Talk:2023-09-29 Video - Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Event Update
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Hello everyone and welcome to another live stream from the glorious world of Vera and
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we have an exciting showcase to give you all today.
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We're going to be talking about our event system and I am actually joined by three of
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our absolutely wonderful developers with whom you've spoken with in the past on some other
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live streams.
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We have one of our glorious engineers Clayton Clayton.
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Wow absolutely wonderful glorious.
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What an introduction.
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I'm doing great.
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I know really.
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I'm really excited to show off all of our hard work so very excited to see it with you
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and excited to chat with the community about it.
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I know you guys have been doing a lot of hard work on this.
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We also have two of our wonderful designers Scott.
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How you doing buddy.
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Excellent.
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I'm very excited to be here.
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Yay.
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And I'm Amy.
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I mean how are you doing.
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Hi I'm good.
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Last time I was here we took down two mocks so I'm I'm ready today.
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I'm playing cleric again.
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So yeah I got your back.
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Thank you.
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OK so you heard it here first folks if I die.
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We know whose fault it is.
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It's of course not my fault.
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It would be the cleric's fault.
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But OK so where are we.
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We are in a familiar biome.
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Many of you guys should be expecting where we are.
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We are in the wonderful riverlands.
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We are a little bit east of the last live stream location which was the Winstead node.
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Yeah I see Carfinn in the distance.
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Yep Carfinn is even further east from Winstead.
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So we're kind of sandwiched between Winstead and Carfinn right now.
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No big curse happening right now so it's a nice day out.
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OK so it's a nice day out.
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There's not like any type of blood curse or undead roaming the area.
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No not at the moment.
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No.
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OK very cool.
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And what are we doing here in the riverlands.
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Talk to me a little bit about what has brought us out here.
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And I'm going to jump off my glorious steed here while we talk about that.
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Absolutely.
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We're actually just out here to kill some mobs, grind some experience, get some resources
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maybe out of the land here.
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And eventually the world should react to that and we could potentially create an event here.
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I see a web weaver.
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So OK so our objective right now is we're going to be showing off obviously the event
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system and part of that event system is that it can take a whole host of different predicates
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to kind of kick off different types of events.
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Clayton talk to me a little bit about what that means.
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Oh he's on me.
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He's on me.
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Yeah as soon as I'm not dying.
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But yeah so the event system it can query a lot of different aspects of the dynamic
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world state.
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Right now it's actually just tracking player activity in the world and you know for this
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event in particular.
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And it's looking for us to kill some stuff.
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So we're out here killing some stuff and eventually the event should trigger once it's detected
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enough player activity.
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Very cool.
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And these and these this type of predicate that is the essentially the activity map for
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killing the activity map.
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That's not the only way that these events can get kicked off.
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There's a whole host of different ways that they can also.
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Yeah for sure.
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Yeah.
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So we have a really really awesome system that the designers have access to that lets
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them hook into really any dynamic world state and use that to inform the instantiation or
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even just like the progression of any event.
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Very cool.
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These spiders are gross.
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Scott what are what are some plans that you have for different predicates for instantiating
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some of these events.
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Yeah so obviously we just got this kind of generic sort of kill one here that we can
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use for all sorts of different things for tracking player activity.
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Big bear time.
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We also are looking at the amount of resources that players can harvest as a predicate.
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We have story arcs that are going on.
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So active stories to cause different events to start.
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Trade caravans happening relationships between different nodes.
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And also just the state of the nodes themselves.
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You can let him beat me up here because it's kind of cool.
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He's charging.
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Yeah.
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Oh he will throw you around.
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Those bears can can really catch you off guard if you let them.
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OK so I see that a nearby event has started.
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The predicate has been met.
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Oh and I see now on the mini map we have a little bit of a location for it.
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Yeah.
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So just south of us here we're just kind of the event has kind of kicked off because of
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the just us killing stuff around in the area here.
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And we might see some visual indicators over the hill here in a second.
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And so when when one of these events kick off it's not just obviously notifying players
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based off of their proximity with the mini map and with the you know UI toast that pops
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up.
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But also as you said Clayton we have a visual indicator in world that's also rooting the
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event as well.
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Yeah for sure.
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You know Scott can probably touch on you know the diegetic nature of all of our narrative
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content and the goals there.
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But oh wait hold on before we get too close I'm seeing that there's some gray shore archers
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and a gray shore swordsman.
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OK.
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All right.
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Oh should I join this event as a defender team.
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Definitely yes.
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And that'll allow if some other players do come around while we're playing that will
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allow them to join the event raid group with us.
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So we've effectively taken the party that we had preformed and merge that into a new
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raid group.
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OK I slept a couple of these of the high captains.
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There's some of them on the settlers right now.
