Thats the major problem with so many big budget games these days. The people making it dont play or enjoy what they make. Passion always improves the product.
That is a problem. They are making features and ideas that just they think the world wants. Is nice they understand the game. But the people who will play and pay for the game are users
@@demianpelos It's a problem that they are making a game that they enjoy? Then you go on to completely contradict yourself, saying that they are just making features and ideas that they think the world wants? It's not a problem, it's a good sign, and if there wasn't passion in their creative process then I would be concerned.
I've had a lot of fun with AoC already in its limited state. Simply teaming up with a random person in the world, learning to pull mobs as a ranger and mage, becoming friends, etc. We later added other players to the group and eventually by random chance had a group of 8 players with all the classes covered and decided to 'raid' a dungeon. Really fun time.
I have to say that watching people have fun, or hearing about them having fun, with what is no real content, or bare-bones content, and a lot of bugs, is very very encouraging. I have a pretty good imagination, and I can't begin to imagine what it is going to be like once we get content fleshed out like story arcs, proper crafting, secondary archetypes etc., even before we get the second layer of player created content. I am due in Nov 8th; I cant wait to help test and get my hands on it.
@@TheToledoTrumpton yeah I'll admit I'm dirty casual MMO player. Have experience with old MMOs UO, EverQuest, etc. and had a long career grind, so now I have the money to 'pay to test' 😅. The fundamentals so far are fun. Mostly I wanted to comment on success for the dev team, they seem genuine.
this is the most casual sounding thing ive heard in a long time. you can literally have this same experience in runescape or even roblox. this game is bringing nothing exciting or new to the table.
@@chrisfoteinopoulos6545 i literally am, you obviously read my comment, why are you telling me to do something you see im already doing? typical ashes enjoyer, low IQ.
As someone who has been Project Manager through a few Agile projects, I would like to offer my congratulations at making it through your first weekend with the -riff-raff- customers. That went about as well as could be expected! Hope the corporate therapist isn't too overworked and your firewall suppliers are responding. Just want to give admiration and support for what you guys are doing and maybe boost morale. There are a lot of us out here who get what WE are doing and are grateful for the opportunity to help and participate. Despite the Agile naming, it is a marathon not a sprint. Keep up the good work and remember to sleep and have fun!
Walking, running, sprinting and rotating you character in place needs work, but the combat is fun af! What I love is that you rest your greatsword on your shoulder when you are idle, but when you are walking its right next to your face-Its distracting. Guild Wars 2 has nice in-combat pose while you are standing in moving. You should check it out. Are scabbard still planned for the release? That would be cool af
It cooooould be (maybe) that they are actually crafting walking animations for the different races (like WoW) before committing to showing them... Idk tho, its a fact that the running animation is bad rn
Hey man, they did mention in previous live-streams that specifically things like running animations will be addressed later in the development. Personally I'm pleased with it but many people have same opinion as you do so something must be off. I wouldn't worry about things like that and instead I'd look at a bigger picture of this game if more important things (like system loops for example) stick to your liking. Cheers.
@@opac4515 i received 2 emails : one tours thursday morning for the pre-alpha2 playtest, one thursday afternoon for the alpha 2. On the email that i used to create the account and to buy the 375$ pack.
Here a question for Steven and Devs who help created Aches of Creation. If tomorrow you are transported into Aches of Creation and have to live in the world of Verra ? Would you be happy living in the game? Yes, No and the reason why? And, are there any thing you would like to changes or add to Aches of Creation to make your life better.
I love the combat and world direction of this! Everything is head in the right direction! Don’t lose the way combat feels now. It needs work but the way it is headed is golden. Being in a group feels amazing! I know there will be tweaking towards drops and things but atm drops feel almost non existent. In big groups also, in order to prevent zerging, maybe divide up the xp gained? But the drops definitely need to be upped unless they are just bugged at the moment. Keep up the amazing work! I can definitely feel the love for this project! ❤ You are all making something so special!
Just some feedback, realise it's early days but I would like to see some better preset variety for the male empyreans, it's very difficult to stray much from the older looking gentleman face on them at the moment, whereas for the females you can create better variety, and you can make them conventionally attractive. Would also like the ability to make the males a tad buffer... doesn't need to be the same as the human model, but a bit more would be nice. Also noticed the facial animations were a bit odd during emotes, but I assume those will be worked on over time when more important stuff is out the way.
1:00:30 - I think it was a great idea to have the production in this episode. Really good for the community to get these insights into the coherent planning that goes into the development. Love the difficulty of the mobs. Would love it if you could get experience that makes it extra rewarding if you manage to take down something like a mob 10 levels above yours or your party's - without anyone outlevelled joining the fight. I got really hyped watching some 4-to-8 party groups farming mobs and still having to manage their health and mana.
You know what would be cool if you could find some Divine Elemental treasures that you can install into your nodes or freehold like Divine water, fire, ice, earth, natural, metal, wind, lighting or etc. These Divine treasures would transform your nodes or freehold depending on what element it is and give them different types of buffs for profession, skills or can unlock special blueprints or items that need a Divine Element to be crafted. You could also have a recipe that allows players to absorb these Divine treasures and strengthen their skills or acquire new ones. Depending on the biomes some divine treasures could be more shot after and some might be more variable because it might lower the crafting level or help to improve items made.
Good thing is the camera (shaking) effect impacted by sorceries, you could add more, maybe like frost, fire, lightning, etc. on the sides of the viewport. Another good thing is the “bassy”, low freq sound effects on weapon impact, gives a feeling that the attacks have weight. Like in Lineage 2 with the use of soulshots and spiritshots, never felt that way in any other game, really liked that.
