Talk:2020-09-30 Livestream

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hello everyone welcome to our september development update

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um hopefully you have been enjoying your september and all of the sweet content that we've been

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showing i know stephen has been also sneak peeking some some great stuff along the way as well um and we've been

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excited we have a lot of stuff to talk about so first and foremost welcome to the stream if you're new we are going to be going

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over a lot of things so i'll go into a little bit of detail about that we'll do quick updates and then we'll get right into it

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this is going to be a bit longer of a stream so if you need something to drink and grab yourself a coffee during the intro and some water

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to get yourself started because it's going to be a long one um first and foremost i am joined by the wonderful stephen sharif who is our

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create creative director how you doing stephen i am doing well we have had a crazy

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month of testing and bug fixing and optimizations but

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despite the tiredness i'm good yeah we we all were up till like i was up till like midnight i don't

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know how long you guys were up until it was late there was a there was a 7 a.m night i think i was up for

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like uh 27 hours straight one day yeah i saw i went to for life i went to

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bed at 2 a.m one time and you went to bed i saw that you posted something at 4am i was like oh my gosh um i was like clearly i'm not needed

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here i'm gonna go get some sleep so i'm functional tomorrow uh and then of course i'm joined also by

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jeffrey bard who is our lead game designer how are you doing today jeff hi everybody i'm doing pretty good um we

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had a fun day last night um you'll get to see some of that but uh yeah doing good doing great awesome i love it

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yeah we're really excited for this stream because uh last night we were able to record some additional 4k

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footage with you yeah so hopefully you all enjoy that and we will be uploading that as a separate thing

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uh too as well right that's the plan yes so that's uh i currently i believe that's being uploaded right now by

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tristan to youtube uh it's gonna go live i think just after the stream so you guys can watch it there and it's full

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full 4k glory um but uh we're also going to show it on stream as well yeah it'll be cool um so i'm just going

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to go over kind of like what we're going to talk about today so we're going to do a studio update we'll uh do some design and we actually

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have a really long video for you that we'll be playing we have our environment update character

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art update and a q a as well so it's going to be a long one with a lot of goodies um i do have some quick updates

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for you all so i'll just pop over to those um just so you know we do have we did just wrap

Quick Updates

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up our immersion dev discussion so thank you all for joining us and giving us a lot of great content there

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uh toast has wrapped up that and sent over the compiled takeaways to our dev team so

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they will be looking over that report our next one is going to be on housing and decor tools

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so we're really excited to hear your guys's feedback on that i know design is working on a lot of housing stuff you're actually going to see some of

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that stuff here as well and some node relevant stuff um so definitely give us

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all of the goodies and details on that front beyond that we do have um

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we put out a really cool coloring book and you all have definitely submitted

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some really neat um coloring book submissions so we wanted to spot like cute yeah we wanted to spotlight some of

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those so here we go i'm just going to show a couple um thank you for submitting these

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some really crazy colors and then last but not least people have been asking us about

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the halloween contest and we're not going to give you all the details yet we'll have an article that will have all the information so go to ashes of

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creation dot com slash news but

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we have our glorious gourd contest coming this october again so stay tuned we'll have all the details

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on what you can expect on that front uh here soon and to be clear i think there's a

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specific prizes for the glorious gourd contest isn't there we have prizes i think

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there's like some alpha one keys that we might [Music]

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okay um yeah so we'll we'll have more details

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about that so stay tuned and do let us know uh your thoughts on that front

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okay so with that um we will just get right into it so stephen walk us through uh the studio update and tell us all the

Studio Update

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things absolutely so we have had a very successful previous round of hiring we went in with

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24 open positions uh and i believe we are at 20 as of today that we have hired from

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the 24th so there's still four positions you will see if you go to intrepidstudios.com that there is still a

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number of listed uh positions available and that's because we really don't ever stop hiring per se um as we're moving forward

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we still need a lot of these positions uh multiple people in some of these positions our next

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hiring round is probably going to be in january that's when we really go with a number of additional positions that we

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kind of go into full on um recruiting and that's going to be coming january

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the studio update from a move-in standpoint we have um delayed our new move back to the

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studio we're still working from home with covet stuff but we've delayed that until the beginning of of the year because

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just kind of two things really one we don't know how you know fall is going to impact the coveted numbers

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and whether or not the great state of california is going to determine that offices that are not essential can no longer work in their offices

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and i'd hate to put the studio through getting back into the office and then having to go back to home so we're going to wait and see what happens in fall and

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then additionally uh uh you know we have some deployments that are coming at the end of this year alpha one being one of them

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and i don't want to uh mix up that uh that hard work that many of us are going to be going through during that period

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and also have to juggle a move back into the studio so that's probably going to come beginning of next year things are going really good from a

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development standpoint uh we have had a lot of work done over the past couple of months

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since you know july really when we started getting into some of that testing

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we had some great tests this last weekend we had about 440 some odd testers in on saturday and sunday and we

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have been collecting a lot of data on performance optimizations bug fixing

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really can't kind of express enough the hats off to our testers who have gone through

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uh this very very buggy you know preview of alpha one which is great

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because we get to get all that stuff out of the way uh as we get closer to to actually delivering alpha one

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uh so major hats off to to those testers but uh things are going really good yeah uh so thank you uh for

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you know following along with us and we have been posting the job positions that have been available on our social so if you follow

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us on all of our social channels and our linkedin if you're interested in those positions or you know someone who would be good for them

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definitely follow uh follow up with them and let them know because we would we'd love to have them join our intrepid family um

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with that i think we're ready to go into design stuff right yeah yeah so uh quick um

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i don't know if you want to go to the video right away or if you want to kind of preamp for some stuff first i think let's just pre-empt maybe the

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video just a little bit and then we'll just go into the video and we can chat afterwards what do you think jeff i think that sounds great

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okay yeah so just to give you guys a little uh preamble to the video here um obviously disclaimer necessary this

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is the preview to alpha one so technically still pre-alpha uh not a lot of polish not a lot of optimizations ui is completely

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placeholder uh however in this video what are we discussing jeff um well sometimes it takes a little

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while to get from one place to another uh and it helps if you have a mount um so we're gonna be talking a little bit

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about mounts uh and specifically mounts that are not afraid of getting wet yes

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so we will see you in a quick bit after you check that out

Design Update - Aquatic mounts with in-game footage

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hello everyone welcome to another 4k video in the development update of ashes of

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creation just wanted to take a moment to kind of talk about the progress and development

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of the uh preview for the alpha one that's coming at the end of this year i am joined by our amazing lead game designer jeffrey

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barda resident bard hi everybody hope everybody's doing really well we're excited to show you

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some cool things today yay and then we also have luperza our community marketing lead margaret

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crone hi it's gonna be a lot of fun i'm really excited about turtles so

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you know i like your little staff it's like a little tiny baby no it matches

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your outfit though stuff it's like a dwarf stuff yeah we also have violet light our uh social

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marketing or social media manager i'm so sorry social media manager danielle violet light

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hello everybody you are playing an elf today and else i'm always known today i was

