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!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1259440/Mist_Legacy/

• 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.

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.

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.
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!

• Expanded Masteries: Level 6 masteries are now available!

• 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!

Greeting Mistwalkers,

At last, we have a new update for you! As you may be aware, we had a talk with our community a few months back about the game and how it can be improved. Many of the comments we got were about our game shop and that was the main focus for this first refactoring update, we have described those changes below.

On the content side, we worked on new regions in the northeast of Gantras. These regions are focused on mid-level players and will offer them more to do while they are progressing on the game.

We also modified the experience for new players with the default recipe and improved the difficulty of Saharanelle Raid for endgame players.

We really hope you like the changes we made to the game!

Thanks for playing!

• PvP (Player vs. Player) arena regions are no longer available.
  
• You can now delete characters.
  
• When you inspect a character, you can see every item they have.
  
• The shop has been updated, and all previous items are back.
  
• There's a new subscription feature that doubles Mastery, Skill gain, and combat XP, and boosts movement speed by 30%. Please note that this subscription is applied on a per-character basis, meaning you need to activate it individually for each character you want to receive these benefits.
  
• Some items in the store are now cheaper.
  
• You can now use Blue Crowns to skip the wait time for non-end-game tasks.
  
• The difficulty increase per Power Level in the Saharanelle Raid has been lowered to 20%, down from 25%. This means that for each level of difficulty, the challenge will now increase by a smaller margin, making the progression through the raid's five difficulties smoother.

• Check out the shop for new cosmetic items!
  
• Bosses now have reduced Magic Protection, lowered to 20%, down from 30%.
  
• Enhanced the gaming experience in the mid-level zones of the Eastern Gantras Mountains.
  
• Updated the initial crafting recipes for a better start.
  
• Decreased the materials needed for crafting items at beginner levels.

Let’s take a few minutes to check out our new shop.

The biggest change is the optional subscription system that will double all types of experience and activate the fast travel feature. We hope that this subscription will become our main driver for the creation of the game, it gives us clear metrics on how many players are expecting new content because they are engaged enough to pay for the subscription.

In the game, there is a new skip cooldown feature that will allow you to skip all non-endgame tasks. We view this new feature as a means to get a character faster to endgame for players that are in a hurry. This feature also allows a player to skip the end of an almost finished cooldown for a low price when there is a bad synchronization between the play session and the cooldown end. The decision to keep the endgame task out of this feature is to make sure we keep some balance on high level features in the game.

The cosmetic shop now offers a wide range of styles, frames and cosmetics that are not limited in time but that will be on sale when they are related to the current game event. This will reduce a lot of the frustration that comes from the possibility of a missed event because you discovered the game too late. Major exclusive frames and pets coming from events like the Portal Pioneer (Early Access) and the Virtysia Festivities (Launch) will stay unique as they are meant to show that “you were there”.

With the improved offer, we decided that the companion slots price could be reduced as we want the player to invest in more elements of the game. This basically means that the base price for the game is now lower.

If you buy any of our real money packages (Baronis, Princana, Royonar or Emperator), you unlock:

• The Trade between character features.
  
• Get a bonus to harvest.
  
• Unlock the feature to create a custom style for your character.

You can subscribe (per character) to the game to get:

• Double XP on all progression (skills, combat and mastery).
  
• You get a 30% boost on moving speed.

• Account wide: Slot for additional companions.
  
• Per character: Slot for additional equipped talent slot.

These are power ups for the game. Most of them will help you save time or overcome difficult challenges.

• Blue Chest : Allow to trade pack of 250 Blue Crowns
  
• Portable Portal : Create a portal at your current location. Only one portal can be active, if you setup a new portal, the old one will disappear.
  
• Mists Snail : Send all your “new” items to your domain.
  
• Change your name : That’s it.
  
• Change sex : That’s it.
  
• Mist shard : Is a currency linked to the Mistwalkers progression with Leonidas.
  
• Phenix Elixir : Forgot to bring a healing potion? Get this item to heal yourself.
  
• Tonic Biscuit : Forgot to bring a restoration potion? Get this item to restore your stamina.
  
• Hyperserum : Will give you a serum (potion) with +10 on many skills for one of durability.

These are cosmetic items (with no skills) that will help you personalize your character. New items are added periodically to the store and they will normally be on sale when they are new or linked to the current event in the game.

• Trade slots: After your initial unlock of the trade with a real money purchase, you can unlock 3 more trading slots.
  
• Domain coffers: You can increase the base capacity of your domain.
  
• Skip cooldown: You can skip the cooldown of a non-endgame task.

Greetings,

We identified a way to reset the Somberseason without doing a full release of the game. We will be able to restart our Halloween event for everyone. The reset will be done Monday the 30th so make sure to complete the last year quest if you don't have yet.

If you are new to the game or never have done the Somberseason, you have nothing to worry about, a new special event will appear in the game Monday.

Hail the Somberseason!

Greeting Mistwalkers,

Two years it has been since the start of our Early Access on Steam! That was fun, but it was also a lot of work. You may not be aware of that, but Virtys is basically two, sometimes three, game developers with one artist. For a team of this size, we can consider that it went pretty well!

During these two years, the game evolved quite a lot. In the first year of the EA we had to work a lot on our technology to have the game more stable until we got to a point at the end of 2022 that we considered the engine solid enough to make our official release. We also added two platforms to the game and, with the help of the community, translated the game to two new languages.

