurnus Dragon.
Just an Adventurer, Felix, and his hammer.
Hash shows us the start of what will one day be their great stronghold.
yskonijn might have one of the best views from his balcony in all of Archos.
Final Notes
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