Talk:2023-10-31 Livestream

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Intro

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Welcome to our October Ashes of Creation development of

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the

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princesses I don't know is it all right tell them Ariel I know Oh Belle John said Belle it's

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Belle what movie is that one is Belle Beauty and the Beast yeah there we go is that the Disney

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song you're gonna sing for extra life this year I don't know yet do you know what you're gonna do

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I don't know what I'm people really want us to do the for the duet they want us to do the

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tangled song oh I don't know that is there like a Star Wars song that's Disney too technically

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we just come take a look no where's John at I don't know he's being shot over here yeah no

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you're good come take a look show people your costume John and I were were Star Wars costumes

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from rogue one he's he's the commander and I am the dude that's awesome I gotta keep two but it's

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too warm to wear a cape oh yeah I'm burning up in this thing right now I feel like I took off the

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legs actually I just walked around the office shot my blaster at some of the developers made

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sure that they're hard at work and then came back like a true tyrant no I'm just kidding true

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Empire stormtrooper get to work or we'll put you out the airlock right anyways we have a long one

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for you all again so a little bit of buckling up hopefully everybody brought their snacks but of

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course this is our October development update as you can see down below we're gonna have some

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reminders a little bit more reminders than normal as you know October move it leading into November

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we have a lot of stuff we have a caravan preview some of you have seen some of our caravan stuff

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in the past you're gonna see a full run through from one place to another with a caravan so that

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caravan stuff you saw in the past this puts that to shame the team has been hard at work and we got

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a almost an hour-long showcase today it was like 45 minutes yeah 45 minutes showing you the full

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end loop from collecting resources in the world to buying cargo and shipping that cargo to a nearby

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node and collecting the reward for it the drivability of the caravans it is truly the

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caravan system and there has been a lot of people that have put a lot of work into the caravans

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because as you guys know caravans as a system touch a lot of other systems from hunting and

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combat to the economy the resources that are possible the node system in the caravansary

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it's a separate vehicle with its own components and stats it is a complex system probably one of

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the more complex systems that we've actually shown on stream so it's gonna be exciting and

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I had a lot of fun recording it it seemed like y'all were having fun they love there's a lot

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of banter caravans are slow so you got to have a good crew to hang out with to give you to keep

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you entertained and also we'll talk a little bit about studio update we know there's been a lot of

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layoffs and stuff so we have you know we just want to share information we have art updates

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it'll be a short one today because I know we've already got you all for a long time for the other

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stuff and then a Q&A from folks but before we get into all of that we do have our spotlight

Reminders

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comment from YouTube if you don't know already you can on our development update the full video

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you can leave a comment make sure that you're subscribed and that it's available for us to

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see that you're subscribed and your comment could be selected so today's one is from a Keppry01 and

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they would like to know might be too early for this question but oh yeah I think that you didn't

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put the whole question what's your overall philosophy towards leveling as in is it just a

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means to get to the end game or would you prefer the leveling experience to be an epic adventure

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onto itself they go on to say World of Warcraft for example has so much dev time put into leveling

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quests but your average new player doesn't get to experience 90% of it because of how it's

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streamlined they've made the process to get players to end game faster for things such as

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raiding sure you can level alts in weeks instead of months now but it made the game feel like less

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of an adventure and more of a chore other than that love watching these videos I hope I can get

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into alpha 2 and Keppry definitely tune into our extra life stuff because we might be doing some

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giveaways a little bit about that yeah this is the first question this is a big question it's

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actually it's kind of like a half-half it's a half question half statement on the first part is

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would you like the leveling experience to be an adventure yes I think obviously you know leveling

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the act of going out and adventuring of killing monsters and combat in general is the most tactile

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and moment-to-moment type of gameplay that you're going to experience in Ashes of Creation and I

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think at every step of the way in that adventure it should be fun and it should be something that

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you enjoy doing and it should be something that's rewarding and it should be something that teaches

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you more about the immersive world that you're in and allows you to follow a compelling storyline I

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think obviously you know the way we're building Ashes of Creation is to provide that type of fun

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experience I think the complexity of what this question slash statement is is pointing out is

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that some games and this in this comment uses Wow as an example some games have been around for a

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very long time and the one of the biggest components of an MMORPG is the social aspect of

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the game and when you've been around for you know 20 years or 15 years like some of these other games

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have the majority of the player base lives at the end of that adventuring loop and they're

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participating in highly repeatable types of content whether it be late-game dungeon raids or

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arena systems or whatever and as a player who's starting out in those games you want to be in that

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social environment so they're kind of a little bit of a catch-22 because they have the content

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that they've created for that level progression but the player base doesn't exist within those

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content loops they exist in the later part of it so they have to provide obviously a method by

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which players can relatively quickly reach that social dynamic which is what makes an MMO an MMO

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now that doesn't mean obviously that they didn't spend a lot of time towards curating an experience

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that's fun and engaging and you know shows the world off it is our intent and desire to do that

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one of the ways that we mitigate the kind of quote-unquote endgame mentality is we provide a

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number of different progression loops that are not all predicated on your adventuring level which

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means that you can do things that impact the world without necessarily needing to be at the late game

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in the adventuring level category and so that prevents excuse me that provides a number of

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strategically relevant decisions that the player gets to make about the systems they choose to

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engage with with the time that they have and how those systems are intricately designed to affect

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other progression loops within Ashes of Creation so I hope that answers your question

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that's a long answer I know I'm sorry next up no it's good I think people people want you to spend

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time on their question our next thing to note is Extra Life we are doing Extra Life again this is

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our seventh annual Extra Life we always enjoy it and it helps our local hospital Rady Children's

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Hospital which Stephen and I and a few of our other crew got to check out and like have a tour

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of the actual hospital which was really really cool and it actually inspired the giveaway cosmetics

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that we're going to be doing this year which is Keeper of the Kelp which we will have a reveal of

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on the live stream so you'll definitely want to tune in on into that on Saturday it'll be at the

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opening and of course we'll share it everywhere else but we do have a oh no no sorry go ahead

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we do have a pre-game before that on Friday that's going to start at 3 pm pacific and go

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till 10 pm pacific there's gonna be a whole slew of virtual games so come hang out it's going to

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be a ton of our developers just playing and having fun and just having a really good time and raising

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money for the kids at Rady Children's Hospital through Extra Life on Saturday and Sunday we have

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a really long stream for you we say it's 24 hours but it's more like 25 or 26 the way that we run it

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and also because daylight savings time takes effect as well but for ease we just do 10 am

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November 4th to 10 am November 5th so we hope that you'll tune in we'll have a Pathfinder game

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that we're going to be playing in the setting of Ashes of Creation and the community actually

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created the characters for the campaign which is really cool we had so many submissions and you

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know with basically 2,000 words per submission it took us a while to get through them but we have

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notified the winners so they should have gotten an email from us so if you are somebody who submitted

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them make sure you check your email but I believe most folks have gotten back to us we also have a

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whole bunch of other things that you can get in reward or for donating obviously if you head to

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bit.ly slash 2023 AOC Extra Life you can find all the details over there also it's over on our news

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post in ashesofcreation.com news but we are going to be giving for the top two donors segment we

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will we will be providing a 2023 Intrepid Extra Life bundle which will include the non-exclusive

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cosmetic item the alpha 2 access and one random board game from our selection and we'll show those

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on our stream so stay tuned for that and we'll be doing those at each segment and those segments are

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going to be on November 4th at 2 pm and 6 30 pm pacific and then November 5th at 12 am before

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daylight savings time and 5 am and 9 30 am pacific we're going to stick to those times we will probably

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talk a little bit about the winners in our breaks at our milestone breaks but those times will be

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locked in and the people running donation trackers will be contacting people through that time frame

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we also have our top team on the Intrepid Studios Extra Life team so you can actually join our team

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and also a top donor overall for the Ashes of Creation Extra Life campaign so there's two

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campaigns one is the team and one is our campaign that we're running on our side and by November 7th

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2023 at 10 am pacific we will be looking at the top ones for those and they will be getting a 2023

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Intrepid Extra Life top supporter bundle which is similar to what I just noted before but you also

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get the cosmetic alpha 2 access and a bundle of 10 alpha 2 codes that you can give away to your

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friends family viewers or personal whatever you would like to do with them and you can you know

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minus selling them don't do that and personalized thank you video from Steven himself and any team

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that raises 250 or more on our Intrepid Studios team will be put into a raffle by November 7th

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2023 at 10 am and we will be drawing three winners who will be getting our extra life supporter

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bundle and that will give you the non-exclusive pet the alpha 2 access a bundle of 10 alpha 2 codes

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again to give away and then also your choice of an Agato Wave 3 and a Wave Pop filter or a Stream Deck

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MK2 so and that is worth about 150 in value so lots of really goodie lots of good goodies and on

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top of that there's tons of ways that you can donate and affect the game so you can actually

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affect the live game and during our Minecraft building segment you can also affect the game

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there which is really really fun they outdid themselves this year the map for the Minecraft

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stuff is insane the rules that we changed are really cool in the ways that you can donate in

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fact the games are going to be a lot of fun so we hope that you all how many how many alpha 2 keys

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are we planning to give out or could be given out depending on the milestones for this year

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I think it's like 250 or something or might be more than nearly 250 alpha 2 keys are possible

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during this extra life livestream and let me just let me just say something and feel free

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you guys might be more than that I someone maybe do the math okay well feel feel free to to clip

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this segment but I just wanted to say that this is our seventh year doing extra life it is a truly

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remarkable event that is thrown in support and in effort for children's hospitals around the

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United States around the world I believe actually and we have a truly phenomenal children's hospital

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here in San Diego called Rady's Children's Hospital that we've been supporting with you guys

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in our community for the past now almost seven years and we have raised over 250 thousand dollars

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for this hospital as a community which is unheard of especially being still in development

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and we had an awesome opportunity to go and tour the the hospital and to meet with their charitable

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coordinator Chiara and you'll see from her during this Friday and Saturday but I would encourage

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everyone in our community to come and participate by just showing up by showing up and and having

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some fun with us the developers for Ashes of Creation as we play through a Pathfinder campaign

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similar to D&D in the world of Vera and you get to learn a little bit of lore a little bit of story

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watch us act crazy and have some fun and if you feel if you feel that you want to to donate to

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the children's hospital by all means do if not that's totally fine we're just going to have a

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fun time so we want to invite all of you to join us it's this Friday and Saturday and it has always

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been nothing short of extraordinary each of the times we've done this thing so so super we rented

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a dunk tank so absolutely the dunk tank is going to be great and this year we assigned people

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milestones so it won't be like who's going to be doing this one it's very clear who's doing what

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for when we hit milestones so we have our milestone breaks it'll be a little everything's a

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little bit more organized than you know every year we try to make it better but it is going to be

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a ton of fun so please please come hang out with us it's for a great cause and we're going to

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have a great time and you know of course it's going to be good times exciting beyond that we

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have more more we do have a couple dev discussions for you all to partake in and they're still up so

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we have a basic attacks one which is how important is it to you to have basic attacks be part of your

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using your skills and abilities in between auto attacks or are you having the most fun when basic

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attacks are less important to how much damage you're doing and i think a lot of this you know

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we have polar opinions in regards to it so i'm very curious to see how that report will play out

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we also have our discussion regarding spawn retimes uh yeah spawn spawn timers there we go i

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don't know why i'm saying spawn retimes uh how predictable do you like the spawn rate for general

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and rare mobs in open world dungeons and raid settings which games do you feel have done this

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well and what did you feel was good about respawn times for mobs so kind of think to your dungeon

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crawling uh what was best for you um and how you prefer to see that stuff work uh we would

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love to have your feedback we always try to take everything into account and send those reports to

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our developers which is super duper appreciated um and last but not least we just want to remind

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you that the unseen order cosmetics will end on january 17th 2024 at 11 am pacific this is our

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last pack um with an faq uh so if you want to check that out you can check that out on our news

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site and um yeah just want to give people enough notice for that and with that i think we're on to

Caravan Preview

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our caravan update okay let me preface a little bit here um as always i must disclaim that we are

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still a work in progress that means that we are building towards our alpha 2 and our alphas are

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real alphas they are not fake alphas meaning uh they are not a completed game that's being ported

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over into a new territory from a publishing perspective so we are actively in development

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of ashes of creation alpha 2 has not begun yet we have announced that it will next year

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and that means that things like visual effects and our ui are still very works in progress

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along with any potential bugs optimization and performance those are cycles that we have not

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dedicated a considerable amount of time to yet as we are still in the active development of our

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features and core systems so with that being said this particular live stream has seen a great deal

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of work from the team in particular i want to give some shout outs to michael brady to kyle to

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uh chris giusto um and uh to how there's a lot of names that have participated in bringing this

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together um and uh this is a very complicated system as i said it intersects a lot of other

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systems and that's what makes it complicated in addition to uh the game mode being uh focused

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around a vehicle and a vehicle that is unique with regards to the types of components that it can

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yield uh as well as uh being a stat driven type of vehicle so um there's a lot of complexity here