The nicest part of this video was at the end of the Livestream after they showed love to the intrepid team, someone gave a really nice heartfelt "Thank you" during goodbyes.
I'm having fun playing with others in AoC, making friends.😀 Being incentivized to play with others makes me SO happy when playing...I'm rather isolated where I live, but I'm going to be making AoC friends! Edit, I just saw Margaret's family grew! Wishing much love and support to the Krohn Family!💪💞
These few days in ashes have been one of my favorites in gaming. How is an alpha scratching that nostalgic itch of immersion, excitement, and addiction so well.
The foundations of the game are 90% good enough for me. I hope that you allow players to send suggestions outside of the forums and directly to you, so that you can use AI to parse through all of them and compile the most common ones and then discuss internally (and I'm not talking about carebears complaining about PvP; I'm talking about suggestions to improve the movement, dodge/stamina/sprint, auto-attack, quests, mobs/materials spawns and timers, itemization, etc.). Keep it up devs and team.
I have been testing in Alpha 2 and even though its an alpha test it is a fun game. Thank you all for your dedication, perspiration, blood, sweat and tears towards this game.
With dual shields or using the shield as a weapon you just need to know what I called shield boxing. Basically you use the same move as you would if you are boxing, kung fu,Ta chi, Mix Martial Arts and just add a shield or two. You can also use any one handed weapon with it. I once saw a weapon master Doug Marcaida from Forge in Fire talking about a style I forgot the name of. But it was the principal of that fighting style he was describing stuck with me. That the same moves you used for a weapon can be used for unarmed combat and vice versa. Because they can use the same movement and just replace the weapon they are using. That way they don't have to learn different styles for different weapons. All you need to know is the compatibility of that weapon to the skill and does it need to be modified to better fit that weapon.
In dark souls 2 (undead crypt guardians) and later dark souls 3 (giant door shields) there are duel shield weapons. I believe if you choose tank/tank you should be able to go full defense and duel shield should be an option. If someone really wants to be a bulwark with two door sized shields protecting everyone behind them from harm they should be able to do so, why not? In my opinion a truely pure tank shield bashing and slamming is cool and deserves at least a second thought
amazing!!! Watching this project come to fruition is just incredible. long way to go but its pretty cool being part of the ride. I backed the game in 2018 and im finally in the world you all are creating! i love how your staff are so bought into the project bringing back that old school mmo feel you dont see anymore and you dont seem to advert and cater to the WoW generation whiny bois🤣 keep doin ya thing boys and girls!!
Love how Steven spaces out to mock the other player who wants his loot back, and Steven misses the question being asked xD Much Love to Steven and the team, this is going to be huge!
This is probably, most definitely, a personal thing, but I really hope to see an update where there's some attention given to the music and ambience audio and how you guys bring that, and with it the world around you in game, to life. Zone music (and combat music as well for that matter) can really make or break the aesthetic feel that I get from my surroundings. Vanilla WoW for example has, in my experience, still one of the best zone music I've ever heard and that really contributed to the unique feel I got from the game. With sounddesign being what it is today I'm also very curious to hear what you guys can bring to the table when it comes to the natural ambience sounds in different areas, biomes, settlements and cities :D much love from the Netherlands! ♥
People always seem to gloss over this surprisingly.. A solid soundtrack can literally make the dullest game/movie into something truly special. But when you get combination right you get lightning in a bottle. Seriously hope they invest in am orchestra and composer to come up with some epic zone music. Every single person who played wow can hear the typical zone soundtracks and it instantly brings back memories. Fuck it get hans zimmer and watch the dollars roll in.
I love that you: stick to the concept of pushing players to group, to the concept of monthly payment, slow progression and that you are actually trying to play, even if it is only for marketing. I wish I will be play dual axe wielder arcane knight on launch!
It would be a cool idea with if you could have passive skills that interact with the different biomes and cancel out any debuffs that some biomes might have. Like Cold or ice resistance that keeps you from losing health in colder regions. Heat resistant to not pass out in the middle of the desert from heat exhaustion. Sea legs that keep your character from sliding in a ship battle or help your character from not get sea sickness. That way unless you are a certain race who gets those passive skills for free or learn the passive skill through hard work. You can't fully interact and explore different biomes safely without those skills.
Those sorts of survival mechanics aren't intended for Ashes. Rather than overheating or freezing, you'll see things like "weakness to fire" or "weakness to ice magic". If it rains the intention is to give lightning spells to chain to nearby players. Most of this isn't in game yet but that's the direction they are going, rather than survival mechanics you'll see more unique MMO combat based around the environment.
@@ZekethePhoenixthose skills I mentioned aren't really ment to survive in the game. It meant to add more depth to the game and make it a bit more real. Because you could still get equipment or a time potion that grants you the passive skill to explore with no debuffs. The passive skills are more of a detour mechanic than a survival mechanic because it can keep some players out of certain areas that aren't ready yet and add a home field advantage to those who haven't acquired those skills yet because they can wear items that don't need passive skill and can wear the strongest armor. It can make the elves more deadly in the woods or pirates more Fear at Sea. It also makes you interact with different races to help you acquire those passive skills for different areas that different races might have.
On main game release, how much disadvantage will be between new players and the ones who had access to the game all that time? Imagine a guild that knows all the key parts needed to dominate (examples: - Take mayor spot. - Know most profitable zone spots and key monster/gear/recipe spots, which results being in demand for crafting. - Know quests that give better gear the fastest (to dominate battles vs similar lvl players who are only discovering the world)).
