Talk:2021-04-30 Livestream

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hello everyone welcome to the Ashes of Creation april development update we hope that you all

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are having a lovely month and that you're super excited to join us and see what

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we've got in store for you we have so much if you've never tuned into our streams before this is where we go through

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everything that we've done this month we go through each of the different departments and all of the cool stuff that they want to show off

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and we hope that you enjoy it and with me as always is our one the only

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creative director stephen sharif how are you doing today besides i am stressed

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[Laughter] we have those days you know i think people think like it's all fun and games

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but um it's work man yeah last last night we had some fun stuff happen

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uh on the build side uh that uh kind of pushed some of the

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recording i wanted to do to this morning and then stresses me out

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we stressed out margaret and then we started the recording and i thought i started the recording

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and we had a great record session it was so good it was so good it was perfect

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the recording didn't work and i was so sad although margaret it's good i

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guess it's good because margaret had power issues you're actually your power went out i've never had that happen before other

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than obviously in a storm and things of that sort but my power fully went out like in our entire

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house we're like oh no what about the fridge but it came back uh so it was okay but it was

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computers too many monitors probably i do have six monitors but

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i don't think that was a problem oh i just noticed how green you have so many plants now that's awesome i love them i'm accumulating i

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have i might have a problem oh look at the orchids i love the orchids that's from you john's something oh is

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that our orchids yeah okay sent them to me for when my cat died so it's very sweet of i'm going to him it

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so let's just not talk i know how jeff how are you doing i'm doing

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pretty good i had kind of the same morning as you guys did except from the other side um but yeah it's been good and jeff bard

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is our lead game designer if you didn't know that um so i'm glad that you're doing well jeff and of course i'm your community

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marketing lead and we are excited to run you through all of the things so i'll just quick go over what we'll be covering today and

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i'll give you our uh reminders so first and foremost we have um our reminders that we'll go over we

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have a studio update we have a little bonus engineering video from them uh and then we have

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design uh update with a little well a 16 minute video so i wouldn't call that little

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should i be concerned about what the engineering video is i don't i'd because i was wrong you should watch it you shouldn't do anything

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it's all in the run of show you can go look at it right now if you want um but of course i you know i try to bet

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things to some extent but i guess stephen and i sometimes stephen's like i wouldn't show that but you know it's

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okay i like showing some of the nitty-gritty stuff and then of course we have an environment art update with some concept

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stuff as well and in-game screenshots of the amazing work that they've been doing and you're going to see some of that in the video

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as well in the design video and then we also have the character art update which is filled with all of the

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goodies as well and then we have our q a which you know you all have submitted some amazing questions

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toast was telling me that it was so many pages long but she has been amazing and gone through all of it and if you don't get

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your question answered here it may be answered over on our forums after the live stream because

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she's awesome and just goes through all of them and tries to answer especially the ones that have already been answered

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so just do keep an eye on that stuff and so i'll just quickly go through the quick reminders uh first and foremost

- Reminders

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i'll switch over here so you can see all the things we have our monthly cosmetic swap over for from the undergrowth which is

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scheduled for may 5th 2021 at 11 a.m pacific as noted in the news article we always let you know when they're going

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to swap over in advance so you know how long you have to get them a reminder that these are exclusives um

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and there's more information on that over on our kb articles over on the support page

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during this time we'll also be adding in alpha 1 pre-order packages or the alpha 1 pre-order package we know

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that that is something that people have been asking about and we will be adding that so that will be

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coming on may 5th 2021. uh you'll have upgrade paths for that for folks who already have pre-order

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packs and of course if you're a kickstarter backer there's already upgrade paths in order to get the access to alpha one

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and more information will be in in our may fourth sneak peak news cosmetic article we

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always do this we give you an update the day before so that you or sometimes even more advanced about the new cosmetic set so you know

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what's swapping over as well as um this one will include an faq about

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the alpha one pre-order package because we know there will be some extended questions and we want to make sure that we're getting those answered

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uh prior so as soon as that comes out uh check the check out those q a questions or faq questions and then

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if there's any other questions that come up we'll add to that article as well if we see some more frequently asked questions that we didn't think of

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but i think we're usually pretty good with our faqs um that should cover all of that stephen i

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know you wanted to maybe preface something on that video as well yeah so guys just

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guys and gals just to um preface yet again i know in my director's letter i i

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did give a stern warning about alpha 1 and what to expect

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this is a true developmental alpha there are going to be bugs there's going to be unfinished systems these are in very

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core fashion if you are interested and you are planning to

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purchase or upgrade the package it is a high dollar value package it's a 500 package it

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needs to be that in this round because we have to respect obviously you know those who came before

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you who are planning to purchase again but do not purchase this package if you're looking to play a game if you're looking to play

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Ashes of Creation you should not be purchasing an alpha one uh package i know it's

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weird you probably never heard a company tell you not to do this we also tell you don't buy the packages

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in general like the monthly packages don't buy them if you're not you know if you're not interested and you're not sure about it really

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it's for the people who want to back our development path and we've we've mentioned this before about what the

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cosmetics do but all of those items allow us to create the world they're the mpcs in the world they help us make mpc variants

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the clothing and costumes are costumes that we'll be putting on npcs like you're actually helping us create

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the world and that is something that you're doing along with us and that is you know and most importantly

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the real role of an alpha backer or tester is to provide feedback

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is to test and it is it is an arduous journey to be a tester uh because you're having

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to deal with delays you're having to deal with bugs and crashes and fixes and you

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are expected to give feedback in our forums on these you know in our private alpha forums you're in our uh you're in the nda

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um discord channel interacting with the devs and just you know playing the waiting game now

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obviously we're gonna have a lot of you know um bug fixes and stuff that we go through that we have been going through

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and we're trying to get it in a good spot so so things so things are gonna go well but um just

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keep in mind you are not purchasing alpha one for those of you who are interested in that and i know we've had a lot of interest

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in it you are not purchasing alpha one two play Ashes of Creation you are purchasing alpha one if you if

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you do so to test it and to give us feedback and that's a responsibility we expect you to hold

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dear um so let me i'm trying to give you as much of a

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of a stern warning as possible so that you understand now obviously you know the

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package i think is is priced and has goodies in it that are good there's a lot of game time there there's credits there's cosmetics

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you know and when you calculate those things you know obviously the alpha isn't i think the alpha's like 50 bucks

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or something if you try to calculate all the other stuff or i don't know we don't have necessarily a price for it but um just keep that in

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mind so hopefully it will be similar to the package that you guys have been that you if you've purchased a trip

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package before yeah uh and then obviously the upgrade pass will be the dip against

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so and then obviously the item difficult as well you know i saw someone in chad it says

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take my life no no temper oh no no i'm just kidding

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um and you know i think stephen has basically been trying to say this and if you read or

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checked out our creative director's letter which is another element um definitely go check out that creative director's letter we really tried to set

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the expectation here that you know this is not a final product that it is alpha there will be bugs so if you're watching streams and stuff

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keep that in mind in youtube videos i know there will be people who cover our content and judge us as if we

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were our f a final product but um we just want to practice that you're going to see the journey and it's

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going to be a long one i mean even the the past if you've looked at kind of the past content

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before i even started you can see how much has changed and it's quite amazing oh yeah

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yeah i mean obviously i know we've say this often often in the past but like there's

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obviously different groups of people people who are really invested and follow the game religiously and then those who are just

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kind of innocent bystanders that like see you know some press release every now and then um you know there's gonna be people out

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in in different gaming communities that look at what alpha one is they're gonna say oh see you know look this is this doesn't look good or

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it's buggy or whatever um no i know no no no i i have no concern about that like in my opinion

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it is it has been a far more beneficial approach from a transparency standpoint

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to show active development even if that active development isn't as pretty as you know what the game is going to be

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obviously at launch but it's important that you know the community be a part of the process and gets to see

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the actual i mean we're a really ambitious project and there's not very many projects at our scale that do

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transparent development um so i think it's i think it's a great thing for the community to be involved we've gotten a lot of great feedback

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we've made changes based on that feedback um you know and people get to feel a part of this process and and that's an

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important thing i think more so than the downside of people taking a glance

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and saying oh this is the product like you know that's not what i expected i have full confidence that those types

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of people they come around every press beat you know every time there's some like alpha one or alpha 2 or beta

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you know they're going to see the press reports they're going to see the you know content creators and they're going to

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see what the product looks like in an evolutionary state they're just not going to have full context that people who are part of the

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community religiously see and know but when we get down the road and alpha 2 comes out and beta comes out and

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eventually launch comes out i have no problem i think we'll recapture that audience obviously you know so i have no real real concerns

