Mist Legacy News

[p]Greetings Mistwalkers,[/p][p]What is this? An update for Mist Legacy? Yes it is! At last, and we made it for the solstice, it's a sign! [/p][p][/p][p]This update marks the first release of Mist Legacy with the new design team. They worked really hard to learn everything they needed to create a game update. Even if it's not our biggest update, it's a very important one because we hope to be able to give you more in 2026 with the new team. The wheel is restarted.[/p][p][/p][p]In this update we wanted to focus on the endgame players, to make sure we understood well where we are in the game progression and how we can go forward in the future. Our prevision is that our next updates will also have middle content to make the evolution to endgame more accessible.[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks a lot to everyone who helped us in the Player Council and during the Playtest.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Version: 1.0.8.5 [/p][h3]Features and Changes[/h3]

• [p]Bracelet equipment slot can now boost offhand skill score. [/p]
• [p]Winter is here (in your domain). [/p]
• [p]A new combat ranking season. [/p]

[h3]Content Changes [/h3]

• [p]A new adventure in the volcanic island. [/p]
• [p]Revelation Forest is now available. [/p]
• [p]Cirrus'Tar mountains now available. [/p]
• [p]Four new elemental bosses in Mist rifts. [/p]
• [p]Elemental magic bracelets. [/p]
• [p]A new portal in Black Ilse, get the true Mistwalker rank. [/p]
• [p]A new metal and a new wood for level 5. [/p]
• [p]New adventure training tasks at 60. [/p]
• [p]Skill cap raise (mostly for future updates).[/p]

[p]Hi Mistwalkers,[/p][p][/p][p]We are doing a small server maintenance, should be back online soon.[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks,[/p][p]Virtys[/p]

[p][/p][p]Greetings Mistwalkers,[/p][p][/p][p]We know it's been a while since we have given some news, so here it is. [/p][p][/p][p]Since our last post there was no tangible progression on the game, We will not get in the "why" here, but the short story is that it did not work. We are now correcting the situation with a change of plan.[/p][p][/p][h3]And the plan is?[/h3][p]We are creating a secondary team dedicated to the game that will be directed by us (. Work has already begun, training is ongoing with the first member of the new team.[/p][p][/p][p]We are also creating a Players Council that will help with player inputs on what we should do.[/p][p][/p][h3]What to expect?[/h3][p]We will first create small updates to test the release pipeline and make sure the team is able to create releases. We expect the first update to be called something like "Quick Wins" where we target a few evident things of the game that we can change. The team will then analyze progression vectors and create new content to get to theses. The game engine will not change anymore, we will be focusing on game content.[/p][p][/p][p]Falkarma will act as Creative Director for the game, making sure we respect our original planning and that the new content match the quality we want for the game. He have been busy preparing an overview of the current state of the game, to set targets for the new team. [/p]

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[p]As an example, we are categorizing the part of the game map that is not yet opened. Making them available and meaningful could be a viable long-term target for the team.[/p]

[p]The overview also include the progression of the players, your capabilities, where are your caps, what you need to finish the current raids, what you can or can't craft, etc. For this I will need the cooperation of the community via the Council, because checking value in the database is never the whole story.[/p][p][/p][p]Cloudigger is revisiting the storyline and world lore, to see how it can be transferred to the new team and how he can help with that. Sicklab will keep an eye on the build process and be ready to intervene when needed.[/p][p][/p][h3]How does this plan will work? [/h3][p](bonus part, not really news)[/p][p]Mist Legacy was created as a forever game, meaning the engine is made to consume data stored in a database. We have an homebrew editor that helps create any type of content in this database, may it be quests, monsters, talents, crafts, regions, etc., etc. [/p][p][/p][p]Here are some pictures of what the new team has to learn. It's a complex editor, but once you get the way it works, you'll be creating dungeons and epic story all night.[/p]

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[p]The cartographic view of the starting area. You can see Leonidas and his dialog tree on the right. On the map you can see all kinds of nodes that represent gameplay elements.[/p]

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[p]A "worktree" is a group of elements related to a specific part of the game. Here is the last adventure we created in the Lithofortress. You can see the parameters of Gularzob when he is possessed. On the right is another worktree for the monster talents and who has them.[/p]

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[p]Here are some crafting and balancing views. The list of metal in the worktree shows us where you can get them. The pivot grid will help us create some kind of balance in the skills. And the "Armes" worktree will show you all the weapons and how they are crafted.[/p]

[p](This table was sponsored by the new visual editor of Steam! It works like a charm!)[/p][p][/p][p]As for the Council, we will create public and private topic on the Discord server. That will give us a better feeling of what and how we need the game to progress. We will also open more data to help player analyze our system.[/p][p][/p][h3]Conclusion[/h3][p]We are very happy with the new plan for the project, it was painful to watch the game being idle because we could not get back to it.[/p][p][/p][p]In short, we have a new plan, work has begun and we expect to have results.[/p][p][/p][p]Thanks for playing with us![/p][p][/p]

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!