Why does every action in combat consist of bright flashing lights? A battle looks like a garish multicoloured fireworks display. Where's the realism? Where's the blood, gore, gibs? Is this game aimed at 7-year-olds or adults?
For a game that has M rating, it surely doesn't utilize it fully-I agree. My main issue is that ranger seems like a caster class that pulls out arrows out of nowhere. Also, there is no quiver.
Hate to break it to you but not every adult thinks gore is better. I don’t think that level of realism and darkness would match the game. Some of us like power fantasy and this fits more of a dnd roots of the genre with powers and magic.
@@BloodDrenched-y6i Lol, that's a highly ironic take, considering your user name. Also, even the earliest DnD games did have gibbing and gore. (BG, PS:T). I recently finished BG3 and it's supremely gory.
Colorful explosions are easier to make than realistic physics. It seems that the MMORPG genre in general just purposefully blocks itself off from a combat system more similar to Mount and Blade or Witcher 3 (And yes MB does have multiplayer with good hitreg so being SP games isn't an argument). In my opinion low fantasy combat that is mostly realistic with "soft" magic is a lot more enjoyable than just everything being flashy and colorful, but I think most MMO players disagree.
The game looks great. Been following the game almost since the start and it's came a really long way. Really wish I could afford to get into the alpha, but I'm broke, sadly. Can't wait to see what's done next!
I'd love for a showcase on the tech stack more generally, the one you did before was pretty fascinating but obviously very specialised. I'd love to see the rest of the tools you're using in the stack.
The zoomed-in view Steve uses isn't great for situational awareness but it actually looks so good. The fire and electric mage effects look incredibly crisp too btw (I wonder how much of this is UE5 and how much is Intrepid's work?)
@Steven YES your remarks at 28Mins about the visuals I COMPLETELY AGREE with I talk your guys game up about that all the time. But If I could ask the Development team a Question: Have any of them played a game called IdleON from steam? IF so will their be Mechanics that bring even the most seasoned player back to the beginning areas of the game like they do in IdleON and IF so how do you keep that from being too Overwhelming later on when you've released more and more expansions of the game?
@AshesofCreation I don't remember ever having asked such a question anywhere.: Are there plans to develop lore and the plot with the help of colorful modern plot cinematics after the release of the game, as do the "neighboring" popular mmorpg projects?
@@jakenbake8855 nah i think i was just in a bit of a mood this morning, and dealing with some game mechanics that shouldb't exist in a game in 2024 kind of annoyed me
Please consider reducing corruption penalties for fair pvp (vs similar or higher level). We should be able to at least threaten someone with death (eg if competing for resources) without such a heavy penalty. The deterrent massively outweighs the crime here. Yes yes I know it's an Alpha, v early days but we have a decent idea of the intentions already.
@@hfztt I understand that, I'm not asking for it to swing the other way. It seems the goal here is to disincentivise PvP against those who don't want it. Great. My concern is primarily the dynamics between those who generally do, but can lean on the system to avoid it when it doesn't suit them. I just hope they review this at least, which I'm sure they will as I imagine they review everything. 🤞
The reason its so high atm is to prevent griefing and to allow people to test instead of people knowing their characters will get wiped and just going ape shit. Iirc steven said they basicalled 2-3X'd the corruption penalties for A2.
@jinglyjones1677 No problem I think it was one of the final streams before this weekend test but can't remember which one. But yes current corruption penalties and rate of going corrupted is much much higher than they plan to have it but they use it as a safety net.
*Enjoying testing the game, response time to bugs and crashes has been great!* *No Halloween in game, or in stream is a glaring omission.* *Are you skipping ExtraLife too?*
So for a player to gain corruption you can't even hit them back to defend yourself? That just makes for either an easy kill or lack of a corruption mechanic depending on what the attacked player chooses to do. The corruption gain would make more sense upon the initial attack but only apply after the current combat ends. It would help against people harassing/drawing out a battle, just hitting others to get them to die to mobs on repeat, etc.
I've been playing alpha 2, does everyone feel comfortable with the amount of crafting stations that are currently in the game? For example there is a station just for crafting a fishing rod. It feels a bit redundant, but I would like to hear some opinions on this. Speaking of crafting, every little thing requires fuel which also feels bad, I think there should be some exceptions to this. Like crafting a herb into a powder should not require fuel. Nor should it cost money, Money and fuel should be used for maybe crafting end items. speaking of end items, it seems there are quite a few required items for crafting anything with no way to know where to find these. This is just my initial feedback on it. It's A2 so everything is subject to change.
Hey guys, Been playing since Friday, I've enjoyed traversing the map, I have a list of items, it would be amazing if you could include a bug report button in game that generates a ticket for a new issue or something, it would mean that the bugs are collated rather than the forums. On another note, a few mates advised that the website has low res images and video, it would be sick if you had a solid site up to show case not only the potential the handwork the team is doing inside.
Question: So, you said if your game crashes do to the server, it’ll only affect that area and not the whole server. But, does that mean if other people walk in to that area their game will crash as well? Every person that walks by that server area will be crashing?
Jacob @ 1:02. Well said. That vertical slice is so important, progress in software is pretty deceiving from the outside. It's repeatable by nature so a massively disproportionate amount of the effort goes into the first real implementation ("MLP"). I'm personally very glad you decided to ditch (de-prioritise!) node types, race choices, summoner & rogue in favour of systems, stability and what looks to me like a fair bit of polish too!