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about that but just for you guys to make sure you understand is an alpha help to spread that message and

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awareness so that people know and you know all of our social platforms right here on the right side of me um

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or maybe it's on the left when you're watching um but those are the great places we constantly

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post on there i mean for a game that's you know still in development we're posting stuff all the time and keeping people engaged

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and and letting you know what new things are coming out and even if you don't watch our live streams we do try to keep people updated on the

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content that's within our live streams so for those of you hardcore folks a lot of that content might not be new but i

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think for the people who maybe don't follow so closely hopefully we're keeping them up to date on everything that's

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going on now on the other side of it we still have some more updates on the community front we've got a lot

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going on so of course last month we had um our dub discussion

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which was what kinds of tools or rewards most encourage you to become involved in a mentorship program

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either as a mentor or a mentee and you guys have submitted some great feedback for us i believe

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toast might have already sent that report over to the dev team and we will be doing may's dev discussion regarding crafting

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i know folks have been wanting to talk about crafting we're ready to talk about it now so definitely if you care about crafting

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or you have a friend who cares about crafting go tell them to get involved in this discussion so that we uh can get their feedback

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a lot of the times like we said before that feedback pretty much is in line with our designs

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but it's always great to ensure that we're on the right page that we're thinking of all of the things and

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sometimes you guys think of something that we didn't think of or you have a problem that we uh are able

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to address in other means um so definitely let us know and we'd love to you know hear your feedback and of

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course you can still go back and give us mentorship uh feedback as well now if you've been

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following us closely you know that we have been doing guild gatherings as well we are starting to build out those social systems now and obviously guilds

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are a massive social system within mmorpgs and we asked you guys this month

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how do you measure your success as a guild in a game what kind of things would you like to see in Ashes of Creation to help you

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measure that success and you've already submitted a lot of great feedback for us i know the dev team is going to take that with

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you know with all of their heart and of course next uh month we will be talking about team

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building and you know obviously there's a lot that goes into team building so really give us your feedback let us

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know because we want to be able to provide you those systems we want our people to provide you that type of content

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and if you guys give us you know the feedback that you want then you know we'll make it we'll make it come to fruition that's our goal

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and of course last but not least we have our upcoming schedule

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and that is going to be um may 14th through may 21st with which is

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our alpha one preview play test it's a week-long play test and we'll be sending out some emails for everybody who's eligible for

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that um most of you already know if you're eligible but do keep an eye we'll be sending an rsvp email along

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with um discord connect so that you can connect your discord account um

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you should also have access to a forum section and all of that jazz and we'll just try to keep you guys informed on

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all of the all the things as we move forward um toast does amazing job of also putting together

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a great you know faq doc as well as grab some information from design so you know what classes are

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available what systems are available what things we're testing what type of feedback we're looking for so just keep an eye out on that

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and last but not least i know i have a lot today for community reminders um content creator

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program we know that people have been asking about it and uh the revamp is very close so

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we're hoping to be able to announce that next week so stay tuned um and you know we're excited to

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have you all join the journey with us we have a lot of cool things planned and hopefully you're excited as well and

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with that i'm going to move on over to our studio update so that stephen can tell us a little bit about what's

- Studio Update

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been going on at their studio which is a lot

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absolutely um so we are finally seeing the light at the end of the

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tunnel with getting back into studio together once again

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a lot of work has been done over this last month um we've had a fun time all the leads

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picking out furniture for the new studio um doing walkthroughs of the studio

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making the trends yes jeff did win the chair battle he selected the chair so if

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anybody in the studio doesn't like them you can play i do want to say this it has been cool that you've allowed all of the leads to be part of that process

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i've worked at a lot of companies where we've moved studios and we have not been so i think that that's really uh you know kind of you could have

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probably just decided on all of the things without the rest of us oh i think it's more i

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think it's fun to be inclusive in those things you know and everything i try to do obviously i i i enjoy the extra voices and and i

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think it's it's an important part of you know this being a collaborative effort and even down to the chairs

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we had a variety of like so many chairs i'm like a very tiny person and everyone

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else was giant um so it was definitely interesting to see what kind of chairs different people liked yes it was fun to see the

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chair you guys decided on i feel like i can't push back on it very hard it was like a catapult for you it's super comfy though honestly i love

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it but we figured out how to adjust it i think i'll be fine so we've been doing a lot a lot of stuff on that front for the studio we're

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hoping to be back in it it's looking like we're going to start phasing in june 15th up until july 1st and and by that period

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of time we should have everybody in the new studio once we're situated and everything's good i know margaret is just

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waiting to do tours and videos dev updates uh dev diaries we want to

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bring that back um i have to do a whole slew of head shots because i need to take pictures of everyone's

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everyone in the studio that's joined us we have so many things that we want to do and then obviously a lot of behind the scenes on social so definitely

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follow us on social because we'll be taking pictures more like candid styles so don't nothing too crazy

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but kind of over the shoulder stuff that you can see what people are working on as we move forward it's going to be cool

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to be able to do that kind of stuff absolutely it's going to be great obviously also for our hiring strategy to attract new

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team members you guys can take those tour videos and spam them on all the socials to all your favorite devs and

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say why aren't you working at intrepid our livestream updates we'll be we're all together in the same room again

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it's a different type of atmosphere i feel like when we're all together yes absolutely so things are going well

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we're still hiring we're going to have some fun hiring phases as soon as we're back in studio there's going to be virtual and physical

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job fairs we're planning to do we have a lot of space in this studio it's huge and we are going to be hiring

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a lot of new amazing talent so we're very excited about that um

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otherwise developments moving forward we're team is doing a stellar job the world is beautiful the

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mechanics are up and running and um you know we're getting a lot of great performance gains

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uh over these play tests um on the networking side as well so we're very excited to share that for alpha we're hard at work getting that

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stuff ready um and the studio is in a good state yay um all right we're going to move on

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to our design goodies but first got a little engineering bit and i'm

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going to give you a surprise yeah i'm going to walk you through a surprise for the you guys but if you read my run of show you wouldn't be do

- Bonus Engineering Video

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you think i had time to read the run of show i was like in there are you kidding me with these nice documents it's like a bajillion people

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oh my gosh okay i'm gonna show you guys this video and i'm gonna talk over it a little bit

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because um our wonderful uh kevin mcpherson aka mcp our engineer who does a lot of amazing

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work his team is also just for sure that team is they are like

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the glue for everybody magic day in and day out so just shout out to them in general um

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you don't get to see a lot of updates from engineering but i hope there's not actual code in this like we're not we've

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obfuscated anything it's no code it's a visual thing i'm so scared right now

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okay i kind of like give making steven wait no okay we'll we'll switch over to it all right here we go

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it's pretty simple i don't think you'll be that freaked out so there were all performance models that can be

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synchronized efficiently between client and server what this is going to allow us to do is it will be used for naval adventures in

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the future um performing time synchronized calculations on both the client and the server reduces the network traffic required to

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support large numbers of buoyant objects so you know like all of the ships that will be on there and allowing us to support more

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of them at once so large siege battle or like large naval battle type of content pieces hopefully down

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the line right um so that's kind of it steven's like is there anything that's not supposed to be there look at that

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i know i'm so concerned but i think it's good it looks good looks clear no yeah it looks very good brown bear

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spotter there's a lot of a lot of physics obviously in the ocean that's intended between the buoyancy that's

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there for ships for players for um you know pretty much everything going on in the water has some type of buoyancy

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associated with it so it's important to keep that relatively performant and it's good to see that

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testing on the code side is is already on top of it we're excited for that aspect of ashes

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the naval content is always a fun thing we get a lot of questions about naval content obviously it's not going to be

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in the alpha one uh per se but we do get a lot of questions about it so we are working on stuff that you're

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not seeing in the alpha one as well i see somebody says five thousand bears on boats

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yeah five thousand bears on five thousand boats uh we'll have to test it but not five thousand let's just let's

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slim it down to like 200 versus all right very well you gotta shoot for the the stars don't you

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that's true you're waiting for it right now even if you miss you'll land among them there's gotta be some good

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players it's one of my favorite motivational speakers les brown that's his saying i love it it's very exciting

- Design Update which includes Alpha One progress, and 4K gameplay segment

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do you want to talk any more on that front stephen at all no that's good i know everybody's waiting

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patiently to see the footage and although i'm not yeah let me preface that so i the first

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recording was amazing i should say the first run through the recording actually didn't work um and i was so sad but the second one's

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okay but what i'm gonna what we're gonna do after this i just want to let you know uh i'm gonna try to go through and do a little bit broader recording obviously

