Talk:2021-11-19 Livestream

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[Music]

Intro

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hello everyone welcome to our glorious ashes of

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creation november development update we hope that you've had a wonderful month

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um it actually hasn't been a month it's been two weeks yeah i was gonna say it's been like just slightly over two weeks

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yeah um obviously with the holidays we kind of have to adjust and judge around

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our stuff a little bit so the november livestream is a little early and that also means the december

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one will be a little early due to holidays i think we should be back to normal in december we usually try to do

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these the last friday of the month in case you weren't aware of that but you know sometimes stuff and life

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gets in the way and you have to adjust it dang holidays i'm just kidding

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um of course i'm margaret crone i'm your community marketing lead and with me today is as always our wonderful and

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glorious creative director stephen sharif how have you been hello wait you're wonderful and glorious as

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well we need to make sure we include that as part of your intro i don't know about that i'm uh potato

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uh i've been good i'm i just am recovering from that week-long flu i had which was terrible

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um and then you went into a 24-hour livestream the whole time i'm like stephen are you sure you want to do this should we move in a week because that

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was that was rough that was definitely rough but you know what it was for the kids and it was cool um but yeah no thing i'm

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i'm doing good how are you doing i'm doing all right um you know i like your little rooster

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oh yes uh what is that it's my my sorcerer pet for my pathfinder campaign

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that i play i have like a brahma chicken that's my like oh that's a familiar yeah that's my

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familiar oh that's cool uh emotional pet and its name is pecker and you can imagine where that goes um

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that is pretty awesome uh we have a good time though

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i like it's not it's it's i'm with my friends we have fun um but yeah i just realized i forgot in

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the haste to get the water you forgot the water no no i got the water okay but i forgot my intrepid shirt oh yeah you

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always wear that i know this is terrible terrible do i have like a backup

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somewhere in the og times when everyone was wearing their own temperature and i wasn't they're like why does margaret

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not have to wear it i was like no one has to wear the shirt they just all decide to wear it

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i think it looks not that flattering on me personally no it looks good it looks good um

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but you know everyone has their own vibe that they're going for anyways if you haven't tuned into one of our

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development updates before um we usually go over quick reminders i promise today is not

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as long as last time i feel like it was a very long reminder last time we went over all the glorious score winners but

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you should go check those out if you haven't and of course we have our studio update design update environment art update

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character art update and a little q a as well so thank you all for submitting your questions i'll get right into the quick

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updates here first and foremost we had our Extra Life um event which was amazing we raised

Reminders

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over thirty four thousand dollars as a group so thank you so much um we have amazing community um we know that you

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know you could be spending your time doing anything else um so we appreciate everyone who tuned in everyone who

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uh donated and everyone else who kind of ran their own little teams or at their own stream streams as well as part of

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our little team and we raised a lot of money for a good cause uh the recap is over on our news

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post you can also see a little video that is you know crams all the 27 we actually

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did 27 hours uh it puts all the 27 hour bits until about 30 minutes so a little

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bit more consumable if you want to check out some of the great moments uh see our characters and all of that jazz

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we know that people have questions about the lore that was unlocked we actually have more than three parts of lore and

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we'll be releasing those throughout the next months um next year we want to um fix up

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those videos a little bit and redo some vo because that was like my first pass on vo and we were just trying to like

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get them all ready for the live stream um but we really do want to make them really nice and we'll put them up as articles as well as have some images of

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our in-game pictures and screenshots for you so yes oh yeah

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i'll do the little the little tunar hello for you um

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but yeah you can check that out and also rady's made a wonderful video if you want to understand

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what all of the money that goes or like what all the little bits and pieces of

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of things that they they do uh oh my gosh i can't talk what money

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is used for there you go um and she even talks about like she breaks it down into pieces and and specific amounts so if

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you know you donated 35 what that goes towards if you donated 50 what's that what that goes towards so we really

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appreciate that um beyond that we've been doing um obviously we have

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our next cosmetic update uh just as a reminder that the homewaters

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homecoming cosmetics that will be swapping over on december 8th to the december set so if you want that go

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forth and get it and in our latest dev discussion

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we asked you do you prefer to set up your ui very minimally covering your screen with as

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much information as possible or something in between and what ui information is absolutely essential to

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you and you all provided some amazing feedback we've compiled that we'll be or we will be compiling that i think i

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haven't seen that report yet um but that will be coming over to our dev team and of course we will have our december one

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which is kind of perfect for the theme that we have going on here which is holidays

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and this kind of incorporates like would you like to have in-game holidays that you know correlate with the holidays

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that we have currently those type of things so definitely give us your feedback on those i think those are always really

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fun um would you like to build a snowman oh sorry i like that song a lot i know also you

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can hear steven singing in the recap oh no oh no no no we all sang if you want to watch the whole video not all of us a

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good portion of us saying but stephen is amazing and we put him in the recap of course beyond that we had our guild gatherings

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um which is what tools do you wish you had in navigating the politics of guilt to guilt conflict and the next uh month

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one is a spicy spicy one it is about spies and intrigue

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so keep an eye out for those in december of course and as a just a reminder in general our

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content creator program is still taking applications those will close down at some point so that we can review them um