Just watching this now but should I still post about crowd control on the forum? A comment of mine two updates got like 100 upvotes on UA-cam, about CC.
You should have told people buying alpha 2 that they need to update their BIOS to play your game. I bought the key but I couldn't play because the game is crashing after connecting to the realms because I didn't know that I have to update my BIOS to play the game. I don't know how to update the BIOS by myself so I need to go to a PC clinic so they can help me out, such missing the first alpha 2 play time this weekend...
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not make the new world mistake at launch with server sizes. Please make sure players can load in without waiting. Whatever number you’re planning, quadruple it.
About the graphics I think they people mean is the it looks a little bit like guild wars 2 in unreal engine 5. I remember the stream when Steven introduced UE5 for ashes and it looked great there. Somehow in the alpha too the bloom maybe too much or something is missing.
This game reminds me of Star Citizen (in a good way). A small group of people trying to build something the big developers have failed to build for decades. What people should realise by now is it takes less time to make the terrible games we have been subjected to for decades (there is a reason WoW hasnt been toppled from its throne yet) than it does to make the game we ACTUALLY want to play. If we don't allow dev studios like Intrepid and CIG to rise up (which takes time) and break the cycle, we will have bad games forever. Capitalism is not our freind, we NEED people to want to do this and we should support them as much as we can. Looking forward to playing AoC someday. The big payoff for us is that these guys redefine the standard and in future other developers with massive budgets will have no choice but to up their games. We all win if Intrepid and CIG win.
Love it so far - but some of the effects are just a little too big (spelleffects) - less is simetimes more. In bigger PvP battles it get's too messy with too many spell effects... and dont bring in too much aoe abilitys
Ce que je trouve bien c'est la barre de mana qui peut etre lente a se régénérer sa donne parfois un côté plus dur pour les cbt que dans certain jeu ta l'impression d'avoir une infinité de mana
The fact you guys enjoy playing your own game so much is a good sign. You devs have passion for your game.
Thats the major problem with so many big budget games these days. The people making it dont play or enjoy what they make. Passion always improves the product.
That is a problem. They are making features and ideas that just they think the world wants. Is nice they understand the game. But the people who will play and pay for the game are users
That's usually what happens when the company isn't owned by a greedy mfer.
@@demianpelos It's a problem that they are making a game that they enjoy? Then you go on to completely contradict yourself, saying that they are just making features and ideas that they think the world wants? It's not a problem, it's a good sign, and if there wasn't passion in their creative process then I would be concerned.
We are all MMO gamers working hard to build a glorious game! 💪
I've had a lot of fun with AoC already in its limited state. Simply teaming up with a random person in the world, learning to pull mobs as a ranger and mage, becoming friends, etc. We later added other players to the group and eventually by random chance had a group of 8 players with all the classes covered and decided to 'raid' a dungeon. Really fun time.
I have to say that watching people have fun, or hearing about them having fun, with what is no real content, or bare-bones content, and a lot of bugs, is very very encouraging.
I have a pretty good imagination, and I can't begin to imagine what it is going to be like once we get content fleshed out like story arcs, proper crafting, secondary archetypes etc., even before we get the second layer of player created content. I am due in Nov 8th; I cant wait to help test and get my hands on it.
@@TheToledoTrumpton yeah I'll admit I'm dirty casual MMO player. Have experience with old MMOs UO, EverQuest, etc. and had a long career grind, so now I have the money to 'pay to test' 😅. The fundamentals so far are fun. Mostly I wanted to comment on success for the dev team, they seem genuine.
this is the most casual sounding thing ive heard in a long time. you can literally have this same experience in runescape or even roblox. this game is bringing nothing exciting or new to the table.
@@xhelan131Cry abt it kiddo
@@chrisfoteinopoulos6545 i literally am, you obviously read my comment, why are you telling me to do something you see im already doing? typical ashes enjoyer, low IQ.
Watching Steven launch himself off cliffs or into enemies with his gap closer as a mage is also very funny.
Looks absolutely incredible for being in Alpha. Words cannot describe how excited I am for this game
I played ashes alpha almost 10 years ago.. it's a scam calling anything related to AoC alpha in 2024.
@@iShockGamers Yeah they should have called this the Big Release just to please you
@@iShockGamersalmost 10 years ago 😂 chill buddy.
dont be, it will fail pretty hard.
The rando joining the party was hilarious. It's just a really cool moment! I'm so excited to start on November 8th.😁
And then they just flag on him lol
We can't wait to have you on Verra! 🤗
As someone who has been Project Manager through a few Agile projects, I would like to offer my congratulations at making it through your first weekend with the -riff-raff- customers. That went about as well as could be expected!
Hope the corporate therapist isn't too overworked and your firewall suppliers are responding. Just want to give admiration and support for what you guys are doing and maybe boost morale. There are a lot of us out here who get what WE are doing and are grateful for the opportunity to help and participate.
Despite the Agile naming, it is a marathon not a sprint. Keep up the good work and remember to sleep and have fun!
Walking, running, sprinting and rotating you character in place needs work, but the combat is fun af!
What I love is that you rest your greatsword on your shoulder when you are idle, but when you are walking its right next to your face-Its distracting. Guild Wars 2 has nice in-combat pose while you are standing in moving. You should check it out.
Are scabbard still planned for the release? That would be cool af
this game is going to fail.
@@xhelan131 Korean pay 2 win mmo fan or 20 year old mmo fan with 90$ mounts? Call it.