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in 4k again and we'll upload that to youtube hopefully tonight or tomorrow um you know i don't i'm not going to

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edit or cut anything i just want to do another take and kind of explain a little bit more about the mechanics of the sieging and stuff but what you guys

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are about to view now is one of the um one of the raid bosses

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that's in the siege zone so as you know we were talking about porting over the siege code out of

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apoc into mmo proper and alex has been doing an amazing job

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on that front and the design team um eat i think corey rice and chang and um

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chris giusto each of them had a dragon to work on right there's the fire the frost and the and the forest

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dragon and um uh three of these are scaled up and they're you know built for a larger raid as part of that

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siege uh zone so um you know i'm gonna explain a little bit about this in the video that i record

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again after the stream today and put up on youtube in a little bit more detail but keep in mind obviously to preface

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this is still a work in progress this is the alpha this stuff you know

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will get uh uh better smoothed out and polished and bugs will be fixed and whatnot

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but it'll give you an early look at least of what some players can expect from a raid perspective with some of these large bosses

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and of course this livestream will also be on youtube so you'll have yes more content double content

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all right i'm gonna pop over them that video we'll see you all in about 16 17 minutes

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hello everybody and welcome to another 4k stream inside the Ashes of Creation

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alpha one world i am joined by our amazing community marketing lead

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luperza aka margaret crone hello oh my god it matches your plague doctor

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uh i know i had to sorry just kidding i'm excited look how beautiful this is yay we also

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have with us our awesome most amazingly soft peter pallone senior producer on ashes

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of creation how's it going everyone yay i see you're on a fox peter

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yeah this thing looks awesome i absolutely love it i saw the effects for that i think people will get to see it soon uh but

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uh we don't have it on right now but they're a lot of fire around that fox it's gonna be awesome also the community

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was uh summoning peter the other day and discord it was pretty funny

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uh we also have with us one of our glorious programmers mr alex cadoli aka slurpee

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hello hello welcome buddy how you doing uh glad to be back i'm

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doing fine nice my phone card here in ryder oh yeah he's also out of care what is that

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what's it called kieran kieran yeah you have a silver one he has a gold one yeah it's like a dragon deer dragon

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i love it yeah i like the scales it's cool and then we also have a new face with us one of our amazing game designers mr

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chris giusto how you doing buddy good good happy to be here thanks for having

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me absolutely we're excited to see your dragon me too so for those of you who don't

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know we're going to be going through a little raid here just to show you guys some

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what to look forward to in alpha one what you'll be seeing this is a dragon that was designed by mr

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giusto and uh it has some pretty fun mechanics the character team did a great job with the

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actual model animations look great the effects team did a great job and it has some fun mechanics we're

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going to see here in a little bit but as far as i understand chris this is probably not uh something that we as

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five people can take on no we definitely will die horrible deaths if we try and do it ourselves

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so what do you think we need like what 40 to 60 people that's a good rough number nice

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so for those of you guys who don't know um this and by the way it is currently 11 a.m we

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have had the absolute most difficult time recording this footage this morning last

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night i'm having an internal struggle it's okay i know we have the stream starting

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in about 43 minutes so we're gonna we're gonna go through this and we're gonna see you guys on stream here in a little bit but uh

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the last recording ended up not actually recording and margaret's power went out and it's

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just been i've never experienced that before where your whole house just resets it was crazy

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yeah it is it is pretty crazy well what do you guys say we actually uh see if we can call some friends and

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to help us with this um i think chris you're gonna tank right

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i am going to tank all right well maybe we should see if our friends

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actually come in hold on that's not totally aggro yet uh you want to talk a little bit about

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the mechanics of this boss yeah so he is very aerial area denial

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focused so he leaves behind a bunch of poison puddles that um tanks can soak up or he can soak up

• 27:25

and he tries to basically shun you out of the raid well he

• 27:32

definitely looks scary and there's two other dragons in this siege zone as well

• 27:37

correct yeah there is a a fire dragon that chong or that cory made and an ice

• 27:44

dragon that chong made nice i'm very excited very excited to see it in action people

• 27:50

really like the the ice dragon look like the area oh yeah the ice dragon area is awesome i'll probably run over

• 27:56

there and show people i see some of our raid members coming are they ready to to participate chris i think you have

• 28:02

the go ahead to start tanking my friend all right i'll keep you up or try to

• 28:07

and just for the streams purposes i'm not gonna be too heavy in the play i'm trying to get some good footage for you all so you can

• 28:14

see i'm gonna support chris with uh some mana

• 28:20

nice i can give him some heal there we go all right you're building up

• 28:26

hate on it right now chris you know it you let us know when you want us to start fighting

• 28:35

oh my gosh where's our where's our raid i see the

• 28:41

reinforcements how are they here nice send them in oh my gosh oh how did

• 28:46

i die oh you were out of breath oh no hold on

• 28:52

you're like behind a rock somebody doesn't have a shirt on clayton uh yeah if you could resume have a great

• 28:58

i gotta get out of comment okay i'm rezzing you all right

• 29:04

should have gotten it got it sweet oh my god i'm gonna change up i'm

• 29:10

gonna oh

• 29:16

oh yeah you might not have gear yes i will put on gear hold up

• 29:27

okay i got your heels all right i gave myself a bunch of health i apologize for shooting everybody i had

• 29:32

to i got to get footage for you don't hate me [Laughter]

• 29:38

oh this guy's this guy looks great though yeah don't stand behind the rock over there because then i can't see you

• 29:44

it won't heal you so what's he shooting at us chris uh balls of poison and if we stand in

• 29:51

the poison you will get plenty of poison stacks and die oh my gosh well i can try to heal you

• 29:58

through it but it's oh no oh no oh it knocked us back can we jump to avoid that yes you can oh

• 30:06

sweet oh i jumped way too early okay i was out of breath

• 30:14

oh no oh i made it

• 30:20

i think he's standing on oh shoot

• 30:26

see if we can grab him move him over

• 30:33

oh no the posing trying to everywhere

• 30:38

oh wow so he shoots up a bunch of those poison puddles huh yeah he will target up to 16 players

• 30:45

with that oh wow all right he's about halfway down

• 30:50

okay nice i gotta get close to get mana

• 31:01

oh i love the poison breath that's probably my favorite effect that

• 31:06

jim did up for it

• 31:16

oh no it's a poison waves again

• 31:25

see if i can pan out and get a good picture of the raid fighting him

• 31:38

this guy's a big boy this big don't assume anything

• 31:45

my gosh stephen

• 31:52

i just saw his tongue stick up he's at about ten percent pretty close

• 32:08

he seems confused yeah oh i just saw like a light show behind

• 32:14

him yeah someone's using uh the mage abilities

• 32:24

oh nice all right that was great oh i was able

• 32:31

to keep you up very cool does he have loot on him

• 32:37

uh if he did he doesn't have it anymore i see people in chat yelling where's my loot [Laughter]

• 32:44

that's nice all right let's uh let's take flight if we can as a group i want to take a look at the other the couple other dragons and kind of

• 32:50

explain a little about the uh about the siege zone so um alex you've been working on actually porting over

• 32:57

all of the siege code from um apoc over to mmo proper

• 33:02

yeah you want to talk a little bit about that yeah sure um yeah i've been working uh

• 33:10

hard uh basically carrying over um apoc uh siege manager apoc uh ch vehicles

• 33:17

uh and also control points um straight to ashes it's been an easier

• 33:24

uh way easier now because we already have all the code written it's just we have

• 33:30

to have some adjustments small adjustments um within our ashes code base um that's why make it so

• 33:38

we can make it pretty much on time yeah exactly i mean that's it's definitely a lot of work but it's good that

• 33:44

a lot of that code is already there and apoc and able to port it over um obviously you guys can see there's a little castle there it's not quite

• 33:50

finished yet this area isn't totally done um here's one of the other dragons and the cool thing is you know

• 33:56

as obviously as players are facing off against one another they have to kind of decide whether or not ooh i think it

• 34:01

just angered me oh yeah i see it all right well hopefully it doesn't do anything crazy i

• 34:07

am in the air i don't know what it could do but um oh i see mage team six down there

• 34:12

careful that's my natural habitat with my fox oh that's right i didn't think about that oh we have like another a dragon

• 34:19

brethren over here on lupurza maybe it'll recognize you as a friend oh

• 34:24

should i try and see no no no probably not i don't know i don't know that's the safest call yeah that's right

• 34:30

oh no it's moving it's moving oh is it going to be

• 34:40

but as you guys can see there's you know this this dragon obviously uh when players decide whether or not they want to engage with one of these dragons