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like always oh that's true that's true i don't think about that and our senior community manager lieutenant toast or in

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this case just toast justin toast no tiny toast today no tiny toast no no

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prefix no suffering i know that's so sad sometimes it's really delicious though

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toast this is true so guys out there we guys and gals we have been testing a lot uh over the past

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gosh last time when was the last time we did that 4k video it was like in july i think right as well yeah middle of july or something

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june i don't know but we have been testing a lot we have made a lot of progress uh kind of getting things ready um for

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testers just this last weekend we had a little over 440 testers uh helping us on saturday and

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sunday and actually today tuesday we had a lot of a lot of people in squashing bugs finding bugs

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performance testing pretty much getting as much as possible ready uh and tested

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and we're going to continue to keep testing and getting the alpha one ready for all

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of you guys to those of you who are participating in av1 for those of you to get in and help us

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find things to iterate upon and test all the great things uh for alpha we're

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pretty excited about that aren't we jeff i can't explain exactly how excited i am

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um it's one of those things where you know stuff goes live and and kind of everything kind of breaks

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loose and it's fun and exciting and it's like riding ours it's great i think for me it's been really exciting to actually

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get to play with groups because i hopped in and i played with a couple of different groups and we had a lot of fun so oh yeah it's

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nice to hang out with our community we have such awesome people and super super nice yeah we do have been so patient with us

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an amazing community every time you know i have an opportunity to interact with with you guys out there in the community

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i i'm reminded yet again why we are doing this and really what our motivation is

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is to bring you guys an awesome game something that you guys can be proud of and we can be proud of too so

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we appreciate your support we appreciate your guys tuning in to our monthly live streams and

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you know jumping on our social media and interacting with our amazing community team danielle sarah and margaret um you know

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i i it's it's a great pleasure to see you guys involved in the conversation and the discussion giving your input giving

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your experiences it means a lot to our team as we as we um go through that stuff

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but what i'd love to do today is talk a little bit about mounts

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yay is this where i get to finally ride my turtles oh should we ride turtles so okay well before we get into some turtles

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[Laughter] let me let us discuss a little bit actually let me turn my ui on

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by the way our standard disclaimer ui is placeholder a lot of

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things need polish um so keep that in mind there's really been no polish and and the ui is placeholder

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um and you might see bugs so yes but uh much but getting a little bit into into

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mounts um so just to kind of inform you guys who are unaware we have uh a few types of mounts we have

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flying mounts that are kind of restricted to royalty status uh individuals those

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are mares and kings and queens of castles and legendary rare drops from legendary bosses those are the mounts that are capable of

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flying um you know you may only ever see 10 to 20 or so on a server at any given time and then

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we also have our land mounts and land mounts come in three specific tiers and each tier kind of has

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additional benefits those mounts have abilities and they have skills that kind of get leveled up with

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the mount and they can potentially glide they can do

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cool roll effects they can just kind of do a whole interesting um

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amount of things and that's that's really tied to our animal husbandry system so players will have an opportunity to

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kind of breed specific types of mounts and stats and skills and all that kind of stuff

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you have a really unique twist on on what's available out there but additionally outside of the land mounts we and the

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flying mounts we also have water mounts and i love watermelons

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don't you guys i really do um it's really yeah

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if they're done right i think we're doing them right i think we are too because sometimes there can be weird

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like mechanics for them that makes it hard to like swim but i like cars absolutely so why don't we do a little

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demonstration of some tide snappers

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we've got to give ourselves some space hide snapper exactly what is a type oh there we go we got a tide snapper

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oh my gosh we have multiple tight snappers i'm just going to kind of walk next to you guys

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so as you can see the tide snappers yeah the tide snappers are relatively slow

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unless they are fully submerged within water and as you can see they're not really in

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the water quite yet oh there's a little spurt of water oh another little spurt of water

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and i'm kind of in some weird water we love that it's cool right here is

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this foam lapping up on the beach it's so beautiful oh there's a coaster

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all right let me jump on a tide snapper as well here we go so as you can see it's super

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slow on land but once you get into the water submerged on an aquatic mount you actually pick up

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some speed wait for oh i'm walking i'm still walking i was like why am i not going

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fast there we go yay and you can go under the water oh we're under the water this is amazing

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i feel like a stupid turtle or a mermaid or something i'm into it i'm definitely not your brother i know i

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know yeah don't drown we've done a few takes yes you gotta

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show them that the barrel rolls barrel roll yeah oh don't look at that

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all right don't do a bare roll ready

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[Applause] so i mean um you know some of the great

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things about the aquatic mounds is there's a lot of sea content planned in Ashes of Creation and that sea

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content will include ships of different classes it'll include raid bosses and

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treasures and underwater dungeons um and all of these things will be made

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much more accessible if you are atop an aquatic mount like this amazing

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tide snapper what are some oh so i know a lot of

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people have questions like will aquatic mounts be able to go as far

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as like big ships can go and things like that so yes aquatic mounts will be able to

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fully traverse the naval areas in the water areas in ashes

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so an intrepid explorer could choose to traverse on his tide snapper alone correct as a

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matter of fact there are going to be cool and fun things that you can do out solo in the uh waters as a adventurer uh

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atop an aquatic mount i feel like on land the tide snapper should like dig a hole

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and then bury an egg oh that'd be kind of cool now this guy

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doesn't really like water as much no as a matter

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he is a turtle but he's actually a tortoise a lamp turtles versus tortoises yeah he's a

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galactic torches um so he likes space honestly as you can see inside of his shell there is some

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some spatial areas and as you kind of move him around that space changes a

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little bit it's kind of cool but if you get him close to water he really doesn't like that so

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he kind of escapes into a shell and you're like where are you friend he's like all right i guess it's safe

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that's got to be one of my favorites it's so cute danny and i said the same thing

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yeah i like him oh i like the swift claw too yeah we've really got to give props to our animators because all of our

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mounts are so full of character oh absolutely and and to demonstrate kind of the difference so you see as a

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land mount he's relatively fast on land but if you take him into the water

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he slows down and he's like but i must swim i don't want to swim he slows down but

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he still looks cool yeah he does look cool as matter of fact if you take him underwater

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there we go chloe so many sounds like he can't breathe

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though no he hasn't wrapped her back there

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[Music] look at the raptor oh but look at this swimming it's so cute

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it does look pretty awesome oh let me jump on a wrap

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what are some of the games you guys have played that have had uh awesome mounts and aquatic mounts

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uh for me not so much the mounts but uh when i'm playing wow and i'm playing my druid i really love my seal form

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um just just being able to run at full speed jump in that water and also move it full speed it's just

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great yeah it's good it's just cool to change form yourself too it's really neat without stopping

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like that's my favorite part of it yeah like it automatically does it it's speed

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how about you guys for me it's less like it's lots of mounts and stuff but i don't know if you guys have played

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cfcs but i really like their like water combat and the way that their

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ships work and stuff like that the ocean definitely feels like a terrifying place

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in that game there's some danger that comes along with that

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yeah i think they've done a great job sort of modeling that like real authentic ocean experience yeah my experience at

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mmo's with underwater combat and things of that sort have not been the greatest