@@xhelan131 And if it's going to fail, what are you wasting your time here?
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@@Gordoolfo to get people like you to comment back, its fun.
Loving all content so far, but the walking/running animations seem off. not sure if they mentioned a change
It cooooould be (maybe) that they are actually crafting walking animations for the different races (like WoW) before committing to showing them... Idk tho, its a fact that the running animation is bad rn
@@inpy If you are in the test, try and say exactly what looks wrong to you and submit it as a bug. In any case I am sure it will be taken care of.
Hey man, they did mention in previous live-streams that specifically things like running animations will be addressed later in the development. Personally I'm pleased with it but many people have same opinion as you do so something must be off. I wouldn't worry about things like that and instead I'd look at a bigger picture of this game if more important things (like system loops for example) stick to your liking. Cheers.
@@tomaszmachniak3726 Yea ure completely right
@@TheToledoTrumpton im not on test sadly... but I wouldnt be able to tell exactly what it is tbh
My maaaaan i'm finally playing ashes of creation. I'm so happy :)
@@opac4515 i received 2 emails : one tours thursday morning for the pre-alpha2 playtest, one thursday afternoon for the alpha 2.
On the email that i used to create the account and to buy the 375$ pack.
Here a question for Steven and Devs who help created Aches of Creation. If tomorrow you are transported into Aches of Creation and have to live in the world of Verra ? Would you be happy living in the game? Yes, No and the reason why? And, are there any thing you would like to changes or add to Aches of Creation to make your life better.
If No is because you forgot to put indoor plumbing and toilet paper in the game.😂
I love the combat and world direction of this! Everything is head in the right direction! Don’t lose the way combat feels now. It needs work but the way it is headed is golden. Being in a group feels amazing! I know there will be tweaking towards drops and things but atm drops feel almost non existent. In big groups also, in order to prevent zerging, maybe divide up the xp gained? But the drops definitely need to be upped unless they are just bugged at the moment. Keep up the amazing work! I can definitely feel the love for this project! ❤ You are all making something so special!
Don't lock too much behind jumping puzzles. I'm fine with them, but my partner hates them, so I have to do all of them twice.
This is hilarious, I'm the same way 😂
@@dupestv 😆
Just some feedback, realise it's early days but I would like to see some better preset variety for the male empyreans, it's very difficult to stray much from the older looking gentleman face on them at the moment, whereas for the females you can create better variety, and you can make them conventionally attractive. Would also like the ability to make the males a tad buffer... doesn't need to be the same as the human model, but a bit more would be nice.
Also noticed the facial animations were a bit odd during emotes, but I assume those will be worked on over time when more important stuff is out the way.
We appreciate the feedback! We shall continue to build out the character creator and add more options in the future!
1:00:30 - I think it was a great idea to have the production in this episode. Really good for the community to get these insights into the coherent planning that goes into the development.
Love the difficulty of the mobs. Would love it if you could get experience that makes it extra rewarding if you manage to take down something like a mob 10 levels above yours or your party's - without anyone outlevelled joining the fight.
I got really hyped watching some 4-to-8 party groups farming mobs and still having to manage their health and mana.
You know what would be cool if you could find some Divine Elemental treasures that you can install into your nodes or freehold like Divine water, fire, ice, earth, natural, metal, wind, lighting or etc. These Divine treasures would transform your nodes or freehold depending on what element it is and give them different types of buffs for profession, skills or can unlock special blueprints or items that need a Divine Element to be crafted. You could also have a recipe that allows players to absorb these Divine treasures and strengthen their skills or acquire new ones. Depending on the biomes some divine treasures could be more shot after and some might be more variable because it might lower the crafting level or help to improve items made.
Good thing is the camera (shaking) effect impacted by sorceries, you could add more, maybe like frost, fire, lightning, etc. on the sides of the viewport. Another good thing is the “bassy”, low freq sound effects on weapon impact, gives a feeling that the attacks have weight. Like in Lineage 2 with the use of soulshots and spiritshots, never felt that way in any other game, really liked that.
Steven and Team, don't worry about criticism keep making your game your core audience knows it's in good hands.
Well said brother
Criticism is extremely important, what are you talking about ?
Criticism is the corner stone for a good game.
@@cully7927 only if it's constructive, 95% of what I've seen hasn't been
@@mazmundie agreed
The nicest part of this video was at the end of the Livestream after they showed love to the intrepid team, someone gave a really nice heartfelt "Thank you" during goodbyes.
I'm having fun playing with others in AoC, making friends.😀 Being incentivized to play with others makes me SO happy when playing...I'm rather isolated where I live, but I'm going to be making AoC friends! Edit, I just saw Margaret's family grew! Wishing much love and support to the Krohn Family!💪💞
These few days in ashes have been one of my favorites in gaming. How is an alpha scratching that nostalgic itch of immersion, excitement, and addiction so well.
The foundations of the game are 90% good enough for me. I hope that you allow players to send suggestions outside of the forums and directly to you, so that you can use AI to parse through all of them and compile the most common ones and then discuss internally (and I'm not talking about carebears complaining about PvP; I'm talking about suggestions to improve the movement, dodge/stamina/sprint, auto-attack, quests, mobs/materials spawns and timers, itemization, etc.). Keep it up devs and team.
Please fix the floatyness. The characters don’t feel connected to the ground. It’s Tokyo drift out here 😂
I have been testing in Alpha 2 and even though its an alpha test it is a fun game. Thank you all for your dedication, perspiration, blood, sweat and tears towards this game.
