Talk:2020-12-22 Livestream

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hello everyone and welcome look how we all wave in unison welcome

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to our december stream here at Intrepid Studios on the Ashes of Creation project we're

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very happy to have you with us once again in our amazing holiday season we hope

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that you all are staying safe and warm and healthy you'll notice there's a little bit of a different lineup today

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we are missing just slightly we are missing margaret crone she is on vacation and

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you are in the hands of this amazing streamer me myself and i so if anything goes

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wrong i apologize i apologize it is stephen's fault everything's going

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smoothly according to plan hey can they hear us do we know are we actually live can you hear us do

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we have any sound problems yes well um we do jeff are you wearing the same

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sweater as me what are you guys wearing the same oh my gosh

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hey i don't have a sweater i feel bad i thought i had a sweater i know i told

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you this or something i know i i know i told sarah i had a sweater and i swear i looked for it this morning and

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i couldn't find it so i apologize do you only have one christmas sweater uh yeah oh yeah i don't even know if i

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actually technically have one um i thought i did but i totally i could only find a baratheon

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game of thrones one and it didn't look very christmassy so i decided not to wear that just wrap some extra tinsel around you

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that'll count exactly um so uh margaret has prescribed to me

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a a way forward but before we go on the whole topic thing let me introduce our

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uh not panelists but our fellow co-hosts there you go that's what it is

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i'll be a panelist yes um so i have with me and i don't have the lower thirds i

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apologize i don't know where they went but i have with us today sarah our amazing

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senior community manager lieutenant toast herself yes hello everyone i'm sarah lieutenant

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toast online most people call me that or toast so if you ever have any questions in discord chat or anything like that

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i'm probably the one you're chatting with and then we also have our regular occurring star mr jeffrey

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bard himself lead game designer on ashes hi everybody and i

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am your host with the most i am the captain now uh stephen sharif uh creative director

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on Ashes of Creation so we have a lot of fun stuff to chat with you all about today

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um we as you probably know just are fresh off of a four day

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testing weekend for the alpha one pretest and what a magnificent success that was

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for us as a studio we cannot express our thanks enough to the testers

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you know testing isn't easy especially uh you know our alpha which is a real alpha

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and um but we had it we had a great time and we discovered a lot of

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bugs that we're fixing and we have made improvements each day we deployed hotfixes and this is the way testing goes right

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the way we get to a great end product is by testing a lot and having the feedback of our community and

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having them involved in that testing period it's it's something that's extremely important and we we as a as a

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team are very appreciative of that of the commitment dedication the perseverance um that our testers have that you guys

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as a community support us uh it is it is extremely important and we're very appreciative but the great thing is that we get to

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show you some footage today so we do have some alpha uh one pre-test footage

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um and we're gonna get into that in a second but before we do i'm supposed to go through the

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reminders all right everybody hold on to your seats what are our reminders you got

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this stephen um i can go through them if you want to oh yeah that'd be great oh thank goodness yeah

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no worries i've got a run of show that the amazing maggie put together before she even left she's like here here's everything you need to know

Quick Updates

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so for our reminders our first one here is that the monthly cosmetics swap over for the end of the frost

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items that's going to be scheduled for january 13 2020 at 11 am so it's a little bit

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longer later than it usually is just because of the holiday season so make sure you grab those before that point also

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in december we asked you for our dev discussion about boss difficulty and we're putting

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together a recap on that now so thank you to everyone on the forums who shared details about that as well

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we've got a whole new batch of dev discussions for you coming up next year as well including another special segment about

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more specifically guild discussions as well they're really excited to get your feedback on so keep an eye out for

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those as those are coming out and then also if you have been following us in social

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in general whether that's twitter or facebook or discord or the forums we've been doing our journey to alpha one

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series and that's a choose your own adventure series where you've joined us in our adventures along

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the way you've been picking what moves we take how we fight and everything like that so thanks everyone for having fun with

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that so far and we'll be picking that back up next year as well

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wow that was awesome thank you sarah i feel so i have some image here it says

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reminder image so show that is that the one that is a

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play test schedule image um no just looks like oh cosmetics these are cosmetics okay

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i might have just talked straight through them while you were supposed to be showing them that's okay my bad let me transition back to us

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there we go perfect um let me see what these other sources are real quick if there's

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anything important um no i don't think so

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nah nothing important oh there's a lower third yeah i found it

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i don't know where it is though okay all right i think we're good um let

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me get rid of that and we're on to design oh there's supposed to be a studio update let me give you a quick studio

Studio Update

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update uh so as you know we are coming fresh off of that alpha testing period um

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the actually the i've decided because of the absolute exemplary work that our team has done in

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getting the um the alpha ready for this last weekend's

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showcasing and testing um the studio actually will be closing tomorrow for the remainder of

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2020 and we will not be back in office until january 4th um so big kudos to the to the amazing ashes

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team you guys developers you have done an unbelievable job very proud of each of you i know i gave you

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a little message i'm just speaking to my my company right now instead of the stream

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they're probably watching but yeah that's true you guys did an awesome job i hope you guys enjoy the break get some well-needed rest you absolutely

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need i know you guys worked your hearts out over the past several months so um so get that rest

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uh additionally when we come back in january as you guys know we will be starting up an additional hiring round uh and you will see some

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posts about that we are looking to hire an additional 30 team members come

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january we will be growing the studio significantly very proud of the team members we've

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already brought on in 2020 they they are doing an amazing job keep up the great work

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so as you guys know out there the more you help spread awareness for Ashes of Creation Intrepid Studios the better

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talent we can we can bring we had amazing applicants this last last year um and we look forward to

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getting some all right with that being said i think i can transition to this design scene

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i can't wait oh wait we already are in the okay oh wait no okay let's preface the video

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first so we have a good amount of footage we're going to show you it's per it's predominantly actually a a small

Design Update

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boss fight a little boss fight level 10 boss fight um jeff who worked on these uh on these

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uh twins um that was ime and bucky both of them relatively new hires

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um they did a fantastic job setting all this up working with animation and uh our

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effects team to kind of make this all work together um so yeah i'm super proud of there's a little bit more work they still want to

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do with it um so you'll see them probably evolve as our alpha continues but um but it's pretty fun

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pretty exciting um good stuff great job bucky and aimee and and jim also jim sanders did some reworking on

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the um some of the spells for the mages i know we toned down some of those spells and then also um did all of the effects

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work for the ancients themselves and for those of you guys out there who um you know tuned into our november

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live stream for charity uh for Extra Life uh you maybe saw some lore about the ancients and actually you're going

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to see the in-game model of these ancients which modeled by keith kovac one of our our senior character artists

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did an awesome job in creating this model it captures kind of the idea behind the

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ancients and as you guys may know there's a whole host of different casts that exist with

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an ancient kind of hierarchy so you're going to see radically

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different representations of this ancient civilization

