Talk:2021-07-30 Livestream

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[Music]

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hello everyone and welcome to our ashes of a creation stream for july

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oh my goodness it has been another month we have been so excited and obviously alpha one has

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kicked off and um it's been crazy for us we're just trying to keep keep all the things moving and

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grooving and it has been crazy yeah um and love seeing everybody in chat getting

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excited um very very exciting stuff here whose idea was it to move back into the studio while the alpha one

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was going on he might be here on the screen other people might have said that it might not be a

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good idea yes it's true it's okay though um

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i think it's been exciting obviously the new office is looking awesome which we'll talk about in a little bit here but first and foremost i just want to

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get into the things uh what we're covering today is reminders we have studio update design update we have environment art

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and character art and we have our q a as per usual but we have a lot of goodies for you guys including a video in the design segment

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but i know what you guys are really excited about so i'm going to just get to it i already see you in chat freaking out we do have an announcement for a

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giveaway it's probably not even started yet because i haven't announced it but please if you are interested in

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winning an alpha one key uh go ahead and follow the twitch channel right here at

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Ashes of Creation super easy and type in the word alpha1 all lowercase

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in the chat and you will be in do it only once otherwise you could get booted out so

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just just one time should be good um and obviously we'll be keeping an eye on i know some people are

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concerned about like bots and stuff like that we'll be making sure that we draw a new winner if we see those things as issues

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um so if you see more keys being drawn that might be why as well uh and all winners will be notified at

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the end of the stream so just be active be in chat hang out with us and you will have a chance to win um

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how many keys are being handed out well it's dependent on our viewership so get more viewers in here and we'll have

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more followers more more giveaways um wow so yeah yeah uh

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and of course on the youtube side if you are watching this on youtube we do want to give you guys an opportunity to get in on it as well

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we are going to give out about 10 keys so all you need to do is subscribe to our youtube channel

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leave a comment as to why you think you deserve to win 8 alpha 1 key and then you'll be joining us

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on or we'll send you a message on august 2nd and then that means you'll be able to join us on august 5th for that

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that test and for and forever in the alpha one testing from there on

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so yeah how exciting exciting yeah i know that a lot of people are like well i can't

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afford enough of one pack and we totally understand that and like we've said before don't purchase if you are not you know

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if you can't afford it we really just want to have people who are interested in helping join us along the development and obviously you get

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some rewards in return for that um so i'm going to go quick into our reminders

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speaking of which we have our alpha one package that is up right now which

Reminders

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is the zenith advent and that will be swapping over august 4th 2021 at 11 a.m so if you're

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interested in this package you know a little homage to the ducks for stephen oh that's so sad i know

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i totally that was out of my mind and now i remember looking at the little baby duck there

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they were so cute but they were cute they'll forever be with us now that we have that's true

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um yeah i like the little flower hat for the duckling too right i've just seen so many memes with that

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duck i was like we have to have a duck with a little flower hat it's too cute and of course if you're interested go

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ahead and check that out over on our website we also have our faq about alpha one in

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there if you're interested in reading that and also if you still have any further questions you can reach out to us

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through our support twitter or put in a cs ticket and we will assist you further on that front

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beyond that we've got our dev discussions we've been really enjoying seeing everybody

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leaving us comments and discussing things with us i know that we do also have a lot of uh alpha one discussion

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going but beyond alpha one we have a lot of things that we're working on like guild uh systems and things like that

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and so we're very interested in and obviously guilds are so important in an mmo so we really want you guys to get

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involved and so this one is a two-part question one is for guild members what kinds of information do you

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look for before joining a guild and for guild leaders what kinds of characteristics are you looking for in

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new guild members now what this is going to help us do is we do want to have a lot of recruitment

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systems within our game and on our website and so like this is going to help us make sure that we have all of the

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features for you guys in those systems so please please please leave us comments on that and of course

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oh sorry go no no i'm sorry go ahead hey are you sure you don't want to say anything yo i was just going to ask if have you ever let it killed margaret

Guild Discussions

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oh stephen have i ever let it killed here's the thing i have been in so many

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guilds where i'm like oh i'm just going to be a healer or i'm just going to be a i'm just going to do that

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and then i think you know me i'm just too much of like an ocd person to let

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processes go forward and be like why is this chaos and then i always end up becoming an officer

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and then people leave yeah what do they look for in guild members when you recruited for your guilds

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well i'm kind of i am one of those elitist people i'm i'm unfortunately so toxic

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i know i'm unfortunate because because all the guilts that i've really been in uh growing up maybe not so much now i

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feel like i'm more might be more casual no i don't know uh but previously when i've always played

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uh i've always just wanted to be world first right like be the best on the server be the best guild on the server

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i've always been in like the top guild or the second to top killed um and so from my perspective uh we're

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i'm always looking for people with high attendance people who meet our criteria in regards to like damage or healing or whatever it might

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be um and then obviously just people could follow directions because that is like the worst thing to be in a

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raid with people who just like are not paying attention and then obviously you know

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being able to hear and speak is or be able to like communicate yeah some some form of

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communication uh whether that's text or voice or whatever it might be we try to accommodate for

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all all people but you know you need to be able to always used to i always used to have like so in my

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guild that i led for gosh i don't know 16 years 17 years almost

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across many mmos i i would just recruit based off of like personality but i

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would have like contingents within the guild that were very elitist or were more casual or

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were like you know crafting and farming and that kind of stuff and i i wanted everybody but

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if they if they were like an elite kind of you know wanted to do world first and

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that kind of stuff they would be delegated off under a different office category

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exactly that would be like our strike team right and they would be like you'd have to have different types of

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tryouts to get into those to those departments we would call them essentially

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hey i mean that works too i think i think people do all kinds of things for instance when it came to like planetside for instance so that was a

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little different we definitely wanted as many people but we had departments right we had like our air

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our air our armor our infantry and even within those we had like very specific

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things that they were doing so i can see that working i think it just depends on like what type of guild you want right i always focused on like that end

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game rating content for me so i just wanted like a tight-knit crew that got done

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i guess is the best way to put it um did you have like a uh like a membership process so for

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instance like they had to apply first and then they had like a child so what would happen is um the

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usually either a recruiter who was reaching out or uh applicants that would want to join

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and you know saw us on the server or whatever they'd have to submit an application fill out a form on our website

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right and then one of our recruiters would kind of based off of their interests in the game would assign them to a

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particular officer of one of the departments and then they would go through that department's interview

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i know you think i'm bad like for example one of our coders uh

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alex cadoli he was one of my commanders and he led the mercenary team which

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essentially would like go out and seek like services from other guilds out on the server that needed

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either help escorting their trade runs or participating in sieges and helping along those things so he

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would like be an outreach person talk to other guild leaders and he would recruit people that was like

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you know they were typically ready at any given moment to participate in those types of events

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and he would put them through like pvp kind of testing and fighting the leaders and the officers and stuff

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and then based on that they would get initiated as a recruit and then eventually become a member and then they could see opportunities as a sergeant or

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an officer under him um and then i had multiple what i would call commanders that led each of the departments and

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they would have their own officer corps and then that's how kind of we split it up but keep in mind steven's guild was massive

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so that's why that's why they needed that much structure in order to keep chaos from i think we had like 17 000 people

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and i'm over here with like we've got like 40 50 people depending well i mean eq days you know obviously there's a lot

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more people but i think it depends on like the game that you're playing and how many people you need for to raid and then you need backup

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people just in case right um but yeah that's we're going off i love those

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discussions i love the guild discussion sorry i took us off on it no it's okay i like chatting about it too but i think me and

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you could talk about just game stuff but beyond that question our next one

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that's coming up next month is going to be about new player experience and this is so important i think especially if i know that we do have

