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Осада Узла (записано на пред-альфе). [1]

Осады узлов позволяют игрокам сбавить уровень узла (обратить его прогресс) и уничтожить узел вообще. Таким образом этот процесс открывает путь к новому развитию и доступ к контенту скрытому в окружающих узлах. Благодаря этой механике, политическая борьба и интриги играют важную роль в структуре мира.[2]

Осада Узлов не будет простой задачей для атакующих. Города и Метрополисы будут давать значительное преимущество обороняющимся.[2] Автоматические PvE осады могут быть запущены в отношении узлов которые недостаточно активны.[3]

Если у вас есть дом в Узле и вы не хотите увидеть его уничтожение, вам необходимо защитить этот город! [4] – Стивен Шариф

Declaring a node siege

Node sieges are declared directly by any player[5] who completes the prerequisites for the siege initiation.[6] During the declaration period, individuals or guilds can also register to attack.[7]

  • Sieges are started via an item which is acquired through a quest that scales in difficulty with respect to the level of the Node.[8]
  • Once the item is brought to the Node and is activated, the declaration period begins and a countdown is initiated for players in the region to see.[8]
    • This countdown runs for a number of days equal to the level of the Node being sieged.[8]
    • Once the countdown is complete, the siege begins.[8]

Sieges are started via an item which is acquired through a quest that scales in difficulty with respect to the level of the Node which is being targeted for the siege. Once the item is brought to the Node and is activated, the declaration period begins and a countdown is initiated for players in the region to see. This countdown runs for a number of days equal to the level of the Node being sieged. Once the countdown is complete, the siege begins.[8] – Margaret Krohn

Siege declaration is very tough and will scale with the type of node being sieged:[7]

Once a siege is declared there is a period of time before the siege will commence, determined by the size of the node:[11]

Many services are shut down during the siege declaration period, and instead are replaced by preparation quests or services for the siege.[12]

  • Once a siege is declared, players are prohibited from moving goods out of depositories within the node.[13]

That incentivizes even further the necessity of players to contribute to the defense of a city. It also elevates the need for that city to politically gain allies among other nodes so that they can protect the collective goods of the citizens.[13] – Стивен Шариф

  • During the siege virtually all services are suspended.[12]

The time window for a node siege is appropriate for the server location.[11]

Announcements/Notifications

Будут проводиться глобальные (серверные) объявления/оповещения о важных событиях.[14]

Локальные события узлов, такие как караваны объявляться не будут. Они должна будут передаваться из уст в уста самими игроками.[14]

Будь это осадой или сработавшим событием против города или уникальной возможностью для подземелья... Такого типа вещи будут включать оповещения. Особенно граждан города; где вы и будете проинформированы о наступающем событии. В общем, это предоставит вам время.[15] – Стивен Шариф

Siege alliances

When a siege begins, temporary alliances are formed among attackers and defenders.[16]

  • For node sieges, citizens of the node or provincial nodes being attacked are automatically registered as defenders.[17]
  • There are many reasons to participate as an ally in the attack or defence of other nodes.[18]
    • Titles.
    • Items.
    • Materials.
    • Money.
    • Social bonds.

Many incentives exist that can benefit your node and yourself personally by participating in the attack or defense of cities. These range from titles, to items, to materials, to money. Additionally, aiding others may help you strengthen bonds when your assets are threatened.[18] – Стивен Шариф

Ashes of Creation получит особенный контент, сфокусированный вокруг альянсов.[19]

Контент направленный конкретно на альянсы и их развитие; и способность делиться некоторыми общими сервисами между гильдиями которые являются частью этого альянса. Я думаю что выгодно будет дать альянсам дополнительную возможность выставлять определённые отноения с узлами в качестве взаимодействия. Это предоставит интересную динамику игрокам которые являются жителями конкретного узла с которым определены отношения или членами альянса. Так что я думаю что, очевидно, построение систем состоит из создания каналов благодаря которым игроки смогут формировать связи и чем больше слоев вокруг таких каналов построения связей между разными гильдиями и игроками, тем более сильно поддерживаются такие отношения.[19] – Стивен Шариф

