Talk:2022-12-02 Livestream

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Intro

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Hello everyone and welcome to our November development update.

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We hope that you've been having a glorious month and it's definitely been one for

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us. We constantly have so much going on but you know that's all good. Of course we are

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in the festive November season going into winter. I got my turtleneck you know I hope

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you guys all have your hot cocos or pumpkin spice lattes whatever whatever you're into.

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How are you doing Steven? I am doing great. We had a very fun little recording session

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I think you guys are in for a treat today. It's a little over 40 minutes of gameplay

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with some cleric action and some night sky fun stuff and there's a lot of good things

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I think you guys are gonna have a fun time watching so I'm excited. 100% I kind of gave

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everybody a little hint in chat that it was going to be a long stream so buckle yourself

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in guys we're gonna be in for a little longer of a ride today but you always enjoy whenever

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we're I think the bingo card might have a long stream on it so we'll see if we hit the

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marker for it. But of course before we get into all the things we have some reminders

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and things of that sort so I would like to say reminder that we are going over what our

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covering today is going to be reminders as Steven said we're going to be going over cleric

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update which also includes some night sky and constellation fun and we also have a character

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update which will be a little bit shorter and then we have a studio update which will

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be also probably pretty short and then we have our Q&A. I will be taking questions during

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the video as well so if you are asking stuff you'll see that I usually pull some things

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from that if I see if I see things that I think need to be clarified because sometimes

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we say stuff when we're playing but you know when you're playing and talking at the same

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times sometimes you don't clarify everything that you know you need to so we'll touch base

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on those things. So for our quick reminders first and foremost we want to say thank you

Reminders

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to our lovely YouTube subscribers. If you would like to be you know spotlighted you

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can head on over to our YouTube channel whenever we upload the development update if you subscribe

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to our channel and you leave a comment you could perhaps be selected and you must make

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it available for people to know that you're subscribed so that we can see you. So for

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today's question PapaSmurfs6834 is our lovely spotlight and they had asked or mentioned

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in the open world PvP system will there be a prevent attacking innocent option that when

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turned on will prevent me from accidentally attacking a non-corrupted player. I say this

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because griefers are often very good at making you attack them by accident. Good question.

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So there's a few things here first and foremost is that the open world flagging PvP system

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requires the what we call force function in order to initiate an attack against another

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player and by default that's even against players who are already flagged though not

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against players who are corrupt and they're in the settings you will have options by which

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you can auto you can persist that force function if you wish through another keystroke input

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and then additionally you can set your AoEs so that if you initiate an AoE attack against

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a location and there are flag players there you will either you can set it so that you

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can automatically hit those flag players but by default it doesn't. So those are options

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in your in your settings that you will have access to and be able to adjust. All right

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thank you for that Stephen we appreciate it and of course thank you Papa Smurf for being

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we love a good Smurf supporting us and our development process like I said if you would

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like your comment spotlighted and perhaps your question answered all you have to do

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is subscribe to our YouTube channel and when we upload our development updates every month

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just leave a comment in regards to what you would like asked and you could be selected.

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So with that we have a little bit of reminders today is not too many we want to thank first

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and foremost everybody who joined us for Extra Life our community raised over 77.9 thousand

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for the Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Holy smokes! Located all across North America

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the Children's Miracle Hospital will treat over 32 million kids this year alone and children

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receive care regardless of their family's ability to pay so you've helped literal miracles

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happen and absolutely and guys can I just comment real quick Margaret I mean I know

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we've said this the field goods are great but honestly if you think about the practicality

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of what that dollar value means and the fact that as a community we were capable of achieving

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this accomplishment now bringing our grand total of Extra Life involvement over the past

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several years to nearly a quarter of a million dollars that is something that is is truly

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significant and it really I mean it's it's difficult sometimes to understand what that

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impact is not seeing it you know face to face in action but it really makes the world of

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difference for a great number of children and the fact that you guys showed up and as

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a community we were able to achieve that together is truly remarkable especially given the fact

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that we are still in development so I just want to say we are we are setting the right

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pace the right example as an MMORPG community in showing what's capable from the gamer population

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to to do good in the world and really big props and kudos to you guys in the community

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that was really something that was amazing give yourselves a hand it was awesome I'm

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truly impressed yeah I can do a little round of applause yeah oh you got the sound effects

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of course I got the sound effects but we also want to mention that as a teaching hospital

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radius children's hospital not only helps children every single day but they also train

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future generations of doctors and nurses so we're super proud of our community thank you

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so much everybody and as Stephen said we've raised over $247,000 throughout the years

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and we that would not be possible without you all and it's pretty amazing to see the

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gaming community come together for a great cause for the kids yes thank you so so much

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we super duper appreciate it and of course we also have our monthly cosmetics just as

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a reminder if you are not aware these will be swapping over the wardens in the wilds

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will be swapping over on December 14th 2022 at 11 a.m. Pacific reminder that all of these

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are things that will help us build the world so these are NPCs creatures buildings that

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you'll see in the world and these are just skins so you won't you'll see them in the

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world as other pieces and NPCs and so if you want to get tidbits of lore of how they'll

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be affecting the world it's a great way to kind of get a little hint I know you lore

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junkies out there always like give us lore I'm like we give you lore every month and

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sometimes it's really long lore there's some good ones in there definitely check them out

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and of course we're gonna move into our cleric update slash day night cycle constellation

Cleric Update

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madness it's a lot so let's even first and foremost a preface this video thank you thank

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you thank you thank you so as always I have to preface this for those of you who might

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just be tuning in for the first time or aren't a regular attendant to our monthly updates

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what you're about to see is a work in progress towards alpha 2 bear in mind that art gets

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better performance gets better the gameplay gets better the primary purpose of us showing

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these on a monthly basis is to give the community an update on progress but also and the more

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importantly to elicit response and feedback from you guys because we are a transparent

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development process and that means the world to us from an iteration standpoint it helps

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direct us and we are capable of directly engaging with our community which is probably the most

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important component of a development process so as you guys are watching please keep that

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in mind please make sure to go and comment on the YouTube video it'll be uploaded after

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this stream in its full 4k glory and then in addition go to our reddit go to the YouTube

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go to our forums on Twitter and give us your feedback your comments what you really liked

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about the showing today and where you feel that there's room for improvement that's very

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important you are going to see a little bit aspect of the cleric you're going to see some

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components of the night and day cycle I think for the first time seeing a transition from

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day to night you're going to see the the use of the feature set for constellations you're

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going to see and learn a little bit about undead and how certain types of energy and

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elemental components will influence the ability to do damage to different species types you're

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going to see some of the advanced AI today as well you're going to see a beautiful biome

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within the riverlands it's actually near the alpine forest it's a little bit higher in

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elevation although it is still in the riverlands you're going to see an awesome cemetery you're

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going to see a lot of fun stuff and then we will come back and we will be chatting with

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you about it afterwards so enjoy.

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Hello everyone and welcome to yet another stream in the world of Vera. I am joined by

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two absolutely awesome and stellar developers on Ashes of Creation with whom you have actually

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experienced a live stream with before they are our glorious engineer Keenan. How you

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doing buddy? Good how are you? I'm doing good happy to

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be here with you again and then we also have one of our senior game designers Mr. Trap

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how you doing Trap? Hey good to see everyone again good to be back. So we are in a new

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biome that actually I don't believe anyone's ever seen before. Where are we? We are in

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the it kind of looks a little bit like the alpine forest but actually this is a part

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of the riverlands. This is up near the alpine forest area so you're going to see some western

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larks and eastern hemlocks. We're obviously at a bit of a higher elevation if you look

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off to the east over there you can see kind of where the starting area for the alen humans

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or the excuse me the Kalar and the Vellun would start in Alpha 2 down in the basins

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of the riverlands but we are somewhere else and the reason we're up in this higher elevation

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is because we want to show to you guys the night and day cycle a little bit of some of

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the cemetery areas with some undead and there's some constellations I think we're going to

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be taking a look at today as well that we're going to get a good vantage point from up

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in this elevation. And also you may notice two familiar characters we have the ranger

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that you guys saw a little bit Keenan you're playing the ranger right? Yep. Alright now

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don't there was a lot of commentary about my playing of the ranger and some people didn't

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think I played it very well so we're going to have to make sure that you're on your game

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today with that ranger. I'll show them how it's done. Taking your job. Exactly. And then

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we also have trad you're playing the fighter right? Yep. I'm going to have to substitute

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as the tank role of the party. Oh that's the actual tank. That's right we haven't shown

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off the tank yet so the fighter is going to be our tank today which I think is fine. Let's

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start heading let's start heading down this way a little bit what do you say? Let's go

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let's do it. Let's do this. So what do we have today with the cleric trad we're going

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to be looking a little bit at the cleric and some of the new weapons the mace and the staff

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is that right? That is correct we've got a two-handed staff and a one-handed mace shield

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you'll also see four new spells that the cleric will be casting and I won't spoil too much

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on that you'll see them as we start getting into combat here but now Keenan you play a

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cleric as a main in your MMOs is that right? Yeah I typically play support. And what is

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the most fun aspect of cleric gameplay for you? Hmm. Back of the bull. Put you out of

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the spot. For me it's making sure it's being able to ensure that the party wins. Yes that

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is definitely the role I think of a support any any good player knows that supports win

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and lose games in my opinion apologies to all non support players but you know when

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you think about the oh let's hold on let's pause here this looks like a little bit of

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a scary area and as a matter of fact let me see if but you know we might need some supplies

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in here let me just see if I can chop down some trees you know what I think there was

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some some oaks down here these oaks might come in handy later we'll see but you know

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when you think about like cleric gameplay that whack-a-mole that trad said that's that's

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kind of I think what a lot of MMO players are accustomed to right yeah probably it's

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like it's like following your your party's hit point bars in the health bars in the the

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party window and just clicking between them and making sure you're like maintaining rotations

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and cooldowns on your heal abilities you know saving the really high mana usage ones for

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emergency situations and just ensuring that your resource management as well as like you

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know who your tanks are who your fighters are if a DPS gets out of position and starts

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taking a bunch of damage like they're ruining your your your mana management essentially

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right so it's a little bit of dependency on like your party as well as your own rotation

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yeah it's a very reactive play style that I like a lot of you know a lot of time when

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you're playing DPS it's like a lot of things are kind of predetermined with your rotation

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and all that and obviously there's like reactive elements there that you're reacting to out

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external variables and the the encounters and such but you know with with clerics there's

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generally not as much of a rotation you're kind of responding every moment based on what's

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happening to your party by the way there's a lot of predictive opportunities as well

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like making sure that you're in the right place at the right time right yeah absolutely

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all right let's dismount and see what we got up here these look like some skin walkers

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who what are these skin walkers trad you want to talk to us a little bit about them these

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are just one of your basic fodder enemies like you know they're they're not too dangerous

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individually but you know in a pack they could be something to concern yourself with so you

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don't want to pull too many of the time but let's take them out and see what happens not

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too bad not too bad all right it took some damage there a little bit of damage there

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that wasn't too bad let me actually hold on let me adjust the master volume real quick

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audio you guys are gonna see some outstanding ui work that's necessary i'm just gonna pull

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down this little bit there we go all right so that's still got some ui work to do on

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the settings panel but you get to see it in all of its work in progress glory so they

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did do a little bit of damage to you and talk to us a little bit about um oh wow those guys

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got actually got a little bit beat up must be those uh buffs on chains oh yeah i actually

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did i i didn't actually even can't get to cast chains you got to cast it just didn't

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do too much yeah exactly so one thing we were trying to set up there that will of course

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get to see a little bit more showcased and some of these tougher mobs inevitably coming

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up here is uh some class synergies uh this particular one is where we demonstrate setting

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up a status effect called stagger you'll see a floater text pop up here i'll show you don't

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kill him don't kill oh actually you won't see it on my screen yeah but basically it

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sets up a status effect you can see a little bit of a vfx over his head and then um as

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you see there stephen followed up with chains that uh triggers a stun on any target under

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that effect already now up here i believe is an observation area where where i am gonna

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speed up time now we talked a little bit about um showcasing kind of night and day and up

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here if we make it past some of these this is this is like a cemetery right looks to

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be that way oh yeah these dogs are these these poor dogs i feel terrible about them let me

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oh there's some zombies up here okay we got it coming oh they're they're starting to move

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too fast though you can kite these oh my god everyone what the heck was that so much for

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guiding all right get ready drop a stun on them or is it on cooldown nope i got it all

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right oh no i accidentally canceled it oh god hold on group you here we go okay we're

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doing okay i got you i got you there's some of them popped out of the ground oh i love

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the charge effect and it looks like they're oh my god a dog came i think we're hitting

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respawn we need to keep moving oh god i'm gonna pull them up this way yep now you'll

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notice my main heel actually can act as a as a damage if the enemy target is if the

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target is an enemy and actually that can generate as a mechanic for the cleric um some convictions

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tell me a little bit about convictions trad sure yeah conviction is a class resource we

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came up with for the cleric specifically certain abilities will generate it based on certain

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criteria and as stephen was saying there you can either use it to heal an ally or you can

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use it to do damage to an enemy and generate conviction which will then help you in the

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future heal for more so kind of what keenan was saying about predictive play being an

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element not just reactive that would be the one of the predictive aspects of the cleric

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just kind of setting yourself up so that when you know things start looking a little rough

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you know you've you've kind of prepared that in advance by not healing as much early on

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and paying off later now at this point i think players are for the first time seeing one

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of the moons of vera and there are a few moons actually a vera um but you guys are going

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to witness me speeding up time because day and night cycles in the ashes of creation

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are actually over the course of a few hours between those night cycles so you're going

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to see the trees move all real rapidly and you're going to see the sun drop rapidly and

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then you're going to see the night sky begin to form and we're going to try to identify

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some constellations if we can because constellations and ashes of creation actually have a very

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relevant purpose across a whole host of different game systems including on the narrative side

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on mechanics like acquiring certain types of relics for your node on empowering certain

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abilities and or items that you have access to and it is of course relevant that i am

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playing as a vek uh vek as many of you may know uh do worship and obviously study the

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stars so let me see if i can go ahead and speed up that time standby there it goes the

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trees look i love it it's kind of like time machine a little bit oh and the moon changed

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positions it's now dead up in up and we see another one of the moons now of course as

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you guys may know this is of course a work in progress right we're working towards our

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alpha 2 so some of this stuff will likely change especially on the art side but i love

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what the new skybox is doing and and i mean it's just visually great the ambience of course

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changes now to include a different nighttime feel to it and the lighting actually in the

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night is not too bad i mean it gives you that kind of sense of of dark darkness but you

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know it's not inhibiting your ability to play the game um now we are trying to look we need

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each of us to kind of look in the sky in certain directions to identify um one of these constellations

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and i think what we are looking for um is what was once called a begor amount but now

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is called a uh dawn breaker i believe so try to look all around as you can in the night

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sky and identify the location of the dawn breaker where is the dawn breaker i am not

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yet seeing it are any of you seeing it i don't see can we not find the dawn breaker maybe

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we'll find another one of them um where is it hold on it should have told me where it

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was oh there we go we found the dawn breaker do you guys oh it's right next to the destroyed

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moon oh that'll help yeah there we go yeah oh it looks so good i love it now this is

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that's oh it went away sad sadge um now there is supposedly another uh constellation that

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is deeper into the cemetery if we want to progress that way what do you guys think let's

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check it out yeah but wait before we go let me give us all just a group blessing the four

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of the three of us sorry i've got a buff before let's do this i think that'll wear off long

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before we get to use it oh yeah i gotta conserve your mana i know well i'm trying uh are we

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going oh thank and healer going different ways uh-oh we gotta gotta avoid the pulls

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yeah uh i think i might have pulled one there's one coming over this direction oh god they're

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here where where are you oh okay you you guys take care of it the zombies will never catch

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us nice we got that worst where you're at there we go yeah it looks like we aggroed

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one here let's just get this guy real quick oh i got a lot more than one oh my god okay

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let's tread carefully around these cards apparently we're doing okay i think maybe i should take