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agreed underwater combat is is never great it feels like um i think

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there's a couple games i've done it okay um but i still think it's one of those things you've got to really pay attention to and nail and spend a lot of

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time with um because otherwise if you just phone it in it just feels bad man yeah i agree

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there's been a lot of in my opinion attempts at water combat and or water content uh that hasn't felt

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very good uh traditionally in mmorpgs but i will give credit where credit is due archeage

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i felt did have a really fun um naval content

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both from a raid boss perspective as well as the interaction of those ships um yeah those ships were a lot of fun

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yeah the ships were a lot of fun for sure uh let me show let me see i think i have

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another oh i wonder what the bear looks like in the water

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sea water in his barrels i'm on one of these little islands over here um like i think we're all together but we're not with you yeah

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oh yeah without you where did you go i was dancing around thinking oh i think

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i see him over here you guys over this way i just caught a fish i'm guessing it's going to be a red snapper

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we'll see i could feed this i could feed it to a tortoise that's approaching yes

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my tortoise is hungry do i have a bear you can get a bear well let's try the

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daystrider first so this is a mule mules have some some cargo capacity

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um first of all the mule is very excited the day strider is oh look it's eyelashes oh my gosh

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yeah holy smokes hey girl what kind of mascara using yeah

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but she's super excited to get in the water yay oh my gosh i just see now what

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you're seeing like at a certain angle those eyelashes are massive yeah those eyelashes are huge let's keep all the bugs out you know

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oh questions i know that someone had asked this before um which was will different mounts have

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different speeds uh yes like because this is like a pack mule will it have

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a different speed and be slower so mounts traditionally will have stat groups and or speeds

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associated with their first baseline stat and then augmented based on

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their rarity from a drop status or from the profession of animal husbandry

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that players have available to them what kind of things will they be able to

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control in regards to animal husbandry and creating those

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mounts so outside of the the visual differences that are going to be available they will also have an impact

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on the health the types of skills the speed that's available the damage

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mitigation they'll have influence over um i think that's primarily

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the main stat groups i guess oh from a combat perspective also have influence over the traditional stat group so like

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their combat effectiveness accuracies uh the type of the level of damage that the

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skills can do that kind of stuff let me see if i can find the bear hold on don't worry i'll just be here fishing

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you should have a bear poke do i have a bear poke i think i have a barrel

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hold on i have tortoise i have tide snappers oh blueberry

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got him got him let's take him out

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oh and he's swimming oh he swims funny he's like stretching

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he's like what do i do let's take him underwater

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oh that's great i like his little swims oh that's so funny he's trying to climb

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under the water what do i do i need to get my beard let me out of here yeah my rum is

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getting tainted by the salt oh it's kind of prancy i like it

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let's try one more i think i have um i think there's a

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let me see here do you have our our little otterboy which one

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the tidebreaker yeah the tidebreaker the tiebreaker i just i was on the tie breaker i thought

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as a tight sniper yeah ted snapper ted breaker is the like otter one i don't have the tie breaker yeah i don't know

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if it's in this building i might be um i can try to give myself a

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tie breaker hold on i feel nervous now it's gonna be like

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some monstrosity that's have we tested this before oh i don't know if we have

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that's a very good question your eyes are around the corner oh yeah go around the corner just gonna hide

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if we see like a giant tide snapper from behind the cliff

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all right i am going to i'm going to attempt to try to make my dragon swim

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does it swim oh my gosh it does swim the dragon does there we go

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look at it oh yes swim with it swim the wings are a little

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weird i don't think they're done yet but no cute yeah that's pretty good

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our animation team is probably like oh my gosh they're showing i know

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but in regards to mounts and flying mounts um will are you expecting them to be able

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to swim at the same pace as like other creatures in the water so no so aquatic creatures in the water will have

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the absolute best speed and performance and water specific skills i see jeff's over here yeah we're

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creeping on him it's like you're it's like he's he's gotta go pee so he's like hiding in the rock i have a tied snapper

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and i have um tide snapper i tried to give myself the tide breaker

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and that did not happen that's okay yeah so that's not available but there's a lot i mean just to give

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you yeah go for fish there's a just i mean guys just to give

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you again an idea you know ashes has a lot of obviously complex systems but they're

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all intended to provide the players um interaction points the

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base basically agency over you know how your world exists around you and that

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includes the types of animals that you can have as pets and or mounts through the

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profession of animal husbandry and the acquisition of these things and they're diverse they're not

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just you know monolithic mounds there are specific mounts for specific areas like the aquatic mounts or the land

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mounts or the flying and gliding mounts um these are all obviously very important oh my god did you just

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dive into the water with a griffin i think she did i did oh hey toast have you seen any like

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other questions about mild specifically that you think maybe uh steven could answer hmm

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i'll have to think about that one i think the one you asked earlier about the different speeds was a big one yeah i've definitely seen

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that asked a few times and then of course people want more details on the abilities and how they

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can modify them through animal husbandry yeah but i don't know if we're ready to go into all the details on that

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yeah there's a lot of stuff that needs to be kind of developed on that side before we can give like super great answers on that and test it absolutely

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oh um what about mounts that can have multiple people on them

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uh the group mounts absolutely so that was a part of our i think a part of our kickstarter stretch goals was the group

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mount and the cool thing about the group mounts is they're going to have specific

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functionality that relates to multiple people obviously and they're also going to provide some

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pretty cool benefits i think that will make them stand out from traditional single-player mounts

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and kind of functions that the writers have available to them while they're writing based off of certain skills

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so like normal mount single player mounts will have specific skills that you level up that pertain to you as the writer

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whereas the group mounts will have specific skills that can only be utilized by characters who are currently in the seat

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of a passenger position so the unique passenger positions that have

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correlating skills let's see if i can dive

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oh there we go yeah i'm swimming on this guy too he's just like i want some fish

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feed me now i want to like create a serpent like a big serpent creature like a water surface

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yeah like a big water serpent a leviathan yeah

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yeah so i think it's pretty cool you guys have anything else you want to chat about with the mounts and whatnot

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um i guess we do get a lot of questions in regards to like

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cosmetics and how people can apply those to different mounts and like which ones apply to which

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yeah absolutely so as you guys know we do absolutely zero pay to win whatsoever and we'll

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never have pay to win a national creation however with that being said when you have a cosmetic uh

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skin that applies to certain mounts you must achieve that base mount first in the game so we're

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not actually you know selling power anything like that or you're not achieving um you know essentially these

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cosmetics to replace the in-game achievement now uh the cosmetics themselves will be

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applied to specific types of mounts remember there's three tiers of land mounts there's aquatic mounts

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and cosmetics will apply based off of those tiers so if it's a flying base kind of

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cosmetic that's capable of being on a gliding mount you can apply that flying skin to that

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tier 2 mount if it's kind of a horse related one here let's see if i have another horse one

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oh here we go so we have this horse this could be applied to tier 1 mounts which you can get pretty early on uh in

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the game now let me see if i have a i think i have a midnight mirror do you