Siege participation

Non-registered combatants are not permitted on the siege field in castle or node sieges.[20]

  • The developers are testing methods for restricting non-registered combatants from entering the battlefield.[21]

Players could potentially intercept stragglers with the guild war or flagging system en route to the siege field.[22]

Players may choose to respawn at their HQ as long as they are registered.[23]

Siege mechanics

A siege occurs over several phases.[24]

  • Certain siege mechanics may be gated for specific size groups during sieges.[25]
  • There will not be a deserter debuff for leaving a siege before it is complete.[26]
  • More will be revealed in an upcoming blog entry.[24]

Siege weapons

It wouldn’t be a castle siege without siege weapons. These are massive machines of war that enable attackers to bring down the walls, and defenders to keep their keep safe. Crafters can bring their own powerful schematics to the battlefield, or you can order baseline siege weapons from your friendly neighborhood siege master NPC. The Castle’s defenders will be able to deploy their own defensive weapons and turrets based on how well they maintained and defended their own Nodes. The sky will be illuminated with fire and fury.[27]

Trebuchet siege weapon. [28]

Siege weapons are able to be crafted or purchased from NPCs.[29]

Siege equipment will require materials, recipes and craftsmanship.[30]

Part of this endeavor of sieging a player-held location (or non-player-held location) is time to prepare; and that includes gathering and crafting these mega weapons or collecting the resources: Whether it be gold or specific quest items to purchase from NPCs.[29] – Стивен Шариф

Anything that you want to bring into existence in the world is going to be built by players: Whether that is Ships, Siege engines, Weapons, Armor, etc.[31] – Джеффри Бард

Siege PvP

Sieges don't use the PvP flagging system.[32]

Siege NPCs

NPCs serve as defense points. Killing them allows the attackers to gain advantages during a siege.[33] NPCs are only killable during a siege and will respawn if the siege is unsuccessful.[34]

NPC guards are intended to be a significant presence but not the main line of defense in a siege.[35]

Mercenary NPCs

Mercenary NPCs can be assigned to players.[36]

  • Players assign them, but don't micromanage them in a similar manner to pets.[36]
  • These will be objective-based and not overly prevalent in the world.[36]

There are mercenary NPCs that can be assigned to players. We've discussed about that before and those will follow generically kind of... a kind of pet system even you know adopted majority of the pet system with the added bonus of kind of objective based points of interest that you can assign them to. But we don't want to inundate the field with these mercenaries they'll be kind of few and far between. They'll be assigned specifically like let's say for example you know as the mayor of a node during a siege you'll be able to assign these two specific players that are citizens within your node and then they'll have those they'll spawn during the during the node siege; or vice versa and the castle siege you know guild leaders can assign mercenaries that are available based on the progress of those subsidiary nodes around the castle siege whether or not you have those available to your defense or your attack.[36] – Стивен Шариф

Dragons

Dragons are epic flying mounts with strong battle abilities, such as AoE breath attacks, swooping flyby attacks, and others.[37][38]

The dragon will have a lot of capability in PvP. It's primarily its purpose, because as it relates to Castles and the sieges they're in, or Nodes and the sieges they're in. We want dragons to have large scale ramifications against player raids.[38] – Стивен Шариф

Siege objectives

Each node has a number of districts, depending on its stage.[24]

  • Districts are taken by defeating a "raid boss" guard NPC in that district.
  • If attackers take over a district, they gain that district as a respawn location.
  • The respawn time for defenders is increased for each district that is taken.