• 34:47

you know they're making a decision on behalf of their team um to kind of take the risk but there's a

• 34:53

reward obviously during the siege if you do down one of the bosses your team does get a pretty significant

• 34:59

buff um as part of that so it can definitely be worth the risk

• 35:05

um and what is this what does this dragon do chris um he has a really really scary rage

• 35:12

mechanic where if you're not um dealing with some of his other mechanics he will just

• 35:18

start one-shotting people oh my god yeah i saw he had like a fire

• 35:23

breath that he was using um that was relatively concerning oh it

• 35:29

looks like he's like enraging himself for some reason i just like how he stares at me right

• 35:34

into my soul i know i like his little tongue that kind of sticks out but the good thing is like

• 35:40

each of these bosses players that players have access to they have all obviously different mechanics they have

• 35:46

different strengths and weaknesses and it's it's on the part of the players kind of to determine that

• 35:52

oh my gosh oh no oh no why'd he get so mad we're just looking

• 35:58

at him he just wants to get a little toasty he's a little territory look at him

• 36:04

oh i like that he's so what is that oh that's not yours no no

• 36:13

i resisted it oh it's doing a little bit of damage that looks cool from my perspective that's funny i'm qualified he threw a

• 36:19

little like meteor at me what are these oh bye whoa let's go over to the frost

• 36:25

area are those like mirror images yes oh that's awesome all right here we go

• 36:33

so this will actually one shot you oh no so this dragon over here he brought the

• 36:39

weather with him let's see if we can go down into the area

• 36:47

and i'm on the ground i'm on the ice i feel like i need some skates for this like a little slippy slidey yeah

• 36:57

oh it's like i love the weather effects it's got a little bit of like a blizzard haze going on yeah it's pretty

• 37:04

yeah it's got some snow oh here we go yeah a lot of people like

• 37:10

this one the elder dragon of tundra

• 37:15

so now what are these this guy's mechanics just the chance he has some slows that he does

• 37:22

and he can freeze people in blocks of ice and they are very bad to get stuck in

• 37:28

you're the tanks even now oh man oh yeah oh whoa oh what was that oh

• 37:37

i don't know but oh my god i like it i don't know so he has a lot of oh my

• 37:43

god i think he's coming for me i was healing you yeah he's gonna make you dance around

• 37:49

now does he like freeze people too yes

• 37:55

so you get frozen and um then he does things that make you have to dance so if you're frozen you're

• 38:00

out of luck oh this guy's pretty cool that's very cool so to give you guys a

• 38:07

little quick rundown of kind of how sieges are gonna work in alpha one obviously they're not going to be what uh the end goal is for

• 38:14

sieges but they'll be a representation kind of those core mechanics so um players will have the ability to kind

• 38:20

of register um uh excuse me they'll have the ability to join a guild and guilds will have the ability to

• 38:26

register for the sieges on a daily basis these siege is going to take place daily there'll be three hour long events

• 38:32

we obviously want this during alpha one so that we can you know utilize that from a density and performance perspective

• 38:38

collect metrics on it it's very important for us to have um you know that data and uh it's gonna be

• 38:43

100 versus 100 players to start um attackers versus defenders and there

• 38:48

will be a victory mechanic inside the castle that attackers will have to achieve through kind of casting on this relic

• 38:56

and then when the victors are determined at the end of the day they will have

• 39:02

access in the open world for them to interact with a steward at the castle and get some goodies because

• 39:09

they won that fight that day and then also one other important note there are some resources in this area

• 39:15

some unique resources in this area during the siege that you can try to gather they are you know they're

• 39:22

not super abundant but they are necessary uh in order to craft

• 39:27

some of the top end gear during the alpha um so obviously you know it goes without saying have to give the standard

• 39:33

uh you know kind of disclaimer this is our first alpha things are still a major work in

• 39:38

progress um but we're excited oh that's cool you have like a little bone strider

• 39:45

that's funny you get a rhino oh look at that how cool don't break through the ice with that thing oh yeah

• 39:53

but anyways guys hope you guys enjoyed this real quick look the fun little uh stuff we're doing for alpha one we're

• 39:58

excited to get you guys in and and show off some footage in may and in june and um

• 40:04

keep you guys a part of the process as we move forward in the development of Ashes of Creation we will see you all

• 40:09

back on stream here in just a second bye everybody bye bye oh look at the fire dragon over

• 40:16

here and we're back oh hi everybody

• 40:23

that was so much fun to watch yeah that was great i'm so sad that the first recording didn't work

• 40:29

it was so the you guys noticed there there's a little bug at the end of the dragon fight where he got stuck in his

• 40:36

behavior tree and and wasn't doing some actions at the end uh there's a little bug we're gonna fix

• 40:41

but uh it it wasn't in the first recording or the first on recording so i was like darn it it came in the

• 40:46

second one it's okay it happens man yeah let's see if this uh

• 40:52

plays for us in the background yay cool um we'll just kind of have it in the

• 40:57

background uh i didn't really see a ton of questions in chat it seemed like most people were really excited that they

• 41:03

loved seeing the progression and the the changes that have been that have come

• 41:08

along the way is there anything else that you two feel like you wanna address on that front if not let's talk a little bit about alpha one

• 41:14

and your progress towards alpha one and what you guys have been working towards

• 41:19

uh let's see uh so i don't think there's anything more like steven covered everything pretty well in that siege

• 41:26

video um obviously there's a lot more work we need to do to tidy it up and get it all cleaned up and

• 41:32

put in a bow ready for alpha one but i mean i think it's pretty cool already so we're pretty stoked about where we're at

• 41:38

um we have been working on mostly a lot of content for alpha one obviously like

• 41:43

as even said like this is not going to be the game but we also want to make sure that people have plenty of things to do while

• 41:49

they're in the game faces to have get get that sort of like you know a preliminary Ashes of Creation

• 41:55

experience and to do that we need to have a lot of content for that so that's kind of where we're at right now we're wrapping a lot of things

• 42:01

up um i think there's like over 200 quests or so in the game right now

• 42:07

there's um a bunch of dungeons we've kind of retooled all of the the boss fights um those dragons that you see in the

• 42:13

siege are actually in the world part of the open world too they'll be a slightly different there's some extra

• 42:18

mechanics in the siege versions versus the ones that are in the world but there's plenty of cool things to get

• 42:24

on both of them so make sure you check them out and hunt them down there is all sorts of cool things to

• 42:30

discover we've worked on trying to like make sure there's you know for those of you who like to explore like me that there's lots of cool things you can kind of like uncover

• 42:37

and look under rocks and and get exposed to some stuff that you might not have seen before so

• 42:42

um again that's like you know not to say this is going to be the finished game but there's still

• 42:48

going to be a lot of cool stuff to find um and a cool a lot of cool gameplay to experience so um

• 42:54

so yeah it's just us trying to wrap this stuff all up and make sure that it's ready to go yeah for sure and then yesterday i had a

• 43:00

great uh review with taylor pope and court rice on the design team for uh itemization

• 43:07

changes that are going to be present in alpha one i think there's like um 49

• 43:13

unique sets that people can craft fine quest drop um that are gonna be present

• 43:20

in progression from one to fifteen uh i said the word craft i have to stop you there because people are gonna wanna know for

• 43:27

sure for sure so just to be clear the crafting system and the resource system that's present alpha one

• 43:32

is only presented in a way that represents the core gameplay loop of crafting resource

• 43:39

gathering and um uh items that they this is not going to be representative of what

• 43:45

obviously ash's crafting system will be uh we didn't have time to to put that into alpha one but we did want to

• 43:51

represent that aspect of gameplay but they did it they've done a great job

• 43:56

in i think making a compelling case from a progression standpoint for players to kind of pursue in the game as a chase um uh

• 44:03

also keep in mind those 49 sets are not 49 unique looks there are 49 sets so so you'll see

• 44:09

similar looks across different sets um you know geared toward different types of stat distribution so

• 44:14

yeah absolutely so i mean obviously we have to share looks across those that that data that that different

• 44:20

um um you know game game mechanics that we're going to associate stats and

• 44:26

power values with but the character team you know obviously we have a lot of of work ahead of us for actual sets so we share some of

• 44:33

those um appearances um just but no right absolutely yeah

• 44:39

yep just to clarify for people who might be confused yep but yeah no everything um

• 44:45

everything's coming together you know we still have a lot of a lot of bug fixing and some optimization to do over this

• 44:50

these next few weeks um but things are coming together good everybody's doing a great job on the team

• 44:56

yay um and of course we know you guys have a lot of questions and things of that sort in regards to other things which we will

