We managed to squeeze in quite a number of improvements and reworks while new content is being created by the team. It includes a lot of things that we have been unable to rework until now, so we're super satisfied that we got around to them. In this patch, we specifically concentrated on Companion Combat UI and the Game Log, but there are a lot of other additions and fixes, too. We've collected a few here for your convenience, but you can find the detailed patch notes at the end of the post, too.


We reworked the majority of the UI pane for Companions and much of what we did was based on player feedback. The interface now comes across as much more obvious, easier to read, including targeting information on skills as well as other information represented by icons (each with its own tooltip). Power cost is also prominently featured now.




The improved Companion UI is now readily accessible during combat deployment and Companion selection (during Events) to provide more agency to players. This means that you can now change Gear and level up Companions on these screens, too (except in Crew Combat ambushes and its subsequent rounds).



Matching these changes, enemies in Companion combat also received their own pane with stats and information that you can browse to be able to make decisions regarding your Companions' Gear and Perks.


This specific rework involved moving the Companion portraits from the left onto the Event scroll itself so that the Companion UI can open in its place.




A new feature snuck into this new build, too: you will be able to reassign Deputies during the day at the cost of Resourcefulness from time to time. The timer is an in-game week just like with some of the other Leadership skills (lowered by the Authority stat).




We've felt for a while now that despite providing important information, the game log is not as informative as we would like it to be. And so we took our tools to it to give it a nice facelift and rework.



First off, important items in the log will now be clickable: codex links, journal references, chart, and so on. This change makes it much easier to find the things the log is about and dig deeper if you wish.

Additionally, save files now include the entries in the log, so if you open the game after a hiatus, you will be able to get back into the swing of things much easier using the game log.


Health bars received a major overhaul - gone are the round meters divided into 5 parts. They were often quite difficult to decode, as a single segment in the case of larger enemies often represented 5-8 Vitality points. Thus, it the meter did not budge even after several smaller hits, confusing players.

We've been looking for the right design for a while and now we think we've found it, so we took the time to implement it. The new health bar displays Vitality in a percentage-based gauge.



Enemies that take up two spaces received extra care: we got rid of their weird double round bases and gave them a longer health bar along with a single, large targeting box.



Another addition is that the bars will indicate expected damage (or heal) when hovering over them with an activated Skill.



We've rolled with this display style and implemented it so that now after a damaging attack (or healing Skill use), the Vitality meter shows the damage for a moment before subtracting the value from the target.




Another small, albeit quite immersive, change we've finally gotten around to is that creatures that do not bleed or have an irregular blood color received their own blood decal when hit. No longer will Cinderborn and Splinters bleed but have their specific kind of damage represented in combat.




In Part I. of upcoming changes, one of the most significant changes was the updated character sheet that can be opened and used in the deployment phase and during Companion selection in Events. You may have noticed it there that the sheets themselves received an overhaul, too. The whole Skill section was revamped to be more informative and less cluttered with text. All sorts of information is now displayed that Skills were lacking, along with new icons to ease the identification of combat Skill attributes and effects.



Targeting now has its own block with sets of icons that make a simple reading of the Skill more intuitive. Categories like Impediment were broken down into sub-classes such as Push, Pull, Stun, and so on, so now you get more detailed information on what will happen upon using the Skill. A large number of tooltips were added to compliment the changes.

Whew, and that was only the big stuff. And now, let's jump into the patch details.

Important Note: Considering the extent of the improvements, there is little to no chance that we broke nothing in the process. Assume that we did not want to make anyone's life harder. If you see something amiss, please flag it to us using the usual channels, like the inbuilt reporting tool (F1 button), forums, and our Discord server.