With dual shields or using the shield as a weapon you just need to know what I called shield boxing. Basically you use the same move as you would if you are boxing, kung fu,Ta chi, Mix Martial Arts and just add a shield or two. You can also use any one handed weapon with it. I once saw a weapon master Doug Marcaida from Forge in Fire talking about a style I forgot the name of. But it was the principal of that fighting style he was describing stuck with me. That the same moves you used for a weapon can be used for unarmed combat and vice versa. Because they can use the same movement and just replace the weapon they are using. That way they don't have to learn different styles for different weapons. All you need to know is the compatibility of that weapon to the skill and does it need to be modified to better fit that weapon.
In dark souls 2 (undead crypt guardians) and later dark souls 3 (giant door shields) there are duel shield weapons.
I believe if you choose tank/tank you should be able to go full defense and duel shield should be an option.
If someone really wants to be a bulwark with two door sized shields protecting everyone behind them from harm they should be able to do so, why not?
In my opinion a truely pure tank shield bashing and slamming is cool and deserves at least a second thought
amazing!!! Watching this project come to fruition is just incredible. long way to go but its pretty cool being part of the ride. I backed the game in 2018 and im finally in the world you all are creating! i love how your staff are so bought into the project bringing back that old school mmo feel you dont see anymore and you dont seem to advert and cater to the WoW generation whiny bois🤣
keep doin ya thing boys and girls!!
Love how Steven spaces out to mock the other player who wants his loot back, and Steven misses the question being asked xD
Much Love to Steven and the team, this is going to be huge!
Jacob, love that line! Setting people up to succeed!
Our guild is already hooked. Bring on the weekend!
Best dev team EVAR!
This is probably, most definitely, a personal thing, but I really hope to see an update where there's some attention given to the music and ambience audio and how you guys bring that, and with it the world around you in game, to life.
Zone music (and combat music as well for that matter) can really make or break the aesthetic feel that I get from my surroundings. Vanilla WoW for example has, in my experience, still one of the best zone music I've ever heard and that really contributed to the unique feel I got from the game.
With sounddesign being what it is today I'm also very curious to hear what you guys can bring to the table when it comes to the natural ambience sounds in different areas, biomes, settlements and cities :D much love from the Netherlands! ♥
People always seem to gloss over this surprisingly..
A solid soundtrack can literally make the dullest game/movie into something truly special.
But when you get combination right you get lightning in a bottle.
Seriously hope they invest in am orchestra and composer to come up with some epic zone music.
Every single person who played wow can hear the typical zone soundtracks and it instantly brings back memories.
Fuck it get hans zimmer and watch the dollars roll in.
Love it. The world is just beautiful and amazing. Having a blast. Keep Pushing !
I wish you make such an UI so no mods will be required to play the game and turn it into "game of numbers", especially with such great visuals.
I love that you: stick to the concept of pushing players to group, to the concept of monthly payment, slow progression and that you are actually trying to play, even if it is only for marketing. I wish I will be play dual axe wielder arcane knight on launch!
Game needs a lot of work. The environments are stunning and beautiful. Very excited and hope Intrepid takes the time to get it right before launch.
It would be a cool idea with if you could have passive skills that interact with the different biomes and cancel out any debuffs that some biomes might have. Like Cold or ice resistance that keeps you from losing health in colder regions. Heat resistant to not pass out in the middle of the desert from heat exhaustion. Sea legs that keep your character from sliding in a ship battle or help your character from not get sea sickness. That way unless you are a certain race who gets those passive skills for free or learn the passive skill through hard work. You can't fully interact and explore different biomes safely without those skills.
Those sorts of survival mechanics aren't intended for Ashes. Rather than overheating or freezing, you'll see things like "weakness to fire" or "weakness to ice magic". If it rains the intention is to give lightning spells to chain to nearby players. Most of this isn't in game yet but that's the direction they are going, rather than survival mechanics you'll see more unique MMO combat based around the environment.
@@ZekethePhoenixthose skills I mentioned aren't really ment to survive in the game. It meant to add more depth to the game and make it a bit more real. Because you could still get equipment or a time potion that grants you the passive skill to explore with no debuffs. The passive skills are more of a detour mechanic than a survival mechanic because it can keep some players out of certain areas that aren't ready yet and add a home field advantage to those who haven't acquired those skills yet because they can wear items that don't need passive skill and can wear the strongest armor. It can make the elves more deadly in the woods or pirates more Fear at Sea. It also makes you interact with different races to help you acquire those passive skills for different areas that different races might have.
On main game release, how much disadvantage will be between new players and the ones who had access to the game all that time?
Imagine a guild that knows all the key parts needed to dominate (examples: - Take mayor spot. - Know most profitable zone spots and key monster/gear/recipe spots, which results being in demand for crafting. - Know quests that give better gear the fastest (to dominate battles vs similar lvl players who are only discovering the world)).
Locations will be randomized on full release, If i remember it correctly. Entire map is made of blocks.
@@sospokemika1197that and nearly everything will be on UA-cam anyways.
That discrepancy will not be much of an issue a month or two after launch, and non-existent a year later.
I have been very impressed considering this is the first weekend of A2! The combat feels great so far!
Why does every action in combat consist of bright flashing lights?
A battle looks like a garish multicoloured fireworks display.
Where's the realism?
Where's the blood, gore, gibs?
Is this game aimed at 7-year-olds or adults?
For a game that has M rating, it surely doesn't utilize it fully-I agree.
My main issue is that ranger seems like a caster class that pulls out arrows out of nowhere. Also, there is no quiver.