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my staff out for this oh you know i haven't shown any active blocking yet that's another

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thing i wanted to show you guys is the active blocking are there creatures down here yeah

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there should be a pack down here i think all right let's take a look what is this this

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is a graveyard oh that's a respawn point a resurrection different kind of graveyard yeah

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i love this environment and the fog on the ground is so what oh behind you is that oh

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my god here oh god i'll let you tank for a little bit all right i have my active blocks

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up oh boy there's a lot okay he doesn't seem to be doing much damage to me but of course

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it would normally consume stamina is that correct red oh that depends we're still kind

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of discussing our resource systems but you know that is one thing that we can potentially

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explode oh don't stand in that oh no what do those do i know doug and um doug and chong

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were working on these omens yeah using some of our new ai systems right don't stand in

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the green fire don't stand in the vomit actually hurts a lot let me see if i can generate some

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convictions oh i have convictions oh and now you can see because i have convictions my

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cleansing wave actually bounced to an additional target that's pretty awesome three of us that

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time yeah that's nice that is very nice all right let's keep moving forward did i hit

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all three of you guys i have so i notice i have some conviction buff on my on my life

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bar right now yeah uh you hit one additional target for each stack you have oh my god you

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guys are hearing um my steam i think apologies i'm sorry i'm recording from home all right

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here we go there we go let me see if i can generate some more conviction it worked these

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zombies aren't too bad so the more convictions that i generate the more amplified the abilities

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become is that right that is correct and obviously as you know we generate we create more and

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more abilities there will be more interactions right now you know you only see four but you

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know the final kid will have way more than that going on i'm gonna take my staff out

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we must show these beings the way of the light talk to us a little bit about the way of the

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light actually how does radiant energy and energy subtypes work with regards to damage

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and creatures so the basically we're gonna have different damage types and certain damage

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types will be strong or weak against certain enemy types so you'll have to be somewhat

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you know smart about who you're bringing where or you know what kind of abilities or specs

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you know obviously you'll be able to do the content but you'll have an easier time with

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certain contents you know if you're using a certain spec over others so you know obviously

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we're going up against undead and as is natural they're probably going to be a little weaker

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against your holy magic than keenan's nature um elements for example wow kenan you gonna

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talk to you about your nature like that i do like that i do like i do like when we go

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up against the air elementals maybe keenan's time will shine oh there you go i like the

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uh the actual uh different synergy between um energy types and vulnerabilities of certain

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creatures there's actually a lot of mobs here um yeah we should be careful before going

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forward we got things behind okay let's grab some things behind whoa whoa did they anger

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me because i'm a clerk that was crazy they kind of ran at me they might i think they

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were coming at me and you were just in their way very interesting it's all right we got

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this i have to move forward with coffee all right let's get these guys up here i should

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use them to generate some convictions actually oh yeah me a whole dps it's not in my it's

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not in my nature oh no i've got my dps hat on um talk to us talk to us a little bit oh

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wait are you gonna pull here so i think they're seeing us from over here trying to trick us

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and lure us into this oh yeah oh no oh they got you they found me somehow it's all right

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bigger balls more xp all right i set them up for a stun nice perfect now talk to me

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a little bit about why that stun just happened uh i set it up with whirlwind and it applies

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the staggered effects and chains of restraint will stun any targets under the staggered

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effect so right now that's one particular synergy but as the game continues to come

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together and you see more and more abilities there will be all kinds of ways to set up

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that that outcome so even more yeah a lot of a lot of essentially the different combat

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mechanics that work between the different archetypes and classes rely on synergies

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in the progression of certain types of status effects right that's correct and this this

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of course emphasizes the need for certain party compositions to exist so that players

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can make sure they utilize the strengths of their different types of status conditions

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and the the example we're showing here obviously is the progression of oops sorry uh is the

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progression of the staggered condition into the stunned um we might need to find a place

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to rest here yeah i didn't let's move forward up this way maybe right like up here let's

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get back in the wolves we got one zombie coming in from behind that's all right let's take

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a bit you want to grab these wolves and you'll see because they're stunned the chains actually

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go through the body that's kind of cool what about right here can we rest here let's um

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let's move up the stairs a little bit just so we don't catch a respawn on the wolves

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too okay can we take a seat maybe up here right right here yeah let's sit down hopefully

• 34:36

the zombies don't follow us too far i'm gonna take a seat i think we have aggro still yeah

• 34:42

they're coming for us nothing oh no okay all right all right all right

• 34:52

i know take a break after we get these guys down

• 35:10

this wave i promise oh apologies can't use my abilities oh no if i was a bit higher level

• 35:25

i could help you regenerate your mana yeah one thing we should be doing is focus firing

• 35:29

these guys um one aspect of the zombies is they have more health regen than your standard

• 35:34

mob and so when we used all right i want to get strategy against them is to burst them

• 35:40

down let's rest right up here well just before we go yeah there's some mobs right up there

• 35:47

right here right here right here oh there we go this has been a frightful journey actually

• 35:55

um yeah and one good thing about this is yeah you can see kinan's mana um was a little low

• 36:04

there and so as you know a classic mmo thing to do is to sit and rest as you get your your

• 36:10

resources back now what if you have certain types of items that you could use like a campfire

• 36:14

or some type of you know bedding or something that'd be kind of cool that'd be pretty cool

• 36:21

it would be cool i like the just the the subtle fog that's just flowing through it's the rain

• 36:30

is nice too yeah the rain is nice i like the sound look at those old lampposts i think

• 36:36

that's been in the game since 2017 although it looks like the materials might have gotten

• 36:42

updated all right i'm feeling refreshed should we all right so we've got a group right ahead

• 36:52

of us here oh god no no no not like this oh no no you're dead gotta come in you are going

• 37:01

to die there is nothing i can do for you oh my god uh focus the scholars scholars first

• 37:12

why is there so many that's all right three down skinwalker oh i can't it's on cool down

• 37:23

okay here comes oh my god there's dogs ambush houston houston together oh i almost got stuck

• 37:35

in between all of them too that was terrible oh hey we actually handled that not too bad

• 37:44

got it uh that was close i think we want to go this way right yeah i'm super slow though

• 37:49

they put some type of plague debuff on me last time we got lost in here it was it was

• 37:54

a rough time now remember we're looking for a particular type of constellation i believe

• 38:02

the ancient scholars of the vec refer to it as the great sundal whoops i totally misfired

• 38:12

that oh rib how many look nobody look oh these zombies look great though

• 38:25

kenan i have to say you are doing a great job with the ranger well done carrying the

• 38:37

group yeah you are carrying us where are we headed i'm just i'm just running man this

• 38:47

is like a giant complex of undead speaking of undead this is the first time i think we've

• 38:54

ever shown undead in ashes in fact these particular undead are a result i believe for those of

• 39:10

you who were watching the live stream of the wreckage of carfan the event that occurred

• 39:15

there just before the exodus from from vera all those years ago now where are we got another

• 39:27

same locker this is an ominous passageway i don't trust it i like it i also love the

• 39:43

light effect that it has on my what what is the name of this set this is like the vindictus

• 39:47

is it uh man oh that armor set yeah you know we probably have already shown it on the stream

• 39:56

so all of you oh we will show you but i believe it's the imperious and vindictus or something

• 40:02

along those lines that sounds right it's a very latin sounding name whatever it is latin

• 40:08

what is latin this is vera oh my god keenan i think you just summoned those with your sniper

• 40:18

ability they felt the nature all right generate some more convictions here

• 40:35

i murdered it a little bit of help from me a little bit oh was that you doing that damage

• 41:00

i thought that was definitely me got to keep the healer safe yes that is true that is the

• 41:11

primary role and responsibility of your arctic keep me safe oh i like how they kind of pounce

• 41:19

at you that's their opening attack yeah so you see now the effect has staggered applied

• 41:29

instead of stun because i did not use it at the right time with my fighter all right we're

• 41:41

coming up across a bridge it looks like sure you rest maybe risky with the real idea if

• 41:47

we rest we should probably move off to the side over here where i want to take a seat

• 41:51

by the little keenan's like nope i'm gonna rest right in the middle of the road got to

• 41:56

get those tickets by the river it's a nice little spot yeah it is a nice spot i don't

• 42:03

trust the water why nothing bad happens in the water it's just the depths think of all

• 42:11

the secrets that the depths contain perfectly safe dark rivers in fantasy games a zombie

• 42:17

is totally not going to jump out of there and eat me alive out of the water no that

• 42:22

would never happen now remember for those of you who are watching during the extra life

• 42:26

event the tower of carfen actually rests upon a river and some of the energies that were

• 42:33

created when lamont actually did oh oh oh god oh they're shooting like necrotic pulsing

• 42:43

oh god there's so many there's a lot i'm on the lamppost all right make sure you stay

• 42:55

over here mate where who where are you dread i'm still down here on the beach here i am

• 43:01

i got you i got you there we go we should probably get up onto this bridge yeah i'm

• 43:12

just trying to finish off this zombie first i'm on the bridge all right he's down all

• 43:20

right let's get these two guys but as i was saying the tower of carfen event that actually

• 43:33

trickled out through the river lands because of the rivers and the undead began to form

• 43:39

around these rivers but you'll learn more about that during the story early nice little

• 43:48

stunning scholars real quick oh they're dead never mind taking them off ranger's doing

• 43:58

work let's go off to the side pumping what is up there oh that looks like something

• 44:11

different and some type of little golem oh god oh no no no no no no no no no no no no

• 44:22

this guy's not that bad oh i'm stunned oh he stunned me oh oh no what was this too soon

• 44:34

get out of here all right we got more company that guy was they're lagging behind a little

• 44:38

bit cannot challenge me walking the light okay they're challenging me slightly there

• 44:56

we go we did it done it so the active walk actually works with any weapon equipped except

• 45:08

for ranged oops tried to do that oh yeah um yeah you could active walk one one thing that

• 45:21

we're kind of toying around with the idea of is giving everybody a universal active

• 45:27

block mechanic in which case you know the shield version would probably be better but

• 45:32

you'd still be able to parry or whatnot with a two-handed weapon or even maybe dual wield

• 45:38

oh that's pretty cool we need to find this send all um it's supposed to be kind of up

• 45:49

near wait maybe we need to go back a little bit i think i respond no respawn hold on let's

• 46:01

go over this way i remember i was told that it was before this bridge oh no yeah okay

• 46:14

let's just let's just run through if we can i want to try to find this end all just keep

• 46:19

on moving oh don't die okay hold on we're good oh god are you surviving yeah i think

• 46:33

so i mean we'll be fine except for the wolves i set my speed a little bit higher cheater

• 46:42

it's oh no okay what's happening it's it's definitely a cleric buff right yes exactly

• 46:49

here actually provided by the range you see that and all right like my sleep all right

• 46:58

we can take these guys zombies are way behind all right i'm ready easy easy um oh my god

• 47:12

you're never ending keep running i think hold on we gotta go up here we gotta go up here

• 47:20

up these stairs yeah up these stairs okay up good we're up here hold on i might need

• 47:33

some help up here though let me see if it's over sorry guys i just want to make sure we

• 47:41

can find the sandal maybe he meant before the bridge like before the bridge into the

• 47:51

cemetery maybe oh i made it on top of the uh the light post actually oh yeah there we

• 48:01

go now this is tranquil like a true cleric don't die i'm not with you guys by the way

• 48:09

nope i don't even know where you went we lost our healer we're screwed no no we're good

• 48:15

you guys just come out come out the front oh i see you down there i can't we can't end

• 48:19

the stream unless i find the sand hole jump down oh god he's getting swarmed yeah i'm

• 48:25

definitely getting swarmed oh geez i'll save you here it's the least i can do oh shoot

• 48:39

i'm and the zombies are coming oh no no keep going wait it was definitely at the entrance

• 48:47

guys i'm so sorry for this i'm so sorry stream i'm so sorry i can't not show the sandal

• 48:54

i totally messed up where he's now you know we don't cut these or edit them they're just

• 49:05

they are what they are if they are this is such a typical mmo adventure it's like getting

• 49:10

lost in a dungeon area uh healer body pools all right here we go we're good i think so

• 49:19

okay we made it out here i can see the stars again so you actually you guys can see that

• 49:24

there are certain environments that will just prevent you from being able to look up into

• 49:30

the sky for the some of these constellations all right now we're looking towards oh wait

• 49:36

i'm supposed to look towards that moon oh i found it we found the sandal there it is

• 49:44

hi yes are you dying don't die and there is the sandal ladies and gentlemen well i hope

• 49:53

that you all have enjoyed this sneak peek at one of the uh areas in the riverlands um

• 50:00

and also some of the updates to the clear yeah let's take a seat let's take a seat and

• 50:05

also some of the updates to the cleric as well as you can see there's some ui here between

• 50:10

the icons and the mini map as well as the targeting and and party ui that we'd love

• 50:16

your guys's feedback on you also got to hear a little bit about the night and day cycle

• 50:24

see some of the updates to the mason shield as well as the staff and also learn a little

• 50:29

bit more about undead and the energy types that occur and synergies especially between

• 50:34

certain types of status conditions and effects that might might exist in ashes of creations

• 50:41

with all that being said i i would love to hear your guys's feedback on what you saw

• 50:46

today make sure you guys go and visit the forums our twitter our reddit comment in the

• 50:52

youtube videos give us what your thoughts are about what you saw today as always remember

• 50:56

this is a work in progress we are working towards alpha 2 but you get to see a little

• 51:02

bit every step of the way each month so i hope you guys enjoyed trad keenan thank you

• 51:08

for joining us that was super fun and i'm surprised we actually didn't die same it

• 51:15

was fun thanks for having us yes we'll see you guys back on stream

• 51:19

well hopefully you all enjoyed that um we found the sand all who else was checking their

• 51:36

their steam updates when they heard the notification honestly i remembered that that happened when

• 51:41

we were recording it and then when it happened on the stream i looked on my computer and

• 51:45

i was like i don't have steam installed on this computer and then i was like oh wait

• 51:50

a minute but of course uh i did grab a bunch of questions and i believe roshan added some

• 51:57

extra ones in here as well from uh because they're they're doing a watch party as well

• 52:01

um and i always keep an eye on discord i was keeping on twitch so there's a mix of them

• 52:05

in there um but first i wanted to address that obviously i think we've prefaced this

• 52:09

and you know we said it multiple times and even steven said it in in the video even steven

• 52:14

even steven um that this is a work in progress so things like the cape cape clipping running

• 52:21

animations bloom loot name plates all those things are work in progress so just i want

• 52:25

to reiterate that and your your concerns right off the bat in regards to that and also the

• 52:30

camera angle steven likes a really wide camera angle you can zoom in if that's a pov you

• 52:35

prefer i saw a lot of people being like i don't like this pov and he was zooming in

• 52:40

showing that i am a big fan of super zoomed out but um also another point is uh this is

• 52:47

keeping in context uh this is level 14 level 15 uh gameplay um that's one thing and i did

• 52:53

note a couple things and these are these are the reasons why of course we uh present you

• 52:59

guys with these monthly updates is because we want your feedback on things like i saw

• 53:02

a lot of commentary about the night time and how dark exactly night time should be now

• 53:08

of course darkness when it comes to night day cycles and games accommodates different

• 53:13

types of games different genres different mechanics in more survival oriented games

• 53:18

you're expected to have really dark night times because you utilize instruments like

• 53:23

um torches and lights that can be uh present but when you think about an mmorpg and you

• 53:31

think about the types of player numbers and player count you're expected to have in certain

• 53:37

locations and dungeons right that needs to you need to be able to accommodate those types

• 53:43

of visibility lines and and those mechanics around that large multiplayer environment

• 53:50

so when you guys are giving feedback think about whether or not you want the outside

• 53:56

night time to really be very dark or if you want that to be um reserved for specific locations

• 54:05

in the game like certain dungeons and towers where we can utilize mechanics like different

• 54:10

types of lighting mechanisms um in order to facilitate that more dark feel um another

• 54:16

thing that i saw um was questions regarding the sit emotion uh the sit emote um so this