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so please get those in there if you're interested in your content creator or if you know one send them our way because

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we would love to have them join us and beyond that um i know i talked last month about the web update but that's

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continuing to go forward um they're still working on a lot of the behind the scenes stuff for the sso the 2fa the

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security and as well as the support web pages and mobile pages

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the designs are already done with those now they're just in the implementation phases and testing phases so

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we're hoping to have those i found a i found a shirt oh oh my gosh you changed in between

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did you like did someone come and like bring you their shirt and be like let's swap baby no man

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whose shirt are you wearing steven whose shirt are you wearing buddies this is my

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shirt not really whose shirt is it i'm totally

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i'm totally good who is somebody said who shirtless in the office

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oh no it's probably an hr issue yeah that would be an hr issue [Laughter]

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um but yeah that's our updates uh like i said i was gonna be quick this time around we've got a lot of other stuff we

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want to show you and talk about so i'm going to kick it over to you steven to talk about studio updates

Studio Update

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yes well it's only been two weeks since our last studio update so there's not an incredible amount of update to give

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um things are still going well we had our Extra Life live stream that was a

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great boost of morale for the studio it always is to see how amazing our community is during that during that event

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um things are still going good on the hiring front um we are having our second potluck in the

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office today which is cool i'm excited about last time we had a live stream a friend's giving theme this this month

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yes it is a friendsgiving theme um excited about that um we're doing some board games as well

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yeah board games also there's not really too much of an update from the last update honestly between yeah we're still

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waiting on some furniture uh we have some murals that need to be painted and things like that so

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um you know we're not quite ready to do a tour like i said it'd probably be next year

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we get that question a lot um and once our live stream studio and stuff is set up we will be doing that in

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person again and we'll have many guests that will join us throughout those live streams as well

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but for now it's just easier if i do this set up here um versus trying to do it all from the

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office yeah i did a i did a walkthrough with our designer with john and our interior designer for

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the studio um pointed out all the spaces for the art the murals for the ashes of

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creation art to go up with um you know got a lot of the ancillary stuff so that was kind of recent update

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on the studio you know it's funny during kickstarter we had a package i think

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that um entitled people to come and do an in-person tour i think this is that

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like i think that's phoenix initiative right yeah yeah i think that's even higher um so it's going to be fun and

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exciting to have those people out yeah walk them through the process and let them see all the departments and you

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know how it we'll have a whole we'll have a whole thing planned for them so it'll be a very good time and you'll get

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to hang out with a lot of developers and we'll make it fun you will have to sign an nda

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yes i mean if they haven't yet they will have to um

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but yeah we will be reaching out to um i know there's been a lot of questions in regards to just to go back

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to the kickstarter topic in general um as we get further in development we will be reaching out to people about those

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specific things that you unlocked like i know there's some things that you get to design and stuff

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like that or work with us to design or you know your statues that kind of stuff so those things we will be reaching out

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to you but just those will be later we're still in the alpha phase of our game obviously so

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you know not quite ready for that yet this shirt's a little tight for me i think

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is it a medium or a swim it's a medium normally where large but yeah

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well it's kind of a crop top actually a little bit but i won't stand up so it's okay

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i'm just kidding it's a little cropped that's great you are pretty tall so that

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is true oh my goodness all right well beyond the

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studio and obviously like we said this is pretty quick between now and november december 1 we'll probably have quite a

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bit more and i think we're going to try to do a thematic one kind of like we did for halloween so we'll have a lot of fun

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you'll definitely want to tune in um beyond that let's move on to the design stuff i know you have a video do you

Design Update

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want to talk a little first about what design is working on and preface the video and then we'll play yeah

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absolutely so over this actually over this last week we had a lot of design

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discussion on combat and the direction that combat has been moving towards post

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alpha one and where it needs to be for alpha 2. i think there's a lot of exciting

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prospects for what players are going to be testing out even leading up to alpha 2

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there's some prototyping that's being done as well in league with those conversations on combat we have we've

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had a lot of lively um lively and passionate discussions with the design team on that front um

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but it's very important to note and you know we've said this in the past obviously that during those phases especially alpha one

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where we got player feedback we were able to do you know some minor adjustments during alpha one

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there's a lot of major things that are occurring right now even in these prototypes for alpha 2

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um that i think is going to have combat in a really nice place for alpha 2. so

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um there's been a lot of development of that over the last week can you talk a little bit about the

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possible changes that may be coming to combat i know not i yeah i know it's not quite like decided on certain things

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because i know you guys are going to be prototyping some options uh for changes but it could get some people who

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especially our theory crafter folks who love talking about that stuff um a little little juice yeah i mean

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a lot of the discussion has been you know revolving around how

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the camera perspective works from an action a non-action based you know perspective

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tab target versus action right there's a lot of discussion about you know what unifying that approach might look like

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or and continuing to offer you know two modes um how that's going to share

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across abilities we've discussed in the past giving players the opportunity to spec into more action-oriented skills

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versus tap targeting skills there's some prototyping that actually

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i think is going to be explored here and we'll see how it pans out that

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allows for you know skills to have a dual purpose in that sense potentially

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uh but on the flip side of that coin there's also um the idea of of keeping to what is um

