Talk:2021-02-26 Livestream

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Nyers átirat

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hello everyone welcome to our glorious Ashes of Creation february

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development update we hope that you've had a wonderful month how are you guys doing

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doing great doing great how are you i'm tired i know i'm very tired too

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steven and i are we're up really late but we've had a lot of a lot of fun and we

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have a lot of cool things to share with you all of course um this is going to be a little bit long i keep saying that they're going to be

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long because our goal is an hour but we keep going our average we should officially make it

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an hour and a half yeah

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actually an interview i have to do so we have to we have uh we have a cutoff time today

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um first and foremost if you've never seen any of our live streams before um stephen sharif is our creative

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director the alma mater sandalore friends yes

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and with us of course is our lead game designer jeffrey bard aka hi everybody

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and i'm marker crone your community marketing lead and i know that we have our lovely

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lieutenant toast in chat as Ashes of Creation answering your questions there as well and our wonderful mod team

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thank you to our volunteer mods we appreciate them um so quick i'm just going to go over what

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we're going to talk about today and then we'll go through quick reminders and we'll get through everything it's going to be fun so first and foremost

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we'll do quick reminders then we'll talk about our studio update and then we'll go over some design goodies which include

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um a video a very long one so stay tuned for that as well as some website updates for

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those of you who are more in the know you probably have already seen some things um and then of course we have our

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environment art update as well as character art update and then we have a q a you all have

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submitted some great questions and we've taken a few of them and we're going to try to answer those and of course if your question doesn't

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get answered here toast does an amazing job of answering a lot of questions over in the forums

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she's a powerhouse man um so let's go to our quick updates real quick um first and foremost

- Reminders

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is our lustrous cordiality oh my gosh that's words so hard to say

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is scheduled for march 3rd 2021 swap over so you'll get to see the new one we'll be announcing that new set coming

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up soon but those of you who have been hanging out with us you might have seen a little teaser of the next set it's very romanesque if that's more your

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jam and then of course we have our dev discussions

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we just had the ideal classes which was which of our 64 classes do you think you will spend

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the most time playing and what are the key elements to making this your ideal class um you guys shared a ton of ideas we've

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forward that along to the development team and it sparked a lot of design discussion in

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the chat i don't know if you got to read some of that jeff oh yeah i did it i'm still actually

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trying to parse through it all there's there's a lot of stuff to kind of unpack there yeah it's a it's like

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a ton of pages of words you guys are nuts um

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but toast did a great job of kind of summarizing it all for the development team so they could quickly read the you know brief overview she

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shared that with the community as well so you guys should all see that um and then of course we have our next topic a little teaser of that which is

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hybrid combat i know that a lot of you have a lot of thoughts on this so please

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partake in this discussion so that the design team can ensure that they incorporate your feedback please

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um and we announced last month that we were going to be having our new

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guild discussions we're doing a lot of guild oriented systems and design and ui

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elements and also web development stuff so we really wanted to understand what kind of things that you

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guys need the first topic was actually what tools are most helpful to you for recruitment and retention

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both in game and outside of game and you all presented a lot of great um feedback i think toast is still

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consolidating all of that but i read through some of it and um some of the web stuff we're already

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planning so i was really excited to see that that was stuff that you guys actually wanted as well because i know i want it as a

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guild leader but it's always like nice to hear that the rest of the community is interested in those things too

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our next topic is going to be about guild halls um i know that a lot of people have

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feelings about these things and how they should be functional and what kind of purpose they should have or

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how big they should be things like that so definitely give us all of the feedback that you have

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um and i think the last thing i have is a reminder of our play test schedule and i know stephen will talk a little

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bit more about this too in some of the other segments but right now our plan

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is for march 19-26 to be the next one-week test but um we will talk a

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little bit about that later because we just had a play test and we have a lot of things that we're incorporating and changing and obviously

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things might have to be adjusted to incorporate those changes i think that's it on quick updates so i will

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actually toss it over to you steven to do our studio update

- Studio Update

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absolutely thank you for those updates um so things are going very well with our

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latest hiring round at the studio um as we mentioned there's about 35 new

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positions of which since january uh i believe we have filled eight or nine of them

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um and i think we have a couple more that have just uh completed their offer letter so

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we're very excited to see the team grow per usual always great having fresh new faces uh with incredible

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talents and backgrounds we only hire the best at intrepid and um it's awesome to see their their work

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their blood flow into the project um always love that not literal blood i

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know not literal blood yeah that's true well yeah sometimes yeah okay that was not part of this um

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the altar needs feeding they know our secrets they're correct that you guys found with

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like the sandal shrine the blood magic um no so um

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that's all going well we are hoping to be back in the studio by july 1st that is our

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next target goal date obviously that's dependent on how things

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you know are going with covid and uh you know judging by recent events things are looking a

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little bit better uh vaccine rollout's good so hopefully we can

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maintain that target date that's always best in my opinion to get back into a collaborative environment where we're next to one another and can reach

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across the aisle and um i know i really want the potlucks and

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the magic friday friday night magic nights i know

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just people people people it's it's different when you're brainstorming um like in a creative

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space online there's just not the same energy that you have when you like all together bouncing off of each other

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for sure it's just very different also in my year of isolation i've

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managed to construct a few really fun commander decks that i want to try out and um

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are they legal no i don't know i think oh that's a good question i think i messed up a couple times in

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our commander games i didn't know that things weren't allowed but oh that was banned i didn't know i

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didn't know i was bad i should take my five copies out oh i have five my babies

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no i'm just kidding i'm cheater i'm just joking um but yeah no things are uh things are

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going very well for the studio uh obviously we just came off of our um last test um you know we did hit a few

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setbacks in those tests but we'll get into that a little bit later kind of explain you know what that was obviously the purpose of testing is to hit uh setbacks

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because we want to find them out earlier rather than later and it gives us an opportunity to deep dive and you know collect those

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metrics and data um but yeah i think that's the gist of the studio update am i missing anything

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um i don't think so it's mainly been fire hiring like that's kind of been a big our big ticket absolutely

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yeah we have a lot of a lot of positions to hire for um i'm excited my team's growing

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we're a little baby team we're growing it's exciting yeah we did have a fun oh yeah i was gonna

- Design Update which includes website, Alpha One progress, and gameplay segment

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say no i was just gonna segue into the to the fun update that maybe some people noticed this morning yeah so speaking of that um not only

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is my team we're getting like a junior community manager some more cs support um and a social media manager

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we're also um we've been working with valor which you guys have heard already and um they have been

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doing some amazing stuff with a website they have in fact let me give just a quick shout out so those of you out there who might be

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in the um who might be in the enterprise industry in

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business and and need technical support and or web development support i would give a

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major shout out to the valor team valor software they're located primarily

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i believe in ukraine they have a great dedicated team of professionals who we have had an absolute pleasure working

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with to help support our platform needs um and they have uh assisted us in

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in creating the new website and uh having that roll out this morning and margaret's gonna get into that a little bit

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um but they've done a great job so big shout out to valor team for sure they're doing a great job it has been

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great working with them um they would take my crazy feedback i'm like really nitpicky um but they just immediately fix it and

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make changes and i really appreciate that and they're really getting to know the design style that we're trying

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to go for as well for like our branding and they're doing a great job of like incorporating that into the changes that they make

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um so i'll just share it here and obviously you can go over to our website i'm not gonna click on everything here

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because i want you to see all the stuff but um this is kind of like the default site we put up a little pop-up here so that

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people are it's a little bit more clear what testing phase we're in um how you can register a lot of this stuff

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too is just the the main home page that we're doing um right and just

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and just so you guys are aware obviously you know we have a lot of features on the on the plate that we

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want to include in the website um that you know it's not just quality of life features but also

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some pretty in-depth fun integrations to the game as well um this this first rollout is is really

