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We like to really refer to ourselves as a PvX game, because in those systems of PvP, PvE, crafting they're all intertwined: They're interdependent on each other... Our system of development really requires some interdependence there between those things. You're going to need a crafter to give you the best items. You're going to need PvPers to secure cities and castles. You're gonna need PvErs to take down those world bosses for those materials to craft. – Steven Sharif

Ashes is a comprehensive game. It is not a PvP focused or a PvE focused, it is a comprehensive PvX game and as a result these systems are all interconnected and have to coexist with one another with certain types of mechanisms that can provide that give and take, that push and shove. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation is a PvX game. Players will naturally encounter both PvP and PvE elements. It is unlikely that a player could purely focus on just PvP or just PvE.

• A defining principle of Ashes of Creation as a PvX game is that PvE builds the world, and PvP changes the world.

• Around 80% of the content is open-world, where healthy competition is an instigator for player friction; for potential cooperation; for the ability to yield alliances; and the political theater that comes with it. This is an intended part of the PvX game design.

• There won't be separate PvE and PvP servers but some servers may be more PvP focused than others.

• There will not be different PvP and PvE gear types.

• All stats relate to a player's combat effectiveness in PvX.

We're very clear with our objective and philosophy on the game and we understand that they may not appeal to everybody. But it is an important reciprocal relationship between the content that's related to PvE and the content that's related to PvP and they feed off of each other. They're catalysts for change: Their progression, their development. It's things that people can value when they see something earned and they see something lost. That elicits an emotional response from the player: That they've invested time in to either succeed or fail; and PvP allows for that element to be introduced into gameplay. And we're very clear that is our objective: That risk versus reward relationship, that achievement-based mentality. Not everybody's going to be a winner and that's okay. – Steven Sharif

PvP

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PvP combat gameplay in Alpha-1 castle sieges.

אלפא-1 open world caravan PvP.

Player combat in Ashes of Creation is both vast and intimate. It spans many aspects of the game itself. From great political battles held on the fields of massive castles, to open world conflicts fought for the pride of Guild Leaders. A player can choose to participate in the fate of the world by swaying the tide of battle with his or her combat prowess. Our PvP mechanics follow a flagging system, as well as static PvP zones at certain points of interest; fight for control over cities, castles, caravans, or hunting grounds. Our PvP is designed to offer the players a well-balanced and fair world to shape through the pen, or sword should they choose.

PvP (קרב שחקן מול שחקן) יהיה הזרז לשינוי בAshes of Creation. קרב בין שחקנים נועד להיות בעל משמעות, החל מקרב קרוואנים וכלה בעימותים גדולים בעולם הפתוח שילחמו על גאוותם של מלכים ומלכות.

מכיוון ששחקנים מונעים מדברים שונים, מכיוון שהם רוצים משהו מהמשחק ששחקנים אחרים לא רוצים, זה יגרום לאנשים להתנגח. שחקנים שונים ירצו חוויות שונות והקונפליקט בין שניהם ייצור דבר גדול וטוב יותר. מתוך סכסוך מגיעה לידה מחדש וזה סמל הליבה, זה נושא הליבה שחוזר על עצמו לאורך כל המשחק. – Jeffrey Bard

יש הרבה סיבות להשתתף בPvP בעולם הפתוח של Ashes of Creation.

• משאבים נדירים.
• שטחי ציד.
• קרוואנים.
• מצורים.
• מלחמת גילדות.

רק מכיוון שמערכת הסימון שלנו נותנת שחיתות לpkers (רוצחי שחקנים), לא אמור ש- PvP לא יקרה. יש הרבה סיבות לכך ש- PvP יתרחש בעולם פתוח. משאבים נדירים, שטחי ציד בעולם פתוח, קרוואנים, מצור, מלחמת גילדות וכו '. – Steven Sharif

• עונשי מוות (לרוב) לא חלים על אירועים אובייקטיביים כמו קרוואנים, מלחמת גילדות ומצור על צומת.
  • שחיקה של ציוד חלה על מוות בקרב קרוואן.