• 30:53

want i hope so i do

• 30:59

there we go oh pretty yeah oh toast has one too i do the

• 31:05

person where's your i didn't buy one unbelievable not buying every amount in the shop

• 31:11

rookie well what more do i need other than my turtle you need every amount come on be a true

• 31:18

collector but yeah so we just wanted to jump in

• 31:23

guys give you another little uh development update showcase some of the aquatic mounts and the mounts in general

• 31:31

and let you know that we are hard at work in continuing development towards alpha one

• 31:37

uh and we're excited to get you guys in

• 31:43

so with that being said we will see you back on the stream and hope you guys are

• 31:48

having an awesome end of your september oh we're fine by the way

• 31:53

it's the fall end of september already i know yeah it's nuts all right guys have an awesome

• 32:00

day we'll see you soon bye everybody

• 32:05

yeah bye and hello

• 32:11

all right with that uh we hope that you enjoyed a little bit of content about mounts um i know we pre be preempted that it

• 32:18

was going to be about miles so hopefully people were prepared for that um but there was some conversation i

• 32:24

hope we answered quite a few questions um that you guys had throughout the stream in regards to the mount specifically um

• 32:30

and like i said this is gonna be a long stream we got a lot more content to show you all um but in regards to the underwater

• 32:37

um viewing people were having questions about underwater visibility and what that's going to look like and i'll

• 32:44

have a further question after that yeah so absolutely so there's a few things to know about the underwater

• 32:50

visibility obviously this is a very first pass approach on the ocean both

• 32:55

shader and the post-processing effects that occur when your camera moves under that shader um you know there are volumes that exist

• 33:02

and the post-processing is essentially adding like a distance fog you know out in the water it's adding a little bit of a blur effect those things

• 33:08

are going to be revised and perfected as we move forward just like all the art as you've seen you know over the past um a couple of

• 33:15

years and in progress we've shown they'll get much much better so uh this is kind of the first dab of it uh

• 33:21

brian ganz and um and tristan snodgrass they did a great job with the initial implementation of this water

• 33:27

shader in the ocean shader itself uh but uh it'll have a lot more work done to it yeah and then the next

• 33:32

question is obviously will there be underwater combat or mounted combat and i think we've kind of

• 33:37

answered some of this question before but i know there's a lot of new people in the community so if you don't mind reiterating

• 33:44

absolutely yeah so there is underwater combat um there is uh naval combat with regards to ships

• 33:49

this is obviously a very important part of the um of the ocean content that's out there

• 33:54

there's raid bosses there's dungeons there's there's caravans care of exactly trade ships essentially

• 34:00

as you move goods throughout the world all of this stuff is going to have not just a player versus environment type

• 34:07

combat setting uh but also player versus player so it's important that it feels good and fluid um obviously a lot of mmos have tried to

• 34:14

get combat right in underwater environments and as many of us as mmo players know

• 34:20

not a lot of hit the mark so it's a tall order one that we're going to be spending a lot of time on trying to

• 34:25

to get right to feel good um but uh you know it's being done early on in development and uh and

• 34:31

hopefully we come up with something that's going to feel pretty good and just so um just reiterate i know a lot of people in chat were saying they

• 34:36

really enjoyed guild wars 2 and archage i saw some everquest folks in there as well i know jeff and i have worked on the

• 34:42

everquest franchise before um i think it's just very interesting to see like what other people think and

• 34:48

like what you guys like too so if we were watching the chat we enjoy hearing it and of course you can always join us over on our forums

• 34:54

um over on ashesivecreation.com so you can or yeah so you can go check it out over

• 34:59

there and give us your feedback we always love reading that toast does a great job of putting together reports um so thank you the next question i have

• 35:07

here is also if people will be able to craft such make items that allow them to see better underwater probably

• 35:15

not see better underwater um you will obviously have items that you

• 35:20

can create craft and or that drop that will improve mobility in water

• 35:25

potentially speed and water uh there could be buffs for underwater breath there you know a lot of a lot of mechanics

• 35:32

there but i don't know that we'll probably touch the visibility component of it uh yeah yeah probably

• 35:38

not i mean the the the blurriness you saw is just a factor of of kind of where do we want to go with it we're

• 35:44

still playing with it we're trying to figure it out but i think that visibility is going to be a thing that we want people to have

• 35:49

like an even steven kind of experience with right that people aren't necessarily going to be able to see farther than other people uh

• 35:56

based on what their equipment is cool all right should we move on to environment we have a lot of other stuff so moving

• 36:04

on to the wonderful environment team they have a lot of stuff for us today the first thing i'm going to show you

• 36:10

are some concepts and then the actual models um so i'll go through these pretty quickly uh but we

Environment Art Update - Housing and node art

• 36:16

are showing off a lot of the housing stuff as well as node leveling up and what you're gonna see in those node houses and things of

• 36:23

that sort so steven if jeff if you guys want to talk about that while i kind of cycle through all of these that would be great

• 36:29

absolutely so you see here a bunk bed um as you know there are family horses two doors for two dwarves exactly there

• 36:36

is a family system in place and furniture is an important part of the housing system furnitures will offer certain

• 36:43

in-game benefits such as this bed will have a rested experience benefit however cool fun little thing there with that

• 36:49

bunk bed is if you have another family member in the bunk bed with you while you sleep

• 36:54

together you get a boosted benefit from the buff so i didn't know this i know and the same

• 37:01

thing's true for the uh the king-sized bed if you are married in game and your

• 37:06

spouse is sleeping with you in that bed you get a different type of benefits

• 37:13

[Applause] i'm just saying that there's you know there's a different type of animal

• 37:19

husbandry going on there oh no

• 37:26

oh my god what's our esrb rating so right is what we're going for just

• 37:32

cuddling as long as we don't display the you know like the sims vibes

• 37:37

like you can see it i think we're okay those pillows look really comfy though

• 37:42

to be honest yeah um oh my goodness dwarves make the best pillows

• 37:48

we got a bookshelf here and then this is yep the in-game

• 37:55

bookshelves these are great i think um i think this is i think this is adam

• 38:02

will that did the bookcases and maybe the furniture as well i believe i'd have to go look at that

• 38:10

okay whoever on the environment team did a great job with these i they capture i think the the type of uh

• 38:17

visual aesthetic you would expect from a junior traditional dwarven type of furniture now when i see the single bed i'm sad

• 38:23

for them well no buffs for you no buffs for you i know that's where you get ready just

• 38:30

let's get rest xp yeah they don't have the potential to create children right and the children is part of the orphanage system

• 38:36

that stop with the orphanage when a no good seed when a node gets

• 38:42

seized in the house your child that you created via the bed actually gets put into an orphanage

• 38:48

he said this a million times like he's really trying to just sell jeff and i and i we're like no this is about it i'm sorry

• 38:57

my heart i'm just messing i'm sorry i know you're

• 39:02

just messing um so yeah lots of cool items there's so many more items being created and

• 39:08

obviously this this is like you know dwarven sets there's a lot of all the different races that you're gonna see um but we just kind of really wanted to

• 39:13

show you guys some of this stuff you've also seen some concept art of some of these um but now you're seeing the models um from