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more front-facing right um you know it doesn't have those those deeper features that we're going

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to be incorporating with with um you know our designs uh but it gives an opportunity for us to have a soft launch

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essentially of this more marketing oriented uh front page of the website uh kind of establishing you know what

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that design is going to look like it lets us you know work out the the bugs and whatnot and have you guys a part of that

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uh process a little bit uh but you'll see margaret's going to probably be preparing in the next coming weeks

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um you know detailed uh article on kind of what our roadmap looks like for the website and the features that

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are going to be updated with it and i'm i'm sure that that's going to get you guys excited because i think

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we're going to go a little bit beyond the the the norm of what mmorpg's and or even just game studios in particular

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offer through their web presence yeah um obviously this has been a huge passion project for me personally

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um ever since i started i've been telling steven i wanted a website so happy tears from from my perspective

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but um yeah i i don't want it just to be like a site that's there i want and also have some functionality um like steven was saying

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we'll talk a little bit more about this in that article um we're also gonna have a lot of information on the site right now i know

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that it doesn't have a lot we actually have some segments that have game information lore we'll have classes we'll have uh

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race details and all those things and also there will be phases of those pages too so as we get more in depth with our classes

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we'll have more of those details icons of images things like that but you know to start with it might not be as

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uh in depth right like for instance the race the races right now maybe it'll just be

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an icon with a little blurb but later down the line you know it'll be an image of you know

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different genders and more details and then later down the line after that it might be a turntable where you can like

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spin the character around and maybe down the line even further you'll be able to like create a character right

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so those are type of things that we want to like slowly progress with it um and then oh my god

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i know the valor peeps are crazy they have some amazing ideas too and on the guild front i know that that's kind of like the main

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structure of mmos right like that's how we communicate that's how we keep in touch i think a lot of what functionality we

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want to have there and i think you guys have have uh said a lot of these things in that feedback thread that you gave us which

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uh a lot of help so thank you um it's providing you ways to recruit new people you know having a page where you

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can uh schedule events show which types of classes you're looking for which what type of guild you are being able to

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have that public or private um that that type of thing so that you can keep in touch with your

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your homies even on the web page even if you're like not necessarily at your pc right you can do it on your mobile phone

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so there's a lot of functionality that we do want to incorporate um but yes uh that is the website i'm very yeah

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that's looking so good it is looking good the shop is getting an update i know there was a lot of questions about that the shop is

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getting an update it will be much better you'll be able to see all the icons or the images of the the items and

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things like that and then also the um the account page in your profile page is going to make

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is going to have some changes i know one of the main things that people want to know is for instance their referrals there's

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going to be a lot more information there for you for your referrals um you'll be able to like select a date time

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frame and stuff like that so you can see details um so yeah there's there's a lot more stuff coming down the line we understand that

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those are the things that you guys want as well as project creator program details will be available there as well

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speaking of things that people want yeah i know they want game plays so let's

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let's transition to that which is first let's talk about the tests that justin let's talk about

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oh sure yeah we could talk yeah okay that sounds good so just that's a good preface for

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like yeah absolutely so let me give just a little update we did have uh our second uh uh preview test

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um that was last weekend and we did hit some snags um that's okay that's a good thing uh in

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my opinion and um right now this week we have spent the majority of this week countless

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hours deep diving into those snags and deploying fixes for them um we uh will likely be having some

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additional spot testing with our um nd8 alpha 1 testers probably starting

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early next week i'm going to imagine in order to address some of those issues as a result i know that i had mentioned

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i would give an update on the reopening of alpha one sales at this moment in time i

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cannot uh commit to reopening alpha one sales so um we're gonna wait to see if we can get

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over those um issues in a relatively short period of time and then i will come back and give you guys an update on that front um

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mainly to speak a little bit about you know what we experienced you know we are obviously trying to push

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as much as possible uh getting higher concurrencies on the servers um and with that you know we do some

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changes on the networking side in order to facilitate those those goals and it's a step-by-step process where

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you know we make changes we collect data we analyze the data we deploy fixes we make additional changes

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you know this is this is what the iteration process looks like at least from a technical perspective and how

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uh we want to accommodate what our overarching architecture goals are um so i can't tell you guys enough how

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important it is that we have testers who are participating live testers outside of our simulated player testing that we obviously do internally

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but having live testers who are capable of jumping in and spot testing on that front really provides us with uh data that is

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just um immeasurable so it's real data too yes it really helps us out absolutely so

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what i will tell you guys is this is um you know obviously i've said this many times in the past our goal is creating

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the the best possible mmorpg that we can that process it is a process and um

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sometimes there can be some setbacks and we're going to address those and we'll keep you guys updated that's the whole purpose of this transparent development

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process um you know we have our monthly updates where i will come to you and kind of keep you updated on what's going on you

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know margaret and the community team does a great job with the articles and and posting on social media to keep you guys

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updated as well um so we will keep you abreast of of what the progress looks like from those

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spot tests and if there's additional news to come for you know alpha one participation in the future we will be the

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um we'll bring that to you as quickly as possible um we can talk a little bit more about the test after the gameplay uh i think

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but um yeah generally i mean things things are going very well from the development side uh these types of things you know just

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need to get worked out these little kinks you know when you said the test was last weekend i thought you were wrong and i

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had to open up my calendar and it was like a month ago and i was like oh wow it was just a week ago

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yeah this month has gone by like i feel like we just had our livestream so um it's been busy we've been hard at

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work uh so we hope that you all appreciate all of that i always some of it's not visible too yet right yeah i've always

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you know one of my favorite quotes as i've always said in the past is that patience i saw somebody just say it in the in the chat but patience is bitter but

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its fruit is sweet um that is a motto to live by especially when it comes to i think software development like games

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and games of our size um but i know you guys have been incredibly patient as a community and incredibly supportive and it's always

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it's always such a great thing to when you're a developer and you're working on a project and you

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have a community behind your back um you know giving you support uh and wanting things to get done right

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and not another you know rush job so to speak that we've all experienced that's a very important aspect and it

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gives us confidence as developers to continue working hard and making sure that we're that we're getting this done the right

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way yeah i i cannot express that enough obviously

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all of the support that you guys give us motivates us i see sometimes people in our chat like our

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internal chats uh like sharing or you know toast shares stuff that like you guys say to them and

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they're just overwhelmed by like how kind you guys are um and obviously development for mmos is very

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different it's a you know much longer haul so we appreciate you all being here and uh joining our journey for sure you have

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a lot of systems and stuff to implement so it's going to take a little bit of time so are you cool with doing the video or

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do you want to talk a little bit so anything oh talk about oh yeah let me talk a little bit about the video i'm sorry so i'll give you just a real quick

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uh typical disclaimers this is the alpha one preview client so you are seeing works

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in progress you are not seeing a finished product um with that being said however uh i am

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joined by a few of our um our development team we kind of run across the world and just look at you

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know some changes we made you guys gave great feedback on um you know the blur that was happening under the water we got the fix in for

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that you gave good feedback on the fireball and how the casting animation you didn't want it as such of a wind-up

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and you see some a little bit of combat changes and how we're kind of addressing uh you know skill use and abilities and

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making them more mobile the fireball gets changed oh i think i'm getting feedback

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oh sorry okay it's on oh got it it's a lawnmower i thought it

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was a train i thought it's okay it's like literally out my window right now so i apologize i'm sorry i also run by

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um and and i run in i actually didn't know we were gonna be running into this area but i ran into a little area that one of our

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very talented designers um aimee watanabe uh she did a great job and our designers

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our design team's great but um you'll see a little bit of her work on the quest side um

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i stumbled into this area while we were running around and some fun quests and jeff could talk about that

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after the video but uh you guys can see some questing and then we ended up with a little dueling pvp and uh i want to just say this