Defenders can assault the outposts of the attackers to hinder them.[24]

Attackers may not be capable of deleveling a node. 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.[39]

As the attackers are sieging a city you know they have obviously a win condition- a win objective- but additionally there can be casualties from a structural standpoint during that process. So let's say if the... attackers were to not succeed in completely destroying the node they could still affect damage across multiple types of buildings that are present within the node, which disables services for that those citizens and also will require some type of reconstruction effort on behalf of the citizens.[40] – Стивен Шариф

Completing a siege

A node siege will last for up to two hours.[24]

  • Defenders will be required to hold a central point in the node. Attackers will need to remove the defender's flag and raise their own.[41]

If the node survives, there will be a cooldown before the node can be sieged again:[24]

If the node still exists after the siege has ended, citizens will need to obtain the resources needed to rebuild any damaged infrastructure.[39]

Node destruction

Узлы can be destroyed starting at level 3 (Village), and are destroyed through sieges.[8]

  • A successful siege will destroy the node.[8]
  • A portion of all Materials (crafting components) and Gatherables stored in the node will become available to the victors of the siege as spoils of war.[13][42]
    • Players are prohibited from moving goods out of depositories within the node following a siege declaration against that node.[13]
  • Nodes revert to stage 0 (wilderness) after a successful siege.[43]

Nodes can be destroyed starting at Level 3 - Village Stage, and are destroyed through sieges. Sieges are started via an item which is acquired through a quest that scales in difficulty with respect to the level of the Node which is being targeted for the siege. Once the item is brought to the Node and is activated, the declaration period begins and a countdown is initiated for players in the region to see. This countdown runs for a number of days equal to the level of the Node being sieged. Once the countdown is complete, the siege begins. There is a cooldown between sieges, and players must wait a certain amount of time after an unsuccessful siege before a new siege can be declared. The higher the Node level, the longer the cooldown between sieges. If a siege is successful, then the Node is brought down to Level 0, and anyone who was a citizen of that Node is no longer a citizen.[8] – Margaret Krohn

Siege aftermath

We’re working on a destruction engine that should help us to make a Castle Siege that feels cinematic and visceral. Having shards of the walls tumble to the ground after a trebuchet scores a hit will feel satisfying in a way no other Castle Siege has been able to offer in an MMORPG like this. Maybe you don’t need to take down the whole wall, maybe if you blow open a big enough hole, that’ll be enough to turn the tides.[27]

Rubble will be visible for a period of time following a successful castle siege. This will likely persist until the incumbent guild develops the first defensive node.[44]

Impact on freeholds

Freeholds may be attacked for a period of two hours[8] following a successful siege against its parent node.[45]

  • Players and their allies may defend their freehold for this period of time.
  • Structures and guards may be obtained to defend freeholds during this period.

After the two hour period of open combat following a successful node siege, any remaining freeholds will exist under a grace period for roughly 1 week where another node may take over the zone of influence of the freehold.[8]

  • If a freehold does not reside within the ZOI of a stage three (Village) node or above, it will be destroyed.[46]

If a siege is successful, then the Node is brought down to Level 0, and anyone who was a citizen of that Node is no longer a citizen. Freeholds within the Zone of Influence are subject to a period of vulnerability. These Freeholds can be destroyed by other players during a period of roughly 2 hours after a successful siege. Destroyed Freeholds are subject to material loss, and blueprints for them are mailed to the player to utilize for future placement in order to allow the player to keep their Freehold’s layout and structure. Once the vulnerability period is complete, any remaining Freeholds will exist under a grace period for roughly 1 week where another Node may take over the Zone of Influence of the Freehold.[8] – Margaret Krohn

Player housing designs and decorations are retained and can be placed again later if the housing is destroyed during a node siege.[47][48]

Destructible environments

Destructible environments in Ashes of Creation Apocalypse.[49] [50]
Destruction in 45 seconds with Garett Fern.[51]

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.[51]

Not just in APOC where we want a completely destructible environment, but also in the MMORPG when it comes to Dungeons and traversing certain areas. We want destruction to be a very core element of how players make their way through the world.[51] – Стивен Шариф

Node redevelopment

A node that was successfully sieged may develop differently due to the following influences:[52]

  • Different races becoming primary contributors.
  • Design elements determined by different governments.
  • Reactions and interactions with other nodes in the world.

