Ashes of Creation Apocalypse

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse logo.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse early access trailer.

The standalone prequel to the upcoming epic MMORPG Ashes of Creation - both a testing ground for new systems and content, as well as a unique last-man-standing action game where magic, steel, and chaos reign supreme in a high fantasy, free-to-play experience.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse (also referred to as APOC) was a free-to-play matchmaking-based arena game with three primary modes.

• Battle royale (battlegrounds).
• Castle sieges.
• City defense horde mode.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse utilizes action-based combat.

• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse will be implemented side-by-side with the Ashes of Creation MMORPG.
• 6.25 km² map size.
  • The Forest of Erinthia map is roughly 1/5th the size of the original map.
• A Редактор персонажа will be available to allow creation and saving of characters for use in the MMORPG.
• Establish Player housing and save Furniture arrangements for use in the full game.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale early access testing ended on March 10, 2020.

• It was previously available for download on the official website and on Steam.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Forest of Erinthia map.

We have taken some of the areas from the Alpha 1 map and biomes and created new maps. This new map called Forest of Erinthia... It is roughly 1/5th the size of the Previous map. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Forest of Erinthia map.

Long before your character steps foot into the MMORPG world of Verra, your ancestors inhabited the enchanted woods of the great Pyrian Forest of Erinthia. These lands have flourished and long been the home of the Kingdom of Pyria under the rule of Eridelle. The great Forest of Erinthia is vast and borders many non-Pyrian settlements, including some human settlements.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Forest of Erinthia update.

Расписание релизов

Phase	Release	Estimated/Actual date
APOC	Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale stress test (NDA).	September 7, 2018.
	Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale stress test (NDA lifted).	October 19, 2018.
	Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale open beta.	December 18, 2018.
	Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale early access.	September 24, 2019.
	Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle siege mode PI closed testing.	December 19, 2019.
	Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale testing ends.	March 10, 2020.
	Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle siege mode.	After Alpha-1.
	Ashes of Creation Apocalypse horde mode.	After Alpha-1.

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Ashes of Creation Apocalypse testing

Statistics from the December 2018 testing of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.

• There were 86,000 registered logins from unique accounts.
• There were 16,000 daily active users (DAU).
• There were approximately 3 - 4,000 concurrent users each day.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale initial testing proceeded as follows.

• Alpha-1 testers only.
• Alpha-2 testers were invited starting 19 October 2018 at 6:30PM (PDT).
• Alpha-0, Beta-1 and Beta-2 testers were invited in the following weeks.
• Finally, testing was opened to all registered users.

Glorious Ashes Community, we are expanding our testing group this weekend to include all Alpha 2 backers. We will also be lifting the NDA for the Phase 1 Arena testing going forward. Testing tonight will be starting at around 6:30pm and will be running till Sunday evening. With intermittent maintenances during the tests. We are happy to announce the testing is going very well and we are collecting a lot of useful data. In the weeks moving forward we will begin to announce invites to all beta backers and all A0 testers, before eventually inviting all registered users. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges and Ashes of Creation Apocalypse horde mode testing schedules will be similar.

• Alpha-1 testers will test for the first month.
• Alpha-2 testers will be invited following that.
• All other backers will be invited afterwards.
• Finally, testing will be opened to all registered users.

A2 will be invited for the br mode, then we will invite all backers, then all registered users. When the castle siege mode is implemented a1 will test alone for the first month, then we will follow the same invite schedule as the br. Same for horde. – Steven Sharif

Only Alpha-1 testers gain access to Alpha-1.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse limited testing sessions

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale testing resumed on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from 11AM PDT to 11PM PDT.

• Testing was open to all registered users.
• The latest patch was available from the Ashes of Creation website from Monday, August 19 at 2PM PDT.
• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse was available for download on Steam from Monday, August 19, 2019 at 2PM PDT.
  • An Intrepid account was required in order to launch and play the game via the steam client.
• Solo and squad game modes of battle royale were available on North American (East), European (Central), and Asian (Singapore) servers.
• Players in this test were able to queue with eachother, even if they are in different regions.
• Players were able to access to everything they have earned previously from their Adventurer’s path, however overall progress was be reset for this test.
• This test had a placeholder "Test Compendium", with Adventurer’s paths and Legendary paths that only contain XP-related rewards.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale early access testing ended on March 10, 2020.

• It was previously available for download on the official website and on Steam.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse stress test

Участие в стресс-тесте Alpha-1.

1. Первая волна пригласительных писем была разослана 5 сентября 2018 года. Тестирование началось 7 Сентября 2018 года.
   • 250+ человек в первой волне.
2. Вторая тестовая волна была 13 и 14 сентября 2018 года.
   • 1,250+ состоянием на 13 сентября 2018 года.
3. Третья волна инвайтов на тест ожидается 19 сентября 2018 года.
   • Ожидается пригласить еще 3,000 дополнительных тестеров.
4. После этого будут допущены все тестеры участвующие в Alpha-1.
   • Все 10,000 человек приобревших доступ на Alpha-1 приглашены на стресс-тест.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale mode

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale lobby screen.

In Apocalypse you have a scene where you have a squad in, or are solo or whatever. That scene will eventually become your house. Your freehold, exactly; and you will earn furniture to place in that freehold and you can build out your house and what-not through special achievements. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale victory screen.

Why did we go with Battle Royale as the first testable arena mode? And the answer for that is honestly, as we're testing and getting people into matches on our servers and testing the replication among players in a battlefield; and making sure that tech is present and capable for hundreds of players on the battlefield: We wanted to have a game mode that was still fun for players to test in: An environment that was fun to test in. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale (also referred to BR mode) was a Battle royale testing mode consisting of up to 100 players.

• This is a last man standing PvP combat mode.
• Weapons and armor found in the world have unique skills associated with them. These interact with the terrain from defensive, offensive and utility standpoints.
• Players can build buildings and structures such as watchtowers, defensive pillboxes and arcane structures.
• Everything in the world apart from rocks and trees is destructible.