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some people who are like this is going to be my first mmo really kind of give us as much information as you can or for those of

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you who have been through lots of tutorials or lots of gameplay experiences walk us through like what you think is

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important for a new player experience obviously we have things in mind but we want to make sure that we're uh you know on on key with what you guys

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think as well um and of course we also have our guild gatherings which are specifically about

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guild stuff because like as we said guilds are very important to community and obviously mmos are

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really all about guilds it's all about working together as a group um whether that's a small group like i

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prefer or a massive one that steven prefers well to be fair that we didn't have like 17 000 in one game right

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we were guild for 16 seconds years over across many different mmos and over

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that time you know the email list builds the forum group builds uh you know okay in that case yes i have

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been part of an organization like that there you go and we had different chapters based on the game yeah we did

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have that play certain games and stuff yeah okay that's different i i see what you're saying um no if we

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had 17 000 in a single server that'd be crazy yeah he would just take over the server

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so for guild gatherings we asked you what makes a problematic member for your guild and how do you handle situations

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as they arise what expectations do you set up front and what are the consequences for

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failing to meet them i think a lot of this um obviously guild conflict can be can be good things but it also can be

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not so great and on our front we want to make sure that we're providing you guys the tools that you need to um you know in game

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solve some of these issues as well which you know will be interesting i don't think there's a lot of games that do that so we definitely want your opinions toss

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those over to us over on the forums right now we'd love to see that and next month we'll be asking you

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about your ideal guild members so definitely stay tuned for that we're curious to see

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what you guys have to say on that front and moving on from there of course we

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want to remind you of the upcoming play test obviously right now we are in alpha one we are going

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until august 13th so we really appreciate you all joining us there's actually a play test right now going on

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thursday july 29th at 11 a.m it started and it will be going until monday august 2nd uh and then we'll also you know continue

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to have more testing up till august 13th and if you are an alpha 1 key holder you will be joining us post alpha one for

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like spot testing too so you know stay tuned it's not just for alpha one but that is kind of uh the

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gist of that i know people have continued to ask that it's in our faq as well um and to be fair just to expand on that

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topic a little bit while we will have specific spot tests for certain systems as we develop them

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post the alpha one month um it should be expected and understood that after this alpha one month there

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will be probably a significant amount of downtime where there won't be spot testing as we kind of break apart

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a lot of systems take what we learned from alpha one month and implement and iterate upon those

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learnings right um so there's there's gonna be several months probably worth of significant downtime where there will not be access

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to spot testing uh where we are going to go in and and and really rejigger a lot of systems

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yeah more excited uh and then you know when you get how when you hop in and play again it's gonna be a you know a new experience um of course

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if you have alpha one access be sure to check out our alpha one forums as well as discord that's gonna be where all the

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information is rolling we really try our best to be there for you and communicate with you almost 24 7

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so um well during the play testing definitely 24 7. toast and i have been doing our best and

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now we have a new homie on our community team as well so hopefully people are being kind and nice

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to uh vaknar who is our new junior cm as well um we're initiating him he's got he's

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downloading all the information and soon yes and a big big shout out

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and hearts in chat for margaret and sarah they have been a lieutenant toast and and

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luperza they have been an absolute unbelievable godsend they are working

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their butts off and doing an amazing job covering the testing periods taking crazy shifts i'm

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actually sad about the shifts that they're taking but but i'm glad now that they have uh they

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have cody uh to assist and uh they've been doing such a great job so amazing amazing work um to our community

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team really great job yeah we we know you appreciate us absolutely

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um and of course sarah and i we this is the stuff we love we love being able to like chat with you guys

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and hop in game and be there for you and support you um and answer questions like that's the stuff that's so funny

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i said hearts and chat right as i think sarah put slow mode on so nobody could put hearts

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way to go sarah i'm just kidding there you go i think she's released them didn't you

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slow them down again uh it's getting crazy in the chat that's for sure um which we love seeing we love seeing

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you guys all be very active um also a reminder that the nda has been lifted that means you can stream you can

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take screenshots you can create videos we've been loving watching all the content i have actually not been able to watch

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all of the content there's that much content right now i'm usually i usually watch every single

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thing and read every single thing that's posted um i have a huge backlog um of stuff but we're definitely putting

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together reporting uh for alpha one in regards to the content that's being created on our press side what's going on and

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obviously uh toast is has been putting together a lot of reporting and so has our cs team

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uh adam has been amazing uh putting together um reports for our development team in

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regards to you know all of the issues that you guys have been encountering all of your feedback and suggestions and we'll be

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doing some big reporting towards the end uh as well and we will do a recap i think

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people have continually asked us like when will we see the data and and what you guys are going to do

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um so we will be taught posting something after alpha one in regards to that it'll be kind of like a recap of

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what we what we learned um maybe some data for you guys some specific data uh and then also like

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what we're doing as we move forward towards alpha two so just stay tuned for that we'll definitely give you guys that information we've been very

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communicative on that front um and last but not least uh the last thing i have for quick

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updates here is uh just a reminder on the content creator program i know people have been

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asking about it the applications are now open so definitely go ahead and apply but we are not

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inviting new folks into the program yet we had so many people interested and obviously

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we want to support all of them and we want to give you guys as much love and support

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to help build our community and create content that we are actually hiring an influencer relations specialist to help

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with us they'll also be helping with a sub um program as well that is called the

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content creator training academy and that academy will be allowing people who maybe aren't quite

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in the content creator program but we know that they could be we want to give them an opportunity to help them get to the point where they

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are able to and obviously not everyone's even going to make it into that and but we will message you whether you get into the

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program whether you're in the training program or whether you don't make it and what you need to do to be able to

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reapply again so we will get back to you apologies for the slow i've been interviewing people like crazy

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um i'm actually in a second round of interviews because the first round uh did not supply me the what i needed

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so our recruitment staff has been like yeah we have a recruiter now which is awesome uh it has two

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yeah too it's been exciting um they've got me some new recruits and i've been just powering through

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interviews i have like a bunch next week as well so we're trying our best to get those going as quickly as possible um and once

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we have them on staff we'll start we'll start churning it out um i think that's all i got

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on reminders steven walk us through the studio update the studio update i think as of

Studio Update

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yesterday all workstations in the new studio are completed and set up and constructed

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so that's exciting that was it was touch and go there for a moment because we had some delays with

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the furniture and we had some uh so nice like the stand-up desks i'm

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so excited for it okay funny story so so this is a very i mean it's

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it's it's an interesting start so we have multiple conference rooms across you know the studio right i i don't know

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i think there's like one two three four five six seven there's like seven or eight conferences yeah

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yeah seven or eight conference rooms across studio one of the conference rooms the construction crew was finishing up

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like glass touches and adding some of the windows and stuff and they accidentally removed the door to the

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conference room on one of the sides so it only has like one door that's accessible from the entrance lobby and i walk over there and

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i'm like that's strange shouldn't there be a door i mean how do you get into this conference room unless you go outside

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and like from the entrance do they put a wall there they put a wall there

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i said somebody get me the designs i need to see why they put a wall here and then they got me the designs from

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the architects and sure enough there was a wall that was placed there and i was like oh no now we're going to

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have to have the demo crew come out and make the the door again but it's been some interesting it's been

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some an interesting process some delays in the furniture some interesting construction stuff but happy

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to say everything's looking great all of the workspace stuff is in now we're just waiting on kind of the ancillary furnitures the couches and the

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cafeteria tables um and the game lounge area and some of the conference tables but um

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everything's looking great very excited i think uh we have about 40 or so people uh it's part of our

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exercise regiment you have to walk around to get to them yes exactly

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we have about 40 people that are currently in the studio and then everyone else should be phasing in over

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the next i would say two to three weeks um i know that zim is hard at work getting everything planned