Node politics

There won't be a civil war mechanic within nodes but there will be scope for internal political conflicts; such as undermining the current leadership and disrupting trade.[53]

We want consequences to matter and if that person got elected then you need to work within the means of the mechanics to get them unelected.[54] – Стивен Шариф

Impact of monsters and world bosses

Monster coin events (Bosses) cannot destroy or delevel nodes.[55] They can disable certain buildings, services and NPCs within a node.[56][57]

Node sieges are the chief mechanic for destroying or deleveling nodes.[55]

Impact on player stalls

Players are not able to be attacked or robbed while occupying a player stall.[60]

Player stalls may not be renewed during a siege declaration.[60]

Node atrophy (deleveling)

Узлы can delevel based on node atrophy.[8]

  • Nodes accumulate an experience deficit each day based on the node's level. The deficit is subtracted from any experience earned that day. If any deficit remains, then this is subtracted from the node’s experience pool.[8]
  • Certain flags will appear to notify node citizens if their node has dropped below the required experience for its current stage. After a short period, if the atrophy is not addressed, the Node will then delevel.[8]
  • A node cannot delevel more than a single level at a time.[8]
    • When a Node delevels it enters a safe period, during which the deficit is temporarily reduced to 0.[8]

Deleveled nodes return to their previous stage.[8]

If a Node delevels, it returns to the previous Stage, but keeps the racial style it had before deleveling. A Node cannot delevel more than a single level at a time. For example, a Level 2 Node would become a Level 1, or a Level 1 Node would become a Level 0. If deleveling would cause a Node to lose its Vassals, it does so. When a Node delevels it enters a “safe period,” during which the deficit is temporarily reduced to 0. Once the safe period expires, the Node can once again begin losing experience based on its deficit.[8] – Margaret Krohn

Siege abilities

Восемь игроков с одинаковым основным архетипом могут объединиться, чтобы создавать огромные эффекты во время осады.[61]

Это тот тип системы, который мы хотим вопротить в жизнь, когда группа с одними и теми же основными архетипами может собраться вместе, чтобы вызвать эффекты, зависящие от индивидуальности этого архетипа.[61] – Стивен Шариф

Summoner

Summoners can collaborate to summon larger summons, such as Golems.[62]

  • A siege summon will have an incremental size based on the number of summoners participating in that summon activity, with a maximum of eight.[63]
  • The number of summoners participating in the summon will determine its overall size.[63]
  • All summoners must be in the same party and the party leader must be a summoner.[64]
    • The party leader initiates the summon and then takes control of it.
    • Once summoned, the party leader cannot be changed.
    • If the party disbands, the summon ends. There will be a grace period to handle disconnects.
    • The party may also contain non-Summoners.

It doesn't have to be just summoners, but it has to be a party led by a summoner with other summoners in it.[64] – Стивен Шариф

Tank

Alpha-1 castle siege combat featuring a Tank siege ability.[65]

If eight Tank archetypes each use one of their summon wall abilities it might construct a larger wall that can divide two raids in a moment; and would require damage and block skills and abilities for a momentary lapse of battle between those two raids.[66] – Стивен Шариф

Node wars

Node governments may declare war on another node and rally citizens to the cause.[67]

We have conditions that you can set between nodes with regards to either nodes being friendly with each other and acting trade alliances, or they can declare war on nodes similar to how guild wars may function in different games, where those citizens become hostile to each other based on the player government that's elected in the particular node. So those systems all kind of cater to allowing a conflict that's meaningful and that also provides a non-imbalanced relationship between stronger guilds and not as strong guilds. [69] – Стивен Шариф

Zergs

For every play, there should be a counterplay. We often see Castle Sieges turn into zerg-fests, which really doesn’t capture the epic, back-and-forth battles we wish to see in Ashes of Creation. One of our key pillars is that Choice Matters[70], and that applies to tactics and strategy as well. A well-formulated battle plan should win out over stat sheets and bodies. Zergs will generally be difficult to pull off, and will be eminently counterable through siege weapons, traps, and other battlefield tricks.[27]

Zergs are empowered by fast-travel. Meaningful travel times are intended to prevent zerg play from being so much of an influence.[71]

Encounters are designed to have meaning in terms of how boss skills and abilities relate to group compositions, tactics and strategies. Zerging is not experiencing content.[72]