• 39:21

our previous uh episodes of our development updates so if you've been following along with

• 39:27

our journey for a long time you've got you've gotten to see all of it maybe we could do like a montage whenever we launch of like

• 39:33

the journey that would be really cool um i think i would really like that um absolutely next up some amazing

• 39:41

concept art that is just chef's kiss uh so if you want to talk a

• 39:47

little bit about um kind of what we're going for and all these different pieces i'll

• 39:53

walk through them yeah so as you guys saw um in the video obviously we're in a

• 39:58

little bit of a tropical environment but uh part of the um alpha one uh

• 40:03

presentation at the end of this year is going to largely be in a tropical bay type area of the map

• 40:11

so you know these concept images that i believe these were done by ryan richmond

• 40:17

they provide the environment artists kind of sample biomes that they can target both the creation of foliage and

• 40:25

these trees uh the layout of you know different values that might exist or

• 40:30

inlets um that really kind of create i think a compelling atmosphere for this this kind of tropical shore beach

• 40:37

environment and it's a lot of fun i think really just to explore but here you get to see kind of

• 40:42

um the early concepts and then as we move into alpha one you'll start to see the representation in the actual game

• 40:48

world yeah it's kind of funny that first screenshot of the first concept um i thought that was

• 40:56

an in-game shot um that's kind of what it looks like like right now yeah um you could have

• 41:02

fooled me based on what we're seeing in the game so um so kudos to everybody like it's coming together really nicely

• 41:08

um uh our designers are hard at work trying to populate this area absolutely a lot of fun i think and one

• 41:14

of the things really like you're seeing these types of rock formations present in another game that i played

• 41:20

where you had um ships and ship content um it was really cool a certain part of the map had this

• 41:27

uh kind of rock formation that uh um you know was similar here uh and i thought that presented a really um

• 41:34

fun environment for uh pvp with these ships um essentially and and uh you know

• 41:40

that's one of the um the components of this environment uh that's going to be incorporated

• 41:46

having those types of rock formations it's also a high fantasy type of you know look too a lot of cool vertical space that we can

• 41:52

use as designers to kind of change things up and make things feel really cool and different um you know when you're a ship and

• 41:58

you're coming into port right you got to kind of watch out what's what's on top of those rocks and make sure that you're safe and that nobody's

• 42:04

going to drop in on you so it's pretty cool that's really awesome so mad props to our environment

• 42:10

team who has been just pumping out some amazing uh content whether that be like the little

• 42:16

tiny pieces that you're seeing in the houses and in the structures and in the buildings of the buildings themselves and then

• 42:22

obviously getting the feel and concept down of these spaces and then being able to create those spaces

• 42:28

that you're going to be experiencing it's been very very uh cool to see that come to fruition um

• 42:34

so as we you know showcase more of it you got you guys actually saw parts of these this area too uh in that video if you go

• 42:40

back to the mounds video so definitely go look at it and you'll maybe scout out where where it is in the

• 42:46

space there i'm going to move on to our character stuff because we still have a lot more content to go through and we have some q

• 42:52

a as well so on to the character now steven did do a little sneak peeky

• 42:57

of our beautiful ramstrider here um but this is such a beautiful piece jincy is

• 43:04

one of our um artists and she's just she does that all she does it from like

Character Art Update - Armors, mounts and more with in-game footage

• 43:10

like not even concept but like just creating it out of her crazy mind which i love her beautiful crazy mind uh

• 43:15

and then all the way to like animating the piece and getting it in game in that regards so it is just amazing to uh see it um

• 43:23

so i don't know if you want to talk a little about about this little bad boy but i'll show off the different angles

• 43:28

of it the ram strider is again like a

• 43:34

tamed mount effectively these guys are things that you're going to find in the wild also raised by

• 43:41

people who raise such animals um and they're going to be a fun cool looking mount for for folks yeah

• 43:50

whenever i see that guy stevie

• 43:59

that's what you were doing i was wondering what you were doing on your phone i was like

• 44:05

that's a big mat i love it oh he is thick though but no um

• 44:13

jinzy does a great job obviously with these mounts and and um you know this is just kind of another example of

• 44:19

really the the vast array of possibilities that come with the mount systems i mean mounts are such a

• 44:25

cherished and beloved aspect of mmorpgs at least everyone i've ever played and it's really cool to have a a very

• 44:31

in-depth system i think to facilitate really complex and unique aspects um to what players can acquire

• 44:40

to what they can collect uh and that's a that's obviously a huge portion of what many of us as players

• 44:46

drive for in national mmos and we also just want to make sure that you know this feels like a fantasy world

• 44:51

this doesn't feel like earth there's some things that are familiar but then there's other things that just are out of this world

• 44:57

and that's kind of where we get to play a lot in fantasy worlds um and we want to make sure that we don't kind of fall

• 45:02

into these sort of staid kind of traditional expectations we want to be able to change it up every

• 45:08

once in a while and this is one of those places yeah if you just had like a full body uh like pillow

• 45:13

plush of this creature that just was like in your bed with you that would be just i don't know about the horns would you get a buff yeah i don't know

• 45:20

no i was talking about in real life jeff yeah um but i do think that this is amazing

• 45:27

um and obviously you know we have a lot of amounts that we've been showing off and we'll have many more that are attainable

• 45:34

in game two so don't worry about that so with that we also have saddles that we have created and these are other

• 45:40

pieces that you can put on your mounts um so i want i don't know if you want to kind of talk a

• 45:45

little bit about that obviously this is one of the pieces that some of you have probably seen before um but there's going to be many other

• 45:52

uh you know saddles and barting that you're going to see coming in as well yeah mount equipment is obviously very

• 45:58

important as is battle gear for pets um you know these are gear chases for your

• 46:03

pets and your pets are an extension of you really so um you know being able to kit them out with good gear is is something that

• 46:10

players strive to attain uh and this is an example of kind of how those gears are

• 46:16

partitioned uh on the on the mount itself this is a obviously a a saddle

• 46:21

um that in my opinion looks very good um and i would love to have that on my horse it's bay loon style right so there are

• 46:27

questions in regards to yeah and if saddles will provide any extra benefit to people

• 46:33

obviously this i think this is a cosmetic one so this would not give you a benefit it would just be a cosmetic you would put over the saddle that you

• 46:39

currently have right so you would have to attain the saddle item itself and then you can apply the cosmetic

• 46:44

uh to that item so again you know we don't actually uh provide through the cosmetic power

• 46:50

right exactly uh now all gear has stat modifiers so they adjust

• 46:56

the stat of the mount and or pet and then additionally some gear based on its rarity will add additional

• 47:02

effects that could be a base increase of speed for a particular piece of set or could be damage

• 47:09

mitigation for the satellite or body armor you know those types of things uh are going to be present on more legendary

• 47:15

gear and equipment it's funny people look at my horse my horse is amazing

• 47:20

um cool yeah i think that answers that i don't know if there's any other one eye that i saw in chat but moving on

• 47:27

from there we're going to move into some armor pieces and i know jeff you kind of want to talk a little bit about