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and and how they've kind of diverted off of the athletic essence and the eruption

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so this video you're going to see now is about 40 minutes we do have it in 4k but i i don't know why i can't stream in

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4k but i can't so we're streaming 1080p um which means that we're going to load the

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4k footage up after the stream onto youtube so you can check it out there as well um it really does you know doesn't do

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justice to the world Ashes of Creation aesthetic and graphics

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that are present uh not to see it in 4k so i suggest you do so after the stream will post and

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on discord make sure to jump into um and we'll post that in discord um to give you a little bit of context

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so as you know we had the testing this weekend um there's about 70-ish square kilometers of playable

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space within this alpha one testing area so it's it's pretty sizable

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um give you an idea i think that's like 10 to 10 10 i think that's 10 times the

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skyrim map i don't know i remember um to give you context to the size of the map

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uh additionally what you'll know about this kind of area is there's

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a lot of water uh area in this this part part of the map we discussed that this

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this particular area in the world map is in the northwest corner and

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the total size total playable area of Ashes of Creation when we launch is going to be over 400

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so it's a nice chunk of the world map um that people are investing in um keep in mind i got to give the normal

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disclaimers that this is a work in progress this is a pretest of the alpha one uh these are

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not finalized uh character models and armors and effects and ui all of

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this stuff is still a work in progress but the great thing about a transparent development is that you can go back in time literally in on our youtube take

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a look at where the project was a year ago and a year before that and how things progress and that can give you an idea

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from a development standpoint you know what the process looks like on an iterative basis as the

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as it continues forward um and that's i think i'm sorry i know i look like crazy because i'm like every time

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and when it's very dramatic i know every time in winter i i don't have like a way to

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block this light in the tall uh uh windows and they just kind of come in in the morning

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sorry about that okay so without further jeff do you want to say anything about about this anything um i think it

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covered it pretty pretty extensively i mean it's it's um you know it definitely is a work in progress we've got a long way to go

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but um but i'm pretty proud of what we put out um you know especially for where we're at right now

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um i'm pretty excited about how things turned out for this test um obviously we have a long way to go but i mean i think you can see the shape

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of things um and that shape of things is looking really good so listen i'm excited i i don't know

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is it shape of you not that i wouldn't know okay

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one last disclaimer i'll give is uh we do fight these bosses as just a party it's intended to be for a raid

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so um it we didn't do very well and i definitely cheated with some gm

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hacks and just to give you an idea the reason why i cheat in the in these videos is because i don't want to die repeatedly

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and give you guys that perspective that point of view in the video i'd rather you guys get to see things so

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i just kind of give myself a lot of help so yeah just to give you idea all right without further ado we're

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gonna show you guys the the gameplay footage and like i said you can see it after the stream we're gonna come back into our normal update but after the

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stream we'll post it in the 4k version and all its might and glory check it out there so we

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on the other side

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we will not yet see you on the other side because i forgot to format the video oh so jeff and sarah do a little tap

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dance i'll be right back give me one second i didn't bring my tap shoes to the

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stream i should have been warned yeah mine are in storage um let's see uh

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so um um

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how about you talk about um some of the uh changes that were present in this alpha

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build with the nodes and like how that new system oh yeah okay that's a good that's a good point um so yeah the old system um i think

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everything up until this point now i think this might be the first time we've shown it is the um the

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our transition to kind of the real node system the the system that we're going to use for the final game

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um before we had kind of hard-coded all of our nodes so they were kind of all crafted

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individually and when they bought they were kind of really specific to that area

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um and there was nothing really dynamic about it right like the the power of it was in terms of you

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know being able to show off some of the the mechanics that were inside the node so like the mayor's stuff being able to

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buy houses the service buildings and all that architecture but in this version we are moving

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towards our full dynamic node system so each of these nodes can pull from um

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a large number of different layouts um in this this we only have one layout available so they'll all look pretty similar

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um but the tech is there is that once uh art starts pumping out different layouts we can start populating them and then in

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terms of how the buildings are laid out again like they're going to look pretty static in this but the underlying

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the underlying power of it is it'll be able to pull sort of different houses and buildings and different

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positions for all these things and kind of build out a character for each node as they level up and

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that's for each stage of the nodes um so again what you're going to see is going to be a little bit rough

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but uh the cool thing is is that like the full dynamic power of what these nodes are going to

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be is all baked in there so as we start moving forward and we get more assets we'll be able to start

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showing you guys kind of what this dynamic system can do so it's pretty exciting

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um to actually be working and get your hands on like that that final final get that sense of like what

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these are going to actually do and it's pretty exciting

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let me see if i can try this

In-Game Preview

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hello everybody and welcome to another Ashes of Creation alpha one development

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update video hope everybody out there is doing okay i know we're fresh off the stream here but

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we wanted to take a moment just to kind of give you guys a little update i know i promised some footage of

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the alpha one testing that was going on this last weekend and boy have we had some testing um it's been

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really awesome to see the the alpha one testers come in and and help this over the weekend

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it's been a sleep deprived weekend but uh it's been very very good we've gotten a lot of progress we've updated a lot of

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bugs that have been found and um engineering team has been working very hard over the weekend so huge kudos to them and to the testers as

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well but today i want to show you around the world of vero just a little bit i've got another 4k video so hopefully

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you guys enjoy that um i am actually joined by some of some more people of our team

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uh you may recognize the very soft and elegant peter peter how you doing

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buddy doing great hope everyone out there is doing all right peter is one of our senior producers on the Ashes of Creation project

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um he keeps the department sane with their schedules and their our agile development and

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puts in a lot of great tasks into jira much fun we also have uh joining us

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our famous and amazing lieutenant toast aka sarah uh senior community manager how you

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doing sarah i'm great i'm the opposite of soft i'm very crispy today on my tiny toast

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you're a toast and think about that we also have our lead programmer kevin mcpherson you

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guys might remember him from uh previous streams how you doing kevin doing great i just wanted to thank the

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players for all those bug reports [Laughter]

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try not to what bug our code is perfect we uh we really appreciate it we got so

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many call stacks crashes we did profile runs we got so much data that wouldn't be

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possible uh and really appreciate all your efforts absolutely we also have three other

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programmers here today as well two seniors mitch evans and roy how you doing buddy

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doing good doing good doing good having fun and we have a mid-level programmer with

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us as well adam how you doing i'm doing good and hello everyone out there hope you're enjoying the

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stream and uh i enjoyed reading your guys's vlogs over the weekend

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we do that in our spare time it's a lot of fun um all right so what do you guys think about trying to take on some ancients or

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something let's do this let's break the ancients let's go

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honestly i think we're going to have to cheat a little bit so peter and i have upped our health because these are intended for like a

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full raid they're like twin bosses you guys might have seen um the screenshots that i put up on

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twitter the other day and in discord um and you've likely heard some of the lore