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do not judge my performance in this pvp dueling i wasn't ready for it okay

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and i'm getting older as a player and i'm just you know i'm more on the like you know systems

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ideas and designs not so much the actual playing of the uh you know the character so please don't judge me

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and do not talk about my clicking okay sometimes i got things going on and i click on some skills here

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and there you know i moved from like a gamer to like a dev dad or something i don't know [Laughter]

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toast and i were giving stephen a lot of [ __ ] good unbelievable all right i think we i think we can play can play it

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oh by the way this is in 4k this is in 4k and i have uploaded it to our youtube channel

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so um after the stream we'll probably go live with that uh video and you can uh watch it in 4k

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again if you wish as well perfect perfect all right we'll see you on the flip side in about 35 minutes

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hello everybody and welcome to another monthly update with your regularly

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scheduled 4k recording in Ashes of Creations alpha area i am joined today by

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three amazing developers on the intrepid team mr autumn peary is perry

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it's pirate fire everyone gets it wrong oh yeah yeah it's it's fine well this is

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actually mr adam pippich who is an engineer on Ashes of Creation welcome to the stream

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thank you it's good to be back it's always fun to do these with you so i appreciate it yeah and then we have mr slurpee

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uh also known as alex canole an engineer on Ashes of Creation how you doing buddy uh doing pretty good i see you got the

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corvette castigator mask on oh yeah are you ready to breathe underwater with that

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no i'm protected from the flag nice and then we have a new edition uh

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mr trad thompson how you doing dread good good uh good to be here i'm i'm a

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little newer on the team so this is uh my first participation in the stream but i'm excited to finally get to do one of

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these that's right how long have you been on the team now i was just talking about it earlier today but it i think it's been

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about four months now so it's still pretty pretty fresh on here wow and you came from uh was it cryptic

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yep cryptic studios nice working on the magic project ah very cool very cool well uh guys i

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think we're gonna just kind of you know run around together chat a little bit a little bit about the testing this last weekend also about

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like you know what you guys are up to but the first thing i want to um show off is i know a lot of people

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had some common commentary excuse me sorry had some commentary about the underwater

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blurriness and we did get some changes for that so why don't we swim down a little bit with our

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uh what are these scale runners see take a look at that difference oh look at that that's not too bad

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now it's a little bit clearer you can actually see what's going on is there like a shore we can swim to uh

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yeah i think to the what what is that the east i always get them confused yeah i'm so bad with cardinal directions

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south pissed yeah yeah there we go yeah this looks much better i just tried to not drown

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this looks much better with the uh i'm not actually getting a breathing tick right now so i'm good i'm like immortal

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or something i live in the water i definitely am getting a breathing tick i could see

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gotta balance it oh no why are we not using our uh swimming

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belts oh yeah we should use this well you know i like the way that these guys swing their tail back and forth

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we should get four different mounts next time that'd be pretty sweet we have a mountain in unison i feel like

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they've seen most of them though there was like a aquatic mount video you guys were doing uh not too long ago oh yeah we showed

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off the little tide snapper ah i am now on lan i love how fast these

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guys are oh what happened to you

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versus tidebreaker

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those crabs have a defensive buff that's pretty strong

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saves the big damage ability after they're all dead all right good job alex that's the life

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[Music] the victory all right where are we headed so guys

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as uh we probably already mentioned on the stream who knows uh it is currently uh 11 38 p.m uh thursday february 25th

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obviously this is going to be unedited footage as usual but we are fresh off of some testing

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that was uh that happened this last weekend we did encounter some uh some setbacks but that's okay

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that's the purpose of testing and uh we you guys been hard at work trying to figure out those issues

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uh tell us a little bit about kind of how we dive into those issues slurpee

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oh yeah sure um well first of all we had to do a lot of networking and cpu profiling

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while the servers were up during the uh high load we basically uh the issues with

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networking we diagnose issues with just the world itself uh diagnose issues

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with npc's that we're having problem with um uh yeah we've got a lot of good data

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and we are hard at work trying to fix all the issues currently yeah the other thing is when we run

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those profiles it even further exacerbates the server's performance

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so a lot of players were were in there and while we're collecting that very useful data that you guys use

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obviously to diagnose what's going on um they're just getting rubber banded and thrown all over the place

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it's pretty cool to actually watch them oh yeah for sure look at trout over

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there doing some cleric stuff showing off you know we should do we should do like some

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oh you know we should show off another thing um is the changes to the fireball i can do

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that right now with this tidebreaker so yeah a lot of you guys out there

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in the world of the internets uh in our glorious community um gave us some great feedback about

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both the fireball animation as well as kind of its you know rooted nature and actually trad is part of

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helping to overhaul some of the changes uh on combat which you guys will likely be seeing

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later when the nda lifts on the alpha testing but i could probably showcase the

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changes right now on this fireball let me see chad you can talk a little bit about it sure yeah so the general approach that

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we're kind of taking based on a lot of feedback and just also just good combat design in

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general um you know philosophies is that we want to give more agency in the hands of the player

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and um the antithesis of that is you know locking the player down for really long

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amounts of time um the sort of concept behind that is like you could make an animation effects

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as glorious looking as possible but if it's taking away control of the player none of that really matters

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especially the 100th or thousandth time you're using the spell you're tired of that happening you don't feel powerful

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you feel the opposite and powerful so we're trying to like give a lot of control

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back to the player while they're using these abilities so they can still control their movements they can

• 29:10

um they can react simultaneously while they're taking actions and we just want to get overall more of a fluid

• 29:17

um flow i guess of combat and that's that's kind of the the general like a

• 29:24

design philosophy we're using to approach like the overhaul yeah for sure yeah i've been watching

• 29:31

the combat strike team kind of implement some of these changes and it's definitely i think looking good i think

• 29:37

players are going to be pleasantly surprised with some of the stuff now obviously um

• 29:42

all of you out there who are waiting to see all of these changes remember that these are iterative

• 29:48

changes and they're kind of rolled out in different phases so you're going to see kind of the early

• 29:54

the early aspect of them and don't expect them to be fully polished or all the animations to have yet been adapted

• 30:00

for kind of what's necessary we just want to get collect data on the use of these skills and whatnot

• 30:06

as we kind of roll them out to the testers uh what do we have here is this like some little village area or something

• 30:11

oh yeah oh yeah by the way uh this is actually a depth build so we might see some uh capsules

• 30:17

like family playing off abilities good call that's right yeah if you guys were just watching some of those abilities they

• 30:23

had um some test capsules around them to kind of show the perimeter of the effect um what what is

• 30:31

this do we look like a it's researcher brenda brenda brenda hello brenda she just says hi oh

• 30:39

am i a new expedition member of the final light academy how did she know oh not yet should we

• 30:46

become expedition researcher oh we have to speak and we have to go

• 30:51

all the way back to where we were i'll seek him at the portal is this going to send me back to the portal i don't know if i want to

• 30:57

press this no no it doesn't it doesn't okay headmaster virus okay okay yeah

• 31:03

a little quest here yeah she just tells you to go back actually we don't want you here let's

• 31:10

see what's up we're here there's like some tents and stuff adam you're actually you're helping out

• 31:15

with the combat revamp too you're doing a lot of the back end work for that right yep yep uh you know it's really

• 31:20

important that uh the designers have the tools necessary uh to make impactful combat and just uh

• 31:27

you know unleash their full creativity so i'm you know really excited to be able to to work on that and uh you know give the

• 31:34

designers what they need to uh to to really shine and make some really cool combat so yeah it's been really fun

• 31:40

uh working with trad and the rest of the design team behind every designer they say

• 31:45

is a skillful talented engineer oh i think giving them the tools they

• 31:50

need you should talk to this sir jensen why would sir jensen have what is this guy

• 31:56

how did he get this bookcase whoa what is that that's my uh compass oh i want wait what yeah i'm jammed