• 45:03

be getting into in our q a segment but uh we're going to move on over to our

• 45:08

environment stuff if you guys are cool with that all right let's move on over on the

• 45:14

environment front we have so many cool images so to start us off i'm going to show some

- Environment Art Update

• 45:19

concept art that the team has been working on which um you know some of these you've seen

• 45:26

different uh versions of or like not final and then of course some of these are completely new ones

• 45:32

but a lot of jungle area oriented things because guess what

• 45:37

you're going to be seeing some jungle action it's the tropics the tropics the tropics

• 45:43

and jungle are actually separate biomes yep so some of the which ones of these are the jungle

• 45:50

versus tropics here i think the first two this is all i think these are all tropics so jungle jungle biome is a

• 45:56

little bit different um but yeah we've shown some previously of the jungle biome so um they should have all been tropics

• 46:04

actually i think i don't we haven't touched the jungle biome yet so everything you're seeing even though they're incorporates

• 46:10

jungle in the sense the word like you know this kind of canopy or more tropic driven like jungle

• 46:16

appearance it's actually from a biome perspective it's a separate type of biome than than what the jungle

• 46:21

will be which is different cool well i've seen some other stuff then that you guys haven't

• 46:28

but we've got a lot of cool stuff and you know our concept team just does amazing work uh and we're

• 46:34

gonna be showing some in-game screenshots of of some of the other stuff that has been worked out so next up here

• 46:39

i've got i need to switch to the scene there we go some objects that they've

• 46:45

been working on and a whole slew of them here

• 46:50

amazing pieces i think some of these are for the crypt area yeah there's a there's

• 46:57

going to be a new for those of you who have played uh in in one of our our previews um there's been a big

• 47:05

revamp of that starting area we've got a new dungeon there and these are some of the pieces that you'll see around that dungeon

• 47:11

um and what about the ships there's like little boats and stuff of that sort that are out there there's a whole lot of

• 47:17

water in this um in this area um and pirates have taken up uh resident

• 47:24

in a lot of it there's a lot of hidden coves a lot of hidden caves and you'll see sort of their um evidence of their existence in

• 47:32

these places and all of those those points of interest you know many of them obviously

• 47:38

level up with the nodes as the nodes progress as well um so you'll see you know new npcs spawn

• 47:44

and and even some additional props added as these like can you structure sometimes exactly oh my god i thought i

• 47:51

told bacon to take those out you don't like those spider webs no those are part of another one

• 47:59

and then of course well you got a sneak peek of another dungeon that you weren't supposed to and then we have the throne room stuff that they've been working on

• 48:06

which you're gonna get to see an in-game screenshot of as well which is phenomenal um so we'll move in

• 48:12

uh on to those actually which are the in-game screenshots which just awesome so we have

• 48:20

goblin camp i believe yep here yeah so if you saw those concept art

• 48:25

pieces before this is the actual like place which looks almost identical to the concept art it's pretty amazing

• 48:31

um and then we have the hotbed which you're seeing now which will be your name that's not its official name yeah that's just what

• 48:37

you're internal the hotbed it's so evil it's a very corrupted area which we

• 48:43

walked through in our previous livestream so if you want to see us walking around in there

• 48:48

um they've been working on a lot of lighting uh stuff so this is this kind of showcases a lot of what

• 48:54

they've been working on in textures and this is also pushing it even further so you saw it before was kind of like about like a 75 down this is

• 49:01

these are shots of it being completely done so we're in the process of populating this out right now next month you'll get to see them filled

• 49:06

with population right because the design should be yeah that part yeah oh it better be done next one

• 49:12

yeah that's true and then these are some new trees that are have been added we have they've

• 49:18

been they just keep adding amazing stuff and this is the throne room just wow um you probably saw some of the concept

• 49:24

art that we had of it now look at the in-game just where do we see this there this is the

• 49:29

new character creator is that the first time i showed that maybe maybe i've i think maybe i saw the concept

• 49:36

yeah it looks great oh that's the new character creator room well that's that's the new character

• 49:42

stable area so um previously i think it was a little encampment and now we've switched over

• 49:48

to the throne room [Music] well you guys get to see that i didn't

• 49:54

know that that's not in the build that i got to see and i think the last one i have here is

• 50:00

some ocean buoyancy stuff um do note that you know this footage is just to

• 50:06

show off that primarily so when uh they're on the ship you can kind of see how it's moving and the ocean's

• 50:11

moving up with them and this boat kind of has a little bit of hole in the bottom of it

• 50:17

so you can see the water comes in there and you can see how it is when they're swimming in it

• 50:23

too i

• 50:34

i don't think you're going to get very far on that ship it's magic margaret it's magic okay it's

• 50:40

magic i'm sorry that's true you could have a magical bone i'll give you that okay ah that gives me an idea for like a

• 50:47

fish tank at the bottom of the oh my gosh you can't tell where the bottom begins in the

• 50:53

ocean starts that's great yeah like so you can see under that'd be sick all right i got ideas new new items um i love the new ocean

• 51:00

shader and and the uh um the tide mechanics when it comes in yeah

• 51:06

it's really cool moving on but that's our artists over on the environment side have been just

• 51:12

doing phenomenal work a lot of what you see uh their work is also in the design

• 51:17

video i mean all of our teams cohesively work together so you're getting to see a lot of those updates and of course i know a lot of

• 51:24

people have seen some of the character stuff um so first and foremost i think i actually started this is the wrong one

- Character Art Update

• 51:30

so get a little sneak peek oh yes this is which is the guide guys of the withered

• 51:36

woods which i think stephen gave a little sneak peek i did it was early it was not done so now you can see

• 51:44

the more final and this is a 3d model like this look at the concept wow

• 51:51

our team is amazing um my my edgy witch vibes i made this one

• 51:56

specifically for mcp and obviously jeff gave me the go-ahead to make like a witchy

• 52:01

set um but i know mcp loves his witch vibe stuff um moving on we have our colonial set

• 52:08

which um i believe is part of one of the kickstarter packages so you're starting to see i think this i think this was the boston

• 52:16

pax yeah unique set yeah so only people who uh got this

• 52:23

during the packs um during the uh camera it's called pax east um have this one but there will be

• 52:30

variants of kind of utilizing this cloth and the style um that you'll see in the game as well

• 52:35

and of course npcs in the world which i'm sure jeff will have fun with

• 52:40

him and his team will have fun moving on from there people's favorite sets i think this is

• 52:47

one of the sets that people really loved uh the face of sorrow um here you can see it on the different

• 52:52

models um you know dwarf versus human i think that [Music]

• 52:59

very is very pointy um and then we actually have a

• 53:08

the sword that was in the concept art now you don't get the sword but our artist got really inspired and

• 53:14

made the sword hauls or the sword and the kind of staff so those will be weapons that will be in the game as well that

• 53:20

you can achieve yes those will be in-game achievable weapons and then we also have the turntables so

• 53:27

you can see the 3d model i mean that was a 3d model of the screenshot of them but um showing you the t-pose of the 3d model of it so you

• 53:34

can kind of see it this doesn't have particle effects so keep that in mind um it doesn't quite have particle

• 53:39

effects yet t-poses always make me giggle um and

• 53:45

then we have the fathom veil which i always say this is one of my favorite items to design because i've never seen

• 53:52

anything like it before and i was trying to explain it to an artist which is like i want an octopus

• 53:57

but a cloak and i could not find anything out there that's like that

• 54:02

so um it's not quite i don't think this i think this is a work in progress so it's not finished yet but

• 54:08

no it's not finished yet i wanted to share it so you'll get to see this progress um in the future as we go further along

• 54:14

it'd be great if there was like an associated social action that the player can do where the tentacles come

• 54:19

alive and move around a little bit oh creepy but i know maybe if you go into like never mind i can't

• 54:27

say that because people don't know about that yet nevermind um all right when you get in the water oh

• 54:32

when you get through the shirt yeah oh yeah yeah or the water that's a good idea so this is the shatter cloud this

• 54:38

is the mount again work in progress not uh finalized um

• 54:43

but you can see that and i believe i have a turntable of this as well so you can see the 3d model

• 54:51

shatter claw yikes

• 54:56

that abdominal region is sorry you'll see right through it i mean

• 55:02

that's our what's our esrb rating

• 55:07

like g or something maybe yeah everyone i think we're trying to aim for as many

• 55:13

people as possible but um and then we have shown the still soul stuff before

• 55:19

but now you're kind of seeing it on all the different races here a little bit more polish finalized uh

• 55:26

previously showed off the work in progress in some other uh streams but i always like to kind of