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behind the ancients so we'll take you around this new area what you're seeing here is

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one of the new areas in the uh alpha one pretest map let me open my map real

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quick actually so you can see uh used to be alpha zero island was kind of this area here

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and now we've included this whole other area of the alpha one testing map which

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probably accommodates i would say about 65 65 to 75 square kilometers

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of testing space for this first pretest and obviously that that grows as we continue um what do i have here

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hold on okay all right so where where are we going do you guys know where it is yeah we're going up this way

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we follow this road yeah let's do it peter i like your turtle thank you

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yeah this one's the shell of the ancient he's got a cool design pattern on his back which uh

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you get the whole galaxy in it yeah peter doing real really quick turns with that guy he like

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turns on a dime he's really nimble surprisingly i just have this horse

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i think it's up here right yeah i think so as long as these birds don't root me

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gosh the lighting you guys might notice that some of the lighting has changed just a little bit i'm adding some of these god ray effects oh

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sorry um i love it i think it looks great yeah i definitely love the way the

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light and shadows kind of filter through the trees especially in this jungle area it's beautiful in here all right

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honestly friendly yeah they look friendly i don't know if we're gonna be able to take them

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but uh we can certainly try um peter what do you think you want to grab one of them and then i'll okay you guys

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might notice there's some areas here that have like fire or whatnot let me just see i think they might do don't stand in the

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bad are they damaged no no you have to do a little bit okay so you gotta be cognizant of those be careful and then

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i think these bosses might put down some like obstructive crystals that hit your mana so be careful of that

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also i just got mana leeched right i know i know

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peter you want to grab the one who rents the sky and i'll take the guy who sunders the

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land yep yeah i'll pull him left all right um

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guys i see adam is levitating he's getting ready to lay down some spells

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from the air well done adam um oh he's back on the ground i was getting ready to throw down some

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like air raids nice all right we'll pull in three two

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one

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all right oh god peter i'm sorry oh i thought i was i thought it was

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pulling him i'll go the other way with him all right

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all right let's focus the land focus the land guy yeah focus on land i'll pull sky away

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after that god i cannot get him off you is that you

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adam yeah yeah all right you take healers stay on autumn

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look the good news is we've got him down to 99.5 percent of his total health oh

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that seems pretty bad on the land guy

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keep it up these heels are great i can tank it with this

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let me know if any of our clerks need more banana

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this guy's dropping all right uh oh that's

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i think it might have hit you adam i don't think so maybe not oh god hold again

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you said you could heal mana toast yeah i can hear you as well this sky's gonna pull in a second give

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me a moment i gave some to roy

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i can't target i need some more heals i'm down to 25.

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gave me some mana oh we're not making much progress here no we are not oh boy i'm not a hp adam's

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making progress he's a 30 health good job adam oh there we go good luck

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oh no adam's down are you saying that the rate is difficult yeah the uh the 40 percent

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rate is difficult i'm gonna pull mine to the other

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just wait until i start doing the aoes stephen can you get the land guy now i mean i'm trying he's just not

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interested in me he really liked me i was trying to res adam but then

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you know i'm on the land in like five seconds

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oh god double pulls dirty all right i'm come on i'm out hanging

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nope that didn't work oh i can't move oh god man i'm bound for derelict can we res up

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uh pirate i respawned i'm running back

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um derelict i'm giving you mana

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there you go the gift of the magi have four

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oh god

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oh my god where'd you go i don't know flew me and threw me into

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space this guy pulled you all right i guess they call him the sky because he throws you in this guy oh derelicts down

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can we get geralice up i've got aggro on land

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all right have you got land down to 60 out of 67k

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all right we're getting there we're going it's happening i'm about to die i don't i don't know

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why he doesn't want to attack me all right i got i got him but you're all dead all right

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we're running back yeah over there

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well you have that guy at 60. i have my guy at 63. really we're supposed to be focusing

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land right yeah yes but i mean i'm just taking this guy away from you all right i'm

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soloing him i was dropping a lot of the healing uh

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area effect but also damages that guy's going to pull in about three seconds oh no land oh no and a bit land is

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rejecting yeah oh my god all right hold on wait i'm i'm he's

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doing a little does it happen if you take him close to like one of his uh

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bad fire pools i don't know i guess i should know these mechanics

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i have aggro though did you watch the video on youtube first no i mean you should have read the guide

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all right we're doing good here we got that we're doing good yeah now that i have

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oh i think yeah mine's gonna pull soon

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i think it's far away enough that you guys aren't getting pulled anymore though oh good man down for roy just the dps is pretty it's

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pretty epic here we only have 55 000 more hit points to go just uh use your weapon attack

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how did you get a mcp uh tank class oh nice using your aggro skill we're

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actually doing mad dps right now we got this yeah look at he's coming here cleric make sure you're using your whip because

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that'll help get your mana back too if he's low health oh every time you can

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get your whip up i'm 20.

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a little late to that heel there roy i think roy's low on mana i'm trying to

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give them more but yeah make sure you're using your uh whip your castigation whip that'll reach end man over time

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black hole mixing that in between my guys i'm right under the boss

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to be clear we have clerics that whip people for mana

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i don't see anything unusual about this well you gotta castigate the unbelievers

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right

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what kind of cleric are you go a little bit off to the side of them the militant kind yeah it should be like

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right where that purple circle is

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oh no

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why can't i click their name plates in the group to select them i don't know it could be a code book i

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don't want to admit it oh no he's probably yeah

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oh god you only you get pulled by that one maybe position yourself

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yeah yeah

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trying to pull them up it's a good thing peter and i cheated and gave ourselves a bunch of help

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yeah yeah benefit

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stand in the freeze healing circle

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i have a ton of to help i'm doing okay here yeah i got aggro again man it must be

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nice having that much hp it's pretty sweet

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watch out the view for that anyway or you could just take it sure that

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works

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did you end up getting pulled that time does it look like it no i stayed out of the range i think nice i almost got him a half hour oh that

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hurt mcp like standing in aoe circles it's okay

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all right i got aggro

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god his regen is a little hot oh we got him to 40 almost

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56. okay we're at 39

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oh we got this in the bag completely legit by the way everyone has the right amount of hp yeah this is a very very legit fight

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i need heals high rates going down oh no

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baby more man alright oh 29 hp uh-oh here we go i'm giving you

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mana oh i evaded that

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nice

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20 hp 21. i'm hanging on i'm trying it's really difficult to

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target people oh there you go

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something i'm cold i got him back

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well i gotta say the i i really like the uh the way these ancients look i love their

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uh they look kind of chest cavity and the effects that are gone yeah i love the staff too yeah the wings are

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really cool the artist did a amazing job oh yeah

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this model i think was made by keith kovac jim sanders did the effects um

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and the boss was designed i think was worked on by bucky and chang

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well they all knocked it out of the park yeah it looks fantastic there might have