• 32:05

i haven't i genuinely have not seen that effect before that actually looks so cool wait i wanna you're ruining it for me

• 32:14

okay he doesn't like stranger um okay okay what are you doing in my tent

• 32:20

you have to uh sweet talk to nervousness oh i gotta ask you guys some some questions yeah

• 32:27

i am new here am i a car is he a cartographer oh these guys are like a little

• 32:32

expedition that's been commissioned to navigate the virgin waters of vera

• 32:38

ah this person misses life on sanctus

• 32:44

all right just tell me tell me what you need i want this this item jeff's going to kill me just just be

• 32:50

nice to them and then just talk to all the fork novices okay so apparently sir jensen has

• 32:56

a sweet tooth or somebody does

• 33:02

and we need to discover these sweets i also actually have a sweet tooth

• 33:07

oh by the way there's our map of uh alpha right down here oh is it really yeah

• 33:13

yeah that's the actual map oh my gosh wait let's compare

• 33:19

it is it even has these icons too

• 33:27

that's pretty awesome it does that is funny

• 33:34

oh look it i have this quest in progress the legendary map maker i am embarrassed to admit that i have never heard of sir

• 33:40

jensen of the first dawn i'll have to ask other scholars about his legend

• 33:47

oh this gives 4 500 experience and some essence shards oh we need to finish this quest yeah you

• 33:53

want to finish the cartographer quest first all right you have to talk to all the novices

• 34:00

and then make friends with them and then talk to sarah jensen all right um this is a very inspiring

• 34:07

story yeah at least you guys are being responsible gamers i just like click through all the dialogue as fast as

• 34:13

possible well this is what you don't see that i might have done that as well um here we

• 34:20

go yes i have completed the quest and received the astrolabe

• 34:28

now you can as well navigate celestial coordinates oh look at these outfits i like your

• 34:33

outfits all right i'm gonna go out here and try to navigate the celestial coordinate hold on

• 34:41

all right where i don't know oh here we go does it do anything currently we're

• 34:47

about to find out we're gonna find out here we go oh i'm not getting the pulse

• 34:53

ah i am navigating celestial coordinates i gotta say

• 34:59

all the recent vfx work that uh our team has been working on it's just so nice do you all have these

• 35:06

astrolabes by the way yeah we should we should activate them in coordination so let's let's create a

• 35:11

uh little cross here or something all right get into formation i gotta

• 35:18

separate just a little bit back up back up back up back okay here we go all right on three on celestial

• 35:23

coordinates celestial coordinates dread what

• 35:29

i don't think unbelievable i don't think i've got it oh i didn't

• 35:34

post the quest that's fine he didn't even do the quest i saw some spider webs over here actually let's check those out

• 35:41

oh there's a wayfarer over here oh he also has a quest oh something

• 35:47

you'll notice by the way guys out there we've talked about this before you're not going to see like giant you know question marks or exclamation

• 35:54

points above people's heads however in a subtle way we will indicate who merchants are

• 36:00

and who quest givers are based on the color of their name so the green names are indicating of

• 36:07

a quest giver and gold names will indicate a shopkeeper

• 36:12

uh or merchant of some sort oh what happened over here the these webs spawn spiders if you attack

• 36:18

what oh the web is destroyed now yeah yeah there's another web there too

• 36:23

oh i said some other terms fine menageries may i interest you in

• 36:29

the novelties and delights of the veren wildflower extravaganza collection why is my only option some other time i

• 36:36

don't want to do it some of it i want to do now i think you already have the quest you have to uh

• 36:41

investigate these flowers right here do i have the quest uh wildflower extravaganzas i do have it

• 36:47

i'm gonna abandon it hold on well i'm inspecting the flowers i'm

• 36:53

getting ahead of you oh okay well how did i get the i wanted the spider though oh no yeah right right here right here

• 37:00

right here left click on this nut right here oh okay hold on yeah

• 37:05

and left click a second yeah you can attack it yeah oh there's a spider

• 37:12

wow that was riveting it was look at drop loot

• 37:18

let's let's bring some more oh by the way guys you'll notice there's no grass over here and that's a bug uh the grass is gone at

• 37:26

the moment but don't pay no mind to the grass it's just a well mowed lawn yeah we

• 37:32

released the goats everywhere they eaten the grass yeah wasn't it bucky that said uh he he had the lawnmower took the

• 37:39

lawnmower to the whole map that's all that happened oh really

• 37:46

uh what do i do with these plants i just talked to three plants right here and one right here

• 37:52

but it's mushroom oh i like the little tiny mushroom

• 37:59

and then i think there is another one look at how pretty the mushroom is under the mushroom oh right here last

• 38:04

one right here where all right what am i standing oh wait on the other side you have to

• 38:10

oh yeah okay oh no

• 38:18

not like these i made it up all right yeah you have to talk right

• 38:23

here all right that's a giant mushroom all right you got all three completed

• 38:30

um maybe did you talk to this one um where are we standing

• 38:37

okay then just talk to the wafer i have browsed your collection no i'm a

• 38:42

mage ah you have many talents okay now you have to clean for him i have to

• 38:49

clean yeah you gotta remove these ribs you're gonna polish off these vase it'll look like a peasant i don't care

• 38:55

we probably sweet how dare him i'm gonna go talk to this person

• 39:01

explorer antoine oh this is pretty cool i can make a book

• 39:10

did you pick it up no you have to left-click on it oh this is interesting i actually get

• 39:17

a dialogue option to say no i'm a cleric so it must be unique to me oh i got it

• 39:23

now oh yeah it is a unique channel yeah yeah it's a tank for

• 39:32

try not to mess it up this must be where turn pages into books okay

• 39:40

yes i'll clear some space for the menu oh my god

• 39:45

oh no

• 39:51

oh we just killed a bird clerical they blew away

• 40:00

where did they blow away to um you're gonna have to open the map and if you highlight the quest it'll

• 40:05

show you where the location no

• 40:11

all 10 pages i don't see you have to select the missing work on

• 40:17

the map a draft in progress oh you have to turn in you have to confess that you lost all

• 40:23

his pages all his life work no i am so sorry antoine

• 40:28

stephen was trying to hide it from antoine he said oh no another mistake he's just he's ready to hear this this mistake is

• 40:35

mine this time my friend well a bird attacked and took your manuscripts

• 40:43

oh wow he didn't this is not his life work he just said it was garbage yeah garbage is his last four oh sad

• 40:51

wait so where are these now it's okay i can press m yeah missing work

• 40:57

oh they've blown everywhere all over the shoreline

• 41:04

what i mean i'm not gonna go help him find that that's his job let's let's go let's go grind mobs

• 41:11

yeah let's go we should duel all right we should do one another if we're gonna do it we're

• 41:17

gonna set the health through the exact same amount okay yeah let's do it let's do it let's do it wait let's

• 41:22

he's trying to do it with 3k let's get on the beach let's get on the beat all right let's make two parties of them

• 41:28

okay wait i get the cleric i'm blue

• 41:43

alex and i are like top-tier pvpers wait what are your guys's classes if

• 41:48

if the mage fireball damage is still in there from like before my changes it's going to just

• 41:53

destroy see i'm telling you onslaught is sleeper op okay

• 41:58

people are sleeping i don't think it's sleeper man it's a gap closer that just

• 42:04

knocks you down and is just ob wait can i just show off this rhinoceros

• 42:10

oh wow i haven't seen that one here oh wow very pretty no look at how it runs

• 42:19

oh wait let me let me use the sprint so you can see how much faster it is get ready are we ready that is one powerful

• 42:27

rhino okay here we go spread

• 42:33

oh my gosh so fast

• 42:40

i know this crab is tough man that's got a lot of defense yeah that

• 42:46

crab man it cycles that defense buff like dude i saw you i saw you talking

• 42:51

about that in chat i was like what it only has 200 health oh i didn't mean to do that oh oh