We would like to give a big thank to all Portal Pioneer that are still around after all these times. Even if it's only to come back from time to time to check out what is new or to give us your opinion on community topic (or even just to remind us to have a miłego dnia). Your support has been very important to us!

So, what are we up to? Well, if you are following us on Discord or the Steam Community Forum you already know that we are currently reworking core elements of the game to make it more sustainable. We started the refactoring with an open discussion with our players to get as much feedback as we could.

The most obvious problem with the game seems to be the fact that our current game shop cannot sustain the game, we need to create a more appealing offer. This will have us move away from cosmetics and offer more options to improve the game progression for new players and add conveniences for long-time players. We should be able to show the changes to the game shop soon in a play test.

The second part of our refactoring will be about the grinding part of the game. We will try to target the most obvious problems and change some of the requirements. The game is about character progression, we won’t be able to change that, but there are ways to make it more balanced.

There are also parts of the game that we did not really like. The PVP arena is one of those systems. These arenas will be removed, and the Mists region will be included in the main storyline with Leonidas. Other features like the delete character will be added for players that want to restart the game. We are also working on clarity of the game concept as it was something that was mentioned often.

Our discussion with the community had brought us to the possibility of far deeper changes like removing the universality of the character (meaning you need to raise every skill). As much as we today consider that it was not the best choice from the start, we don’t have yet a way to remove this problem (well, problem for some players) without having to restart the whole game. This means that this concept is likely to stay until our next game.

On the other hand, one of the topics that was also brought to us by the player and that we now consider very important is the fact that after a very rich start in the game the player reaches some kind of empty middle game with only ”grind gates” to do. We were way too much focused on player introduction and then on improving the endgame. The result was that we left a hole in the middle. For us, it means that as soon as the big features for the refactoring are done, we need to go back to mid game content and give you more adventures with Sorka, Leonidas and all the colorful characters already existing in the game that just stopped giving you meaningful quests to do way too early. We come to think that this hole in the middle amplifies all the other problems because the balance between pure progression and storytelling is lost.

For now, let’s celebrate our two years of Mist Legacy with you sharing what you like most about the game so we can also see the bright side of this game that a few folks created just because doing games is what they like the most.

Bests,

Greetings Mistwalkers,

We had a few bugs to fix related to the last update that we needed to do. Check out the following changelog for the changes.

The team will take a short break for the summer but we will be around to make sure everything run smoothly.

Thanks for playing!
· Melee critical strikes now scale correctly when combined with melee combo damage bonuses.
· Crafted items with power levels can now be upgraded correctly.
· Some abilities were giving melee combo bonuses that were not supposed to.
· Fixed a daily quest in Wellnear and one in Quara.
· Fixed a translation bug for Regis the foreman.
· Arcane Relics are no longer bound.

Dear Mistwalkers,

It is with great excitement that we announce the arrival of the long-awaited content update for Mist Legacy!

First and foremost, we would like to express our gratitude to all those who participated in the playtest and provided valuable feedback on the new content. Your involvement has allowed us to fine-tune the update and ensure a solid experience for all players.

This update introduces a new level of advancement for guilds and cities, allowing players to further enhance their reputation through long term gameplay content. You will also have a new territory to explore.

For our "endgame" players, a new dungeon mechanic awaits, offering a fresh and challenging experience with the progressive raid system.

On the main story front, prepare to meet a new mage companion who will accompany you on your adventures.

We are delighted to introduce our first two community-based translations of the game, thanks to the dedicated efforts of the German and Russian communities. This will enable more players to enjoy Mist Legacy in their native language.

As always, we encourage you to refer to the changelog for detailed information on the new features and updates.

We sincerely hope that you will enjoy this update and its offerings. Thank you for your continued support!

Best regards,

• A new challenging end-game dungeon that can scale up in difficulty that offers unique rewards.
  
• All melee abilities that uses the weapon damage will now trigger a new melee combo alteration effect. Each sucessive melee weapon ability will give a bonus of 10% up to 50%.
  
• All melee abilities that hit adjacent targets with weapon damage, including the Sweeping stike effect proc, will now gets a bonus of 100% damage if only one target is hit, and a bonus of 50% damage if two targets is hit.
  
• Abandoning a crafted vehicule will now re-imburse 75% of its materials.
  
• Alteration bonuses on items now scales up with the item level value.

• Leviathan Plateau region.
  
• Tarzakon valley region.
  
• Tarkakon portal.
  
• Point Ruins.
  
• Skill cap for crafting raised to 45+45.
  
• Skill cap for weapons raised to 40+40.
  
• All guild next reputation level.
  
• All cities next reputation level.
  
• All enchantments T3 recipes.
  
• Five new magic weapons recipes.
  
• All recipes for next level crating building.
  
• All recipes for precision tools for crafting.
  
• First prestige building for the domain.
  
• New golden companion with one evolution.
  
• New prestige companion for crafting.
  
• 29 new talents.
  
• All the catalyst buff value has been lowered a bit since now they can scale even higher that their original values due to the item scaling feature.
  
• The Swift alterations that grants a chance to counter strike, are now 20%, 25% and 30%. Up from 5%, 7% and 10%.
  
• Slam ability now uses the weapon damage.
  
• Blood thirst now uses the weapon damage.
  
• Vicious Hit now uses the weapon damage.