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been other designers on that too and i apologize if i forgot

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all right we got around the 3232 fan of the animations really well done yeah that's right who did the animations

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was that alex uh i think alex and

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and others i mean i think it was a team effort people were contributing different aspects of those so

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yeah it looks great yeah i feel it's pretty solid

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all right we're almost down to 30. the particles are fantastic oh that hurt

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okay yeah i really enjoy admiring the beauty while

• 34:45

it knocks me into the ground

• 34:53

remember to use your whip it heals and gives mana

• 35:02

of skills i think we have a mage video that comes out tomorrow tomorrow wednesday if we're

• 35:09

streaming on tuesday yep that sounds about right

• 35:16

so that might be spoiler alert [Music]

• 35:21

my bad classic leaks oh speaking of which i'm supposed to run

• 35:26

the stream you are you are currently running the stream if this video is playing direct

• 35:32

stream that's true welcome to the stream everyone i am in the future one day in the future

• 35:40

uh if there's anything that has gone wrong with the stream thus far i apologize from the past

• 35:47

from the past what are you guys talking about this is live clearly i had a really great tuesday

• 35:53

today today taco tuesday did you have tacos today oh yeah because

• 36:00

it's tuesday all right so i was healing mcphee the whole time and he still died

• 36:05

you did a great job you kept me alive forever i kited that guy thanks to you

• 36:12

that was some excellent healing we're almost we almost have them almost

• 36:26

you know what it probably helped if we brought potions too math oh we should have done dude

• 36:33

wait did you just reveal potions in our game i mean

• 36:40

oh okay oh what happened we killed ours i don't know what you

• 36:46

guys are having problems with come on over here [Laughter]

• 36:52

wait okay i may or may not

• 36:59

have nuked it okay ah so just for for the viewers we have gm

• 37:05

commands yes nuke i apologize i we needed their help over here we were

• 37:11

doing pretty good now you guys are doing great but this this guy just needed to come down i mean he's

• 37:16

he's he's killed mcp at least eight or nine times yeah but that's my just got it out there

• 37:23

um the sanctity of my experience has been violated yeah but you can't let the monsters in your own game that your lead programmer

• 37:29

on kill you that's like sacrifice

• 37:34

no yeah dabs never die duh why we got in the game disney film all

• 37:42

right we gotta make difficult bosses and then just kill them 14 000

• 37:49

i'm waiting for the total party wipe it's coming where's the mechanic

• 37:57

there's a little black wall ouch ah

• 38:12

oh god don't stand in the no-no zone oh

• 38:20

i really like how you can that ability he just did you can dodge it like while standing next to him if you do it just right and like time the

• 38:27

circles what was i mean did that what did the ability do

• 38:32

i saw a spike oh that one i don't know

• 38:37

oh nice somebody knock him down oh there it is again he was just giving us kisses

• 38:43

bad ones

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i think it's a great job that the animation team did on the kiss animation oh no it's back

• 38:55

the other one responded

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[Music]

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sorry stream i'm so sorry you're seeing me cheating i just don't want us to all get white

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is this for your benefit you can inspect and understand the mechanics so when you face this guy

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you will have read the guide watch the youtube tutorial however you

• 39:34

will lack the gps comments all out of it it's getting

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12.

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now this guy's getting kind of angry his skill rotation is speeding up

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oh

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you need to come back

• 40:32

oh my god now i'm getting knocked out by typing he's having his regen is like out dpsing yeah he uses that ability a lot

• 40:41

more you know 40 man rate or something you said right yeah uh i don't want to just nuke him we have

• 40:49

to have a satisfying end to them dying is satisfying i just had a

• 40:56

satisfying hand cutting some footage of you killing me you floated into the air when you died

• 41:03

you were lying

• 41:09

that was so great he needed to cut in some footage of like an ms paint drawing of it dying

• 41:17

he's gone from 11 to 13 peter where i'm back i flew up here

• 41:22

peter uh maybe you should switch to a mage every time he dies okay

• 41:29

gets his wings i think the problem is that in this phase he moves around a lot so it's hard for tanks to maintain

• 41:36

their dps skill a lot all the other

• 41:51

so i want to point out that design is not represented in this group oh yeah that's true there we go all of

• 41:58

the problems that we're having well they designed it for 40 people

• 42:08

good point all right we almost got him to now can't wait for that sub 10 000 raid

• 42:16

mechanic oh no oh you're gonna like death touchdown

• 42:22

waiting for it yeah he reached the pure

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1000 he's almost under 10. oh you got him all right

• 42:34

oh god okay here we go look at that everybody's using their skills yeah just focus

• 42:41

watch out all the circles

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i think his body's going to heaven again i tried to move out oh oh was it i just got launched

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i got into eight eight five eight four eight three we got

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this

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a lot of circles again i'm like i got launched over the rocks

• 43:17

do we still have any clerics up here no no i got launched over the rocks down the hill

• 43:39

when's his friend come back don't worry i got him oh my god his friend's back

• 43:47

oh that guy he's just sleepy his friend is sleepy pay no attention to the boss behind the

• 43:52

curtain bound for autumn

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it respawned me way far away i have to run all the way around to get back to you guys

• 44:05

and it's spawning purple circles on me to try to kill me as i come back

• 44:11

he's got his eye on you he's at seven

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oh i found some rocks

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got him down to five oh he's going to reach out again after

• 44:29

yeah [Applause] circles again watch out he's trying to get me again

• 44:36

i'm running around come down to six down to five oh he's going to regen

• 44:42

again he's moving oh no oh my god oh wow

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adam we have to save our onslaught for when he runs yeah yeah yeah you're right we should probably be coordinating but

• 44:55

uh you know who needs that and i'm afraid fred especially when you're a fifth of the size of the proper

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raid yeah oh he's he's down to four yep

• 45:09

all right just throw down all your dps now big damage big damage let's go yeah i've been holding back this whole

• 45:15

time so it's really i hate you

• 45:23

oh you did it at the right time

• 45:32

don't worry guys i got it i'll solo him oh god he would have reset i'm almost back

• 45:40

let's onslaught off the cliff oh there's tied breakers down here they

• 45:47

look friendly it knocks me down oh god they're not friendly

• 45:53

and you have to run a long way to get back uh just hit ctrl t

• 46:00

that still put me a really far away away don't worry he's only now back at eight thousand health no stop stop it progress stop

• 46:11

so stephen is this the longest cutaway we've done it's the longest cutaway anyone's done

• 46:18

ever oh and the other boss is back

• 46:25

oh shoot the other boss is attacking me now as i uh

• 46:33

uh trying to help peter look at those crap peter got it we have the gravity of roy dying it's so

• 46:38

good it's happening oh it just tried to kill me down here yeah the circles will get you wherever