• 47:33

armor on males versus females as well as you saw in the mount video you could see that violet light and

• 47:39

jeffrey were both wearing the same armor but there was like a little bit of differences between their armor as well um yeah so i just wanted to point out

• 47:45

like if you take a look at that video again um violet light and myself are wearing exactly the same armor set right same

• 47:51

stats same everything uh but it drops for her it looks one way it drops for me it looks another way and

• 47:57

a big part of that is is a small part of that is gender but then the other part of it is is race so because i was of a loon uh in

• 48:04

that playthrough my armor was in the valen style um and when she picked it up it was in the

• 48:10

elephant style because she was an elf so that kind of gives you an example of sort of the the breadth of looks that we're going for and how we

• 48:17

kind of try to capture like who you are as as a character um and and kind of allow you to kind of build your

• 48:24

look that way so and a lot of a lot of games have kind of taken that direction as a matter of fact

• 48:29

you know the inspiration for that particular approach came from my experiences with lineage 2. i really enjoyed how they

• 48:36

um you know kind of had subtle differences between different races and genders wearing the

• 48:42

same thematic set and you would see obviously a crossover with the theme

• 48:48

whether that be you know the materials and or textures and the color palettes like that would maintain across races

• 48:55

and genders uh but there would be essentially a different representation of that armor

• 49:00

so that's that's a similar approach that we're that we're taking with regards to the armor sets and Ashes of Creation

• 49:06

um it's that you're you're gonna have one set that can be traded can be sold can be crafted uh and then as that set is is um

• 49:14

is equipped by different races and or genders uh it's going to have subtle differences between them it's always exciting for me when i hear

• 49:21

you talk about games that i've worked on too when i'm like oh they need to um

• 49:27

it's exciting anyway no matter who's talking about it but it's to me whenever stephen does i'm like oh um so

• 49:33

this is the dwarven set that we have and it's very cool looking i think stephen also might have leaked us to

• 49:38

some folks on this on the discord as well i'm not sure if it was everybody but i'm sorry i have bruises from last week

• 49:47

[Applause] another thing that was leaked so we have the emperian a cloth armor that you can

• 49:53

see here um the back and the front so i'll kind of go through that again yeah and this and this kind of gives you also an

• 49:59

understanding of some capes i know that some people saw a little bit of a representation of capes and apocalypse

• 50:04

um but here you can see kind of the the diversity that we're going to have among the capes you're going to have one

• 50:09

shoulder cape you're going to have full body capes you're going to have cloaks and whatnot and these are all

• 50:15

kind of encompassing the back slot item you can also choose even if you have it equipped because they will have stats

• 50:21

you can choose not to have them visible if you wish if you wish to have a different back slot uh kind of presented whether that be a shield or a weapon

• 50:28

that's going to be something left to the players all right and then i'm moving into uh like this is the female one

• 50:36

i believe you can kind of see it the textures yeah and then i will show you all the

• 50:44

male version here and they're in a t-pose because

• 50:50

that's like oh we need it we need to tighten up that waist a little bit

• 50:55

that's a big husband costume i've had an opportunity to review these but these look good i love them yeah they're all work in

• 51:01

progress and um they did send everything to me as work in progress so keep in mind this is a development

• 51:06

update stream this is all work in progress none of this is final um as we've said a couple times already

• 51:11

throughout the stream even when we were in the in the mount video as well and then with that here's another render

• 51:18

this is veloun instead of empyrean whereas the other one was imperium so we showed you empyrean uh

• 51:23

empyrion and value now and yeah i loved it love this yeah i love the like gold

• 51:29

um like panel plating it's very interesting um and then we've got some kayla faces

• 51:36

this is the male work in progress faces that are being worked on um obviously these are work in progress

• 51:42

um but you've seen i think there's been a lot of commentary about like our models and i know that they're working through

• 51:47

all the models and kind of giving them all uh updates i don't know if you want to talk a little bit about that stephen

• 51:53

yeah absolutely i mean you know it's as you're creating the game the size of Ashes of Creation and mmorpg

• 52:00

in and of itself is a is one of the largest projects you can do in gaming but Ashes of Creation i think takes it to the next level because

• 52:07

we have a lot of ambition in our systems and features that we want to provide the players um so

• 52:14

you know here you're seeing as we continue development you know these base models for the different races will

• 52:19

continue to get uh refined further and as we eventually get to the character creator stage

• 52:25

uh where you're going to see a lot of customization and flexibility and the deformations that are available

• 52:30

uh both from a character facial perspective as well as the overall body perspective you know our goal is to aim for the

• 52:37

stars in what is possible on the character creator front um and that requires a lot

• 52:42

of custom work on essentially setting the parameters of the

• 52:48

extreme sides of the spectrum on where players can deform targets uh uh on their character uh that

• 52:54

they're that they're utilizing to the character creator um so this is just you know continual work moving forward on these base uh

• 53:00

uh body models uh to facilitate the goals we have with the character creator itself and this one is specifically klar

• 53:07

if folks are interested in the race and with that that is i see that

• 53:12

somebody said that um i like the bald asman gold one yeah people are like we like bold we like the

• 53:19

balls everyone in chat i saw that quite a bit his husband called that ball i don't think so i haven't seen a stream

• 53:24

in a while but uh [Applause] you guys are funny um with that i think

• 53:31

we're gonna swap into our q a segment um i tried to get through all of the content really quickly

• 53:37

because i know that we had a long video in there so hopefully you guys enjoy the development update as far as that goes

Q&A

• 53:44

we're going to grab some of our questions from the forums um so first and foremost it's going to be our one from unknown

• 53:50

one on the forums which asked what prevents someone from having their friends or guild members kill them to reduce their

• 53:57

corruption and give them back their gear items after death

• 54:02

nothing would prevent that if they are capable of successfully hiding away from the

• 54:09

bounty hunters that can locate them on a map and uh they are capable being killed

• 54:15

then yes that is that is a way potentially that you could um could manage to remove corruption

• 54:21

however there is significant risk with that um obviously and there's significant downfalls with the

• 54:28

death penalties that get applied to a corrupt character so they're not subverting the penalty per se

• 54:33

they are mitigating the risk on the drop of particular gear but essentially the bounty hunter system

• 54:40

because the bounty hunters have the ability to locate uh corrupt players on the map uh that

• 54:46

that severely kind of impacts the ability uh for people to move to a safe area with their friends

• 54:52

and attempt to avoid the loss of gear but again they're still going to suffer those death penalties and they're still

• 54:57

going to have the risk of bounty hunters and even other players locating them and killing them

• 55:03

all right cool our next question here is from shaco and and also i guess it's two

• 55:10

people who have this question and it's yes so cf sorry if i pronounce your names wrong um

• 55:15

which asked have you decided whether the world of vera will be plane or sphere

• 55:21

able to be circum like circumnavigated which i think we've had this i feel like we've had this question maybe before

• 55:27

yeah we have the answer is it's a good question yeah there will not be world wrapping um in Ashes of Creation yeah

• 55:35

all right and then with that our next question is will swimming have limiters like

• 55:42

stamina to prevent people from swimming all over the place and this is from mr tea time there will not be some deep