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uh and a lot of hard work has gone into it uh it is not the end of the road for this particular

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system uh there is still a lot of work that needs to be done um but i think you guys are going to

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enjoy it and it was a lot of fun to record so enjoy

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so

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hello everyone and welcome to another live stream from the world of vera and we have an

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exciting stream for you today we are going to be talking about the caravan system in ashes of

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creation and it has been a little while since you guys have been able to see a caravan uh actually i

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believe since alpha 1 but there has been a lot of work that has been put into caravan since then

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and i would like to introduce some of our absolute stellar developers who helped bring the new

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caravan system for alpha 2 to life they are one of our regulars senior designer mr chris justo

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chris how you doing buddy oh i'm doing wonderfully how are you doing stephen i am doing swell it is

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monday the day before halloween we've got extra life coming up in just five days where we're

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going to be up straight for 24 hours or actually a lot more than 24 hours that's going to be crazy

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but i am doing swell sorry that's a long-winded answer i love it we also have another regular

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on the stream uh the man between two ferns being combat design and systems design

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our glorious designer dr bucky bucky how are you doing sir hello i'm doing well ready to move some

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cargo oh some cargo cargo actually this is the first time i think the community has heard it

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referred to as cargo but cargo is the official name of supplies that are transited by caravans

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and ships and ships that's right yes very nice well happy to have you bucky we also have joining

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us the stellar extraordinary environment artist how who built all things caravans in this live

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stream how how you doing oh i'm feeling good yeah i had a lot of help from a lot of different

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disciplines it's not just me i promise that is true how's being very modest but obviously

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bringing together a system like this requires a lot of effort from a lot of people but how

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specifically modeled i thought what is a glorious kaylar caravan the default kaylar caravan which

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players are about to see in a little bit so awesome job there how happy to have you here

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and then we have joining us an unfamiliar role on our live streams but a role nonetheless an

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integral one of keeping all the pieces moving in a non-chaotic and somewhat somewhat orderly fashion

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one of our glorious producers mr nathan moore nathan how you doing buddy oh i'm so excited

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uh excited to uh go drifting around some corners uh drop off some goods make a ton of money it's

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gonna be a good day in vera yes it is gonna be a good day in vera indeed now speaking of a good day

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we are in a default building for nodes is that correct chris this is a default building in the

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node meaning it comes with the node when it reaches level three very cool okay so this is the

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hunting lodge or the hunter's lodge and i see that there is a particular vendor of note in this

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fine abode a commodity vendor tell me what exactly the commodity vendor does well he does kind of

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what his name says he sells commodities which as alluded to previously is a form of cargo that is

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transited by caravans but um before we talk to him i'd like you to open up your inventory and

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we can talk a little bit about what you're gonna spend to get that cargo

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to get that cargo i'm assuming i need to be on my materials page because the inventory even though

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i have a thousand gold might not really help me here no your gold will not help you so uh if it

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looks like you're hovering over uh an item we call glint uh comes in a few different rarities uh it

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was formerly known as the monster certificates but we have rebranded them all right now that is

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a reveal so those of you in the audience who remembers what monster certificates were glint

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is now the name of the monster certificate system and glint serves a very integral role in the

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economy within ashes of creation it is a material substance that is acquired through various means

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but primarily hunting different antagonists within the world and it is the physical form

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of essence within the beasts of vera so uh when you acquire this it is bound to your character

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and that is a very important component of the economic systems here because

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glint will be used to pay for certain services such as taxation for buildings that you have

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or citizenship dues that are necessary but within the context of today's demonstration

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we'll be talking about glint as a currency to acquire commodities and bucky talk to me a little

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bit about the importance of commodities yeah so commodities player commodities specifically is one

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of the main ways players can make money or gold in vera and different nodes will sell different

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commodities at different prices so the way you make money is by you can either you know sell your

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glint directly to the uh commodity vendor and just make some quick money at the node or the most

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profitable way to do it is to buy some player commodities and then transit them to other nodes

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where they're going to be sold for higher prices at the side effect is that you have increased risk

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into excel very cool so glint allows us direct access to acquire these commodities that service

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the risk versus reward philosophy of transiting goods around the world because the caravan system

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which carries and i'm going to go to the cargo section these commodities available at this

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particular node let's see if i can purchase this okay i see it cost a rather good amount of glint

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on that one and grab some of the ever burned scented a case of kaylar wooden soldiers those

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are toys i assume that's cool and some aged ailing whiskey barrel are these like gi joe's like

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kaylar versions of the gi joe's they are in fact that is super cool okay so i have acquired a number

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of these commodities that are unique to this particular biome and or node and now i have an

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option chris i can either sell the commodities back to a vendor in exchange for gold or i can

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load them up and take them elsewhere why would i want to do that yeah so you as you mentioned you

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can sell it back for around the cost you bought them for in terms of the glint to gold price

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to gold conversion but uh you would be putting them in a caravan and taking them to another node

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because that will increase the value based on the node you take it to how far away that node is and

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how many of that commodity has been sold at that node over the last seven days got it now what

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types of exchange are possible ratio wise for taking this amount of cargo right now i can get

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150 it looks like gold and 50 silver on this salt cured meat shipment what type of multiple can i

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get if i take it to another node also again that's going to vary based on turn-in rates

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uh at that node um but we're probably looking at the node we're taking it to being around eight

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gold for that wow that's huge and that node is only actually uh the closest one to here

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is that right now that is that is correct now typically uh at launch we're obviously gonna have

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to balance these numbers a lot more as the world keeps getting bigger yes well actually thank you

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chris thank you for that cue because as we have said many times before and you shall hear now once

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again the most important disclaimer you will hear in this live stream is that everything you see

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today is a work in progress towards our alpha 2 testing environment which means that the art gets

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better particularly as it relates to our ui uh and our visual effects um so keep everything you're

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seeing with a grain of salt since this is the first time you've seen ashes of creation and

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heard that particular disclaimer uh you can take a look at streams from many many ages ago and see

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the difference between today and then all right so i have arrived at a building that you guys did see

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during our nodes demonstration this is the caravansary which is also a default building

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in addition to the hunting lodge is that correct chris it is in fact and this is where you're

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gonna do all your caravaning exciting exciting okay now i don't have a caravan obviously because

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i mean i'm just a lowly ranger out in the wilds trying to find my way in life

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well this gentleman the caravan master can help you acquire one the caravan master all right i

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see okay all right he has some thing here i see my storage uh i'm gonna my materials section

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i have some cargo available but i do not see it says no caravans currently available for me that's

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sad yep so at the top left there you're gonna be able to purchase a caravan okay so here i see it

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says purchase and i'm assuming this means that i can not only purchase the caravan but also the

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stall within which the caravan resides yep so um purchasing a caravan uh will unlock that stall as

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well and put a default caravan in it all right let me go ahead and make a purchase here ah

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we have our caravan it looks like with a number of considerable and formidable stats i might add

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uh available to it but these stats could be improved could they not bucky yeah so caravans

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have these items within them called components and those kind of act like the gear on the caravan so

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they can modify their stats uh grant them passive and even active abilities so you can you upgrade

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your components you can get power powerful caravans i see and just looking at this basic

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caravan it only has a capacity for one by two cargo that's relatively unfortunate because

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that doesn't seem like a lot for my time but i assume if i were to perhaps equip this

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carriage in its place nope that didn't do anything let's use the body the reinforced chassis

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reinforced chassis let's take a look at that buddy oh yeah oh my goodness this thing can now

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take quite a haul but that's not all i'm gonna add the wheel set the uh beast of burden and

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the plated armor all of which i assume are doing some amazing things down here in the caravan stat

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section yeah the beast of burden primarily affects speed uh armor will make you more

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survivable and shoot you to counter combat and then yeah like you were looking at just now the uh

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chassis and body kind of provides some of the core stats like the health and also the storage

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capacity for the caravan very cool that's awesome um i'm gonna take two salt cured meats because

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i assume that we're gonna be successful we will okay very good we're powerful we are very powerful

• 34:15

all right let me go ahead now do i click launch chris correct you're gonna hit launch and you're

• 34:21

gonna get uh an item in your inventory once you click launch

• 34:27

oh yeah i'll launch a caravan too with you guys oh okay very cool very cool you got a busted

• 34:32

uh caravan or you got a good one it's uh you know it's pretty standard but you know it'll get me

• 34:36

there oh okay very nice all right uh i see that i have a caravan event oh it is telling me to find

• 34:43

a location to summon the caravan so this caravan event starts even prior to me finding the location

• 34:49

for my caravan because because you gotta organize your event you know and you also want to find a

• 34:59

safe spot to launch your caravan ah very cool all right now we can go out here in the world

• 35:08

i assume within some level of proximity proximity to the node okay i see that you can see the radius

• 35:14

by the uh in-game radius okay very cool that's cool got a little slate wolf over here let's

• 35:21

take care of him first all right poor guy i am going to go ahead and i assume chris i'm going to

• 35:37

open my inventory yep so you're gonna have a little caravan item and when you right click it

• 35:44

you're going to be in deployable mode for you to be able to place that uh your it's a representation

• 35:53

that you're summoning the caravan so that people around you know that you are launching a caravan

• 35:58

ah very cool all right so then it's important for me to find a place that's relatively obscure

• 36:06

so as not to attract any unwanting eyes yeah it's part of us to get away from the note a little bit

• 36:11

in case any other players would have seen our expedition yes good call good call well done

• 36:18

all right you're summoning yours too over here how come your caravan isn't like

• 36:24

it looks like it's on par with mine yes it could be but it might not be

• 36:31

might be the default caravan bucky if you just needed some components i could have given them to

• 36:35

i could have given them to you know this this one's gonna work good i believe in it he's a

• 36:41

pro gamer lucky are you a pro gamer yes i in fact am a pro gamer very nice so this is taking a good

• 36:49

amount of time it's only mine's only about 50 completed right now this this takes um by default

• 36:58

about two minutes uh the amount of time it takes can be augmented by how players choose to upgrade

• 37:03

the caravansary um but this is taking an amount of time so that people can start to scout for

• 37:12

caravans that might be popping up very nice now another very important aspect of that time that

• 37:17

it's taking is that the time is relative to the distance that the summoning is occurring

• 37:24

even out in the world let's say you find some some loot that is in the form of cargo and you want to

• 37:31

haul that back somewhere you can use an action to summon your caravan from the closest node to that

• 37:38

location and you will spawn this similar summoning function and the time to travel to you will be

• 37:45

predicated on the distance to the node the components of the caravan and any other potential

• 37:50

benefits or buffs that are denoted by special building construction relics or policies is that

• 37:56

correct exactly um and it's also worth keeping in mind you can only summon out in the wild

• 38:02

if it's an empty caravan very nice yes look at mine and look at yours bucky

• 38:11

all right it's the same caravan they both look great

• 38:15

show us these two pictures they're the same picture oh my gosh how this is a great looking caravan

• 38:22

oh it looks amazing mine's like a tank and this is the default kalar caravan is that correct

• 38:31

oh no i believe this is the tier two or a tier five i think actually for these yes yes so i have

• 38:37

the upgraded components of it um and there are obviously a different number of skins that you

• 38:43

can acquire in the game and um uh and or cosmetics that have been purchased that will be different

• 38:49

looking caravans but if you don't have skins applied this is the version of tier one and

• 38:54

tier two that you will see in the game by default that looks that that looks great i mean this is

• 39:00

this is amazing talk to me how a little bit about what it took to construct these caravans to build

• 39:06

them i mean this is a highly componentized system yeah yeah that is correct so you actually have a

• 39:13

couple different components like you saw in the um caravan screen before and each of those are

• 39:19

things that can visually be upgraded kind of as like as their own thing so it would be possible

• 39:24

to have like only nicer wheels or like only a nice chassis and that's going to be visually

• 39:30

represented so players can kind of like see what potential buffs you might have for example you

• 39:35

can see stevens has all that tank looking armor that's going to be able to kind of let people just

• 39:41

like looking from the outside maybe attackers not that we support stealing caravans but no if i

• 39:48

didn't want to do that you know i could see that maybe i would want to go for stevens caravan yes

• 39:55

that's right i want everyone maybe i would go for not stevens caravan yeah every caravan now in ashes

• 40:06

is going to be named not stevens caravan oh no well then they would go after not stevens caravan

• 40:13

so you don't want to name it yeah don't do that oh man i should have got the two horses

• 40:21

edition dude i'm going so slow literally half the horsepower

• 40:29

you do have half the horsepower why are you moving so slowly back there

• 40:33

well my beast of burden isn't as upgraded as first so i don't have as high of a boost status you do

• 40:38

do this road though we're gonna we're just gonna get a road buff which boosts both speeds

• 40:46

ah very cool okay so so being on a road versus off-road is more beneficial because of that buff

• 40:53

but in addition the components that we are using are not necessarily made for offering

• 41:01

yeah so some of the dark yeah exactly so there'll be different variants of each of the components

• 41:05

with the wheels for example would have variants that will excel perhaps at off-road over on-road