• 46:45

you are i'm almost back what's its hitch hit point

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8.89 we got this darn it

• 46:58

how did he plot throw us off the cliff oh it's back up to 10 000. no

• 47:05

i'm lost this is

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oh we can't cut we can't edit that's okay whatever it's fine it's okay i see someone up my head i'm

• 47:17

saved it's uh me

• 47:23

i'm trying to help but uh having some issues with my mount at the moment all right i'm here i'm back

• 47:32

okay oh it's at ten thousand all we wanted to do is show off the pretty boss and here we are

• 47:38

oh man

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all right sound enough we're doing good sound push

• 47:55

oh yeah we have to keep it here and then like stand on oh good call good call go call yeah yeah

• 48:01

so if it pulls us it just throws us into the rock instead of throwing us off the cliff

• 48:07

see like i said we should have probably coordinated ahead of time oh it's flying over somewhere pro tip oh god oh there's that rock

• 48:18

again how did it get back up to ten thousand

• 48:26

that regen though all right try to focus

• 48:32

dp i'm not sure but i think this might be a raid design for more people

• 48:40

oh don't make me nuke up we can do this we got them down to three

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flagged i'm not even in the party anymore oh well that's because that's because

• 49:06

you're a traitor to us and you killed us so we had to get the other boss back everything's going swimmingly well

• 49:13

okay i'm nuking him i'm gonna wait for it

• 49:20

okay well done everybody hey we did it very

• 49:26

well thought wow you guys did great there that was flawless flawless execution

• 49:34

what are they teamwork across the board uh i don't know it's i think it's some

• 49:39

kind of super soul stone thingy i don't know what that is

• 49:46

oh yeah you can like loot him oh so yeah sorry about that guys this

• 49:52

guy this was intended for a little bit of a larger raid um we just thought we would come

• 49:59

and try to do it and uh yeah as you can see yeah we're concurred we're the best straight

• 50:05

team on the pla on the planet so yeah world first half of creation we are

• 50:11

the best ray team so far let's run around and explore what do you

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think yeah check out this area jungle looks amazing jungle does look

• 50:24

amazing see if we can find some spider oh i ran on the way back this last time i ran

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through several of them when i got launched over the rocks

• 50:35

that was a little dune that's

• 50:46

oh god there's like baby griffin the macaws are vicious also yes the

• 50:53

bleed on the macaws in particular with their big sharp teeth oh here's the step pretty scary

• 50:59

oh yeah just cutting down a tree again we're

• 51:07

fighting and you're over there harvesting well there's a tree

• 51:20

all right i'm on my way to you guys oh did you find spiders yeah we killed it we killed spiders

• 51:29

we found dead spiders they were like this when we got here you know one of the things was throwing

• 51:35

too one of the things i can't wait to um get in is going to be

• 51:41

all of the naval stuff that's running this bay oh god i just can't wait to see these

• 51:47

giant frigate class vessels just unloading on each other i can't wait to sink you stephen

• 51:55

wow unbelievable you say this now after after the reviews

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stephen's team and wilson adams battleship thanks bro uh steven is my master and

• 52:11

commander sir yes he's mine also

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oh these spiders are great i love the animations on the spot

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yeah they're nice so we have we got some coders in the

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channel what have been some of the favorite systems you guys have been working on thus far i've been working on the node

• 52:35

system for months now and uh you finally get to see it in this

• 52:42

update or the last play test we had people got to see the nodes built up the new way from the new data system

• 52:48

so that was a huge amount of work a huge amount of work i was like the only one on it for

• 52:55

months and then everyone helped me out on the last few weeks so we could get it all in there yeah that was awesome

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what about you like oh it's going to be probably the guild wars recently oh yeah

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we saw some guild wars on the on the uh live server

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as soon as they knew it could be done oh yeah of course

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how about you i think for me the biggest thing has been

• 53:26

just the new spawners and node code that

• 53:34

roy and russell put in and kind of pulling that all together with the existing node systems and getting it

• 53:42

all kind of plumbed through and working that was for me i think the the coolest thing to see come together

• 53:47

yeah you helped a lot you found some of the weird gnarly bugs

• 53:53

so it's pretty good i'm gonna take flight here for just a moment we're probably gonna sign off here in a

• 53:59

second but i just want to kind of give an overview of this of the island in the jungle areas

• 54:06

just so you guys can see i mean the the new bio the jungle biome

• 54:12

is really awesome looking i love the work the environment team did

• 54:18

on the on the foliage the trees the lighting everything's looking great

• 54:30

so yes i especially like the jungle area it's very cool absolutely

• 54:37

well guys we're gonna jump back to the stream i hope you guys enjoyed this little

• 54:42

presentation of some of the alpha one uh pretest footage as you know you're gonna continue to see a whole bunch of

• 54:49

footage coming out over the next few months as we gear up towards our april alpha one play test um and there's a lot

• 54:57

of work that we're all doing and we're very very happy to share it with all of you and and appreciate so much the support the

• 55:05

commitment the dedication from our alpha testers and the community at large it really means a lot to us that you

• 55:10

guys are following along and giving us all of your all of your cheers and support

• 55:17

thank you very much

• 55:22

that being said we'll see you back on stream take care

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oh we're back i think hi hello hello i think we are back

• 55:45

are these mics live i think so maybe chat type bananas if you can hear us

• 55:52

bananas i don't see any bananas all right yeah they can hear us okay all

• 55:59

right let me wait okay there we go all right guys i hope you guys enjoyed um watching

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that uh i know it took a little bit longer than probably we anticipated

• 56:12

but uh that was actually my first time with those bosses so i didn't know what to expect and i

• 56:18

thought we could probably take them down with just our little group but uh you gotta hit those crystals oh

• 56:25

really oh you can hit the crystal what definitely

• 56:30

we see we should have asked for tips we ran in we definitely didn't watch it what does it do when you hit the crystals

• 56:36

you just have to find out oh man nobody told me that no we did it hard

• 56:43

mode i guess no you guys did great that was that was really impressive

• 56:48

i liked it i only took a couple flings over the rocks to learn our lesson i really liked the getting flinged over

• 56:53

the rock part that was great i did not expect that let me just say that um

• 56:59

no but that was that was a lot of fun and guys again we're going to be showing a lot of footage over the next few months because we have

• 57:06

you know testing going on and um it's got a we've got a temper the expectation level of how much

• 57:13

footage we get all at once we don't want to show everything now we're going to be trickling that out and

• 57:18

showing more and more and more as we move forward but as you can see the world is shaping up nicely

• 57:24

got some fun boss mechanics uh now it's important to note that the combat revamp will actually

• 57:31

not be present until probably march time frame um so right now we've got a great little

• 57:38

design strike force team that's kind of working on a lot of what the player feedback has been

• 57:43

we've gotten a lot of great player feedback on kind of the changes that we want to see in combat and we have a really good

• 57:48

direction a few prototypes that are actually getting completed now by our awesome designers

