Talk:2018-02-09 Livestream
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Hey guys this is Steven we're gonna be running through a live developer playthrough in our alpha 0 pre alpha client we're gonna be going through the dune hime dungeon in just a minute here so stand by you you I'm not saying things respawn [Music]
Alright guys welcome to our regularly scheduled monthly Q&A session our livestream we've got a special treat for you guys today we are going to be doing a live playthrough of our pre alpha build this is in the alpha zero zone it's a pretty vast zone as many of you know especially our our alpha zero testers but today we're going to be focusing in on one area to play through you saw last stream with a preview of Michael Bacon's Dunhiem dungeon we're going to be running through there today as a party and actually leave this party alright I'm out of party so as soon as you get in Jeff here you can invite me
Okay
So we're gonna be running through answering some questions just giving you guys a you know early look as a part of our whole transparent development into the status status of the game there you go Jeff we're good party
Hi everybody
Hey Jeff we got Peter with us today Alex we've got two Alex's actually today we have Alex and Alex Alex McPherson and Alex Kudony it's Kodony right I can't hear you
Yes
There you go Alex one of our programmers and the other Alex Alex and fierson is one of our QA and IT guys
Hang on I'm reducing my level now
is this level better guys testing my level
I can hear you good
You can't hear me now?
No I can hear you fine
I'm looking at Michael Bacon
Oh
He was telling me I was really loud
The stream says sound is good
That's what I'd like to hear I think we're just waiting on Peter now
What weapon should I use so I am playing a tank I think my starting gear we might find some gear in the dungeon but I think my starting gear is either sword and board staff or I think I have a bow on this as well what does the stream want got some we got staff we've got sword and board staff lots of staves all right all right I see a lot of staves we'll go with staff who are we waiting on now Peter?
I think he's here hang on
I'm gonna play with some of the monsters outside of this outside of this dungeon
Alright I think we're all good to go
Our party good to go? Alright so uh standard pre-alpha disclaimer for those of you tuning in and who haven't been keeping up to date with our recent developments this UI is absolutely placeholder this is our pre-alpha you're gonna see a limited scope of some core systems this is our first pre-alpha which was really more of a friends-and-family for us was was very technical on the side of getting users into the game in the single zone testing some of the core experience progression and node development was very important for us unlocking certain things like different dungeons and spawn tables and all that kind of stuff you guys ready to run on into this dungeon
I think I am
Alright I'm a little concerned let's try not to die on our on our that's a lot to ask okay let's go
We have a mage in the party
Oh we have a mage in the party we're good Wow all right we've arrived someone's been here
Looks like maybe a tank was here
Looks like a tank might have been here [Music]
Absolutely we have some 4K i'll turn this down a little bit for me it might be too loud there we go better we have some 4k photos that we'll be putting up in our next our next load up to the site which should be this weekend hopefully additionally we have some questions that were posted on the forums for those of you haven't stopped by the forums feel free to put some questions that we're gonna be answering them on stream in addition we have on our discord a section called live stream Q&A if you guys aren't on discord go ahead to discord.gg/ashesofcreation and feel free to post some questions there where should we go Jeff?
Oh let's see I think maybe to our left
Alright sounds like it's
Just don't fall in the pit
What happens if I found the pit?
You will die
Oh that's unfortunate why would they put us such a architectural error here
It's not an error it's on purpose
Oh no. You know embarrassing it would have been if I'd fallen in the pit
I was waiting for it
I try to pull this mob you know we should have got Bacon on discord to talk a little bit about the creation oh do that flame arrow talk a little bit about the creation of this dungeon
Oh my gosh
There's Bacon Bacon I know you're listening jump in discord
And I'm dead
Did you die?
I died
Why'd you fight the Ageless Protector
You pulled them
Do we have some resurrection we can res you up do we have a cleric that's still alive?