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• Character UI is:
  - Now openable before Companion combat (except in ambushes) so you can change Gear or level up to be able to face the adversities
  - Now available for enemy characters so you can check their stats and Skills in advance
  - Now also available during Companion selection in Events, allowing you more freedom to change Gear or level up Prowess, too (or simply check what's what)
  
• Camp shadow added to camping for more immersion
  
• Shift + left click now works on Crew in the mansio (for hiring or kicking them out in bulk)
  
• Changing Deputies during the day is available for some Resourcefulness
  
• Game log now shows more updates and most entries are clickable to access the relevant information

• Reworked Companion selection UI in Events
  
• Completely reworked Vitality and Power bars in Companion Combat
  
• Campaign map node radial menu highlights were added
  
• Enduring Effect tooltip updated on Crew and Character UIs
  
• A new standalone Character UI was implemented, which is now visible in the deploy phase and during Companion select
  
• Unused Skill boxes were removed from the enemy Character UI
  
• Simplified the Outrider feedback on the Crew UI
  
• Added tooltips to main menu options
  
• Added a new option to remove the Companion Combat position frames (for those that want a less busy UI)

• Skornar won't retaliate when in Guard Stance if the triggering attack Downs him
  
• Out of Action is now logged only once in the Combat Log, not twice
  
• Stats affected by Gear now update instantly
  
• Vagrus background dependency tooltips were reformatted to avoid script-like text
  
• Fixed a bug preventing converting Mounts to Outriders when having less than 1 cargo slot
  
• Locked foraging will not trigger working odd jobs in settlements from now on
  
• Workforce related calculations were fixed
  
• The smelter in Avernum deducts 15 Scrapmetal instead of 20, as displayed
  
• The Ahskulite retinue will now properly remove themselves from the party when you convince them to go back to Deven by themselves

Known Issues:

• Vitality bars sometimes blink briefly during Round switching
  
• Combat performance drops
  
• Escort task-related anomalies

• New Companion: Vorax - FreeLC for all owners of Vagrus
  
• Options to change key bindings

Stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!
- The Lost Pilgrims Team

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A fellow indie developer team from our hometown has just released their role-playing game so we are very happy to share this Steam cross-promotion post with you all.

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If you’ve ever played Baldur’s Gate or Icewind Dale, you’ll feel right at home in the old school Black Geyser. Developed by a small indie studio in Budapest, Hungary, it’s a love letter to those titans of the genre, with plenty of its own twists. Developed since 2015, backed on Kickstarter, and having entered into Early Access in August 2022, its launch is today at 11 AM EST (4 PM GMT).



Black Geyser is set in Yerengal, a world where dark gods have brought nothing but venality and greed. For centuries, the Devil-god Rothgor has spread fear and terror, waging war upon the mortal races. Eventually banished, the nation of Isilmerald has enjoyed a time of peace and prosperity. Yet discontent has begun to fester once more, and a bloody civil war is brewing between the capital Isilbright and the wealthy mining town of Deron-Guld.



Like any classic isometric CRPG, life starts out at the character creator. There are 5 playable races (Human, Dwarf, Elf, Feldegug and Rillow) and 13 unique classes, from 4 unique class groups (Priest, Outlaw, Warrior, and Wizard). Each plays completely different from the other and there’s enough here to suit all styles. After tinkering on the attribute screen (time to panic over those points!), you’re dropped into a world that’s plagued by pestilence and mysterious abductions. Without wishing to spoil the story, it’s your job to uncover the hidden legacy of your birth, across a world you’re free to explore.

Since its Early Access and over the last seven months, Black Geyser has taken the time to improve almost all areas of its game. The entire purpose of getting the game into the hands of players as soon as possible was clearly to refine its vision, identify problem areas and put them right. Having delivered over 20 huge updates, including Mac and Linux support, Black Geyser has made sweeping changes. From vastly improved loading times, to clearer player tutorials, improved crafting, new zones, enemies and questlines, the small development team have ensured they've focused on addressing and reacting to key player feedback.



As a CRPG with a large open world with dozens of unique locations, exploring, interacting with NPC’s and managing Black Geyser’s tactical-combat-with pause is key. Just like most party-based titles of old, you’ll need to recruit key allies, discover their motivations, choose your formations and deck them out in any weapons and armor you can lay your hands on, whether that’s from taking on epic bosses, or stealing from a nearby inn (just don’t get caught by the guards).

Black Geyser is undoubtedly a challenging experience, but first and foremost it puts its story and unique greed mechanic at the center. The choices you make will either advance the cause of the Goddess of Greed, or maintain the flame of hope to impact directly on the game world. Yerengal is brimming with content to discover, with varied grim biomes that have plenty of atmosphere that are filled with dangers. If you camp for the night, there’s every chance you’ll be ambushed. If you stray too far from the beaten track, don’t be surprised if you encounter enemies waiting to smash you to a pulp.