• 41:11

and vice versa and so right now we have caravans that are set up more for the on-road portion but

• 41:17

you do we will travel faster over roads but that obviously comes with the increased risk running

• 41:22

into other players or monsters that are blocking the oh wow i see i have that i have the road buff

• 41:27

now where are you i'm almost on the road should i wait for you uh yes this is a this is a caravan

• 41:39

of caravans right we're a team here oh okay caravan apparently i like that all right here we go

• 41:44

we know you know there we go i see the importance i mean this the caravan system is is somewhat

• 41:52

treacherous i mean you should be you should uh take caution with this i mean i feel very susceptible

• 42:00

yeah well we got our group of defenders with us at least we're not running completely solo

• 42:05

that's true yeah it's definitely something and this goes for a lot of the node features right

• 42:10

where we're trying to create these ways for you know people who maybe are used to sort of the

• 42:16

more solo mmo like gameplay experience to have easy ways to take that first step into like

• 42:22

collaborating or competing with each other so that's really one of the things that we

• 42:26

spend a lot of time talking about for this system absolutely and perhaps i assume um bucky or chris

• 42:33

that in regards to the design of the component system if i am utilizing components that might

• 42:40

give my caravan a significantly higher stat of speed it's unlikely that i would also at the same

• 42:48

time be able to select components that were to give an equitable amount of benefit in the stat

• 42:54

of let's say cargo or health it's going to be a trade-off in that sense yeah that's exactly right

• 43:00

like so you'll be able to have caravans of different customizations but there won't be

• 43:04

one caravan does everything the best you'll have to make sacrifices depending on what you want to

• 43:07

use your caravan for if you want to have an off-road caravan a really fast on-road caravan or

• 43:12

just a slow tanky caravan that can hold a lot of stuff there'll be other options players can can

• 43:17

choose to uh outfit their caravans with very cool already i can see the obvious benefit and choices

• 43:28

that certain players will have i mean if as nathan was saying if you're the most more solo oriented

• 43:32

player you might just want to have the fastest possible caravan around because one you're not

• 43:38

worrying about people to stick you know close to you but also if you do come under attack

• 43:43

your chances of succeeding at a fight are far less than getting away by speed

• 43:49

yeah that's that's true or i could also see a variant though where you want to just you know go off

• 43:53

road guys why is tubac here uh is he just on his path i think he's just on his path uh you're gonna

• 44:03

want to turn around we cannot take that oh i wonder if he'll turn around if he detects us

• 44:10

i think he probably would okay should we stay back here yeah yeah this path is not uh not for us we

• 44:20

go ahead give us a turnaround and i'll show you my secret little off-road path all righty okay

• 44:34

this is what we're lucky for i'm on over this way no i do i stopped so quick when you guys said that

• 44:39

i was like hiding in the rocks already back here that would have turned out to be a very bad stream

• 44:49

all right come on through okay this is like a super peaceful pathway right like oh it's

• 44:56

super peaceful okay barely even dangerous just as like i know a way guys don't worry

• 45:04

oh god spiders i'm just assuming you guys will take care of that yeah you know that's their job

• 45:12

as the defenders we just got to keep rolling better be careful not to aggro any stephen

• 45:17

no i am trying not to i don't really see any up here though

• 45:23

nothing too crazy up here yeah but this is one of the this is one of the dangers is

• 45:29

you may never know what's on the road the road has a buff that's great but it also has

• 45:35

a little bit more visibility and that can be a problem and so off-roading is a necessary component

• 45:43

of the caravan system and traveling in general and because of that there will be components that

• 45:48

make traveling off-road a bit easier perhaps yeah certainly i'm trying to get back to them

• 45:58

yeah it's definitely slower i'm rolling we're still rolling should have gone for the off-road

• 46:08

wheels maybe did we get lost is there like a path up here back to the road yeah no no you're good

• 46:13

you're good you're going the right way follow the spiders oh yeah oh god um i'm thinking it's

• 46:22

starting to take a little bit of damage here hey stephen we might need a heal and i remember you

• 46:27

cooking some kind of healing item yes okay all right they're eating horses they're definitely

• 46:36

where's the tank when you need one i just activated the healing thing wow that's actually

• 46:40

pretty good those are good heals yeah that's a that's a strong hot right there wow

• 46:49

it's perfectly balanced final pass i think we could have definitely taken too much

• 46:57

i don't know about that spiders versus giant 10 hours later

• 47:02

uh oh that would that did not work out oh no you can't you can't drive off cliffs stephen yeah

• 47:12

i thought these were those kinds of horses with the cliff jumper horses yeah we leashed them

• 47:21

you actually have to unlock a different service building to get recruitment of those

• 47:25

jumping horses so can i get spider horses just different kinds of you know let's even come down

• 47:32

this way i know this this looks fine uh you think yeah you'll make it you'll make it

• 47:38

i mean these these horses are that fragile

• 47:42

we've made it back to the watch tumach just comes out of nowhere yeah just like i found you

• 47:49

i've been waiting for you how you doing back there bucky um oh yeah oh yeah yeah i mean i've

• 47:59

i've just been here defending him the whole time uh-huh thank you guys yeah yeah you're welcome

• 48:03

we do it for you oh i see we've come across a little river up here that looks like we'll have

• 48:10

to make a crossing oh this is a little bit of a challenge but i think we're gonna make it

• 48:16

crossing oh this is a great little image i'm digging this oh let me turn off the uh

• 48:26

hold on can you catch me uh on my album cover looking away from the camera

• 48:31

well i can't where are you oh hold on we gotta get the good album cover photo where we're all

• 48:36

looking away just looking off into like desperation another day in vera that's my

• 48:43

chance they're distracted i can pass them no even if i gave you a head start now with that little

• 48:51

hoopty oh yeah my money's on steven here okay so now uh we were intending to show this update with

• 49:01

this update the transition from land to river with the raft system caravans when they intersect with

• 49:09

a river they uh go into a construction stage why don't you talk to me a little bit about that uh

• 49:15

how and chris yeah so um the primary there's like two kind of methods to crossing rivers right one

• 49:24

of them is with bridges which are constructed by mayors and players but the other method is via a

• 49:32

transformation into a raft um now it will push you at a little bit of a um it'll make you a little

• 49:40

bit of a sitting duck while you're transitioning once you're in the water you'll get kind of a

• 49:45

nice speed boost from the currents um and it's a alternate means to getting stuck on

• 49:51

the choke points that are bridges very cool yep that will be an update coming shortly

• 50:00

so we were having some bugs i'm really stoked for you guys to see it though it's already looking

• 50:05

really cool and i'm so hyped about it oh how how has been integral in creating the assets for

• 50:15

showcasing what that transition looks and feels like and helping to demonstrate the construction

• 50:22

process of the raft it is super cool to see even how how you've incorporated the more

• 50:27

componentized system of creating this caravan as a whole into being able to adapt for that

• 50:34

construction scene all the pieces that are relevant on different skins and cosmetics for

• 50:40

the caravan as well yeah it's been really fun kind of figuring out how we're gonna like like

• 50:46

show certain things make everything work together like balance all the pieces but it's yeah it's

• 50:51

been a fun time and i think kind of visually showing things like for example like the cargo um

• 50:57

to kind of like which can we're still kind of working with techart to get this fully up and

• 51:02

running but you are eventually going to be able to get a good visual view of like how much cargo

• 51:07

someone's going to be holding and you know the possible rewards you're going to be able to get

• 51:10

to so it's yeah it's it's been a really fun time yeah it's been it's been super cool to watch this

• 51:17

this bridge by the way is a bit slower than the road you're not getting a road buff on this bridge

• 51:23

steven oh that's so sad so bridges bridges can be upgraded you know and that will let them provide

• 51:33

you more speed i should be getting the uh uh road the bridge buff bridge buff should be just

• 51:39

super powerful utokyo drift off a bridge yes exactly they did that a few times in uh

• 51:50

there are lots of movies that have drifting i know no there's only one there's only one

• 51:58

it's the polar express isn't it no it has like been diesel in them um fast and the furious

• 52:08

fast and the furious yeah it's fast and the furious you know that one fast and the furious

• 52:13

movie that one out of 30 fast and furious we should get some fast and furious versions of the

• 52:21

caravan the more the more you say it the more you will it into existence justo has like his finger

• 52:29

on the trigger to just make like t7 caravan components you can't carry any cargo you just

• 52:36

max speed and you get a drifting ability that's it that's all he wants in life that'd be so good

• 52:43

it was so great i'm loving i'm getting like the cinematic shots right now

• 52:50

yeah the environment team has done such an amazing job about bringing vera to life and

• 52:55

that's another cool thing about us being able to show off this live stream is we've kind of

• 52:59

kept a lot of the uh exploration of vera uh under wraps because we want to you know make

• 53:05

sure that people get that first glimpse of it when the servers go online for a2 but

• 53:10

we can show off some of that stuff here super oh my god there's a bear oh oh no danger bear

• 53:21

oh we just entered a super moody part of the forest

• 53:26

okay there's a bear that way i'm gonna go this way i'm gonna go left opposite the direction of

• 53:32

the bears yes yes i'm gonna go oh there's little rabbits over there too oh no okay

• 53:42

boys bridge oh oh whoops my bad i just called it out you know for the team we're just gonna

• 53:49

wait here and admire the the beautiful scene which by the way zachery and um hans did a

• 53:57

phenomenal job with looks so good yeah it's looking really cool i like this next area coming

• 54:02

up too we're almost on our way to mere left here oh mirror like he's like i really like this next

• 54:09

area he's talking about the second bridge still yeah the river is you guys seen the river yet

• 54:18

there's a bridge there you need to be careful there were some trolls nearby

• 54:21

oh you made it welcome back bucky i really should have just given you some components

• 54:29

to put on your car really just the horse the extra horse could have probably helped a lot you know

• 54:33

yeah or just the horse yeah it's too bad we can't have like a pit stop and put on

• 54:41

another horse for you just spawn it into existence it would be cool although once the caravans are

• 54:45

parked you're able to upgrade the components every time every time you park the caravan in the stall

• 54:53

at any node you can adjust oh whoa whoa what's up ahead there's a giant fallen tree

• 55:03

oh i don't think i can chop through this one guys no let's let's uh maybe we go

• 55:09

go off-road a little bit here so juiced i could be wrong but this looks like one of our

• 55:16

environmental hazards at work yeah oh juiced are you needed how about now there you go there we go

• 55:26

i made it uh yeah so something um that can happen to caravans while they're traveling along roads

• 55:32

are out in the world is um there are events kind of waiting for caravans yes i can chop them well

• 55:39

first i gotta i have to do a little cheating first but yes i can do that um you actually you

• 55:47

can interact with the environment that free up the area to move through too yeah that'd be yep hold on

• 55:53

don't show my gm panel oh my god just kill the horse what is wrong what is wrong with you oh no

• 56:11

chris no uh excellent this is carry on that we had an unbelievable you're we had an off-road pack

• 56:26

i didn't do it on purpose so we're gonna transfer the goods from steven's caravan over to pucky's

• 56:31

that's that's a good that's a good community question do players want trees

• 56:35

to fall damage we all know what the answer to that question is the answer is a resounding yes

• 56:42

trees should falling on people should do damage should destroy caravans one shot unbelievable

• 56:52

i'm sorry chris what were you saying uh something about caravans on routes um they uh

• 56:59

so yeah when you're traveling with the caravan um there are events that can trigger as a result

• 57:04

of you being there with a caravan um that can either block your way or um spawn things to attack

• 57:11

your caravan um and require you to kind of um make decisions about how you want to proceed right

• 57:17

whether you turn around and go somewhere else or you find a path off road um all with different

• 57:23

kind of dangers associated with them very cool how are you doing back there bucky all in your

• 57:34

tracks it's looking good after our assistance in clearing the path for you you're welcome

• 57:41

thank you yeah you were you were doing a good job guiding me too attempted murder

• 57:46

little colin my little colin b unbelievable listen i've only been playing a defender of

• 57:52

your caravan long con right before we get there it's actually good good call out though is that

• 58:05

uh you registered to defend the caravan you won't ever be able to unregister and immediately attack

• 58:09

the camera in the beginning of the end oh very good call very good so yeah and then in addition

• 58:14

to that you can be registered participant in multiple caravan events at once so if you had

• 58:23

let's say a caravan of care you could put both caravans in the same rate very cool speaking of

• 58:33

caravans welcome thank you i returned you have nice for you to join us caravan

• 58:37

yeah

• 58:49

it's some time for the holidays yeah oh they came back oh no oh no are they alive

• 58:58

i'm not stopping oh this is creepy with the fog too

• 59:02

okay there's another skeleton over there all right i'm sure this one won't notice this

• 59:15

yeah no you're good its eyes aren't so good zombies in the middle of the road

• 59:20

oh no okay maybe not zombies no i don't think these are zombies it says i'm gonna scout ahead

• 59:36

and see if uh oh god oh this this seems like hey bucky do you want to go ahead bucky okay