• 55:32

show you guys the progression of uh different items obviously we don't want to show you all the stuff you're

• 55:37

gonna achieve in game but we do give you little teasers here and there of them i like the dwarven versions they're just

• 55:42

like minis and then this is the typos 3d model so you can see it um the little the little mini ones i

• 55:49

know they're so cute it makes them i don't know i think it's funnier when they're running around too

• 55:56

a little evil this guy's chunky this armor such chalky it is it's true plate i was going for

• 56:02

that almost like death knight vibes um but like going but

• 56:09

uh i see i see death knight hopefully it goes across or comes across

• 56:14

that way and the titan bark set this was my first thought i ever designed

• 56:22

it's so cool seeing it come to fruition um here you can see it on the little guy as

• 56:28

well i think that's just those two images um

• 56:36

and and of course that's a work in progress not finalized yet stephen tweeted this and shared it out

• 56:43

and people were losing their minds over it this is the the flower yeah flail runner it's so good

• 56:52

it's yeah ginseng did a great job with this can we clone ginsee can we just like make clothes i would i

• 56:58

would love if we had like a cloning machine and we could just clone many people yeah actually we could clone

• 57:04

many of our people i'm with you on that um but this is so cool

• 57:09

um very very cool this next one is a little interesting um if you saw

• 57:14

our geode guy i know it probably looks weird here because you can't see it animating so the tentacle bits are kind of down

• 57:21

but here is here is a work in progress of our geode homie oh yeah

• 57:28

this is a steven design was that a steven design yeah maybe i i was working here oh yeah you

• 57:35

designed this set i remember because the animators were like what are you doing we were arguing about color and

• 57:42

this is where i learned that you uh have a different like you have a color blind really yeah color blindness

• 57:48

because i was like oh i really like the brighter color and you were like no i like this one it was it was very interesting uh conversation

• 57:55

um and then here is the turntable of that

• 58:03

cool cool and i think that is and that wraps us back up with

• 58:08

the withering so hopefully he's got all of that stuff

• 58:14

yeah um and i think that's it for all of our

• 58:20

teams here and we're going to move into q and a segment if you all already yeah i just want to just want to say

• 58:26

before we get into that obviously you know you guys out there you get to see these progress updates each month

• 58:31

but you know just want to give a big kudos to the team obviously this this this project takes a

• 58:39

a village another village it takes a city it takes a state it takes a country to build but it's uh

• 58:45

it's obviously you know a great thing we have such talented artists and designers and and and

• 58:52

engineers and i'm really proud of the team and and what they've all come together to to create um i think you guys are out

• 59:00

there in the community as well so just major hearts out to everyone on the intrepid team you know this is

• 59:06

bigger than any one person it is all of us working together and committed to seeing this project

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you know through and and delivering to you guys out there what we promised um and we appreciate all of you tuning

• 59:18

in each month and watching these updates and and just being with us every step of the way it means a lot to us and

• 59:24

and we love you all out there for it and we love our intrepid team 100 i mean you see us three every month but

• 59:30

there is a whole slew of amazing people that are talented who are working endlessly and

• 59:35

with all of their heart and soul and putting their heart and soul into this so it is it is yeah

• 59:41

absolutely that's very sweet stephen i love seeing all the hearts in chat

• 59:46

really nice so cute it's so nice um i was actually saying i didn't talk about this during the studio update but i did tell the pi

• 59:53

folks this is that um we are planning in the studio to have a like wall of fame

• 59:58

where every month we swap out what's on that wall which is like all the amazing fan art

• 1:00:03

that you guys send all the positive words so that you know when the design team and the development or well the whole end

• 1:00:08

development team walks by it they get to like see all of the amazing nice kind things you guys say because

• 1:00:14

obviously my team is always in it we're like talking to you guys 24 7 as much as possible and i hope that you see that on our

• 1:00:20

social platforms on our you know community platforms that we're there and we're communicating and you're not feeling like you're not heard

• 1:00:27

um and if you feel that way please message me let me know and i will try my best to find ways for us to make

• 1:00:32

you know that more obvious but the development team is working so hard they don't have time to like sit

• 1:00:38

there and respond to all the forum posts respond to social media so they don't get to see that stuff and i want to make

• 1:00:43

sure that when they walk in every day that they get to see all the kind and amazing things that you guys say to us send to us

• 1:00:50

um and we'll do our best to make sure that you know that's shared across our team um yeah oh uh all right i'm just too

• 1:00:57

excited we're gonna move over to the q a q a shout out to toast for going through a

- Q&A

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million pages thank you um so our first question here um actually i think all of these are

• 1:01:10

from the forums tlf wants to know and this is about announcements when a node levels up how far away will

• 1:01:17

the notifications be broadcasted only in the node or will they be worldwide

• 1:01:22

so it's going to depend at the stage in which it levels um for the first two stages um at the

• 1:01:28

crossroads and encampment level it'll likely be reached it'll likely be within a proximity of that area

• 1:01:34

for the village it's going to be in that region and then for town and higher it'll

• 1:01:39

probably broadcast worldwide yay um our darling

• 1:01:45

uh our dennis wants to know and this is about mercenary npc specifically what determines the power level of a

• 1:01:51

mercenary npc higher to defend a caravan money spent node level player level or

• 1:01:57

will be something else it'll depend on a few things so mercenary npcs are

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provided to if we're talking about caravans are provided to nodes that exist under a castle's rule

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castles have the ability to allocate taxes collected from nodes under them towards certain benefits that go back to

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the node or they can be more selfishly governed that treasury more towards the

• 1:02:24

guild that owns it and that obviously is going to have some political implications because it could

• 1:02:30

um you know if you're not using it for the benefit of the people in the region you know they might rise up and help and

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assist kind of take you out from that that position of owning that castle um but depending on what

• 1:02:40

allocation is made by the castle can influence the level of mercenaries that are capable and then at that point it's going to be

• 1:02:47

on the caravan owner's side to determine what amount of money they wish to spend on those

• 1:02:52

available mercenaries and if we're talking about mercenaries during like node sieges or castle sieges the node

• 1:03:00

sieges are again going to be dependent a little bit on the castle that's governing them and then the castle itself those types

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of mercenaries will be dependent on how successful they are with the um small castle nodes that surround the castle

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and um have events that occur on the weekends preceding the siege uh the siege event so um there's uh three nodes associated

• 1:03:19

with each castle um in the three preceding weeks leading up to the week of the siege uh there will be events on the weekend

• 1:03:25

where uh the hosting guild and its allies have to kind of help build up through the use of caravans and quests

• 1:03:32

those individual nodes around the castle and then depending on their success grants them access to variety of mercenary class types and

• 1:03:39

strength and do you want to note that obviously through development we may change what

• 1:03:44

those timelines look like right uh depending on how your testing goes you might be like a week is not enough or oh yeah

• 1:03:52

yeah as a general blanket policy whenever i or anybody in on the team is talking about

• 1:03:57

designs and talking about uh you know what our intents are for the most part um these details get tested out in

• 1:04:04

alphas and betas and we take feedback we take data and um you know general uh

• 1:04:10

implementation obviously is incorporated and how we want to approach things going forward so

• 1:04:16

consider everything we talk about a caveat this stuff is all subject to change um and obviously you guys are part of

• 1:04:22

that change so yeah thank you for it our next question is from diggs and diggs wants to know about

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caravans does a driver lose 100 of their caravan goods upon caravan destruction

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or are they also given an opportunity to recuperate some of the some of them in

• 1:04:40

the same way that others can by picking them up so like if it's destroyed can they like try to rush it and grab their

• 1:04:45

stuff and run so first thing that happens is a portion of the goods in the caravan

• 1:04:52

automatically sync they're gone and then the other portion of that is available through the wreckage

• 1:04:57

that anybody can interact with and and try to take from um including the defenders uh but

• 1:05:04

obviously once that wreckage appears and there's stuff in that wreckage it's going to be a brawl you know who's you know because

• 1:05:10

when you take something out of the wreckage and now you have it that resource on your person when you die you also drop a portion of

• 1:05:15

those resources as well so it's like it's going to be a hungry hungry hippos event of who can get the thing

• 1:05:21

and then it's going to be a people getting murked as they run away from the wreckage with their goods so now i kind of want to do a thing where

• 1:05:28

we have a caravan we have like a goblet or something special and we have to just figure out who gets it at the

• 1:05:34

end of the the it's like hot potato at the end and again again the whole

• 1:05:41

yeah it would be fun the whole the whole concept behind that sense of material loss you know

• 1:05:48

it's important even from an economy standpoint that there are considerable sinks associated with