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there that guy is a absolute powerhouse stud um he is amazing zim is

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couldn't give more kudos to zim he has done a lot of work and and um he has been bearing a lot of like

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a load of 15 years 15 years now probably wow yeah he's awesome he's just a great dude too like outside

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of being a badass woman and a great a great d d player i mean just

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he's so funny i feel so bad for him he plays and he plays in a d d campaign with me and he has a rogue who just in combat

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just rolls daddy once like crazy and he just rolls with it i feel so excited

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he like is great for the party does a lot of awesome stuff i think the the last uh session we had in pathfinder his

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character was a um i think he was a human rogue as well

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and yeah he got knocked out well he got knocked out and was like captured by a pirate crew and was on a ship

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and then the ship got attacked by like some kraken and i think he's like in the middle of the sea somewhere right now but

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anyways um sounds like zoom i can see that exactly but uh no things are going great on the

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studio move in things are also going good on the recruiting and hiring front we've had

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multiple new employees starting over the last month alone um some great new faces

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on the team that we're very excited to have and then also looking forward um you

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know alpha one has been going very good we've been getting a lot of data a lot of information a lot of areas that we want to focus on uh

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post well we're starting to focus on already but also post alpha one um that we have some great ideas to sit

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down with the design teams um and and take a look at at some of our

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um systems and mechanics and documentation and and and reevaluate some things

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um and employ some changes so things are going really good on the studio front uh it's an exciting time to be at

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intrepid yeah it's very exciting i i've been it's been cool for me to be

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able to see you know all the new folks as well um because we're you know we've been in lockdown forever

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so meeting people face to face is so weird even my own staff like we've been on camera obviously but like

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we've kind of got to meet a little bit at the you know fourth of july party so finally

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being able to at least see something oh that fourth of july party was fun it was so nice um and our team has just

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grown even from last time it's crazy half the people are like new people um

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but on that front uh let's move on to design as you kind of segued over there

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yeah i know we have a video but maybe you want to talk a little bit about alpha 1 and what data has been like helpful for

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the team and kind of how you guys are utilizing that and making changes yeah absolutely

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so i mean as many of you know because we've spoken about this so often you know alpha 1 is not intended to be a

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content test so on the content side there's there's really um not a lot that we we are gleaming uh out of alpha one

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however on a mechanics and systems standpoint um you know there is a lot of information

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that we've been taking uh player feedback from kind of digging through a lot of the content creators

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videos that they've created watching streams um watching all of the logs and the data that we collect from the test sessions

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and kind of iterating upon that not just you know planning for post alpha one but also making changes

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uh during alpha one that for example the video you're going to see here in a little bit there's a short video but i wanted to record it this morning

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um just to give you an idea of you know how we take feedback and we incorporate change right so for

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example um on the combat front obviously this was an important thing that we wanted to start revamping

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um uh the engineering team and and our design team specifically um you know adam pippich

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and um and trad thompson and brian ferguson and um you know they've been working to

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kind of test some things out that we're going to probably deploy next week with next week's test session

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um we were hoping to have it done this week but for those who who you know may not understand kind of

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the process of how like development works and promotion from different branches of the development

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stream you know works uh first we have to deploy a particular change or changes that we're making uh

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in the game to a development branch and then it moves up based on you know the qa testing to a stage

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branch and then to a production or release branch and then that's when the players start to get to

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to get a feel for things we want to make sure that qa's had time to kind of vet the changes that they're not impacting

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um you know different uh areas of the game or causing crashes or uh you know having

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kind of bad performance right so um one of the changes uh we're going to see next week is

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on melee combat and we've gotten a lot of feedback from players that you know it's not as desired for um you

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know combat to lock a player in place as they're performing their melee attacks now some of you who have been

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watching following along of the Ashes of Creation project will remember back in the apoc

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days we initially tested with not having root motion as part of the

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melee attacks and a lot of the feedback we got was that things felt very floaty and not impactful that didn't feel like

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there was a lot of weight to the melee attacks and so that's when we kind of changed gears a little bit back then

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back to or to a root motion kind of based um uh combat attack um and

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uh we got some positive feedback there we incorporated some kind of lunging attacks and whatnot

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now that we have um uh you know the current melee um attacks in alpha one we're getting

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feedback again that we want that kind of ability to move so just to give you preface to this video it's gonna give you a preview kind of

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next week of what players in alpha 1 are going to have hands-on testing and we've presented it in such a

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way that it's more a b type testing so that players who are participating with melee combat can

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press a hotkey to go back and forth between root motion or this more free flow

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attack animation and kind of give us feedback on that difference and this kind of

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helps us to tune kind of the combat to get a better idea and a sense of direction on more of the

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front-facing changes we should see now a lot of the changes though to combat i will say have been on the back

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end and the engineering team has done an amazing job and design has done a great job kind of

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converting a lot of the abilities and skills over to this new combat system in the back end next step for that is going to be

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transitioning all of the npcs and ai off of the old combat system and on to

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the new back-end combat system which should drastically improve performance and

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and expand upon the kind of types of functionality that design wants

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to see and have the ability to utilize when designing encounters and types of npcs

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in the ai and how they kind of interact with the players so this little video is just going to give you a

• 28:05

a um it's like seven minutes long or whatever but it's going to show you some of the changes between what the old

• 28:10

comment with remotion was and what the new comment that we're going to be testing next week will look like specifically with regards to melee

• 28:16

weapons right i will go ahead and play that we'll see you guys in a moment hello glorious ashes of

New Combat Changes Footage

• 28:24

creation community and welcome to another video inside alpha one i'm

• 28:30

excited to show you a little bit of stuff that we've been working on on the combat side you are currently looking at

• 28:35

the development branch of Ashes of Creation for those who don't know ashley creation has multiple

• 28:40

branches of development um we call our combat environment our development

• 28:47

branch our stage branch our production release branch um for

• 28:53

alpha one and those of you who are participating in alpha one as testers you're currently on our release branch

• 28:58

that's where changes have seen the most amount of quality assurance testing and are solid and stable for us to

• 29:06

put out to the public and get feedback on get testing on but today i'm going to

• 29:12

show you something that has not yet been promoted up to the release branch and is still

• 29:18

under significant testing but i want to show you some of the directions that we're taking based on feedback

• 29:23

from the community with regards to combat specifically with regards to melee combat

• 29:31

so for those of you who have been watching some of our amazing content creators out there who are

• 29:37

streaming and creating youtube videos around Ashes of Creations alpha one you may have noticed that with melee

• 29:43

combat uh when a player attacks they move forward what we call root motion

• 29:48

um let's see if i can demonstrate this there you go so you'll see here as i'm clicking my uh

• 29:55

q attack i am swinging and moving forward with the attack now

• 30:00

this essentially creates a little bit of weight for the combat for the melee weapons but

• 30:07

at the same time it restricts player input for the ability to kind of change

• 30:12

directions and move with a particular target right now i can change kind of the direction i'm

• 30:18

moving in when i'm in the middle of these types of attacks but i don't have complete control over

• 30:24

my character as the promotion is occurring um so one of the changes that we are playing

• 30:30

with right now is actually going back a little bit a couple of years to apec

• 30:36

excuse apoc combat um which was the ability for the character to

• 30:41

kind of have complete control as they were moving now back then when we tried this we got a lot of

• 30:46

feedback that it felt very floaty that wasn't as impactful he couldn't really feel the weight and

• 30:51

we're gonna be playing with some of the dials that help to communicate that weight such as the visual effects

• 30:57

the audio screen shake um the animations the kind of uh torso

• 31:04

twisting and movement um and we're going to try to to make that more impactful

• 31:10

but right now we want to get players feedback on this change which will probably get

