Hello everyone!
Wow, it’s been a long time since we’ve been able to give you an update on what’s going on but we’re finally here to let you know what's coming and what we’ve been doing. Sorry for the long wait and that we couldn’t communicate as well as before.
At first we focused on getting out lots of small updates on a frequent basis, this ended up being a bit of a time sink. So now we’re focusing on getting out big updates more intermittently.
At the end of last year one of the most commonly suggested additions to Legendary Tales was a quest system (BJ even hinted towards it during the Steam awards). We were also really excited by that idea so we used it as a starting point. From there we were inspired to extend our world to something more open. So we decided to make something really big, a huge world with a large variety of monsters, more than we had ever planned. It’s already been a lot of work, and there's still more to come, but we wanted to make our fans proud, because of that we are so excited to show you what we’ve been working on and what's coming.
You can see a trailer for what's in store for the future of Legendary Tales here:
We are so amazed at how much we’ve been able to do and how much Legendary Tales has changed since we released it in September of last year and it’s all thanks to all of you who have supported us. Thank You so much.
Now, we hope that's gotten you sufficiently hyped so we can explain a bit about exactly what you’re seeing in that video. Legendary Tales is going to have some massive changes so we hope you’ll be as excited as we are.
New World
So you may have noticed the name of this update is ‘New World’ and that’s because we’ve created a whole new world for you to play in. That’s right friends, it’s time to say goodbye to the little boxed in town you’ve known for so long and move out into the big wide world, but don’t worry, all your NPC buddies will be coming with you, and they’ll even have dialogue boxes! (Fancy that)
The new world features several different themed areas for you to explore with their own separate dungeon entrances, you’ll need to battle through all of these to get to that final glowing cathedral in the distance. And once you’ve beaten that, you and your caravan can go traveling out into the great unknown.
Now in order to bring you this huge world we are sad to say that those with low spec hardware may have performance issues when running Legendary Tales, especially in multiplayer. The world we have now is currently 70 times larger than the town you are used to, we will do everything we can to optimize the world to make it run as smoothly as possible but we can’t guarantee the performance quality for those using the lowest spec hardware.
Dungeons
But it’s not just the over-world that's changing, we’re working on new dungeon themes and we’re also in the process of researching randomized dungeons. No promises yet, it’s a complicated process, but we really want to bring that to Legendary Tales.
Quests
No! not that Quest! Missions, adventures, expeditions! We’ve created main quests and side quests for you to take on. You can activate quests by talking to the NPCs in town and you can even select your rewards. Quests will involve going and collecting or retrieving items, defeating certain enemies, interacting with important objects or crafting specific items.
Wait, what was that last one? Crafting items?
Why yes, now that you mention it we’ve created a whole crafting system. Collect resources and find recipes to create your very own weapons! There’s 5 different elements to crafting, a forge to smelt you metal, an anvil to hammer it into shape, a lathe to shape your wood and a secret alchemist's chest to put it all together. There’s also a destructor for when you just feel like breaking things. (Or you want more resources
Quick-slot
A small quality of life improvement but we’ve added a quick-slot (In addition to your holsters) to quickly access a small amount of items. Because I can never decide if I want to use an axe or a sword…
Skill tree
There are a couple of small additions to the skill tree, number 1 is a Dash skill. This will allow you to Dash around more quickly. Number 2 relates to legendary weapons, you will be able to upgrade your legendary weapons’ legendary skills in the skill tree.
Armor and weapons
There are also a couple of changes to the armor and weapons. We are currently working on different armor types (Leather, iron etc) having different bonuses but this is still a work in progress and may not come in the next update. Next we’re adding the pole-arm as a new weapon type, as well as legendary spears and legendary pole-arms.
Titles
Have you ever wanted to be known as Bone Crusher (Yourname)? Well now we’ve added title’s to attach to the front of your name when you’re in multiplayer. Titles can be unlocked by performing feats or actions similar to achievements. But these titles aren’t just for you, you can also add titles to your own player-crafted weapons. So everybody knows that it's your tigerslaught, you know, in case anybody ever finds it again….
Monsters
Yes! Finally, After all this time there will be more monsters in the next update. We’re sorry it took so long. We have some new variations on the old monsters but that's not all, you may have seen a few of them in the trailer. We have some big mean Hell raiders, the flying G2H’s and the unfortunate wretches known as ‘The Degraded’
There will also be 3+ named monsters, creatures who are more like mini-bosses. Stronger than a champion, weaker than a boss. There's will be 2/3 of these guys added.
Enemies have also been upgraded in the types of weapons they can use and they can even do magic now. But don’t worry, a goblin can throw a fireball but you can hit it right back at him with your sword.
And with new monsters with new weapons comes new animations, so you’ll have to work on new tricks to take on these enemies.
I also wanted to let you know that sound effects will be one of the very last things we deal with before the game comes out of early access, since there will be so many changes we felt it best to wait till the end to make sure we have everything as we want it.
This next big update will be testing out the balance for a lot of new features, so they could change in the future and when the time comes we’ll need your help with feedback and of course bug reports.
So the past 6 months we’ve been working on a lot of what you see in the trailer, but we've also been spending time on research and development. All of this R and D time has really helped us but also given us the tools and experience we needed to create such a huge world. But of course there’s still so much work to do so it’s still going to take more time. However we hope you’re really hyped for all this because this is going to be one hell of a fun update when it comes!
We’ll keep you updated a bit more frequently on our progress now that we don’t have to be so secretive but we’re still going to keep somethings close to our chest so you’ll have some surprises when this all comes together.
Have a great day!
TL:DR - Upcoming updates Summary:
Map:
Field (70x bigger than town, size excluding Dungeons)
New theme, Randomised Dungeon (WIP)
Quest
NPC dialogue
Main quests and side quests
Different types of quests (Kill a thing, find a thing etc)
New items specific to completing quests
Items
Quick-slot for easy access to a few items and menu.
new weapon type, Pole-arm
New Legendary items; Pole-arm and spear (WIP)
Different armor bonuses (WIP)
Skill Tree
Dash skill
New skills for legendary items
Crafting
Smelting (WIP)
Smithing (WIP)
Wood working (WIP)
Alchemy: combining ingredients (WIP)
Item Destruction (WIP)
Gathering resources for crafting
Gathering recipes for crafting.
Titles
Title's are similar to achievements and must be unlocked.
Adding title to player name
Adding title to player made weapon
Title can be changed in menu UI
Monsters
New enemies:
Hell Raiders
The Degraded humans
G2H (Go to hells)
3+ Named enemies'
Enemies can do magic (Projectile, Resurrection, A.O.E, Summon)
Enemies have new weapons (Two handed, dual weapon, spear, pole-arm)
New monster animations (Many of them)
Teaser for updates