I think we do
I'm not technically the tank, Peter's the tank
Oh no I don't know if I get back
Oh I pulled another guy this guy hurts oh gosh where's my cover
Someone pull it
I did my safe bubble okay I'm good I used my bubble Bacon do you have discord if you have discord hop into a voice channel I'll pull you in
Yes I think we are all here
We're all here
We made it
Let me pull Bacon in Bacon jump into the village Channel you oh never mind Bacon doesn't have a mic
I mean he could be in there
Yeah that's true um right so I'll give a little bit of as you guys are fighting through let me give a little bit of lore behind this this dungeon Oh No so the Dunhiem dungeon oh my gosh we just got spawned on by three ads these ageless protectors really are ageless so the the Dunhiem dungeon actually is a dwarven was once a dwarven city actually the Dwarven city of Dunhiem and during the fall of Verra this the inhabitants of the city actually stayed in the mountain and they tried to ride out the calamity that befell Verra and it didn't end up too good for them so there are great artifacts and treasures in this area it's a part of the Alpha zero map and it is an open-world dungeon so as you can see the monsters here are pretty strong intended for a party obviously nice nice ice sheet you know what we need to approach this
did everybody die?
We need to approach this area with respect let's move out to the hall again
Respect for the dead
We need we need to be respectful of the difficulty level that is here hey I haven't died yet game King I've lived it's the Cape that protects me should we jump across let's jump across and we'll take the center area
now let's start making our way back
okay all right cool those are some bad stairs yes is it those are bad stairs those are bad stairs all right cool we should be safer here
where's Jeff?
Sorry I died again
What a treacherous dungeon
You know what we might have to put on some might have put on some armor some you know what i'm talking about
No we can do this we can do this
I'm way ahead of you
Oh no, where's the boss in this dungeon?
The boss is this way to our north
All right I'm thinking of the like you know cut off the snake's head
Yeah I don't know if it'll help but we try
Oh I see I see a dude in there that's pretty big [laughs] oh no
One at a time guys you're good
One at a time let me try to pull one hold on I'm getting this echo okay I got the echo oh I got the echo yeah I got him I definitely got him oh God there we go I tried to pull him out
Everybody just ran away
Nice very well very good
Did Jeff die again okay
How did you die?
All right
Everybody ran away
I was pulling him out to us let me see if I can grab the nope wait wait we got an archer Oh I got him. I got him hated oh no no I died
Both tanks are down
Healer is down
Oh no [laughs] aright I'm gonna respawn
I'll respawn with you and run back
Maybe we did so the party wiped we should probably let's start over
Regroup?
Okay, welcome to the dungeon
Welcome everybody, we're gonna be running through keep all hands and feet inside the party please I like the the two-hander Peter looks good
It didn't help me much in there but I tried my best
Oh no, all right why don't we answer some questions as we just kill some monsters some solitary single monsters
So an angry lemon is from the forums asks or says I'm curious about the stealth system let's play this let's say there's a player using the stealth skill in front of me will I be able to spot him if I look carefully at my screen or do I need a skill to spot him?
Good question sorry I was focusing on killing this thing
It's okay
Would you like to take that one?
Um yeah so it's a little bit of both I think we're gonna go for kind of like a pseudo predator kind of style stealth so if you're paying attention to what's going on there will be indicators that will help you to kind of feel out where a stealth person might be but then also classes like the Ranger will have tracking abilities that'll help also in that it'll make it a little bit more apparent it'll be always important to have a ranger or something like a ranger in your party to to make sure you're protected from the stealth side of things and of course that's all like build based kind of thing so not all Rangers will be good at detecting scout stuff but some Rangers will be
Steven's ahead of the party
I know I'm sorry, I just wanted to pull the boss oh my gosh, oh no! what have we done? at least we're good no I was just pressing my ultimate defense what have we done?
I think i'll stick with a bow i'm not dealing with melee with the way we are pulling monsters right now
I switched to a bow too
The two tanks have bows
Oh gosh
N Scheffel asks what steps are being taken to identify duplicated items removing them from the game and to deal with those who exploit bug mechanics to duplicate items on a large scale duplication is not the only kind of exploit that we're looking at looking at all sorts of different exploits and we're actually building the game around that idea I think we've said this before but I think it's always good to repeat it and let people know exactly how serious we're taking this people who are caught duplicating items will suffer pretty severe consequences such as
Severe as permanent ban [laughing]
Wait I didn't hear that
Sorry I said anybody caught duplicating items or cheating in that way is gonna be banned for the game absolutely and we do have we have metrics and systems in place to make sure that that's quickly caught and dealt with in addition one other thing oh my gosh
Don't jinx us
Don't don't stand in the weird fire we've done it
Hey guys we
Mission accomplished boys mission accomplished
I'm so proud of us
Oh they're coming back I won't they die? Alright what other questions do we have?