• 31:15

rolled out next week into the live environment into the release branch of Ashes of Creations

• 31:21

alpha one but i'm going to show you a little uh sneak peek of it today and those of you who are watching and tuning

• 31:27

in to the stream can give your feedback in twitch go to the forums go on reddit

• 31:32

go on discord chat about this and let us know your thoughts on it so when it gets rolled out to players

• 31:38

next week um what we're going to do is we're going to include a hotkey that can be used and players can kind of

• 31:44

a b test between the root motion melee attacks and the non-root motion

• 31:50

melee attacks so by pressing comma you'll be able to move forward while

• 31:56

swinging your weapon and this will allow you complete control

• 32:02

uh over your weapon attacks uh for melee so let's see what we can do against this

• 32:07

little crab little crab dude hey buddy how you doing come on over oh

• 32:14

[Music]

• 32:25

and just have complete control over my uh over my character while attacking

• 32:32

this crab guy there we go now let me actually switch over

• 32:40

um let me switch over to action there we go and let's see if we can find

• 32:47

another crab person or not person but creature sorry actually little known fat crab crab creatures are

• 32:54

actually people in ashes i'm just kidding there we go

• 33:23

all right so let's do one um oh wait actually there's like a

• 33:29

corrupted dude over here he might be a little a little much for me um but i can still

• 33:35

play with it uh oh i keep doing that i'm so sorry

• 33:40

all right here we go

• 34:02

[Music] oh oh yeah he's doing damaged

• 34:25

um okay so i hope you guys enjoyed a little demonstration of some of the work that's being done currently on the combat system some of the

• 34:32

changes that are being made based on player feedback from alpha one uh the testers have been doing a great

• 34:37

job over the past few weeks uh showcasing not only to the community what the progress has been on the

• 34:42

development of Ashes of Creation but also um helping to illuminate to us some good ideas and some changes that we want to

• 34:48

act on always you know taking into consideration the player feedback is such an important part of the development process and we

• 34:54

appreciate everybody chiming in for that and with that i will see you back on stream shortly

• 35:03

all right well hope you all enjoyed that getting a little sneaky seeing stephen

• 35:09

continuing into his alt buttons i know unfortunately alt is my push to talk key

• 35:16

i was trying to target the creature so it all tapped me i saw a lot of comments in chat not really many questions necessarily but um

• 35:22

you know in regards to like a lot of feedback if you do have feedback definitely go send that over to us on the forums like

• 35:28

steven said you can post any any platform we are checking all of those things but the forums is is the best way for us because toast

• 35:34

puts together these amazing reports and it just makes it easy for us because we own that platform we can like see the data a little easier than if we're

• 35:41

trying to like access data from like a social platform but obviously we do take feedback from everywhere um

Design/Engineering Combat Backend Discussion

• 35:47

something that you did mention prior to playing the video was that these combat changes or the comment changes that you guys are working

• 35:53

towards are going to help performance can you go into a little bit more detail about like what types of changes help

• 36:00

with performance and like maybe how the players will experience that change

• 36:06

yeah um it's a little it's a little bit on the more technical side at least when

• 36:11

discussed that's true it kind of has to do with

• 36:16

how um how combat previously we used to create a lot of

• 36:22

actors in the game world and that can be a pretty expensive thing to do and we moved away from that

• 36:28

predominantly when it comes to specific abilities and you know obviously

• 36:34

there's still a lot of work to be done to continue to propagate those changes across not just

• 36:40

from the pc ability standpoint but also on to the npc side as well and that's something that's going to be done

• 36:47

post alpha one from the design team and from engineering so that engineering no longer has to support the old ability

• 36:53

system and combat system um within with regards to npcs um so this specifically when there's a

• 36:59

lot of players in a specific area and the servers having to process you know rpcs and and kind of the generation of these

• 37:05

abilities uh it's not as taxing on the network side um uh to send these these

• 37:14

this this traffic so to speak um so without getting too technical into it you know generally from a performance standpoint

• 37:20

we're looking towards massive you know players participating in castle sieges and we have to design the ability system

• 37:27

the combat system to be most performant in those scenarios so you may not notice

• 37:32

any performance change per se on a like single creature or in a group environment i mean my you might feel it being more

• 37:39

responsive you know quicker um essentially on activation and and

• 37:44

seeing it chug a little less but it's really going to be something that's apparent especially for those of you who

• 37:49

participated in testing over the past like eight nine months as we were leading up into alpha one uh

• 37:55

you've probably seen what you're experiencing now in larger battles and when we did some

• 38:00

castle sieges a few weeks ago that the responsiveness there was no lag between

• 38:06

key input and the activation of particular abilities um and that it is it is performing in a

• 38:12

in a much more um level way and the noise is my gardener

• 38:18

in the background like it sometimes falls on the livestream day so i'm just like there's nothing i could do about it

• 38:24

homies um but i try to mute myself otherwise um but thank you for for giving some more detail to that i think

• 38:29

people love here you know the hot like the minor details then uh just kind of like

• 38:34

overarching stuff um now obviously um the video that you're seeing and that stephen went over

• 38:40

that's not completely done not final we still have a lot of changes that we would make and if we do decide to go

• 38:46

with the the new changes there's like some animation changes and things like that that we'll be making as well

• 38:51

to make it look even better as we move forward so yeah keep that in mind it's important to note

• 38:56

that like what you're seeing here again is kind of bare bones implementation of this non-root motion melee attack

• 39:05

and it doesn't have a lot of the ancillary components that we call bells and whistles so to

• 39:10

speak on the on the base system um so that includes like um you know the

• 39:18

visual effects and the weapon trailing and the impact effects and the camera very minut camera shaking

• 39:25

and the uh audio uh and the audio attenuation and the split body

• 39:31

animation and the torso moving and the um you know there's a lot of components here that need to get you

• 39:37

know touched up essentially or continue to be polished and implemented upon and that's what's really going to make

• 39:44

the combat stand out even more so at least on the front end the visual front end of that thing

• 39:49

um so right now we're just trying to get a feel from the testers like which do you

• 39:56

prefer which is the preferred method of melee combat do you like having that you know

• 40:02

constant control over movement at any given point in time or do you like the more weighted feeling

• 40:09

of that root motion attack and i think that what we've seen predominantly as feedback from players

• 40:17

is they like that more constant control over their character movement and part of the reason why we're

• 40:23

utilizing alpha one to collect information and feedback from the testers and not just testers but from

• 40:29

the audience from people who are watching um the streams and the and the content creators create content around alpha one

• 40:36

is to have people go on the forums go on discord go on reddit go on twitter

• 40:42

and let us know your thoughts on this because right now is a very formative part of

• 40:48

the creation of the game and the more players express their opinions on thing the better

• 40:54

we're capable of gleaning insight uh from the preference of our player base and that's such an important part

• 41:00

of the creation of a game right because at the end of the day we're making this game for you guys so you might as well kind of for us

• 41:07

too you know well you know yes it's my dream game it's our dream game you know it's our passion but at the end of the

• 41:13

day we're doing this for you guys the community so being involved and convincing your friends to get

• 41:18

involved in the discussion you know not saying they have to come and buy the game or participate in the alpha but just

• 41:23

watching the updates watching the development and having that cool component of having a voice in

• 41:30

something rather than just waiting until it's done and it being shoved down your throat like you get to give feedback here and

• 41:36

that's an important part yeah i think that like the the new changes

• 41:41

will be something that pvp players really will really like too because it's a lot more control over your character

• 41:47

um we'll see well we'll see because we used to have it previously and then we moved to the other one

• 41:52

afterwards so yeah you know we're constantly making changes constantly uh you know doing

• 41:58

iterations now let's talk a little bit about the future um going into alpha 2 heading forward