• 42:57

no no no no no join the party first oh okay yeah we're gonna set hp to a thousand each

• 43:03

one thousand only a thousand i think we should do two thousand i think that's that's uh better value

• 43:08

wait why am i in slurpee that designer what do you think you might want to

• 43:13

leave the party no he's in mine dred's in my party yeah yeah uh let's see come over here i see you on

• 43:20

my part oh okay yeah it said slurpee invited me so that might be a bug

• 43:26

um okay so um let's see we're fighting things that are 200 health that die really fast i say a

• 43:33

thousand is a good starting point too yeah what's the

• 43:40

matter being set to hmm good call i have a problem

• 43:46

i have a problem i can't set my health to a thousand because it doesn't set my cap oh okay we

• 43:52

gotta so you guys gotta match my health let's match this all right wait it's 27.64 okay yeah this

• 43:58

might be a long fight but it's going to be 764. and what are your guys's classes

• 44:04

tank and mage oh okay yeah we got this yeah yeah sure just focus down slurpee

• 44:09

first he's the maid we'll do he he knows our strategy now

• 44:15

yeah i've got i've got range cc don't even worry about it we got this what he's getting on the mount he's just

• 44:21

going to turn and run all right let me die are you ready i i am ready to flag

• 44:27

uh control f yeah all right what sorry tell me flag come in control f yeah

• 44:34

sure light it red yeah the little circle on the ground will be red all right here we go good luck all right

• 44:54

oh no

• 44:59

he got me heal is too slow he got me let's go

• 45:06

i got like cc'd off the bat okay round two we got round two that

• 45:11

tank is strong i told you oh my gosh look at my little

• 45:18

gravestone are you looting our bodies oh yeah what is wrong with you people i'm gonna

• 45:25

say burst dps wins in 2v2 just just throwing that out there okay well to be fair we're level 10

• 45:30

but let me let me uh let's let's try this again let's try it again let's try it again i got i got immediately cc'd by uh

• 45:39

adam yeah that was the plan you're the maid i have the cc i do the cc to the mage

• 45:47

after after this uh stream by the way i want to have some practice fights because i have not gotten

• 45:52

to even experience pvp in this game yet i'm just putting excuses out right now

• 45:59

oh wait i actually i have a good plan on this one okay i know what i'm doing for this next one

• 46:04

all right we're ready yeah no no wait don't hold on i gotta think about what our master plan

• 46:09

here is we need to go in like separate teamspeak channels and strategize

• 46:16

here wait hold on no i i have a strategy i am so confident here's what i'm gonna do so tank has an axe you throw that's a cc

• 46:23

right so i'm gonna onslaught stephen to knock him down turn around and throw my axe at uh trad i don't think they have any

• 46:29

counter to that no i don't got it i know what i'll do i know it again okay let's do it okay are you ready all right all right let's

• 46:35

go all right let's go here we go let's go all right let's see that dp

• 46:40

oh yeah okay well you did it a bit soon there stephen what yeah i'm just not gonna step into

• 46:48

the black hole dude those black holes

• 46:58

my heels aren't doing [ __ ] they're not enough man yeah

• 47:05

the double dps do that dude that tank is so strong dude i think he

• 47:12

i want i want to know if he's got like the free nerf fireball

• 47:19

i don't even have a chance to fireball by the time he's on me i'm cc and slope

• 47:27

all right you need we need to switch to tanks stop looting my body

• 47:32

hey what are you what are what are you even taking from me oh your resources unbelievable look i

• 47:39

have guys i am defining the meta right now okay that's what's going on

• 47:46

all right all right i'm gonna change it up a little bit yeah yeah you should switch to tank i'm actually switching to mage okay i

• 47:53

have a theory i have a theory hold on i need to test something real quick i need to make it back to you i feel like he'd switch to tank and i'd

• 47:59

still dunk on him oh i got a lotus oh yeah you need to get you need to get off your mouth

• 48:05

coming home i can't test my damage on these things because uh i'm trying to summon you oh that's why i'm getting a loading

• 48:11

screen okay go ahead and summon me okay yeah they have so much defense all

• 48:16

right there we go all right

• 48:32

yeah yeah get get away i'm just fantastic no no no that was just a test we can

• 48:37

start we're just testing all right all right what are we doing

• 48:45

wait are you a mage all right wait wait i'm telling you we need a tank but okay let's do it

• 48:51

focus fire at the tank kill the tank first he doesn't have hp who doesn't have hp we're trying to get him you need to oh yeah

• 48:59

yeah give yourself 27 64 hit points yeah max class mage and then 26 that

• 49:05

swings out 64. oh you know what i wasn't using i wasn't using thundershock

• 49:11

that's what i need to use use your thundershock dread all right what's he doing i mean you can

• 49:16

keep doing that but uh dred you need to switch your hit points did you set your health oh i forgot it changes when you change

• 49:23

glass hold up how do you think they can take us alex

• 49:30

are you guys like my you guys like my outfit oh let me take my uh uh

• 49:36

let my hair down for this there we go oh yeah yeah i'm not even wearing a helmet yeah no i

• 49:41

i needed to let my hair [Music]

• 49:53

all right wait all right let me set my mana no whisper target found we don't even

• 49:59

have to set mana over here we're just that good the fight's in too quick all right i'm ready should i wear my helmet or not or let my

• 50:06

hair flow no just let it because otherwise it's gonna all right i'm ready let's do this all right all right ready all right go

• 50:15

oh no oh i gotta suck through them i can't

• 50:34

i need to use health potion hold on wait

• 50:42

i got a health potion here dude that's stun lock hell yeah okay tell me what that

• 50:49

unlock was so i um

• 51:02

oh man i was doing pretty good but then i got locked down you guys are making me

• 51:08

look bad they're gonna call me a clicker and make fun of me

• 51:16

all right fine i'll go listen i'm an old man all right all right let's do it 3v1 i like a kick

• 51:22

adam of the party yeah murder the tank kill him

• 51:29

i was doing too much trash talk how do i invite you where you at oh there i was trash talking too much i

• 51:36

guess i deserve this i've got like a bug going hold on

• 51:45

all right listen i just want the broader audience to know that my strengths are at you know helping to

• 51:52

design this the systems of the game not so much playing me too me too yeah all right

• 52:00

the age of my pvp days have long since passed don't worry we'll refine

• 52:06

this because we have something to aspire to ah

• 52:12

oh i got cc but animation

• 52:20

[Music] get off me look at how strong he

• 52:27

oh i might open the console on accident

• 52:42

give me an extra thousand hp out of one unbelievable i think we went way over the time the

• 52:48

scheduled time for this video i'm sorry guys we this is all unscripted we're just having fun

• 52:53

um margaret's definitely going to kill us yeah steve was like oh it'll take 10 15 minutes 10 15 30. you know whatever

• 53:02

um and i know we have a bunch of other stuff for this stream too i think people will enjoy every minute

• 53:08

of this time you're just gonna cut back and she's gonna be like disapprovingly looking into the camera unbelievable

• 53:16

um but anyways guys we'll see you back on stream uh slurpee dread autumn thanks for joining us had a

• 53:22

lot of fun with you guys keep up the amazing work the community appreciates your hard sacrifices um to make ashes

• 53:30

the most amazing mmo possible we will see you guys back on the stream bye everybody bye bye

• 53:37

all right well stephen i just wanna i just i hold on

• 53:44

i just want to comment just real quick all right so like you think about you know

• 53:50

sports teams right there are coaches who are really good at coaching but they can't get out there on the

• 53:56

field and play per se right you know what i mean like that's how i feel

• 54:01

a little bit another start i mean another thing another thing is i

• 54:08

get pulled in a hundred different directions each day at the studio okay

• 54:14

so i don't have a lot of time to get in and play and perfect my prowess and pvp per se

