Legacy: Steel & Sorcery News

Dear Adventurers,

Thanks for participating in Steam's October Next Fest and making Legacy one of the most-played Demos during the event! The reception was incredible, and we especially appreciate all of you who took the time to submit your feedback to the team.



We have a new playtest cooking, which will be available for another week starting on Wednesday, November 13th, at 2 PM PST and ending on Wednesday, November 20th, at 2 PM PST. We hope you can make it! If you signed up for Alpha before, you're already in 🫡.

👉 To sign up, you can do so on our website here: https://playlegacy.gg/signup

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We received some great feedback from you during NextFest through our official form and on the Steam forums. Thank you! Here are some of the results!

[h2]Key Takeaways[/h2]

• Players enjoyed Legacy overall, citing the unique core experience, combat, and class design as some highlights.
  
• More players (33%) "mained" by creating just 1 character class vs 26% who created one of each.
  
• Classes felt fun overall with just a little over a 7% difference in the Most Fun (Warrior) and Least Fun (Priest).
  
• The Least Powerful Class (Rogue) lagged 16% behind the Most Powerful (Priest).
  
• Other than focusing on Fun Gameplay, players cited Listening to the Community and creating Challenges and Rewards as top priorities for Legacy.
  
• Many players cited performance and optimization as something we should focus on. While we focused a lot on optimization for the NextFest build including introducing DLSS and FSR, we have more performance and optimization to go.
  
• Many players cited unfinished art and blockout areas in Greenwood (the level/map) — we will be finishing the map within the coming months!

[h2]Class Design and Balance[/h2]

One of Legacy's core pillars of design is to bring the Ultimate Class Fantasy through our class design. We're happy to hear that players are enjoying the classes and we had tons of feedback about them.

• 🪓 Warrior: The Warrior continues to be ranked as powerful and fun in the survey, but many players cited challenges soloing PvE and general PvE survivability. We have some solutions in mind for this, including making his Block more effective for PvE. The Warrior also has a new Trait that we introduced called Wound Clot that is available at level 10 which lets the Warrior passively heal Wound damage (the "grey damage" that reduces max health).
  
• 🏹 Hunter: The Hunter continues to be a favorite playstyle, with many players—including likely many non-Hunters—praising the strength of the Longbow. We did a pass on the Longbow to bring it more in line while retaining its strength as a long-range sniper weapon. We also polished up the Shortbow and improved the Q (Tornado Volley), giving it a strong knockback effect.
  
• 🙏 Priest: Players mentioned the Priest, while fun, feels overloaded with strengths like flight (Ascend and Levitate), healing, and negating projectiles. We have toned down Gleaming Star's damage and are looking at Heaven's Fury to make it powerful but have more counterplay. (Tip: You'll always have time to Evade out of Heaven Fury before it hits — but if it does hit, it'll sting)
  
• 🗡️ Rogue: The Rogue is the most technical of the four classes currently in the game but players have mentioned it doesn't feel like you gain a lot in exchange, especially in PvE. We are taking a look at the Rogue's damage overall, and PvE in particular.

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[h2]Alpha #3 Playtest Announcement[/h2]

We are excited to announce our third Alpha Playtest which will happen on Wednesday, November 13th at 2 PM PST and end the following Wednesday, November 20th at 2 PM PST. See our Discord for details: http://discord.gg/playlegacy

We will do another post on Steam later with some detailed updates, but here's a preview:

[h3]The Lodge[/h3]
The Lodge is intended to be one of our core progression systems. Inside the Lodge you can unlock Furnishings that unlock bonuses and increased power. In this update, we've added the Cooking Pot, Bed, and Fireplace!

• Cooking Pot - You let us cook, now it's your time to cook. The Cooking feature in the Lodge lets you gather ingredients through the world and purchased from the vendors (like the Tavernmaid) to throw into your Cooking Pot within the lodge for buffs that persist through your Adventures. Increase your max Health, Stamina or even Poison Resist! Cooking buffs can persist for multiple Adventures (sessions) — if you find the right ingredients.
  
• The Bed - Build your Bed to gain Rested Experience while offline. When you Adventure later that rested XP will give you a boost.
  
• The Fireplace - The Fireplace is the critical Furnishing required to fuel all of the others. Simply add some Chopped Wood to the fireplace to fuel it.
  

In addition to the Lodge, the patch will also features a lot of class balance and tuning, some new armor and weapon perks and adjustments, new art and sound — and more!
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See you in Greenwood, and please remember to Wishlist Legacy on Steam if you haven't already!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2344320/Legacy_Steel__Sorcery/

[h3]Until next time --

Chris Kaleiki
Notorious Studios[/h3]

[h2]Hello Adventurers! [/h2]

We want to thank everyone who tried the Legacy: Steel & Sorcery Alpha Demo during the Steam Next Fest!

As of now, the Demo has been deactivated.
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We're back in development mode, gathering all your feedback, bug reports and thoughts to make the game better for the next playtests!

If you don't want to miss the upcoming playtests, we highly recommend you to join our Discord!

Thank you again everyone! We'll be back soon with more content, mope polish and more Greenwood adventures for you all.

See you soon!

[h2]Hello Adventurers! [/h2]

We hope you’re enjoying your Greenwood Expeditions during the Steam Next Fest! In this post, we wanted to answer some common questions we saw in Steam Discussions and other places! Here we go!

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What’s the Legacy: Steel & Sorcery genre?
In its current state Legacy: Steel & Sorcery is a PvPvE Extraction game focused on fights, looting, and exploration. We also hear questions about adding a PvE Training Mode, which we’re considering for the future!

Can I choose different classes in the game?
Yes! Currently, you can play as Warrior, Priest, Hunter, or Rogue! More classes are planned for the future but we want to iron out these four first.

How far along is the development?
The game is currently in its Alpha phase, and we’re ironing out the animations, graphics, and optimization. We wanted to reach a wider audience with our Alpha Demo and collect as much feedback as possible before we continue our Playtests.

Wait, Playtests?
Yep, you heard us right! After the Steam Next Fest you will be able to apply and participate in playtests to see all of the changes and help us improve Legacy further. In fact, you can apply right here, on our Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2344320/Legacy_Steel__Sorcery/

Do you read our feedback on Steam Discussions?
Yes, we do, and we collect it to further improve the gameplay. But you can join our Discord, where even more of our developers are engaging with the community directly!

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If you have any other questions we didn’t cover, don’t hesitate to ask them right here in the comments!

Don’t forget to join our Discord to be a part of our community, ask questions to the developers directly, and see some exclusive things, like work-in-progress concept art.

See you in the forest (or not, if you’re a Rogue rocking the invis)!

Until Next time.

Thank you for playing the Alpha Demo during Steam Next Fest!

We've released a small update based on your feedback. Please, continue sending it here and on DIscord!

• Can now rebind the keys F and R for toolbelt and class tools;
  
• Implemented a possible fix for being unable to move character at game start;
  
• Added better support for unicode characters for house name and character name (Korean Characters);
  
• Discord button added to login screen;
  
• Adjusted matchmaking to help prevent connecting to high latency servers.
  

During Steam Next Fest, Legacy: Steel and Sorcery will open and free to play for everybody for the first time ever!

Legacy: Steel & Sorcery is a third-person action PvPvE RPG featuring distinctive fantasy classes. Go on adventures solo or with friends to search for treasures, level up, and defeat any who stand in your way.

Join the adventure right now by signing up now at https://www.playlegacy.gg