  • Raid and dungeon bosses have specific mechanics that players need to learn and react to. Zergs that are not aware of these mechanics or react to them appropriately will be wiped.
  • There is a give-and-take for guilds that want to see a larger number of members as opposed to a more focused group that may be a part of an alliance.[73]

We're very cognizant of the fact that we don't want to see zerging be a mechanic that's utilized by guilds to accomplish content or just to steamroll over sieges... There are specific mechanics that we are working on that will be seen through the testing phases that relate to a degree of understanding of certain systems that can't just be overrun with numbers.[73] – Стивен Шариф

Mechanics that encourage political intrigue will play a role in destabilizing zergs.[74]

The best way that I found in games I played previously to take down a zerg is to cause drama from within... It's that conflict inside of the politicking that happens in that big organization. If we provide opportunities for division to occur then it also provides stability to keep a server healthy away from that zerg mentality also... If we approach the castle siege and we've destroyed the walls and we're in the throne room and we're about to cast on the penultimate thing and I at this time am just so excited from what's happening that I'm like "screw it I'm gonna go for it". It's gonna be mine. I'm gonna take the taxes for the next month. I'm gonna take all the gear from the castle. I'm gonna take everything... We kind of want that political intrigue to be present in the game.[74] – Стивен Шариф

Objective-based game play helps to balance the zerg mentality.[75]

I always feel that if you balance based on groups that in your balance focus is to incorporate features that play well from a player versus player perspective as well as a player versus environment perspective: Having support classes, having DPS and tanks that can obstruct movement and/or create you know bottlenecks on the field and stuff like that. I think a well-rounded raid it will perform better against a non well-rounded raid, however then you incorporate the second aspect of numbers; and that's where again mobility, organization, leadership tactics. Having objectives in gameplay that make those important helps to balance the zerg mentality that a lot of guilds can tend to have.[75] – Стивен Шариф