• 59:43

oh what are you doing you pulled them i didn't pull anything i learned from watching you

• 59:50

i'm gonna repulse your blast do it do it do it get out of here oh my god they went

• 59:57

fly just keep driving stephen oh i don't think they can find their way back to us i think we're

• 1:00:02

good okay all right we're good nope they found them oh it's shooting me those heels use your

• 1:00:10

speed run steven run it's shooting the caravan go on without us oh the blast oh no

• 1:00:24

can i get some of those heels no all right just just project

• 1:00:31

i'm actually i'm hanging in there

• 1:00:32

oh keeping up oh oh oh gosh i love that blast steven use the sprint get out of here

• 1:00:41

oh okay all right good luck run oh god i just activated that sprint i am oh there he goes

• 1:00:50

oh thanks guys maybe i'll make it after all all right now we target bucky no no

• 1:01:07

oh healers after your caravan i'm almost at mirror how far is mirror left holy

• 1:01:11

here you're right it's right around the corner this is the closest node

• 1:01:15

i mean the world's pretty big stephen yeah that was a nice little nice little caravan

• 1:01:24

expedition we did i am arriving oh god there's no skeletons and there's bats or ravens

• 1:01:31

where why aren't they in their rookery they're wild they're wild federal ravens

• 1:01:37

wow okay i am i think coming actually upon mirrorless yeah how'd you guys fare

• 1:01:50

i mean i'm uh hopping behind you very slowly oh the rudest steven

• 1:02:00

actually just speed boosting me right you're like why walk when you might just

• 1:02:03

see repulsor blast on cool down that was so funny

• 1:02:10

so i've lost the street buff uh yeah once you're in the nose

• 1:02:15

yeah once you're in the purview the node yeah you gotta travel at slow speeds or the guards will get

• 1:02:21

you we're almost there whoa we're almost there is that how it goes exactly that's the exact lyrics

• 1:02:38

of the song for sure it's copyright struck now what happens so i'm seeing that we have this little

• 1:02:49

area in front of us that denotes the turn in radius what happens when i reach it well you're

• 1:02:56

about a second away from finding out oh we did it oh not yet technically we're almost doing it

• 1:03:11

it is done

• 1:03:12

all right so i assume now that there is going to be a hunter's lodge here where i can go and sell

• 1:03:18

this cargo exactly come follow me follow me we'll go and see ah i see uh so if you want to give him

• 1:03:29

a little chat here all right let us discuss with this fine gentleman whoops there we go

• 1:03:36

you'll notice the cargo you're gonna go to your materials and look at that we got mirror

• 1:03:42

leth if you scroll down to me the bottom of the mirror left tab you're gonna see what you delivered

• 1:03:48

very nice okay that's cool so now this is worth yeah eight eight gold 69 silver i can do math

• 1:03:56

well done oh that's cool i'm gonna sell that sell that and that and that and you notice this

• 1:04:05

gentleman sells different items than the last node you were in oh yeah he's got some ancient

• 1:04:11

ale and wine in a case of dunier tools oh that's cool

• 1:04:17

very nice cool that's awesome well look at that we've fully demonstrated the caravan loop from

• 1:04:25

uh certificates or the newly named glint into commodities transited with the caravan system

• 1:04:32

discussed a little bit about the intents of that system and how it is intended to be used

• 1:04:36

for alpha 2 and alpha 3 and alpha 4 and alpha 5 and alpha 6 and alpha 7 and alpha 8 and alpha 9

• 1:04:42

discussed a little bit about the intents of that system and how it is intended to be used for alpha 2

• 1:04:47

as a core loop of the economic gameplay and we have succeeded in delivering through the perilous

• 1:04:54

journey that was the riverlands our commodities to mirror left justo bucky planendorf and hal

• 1:05:05

thank you all for joining us today and demonstrating the caravan system i know that i speak for the

• 1:05:11

audience when i say your guys's hard work is extremely appreciated and cherished by this

• 1:05:18

community that cannot wait for ashes of creation i hope that everyone in the audience enjoyed the

• 1:05:22

demonstration today if you have thoughts please share them with us that is why we do these streams

• 1:05:29

that is why we show you guys monthly the updates to the game it is obviously very important to us

• 1:05:36

to hear your comments on what you enjoyed what you thought could be done differently leave them in

• 1:05:43

twitter on the forums on reddit on discord and on youtube it means the world to us we capture all

• 1:05:49

that information and we analyze it internally but with that being said very excited to get to alpha

• 1:05:57

2 so that all of you can start playing with these systems and testing it's going to be pretty

• 1:06:02

exciting guys thank you for joining us thank you see you back on stream bye

• 1:06:14

all right well i'm gonna play that video whilst we answer some questions from we had twitch chat

• 1:06:22

we've got we have a part a watch party if you didn't know you can head on over to our discord

• 1:06:27

there's a watch party and they all chat and listen to it at the same time and also from

• 1:06:32

discord so we've been pulling questions from everywhere roshan and vacknar have been killing it

• 1:06:36

they've been sending them to me if your question doesn't get answered here it might be because it's

• 1:06:40

already from a forum q a question because we did get quite a few caravan questions from that so

• 1:06:45

first and foremost uh people are wondering are we to transfer physical goods ie fish from a

• 1:06:51

coastal region into the mountains to sell to other players absolutely yeah that is this was commodity

• 1:06:57

focused right so there are um two primary or three i guess primary methods by which caravans transit

• 1:07:04

the world the first is when players are moving commodities the second is when players are moving

• 1:07:10

materials and resources right and that's to your question um that's relevant because materials and

• 1:07:16

resources across the world are unique to the geographic region in which they are produced or

• 1:07:22

which they spawn and crafting stations are located at certain nodes and nodes specialize the types of

• 1:07:29

crafting stations that they can have so the transit of those materials across the world is

• 1:07:33

a necessary component of keeping the economy alive and where there is a demand there will be a supply

• 1:07:39

so that's with regards to the second reason for transiting caravans the third is when mayors and

• 1:07:46

system generated caravans transit the world this is for nodes to acquire certain types of node

• 1:07:53

commodities or node resources that they need to initiate public work projects and to initiate

• 1:07:58

construction projects so what we saw today was commodities which is going to be the primary

• 1:08:03

method by which players earn gold and that's through acquiring commodities with glint which is

• 1:08:09

a bound uh currency uh and then turning that those commodities in for gold which is then player to

• 1:08:17

player traded currencies all right um our next question is can you lose the caravan upgrade

• 1:08:25

components if the caravan is destroyed you have to then get the upgrades again not only yeah not

• 1:08:30

only can you lose the caravan components if the caravan is destroyed you lose all of the caravan

• 1:08:35

components and you lose the caravan however if the caravan takes damage damage can be done to

• 1:08:42

components directly as well depending on the source and directionality of the damage

• 1:08:48

and those components can be destroyed even if the caravan survives which would require replacement

• 1:08:54

of those components as well all right and you talked a little bit about gold here people are

• 1:08:59

wondering on obviously i know the answer here but our gold prices seen on stream too low maybe

• 1:09:06

you know obviously we're not at balance point in regards to currencies yeah there's there's two

• 1:09:12

points there one which is the point you're making is that i wouldn't read into anything regarding

• 1:09:16

balance right now at this stage we are we have not done balance passes when it comes to currencies

• 1:09:22

when it comes to damage numbers when it comes to cool down timers probably be that time frame when

• 1:09:27

we want more right i mean we'll we'll do different levels of balance checks at different stages

• 1:09:33

right and how and what you're describing with beta is where we get really granular and we prepare the

• 1:09:38

balance passes for launch we do finger in the wind balances right now right so we don't spend a lot

• 1:09:44

of time in it we just do what kind of feels okay our poor economy folks are like i'm making

• 1:09:49

spreadsheets all day stephen i know exactly um but uh that's the first point the second point is

• 1:09:57

remember the demonstration you just saw was from one node to another that was the closest node

• 1:10:04

so the further you transit the commodities in the world the greater the return rate is for that

• 1:10:11

commodity why because the risk is greater the further you travel the more risk you inherit

• 1:10:16

um now it's important to note that at the end of this uh demonstration you just saw i sold those

• 1:10:23

commodities to the mirror leth node i didn't have to do that i could have kept the winstead commodities

• 1:10:30

that i originated with in mirror leth and launched another caravan at a later time to take those

• 1:10:37

commodities to a node even further away and sold it for a higher exchange rate in addition depending

• 1:10:44

on the times in which nodes exist it is entirely possible that winstead might be destroyed at some

• 1:10:52

point in the future and i have a hoard of winstead commodities that i've been saving in other nodes

• 1:10:59

that would dramatically increase the price as well so there's speculation within the market

• 1:11:04

also which is an important component i think of the intricacies that a good economic gameplay

• 1:11:10

needs to provide oh and any of us who have played any mmo you know there's a a whole game just with

• 1:11:18

selling and trading things so for people who enjoy that aspect there will definitely be that for you

• 1:11:24

um maybe even on a larger scale um the next question here is how large is the radius for the

• 1:11:30

announcement of the caravan like how how wide does that go out to people who are maybe in the area

• 1:11:37

who either want to uh take you know and attack it or maybe help defend absolutely so what you're

• 1:11:45

describing is essentially an event notification and at a certain proximity to the caravan any

• 1:11:51

player will receive the event notification to participate either as an attacker or as a defender

• 1:11:58

that proximity radius can be augmented either through uh players advancement within the high

• 1:12:06

waymen uh uh system which is for defenders or attackers um you can increase the radius

• 1:12:13

but also the components can increase and or decrease uh the radius of that um event notify

• 1:12:20

as well uh so it is something that we're going to be balancing as you described earlier uh through

• 1:12:26

alpha 2 testing is going to be important for that um but you know the idea here is that the caravan

• 1:12:32

system has an inherent risk and that is that players out on the roads when you're uh you know

• 1:12:38

far away from these node locations uh can gank your caravans but as i was describing uh in the

• 1:12:45

in the um uh stream in the showcase this is something that will influence how you construct

• 1:12:54

your caravan and which components you want to go for so for example if you're a solo player and

• 1:12:59

you don't intend on transiting a lot of materials at once you may not need the large cargo capacity

• 1:13:06

but instead you want the faster speed because you intend to outrun any potential adversaries

• 1:13:13

that you might face on the roads that is a viable strategic option for you when constructing your

• 1:13:21

caravan in addition you saw that there are a number of different abilities that caravans can

• 1:13:27

be equipped with based on the loadout of the components that you have for your caravan that is

• 1:13:32

also going to influence how you interact with pvp and potential adversaries and since you're talking

• 1:13:38

about you know how much you can put on your caravan folks are wondering what is the most one

• 1:13:43

caravan can transport that's a good question that that question has not been answered yet and it

• 1:13:49

likely will not be answered until we have been able to test the system with a good amount of

• 1:13:55

good amount of players and in a relatively persistent setting which is what alpha 2 is

• 1:14:00

intended to provide this next question is a very interesting one because it affects a lot of our

• 1:14:06

content creators especially those who stream live and they're curious are there any plans to prevent

• 1:14:11

streamers from getting harassed when trying to start a caravan that's a that's that's a tough

• 1:14:17

question um you know obviously we will have um you know certain systems that won't lend well

• 1:14:27

to streaming uh because certain systems have a requirement of secrecy and or at least some level

• 1:14:35

of strategic ambiguity so players need to be conscientious of that fact uh when they're

• 1:14:41

intending to both stream and play ashes of creation um you know those are things that we

• 1:14:47

cannot solve uh because intrigue is an intrinsic part of the game um recommendations there are

• 1:14:55

options to have stream delays for your stream you can choose how long that delay is i know that that

• 1:14:59

makes it hard for having interactions but as a fellow streamer i understand i've played many pvp

• 1:15:05

games and uh sometimes it's fun because it brings the battle to you so if you're cool with that

• 1:15:10

i've always enjoyed that in that in like fps games mmo games i've always brought friends with me so i

• 1:15:15

would highly recommend you know having a crew that acts as protection for you because you're going to

• 1:15:21

need it absolutely um but that's the whole point of mmos is to have friends create a community i'm

• 1:15:29

still friends with some of the people i've met when i was like 14 which is pretty cool um yeah

• 1:15:35

uh the next one here is does speed vary based on the weight of the items in the caravan or is it

• 1:15:40

primarily just the caravan itself and the upgrades that you have on it yeah at this time speed is not

• 1:15:46

influenced by capacity uh speed is a stat that lives on the vehicle and that stat can be augmented

• 1:15:53

through the component choices that are made uh but weight is not a factor that's where we leave the

• 1:15:58

gameplay primarily to the spatial system obviously we want to emphasize that components have the

• 1:16:05

ability to expand the spatial uh inventory of the caravan and being kind of strategic in the choice

• 1:16:14

of components you utilize for the shapes that are available is going to be relevant because it will

• 1:16:20

influence how much of a thing you can transport in any one given trip but weight does not influence

• 1:16:25

the speed of the caravan now all right we just have a few more here uh and then we're gonna have