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you know having skills be specifically in one domain or the other but making sure that they they are

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they feel good between either mode that players might play with right that's that's going to be a big endeavor um

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additionally you know talking about performance and how projectiles work on the server and how

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um you know do we want to be able to lead a target you know what's the ramifications of the hitbox dilemma that

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we've discussed having universalized hitbox so that you know players are all players aren't going to be focusing on

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making tiny characters to try and subvert that component let me live my

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gnome live stephen well i mean you can you can be a small character we just

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don't want it to be a small character that's competitive for the sake of having a smaller hitbox right so we've

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played i feel like a lot of us and many people in chat oh actually i'm curious just for a little interaction if you're

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on youtube you can put you can do this too uh put a little um one emoji in the

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chat or if you're in chat right now just put the number one if you have ever played a small character because it was

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advantageous i i never have played i mean i've always seen people play small characters but i

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never really personally liked playing small characters so i always i usually played like i am a small character so i

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feel like i do i do try to like play big characters sometimes because it's like i

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get to play the fantasy of playing a big i want that like six foot four elf you know or it's like six two human ogre

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i've i've played like a big ogre in og everquest like her name was shladuka it

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was amazing she touched people with her shaman abilities it was great oh yeah but there's been you know a lot of a lot of

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fruitful discussions a lot of great passion among the design team we have great designers on the team and um you

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know it's really always fun for me to just not only hear the passion but here the great ideas during these you know

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proposals and changes that that we're wanting to prototype and and do and i love being part of that you know

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discussion with that with the team and they're just very talented individuals so

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you know big props to the design team um you guys out there you're going to see their hard work come to fruition in

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alpha 2 but right now just know that they they are they're putting the best foot forward um

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and discussing many things with stephen i feel like you look exhausted sometimes at the end of the day i'm like are you

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okay buddy dude dude go get you i have i

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you know it was understood that post alpha one there's just gonna be

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you know a lot of discussion around design-oriented components yeah and and

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that's a very good thing in my opinion especially when you have you know such a group of talented designers that can

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come together and have fun talking about what we all have a passion for which is making a great mmorpg and i think

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you know it's it's always wonderful to see the passion for ashes that our team has and um you know sharing our culture they're

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passionate absolutely i can hear those meetings oh yeah i know

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that is funny um but just to preface the video you guys are going to see in a moment you know we've said obviously

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over the last few live streams that during this process uh in moving towards alpha 2 a lot of the the front

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end of that timeline is going to be things being ripped apart things being

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changed things being you know implemented um and because of that

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we're not as able to show you those work in progresses until a little bit later when they're more solidified and

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presentable um so this video is going to be another little video showing off some of the some of the mounts in the world

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um you guys are probably getting a little bit like stop showing us don't show me mounts anymore

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that's gonna happen soon it'll happen soon but um we have been telling you guys like um you know right now they're

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doing there's a lot of stuff going on and we can't show you all of this all of it

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like right the things that the engineers are working on um especially like the character creator stuff and some of the

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um like combat things that they're working on for prototypes like we we can't quite show you that side yet but i

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tried honestly last night i was in the dev branch and i was looking at some of the advanced um you know uh um

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locomotion for the for the character movement and uh

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animation and engineering have been working on alexi and chris and uh alexi

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canole and and chris meyers have been that looks cool i've seen so many i'm changing a lot of that and and incorporating even some additional

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traversal methods as part of character movement like being able to mount on top of objects or rocks and being able to

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move in that fashion um and it does look good but they were like please don't show it yet

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yeah so that's the other side of it too right like this yeah some people aren't quite ready to

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share and i think like from the perspective of developers we want to be

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proud of what we share and yes we do want to show you guys like the work in progress which we will but it has to be to a state where like people are proud

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enough to share right and so um what you see every month is kind of like what people are prepared to share um

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hopefully maybe next month or or maybe in january when they're i try i i like i said i logged into that dev branch last

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night and i as i was logging in i had one of the developers messaging like i see you logged in what are you doing on

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the dev branch and i was like nothing i'm just looking and they're like don't show it for the stream tomorrow it's not

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ready and i'm just like all right fine but i saw that you were asking about the

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locomotion stuff it is really cool i've gone over to um alexis desk and he was showing it then

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you know we were discussing some of like the repercussions that come with that too right like um from that perspective

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whenever you do add that type of movement and interaction with objects then the question comes like

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when you're in the middle of combat and you're like holding on to a wall what happens and like those kind of questions

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right things like that so there are still some unanswered questions that they're you know resolving on the design front for sure um yeah yeah so the video

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is just going to be um a little fun 11 minute long video in the world of alpha one um but yeah all

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right we'll talk over to that and we will see you all momentarily

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hello glorious Ashes of Creation community this is stephen sharif i'm joining you on another

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awesome stream day it feels like we just had a stream actually it's like less than three weeks ago

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so as i've said in the previous few streams

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we are currently in the process of working towards alpha 2. that means a lot of stuff is work in progress a lot

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of stuff is being torn apart and iterated upon

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but that does not mean that i can't show you some interesting things for example

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we have some new mounts it is our awesome character and animation team

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that have created some pretty cool looking mounts and i'm going to show you a few of them today as you can see we are