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Oh God OK and the settlers are an objective type that exists within this particular archers.
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Yeah exactly.
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Yeah.
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Oh my God.
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There's a lot of them.
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No they're sniping from up on top of the rocks.
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Thanks Amy.
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Oh I see.
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I'm sorry I'm going to go for the long gun.
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Scott's down.
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Oh God.
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Oh no no no.
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OK.
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The event difficulty did change though.
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Why did the event difficulty change?
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That's a good thing.
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It means we got back up.
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There are people here to help us.
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Oh yeah I see them up on the hill.
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They're coming down.
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Oh they joined the raid.
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They joined the raid.
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We're distracting the bandits from the settlers right now so that's good.
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None of them have died.
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Caravan integrity is good.
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OK I see the caravan integrity on the event notification window.
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It looks like they're mostly just going for the settlers right now.
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Oh no those poor settlers.
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We've kept them up.
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Nope I just saw one die.
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Oh God two of them went out at once.
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Alright.
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Why did you say something?
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I shouldn't have mentioned it.
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They would have been fine.
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So our objective here is to protect these settlers while we eliminate 20 of these high
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human.
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OK.
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OK but there's probably another wave coming.
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Yes.
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There's still some shore, there's still some gray shore people around.
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Well I see some of them coming from northeast.
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There's an arsonist coming.
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Oh there we go.
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There we go.
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Oh and some from downhill northwest too.
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Scott, why are they coming from the north?
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So we're actually pretty near one of our POIs which is actually under bandit control.
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The aptly named Highwayman Hills is just over the corner, just around the corner here.
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So they'll be attacking NPCs in this area until such a time as players deal with it
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via story arc.
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And the settlers were trying to keep these guys alive right?
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OK we did it.
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OK.
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Two survived.
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OK so it says prepare for the final assault.
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This is staged based off of our progress, our activity, our success.
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What is this?
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So we defeated the requisite number of bandits there.
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Which is going to progress the stage here.
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And during this stage here we can reset some of the traps that the bandits used to initially
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destroy the convoy.
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And we can use those against the bandits in the next phase which is actually more difficult.
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So yeah we'll definitely need them.
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Whenever the bandits do come with reinforcements they're probably going to be bringing their
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best so.
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Especially because we have more players now.
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So the difficulty of the event will be more when there are more players.
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And of course like all things in Ashes the more difficult the challenge the better the
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rewards.
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And also our clerics can have some time to heal up the settlers and hopefully set us
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up for success whenever the next round does come in.
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And how do we leverage the reward system?
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How are people getting calculated what rewards they should get?
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So we have kind of a number of metrics that we can use.
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I think we're going to be doing a lot of testing to figure out what the best metrics are because
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there are some ups and downs using the amount of damage you've done in the raid and stuff
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like that.
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And we're also more relaxed things like how much time you spent participating in the event.
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Whether that's doing damage or healing allies and things like that as a percentage of the
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total time of the event.
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They all have their drawbacks and benefits.
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And we've got to be careful about that.
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Yeah, we'll just count up the contribution however we end up balancing that.
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And then we have different tiers of rewards that are given to each individual player based
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off of their contribution score in the event.
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As it works right now it is just simply a matter of how much time you've participated
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in the event as a percentage of the total time of the event.
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Very nice.
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So as that winds down people will be granted a gold, silver, bronze tier kind of reward
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status and that will be the entitlement for the types of rewards they get from these events.
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And really that's just going to determine the reward table that they're going to get
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and then each player is going to roll their own reward table independently.
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Very nice.
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I hope I'm going to get rewarded for all the healing I'm doing.
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Yeah, I mean you deserve it.
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A raid leader?
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Yep, our timer is up and Corvin the crusher appears to be on the way.
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Oh god, he's coming.
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Alright.
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We're going to need healing almost immediately.
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Oh my god, there's a lot.
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I'm going to try to sleep some of them.
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Oh, never mind, there's multiple balls of lightning.
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Let's see if I can line this up right.
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I'm going to try and use the traps as best I can.
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Man this is really great.
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I am on fire.
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We have them at a choke point right now.
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We definitely want to keep them away.
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Oh, there's birds.
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We want to keep them away from the caravan and then this choke point.
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I got them to trigger the trap over here.
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I'm hitting them with a lot of AoEs right now.
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And the only objective here as you can see from the tracker is to kill Corvin.
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So until Corvin goes down.
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Yep, I'm trying to prioritize their healing and DPS so that we can have a better chance
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here.
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I think with the raid group of eight, we seem to be set up for success here.
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Corvin the crusher.
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Hey, looks like Scott, would either of you want to touch on the event difficulty tier
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and what we intend to do with that as more players join the event?
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Well, sure, as soon as people join in, I, yeah, it just gets more difficult.