After playing other large-scale PvP games item duplication oh this is actually the same question just more steps um
Oh hey I got a quest kill Sorrows hunger
Oh this node's advanced then?
Yeah i think so
Nice should we go check it out which one is it is it the forest node
I'm not totally sure I think it's probably the forest node
Are you guys all playing humans I'm playing an Elf right now oh wait i'm playing human
Right
Let's go to let's go to the actually let's like actually let's go check out this area alright so what was the question Jeff?
This one is about caravans mosta69 says do Caravan scale up and down in relation to the node which launches them? so I think he's talking about the quest versions the kind of node-based ones not the player-created ones for example does a city caravan have more guards, is it faster, can they carry more goods, are the horses better than say like that of a town caravan and the answer to that is yes they will again there's there's two different types of caravans player-created ones will kind of really just depend on what the players are doing but for the ones that are launched by the city or the town themselves they will upgrade as the node upgrades too
I love this dungeon
Isn't it cool
Yeah this is great
Michael Bacon really knocked it out of the park
Bacon did a great job it's actually im concerned with my movement Peter better be careful with jumping
[Laughter]
That was a bold move cotton I've gotten some drops in here I got some dust Oh a shield I oh yeah I got a shield I can do a shield throw now I'm really concerned to like move to the side of anybody
There are no railings
Yeah we need to put like bumpers on the edges
No that's part of the dungeon
I know but just for me
So guys just got to believe [laughter]
There has to be a GM bumper
So guys I just want to I want to impress upon you if you don't already recognize this but I mean the Kickstarter that we did ended in June and this alpha zero began December of the same year now you know I don't want to name any names but comparatively I think to other Kickstarter MMO projects this is a this is probably unheard of to have this level of testing going on this such short such shortly after and I'm not I just want I mean I mean my point is that the team that we pulled together here are such veterans in the MMORPG genre specifically has done an amazing job I mean just an absolute amazing job perhaps we should you know this dungeon seems beyond beyond us perhaps
I feel like we're doing really good now
I think we got in the groove
We did well there okay fine let's progress how do we go down can we go to the downstairs area let's go downstairs
No we can't go to the downstairs area
Oh no how sad can I just test it real quick I just want to jump down
I mean you want to jump down there go for it
Right I need to find the right space to like jump down these all look fatal all of these areas
You can do it
I'm so concerned should I jump should I jump down?
Yeah sure
No no no, where did you go? I see you're life went to zero here hold on I think I got it Oh no no no no no ohhh well that didn't work
Thanks thanks for leaving us
I'll be back I'll be back
Oh we found Alexi
Hey what's up Alex where did you go? Guys I'm gonna I'm gonna I think the the somebody's like that was so satisfying thanks blue midget I appreciate that I'm gonna I'm gonna run outside actually I want to I feel like there's something out there calling my name I feel there's something out here can we can we explore this uncharted land where's
Of course we can the whole world is ours to consume
Let us do this alright what are the questions we got I was getting distracted by the all the action in that dungeon that I wasn't really paying attention to the questions
I was having a really hard time too okay so sidon asks will there be diminishing returns on crowd control if so will it be for PvE PvP or both
There will be diminishing returns on crowd control actually and that is something obviously those diminishing returns and how they work is something we're gonna be testing in alphas and betas but yes there is intended to be diminishing returns we don't want you know in PvP or in PvE any scenario that's gonna result in like stun locking and stuff like that because it's just it's not strategic it's not fun for either party it gets a little dull I think we found a bandit camp
This is a bandit camp
Very cool I we should go find sorrows hunger
Let's hope that it is the forest node that levelled up I am not sure if the forest node is where that dungeon belongs
Well I saw when you guys were fighting in that dungeon a little earlier it said that an encampment had formed in the forest node so I think it is the forest node
Well then that must be where it is another question which i think is a really good one McStackerson what will be the incentives for keeping a node leveled after being content associated with it why won't we want to see down our own node to gain access to new stuff will we lose access to rare resources associated with that node or something?