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looking out over the beautiful oceans of the alpha 1 environment and

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i want to show you just a few of these mountains so which one should we start with first

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now some of these you have seen in the previous uh

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live streams um but not in game yet so

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you know actually considering we are in a beach environment let me see

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i should be wearing some appropriate beach attire

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oh yeah there we go all right perfect we are ready for the beach

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um should i have the cape yeah this is good all right first up we have

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the glorious looking frog i think wait where's my frog

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oh no oh there we go yeah

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look at this little dude with this cool looking horn thing

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he looks pretty cool i wonder how he moves

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oh he does the hoppity hop he's just hopping his little life away

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you know they say these guys are pretty good swimmers too he does have some webbed feet let's take a look at his

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swim actually it might be a little cold let me see is it cold yeah it looks a

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little cold put some uh and put back my

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my shirt because we're going to go in the water there we go

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all right let's see how this guy does underwater oh there he is look at him he's a little

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swimmer oh he's a great swimmer

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he's just swimming his best life he just keeps swimming

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just keep swimming he should have like some type of tongue

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attack where he just like snatches up a little fish or something

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yeah i like his little swim animation oh it's great

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let's see how he does on on shore

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get him over there and see if he can hobbity hop hop around some of these crabs

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[Music] little known fact crabs are actual natural predators

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of multiple frog species

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oh yeah that looks great the animation team did a great job with this guy the model looks really good

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loving it very cool

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how big how high can he jump

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i kind of like how he does like a free fall with his arms and legs spread out

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all right let's take a look at the next one put this little dude away

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all right next up what do we have i think this guy the maelstrom

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you know my hop bar is not working [Music] oh that's great i love the uh

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the spawn animation where it just kind of comes out of the ground of course my character has an awesome

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uh writing stance just kind of like yes carry me forward

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look at this little squiggly those little squiggly feet little squiggly tentacles

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[Music]

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oh this guy he has some pretty cool movements

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[Music] his uh

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he has like barnacles or something along the outside

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of his shell i wonder what type of

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animal husbandry capabilities are going to be had with these types of mounts huh

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maybe instead of these little tentacles that are floating beneath him

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they're like little fur tentacles instead oh i wonder what his idol animal is

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let's take a look ready oh he does like a little spin

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oh that's so cool let's take him in the water

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let us go deep into the depths of the ocean

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okay he's struggle busting a little bit in the water it looks like but he's keeping me dry

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let's go down that kind of feels like the land animation a little bit

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[Music] it's kind of cool though

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i like his little face his little eyes

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this guy's awesome all right let's see who we have next

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now this guy this guy is

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chunkster as you might call him a little bit of chunkster

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let's see the verdant voyager so we have the dredgehorn little toad

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frog dude with the maelstrom's crown now we shall try the verdant voyager

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he's a big boy he's a very big boy

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let's see what happens when we do his idol oh he lays his head down maybe a little

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yawn yeah oh oh my god oh wow let's not do that again

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he has like little mushrooms he has his own ecosystem on his back

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that's awesome [Music] it's like

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cool that's pretty cool

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all right let's take a look at him oh yeah he's got like a

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total like alligator crocodile looking run

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oh the jumps not bad yeah

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kind of does the whole fish out of water look

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that doesn't have any sounds yet but that's okay

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let's take them out in the ocean oh this is going to be like a total like

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placid lake look i bet yep oh yeah here we go

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oh he is a predator looking for food

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feed me he needs some type of like large

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marine life that he can just aim to eat

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i love the swimming animations oh this guy is pretty cool look at oh

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look at the weight and water

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his hand movements are really weird that's pretty cool

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i'm just out here looking for some dinner eat some food

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oh yeah this guy's great love his animations

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no we should do we should speed up

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sorry this little cough um recovering still from unfortunate sickness

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but let us speed him up a little bit

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[Music] all right get ready about to take off we're going to go warp

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speed here in a second

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[Music] rock i just want to jump him off the top of a hill because i really liked his um

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his jump animation wait for it oh look at that got a little

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grayscale dragon over here some griffins all right here we go mega chunk mega chunk jump

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mega chunk jump incoming in three two

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oh wait nope nope oh i didn't do the chunk jump shoot i'm sorry let me try that one more

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time just real quick run back up there i just want to do the whole fish out of water look

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all right wait for it can we get back up there

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all right here we go mega chunk jump incoming three two

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no no no no no oh darn it all right well

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i tried anyway anyways guys um as i said we are still

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heavily working on uh alpha 2 stuff you'll be seeing more of that in the future streams as we have said

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previously but in the meanwhile i hope you guys enjoy this little look at the introduction of new content in the game

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new um creatures new mounts for you guys to find discover adventure with uh and

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create the world of errors coming to life and we're excited to have you as part of that journey so i will see you guys back

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on stream here in just a second

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all right i'm sorry

• 32:46

i tried to get the chunk jump because i liked his little fish out of water animation for the jump yeah i was moving

• 32:51

too fast and i didn't i didn't jump prior to flying off the side of the mountain so i couldn't get it yeah i was

• 32:57

like maybe you didn't turn off the speed the speed boosties that you had um but people were talking about like