• 54:23

is something that you know design has gone back and forth on over the course of the last

• 54:27

um year or so with regards to whether or not we should have a sit uh function that actually

• 54:33

increases the mana regen um or not now obviously that's a throwback to more classic days of

• 54:39

mmorpg gameplay but leave your comments on on that thought um about that as well and

• 54:45

one thing i just want to note is i traditionally play or have played a tank um not usual i

• 54:52

mean i i also i played like a tank healer a lot of times um so that's why you saw that's

• 54:57

why you saw me pulling a lot um and i apologize for that i noticed somebody said that i need

• 55:02

to have a child safety leash on me as the healer i was laughing so hard people were

• 55:08

like stephen's that guy who is like body pulling as a clary because they're like bored and

• 55:14

then they pull all the mobs and you're and you're like i can't handle this and then we

• 55:19

all die so it was so great it was great all right is it okay if i grab some extra questions

• 55:25

here and stuff yeah oh and one last thing is this will be up on youtube right after

• 55:29

the stream so you can go watch it in its higher quality um uh setting on youtube um obviously

• 55:36

on stream you know we we there's a little bit of a quality difference there for the

• 55:40

stream but yeah for sure we can only upload and or we can only have so high of bit rate

• 55:45

they like cap us so oh yeah um sorry about that um but of course the next one here that

• 55:51

i wanted to talk about that was more of a general thing was uh from karen sci-fi 123

• 55:55

and they were asking will you be using 5.1 yes actually we are um we are moving over

• 56:02

to 5.1 that should be complete in january and then moving on we're gonna talk about

• 56:09

a few cleric questions and you already answered one of them that was on this list um so first

• 56:14

can you explain a little bit more about the staggering and how status effects stagger

• 56:17

and stun and that whole interaction works um i can i need to plug my headset in because

• 56:25

it's done apologies um yes so um staggering is excuse me staggering is a is a type of

• 56:34

status condition that can be applied through certain skills and the the the type of synergy

• 56:41

systems we're going for is that certain archetypes and class kits will have access to a number

• 56:47

of what we call first tier status conditions those types of status conditions are general

• 56:53

status conditions that can be applied across a host of skills and a number of different

• 56:57

archetypes and class kits and they can progress when synergized with other types of status

• 57:04

conditions or abilities to tier 2 level um status effects and so for example you saw

• 57:10

that one of the abilities that the cleric has at level 15 is um the chains of restraint

• 57:18

and um when the chains of restraint lays down that aoe of course it ticks for damage over

• 57:23

time but it also applies to stagger condition however if the target was already uh subject

• 57:30

to the staggered condition then it gets promoted to a stunned condition um now the difference

• 57:37

between staggered and stun um in a staggered state uh the creature may not use abilities

• 57:43

they can do basic attack functions they could cast spells if they had spells access to spells

• 57:48

but their physical abilities would be muted or would be essentially um uh inaccessible

• 57:55

during the staggered effect now a stunned condition obviously is a more amplified status

• 58:00

condition where you cannot take any actions um and so the fighter's ability whirlwind

• 58:05

had a staggered uh application available to it so when the uh cleric chooses to use its

• 58:11

chains of restraint ability if they use it after the fighter applies their staggered

• 58:16

condition then the change will um will force a stun effect all right and then folks are

• 58:22

wondering will those stuns work on all enemy types or will there be ones that will be specific

• 58:26

to certain types of animal or creatures when i said animals um generally status conditions

• 58:33

will apply to all creature and player types um there are of course uh some um creatures

• 58:39

such as bosses um and or uh raid bosses um that aren't that have very high resistances

• 58:46

or cannot be affected by certain status conditions um in that case obviously uh those status

• 58:52

effects will not apply but the rest of the skills ability um uh will like the damage

• 58:57

and a follow-up to that um will those things stack so if i'm you know a fighter and i put

• 59:03

certain effect on something and someone else is also fighter and puts that effect on do

• 59:07

those things not stack it depends it there's unique rules uh with regards to stacking um

• 59:14

based on the type of status condition um so uh in the event that the that the status condition

• 59:20

may not stack um we have certain stacking rules that might increase the longevity of

• 59:26

the status condition with the second application but it's important to note that we do have

• 59:31

the concept of diminishing returns and that certain types of status conditions share certain

• 59:37

um diminishing return groupings so that obviously a character can't be like stun locked or silence

• 59:44

locked or you know just a particular type of status condition lock all right and then

• 59:48

Dale's flight would like to know can you cast in movement or do you have to stand still

• 59:52

and i saw quite a few people mentioning this most abilities you'll find in ashes of creation

• 59:58

are capable of being cast while while moving um some of those abilities might slow your

• 1:00:03

movement during the cast but you can continue to move um very rarely and depending on obviously

• 1:00:08

the um uh uh the importance of the ability or the power level of that ability uh you

• 1:00:15

might be rooted in place so for example the aoe ability has a lot going on it has damage

• 1:00:21

ticking over time it is an area of effect it also has a status condition application

• 1:00:26

um and in those instances uh the player character gets rooted and i saw quite a few folks asking

• 1:00:32

this but falcon swift blade asked um is steven using mouse over casting can we hover over

• 1:00:37

players also so what are the ways that i can interact ui wise in order to heal as a healer

• 1:00:43

absolutely so one of the the big goals of our ui team um is to and and our design team

• 1:00:49

is to accommodate a whole host of different types of user options that they're capable

• 1:00:54

of setting um you know because we all have different play styles um and in that regard

• 1:00:59

those include things like hover over casting double tap application of aoe effects on cursor

• 1:01:06

location just a lot of different options because people like to play different ways yeah you

• 1:01:12

set those things up in your your key bindings and setups correct well eventually um and

• 1:01:19

then the other thing that people were asking is can you heal enemy mobs that was a frequent

• 1:01:24

thing i said um yeah you cannot heal enemy mobs um there's just really not a a relevant

• 1:01:31

use case for that when it comes to the design mechanics of of such a thing other than uh

• 1:01:37

its primary use which would be to to grief other players um you know i have a funny story

• 1:01:43

uh in lineage 2 i used to play a zombie i used to play a zombie i used to play sort

• 1:01:49

of a zombie i used to play a bishop um and the bishop had an ability called restore life

• 1:01:55

and we had an enemy alliance that we had fought for for many years it was a very two-sided

• 1:02:00

server um and there was a particular raid boss called antheris uh that actually um took

• 1:02:07

hours sometimes to complete uh and i managed to to get into the area and um right when

• 1:02:15

they have been fighting that boss for about four hours um i made it close enough to cast

• 1:02:21

restore life on the antheris boss and i put it back to 70 of its health um and they had

• 1:02:27

to keep fighting it but you know what they did it to us first but but regardless it's

• 1:02:35

just that type of mechanic just doesn't really you know make sense um don't put your fork

• 1:02:40

at us no i'm just kidding oh yeah i have a fork i don't know i was playing with something

• 1:02:44

um but yeah i think most there were there were definitely people who didn't like it

• 1:02:50

and and some people who did want it so i just wanted to clarify to folks um and then the

• 1:02:54

next thing is uh tryndamere would like to know whether you'd be able to heal yourself

• 1:02:59

as like other archetypes like a paladin or something of that sort or class type yeah

• 1:03:03

i mean it depends obviously on the secondary class selection no one is going to fill the

• 1:03:08

role of a primary healer other than the the the healer archetype um but there will be

• 1:03:14

secondary class options that you can select um which will provide you with some level

• 1:03:19

of sustainability and or restoration um most of that will be centralized to yourself um

• 1:03:25

especially in the case of a paladin um and then of course blue wheel would like to know

• 1:03:30

if we'll see more name plates and health bars uh in order like in the world in the three

• 1:03:36

yeah i i i chose the option during this recording to remove player character name plates um

• 1:03:42

i find it you know for my personal preference that it's a bit more cinematic when it comes

• 1:03:46

to immersion in the world um now obviously uh to that question yes there's going to be

• 1:03:51

plenty of options when it comes to showcasing player name plates you can resize all the

• 1:03:56

ui elements that you see on screen here i forgot to kind of show that um that's my bad

• 1:04:01

uh but you can also um uh select a party name plate raid name plate specialization um showing

• 1:04:08

uh the hit point bar under the name plate there's going to be a whole host of options

• 1:04:13

that players have access to from a ui perspective and then zeo zara would like to know if there

• 1:04:18

will be special area buffs that you can use as a support uh for example in certain dungeons

• 1:04:23

like you have to buff everybody up and it'll last for that dungeon things of that sort

• 1:04:28

oh yeah um we haven't even shown the uh the bard archetype yet um but uh you know it's

• 1:04:37

it along with other classes will have certain types of self buffs and party buffs obviously

• 1:04:41

level 14 15 that's not going to be uh too much that's available there there will be

• 1:04:45

a number of them but but not as much as obviously level 50 where you know our maximum buff bar

• 1:04:50

allotment i think is somewhere around like 20 some odd buffs that can be on a particular

• 1:04:54

character at one time um that includes things like songs stories and dances from the bard

• 1:04:59

um but yeah get ready for raid buffs meet up for the raid buffs at x time um of course

• 1:05:08

uh would like to know uh is there a shield charge like a charge up for the shield um

• 1:05:17

a shield charge yeah um you know oh you know thank you you actually reminded me of something

• 1:05:22

else i noted down i saw a lot of commentary around stamina that is an active design discussion

• 1:05:27

with how we're going to have certain universal abilities such as dodge and active blocking

• 1:05:32

um utilize a separate energy mechanic if you guys have thoughts on stamina usage um it

• 1:05:40

is something that we are going to be actively testing as part of alpha 2 uh make sure you

• 1:05:44

guys leave commentary on on what you've liked about stamina in the past with other games

• 1:05:48

and what you've disliked um about it and then ventali wants to know it seems like the enemy

• 1:05:53

health and difficulty that was seen or that they've seen so far in all of our dev updates

• 1:05:58

seems a little easy uh they were wondering if we are going to be kind of working out

• 1:06:03

the balancing for these encounters oh yeah um because they said as a trio they would

• 1:06:06

expect it to be a little bit more dangerous yeah something to keep in mind is that alpha

• 1:06:11

2 is not really intended to be a prior especially what you're seeing at this stage right now

• 1:06:15

before alpha 2 is not meant to showcase kind of balancing um from an engagement or encounter

• 1:06:21

perspective um obviously we do a finger in the wind kind of balance pass uh but a lot

• 1:06:26

of that stuff from our encounters team uh doesn't get done until populations are kind

• 1:06:30

of um in place and those encounter designs get a little bit more time to bake um so so

• 1:06:36

stand by on that for uh alpha 2 uh as we get a little bit deeper into the testing um to

• 1:06:43

get touched up but just to give you context the intent is that ashes of creation will

• 1:06:48

be on the higher side of difficulty when it comes to engagements right and before i get

• 1:06:54

into day night cycle questions this last one is from answer boy and they want to know are

• 1:06:59

some abilities going to have voiceovers when casting like grunts and things of that sort

• 1:07:04

yeah like incantations and stuff um you know that's the desire uh cat has done a phenomenal

• 1:07:10

dot a job so far with um the sound design as i saw many commentary a lot of commentary

• 1:07:16

about it during the um during the video in the previous videos um some of the casting

• 1:07:21

abilities will have um uh incantations that are done uh but we have not had the ability

• 1:07:27

to implement that yet all right and then moving on to day night stuff uh we had rag uh rad

• 1:07:34

gall who wants to know is the day night cycle tied to server time um the day night cycle

• 1:07:41

is tied to server time um yes so there is a number of hours that exist between each

• 1:07:49

of the cycles um that's something that will be fine tuning of course during alpha 2 as

• 1:07:53

well uh but it is intended um for players to kind of uh interact with certain systems

• 1:08:00

even based on in-game time as well um so yeah and then uh gnome berserker would like to

• 1:08:08

know are there going to be different light levels tied to time of day slash environment

• 1:08:13

or moons etc so i guess like different um not sure exactly what they mean by that but

• 1:08:19

potentially different sky levels maybe in different areas um you know generally you

• 1:08:29

can see here that the that the lighting levels um you know are pretty consistent uh that

• 1:08:36

is from a game mechanic perspective of course the the visual setting changes the the type

• 1:08:42

of lighting you're seeing here changes based on night and day um and that's i think related

• 1:08:46

to the first thing i brought up which is what we want commentary back on is um you know

• 1:08:51

what is the level of luminosity that's desired um when it comes to mmorpg open world gameplay

• 1:08:58

uh not talking about specific points of interest like dungeons and or towers locations where

• 1:09:03

we can um restrict that level lighting to something a bit darker but the general open

• 1:09:08

world outside experience um that's something where it's possible for a lot of players to

• 1:09:13

kind of converge in a particular location it would be really odd if the night cycle

• 1:09:19

included a significant decrease in visibility and you're running into those types of environments

• 1:09:26

that's something a bit more reminiscent of survival styled games so leave your commentary

• 1:09:33

on what you've enjoyed about that what you you know want to see in ashes of creation

• 1:09:37

or see differently between those types of settings and then uh balance on of fans would

• 1:09:44

like to know do constellations rise and set and do those times rotate yes so constellations

• 1:09:52

as you could see um with the sky some of those moons being in different positions um they

• 1:09:59

do rotate and change uh throughout the night that is the intent for them um and of course

• 1:10:05

they have wide application across a number of systems uh that are relevant including

• 1:10:09

story and narrative um and the acquisition of certain types of things in the game and

• 1:10:14

then drew guy wants to know does nighttime boost power of undead certain creatures will

• 1:10:21

react differently certain spawns react differently during night times and different day night

• 1:10:25

cycles um those might also influence things like abilities and or uh buff slash debuff

• 1:10:33

slash vulnerabilities um you'll have to find out based on the type of creature you're experiencing

• 1:10:38

all right and there's a lot of questions i know we could sit here and answer a million

• 1:10:42

but um those are the ones that i saw most frequently and that um we've gathered for

• 1:10:47

this time frame we know that if you have follow-up questions you know you know where to find

• 1:10:51

us um but of course we do have two threads that are going up on our forums if you want

• 1:10:55

to go check that out and uh one will be about the cleric and weapon updates and the and

• 1:10:59

the other one will be the day and night cycles constellation so please send us your feedback

• 1:11:04

over there there's little prompts but you don't have to necessarily follow those you

• 1:11:07

can just give us all your thoughts on those we'll be consolidating feedback reports on

• 1:11:12

those i think the due date on there is listed as well so please get your feedback in as

• 1:11:16

quickly as possible that's super handy for us so that we can then relay that back to

• 1:11:21

the developers and make sure that you know we're incorporating and thinking about those

• 1:11:24

things as we move forward um and usually we find that we're on the same page as y'all

• 1:11:30

so that's reassuring but by the way i just want to do a little call out to mike vecchio

• 1:11:37

oh yeah mike vecchio is awesome he made this really cool no it's a troll sitting on top

• 1:11:45

of a particular type of skull in celebration of the cemetery and undead uh uh video today

• 1:11:53

and it has this little guy for christmas in his little hat the joyous artillery sitting

• 1:12:00

on a cyclops skull all he needs is uh is um some fireworks this thing is so cool i love

• 1:12:08

it that is sick i want one i know um but of course we have more there's more um so we're

• 1:12:18

gonna go through uh the character stuff um obviously you guys have seen this before there

Character Art Update

• 1:12:22

this is a little updated version of the two-handed um staff and the one-handed shield and mace

• 1:12:29

but we also have another version of this so you can kind of see you saw this also in the

• 1:12:34

game with uh stephen's character he was holding on to these and utilizing them yeah and these

• 1:12:39

obviously you can see by the quality of these types of weapons these are relatively lower

• 1:12:42

level these are some of the earliest types of weapons and or gear that you can acquire

• 1:12:46

within ashes of creation um but they look oh so cool yeah and then we've got uh you

• 1:12:54

know we showed you the bandit slaver now we got a little goblin slaver so this is kind