• 57:54

and we're going to be playing with that with the alpha testers in the coming months with the additional

• 58:01

pre-tests so stick uh uh stay tuned stick tuned stay tuned stay tuned stick

• 58:08

around there you go that's what it is stick stay around tuned um and

• 58:13

you'll get to see that stuff as we move forward um jeff you want to talk a little bit about anything else about the alpha one stuff

• 58:20

otherwise we can move to environment yeah i mean i think it speaks for itself right like the the new section of the world kind of the new

• 58:26

ways that we're doing things as we're moving closer towards like final production right um as we get our

• 58:32

pipelines all in a row we kind of figure out how we're going to do things for real like you can see the improvements that that results in

• 58:38

um the new zone looks amazing uh the new foliage the new lighting um even the animations in combat like we

• 58:45

haven't changed we haven't touched a lot of that stuff yet but it all looks and feels better and that's just a function of time and

• 58:53

being able to spend some some real deep thought in some of these systems so um you know the combat revamp's going to

• 59:00

be really exciting i'm very curious to see how that turns out yes kind of how it kind of tightens up our

• 59:06

game because that's kind of a thing that we're really focused on right now so you know we'll do the same thing here as we've done with our other systems and

• 59:12

we'll continue to grow this stuff and it's going to be pretty awesome by the time we get to the end yeah and guys just to give you you know

• 59:18

insight on the development side of things right as these core systems are laid down

• 59:24

foundationally from that point forward it's it's a content production race right that's we we really are then

• 59:31

setting up all of the quests across the world we're setting up all of the um the narratives and the story gets

• 59:37

implemented the additional creatures and the armors and the levels and skills and effects right all

• 59:43

that stuff that content starts getting you know uh what's the word exponential really in in development and

• 59:49

production um and that's really why we're significantly ramping up uh the number of people on the team um

• 59:56

to meet that content uh content call yeah we have a lot of content to create so even though we have

• 1:00:02

a big world and it's populated with a lot of really cool stuff there's still a lot more to go um it's only a very small slice so

• 1:00:08

that's our big challenge coming up after this alpha i think um and uh yeah absolutely it's gonna be fun

• 1:00:14

absolutely um okay let's move to

• 1:00:20

some of that content perhaps take a look at the environment source

• 1:00:27

stand by for transition all right here we go and we have a bed

Environment Art Update

• 1:00:35

is that it's a nice bed is that like a baby's bed i was gonna say it's it's not though it's is that a door

• 1:00:44

so like spiders can't get you probably a safe call if it was a dwarf bed i might need a

• 1:00:50

ladder to get up there though little step stool yeah i mean it really does like and

• 1:00:55

it looks it looks small maybe it's a i bet you it's a crib

• 1:01:00

but the baby would for sure fall out of that i don't know hold on how do i go through

• 1:01:07

these things let me see here um wait for it nope nope

• 1:01:14

not that one and it's this one found it a little got a little chair going on

• 1:01:22

the chair looks nice is this a period summer chair oh this is is this uh i don't think

• 1:01:27

that's period i think it's imperial yeah imperium yeah yeah isn't it i mean i don't know

• 1:01:32

i'm confused actually i like the fringe on the back of it too the little tassely fringe golden oh yeah

• 1:01:39

it's very pretty but this is some of the is some of the home decor and furniture

• 1:01:44

uh that players can create and place in their home

• 1:01:49

so for folks who are looking at this the images that are on the bottom right are those references that kind of shape what we're

• 1:01:56

designing here good call sarah that's right so this is the concept process on the

• 1:02:01

environment side as they are going down that content path that we just described

• 1:02:07

the concept artists are providing them with these these these concepts that they model

• 1:02:12

then the in in game decor with and they're utilizing these reference images

• 1:02:19

as a source to essentially create these concepts thank you sarah well done no worries i

• 1:02:25

want all of these in my freehold though i'm shopping right now picking out what i want yeah and one of the great things

• 1:02:31

you know i think from of like a player customization standpoint when it comes to housing

• 1:02:37

is having a wide array of available like decor that you can make your home your own so

• 1:02:44

to speak right it's not a cookie cutter presentation of freehold and in node housing or

• 1:02:49

apartment but rather there's a diverse selection of furniture that can be created to to make something

• 1:02:57

your own make it your own tell your own story um there's a couple of games that have done

• 1:03:03

this really well um everquest two is one of them they had such a huge library of furniture

• 1:03:09

across uh you know they could just kind of let their players kind of do anything with with their houses

• 1:03:14

um so take a look at some of the things that they've allowed in that game and we're going to take some inspiration from that as well

• 1:03:21

whoo bunk beds yeah at the end of the day there'll be people who just customize other people's homes

• 1:03:28

uh you know for for some coin and that's kind of what they do with their their game time

Character Art Update

• 1:03:34

agreed oh we have another video what oh this is nice this is a this is a

• 1:03:41

a creation video of i believe the firefox yeah i think we're going into the

• 1:03:47

character art stuff now so this should be the creation video for the fox of the pyre yeah who did this guy

• 1:03:57

yeah i believe that was ginseng i want to say agency was working on this one but maybe someone in our

• 1:04:03

in our channels could ping me so this is the fox of the pyre it is a

• 1:04:10

mount uh i believe this was a cosmetic one this one was available oh look at

• 1:04:16

that model i love that model

• 1:04:22

yeah that tracer is just so cool looking thank you for confirming yes it was

• 1:04:27

ginsey that worked on this one and guys what you're seeing here is not a concept piece this

• 1:04:32

is the model itself the in-game model

• 1:04:38

and next steps i already get it animated i can't wait for that either those two tails are going to be neat

• 1:04:46

um that one's there

• 1:04:53

which one all right um it's okay that fox is beautiful yeah

• 1:05:00

we'll just i can look at it all day long i love the fur texture on it we've got some

• 1:05:05

some trolls ooh troll variants yes this looks like a like a forest troll

• 1:05:12

forester hill troll i love the horns yeah the horns are

• 1:05:19

great regular internet troll oh does he have like little skulls on his on his belt it kind of looks like he

• 1:05:27

does yeah he's got like a skull and a gourd wow that's ruthless

• 1:05:35

okay here was a forest troll here's a junior cloth sculpt this is some of the

• 1:05:43

that's cool cloth for the dwarves oh that looks nice and warm like perfect

• 1:05:49

snowy environments mountainous environments you've got the fur bits and pieces by the way i would like to point out we

• 1:05:55

have heard your feedback on the dwarven race the duneer race and we you will be

• 1:06:01

seeing some character models that are beefier a little bit beefier more more traditional dwarven kind of stature