With a branching narrative spanning more than 300,000 lines of text and multiple endings, there’s more than 60 hours of content available here, not including all the side quests and secrets to uncover. Scratching that old school itch is the name of Black Geyser’s game, and with future launch plans set to bring pets, strongholds and additional content, its launch this week is only the beginning.

Available now on Steam at a discounted price before it launches into 1.0 today ($29.99).

Are you ready to be corrupted by Black Geyser’s greed?

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First of all, on behalf of us at Lost Pilgrims Studio, we would like to thank all the fantastic women in our lives and by extension, commend all women everywhere. Keep on rocking, ladies!








With the new year come new challenges and new momentum as well for Lost Pilgrims. As a part of that we've now moved into a new office space after a long period of working exclusively from home. During the Covid years the studio had to adapt to the unfortunate situation and admittedly, this arrangement was quite hit-and-miss for the majority of the team. Now that we are also recruiting, we decided to move into an office again - at least those of us who have to communicate and iterate on a daily basis.

As fates would have it, the new office is just a block or two away from our previous one and is in an office building that is in a better general condition.

Here's a photo of the empty office on the day of moving. It was a cold day, the first Monday of the new year.



Moving into a new office is a logistical hurdle on its own but due to the general wood shortage and IKEA being literally empty after Christmas, we could only get used desks - at least it's easier on the environment, eh?



The photo below shows phase 2, when we were looking for the screws as well as good places for desks. It was slowly coming together.



Phase 3 (below): desks are in place and a handful of chairs were also deployed. We could not procure used shelves in the desired color and style but we managed to get a Kallax shelf set from the IKEA on the other side of Budapest. Irafons smiled on us!



Phase 4: the Kallax and the rest of the furniture were assembled. Great success!



With that, the new office was conquered and since then, the team's core has been working there every weekday. The personal interactions were sorely missed and we're very excited to be able to hang out and work on Vagrus again.

Just like with game development, while the front end looks good, there are still a few things to be tied off in the back. :D








Because of your continuous support, we are still up and running and now that we have moved into our new office, we can finally enjoy the pizzas you have bought us via the supporter option. This is the sorta treat that the inhabitants of the wastelands would go to war for! Fortunately, our delivery arrived in time so we haven't had to raid the local pizzerias.





All jokes aside, we are grateful to be able to share these simple, fun moments in the team (and with you with these posts) while working on the game.






We are happy to report that after a long, drawn-out battle with boxes, wrappers, and the employees of the postal services, we managed to send out all the physical rewards we could. All that remains are a handful of rewards where some information is missing (we did not receive a name or an address from the customer) or that wasn't picked up. But the vast majority of the rewards are on their way - if not at their destinations already. (A number of US packages are still held up and waiting for entry at Customs.)

Altogether, the process was quite exhausting but the moments when the various items of merch arrived were great. By the time of penning this post, everyone on the team has received their T-shirts and had a chance to fiddle with the physical rewards.



The artbook turned out to be a fan and team favorite. Picking the finished order up from the printer and moving it around on this tiny cart was quite a funny sight to behold.



They barely fit in the trunk of the car!



Packing for delivery was much less exciting but there is a certain pressure involved: you want to make sure that everything arrives to its destination intact.



Of course, those that have no funds to hire people to handle fulfillment, nor to rent a warehouse, have to face the consequences: no living room for a couple of months!



Luckily, order has returned by now and all that remains is a stack of Collectors' Editions - which, turns out, is quite an amazing sight!




Fig is shifting their focus to investments only without the crowdfunding side, so it's time for us to move on as well. With barely a few pledges in the last few months, it was a no-brainer to decide that we are closing our Fig campaign down (on 13th March), and will eventually look for a new place to sell our merch through.

A big Thank You! to everyone supporting us over there - our earliest supporters along with our friends on Patreon. Stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!

Stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!
The Lost Pilgrims Team

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we have a new patch for Vagrus, which is incidentally the first to add sizable new content - namely, the faction leader NPCs and interactions for the Loaders' and Carpenters' Guilds, something that has been lacking compared to other factions. Each of them can give you a new quest to further get into their good graces (and get a little something-something for yourself in the process, of course). Below are the detailed patch notes.

Important Note: Considering the extent of the improvements, there is little to no chance that we broke nothing in the process. Assume that we did not want to make anyone's life harder. If you see something amiss, please flag it to us using the usual channels, like the inbuilt reporting tool (F1 button), forums, and our Discord server.

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• Carpenters' and Loaders' Guild bases of operation, their Faction Leaders, and a faction quest each were added

• Loyalty feedback: the game log and Event results now show what companions like and dislike (but deliberately do not expand on how much they like or dislike the choice)
  
• Dissonance mode difficulty was further lowered in several ways:
  - Simply trading Goods on the Market is now slightly more profitable
  - Faction Tasks now pay slightly more
  - Supplies now cost less in certain regions
  - The chance of running into Crew Combat encounters is now slightly lower
  - Working and defending crew requirements got a bit lower

• New, unique Deputy art assets on the Deputy screen for each role
  
• Added "and" and "or" in event dependencies to clarify them
  
• "Not" dependency tooltips have been added
  
• Mercenary/Trade Task tooltip on Chart was added
  
• Faction descriptions were streamlined
  
• Chart default position added when opening for the first time
  
• Keyboard zoom on Chart was implemented
  
• Overlapping Markers now shuffle
  
• Added a new button in the Codex that opens the Chart for Point of Interest entries
  
• Vagrus creation text lengths altered to fit boxes
  
• Deputy tooltip now shows the available characters for that role
  
• Relevant Camp UI tooltips also show up on the Crew UI
  
• Leadership Perk tooltips now indicate the Resourcefulness cost of use Renown gained from reaching
  
• Faction standing thresholds are now indicated in the game log
  
• Cargo throw-out visual was polished
  
• Companions screen visual was polished
  
• Crew Details box visual was polished
  
• Deputy screen buttons were improved
  
• Campaign map radial menu buttons now react to hover and clicking
  
• Main menu options colors were adjusted
  
• Journal visual was polished
  
• Market Buy and Sell buttons were improved
  
• Camp UI's End Day button was improved
  
• Chart text outline was tweaked to be more legible

• Incorrect Ward (defense) calculation in Crew Combat was fixed
  
• Beast Swap and Slave Sell buttons' tooltips are updated and indicate the real reason when inactive
  
• Various Proficiency-spending-related bugs have been fixed
  
• Chart text corrections
  
• In restricted settlements, hotkeys will not open Mansio/Market anymore
  
• Force Shield III now grants buff to Finndurath as it supposed to
  
• Perks going negative after Gear swap issue fixed
  
• The stickyUI stuck on the screen (pun intended) issue resolved
  
• Wind shaman icon asset resolution fixed
  
• Criminality feedbacks are now hidden everywhere as was always intended
  
• Fixed some broken Codex links in events
  
• Broken Crew Combat enemy and comitatus mini-flags fixed
  
• Avernum smelting yield was rebalanced
  
• Average price shows up on Goods tooltips in settlements on both the Market and Cargo sides
  
• Sell button tooltip fixed
  
• Grit calculation has been fixed

Known Issues:

• Companion Combat performance drops
  
• Escort Task-related anomalies
  
• Occasional disappearence of the slides from Equipment and Item lists

• User Interface improvements and bug fixes
  
• New Comapnion Free-LC

As you can see above, next up is a whole new Companion, so expect news about him soon. Stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!

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Hey everyone,

we are happy to share that Vagrus has been included in the Big Adventure Event (#theBAE) on Steam organized by Hitcents. The event will be running between January 20 -24 with 100 demos and games.

As part of #theBAE and with our schedules finally lining up with our dear content creator friend, KormakrTv, we recorded a special Vagrus session for you all. While showing off the game, Kormakr have had a little chat with Sztaszov, Lost Pilgrims' co-founder and game designer on Vagrus - The Riven Realms. Check out the event if you missed the actual livestream!

The event will be on air here on Steam from 12:00am CST/7:00am CET, 22st of January.