ש: האם חשבת על איזורים בעלי סיכון גבוה בVerra בהם השלל בPvP יהיה גדול יותר?

ת: לא חשבנו על כך, הסיבה לכך היא ששמערכות הPvP כבר מאפשרות איבוד רכוש דרך מערכת הסימון (flagging system) או דרך מערכות אחרות של אירועי PvP גם. – Steven Sharif

קרב קרוואן

קרב קרוואן in אלפא-1.

We're trying to create these ways for people who maybe are used to a more solo MMO-like gameplay experience to have easy ways to take that first step into collaborating or competing with each other. So that's really one of the things that we spend a lot of time talking about for this system. – Nathan Moore

קרוואנים create an objective-based PvP event in the open-world that players can choose to attack, defend, or ignore via a UI window.

• Players that choose to attack or defend the caravan will be flagged as combatants.
  • The UI notification will include the caravan owner's name and guild.
  • The proximity that the UI window appears is determined by the player's performance as either a defender or an attacker in previous raids.
  • Once registered as a defender, a player can't switch to attack the caravan.
  • The proximity radius for notification of nearby caravan events can be increased or decreased based on the caravan's components or a player's progression in the highwayman system.

At a certain proximity to the caravan, any player will receive the event notification to participate either as an attacker or as a defender. That proximity radius can be augmented either through players advancement within the Highwaymen system, which is for defenders or attackers you can increase the radius, but also the components can increase and or decrease the radius of that event notification as well. – Steven Sharif

• There will be visual hints relating to the cargo being transported on caravans, but players will not be able to see the exact contents of the caravan. Cargo is represented in this way even if a cosmetic caravan skin has been applied to the caravan.

• Players can be registered participants in a caravan event involving multiple caravans. It is not possible for a player to participate in more than one caravan event at a time.

As a player you can participate in events that have as many caravans collocated as you want. So if you have 20 Caravans that you're trying to move all in a single caravan raid with all of your players you can join all 20 of those caravans into the same caravan defense group; and that is that is the intent of the system. The same is true for the attackers. The attackers can join against all of those caravans. – Steven Sharif

• Caravan components can be individually destroyed by directional attacks against the caravan. All components are destroyed if the caravan is destroyed.

• Some defensive abilities may be effective against blocking projectiles from hitting caravans.

• Basic attacks will not slow caravans, but certain slowing abilities may be able to do so.

• Players or mounts trying to block caravans will be pushed out of the way.

As it stands currently it would be difficult for players to be able to block the caravan. Now that's not to say that certain types of effects cannot be applied to the caravan through ability use, such as slowing effects, or pause effects, stun effects, against the caravan itself, not the rider. But right now we do have a collision priority system which means that vehicles move players and mounts. Mounts and players cannot stop vehicles from moving the vehicle. Its collision has priority; and then ships have the ultimate priority. Nothing can move ships or block ships. – Steven Sharif

• If a caravan's driver is killed or otherwise removed from the caravan then any player will be able to drive the caravan for a period of 15 to 20 minutes before the caravan despawns and becomes a wreckage. A caravan will persist in the world for a period of 5 to 10 minutes from the time its owner logs out or is disconnected from the server.

חלק מהמידע הבא לא אושר לאחרונה על ידי המפתחים וייתכן שלא נמצא במפת הדרכים הנובחית של הפיתוח.

• A group will be required to successfully attack a caravan.

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מצור על טירה

Alpha-1 castle siege gameplay.

Throughout Ashes of Creation, the player has an opportunity to participate in massively multiplayer siege warfare. Since castles are likely the world’s most limited resource, it will be a task to secure and hold them. Involving hundreds of players on a single battlefield, our sieges will employ many moving parts and intricate design features. Because of the difficult nature of taking and keeping a castle there are great rewards available to the players for their efforts. Castles will allow players to exert control over nearby lands and allow for the development of unique buildings in the nearby towns.