• 1:05:54

opportunities so the whole concept of a caravan and moving those goods is it's an

• 1:05:59

opportunity on behalf that you know they're trying to capitalize on that caravan owner and if they successfully achieve that

• 1:06:06

you know there's a heavy reward but there's a risk associated with that award that's the whole concept behind Ashes of Creation is that

• 1:06:12

we're you know prioritizing that risk versus reward mentality and type of interaction

• 1:06:17

that's what really that's what really gets the adrenaline flowing for players um you know and it's and it's a decision

• 1:06:23

you have to make it's an opt-in like if i'm going to go for that reward i understand that there's a risk

• 1:06:29

associated with it and i'm willing to take that risk because i think i can achieve the reward perfect

• 1:06:35

uh anything else you want to add to that jeff no that pretty much covered it all right um uh hydram or

• 1:06:44

arum uh wants to know about naval combat how do you initiate naval pvp combat and

• 1:06:50

how does it affect the entire crew's corruption status accordingly

• 1:06:58

i'm so sorry i was reading something i thought you ever grabbed that it's a super good question yeah what's the question oh that's good

• 1:07:04

again so how do you initiate naval pvp combat and how does it affect the entire crew's corruption status

• 1:07:11

accordingly got it understood um so there's a few ways that naval combat occurs right

• 1:07:17

there are weapon platforms that will exist on each navy on each ship and there will need to be an

• 1:07:22

operator for a weapons platform so in that sense when the operator initiates an attack against another

• 1:07:28

ship they can either do so as a result of an event like a guild war versus between

• 1:07:34

those players they can do so because they've moved into an area that has an event that automatically flags players

• 1:07:41

or they can do so from an open world pvp perspective which utilizes our flagging system

• 1:07:46

so that would be kind of the the three ways in which those things are happening also on the um on the mechanics side it's not just

• 1:07:53

guild wars there could be a node war that's been declared um there can you could have pkrs you know that

• 1:07:59

are have corruption um and you can initiate a fight against them just fine uh but those would be the ways that that

• 1:08:04

that kind of happens all right and vera's wants to know about crowd control

• 1:08:10

how will crowd control skills work on mounted players example dismounting them

• 1:08:15

just stunning the amount for the duration etc um both there will both be dismount

• 1:08:22

abilities that can that can kick a player off their mount uh in which case the mount would persist

• 1:08:28

obviously when you when you summon your mount it is you are in the future the intent is right now when you summon about you

• 1:08:34

target the mount versus the player exactly the mount has its own separate hit point pool it has its own

• 1:08:39

separate um statistics with regard or stats with regards to its defense mitigation and stuff like

• 1:08:44

that um right now we don't have it where the mount is separate from the player per se

• 1:08:50

you automatically mount the mount when you summon it in the in the alpha but in the future you'll be able to

• 1:08:56

summon it and you won't have to automatically mount it it'll just be standing next to you it'll follow you around um and then you'll be able to mount it

• 1:09:02

and then there's also going to be effects that just stun the mount or stun you on the mount um yeah and some mounts may have combat

• 1:09:09

abilities too depending on the mount all all yeah all mounts will have certain types of abilities whether those

• 1:09:15

abilities are utility or sprint or some type of like combat charge through that knocks down players or something

• 1:09:21

it just depends on the type of mount and the skills associated with that mount that's uh that's also one component of the animal

• 1:09:26

husbandry system is in creating these mounts you can have unique skill sets associated with them that obviously creates a an economy for

• 1:09:34

mount types and and puts some relevancy on the profession of animal husbandry to uh to present unique um uh amounts

• 1:09:43

and speaking of mouths we're transitioning perfectly into our next question which is from mahez or maze i apologize again if i say

• 1:09:49

your guys's name's wrong you're mine you're welcome to dm me on discord and tell me how to pronounce it so that in the future when

• 1:09:55

i see it i pronounce it properly incoming 5 000 luckily i don't say that many people's

• 1:10:01

names so you know like 10 15 people um but will i be able to summon amount

• 1:10:07

during combat is the question yes yes you will be able to summon amount uh

• 1:10:13

a amount yeah exactly an mount can be an initiation vehicle it can be an escape vehicle

• 1:10:18

it can be utility vehicle it can be traversal right mounts have obviously many different applications and that's also going to

• 1:10:25

speak to its identity when it has a skill selection choice too right like do you are you more aggressive in initiation

• 1:10:31

with your mount okay well you probably want the ones that are going to be able to like charge through and do some type of cc effect on players in front of you

• 1:10:38

are you more about kind of using them out to dodge and avoid you know different types of things well

• 1:10:43

then you probably want some type of invulnerability skills or some type of protective skills that you can activate at certain times

• 1:10:49

are you going to be uh more traversal and focus on kind of speed you use your mount just to kind of go around the

• 1:10:54

world and and you don't really care about the combat aspect well then you probably want some skill sets uh on your mount

• 1:10:59

that that reflect that speedy to get away exactly expeditious retreat type of vibe going

• 1:11:05

um but yeah i think you know obviously there's a lot of different games some don't allow you to mount in combat so it

• 1:11:11

is a good question too yeah i mean it's there's definitely a difficulty from a from a balance perspective obviously on the design side

• 1:11:17

when you're having to incorporate speeds that are so radically different from the normal player movement speeds and mounts do have a

• 1:11:24

obviously significantly faster uh component there but that's why you build into the to the skill sets that players have

• 1:11:30

obviously those types of cc's which can either as we spoke about previously uh knock the player off of their mount

• 1:11:35

kill them out with some massive damage or uh stun the player right um those are components that are taken into account

• 1:11:41

when balancing out these skill selections um also a possible exception to the rule because

• 1:11:47

i think i just want to make it clarify for viewers as well because there might be follow-up questions from the community which is

• 1:11:52

you know if i'm in a dungeon or something like that there may be spaces where you cannot summon your mount is that the case um i

• 1:11:59

think we have talked about that in the past as well um generally in the open world you should be okay to summon your mount

• 1:12:05

there's relatively few instances that we're going to incorporate into the game probably on the realm of like 80 20 open

• 1:12:12

world to to instances there definitely is going to be opportunities where we would probably

• 1:12:17

want to restrict the ability to summon mounts or even battle pets at some of those instances where we want to just more safely curate what that experience

• 1:12:24

looks and feels like uh and balance his perspective as well yeah okay cool just wanted to add that

• 1:12:29

in there and then of course we have turtle heart arterial heart uh terrell stoneheart ooh having a problem

• 1:12:36

uh which wants to know about freehold permissions and i know we've talked a lot about professional permissions in the past if i give someone permission to decorate

• 1:12:43

my freehold will they be able to use their freehold building cosmetic skins on my freehold

• 1:12:48

so the items that they have in their inventory and ownership of their stuff

• 1:12:54

almost certainly not yeah i don't think so um as a matter of fact i don't even know from a decoration standpoint that's

• 1:13:01

almost gonna be solely i think that's solely the player who owns the property you can give permissions like

• 1:13:07

opening doors accessing chests utilizing um furnitures or crafting stations

• 1:13:14

but from a placement and decor standpoint that's going to be entirely on the owner

• 1:13:20

okay in previous games that um i played a lot of mmos i've done a lot of interior decorating stuff people would hire other players to come

• 1:13:27

and like create a hot tub in their house or with strange objects because some people just can't think about it good at that

• 1:13:34

yeah people just like they come up with crazy stuff man um so i think that is kind of the

• 1:13:40

intention that they have thought of yeah yeah

• 1:13:45

something to maybe think about for the people that's a fun that's a fun aspect of it but there's there's other things that

• 1:13:52

can be created as kind of like a loophole to what we want to control that we would want to restrict placement

• 1:13:58

to the player okay okay i'm just following up for you guys uh ghost you know why i said hot tub

• 1:14:05

ghost rings uh wants to know there's a whole thing going on on twitch's hot tub so

• 1:14:10

uh guilt of freeholds is the next topic here which is will guild leaders be able to use

• 1:14:16

their freehold building cosmetics on their guild freehold as well as their

• 1:14:22

personal freehold um it depends it depends on the item

• 1:14:27

some items will not be cross applicable between guild hall freeholds and

• 1:14:33

personal freeholds there will also likely be some restrictions on item placements based on the type of

• 1:14:40

property you're attempting to place it on um but there could be some cross

• 1:14:46

relevancy between the two right and then we have e i don't know it's i think it's i y i

• 1:14:53

so i don't know how to pronounce it wants to know dropping items about dropping items