Artwork

Смотрите также

Примечания

  1. ↑ Видео, 4 Декабря 2016 ({{#regex:0m02|/[hm/|:}}).]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 A reactive world - Nodes.
  3. ↑ node atrophy.png
  4. ↑ Видео, 30 Апреля 2017 ({{#regex:5m31|/[hm/|:}}).]
  5. ↑ siege declaration.png
  6. ↑ siege prerequisites.png
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 siege registration.png
  8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 8.16 8.17 8.18 8.19 8.20 Blog - Know Your Nodes - Advance and Destroy.
  9. ↑ siege resources.png
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 siege equipment.png
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 siege notice.png
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 siege-declaration-services.png
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Стрим, 30 April 2020 ({{#regex:1h14m44|/[hm/|:}}).]
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Стрим, 4 Мая 2018 ({{#regex:48m14|/[hm/|:}}).]
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Интервью, 17 Августа 2018 ({{#regex:24m48|/[hm/|:}}).]
  16. ↑ siege alliances.png
  17. ↑ siege auto defenders.png
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Official Livestream - May 4th @ 3 PM PST - Q&A
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Подкаст, 11 Мая 2018 ({{#regex:21m07|/[hm/|:}}).]
  20. ↑ siege-combatants.png
  21. ↑ siege-barrier.png
  22. ↑ siege-stragglers.png
  23. ↑ siege-respawn.png
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 siege more info.png
  25. ↑ siege mechanics.png
  26. ↑ Стрим, 24 May 2017 ({{#regex:37m05|/[hm/|:}}).]
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Blog: 10 facts about castle sieges in the MMORPG.
  28. ↑ Видео, 31 May 2017 ({{#regex:2m27|/[hm/|:}}).]
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Стрим, 18 January 2018 ({{#regex:37m05|/[hm/|:}}).]
  30. ↑ Интервью, 8 August 2018 ({{#regex:20m49|/[hm/|:}}).]
  31. ↑ Стрим, 24 May 2017 ({{#regex:17m08|/[hm/|:}}).]
  32. ↑ Стрим, 19 May 2017 ({{#regex:45m14|/[hm/|:}}).]
  33. ↑ siege success.png
  34. ↑ siege npcs killable.png
  35. ↑ Стрим, 28 July 2017 ({{#regex:36m51|/[hm/|:}}).]
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 Стрим, November 22 2019 ({{#regex:1h14m23|/[hm/|:}}).]
  37. ↑ dragon abilities.png
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 Стрим, 8 April 2018 (PM) ({{#regex:51m49|/[hm/|:}}).]
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Стрим, November 22 2019 ({{#regex:17m59|/[hm/|:}}).]
  40. ↑ Стрим, November 22 2019 ({{#regex:15m48|/[hm/|:}}).]
  41. ↑ Стрим, 19 May 2017 ({{#regex:47m07|/[hm/|:}}).]
  42. ↑ siege spoils.png
  43. ↑ nodes-delevel-to-zero.png
  44. ↑ Стрим, 9 July 2018 ({{#regex:42m48|/[hm/|:}}).]
  45. ↑ Стрим, 19 May 2017 ({{#regex:28m04|/[hm/|:}}).]
  46. ↑ Стрим, 19 May 2017 ({{#regex:29m34|/[hm/|:}}).]
  47. ↑ 47.0 47.1 Стрим, 18 July 2017 ({{#regex:40m14|/[hm/|:}}).]
  48. ↑ 48.0 48.1 Стрим, 17 November 2017 ({{#regex:47m10|/[hm/|:}}).]
  49. ↑ Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Early Access.
  50. ↑ Видео, 24 September 2019 ({{#regex:0m10|/[hm/|:}}).]
  51. ↑ 51.0 51.1 51.2 Стрим, 28 June 2019 ({{#regex:31m15|/[hm/|:}}).]
  52. ↑ Стрим, 24 May 2017 ({{#regex:52m39|/[hm/|:}}).]
  53. ↑ Стрим, 24 May 2017 ({{#regex:40m50|/[hm/|:}}).]
  54. ↑ 54.0 54.1 Стрим, 28 June 2019 ({{#regex:1h26m14|/[hm/|:}}).]
  55. ↑ 55.0 55.1 Стрим, 24 May 2017 ({{#regex:22m30|/[hm/|:}}).]
  56. ↑ monster events.png
  57. ↑ Стрим, 3 May 2017 ({{#regex:36m25|/[hm/|:}}).]
  58. ↑ monster siege before.png
  59. ↑ monster sieges.png
  60. ↑ 60.0 60.1 Стрим, 16 October 2017 ({{#regex:59m39|/[hm/|:}}).]
  61. ↑ 61.0 61.1 61.2 Подкаст, 11 Мая 2018 ({{#regex:49m20|/[hm/|:}}).]
  62. ↑ Стрим, 19 May 2017 ({{#regex:10m06|/[hm/|:}}).]
  63. ↑ 63.0 63.1 Стрим, 8 April 2018 (AM) ({{#regex:28m01|/[hm/|:}}).]
  64. ↑ 64.0 64.1 Интервью, 17 August 2018 ({{#regex:14m59|/[hm/|:}}).]
  65. ↑ steven-a1-leak-1.png
  66. ↑ Подкаст, 11 May 2018 ({{#regex:49m20|/[hm/|:}}).]
  67. ↑ City hall.
  68. ↑ Blog - Know Your Nodes - The Basics.
  69. ↑ Видео, 5 April 2018 ({{#regex:41m48|/[hm/|:}}).]
  70. ↑ pillars-confusion.png
  71. ↑ Стрим, 5 May 2017 ({{#regex:23m26|/[hm/|:}}).]
  72. ↑ Стрим, 19 May 2017 ({{#regex:25m18|/[hm/|:}}).]
  73. ↑ 73.0 73.1 Стрим, 22 May 2017 ({{#regex:57m37|/[hm/|:}}).]
  74. ↑ 74.0 74.1 Интервью, 11 May 2018 ({{#regex:44m20|/[hm/|:}}).]
  75. ↑ 75.0 75.1 Интервью, 8 August 2018 ({{#regex:11m52|/[hm/|:}}).]
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