• 42:06

can we talk a little bit about we've already had some of our teams working towards alpha 2 already can you talk a little bit about

• 42:12

what those things are and then also kind of like after alpha one is complete what folks can uh what they can expect

• 42:20

from us i know you talked a little bit about how we're going to take time but maybe go into more details about like what that time is going to be

• 42:26

spent doing and then going forward what they can expect beyond that yeah so um you know typically when you think

• 42:33

of the term alpha right you're you're thinking that all core systems are in place and we've kind

• 42:39

of split up our alpha into alpha one and alpha two alpha 1 not quite having every core system in

• 42:46

place but having some of the more integral core systems uh kind of present and available to be

• 42:54

tested early um so that and the reason for the reason why we wanted to do it that way

• 43:01

is because many of our systems are very interdependent they're very connected to

• 43:06

one another and there are some very centralized systems such as the node system combat um

• 43:13

you know general ai the open world aspect of an unreal engine 4

• 43:18

game the massively multiplayer networking components um performance related server

• 43:26

setup and architecture the distribution of of server processes across an open world

• 43:31

like those are very fundamentally core systems that we wanted to get in the hands of players in

• 43:38

live testing earlier rather than later in waiting for all of the other ancillary systems

• 43:44

that are also core to be present and that's typically what an alpha refers to right as having all core

• 43:50

systems in place but that's really what alpha 2 will be intended to be so that some alphas have just gray box

• 43:56

stuff right well those yeah we would we we would really call those more

• 44:01

um technical alpha or vertical slices of a particular system

• 44:08

right this is this our alpha 1 is a bit more than that obviously but it's but it's not quite a full alpha

• 44:15

in the sense of having every core system in place and that's why we have an alpha 2 because the alpha 2 is intended to have

• 44:22

pretty much every core system in place to some degree or another not fully fleshed out not fully contentized

• 44:29

so to speak but as we leave alpha 1 and start the trek towards alpha 2. that's

• 44:35

when you're going to start seeing more of the content flow in that's when you're going to start seeing systems flesh out a little bit more

• 44:41

that's when you're going to start seeing those systems appear in a little bit more of a polished state and that's when you're

• 44:46

going to start getting to this idea of having a kind of fully fleshed out world because that's the last

• 44:53

opportunity in the game's development lifespan before we're hitting those beta milestones and and really that's

• 45:00

when all the content uh should be in place by those betas um and and being tested and and and um you know

• 45:08

localized for different markets and whatnot um so as we kind of leave alpha one

• 45:13

we're going to spend some time as i said previously tearing things apart iterating based on

• 45:19

the feedback and the data that we collected over the month long alpha we might have some

• 45:24

spot tests after that breakdown period so to speak where we invite the alpha 1 testers back to spot test and

• 45:31

then we might even have some lead up testing by alpha two players where they join in prior to alpha two then the same way

• 45:37

that our alpha one players did for alpha one um that's kind of the expectation uh

• 45:42

that should be had awesome and like i said uh we will be doing a recap uh

• 45:48

article that will go out uh so if you just check out our website ashesacreation.com

• 45:54

news um we will be putting out a recap after after alpha one give us a little time because we wanna

• 45:59

compile the data and stuff like that and we will kind of provide you guys information in regards to

• 46:04

what data we gathered what that's going to what things we're going to be changing and how we're and how it's going to affect that and then also

• 46:11

moving forward what we're going to be working towards obviously stephen gave you just like a gist of it but we do

• 46:16

want to give you a little bit more detail as well um going forward but with that

• 46:21

if you're ready and i just i just want to say one other thing um it's very important to note that you

• 46:27

know our development takes a a little bit different of a course than probably

• 46:32

other developments you're accustomed to seeing i know i've said this multiple times in the past

• 46:37

in the past in the past in the past but um uh you know we're not beholden to

• 46:45

an investment group we're not beholden to a publisher so at the end of the day our focus is

• 46:51

making a very good product and that takes time um and you know early on in our in our in our company i

• 46:59

i made some miscalculations on what that time was going to be but at the end of the day i always said we would take the time necessary

• 47:06

in order to produce a product a game that answers the call of players and makes you guys proud as well as us

• 47:12

and hopefully along that time period over the progress of our development because we do monthly literally every

• 47:20

month we've done development updates where you get to see the progress and now you're at a state

• 47:25

where you get to play the progress and or you get to see others play the progress that's an important part of keeping you

• 47:30

guys assured that hey we are doing the work that's necessary and we are taking the feedback that you

• 47:36

guys are giving in order to create a very good game and we're showing you every step of the way especially now with the nda having been dropped

• 47:43

you don't have to see curated video even though i never really we never really curated videos yeah

• 47:48

all the videos that we've shared are pretty much just live plays of us playing that's why whenever anyone says like oh they're

• 47:55

going to render it i was like yeah just that's how you render a video but that's not

• 48:00

like yes we don't edit anything this is just clearly the alpha one trailer i don't see a lot of

• 48:07

people put out trailers with actual gameplay footage it's usually all like cinematic stuff we showed like actual gameplay to

• 48:14

youtube i remember i remember uh when we did that dragon video and we were i was introducing people and um

• 48:20

uh peter was like uh good as too and then he was like are we gonna re-record and i was like nope we're

• 48:26

going with it and he was like oh okay we're doing it i was like yep but remember that oh gosh that was the

• 48:34

i remember the video before that or i don't even know if it was that video but like i recorded once and the recording failed

• 48:40

recorded twice the recording failed three times recorded the fourth time i was like please please

• 48:46

let this recording work yes so was the rest of us because that was four hours later

• 48:53

i know but i mean i hope you guys see we go through sometimes painstaking efforts to keep you guys updated with the

• 49:00

development process and give you guys a look and and uh and by recording the being the problem it was not the game

• 49:06

it was literally receiving my recording steven's recording program it was my recording software it was

• 49:11

unfortunate but uh anyways no we we go through painstaking process and and maggie and and sarah and the

• 49:18

community team do a great job in in in helping to especially uh

• 49:24

offload the bulk of this work from prior to hiring maggie and sarah oh my gosh

• 49:29

let me tell you that was another source of a headache for me and just a monumental task

• 49:35

and it's only grown way you want to stephen you want like people to have like this this

• 49:41

interaction with everyone like you want like every person to be answered and i'm like you

• 49:46

personally cannot do that please let us know let us take that out

• 49:53

but yes anyways um just to let you guys know like this process this time that it takes to build a game

• 49:58

um it's it's done so in a way that ensures the quality of the product at the end stage is going to be where you

• 50:05

want it to be so um appreciate the patience appreciate you guys um you know giving your feedback and and following

• 50:11

along you know these years uh and know that we're in the going in the right direction and i think we're

• 50:18

we're creating a a beautiful masterpiece at the end of the day so and please be kind to the community team

• 50:23

you know uh peter on social adam and cya sarah and cody on the community front they are

• 50:29

the frontliners for us and i think you know just be kind to them they're definitely trying their best to

• 50:34

interact with every single person that's out there um and you know i do my best to just kind of manage everything so

• 50:40

we're doing we're doing what we can and we hope that we give you guys even with you know our small team like

• 50:46

uh a triple a experience that you yeah you don't get from anywhere else um all right gonna move on to all the

Environment Art Update

• 50:53

amazing art that our teams have been working on so first and foremost we're going to head on over to environment

• 50:59

which you know first up we have concepts art now here's the thing you're going to

• 51:05

look at this concept art and then you're going to see the models coming up afterwards and you'll be like what's the

• 51:10

difference that's how amazing our artists are because here's all the concepts okay

• 51:15

they're going to just keep rolling in and then i'm going to show you what the actual models look like so these are like our fountains our