That's a good question and the answer is that nodes as they develop unlock additional services features progression of buildings in the node a lot of things that are beneficial to citizens of that node or players who may make a home or freehold in that area obviously if the node is destroyed those advancements are lost additionally something that we'll touch on in a future blog is a relic system that I won't go into too much detail here but relics are achievements for the node that that unlock over time and allow the ability to craft specific legendary types of items and/or progress in specific legendary quest lines so not only doesn't nodes development and location determine spawns and access to dungeons and quest lines but its advancement over time also unlocks further features
Yeah so in other words there's a lot of push-pull between wanting to raise a node and wanting to kind of maintain it and we really want the people who call that note home to want to maintain it so there's going to be plenty of stuff for people to call home and want to defend it
Gosh these monsters are so much so much easier yeah it's almost like killing solo monsters with the party [garbled] oh hey we found the note
Hi node
It's a village it is a village stage I'm gonna guess that Sorrows hunger probably has been murdering all the NPC's inside of this town
It's definitely possible I mean I hope not but it's definitely possible
I would be unfortunate so one of the other interesting things I know many of you probably heard this before but as nodes advance events get triggered and if players do not respond to these events they can severely disable your cities such as sorrows hunger which you're probably about to see here in a second is this rampaging monster that has been summoned by the activity of players in this area and has found this point of civilization and it doesn't like that so
Well so far so good
So I guess most of us are human because this node populated as a human node did the good citizens of this village fight off sorrows honker
It's definitely possible
Is it possible ?
Not likely but it's possible
Where might he be? he's hiding
Oh no he's over here he's eating people
Oh no the horror the savagery
Actually he's having some problems might be better if we just uh
Oh you can always nuke him oh where is he? what is he doing?
He got stuck in the ground
Oh I see it's concerning he might spawn again though I believe I believe his rampaging has not been completed
I think it might be complete [Laughter]
What happened I can't hear you
Do you want to see the elf version of this?
Oh yeah let's see okay so guys remember how we were discussing early on that the the races of players that contribute to a nodes advancement determines the quest lines that are populated the architecture that all a lot of different things now you can see it just changed oh let's get them let's get him
There he goes
I hated him this this node just got oh nice you tripped him this node now is populated into an elven node we'll go through the second remember watch out for the breast breath attack No I got my bubble darn it keeps tripping me he went subterranean there for a moment
Need a mana well
Yay we've defeated Sorrow's hunger alright let's check out the elven City so Alex did a because we're all human Alex added a bunch of experience for elves and switched up the node so you can see the architecture has changed quest lines will be different
Layouts change
Steven
I know I can hear it I can't believe it
I wish I could bring my wife microphone out there so you can
Just just cue your mic the entire time the stream will hear it you guys hear that does everybody hear that do you know what that is he's got a new mix up too can you hear it through my mic that is the ice cream truck oh man all right what do we let's go uh I love
[Garbled] the ice cream can't see
Shh it's like a t-rex I can see I can see the ripples in the water on my desk
We could check out another dungeon
Yeah let's check out a different dungeon hang on
I think Bacon's dungeon was just so powerful oh let me go I'm gonna go check out the while you go find that dungeon you can just summon me I'm gonna check out this area over here all
Right Alexy do you know where it is?