It's going to have a lot of high octane energy and activity. It's going to be very streamable. It's going to be no NDA. There's going to be a lot of different weapons and skills that were going to be testing. Each of the weapons and armor that you can find in the world are going to have unique spells and skills associated with them that interact with the terrain from a defensive standpoint, from a utility standpoint, from an offensive standpoint. It's going to be able for you to build buildings, complete structures, watchtowers and defensive pillboxes type structures: Arcane structures. You're going to have a lot of fun activity there. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale early access testing ended on March 10, 2020.

• It was previously available for download on the official website and on Steam.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale corruption storm

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale corruption storm approaching.

Corruption storm circle timings in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale.^{[ citation needed ]}

Circle number	Duration (mm:ss)	Shrink time (mm:ss)
1	0:30	0:05
2	0:60	0:60
3	0:60	0:30
4	0:60	0:30
5	0:60	0:20
6	0:60	0:15
7	0:60	0:05
8	0:30	?

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle siege mode

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle siege gameplay.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges tech demonstration.

Alpha-1 castle siege combat.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges are a planned Ashes of Creation Apocalypse testing mode that aims to test castle siege mechanics.

• Takes place in and around large destructible castles.
• Matches are expected to last thirty to thirty-five minutes. This duration can be modified by control points captured during the match.
• There will be 200 players in a match (100 v 100).
  • Invite up to 20 guildmates to a match.
• Class kits come into play during the testing of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges.
• The ability to host a session and challenge an opponent or guild may be present post-launch of castle siege mode.

The Castle Siege mode is another example of a playable slice of the MMORPG that Apocalypse is providing early testing for. While it’s a somewhat smaller scale experience than the one you’ll have in the MMO, the overall flow of taking and defending a castle will remain similar. There’s some additional systems you’ll see in the final product, like the influence of Nodes over the available defensive emplacements, the crafting and deploying of custom siege weapons, and the summoning of siege monsters. These are all things that we’ll be adding on top of this mode upon our release of Ashes of Creation. – Margaret Krohn

A potential Alpha-1 implementation of Castle sieges in the MMORPG is based on Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges.

Siege equipment

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse siege equipment.

As a thank you, we wanted to share a little sneak peek of one of the siege weapons awaiting the players in our upcoming Castle Sieges Mode!

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse siege equipment Snapchat sneak peak.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse siege equipment includes ballistas, trebuchets, battering rams and potentially traps and "powder keg" type weapons.

• Siege weapons available to the attacking side include Trebuchets and Battering Rams.
• Siege weapons available to the defending side include Ballistas and Traps.
• Siege weapons are deployable and piloted by players.

With regards to alpha one phase one however in the castle siege system... what will happen is static siege equipment that's placed in the map for the attackers to utilize that will present at focal points of PvP in the match where defenders will know where to target a specific area on the field in order to attack. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse horde mode

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse horde mode is an Ashes of Creation Apocalypse testing mode where 50 players defend a city against waves of incoming Неигровые персонажи and player controlled monsters.

• Each wave is more difficult than the last.
• Between waves, players collect experience, money and weapons to take back to their hold to defend against the next wave.
• Monster coins enable players to join the game as part of the horde.

Horde mode will include adaptive AI boss mechanics. Rewards are obtained dependent on progress against these Неигровые персонажи.

• Coins for character upgrades.
• Cosmetics.
• Pet versions of the defeated NPCs.

Horde mode will absolutely include boss mechanics, so some of the ideas behind that is going to have a wave mode of a variety of NPCs will likely include some achievable cosmetics as well in that mode depending on how far you can get and those cosmetics will include pets of the NPCs that you face, so like a little miniature version of the NPC's and we'll update those as well, that you'll have in the MMO. – Steven Sharif

Horde mode is specifically for testing.

• Testing the blackboard for the AI.
• Неигровые персонажи with different adaptive AI focuses:
  • Sniper
  • Ranged
  • Melee
  • Boss

It's a way that we thought it would be kind of fun to implement AI mechanics that we're looking to implement. Testing the you know the blackboard for the AI. Being able to have variable types of NPCs that have roles whether it be like a sniper, ranged, melee, boss, heroic you know kind of different AI focuses for those monsters during interesting situations. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse group sizes

Group sizes in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.

• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale will have party sizes of up to 5.
• Guild mode will have parties of raids of up to 20.
• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges will have parties of 5 within a raid, with 5 raids for each of the two teams.
• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse horde mode will have a party size of 5 with a total of ten groups, making for 50 players.

There will be an option in the lobby where you are capable of joining a guild based match that you can link parties together up to a maximum of twenty individuals. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse combat

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse first look at action combat.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse is based on action combat.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse combat targeting

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse combat targeting reticle.

Action combat in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse utilizes a targeting reticle.

• A hot key can be used to toggle reticle mode on and off.
• Left mouse click is used for basic weapon attacks.
• Right mouse click is used as a "focus" button. It can also be used to activate root motion attacks for melee.
• Combat targeting uses hitbox registration in three separate regions: Upper body, lower body and head.
• Certain weapons and skills have ADS (Aim Down Sights) functionality.

There will be aim down sights. You may have seen it that you can aim down sights on weapons; and there will be scopes on like crossbows and stuff that - arcane scopes - that you can use. – Steven Sharif

Some spells do have ADS. There's a long-range meteor blast that can be used from one of the spell books; and that has an arcane zoom in. It lets you zoom into a target. – Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 will test hybrid action/tab combat.

Time-to-kill

Some of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap.

The Ashes of Creation MMORPG will have a time-to-kill (TTK) of around 30 seconds to a minute.

• Time-to-kill in the Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale testing mode is adapted for a traditional battle royale setting.
• Time-to-kill in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges will be slightly longer than in the battle royale.
• The developers do not want one-shots in the final MMORPG.

In the MMORPG we really don't want to see any one-shots. The time-to-kill needs to be strategic and tactical. – Steven Sharif

Headshot mechanics

There are no headshot mechanics in the Ashes of Creation MMORPG.

