Evasion
Evasion moves such as dodging and weaving will be present in Ashes of Creation combat.[2][3][4]
- The developers are considering the inclusion of dodging in a subset of universal skills that apply to all classes.[5]
- Dodging will not use I-frames (invincibility frames), but it may affect accuracy and mitigation stats when used.[2]
- Previously it was stated that hybrid combat will likely have true evasion skills relating to action-oriented combat and also have I-frames that apply to tab targeting.[4]
- So you see an animation windup that's a telegraph on what's coming; and then you have response actions that you can take as a result of that in order to dodge, weave, move, do whatever. It is both a combination of what your rotation is but also how you have reaction abilities ready to go that you save for certain circumstances that are important.[3] – Steven Sharif
Mobility
- The revamped combat system features split-body animations, where the character's upper body can be locked by weapon attack animations while the lower body is free to continue moving.[10][11][12][13][14]
- A lot of abilities you have the capability of moving while casting. It's going to decrease your movement speed significantly or depending on the type of ability. We do reserve the cost- and that's really what it is when you tie ability usage to mobility- we do reserve the cost of requiring the character to remain stationary on some big effect type abilities.[10] – Steven Sharif
- Most abilities in Ashes of Creation are capable of being cast while moving. Some abilities may slow the caster down during the cast, but only rarely will the player be rooted in place.[10][15]
- Movement speed can decrease significantly depending on the type of ability.[10]
- Weapon weight can also affect mobility.[11]
- Skills with the greatest power may require the caster to remain stationary while channeling them. This is a risk vs. reward mechanic.[10][15][16][17]
- Most abilities you'll find in Ashes of Creation are capable of being cast while moving. Some of those abilities might slow your movement during the cast, but you can continue to move. Very rarely, and depending on obviously the importance of the ability or the power level of that ability, you might be rooted in place. So, for example, the AoE ability [Chains of Restraint] has a lot going on. It has damage ticking over time, it is an area of effect, it also has a status condition application; and in those instances the player character gets rooted.[15] – Steven Sharif
- Unreal Engine 5 has enabled improved forms of locomotion, such as crouching, tilting and mantling.[18][19]
- There's a balance in the game design between your movement speed on attack and the movement speed of your opponent. When you have a game that is both PvE centric as well as PvP centric, you have to make sure that combat is blended for both approaches; and we can always run into problems where, if you're significantly hampered in your movement speed, that has an effect on how we expect player versus player engagements to interact; and we don't want to restrict a player's ability to be mobile if they're the target of an attack. And as a result of that we need to make sure that we don't restrict the movement abilities of the player who is doing the attacking as well. So we want it to be relatively free for you to stay with each other. Your opponents move around the battlefield together and if we're hampering you on the attack action, we have to then implement some type of snare, or slow, or cc effect essentially on your opposing target; and that's not the approach we want to take for for PvP.[23] – Steven Sharif
- Melee archetypes will offer various mobility and CC counters against ranged archetypes, such as the Ranger.[24][25]
- If we're talking about Fighter, they're going to have a lot of heavy gap closers. They can probably be a little bit more liberal in the use of their gap closers because they have so many of them, versus let's say a Ranger that needs to choose when to use their escape abilities, because they have fewer of them. The same would be true for a melee character like a rogue. Their approach vector is going to be more stealth-driven than it would be perhaps let's say from a gap-closer perspective.[24] – Steven Sharif
- Q: If a ranger is super mobile, what are the melee's options in order to catch them?