• 1:14:59

can a corrupt player drop items out of their inventory for others to pick up or

• 1:15:04

does dragging them out of your inventory simply destroy them

• 1:15:10

um so at the moment dragging items out of your inventory destroys it um we haven't answered the question on

• 1:15:18

whether or not we're going to have in-world drops um that's likely

• 1:15:24

yeah i know it's likely we will not well we need to we would drop all the coins it's so fun

• 1:15:30

it's great how many players we're gonna have in a zone and how many items those players

• 1:15:43

but just to just to give funny context when i used to play lineage 2 and i used to own the castles with my

• 1:15:49

guild uh i'm not proud of this but i used to place one i'm not proud i really am not but

• 1:15:57

you know to be fair they started it first so i had to i had to do it in reciprocation

• 1:16:02

but we used to place one adena just all over the one little coin all over the ground on the battlefield

• 1:16:07

so that when the attackers came up to the siege zone they would instantly crash no stephen

• 1:16:16

listen do not do as i did when i was younger that's bad but uh and then i was on the other

• 1:16:21

side because i was working on ladies too dealing with that i know i'm so sorry but anyways the

• 1:16:27

point is that there are problems that can be created through allowing players to kind of drop items in the world and

• 1:16:34

um i know i've seen it i think we'll probably stay away from that but let's just say let's say we

• 1:16:40

didn't even if we didn't that would be a loophole that we'd want to try to avoid so what we would do is on a corrupt character we would disable

• 1:16:46

their player player to player trading um and their ability to drop items if they can if

• 1:16:51

they can make it to their freehold and deposit in their private storage that's fine but they wouldn't be able to do so with a public warehouse or an npc

• 1:16:58

warehouse and you can currently trade items so if you go up to somebody you can trade an item with them currently you can't you can

• 1:17:03

accept trades so there are some tradable items yeah yeah i don't know what i'm saying is we would restrict a corrupt player's

• 1:17:10

ability to access their player to player traders and their ability to drop items but

• 1:17:15

generally people are usually going to be able to trade is what i meant not that about i was speaking about corrupted players that

• 1:17:21

makes sense to me a crafter player maybe should not be able to have the same uh casualties as others or

• 1:17:27

yeah i don't mean casualties in the sense of death i mean casual things uh access to different words

• 1:17:35

uh english is strange and it's not my first language and our last question here unless we want to go to the bonus questions i

• 1:17:41

don't know if you guys have time i know we have started late and we have a long day and we have a lot going on is from

• 1:17:46

otterboy i'm hungry i know which is an amazing name and they have a question about progression

• 1:17:51

what is your philosophy of philosophy philosophy philosophy philosophy philosophy on progress

• 1:17:58

across various systems being account wide versus character specific

• 1:18:04

my philosophy is that it should be character specific yeah that's i think we're pretty lockstep about that um there there are

• 1:18:11

i can't think of anything that we have that's care account wide and i know that why the without questions asked right so that

• 1:18:17

people who love alts and role alts don't have to go through all that content again um and uh

• 1:18:24

it's it's part of this game right like that's that's part of the commitment to creating a character

• 1:18:30

too yeah yeah yeah i mean it's just it just makes sense like um you know the amount of time that

• 1:18:37

we put behind certain progression paths that we want players to kind of

• 1:18:43

you know soak before they get that achievement that is intended for a per character

• 1:18:48

progression right and it becomes a different type of game when you allow this you know some progressive

• 1:18:55

paths to be account wide and you know multiple characters it just it is a it is a fundamentally different

• 1:19:02

economy it's a fundamentally different um you know power balance it's it's just

• 1:19:07

a lot of different things you also have to take a look at the state of the world right like some things will be available at certain

• 1:19:13

states of the world and some things will not right and depending on when you create your character will depend like where

• 1:19:18

your character's life you see those things um and having a character that kind of

• 1:19:23

has all of the history of everything kind of breaks the idea of the game kind of like at a fundamental level so

• 1:19:30

yeah and the other the last thing on that subject this is our last question right yes okay last thing on that subject is

• 1:19:36

um you know it also makes alt creation and all progression more meaningful too because there's a

• 1:19:42

few subsect of people who one are capable and are willing to kind of create that alt to

• 1:19:48

satisfy some other purpose um it's it's a it's it's also a rewarding benefit to them that they are aware like

• 1:19:55

if another person wants to achieve this they have to go through the same amount of work that i had to go through um and you know that's that that's i

• 1:20:02

think an important thing and on the other spectrum of the the non-progression items like cosmetic stuff

• 1:20:07

um and transferring that between characters and accounts i know we've talked a little bit about that but i know that people have follow-up

• 1:20:13

questions about that if you just want to clarify on that front how folks will be able to do that

• 1:20:19

say that one more time um on the cosmetic side of it being able to you know put items on

• 1:20:25

different characters i know we've talked about that in the past is that an exception to that rule because that's not so uh so

• 1:20:31

cosmetics so cosmetics if you own a cosmetic item um it is account bound right

• 1:20:38

excuse me it's on your account and you can assign it to a character but you when you assign that to a

• 1:20:44

character it's a one-time assignment um we may provide i think i don't know mcmahon says in the past

• 1:20:49

but we would probably allow players to unassign it from a character and assign it to a new one with some cooldown

• 1:20:55

period um if they wish to but uh yeah okay cool just wanted to clarify on that

• 1:21:01

because i think people might have follow-up questions in regards to that all right with that we made it we made

• 1:21:08

it through another development update i hope that's not surprising all of the things that came in this morning and

• 1:21:14

last night it's pretty surprising i was a little worried i'm like i hope my uh you know power stays on today

• 1:21:21

um but yeah thank you so much to everybody who tuned in we always enjoy these it's fun for us to

• 1:21:27

showcase all of our amazing content i know we had some personal struggles on on other ends but we still do enjoy

• 1:21:34

it we love sharing and i think what makes us upset is when stuff doesn't work and we're trying to share that with you

• 1:21:39

all again like steven said he's going to uh we're well we're going to as a team re-record

• 1:21:45

uh some footage for you all and we'll be uploading that um it won't be edited or anything like that but it'll be he just wants to kind

• 1:21:51

of redo it so we can show it off in a little bit of light than what we were able to show here so that you guys can see that so we will

• 1:21:57

have that coming up as well on top of if you you know just caught this at the end or you want to relive the action

• 1:22:03

the twitch vod will be available as soon as we end the stream but we'll also upload this to our youtube channel and we'll be posting it

• 1:22:08

to our website as well so that's archived for future usage as well um i usually always try to hi like um

• 1:22:15

what do you call it time stamp stuff so you can easily go to the sections that you want um so you know use that if you will and

• 1:22:24

of course we have our new dev discussion and guild gathering uh in april so please partake in those

• 1:22:29

as well as our march cosmetics swap over and new alpha one pre-order pack will be

• 1:22:35

available on may 5th and of course the current cosmetics will be transferring over

• 1:22:40

so if you'd like those snag them up and then of course our next alpha 1 preview play test is scheduled for may

• 1:22:46

14th to may 21st and if you're eligible you will be receiving an rsvp and discord connect email from us in the

• 1:22:53

upcoming week here so stay tuned for that as well as we do have plans for the content

• 1:22:58

creator program the long await for the revamp is coming to a close here and we're hoping to announce that next

• 1:23:04

week as well so stay tuned and of course follow us on all of the places you know right here on twitch

• 1:23:10

so you don't miss out any on any of our content we do plan to actually have some other fun streams they might not be uploaded to youtube

• 1:23:16

because they might be more like let's play fun stuff or we might just take highlights from it and upload it but we have some really

• 1:23:22

fun events planned for the may test as well as the june we

• 1:23:27

have a lot of stuff so definitely come tune in so even if you don't have access to the alpha one you are going to get to help experience

• 1:23:34

and have a good time and hang out with us as we uh run some really fun events for you and of course follow us on twitter

• 1:23:40

facebook and instagram where we post all kinds of content almost every day uh so if you want to keep in touch with us

• 1:23:46

please do so there we love hearing you guys uh send us amazing things and of course we love your creations

• 1:23:52

um so thank you for all of the amazing fan art uh fan stories oh my gosh all the creations that you

• 1:23:57

guys do some people have built things for us i i just can't wait to share some of it

• 1:24:03

because we've gotten some things through the po box and our staff hasn't actually gotten to see them because we all haven't been in an office

• 1:24:08

together so we're going to try to find places where we can put those objects that you guys have sent us and created for us

• 1:24:13

as well in those places uh so thank you and i think that's gonna wrap it up for us for our Ashes of Creation april

• 1:24:19

development update we'll see you all next month for another update bye

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