• 54:21

okay so i just i just want to throw that out there like you know that's that's that's

• 54:28

don't don't don't beat me up too hard on it um i think one of the questions that was

• 54:34

asked here was in particular about um cc breaks and things like that i saw

• 54:40

oh yeah sure yeah something i would just keep in mind guys is you're seeing this you're seeing level blinked out of that

• 54:46

and he was like good

• 54:52

something to keep in mind this is level 10 gameplay right our level cap at launch is 50. so

• 54:58

um a lot of things that you're thinking about like cc brakes and you know different types of like skills

• 55:04

those probably won't really come on until a little bit later in the skill progression of a particular class so to speak so um

• 55:12

uh think about other mmos you played and what it felt like to play at level 10 versus what it felt like to play you

• 55:18

know at level 50 or something um and i would i would use that as a metric of comparison uh yeah

• 55:23

it's also not done yet like there's there's a lot of stuff that we're kind of playing with on the cc break side some stuff that we're we

• 55:30

have some cool ideas that we want to test out but we got to test them out first and we got to make sure that they all function and that everybody likes

• 55:35

them so um so there's still a lot of stuff happening in that phase so um so just keep your eyes peeled

• 55:41

yeah anything else on the design front you guys want to talk about or mention before we head on obviously i

• 55:47

know jeff your team has been working on a lot of stuff i don't know if you want to kind of talk a little bit about that before we go into

• 55:53

some of the other departments yeah i mean we're doing a lot of content stuff i mean i think you guys saw that uh

• 55:59

all the quests that were in there in that one little section we're trying to put them in cool interesting places that you can

• 56:05

discover and kind of uh have you know kind of like a self-contained story that if you follow

• 56:10

along you kind of get exposed to all of the alpha area um so that's kind of the goal there um

• 56:16

any questions quest that was images yeah yeah um you know they're doing a great

• 56:21

job pushing doing some cool things that um that now that we have a little bit of time to actually kind of like play with

• 56:27

um these quests are getting more interesting and there's some more depth there especially on the gameplay side which is really

• 56:32

cool to see yeah and then uh we also have there's some really cool

• 56:38

bosses some open world bosses that my guys are working on right now we've got two

• 56:45

party sized bosses or our bosses that are tuned to party size and then there's one raid boss which

• 56:52

should be pretty incredible like a true raid boss with true raid mechanics that you'll be able to find out in the open world to

• 56:59

come come this alpha so um yeah we're doing some really cool stuff on the content side um i think i think you guys should have

• 57:05

plenty of cool things to do while you're in the game um so it should be fun for sure i'm very proud of the design team jeff you and

• 57:11

your guys are guys and gals are doing a great job the whole team i'm very proud of the whole team honestly

• 57:17

you know watching you guys out there in the community you get to watch the progression you can go back you know in the old school days of the

• 57:23

early videos we put on youtube and just see where the game has come from and where it's at now and kind of project out where it's going to be

• 57:30

moving forward um there's a lot of progress being made so uh you know i love the fact that we

• 57:36

decided to go with the transparent development process and obviously as i've said has been a double-edged sword but at the same time

• 57:41

it's super rewarding to just watch the progress um and uh yeah i hope you guys enjoyed it keeping

• 57:48

in mind that you know things will still be polished and progress and things will change and you know not everything is there now but you get to

• 57:54

come along for that ride as we're as we're building everything yeah this isn't the there will be many many updates to the game

• 58:01

do not fret yeah we've got a long road ahead but it's it's um it's cool to see it coming together right like this is a way for us to kind

• 58:07

of vet things out real quick right and be like okay this is not working or okay maybe if we push this a little bit

• 58:14

further in this direction it'll work and it'll be awesome so so there's a lot of like we're playing with some of these spaces

• 58:19

too um just to get your feedback as well so um part of that is being quick and putting stuff in quick so you guys can

• 58:24

get quick feedback to it and i would also like to point out one other thing real quick in that fight when i like ran away from

• 58:31

dread i had full confidence that that trad was going to be able to like keep himself alive because he was a

• 58:36

healer right um and i needed to drink a potion so like that was a tactical retreat to come back

• 58:42

at a later date and hopefully save trad but he died a little faster than i expected so

• 58:47

chad you're gonna have this it was your fault

• 58:54

a campaign and then went into this and was still semi-functional so yeah

• 59:01

all right well we're gonna move on to our other departments if you guys are good anything else you want to add to that and obviously we have we have some

• 59:08

design questions as well in the q a segment so all right i think we're good moving on to environments

- Environment Art Update

• 59:14

first and foremost we got some really cool uh tropical and jungle images so we'll be

• 59:20

going through some of those and um yeah that the team has been doing

• 59:25

amazing job obviously you got to see some of the uh world and environment and all the different they're adding all these like

• 59:31

different types of pieces in the world that just kind of give it give it a feel you know

• 59:36

iconic areas yeah um the environment team obviously

• 59:42

does a great job in that video you might have noticed that there was a lacking of vegetation and some some grass we currently have a little bit of

• 59:48

bug or excuse me a little bug um with that and it's being looked at right now and hopefully we'll be fixed pretty soon

• 59:55

right now i know it just happened to fall on the day i wanted to do the recording

• 1:00:00

um but obviously in these screenshots you can see that there's vegetation and uh grass

• 1:00:07

um this one's my favorite is like the the vines that are coming down oh yeah cool yeah the environment team

• 1:00:14

always does a a top-notch job in in making these beautiful areas i i think

• 1:00:20

mia was worked on some of that coastal um polish with these you know rocks kind of

• 1:00:27

jetting out of the ground and vegetation i love that nice touch and then we have a ruins area

• 1:00:34

it's actually kind of beautiful it's beautiful actually it's really funny this ruins area is already really different

• 1:00:39

um it's evolved quite a bit even in this screenshot yep oh my gosh that's how so

• 1:00:45

uh well we've done a pass of the corruption that exists in this area um and some of the effects that it's

• 1:00:51

happened had on the terrain so so there's already been like a lot of changes uh just based on sort of you know the iterative process

• 1:00:58

okay well we'll have to show that i just saw i just saw a comment in

• 1:01:04

slack's general channel where it says tran said man i was thrown under the bus just now

• 1:01:12

i'm sorry trad um i was just joking tragic you did an awesome job but this does look really

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lovely i guess if it has a bunch of corruption in it maybe it's is this is a different area this is an

• 1:01:25

area where some some nefarious folks have kind of settled down um but yeah this is

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actually on a totally different location than the last one we saw all right and then

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last but not least we have some more cool work in progress i like the little smiley face to make sure you know that

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it's hard to progress um but you know we like to show the different processes and obviously

• 1:01:48

you get to see things as we go forward some of the pieces like that big rock structure that we showed you in the past

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and then you got to see it in games so these are kind of uh work in progress different pieces that you're going to be

• 1:01:59

seeing in the game and um yeah these particular these particular those particular pieces are

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for a little underwater cave area um the above ground pieces

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um this looks pretty cool the shipwreck that they have there is going to look pretty good too

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um you guys will probably see that in a future stream but those

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[Laughter]

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but i think we did show it off to some other people um moving on from environment

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as we always say environment is looking amazing it's beautiful uh character

- Character Art Update

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so you guys have you saw the timeless terrapin in its infancy you might say

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uh the gray box version of it now you're kind of getting to see it with all of its pretty textures and

• 1:02:57

colors um this is really cool i designed this

• 1:03:03

creature and it's so cool seeing it come to life every time i see something i'm like ah

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so yeah this guy's cool yeah he's super cool his creepy eyes yeah he's got four eyes

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i think is what's happening um and then we have a kieran

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this is another creation by jinzy so cool and i love the kieran jeff you said one