• Headshots were a part of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale.
• Previously it was stated that headshot mechanics may be implemented in the MMORPG along the lines of a higher critical chance and that they would not be one hit kills.
  • Headshots in action combat are equivalent to a critical hit in tab targeted combat.
  • Players relying on tab skills will have a fixed critical hit chance every time they use an ability or weapon.
  • Players using action-based skills are going to rely on getting a head shot or hitting a critical spot on the opponent.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse active blocking

The developers have yet to finalize designs for active blocking in Ashes of Creation.

We're going to be discussing internally amongst the designers and the combat team and then we will likely share with the community once we've nailed down a few approaches and prototype them out. – Steven Sharif

• The developers are considering the inclusion of active blocking in a subset of universal skills that apply to all classes.
  • The developers were previously leaning toward using more traditional buff-oriented universal damage mitigation for the MMO, and were also considering interaction between action-based blocking and a passive block stat.

This is something we're still actively iterating on and actively going to be testing in our hybrid system but you know as we're as we're doing that we are taking into consideration. Obviously we want action based components to also interact in some way shape or form with the waterfall stat system as well; and you know that seems like it might be an oxymoron from an action to tab sense, but it doesn't have to be. There can be components of action- so say for instance you could have a dual component where you activate that shield stance and if you accurately intercept an incoming projectile or a skill that's been initiated from the forward arc, you get 80% damage mitigation or 80% application of the physical defense of the shield; and if it comes from an area outside of that forward arc then you get a lesser bonus; and that essentially what would happen is let's say you take into account the stat of the shield's physical defense value, you apply it as a mitigating factor to the incoming damage, but in addition you augment that system with the waterfall stat that is responsible for shield damage mitigation or shield rate; and maybe you know the default skill says 80% damage mitigation from forward arc but that gets augmented up to 87% because of your stat essentially; and if it's not in your forward arc then it gets you know 50% efficacy- maybe it's 40 something percent. So just to give you kind of insight into what goes into kind of determining these skills and how they interact on an action-based front. – Steven Sharif

• The Paladin's Might shield in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse had its own hit box and hit points (HP); that could actively block projectiles.

In APOC when we had the active shield stance- that was an active shield block action-based system; and when we collected design data on essentially the efficacy and essentially the accuracy of players who used that wasn't very high; and there is a concern at least on the front of implementing a action restricted type active shield block as opposed to what would traditionally be along the lines of activating a buff that grants a shield block rate adjustment and is universal on incoming damage- and interfaces with the stats- is really something that we're leaning towards in incorporating for the hybrid combat system. – Steven Sharif

Player flagging/corruption

Some of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap.

Player corruption is expected to be implemented in Alpha-1.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse combat animations

Developer Diaries: Animation.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse combat animations are work-in-progress.

The follow-through on some of the root animations and attacks feel a little floaty. A little sticky, yeah. So we are adjusting that as it is. Over the past month we've also seen feedback on the hitscan related to melee weapons and we've adjusted that into a cone. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse class kits

Classes in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges and Ashes of Creation Apocalypse horde mode. Emblem designs by Ryan Richmond.

Six classes will be present in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges and Ashes of Creation Apocalypse horde mode.

• Warrior classes
  • Guardian
  • Weapon Master

• DPS classes
  • Archwizard
  • Hawkeye

• Support classes
  • High Priest
  • Engineer

These classes relate to the trinity of classes: Tank, DPS and Support.

• Skills/abilities are not tied specifically to weapons in castle siege mode.
  • It was previously stated that weapon skills are applied to augment a class' base skills.
• Base class skills may be able to be selected from a host of available skills for that class based on a player's progression within that season.

We had a little bit of an idea that we're going to explore with regards to each of the classes having a range of skills and abilities that players can customize that skill kit based on their progression within a season, let's say; and that progression can be gained from any of the modes and it would grant you the ability to kind of customize that skill kit for the before the siege mode or the horde mode. But that's something that might come at a later date. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse classes only apply to Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges and Ashes of Creation Apocalypse horde mode.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse healing

Healing in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse will be reticle based (action targeted).

• Healing skills are proximity based: Centered on self or centered on projectile impact.
• There will be healing potion bursts (healing grenades) that will grant life to allies.
• Healing is part of Class kits that come into play during the testing of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges.

We have a few design theories on action combat and healing to began with phase one. Part of that will be the implementation of a class system into the castle siege and horde mode of phase one. Those will be kits that play out as skills available from an action perspective. You'll be able to target in proximity, basically so positioning is going to matter. Importantly, for healers being close to the individual party members you wish to heal. Additionally, you'll have reticle based healing methods. This would be a template that could be launched in that direction as a pulse of heels or augments. So there's a lot of different systems are playing with that you'll see more of when we get to those when we get to the castle siege system and the Ashes of Creation Apocalypse horde mode. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse healing potions

• APOC:Health Potion
• APOC:Small Health Potion

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse progression

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse environment.

The first chapter of Apocalypse is The Exodus. It takes part in the initial stages of the fall and sets the scene for upcoming chapters.

• Between 15 and 20 cosmetic rewards are earnable in every chapter.
• Daily and weekly quests will allow players to gain up to 50 levels (matching the intended level cap for the Ashes of Creation MMORPG).
• Advancing through these levels allows players to unlock unique cosmetic rewards, such as weapon skins.

You're going to have an adventuring path and that adventuring path is going to come with weekly quests and daily quests that you can participate in that will be available for the Castle sieges for the Horde and for the Battle Royale; and as you complete these quests you're going to gain experience; and right now you have up to 50 levels, which matches the intended cap for Ashes of Creation. Fifty levels of the adventure path that you can advance in; and as you advance in each of these levels you're going to be unlocking certain assets, such as these weapon skins. Now the great thing about player's progress in Apocalypse is that you will share the same account from Apocalypse to Ashes of Creation the MMORPG and anything that you earn in Apocalypse will be in Ashes of Creation the MMORPG- a unique as a skin exactly: A skin that you will have access to for helping us test write Apocalypse and preparing these different Alpha and Beta stages for Ashes of Creation. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse lore

Божественные врата in the Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale (BR mode) staging area.