Guys so this is so awesome when when the harvesting the gatherables are put into the world you'll see these little like flowers though there will be harvestable 's that kind of look like these flowers here now the nametag about the flowers you won't see that'll be occluded but when you get close to it our favorite little critter will pop out oh there is I'm so sorry I have to do this to you I love how his name is totally normal flower
It's totally normal
It's completely normal what other questions have we got Jeff
We've got okay from area Arowen my question to you is how much of your vision will you remain true to and how much will you change to satisfy a playerbase but on your forums and there are many people ranting about the same things they complain about when every other game comes out trying to make it like that other game we all know but won't mention
wow oh wait whoops the answer to that question is I will stay 100% true to my vision and obviously player feedback is important and you know the vision here is is to create principles ideals specific game design is it is beneficial for us to get player feedback because ultimately you know our player basis is what's going to be playing the game we make so that's why we're going through many different phases of alpha and beta testing have I gotten any weapon drops yet?
I have
I haven't gotten any weapon drops [garbled]
I think I did actually get it from trolls
That's weird my client's a little strange I'm gonna restart real quick hold on
Okay a question from discord is looking forward to the animal husbandry system well breeding be only for cosmetics or will there be mount abilities to breed for like higher jumping stamina move speed or agility
Breeding will actually change the stats of the mount that you breed so it will affect those different things and you can get better mounts through the animal husbandry profession
Yeah so it's definitely not going to be just cosmetic there's going to be actual gameplay purpose for it sorry guys I'm restarting yes the screen screen is black give me one second it's coming up okay you guys see here the loading screen just to give you some some background on that one of the networking bugs we encountered that we fixed was some players we're getting stuck at the windmill so one of our artists Ryan and Tristan they turned the windmill into a boss monster since people were getting stuck you alright I'm back sorry can you invite me?
Sure looking for you
I'm right in front of you
You should have an invite
So this is a another dungeon this dungeon was made by Javier and I think the monster is a little bit more manageable here
Yeah they're not the same power level as the other dungeon
Nice
A question from Carl Stephenson is when you augment your class's abilities will you be able to choose from multiple augments or is there only one augment for abilities
So the augment tree is determined by your secondary class choice each secondary class choice will have a base minimum of four at this time I'll be testing this but if they have four augment choices I'll turn the volume down yeah four augment choices so that's there's that there's also I'm a discord channel if you want to look through those
Yeah I'm starting to look through those now this is a question from Vintage first off love you guys plain and simple we love you to question though concerning group contents I know alpha is not the example to base off of but the open world doesn't seem suited for group content at all or it's easy for groups to rampage through them where there'll be large areas where groups will find a challenge will dungeons have room for multiple groups to get lost in and/or contest?
Absolutely there will be and I would be careful as we show you know because we have such a transparent at open development I'd be careful to read into anything here seeing here with regards to content our test for alpha zero this pre-alpha test was not a content test it was a mostly technical test
Yeah and none of this stuff is tuned really for groups in the overworld we wanted people who were coming in to test to actually be able to kind of do stuff solo so that's not what it was really built for all the group content right now is just in our dungeons and that's totally going to change when we go live there will be plenty of places in the open world for groups to kind of tackle and experience and explore together so don't you worry about that
I love the little bunny around the Vile Beastie
This is from Terry in discord is the dungeon from the playthrough instanced or open world?
That dungeon was open world all dungeons in alpha zero are open world
Yeah all these things are multi groups if you wanted to be
Oh there's a hole I just found a hole here I almost backed up into this hole should we go down the hole?
I think we need to
So scary oh god oh god okay we're good
I don't think we are
We don't have fall damage so that's good yes Loshipoo multiple groups will be able to run dungeons dungeons will be vast it will be very large they'll be able to house multiple groups
This question is from BazWilliamKars is there a way we can change or upgrade the roads so our caravans get the best and will there be HP for caravans so you need to repair them? the roads actually do upgrade as the nodes upgrade and then their connections are sort of based on what nodes are near them and are sort of connected to them in a trade route sense of way so different roads will offer different travel speeds for different caravans you can kind of spec your Caravan out to be an off-road vehicle or an on-road vehicle and that'll determine sort of how quickly and what kind of routes you take when you're driving your Caravan so yeah there there will be a road system that is in place when we launch
what other questions we got?
I'm looking through if any class can use any weapon does that mean that the Ranger has no bow specific abilities asking for my inevitable two-handed warhammer Ranger build?