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of these will be a mount and one is like a creature variant yep yep uh

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so one one is gonna be the uh yeah one should be amounted one should be something you find out in the world and

• 1:03:39

these are in-game achievables um so

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um and then the next one is our howling ridge ox

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which i believe is the happy year of the december set oh yeah it's year of the ox that's

• 1:03:57

right you know i was born year of the ox oh you're an ox yeah i'm a goat

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1985. i'm a rabbit

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we should form a superhero team oh yeah love it i already have that's like guardian of

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the galaxy this is really cool this is like the you know non-textured version so far but the model

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um and maybe next month i'll show you the the final version um and then next up we have some more

• 1:04:25

water creatures so we have a little fish you can kind of see the face uh there's also sting rays and you um

• 1:04:32

you're actually oh the creation process of the stingrays here yeah one of the things that i really dislike about

• 1:04:39

some mmos i've played in the past with regards to water is that they always feel very empty from

• 1:04:44

like a just a fish standpoint you never really see like lots of fish going around and obviously you know

• 1:04:50

you can get away with a lot you know make keeping those fish more um you know client-side

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right they don't have to be replicated across the server or anything and but at least it can populate the ocean so that it's you know pretty and and has life

• 1:05:03

in it and um that's part of uh i think the you know creating these

• 1:05:09

these look great and i i think they're just going to really bring the life you know that area yeah i mean we're going to have like so

• 1:05:14

much water content like we really want to make sure that it's just as well uh taken care of as our overlands

• 1:05:20

yeah well this this particular stingray this particular stingray i think is actually an npc but the other little

• 1:05:27

fish those would just be kind of more like you know effects would be a targetable or anything yeah

• 1:05:32

they'll just be swimming around um and then next up i just kind of want to show them off they look really cool we've got the protect armor

• 1:05:39

which i know stephen tweeted and shared off on our social and oh yeah this is uh eli yeah eli did this armor

• 1:05:47

this is a protector's armor i think he did a great job with it i love the detail um material work on it i think it looks

• 1:05:54

very good it's sick no leg day what are you guys talking

• 1:06:00

about yeah the the textures are really cool

• 1:06:05

yeah the weight of that cloak is pretty nice too and if you look at the armor it actually has a very neat design

• 1:06:12

on it really cool um and then the next two are more

• 1:06:18

um concept art pieces so this first one is the solari aerial imagery

• 1:06:25

i think we might have yes that's so cool but um yeah i think this is um ricky hoe

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worked on this one right i think this is uh ricky's piece so

• 1:06:36

obviously you know these concept images they give environment um great direction on you

• 1:06:43

know the construction of these specific levels uh that design is intending you know to to

• 1:06:50

create around um an environment then can implement based off of you know some of these concepts and i

• 1:06:56

think it's a it's a great job that the concept team does and kind of bringing to life these ideas

• 1:07:02

uh and giving you know that resource to environment and character to

• 1:07:07

to to create around yeah yeah because everybody's kind of an anchor to work from um and it's really nice to like be like

• 1:07:14

really quickly design can say like oh well we wanted something else i know we said something but we meant something else um

• 1:07:20

and concept is that nice like bridge between those two things um and again to see this stuff like

• 1:07:27

starting to come to life is really cool and then this one's the solari camp which i think we've shared out

• 1:07:33

already yeah stay tuned but we like to have our you know updates be

• 1:07:40

an all-encompassing thing so if you miss something you catch it all um yeah gotta catch up

• 1:07:45

oh wait very neat and of course these really give a good mood and honestly this image almost looks

• 1:07:52

like what it is in game right it's crazy sometimes they're like if you

• 1:07:57

put the concept next to like the real game it's almost the same yeah it's a definitely a testament to the talent of

• 1:08:04

our artists on all sides of the fence and i think

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that's it we'll move into our q a segment um i hate to i hate to say it but um

• 1:08:16

maybe sarah can cut down a little bit of the q a because i have a 12 30 that i cannot miss actually

- Q&A

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okay well let's do um let's try to get through two questions at least yeah oh yeah for sure yeah we

• 1:08:30

got twenty we got twenty minutes i'm just saying two questions is probably are going to get in 20 minutes

• 1:08:35

review wow that was some shade

• 1:08:40

are you saying i'm long-winded he just wants to be thorough our speed questioning is not speed

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questioning unbelievable our nixa our first question is from the forums uh from nixa and they

• 1:08:53

wanted to know about subscriptions for the packs that include several months of game time does that time

• 1:08:58

automatically start at launch or do you get to choose when it starts uh

• 1:09:04

that would start on on the subscription activation so i think essentially the account

• 1:09:09

this might change but i believe that what we will do is the account will have applicable subscription time and you will activate

• 1:09:16

that subscription when you choose right i will make sure that that is

• 1:09:22

something that is possible yeah i'm pretty sure it should be but yeah on the guild names

• 1:09:28

or for the next topic is guild names from quino vendimion oh my gosh i'm sorry if i'm

• 1:09:35

pronouncing your name's wrong uh what is your planned character limit for guilds

• 1:09:42

oh that's a good question i don't think i know off the top of my head is it like 32 characters

• 1:09:47

somewhere around there uh that sounds right but i don't know for sure yeah i'm

• 1:09:53

pretty sure it's in that vein right we'll make sure you know um so

• 1:09:59

stay tuned we do have a minute a limit it's somewhere around 30 um yeah no no no not guild members this

• 1:10:06

is character limit right the character a little bit the number of uh yeah yeah just correcting the chat oh

• 1:10:11

yeah sorry guilt it's guild name it's it's in reference to names not uh how many people you can have in your

• 1:10:18

game yes you have many more than 30 yes many more um thank you to this

• 1:10:23

person for actually telling me how to pronounce their name because it has a lot of numbers and stuff in it celestial dreamer on the forums wants to

• 1:10:30

know about marriage can only the head of the family household increase the size of the family

• 1:10:35

by marrying or can a family essentially double its size if everyone ties the knot no so um there are particular

• 1:10:44

costs that are associated with family maintenance and creation uh those costs can be shared some of

• 1:10:50

them can be shared amongst the family members but some of them are specific to the uh head of the family so

• 1:10:56

to speak and the marriage addition would only apply to the head of the family so

• 1:11:01

the family can't typically or won't be able to double its size by every member getting a marriage

• 1:11:06

and that is also one of the incentives of starting your own family so to speak

• 1:11:13

the next question you hear is from jalan which is about freehold destruction if the if the node your freehold is in

• 1:11:21

is successfully sieged can you loot slash pillage your own freehold

• 1:11:28

uh if it's success no you cannot so um uh essentially if you're registered as a

• 1:11:35

defender and people some people aren't by default registered as a defender based on their

• 1:11:41

citizenship with the node or whether or not that node has a alliance with another nodes group of

• 1:11:48

citizens you will automatically be flagged as a defender and that will preclude you from

• 1:11:53

participating in the uh looting rights of a successful siege

• 1:11:59

okay anything else to add to that um no yeah that's that's

• 1:12:06

that's long enough

• 1:12:21

will cities be influenced by the typography around them or will they generate and expand on a flat

• 1:12:27

plane uh currently the way that the platform system is set up

• 1:12:32

is um it's capable of adjusting the topography

• 1:12:37

of the node's footprint regardless of the surrounding

• 1:12:43

terrain so the reason for that is we want to have flexibility in the

• 1:12:48

presentation of the node's layout and how it um is essentially

• 1:12:54

both from an aesthetic standpoint as well as a mechanical standpoint with node sieges um how it's constructed and and that

• 1:13:00

construction should have the ability to take on a variance of of different types of topography

• 1:13:05

so it shouldn't be dependent on the surrounding area now that's not to say that the surrounding area isn't going to have