This lobby area where you see players load into- this is unfinished- but this will be one of the capital cities that you are about to enter through the great divine gateways... You're trying to flee; and in this particular game mode you are a part of some unlucky few who didn't quite make it out. And unfortunately after entering the great divine gateway fell back to the planet. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse lore takes place during the exodus from Верра.

• Some unlucky citizens didn't quite make it through the gateways in time and fell back to the planet to fight for survival. This underpins the battle royale mode.
• Certain citizens are fighting for control over Castles that they believe to be last bastions of defense against the forces of corruption. This underpins the castle siege mode.
• The last stand against the forces of corruption takes place in the horde mode.

Initially you're playing the Battle Royale you're a part of the last group of survivors to try to leave Verra. And as you're leaving you get cut off. The slipstream ends and you start falling back to the planet. Now the activities that occur and the fighting amongst yourselves is a result of the influence of corruption: Corrupting your soul basically; and as we move into the Castle Siege mode that's where you see the survivors now trying to seek refuge in some of the last defendable bastions of of society. So you're kind of fighting over those for your families and your friends to get into that keep to try to ride out the storm so to say; and that's what the Castle Siege is predicated on. Then moving into the Hordes is this is now the final showdown. How long can you last? And that's kind of the narrative behind Apocalypse as a whole. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse lore is split into chapters.

• Chapter 1 is called The Exodus. It takes part in the initial stages of the fall and sets the scene for upcoming chapters.

What happened before you came back? What did your ancestors have to go through? What did these civilizations have to endure? ... You get to experience the world of Ashes of Creation. You get to take a peek under the hood of the art assets and the style that that art will be when you play the game; and at the same time while you're doing all of that and we're hitting the servers with as many people as possible, we are continuing production and implementing new art; and we are updating those those chapters of this story; and that's what each season so speak is called for us is a chapter. In fact the first chapter of Apocalypse will be titled the Exodus. So chapter one is the Exodus and players will have an opportunity to earn unique rewards in each chapter. So that chapter's period of time is roughly ten weeks- between eight and twelve. We'll see how those go, but right now it's set for ten weeks; and every ten weeks you're going to see an introduction of new content. – Steven Sharif

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Ashes of Creation Apocalypse quests

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse quests.

Questing in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse contains lore that gives insight to the happenings on Верра during the fall.

• Daily and weekly quests allow players to gain up to 50 levels. Leveling allows players to unlock unique cosmetic rewards, such as weapon skins.
• Days and weeks end at midnight UTC, with weeks ending on Sunday, 23:59.
• These quests give lore that relates to the story of Верра during the fall, thousands of years before the start of the MMORPG.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse adventure paths

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse adventure paths.

There are adventure paths (also known as Compendiums) in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse (Battle royale, Castle sieges, Horde mode).

• The first chapter of Apocalypse is The Exodus. Between 15 and 20 cosmetic rewards are earnable in every chapter.
• There will be an optional Legendary Path that players can purchase for USD $10 per 10 weeks.
• The Legendary Path offers over 50 cosmetic rewards.
  • Alpha-1 backers and Intrepid pre-order pack owners will be granted a lifetime compendium (battle pass) to the Legendary path.
  • Alpha-2, Beta-1 and Beta-2 backers will have access to the first chapter's Legendary path, with over 50 cosmetics available to earn.
  • Other Kickstarter, summer backers and pre-order pack owners will receive the first chapter of the legendary path for free for 70 days. 71 different cosmetic rewards can be earned starting from December 18th.
  • The Legendary path will also have a shop for one-off cosmetics.
• Embers can be used in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse to purchase unique cosmetics or to purchase the Legendary adventure path.
• All Adventure paths in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse allow players to earn embers just for playing. Those embers will carry over into the MMORPG.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse cosmetics

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  A Celebration Emote

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  A Good One Emote

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  A Proper Salute Emote

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  Arctic Gryphon

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  Armor of the Autumn Knight APOC

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  Armor of the Autumn Knight

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  Armor of the Golden Sun

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  Barding of the Skies

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  Cloak of Brilliance

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  Cloak of the Blackblades

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  Cloak of the Depths

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  Cloak of the Golden Order

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  Cloak of the Golden Wing

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  Cloak of the High Throne

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  Cloak of the Shining Light

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  Cloak of the Witness

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  Crashing Waves (Black)

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  Crashing Waves (Blonde)

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  Emberstorm Dragon

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  Enthusiasm Emote

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  Feathered Serpent (Black)

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  Feathered Serpent (Blonde)

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  Feathered Serpent (Brown)

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  Feeling the Flow Emote

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  Gryphon Regent

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  Happy Dance Emote

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  Hidebound Barding

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  Incoming Emote

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  Leathers of the High Guard

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  Leathers of the Long Road

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  Modest Success Emote

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  Nighthunter Gryphon

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  Obsidian Armor

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  Pearl Barding

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  Platemail of the Light

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  Proper Etiquette Emote

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  Pyroclastic Barding

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  Ramstrider

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  Robes of the Azure Dragon

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  Robes of the Crimson Order

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  Royal Cloak

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  Shrug it Off Emote

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  Sweeping Arrowhead (Black)

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  Sweeping Arrowhead (Blonde)

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  Swordbrand Cloak

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  Unkempt Wildling (Black)

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  Unkempt Wildling (Blonde)

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  Unkempt Wildling (Brown)

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  Vermillion Diamond Cloak

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  Very Good, Very Good Emote

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  Warrior Princess (Black)

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  Warrior Princess (Blonde)

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  Warrior Princess (Brown)

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  Wildfire Gryphon

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  Woodgarde Cloak

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse cosmetic rewards

All of the skins attained in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse will be usable in the Ashes of Creation MMORPG.

Progression and experience tracking for participation in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse testing entitled players to earn unique cosmetic rewards. These earned rewards will carry over in player's accounts to live launch of the MMORPG.