- A: Different class kits will provide different gap closers. They'll provide different mobility skills. They'll have lockdowns. They'll have chains to pull back. They'll have a lot of different things in the rotation. That's part of what an MMORPG experience is. You're not just restricted to three or six skills, you have a rotational suite; and depending on the type of challenges you face is going to help determine which of those rotations you spec into from your skill tree.[25] – Steven Sharif
Skill | Icon | Base skill |
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Air Strike | Leap a great distance forward and into the air while firing three projectiles in a line along the path, each dealing area damage and rooting targets hit for 3 seconds. Rotation control is enabled during cast.[26] The root effect is nature based.[27] | |
Blink | Instantly teleport a set distance in the direction you are moving.[28][29] | |
Call of the Wild | Remove all movement impairing effects and increase movement speed by 20% for 8 seconds. Snares and Roots effects applied to the caster are ignored.[30] | |
Caravan Trail Speed Bonus | Minor speed boost for travelling on a simple trail.[31] | |
Rush | Rush toward a target; and upon reaching the target, deal an amount damage with a chance to knock the target down.[32] | |
Speed Boost | Gives the caravan a temporary speed boost.[33] | |
Wings of Salvation | Sprout phoenix-like wings and leap to target ally, then grant a small amount of temporary health to that target on arrival.[34][35] An ally is defined as any non-combatant player or non-mob NPC.[36] |
Player movement
- Sprinting will consume a percentage of a character's mana pool. Sprinting will not be permitted while in combat.[38]
- I've instructed design to incorporate a mana consumption that's percentage based for sprinting. So it'll be a similar amount of time that each class, regardless of their mana values, will have in order to sprint and it will not be accessible while in a combat.[38] – Steven Sharif
- There is a toggleable walk/run (autorun) capability.[40]
- There is not going to be any "go to waypoint" (auto-pathing) mechanics.[41]
- Double-jumping has been considered as an option for player mounts.[43]
- Unreal Engine 5 mantling was demonstrated by the developers.[18][44]
Collision
There are player and spell/projectile collision mechanics in Ashes of Creation.[45][46][47]
- Inertia and momentum physics will help prevent blocking doorways/access points. This is based on a character's direction and movement speed, and can be used to push people out of the way.[48][47]
- Ездовые животные and players cannot stop caravans and other vehicles from moving. Nothing can move or block ships.[49]
- Specific ranged skills will have a pushback effect but this is not inherent to all ranged abilities.[50]
- Player collision inherently limits the number of individuals that can be affected by AoE skills.[45]
- Not all projectiles can be body-blocked.[46]
- Not all projectiles can be body-blocked. Some potentially can, but there will be certain abilities and effects, like a shield wall, that can that can be brought up and that will obscure line-of-sight to the target as well; and it will restrict some of those attacks from occurring.[46] – Steven Sharif
Animations
Будут некоторые анимации , которые добавят изюминку определенным расам и классам, но, как правило, анимации будут максимально повторно использоваться, чтобы сократить время разработки.[51]
У нас будут вещи, известные как расовые способности, которые будут ключом к выбранному вами классу, и они почти наверняка будут иметь анимации, которые своего рода одноразовые, связанные с этим классом. Они помогут вам получить больше, как вы знаете, аромат Ren'Kai или какой-то еще аромат Empyrean, но мы должны максимально повторно использовать анимацию, чтобы добраться до финиша здесь, так что это было бы очень приятно сделать. но, вероятно, не в картах.[51] – Jeffrey Bard
Animation cancelling
Отмена анимации не будет механикой боя.[52]
Active blocking
Активное блокирование присутствовало в Alpha-2.[53] Щиты лучше подходят для активного блокирования, но для парирования атак подойдёт любое оружие ближнего боя.[54]
- Разработчики размышляют о добавлении активного блокирования в набор универсальных навыков, которыми могут пользоваться все классы.[54][5]
- Ранее, когда разработчиками не были завершены механики активного блокирования, они склонялись к использованию традиционного ориентированного на баффы снижения урона как в большинстве ММО, а также рассматривали возможность взаимодействия между активным блокированием и пассивной характеристикой блокирования.[55][56][56]
- У щита «Paladin's Might» в Ashes of Creation Apocalypse был собственный хитбокс и очки здоровья, им можно было активно блокировать снаряды.[57]