• 51:21

brazers our weapon racks banners like the banner posts that you're going to see

• 51:27

gallows i think that's the gallery there the podium and a riser and stuff like that so these

• 51:32

are all things that are going to help make the world feel you know more like a world and obviously when it comes to nodes and how nodes

• 51:39

build up we really want them to not be the same you know every time you go in there like

• 51:44

you have like different buildings being placed different like uh types of layouts and things like that so

• 51:51

really what we need to do is be able to create a lot of these things now if you haven't just be clear did you say gallows

• 51:57

gallows as in like where people are like executed holy smokes that's dark i know

• 52:05

well there's also some but don't they just get reborn at the nearest respawn point

• 52:10

maybe i don't know is there a way to like forever for permadeath you know like yeah that's

• 52:16

a good question in some ways galaxies yeah yeah uh

• 52:22

i forgot where i was going with that i'm sorry yeah so like the nodes basically we want

• 52:27

to make sure that you know the world feels different every time and i think that what goes into that is really building up all of the

• 52:33

different buildings and items and objects that get placed um and some of these you'll be able to place yourself in your own house or on

• 52:40

your own freehold so keep that in mind as well you might see variants of this that are for players as well

• 52:46

on that front if you haven't checked out our dev diaries we do have a dev diaries that goes over how buildings are created and how and

• 52:52

also how our nodes are systematically on the back end tech wise so if you're interested in that kind of

• 52:58

nitty-gritty stuff go check those out we're going to be bringing some more dub diaries in the future as well which i'm really excited about we've

• 53:04

been preparing the like the storyboards for those uh for when we're all back in the office so we

• 53:10

can start recording again i missed that that was so fun um i know so now i'm going to show you the actual

• 53:16

assets so this is um a junior fence so you know a lot of

• 53:21

people are asking like how will i corral my creatures or my my mounts and stuff like that

• 53:26

you're going to have fencing that you can place down yeah exciting different structures based on

• 53:35

the advancement of a particular animal husbandry component of a freehold system

• 53:40

and that's going to advance as you advance the freehold building for animal husbandry which expands the types of

• 53:47

creatures you'll be able to actually husband wait husbandry

• 53:53

breed i think

• 54:00

and then here are the banners and the banner posts uh these are uh junior ones and imperium ones and you

• 54:06

saw the concept art now look tell me what the difference is between the concept art and this 3d model like i

• 54:12

just don't know they're so good

• 54:19

we're not going to see any actual people hanging from the gallows in this right no no no oh okay very good here very

• 54:25

good not in this video but the next video maybe i'm just saying well we have shown like

• 54:30

oh i know we've shown mummified spider eaten people yeah steven was very uncomfortable about

• 54:36

it i was like bacon no oh they're in the world you can see them i know uh next up we've got

• 54:43

some cool uh fireplaces brazers candle holders and these are i believe

• 54:49

klar and imperium versions so oh look at that little fireplace good idea what if when people get banned for

• 54:57

botting or like rmt or gold buying or selling that they get hung on their character when band is

• 55:03

hung on the gallows in like the center of town square for like a day or something

• 55:08

no i'm just saying like that's that's not a bad idea the chat's like yes yeah that's not a bad idea i'm telling

• 55:15

you we gotta think the problem is then people will do that just so they can get that notification you realize well

• 55:24

yeah see you're true yeah they're promoting this is why we shouldn't promote yeah

• 55:30

that's a whole lot what if their name is not shown so they don't get the notoriety but they're characters there

• 55:36

i don't know i don't know okay well we'll have to think about that talk about it

• 55:43

here's also some statues these are really beautiful um

• 55:48

so i believe these are kayla statues but stephen you can correct me if i'm wrong yes those are kayla yeah

• 55:57

very nice they're so pretty great statues who did these statues uh i don't have the user joined your

• 56:04

channel oh um user left your channel

• 56:09

i'm gonna guess for a moment i'm gonna guess how how that's my guess

• 56:16

but i don't know uh and then we have some miscellaneous ones here i'll put in my notes in the

• 56:23

future who made each other so like i can have the answer for you did somebody join our live stream yeah

• 56:28

it was tuan he meant to join the live ops channel

• 56:33

uh so we have empyrean uh podium these amazing windows which are also imperium windows look how gorgeous those

• 56:40

windows are i never thought i'd be talking about how gorgeous windows are but they're gorgeous and then we have the klr bridge and oh

• 56:46

the weapon rack but you're seeing some of these things like in-game versus the model and honestly i can't

• 56:51

tell or versus the concept art i can't tell the difference so great job to our environment teams they are

• 56:57

killing it amazing job to our concept art team who has just been pumping out concept art

• 57:03

left and right some of these are work in progress obviously so keep that in mind as we're

• 57:08

you know moving forward you're going to see different iterations of these uh but i always like showing you guys

• 57:13

kind of like the process moving on to character art

Character Art Update

• 57:19

this guy's so cute this is the dredgehorn this part's my favorite

• 57:29

i like the little hairs on his skin yeah i was like i want him to have little spiky bits like little

• 57:35

hairy frog hair bits look at him he's so cool i love like the

• 57:42

i love that how it turned out it's just so freaking good

• 57:48

his neck reminds me i told you of the salon from like lizardmen yeah i used to play warmer

• 57:54

fantasy a lot of tabletop and the salons were like the

• 58:00

big mages of the armies or whatever and their neck kind of looks a little bit like that

• 58:06

next up we've got the polywagon which is a different type of frog and you can kind of see like the body is a little different but we're

• 58:12

using like the same it kind of allows us to use a similar body like body shapes and animations which

• 58:17

helps us make more creatures faster but this this is looking sick i can't

• 58:23

wait to see the animation for him with that caravan on his back yeah the caravan i don't know or he likes sticks

• 58:29

like sticky legs yeah i have to do probably the sticky leg yeah sticky leg physics might get a little weird if he's honest he starts

• 58:35

hopping but it could be fun to like be like a little like bouncing around yeah that'd be rough ride it'd be a

• 58:42

rough ride it would be a rough ride um next up we have our hefty kaplan ooh you get a booty

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shot to start with here um i can't tell the difference between this and concept art really like

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is that a booty do do mushrooms have butts do they have like i don't know but he looks like he's got a booty

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maybe that's just uh his root system like he has two different roots two

• 59:05

different booty roots yeah booty roots i like him though he's cool he's

• 59:12

adorable i was like i want him to be like evil looking but cute and i think because he doesn't have

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a mouth yeah the cap is cool he does he looks like he has a little tiny mouth right in the

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center of his eyes nope no no no what is that is it just the nose that's

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just the speckles they're just a speckle yeah he's got little speckles uh next up we have the terror bird

Steven Elegantly Describes the Terror Bird

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um and if you don't mind kind of chatting a little bit about this guy i'll be right back really quick yeah

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sure not a problem yeah um so this is a bird and he's definitely a terror like

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he's scary to a degree um you can tell he's a bird because he has

• 59:55

some feathers there um feathers on his like as hands right uh also his beak

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is a kind of bird-like so it's a beautiful bird um

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but it's like if a dinosaur had become a bird but not quite yet a bird fully you know so it's still kind

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of dinosaurisque which is the terror part of the bird so he's a terror bird because of the dinosaur-esque

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elements and that's a very important part of being a terror bird uh

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but you'll also notice that he has a saddle and some reins and uh that's important because then people get to ride the terror bird and

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that makes him a mount so he's a mount terror bird um so there you go

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yes yes i've successfully explained the entire concept of how he's a mount terror bird while you were gone oh gosh i'm gonna

• 1:00:47

have to re-watch that uh but i love seeing like the different uh iterations of the creatures and like

• 1:00:54

i think this is this is so cool looking no it is it is very cool looking god i believe jensey did this yeah i think