• 1:13:00

of the work in progress this is the model and then bam yes so let me tell you a little

• 1:13:07

bit of uh history slash context for this particular goblin slaver um one of the starting areas

• 1:13:15

in ashes of creation is the old ailen um uh capital city uh which i believe we started

• 1:13:22

in in our campaign for extra life this last month um but as players kind of return you

• 1:13:30

have to be careful because certain types of in-world um uh um settings based on story

• 1:13:40

progression of certain story arcs uh might result in some of these slavers coming in

• 1:13:44

around that starting area and these slavers have a particular type of interaction mechanic

• 1:13:51

where instead of killing the player they can subdue the player drag them to a cage

• 1:13:58

and then there's a little mini game trying to get out of the cage or other players can

• 1:14:01

try to get you out of their cage right because they're capturing you to try to take you off

• 1:14:05

to be you know slaves um so what do you guys feel about those types of mechanics that are

• 1:14:10

unique um where the uh where the monsters can take you and pull you into a cage uh but

• 1:14:17

that's what these guys do they're set up to do in the in the starting area give us your

• 1:14:21

feedback on that too yes yes um and we you saw them in game but the zombie shamblers

• 1:14:29

and i think we've shown them off before too but little zhuzhng little updates to them

• 1:14:34

looking pretty pretty fab yeah you guys saw that in the in the video this is a zombie

• 1:14:40

scholar um i believe was it ginsy that worked on this one i think yes ginsy worked on this

• 1:14:46

yes scholar not a shambler sorry yes this one's a scholar he throws little necrotic

• 1:14:53

bolts at you from a range distance looks like he would shoot lasers at you like leg lasers

• 1:15:00

yeah um and then and chong and doug set this up on the design encounter side um that you

• 1:15:08

guys saw uh in the video and then we've got the winter nif which i think you know some

• 1:15:15

of y'all this is og so um if you're somebody who has access to this yes that was a old

• 1:15:23

one when was that um i think it was it was a long time ago and then also uh stephen i

• 1:15:29

think there was one time where you're like they use the winter nif's tears to do something

• 1:15:34

i can't remember what it was that's how we create our um i thought it was we said that

• 1:15:39

that was like the uh the the equivalent of gunpowder or for oh yeah that's what it was

• 1:15:44

it was the tears of the of the nymph or the nymph wait what is it nymph i don't know how

• 1:15:49

it's nyth nif you guys made it i don't know i said i said nymph before it was before my

• 1:15:55

times um and then this one's super oh and just real quick what i would love for the

• 1:16:01

nymph to have if possible on the animation side okay animators goats yes animators the

• 1:16:07

goats that when you scare them their legs lock up and they fall over if that was if

• 1:16:11

that was just a little just a little animation that this guy did that'd be great those ones

• 1:16:17

are so funny um and then we also have this one that looks so cool the cultist do you

• 1:16:25

want to give a little lore to the about the cultist yeah show off all the mp3s or mp4s

• 1:16:32

absolutely so you'll notice that this guy has a particular type of tattoo on his back

• 1:16:37

um you'll see uh that these are obviously some type of um some type of human now where

• 1:16:46

did these cultists come from right because the ancients have been on vera for a long

• 1:16:49

time uh you know prior to your return excuse me um and it's important to note that uh players

• 1:16:58

who are starting in the world of vera they're coming in actually a few short months after

• 1:17:03

the very first expeditionaries were sent through um the divine gateways when they opened um

• 1:17:10

sanctus and the early days on vera with the return were not uh super um uh easy uh they

• 1:17:20

were difficult there were um struggles with the food supplies there were um a little bit

• 1:17:26

of mutinies that occurred there were certain artifacts that were found by some of these

• 1:17:31

um npcs that that that that were your predecessors in the return um and some of them decided

• 1:17:37

that they would be better off on their own or that they had a more powerful um uh thing

• 1:17:43

or creature that they could follow and uh be rewarded from and um some of them turned

• 1:17:49

into cultists and that's one of the cultists you see here there's gonna be some storylines

• 1:17:52

you're gonna have to investigate on that front yeah they look pretty awesome and with that

• 1:17:59

uh do we have time to do some q a from the forums stephen but of course what time is

Outro and Q&A

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it it is 12 20 i have a heart cut off at 12 30 if okay i think we can get through them

• 1:18:11

let's do some i'll try to as many as we can rapid response i don't think you could do

• 1:18:15

that i will try i did a bunch i was kind of rapid about the questions after the video

• 1:18:20

yeah i'm just kidding um okay we have t uh tyran uh tyran thraxxus over on the forums

• 1:18:28

asked about lore are there any details about the to be varan god's influence in our game

• 1:18:35

play that you can share with or hint at you know i i really wouldn't want to do that because

• 1:18:41

um the the stories that scott and win and um jeremy and imy and and um you know everyone

• 1:18:49

are and tony are putting together are pretty compelling um they're pretty cool uh and rich

• 1:18:55

and i i wouldn't want to ruin that so i'll stay away from that but i will give you context

• 1:19:01

the the gods are an active part of the story um and you know each of the cultures kind

• 1:19:08

of have their own interpretation of the of the whims and desires and focuses of the gods

• 1:19:14

so awesome yeah we tried man we're trying to get more stuff out of him i know y'all

• 1:19:19

want to know no more lore about the gods they don't they really don't want to they want

• 1:19:24

to but they don't want me to tell them they want to play it so yeah yeah for sure yeah

• 1:19:29

he's like this isn't really what you want uh nova nova chrono wants to know about large-scale

• 1:19:34

combat have you given any thought towards adding debuff protection such as having immunity

• 1:19:40

to stuns for some seconds after having been stunned during a siege battle and there was

• 1:19:45

actually some questions regarding this beyond just sieges so just to be clear what you're

• 1:19:50

talking about is really called diminishing returns um and uh when it comes to status

• 1:19:55

conditions the ability to apply certain um uh passive resistance to status conditions

• 1:20:04

if you've suffered from a status condition of a particular type um you get an increased

• 1:20:10

resistance against those and that scales um so if by chance you do get stunned maybe a

• 1:20:16

couple of times excuse me it would be near near impossible to stun you for a third or

• 1:20:23

fourth time right um uh and then you get to save that higher resistance for some period

• 1:20:29

of time um and and you know that just makes the gameplay more compelling um we've played

• 1:20:34

all played games where you can get stun locked and that is a really bad feeling and it's

• 1:20:39

not even fun for the person who's doing the stun lock it might be um you know yeah it's

• 1:20:45

just it's just not a good compelling type of gameplay um so in order to kind of avoid

• 1:20:50

that we and and and to accommodate a massively multiplayer setting you have to utilize things

• 1:20:55

like diminishing returns that can increase your resistances when you suffer those types

• 1:20:59

of effects all right cool and then our next one is from drunk ninja ask about naval content

• 1:21:07

will there be a way to produce enough experience for a node for those who want to spend the

• 1:21:11

majority of their time on the open seas i'm so sorry you have to repeat the first part

• 1:21:16

of that because i was watching some of the trolls in chat saying it's an it's incredibly

• 1:21:20

fun it's hilariously fun to stun lock an opponent yeah they're like don't lie we love it it's

• 1:21:26

fun to do it to somebody it's not fun to be the person who's like oh my gosh i can't do

• 1:21:30

anything because i'm if you have fun stun locking another player and then watching them

• 1:21:35

die and being able to do nothing in response you are not the right you are not the right

• 1:21:39

type of player you want to have meaningful engagement and fun back and forth and skill

• 1:21:46

that's utilized to win an engagement not just lock down an enemy because of bad game design

• 1:21:50

all right the question is to reiterate will there be a way to produce enough experience

• 1:21:57

for a node for those who want to spend the majority of their time on the open seas so

• 1:22:01

really the question here is like can i spend most of my time on the open seas and still

• 1:22:06

help my node out yeah absolutely yes you the the open seas have have a good amount of content

• 1:22:15

that content when completed will give its contribution to a nearby node and and that

• 1:22:22

is something that people who live on the sea a desire to live on the sea will be able to

• 1:22:28

um contribute in a way all right and dilliam wants to note about taverns what benefits

• 1:22:34

do players receive for taking on the role of a tavern owner um well one you will get

• 1:22:42

noticeability with regards to your creations because that will be displayed to the characters

• 1:22:47

that consume those things but in addition you can get certain types of itemization rewards

• 1:22:54

depending on the number of patrons that you serve you can also reap economic rewards such

• 1:23:00

as gold from the the end that you are selling your goods at and then you can unlock access

• 1:23:09

to certain types of recipes and or vendors based on the level of reputation you build

• 1:23:14

up in that particular node people in chat are like clout free booze tips uh church plays

• 1:23:23

wants to know about gameplay development which is an interesting one which game systems do

• 1:23:27

you think present the biggest challenge to the intrepid team in regards to construction

• 1:23:32

testing implementation and balance i guess it depends on the type of challenge we're

• 1:23:39

talking about from a feasibility standpoint i think um one of the challenges that is always

• 1:23:46

going to accompany any multiplayer game development is going to be um optimization uh around network

• 1:23:53

players and the ability to host a large number of concurrent multi-players in a in a particular

• 1:23:59

environment that's always going to be something that any studio who's endeavoring to create

• 1:24:04

a large multiplayer experience will need to focus on and it's a challenging one it is

• 1:24:09

a it is a difficult thing to accommodate especially if you want a world where you're not doing

• 1:24:15

instances right yeah especially in an open world right that is absolutely true thank

• 1:24:19

you and then obviously when you're talking about mmr pg development in order to create

• 1:24:25

a compelling environment and to create a compelling world you really have to have a lot of content

• 1:24:29

um and that comes in the form of our large class selection the ability creation pipeline

• 1:24:36

all the creatures that need to be created the npcs they all have abilities that need

• 1:24:40

to be done um and our pipelines you know there are different choke points that occur um whether

• 1:24:45

you're talking about a particular ability when it comes from the ideation phase into

• 1:24:48

the gdd into the functional design path to the animation and the iteration of the animations

• 1:24:55

and then finally moves on to the effects and sound design you know that there's a lot that

• 1:24:59

gets that needs to be done from a content generation perspective and i'm just not talking

• 1:25:04

about like storylines and quests and narrative i'm talking about everything that you're seeing

• 1:25:08

from the armor sets to the creatures to the abilities to the visual effects to the animations

• 1:25:13

to to the world to the to the foliage you know there's a lot of stuff that has to get

• 1:25:17

done to create a compelling and immersive environment in a game like ashes of creation

• 1:25:21

um and especially in a way that we're doing it from a transparent development process

• 1:25:26

where people get to see these things in their very work in progress states um so you know

• 1:25:31

content creation is is always something that's going to be difficult when it comes to mmorpgs

• 1:25:35

i would say those are probably the two biggest challenges um that any development uh faces

• 1:25:41

yeah it's very it's very interesting to be in in a development phase where you're you're

• 1:25:47

still working on creating things and you're showcasing it at the same time right it's

• 1:25:52

it's kind of fun i like it it has its good things and its bad things uh in regards to

• 1:25:57

that but um it is kind of cool to share that along with you guys and also get your feedback

• 1:26:01

in the process our next question here is from jalan and he wants to know about player death

• 1:26:05

loot tables given that you dropped uh you drop processed goods when you die and alchemy

• 1:26:10

and cooking are now processed and in the processing category does that mean when you die you drop

• 1:26:15

food portions beverages etc good question as a point of clarity no you don't you do

• 1:26:21

not drop those um so when the things that you drop are the things that are materials

• 1:26:27

and gatherables that are used in the generation of something else because alchemy because

• 1:26:33

cooking has reached its final stage product that is an item that's protected within your

• 1:26:38

inventory so food dishes and and those types of buff items the potions those do not drop

• 1:26:46

on death and for our final question to wrap things up we have a question from casti and

• 1:26:51

they want to know about musical instruments bards will have the ability to play musical

• 1:26:56

instruments but will they be able to be the only archetype with that ability or will anyone

• 1:27:01

be able to use instruments for recreational and role-playing um effects that's a good

• 1:27:07

question um my desire is that we will have a system of instrument usage that accompanies

• 1:27:14

um a non-particular archetype requirement right so obviously bards have the ability

• 1:27:24

to play certain dances and songs and those confer buffs to their party members but also

• 1:27:31

there's a rp slash um uh i think cool skill opportunity when it comes to players making

• 1:27:38

music and playing the music on certain instruments that they can acquire on the game um that's

• 1:27:43

not something we've worked on yet uh but it is a desire of mine so we'll see how that

• 1:27:48

goes awesome and with that we're gonna wrap up today's stream we had a lot of stuff for

• 1:27:54

you we hope that you enjoyed it and that you have a lot to talk about in the month to come

• 1:28:00

and of course we will be having a december update so we hope to see you all next month

• 1:28:04

with some goodies from that um please head on over to our forums if you haven't already

• 1:28:09

uh forums.ashesofcreation.com we have two threads that are up already in regards to

• 1:28:14

this uh because we wanted to have the cleric and the weapon stuff as one thread and the

• 1:28:18

other one for the day night cycle and constellations so please give us your feedback i saw a lot

• 1:28:23

of people having opinions so if you got opinions toss them over there because that is where

• 1:28:28

we're going to be taking our our details for our reporting that is why we do these streams

• 1:28:33

give us your opinion give us your thoughts give us your experiences make sure you engage

• 1:28:37

on on the youtube video that comes after this the twitters the uh googles no i'm just kidding

• 1:28:44

our forums and our reddit um because it's very important and community collects all

• 1:28:48

that feedback and presents it to the development team they're amazing uh they they they go

• 1:28:53

through every single comment that y'all put in there so respect to roshan and evacnar

• 1:29:00

for all the work they do on that front and of course peter on the social media side kicking

• 1:29:04

major butt so thank you to those guys and of course our uh wardens in the wild cosmetics

• 1:29:10

will be swapping over on december 14th at 11am pacific so if you're interested in those

• 1:29:14

check them out over there reminder that those are all really cool creatures and things that

• 1:29:18

you'll see in the world that's what they're for is for our development team to design

• 1:29:22

and utilize them and of course thank you all for tuning in with us thank you steven for

• 1:29:26

your time i know you have back-to-back meetings um we hope that you all stay safe and healthy

• 1:29:33

the video for the um the little segment that we had will be up on youtube today and our

• 1:29:38

full development update will be up tomorrow so we hope that you'll check them out and

• 1:29:42

of course if you check this out uh on on saturday when it's uploaded and leave a comment and

• 1:29:48

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• 1:30:11

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• 1:30:15

of interact in a little bit more of a back back and forth basis and we'll see you all

• 1:30:20

next month for a little wintery development update yay bye everyone have an awesome weekend

• 00:00

Hello everyone and welcome to our November development update.

• 00:26

We hope that you've been having a glorious month and it's definitely been one for

• 00:29

us. We constantly have so much going on but you know that's all good. Of course we are

• 00:38

in the festive November season going into winter. I got my turtleneck you know I hope

• 00:43

you guys all have your hot cocos or pumpkin spice lattes whatever whatever you're into.