• 1:16:30

to move on otherwise we'll be here all day we can't answer every question y'all um our next one is

• 1:16:36

and there's a potluck by the way yeah there's a potluck going on we have a costume contest in the

• 1:16:42

office so lots of fun stuff going on at the office i'm like juggling announcements for all these

• 1:16:47

things at the same time as being on a stream um but our next thing is could you upgrade roads in

• 1:16:53

the node to upgrade the path the speed of the caravan because you kind of talked a little bit

• 1:16:57

about how you can create a bridge and things of that sort are there ways that like the mayor or

• 1:17:03

other people can help uh you know caravans move faster from one node to the other absolutely so

• 1:17:09

that buff that you saw is a buff that can be changed in the world based on the world state

• 1:17:15

some of those world state uh interactions include certain types of relics that the nodes which

• 1:17:22

govern your area might have access to and might be actively employing some of it might have to do

• 1:17:27

with policies you might be able to extend the guard influences across the road radius further

• 1:17:35

out for certain nodes if you have certain policies you might be able to enhance and empower those

• 1:17:40

guards through itemization choices that are granted by building upgrades that the node selects to

• 1:17:45

build um you know there's a number of different influences uh that the intricacies of our systems

• 1:17:52

provide um and it is a complex landscape because um again this is a very high level meta strategy

• 1:18:00

style of mmorpg uh where player player activity community choice and uh certain key personnel

• 1:18:11

within the world key players that have assumed certain positions have the ability to influence

• 1:18:20

sorry had a cat that's okay um hopefully that helps you get bingos i don't know uh i haven't

• 1:18:27

seen the bingo card today so i don't know what's on it um usually the cats are uh but i'm going to

• 1:18:33

wrap it up with these last two so in pvp what is looting a caravan like with the cargo system seen

• 1:18:39

on stream sure um so when a caravan gets destroyed it creates a wreckage that wreckage will have a

• 1:18:50

number of the supplies that the caravan was carrying and when stolen by attackers those

• 1:18:56

supplies become essentially stolen glint or corrupted glint uh and or stolen resources

• 1:19:05

that the caravan was hauling um if they are commodities they uh they can they maintain

• 1:19:11

their commodity type um and players will have to summon a caravan from a nearby node

• 1:19:17

uh that would be empty in order to haul those crates back if they um you can also break into

• 1:19:25

the crates or the cargo itself uh instead of hauling the cargo as a completed shipment doing

• 1:19:30

so reduces the number of total um um uh resources that you can gather from the crate so a portion

• 1:19:38

of it is sunk to the system and then a portion of it gets sunk further if you choose to break

• 1:19:43

open the crates uh versus attempting to haul them back all right and in the future you may see more

• 1:19:50

of that keeping in mind keeping in mind a few things obviously systems like this which are

• 1:19:55

highly detailed and incredibly intricate in the world they are subject to constant revision

• 1:20:03

play testing internally and the designs may change you might even have noticed i saw some

• 1:20:09

commentary during the presentation that when you summon the caravan uh previously we had stated

• 1:20:15

that caravans would have a top down view of a map that you would select a location and the radius of

• 1:20:20

the node we opted to change that design to a held item that you can summon in front of your character

• 1:20:28

because we felt that it was more um it was more immersive because it's like in the world versus

• 1:20:35

taking it out into ui and not only that but there's inherent risk in deploying a construction

• 1:20:42

zone at a location that you cannot see with the top down map view as opposed to having that item

• 1:20:48

in your inventory and summoning it in front of you when you know there's no one around to see

• 1:20:53

and you want to eat that time up in a safe location yeah you saw on the stream they were

• 1:20:58

like hey let's not do this right in the open here let's move off to the side absolutely the last

• 1:21:03

question here since we are talking about wreckages of caravans or people coming and stealing your

• 1:21:08

stuff can you purchase some kind of form of insurance for your caravans no there's no

• 1:21:15

insurance system for the caravans caravans you know it's a treacherous road out there not a lot

• 1:21:21

of insurance companies are willing to assume that level of risk i'm gonna see i'm like imagining

• 1:21:25

people like knocking up on people's like freehold being like i'm here to ask you about your caravan

• 1:21:30

insurance yeah but there's nothing to say that that can't be player organized if some particular

• 1:21:37

guild wanted to go and create a caravan mercenary corps that helped aid in the defense and transit

• 1:21:44

of caravans they could employ some type of insurance system if they had you'd offer that

• 1:21:49

to streamers so that you can protect them on their stream that would be pretty sweet 100

• 1:21:56

and they would live and die by their reputation so um you know obviously the bigger more reputable

• 1:22:01

guilds would have an opportunity i think to capitalize on those types of things but i would be

• 1:22:06

um i'd be scared to see the type of premiums if you organize things like that uh definitely let

• 1:22:11

us know because uh i know roshan and vackner on the community side we have a lot of plans to um

• 1:22:17

kind of do some server specific news and things like that and i think it'd be really fun to see

• 1:22:22

like what kind of cool community things that people come up with that they end up doing i

• 1:22:27

always love that stuff that that's what makes them the most for fun um next up we're just gonna talk

Studio Update

• 1:22:32

a little bit about studio update stuff and i apologize if it keeps switching between october

• 1:22:38

and september legit that september asset is nowhere in the scenes it's like some weird ghost

• 1:22:43

of the machine happening during the during the video i was like searching and i was like that

• 1:22:48

assets nowhere i don't know how it's switching between it it's creepy but if you want to talk

• 1:22:55

a little bit studio updates we've had uh we just recently this last uh week had a bungee do a bunch

• 1:23:02

of layoffs which has been really rough i know um it's been rough in general in the game industry

• 1:23:08

it has been rough you know it's been a rough time for the world just thinking about where we were

• 1:23:14

last stream in the world and where we are this month a lot has changed and it's you know it's

• 1:23:21

getting a little bit more um concerning and you know especially from a job market perspective as

• 1:23:27

well in the industry um you know we continue to see layoffs but intrepid is continuing to grow

• 1:23:32

as a matter of fact i believe this month we've i think this month we've hired almost 11 people

• 1:23:38

um quite a considerable number of people so far for the team so we're continuing to hire and we

• 1:23:45

continue to search for incredibly talented individuals to join our team there's a number

• 1:23:50

of positions that are posted on intrepid studios.com obviously you guys in the community are

• 1:23:55

incredibly helpful in helping to spread that information about both the game but also the

• 1:23:59

opportunity of the company um but things are going great things are going good at the studio

• 1:24:05

yeah we're doing really good like look steven said we have a potluck right now we have a costume

• 1:24:09

contest um we have extra life coming up which a ton of our staff are going to be partaking in

• 1:24:14

in a very in a variety of different ways um and however they can assist and volunteer their time

• 1:24:20

because this remember this is like outside of our work hours so um yeah it's really really good

• 1:24:25

stuff we have a good family here and everyone's just kicking butt and trying to make this awesome

• 1:24:32

game and sometimes you know um it can be hard when you see other folks you have like survivor's guilt

• 1:24:40

because you're not sure like how can i help you so if there's any way uh if there's hr folks out

• 1:24:45

there or anybody who wants to reach out please reach out to us um we will you know assist you

• 1:24:51

in any way that we can even if we don't have job offers we can also you know help point you in the

• 1:24:55

right direction for other positions like that yeah anybody out there jobs at intrepid studios.com is

• 1:25:01

a great resource uh and our website intrepid studios.com all right and uh we just have a

• 1:25:08

little bit of art to share with you all um so first and foremost we have this cutie um this

Art Update

• 1:25:15

was made by ginsy this is the fichon komodo um and we have some images of that guy as well with the

• 1:25:23

3d model um yeah that one's looking awesome so if anyone has nagged that can't wait to see how it

• 1:25:31

walks because those ones always crack me up a little waddles a little fast waddle yeah next up we've got

• 1:25:38

the charmed threads a couple images of that

• 1:25:46

if it'll rotate there you go see the cloak yeah like it's great got very autumn autumnal colors

• 1:25:54

i know yes desert biome goodness for sure you could wear this in the desert see folks saying that

• 1:26:01

um and i think i have a turntable of this and this was done by danny so danny good job great job danny

• 1:26:12

yeah reminds me of tennessee next up we've got the um

• 1:26:20

duck ears labeled different uh this is the veteran or right drake and this was done by

• 1:26:28

jan jan jan jan this is a german in me wants to say jan jan jan um this guy flies by braille

• 1:26:44

well this one doesn't fly this is a ground uh this guy walks by braille uh stephen thought

• 1:26:52

his ear holes were eye holes he's like well if he's gonna be blind he should cut you should cover

• 1:26:56

his eyes and i was like those are his ears they did not look like yours to me they look like uh

• 1:27:01

they look i think maybe i can show you again unfinished eye sockets i messaged our glorious

• 1:27:08

character team last night and i was like is the blindfold offset it's like should be covering

• 1:27:17

those there so this is the image he was referring to where you could see the he thought that was an

• 1:27:21

eye socket but it's just their ear hole um that looks pretty awesome this was one of from one of

• 1:27:28

our sets it's all broken and blind but very very cool so good and with that we are going to swap

Outro and Q&A

• 1:27:36

over i'll just play more of the caravan video um so you all can have something uh you know

• 1:27:42

pleasant to look at whilst we answer the final bit of questions from the q a from the forums

• 1:27:48

some of these do include some caravan questions um so the first one is from the dark sorcerer and

• 1:27:54

they want to know about caravan controllers this was also asked a bunch in the in the twitch chat

• 1:27:59

and watch party too i think some folks asked um who is able to pilot the different types of caravans

• 1:28:05

and will it be possible for trolls to take over your caravan and then also there was tangentially

• 1:28:11

from twitch and and discord people were wondering if other people could ride your caravan so if you

• 1:28:17

can answer both of those so uh i'll break those up with regards to uh caravan driver settings uh the

• 1:28:26

owner of the caravan will have an option to create a permanent list of friends uh from their from their

• 1:28:33

known players that they can select to have the rights to drive the caravan um in addition anyone

• 1:28:41

can drive the caravan unless the owner of the caravan activates the um uh the uh writer's

• 1:28:50

permission uh ability and the writer's permission ability restricts access to the driver's seat for

• 1:28:57

a period of time um to only that owner and the selected members that the owner approves of now

• 1:29:07

the player who's driving caravan receives a very significant buff that uh alleviates any concern

• 1:29:15

for cc effects that can be applied while they're driving the driver so they have a strong driver's

• 1:29:20

buff and it also increases damage mitigation significantly so it's quite a task to dethrone

• 1:29:27

the writer from the actual vehicle this is true not just for caravans but also for uh ships as well

• 1:29:33

but not for mounts so just vehicles uh now should that driver however be killed and removed from the

• 1:29:42

vehicle um after a period of time that uh owner's lockout um will be released and anybody can grab

• 1:29:51

the caravan and drive it off now the caravan will de-summon after a time a significant amount of time

• 1:29:59

right now i think we have it coded at 15 to 20 minutes um so that robbers could potentially drive

• 1:30:05

the caravan away if necessary same for ships um now if the caravan does get despawned the cargo is

• 1:30:12

then left as a wreckage as if the caravan were destroyed uh for either the owner to reach and

• 1:30:18

pick up um themselves by summoning another caravan that would have to be empty they'd have to have a

• 1:30:23

caravan available to do so uh at a nearby node and the further the node is the longer it'll take to

• 1:30:31

summon the caravan um uh or the attackers can do so um so that was a question with regards to the

• 1:30:39

driver there's a second part of the question the second part is like can other people ride on your

• 1:30:44

caravan oh yes so the caravan does have collision um uh and players could jump on top and and kind

• 1:30:51

of get out of the caravan yes all right um the next one here is from aka bear or aca bear and

• 1:30:59

they would like to know about caravan sabotage will players have the ability to set up an ambush

• 1:31:04

or trap a caravan caravan that may block the route temporarily we did see a log that was down there

• 1:31:10

examples was the uh like a falling tree rolling boulders uh lighting fires things like that yeah

• 1:31:17

um as it stands currently uh it would be difficult for players to be able to block the caravan now

• 1:31:25

that's not to say that certain types of effects cannot be applied to the caravan through ability

• 1:31:29

use such as slowing effects or or um uh pause effects stun effects against the caravan itself

• 1:31:36

not the rider um but uh right now we do have a collision priority system which means that

• 1:31:44

vehicles move players and mounts right mounts and players cannot stop vehicles from moving

• 1:31:51

uh the vehicle its collision has priority um and then ships have the ultimate priority uh nothing

• 1:31:58

can move ships or do they just push the players out of the way if they're in the way that's

• 1:32:03

correct yes all right uh the next one here is um how will the game handle multiple people trying

• 1:32:13

to send caravans from the same place at the same time and this is from land shark x like for example

• 1:32:17

let's say i've got 300 people my guild we all stand on where we're like all right we're gonna

• 1:32:22

summon our caravans right here absolutely so as a player you can you can participate in events that

