Legacy: Steel & Sorcery News

• 4 Classic Fantasy Classes with innovative Spells & Abilities that you can unlock and customize
  
• An innovative and unique Combat System that blends Soulslike Action combat with MMORPG style spells and abilities
  
• Innovative Extraction Gameplay Mode that evokes the feeling of World PvP from your favorite MMORPG
  
• Level up Character Classes up to Level 20, earning unique Traits along the way
  
• 11 Unique Weapon Types with unique Weapon Abilities and Traits
• 800+ Items to loot during Adventures or to Craft
  
• Seasonal Campaign, culminating in a quest to defeat the Boss Encounter Morg'thog, The Cruel
• 35 Enemy Creatures, including Epic an Special Types with higher difficulty
  
• Play Solo or up to 2 others in a Squad
• Queue by yourself into Solo Mode or with Duos or Trios in Mixed Mode
• 2 Maps (1 huge Epic Zone called the Greenwood, and 1 Tutorial Map called Goldbrook where you can play solo to learn the game in a sandbox environment)
  
• 7 Vendors for players to level up with a rich, MMO-like Crafting System
  
• Build your own Lodge with 6 Furnishings, including:
  
  
  
  
  • The Bed - Unlocks Rested Experience that builds up while offline
    
  • The Cooking Pot - Cook meals that give you buffs for Adventures
    
  • The Storage Chest - Add new Stash Tabs to your Stash
    
  • The Crafting Bench - Craft unique Class Tools like the War Horn (Warrior) or Poison Dart (Rogue)
    
  • The Ossuary - Sacrifice trophies from fallen enemies to the Blood God, and gain a Reputation buff

• The Wizard and Paladin classes
  
• More Maps, including a night version of Greenwood and Dungeon Crypt map
  
• Goblin Pawn Shop where you can purchase back the gear you lost during Adventures — for a price!
  
• Cosmetic Character Customization
• Guild Hall where you can build your own community and unlock new progression features
  
• And much, much more! Check out our Roadmap for a sneak peek.
  

• The game includes hidden paths and traversal mechanics to help players avoid ganking, similar to Tarkov’s "rat" playstyle. Progression is more horizontal, focusing on perks rather than raw power to prevent veteran players from stomping newcomers.
  
• A new tutorial map, Goldbrook, will let players learn the game before entering PvP. The goal is for gear to matter around 60/40 or 70/30 compared to player skill.
  

• The biggest surprise was the overwhelming demand for more PvE content, likely due to the studio’s WoW background.
  
• While PvE was always planned, the early demand led to prioritizing a tutorial map, onboarding systems, and a questline to help new players—something most hardcore PvP games don’t typically launch with.
  

• The plan is to bring Legacy to consoles around its gold master release or shortly after, with a target of early next year, depending on how Early Access performs. The team is also considering which console would be the best fit for launch.
  

• We will check with the team, but we're sure they'd love the idea and will pass along the suggestion.
  

• We learned that real player choice in talent systems is often an illusion, as players will always pick the mathematically best option. In Legacy, we've applied this by making gear perks optimal based on conditions rather than just playstyle preference.
  
• As for WoW, we still consider it a masterpiece and love that Blizzard has added Classic, Hardcore, and Season of Discovery to give players more options while staying true to the original vision.
  

• We classify ourselves as more of an AA studio, with a budget between $10M and $20M—far below the ~$200M typical for AAA. Marketing budgets are often equal to or half of a game's development cost, but for our Early Access launch, we're spending under $100K. The industry is shifting in how marketing works, and while streamers are often targeted, data suggests that just making a great game is the best approach for indie and AA titles.
  

• Players progress through gear tiers from "Junk" to "Legendary" items, which can be found through RNG or crafted by leveling up vendors and unlocking recipes. New players can obtain legendaries, but gear can be lost upon death. We aim to keep the power differential between low and high-geared players at around 50%, ensuring it's not too extreme, unlike some other PvP RPGs where it's much higher. The game features two maps at EA launch, with more coming soon to expand loot and progression.
  

• The Wizard will focus on elemental interactions, such as combining Frost and Fire to create Fog, and will have a unique resource system tied to collecting spell scrolls found in the world. They will have the highest number of spells, and exploring the world for new spells will be key. The Paladin is still in paper design, but will have the ability to "Sense Injustice" in the world, identifying assassins and allowing them to seek vengeance. The Paladin will also be able to buff other players, a feature not yet available in the game.
  

• We are focusing on the core experience and combat fundamentals first, taking a Crawl/Walk/Run approach rather than trying to do everything at once like Crowfall. While Crowfall had great ideas, its ambition to build an MMO with complex systems and content overwhelmed the project. We’re opting to build over time, focusing on solid foundations before expanding.
  

• The game blends Extraction with MMO-like features such as open-world areas, rich crafting, progression, and character customization. While it's focused on PvPvE, there are systems like quests and character creation common in MMOs. We aim to add more MMO features over time, including more PvE experiences and deeper character customization. The blend of "get in, get loot, and leave" with ongoing progression makes it unique. However, I don’t like genres or tags as they don’t fully capture what the game is trying to do.
  

• The game features large, sandbox-like zones within session-based maps. It's not a linear level; players can explore and loot freely within the zone. While we do want to eventually explore the idea of moving between zones, the current focus is on massive, single-session maps. Implementing seamless zone transitions is challenging, especially with Unreal, but it's something we might consider later.
  

• The name "Project Honor" came from an early idea I had around honor-based mechanics, though it wasn't directly tied to executions. The idea was more about giving players the choice in whether to kill others, similar to world PvP zones in MMOs. The game's name evolved to "Legacy," but the concept of honor remains in how players can choose whether to kill or let others live. As for the execution mechanic, it reflects a culture of "honor" and "dishonor" in combat, with plans to let players customize execution animations in the future.
  

If there's one thing I love about World of Warcraft, it's Azeroth. A boundless fantasy realm ripe with opportunity, it feels like no matter how long you've been playing for, you'll never discover all of its secrets. But imagine an Azeroth where that's your exact purpose: to loot everything, explore everything, and get out alive. That's Legacy: Steel and Sorcery, a brand new Dark and Darker-style extraction game from former Blizzard developers (some of which worked on iconic WoW expansions like Wrath of the Lich King and Legion), and if you like the sound of it, you can play it now.

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