• 00:51

How are you doing Steven? I am doing great. We had a very fun little recording session

• 00:58

I think you guys are in for a treat today. It's a little over 40 minutes of gameplay

• 01:05

with some cleric action and some night sky fun stuff and there's a lot of good things

• 01:13

I think you guys are gonna have a fun time watching so I'm excited. 100% I kind of gave

• 01:18

everybody a little hint in chat that it was going to be a long stream so buckle yourself

• 01:22

in guys we're gonna be in for a little longer of a ride today but you always enjoy whenever

• 01:28

we're I think the bingo card might have a long stream on it so we'll see if we hit the

• 01:33

marker for it. But of course before we get into all the things we have some reminders

• 01:37

and things of that sort so I would like to say reminder that we are going over what our

• 01:42

covering today is going to be reminders as Steven said we're going to be going over cleric

• 01:45

update which also includes some night sky and constellation fun and we also have a character

• 01:51

update which will be a little bit shorter and then we have a studio update which will

• 01:55

be also probably pretty short and then we have our Q&A. I will be taking questions during

• 02:00

the video as well so if you are asking stuff you'll see that I usually pull some things

• 02:03

from that if I see if I see things that I think need to be clarified because sometimes

• 02:08

we say stuff when we're playing but you know when you're playing and talking at the same

• 02:11

times sometimes you don't clarify everything that you know you need to so we'll touch base

• 02:18

on those things. So for our quick reminders first and foremost we want to say thank you

• 02:24

to our lovely YouTube subscribers. If you would like to be you know spotlighted you

• 02:32

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it available for people to know that you're subscribed so that we can see you. So for

• 02:48

today's question PapaSmurfs6834 is our lovely spotlight and they had asked or mentioned

• 02:55

in the open world PvP system will there be a prevent attacking innocent option that when

• 03:03

turned on will prevent me from accidentally attacking a non-corrupted player. I say this

• 03:07

because griefers are often very good at making you attack them by accident. Good question.

• 03:13

So there's a few things here first and foremost is that the open world flagging PvP system

• 03:21

requires the what we call force function in order to initiate an attack against another

• 03:26

player and by default that's even against players who are already flagged though not

• 03:32

against players who are corrupt and they're in the settings you will have options by which

• 03:40

you can auto you can persist that force function if you wish through another keystroke input

• 03:48

and then additionally you can set your AoEs so that if you initiate an AoE attack against

• 03:55

a location and there are flag players there you will either you can set it so that you

• 04:01

can automatically hit those flag players but by default it doesn't. So those are options

• 04:07

in your in your settings that you will have access to and be able to adjust. All right

• 04:17

thank you for that Stephen we appreciate it and of course thank you Papa Smurf for being

• 04:21

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• 04:43

So with that we have a little bit of reminders today is not too many we want to thank first

• 04:49

and foremost everybody who joined us for Extra Life our community raised over 77.9 thousand

• 04:56

for the Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Holy smokes! Located all across North America

• 05:01

the Children's Miracle Hospital will treat over 32 million kids this year alone and children

• 05:07

receive care regardless of their family's ability to pay so you've helped literal miracles

• 05:12

happen and absolutely and guys can I just comment real quick Margaret I mean I know

• 05:20

we've said this the field goods are great but honestly if you think about the practicality

• 05:24

of what that dollar value means and the fact that as a community we were capable of achieving

• 05:33

this accomplishment now bringing our grand total of Extra Life involvement over the past

• 05:38

several years to nearly a quarter of a million dollars that is something that is is truly

• 05:46

significant and it really I mean it's it's difficult sometimes to understand what that

• 05:52

impact is not seeing it you know face to face in action but it really makes the world of

• 05:59

difference for a great number of children and the fact that you guys showed up and as

• 06:05

a community we were able to achieve that together is truly remarkable especially given the fact

• 06:10

that we are still in development so I just want to say we are we are setting the right

• 06:14

pace the right example as an MMORPG community in showing what's capable from the gamer population

• 06:21

to to do good in the world and really big props and kudos to you guys in the community

• 06:27

that was really something that was amazing give yourselves a hand it was awesome I'm

• 06:31

truly impressed yeah I can do a little round of applause yeah oh you got the sound effects

• 06:37

of course I got the sound effects but we also want to mention that as a teaching hospital

• 06:43

radius children's hospital not only helps children every single day but they also train

• 06:47

future generations of doctors and nurses so we're super proud of our community thank you

• 06:51

so much everybody and as Stephen said we've raised over $247,000 throughout the years

• 06:58

and we that would not be possible without you all and it's pretty amazing to see the

• 07:04

gaming community come together for a great cause for the kids yes thank you so so much

• 07:10

we super duper appreciate it and of course we also have our monthly cosmetics just as

• 07:17

a reminder if you are not aware these will be swapping over the wardens in the wilds

• 07:21

will be swapping over on December 14th 2022 at 11 a.m. Pacific reminder that all of these

• 07:26

are things that will help us build the world so these are NPCs creatures buildings that

• 07:30

you'll see in the world and these are just skins so you won't you'll see them in the

• 07:35

world as other pieces and NPCs and so if you want to get tidbits of lore of how they'll

• 07:40

be affecting the world it's a great way to kind of get a little hint I know you lore

• 07:46

junkies out there always like give us lore I'm like we give you lore every month and

• 07:49

sometimes it's really long lore there's some good ones in there definitely check them out

• 07:55

and of course we're gonna move into our cleric update slash day night cycle constellation

• 08:02

madness it's a lot so let's even first and foremost a preface this video thank you thank

• 08:10

you thank you thank you so as always I have to preface this for those of you who might

• 08:16

just be tuning in for the first time or aren't a regular attendant to our monthly updates

• 08:23

what you're about to see is a work in progress towards alpha 2 bear in mind that art gets

• 08:31

better performance gets better the gameplay gets better the primary purpose of us showing

• 08:36

these on a monthly basis is to give the community an update on progress but also and the more

• 08:42

importantly to elicit response and feedback from you guys because we are a transparent

• 08:48

development process and that means the world to us from an iteration standpoint it helps

• 08:53

direct us and we are capable of directly engaging with our community which is probably the most

• 08:59

important component of a development process so as you guys are watching please keep that

• 09:05

in mind please make sure to go and comment on the YouTube video it'll be uploaded after

• 09:10

this stream in its full 4k glory and then in addition go to our reddit go to the YouTube

• 09:19

go to our forums on Twitter and give us your feedback your comments what you really liked

• 09:24

about the showing today and where you feel that there's room for improvement that's very

• 09:29

important you are going to see a little bit aspect of the cleric you're going to see some

• 09:35

components of the night and day cycle I think for the first time seeing a transition from

• 09:39

day to night you're going to see the the use of the feature set for constellations you're

• 09:45

going to see and learn a little bit about undead and how certain types of energy and

• 09:51

elemental components will influence the ability to do damage to different species types you're

• 09:56

going to see some of the advanced AI today as well you're going to see a beautiful biome

• 10:02

within the riverlands it's actually near the alpine forest it's a little bit higher in

• 10:05

elevation although it is still in the riverlands you're going to see an awesome cemetery you're

• 10:10

going to see a lot of fun stuff and then we will come back and we will be chatting with

• 10:14

you about it afterwards so enjoy.

• 10:48

Hello everyone and welcome to yet another stream in the world of Vera. I am joined by

• 10:56

two absolutely awesome and stellar developers on Ashes of Creation with whom you have actually

• 11:03

experienced a live stream with before they are our glorious engineer Keenan. How you

• 11:10

doing buddy? Good how are you? I'm doing good happy to

• 11:14

be here with you again and then we also have one of our senior game designers Mr. Trap

• 11:22

how you doing Trap? Hey good to see everyone again good to be back. So we are in a new

• 11:29

biome that actually I don't believe anyone's ever seen before. Where are we? We are in

• 11:38

the it kind of looks a little bit like the alpine forest but actually this is a part

• 11:43

of the riverlands. This is up near the alpine forest area so you're going to see some western

• 11:52

larks and eastern hemlocks. We're obviously at a bit of a higher elevation if you look

• 11:58

off to the east over there you can see kind of where the starting area for the alen humans

• 12:08

or the excuse me the Kalar and the Vellun would start in Alpha 2 down in the basins

• 12:16

of the riverlands but we are somewhere else and the reason we're up in this higher elevation

• 12:22

is because we want to show to you guys the night and day cycle a little bit of some of

• 12:29

the cemetery areas with some undead and there's some constellations I think we're going to

• 12:34

be taking a look at today as well that we're going to get a good vantage point from up

• 12:38

in this elevation. And also you may notice two familiar characters we have the ranger

• 12:45

that you guys saw a little bit Keenan you're playing the ranger right? Yep. Alright now

• 12:50

don't there was a lot of commentary about my playing of the ranger and some people didn't

• 12:57

think I played it very well so we're going to have to make sure that you're on your game

• 13:00

today with that ranger. I'll show them how it's done. Taking your job. Exactly. And then

• 13:08

we also have trad you're playing the fighter right? Yep. I'm going to have to substitute

• 13:13

as the tank role of the party. Oh that's the actual tank. That's right we haven't shown

• 13:18

off the tank yet so the fighter is going to be our tank today which I think is fine. Let's

• 13:24

start heading let's start heading down this way a little bit what do you say? Let's go

• 13:29

let's do it. Let's do this. So what do we have today with the cleric trad we're going

• 13:36

to be looking a little bit at the cleric and some of the new weapons the mace and the staff

• 13:44

is that right? That is correct we've got a two-handed staff and a one-handed mace shield

• 13:51

you'll also see four new spells that the cleric will be casting and I won't spoil too much

• 13:57

on that you'll see them as we start getting into combat here but now Keenan you play a

• 14:03

cleric as a main in your MMOs is that right? Yeah I typically play support. And what is

• 14:09

the most fun aspect of cleric gameplay for you? Hmm. Back of the bull. Put you out of

• 14:18

the spot. For me it's making sure it's being able to ensure that the party wins. Yes that

• 14:32

is definitely the role I think of a support any any good player knows that supports win

• 14:38

and lose games in my opinion apologies to all non support players but you know when

• 14:45

you think about the oh let's hold on let's pause here this looks like a little bit of

• 14:47

a scary area and as a matter of fact let me see if but you know we might need some supplies

• 14:56

in here let me just see if I can chop down some trees you know what I think there was

• 15:06

some some oaks down here these oaks might come in handy later we'll see but you know

• 15:14

when you think about like cleric gameplay that whack-a-mole that trad said that's that's

• 15:20

kind of I think what a lot of MMO players are accustomed to right yeah probably it's

• 15:26

like it's like following your your party's hit point bars in the health bars in the the

• 15:36

party window and just clicking between them and making sure you're like maintaining rotations

• 15:40

and cooldowns on your heal abilities you know saving the really high mana usage ones for

• 15:48

emergency situations and just ensuring that your resource management as well as like you

• 15:55

know who your tanks are who your fighters are if a DPS gets out of position and starts

• 15:59

taking a bunch of damage like they're ruining your your your mana management essentially

• 16:04

right so it's a little bit of dependency on like your party as well as your own rotation

• 16:11

yeah it's a very reactive play style that I like a lot of you know a lot of time when

• 16:17

you're playing DPS it's like a lot of things are kind of predetermined with your rotation

• 16:22

and all that and obviously there's like reactive elements there that you're reacting to out

• 16:26

external variables and the the encounters and such but you know with with clerics there's

• 16:31

generally not as much of a rotation you're kind of responding every moment based on what's

• 16:36

happening to your party by the way there's a lot of predictive opportunities as well

• 16:40

like making sure that you're in the right place at the right time right yeah absolutely

• 16:44

all right let's dismount and see what we got up here these look like some skin walkers

• 16:52

who what are these skin walkers trad you want to talk to us a little bit about them these

• 16:56

are just one of your basic fodder enemies like you know they're they're not too dangerous

• 17:01

individually but you know in a pack they could be something to concern yourself with so you

• 17:07

don't want to pull too many of the time but let's take them out and see what happens not

• 17:15

too bad not too bad all right it took some damage there a little bit of damage there

• 17:28

that wasn't too bad let me actually hold on let me adjust the master volume real quick

• 17:35

audio you guys are gonna see some outstanding ui work that's necessary i'm just gonna pull

• 17:42

down this little bit there we go all right so that's still got some ui work to do on

• 17:52

the settings panel but you get to see it in all of its work in progress glory so they

• 17:58

did do a little bit of damage to you and talk to us a little bit about um oh wow those guys

• 18:06

got actually got a little bit beat up must be those uh buffs on chains oh yeah i actually

• 18:13

did i i didn't actually even can't get to cast chains you got to cast it just didn't

• 18:18

do too much yeah exactly so one thing we were trying to set up there that will of course

• 18:23

get to see a little bit more showcased and some of these tougher mobs inevitably coming

• 18:27

up here is uh some class synergies uh this particular one is where we demonstrate setting

• 18:34

up a status effect called stagger you'll see a floater text pop up here i'll show you don't

• 18:39

kill him don't kill oh actually you won't see it on my screen yeah but basically it

• 18:44

sets up a status effect you can see a little bit of a vfx over his head and then um as

• 18:49

you see there stephen followed up with chains that uh triggers a stun on any target under

• 18:55

that effect already now up here i believe is an observation area where where i am gonna

• 19:02

speed up time now we talked a little bit about um showcasing kind of night and day and up

• 19:08

here if we make it past some of these this is this is like a cemetery right looks to

• 19:14

be that way oh yeah these dogs are these these poor dogs i feel terrible about them let me

• 19:23

oh there's some zombies up here okay we got it coming oh they're they're starting to move

• 19:30

too fast though you can kite these oh my god everyone what the heck was that so much for

• 19:35

guiding all right get ready drop a stun on them or is it on cooldown nope i got it all

• 19:49

right oh no i accidentally canceled it oh god hold on group you here we go okay we're

• 19:56

doing okay i got you i got you there's some of them popped out of the ground oh i love

• 20:19

the charge effect and it looks like they're oh my god a dog came i think we're hitting

• 20:24

respawn we need to keep moving oh god i'm gonna pull them up this way yep now you'll

• 20:34

notice my main heel actually can act as a as a damage if the enemy target is if the

• 20:42

target is an enemy and actually that can generate as a mechanic for the cleric um some convictions

• 20:48

tell me a little bit about convictions trad sure yeah conviction is a class resource we

• 20:54

came up with for the cleric specifically certain abilities will generate it based on certain

• 20:59

criteria and as stephen was saying there you can either use it to heal an ally or you can

• 21:05

use it to do damage to an enemy and generate conviction which will then help you in the

• 21:10

future heal for more so kind of what keenan was saying about predictive play being an

• 21:14

element not just reactive that would be the one of the predictive aspects of the cleric

• 21:19

just kind of setting yourself up so that when you know things start looking a little rough

• 21:25

you know you've you've kind of prepared that in advance by not healing as much early on

• 21:29

and paying off later now at this point i think players are for the first time seeing one

• 21:35

of the moons of vera and there are a few moons actually a vera um but you guys are going

• 21:42

to witness me speeding up time because day and night cycles in the ashes of creation

• 21:50

are actually over the course of a few hours between those night cycles so you're going

• 21:57

to see the trees move all real rapidly and you're going to see the sun drop rapidly and

• 22:02

then you're going to see the night sky begin to form and we're going to try to identify

• 22:07

some constellations if we can because constellations and ashes of creation actually have a very

• 22:15

relevant purpose across a whole host of different game systems including on the narrative side

• 22:23

on mechanics like acquiring certain types of relics for your node on empowering certain

• 22:29

abilities and or items that you have access to and it is of course relevant that i am

• 22:36

playing as a vek uh vek as many of you may know uh do worship and obviously study the

• 22:44

stars so let me see if i can go ahead and speed up that time standby there it goes the

• 22:56

trees look i love it it's kind of like time machine a little bit oh and the moon changed

• 23:03

positions it's now dead up in up and we see another one of the moons now of course as

• 23:09

you guys may know this is of course a work in progress right we're working towards our

• 23:13

alpha 2 so some of this stuff will likely change especially on the art side but i love

• 23:20

what the new skybox is doing and and i mean it's just visually great the ambience of course

• 23:27

changes now to include a different nighttime feel to it and the lighting actually in the

• 23:32

night is not too bad i mean it gives you that kind of sense of of dark darkness but you

• 23:37

know it's not inhibiting your ability to play the game um now we are trying to look we need

• 23:45

each of us to kind of look in the sky in certain directions to identify um one of these constellations

• 23:52

and i think what we are looking for um is what was once called a begor amount but now

• 23:58

is called a uh dawn breaker i believe so try to look all around as you can in the night

• 24:05

sky and identify the location of the dawn breaker where is the dawn breaker i am not

• 24:17

yet seeing it are any of you seeing it i don't see can we not find the dawn breaker maybe

• 24:31

we'll find another one of them um where is it hold on it should have told me where it

