Data Mining Ice Caves, Frost Giants, and More | Dark and Darker

[Music] [Music] hey what's going on Gamers it's Ryan 6 days a week and I hope you had an awesome holiday season and a start to your New Year in this video today we're going to be going over some data M finds with renderings that relate to the upcoming ice Map update for those looking for a spoiler-free road map styled video I will have that out either tomorrow or this weekend and it will cover the most recent developer Discord statements as well as review The Darkest Hours interview with the iron M CEO Terren and lead developer SDF which you could actually watch the full thing right now on s's YouTube channel linked below once again in this this video we're going to be focusing on data mind finds so take this as your spoiler alert before we dive in all right let's get right into it along with the early stages of alchemy the most recent update brought us the addition of the Warhammer melee weapon something that first appeared in the game files last September this weapon was uncovered alongside a few other pieces of gear that we've talked about in my previous videos but to this list now I want to add the club which I expect will be part of the cleric's loadout as it appears specifically in the characters POS files just based on its role in other games I do expect this will be a higher mobility and attack speed weapon compared to the flanged mace and Morning Star but with some sort of drawback so potentially less armor penetration and impact power I also Imagine This weapon would be suitable for the upcoming Druid since it thematically fits in and potentially even the Barbarian next we have the Crusader helmets which are in the style of the European 12th century great Helm of course being plate type and historically holy I do imagine this is an armor piece that will be worn by cleric fighter eventually the Paladin and possibly even the Warlock I'm including the Warlock here for two main reasons first the devs stated in their interview that they want to add more unique play styles to every class and specifically brought up a plate wearing warlock they also said some other really cool things about the Warlock but again we will dive into that in the next video the second reason is that the Crusader Helm on the left is actually labeled as Helm Crusader dark so something probably worn by a dark Crusader which I can only imagine the Warlock filling that role up next we have another collection of headgear the salad helmets which of course are based on the historical European salad there are three notable variants that I found and are all fairly similar in style so I imagine that not all of these will make it into the game however there's indeed a chance that they do since there's so many attributes now and subattributes to build gear 4 so I can easily see one of these being an interaction speed helmet for mining or maybe even something even more Niche like an increase to your blocking power I'm not quite sure yet the cool thing about these helmets is that one of the variants is actually featured in an original dark dark and darker concept art piece by the name of takeaway iron m is an awesome way of hiding hints for us if you know where to look another piece that I would actually like to look at in this video is the icon artwork from play test 4 of the cleric if you look closely you can see the edges of the adventurers backpack and sleeping roll that we uncovered in our other data mining video some time ago additionally if you look at what this cleric is wearing you'll notice that it's not quite a helmet but rather a hood hood and well what do you know we can actually find the chain mail Hood model in the game files I do think this will be an item used by many classes even though it appears specifically on the cleric and some of the art pieces also in the same file we can find a copper variant which I imagine will need to be mined and crafted like our other copper type gear in game while we're on the discussion of crafted gear it looks like there may be a new ore making an appearance soon malachite which at the moment just shows up as an or material but here's a mockup of what a malachite fine curse would look like I actually want to credit this one to grass for the discovery and last way for the editing the mockup but what could malachite actually be used for what are its benefits well for this next statement please take this as complete speculation but I imagine it may be more of a PVE specific armor type similar to that of our silver weapons for Undead slaying I can see malach being related to Goblin Bane or Goblin poison resistance somehow solely because it is green no real good reason at the moment it's a complete guess honestly your guess is as good as mine here and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this one Speaking of resistances we may actually be seeing Magic resistances by type soon enough in the status data table we can see specific magic type resistances like Divine air and dark going through this entire structure we can expand this to Earth evil fire light lightning spirit and water now originally I thought it would be related to player armor but having all these types in game would create a massive amount of gear bloat when looting so I think this will be more related to enemy mobs and how they thematically resist certain magic types and are vulnerable to others to support this actually want to look back on another piece of iron ma artwork known as enter the dunge dungeon 3 if you take a look at the Rangers arrow in this picture you actually notice it is an enchanted Arrow again iron ma did mention this in the past and they also stated that they want to add as many Adventures as possible so with different Maps comes different enemy types comes possibly different resistances that you'll need to prepare for I know at this point in the video you're curious about the ice map but before we get there I just want to go over two more things first this purple torch that was put into the game quite some time ago but I didn't really know what to think of it it looks like now it may be a twitch drop For an upcoming dark and darker event or possibly an adventure Point reward for a certain purple ring second I want to bring up The Magic Lock spell again as it now appears in the game files with complete effect I do think this will be implemented in the game shortly originally I I thought it would show up with explosion but of course this is a map utility spell that interacts in some way with doors so there's likely more complexity than I think as for what I think it does well it probably closely resembles Arcane lock of Dungeons and Dragons so a way to magically lock and close doors for a certain period of time all right now finally let's talk about the new ice map or should I say Maps if you tune into to The Darkest Hour on Tuesday you would know that the upcoming map is actually just a part of a collection of maps known as the Ice Mountain the Ice Mountain will be a three-step adventure that begins at the ice village which sends you deep into the Ice Caves where you'll finally navigate to the ice Abyss to start we will first only be getting the Ice Caves which the devs did share with us a teaser in the Discord some time ago using the torch hanging debris and the various wooden props that appear in this photo we can actually find the exact asset collection that the map will be built off of I will reel through some of the preview images here but do note that the actual ice cases will only utilize these environments and not replicate them so please expect some changes to both the layout and style [Music] in that same interview they brought up a few ice themed monsters namely the frost giant which we can find in the game files right now it has a number of physical moves and does seem to be holding a weapon of some sort though it is not included in my render if you're curious about the size it is roughly twice the height of a player lastly I do want to bring up this zombie texture which is just known as zombie white which for now I will code name as White Walker by name it doesn't really mean much but if we render out the model data we actually get what appears to be an ice themed zombie variant I speculate this namely due to its pale complexion and frostbitten fingers I would imagine too that instead of a damaging gas cloud it would have some sort of slowing fog with a freeze over time effect again just a complete guess on this one we won't know what it does until we see it in game now before I end this video I do have to ask again not to share this on the dark and darker Discord everywhere else is fine but iron ma did ask me specifically not to post data mining stuff in there they actually had to block the use of my name completely since people were doing it I think but hey feel free to still share any of my guide videos those do not have spoilers in them oh and one last thing I do want to thank you all for joining me over this last year in my dark and darker Journey it honestly has been an awesome time seeing your support through the YouTube comments and chatting with you all on Twitch and Discord we're now almost at 10,000 subs and 1 million views I'm not sure which is going to come first but they're both a milestone that just seemed about impossible when I first made this channel I'm really looking forward to this next year and all the adventures that it holds all right Gamers this has been Ryan 6 days a week thank you as always for watching and I'll see you in the next [Music] video

Channel: Ryan6DaysAWeek

Views: 21,767

Keywords: dark and darker, frost giant, ice cave, ice mountain, dungeon, early access, dad, dnd, fighter, rogue, wizard, barbarian, pvp, pve, extraction, tips, dragon

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Length: 11min 1sec (661 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 04 2024