Mist Legacy News

October 26 - Version: 0.1.1.0

Features and changes

· Optimization of network communication and stability.
· Optimization of the speed related to items manipulation.
· Most combat now has sharable loot, including, random encounter while traveling and harvesting. Exceptions are combats that come from events.
· Ambush risk in dungeons and caves are now higher.

Fixes

· Fixed the double chat in groups and combat channel when grouped.
· Fixed Market issue where the status of an item could have the wrong color. Also, when an item actually expires, it will show right away.
· Better handling of disconnected players in multiplayer combat.
· Fixed the combat skill value glitch on certain companions.
· Fixed an issue where a non-crafted item could be upgraded.
· All stackable items cannot be upgraded anymore. (Bandages, potions, etc.)
· Fix issues during the craft of stackable items where durability use estimation was wrong.

Content Changes

· Fixed the "Fine Blade" that had a problematic skill distribution.
· Improved balance drop chances between "Common" and "Uncommon" resources.
· Some resources have been flagged as "Uncommon" based on their craft difficulty.
· Fixed the "Restore" talent missing from two quest line branches.
· Increased durability of magic user items.
· Removed extra quest-related item "Boar Meet".
· Removed extra quest-related item "Victims Information".
· Game world polygon fixes.
· Language-related fixes.

Greetings!

This is the end of our third week of the Early Access! Many new players have experienced the game this week and we are starting to have more data on the player's progression.

On the technical site, we are still working hard on stability and we are happy to see that, even if we still have problems, the game is improving at a steady pace. We are working on ways for the client to recover from connection failures right now. We think we will need another week on that, but we could release some surprises.

Regarding the game content, first we will be releasing a few game balance update. These changes will be about the day/night cycle and about the durability unbalance of some part of the game.

We are also doing a database analysis to see how the players are progressing. It's very cool to talk with you on Discord, the chat or on Steam forum but there is always a silent part of the players that just play and give no feedback. To see how these players are progressing we need to go inside the data.

Based on the data, we see that the majority of current active players have not yet reached the end of the available content. Yet, based on the study of those who has, we should reach a point in November where many people will be waiting for new content.

It should be possible for us to deliver a content update on time, our next big update should normally focus on raising reputation score everywhere in the game so you can get new combat talents and recipes. This mean new quests, new challenges, new boss and new companions.

See you in the game!

Virtys

Changes
- Item Tooltip now shows the exact quantity of an item when needed.
- Resources are now visible and can be gathered during the night.
- Combat on resources gathering can now only happen during the night and in a dungeon.
- The yellow quest mark indicator on items is not longer showed during a craft. It was confusing when mixed up with quest number indicators.
- There is now a quest explanation when a scenario request a crafted item with specifics materials.
- Friend request is now accessible from the the chat window.
- It is now possible to change the target frame per second (FPS) value in the options.

Fixes
- Game lag should be improved when having a lot of friends online.
- Fixed all companions values.
- Backpack free space in the toolbar button should now always indicate the right value.
- Market search by skill will not show items that don't have the skill anymore.
- Achievement score on inspected player should now match the real value.
- You can now deposit stackable items in your coffer when its full if the coffer has the same item already in it.
- Ambient volume now affects map sounds such as mountains wind, waterfalls and rivers.
- The waterfall sound effect now loops seamlessly.
- Fixed Name of companion that was in French only.

Data
- Milda and Yonar now provide additional carry weight.
- Discreet talent alteration is now visible in combat.
- Loot reviews.
- Text fixes.

Greetings Mistwalkers!

It has been two wonderful, but difficult, weeks. We would like to thank you a lot for playing the game. We had over 25 000 players getting the game on Steam and, as we are Early Access, we know it means many of them are now waiting for the game to fully release.

The team worked very hard on server optimization and took the time to address the bugs and the most recurring comments you made us. We still have a few network optimizations to do and a list of active bugs, but overall we think the game is in far better shape than on October 5.

Where will go from there? The team will focus on first on improving the quality of life for players and then we will address comments we received to make the game more enjoyable for all type of players.

Many have asked about possible servers merge. We just wanted you to know that so far our plan is more about enabling characters transfer than in forcing global merge.

Soon, we will present our content roadmap for future updates and start spreading the news about the game to get more active players.

The team will take a short break during the weekend so we can start strong on Monday!

See you in the game!
Virtys

We will be performing our first major update on server optimizations. The maintenance should last 1h30.

Thanks for playing!
Virtys