• Armor appearances.
• Costumes.
• Emotes.
• Freehold building skins.
• Furniture.
• Hairstyles.
• Mounts.
• Pets.
• Weapon skins.

One of the ways we want to give back to the Community in participating in this testing is allowing for progress, quests, achievements rewards to be gained in Apocalypse... You will have rewards and quests and achievements that you and your participation and your performance in that game, whether it be the Castle Siege, the Horde Mode or the Battle Royale will earn you cosmetics. There will be costumes. There will be mounts to earn. There will be housing and furniture. There will be emotes. There will be weapon variants. A lot of these are what we have in production for our project Ashes of Creation, we apply some variants and skins for and make them only available through participating in helping us test these different game modes. And they will carry over to your account on the MMORPG. – Steven Sharif

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  Armor of the Autumn Knight

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  Emberstorm Dragon

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  Nighthunter Gryphon

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  Ramstrider

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  Swordbrand Cloak

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  Woodgarde Cloak

The account used for Apocalypse is the same account used for the MMORPG. Unique skins earned in Apocalypse will be added to the MMORPG as rewards for helping to prepare for the Alpha and Beta stages of Ashes of Creation.

• Cosmetic skins are only be able to be applied to things that have already been earned, crafted or found within the Ashes of Creation MMORPG.
• Skins earned in Apocalypse will be available to apply at certain tiers, levels and/or access points within the MMORPG.

So it's not that you'll be able to equip necessarily an item at level one. These are all cosmetic skins. Again we are not about the pay-to-win or pay-to-convenience life. What we want to do instead is as you earn, craft, or find equipment in the MMORPG, these skins that you've earned in Apocalypse will be available at certain tiers, levels and/or access points. So for example, we have different grades of mounts right. We have the base one land mounts. We have the the Royal mounts. We have the flying mounts if you're a mayor or King or Queen. We have legendary mounts. These classes of mounts will have available skins associated with those particular classes... If you have the Ramstider skin that you've earned from Apocalypse, you'll be able to apply that to your first land mount, which will probably be earned within the first five levels you'll earn a land mount. However if you have let's say for example the Gryphon, which will be a glideable mount. I'm sorry what's the name of the what's the name of the night one. The midnight- is the midnight bird or something like? The Nighthunter Gryphon. I think that's it. If you have that skin you'll only be able to apply that skin to a Royal mount so you'll still have to earn these things. Remember our position is that of: You need to earn these things in Ashes first. They're not purchasable or earned outside in Apocalypse and you're granted that immediately. These are skins that you apply to the things you earn in Ashes. – Steven Sharif

These cosmetics reflect the lore of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse, which is set before the fall.

• Armor appearances will reflect the ancient cultures of Верра.

One thing that we announced to our alpha one backers that I know they love clarity on is that we'll also be including progression and experience tracking for participation and testing that will entitle them to some unique cosmetics as well that reflect on the lore of this setting, which is before the fall. So you'll be able to acquire some armors that reflect some of the ancient cultures of Verra that you will earn and hold for live launch. – Steven Sharif

It would be like your ancestors kept these curios for you. – Джеффри Бард

Examples of some Kickstarter rewards will be included in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse signup gift

A cosmetic sign-up gift will be implemented during Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.

• This will apply to all regions and all currently registered accounts.
• The gift will be a cosmetic accessory.

As we prepare for the Alpha One Phase 1 deployment, we will be implementing the cosmetic gift for all regions upon sign up, and to all currently registered accounts. – Steven Sharif

Weapons and armor

Weapons and Armor are tied to skills in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.

• Swapping between weapons will allow players to access the different skills on their hotbar.
• Certain armor pieces have utility and defensive skills, such as like Camouflage, Polymorph and Battlefield wall.
• Weapons are tied to one specific skill in early testing, but this may change.

Weapons will have skills associated with them and they'll will rest on a hot bar and you can swap between the weapons on the hot bar and that'll allow you to access the different skills. Additionally the breastplate, the leggings: Those also have skills associated with them those are more utility and defensive abilities, such as like camouflage, polymorph, battlefield wall; that kind of stuff. Those are on the armor pieces and then they are associated with right now the VC hotkeys for their abilities. – Steven Sharif

Right now weapons are tied to one specific skill; and you know that's just again because we're so early in alpha 1; but well probably be changing that as we continue to iterate and test. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse item rarities

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse weapons and abilities get better with each tier.

1. Blue – uncommon.
2. Yellow – rare.
3. Red – legendary.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse weapons

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Eldritch longsword 3D render.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse weapons each have an associated ability. Each weapon has three different tiers. Ranged weapons are currently hitscan based, with the exception of Nightfall, which is projectile-based. Melee weapons are currently cone hitscan based.

• APOC:Archmage's Companion
• APOC:Bonesmasher
• APOC:Bronze Axe
• APOC:Crossbow of Revealing
• APOC:Firefrost
• APOC:Greatsword of Haste
• APOC:Grimoire of the Fallen Sky
• APOC:Lifebringer
• APOC:Longbow of Miasma
• APOC:Nightfall
• APOC:Paladin's Might
• APOC:Rusty Sword
• APOC:Spiritpierce
• APOC:Stillblade
• APOC:The Drifter
• APOC:The Silencer
• APOC:Thundering Mace
• APOC:Wand of Light