גילדות participate in מצור על טירה in an effort to capture and occupy one of the five guild castles in Ashes of Creation.

• Sieges occur once a month within a server prime-time window.

• The minimum goal is for 250x250 players to be on a single battlefield. It is hoped that this can be increased to 500x500 over time.

• There will be systems that mimic some of the mechanics of sieges, but there won't be practice sieges.

• There may be instanced locations within otherwise open-world castle and node sieges, where specific groups can participate in small, short duration objective-based battles that will affect the overall outcome of the siege.
  • It was previously stated that castle sieges may or may not be (entirely) instanced in the final game.
  • Alpha-1 castle sieges occurred in an open-world zone that was accessible via a NPC teleporter.

I love castle-based gameplay. I love trophies. I like rewarding risk a lot; and for me it's very difficult to imagine a MMO that I would want to play where there is not competition of strategic prowess that determines the outcome of these types of events and there is not a meaningful reward both mechanically and from just a bragging rights perspective that players can aim for and try to achieve. I think that it brings a lot to the game when it comes to motivations, to excel, to level, to gain power, to engage those different progression loops when there is an ultimate goal or trophy that is not static and doesn't exist forever once you achieve it, but that you must constantly perform in order to maintain; and that's really the purpose of these castles. – Steven Sharif

A guild that captures a castle will own that castle for a month before it is sieged again.

Each week leading up to the siege week... is a week that's dedicated to one of the three castle dedicated nodes. So around the castle there are three nodes. They represent week, one, two, and three; and then the fourth week is the siege against the castle. Those can only be elevated up to stage three. We've discussed this in the past and there's definitely information out there on the community ran wiki. – Steven Sharif

• In the first three weeks that a guild occupies a castle they will need to level up each of their castle nodes to כפר stage through questing.
  • Each of the three castle nodes have a siege against it at the end of each of these three weeks.
• The fourth week is declaration week, where other guilds have the opportunity to lay down their declaration flag or to sign up as a defender of the castle.
• Depending on how well the guild defends their castle nodes results in better defenses for the castle.
• Different siege weaponry will grant the attackers the ability to destroy walls, doors and sections of the castle in order to gain access to the inner keep area.
• When castles change hands (following a siege), some taxes stay with the castle and some stay with the guild.

There will be benefits to attracting people... even if they're not in your guild or alliance – a feudal like system, where you can attract other players who are just independent of this whole politic. They will have things to do there - benefits to receive - and there will be a reciprocal relationship between who you can attract, what they do for you; and how that benefits you and them. – Steven Sharif

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Alpha-1 castle sieges

אלפא-1 preview castle.

Trebuchets in the אלפא-1 preview castle siege attackers headquarter camp.

אלפא-1 preview castle siege gameplay.

Alpha-1 castle sieges are based on Ashes of Creation Apocalypse מצור על טירות.

• Players will be able to join guilds. These guilds can register for the siege events.
• Castle siege events will be 100v100 battles that occur daily and will last for three hours.
• Attackers will start on the opposite end of the map (from the defenders).
• Attackers will be able to use trebuchets to drive to and assault the castle.
  • Trebuchets have a single primary fire that does a small amount of damage to players and heavy damage to buildings.
  • Trebuchets will be fully physical when they are being driven.
• When the attackers have breached the castle they will be able to channel a cast on the relic in the throne room to try to capture the castle from the defenders.
• The victors of castle sieges will receive benefits, such as cloaks, flying mounts for guild leaders and potentially also for guild officers.
• Alpha-1 castle sieges are in a separate zone that is accessible via a NPC teleporter.