Nice nice that was very funny some abilities will require a ranged weapon to be available
But some abilities won't so there there will certainly be a place for you to have a two-handed Warhammer Ranger build that's kind of where we're going with the way the class system works similar to like the tank the tank will have some shields specific abilities but they'll also have some specific abilities for two-handed weapons so it'll all really kind of depend on how you get your class out for yourself
Oh this has a bunch of little baby things why are we culling the babies it's the brood mother's brood
This baby's just wrecked me so
Well you shouldn't have entered their nest serves you right
This is a question from Shalex will player housing be shared between all your characters for example if I already have a house freehold on one character well my other characters be able to use that house freehold?
Housing is account based yes I need some heels where's my healer
Alex heal
Heal me I think Alex is gonna go find the underrealm for us and pull us down this oh I just heard yelling in here did you hear that?
I did not hear that
Yeah I heard somebody yelling in here
Was it the will scream okay?
No it wasn't the will scream it was right in this area did everybody else hit anybody else hear a scream I heard a scream what's was that?
I don't know who's putting screams at our dungeons
Yes there's definitely is there like a person we need to capture here or something this looks safe uh yeah you can spawn ah summon me summon me to the dungeon or the underarm sweet
And my party has abandoned me yay
Yeah I heard somebody say help I think Frostbite heard it too Frostbite said he heard someone say help
That's really creepy it's actually especially because I don't know about it
Maybe our new AI system has actually gained self awareness
Gained sentience? yeah it wants to be let out
It knows we're on stream
[Laughing] now that are witnesses so this is a question from Taylon will Cosmetics be separate costumes to the armor or will it be skinned on to the armor
That's a good question
The way we're sort of picturing it is that you will have basically like a paper doll that you get to dress up and put your cosmetics on in separate slots from your actual armor then you could toggle that on or off depending on what your settings are so you wouldn't be skinning like an actual specific piece of armor you just be having it in a specific cosmetic slot
I love the emissives on the caps of these mushrooms
Yeah know what we should do? we should we should leave party for the end of the stream and fight
Of course
Each other
A question from Sword Brother Soros will we be able to share freeholds with another player if you any other player desired to do so
That's something where are currently discussing and we'll be testing an alpha
Very likely we will do some kind of permission based system and then sort of how you guys deal with taxes or whatever we'll have to be kind of a gentlemen's agreement between you two
Let's uh let's have let's have a show yeah okay let's do this we'll take some paces away leave party turn on PvP and restrict it to the underrealm single-elimination you die you're out
Oh my god
Free-for-all so ganging up is allowed
So last person standing wins
Yes last person standing wins alright we'll see who will see who the people in stream are rooting for
Hang on I gotta hide here I don't think I'm going to win
Take take your bets we don't condone betting so but if you wanted to take a virtual bet that doesn't include money then you're welcome to do that alright leave party control L to leave please don't please don't bully me [laughing] no but seriously don't bully me hey and nobody is allowed to cheat no cheating
Ohh
No cheating
I'll take off my armor
Yeah take off your armor your little cheater
Oh wait we're not allowed to use it why not?
No you're not allowed to use that that's cheating alright Alex let us know when PvP is activated
It's toggled
Oh it's toggled? alright let it begin
Can we just put the PvP flag on Steven?
What? we're not ganging up we said
No you said
No yeah wait yes I did say that I hear fighting I hear some fighting over here oh I killed I killed Alex I'm so sorry stop it stop it leave me alone how are you so fast? no Alex killed me it wasn't fair
I died to mushrooms
You died to mushrooms Peter get him avenge me Peter avenge me oh Alex won I think Alex cheated
I think he did too
Alex were you cheating?
No what is cheating?
What is cheating [garbled]
That was magic
I was magic it was skill a magical skill all right guys I think that is going to be it for our stream today we appreciate you guys tuning in we hope you enjoyed watching this playthrough we've got a lot more to show that you'll be seeing over the coming weeks and months we are having a great time here at intrepid and doing a great job in in getting these updates to you on our development as quickly as possible and we will see you at our next live stream have a good day everybody
Bye everybody
Bye everyone