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this is yeah i think this is jizzy is just no i i really one day we'll get her on the stream i love the colors

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to be fair though when i see its wings i think of like buffalo wings like i would eat that you know what i mean so almost i'd want

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to hunt this creature uh but at the same time it's very beautiful so i would want to capture it as well

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you know what why don't we have in our culinary you know stuff we have like little tear

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tear wings oh that's a good question spicy taverns might have some spicy tear rings

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who which race would make the spicy tear rings though probably either the tulnar or the vek

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i would say interesting beck really i feel like becker like very smart and sophisticated oh they are very smart but um they might

• 1:01:47

have a thing against terror birds because um you would imagine that having kind of

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been um localized to the more mountainous regions and areas they probably are at odds with many of

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the avian species right and because of that you know they

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might have vendettas to to to serve so to speak against those

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avian species of all kinds uh particularly those who derive from more uh

• 1:02:17

dinosaur-esque looking backgrounds because they likely ate some vec i don't think this guy ancestor no he

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definitely doesn't but he's going there you know they want to prevent that species from continuing

• 1:02:29

to evolve into an avian predator that might then pluck them off the tops of these mountains and eat them yeah um so yeah

• 1:02:37

awesome moving on to the next one here we've got our crystalline revenant now this i

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believe is still work in progress but uh look how cool he's looking he's looking

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pretty cool it looks like he got hit with a fireball he's missing his because it's a little gem thing that's in there i think it's

• 1:02:54

gonna be particle effect probably oh nice so he's like an iron man-esque looking uh i probably shouldn't say that but

• 1:03:02

he doesn't look like iron man at all so i think no i know but people get the confidence missing a thing in the chest

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this was part of one of our december sets that i helped design and it's cool he looks cool he looks chill yeah

• 1:03:16

he looks like chill i'm imagining him as like a little pet so cute he looks like a walking ice

• 1:03:21

cave true like you could just live inside his chest live inside of his chest maybe

• 1:03:26

he's big enough that you can just be coddled inside the chest cavity can you imagine like a little

• 1:03:32

have like little reins where you'd like control him inside yeah that'd be kind of cool that would actually be kind of cool now i

• 1:03:38

want like there to be like a uh like a golem or something what is that like a siege at like a

• 1:03:43

castle siege you could summon a giant version of this as a golem and like as the summoner you just climb

• 1:03:48

up into the cavity and just like direct the thing too don't get me excited that's not just like slams into the wall

• 1:03:55

oh that'd be so cool well now we have to do that that sounds

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awesome uh so this next one this next creature is one that everyone

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calls the snores but it is called the wisp welcome and now you're going to see it being created

• 1:04:13

the snores the snores uh i thought you were going to be like no

• 1:04:18

maggie what are you creating this monstrosity you're actually excited about it yeah

• 1:04:24

because originally um this is like a win-win i was like i want a horse and a snail to have a baby and the great

• 1:04:31

thing from a production standpoint is this can use the skeletal rig of the horse with some adaptation but

• 1:04:38

um that's always a good thing i'm sure the animators were very happy with that

• 1:04:43

they were excited i know to see what would come of this we actually we actually have a turntable of this as well obviously in a t-pose

• 1:04:50

that's why his tail is like sticking out i just love the idea of and i've talked about this before of

• 1:04:55

just like seeing something like slugging along and then all of a sudden and you get up to it and it just stands up and starts

• 1:05:01

chasing you it just sounds horrifying and i love every bit of it i really want the like uh space bar

• 1:05:08

animation for this guy to be where he kind of sits down on top of his legs to the point where they disappear yeah and he just looks

• 1:05:14

like a snail without the legs yeah that'd be cool like space bar animation and then he like stands up and you're

• 1:05:20

like and then he stands up and you're like what is this monstrosity and like

• 1:05:25

you know how slugs or snails like leave like a little trail behind them they've got it's gotta leave like a little

• 1:05:30

gross gross slug trail behind it yeah all right anyways moving on from

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there uh we're gonna move into some costumes so we've got our wrath's legacy

• 1:05:44

um here and it's looking pretty amazing i think this is from like

• 1:05:50

2018. a while yeah this was a while ago but it's looking

• 1:05:55

great don't we have like a little does he like does it turn side to side a little bit

• 1:06:01

oh there it goes yeah i have a turntable too of it so i'll share that in a moment i just wanted to share the style i love i love the horns

• 1:06:09

uh the helmet i don't want to mention what it reminds me of but it reminds me

• 1:06:14

of something and um i think it looks really cool it's extremely cool look how awesome

• 1:06:23

that is pretty sick i can't wait to see like npcs in the world that we place uh utilizing some of these and some

• 1:06:30

variants of them oh yeah and last did you say i'm sorry what and some variants of them what variants

• 1:06:38

okay thank you i'm sorry go ahead did i say did i say it no you said it right but i don't think

• 1:06:45

you've seen it yet so go ahead i'll tell you i'll tell you

• 1:06:50

after the stream okay i'm scared everyone else is laughing i'm such an innocent

• 1:06:55

soul i don't know what's happening right now it's neither innocent nor guilty it's

• 1:07:00

just okay all right um next up we have here uh

In-Game Achievable Armor T5

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this beautiful armor piece this is a kailar plate armor i believe it's tier five but it's still

• 1:07:11

work in progress so it's not going to happen this is an important one because this is an example

• 1:07:17

of in-game achievable armor sets and i know many times people say you

• 1:07:24

know we've seen a lot of the cosmetic development and production and that's because we have a significant backlog

• 1:07:29

obviously of those things and they're important part of making the world right but here's an example of player

• 1:07:36

character armor that can be achieved in game just to give you an idea comparatively of what these armors look like against

• 1:07:43

the cosmetics and it's a very important aspect that when we offer these cosmetics that these skins that can be

• 1:07:49

applied to armors that the in-game achievables are actually the best type of looking armors you can achieve

• 1:07:57

right or are comparable at least at the very least because a lot of times in the games that i played

• 1:08:03

you know they incentivize people to make those cosmetic you know shop purchases by making the

• 1:08:10

in-game achievables trash-tier-looking um and this is that is not the case with ashes so

• 1:08:19

uh here's an example you can take a look one of many that will soon be coming out we'll be showing more of

• 1:08:24

we've shown it we've shown quite a few yeah i know we've shown a lot we don't want to show you too much too because we do want you guys

• 1:08:30

to like get excited and experience things too in the game yes but that's important because

• 1:08:35

as i go across reddit and i read people who are uninformed about the game they're like oh there's so many cosmetics and it's going to make the

• 1:08:41

in-game stuff look you know cheap and not good that's not the case you see it here there are 4 600 people watching the

• 1:08:47

stream right now when you see other people say that you can clip this or you can point to this image

• 1:08:53

you can say that's not the case exactly we've shown off a few um but yeah that's

• 1:08:59

not the case i mean have you seen our artists i don't think anything they make it's gonna be bad that's true

• 1:09:04

that's true that's true but yeah i love i love this this looks so cool i like the cloak how it has like that

• 1:09:11

too like a little like tear you know i the the face does remind me a little bit

• 1:09:17

of shredder yeah but i'm saying that i know but to be fair i thought shredder looked badass so that's

• 1:09:23

okay that's true it does the armor itself overall looks very different than that but i can see where people are going with it and now i

• 1:09:29

know what people were talking about previously and no i have not gotten to see that yet because i've been working on alpha one

• 1:09:34

crazy hours so that is a shredder no that was like 20 years ago no no the

• 1:09:40

previous oh oh oh i see yes yes that's true okay

• 1:09:45

um i think that's it for for this so we're going to move into our q a segment and we'll just play the video that um