  Currently the siege zone is actually in the open world, but separated by mountains and off in the sea a bit. There is actually no instancing in A1, although the siege zone will only be accessible in A1 through a registration NPC teleporter. – Steven Sharif

  • This zone includes the following raid bosses.
    • Elder Dragon of Flame
    • Elder Dragon of the Tundra
    • Elder Dragon of the Wood
  • These bosses will also appear in the open-world (outside the siege zone) with slightly different mechanics.
• The opposing team is notified when these raid bosses are being attacked.
• Teams who get the last hit on these bosses will receive buffs that will help them in the siege battle.

Last year, I spoke of attempting to incorporate sieges into the Alpha One experience. This has obviously been a goal of mine because it provides considerable data and a consistent event within the world that players can participate in to help stress test the deployment. Well, I am happy to say that it is appearing more and more likely by the day! Initial implementation of the Apocalypse siege code has been migrated into the Alpha One client, and we should begin internal testing next month. I will caveat this expectation with the fact that we are cutting it a bit close from an internal QA standpoint, but I have some confidence that the system will be online and capable of inclusion for the Alpha One test in the month of June. The siege component will obviously not be representative of what the siege system will be at launch, or even in Alpha Two. – Steven Sharif

• Destructible structures (such as walls and gates) are present in Alpha-1 castle sieges.
  • The ability to repair structures (and siege weapons) is a long term design goal that will not be present during אלפא-1.

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מצור על צומת

מצור על צומת (תרום-אלפא footage).

ברגע שאיזורים בעולם מתפתחים, איזורים אחרים נופלים. זהו הבסיס של העולם החי והנושם של Ashes of Creation, בו לשחקנים תהיה היכולת לקבל החלטות משמעותיות החשובות לאריכות החיים של אזור שהופך לעיר, או האם לצור על עיר מתחרה. קום מתוך האפר, צור את העולם סביבך והיה חלק מסיפור המתעצב ממעשיך והחלטותיך. – Margaret Krohn

מצור על צומת מאפשר לשחקנים להרוס צמתים. דבר הסולל את הדרך להתפתחות וגישה חדשה לתוכן הנעול בצמתים שמסביב. התוצאה של דינמיקה כזו היא שסכסוכים ויריבויות פוליטיות משחקים תפקיד חשוב במבנה העולם.

• הטלת מצור על צמתים לא תהיה משימה קלה עבור התוקפים.יהיה לערים ו- מטרופולינים יתרון הגנתי משמעותי.

• יהיו מערכות שיחקו את הפעילות של מצורים, אבל לא יהיו מצורים לתרגול.

• עונשי מוות לא חלים על אירועים אובייקטיביים כמו מצורים על צמתים.

אם יש לך בית בצומת ואתה לא רוצה לראות את הבית שלך נהרס, אתה צריך להגן על העיר! – Steven Sharif

• רוב (80%~) התוכן בAshes of Creation מתרחש בעולם פתוח אבל יכולים להיות מופעים של מצור (Instances) בתוך מצור על טירה ומצור על צומת כך שקבוצות ספציפיות יוכלו להשתתף בקרבות קטנים, קצרים, ובעלי מטרה אובייקטיבית עבור נקודות ציון ספציפיות.

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מלחמת גילדות

מלחמת גילדות are objective-based PvP events between guilds.

• מלחמת גילדות can be declared at any time, but the objectives will only spawn during server prime-time.
  • Players can kill each other at any time during the war (not only during server prime-time).

• Guild war objectives are intended to dynamically spawn based on various conditions that exist within each guild.

• Guild wars are not permanent. Definitive victory/surrender conditions exist that are based on the level of the warring guilds and the assets that those guilds have.

• Guild wars operate outside the PvP flagging system.
  • עונשי מוות (mostly) do not apply to objective-based events, such as guild wars.

• Guild wars are considered a core system of אלפא-2.

Q: How do you plan on keeping wars fresh long term? Typically in other games wars become one dimensional in terms of strategy. Will intrepid be looking at map changes every few years, or will you give guilds / node mayors the ability to customize the layout or objectives of the battlefield?