We hope you will enjoy the show. Conquer the wasteland,

The Lost Pilgrims Team

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Hey everyone,

we are happy to share that Vagrus has been included in the Big Adventure Event (#theBAE) on Steam organized by Hitcents. The event will be running between January 20 -24 with 100 demos and games.

As part of #theBAE and with our schedules finally lining up with our dear content creator friend, KormakrTv, there will be a special Vagrus Let's Play on his twitch channel. While showing off the game, Kormakr will chat with Sztaszov, Lost Pilgrims' co-founder and game designer on Vagrus - The Riven Realms. It's a great opportunity to ask any questions during the stream, so come along and watch it if you can.

The event will be on air from 8:30am CST/3:30pm CET, 21st of January.

We're looking forward to talking about the game and our future plans as well. See you around,

The Lost Pilgrims Team

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we've had a final patch for this year in the works for a while now. This one also includes fixes and tweaks primarily before we move on to adding chunks of new stuff next year. Still, rounding these glitches out first was more important than rushing headlong into creating new stuff, so we hope you appreciate the work we put in this one.

We would hereby like to express our appreciation and gratitude to the awesome people who have been active on our social media platforms, sharing articles and links, voting on Vagrus in award shows, giving advice to people on our discord and other platforms, or helping us by reporting a lot of large and small things that could be tweaked or fixed in Vagrus. It would be difficult to list you. But you know who you are. :)

Now let's jump into the patch details:

Important Note: Considering the extent of the improvements, there is little to no chance that we broke nothing in the process. Assume that we did not want to make anyone's life harder. If you see something amiss, please flag it to us using the usual channels, like the inbuilt reporting tool (F1 button), forums, and our Discord server.

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• House Venari faction rewards have been reworked
  
• Various faction reward tweaks (Only reclaimables, not Enduring Effects. The new rewards are claimable in addition and will not replace the old ones. We are uncharacteristically generous in this regard... but the Holidays are coming up, so enjoy!)
  
• Some Equipment and Gear stats were tweaked
  
• Explorer starter item changed to be more in line with other Callings
  
• You can get a second Heat Shielding Crystal in case you accidentally sell the first one (it might not be easy, however)
  
• Hollow Eyes are now silent in combat, as they should be
  
• Killing tax collectors will have more severe consequences: Bounty hunter attacks start on a slightly lower Imperial Criminality rate (as a warning) while on higher criminality, the legionaries try to apprehend you
  
• Small economy tweaks so that the rumors do not contradict actual market prices

• Loyalty tooltip has been updated to indicate the order of Loyalty levels
  
• Authority and Resourcefulness tooltips have been updated to be more precise and informative
  
• Companion background texts and Faction descriptions were tweaked (fixed length and polished texts)
  
• Blessing of Unbinding description now refers to a more generic source of the effect

• Several journal inconsistencies were fixed
  
• Choices leading to the wrong step in several Events were fixed
  
• A lot of Event text has been polished across the board
  
• Garrik is no longer recruitable twice (sorry)
  SPOILERS AHEAD
  
• The final showdown in Garrik's questline was tweaked not to spoil a surprise ahead of time by applying a certain buff too soon
  
• Eylani's loyalty adjustments in events have been revamped and some gift-related choices are now visible in her banter
  
• You can no longer ask about ingredients from Thadraz during Gor'Goro's questline when you've already delivered them
  
• Skornar's stealthy prison break now does not refer to fighting patrols if it was successful
  
• Eylani's personal quest progression related to Tectum Carvos was rewritten a bit not to refer to the town's current state so much (seeing that it could be vastly different depending on the time of doing her quest)
  
• Finndurarth-related story inconsistencies have been fixed in Salum
  
• Agoram now blesses the party with Unbinding in Finndurarth's last quest step (if you called him to the Conclave)
  
• The Source of Discord quest was tweaked so that you can complete the (optional) dream-catching step even if all the required sub-objectives are already completed (this makes it so that patient players are unlikely to miss this optional objective)
  
• The description of the forum of Tectum Carvos - as well as its initial description - now reflects the town's state better in relation to the major questline there
  