Hate to break it to you but not every adult thinks gore is better. I don’t think that level of realism and darkness would match the game. Some of us like power fantasy and this fits more of a dnd roots of the genre with powers and magic.
@@BloodDrenched-y6i Lol, that's a highly ironic take, considering your user name.
Also, even the earliest DnD games did have gibbing and gore. (BG, PS:T).
I recently finished BG3 and it's supremely gory.
Colorful explosions are easier to make than realistic physics. It seems that the MMORPG genre in general just purposefully blocks itself off from a combat system more similar to Mount and Blade or Witcher 3 (And yes MB does have multiplayer with good hitreg so being SP games isn't an argument). In my opinion low fantasy combat that is mostly realistic with "soft" magic is a lot more enjoyable than just everything being flashy and colorful, but I think most MMO players disagree.
@@GODOBER As someone who is sick of flashy MMOs, I agree with you.
Korean MMOs gave me this fatigue of over the top effects.
The game looks great. Been following the game almost since the start and it's came a really long way. Really wish I could afford to get into the alpha, but I'm broke, sadly. Can't wait to see what's done next!
게임이 정말 멋지네요. 만약 출시하게 되면 제일 먼저 하고 싶을 정도네요.
한국어도 지원이 된다면 정말 몰입이 끝내줄거 같아요
I think following the development has hyped my anticipation for the game to come out
Keep it going guys, the game looks absolutley promising!
Hold Up. Margaret Krohn? As in Layla,The Vampire Slayer !?J4D3? I didn't know if she was still around. Glad to see you doing well for yourself
The lighting is looking a lot better or is it just me?
I'd love for a showcase on the tech stack more generally, the one you did before was pretty fascinating but obviously very specialised. I'd love to see the rest of the tools you're using in the stack.
The zoomed-in view Steve uses isn't great for situational awareness but it actually looks so good.
The fire and electric mage effects look incredibly crisp too btw (I wonder how much of this is UE5 and how much is Intrepid's work?)
Looking forward to see where you are in 5 years, hopefully ready for 1.0 launch.
When your holding a greatsword, you run like you need to poop. Other than that im content with what is available so far :D
I pay too much attention to everything. You guys are doing an amazing job!
@Steven YES your remarks at 28Mins about the visuals I COMPLETELY AGREE with I talk your guys game up about that all the time.
But If I could ask the Development team a Question: Have any of them played a game called IdleON from steam? IF so will their be Mechanics that bring even the most seasoned player back to the beginning areas of the game like they do in IdleON and IF so how do you keep that from being too Overwhelming later on when you've released more and more expansions of the game?
8 november , lest go baby
Can't wait for this game!
the animations look really good. i havent seen recent updates, so maybe the animations are old, but for me its new.
Congrats Margaret we got a future MMOplayer his perfect we all thank you good job
!0:15 to 10:30, give this guy a raise, he loves you Steven. LOL..
@AshesofCreation
I don't remember ever having asked such a question anywhere.:
Are there plans to develop lore and the plot with the help of colorful modern plot cinematics after the release of the game, as do the "neighboring" popular mmorpg projects?
yes 10 years later they will get to that and u can pay to test it
i had to stop playing alpha 2, and it isn't a lack of content or anything, its the mechanics that got me right now, ill try again later maybe idk
Understandable, not everyone has the endurance to be a play tester and deal with issues.
@@jakenbake8855 nah i think i was just in a bit of a mood this morning, and dealing with some game mechanics that shouldb't exist in a game in 2024 kind of annoyed me
@@perry.padgettAoC doesn’t want to be a 2024 mmorpg. That’s what the whole game is about. And I think that’s good.
@@SpiDey1500 im talking about the monster tagging system, kind of outdated to have a bunch of people standing around waiting for a mob to spawn.
God I can't wait for official release. This will be my main mmo!
King of the mmorpg for next decades ❤
Please consider reducing corruption penalties for fair pvp (vs similar or higher level). We should be able to at least threaten someone with death (eg if competing for resources) without such a heavy penalty. The deterrent massively outweighs the crime here.
Yes yes I know it's an Alpha, v early days but we have a decent idea of the intentions already.
You should go to the lawless zones for that experience. If the penalty is not a bit harsh, the game will end as pure PvP.
@@hfztt I understand that, I'm not asking for it to swing the other way. It seems the goal here is to disincentivise PvP against those who don't want it. Great.
My concern is primarily the dynamics between those who generally do, but can lean on the system to avoid it when it doesn't suit them. I just hope they review this at least, which I'm sure they will as I imagine they review everything. 🤞
The reason its so high atm is to prevent griefing and to allow people to test instead of people knowing their characters will get wiped and just going ape shit. Iirc steven said they basicalled 2-3X'd the corruption penalties for A2.
@@MirukuESO ahhh did he, I missed that if so. Good to hear, thanks.
@jinglyjones1677 No problem I think it was one of the final streams before this weekend test but can't remember which one. But yes current corruption penalties and rate of going corrupted is much much higher than they plan to have it but they use it as a safety net.
*Enjoying testing the game, response time to bugs and crashes has been great!*
*No Halloween in game, or in stream is a glaring omission.*
*Are you skipping ExtraLife too?*
So for a player to gain corruption you can't even hit them back to defend yourself? That just makes for either an easy kill or lack of a corruption mechanic depending on what the attacked player chooses to do. The corruption gain would make more sense upon the initial attack but only apply after the current combat ends. It would help against people harassing/drawing out a battle, just hitting others to get them to die to mobs on repeat, etc.