Изменение боевой системы
A revamped combat system will be rolled out during and post Alpha-1 testing based on player feedback.[58][59][60][9]
- I just want to give kudos to the combat team, because in my opinion having played this and watched this and seen the community's response to it, they've done a great job in moving away from what was our direction prior to Alpha-1 to now having developed for Alpha-2 a significantly revamped combat experience; and I think it feels good and it plays well and it's fun.[58] – Steven Sharif
- The goal is to give more agency to the player and achieve a more fluid flow of combat with greater mobility when using abilities.[61][8]
- The current hybrid tab and action combat system will remain after the revamp.[61]
- This revamp will not represent the final form of combat, but will set the general direction that combat will be taking.[62]
- The revamp will be iterative and will be rolled out to testers in different phases.[8]
- The developers will be testing whether or not to use global cooldowns GCDs on different types of abilities during Alpha-2.[63]
- As of July 2023 global cooldowns are not currently in the game.[64]
- Instant cast abilities are referred to as off-global-cooldown or OGCD abilities.[64]
The revamped combat system will feature split-body animations, where the character's upper body can be locked by weapon attack animations while the lower body is free to continue moving.[12][13][14]
- You'll be able to move forward while swinging your weapon; and this will allow you complete control over your weapon attacks for melee.[12] – Steven Sharif
Alpha-1 combat was focused on core functionality rather than combat balance.[14] Alpha-2 combat will include archetypes, significant ability support, augments, split-body combat, weapon attacks, and many additional items, among other things.[65]
- Changes that allow templated abilities to apply to 3D positions in the air or water will be prototyped and may be included in Alpha-2.[66]
Combat targeting
Hybrid combat refers to the choice between tab and action combat in Ashes of Creation.[68][70][71][72][73][74] A toggle button (default Z, but can be re-bound to another key) allows the player to switch between action and tab combat modes.[68][75][61][76][77]
- Targeted skills require either a soft or hard locked target.[68][79]
- Soft locking is when the reticle moves over a valid target while in action mode.[78] The targeting plate will appear slightly grayed out to indicate that this is a soft-lock target. If the reticle moves away from the target or the target moves away from the reticle, the target is lost.[79]
- Hard locking is when the player uses right-mouse on a soft-locked target in action mode, or when the player selects a valid target in tab mode. The targeting plate will not be grayed-out to indicate that a hard-lock target is selected. Unlike soft locking, if the target moves out of the reticle, the target is not lost. Tab will still cycle between hard-locked targets in action mode based on proximity priority.[82][79]
- Templated skills allow "blind firing" without a target while in action mode. If an entity moves into the path of the attack they can be struck.[83][68][84][85][79]
- Q: Is the development team moving away from action combat, or is action combat more prevalent with the melee classes, and the healing/range classes are more tab-target other than AoE spells?
- A: We have not moved away from our hybrid approach to the development of Ashes of Creation's combat; and specifically to reiterate: that approach is incorporating elements of skill shots, fast and reactive gameplay that is situationally relevant, and incorporates the camera mode of both tab-targeting as well as action combat reticle. That's something that is still in progress. We haven't moved away from that however. To note, our approach of that hybridization is going to incorporate things like templated skill-shots, directionally relevant activated abilities, along with the ability to dodge to roll projectiles that can impact collision. Those are elements of action combat that are present.[86] – Steven Sharif
Templated and targeted versions of skills will have different characteristics.[87][75][88][89][90]
- Skill progressions, skill point allocation is determined by the player. The player will be able to choose either more tab-target oriented skills or more action-based skills and customize their playable experience to what accommodates their preference. From a balancing standpoint for us developers, we need to make sure that certain abilities house certain functions so that there's a balance between skill shots and tab-target abilities.[89] – Steven Sharif
