[Dark and Light Pre-Early Access FAQ]

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Introduction

We're working hard to get Dark and Light ready for its Early Access debut. This thread will serve as a centralized location for the most pressing questions that we've collected from the community. If you have any questions that aren't covered in the FAQ, feel free to leave a comment. I'll keeping an eye on discussion here and on other channels and updating the FAQ accordingly.

Release Questions

When will Dark and Light be released and how much will it cost?
We don't have a solid date set just yet. Dark and Light was initially planned to launch in Early Access in late 2016, but we decided to extend pre-EA development to continue polishing the game. We'll be announcing a solid release frame and the discounted Early Access price in the near future.

Will Dark and Light feature Mac and Linux support at Early Access launch?
We aren't 100% on this just yet - PC is our primary platform for the Early Access launch, but we may be interested in looking into supporting Mac and Linux once we get PC totally sorted out.

Gameplay Questions

What kind of game is Dark and Light?
Dark and Light is an online sandbox survival RPG with heavy fantasy themes. Players will have the freedom to explore a massive world, master a wide variety of magic spells, tame wild creatures, and build their own settlements from the ground up.

Isn't this an MMO?
No. While Dark and Light's world is persistent, not session-based, and contains some gameplay elements, themes, and mechanics similar to those seen in MMORPGs, it is not an MMORPG in the traditional sense. You'll still be building up a character and upgrading attributes and skill trees in a persistent world, but due to the smaller server sizes and other nuances, we don't consider it to be an MMORPG.

How does movement and combat work?
Dark and Light uses third-person action-style movement and combat controls. Both mouse + keyboard and gamepad controls will be supported during the Early Access launch.

What classes can I choose from when I make a character?
There actually aren't any set classes in Dark and Light. There are two kinds of experience, character experience, which determines character level, and skill node experience. As your character level increases, you can assign points to various attributes (max HP, stamina, mana pool, etc.). Skill node experience is earned by completing actions related to a particular node, such as crafting items, creating spells, killing creatures, and more. Depending on how you play, you'll naturally level up your most-used skills, but you can eventually max out every skill, even though doing so would require a pretty sizeable time investment.

Will we be able to form guilds in DnL?
Yep! They're called Houses and they're pretty standard fare as far as guilds go. Any player can form a House with any number of other players. You'll have access to a House chat, special structures and items, shared privileges on storage units and tamed creatures, and more.

Are private servers available?
They are! You'll have the option to play single-player or join / host a private server with custom rulesets.

Technical Questions

What's the maximum server capacity?
Because we haven't held any stress tests yet, we haven't been able to determine an exact number. We'll be aiming for 100 players on official servers, but we'll be using the Early Access launch period to determine ideal server capacity and scale from there.

What are the recommended specs for running Dark and Light?
For the best experience, you'll want something comparable to this build, but less powerful builds (i5 + 960GTX + 8GB RAM for example), will be able to run the game just fine on low to medium settings:
OS: 64-Bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1/ Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i7-5820K 6x 3.3 GHz
Memory: 16GB DDR4 2133MHz (2x 8GB)
Video Card: GeForce GTX 1070 or higher
Hard Drive: At least 50 GB of free space
DirectX: DirectX 10

[chicaocao]

跳票 不需要 借口

[月色下的虚无]

可以，这很饼

[Oakvale]

Will there be guilds in the game?

[Deadlyarms]

any sea combat with boats and ships will be implemented ?

[DeanDaDaD]

Efficiency is life.The Conan Exiles will be coming!

[Overlord小骷髅]

I see the game introduction does not support Windows 10?

我看游戏介绍不支持Windows 10系统吗?
上面写了Windows7 Windows8 。

[wildrivers]

Game is out soon no videos over 2mins and few pics REALLY that it?

[wildrivers]

Come on looks to good to be TRUE keep my money see reviews

[76561198352010823]

Originally posted by 熊猫TV丶房间11987:

I see the game introduction does not support Windows 10?

我看游戏介绍不支持Windows 10系统吗?
上面写了Windows7 Windows8 。

Dark and Light supports Windows 10, that's an error on our part - I'll make sure that gets updated. Thanks for pointing that out!

[76561198352010823]

Originally posted by HerculesX:

Will there be guilds in the game?

Yep! They're called Houses and they're pretty standard fare as far as guilds go. Any player can form a House with any number of other players. You'll have access to a House chat, special structures and items, shared privileges on storage units and tamed creatures, and more.

[Wiborg1978]

Any close pre-alpha keys left?

[Skari]

@Horsejoke Mate, can you give an a bit more detailed esteminate launch time than 2017? and early? ... like... first january weeks ? last ? February? Cmooone bro. Cant wait

[Wikicreio]

It's possible to play singleplayer mode?

[KingofApples]

So cool! Any information on whether most the features for building land will be accessable as a singler player or will utilizing a guild/house be required? As someone who likes to do a lot of that sort of thing solo MMOs that have implimented features like that but require you to work with other players with no alternative have been a huge turn off for me.

[Ser Medieval]

Dang Horse, you're looking fancy as heck with that developer tag on. Looking forward to the EA!