A: Our guild wars have objective-based gameplay that spawn in the world based on several different factors and predicates that might exist. Some of those predicates might be where is your guild a patron guild of? Does your guild have a guild hall? What node is your guild leader and/or officers a citizen of? What was your last completed raid boss? All of those can serve as predicates to then spawn a certain objective within the world that players have to either engage with in a number of different manners. Either they can be kill objectives, they can be control objectives, they can be capture and move objectives. They could be a caravan caravan summons that need to take supplies from those objectives. The idea is to incorporate all of these other ancillary systems that exist within the game in some way shape or form- tie it into the guild war, because we've created those systems for a reason. We want players to engage with those systems, so why not hook those systems into the guild war format? And I think that that creates a very dynamic setting where it is not just about killing and logging out, but rather strategy in both your resource placement, how you respond, and when you respond, the composition of your raid/group teams. Those types of things play a role now in the outcome of those guild wars and I think they keep it fresh because it'll be different per war. – Steven Sharif

חלק מהמידע הבא לא אושר לאחרונה על ידי המפתחים וייתכן שלא נמצא במפת הדרכים הנובחית של הפיתוח.

• Guilds may war multiple guilds/alliances at a time.

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שטחי ציד

You are on the prowl, and notice an unsuspecting player chopping trees. What would you do?

שטחי ציד are open-world PvP corruption-enabled areas that encompass most of the map.

• Hunting grounds refer to killing monsters or דמויות ללא שחקן in the open-world.
• This also refers to contesting resources.

One of the interesting components of Ashes of Creation and our flagging system is that it presents the potential for two conflicting parties to have open conflict in the open world over pretty much anything that they may want or disagree with; and if that pertains to a hunting ground, not just the caravan or the castles or the nodes or whatever, it can exist in that area. – Steven Sharif

Outside of PvP for certain things like caravans, sieges of nodes and/or castles is that you're going to have those open-world hunting ground fights that may occur. You're going to have resources fights that may occur. You're going to have political fights that may occur between members of guilds; and we're taking the guild politics to a whole new direction in regards to playing those conflicts out. – Steven Sharif

Our PvP mechanics follow a flagging system, as well as static PvP zones at certain points of interest; fight for control over cities, castles, caravans, or hunting grounds. Our PvP is designed to offer the players a well-balanced and fair world to shape through the pen, or sword should they choose.

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Naval PvP

ספינות moving into an open sea naval PvP zone (open waters/deep ocean areas) will automatically flag players as Combatants (purple). Corrupted (red) players will remain red while in the open sea.

Another important change that has occurred is the open seas is now an automatic flagged location. So when you move off of land we have a flagging system that protects and the open seas are international waters where you need to be careful; and there is a lot of opportunity at Sea; and because there's a lot of opportunity that's unique to that content- that's unique to that sea: that's treasure finding; that's NPCs; that's a lot of different stuff there needs to be risk associated with opportunity. – Steven Sharif

• Players entering an open seas area will be notified by the UI ahead of time.
• עונשי מוות for corrupt players apply to every zone in the game, including naval PvP zones.
• Non-corrupt players will suffer reduced death penalties in naval PvP zones.

If you are not corrupt and you enter the open seas you will be taking a mitigated form of the death penalties, which means you will have a debuff applied upon death and in addition you will still suffer the gear degradation or gear decay upon death as well. But you will essentially be either significantly reduced in the experience debt accrued through death in the open seas if you're not corrupt, or there won't be experience debt accrued in the open sees if you are not corrupt. – Steven Sharif

• Open sea zones have better resources in more abundance to compensate for the added level of risk.

We have a very intuitive UI that as you approach the border between open sea and coastal area you are notified of that. You are warned ahead of time. There's a countdown when approaching. We interpolate the distance travel and speed you're moving and you get to see "I'm entering open waters"; and when you do you have this big trophy call out on screen that says "You have entered the open sea. Territory fraught." – Steven Sharif

Operators of a ship's weapons platform can initiate naval PvP against another ship in the following cases.