Ok, I purchased the alpha II first pack and want to play the game. Only, there is no info at all on how to do that. All I have is a receipt?
I've been playing alpha 2, does everyone feel comfortable with the amount of crafting stations that are currently in the game? For example there is a station just for crafting a fishing rod. It feels a bit redundant, but I would like to hear some opinions on this.
Speaking of crafting, every little thing requires fuel which also feels bad, I think there should be some exceptions to this. Like crafting a herb into a powder should not require fuel. Nor should it cost money, Money and fuel should be used for maybe crafting end items. speaking of end items, it seems there are quite a few required items for crafting anything with no way to know where to find these. This is just my initial feedback on it. It's A2 so everything is subject to change.
Hey guys,
Been playing since Friday, I've enjoyed traversing the map, I have a list of items, it would be amazing if you could include a bug report button in game that generates a ticket for a new issue or something, it would mean that the bugs are collated rather than the forums.
On another note, a few mates advised that the website has low res images and video, it would be sick if you had a solid site up to show case not only the potential the handwork the team is doing inside.
You mean the /bug feature?
Question:
So, you said if your game crashes do to the server, it’ll only affect that area and not the whole server. But, does that mean if other people walk in to that area their game will crash as well? Every person that walks by that server area will be crashing?
Jacob @ 1:02. Well said. That vertical slice is so important, progress in software is pretty deceiving from the outside. It's repeatable by nature so a massively disproportionate amount of the effort goes into the first real implementation ("MLP").
I'm personally very glad you decided to ditch (de-prioritise!) node types, race choices, summoner & rogue in favour of systems, stability and what looks to me like a fair bit of polish too!
Love that flame tree artwork behind Bryan. Is that a wall paper we might see available on the site some day?
Just watching this now but should I still post about crowd control on the forum? A comment of mine two updates got like 100 upvotes on UA-cam, about CC.
Hey, I have a question. will you give a discount to those of us who live in ASEAN after the global release because 15 dollars is too expensive for us.
Plz add Mouse sensitivity settings. Trying to move with a mouse the way it is feels very sluggish.
My brother got killed by a normal mob and someone was able to loot his body lol I don't think that's how its intended but yeah not great
Mana break.. have fond memories or this in DAOC :)
I’ve just heard about this game, how can I gain access to the alpha or future betas?
Quite seriously, you should get Margaret to narrate the official trailer(s) 01:23
Ashes of Creation is shaping up to be more true to Archeage than Archeage chronicles.
Is that really intended use the guy jumps off and your attack without line of sight still tracks him and hits him that should be fixed
You should have told people buying alpha 2 that they need to update their BIOS to play your game. I bought the key but I couldn't play because the game is crashing after connecting to the realms because I didn't know that I have to update my BIOS to play the game. I don't know how to update the BIOS by myself so I need to go to a PC clinic so they can help me out, such missing the first alpha 2 play time this weekend...
I just wanna know where is the content from Alpha 1? is it scrapped or in a different map?
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not make the new world mistake at launch with server sizes. Please make sure players can load in without waiting. Whatever number you’re planning, quadruple it.
About the graphics I think they people mean is the it looks a little bit like guild wars 2 in unreal engine 5. I remember the stream when Steven introduced UE5 for ashes and it looked great there. Somehow in the alpha too the bloom maybe too much or something is missing.
I am waiting so Hard for this game.. but imo Thrones and liberty is very good. I enjoy playing it a lot.. gotta be hard to compete with it
This game reminds me of Star Citizen (in a good way). A small group of people trying to build something the big developers have failed to build for decades. What people should realise by now is it takes less time to make the terrible games we have been subjected to for decades (there is a reason WoW hasnt been toppled from its throne yet) than it does to make the game we ACTUALLY want to play. If we don't allow dev studios like Intrepid and CIG to rise up (which takes time) and break the cycle, we will have bad games forever. Capitalism is not our freind, we NEED people to want to do this and we should support them as much as we can. Looking forward to playing AoC someday.
The big payoff for us is that these guys redefine the standard and in future other developers with massive budgets will have no choice but to up their games. We all win if Intrepid and CIG win.
Those new cleric effects are niceee compared to the effects in the cleric reveal video
Love it so far - but some of the effects are just a little too big (spelleffects) - less is simetimes more. In bigger PvP battles it get's too messy with too many spell effects... and dont bring in too much aoe abilitys
Need to see cleric get a simple melee ability bruh
You dissed us early supporters
Please help fixing out of video memory issue, really wanna play this game smoothly instead of crashing out randomly
Looks really beautiful but tap target feels antique
If you get ganked and defend yourself and kill the ganker do you get corruption not sure if that was answered
Ce que je trouve bien c'est la barre de mana qui peut etre lente a se régénérer sa donne parfois un côté plus dur pour les cbt que dans certain jeu ta l'impression d'avoir une infinité de mana
“He’s chasing me! He’s chasing me! He’s chasing me!” Ingrained in my mind forever. One of the crap-all funniest moments right there…
Release when'd ?
when the game released?
Gameplay seems cool but graphics look old like wows ! I would suggest sexier clothes too 🤪. Can’t wait to play! ❤
29:57 So LOS isn't a thing thus far?
I can't get in. Error: 22
$120 to play the alpha and still having to pay for the retail when it finishes is a bit much.
7 more years and it's gonna look like it's not stuck in 2012...
thank
1:03:46 DAAAAAAW LOOKATHIM BLINKING!!!