• 33:03

footprints in the sand and stuff like that we'll definitely be adding those additional things um oh yeah sorry um so

• 33:10

yeah um a lot of the sound effects are not in yet for these creatures these the crea just the creatures are in so

• 33:15

they're still polish of course on um some of the animations on um the sound effects and uh some of these creatures

• 33:22

also have visual effects that have yet to be implemented as well like i know there's going to be a little bit of like you know glowy orb stuff at the bottom

• 33:29

of the maelstrom you know for the tendril stuff i think it's all oh that wasn't swimming quite bro oh yeah yeah

• 33:36

swimming animation yeah i'm not sure although to be fair i'm not sure how you differentiate his floatiness on he's

• 33:41

very bloated he's got like a big shell going on i'd imagine his swim animation could take those little tendrils and

• 33:47

have them all kind of like push at once you know and that could be his swim component right um but yeah

• 33:54

yeah but we're glad you guys like it so far i saw a lot of nice commentary

• 34:00

yeah is there anything else you want to add on the front of design stuff before we move on to

• 34:06

environment um um

• 34:12

not really much that i can think of outside of last that couple weeks ago update um

• 34:18

yeah just uh a lot of a lot of proposal changes uh moving into

• 34:24

working on some of the uh prototyping for those changes in the uh alpha two

• 34:29

maybe we can show some of the prototypes oh for sure yeah absolutely yeah we will be sharing some of those prototypes yeah

• 34:35

so stay tuned and we will want feedback from the community absolutely the reason we would share that is you know we want you guys

• 34:41

to give us feedback on that prototyping as well um so expect that in the future

• 34:46

all right well let's move on over to our environment goodness and we've got some cool stuff first up

Environment Art Update

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here we have a little junior camp environment set and

• 34:59

you know as they were talking about in the previous month um they're you know starting to do some klr stuff too so

• 35:05

you're going to be seeing more of those um and some more empirian stuff so i'll

• 35:10

share that next up we've got a few empyrean items very beautiful

• 35:17

we've got some candles here i like that targeting dummy

• 35:23

the target stuff is really cool this one has little apples on it too which is fun

• 35:29

oh yeah that's cool yeah and then we've got some folding chairs i love that you can

• 35:35

fold up the chair too so you can you know set it up hide it away um kind of a navigation tool set

• 35:43

that can be put on desks or on on various different objects um

• 35:48

you've been seeing a few different boats that will be kind of seen in the scenery this one is

• 35:54

specifically an imperial one i think in the past we've shown some other different types of row boats and such

• 36:02

what do they call this a little uh a robo is it a robot or is it like a skivv i

• 36:07

think it's called oh maybe i think it said rowboat on the thing so and it had rose and it's probably robo um

• 36:13

some more table pieces oh look at that artichoke now i want some like artichoke and

• 36:18

spinach dip i don't think anyone brought any artichoke and spinach maybe next potluck

• 36:24

there's a lot of food though i'm sure now who did these props was this um i don't provide names for me for the props

• 36:31

a character art did provide me names for everyone who did them got it

• 36:38

i like the platform i see i foresee that a mayor at some point will

• 36:44

step onto this platform and give good reasons for why he should be elected or he or she should be elected again maybe

• 36:49

a stage for a bard or poetry jam or something could be fun i love this desk it's so pretty

• 36:57

and then kind of dividers and you can see it open and closed

• 37:03

now these are concepts that's concept yeah yeah signpost concept

• 37:12

oh yeah the signposts look great all right and then moving on from there we've got some kaylar

• 37:18

goodies um i believe there's quite a few lighting fixtures

• 37:24

um they get some good zoom-ins on these pieces too which is

• 37:29

the noble lion yeah the detailing is very nice some

• 37:35

vases bosses in there basket of fruit

• 37:41

and you can kind of see it in game it's a little gift so that's why it's like looping like that oh that's cool

• 37:48

yeah they put it in the scenery i was like that's cute um and then this is a beautiful dresser

• 37:55

i think they've had they have a cabinet as well somewhere a little side table

• 38:01

i just can't wait to decorate our freeholds and stuff it's gonna be so so cool

• 38:07

that is a big highlight for me i do love decorating yeah

• 38:12

i told you about the story one time when i was playing um another game that had housing

• 38:19

had housing and decor inside and um you could be pushed around in this game

• 38:25

if you went afk and i would often go afk and i got like pushed in a cart

• 38:30

into a boat and then taken on the boat to an island and then pushed off the island

• 38:36

shore into the house and then the house's door must have been closed behind me or something because i

• 38:41

could not find a door in this house but there was a table in the center of the house so i was i came back to my

• 38:48

character and i saw there's no door i don't know where i am i'm inside some house

• 38:54

and in the in the house there was just a nice little rug in the center there was this table and

• 39:01

on the table was a gun and next to the gun was some bullets

• 39:06

and stephen terry has taken a turn

• 39:11

i didn't do it but i was like this is actually really great like this

• 39:19

is cool they were able to do this but uh yeah i i i poured it out of the house but

• 39:25

you know i've had it i think not that dark but i've had a situation where i had to be like

• 39:32

boarded up into a house to do some crafting and then i had to have like the door unlock and i had to have a group of