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I don't know if you saw, but we had a toast saying that the event has progressed from
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its original state as a group event to a raid level event.
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It was a veteran level and of course that comes with more challenges, more optional
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objectives, but also more rewards.
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So it's never, it's never going to be like a bother to have other people join you.
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It's all part of being in a like multiplayer environment is, you know, the more friends
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join up with you the better.
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Yeah.
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You know, I think it's cool that you touched on the rewards because yeah, the designers
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have have the ability, you know, just from a technical perspective to use the difficulty
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to your, however they like in the event, they can modify any aspect of the events difficulty
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or even, you know, the, the reward that you're, you're getting, they can query that in the
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reward table data.
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We're doing pretty good here.
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This caravan hasn't really been taking much damage at all.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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The tank was able to intercept them at that choke point.
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So yeah, the truck seems to be working too.
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This elite healer is rough.
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Yeah.
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That should be very hard to kill.
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Some of the gray shore swordsmen and the archers are still alive.
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We can change that.
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We have the technology.
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There we go.
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Oh, we did it.
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Congratulations.
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The reward.
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Well, you know, there's also a grateful settler here presenting us the reward.
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Maybe he has something to say.
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Let me talk to him.
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Greetings, grateful settler.
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Praise Ariok.
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They might have killed us without your intervention.
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Please help yourself.
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I will help myself.
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Thank you.
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What type of supplies are we talking about?
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Oh, you're one of those heroes.
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Unbelievable.
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I mean, this was a difficult, a difficult task.
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You know, you just head over to Highwayman Hills and join the bandits, Steven.
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People claim it's unbelievable.
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I am a hero in this.
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I'm a mayor of a local node.
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Oh my God.
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A shame it came to violence.
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We are hopeful we could leave that behind on Sanctus.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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I'm hopeful of that too.
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But you know, sometimes we can't just get what we hope for.
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So, whoa, we got some wool.
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Yep.
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We got some wool.
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Okay.
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I got some wool.
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That's cool.
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You're also granted, on the events completion, you're granted like a little stipend of golden
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experience just right away, but items that can be looted off your body, they have to
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come from like a reward chest.
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So every event will have its own little reward cache at the end of it.
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You'll grab your materials and items from.
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I actually got some ash and timber as my reward.
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Why'd you get ash and timber?
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Well, I got that reward from my reward table.
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Maybe I participated better than you, so I got a better resource.
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How dare you?
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I was out there doing a lot of work.
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Scott, this NPC, he's also configured to actually interface with some of the story arc content
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too, right?
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If those story arcs were online.
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It's true.
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Yeah.
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I think it is online actually.
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It's just not active.
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Check it again, Steven.
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Okay.
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Where am I going?
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Talk to the guy again.
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I think you might have missed a dialogue option or it didn't pop up yet.
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Oh, here we go.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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The tough one.
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Who are these people?
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Who are these people?
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Let's see.
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They're desperate folks who prowl the hills.
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One Udoxia in Lionhold is looking into the matter.
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I should seek her out and find if there is a better way I could help around here.
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You know what?
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I will do.
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Oh, okay.
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Here we go.
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I see a lot of different placeholder rewards.
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A bridge too far.
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Yeah.
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The rewards for a lot of the quests are still not fully done yet.
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Uh-huh.
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The events do hook into all of our story arc content.
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So if there are story arcs online, we can, since our quests are nonlinear, events can
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help you kind of into those quests.
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If they're online, this event can happen whether or not the story arc is online.
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But if it is, you can pick up the lead into that quest from him if you haven't been to
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Lionhold in a while since the story arc has started.
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Very cool.
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So obviously, people saw a little bit during this event that the adaptive difficulty was
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predicated on the number of participants that opt in to partake in this event, right?
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Correct.
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Yes.
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So as more players join, the event does get more difficult with...
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We went from the regular mobs to the elite mobs in Corvin's Entourage.
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Some of them can be more enemies to fight.
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Some can have completely different stages or mechanics depending on what the event actually
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is and what your objectives are for that event.
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And these events are based off of different predicates within the world state.
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So for example, this particular event was a caravan that was moving throughout the world.
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And as we said in the beginning, it was based off of the activity heat map of players within
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this area.
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But this type of event, this caravan event that was transiting goods, popped up because
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nearby nodes may have either been advancing the relationship between each other or there
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might have been a trade caravan that got kicked off in the past.
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And we're representing kind of that theming within the world by these event types, correct?
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Yes.
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So events are predicated by things that players are doing, whether that is node development,
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trade agreements between nodes, all of that.
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Like relationships between nodes, I mean.
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So it could be more than just that.
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Could be war states or anything like that as well.
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So I noticed that even though we succeeded in the event, we're still in our event raid
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group.
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Scott, what's the thought behind that?