- Targeted skills will be greyed out if the target is not within a valid range but templated skills will generally require the player to assess the correct range for the skill.[91]
- Different ranks of the same skill can change the skill from tab to action or vice-versa.[92]
- Variables will change based on which version of a skill is chosen.[90]
- It may not be possible to be able to fully spec into just action or tab targeted skills. There might be a 75% cap on choosing skills from any one type.[89]
- For the purposes of balance, certain skill types will be either tab or action oriented skills.[93]
- As an example: Let's say you're playing a ranged class. You could have an action-oriented power shot in your skill tree or you could have a single target power shot that ramps up and does more damage.[90] – Steven Sharif
Alpha-1 combat
Гибридный бой был испытан в Alpha-1.[73][88]
- Кнопка переключения (по умолчанию Zно может быть привязана к другой клавише) позволяет игроку переключаться между режимами боя, ориентированными на действие и вкладку.[75][61][76][77]
- В режиме действия используется прицельная сетка и очень близок к игре от третьего лица.[73][76][77][95]
- Игрок не должен находиться в режиме прицеливания, чтобы использовать боевую способность.[96]
- Если вы используете боевую способность действия, которая будет направлена на цель, вам не нужно находиться в режиме прицеливания, чтобы использовать ее. Он будет стрелять туда, где находится прицел. Так что если вы играете на ощупь и находитесь в режиме камеры-табулятора, вы все равно сможете использовать свои навыки и способности, ориентированные на действие.[96] – Steven Sharif
- Прицел будет подсвечиваться/изменять цвет (на красный), чтобы показать, если текущая цель может быть поражена с помощью текущего подготовленного навыка.[73][76]
- Боевые способности в режиме действия не будут иметь функции фиксации, но нажатие Q в режиме действия зафиксирует текущую цель, что позволит использовать навыки, ориентированные на вкладку в режиме действия.[75][73]
- Боевые способности действия, так сказать, не будут иметь функции фиксации. Некоторые из них будут сняты только на умение. Однако, поскольку у вас может быть сочетание способностей вкладок, для которых требуется цель, вы также сможете заблокировать цель в режиме действия. Прямо сейчас это делегировано клавише Q по умолчанию, но вы, очевидно, можете настроить это, вы можете поместить его на левую кнопку мыши, или вы можете поместить его куда угодно; и когда ваша сетка зависает над целью, она быстро меняет вашу целевую способность, и когда вы нажимаете кнопку блокировки цели, она затем блокирует эту цель; и если у вас есть навыки, ориентированные на табуляцию, вы можете использовать свои навыки, ориентированные на табуляцию, и они будут использованы против этой цели.[75] – Steven Sharif
- Режим вкладок (режим MMO) облегчает ведение боя, нацеленного на вкладку.[76][77] Способность, нацеленная на вкладку, требует цели, чтобы использовать это умение.[75][95]
- Нажатие левой кнопки мыши в режиме вкладки атакует цель (с помощью выбранного в данный момент оружия).[76]
- В пользовательском интерфейсе будет возможность «цель мишени».[97]
Хитбоксы
The developers are testing different approaches to accommodate varying hitboxes between the races.[98]
- There may be a single unified hitbox with some exceptions or some special collision rules as opposed to having different sized hitboxes.[98]
More than likely we'll have some sort of unified or unified-ish hitbox. But again it's going to probably have a unified hitbox with some exceptions or some special sort of collision rules based on them as opposed to just making it smaller for one and not the other.[98] – Jeffrey Bard
There aren't separate types of hitbox categories in the Ashes of Creation MMORPG as there were in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.[98]
We don't have separate types of hitbox categories, for example. There's no head hit box in the MMORPG like there was in APOC. So from a critical standpoint you're not going to see a greater risk of critting for a larger hitbox.[98] – Steven Sharif
Directional attacks
There will be directional attacks (back attacks, flanking attacks, frontal attacks) that deal additional damage depending on the positional context of the attack.[99]
Cleaving
All weapons have a forward attack cone, regardless of being in tab or action mode.[76]
- The cone's arc and distance will vary based on weapon type.[76]
Polearms for example will have a much wider arc and much further out. Daggers will have a more fine-tuned arc, so you have to be more precise in that regard.[76] – Steven Sharif
This is described as a weapon attack not an active skill.[76]
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