• 39:38

people escort me to uh a vendor to just to submit the items that i crafted

• 39:45

because we were trying to get like the level one or the max level crafter you know first

• 39:50

server first and it was just crazy because people would be like outside the house waiting to like murder you

• 39:56

so that you couldn't get it because the other the other guild was trying to get theirs to the first it was madness

• 40:05

the stories that story is dark stephen like i said i didn't do it but it was it

• 40:11

was hilarious honestly because not so much the gun and the table but the fact that there was no way out of

• 40:18

the house i i don't personally even understand how that happened yeah i don't know how that maybe hmm there was

• 40:24

nothing legitimately there was no door oh weird i wonder if it was i don't think you can craft like

• 40:30

that's what i'm saying there's no available house yeah that house was like pre-set pre-made so i don't know i know

• 40:36

which game you're talking about all right let's move on to character stuff the the first thing we have here to show

Character Art Update

• 40:42

you is the black scale inverter and i mean this looks awesome we don't

• 40:47

really have a ton of clothes that or costumes armory that show off a lot of skin but

• 40:54

here you go here's one of them yeah this looks great is this this is eli um this is eli yeah

• 41:01

yeah looks very cool very very cool did a great job on this one yeah

• 41:07

so i would love to see this armor show it off too it's nice i know right

• 41:12

i would love to see this armor though on like a really out of shape character you

• 41:17

know like a total beer belly like in the middle of the of the

• 41:23

of the armor yeah that would be awesome i'm sure i mean you will get your dream

• 41:29

people will make weird characters if you allow them um that's something on the character art side where they're kind of

• 41:35

deciding um i know catkins was talking to me a little bit about it in meyers about how you know what where is that

• 41:42

maximum slider for all of these different races how far do they want people to go and the crazy

• 41:48

uh options that they can create uh stephen himself has created some um monstrosities i'll

• 41:56

just say what yeah i mean that's part of the fun of the character creation you know it's like

• 42:02

you get to make them your own so to speak and you know it's it's of course it's nice to look at a fit you know

• 42:09

character but it's also cool to look at look we ain't all fit i know right like

• 42:14

i'm not fit no i'm not even and yeah i like how you're like no you're not

• 42:20

no you are you you're not it's not bad you're not like fast hr is watching hr is watching no just

• 42:28

kidding

• 42:41

anyways no i think i think the character creators should allow for you know significant body body type differentials

• 42:48

because i think that adds to the flavor oh the chat's killing me i'm like crying okay

• 42:55

you heard it here folks i'm not that bad stop stephen

• 43:02

you just had the harassment training i'm just joking

• 43:10

oh my god i did so many hours of her like it's a harassment prevention training stephen

• 43:16

prevention i thought it was your training to harass no i'm just kidding oh no

• 43:22

oh my gosh sorry we're a little kooky it's friday guys

• 43:29

it's friday before a big holiday week uh next time we're just gonna that didn't happen

• 43:36

when i walk out into the potluck with my crop talk crop top it'll all be fine

• 43:43

we're going to move on to some amazing stuff that ginsee has done which is this is the jaded dredger which

• 43:49

i'm like in awe of seeing this creation because obviously this came from my

• 43:56

crazy mind but seeing it like as a 3d model is amazing she's such a good job

• 44:03

i love it yeah i like how i like how you can see i mean it looks like you can see a little bit in the front legs

• 44:09

like a cut there at the top of the leg yeah wonder i wonder what type of variant legs these things can have

• 44:17

yeah he's like what kind of master this is steven he wants to make monstrosities you guys you guys give me

• 44:23

you gave me uh like haggle you haggled me for like the the snores being a thing with the

• 44:29

whispering well but uh what kind of things are in steven's mind that's what you got kind of somebody in

• 44:35

in slack i think said this reminded them of that what there was a movie called the great wall

• 44:41

and they had little creatures in the great walls yeah guys yeah they were talking about it yeah cause we give them a little his face yeah kind of reminds

• 44:47

me of that oh yeah that's right the pi guys yeah i was i sent them

• 44:52

i sent them an alien like aliens alien for like the face inspiration and then

• 44:58

uh the body was like a like a big mastiff bulky dog um and then

• 45:04

kind of like a dinosaur fish type of finn thing so and then it's cool yeah it

• 45:10

looks amazing they did a great job jensey did a great job yeah thank you gentsy um moving on from there jincy made some

• 45:17

stallions everyone's always like where the horse is that we got some horses for you um this is one of them

• 45:23

oh and this was a touch-up because we've shown this in the past but this got this got a second pass yes and we've touched up this too

• 45:31

they're a little bit more bulky too it looks like as well oh some variants i love the peacock

• 45:36

variant and this is is this uh

• 45:42

i don't oh no this yeah i remember what this was originally this particular horse design was the like seattle

• 45:49

wasn't it like the seattle horse or something wasn't it a pax horse i can't remember

• 45:54

oh the base horse that but the base horrors and then these are variants potentially that can be found in world

• 46:00

and stuff and then we've got the purgle and he's got a little little video with a little