• The result of events (such as guild wars or node wars) between the parties.
• As the result of open-world PvP, utilizing the flagging and corruption system.

זירות

תרום-אלפא arena combat footage from PAX West 2017.

תרום-אלפא arenas.

זירות are instanced PvP scenarios and are not part of open world PvP.

The arena system as we've spoken about before is going to have ladder systems where people can progress within certain seasons based on their win/loss ratios. The importance of arenas are obviously that players have an opportunity to participate [and] practice out certain builds from a PvP perspective and can compete with one another within the system. – Steven Sharif

• זירות will have 1 man, 3 man, 5 man and possibly 20 man Free-For-All (Deathmatch) group sizes.
  • There won't specifically be guild vs guild arenas but team-based matchmaking allows teams to face other teams.
• Arenas will have a minimum level requirement to participate.
• There won't be bifurcated brackets with separate player pools.
• There might be some form of an ELO system that gets flushed on a seasonal basis.
• There will be an arena ladder system.
  • Rewards for arena ladders will be revealed at a later time.
  • Titles can be received from arena play.
  • Arena points that can be used to buy gear are not currently in the design.
• Mayors of military nodes are chosen from citizens through last man standing (gladiatorial arena style) combat.
• The arena system may support cross-server combat.
• Arena style combat is instanced but spectators may be possible through an interface.

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PvE

אלפא-1 Elder Dragon of the Tundra raid boss.

הסביבה באפר היצירה היא שטח מרהיב מבחינה ויזואלית, עם יצורי פרא ובריאות פנטסטיות שנועדו לעורר יראת כבוד וגם להחדיר פחד. העולם הוא קשוח ובלתי סולח, הוא מהווה סכנה ברורה ונוכחת לשחקנים. מבוכים, שדים ודרקונים, אהוי! ה- AI הייחודי שלנו פירושו שמפגש עם יצורים דומים יניב חוויה שונה לחלוטין שהשחקן יצטרך להסתגל אליה. גורמת לך להיות על קצות אצבעותיך בכוננות לשינוי מתמיד מצד התגובות של היריב שלך. העולם מחכה לגיבוריו.

מערכת הצמתים מאפשרת יצירה של תוכן PvE (שחקן מול סביבה) חדש כמו משימות, מבוכים, פשיטות, וגם מטבעות מפלצת.

עומד להיות הרבה תוכן PvE לכל סוגי השחקנים ... חלק מזה הוא סיכון מול רווח: הסיכון שלך הוא הזמן שאתה משקיע כדי לקבל סיכוי לקבל את הפרס ולגמור בהצלחה; וזה אמור לתת הרגשה טובה בהתאם לכמות הזמן שהשקעת. אני יודע שיש ספקטרום של שחקני הארדקור ושחקנים פחות רציניים, אבל זו הסיבה שיש לנו הרבה נתיבי תוכן שונים שמכוונים כלפי האופן בו אתה משפיע על העולם שסביבך. – Steven Sharif

תוכן הPvE מסתגל להתפתחות העולם כדי למנוע חזרות.

Elder Dragon of the Wood raid boss gameplay.

בכל פעם שיש לך מצב של שחקן מול סביבה, אתה לא רוצה חזרות קבועות יתר על המידה בגלל שזה חסר טעם. אין לזה את המרכיב שגורם לך להרגיש מעוניין. – Steven Sharif

משימות

אלפא-1 early quest user interface.

Questing in our world combines the best elements of traditional MMO’s as well as the introduction of our unique player driven experiences. Ashes of Creation offers area quests, public quests, and quest chains that change dynamically and in real time based on the player’s experiences and choices. Players will have the ability to directly alter world events and change the landscape through their actions, as an individual and as a community. Server quests will allow political rivals to compete for the fate of the world.

אלפא-2 quest journal user interface early preview.