• 24:42

was oh there we go we found the dawn breaker do you guys oh it's right next to the destroyed

• 24:49

moon oh that'll help yeah there we go yeah oh it looks so good i love it now this is

• 24:57

that's oh it went away sad sadge um now there is supposedly another uh constellation that

• 25:08

is deeper into the cemetery if we want to progress that way what do you guys think let's

• 25:13

check it out yeah but wait before we go let me give us all just a group blessing the four

• 25:18

of the three of us sorry i've got a buff before let's do this i think that'll wear off long

• 25:26

before we get to use it oh yeah i gotta conserve your mana i know well i'm trying uh are we

• 25:32

going oh thank and healer going different ways uh-oh we gotta gotta avoid the pulls

• 25:37

yeah uh i think i might have pulled one there's one coming over this direction oh god they're

• 25:44

here where where are you oh okay you you guys take care of it the zombies will never catch

• 25:54

us nice we got that worst where you're at there we go yeah it looks like we aggroed

• 26:04

one here let's just get this guy real quick oh i got a lot more than one oh my god okay

• 26:21

let's tread carefully around these cards apparently we're doing okay i think maybe i should take

• 26:35

my staff out for this oh you know i haven't shown any active blocking yet that's another

• 26:39

thing i wanted to show you guys is the active blocking are there creatures down here yeah

• 26:44

there should be a pack down here i think all right let's take a look what is this this

• 26:50

is a graveyard oh that's a respawn point a resurrection different kind of graveyard yeah

• 27:00

i love this environment and the fog on the ground is so what oh behind you is that oh

• 27:07

my god here oh god i'll let you tank for a little bit all right i have my active blocks

• 27:15

up oh boy there's a lot okay he doesn't seem to be doing much damage to me but of course

• 27:22

it would normally consume stamina is that correct red oh that depends we're still kind

• 27:30

of discussing our resource systems but you know that is one thing that we can potentially

• 27:35

explode oh don't stand in that oh no what do those do i know doug and um doug and chong

• 27:50

were working on these omens yeah using some of our new ai systems right don't stand in

• 27:56

the green fire don't stand in the vomit actually hurts a lot let me see if i can generate some

• 28:03

convictions oh i have convictions oh and now you can see because i have convictions my

• 28:15

cleansing wave actually bounced to an additional target that's pretty awesome three of us that

• 28:24

time yeah that's nice that is very nice all right let's keep moving forward did i hit

• 28:29

all three of you guys i have so i notice i have some conviction buff on my on my life

• 28:35

bar right now yeah uh you hit one additional target for each stack you have oh my god you

• 28:43

guys are hearing um my steam i think apologies i'm sorry i'm recording from home all right

• 28:57

here we go there we go let me see if i can generate some more conviction it worked these

• 29:17

zombies aren't too bad so the more convictions that i generate the more amplified the abilities

• 29:27

become is that right that is correct and obviously as you know we generate we create more and

• 29:35

more abilities there will be more interactions right now you know you only see four but you

• 29:40

know the final kid will have way more than that going on i'm gonna take my staff out

• 29:54

we must show these beings the way of the light talk to us a little bit about the way of the

• 30:00

light actually how does radiant energy and energy subtypes work with regards to damage

• 30:05

and creatures so the basically we're gonna have different damage types and certain damage

• 30:16

types will be strong or weak against certain enemy types so you'll have to be somewhat

• 30:22

you know smart about who you're bringing where or you know what kind of abilities or specs

• 30:29

you know obviously you'll be able to do the content but you'll have an easier time with

• 30:35

certain contents you know if you're using a certain spec over others so you know obviously

• 30:40

we're going up against undead and as is natural they're probably going to be a little weaker

• 30:45

against your holy magic than keenan's nature um elements for example wow kenan you gonna

• 30:53

talk to you about your nature like that i do like that i do like i do like when we go

• 31:03

up against the air elementals maybe keenan's time will shine oh there you go i like the

• 31:08

uh the actual uh different synergy between um energy types and vulnerabilities of certain

• 31:17

creatures there's actually a lot of mobs here um yeah we should be careful before going

• 31:22

forward we got things behind okay let's grab some things behind whoa whoa did they anger

• 31:28

me because i'm a clerk that was crazy they kind of ran at me they might i think they

• 31:34

were coming at me and you were just in their way very interesting it's all right we got

• 31:42

this i have to move forward with coffee all right let's get these guys up here i should

• 31:52

use them to generate some convictions actually oh yeah me a whole dps it's not in my it's

• 31:58

not in my nature oh no i've got my dps hat on um talk to us talk to us a little bit oh

• 32:09

wait are you gonna pull here so i think they're seeing us from over here trying to trick us

• 32:15

and lure us into this oh yeah oh no oh they got you they found me somehow it's all right

• 32:23

bigger balls more xp all right i set them up for a stun nice perfect now talk to me

• 32:37

a little bit about why that stun just happened uh i set it up with whirlwind and it applies

• 32:42

the staggered effects and chains of restraint will stun any targets under the staggered

• 32:48

effect so right now that's one particular synergy but as the game continues to come

• 32:55

together and you see more and more abilities there will be all kinds of ways to set up

• 32:59

that that outcome so even more yeah a lot of a lot of essentially the different combat

• 33:16

mechanics that work between the different archetypes and classes rely on synergies

• 33:25

in the progression of certain types of status effects right that's correct and this this

• 33:34

of course emphasizes the need for certain party compositions to exist so that players

• 33:39

can make sure they utilize the strengths of their different types of status conditions

• 33:44

and the the example we're showing here obviously is the progression of oops sorry uh is the

• 33:51

progression of the staggered condition into the stunned um we might need to find a place

• 33:57

to rest here yeah i didn't let's move forward up this way maybe right like up here let's

• 34:04

get back in the wolves we got one zombie coming in from behind that's all right let's take

• 34:10

a bit you want to grab these wolves and you'll see because they're stunned the chains actually

• 34:18

go through the body that's kind of cool what about right here can we rest here let's um

• 34:26

let's move up the stairs a little bit just so we don't catch a respawn on the wolves

• 34:30

too okay can we take a seat maybe up here right right here yeah let's sit down hopefully

• 34:36

the zombies don't follow us too far i'm gonna take a seat i think we have aggro still yeah

• 34:42

they're coming for us nothing oh no okay all right all right all right

• 34:52

i know take a break after we get these guys down

• 35:10

this wave i promise oh apologies can't use my abilities oh no if i was a bit higher level

• 35:25

i could help you regenerate your mana yeah one thing we should be doing is focus firing

• 35:29

these guys um one aspect of the zombies is they have more health regen than your standard

• 35:34

mob and so when we used all right i want to get strategy against them is to burst them

• 35:40

down let's rest right up here well just before we go yeah there's some mobs right up there

• 35:47

right here right here right here oh there we go this has been a frightful journey actually

• 35:55

um yeah and one good thing about this is yeah you can see kinan's mana um was a little low

• 36:04

there and so as you know a classic mmo thing to do is to sit and rest as you get your your

• 36:10

resources back now what if you have certain types of items that you could use like a campfire

• 36:14

or some type of you know bedding or something that'd be kind of cool that'd be pretty cool

• 36:21

it would be cool i like the just the the subtle fog that's just flowing through it's the rain

• 36:30

is nice too yeah the rain is nice i like the sound look at those old lampposts i think

• 36:36

that's been in the game since 2017 although it looks like the materials might have gotten

• 36:42

updated all right i'm feeling refreshed should we all right so we've got a group right ahead

• 36:52

of us here oh god no no no not like this oh no no you're dead gotta come in you are going

• 37:01

to die there is nothing i can do for you oh my god uh focus the scholars scholars first

• 37:12

why is there so many that's all right three down skinwalker oh i can't it's on cool down

• 37:23

okay here comes oh my god there's dogs ambush houston houston together oh i almost got stuck

• 37:35

in between all of them too that was terrible oh hey we actually handled that not too bad

• 37:44

got it uh that was close i think we want to go this way right yeah i'm super slow though

• 37:49

they put some type of plague debuff on me last time we got lost in here it was it was

• 37:54

a rough time now remember we're looking for a particular type of constellation i believe

• 38:02

the ancient scholars of the vec refer to it as the great sundal whoops i totally misfired

• 38:12

that oh rib how many look nobody look oh these zombies look great though

• 38:25

kenan i have to say you are doing a great job with the ranger well done carrying the

• 38:37

group yeah you are carrying us where are we headed i'm just i'm just running man this

• 38:47

is like a giant complex of undead speaking of undead this is the first time i think we've

• 38:54

ever shown undead in ashes in fact these particular undead are a result i believe for those of

• 39:10

you who were watching the live stream of the wreckage of carfan the event that occurred

• 39:15

there just before the exodus from from vera all those years ago now where are we got another

• 39:27

same locker this is an ominous passageway i don't trust it i like it i also love the

• 39:43

light effect that it has on my what what is the name of this set this is like the vindictus

• 39:47

is it uh man oh that armor set yeah you know we probably have already shown it on the stream

• 39:56

so all of you oh we will show you but i believe it's the imperious and vindictus or something

• 40:02

along those lines that sounds right it's a very latin sounding name whatever it is latin

• 40:08

what is latin this is vera oh my god keenan i think you just summoned those with your sniper

• 40:18

ability they felt the nature all right generate some more convictions here

• 40:35

i murdered it a little bit of help from me a little bit oh was that you doing that damage

• 41:00

i thought that was definitely me got to keep the healer safe yes that is true that is the

• 41:11

primary role and responsibility of your arctic keep me safe oh i like how they kind of pounce

• 41:19

at you that's their opening attack yeah so you see now the effect has staggered applied

• 41:29

instead of stun because i did not use it at the right time with my fighter all right we're

• 41:41

coming up across a bridge it looks like sure you rest maybe risky with the real idea if

• 41:47

we rest we should probably move off to the side over here where i want to take a seat

• 41:51

by the little keenan's like nope i'm gonna rest right in the middle of the road got to

• 41:56

get those tickets by the river it's a nice little spot yeah it is a nice spot i don't

• 42:03

trust the water why nothing bad happens in the water it's just the depths think of all

• 42:11

the secrets that the depths contain perfectly safe dark rivers in fantasy games a zombie

• 42:17

is totally not going to jump out of there and eat me alive out of the water no that

• 42:22

would never happen now remember for those of you who are watching during the extra life

• 42:26

event the tower of carfen actually rests upon a river and some of the energies that were

• 42:33

created when lamont actually did oh oh oh god oh they're shooting like necrotic pulsing

• 42:43

oh god there's so many there's a lot i'm on the lamppost all right make sure you stay

• 42:55

over here mate where who where are you dread i'm still down here on the beach here i am

• 43:01

i got you i got you there we go we should probably get up onto this bridge yeah i'm

• 43:12

just trying to finish off this zombie first i'm on the bridge all right he's down all

• 43:20

right let's get these two guys but as i was saying the tower of carfen event that actually

• 43:33

trickled out through the river lands because of the rivers and the undead began to form

• 43:39

around these rivers but you'll learn more about that during the story early nice little

• 43:48

stunning scholars real quick oh they're dead never mind taking them off ranger's doing

• 43:58

work let's go off to the side pumping what is up there oh that looks like something

• 44:11

different and some type of little golem oh god oh no no no no no no no no no no no no

• 44:22

this guy's not that bad oh i'm stunned oh he stunned me oh oh no what was this too soon

• 44:34

get out of here all right we got more company that guy was they're lagging behind a little

• 44:38

bit cannot challenge me walking the light okay they're challenging me slightly there

• 44:56

we go we did it done it so the active walk actually works with any weapon equipped except

• 45:08

for ranged oops tried to do that oh yeah um yeah you could active walk one one thing that

• 45:21

we're kind of toying around with the idea of is giving everybody a universal active

• 45:27

block mechanic in which case you know the shield version would probably be better but

• 45:32

you'd still be able to parry or whatnot with a two-handed weapon or even maybe dual wield

• 45:38

oh that's pretty cool we need to find this send all um it's supposed to be kind of up

• 45:49

near wait maybe we need to go back a little bit i think i respond no respawn hold on let's

• 46:01

go over this way i remember i was told that it was before this bridge oh no yeah okay

• 46:14

let's just let's just run through if we can i want to try to find this end all just keep

• 46:19

on moving oh don't die okay hold on we're good oh god are you surviving yeah i think

• 46:33

so i mean we'll be fine except for the wolves i set my speed a little bit higher cheater

• 46:42

it's oh no okay what's happening it's it's definitely a cleric buff right yes exactly

• 46:49

here actually provided by the range you see that and all right like my sleep all right

• 46:58

we can take these guys zombies are way behind all right i'm ready easy easy um oh my god

• 47:12

you're never ending keep running i think hold on we gotta go up here we gotta go up here

• 47:20

up these stairs yeah up these stairs okay up good we're up here hold on i might need

• 47:33

some help up here though let me see if it's over sorry guys i just want to make sure we

• 47:41

can find the sandal maybe he meant before the bridge like before the bridge into the

• 47:51

cemetery maybe oh i made it on top of the uh the light post actually oh yeah there we

• 48:01

go now this is tranquil like a true cleric don't die i'm not with you guys by the way

• 48:09

nope i don't even know where you went we lost our healer we're screwed no no we're good

• 48:15

you guys just come out come out the front oh i see you down there i can't we can't end

• 48:19

the stream unless i find the sand hole jump down oh god he's getting swarmed yeah i'm

• 48:25

definitely getting swarmed oh geez i'll save you here it's the least i can do oh shoot

• 48:39

i'm and the zombies are coming oh no no keep going wait it was definitely at the entrance

• 48:47

guys i'm so sorry for this i'm so sorry stream i'm so sorry i can't not show the sandal

• 48:54

i totally messed up where he's now you know we don't cut these or edit them they're just

• 49:05

they are what they are if they are this is such a typical mmo adventure it's like getting

• 49:10

lost in a dungeon area uh healer body pools all right here we go we're good i think so

• 49:19

okay we made it out here i can see the stars again so you actually you guys can see that

• 49:24

there are certain environments that will just prevent you from being able to look up into

• 49:30

the sky for the some of these constellations all right now we're looking towards oh wait

• 49:36

i'm supposed to look towards that moon oh i found it we found the sandal there it is

• 49:44

hi yes are you dying don't die and there is the sandal ladies and gentlemen well i hope

• 49:53

that you all have enjoyed this sneak peek at one of the uh areas in the riverlands um

• 50:00

and also some of the updates to the clear yeah let's take a seat let's take a seat and

• 50:05

also some of the updates to the cleric as well as you can see there's some ui here between

• 50:10

the icons and the mini map as well as the targeting and and party ui that we'd love

• 50:16

your guys's feedback on you also got to hear a little bit about the night and day cycle

• 50:24

see some of the updates to the mason shield as well as the staff and also learn a little

• 50:29

bit more about undead and the energy types that occur and synergies especially between

• 50:34

certain types of status conditions and effects that might might exist in ashes of creations

• 50:41

with all that being said i i would love to hear your guys's feedback on what you saw

• 50:46

today make sure you guys go and visit the forums our twitter our reddit comment in the

• 50:52

youtube videos give us what your thoughts are about what you saw today as always remember

• 50:56

this is a work in progress we are working towards alpha 2 but you get to see a little

• 51:02

bit every step of the way each month so i hope you guys enjoyed trad keenan thank you

• 51:08

for joining us that was super fun and i'm surprised we actually didn't die same it

• 51:15

was fun thanks for having us yes we'll see you guys back on stream

• 51:19

well hopefully you all enjoyed that um we found the sand all who else was checking their

• 51:36

their steam updates when they heard the notification honestly i remembered that that happened when

• 51:41

we were recording it and then when it happened on the stream i looked on my computer and

• 51:45

i was like i don't have steam installed on this computer and then i was like oh wait

• 51:50

a minute but of course uh i did grab a bunch of questions and i believe roshan added some

• 51:57

extra ones in here as well from uh because they're they're doing a watch party as well

• 52:01

um and i always keep an eye on discord i was keeping on twitch so there's a mix of them