• 46:06

audio he snorts like a little pig oh look at him or her

• 46:11

it yeah i don't know or i think it's more of her right now it doesn't have a

• 46:19

i don't know it looks it looks so cute yeah

• 46:29

um but yeah it's super cute they can hear the little snorting too that's why it's so it has a it's very cute

• 46:36

moving on from there we're heading to our q a so i'll play i'll play the video in the

• 46:43

background that stephen didn't um so you got something to look at instead of just looking at our faces

• 46:49

um but we'll move on to our questions so thank you guys for submitting questions we usually always put that out early um

• 46:56

so you can get your questions in be sure to you know follow us on social so you're reminded of those things or if

• 47:02

you just check the forums every once in a while we always let you know um our first question here if you're ready stephen yeah

• 47:09

i was just thinking about it i was just thinking about the pearl yeah i'm like i can go back to the pearl but no i was just thinking like whether or not the

• 47:15

pearl is gonna have this like almost gremlin-esque attitude in what it does

• 47:20

where it just like steals things and like causes like a little mayhem

• 47:26

um i can't remember the lore i was trying to remember what the lore for the purgal is i think that he's supposed to be like uh you're like uh

• 47:34

someone else will know right away like a little trickster i don't remember if that if his lord he

• 47:40

looks like he has that there is a creature that has a trickster oh yeah that's the troll with the

• 47:46

the fireworks oh yeah the troll for sure is this little guy this little guy wow somebody said who's

• 47:53

down for a pearl barbecue oh my gosh you guys

• 47:59

the lure for this was an uneventful and seemingly ceaseless guard duty can take its toll as boredom

• 48:06

is as dangerous as any blade thus did the guard come up upon a solution

• 48:11

through the diminutive purgle a deceptively intelligent and apathetic creature the pearl is trained to

• 48:18

accompany and even entertain those of the guard who begin to feel their sanity slowly erode from monotony

• 48:25

their favorite activity is to watch the royal ceremonies unfold where they have the best view perched on a pauldron

• 48:32

red heart asks if you feed it after midnight or get it wet does it just duplicate

• 48:41

so they're very uh they're made for entertainment so totally i could see them like doing some

• 48:47

silly stuff taking someone's helmet and oh yeah yeah for sure

Outro and Q&A

• 48:53

all right what are our questions what do we got first question we've got is from barkin and it is about gear sets will we

• 48:59

be able to save gear present presets and swap between them with a key press while

• 49:05

out of combat so kind of like setting up like your pvp set you're done we literally had that question come up

• 49:12

in one of our um design meetings last week i think the answer is going to probably be no that

• 49:20

you won't be able to do a hot swap of your full gear set with a button

• 49:25

um i think there's a few reasons for why we want that to be the case um

• 49:30

if we were to implement a feature like that it would not probably be um an

• 49:36

option while in combat um so yeah they asked for out of combat specifically

• 49:42

yeah so yeah if it was out of combat maybe i think maybe yeah yeah i think it from my my

• 49:50

personal side effect i like being able to like swap between like my pvp gear or my raid gear or my dungeon great gear or my rp

• 49:57

gear you know gotta have those outfits man um all right our next question is from

• 50:03

nostra and it is about sieges yeah i think and just real quick i'm sorry just on that note um

• 50:09

i think really the actual discussion was in combat we wouldn't want that to be the case but out of combat i think that

• 50:14

actually is going to be fine um but yeah yeah yeah and their their question was

• 50:20

specifically out of compact perfect nostro wants to know about sieges is the siege scroll

• 50:26

declaration specific to a particular node id node type or node advancement

• 50:31

stage it's a node stage yeah the scroll is specific to a node stage okay and

• 50:37

then happy happy meal 24 wants to know uh skill trees considering

• 50:43

the team is looking at a potential skill tree for active blocking are there

• 50:49

other skill trees being considered for example stealth or sneaking

• 50:55

um so active block so i think the uh discussion right now on

• 51:03

the design team side in this you know is part of our prototyping um is

• 51:09

that players will likely have access to universal skills

• 51:15

so you know outside of your class specific skill tree there's going to be a subsection of a

• 51:20

few skills that are universal like active block like dodge and

• 51:26

i think what we're going to do or at least what we're going to be discussing here

• 51:32

is those universal skills will have progressions that might align with your

• 51:38

passive tree and you can spec skill points into progressing additional features of those

• 51:43

universal abilities that you will have access to

• 51:49

so i think that's probably going to be the direction that we're going to take

• 51:54

okay awesome and then just fine wants to know about nodes for economic mayorship will there

• 52:01

be a way to see campaign funds or contributions or will gaining mayorship

• 52:07

be kind of like a blind one-shot that's a good question i think the preference would be to

• 52:15

have that be um have that be uh

• 52:21

something that the players are made aware of um so i think as part of that election result

• 52:27

uh there would be an accounting of of that oligarchal type election method

• 52:35

all right next question is about server stats and this is from kozizu ko zezu i don't know if i'm

• 52:43

saying your name right you can let me know in a discord dm or somewhere how to pronounce it properly um i do see some

• 52:49

of you guys do tell me how to how to say your names properly so thank you i don't want to

• 52:55

say it wrong i just don't know how um

• 53:03

do you plan to surface server stats such as how many players of a certain archetype slash class there are on each