• 1:09:51

stephen had provided us for the design segment we'll we get through these questions um so i think how many questions do we

• 1:09:58

have because we might ten questions ten questions okay i'm going to try to wrap it around the questions

Q&A

• 1:10:03

i will ask them quick rapid round let's see how quick and if i make any mistakes i'll correct them afterwards

• 1:10:09

sounds good sunscript from the forum wants to know about note buildings what happens to materials gathered and

• 1:10:15

contributed to build a node building if the mayor decides to scrap the project they are lost next question

• 1:10:22

dave n wants to know keybinds will we be able to trigger skills with combinations of different keystrokes and

• 1:10:29

reuse the same keys as part of different combinations yes diego mf wants to know about

• 1:10:36

corruption if i damage a fellow player but then let the mob their fighting finish them off

• 1:10:43

will i gain any corruption no this is an exploit people have been like

• 1:10:48

asking um so it's important to note that the idea is going to be that unless a

• 1:10:56

player is in your party alliance guild or raid that you will not

• 1:11:01

have definitive knowledge of their exact hit point values so when you do something that's sketched

• 1:11:08

like that where you want to bring them close to death and let a a monster finish him off

• 1:11:14

you are taking the risk of overhitting and actually gaining the corruption um so that's but it's something

• 1:11:19

obviously we're going to test yeah and right now you can see everyone's health bars systemically

• 1:11:25

which won't be what it will be like correct uh token wants to know about sprinting will sprinting be based on stamina slash

• 1:11:32

time or will we be able to run forever like in the current alpha one testing um

• 1:11:37

i've instructed design to incorporate a mana consumption that's percentage based for sprinting

• 1:11:42

so it'll be a similar amount of time that each class regardless of their mana

• 1:11:48

values will have in order to sprint and it will not be accessible while in a combat

• 1:11:54

so that will be implemented later and again something we will be testing with and no dallas wants to know and of

• 1:12:00

course i'm sorry if i pronounce anyone's names wrong about fishing do you plan to keep fishing location-based find the

• 1:12:06

sparklies like other harvesting we've seen during alpha one or will i be able to fish anywhere in any water

• 1:12:13

so it's important to note that there will be multiple types of fishing there will be a more sports oriented fishing which may

• 1:12:19

include some type of mini-game as part of in order to fish that will have higher rewards and

• 1:12:24

those will be primarily location based sparklies that are currently you seeing in a

• 1:12:29

in alpha one the whole gathering component of alpha one is not the intended gathering for

• 1:12:35

the actual game you will not be seeing sparklies on resources and out in the world that's just a a a

• 1:12:41

kind of gap measure right now so that we can indicate to players because we haven't had time to implement the actual ui

• 1:12:47

and the actual uh gathering systems in place so there won't be sparkles and then

• 1:12:53

additionally uh there will be a type of fishing where you can fish with any water but that will be a much

• 1:13:00

more lower form of fishing that will yield much lesser types of rewards

• 1:13:05

yeah i think we've kind of answered some of that in the past as well uh maybe not that specific question

• 1:13:10

though um frog and knight song gur wants to know about religion will we

• 1:13:15

be able to worship the others and build temples for them in divine

• 1:13:21

in a divine node not well no you won't be able to build temples and no you won't be able to temple to the

• 1:13:27

others and divine notes and you will not be able to worship in them in the same way that the primary

• 1:13:32

religions have worship uh however there will be quest paths that do take you

• 1:13:38

along a more darker route which can lead to uh certain types of

• 1:13:44

of worship for the others all right alex xavier wants to know

• 1:13:50

about projectiles will projectiles be separated from their respective weapons example will i need

• 1:13:55

to buy such craft arrows for my bow that is a good question that we're still discussing in design so i don't have an

• 1:14:02

answer yet for you okay and magic man wants to know about ships how early into our adventure will

• 1:14:08

we be able to own a ship um that's a good question i i would say

• 1:14:14

probably around like level 10 or 15 you may have certain quests that that

• 1:14:19

navigate you towards creating a small personal vessel uh one of the smallest types of ships

• 1:14:25

that you can have um i would say that's probably around the time frame that we would introduce characters to naval

• 1:14:31

gameplay and revuda wants to know about item transfers

• 1:14:37

are players restricted from transferring materials slash resources between alts through freehold storage similar to

• 1:14:43

the restrictions on warehouse storage um if the question is with regards to

• 1:14:49

materials i would say no you will be able to

• 1:14:55

have alts be part of your access requirements or

• 1:15:02

or settings on um housing and or storage within that housing

• 1:15:08

okay cool and jalon wants to know combat pets but again to be clear i'm sorry to be

• 1:15:13

clear that storage is localized so it's not going to be advantageous in the sense that

• 1:15:19

i could then use an alt to transfer or move materials by accessing it from another

• 1:15:24

storage container so yeah go ahead thank you for clarifying

• 1:15:30

jalan wants to know about combat pets if you have to invest some portion of your power into having a

• 1:15:35

combat pet how soon after it dies will that power be returned to you

• 1:15:42

that's a good question i think the power gets delegated as the combat pet is summoned

• 1:15:48

right as a combat pet is when it when it despawns you would presumably and again this is

• 1:15:54

subject to testing you'd presumably be receiving that uh power back immediately and you know

• 1:16:00

summoning a pet you can't just like insta right uh and one last question is from

• 1:16:07

kibs or kibbis and they want to know about gear what are your plans to keep old gear relevant useful after new expansion

• 1:16:14

releases and i like this question yeah so a big component of gear usefulness or relevancy as either

• 1:16:21

you're progressing or as expansions come out or whatnot is that there is a deconstruction method

• 1:16:26

associated with gear and that deconstruction can provide very specific and necessary crafting materials

• 1:16:32

that can only be achieved through deconstruction of certain types of gears and then additionally you know as we

• 1:16:40

kind of consider expansions and and additional um

• 1:16:45

itemization paths and and tiers going forward the all gear is going to remain relevant

• 1:16:51

within the tiers that they exist right so from a progression standpoint as you achieve access to different types of

• 1:16:57

tiers those gears are still going to have relevancy within that tier awesome and that is going to wrap it up

• 1:17:03

you did pretty good it was pretty quick stephen yeah got it you did a good job um

• 1:17:09

and with that we're going to be wrapping up our live stream for july it has been a crazy month for

• 1:17:15

us we're very excited to have lots of people testing with us we know that we have a long journey ahead of us towards you know alpha 2

• 1:17:21

as well and we appreciate all of the feedback that you guys have sent us continue to send us feedback on the

• 1:17:26

forums and all of the social platforms you can find us at Ashes of Creation everywhere if you're watching live right now we are

• 1:17:32

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• 1:17:38

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• 1:17:43

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• 1:17:49

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• 1:17:54

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• 1:18:00

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• 1:18:07

2nd in regards to that and you'll be able to join us starting august 5th for our alpha 1.

• 1:18:12

um remind you that we do have a new dev discussion and guild gathering coming up in august and we really really implore

• 1:18:17

you all to give us your feedback um we'll be also compiling uh the feedback from those other threads from

• 1:18:23

july coming up here soon so get your feedback in as quickly as possible so that we can snag those up and of course the august cosmetics are

• 1:18:29

going to be swapping over on august 4th at 11 a.m pacific for the new set

• 1:18:35

um i did tease a little bit of one of the the items and people seem really excited

• 1:18:40

about the pet for next um next month it's very nature themed and of course uh there's an alpha one

• 1:18:47

play test happening right now reminder that alpha one will continue until august 13 at 11 a.m pacific

• 1:18:52

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• 1:18:59

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• 1:19:05

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• 1:19:11

other people to be able to see you know genuine experience from players who have been helping us test

• 1:19:17

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• 1:19:24

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