• 52:05

in there um but first i wanted to address that obviously i think we've prefaced this

• 52:09

and you know we said it multiple times and even steven said it in in the video even steven

• 52:14

even steven um that this is a work in progress so things like the cape cape clipping running

• 52:21

animations bloom loot name plates all those things are work in progress so just i want

• 52:25

to reiterate that and your your concerns right off the bat in regards to that and also the

• 52:30

camera angle steven likes a really wide camera angle you can zoom in if that's a pov you

• 52:35

prefer i saw a lot of people being like i don't like this pov and he was zooming in

• 52:40

showing that i am a big fan of super zoomed out but um also another point is uh this is

• 52:47

keeping in context uh this is level 14 level 15 uh gameplay um that's one thing and i did

• 52:53

note a couple things and these are these are the reasons why of course we uh present you

• 52:59

guys with these monthly updates is because we want your feedback on things like i saw

• 53:02

a lot of commentary about the night time and how dark exactly night time should be now

• 53:08

of course darkness when it comes to night day cycles and games accommodates different

• 53:13

types of games different genres different mechanics in more survival oriented games

• 53:18

you're expected to have really dark night times because you utilize instruments like

• 53:23

um torches and lights that can be uh present but when you think about an mmorpg and you

• 53:31

think about the types of player numbers and player count you're expected to have in certain

• 53:37

locations and dungeons right that needs to you need to be able to accommodate those types

• 53:43

of visibility lines and and those mechanics around that large multiplayer environment

• 53:50

so when you guys are giving feedback think about whether or not you want the outside

• 53:56

night time to really be very dark or if you want that to be um reserved for specific locations

• 54:05

in the game like certain dungeons and towers where we can utilize mechanics like different

• 54:10

types of lighting mechanisms um in order to facilitate that more dark feel um another

• 54:16

thing that i saw um was questions regarding the sit emotion uh the sit emote um so this

• 54:23

is something that you know design has gone back and forth on over the course of the last

• 54:27

um year or so with regards to whether or not we should have a sit uh function that actually

• 54:33

increases the mana regen um or not now obviously that's a throwback to more classic days of

• 54:39

mmorpg gameplay but leave your comments on on that thought um about that as well and

• 54:45

one thing i just want to note is i traditionally play or have played a tank um not usual i

• 54:52

mean i i also i played like a tank healer a lot of times um so that's why you saw that's

• 54:57

why you saw me pulling a lot um and i apologize for that i noticed somebody said that i need

• 55:02

to have a child safety leash on me as the healer i was laughing so hard people were

• 55:08

like stephen's that guy who is like body pulling as a clary because they're like bored and

• 55:14

then they pull all the mobs and you're and you're like i can't handle this and then we

• 55:19

all die so it was so great it was great all right is it okay if i grab some extra questions

• 55:25

here and stuff yeah oh and one last thing is this will be up on youtube right after

• 55:29

the stream so you can go watch it in its higher quality um uh setting on youtube um obviously

• 55:36

on stream you know we we there's a little bit of a quality difference there for the

• 55:40

stream but yeah for sure we can only upload and or we can only have so high of bit rate

• 55:45

they like cap us so oh yeah um sorry about that um but of course the next one here that

• 55:51

i wanted to talk about that was more of a general thing was uh from karen sci-fi 123

• 55:55

and they were asking will you be using 5.1 yes actually we are um we are moving over

• 56:02

to 5.1 that should be complete in january and then moving on we're gonna talk about

• 56:09

a few cleric questions and you already answered one of them that was on this list um so first

• 56:14

can you explain a little bit more about the staggering and how status effects stagger

• 56:17

and stun and that whole interaction works um i can i need to plug my headset in because

• 56:25

it's done apologies um yes so um staggering is excuse me staggering is a is a type of

• 56:34

status condition that can be applied through certain skills and the the the type of synergy

• 56:41

systems we're going for is that certain archetypes and class kits will have access to a number

• 56:47

of what we call first tier status conditions those types of status conditions are general

• 56:53

status conditions that can be applied across a host of skills and a number of different

• 56:57

archetypes and class kits and they can progress when synergized with other types of status

• 57:04

conditions or abilities to tier 2 level um status effects and so for example you saw

• 57:10

that one of the abilities that the cleric has at level 15 is um the chains of restraint

• 57:18

and um when the chains of restraint lays down that aoe of course it ticks for damage over

• 57:23

time but it also applies to stagger condition however if the target was already uh subject

• 57:30

to the staggered condition then it gets promoted to a stunned condition um now the difference

• 57:37

between staggered and stun um in a staggered state uh the creature may not use abilities

• 57:43

they can do basic attack functions they could cast spells if they had spells access to spells

• 57:48

but their physical abilities would be muted or would be essentially um uh inaccessible

• 57:55

during the staggered effect now a stunned condition obviously is a more amplified status

• 58:00

condition where you cannot take any actions um and so the fighter's ability whirlwind

• 58:05

had a staggered uh application available to it so when the uh cleric chooses to use its

• 58:11

chains of restraint ability if they use it after the fighter applies their staggered

• 58:16

condition then the change will um will force a stun effect all right and then folks are

• 58:22

wondering will those stuns work on all enemy types or will there be ones that will be specific

• 58:26

to certain types of animal or creatures when i said animals um generally status conditions

• 58:33

will apply to all creature and player types um there are of course uh some um creatures

• 58:39

such as bosses um and or uh raid bosses um that aren't that have very high resistances

• 58:46

or cannot be affected by certain status conditions um in that case obviously uh those status

• 58:52

effects will not apply but the rest of the skills ability um uh will like the damage

• 58:57

and a follow-up to that um will those things stack so if i'm you know a fighter and i put

• 59:03

certain effect on something and someone else is also fighter and puts that effect on do

• 59:07

those things not stack it depends it there's unique rules uh with regards to stacking um

• 59:14

based on the type of status condition um so uh in the event that the that the status condition

• 59:20

may not stack um we have certain stacking rules that might increase the longevity of

• 59:26

the status condition with the second application but it's important to note that we do have

• 59:31

the concept of diminishing returns and that certain types of status conditions share certain

• 59:37

um diminishing return groupings so that obviously a character can't be like stun locked or silence

• 59:44

locked or you know just a particular type of status condition lock all right and then

• 59:48

Dale's flight would like to know can you cast in movement or do you have to stand still

• 59:52

and i saw quite a few people mentioning this most abilities you'll find in ashes of creation

• 59:58

are capable of being cast while while moving um some of those abilities might slow your

• 1:00:03

movement during the cast but you can continue to move um very rarely and depending on obviously

• 1:00:08

the um uh uh the importance of the ability or the power level of that ability uh you

• 1:00:15

might be rooted in place so for example the aoe ability has a lot going on it has damage

• 1:00:21

ticking over time it is an area of effect it also has a status condition application

• 1:00:26

um and in those instances uh the player character gets rooted and i saw quite a few folks asking

• 1:00:32

this but falcon swift blade asked um is steven using mouse over casting can we hover over

• 1:00:37

players also so what are the ways that i can interact ui wise in order to heal as a healer

• 1:00:43

absolutely so one of the the big goals of our ui team um is to and and our design team

• 1:00:49

is to accommodate a whole host of different types of user options that they're capable

• 1:00:54

of setting um you know because we all have different play styles um and in that regard

• 1:00:59

those include things like hover over casting double tap application of aoe effects on cursor

• 1:01:06

location just a lot of different options because people like to play different ways yeah you

• 1:01:12

set those things up in your your key bindings and setups correct well eventually um and

• 1:01:19

then the other thing that people were asking is can you heal enemy mobs that was a frequent

• 1:01:24

thing i said um yeah you cannot heal enemy mobs um there's just really not a a relevant

• 1:01:31

use case for that when it comes to the design mechanics of of such a thing other than uh

• 1:01:37

its primary use which would be to to grief other players um you know i have a funny story

• 1:01:43

uh in lineage 2 i used to play a zombie i used to play a zombie i used to play sort

• 1:01:49

of a zombie i used to play a bishop um and the bishop had an ability called restore life

• 1:01:55

and we had an enemy alliance that we had fought for for many years it was a very two-sided

• 1:02:00

server um and there was a particular raid boss called antheris uh that actually um took

• 1:02:07

hours sometimes to complete uh and i managed to to get into the area and um right when

• 1:02:15

they have been fighting that boss for about four hours um i made it close enough to cast

• 1:02:21

restore life on the antheris boss and i put it back to 70 of its health um and they had

• 1:02:27

to keep fighting it but you know what they did it to us first but but regardless it's

• 1:02:35

just that type of mechanic just doesn't really you know make sense um don't put your fork

• 1:02:40

at us no i'm just kidding oh yeah i have a fork i don't know i was playing with something

• 1:02:44

um but yeah i think most there were there were definitely people who didn't like it

• 1:02:50

and and some people who did want it so i just wanted to clarify to folks um and then the

• 1:02:54

next thing is uh tryndamere would like to know whether you'd be able to heal yourself

• 1:02:59

as like other archetypes like a paladin or something of that sort or class type yeah

• 1:03:03

i mean it depends obviously on the secondary class selection no one is going to fill the

• 1:03:08

role of a primary healer other than the the the healer archetype um but there will be

• 1:03:14

secondary class options that you can select um which will provide you with some level

• 1:03:19

of sustainability and or restoration um most of that will be centralized to yourself um

• 1:03:25

especially in the case of a paladin um and then of course blue wheel would like to know

• 1:03:30

if we'll see more name plates and health bars uh in order like in the world in the three

• 1:03:36

yeah i i i chose the option during this recording to remove player character name plates um

• 1:03:42

i find it you know for my personal preference that it's a bit more cinematic when it comes

• 1:03:46

to immersion in the world um now obviously uh to that question yes there's going to be

• 1:03:51

plenty of options when it comes to showcasing player name plates you can resize all the

• 1:03:56

ui elements that you see on screen here i forgot to kind of show that um that's my bad

• 1:04:01

uh but you can also um uh select a party name plate raid name plate specialization um showing

• 1:04:08

uh the hit point bar under the name plate there's going to be a whole host of options

• 1:04:13

that players have access to from a ui perspective and then zeo zara would like to know if there

• 1:04:18

will be special area buffs that you can use as a support uh for example in certain dungeons

• 1:04:23

like you have to buff everybody up and it'll last for that dungeon things of that sort

• 1:04:28

oh yeah um we haven't even shown the uh the bard archetype yet um but uh you know it's

• 1:04:37

it along with other classes will have certain types of self buffs and party buffs obviously

• 1:04:41

level 14 15 that's not going to be uh too much that's available there there will be

• 1:04:45

a number of them but but not as much as obviously level 50 where you know our maximum buff bar

• 1:04:50

allotment i think is somewhere around like 20 some odd buffs that can be on a particular

• 1:04:54

character at one time um that includes things like songs stories and dances from the bard

• 1:04:59

um but yeah get ready for raid buffs meet up for the raid buffs at x time um of course

• 1:05:08

uh would like to know uh is there a shield charge like a charge up for the shield um

• 1:05:17

a shield charge yeah um you know oh you know thank you you actually reminded me of something

• 1:05:22

else i noted down i saw a lot of commentary around stamina that is an active design discussion

• 1:05:27

with how we're going to have certain universal abilities such as dodge and active blocking

• 1:05:32

um utilize a separate energy mechanic if you guys have thoughts on stamina usage um it

• 1:05:40

is something that we are going to be actively testing as part of alpha 2 uh make sure you

• 1:05:44

guys leave commentary on on what you've liked about stamina in the past with other games

• 1:05:48

and what you've disliked um about it and then ventali wants to know it seems like the enemy

• 1:05:53

health and difficulty that was seen or that they've seen so far in all of our dev updates

• 1:05:58

seems a little easy uh they were wondering if we are going to be kind of working out

• 1:06:03

the balancing for these encounters oh yeah um because they said as a trio they would

• 1:06:06

expect it to be a little bit more dangerous yeah something to keep in mind is that alpha

• 1:06:11

2 is not really intended to be a prior especially what you're seeing at this stage right now

• 1:06:15

before alpha 2 is not meant to showcase kind of balancing um from an engagement or encounter

• 1:06:21

perspective um obviously we do a finger in the wind kind of balance pass uh but a lot

• 1:06:26

of that stuff from our encounters team uh doesn't get done until populations are kind

• 1:06:30

of um in place and those encounter designs get a little bit more time to bake um so so

• 1:06:36

stand by on that for uh alpha 2 uh as we get a little bit deeper into the testing um to

• 1:06:43

get touched up but just to give you context the intent is that ashes of creation will

• 1:06:48

be on the higher side of difficulty when it comes to engagements right and before i get

• 1:06:54

into day night cycle questions this last one is from answer boy and they want to know are

• 1:06:59

some abilities going to have voiceovers when casting like grunts and things of that sort

• 1:07:04

yeah like incantations and stuff um you know that's the desire uh cat has done a phenomenal

• 1:07:10

dot a job so far with um the sound design as i saw many commentary a lot of commentary

• 1:07:16

about it during the um during the video in the previous videos um some of the casting

• 1:07:21

abilities will have um uh incantations that are done uh but we have not had the ability

• 1:07:27

to implement that yet all right and then moving on to day night stuff uh we had rag uh rad

• 1:07:34

gall who wants to know is the day night cycle tied to server time um the day night cycle

• 1:07:41

is tied to server time um yes so there is a number of hours that exist between each

• 1:07:49

of the cycles um that's something that will be fine tuning of course during alpha 2 as

• 1:07:53

well uh but it is intended um for players to kind of uh interact with certain systems

• 1:08:00

even based on in-game time as well um so yeah and then uh gnome berserker would like to

• 1:08:08

know are there going to be different light levels tied to time of day slash environment

• 1:08:13

or moons etc so i guess like different um not sure exactly what they mean by that but

• 1:08:19

potentially different sky levels maybe in different areas um you know generally you

• 1:08:29

can see here that the that the lighting levels um you know are pretty consistent uh that

• 1:08:36

is from a game mechanic perspective of course the the visual setting changes the the type

• 1:08:42

of lighting you're seeing here changes based on night and day um and that's i think related

• 1:08:46

to the first thing i brought up which is what we want commentary back on is um you know

• 1:08:51

what is the level of luminosity that's desired um when it comes to mmorpg open world gameplay

• 1:08:58

uh not talking about specific points of interest like dungeons and or towers locations where

• 1:09:03

we can um restrict that level lighting to something a bit darker but the general open

• 1:09:08

world outside experience um that's something where it's possible for a lot of players to

• 1:09:13

kind of converge in a particular location it would be really odd if the night cycle

• 1:09:19

included a significant decrease in visibility and you're running into those types of environments

• 1:09:26

that's something a bit more reminiscent of survival styled games so leave your commentary

• 1:09:33

on what you've enjoyed about that what you you know want to see in ashes of creation

• 1:09:37

or see differently between those types of settings and then uh balance on of fans would

• 1:09:44

like to know do constellations rise and set and do those times rotate yes so constellations

• 1:09:52

as you could see um with the sky some of those moons being in different positions um they

• 1:09:59

do rotate and change uh throughout the night that is the intent for them um and of course

• 1:10:05

they have wide application across a number of systems uh that are relevant including

• 1:10:09

story and narrative um and the acquisition of certain types of things in the game and

• 1:10:14

then drew guy wants to know does nighttime boost power of undead certain creatures will

• 1:10:21

react differently certain spawns react differently during night times and different day night

• 1:10:25

cycles um those might also influence things like abilities and or uh buff slash debuff

• 1:10:33

slash vulnerabilities um you'll have to find out based on the type of creature you're experiencing

• 1:10:38

all right and there's a lot of questions i know we could sit here and answer a million

• 1:10:42

but um those are the ones that i saw most frequently and that um we've gathered for

• 1:10:47

this time frame we know that if you have follow-up questions you know you know where to find

• 1:10:51

us um but of course we do have two threads that are going up on our forums if you want