• 1:06:10

um that's in the world right now

• 1:06:15

i have here this is a dunier plate set modeled looks great

• 1:06:25

i like the the patching almost patching it looks like of plate pieces

• 1:06:34

yeah oh this one's a great one this one is the

• 1:06:40

the corvette cast oh yes look at such a big fan of this yeah it

• 1:06:47

looks great we just got the assets for that so we'll be hooking that up relatively soon

• 1:06:53

oh i love the feather cards in the back

• 1:06:58

really good and then we have

• 1:07:04

what's this guy's name if it's who i think it

• 1:07:11

[Music] oh this is love that armor it's so good

• 1:07:17

look at his little tail and i think he's yeah he's t-posing right

• 1:07:23

now so his tail straight out me of my dog's tail actually he's just a

• 1:07:31

little on the warty side but no he looks looks very good um who did

• 1:07:36

this apparently we really like putting warts on butts because that's not the first creature i've seen with one there

• 1:07:42

was this danny did danny do this i think danny did this one

• 1:07:49

all right well i think that's mainly it for yes danny did that one confirmed i think

• 1:07:56

this is it for the uh um character team so great models coming

• 1:08:02

out of the character team and we are now on to um

• 1:08:08

oops q a yeah i've got a bunch of questions from our

Q&A

• 1:08:14

community if we're ready to go through those now always ready all right so these

• 1:08:20

questions come from our forums we post up about a week before we stream usually asking you all

• 1:08:25

to share your questions with us and we go through all of those and pick out 10 random ones that we haven't answered before

• 1:08:32

and get to those so if you don't hear your question on the stream we'll still get around to you after the stream on the forums so make sure you go

• 1:08:38

check it out because we post all the answers there as well so we've got a couple questions here

• 1:08:44

about guilds so we'll start with some of those

• 1:08:49

this question comes from zils and leilani who ask and this is in regards to guild

• 1:08:55

wars will guilds and alliances have the option for permanent or long-lasting wars with other guilds and alliances

• 1:09:02

or will the guild war system only allow for shorter objective-based conflicts

• 1:09:07

so there won't be permanent uh wars there will be definitive and

• 1:09:14

victory conditions applied to each war instance

• 1:09:20

and those will vary across the different wars depending on the level of your guild the level of the

• 1:09:26

opposing guild and different assets that those may have

• 1:09:31

will help to indicate specific objectives

• 1:09:37

alrighty here's another one in regards to guilds asking can we guild invite across vera or do

• 1:09:43

characters need to be close to one another you will be able to guild invite across

• 1:09:48

uh vera so there will be a guild um there's a guild interface a ui window and in that interface ui

• 1:09:56

window you have your management and um administration of the guild there will be an invite um an invites

• 1:10:03

uh section for you to type in a character name um additionally you could do it uh

• 1:10:09

through chat window uh through a slash command you got it and that one came from behind

• 1:10:15

on the forums all right our next yeah and that'll be similar to friends too

• 1:10:20

it's all pretty similar functionality oh that actually dovetails into another question that is not on the list but has

• 1:10:26

been asked before so i might throw this one in here when you add someone as a friend are you adding just their character as a friend

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or are you adding their account as a friend just just their character and

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there might be some functionality through the launcher and or web

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systems that allow you to add an account as a friend but we haven't determined for sure if

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that's the case yet okay i've got another couple questions

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here and these are more related to node wars and and node sieges in general

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michael asks what actions can be taken against the vassal of a node that you declare war on

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for example can they be sieged during the siege period as well no sieges are they're node specific um

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so you you go through a quest to obtain a declaration item um that quest is going to be determined

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by the level of uh node seeds you're attempting to do essentially um

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and once you have the item then you may declare against one specific node of that quest line's

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level or lower all righty uh next up also related to

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node sages this one's from nostra who asks when a node siege has been declared

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can that node gain or lose xp during the declaration period and thus advance our atrophy to a different stage

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yeah so the declaration period does not inhibit the node's ability to collect

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experience it's something that we were thinking about in the past of doing

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but given the length of time that declaration periods can become based on the node level

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it's a number of days equal to the stage of the node so metropolis is a six day declaration period a city is a

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five-day declaration period that would be a significant period of time and and could be utilized as a

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method by which you essentially have a false flag type siege

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and progress beyond that nodes and that would just have a lot of kind

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of quirky result quirky results um when it comes to how nodes interact with each other so

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not going to inhibit the ability for nodes to collect exp during the declaration got it

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okay and next up from jaish i believe for j5h on the forums and this is in regards

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to animations they're asking will every race have their own style of combat

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in terms of animations that'd be real expensive um uh we would

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love to do something like that but um we would need several hundred animators to make it happen um but

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but we will have things that are known as sort of like racial abilities um uh which which will key into the

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class that you've chosen and those will almost certainly have animations that are kind of like one-offs that

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are associated with that class we'll help you get some more like you know some more renkai flavor or some more

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imperium flavor but um we have to reuse animations as much as possible in order to to to get to the finish line here so

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it'd be a super nice thing to do but um but probably not in the cards

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so this next question is from tyrantor and it's in regards to death penalties and they are wondering what will death

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penalties be inside of objective based events that don't rely on player flagging such as caravans or

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guild wars or node sieges so there will not be death penalties applied to event-based

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deaths those the the penalties are in the outcome of the

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event so your number of deaths is likely not is likely going to

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uh uh impact your ability to win that particular event and that's going to be the penalty if you

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um and this is it to encourage players to opt in to the events right because

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the more participation we have the more fun it can be um and we understand that the community

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at large um you know there's already a risk versus reward component to these events we don't need to stack on additional

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risk versus reward to inhibit kind of the the to increase the barrier to entry for

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players who may not be as interested in people totally all right hakuiju

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asks a question regarding gear stats this is kind of branching off from a question that was

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asked last month will the values of stats on dropped gear be random to some degree for each item

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for example i may get a sort that's plus 83 stamina and then another time when the same sort drops it's plus 93 stamina

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or something like that yeah most certainly so individual item stats those are

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those are a variable essentially right and um the the the degree at which those stats

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increase can also indicate the rarity of that particular item so you're going to have drop tables with different rarity

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of items and that's going to impact the stats of the stat values you're going to have just different item

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item ids that are going to be spawned from those tables as well which have different stats so it's not going to be

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cookie cutter the same kind of item across the board and that and that plays into our

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crafting system in and of itself right the idea is for those stats to be variables that can be kind of dictated

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based on the mastery level of the particular crafter and the higher they become a master of those of those

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professions whether it be for armor or for weapons or for accessories they're going to have some agency and

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put their mark on essentially what items they're introducing into the economy as well

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got it okay our next question from a life and symmetry is in regards to mounts

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will there be a different default mount for each race and what might they be

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um so the deep so by default mount the way i view that is essentially the quest lines that kind

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of grant your initial mount when you come into the game that in and of itself will reflect the

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area the starting area and which races those quest lines are so yes in a way

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there are racial amounts because each starting area will have a different quest line