• 55:49

water swimming probably well there's breath right but but i think he's maybe referring to like uh

• 55:55

the ability just to swim out in the open water on the surface and there's there's not a limitation

• 56:01

from a from a uh from a stamina perspective there is however on breath obviously

• 56:07

cool oh and i guess that question has been answered the navigation one was answered on a

• 56:13

in pi but not publicly so i'm used to hearing the answer i guess

• 56:18

uh our next question is from bricktop who wants to know will there be a hard cap on the number

• 56:23

of players that an aoe spell can hit in pvp or is it just kind of

• 56:29

like in the conal space or in the circular space depending on the ability so

• 56:34

um we have not come to a conclusion on that yet we're leaning towards no um but that is going to require

• 56:42

additional testing um and um you know i know other games that have done that

• 56:47

uh and you know this kind of damage aoe mitigation or um diminishing returns uh and

• 56:54

while i believe diminishing returns are appropriate from a cc perspective i don't believe limiting the number of

• 56:59

contacts made for aoe skills uh is something that feels good as a player

• 57:05

um yeah it also kind of changes the way that large-scale pvp ends up playing out um you know where you know the

• 57:12

the aoe becomes kind of limited and doesn't serve as the um counter play

• 57:19

against certain types of strategies that it should um so that's kind of we're still talking

• 57:25

about it there's still still decisions to be made there but that's a big part of it yeah

• 57:30

and a waste wants to know uh will players be able to party duel in addition to 1v1

• 57:37

duel yeah i don't see why not um i like the idea of having group verse group

• 57:43

it's it's uh essentially just extending that flag out to the party to the active party members um there

• 57:49

would be some complication no not complication but there would be some additional logic necessary if the player would drop a party per se in the middle of a

• 57:55

of a duel but i don't see that as being too difficult um so it's something that's on our radar

• 58:01

yes interesting yeah that is a thing that somebody might try to like scam

• 58:06

so you'd have to find a way to round it but that's cool and it'd be fun to like put down a flag and like you just battle it out our next question from

• 58:14

jalon is if your node is at war with a node your guild mate lives in does this does

• 58:21

that stop you from being able to party with your guild mates raid and defend your castle if the

• 58:26

defensive siege happens during the same period as the node war is happening

• 58:32

so it won't prevent you from being able to party and it won't prevent you from

• 58:38

participating in co-events um uh that are present

• 58:43

um so if the if they if the if the guild affiliation uh if the desire of the

• 58:48

player is to participate in events they can still do so uh but they'll have to be cognizant of

• 58:55

the fact that they're flagged for war with each other enzyme and by the way that that is

• 59:01

subject to testing and change there are some complications obviously the affiliation tier the affiliation

• 59:07

structure is complicated uh because there's so many what we call pseudo-factions essentially

• 59:13

being a non-faction based game is in my opinion great um but you need to provide the opportunity for two things one for

• 59:19

pseudofactions to form uh and two for soft friction to occur between those pseudo factions right and that's that's what compels players to

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engage in these types of um of uh you know decisions of friend or foe

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right right and that and that and that can help to instigate conflicts um but because of that

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complexity uh in the affiliation system um there are going to be some oddities that form between different affiliations

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that you may have and how they can be at odds with one another um you know it's kind of the philosophy of the friend of or the enemy of my

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enemy is my friend kind of a theory right so we have to play with that from a testing standpoint and that

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is subject to change uh but it is something that is obviously at the forefront of our minds when it comes to that uh that component and i would like to

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preface that this entire all of the content that we put out is subject to chain based on testing not

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just that one piece that's yeah sure yeah some things are closer than other things but yeah like

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we haven't done the full large scale testing yet um that kind of will allow this stuff to kind of fall

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out and we'll start to see where the problems are and what we can do to fix them so yeah for sure stay tuned um

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i think we did the did we do the naval one i can't remember uh so our question from zenmara is will

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naval combat be included in the siege aspect of seaside nodes with harbors having both

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defensive and offensive capabilities yeah i've answered this in the past with regards to

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nodes that are near the coast will have harbor hooks that develop alongside the

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nodes development those harbors will provide obviously ship construction locations they'll provide

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specific sea related content and questing and during a siege of a node that has

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leveled that harbor up there will be objectives for the attackers to and the defenders to be

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uh cognizant of during that siege that reside within the harbor so there's an opportunity there for ships to engage

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uh in part of the siege components uh when it comes to to these events

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and then our question from cals is if crafted items will be on par with best in slot

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items does that mean we will craft legendary quality gear too yes uh it's going to require

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legendary quality crafters to do it yep and legendary quality materials

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uh dark furious wants to know will gear only have a limited number of times

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it can be repaired no uh gears can be con continually repaired

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uh the idea behind the um decay system for gear is not to make it you know a a

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background thought as many mmos i've experienced in the past have done with this trivial

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you know gold component cost of repairing that gear and that really doesn't scale well

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but instead to make it more material based whereas materials are obviously going to be the life force of the crafting system

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you know as long as we are capable of of placing that additional burden of of demand on the

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material uh systems that will also help to contribute to um the

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life force of the gatherers and the processors uh and helps to just continue fueling that

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economy and then our question from nico tulo wants to know

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can have targeted abilities be augmented to become action and combat abilities and vice

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versa i think some can right um not really

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not no so i mean obviously there's a there's a complexity layer that exists between balancing

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action-based abilities and tab targeted abilities now some abilities when advanced with

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additional skill points can change some of their targeting mechanics

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but that's not going to be a simple flip switch where i get to choose at any moment hey i'd like to have this ability be an action ability

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in a outside of its tab ability you'd have to progress the specific ability to a stage

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where it allows for that right jeff yeah and then also we don't want to

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necessarily like you know mess up somebody's experience based on

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what they're expecting from a given ability right so we want to make sure that that the functionality of the ability

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makes sense in its progression so that it's still usable by the person who wants to use it right

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okay um then i'm going to ask two bonus questions as well because

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a couple of these bonus questions yeah because oh my god stephen had mentioned that some of them

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were he'd already answered so i want to make sure that you know we just cover it so pr parse parcel

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or par 551 fall wants to know uh i'm assuming it was uh trying to be lead

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speak what a character's cloths uh when a character's cloths or cloths clothes i don't know what i'm

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saying class when a character's clothes are affected by the environment is this just cosmetic

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or will it change a character's resistances

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when a character's clothes are affected by the environment yes is that is it just cause i don't

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even know what that or will it change a character so in a past stream you had talked about how if you're in a cold

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area that there may be potential for like um abilities to have effects basically

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oh sure yeah yeah you can have climate has been specifically armor that will have effects no um don't

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yeah i think so there is there are climate effects that occur from a buff standpoint uh they can also affect

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skills like let's say you're using a a you know frost bolt in a in a winter

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climate there's the ability for those effects to be enhanced and or stronger in those

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climates uh but i do not understand or i think so sarah's saying that toast is saying

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that it's because someone was saying that armor got wet in another video that we had like you came out of the water and it