• The shamans are always back at Kotrar when you return the trial contingent
  
• A Terathion's Fall event softlock when there were no choices is now fixed
  
• There are now no rumors about Wyrms after their final defeat

• Camp UI soft-lock related to the throw-out UI resolved
  
• AOE attack Skills now hit all intended targets
  
• Fixed the bug where Companions could occupy the same position
  
• Various Acrobatics-related positioning bugs have been fixed
  
• Jhakra Alpha's Roar accuracy has been nerfed further
  
• Morgarthan's strange glow should be gone now
  
• Victory screen texts were improved where they were a bit wonky

Known Issues:

• Combat performance
  
• Various Escort tasks related anomalies

• Faction leaders for the two criminal syndicates (with a faction quest each)
  
• A new companion as a Free-DLC
  
• Criminal system tweaking
  
• Continued bug fixes and tweaks
  
• UI improvements

Stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!
- The Lost Pilgrims Team

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Hey everyone,

this last month has been slow but we managed to push out new builds for both the main game and our demo last week, so that's a relief.
Throughout November, most of our team members were either on sick leave or vacation, while the rest of us were trying to finish tasks related to our physical Vagrus products or were busy formulating plans for the future of Lost Pilgrims. Bear with us though, as we are getting closer to realizing these plans. For now, let us look at what we are working on in more detail.


When you have a game full of content, you might think that it's easy to "pull together stuff" and produce merchandise from it but in reality, anything you want to use needs some rework to fit for that new purpose. Still, that was within our domain. What came as a bigger shock was how hard it was to find partners for the actual production. No one wants to deal with small order numbers or produce on the level of quality we aimed for. Just as an example, we tried four suppliers to produce our Emperor's Edition boxes but in the end, we ended up giving the job to a creator who makes them by hand because that was the only way that the final product would meet our expectations. But hey, at least now we can say they are truly "handcrafted".

With the little delays eating into our timeline and due to the game's rocky launch, we had to pause our merch production for October but once our hotfixes were rolled out, we got back to it and everything seems to be on track. So expect some new posts about the ready products soon.

Overall, it also means that we will only be able to start merchandise deliveries this month (December 2021).


We promised to share our plans soon after launch, but to do that, we needed to make said plans first: assess options and decide where and how we would like to get to with the game and with our studio.

Video games, especially indie games, often earn half of their lifetime revenue in the first month of their release. From that perspective, the launch of Vagrus was satisfactory. Not bad but not particularly amazing either. We have enough runaway to continue but we also need to find and create additional revenue sources within a reasonable time to ensure our long-term financial stability, especially considering our debt payments in the future.

Continuing with Vagrus

With Vagrus, being short on content- and improvement ideas has never been an issue. The challenge we face now is how to split our resources between improving the base game and creating new revenue sources like DLCs, ports, and so on.

We received tons of great insights from our players. That helps us in prioritizing our endless improvement-idea list. So we would definitely like to implement some of those sooner rather than later. The question is how far we can go with those before switching to porting and other endeavors. We are a tiny team, you see, with a single coder, so presently that is a bottleneck we have to account for.

Hedging long term

The solution to the above conundrum would be to grow the team (aka: hire more people), so improvements and other development areas could run parallel. It's a risk but one we are leaning toward taking, hoping that our community will appreciate those efforts and supports us on the way.

Of course, hiring and onboarding new folks take time too, so if we do that, it will slow down things even more for a period of time. But then, afterwards, the new speed can be higher, so naturally, it's an investment into the future.


There is little left of 2021 but we do hope to get some work done and then build on that in early 2022.
So here's a vague outline of what to expect (subject to change of course, due to a number of unforeseeable reasons):

• Continue with general bugfixes
  
• UI design improvements based on community feedback
  
• Smaller content bits (stories, NPCs, additional options, portraits, etc.)
  
• DLCs

As for the latter, we are currently considering three DLCs by the end of 2022 on top of smaller content additions:

• DLC1 (Free) - A new Companion [yes, a Supercargo ːsteamthumbsupː]
  
• DLC2 (unsure if Free or Paid) - Additional major storyline(s) within the currently available playable area
  
• DLC3 (Paid) - A new region with new stories

The above-mentioned DLCs can be one new source we could count on (naturally, only the paid DLCs). Their creation requires a significant investment, though, so they are not exactly a surefire way to drum up money for the future. Thus, we are trying to come up with other avenues as well. For example, once the game is fairly stable, we will be looking into potentially releasing it on other, smaller platforms (like Humble, Epic, etc.). Their potential is tiny compared to Steam but maybe the effort is low enough to release on them and get access to a new audience.