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that will yield a different type of starting mount but by default you don't just choose you know human and here you get a horse

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so to speak because you can be a human in our game and choose to start in a different racial area at a

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different divine gateway and and as such then you could follow the quest line that gives you

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you know the torque mount um but you know that's how i would describe racial mounts is based on the

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the starting area and and which civilization that starting area reflects and then that quest line will be for those for the

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jewelry awesome so there's definitely a level of player agency there as well if you're like i don't like horses

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i want to be cool oh for sure and then the other important thing to note is that you know the way the

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mount skins work is you can take a base tier mount apply a skin and radically change the

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appearance to a completely different picture all right our next question from

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mermista mermaid asks will there be daily login rewards

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so not daily quests but you know a calendar that opens up and says you logged in for one day have a potion

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i think so i mean i don't know not a potion um [Laughter]

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here have a weapon no just and buy this exclusive login chart you have the premium plan i'm just

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kidding there's not going to be any of that um no but i do think it's it's cool to

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have like a login reward feature um you know might just be something that is a simple cosmetic base uh you know

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for example uh we could have a monthly kind of login end of the month reward for unique

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cosmetic never appears again but if you just log in every day in that month you get that cosmetic and that's a cool

• 1:18:49

collector's you know component i i'm a huge cosmetic collector and i i love stuff like that the more ways you

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can diversify the obtaining path for specific cosmetics across different gaming

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systems whether that be logging in adventuring crafting you know society stuff uh

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guild driven thing whatever it is i'm a big fan of many paths right at the end of the day it's just

• 1:19:13

content but if you put it in a wheel that is unique i think that's a lot of fun for players

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all right definitely see some folks in chat with opinions on that one so oh let's see it no no i was just going

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to say if you want to share more i think this came up on the forums before but uh if anyone wants to keep chiming in on the thread there is about it uh

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we'll we'll go back to that and read that some more as well oh yeah our last question here is from

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langitang on the forums let me let me be clear though on this because i am reading something there is

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no pay to win component that to there that would be a a complimentary kind of login

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uh system but you know what that might be a good a good chat uh post for our discussions a good dev

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discussion yeah that might be one of the topics you see pop up for next year so well we'll keep an eye out for that

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one all right like i mentioned last question here this one is from langatang

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and in regards to the day night cycle when we look up at the stars will the sky be static every night or will we get

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to see variation in the night sky so there was a whole lot of stuff i

• 1:20:23

wanted to do with that um but the tech involved is is um let's just say it might be a stretch

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goal of ours but um i think kind of where we're at right now um uh i don't know you speak to it stephen

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i'm not exactly sure how far along things are but um on the night sky yeah yeah i think

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that i think it's possible and this is something i know super early on we were talking about uh from a constellation standpoint but i

• 1:20:49

think it's possible that based on the specific zone you can we can have unique night skies

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right so it might be something interesting to play with it's definitely not a high priority but

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uh i know there's some work being done currently on the night sky systems that brian i think is working on

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um and that might be an investigative task if it's possible i think it adds

• 1:21:15

if it's if it's pretty much possible without expanding significant scope or major issues i think it adds a cool component to the

• 1:21:21

immersive nature of the world um and you know it'd be a cool thing to add

• 1:21:26

yeah it's one of those things like i i wanted to tie that into some quest stuff and maybe some events but um but in terms of

• 1:21:33

bang for buck um it's it's pretty low priority so yeah it would be super cool if you could have like a

• 1:21:39

constellation related quest thing at the library of the scientific nodes where the camera's vector

• 1:21:45

and position in the night like as a player if you look up in a certain uh direction in the right zone right and

• 1:21:52

that satisfies like a quest requirement and you can do like exploratory constellation work across the world i think that would be a really

• 1:21:59

fun thing to do that would be cool for the vec for sure as they are dancers they are and the night sky on vera is

• 1:22:06

very different from the night sky on sanctus and how those two things relate might be interesting hmm oh this is

• 1:22:13

i'm out of questions well i have more but how many moons will be in the night sky hey we've never

• 1:22:19

we haven't revealed that i remember that question yeah a long time ago we'll find out keep

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it secret okay all right those were the ten questions we had from our community thank you guys

• 1:22:29

so much for going ahead and dropping those on the forums like i mentioned if we didn't get to your question during the stream we do go

• 1:22:35

back and write up an answer for you with all the ones that we have answered before or if we haven't gotten to it we'll let

• 1:22:40

you know hey save it for next time and let us know so we can take a look at those as well well i gotta say i really liked seeing

• 1:22:46

all of the passionate voices on the daily login thing so we're gonna need to prioritize that dev

• 1:22:52

discussion for our next one um because it'll be fun there we go our january job discussion

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about daily login rewards check we have to be clear though our daily the daily login

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rewards i'm talking about are entirely cosmetic and are not an additional purchase point so those would be it would be a part of

• 1:23:10

everyone's uh subscription but um yeah so i have any other questions are we good yeah and

• 1:23:16

there's also a lot of different forms that you can do veteran awards for right um so so maybe we change the form of it or

• 1:23:22

maybe we you know come up with something entirely new that isn't onerous but also rewards people for sticking with us so

• 1:23:28

absolutely all right guys i think that's the gist of our stream holy moly i think we

• 1:23:34

made it through with me being the captain now of this stream you did a great job

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yes we made it to the end we made it to the end got set on fire there were no audio issues

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yeah look at that margaret i'm coming for you i'm coming for you i'm just kidding please come back

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margaret help no all right guys hey we enjoyed hanging out with you i hope you

• 1:24:01

guys enjoyed taking a look at some additional gameplay footage from Ashes of Creation we have had an absolute blast this last

• 1:24:07

weekend a sleepless blast but a blast nonetheless um and and again we're super

• 1:24:13

appreciative of your guys's support continued dedication to the project tuning in

• 1:24:18

helping spread the word for Ashes of Creation it's it means the world to us and we cannot wait to deliver products gonna make you proud

• 1:24:24

and us proud as well um have any other sign-offs before the end

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yeah just a couple years yeah so we'll have a new dub discussion

• 1:24:35

coming up in january it sounds like that one might be about daily login rewards based on some chats we just had here

• 1:24:40

also the december cosmetics the frost ones will be swapping over on january 13th

• 1:24:46

and then just as a reminder in case you haven't taken a look at our upcoming alpha 1 preview dates we share those in

• 1:24:51

our last creative director's letter as well so i think the next plan for testing will be kicking off in the new year

• 1:24:58

oh good call though on that creative director's letter the creative director's letter will be uh is it the 7th of january

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let me take a look i think it's like this i think it's around the 7th of january so be prepared for that that'll give you a recap obviously the

• 1:25:12

last three months uh and a look forward um but yeah

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all right well thank you guys for tuning in hope you enjoyed thanks everyone thank you see you next time same

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place bye