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse weapon skills

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Alacrity		For the duration of this stance, your successful attacks will increase your run speed. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.	For the duration of this stance, your successful attacks will increase your run speed. Duration: 12 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.	For the duration of this stance, your successful attacks will increase your run speed. Duration: 12 Sec. Cooldown: 8 Sec.
Bolt of Revealing		-	-	After activating this spell, the next bolt you fire will reveal all characters hidden by terrain, structures, or invisibility in its area of effect. Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 15 sec
Chain Lightning		Activate to charge your next attack with lightning - lightning will arc between foes, dealing damage to each one. Duration: 5 Sec. Cooldown: 5 Sec.	Activate to charge your next attack with lightning - lightning will arc between foes, dealing damage to each one. Duration: 5 Sec. Cooldown: 5 Sec.	Activate to charge your next attack with lightning - lightning will arc between foes, dealing damage to each one. Duration: 5 Sec. Cooldown: 5 Sec.
Crimson Blast		This spell will invoke a destructive cone of force and flame at enemies in front of you. Duration: 1 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.	This spell will invoke a destructive cone of force and flame at enemies in front of you. Duration: 1 Sec. Cooldown: 9 Sec.	This spell will invoke a destructive cone of force and flame at enemies in front of you. Duration: 1 Sec. Cooldown: 9 Sec.
Darkness		When activated, your next arrow will explode in a cloud of darkness on impact. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 20 Sec.	When activated, your next arrow will explode in a cloud of darkness on impact. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 20 Sec.	When activated, your next arrow will explode in a cloud of darkness on impact. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 20 Sec.
Divine Light		For the duration of this spell, your attacks will mark your foes with a divine light that can be seen for miles. Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 30 sec	For the duration of this spell, your attacks will mark your foes with a divine light that can be seen for miles. Duration: 13 sec Cooldown: 25 sec	For the duration of this spell, your attacks will mark your foes with a divine light that can be seen for miles. Duration: 16 sec Cooldown: 20 sec
Divine Protection		For the duration of this stance, you will take cover behind your shield's enhanced protection and reduce the damage of incoming attacks. Consumes 3 Stamina per second, and each attack performed with the shied readied consumes 15 additional stamina. Duration: 4 sec Cooldown: 10 sec	For the duration of this stance, you will take cover behind your shield's enhanced protection and reduce the damage of incoming attacks. Consumes 3 Stamina per second, and each attack performed with the shied readied consumes 15 additional stamina. Duration: 5 sec Cooldown: 10 sec	For the duration of this stance, you will take cover behind your shield's enhanced protection and reduce the damage of incoming attacks. Consumes 3 Stamina per second, and each attack performed with the shied readied consumes 15 additional stamina. Duration: 6 sec Cooldown: 10 sec
Fire Potion		Generates a fire explosion.	-	-
Frost Potion		Swap your explosive potion for a potion of frost. It will burst on the first bounce, leaving an area of bitter cold that slows your enemies. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 30 Sec.	-	-
Hemorrhage		-	For the duration of this stance, any hit will apply a debuff to your enemies, dealing damage to them with every step they take. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.	For the duration of this stance, any hit will apply a debuff to your enemies, dealing damage to them with every step they take. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.
Lifesteal		For the duration of this stance, your successful attacks will steal life from your foes, and render it unto you. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.	For the duration of this stance, your successful attacks will steal life from your foes, and render it unto you. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.	For the duration of this stance, your successful attacks will steal life from your foes, and render it unto you. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.
Meteor Storm		-	After activating this spell, your next attack will call down a storm of meteors. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 45 Sec.	After activating this spell, your next attack will call down a storm of meteors. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 30 Sec.
Miasma		After you activate this spell, your next arrow will summon a dark miasma that clings to any foes that touch it, dealing damage over time. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 20 Sec.	After you activate this spell, your next arrow will summon a dark miasma that clings to any foes that touch it, dealing damage over time. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 20 Sec.	After you activate this spell, your next arrow will summon a dark miasma that clings to any foes that touch it, dealing damage over time. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 20 Sec.
Silence		Applies a debuff that prevents your opponent from being able to use spells. Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 10 sec	Applies a debuff that prevents your opponent from being able to use spells. Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 10 sec	Applies a debuff that prevents your opponent from being able to use spells. Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 10 sec
Stamina Drain		For the duration of this stance, your attacks will drain your opponent's stamina and stop their stamina regen for 5 seconds. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.	For the duration of this stance, your attacks will drain your opponent's stamina and stop their stamina regen for 5 seconds. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.	For the duration of this stance, your attacks will drain your opponent's stamina and stop their stamina regen for 5 seconds. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.
Stillblade ability		For the duration of this stance, your attacks will slow your opponent's movements. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.	For the duration of this stance, your attacks will slow your opponent's movements. Duration: 10 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.	-
Warp Space		-	For the duration of this spell, any successful hit will swap your location with that of your target. Duration: 5 sec Cooldown: 30 sec	For the duration of this spell, any successful hit will swap your location with that of your target. Duration: 5 sec Cooldown: 20 sec

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse weapon variants

Basic axe.	Hallowed Bronze Axe.	Arcanic Bronze Axe.	Pyroclastic Bronze Axe.	Eldritch Bronze Axe.

Thundering Mace.	Hallowed Mace.	Arcanic Mace.	Pyroclastic Mace.	Eldritch Mace.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse armor

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse base leather armor set concept art.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse armor comes with associated skills/abilities. There are two types of armor: Upper and lower body.

• APOC:Blink Boots
• APOC:Boots of Arcanic Power
• APOC:Boots of Icy Steps
• APOC:Breastplate of the Bulwark
• APOC:Breastplate of the Dark Pact
• APOC:Catfall Boots
• APOC:Invisibility Aegis
• APOC:Polymorphic Breastplate

Armor grants damage mitigation.

• In Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale armor that has lost its damage mitigation can be recharged/repaired to restore damage mitigation points.
• In Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges armor can be replenished by an Engineer. There may also be items in the world or objectives that replenish armor for the entire team, such as one of the buffs for taking a control point.
• In Ashes of Creation (the MMORPG) armor does not function as a pool. There will be no armor bar as seen in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.