Porting to handhelds

While Nintendo Switch and iPads seem like two good candidates, there is a lot to be reworked on the UI to make it usable on their smaller screens, not to mention controller support, if we can solve it, otherwise, we will just need to stick to touch controls. Porting would certainly require a higher investment (time and effort) but one that looks promising enough to explore further as an option.
Update: - thanks Rusty Dragon for pointing out - we forgot to mention Steam Deck which comes into play here too, requiring all the UI re-work but not extra porting effort, hopefully.

Merchandise

Having gone through the pain of creating our merchandise portfolio, it would be great to leverage that better and make it into a revenue-generating thing.

Reinvent our Patreon presence

With the game released, we need to revisit our content pipe anyways, so it's also a great time to consider how we could offer other and better things on Patreon that would be appealing to more people to pitch in. We'd love to hear your input on what you think we could do, like offering Tiers that include physical merch rewards, perhaps? Would you see more, exclusive posts about the world of the Riven Realms or perhaps about the creation of the game? Let us know.

Partner up

Perhaps there are mutually beneficial partnerships out there for indiedevs that could enable us to upscale our team. We are exploring this avenue too.

As always, thanks a lot for your continued support, it means a lot to us!

Stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!
- The Lost Pilgrims Team

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While our team is recovering from Covid/other illnesses, we finally managed to pull together a patch worth of bug fixes. More fixes are coming soon, but for now, let's take a look at what else we're working on.

Despite all the hurdles (production issues, massive paper shortage, etc.) our Vagrus-related merchandise is in the last stages of production. Shipping will start as soon as we receive the finalized items from the printing factories. We are sorry about the delays, it has been a difficult road to get here.



Should you be interested in placing a last-minute order, you can do so on our Fig page making a $1 pledge and shop for 'Add-Ons'. Note that considering all the global shipping issues we can hear about on the news, we cannot guarantee delivery before the Holidays.

Now let's jump into the patch details:

Important Note: Considering the extent of the improvements, there is little to no chance that we broke nothing in the process. Assume that we did not want to make anyone's life harder. If you see something amiss, please flag it to us using the usual channels, like the inbuilt reporting tool (F1 button), forums, and our Discord server.

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• Outpost progress-related bug (image and required crew not advancing properly) in older saves has been fixed
  
• Various Outpost management related tweaks
  
• Longer Journal entries can be scrolled all the way down
  
• Goods placed in Hidden Compartments will stay there after loading the game
  
• Camping during events can not be interrupted
  
• Mercenary Task-related throw-out UI bug has been fixed
  
• When a Perk is unlocked but we have insufficient Proficiency, a tooltip line now indicates how many points you lack to buy that Perk
  
• Some save file exploits fixed
  
• Fixed a few Event script issues

Known Issues:

• Combat performance
  
• Various Escort tasks related anomalies
  
• A shed-load of bugs you folks reported but we have not gotten to process yet. On it!

• Bug fixes and tweaks
  
• UI improvements
  
• Early 2022 - A new companion as a Free DLC

The launch of Vagrus was good enough to give us some runaway to figure out the best way forward. While are still weighing our options on how to make the game and the studio financially stable in the long run and we are planning a post giving you a peek into our thought-process on that soon.

Stay tuned and conquer the wasteland!
- The Lost Pilgrims Team

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Hey Folks,

Having played decades of tabletop RPG campaigns in the setting and Vagrus' narrative landing north of one million words in the form of stories and codex entries, Story-Rich certainly rings true when it comes to our game.

If you enjoyed the setting and stories of Vargus, it would be an honor to receive your nomination in the Outstanding Story-Rich Game category.

Thank you very much for your support!
The Lost Pilgrims Team

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Ps.: the category template art of Steam does seem a little off from the dark tone of Vagrus but hey, here goes anyway. :D