Mist Legacy News

Greeetings Mistwalkers,

We will be doing some work on the servers. No new content will be added this time, it's all boring technicalities.

Thanks for playing!

Greetings Mistwalkers and Therians,

We hope you are enjoying your winter holidays. We have good news for you, but first here is what happened last year.

Our games are passion projects and we give everything we can to them, even when the odds are against us. That way of thinking can make us "overpromise", and this is what we did in the news about the 2024 planning, we would like to apologize for that.

Instead of doing half-baked updates to meet our promises, we decided to just stop, take a step back and rethink our situation. Getting out of the production for the games gave us the opportunity to explore new avenues for the studio.

Our first big news it that results for our exploration came in just a few weeks ago, and it was very positive! It's money stuff so we can't talk about it, but we can start talking about the future (without "overpromising").

As for today, our game engines are considered done, both systems are unique and offer a good support for gameplay and storytelling and they were designed for never-ending games. Future updates will be only game content, but we will have to change the way we do them.

In all Virtys history, we got an incredible help from the community. We think part of our future is to take that a step further. Our engines are built in a data-first way, meaning that we could have a community-based team thinking about new content and we could have a way to translate that to community-based game update.

What we will do starting in January is to give a better structure to this cooperation and see where is lead us. On the technical side, we already started work on the production pipeline for both games to be ready for new release and there will be an infrastructure upgrade in February to make sure our servers are up for the long run.

We won't do any promise on updates count and dates, this would be futile. We will give you everything we can.

The second big news is that Cloudigger, our lead writer on both Mist Legacy and Therian Saga, will come back to help us. He had to step away for a few years and we know the impact was felt a lot in the games. This is not a full-time return, but having one of the founders back home is really a big boost for us.

And finally, there is a third project for Virtys on the horizon, we are nowhere near the big reveal, but this project is the catalyst that allowed us to secure the future of the studio. In due time we will tell you more.

For Mistwalkers: Because of climate change in Valsonge, there won't be any snow for Christmas in your domain, but we reduced the price of all items in the game shop so you can make yourself well dressed for when the snow comes.

Thanks for playing with us!

Greeting Mistwalker,

Are you prepared for a new endgame adventure? Today, we are releasing an update focused on single-player character progression with a main story quest line, a dungeon challenge and an upgrade for companions.

You will also get to unlock a new part of the map that will open new resources for level 5. On the grand scheme of things, this update marks the end of the game content up to level 5. This means that the next player progression we will have to go to level 6 with everything that it implies (companions, buildings, artifacts, challenges, skills, etc.).

Nothing is fixed yet for next update, but we could have a more mid-game focused update to smooth the player progression before we can go forward with the next level of the game. The concept would be to find "holes" in the player progression and adding content to make sure more players stay engaged with the game to reach the level 50. We tested this concept in this update with a new quest line in Corrina Forest as this forest was almost empty. We also have room to advance the main storyline before upgrading the game content to level 6.

Thanks for playing!




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[h2]Content Change:[/h2]

• New questline in Corrina Forest for mid-levels.
  
• Main story questline for high levels.
  
• Singleplayer dungeons adventure at the Lithofortress.
  
• Access to the Tarzakon hills.
  
• The last level 5 materials.
  
• New substances and plants for level 5.
  
• Ovie, Badouk and Palenne upgrade to level 50.
  
• Bone drops for hunting level 5, and a new rare bone.
  
• All terrain skill bonus upgrade to 35.
  
• New shield recipe for tier 3 enchantments.
  
• Paladanthic Legs, Feets and Cape now drop from Gargar.
  

Greetings Therians and Mistwalkers

First we would like to wish you a very fun year for 2024, may your skill raises and your coffers be full of loot.

We decided to do a joint announcement because we are the same team working on both games. Many of you wanted to know what is up with the team, especially about Mist Legacy because of the post we did in the fall.

For the short version: we will continue our work on both games as much as we can in 2024.


[h3]Mist Legacy[/h3]
The change we did in the fall on monetization did have an impact, but what we still lack is volume. This means we have to ramp up the marketing. As you can expect, marketing is a time and cash-consuming task so it will impact the number of game updates we can do. But marketing, and you, need updates, so we will have a mix of marketing done and new content. So as for today, we are preparing the year with three updates: March, September and December.

We expect that the updates for 2024 will focus on the main story of the game. Each one will unlock a new sector of the map and propose adventures that will have the possibility to unlock upgrades for companions and for your character with the Mistwalker reputation. Also, Sorka wrote to us and asked if she could come back to meet this cute hero she met on the Troll Plateau, we’ll see what we can do with that.


[h3]Therian Saga[/h3]
For Therian Saga, we are very happy to keep this world alive and the way we handle the game is that we accumulate the revenues from the game and when we have enough we use it to create a game update for our players. Based on current income, we expect to have Falkarma working on the next update to be released in May so he can finish the new region of Arkubel and possibly open a few other territories.

There is something that is a big worry for us about Therian Saga. We are stretching our luck by continuing to use the same technological engine (Silverlight) as we were 10 years ago. There is a possibility that we wake up one morning and that Microsoft decides to turn the switch off for this technology. And having our first game disappears from the online world, with all the memories linked to it, is just not something we want. In June, Virtys created a checkpoint for the future of this game, and we will explore our available options at that moment.

[h2]In Conclusion[/h2]
As always, this is our planning for the year and we cannot guarantee the plan will work as we thought it would, but it’s an honest plan and we think it could hold on for a year. We locked our schedule for the three Mist Legacy updates and the Therian Saga update. Let's say that if something big happens (yeah, we are also looking for other secret options) this should only mean more cool stuff is coming.

Thanks for playing with us!

Greetings Mistwalkers,

We are very happy to offer you this update for the holidays. First, we created a themed event for the seasons that will have you hunt for hidden location...until the community creates a guide for them ;-). You should talk to Stoe in Wellnear for more details.

This update should also offer new gameplay elements for all players. Starting with the Mistpiercers series of combat that will give you a combat challenge followed by a transport challenge to bring back your reward. These events will be unlocked progressively around Mist zone based on your level. For our end-game player, we added the level 6 to the masteries that will give you access to new special power and talents. Leighanna also got her missing passive work and relics that were missing compared to other "golden" companions.

New cosmetics are also in the game shop if you need some new clothes for the season.

Thanks for playing with us!



[h2]Features and Changes[/h2]

• Expanded Masteries: Level 6 masteries are now available!
  

[h2]Content Changes[/h2]

• Chillwind Holiday Quest: Celebrate the season with a special holiday quest.
  
• MistPiercers Adventure: New series of combat and transport challenges located near the Mist zones.
  
• Tier 4 Rare Resources: Discover and collect new rare resources in Tier 4.
  
• Leighanna's Tasks: Engage in new passive tasks for Leighanna, featuring 1 unique mission and 2 relic hunts.
  
• Winter Fashion: Check out the latest additions to our game shop!