What you're seeing currently in the Battle Royale feature of Apocalypse is you find armor and that gives you an armor pool and then you can regenerate your armor. What we're going to be experiencing in the castle siege form is each class will have a set amount of armor that they join the match with that's already full and a set amount of health that's already full. Upon losing armor you can either have your armor replenished by an Engineer or there there may be ability for you to find items that are in the world or there could be objectives that replenish armor for the entire team, such as one of the buffs for taking a control point. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse armor skills

Skill	Icon	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Arcanic Power		Channel raw arcane energies to instantly knock nearby foes back, deal damage, and give yourself some breathing room. Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 10 sec	Channel raw arcane energies to instantly knock nearby foes back, deal damage, and give yourself some breathing room. Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 9 sec	Channel raw arcane energies to instantly knock nearby foes back, deal damage, and give yourself some breathing room. Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 8 sec
Blink		Activate to instantly teleport yourself a short distance forward. Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 30 sec	Activate to instantly teleport yourself a short distance forward. Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 25 sec	Activate to instantly teleport yourself a short distance forward. Duration: 1 sec Cooldown: 20 sec
Bulwark		This spell will instantly summon a wall a short distance in front of the caster. Perfect for deploying as a cover! Duration: 15 Sec. Cooldown: 20 Sec.	This spell will instantly summon a wall a short distance in front of the caster. Perfect for deploying as a cover! Duration: 17 Sec. Cooldown: 15 Sec.	This spell will instantly summon a wall a short distance in front of the caster. Perfect for deploying as a cover! Duration: 20 Sec. Cooldown: 10 Sec.
Catfall		Activate to grant yourself exceptional jumping abilities, silent moving, and protection from falling damage for the duration. Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 30 sec	Activate to grant yourself exceptional jumping abilities, silent moving, and protection from falling damage for the duration. Duration: 13 sec Cooldown: 25 sec	Activate to grant yourself exceptional jumping abilities, silent moving, and protection from falling damage for the duration. Duration: 16 sec Cooldown: 20 sec
Dark Pact		For the duration of this spell, you will be immune to the effects of the corruption storm. Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 45 sec	For the duration of this spell, you will be immune to the effects of the corruption storm. Duration: 11 sec Cooldown: 45 sec	For the duration of this spell, you will be immune to the effects of the corruption storm. Duration: 12 sec Cooldown: 45 sec
Icy Steps		With this spell you will leave icy trails behind you, which will snare and slow your enemies. Duration: 10 sec Cooldown: 15 sec	With this spell you will leave icy trails behind you, which will snare and slow your enemies. Duration: 13 sec Cooldown: 12 sec	With this spell you will leave icy trails behind you, which will snare and slow your enemies. Duration: 16 sec Cooldown: 10 sec
Invisibility		This spell turns you invisible for the duration, though it will cancel upon attacking, or through the use of any other spells. Duration: 20 sec Cooldown: 60 sec	This spell turns you invisible for the duration, though it will cancel upon attacking, or through the use of any other spells. Duration: 25 sec Cooldown: 50 sec	This spell turns you invisible for the duration, though it will cancel upon attacking, or through the use of any other spells. Duration: 30 sec Cooldown: 40 sec
Polymorph		Transform yourself into a harmless inanimate object, and disappear into the local terrain. Will cancel on movement or attack. Duration: 30 sec Cooldown: 45 sec	Transform yourself into a harmless inanimate object, and disappear into the local terrain. Will cancel on movement or attack. Duration: 40 sec Cooldown: 20 sec	Transform yourself into a harmless inanimate object, and disappear into the local terrain. Will cancel on movement or attack. Duration: 50 sec Cooldown: 15 sec

Mana-forged armor

Mana-forged armor sets may be achievable in the Ashes of Creation MMO.

• They also appear to be base variants of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse armor sets.

Verra will be filled with many sets of armor, each set uniquely carved into the history of the world. Mana-forged sets are distinctly vibrant with luminescent magic, pulsating across the body of its hero. We hope you enjoy them, and look forward to many more glimpses into the armors of Verra, waiting for their champions! – Margaret Krohn

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Модульная броня Ashes of Creation Apocalypse

Кэларский набор тканевой брони базового уровня в Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.

Вы можете увидеть, что определённые компоненты, которые мы добавляем, способны смешиваться и сочетаться друг с другом и создавать новую броню. Это что-то вроде базового шасси. – Джеффри Бард

Это то, что мы называем "домашней одеждой". Это пример того, как вы будете выглядеть в альфе на самом начальном этапе. То есть даже в самый простенький, базовый внешний вид мы стараемся заложить побольше деталей. – Мэт Брум

Эмпирийские латы 20 уровня (3 ранга).

Базовый вид персонажа может быть довольно скучным, но Стивен с первого дня поставил перед нами задачу убедиться в том, что даже базовый внешний вид, "домашняя одежда", выглядит потрясающе ... Это ваш "голый" персонаж, так сказать... Кастомизации подвергается всё, от наплечников до налокотников, ремня, который их соединяет; хотите - сделайте дуэльный пояс, хотите - застегнитесь спереди. Таким образом, каждый элемент, который вы здесь видите, можно настроить в интерфейсе пользователя. Итак, что мы делаем, мы увеличиваем это от нуля до десяти, до двадцати... Увеличиваем и настраиваем; я хочу особо подчеркнуть, что по мере вашего развития меняется и внешний вид. Мы не просто переделываем одни и те же доспехи. Мы делаем уникальные наборы, которые дополняют друг друга по мере вашего развития. – Мэт Брум

В Ashes of Creation Apocalypse будет три различных типа доспехов: латы, кожа и ткань.

У вас будут три различных типа: латные доспехи, кожаные и тканевые. Так что для каждого набора брони, который мы демонстрируем на каждом из рангов, у вас будет на выбор девять уникальных вариантов. – Мэт Брум

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse potions

• APOC:Fire Potion
• APOC:Frost Potion
• APOC:Health Potion
• APOC:Mount Potion
• APOC:Small Health Potion

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse player housing

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse players can establish Player housing and save Furniture arrangements for use in the full game.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse character creator

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse may include an early access character creator.

• Create and save characters for use in the full game.
• This was previously slated for Alpha-1.

As we develop our character creation screen we'll implement that into arena mode. So can create characters there, save those characters. When you make a character in Ashes you can port over that save. – Steven Sharif

I would like to have the option for players to go in spend time, create characters save that character and then have it available in their suite their character creation suite as an option to preload at launch that they can take that's those settings and launch the character. I would love for there to be community rewards and competitions for the best made characters that we could do like a monthly kind of thing around and/or additionally I'd like for there to be implementation of housing and a housing suite that you can save your furniture load out as well for building out the interior of housing. I don't know if we'll be able to get to that. It is a cherry on top of the icing. And we'll see how the schedule looks with that regard. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse system requirements

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse minimum system specification.

