Journey of Legendary Tales

31 Jan 2024Developer post

Source: Steam Community (opens in a new tab)

One of our new Original Sound Track ‘Journey of Legendary Tales’
Song produced by BJ

[Recommend to play the song before start to read]

Hello, our old friends/Legendary Tales fans.
In the last announcement, I have promised you that I will make another announcement in Feb 2024. Well, I have to break the promise. instead, I give you announcement earlier.
So, what it is about today?

Today, I am thrilled to tell you that Legendary Tales is finally going to leave Early Access(EA) and we are going to release 1.0 soon™

soon™ again? No, Today I can give you the time!
So, when? Feb 8, 2024!
Yes! It is just a little bit more than a week from this announcement.

As I promised you guys long time ago, I want to explain journey of Legendary Tales development.
(If you don’t want to waste your time our diary, then skip and scroll down to 1.0 update list)

1. Broken dream?

It was Dec 2021, after Magic and skill tree update, I really wanted to make Legendary Tales as bigger project than what we had that time because I had a goal and a dream before EA releases. But as everyone know we didn’t sell that well… because all VR market was looking at modding supported VR game only and many of people didn’t want to support actual VR games that is built as pure VR game from the ground, like LT. On top of that we were denied by Meta many times already. I felt we don’t have future so, I was shaking with fear that I might need to shrink 90% of future plan I had.

2. Maybe…? Faith in dream

It was Jan 2022, after holiday, some of Youtubers covered LT on their channel. There was sudden spike of sales and it surprised me. It was still not enough to cover the future plan of development, but I could see maybe…? Then PSVR2 was announced…
Feb 2022, I contacted to PlayStation in Korea, with a hope that they might interested in Legendary Tales. It was right call, SIEK said absolutely they want to bring it into PSVR2.
That moment, I could see the possibility… and they said they will give us Dev Kit when it is available before PSVR2 releases. When I heard that, I could see the light, my dream, our team’s dream can be true. I have decided to push as much as possible, bet on the future again. I started to carve the Legendary Tales 1.0 in my head. It couldn’t be the same size have dreamed, but I really wanted to push to the limit with the resources that what I have.

3. Loyalty, Brotherhoods… are important, no one left behind?

A while after new world update announcement, we have decided to move to UE5 then we got PSVR2. It worked just okay on PSVR2 despite we were developing LT only on PC. So, we could release LT as launching title (Or launch window title) of PSVR2 if we wanted.
But then I realized that performance cost (required target spec on PC) went to too high. That means many of our PC game fans will be sad and feel left behind. I didn’t want that. Because I have seen many times that VR game Devs, they abandoned PCVR users and then move to Quest market or duplicate project for money and drag project years and never deliver what they have promised. At least I know where the money, the resources we are relying on, is came from and where to bow.
After performance profiling we found it was UE5. UE5 was designed for next gen. console, and CPU cost was too high. So, after more than 7 months of UE5 development, I have decided to downgrade UE4 again. If I wanted just money, then I could release PSVR2 first, but I couldn't because we, gamers and us, started together.
It was February 2023, we had to look PSVR2 launch from afar.

4. New world, new dream

While we downgrade to UE4 we have decided to add more contents and give LT more deep taste. First, I wanted to make new OST for LT. Because I do remember some of Youtuber was complaining about our game music! (Actually, I did agree with him. J!! ) and music is important for any game. So, I have worked on music more than 6 month with my friends. Second, named fight! Actually, based on what I recall now, maybe decision of downgrade dragged LT into best quality game. Because many of named monster fight re-designed after this point. When many things were done, I start to see the possibility launching both platform together because we were always testing PCVR and PSVR2 together and then I found new dream that what if we bring Cross-Play on both platform PCVR and PSVR2? Both platforms are struggling user-base compare to Quest market. But what if we connect them together?
Immediately we dive into new dream.

5. Dawn of History

While we were making Cross-Play, I got news from Sony that we were selected for next State of Play event. We all were super excited because it is professional AAA league show. Who wouldn’t dream of it? So, we made a new goal that we will bring LT to both platform at same time, with completed cross-play support. This is the network problem I was talking about in December 2024 announcement.

That’s shortened story of development.

It was really long, but somehow short 4 years of development.
First 2 years of EA development, we could have done because of dream. Second 2 years of 1.0 update development, we could have done because of you, gamers.
Thank you for long time support, love and believed in us.
As I said in last announcement, it could be our last VR game, because we burnt all our resources into LT. But I am glad at least we could have pushed this far and made Legendary Tales in the form now. I am confident, You guys will love it.

Right, one more thing. During the development of 1.0 release, It slowly became totally different than what it was originally and it’s VR only game more than ever, more than any other VR game. We have started as Action Role-playing game but you know VR games are different than plat-screen games. Now I want to define that Legendary Tales opened new game genre which we call internally, Walking Action Role-Playing game because while we are wearing HMD, we constantly walk around.
We everyday WARP into VR game. So, why not we say I am WARPing!?
Everyone will understand what we are doing (that we are playing WARP game in VR)
(I got an idea from Live Action Role-Playing(LARPing) btw.)

We, Urban Wolf Games and Steam EA supporters, made Legendary Tales and new genre of game together.

Journey of Legendary Tales is almost at the end. Only one last step behind.
Be prepared, during the calm before the storm for your Journey in Legendary Tales.

I love you all.

Your old friend,
BJ

Watch on YouTube

One of our new Original Sound Track ‘Unforeseen Consequences’
Song produced by BJ

[Recommend to play the song before start to read]

[Official 1.0 game change list]

0. Game price changes and OST release information

At the point you are reading this, Legendary Tales price tag is already have been change

Price tag changed from $35 to $55 (depends on country, price will be vary)
Legendary Tales OST will be released same time with 1.0 release on Steam. OST contains music that are played in the game and there are bonus track. The price is set $20. Don't worry, You don't need to buy it because many of them I will just release on YouTube(What you see above is two of them). But if you buy it, It will help us a lot.

1. Special feature

Day one Cross-play support between PCVR and PSVR2

2. Skills

Bare hand fight skills are added as requested from our fans
Preview of body blow skill
Now there are more than 150+ skills
New Magic are added and some of them are re-worked
Preview of a new magic
Dash skill is added

3. Legendary Items

New legendary weapons are added (not just this)
Some of Legendary Items are re-worked
Now Player can upgrade Legendary Skills

4. Monsters

New monster : Go To Hell, will annoy you during the adventure
New monster : Hell raider, is a powerful monster
New monster : Hollow, You will meet them as soon as you jump into game
And more new monsters!
Named monsters (and more of them!)
Left-handed enemies (only appears in challenge mode)
Over 120+ new animations are added ( and what you are seeing now is only two of them! )

5. New Items and Characters

Weapon type : Pole-arm, Spear are added
Male player character is re-worked
Now every armor you can wear in game will be reflected in your character model
Some of helm design re-worked
New female character is added as our fans requested
Female character is still WIP. Armour and helms will be updated later 1.0 releases
Item options can be re-roled

6. New maps

All old maps(EA version) are gone now.

Open field map is added which contains dungeons in different places (over 60 times bigger than EA town)
New pre-designed dungeons are added ( each of them are hours long )
Hidden room in Dungeons are changed/added (Yellow portal room)
Way-point system is added to save your time :D