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Are we supposed to go and adventure with our new group right now?
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If we so desire?
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If we so desire, yeah, the event ending doesn't dissolve the open party for the event.
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The open parties have some sort of default party configurations that can't be changed.
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So they'll be stuck with a group loot and stuff like that.
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But we do try to encourage people to continue to stick together and play together.
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The game is hard.
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So it's good to play with friends.
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I just left the raid.
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I don't want to play with you.
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Oh my god.
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He's going to join the bandits.
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I called it.
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Yes, I'm looking for the highwaymen to help bandits.
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Very cool.
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Okay.
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And then obviously we saw during the event, there are obviously multiple stages that exist.
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Each of those stages having unique mechanics associated with them.
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There are a lot of different types of events.
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I mean, that you and the narrative team and Scott that you guys are working on creating,
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each of those event types will have different similar stages.
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Like we saw there was a trap stage here that we can set up.
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Is it intended that these stages are going to provide players with kind of downtime to
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recuperate and also perhaps set up and strategize how they want to address the upcoming challenge?
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Well, I don't really know about you, but I'm, my heart's beating right now.
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I feel like we've been challenged and of course there's going to be moments where there are
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like less challenges which rely less on your class kit than usual.
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But I think that in general, if you want to like really get down and understand the story
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and appreciate the world, then probably you're going to want to focus more in the story arcs
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where you can take things at your own pace.
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We have some events that do other things.
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Like there could be some that are just puzzles.
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We have an event in here that is actually just like you can attend a funeral for just
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an NPC that can pop up.
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And there isn't actually any combat to do in that one.
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Rewards are adequately scaled.
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There are events in here that are just kind of for flavor and for fleshing out the world
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a little bit too, that you can participate in and learn more about.
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Yeah, I think there are going to be some moments where you might be like frustrated that an
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event is like obscuring something that you want to get to, like a NPC that you need to
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talk to for your quest or something.
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So then gathering people to help you is going to be really useful.
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Awesome.
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Very cool.
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And that event there at the last stage had kind of like a little mini boss dude.
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Is that kind of a component of all events that you guys are intending to incorporate
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or just kind of some events will have those mini bosses?
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Some will have them.
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There's going to be a whole lot of these and they're going to be at different tiers of
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challenge and you know, kind of, I guess, like power level tiers.
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You know, they're not all going to be, you know, defeating the, you know, end all dragon
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being at the end.
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Some are just, you know, about helping people.
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There's some are about just building up the world of Varra, which is a very difficult
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and challenging place as people are trying to resettle it.
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There's all kinds of tiers for different levels of heroism.
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From helping the small time people to downing giant foes.
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And these are obviously a bit different than what people have seen previously with Karfen
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where we showed off kind of the story arc system that fundamentally changes a particular
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location or area for an extended period of time that exists within stages that are might
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be multi days in length.
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These are more bite size, kind of digestible, end to end, 20 minute gameplay, right?
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Right.
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Definitely much shorter than a story arc, which, yeah, as you mentioned before, is meant
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to be taken kind of at a slower pace.
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Can your individual path through the story arc is a little bit more measured, like you're
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less reliant on like the pace of the actual story arc.
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It's more about your own personal pace through the quests.
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And then as the story arc advances over time, like over the course of days, then you can
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dive back into it and get more involved in it again.
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Very cool.
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And then if there are people who might be problematic to a particular event, like this
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Jindrak guy.
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Oh, okay.
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I think it's triggering again.
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Like this Jindrak guy, we could like, you know, attack them or something, right?
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We could, yes.
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If you were aligned with the bandits, maybe.
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And there are some events that do have you pick sides in PvP.
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You know, whenever Steven joined this event, he had one option to just merge us into the
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event raid group.
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This was a PvE event, but there are going to be events with sanctioned PvP where there
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are multiple team options to join.
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Got it.
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Got it.
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Got it.
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Got it.
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Okay, very cool.
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Well, I'll let Jindrak live this time.
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Guys, that was a super exciting event showcase.
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I know that the community loved to kind of see this stuff.
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Obviously, events are an integral component of making the world feel kind of dynamic and
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representative of what is happening around the area.
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It gives people insight into particular locations and the type of activities that might be occurring,
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but it also gives really interesting ways for us as players to interact with that environment.
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And affect change as well and be rewarded for that activity.
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I think it's super cool.
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You guys did a great job with standing up the event system and populating the world
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with really compelling activities.
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So thank you for showing us a little bit of the work you guys have been doing towards
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Alpha 2.
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I know that the community loves it and we'll be back on stream to talk a little bit more
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about this.
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All right.
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Thanks.
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Thanks for having me, Steven.
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Bye.
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Thanks, Steven.
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Absolutely.
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Thanks for having me.