• Operating system: Windows 7 SP1, 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core i3-2125 3.3GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 3.3GHz
• Memory: 6 GB
• Graphics: GeForce GTX 460 or Radeon 6870 HD with 1GB and DirectX 12
• Broadband internet connection
• 11 GB available space

Recommended specification.

• Operating system: Windows 10, 64-bit
• Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz / AMD FX-9590 4.7GHz
• Memory: 32 GB
• Graphics: GeForce GTX 970 or Radeon R9 Fury with 4GB and DirectX 12
• Broadband internet connection
• 16 GB available space

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse user interface

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse launcher.

Alpha-1 early preview skills UI.

The UI implementation will be highly customizable, whether it be from resizing, a movement, recoloring, different types of UI flavors that will be presented and offered to players as well. We want to have a very very robust UI system so we know that that's something that's more personally oriented in people's preferences rather than something that can be a one-size-fits-all. – Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 launcher/character selection.

The Ashes of Creation user interface (UI) is built with customization in mind, rather than being one-size-fits-all.

• Resizing, moving, recoloring and different UI flavors will be offered to players.
• There will be some versatility for players to adjust damage, criticals and CC combat text.
• In future the user will have the ability to choose from different targeting reticle appearances.
• There may be options to change the appearance of targeting templates and decals.

The UI will be very adaptable for many play styles. – Steven Sharif

The UI in Alpha-1 is placeholder and will not be fully implemented until Alpha-2.

It's very important to note that in Alpha 1 you are not going to see a solid UI presentation and that's because our UI currently is still very placeholder very work-in-progress. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse mini map

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale mini-map UI. Image credit: The Ashes Post

There is an in-game mini map and compass user interface in Alpha-1.

• The goal is to allow pings and other forms of communication tools via the mini-map.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse camera settings

The Ashes of Creation Apocalypse camera is a tied third-person view, over the shoulder, for the purposes of reticle specific zoom options and aim-down-sights. This is solely intended for the current action combat.

The idea behind our hybrid system is going to obviously be customizable from a traditional higher up third-person view that is seen in MMORPGs; and then to have that customizable so that more action-oriented players might be able to come in closer to the character and have more feasibility there. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse hotkeys

Alpha-1 default keybindings.

Players will be able to customize their keyboard control scheme in Ashes of Creation.

• Keybinds are not yet adjustable (in Alpha-1).
• Action targeting can be toggled via a key to enable mouse targeting via a reticle that feels similar to a third-person action game.
• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse included hotkey customization.
• Players will be able to trigger skills with combinations of different keystrokes, and reuse the same keys as part of different combinations.

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse controller support

Testing Ashes of Creation Apocalypse controller support.

The Ashes of Creation MMO is not designed around controller support.

• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse may have controller support.

Controller support will likely be something we work on closer to launch. – Steven Sharif

Destructible environments

Destructible castle.

This is the castle siege destruction props. It's variable areas of exploded stuff. You can't completely destroy the castle or you wouldn't be able to get to the top of it. – Michael Bacon

Destructible environments in Alpha-1 castle sieges.

Destructible environments will be a core element of how players interact with the world, in both Ashes of Creation Apocalypse and Ashes of Creation the MMORPG.

We want destruction to be a very core element of how players make their way through the world. – Steven Sharif

• Attackers may not be capable of destroying a node during a siege. Instead they may carry out precision attacks to disable specific service-oriented buildings within the node. These buildings can be targeted with siege weapons and bombs.
• Node buildings (including player housing) have hit points and can be damaged during sieges. If buildings suffer more than approximately 25% damage, any Неигровые персонажи or services offered by that building will not be available until the building is repaired.
• If the node still exists after the siege has ended, citizens will need to obtain the resources needed to repair and rebuild any damaged infrastructure.
  • Larger more advanced buildings will require more resources to repair them. In-node housing will likely require the least resources to repair.
• Player housing that is destroyed during a node siege can no longer be sold.
  • Furnishing and decorations are retained and can be placed again later.

There will be ways to repair destructible structures (such as walls and gates) and also repair (or re-craft) siege weapons that were damaged during sieges.

• This is a long term design goal that will not be present during Alpha-1.

You could be more precision oriented in the decision to attack a city. Let's say it's a rival node that's trying to reach you know a node stage five or something and you want to disable their ability for the religious system to progress so you target the temple during the attack, or you want to disable their scholars academy from reaching a higher level so that your nodes can; or you want to disable multiple buildings that allow for experience and quests to be undertaken by its citizenship, which prevents them from keeping up in pace of experience gained with your node. These can be more precision oriented and don't have to effectualize an actual takeover of the node. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse easter eggs

There is a sandal out there. We will also have prizes and achievements for finding the sandal. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation Apocalypse videos

• 2018-08-17 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse - First Look at Action Combat
• 2018-09-01 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Alpha Gameplay
• 2018-10-31 Livestream
• 2018-12-06 Livestream
• 2018-12-06 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse
• 2018-12-13 Livestream
• 2019-01-11 Livestream
• 2019-01-11 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Siege Maps Preview
• 2019-03-08 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Castle Siege Gameplay
• 2019-09-24 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse early access trailer
• 2019-09-30 Apocalypse Gaming Session Late Night Edition Livestream (Part I)
• 2019-09-30 Apocalypse Gaming Session Late Night Edition Livestream (Part II)
• 2019-10-02 Apocalypse QnA and Gaming Session Late Night Edition Livestream
• 2019-10-11 Blog: Forest of Erinthia game update
• 2019-10-12 Apocalypse gaming session with some lite QnA Livestream

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Справочники сообщества

• The AOC Dungeon - Welcome to Verra! ... It’s Time to Break the World.
• The Ashes Post - Alpha 1 Battle Royale Guide.

Смотрите также

• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse battle royale
• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges
• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse horde mode
• Расписание релизов
• Alpha-1

Внешние ссылки

• Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Early Access on Steam.