Snail Games has big plans for the upcoming MMORPG Dark and Light and wants to. The developers want the game to stand out from other representatives of the genre.
This starts with allowing around 100 players per server. Survival elements play a major role, and survival only makes sense if players cannot constantly encounter others who help them survive. However, the developers want to place great emphasis on interaction between players. This also applies to PvP.
PvP takes place on special PvP servers and will be quite harsh. Because, in principle, it will be possible to attack other players anywhere.
Open PvP with Full Loot
If a player is killed, others can search their corpse and take all the items they had with them. A respawn beacon should indicate to the player where exactly their corpse is located, so they can quickly go there to salvage some items. This sounds quite harsh, yet the developers want newcomers to feel comfortable in the game world and not be immediately deterred.
Therefore, discussions are currently underway on how to best introduce players to the game. So far, Dark and Light is a pure sandbox game. There is a backstory concerning the escape of the inhabitants of the planet Gaia to the new world Alpha, but there are no real quests yet. The developers want to give players as much freedom as possible and not restrict how they can experience their adventures in the world. However, a story with quests as a tutorial could be a good way to introduce players to the MMO.
A huge sandbox with only a few players
However, the focus is to be on the sandbox and survival elements. The world will be massive at 40,000 square kilometers, which means that encountering another player with 100 players per server will be a special event.
There is no skill cap; you can continuously develop your skills further and further. And you enjoy plenty of freedoms. Do you want to tame wild animals? Then do it. Do you want to build bases or cities? Then that’s possible too. Do you want to fight other players? Go ahead.
Dark and Light is set to be released later this year.