• 1:32:29

have as many caravans co-located as you want so if you have you know 20 caravans that you're trying

• 1:32:35

to move all in a single caravan raid with all of your players uh you can join all 20 of those

• 1:32:41

caravans into the same caravan defense group um and that is that is the intent of the system

• 1:32:48

um the same is true for then the attackers the attackers can join against all of those caravans

• 1:32:54

speaking of attackers and defenders um gall is actually wondering about caravan affiliation

• 1:32:59

and their question is will players receive the player and guild name of the caravan owner before

• 1:33:03

choosing to attack or defend to determine friend or foe yes that'll be part of the event notify

• 1:33:09

uh when you choose to either participate as an attacker or defender again keeping in mind what

• 1:33:14

you're seeing here with regards to the ui is a work in progress this is our very functional

• 1:33:20

form of ui after functional comes testable after testable comes playable right um and so we are

• 1:33:26

not even at those stages of iteration yet someone wanted to let you know steven that you're the most

• 1:33:32

informed stormtrooper they've ever encountered um and they would like to give kudos to your trainer

• 1:33:38

uh within the empire thank you that is actually john john is my trainer now i'm not that good

• 1:33:44

with a blaster but i can i can riff on something it's okay they just kind of shoot everywhere

• 1:33:50

anyway um the next question is from guild cheese mojito which is the most ridiculous name and they

• 1:33:57

want to know about buffing the van can the caravan itself be affected by defense buffs or protected

• 1:34:04

by any like cover style abilities from the tank uh there are certain abilities that do interrupt

• 1:34:11

projectiles uh they do offer collision and block collision presumably yes you could utilize some

• 1:34:18

of those abilities especially on the tank um to block some incoming attacks against the caravan

• 1:34:25

um okay yeah so not like a ton of abilities but there might be some it just kind of depends on

• 1:34:33

the circumstances um to tome wants to know about or tomb sorry tomb wants to know about node

• 1:34:39

representation do nodes provide their citizens some kind of clothes or ornaments capes taverns

• 1:34:45

or something that they can basically represent their node be like i'm from merrillith look how

• 1:34:51

cool i am for player characters yeah for player characters um you know the npcs do i'm not sure

• 1:35:00

if that if that is part of the i mean technically the node does have a sigil or insignia um and there

• 1:35:08

will be certain armors that you can uh customize insignia and or symbols on so yes you could

• 1:35:17

probably achieve that all right and then uh arcano wants about node elections is the

• 1:35:25

uh economic node blind bid election process a gold sink or does the gold go into the node treasury

• 1:35:32

so whatever one's gold sink okay yeah it's a gold thing how we get the gold out of the system brah

• 1:35:37

that's right it's i mean you're paying for the political power um and you're paying for the position

• 1:35:46

paying for the position correct that's right and then that gold goes to uh charity oh i like that

• 1:35:54

goes to the orphanage down the street exactly uh azuray wants to know about religion can the

• 1:36:00

special items that are only available for the highest ranking members of a religion be traded

• 1:36:05

or soloed or sold uh to other players nope they are bound to the character and they are timed

• 1:36:12

so when you lose that position you lose access to the items all right and then nick wants to know

• 1:36:18

about player gear progression could you explain in detail what you mean by 50 of player power

• 1:36:23

when talking about gear influence on player power this is something you had mentioned in a previous

• 1:36:28

stream in regards to where the player power comes from for sure that's just a kind of general

• 1:36:36

allocation of what players can expect to pursue when enhancing their player character power

• 1:36:42

now obviously the distribution and ratio of those types of influences whether it be itemization

• 1:36:47

whether it be level whether it be um augments uh choices and or skill tree choices like those

• 1:36:56

influences and ratios change through the leveling curve uh so at lower levels your character level

• 1:37:03

is going to be more influential over character power than itemization will be but at end game

• 1:37:07

or higher levels or at the end of the adventuring level progression that's when itemization really

• 1:37:13

gets an emphasis for its ratio of player power and our last question here is from top wombat

• 1:37:21

which is an adorable name i love wombats they're so cute uh they want to know about server tech

• 1:37:26

how do you expect to handle many people at once in certain zones like some of most some of them

• 1:37:33

always do layering or uh different you know sure um so player density is a very important aspect of

• 1:37:41

our uh of our custom network layer um zack and his team have been doing an incredible job of

• 1:37:49

creating a uh unique uh network layer that we utilize in ashes of creation to facilitate

• 1:37:57

not just the player density goals but also the open world and seamless travel across that world

• 1:38:06

there's a number of different strategies that we employ when architecting the network layer

• 1:38:10

some of those things have to do with um uh with the significance of replicated data that the player

• 1:38:17

is receiving as the density gets higher we mitigate call and reduce uh the significance distance the

• 1:38:25

um the net relevancy distance um you know we keep things specifically that uh need to be

• 1:38:34

known for the player directionality which which direction they're facing

• 1:38:38

those are the most pertinent data that we transfer to transmit to the to the player character

• 1:38:43

so there's a lot of different strategies it's a it's a relatively complex system

• 1:38:47

um but our goal is to is to satisfy hundreds of players available within a given area and certain

• 1:38:54

events especially castle sieges caravans are one of those types of events as well

• 1:38:59

um and our architecture facilitates that fabulous and that will wrap that up so just as a reminder

• 1:39:07

if you have some thoughts if you have feelings about caravans we will have a thread over on our

• 1:39:12

forums you can check that out at forums.ashlesofcreation.com we implore you to head on over there

• 1:39:17

our developers read everything it's pretty amazing roshan and back in our community managers put

• 1:39:22

together these wonderful reports that make everything uh concise for them so they're able to

• 1:39:27

kind of sift through that information and really understand your guys's thoughts and opinions on

• 1:39:31

uh these different systems obviously when we head into alpha 2 you get your hands on it you can

• 1:39:36

really tell us how it feels right now we're just looking for feel in the water so kind of give us

• 1:39:41

your thoughts on and i guess steven if you have any specific things you're looking uh for feedback

• 1:39:46

on i can yeah i mean you know obviously um with regards to the caravan loop uh thoughts about the

• 1:39:54

components thoughts about uh the commodities and the glint um the interactions between the exchange

• 1:40:01

rate turn in values and ratios the risk versus reward aspect of the system what concerns you what

• 1:40:08

excites you you know anything that uh has to do with what you saw today and we're going to be

• 1:40:14

uploading obviously this video in 4k a little bit later after the stream so you get to watch it in

• 1:40:18

all of its glory um but you know we do these things so that we can collect your feedback and

• 1:40:23

we can make sure that the ship is going in the right direction the proverbial mmo ship is going

• 1:40:28

in the direction that that our community wants and that the the genre is asking for that's why it's so

• 1:40:34

beneficial to be transparent about our development process and talking about that you know i think

• 1:40:39

people say well you've been developing for a while mmo's are big big items it is a lot of moving paces

• 1:40:47

and remember we didn't have as much staff as we did then and now we have a lot so things are moving

• 1:40:52

a lot faster now and i think people can even notice that as you're seeing our updates change

• 1:40:56

but we've taken you through the entire journey what it looks like from concept to prototype

• 1:41:00

to what development is fully fleshed looking like as we move into alpha 1 and alpha 2 and for those

• 1:41:07

of you who maybe haven't been with us the entire time we did announce last month that we are going

• 1:41:12

to be moving into alpha 2 in 2024 so we have announced that probably in our next stream we'll

• 1:41:18

talk a little bit more about quarter and then later on we'll talk a little bit more about like

• 1:41:24

hard dates so kind of keep that in mind we we will share information with you we just want to make

• 1:41:28

sure we have dates that we're we're confident we can hit for you all yeah i would i would say just

• 1:41:33

to add on to that a little bit look it is a it is a journey it is a journey to make this game

• 1:41:42

and it is a massive game it's an ambitious game it's a game that's doing certain things that

• 1:41:48

haven't been done before and because of that particular reason there's obviously a considerable

• 1:41:55

amount of risk in doing things in a way that haven't been done before but honestly that's how

• 1:42:02

you innovate that's how you create explosive change within a particular genre and it should

• 1:42:10

be the desire of every one of us who love mmorpgs to encourage studios and publishers to take risks

• 1:42:19

and to do what hasn't been done before the world building aspect of ashes of creation is one of its

• 1:42:27

greatest appeals and one of its greatest risks and as margaret said we're an independent developer

• 1:42:33

meaning we don't have a major publisher behind us we are self-publishing and we are self-developing

• 1:42:40

and which comes with some strengths and some weaknesses you know of course we understand

• 1:42:45

everything yeah yeah like like everything there are strengths and weakness and in in the dynamic of

• 1:42:49

of any situation but you know the strength that we have in being that self-publisher and that

• 1:42:56

developer is that we get to dictate what we feel is right when it comes to the development of this

• 1:43:03

game and we're doing that in concert with you guys the community and the way we keep those

• 1:43:12

communication channels is through these development updates is through the forums where we ask you the

• 1:43:18

questions to participate in the discussions these types of games don't get made quickly

• 1:43:25

and we have taken a very sustainable growth trajectory as a company so that you know when

• 1:43:33

we are when we are looking at our production schedule going forward we're hiring the right

• 1:43:38

amount of people we're not over hiring at a time where things are still in the air about how we're

• 1:43:44

going to develop some things right now we're a little bit more into that groove that swing of

• 1:43:49

hiring and we've had a lot of success there which is now we're like oh my gosh just make it all

• 1:43:53

things exactly but in 2017 and in 2018 and in 2019 you know a lot of that stuff was still very

• 1:44:01

paper design oriented and some of those pipelines weren't well established so we didn't over hire

• 1:44:08

then even though we had you know goals that we wanted to achieve so with that being said

• 1:44:14

transparent development process is not for everybody if you are finding as a community

• 1:44:19

member that there is just too much angst to wait for this game that you know you are you are becoming

• 1:44:27

you know kind of impatient with the development process that's totally fine that is absolutely

• 1:44:32

fine absolutely 100 step away play another game you know come back to us later when we're closer

• 1:44:39

to launch you know we will still be here and we will still be constructing something that is what

• 1:44:45

the players want hopefully and when we do launch that's your opportunity to come back and take a

• 1:44:51

look so just keep that in mind it's a real based perspective but i think it is it is the right one

• 1:44:58

not just for our game but for any game yeah i think sometimes people hype themselves up a little too

• 1:45:02

much get a little too excited which is not a bad thing it's not a bad thing it's just whenever

• 1:45:08

things don't meet your expectations sometimes it can be rough but of course we do want to remind

• 1:45:13

you all that we are going to be streaming more this weekend if you want to meet more of our

• 1:45:17

developer developers and come hang out with us while we play games we're going to be playing on

• 1:45:23

friday november 3rd from 3 pm to 10 pm a bunch of virtual games so come hang out with us and play

• 1:45:28

some games with us or watch us play games i should say some of them you might be able to

• 1:45:33

battle against us could be fun and spread the word tell your friends come join us just hang out you

• 1:45:38

don't have to donate just come chill with us yeah and then on saturday we're going to be starting

• 1:45:44

our 24-hour live stream which is more like a 25 due to daylight savings uh but it will will start

• 1:45:49

from saturday november 4th 10 am pacific to sunday november 5th at 10 am pacific so we hope that you'll

• 1:45:55

tune in we're going to be playing uh pathfinder games set in the world of vera with varan creatures

• 1:46:00

and our characters so we're going to be toying around with some of the stuff that's in pathfinder

• 1:46:04

to make it work for us um but we hope that you'll hang out and donate and you can donate to affect

• 1:46:09

the game as well which is really cool and then also uh we'll be doing a minecraft part to let

• 1:46:14

our main pathfinder crew get some sleep and oh my gosh have they put some crazy things together for

• 1:46:20

the community building game uh it is going to be an insane competition the world area that they built

• 1:46:26

out is freaking phenomenal with all the mini games so i really hope that you all will tune in and you

• 1:46:31

can check everything out at bit.ly slash 2023 aoc extra life make sure you keep all of the caps

• 1:46:36

proper there um but we also have the link over on our news page and ashes of creation.com news so

• 1:46:42

you can get all of the information but if you just pop in and watch over on twitch.tv slash ashes of

• 1:46:47

creation this weekend we will be sharing tons of information and links for you throughout the time

• 1:46:53

and with that i do want to thank you all for tuning in with us for hanging out i know it's

• 1:46:57

been a little bit long of a stream um we also want to thank hal and jusdo and bucky and nathan

• 1:47:04

of course for helping us with showcasing this showcase and steven of course all of your time and

• 1:47:11

your answers to a million questions um we appreciate it as a community and we hope that

• 1:47:17

everyone stays safe and healthy throughout this halloween weekend um definitely send us your

• 1:47:22

costume pictures we want to see them we love seeing that on social media um and of course

• 1:47:27

you can follow us on all of the places um we are ashes of creation super easy to find us

• 1:47:32

and we do try to post often and interact with everybody as much as possible um the vod will be