• 53:10

server um that might be information that we share on a

• 53:17

time to time basis but it's not going to be yeah like in graphic but it's not going to be like oh i can go on the website and look

• 53:24

up my server stats and population stuff right like if we do share it it'll be a

• 53:30

something of our you know choosing a time or whatever not an accessible data point that the

• 53:35

players would have access to we have discussed potentially allowing people to show some of those details in regards to

• 53:41

their guild recruitment sorry there's a plan oh yeah if you hear that wow is that a plane yeah

• 53:48

sounds like a something um yeah no uh from a guild perspective that's a different story if

• 53:54

we're talking about server stats um that's that's one thing but guild stats we do want to surface uh to the guild um

• 54:02

and even even filter who gets to see that information in the guild

• 54:08

yeah we come by knocking on everyone's house what class are you this year no i'm just

• 54:14

kidding [Laughter] um but yeah i just wanted to preface that

• 54:20

um on the guild front we'd we'd you know recruitment side we want to let you guys show that data

• 54:26

um next up we've got our friendly neighbor speaking of which uh wants to ask about pvp permissions do players

• 54:33

other than those in my party and guild have the ability to pvp within my freehold's zone of influence

• 54:41

well freeholds don't have zones of influence the question is are

• 54:47

players allowed to pvp within my maybe freehold then i would say

• 54:54

probably not i think the freehold is intended to be specifically the freehold uh isn't send

• 55:01

is intended to be a protected area okay but the town gets siege and the town gets

• 55:08

destroyed yeah if the cow gets destroyed the free holds up for grabs and it's it is it is a pvp area it becomes a pv it activates

• 55:16

yeah the the protection area is disabled for that period of time the big shield holding you together your

• 55:23

town together in deforms no i'm just kidding um and blood rage

• 55:29

no i'm just kidding get pac get patsy wants to know about world bosses when killing a why uh a

• 55:36

world boss will there be world effects or will it just drop loot

• 55:41

like will it affect the world and have there there will be ancillary effects that

• 55:46

happen as a result of particular world bosses being downed yes

• 55:51

um not always not every boss um but um certain ones absolutely

• 55:58

right and i think that's all the questions um there were a lot of questions that were asked in the thread and our lovely

• 56:05

community team um lieutenant toast and and vaknar will be answering those for you guys i think

• 56:11

most of those were all repeated questions that we've answered in the past we try to only grab the kind of new

• 56:17

ones or ones that are take are taking a new take on stuff but we do try to answer all of those so if you

• 56:23

um asked a question you didn't hear it answered here make sure that you go and read that post whenever they post that i

• 56:29

believe that will be later today um and yeah check it out get you see what your

• 56:34

answers are over there many of the questions that were asked were ones that we've already answered so we like to

• 56:40

make sure only the newest information is here in our in our live streams but with that i think for the first time

• 56:47

we're doing an hour stream we're like we try to do this for an hour but stephen and i talked we just talked

• 56:53

too much um and we get very excited yeah and just want to reiterate to

• 56:58

everybody um you know as we've said before we want to take our time and make sure

• 57:04

that we're creating a quality game we know we know what it's like for games to be rushed we know that

• 57:11

it does not serve anyone to rush something

• 57:17

out the door as you can see hopefully in our updates you know we are very focused on quality

• 57:23

because we want to create a very um a very long and enjoyable

• 57:30

you know experience that ashes is going to offer the players so we 100 appreciate your guys's patience

• 57:36

um we appreciate you guys coming in and and supporting us with our monthly updates with our events that

• 57:44

our glorious community team helps to foster and the community

• 57:49

and we will always continue to keep you guys updated and and let you see the progress that we're making here at

• 57:55

intrepid yeah we really appreciate it thank you all so much um obviously if you want to go

• 58:01

check it out we did our Extra Life um recently we did 27 hours a little more

• 58:06

than our 24 hours but you can go check that out over on our news page where we have the recap of it um you'll if you

• 58:12

want to see steven singing i recommend it there's also a ton of other fun things that are in that recap

• 58:19

beyond that we do have a new dev discussion and guild gathering coming up please please please we implore you to

• 58:24

give us your feedback on those because that helps us you know decide how we make you know design and make this game and

• 58:30

of course we're going to continue to provide more updates for you guys in the next coming month so you'll definitely

• 58:36

want to tune into december and january as we move into the new year um and of course the december cosmetics will be

• 58:41

swapping over on december 8th uh we always let you know that in advance but you know always like to give you a

• 58:46

reminder um this video will be over on our youtube whenever it gets done exporting and uploading and all of that

• 58:52

jazz and of course right after we finish here it will be available on our twitch channel which you can access and of

• 58:59

course follow us on all of the places we're at Ashes of Creation super duper easy to find us we're on instagram

• 59:05

twitter facebook all the places um so we'd love to see you have uh joined conversation with us over on the forums

• 59:11

and over on discord uh we're there daily so you know come come chat with us hang

• 59:16

out um and get excited for alpha two we're gonna be showcasing the development as we move

• 59:22

forward towards that milestone and um we'll talk a little bit more about that in the upcoming months absolutely thanks

• 59:29

everybody bye everyone doodles

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