• 1:10:55

to go check that out and uh one will be about the cleric and weapon updates and the and

• 1:10:59

the other one will be the day and night cycles constellation so please send us your feedback

• 1:11:04

over there there's little prompts but you don't have to necessarily follow those you

• 1:11:07

can just give us all your thoughts on those we'll be consolidating feedback reports on

• 1:11:12

those i think the due date on there is listed as well so please get your feedback in as

• 1:11:16

quickly as possible that's super handy for us so that we can then relay that back to

• 1:11:21

the developers and make sure that you know we're incorporating and thinking about those

• 1:11:24

things as we move forward um and usually we find that we're on the same page as y'all

• 1:11:30

so that's reassuring but by the way i just want to do a little call out to mike vecchio

• 1:11:37

oh yeah mike vecchio is awesome he made this really cool no it's a troll sitting on top

• 1:11:45

of a particular type of skull in celebration of the cemetery and undead uh uh video today

• 1:11:53

and it has this little guy for christmas in his little hat the joyous artillery sitting

• 1:12:00

on a cyclops skull all he needs is uh is um some fireworks this thing is so cool i love

• 1:12:08

it that is sick i want one i know um but of course we have more there's more um so we're

• 1:12:18

gonna go through uh the character stuff um obviously you guys have seen this before there

• 1:12:22

this is a little updated version of the two-handed um staff and the one-handed shield and mace

• 1:12:29

but we also have another version of this so you can kind of see you saw this also in the

• 1:12:34

game with uh stephen's character he was holding on to these and utilizing them yeah and these

• 1:12:39

obviously you can see by the quality of these types of weapons these are relatively lower

• 1:12:42

level these are some of the earliest types of weapons and or gear that you can acquire

• 1:12:46

within ashes of creation um but they look oh so cool yeah and then we've got uh you

• 1:12:54

know we showed you the bandit slaver now we got a little goblin slaver so this is kind

• 1:13:00

of the work in progress this is the model and then bam yes so let me tell you a little

• 1:13:07

bit of uh history slash context for this particular goblin slaver um one of the starting areas

• 1:13:15

in ashes of creation is the old ailen um uh capital city uh which i believe we started

• 1:13:22

in in our campaign for extra life this last month um but as players kind of return you

• 1:13:30

have to be careful because certain types of in-world um uh um settings based on story

• 1:13:40

progression of certain story arcs uh might result in some of these slavers coming in

• 1:13:44

around that starting area and these slavers have a particular type of interaction mechanic

• 1:13:51

where instead of killing the player they can subdue the player drag them to a cage

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and then there's a little mini game trying to get out of the cage or other players can

• 1:14:01

try to get you out of their cage right because they're capturing you to try to take you off

• 1:14:05

to be you know slaves um so what do you guys feel about those types of mechanics that are

• 1:14:10

unique um where the uh where the monsters can take you and pull you into a cage uh but

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that's what these guys do they're set up to do in the in the starting area give us your

• 1:14:21

feedback on that too yes yes um and we you saw them in game but the zombie shamblers

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and i think we've shown them off before too but little zhuzhng little updates to them

• 1:14:34

looking pretty pretty fab yeah you guys saw that in the in the video this is a zombie

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scholar um i believe was it ginsy that worked on this one i think yes ginsy worked on this

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yes scholar not a shambler sorry yes this one's a scholar he throws little necrotic

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bolts at you from a range distance looks like he would shoot lasers at you like leg lasers

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yeah um and then and chong and doug set this up on the design encounter side um that you

• 1:15:08

guys saw uh in the video and then we've got the winter nif which i think you know some

• 1:15:15

of y'all this is og so um if you're somebody who has access to this yes that was a old

• 1:15:23

one when was that um i think it was it was a long time ago and then also uh stephen i

• 1:15:29

think there was one time where you're like they use the winter nif's tears to do something

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i can't remember what it was that's how we create our um i thought it was we said that

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that was like the uh the the equivalent of gunpowder or for oh yeah that's what it was

• 1:15:44

it was the tears of the of the nymph or the nymph wait what is it nymph i don't know how

• 1:15:49

it's nyth nif you guys made it i don't know i said i said nymph before it was before my

• 1:15:55

times um and then this one's super oh and just real quick what i would love for the

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nymph to have if possible on the animation side okay animators goats yes animators the

• 1:16:07

goats that when you scare them their legs lock up and they fall over if that was if

• 1:16:11

that was just a little just a little animation that this guy did that'd be great those ones

• 1:16:17

are so funny um and then we also have this one that looks so cool the cultist do you

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want to give a little lore to the about the cultist yeah show off all the mp3s or mp4s

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absolutely so you'll notice that this guy has a particular type of tattoo on his back

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um you'll see uh that these are obviously some type of um some type of human now where

• 1:16:46

did these cultists come from right because the ancients have been on vera for a long

• 1:16:49

time uh you know prior to your return excuse me um and it's important to note that uh players

• 1:16:58

who are starting in the world of vera they're coming in actually a few short months after

• 1:17:03

the very first expeditionaries were sent through um the divine gateways when they opened um

• 1:17:10

sanctus and the early days on vera with the return were not uh super um uh easy uh they

• 1:17:20

were difficult there were um struggles with the food supplies there were um a little bit

• 1:17:26

of mutinies that occurred there were certain artifacts that were found by some of these

• 1:17:31

um npcs that that that that were your predecessors in the return um and some of them decided

• 1:17:37

that they would be better off on their own or that they had a more powerful um uh thing

• 1:17:43

or creature that they could follow and uh be rewarded from and um some of them turned

• 1:17:49

into cultists and that's one of the cultists you see here there's gonna be some storylines

• 1:17:52

you're gonna have to investigate on that front yeah they look pretty awesome and with that

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uh do we have time to do some q a from the forums stephen but of course what time is

• 1:18:05

it it is 12 20 i have a heart cut off at 12 30 if okay i think we can get through them

• 1:18:11

let's do some i'll try to as many as we can rapid response i don't think you could do

• 1:18:15

that i will try i did a bunch i was kind of rapid about the questions after the video

• 1:18:20

yeah i'm just kidding um okay we have t uh tyran uh tyran thraxxus over on the forums

• 1:18:28

asked about lore are there any details about the to be varan god's influence in our game

• 1:18:35

play that you can share with or hint at you know i i really wouldn't want to do that because

• 1:18:41

um the the stories that scott and win and um jeremy and imy and and um you know everyone

• 1:18:49

are and tony are putting together are pretty compelling um they're pretty cool uh and rich

• 1:18:55

and i i wouldn't want to ruin that so i'll stay away from that but i will give you context

• 1:19:01

the the gods are an active part of the story um and you know each of the cultures kind

• 1:19:08

of have their own interpretation of the of the whims and desires and focuses of the gods

• 1:19:14

so awesome yeah we tried man we're trying to get more stuff out of him i know y'all

• 1:19:19

want to know no more lore about the gods they don't they really don't want to they want

• 1:19:24

to but they don't want me to tell them they want to play it so yeah yeah for sure yeah

• 1:19:29

he's like this isn't really what you want uh nova nova chrono wants to know about large-scale

• 1:19:34

combat have you given any thought towards adding debuff protection such as having immunity

• 1:19:40

to stuns for some seconds after having been stunned during a siege battle and there was

• 1:19:45

actually some questions regarding this beyond just sieges so just to be clear what you're

• 1:19:50

talking about is really called diminishing returns um and uh when it comes to status

• 1:19:55

conditions the ability to apply certain um uh passive resistance to status conditions

• 1:20:04

if you've suffered from a status condition of a particular type um you get an increased

• 1:20:10

resistance against those and that scales um so if by chance you do get stunned maybe a

• 1:20:16

couple of times excuse me it would be near near impossible to stun you for a third or

• 1:20:23

fourth time right um uh and then you get to save that higher resistance for some period

• 1:20:29

of time um and and you know that just makes the gameplay more compelling um we've played

• 1:20:34

all played games where you can get stun locked and that is a really bad feeling and it's

• 1:20:39

not even fun for the person who's doing the stun lock it might be um you know yeah it's

• 1:20:45

just it's just not a good compelling type of gameplay um so in order to kind of avoid

• 1:20:50

that we and and and to accommodate a massively multiplayer setting you have to utilize things

• 1:20:55

like diminishing returns that can increase your resistances when you suffer those types

• 1:20:59

of effects all right cool and then our next one is from drunk ninja ask about naval content

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will there be a way to produce enough experience for a node for those who want to spend the

• 1:21:11

majority of their time on the open seas i'm so sorry you have to repeat the first part

• 1:21:16

of that because i was watching some of the trolls in chat saying it's an it's incredibly

• 1:21:20

fun it's hilariously fun to stun lock an opponent yeah they're like don't lie we love it it's

• 1:21:26

fun to do it to somebody it's not fun to be the person who's like oh my gosh i can't do

• 1:21:30

anything because i'm if you have fun stun locking another player and then watching them

• 1:21:35

die and being able to do nothing in response you are not the right you are not the right

• 1:21:39

type of player you want to have meaningful engagement and fun back and forth and skill

• 1:21:46

that's utilized to win an engagement not just lock down an enemy because of bad game design

• 1:21:50

all right the question is to reiterate will there be a way to produce enough experience

• 1:21:57

for a node for those who want to spend the majority of their time on the open seas so

• 1:22:01

really the question here is like can i spend most of my time on the open seas and still

• 1:22:06

help my node out yeah absolutely yes you the the open seas have have a good amount of content

• 1:22:15

that content when completed will give its contribution to a nearby node and and that

• 1:22:22

is something that people who live on the sea a desire to live on the sea will be able to

• 1:22:28

um contribute in a way all right and dilliam wants to note about taverns what benefits

• 1:22:34

do players receive for taking on the role of a tavern owner um well one you will get

• 1:22:42

noticeability with regards to your creations because that will be displayed to the characters

• 1:22:47

that consume those things but in addition you can get certain types of itemization rewards

• 1:22:54

depending on the number of patrons that you serve you can also reap economic rewards such

• 1:23:00

as gold from the the end that you are selling your goods at and then you can unlock access

• 1:23:09

to certain types of recipes and or vendors based on the level of reputation you build

• 1:23:14

up in that particular node people in chat are like clout free booze tips uh church plays

• 1:23:23

wants to know about gameplay development which is an interesting one which game systems do

• 1:23:27

you think present the biggest challenge to the intrepid team in regards to construction

• 1:23:32

testing implementation and balance i guess it depends on the type of challenge we're

• 1:23:39

talking about from a feasibility standpoint i think um one of the challenges that is always

• 1:23:46

going to accompany any multiplayer game development is going to be um optimization uh around network

• 1:23:53

players and the ability to host a large number of concurrent multi-players in a in a particular

• 1:23:59

environment that's always going to be something that any studio who's endeavoring to create

• 1:24:04

a large multiplayer experience will need to focus on and it's a challenging one it is

• 1:24:09

a it is a difficult thing to accommodate especially if you want a world where you're not doing

• 1:24:15

instances right yeah especially in an open world right that is absolutely true thank

• 1:24:19

you and then obviously when you're talking about mmr pg development in order to create

• 1:24:25

a compelling environment and to create a compelling world you really have to have a lot of content

• 1:24:29

um and that comes in the form of our large class selection the ability creation pipeline

• 1:24:36

all the creatures that need to be created the npcs they all have abilities that need

• 1:24:40

to be done um and our pipelines you know there are different choke points that occur um whether

• 1:24:45

you're talking about a particular ability when it comes from the ideation phase into

• 1:24:48

the gdd into the functional design path to the animation and the iteration of the animations

• 1:24:55

and then finally moves on to the effects and sound design you know that there's a lot that

• 1:24:59

gets that needs to be done from a content generation perspective and i'm just not talking

• 1:25:04

about like storylines and quests and narrative i'm talking about everything that you're seeing

• 1:25:08

from the armor sets to the creatures to the abilities to the visual effects to the animations

• 1:25:13

to to the world to the to the foliage you know there's a lot of stuff that has to get

• 1:25:17

done to create a compelling and immersive environment in a game like ashes of creation

• 1:25:21

um and especially in a way that we're doing it from a transparent development process

• 1:25:26

where people get to see these things in their very work in progress states um so you know

• 1:25:31

content creation is is always something that's going to be difficult when it comes to mmorpgs

• 1:25:35

i would say those are probably the two biggest challenges um that any development uh faces

• 1:25:41

yeah it's very it's very interesting to be in in a development phase where you're you're

• 1:25:47

still working on creating things and you're showcasing it at the same time right it's

• 1:25:52

it's kind of fun i like it it has its good things and its bad things uh in regards to

• 1:25:57

that but um it is kind of cool to share that along with you guys and also get your feedback

• 1:26:01

in the process our next question here is from jalan and he wants to know about player death

• 1:26:05

loot tables given that you dropped uh you drop processed goods when you die and alchemy

• 1:26:10

and cooking are now processed and in the processing category does that mean when you die you drop

• 1:26:15

food portions beverages etc good question as a point of clarity no you don't you do

• 1:26:21

not drop those um so when the things that you drop are the things that are materials

• 1:26:27

and gatherables that are used in the generation of something else because alchemy because

• 1:26:33

cooking has reached its final stage product that is an item that's protected within your

• 1:26:38

inventory so food dishes and and those types of buff items the potions those do not drop

• 1:26:46

on death and for our final question to wrap things up we have a question from casti and

• 1:26:51

they want to know about musical instruments bards will have the ability to play musical

• 1:26:56

instruments but will they be able to be the only archetype with that ability or will anyone

• 1:27:01

be able to use instruments for recreational and role-playing um effects that's a good

• 1:27:07

question um my desire is that we will have a system of instrument usage that accompanies

• 1:27:14

um a non-particular archetype requirement right so obviously bards have the ability

• 1:27:24

to play certain dances and songs and those confer buffs to their party members but also

• 1:27:31

there's a rp slash um uh i think cool skill opportunity when it comes to players making

• 1:27:38

music and playing the music on certain instruments that they can acquire on the game um that's

• 1:27:43

not something we've worked on yet uh but it is a desire of mine so we'll see how that

• 1:27:48

goes awesome and with that we're gonna wrap up today's stream we had a lot of stuff for

• 1:27:54

you we hope that you enjoyed it and that you have a lot to talk about in the month to come

• 1:28:00

and of course we will be having a december update so we hope to see you all next month

• 1:28:04

with some goodies from that um please head on over to our forums if you haven't already

• 1:28:09

uh forums.ashesofcreation.com we have two threads that are up already in regards to

• 1:28:14

this uh because we wanted to have the cleric and the weapon stuff as one thread and the

• 1:28:18

other one for the day night cycle and constellations so please give us your feedback i saw a lot

• 1:28:23

of people having opinions so if you got opinions toss them over there because that is where

• 1:28:28

we're going to be taking our our details for our reporting that is why we do these streams

• 1:28:33

give us your opinion give us your thoughts give us your experiences make sure you engage

• 1:28:37

on on the youtube video that comes after this the twitters the uh googles no i'm just kidding

• 1:28:44

our forums and our reddit um because it's very important and community collects all

• 1:28:48

that feedback and presents it to the development team they're amazing uh they they they go

• 1:28:53

through every single comment that y'all put in there so respect to roshan and evacnar

• 1:29:00

for all the work they do on that front and of course peter on the social media side kicking

• 1:29:04

major butt so thank you to those guys and of course our uh wardens in the wild cosmetics

• 1:29:10

will be swapping over on december 14th at 11am pacific so if you're interested in those

• 1:29:14

check them out over there reminder that those are all really cool creatures and things that

• 1:29:18

you'll see in the world that's what they're for is for our development team to design

• 1:29:22

and utilize them and of course thank you all for tuning in with us thank you steven for

• 1:29:26

your time i know you have back-to-back meetings um we hope that you all stay safe and healthy

• 1:29:33

the video for the um the little segment that we had will be up on youtube today and our

• 1:29:38

full development update will be up tomorrow so we hope that you'll check them out and

• 1:29:42

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• 1:30:15

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• 1:30:20

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