We actually used the journal as one of our test cases for the style guide because it's a very complex screen. There's a lot of things that are going on, where we have different tiers of story arcs that might be available for players; and so we wanted to make sure the color denoted different information for them. We also have iconography to support that as well; and we have a little bit of a twist on what a traditional quest system would be like. With these story arcs we wanted to make sure that it was organized in a familiar way, but also something that supported all of the designs needs. – Colby Marchi

משימות in Ashes of Creation are divided into three categories: אירועים, מטלות and Narrative quests.

• All three categories of quests will be available from a variety of local, hidden and discovered sources, such as bulletin boards and NPC quest givers.

We’re going to be breaking up what is traditionally called ‘questing’ into three different categories: Narratives, Events, and Tasks. We want to avoid going down the path of trying to force narrative into gameplay where it doesn’t really fit (ie: filler stuff that doesn’t really relate to what’s happening in the world).

• Dialog choices within the quest UI are intended to affect gameplay, such as unlocking side-arcs and storylines.

Q: Will dialogue choices have any impact on the quests in regards to how NPCs respond to you or the overall outcome of that quest, or is it more just a role-playing perspective without any major impact?

A: No. The dialogue choices are intended to provide an impact, both with the response of the NPC, it might also serve as predicates for other systems. If there are certain paths chosen within the dialogue tree it might unlock different side arcs and story lines that other players may not experience. The dialogue trees are not meaningless. They're meant to provide gameplay related context. – Steven Sharif

• Questing will be placeholder until אלפא-2.

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מבוכים

Dünzenkell Crypt open-world Dünir dungeon in אלפא-1.

Half the problem won't just be solving the dungeon, it will be solving other players too. – Jeffrey Bard

אלפא-0 Dünir Dünheim dungeon design by Michael Bacon.

מבוכים in Ashes of Creation will range in size and will be mostly open-world.

• עולם פתוח dungeons will be populated to facilitate multiple groups within the dungeon.
  • 80% of dungeons will be open world.
• Instanced dungeons will also be present and will cater for solo and group questlines.
  • 20% of dungeons will be instanced.

Different tiers and types of dungeon content will be more or less relevant to specific groups or class compositions.

There are going to be smaller, simpler, linear dungeons. There's going to be bigger, more complex, nonlinear dungeons. So, It's a little bit of both. We want the environment to be a character. In order for the environment to be a character, these places need to be interesting and there needs to be a dynamicism to them. – Jeffrey Bard

Dungeon difficulty will increase the further a player ventures into the dungeon.

• Mobs and mob mechanics will become more difficult.
• Terrain and environmental dangers will increase.

Deeper darker types of interactions will be found deeper in the dungeon. – Steven Sharif

There were 13 dungeons in אלפא-1. Originally this was estimated to be 6 or 7.

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פשיטות

אלפא-1 Brood Queen raid boss.

Entering an אלפא-1 open-world raid.

פשיטות will either be based on triggered events or more traditional systems. Traditional world bosses will change based on node development.

We want things to be more fluid and one of the ways that we make them more fluid is through our triggered event system. That is one of the methods by which we make these more spontaneous. We make them more accessible to a wider audience. You can be just in the city and not normally be a part of a raid team, but now get to participate in this organic event that's popped up around the city and if you are not participating then buildings are gonna get destroyed and NPCs are going to die... It's not just how fast can we do it, how will we get it done in its schedule, but oh my god this thing popped up if we don't kill it we're not going to access to our stables this week and we can't get our animal husbandry certificates... It's that risk versus reward that gives you a sense of adrenaline. – Steven Sharif

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בוסים עולמיים

אלפא-1 preview Sorrow's Hunger world boss in the העולם התחתון.

• בוסים עולמיים will spawn at variable locations at variable times.
  • Bosses may also spawn based on predicates that can be met at any time, such as when a story arc or an event begins somewhere in the world.
  • Some world bosses and elite mobs will path/roam throughout the world.