• 1:13:12

some influence um over so for example if an you know we're experimenting a little bit with the platform tech and

• 1:13:17

like putting up a node up against um you know the side of a mountain or on

• 1:13:22

the edge of a cliff or something that has a you know beautiful vista or something those are things that we're going to test out obviously as we continue to

• 1:13:29

work on the node tool and how that platform system works but the idea

• 1:13:35

is to have the node independent of the surrounding terrain

• 1:13:41

yeah and you should definitely go check out some of our youtube videos we did some behind the scenes on the dev

• 1:13:46

tools like the building tools and the node stuff so definitely go check that out there's a lot of cool interesting

• 1:13:53

stuff in there our next question is from half tilt gamer about skills do you plan to have any

• 1:13:59

skills that are environment specific such as any that are only able to be used indoors or outdoors

• 1:14:07

probably not um which is not to say that that some

• 1:14:12

skills won't be affected by the environment itself or like what's going on in the environment um we've talked about whether having

• 1:14:19

some like influence in certain types of things um those are all things we're still playing with and still trying to like

• 1:14:24

suss out but there probably isn't going to be anything that is only activatable indoors or is only activatable

• 1:14:31

in lava or is only activatable in the under realm like i don't think that we're

• 1:14:37

gonna go in that direction okay and ray blove wants to know about

• 1:14:42

character creator or about the character creator well you need to have early access in order to pre-make your

• 1:14:48

character if the character creator comes uh becomes available before launch that's a good question um i haven't made

• 1:14:55

a decision on that yet um but when we do make a decision on that we will let you know

• 1:15:01

yeah sounds good uh ration or russian or bishon wants to know about lore what is the

• 1:15:08

overarching name for the universe that encompasses vera sanctus and any other realm slash planes and i

• 1:15:15

don't know if we're ready to share all that yet i sometimes can't remember what we

• 1:15:21

haven't or haven't shared about that i don't think we have okay we haven't so we probably shouldn't um

• 1:15:27

i do have um in the future on the website there will be a lore section and we'll be slowly releasing more stories and things

• 1:15:33

like that in there yeah um yeah i don't think we would

• 1:15:38

we would talk about that just yet yeah okay our next question is from captain ducky

• 1:15:44

saying uh they want to talk about spying have you considered some type of system where you can hide your identity

• 1:15:51

for the purpose of guild intrigue or assassination

• 1:15:57

um no we haven't really we've talked about it but not in a systemic way it's more about like

• 1:16:03

well players will be able to do this if we don't do that and then trying to make decisions that

• 1:16:10

kind of are more permissive than less permissive um but uh but we don't have like any

• 1:16:15

explicit systems for that now we can take one more question margaret that's ten questions

• 1:16:21

oh perfect yeah so our next question is from wembley and they want to know about caravans how do you plan to make the potential

• 1:16:27

rewards for defending a caravan appealing to people or to people to players when picking a side

• 1:16:33

for caravan pvp so how do you make it appealing like defending a caravan versus attack yeah

• 1:16:39

i mean in the same vein that you know we make any participation appealing right people are going to have

• 1:16:45

different focuses that will relate to different roles within the game and

• 1:16:50

you know the caravan defender role is going to have its own progression uh

• 1:16:56

questing and rewards associated with it that are going to attract a certain subset of players um

• 1:17:02

and then you know vice versa wise we're going to have uh incentives that appeal to the more

• 1:17:08

highway brigand type players um and you know you might not always be on one side or the other that might change

• 1:17:13

depending on what your interests are in the at the time but obviously you know those types of

• 1:17:21

systems need to have robust you know consequential type um

• 1:17:26

rewards and benefits associated with them in order to compel the player and that's something obviously we're going to test in alphas and betas and

• 1:17:32

see you know how performing it is in actually attracting players to participate and make sure it's not just one-sided so to

• 1:17:38

speak um uh and something we can touch on jeff also the hope would be that um the people who are running the

• 1:17:44

caravans can offer their own rewards right that hey if you come help me defend this thing i'll give you some cut

• 1:17:50

um or that these are my friends or these are my guilds that a lot of the sort of incentive is social and created

• 1:17:57

between players so or you're working together towards uh you know upgrading a node and you need

• 1:18:03

to get this caravan there right in order to make money or to upgrade your node so together you want you have a

• 1:18:08

invested interest because your freehold is in the same node you know so i think that that can

• 1:18:14

also be something and again it goes back to your point jeff of it being a social experiment experience

• 1:18:21

all right well that is going to be it for our q a segment as well and that means wrapping

• 1:18:27

up uh we hope that you had oh go ahead before we get into the wrap-up real quick i just want to remind everybody

• 1:18:32

um that we are still in a hiring phase a very large one and you guys can do the project a whole

• 1:18:40

heap of help by getting on social media and tagging people that you respect and

• 1:18:46

love in the industry and letting them know about the project spreading the word for Ashes of Creation this helps us to get good applicants to

• 1:18:53

bring veterans on board the project don't be shy um if you're liking what you see and you're

• 1:18:59

you know with us in a supportive way for the team and the project you guys going out there and being a

• 1:19:05

megaphone is something that is um uh really a huge help so

• 1:19:11

i would charge you with that task if you're a follower and a lover and a member of this community um to get out there and help us in that

• 1:19:18

regard yeah we post on all of our social channels we post little hiring blurbs so if you want to

• 1:19:23

retweet those share those send a send the link to somebody that you know we post on linkedin as well so

• 1:19:28

all of those places we would love for you to share uh info yes i know i know it's an

• 1:19:34

interesting thing to hear me say i am i am unabashed in this request um i think you can be an aoc evangelist without being a

• 1:19:40

hype man or woman um i don't like hype but i do like participation i do like feedback i do

• 1:19:46

like revealing what we're working on and if that excites you that's great it doesn't have to be a hype megaphone

• 1:19:52

it just has to be an awareness megaphone get out there and let people know um you know what we're doing and what

• 1:19:57

our what our game philosophy is and the progress we've made it's it's all very helpful to the project and the team

• 1:20:03

and we try to set expectations with what we're saying right like before we played the video stephen was very apparent that like

• 1:20:09

this is a development journey and progress this there's going to be updates and changes so what you see here is not going to be the

• 1:20:16

end product all right with that uh just a few reminders we do have a new dev

• 1:20:22

discussion coming and a new guild gathering discussion we would love for you to partake in those that's going to help us

• 1:20:27

immensely on development side making sure that you know what we want to create is also in line with what you

• 1:20:33

guys want and then beyond that our february cosmetics will swap over on march 3rd to the new set

• 1:20:39

so if you want those snag them now and then of course we do have our next play test is for

• 1:20:45

march 19-26 if you're eligible you'll receive an email from us with further information

• 1:20:50

so stay tuned for that and of course we'll have this video up on our youtube channel youtube.com

• 1:20:56

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• 1:21:03

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• 1:21:10

do we really yes we have a tick tock we just haven't posted

• 1:21:17

um i have ideas on how we want to use the tick tock but it's going to be a little closer to launch i got some cool ideas

• 1:21:22

isn't that where all the cool kids are at today apparently yeah all the kids also when

• 1:21:28

you say you're old steven you make me feel because i'm like the same age as you oh please i'm 35 i was born in 85 i'm an ox

• 1:21:36

i am old i'm on the cusp of the millennials okay stop it i don't want to be old yet

• 1:21:44

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• 1:21:50

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• 1:21:58

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• 1:22:03

or helpful for us and then beyond that um we just want to express our thanks

• 1:22:09

for people who are answering questions and helping out we know that there's a lot of people messaging us and it's great when we go

• 1:22:15

back to respond to people that you guys have already done it and given them the answer so that's beyond helpful we just want to express

• 1:22:22

that so thank you for being a wonderful community community and we will see you next month with a

• 1:22:27

another glorious update bye

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