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looked wet oh no i think we talked about this in a live stream a long time ago where we have the ability to like

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make a thing dirty as it's being used um but that was not something that we were ever talking about as like something

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that's really going to be fun yeah um and that's probably not a direction we're gonna go

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and we're probably not gonna have the dirtiness either because from a from a from a um performance standpoint

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it is really a multiple on the uh on trying to render as many

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clients as the client has to render that's a little more difficult i think yeah so there isn't going to be like

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clothing or armor that changes based on what's going on in the environment yeah all right and dark next bonus question

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out loud there uh dark chad wants to know will there be a guild audit log in game or exportable that shows who

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leaves and joins such promotes kicks etc yeah one thing i cannot stand

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as a guild leader in previous mmorpgs is when you log in and your guild count has changed and you have no idea why

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so it would be great for us to uh and it's perfectly possible because we keep those logs ourselves anyways

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um for us to uh provide the guild leader and or officers uh with a log of events that occur that includes

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deposits withdrawals in the guild bank it includes um promotions it includes kicks it includes

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leaves those things should be available for the guild to to see yeah and i know

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i've talked to toast a few times about doing some more guild-oriented community things that we'll be doing in the future

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so stay tuned for some of that content or uh sometimes they will be like things where we'll kind of get a bunch of

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people who are interested in talking about guild stuff together so definitely stay active on our social media it's right

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below me at Ashes of Creation and all the places we'll let you know um i'll do one more question uh which is

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from nostra which is how might high-level players be able to help or interact

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with their low-level friends through the mentorship program yeah so the mentorship program um kind

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of provides individual quests that can be initiated by the mentor

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based off of what node that they are part of so these are like requests that are determined by

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either certain buildings and or organizations or the mayor and there are specific ones that are

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available for mentors to provide mentees and they can also participate in

• 1:07:57

some of those quest lines as well whether that be leading you know your mentee through a dungeon

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or providing a location for them to arrive with you at or escort quests for the npc caravans or

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you know these types of things when done together with your mentor will provide benefits both for the mentor and the mentee as well

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uh so you're incentivized to to participate with new players obviously one of the biggest problems that mmorpgs

• 1:08:22

have is the new player acquisition you know mmos do great with retention

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but they tend to fall short on the new player acquisition standpoint one of the ways that the node system

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addresses that is a large portion of the initial nodes in a game are going to grow mainly around the

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introduction points around the world and because they change the spawn tables and the area

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around them it keeps it relevant for the later stage players to be returning back to those nodes

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which as we know a large portion of mmorpg's experience is the social experience and the reason

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why traditionally mmos have had a bad time from a new player acquisition standpoint in the past is because new players join an empty

• 1:09:06

starting area that's no longer relevant and the base player population has moved to kind of an end stage kind of level

• 1:09:11

um so you don't really see anybody in your initial parts of leveling and that can kind of be a little bit of a downer and kind of

• 1:09:17

uh be a problem for the whole social aspect so because the nodes drive people back

• 1:09:22

to these areas and those areas stay relevant through the changing uh spawn tables um there are opportunities there for new

• 1:09:28

players to be introduced to a social environment yeah and i just wanted to add like the the

• 1:09:34

structure of a node itself is is kind of agnostic in terms of what your level is right so um if the mayor builds a building and

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all the citizens need to help build that building you as a low-level player can contribute just as much as somebody who's a higher

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level so there's always going to be opportunities for new players to engage with these nodes um which is great right it's going to

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make it feel like a living world a world that you know is constantly changing is constantly moving that there's always

• 1:09:59

something for you to do beyond just your dailies yeah well with that i think we have completed

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our our live stream for september it has been a journey for us

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we appreciate everybody who has you know followed along with us as we've you know

• 1:10:20

given you guys updates every month we've been putting out a lot of content in between as well if you follow us on

• 1:10:25

our social channels i think they're over here yep um ashes ash's recreation in all the places

• 1:10:31

we have a lot of dev discussions that are going out uh reminder that we do have a discussion coming up

• 1:10:36

uh so definitely um join us with that we also have our glorious gourd contest which we'll be giving away some alpha

• 1:10:42

one keys as well as yeah goodies um there might be a graphics

• 1:10:48

card for the first winner what holy smokes so yeah um since stephen already spoiled

• 1:10:54

some stuff i might as well spoil a little bit more yeah bonus for people who stuck around you know um

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but yeah we'll definitely have some cool stuff so stay tuned and you know we love you all we

• 1:11:06

appreciate everybody who's helping us test we're going to be opening up testing for more people as we progress um

• 1:11:12

but please be patient with us obviously we're working really hard but there are things that like you know along the journey

• 1:11:17

we have to kind of assess whether it's important for us to like add more people and when it's good for

• 1:11:22

us um and really that heavily relies on like engineering and design and people to really give us the

• 1:11:28

like hey it's now time to test these things and during these testing phases you're going to see a lot of bugs you're going

• 1:11:33

to see a lot of you know performance things that we need to adjust this is where right now we're in pre-alpha

• 1:11:38

we're really early early so please stay tuned with us yeah and just to chime in there a little bit i know i have to give

• 1:11:43

my obligatory um disclaimer here is we are building something that is massive

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and uh you know this our team is is phenomenal we have some very dedicated

• 1:11:53

talented mmorpg veterans and we are all dedicated to making the best quality product

• 1:11:59

possible that answers the call of what many of us as mmrpg players have asked for over

• 1:12:04

many years you know we're not aiming to be the wow killer we're just aiming to

• 1:12:09

to fulfill kind of the promises we've made as well as the the the ideas and

• 1:12:15

philosophies that resonate with you guys as gamers um so that process takes time there's to

• 1:12:21

be unknowns unknowns things you know that come up that we have to address because our end goal is to take the time

• 1:12:28

necessary to deliver the product that we promised and that you guys want to have so bear with us during this process it is a

• 1:12:34

lot of work um and we're happy to do that work because we want to see a smile on your guys's faces

• 1:12:40

we want to play too yeah we want to play too exactly but we we so much appreciate your guys

• 1:12:46

support and tuning in to our you know to our live streams go follow us on social media we have a great community team that does that does

• 1:12:52

an awesome job in in in having some fun interactions with you guys out there and we'll do some events in the future and

• 1:12:58

um you know if you're not registered for the website go register participate in the forums chat with us we love to hear your feedback we love to

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hear your experiences it's all very important to us yep please definitely send that our way we do have the cosmetics swapping over

• 1:13:10

soon so stay tuned for the next set we also have a creative director's letter that will be coming out soon as

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well um i know steven's working on that we've had a lot of stuff that's been going on on our side so we're trying to

• 1:13:22

get prepared for all of the things and um yeah stay tuned with us we have a lot more stuff to show you all along our

• 1:13:27

journey and we'll see you next month for some more content we'll also be uploading the other video as a 4k video i believe it's just taking

• 1:13:34

time for us to render it out and upload it so once it's up we'll we'll release that as well as this live stream as well so thank you

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guys and gals and pales and everybody for joining us and we'll see you next month for another development update love you all

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have an awesome bye everybody thanks for

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watching