The general philosophy is that respawns will be variable. We don't want to have set specific times in which respawns will occur, so that they can be camped and farmed. But there'll be variable location respawns as well as variable time respawns. And then that provides opportunities for different parties to engage at different times and locations. – Steven Sharif

• World and regional bosses will scale based on the types, locations, and progression of nodes.
  • World bosses will not scale to adapt to player levels.

• Some world bosses will have stages of progression, such as defeating acolytes, then lieutenants, then generals, then the world boss itself.
  • At each stage there is increasing difficulty. This may be parsed out into different time periods and be behind a wall of development.

• A single digit percentage of the population will be capable of defeating certain content.
• There will be ancillary effects that happen as a result of downing certain world bosses.
  • This can positively impact the land management in that area.

• Around 80% of the content is open-world, where healthy competition is an instigator for player friction; for potential cooperation; for the ability to yield alliances; and the political theater that comes with it. This is an intended part of the PvX design of Ashes of Creation.

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Gameplay videos

• 2023-05-31 Video - Alpha Two Cyclops Combat Preview
• 2023-04-28 Video - Alpha Two Mage Archetype Preview
• 2023-03-31 Video - Alpha Two Story Arc Systems Preview and the Lore of Carphin
• 2023-01-27 Video - Alpha Two Tank Preview
• 2022-12-02 Video - Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Night and Day and Other Heavenly Things
• 2022-10-28 Video - Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Gathering Updates
• 2022-09-30 Video - Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Basic Ranged Weapon Attack Update
• 2022-06-30 Video - Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Basic Melee Weapon Attack Update
• 2022-06-30 Livestream
• 2021-12-27 Video - Ashes of Creation Unreal Engine 5 Preview
• 2021-12-23 Video - Ashes of Creation Unreal Engine 5 Walkthrough
• 2021-07-30 Livestream
• 2021-07-14 Guide to Alpha-1
• 2021-05-28 Video - Early Siege Gameplay in 4K
• 2021-05-28 Livestream
• 2021-04-30 Video - 4K - Alpha One Raid Boss - April Update
• 2021-04-30 Livestream
• 2021-03-26 Livestream
• 2021-02-26 Video - 4K - Alpha One Gameplay Update
• 2021-02-26 Livestream
• 2020-12-22 Video - 4K Alpha-1 Preview - Level 10 Boss Fight Footage
• 2020-12-22 Livestream
• 2020-10-30 Livestream
• 2020-09-30 Video - 4K Footage of Aquatic Mounts
• 2020-05-31 Video - Pre-Alpha Gameplay in 4K
• 2020-04-30 Livestream
• 2020-03-27 Development Update + Alpha One Early Preview Livestream
• 2020-03-23 Ashes of Creation - Alpha One Early Preview
• 2019-10-12 Apocalypse gaming session with some lite QnA Livestream
• 2019-10-02 Apocalypse QnA and Gaming Session Late Night Edition Livestream
• 2019-09-30 Apocalypse Gaming Session Late Night Edition Livestream (Part II)
• 2019-09-30 Apocalypse Gaming Session Late Night Edition Livestream (Part I)
• 2019-09-24 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse early access trailer
• 2019-08-21 Video - Ashes of Creation MMORPG Teaser
• 2019-03-08 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Castle Siege Gameplay
• 2019-03-08 Livestream
• 2018-12-13 Livestream
• 2018-12-06 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse
• 2018-12-06 Livestream
• 2018-10-31 Livestream
• 2018-09-27 Livestream
• 2018-09-01 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Alpha Gameplay
• 2018-08-17 Video - Ashes of Creation Apocalypse - First Look at Action Combat
• 2018-04-04 Video - PAX East Pre-Alpha Gameplay
• 2018-02-09 Livestream
• 2017-12-15 Livestream
• 2017-05-30 Video - Pre-alpha Mage gameplay
• 2017-05-25 Video - Monster coin system

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See also

• PvE
• PvP
• קרב