• 1:47:39

up on twitch for you if you're watching here on twitch but we'll also have a 4k version over on

• 1:47:42

our youtube channel shortly so stay tuned for that and um if you leave a comment on the development

• 1:47:48

update so the october the one labeled october development update this one when it goes to

• 1:47:53

youtube uh you could be a possible lucky winner to be spotlighted for a comment all you need to

• 1:47:58

do is subscribe to our channel and uh follow us there and um leave a comment for that and with

• 1:48:05

that we are going to wrap things up i think steven wants to have his helmet on for this part

• 1:48:13

i don't know if he's gonna be able to say anything but uh we will wrap this up we hope that we will

• 1:48:18

see you all next month if we don't see you this weekend like i said this weekend's gonna be a lot

• 1:48:23

of fun for us and our developers so kudos everybody

• 00:00

Welcome to our October Ashes of Creation development of

• 00:29

the

• 00:59

princesses I don't know is it all right tell them Ariel I know Oh Belle John said Belle it's

• 01:09

Belle what movie is that one is Belle Beauty and the Beast yeah there we go is that the Disney

• 01:28

song you're gonna sing for extra life this year I don't know yet do you know what you're gonna do

• 01:33

I don't know what I'm people really want us to do the for the duet they want us to do the

• 01:38

tangled song oh I don't know that is there like a Star Wars song that's Disney too technically

• 01:44

we just come take a look no where's John at I don't know he's being shot over here yeah no

• 02:05

you're good come take a look show people your costume John and I were were Star Wars costumes

• 02:13

from rogue one he's he's the commander and I am the dude that's awesome I gotta keep two but it's

• 02:28

too warm to wear a cape oh yeah I'm burning up in this thing right now I feel like I took off the

• 02:35

legs actually I just walked around the office shot my blaster at some of the developers made

• 02:41

sure that they're hard at work and then came back like a true tyrant no I'm just kidding true

• 02:48

Empire stormtrooper get to work or we'll put you out the airlock right anyways we have a long one

• 03:01

for you all again so a little bit of buckling up hopefully everybody brought their snacks but of

• 03:08

course this is our October development update as you can see down below we're gonna have some

• 03:12

reminders a little bit more reminders than normal as you know October move it leading into November

• 03:18

we have a lot of stuff we have a caravan preview some of you have seen some of our caravan stuff

• 03:24

in the past you're gonna see a full run through from one place to another with a caravan so that

• 03:29

caravan stuff you saw in the past this puts that to shame the team has been hard at work and we got

• 03:37

a almost an hour-long showcase today it was like 45 minutes yeah 45 minutes showing you the full

• 03:45

end loop from collecting resources in the world to buying cargo and shipping that cargo to a nearby

• 03:54

node and collecting the reward for it the drivability of the caravans it is truly the

• 04:00

caravan system and there has been a lot of people that have put a lot of work into the caravans

• 04:05

because as you guys know caravans as a system touch a lot of other systems from hunting and

• 04:12

combat to the economy the resources that are possible the node system in the caravansary

• 04:18

it's a separate vehicle with its own components and stats it is a complex system probably one of

• 04:25

the more complex systems that we've actually shown on stream so it's gonna be exciting and

• 04:31

I had a lot of fun recording it it seemed like y'all were having fun they love there's a lot

• 04:37

of banter caravans are slow so you got to have a good crew to hang out with to give you to keep

• 04:43

you entertained and also we'll talk a little bit about studio update we know there's been a lot of

• 04:48

layoffs and stuff so we have you know we just want to share information we have art updates

• 04:53

it'll be a short one today because I know we've already got you all for a long time for the other

• 04:57

stuff and then a Q&A from folks but before we get into all of that we do have our spotlight

• 05:03

comment from YouTube if you don't know already you can on our development update the full video

• 05:11

you can leave a comment make sure that you're subscribed and that it's available for us to

• 05:14

see that you're subscribed and your comment could be selected so today's one is from a Keppry01 and

• 05:21

they would like to know might be too early for this question but oh yeah I think that you didn't

• 05:29

put the whole question what's your overall philosophy towards leveling as in is it just a

• 05:35

means to get to the end game or would you prefer the leveling experience to be an epic adventure

• 05:39

onto itself they go on to say World of Warcraft for example has so much dev time put into leveling

• 05:45

quests but your average new player doesn't get to experience 90% of it because of how it's

• 05:50

streamlined they've made the process to get players to end game faster for things such as

• 05:55

raiding sure you can level alts in weeks instead of months now but it made the game feel like less

• 06:03

of an adventure and more of a chore other than that love watching these videos I hope I can get

• 06:07

into alpha 2 and Keppry definitely tune into our extra life stuff because we might be doing some

• 06:14

giveaways a little bit about that yeah this is the first question this is a big question it's

• 06:22

actually it's kind of like a half-half it's a half question half statement on the first part is

• 06:27

would you like the leveling experience to be an adventure yes I think obviously you know leveling

• 06:35

the act of going out and adventuring of killing monsters and combat in general is the most tactile

• 06:42

and moment-to-moment type of gameplay that you're going to experience in Ashes of Creation and I

• 06:48

think at every step of the way in that adventure it should be fun and it should be something that

• 06:55

you enjoy doing and it should be something that's rewarding and it should be something that teaches

• 07:01

you more about the immersive world that you're in and allows you to follow a compelling storyline I

• 07:07

think obviously you know the way we're building Ashes of Creation is to provide that type of fun

• 07:13

experience I think the complexity of what this question slash statement is is pointing out is

• 07:20

that some games and this in this comment uses Wow as an example some games have been around for a

• 07:28

very long time and the one of the biggest components of an MMORPG is the social aspect of

• 07:35

the game and when you've been around for you know 20 years or 15 years like some of these other games

• 07:42

have the majority of the player base lives at the end of that adventuring loop and they're

• 07:47

participating in highly repeatable types of content whether it be late-game dungeon raids or

• 07:54

arena systems or whatever and as a player who's starting out in those games you want to be in that

• 08:02

social environment so they're kind of a little bit of a catch-22 because they have the content

• 08:08

that they've created for that level progression but the player base doesn't exist within those

• 08:13

content loops they exist in the later part of it so they have to provide obviously a method by

• 08:19

which players can relatively quickly reach that social dynamic which is what makes an MMO an MMO

• 08:26

now that doesn't mean obviously that they didn't spend a lot of time towards curating an experience

• 08:30

that's fun and engaging and you know shows the world off it is our intent and desire to do that

• 08:35

one of the ways that we mitigate the kind of quote-unquote endgame mentality is we provide a

• 08:43

number of different progression loops that are not all predicated on your adventuring level which

• 08:50

means that you can do things that impact the world without necessarily needing to be at the late game

• 08:58

in the adventuring level category and so that prevents excuse me that provides a number of

• 09:06

strategically relevant decisions that the player gets to make about the systems they choose to

• 09:11

engage with with the time that they have and how those systems are intricately designed to affect

• 09:18

other progression loops within Ashes of Creation so I hope that answers your question

• 09:22

that's a long answer I know I'm sorry next up no it's good I think people people want you to spend

• 09:30

time on their question our next thing to note is Extra Life we are doing Extra Life again this is

• 09:36

our seventh annual Extra Life we always enjoy it and it helps our local hospital Rady Children's

• 09:42

Hospital which Stephen and I and a few of our other crew got to check out and like have a tour

• 09:48

of the actual hospital which was really really cool and it actually inspired the giveaway cosmetics

• 09:55

that we're going to be doing this year which is Keeper of the Kelp which we will have a reveal of

• 09:59

on the live stream so you'll definitely want to tune in on into that on Saturday it'll be at the

• 10:04

opening and of course we'll share it everywhere else but we do have a oh no no sorry go ahead

• 10:11

we do have a pre-game before that on Friday that's going to start at 3 pm pacific and go

• 10:15

till 10 pm pacific there's gonna be a whole slew of virtual games so come hang out it's going to

• 10:20

be a ton of our developers just playing and having fun and just having a really good time and raising

• 10:25

money for the kids at Rady Children's Hospital through Extra Life on Saturday and Sunday we have

• 10:32

a really long stream for you we say it's 24 hours but it's more like 25 or 26 the way that we run it

• 10:38

and also because daylight savings time takes effect as well but for ease we just do 10 am

• 10:43

November 4th to 10 am November 5th so we hope that you'll tune in we'll have a Pathfinder game

• 10:50

that we're going to be playing in the setting of Ashes of Creation and the community actually

• 10:53

created the characters for the campaign which is really cool we had so many submissions and you

• 10:59

know with basically 2,000 words per submission it took us a while to get through them but we have

• 11:05

notified the winners so they should have gotten an email from us so if you are somebody who submitted

• 11:11

them make sure you check your email but I believe most folks have gotten back to us we also have a

• 11:17

whole bunch of other things that you can get in reward or for donating obviously if you head to

• 11:23

bit.ly slash 2023 AOC Extra Life you can find all the details over there also it's over on our news

• 11:30

post in ashesofcreation.com news but we are going to be giving for the top two donors segment we

• 11:37

will we will be providing a 2023 Intrepid Extra Life bundle which will include the non-exclusive

• 11:43

cosmetic item the alpha 2 access and one random board game from our selection and we'll show those

• 11:50

on our stream so stay tuned for that and we'll be doing those at each segment and those segments are

• 11:55

going to be on November 4th at 2 pm and 6 30 pm pacific and then November 5th at 12 am before

• 12:01

daylight savings time and 5 am and 9 30 am pacific we're going to stick to those times we will probably

• 12:07

talk a little bit about the winners in our breaks at our milestone breaks but those times will be

• 12:13

locked in and the people running donation trackers will be contacting people through that time frame

• 12:19

we also have our top team on the Intrepid Studios Extra Life team so you can actually join our team

• 12:25

and also a top donor overall for the Ashes of Creation Extra Life campaign so there's two

• 12:31

campaigns one is the team and one is our campaign that we're running on our side and by November 7th

• 12:38

2023 at 10 am pacific we will be looking at the top ones for those and they will be getting a 2023

• 12:43

Intrepid Extra Life top supporter bundle which is similar to what I just noted before but you also

• 12:50

get the cosmetic alpha 2 access and a bundle of 10 alpha 2 codes that you can give away to your

• 12:56

friends family viewers or personal whatever you would like to do with them and you can you know

• 13:02

minus selling them don't do that and personalized thank you video from Steven himself and any team

• 13:09

that raises 250 or more on our Intrepid Studios team will be put into a raffle by November 7th

• 13:16

2023 at 10 am and we will be drawing three winners who will be getting our extra life supporter

• 13:22

bundle and that will give you the non-exclusive pet the alpha 2 access a bundle of 10 alpha 2 codes

• 13:27

again to give away and then also your choice of an Agato Wave 3 and a Wave Pop filter or a Stream Deck

• 13:34

MK2 so and that is worth about 150 in value so lots of really goodie lots of good goodies and on

• 13:42

top of that there's tons of ways that you can donate and affect the game so you can actually

• 13:47

affect the live game and during our Minecraft building segment you can also affect the game

• 13:54

there which is really really fun they outdid themselves this year the map for the Minecraft

• 13:59

stuff is insane the rules that we changed are really cool in the ways that you can donate in

• 14:04

fact the games are going to be a lot of fun so we hope that you all how many how many alpha 2 keys

• 14:10

are we planning to give out or could be given out depending on the milestones for this year

• 14:17

I think it's like 250 or something or might be more than nearly 250 alpha 2 keys are possible

• 14:26

during this extra life livestream and let me just let me just say something and feel free

• 14:32

you guys might be more than that I someone maybe do the math okay well feel feel free to to clip

• 14:39

this segment but I just wanted to say that this is our seventh year doing extra life it is a truly

• 14:47

remarkable event that is thrown in support and in effort for children's hospitals around the

• 14:56

United States around the world I believe actually and we have a truly phenomenal children's hospital

• 15:02

here in San Diego called Rady's Children's Hospital that we've been supporting with you guys

• 15:09

in our community for the past now almost seven years and we have raised over 250 thousand dollars

• 15:18

for this hospital as a community which is unheard of especially being still in development

• 15:25

and we had an awesome opportunity to go and tour the the hospital and to meet with their charitable

• 15:32

coordinator Chiara and you'll see from her during this Friday and Saturday but I would encourage

• 15:40

everyone in our community to come and participate by just showing up by showing up and and having

• 15:48

some fun with us the developers for Ashes of Creation as we play through a Pathfinder campaign

• 15:54

similar to D&D in the world of Vera and you get to learn a little bit of lore a little bit of story

• 15:59

watch us act crazy and have some fun and if you feel if you feel that you want to to donate to

• 16:07

the children's hospital by all means do if not that's totally fine we're just going to have a

• 16:11

fun time so we want to invite all of you to join us it's this Friday and Saturday and it has always

• 16:19

been nothing short of extraordinary each of the times we've done this thing so so super we rented

• 16:24

a dunk tank so absolutely the dunk tank is going to be great and this year we assigned people

