Fields of Mistria’s one large drawback is that its day cycle is admittedly fast — time strikes quick, and earlier than you realize it, it’s 2 a.m. and also you’ve handed out within the mines. The large new replace launched on Nov. 18 doesn’t alter the cycle in any respect, but it surely has one new function that I’ve discovered fairly useful: animal mounts. If you happen to’ve met sure necessities, you’ll be capable of unlock a purple horse referred to as Mistmare.
After a windstorm, Hayden will ask for assist in discovering his weathervane, and when you search for it, you’ll come across a brand new statue. That’s the place you’ll unlock Mistmare for 100 essence. There are customization choices that’ll come later, however the advantages of Mistmare are fast. She’s a horse, and horses are quicker than people. You may trip her anyplace exterior, which is wildly useful for getting round Fields of Mistria’s large map extra rapidly. Once more, it doesn’t resolve the sport’s drawback with brief days, however I’ve discovered myself passing out a lot, a lot much less after I keep too late within the mines; I simply leap on Mistmare and rush again to the comforts of my very own mattress as a substitute of crawling via Mistria at a strolling velocity that seems like a glacier’s tempo whenever you’re racing the clock.
In line with the Fields of Mistria wiki, the size of an in-game day is 12 minutes and 30 seconds of real-world time. It goes by particularly quick whenever you’ve acquired lots of animals to are likely to; it’s very simple to spend half of the day going from barn to barn amassing eggs or milk, petting the animals, then feeding them. Put that on prime of a comparatively sluggish stroll velocity and chances are you’ll discover little time to do different chores, like watering and harvesting crops, combating monsters within the mines, or rising relationships with the opposite Mistrian residents. Mistmare can’t assist in lots of these areas, save reducing the time it takes to get across the city, however she is useful for harvesting crops, too: After unlocking Mistmare, you possibly can unlock different talents by giving essence to the horse statue. 200 essence will increase your mount’s motion velocity by 10%, whereas 190 essence will give your mount the power to reap crops and dig spots just by working over them. No further clicks! (Unrelatedly, 205 essence helps you to trip any massive animal that you just’ve acquired greater than 5 hearts with.)
Total, Mistmare is a small a part of the massive replace, however one which’s been an ideal quality-of-life enchancment that’s made the already distinctive early entry recreation even higher. Alongside this adjustment, the massive addition is romance: Now you can earn as much as six hearts with single residents, plus there’s a brand new, romantic Capturing Star Pageant in summer season. I’m in spring in my recreation, so I’ve but to check out the pageant, however I’m additionally engaged on romancing March, Celine, and Juniper to ask one in all them to hitch me on the mountain peak. I’ve but to set off any new romance quests — I’m caught at 5 hearts with all three — however I’ve loved seeing new dialogue whereas working my means via the seasons.
Fields of Mistria remains to be in early entry, and NPC Studio expects the sport to remain there for at the very least a yr. Past the massive content material updates, the studio points smaller ones that repair bugs and such.