• 16:32

milestones so it won't be like who's going to be doing this one it's very clear who's doing what

• 16:38

for when we hit milestones so we have our milestone breaks it'll be a little everything's a

• 16:42

little bit more organized than you know every year we try to make it better but it is going to be

• 16:48

a ton of fun so please please come hang out with us it's for a great cause and we're going to

• 16:54

have a great time and you know of course it's going to be good times exciting beyond that we

• 17:04

have more more we do have a couple dev discussions for you all to partake in and they're still up so

• 17:14

we have a basic attacks one which is how important is it to you to have basic attacks be part of your

• 17:19

using your skills and abilities in between auto attacks or are you having the most fun when basic

• 17:25

attacks are less important to how much damage you're doing and i think a lot of this you know

• 17:31

we have polar opinions in regards to it so i'm very curious to see how that report will play out

• 17:38

we also have our discussion regarding spawn retimes uh yeah spawn spawn timers there we go i

• 17:44

don't know why i'm saying spawn retimes uh how predictable do you like the spawn rate for general

• 17:51

and rare mobs in open world dungeons and raid settings which games do you feel have done this

• 17:56

well and what did you feel was good about respawn times for mobs so kind of think to your dungeon

• 18:03

crawling uh what was best for you um and how you prefer to see that stuff work uh we would

• 18:11

love to have your feedback we always try to take everything into account and send those reports to

• 18:15

our developers which is super duper appreciated um and last but not least we just want to remind

• 18:20

you that the unseen order cosmetics will end on january 17th 2024 at 11 am pacific this is our

• 18:28

last pack um with an faq uh so if you want to check that out you can check that out on our news

• 18:33

site and um yeah just want to give people enough notice for that and with that i think we're on to

• 18:42

our caravan update okay let me preface a little bit here um as always i must disclaim that we are

• 18:56

still a work in progress that means that we are building towards our alpha 2 and our alphas are

• 19:03

real alphas they are not fake alphas meaning uh they are not a completed game that's being ported

• 19:09

over into a new territory from a publishing perspective so we are actively in development

• 19:15

of ashes of creation alpha 2 has not begun yet we have announced that it will next year

• 19:20

and that means that things like visual effects and our ui are still very works in progress

• 19:26

along with any potential bugs optimization and performance those are cycles that we have not

• 19:33

dedicated a considerable amount of time to yet as we are still in the active development of our

• 19:38

features and core systems so with that being said this particular live stream has seen a great deal

• 19:47

of work from the team in particular i want to give some shout outs to michael brady to kyle to

• 19:54

uh chris giusto um and uh to how there's a lot of names that have participated in bringing this

• 20:03

together um and uh this is a very complicated system as i said it intersects a lot of other

• 20:09

systems and that's what makes it complicated in addition to uh the game mode being uh focused

• 20:15

around a vehicle and a vehicle that is unique with regards to the types of components that it can

• 20:21

yield uh as well as uh being a stat driven type of vehicle so um there's a lot of complexity here

• 20:27

uh and a lot of hard work has gone into it uh it is not the end of the road for this particular

• 20:31

system uh there is still a lot of work that needs to be done um but i think you guys are going to

• 20:38

enjoy it and it was a lot of fun to record so enjoy

• 20:54

so

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hello everyone and welcome to another live stream from the world of vera and we have an

• 21:14

exciting stream for you today we are going to be talking about the caravan system in ashes of

• 21:22

creation and it has been a little while since you guys have been able to see a caravan uh actually i

• 21:30

believe since alpha 1 but there has been a lot of work that has been put into caravan since then

• 21:37

and i would like to introduce some of our absolute stellar developers who helped bring the new

• 21:46

caravan system for alpha 2 to life they are one of our regulars senior designer mr chris justo

• 21:55

chris how you doing buddy oh i'm doing wonderfully how are you doing stephen i am doing swell it is

• 22:03

monday the day before halloween we've got extra life coming up in just five days where we're

• 22:12

going to be up straight for 24 hours or actually a lot more than 24 hours that's going to be crazy

• 22:17

but i am doing swell sorry that's a long-winded answer i love it we also have another regular

• 22:25

on the stream uh the man between two ferns being combat design and systems design

• 22:33

our glorious designer dr bucky bucky how are you doing sir hello i'm doing well ready to move some

• 22:40

cargo oh some cargo cargo actually this is the first time i think the community has heard it

• 22:49

referred to as cargo but cargo is the official name of supplies that are transited by caravans

• 22:59

and ships and ships that's right yes very nice well happy to have you bucky we also have joining

• 23:07

us the stellar extraordinary environment artist how who built all things caravans in this live

• 23:18

stream how how you doing oh i'm feeling good yeah i had a lot of help from a lot of different

• 23:23

disciplines it's not just me i promise that is true how's being very modest but obviously

• 23:32

bringing together a system like this requires a lot of effort from a lot of people but how

• 23:38

specifically modeled i thought what is a glorious kaylar caravan the default kaylar caravan which

• 23:44

players are about to see in a little bit so awesome job there how happy to have you here

• 23:49

and then we have joining us an unfamiliar role on our live streams but a role nonetheless an

• 23:57

integral one of keeping all the pieces moving in a non-chaotic and somewhat somewhat orderly fashion

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one of our glorious producers mr nathan moore nathan how you doing buddy oh i'm so excited

• 24:12

uh excited to uh go drifting around some corners uh drop off some goods make a ton of money it's

• 24:18

gonna be a good day in vera yes it is gonna be a good day in vera indeed now speaking of a good day

• 24:25

we are in a default building for nodes is that correct chris this is a default building in the

• 24:34

node meaning it comes with the node when it reaches level three very cool okay so this is the

• 24:44

hunting lodge or the hunter's lodge and i see that there is a particular vendor of note in this

• 24:50

fine abode a commodity vendor tell me what exactly the commodity vendor does well he does kind of

• 24:59

what his name says he sells commodities which as alluded to previously is a form of cargo that is

• 25:06

transited by caravans but um before we talk to him i'd like you to open up your inventory and

• 25:12

we can talk a little bit about what you're gonna spend to get that cargo

• 25:17

to get that cargo i'm assuming i need to be on my materials page because the inventory even though

• 25:25

i have a thousand gold might not really help me here no your gold will not help you so uh if it

• 25:32

looks like you're hovering over uh an item we call glint uh comes in a few different rarities uh it

• 25:38

was formerly known as the monster certificates but we have rebranded them all right now that is

• 25:47

a reveal so those of you in the audience who remembers what monster certificates were glint

• 25:54

is now the name of the monster certificate system and glint serves a very integral role in the

• 26:02

economy within ashes of creation it is a material substance that is acquired through various means

• 26:10

but primarily hunting different antagonists within the world and it is the physical form

• 26:19

of essence within the beasts of vera so uh when you acquire this it is bound to your character

• 26:27

and that is a very important component of the economic systems here because

• 26:32

glint will be used to pay for certain services such as taxation for buildings that you have

• 26:40

or citizenship dues that are necessary but within the context of today's demonstration

• 26:47

we'll be talking about glint as a currency to acquire commodities and bucky talk to me a little

• 26:55

bit about the importance of commodities yeah so commodities player commodities specifically is one

• 27:02

of the main ways players can make money or gold in vera and different nodes will sell different

• 27:08

commodities at different prices so the way you make money is by you can either you know sell your

• 27:14

glint directly to the uh commodity vendor and just make some quick money at the node or the most

• 27:19

profitable way to do it is to buy some player commodities and then transit them to other nodes

• 27:25

where they're going to be sold for higher prices at the side effect is that you have increased risk

• 27:31

into excel very cool so glint allows us direct access to acquire these commodities that service

• 27:42

the risk versus reward philosophy of transiting goods around the world because the caravan system

• 27:52

which carries and i'm going to go to the cargo section these commodities available at this

• 27:58

particular node let's see if i can purchase this okay i see it cost a rather good amount of glint

• 28:05

on that one and grab some of the ever burned scented a case of kaylar wooden soldiers those

• 28:14

are toys i assume that's cool and some aged ailing whiskey barrel are these like gi joe's like

• 28:21

kaylar versions of the gi joe's they are in fact that is super cool okay so i have acquired a number

• 28:30

of these commodities that are unique to this particular biome and or node and now i have an

• 28:39

option chris i can either sell the commodities back to a vendor in exchange for gold or i can

• 28:48

load them up and take them elsewhere why would i want to do that yeah so you as you mentioned you

• 28:54

can sell it back for around the cost you bought them for in terms of the glint to gold price

• 29:00

to gold conversion but uh you would be putting them in a caravan and taking them to another node

• 29:08

because that will increase the value based on the node you take it to how far away that node is and

• 29:15

how many of that commodity has been sold at that node over the last seven days got it now what

• 29:23

types of exchange are possible ratio wise for taking this amount of cargo right now i can get

• 29:33

150 it looks like gold and 50 silver on this salt cured meat shipment what type of multiple can i

• 29:41

get if i take it to another node also again that's going to vary based on turn-in rates

• 29:46

uh at that node um but we're probably looking at the node we're taking it to being around eight

• 29:53

gold for that wow that's huge and that node is only actually uh the closest one to here

• 30:03

is that right now that is that is correct now typically uh at launch we're obviously gonna have

• 30:10

to balance these numbers a lot more as the world keeps getting bigger yes well actually thank you

• 30:15

chris thank you for that cue because as we have said many times before and you shall hear now once

• 30:23

again the most important disclaimer you will hear in this live stream is that everything you see

• 30:29

today is a work in progress towards our alpha 2 testing environment which means that the art gets

• 30:35

better particularly as it relates to our ui uh and our visual effects um so keep everything you're

• 30:45

seeing with a grain of salt since this is the first time you've seen ashes of creation and

• 30:49

heard that particular disclaimer uh you can take a look at streams from many many ages ago and see

• 30:57

the difference between today and then all right so i have arrived at a building that you guys did see

• 31:04

during our nodes demonstration this is the caravansary which is also a default building

• 31:12

in addition to the hunting lodge is that correct chris it is in fact and this is where you're

• 31:17

gonna do all your caravaning exciting exciting okay now i don't have a caravan obviously because

• 31:25

i mean i'm just a lowly ranger out in the wilds trying to find my way in life

• 31:32

well this gentleman the caravan master can help you acquire one the caravan master all right i

• 31:39

see okay all right he has some thing here i see my storage uh i'm gonna my materials section

• 31:48

i have some cargo available but i do not see it says no caravans currently available for me that's

• 31:56

sad yep so at the top left there you're gonna be able to purchase a caravan okay so here i see it

• 32:05

says purchase and i'm assuming this means that i can not only purchase the caravan but also the

• 32:09

stall within which the caravan resides yep so um purchasing a caravan uh will unlock that stall as

• 32:18

well and put a default caravan in it all right let me go ahead and make a purchase here ah

• 32:25

we have our caravan it looks like with a number of considerable and formidable stats i might add

• 32:32

uh available to it but these stats could be improved could they not bucky yeah so caravans

• 32:40

have these items within them called components and those kind of act like the gear on the caravan so

• 32:45

they can modify their stats uh grant them passive and even active abilities so you can you upgrade

• 32:51

your components you can get power powerful caravans i see and just looking at this basic

• 32:56

caravan it only has a capacity for one by two cargo that's relatively unfortunate because

• 33:04

that doesn't seem like a lot for my time but i assume if i were to perhaps equip this

• 33:12

carriage in its place nope that didn't do anything let's use the body the reinforced chassis

• 33:20

reinforced chassis let's take a look at that buddy oh yeah oh my goodness this thing can now

• 33:29

take quite a haul but that's not all i'm gonna add the wheel set the uh beast of burden and

• 33:35

the plated armor all of which i assume are doing some amazing things down here in the caravan stat

• 33:41

section yeah the beast of burden primarily affects speed uh armor will make you more

• 33:46

survivable and shoot you to counter combat and then yeah like you were looking at just now the uh

• 33:51

chassis and body kind of provides some of the core stats like the health and also the storage

• 33:56

capacity for the caravan very cool that's awesome um i'm gonna take two salt cured meats because

• 34:06

i assume that we're gonna be successful we will okay very good we're powerful we are very powerful

• 34:15

all right let me go ahead now do i click launch chris correct you're gonna hit launch and you're

• 34:21

gonna get uh an item in your inventory once you click launch

• 34:27

oh yeah i'll launch a caravan too with you guys oh okay very cool very cool you got a busted

• 34:32

uh caravan or you got a good one it's uh you know it's pretty standard but you know it'll get me

• 34:36

there oh okay very nice all right uh i see that i have a caravan event oh it is telling me to find

• 34:43

a location to summon the caravan so this caravan event starts even prior to me finding the location

• 34:49

for my caravan because because you gotta organize your event you know and you also want to find a

• 34:59

safe spot to launch your caravan ah very cool all right now we can go out here in the world

• 35:08

i assume within some level of proximity proximity to the node okay i see that you can see the radius

• 35:14

by the uh in-game radius okay very cool that's cool got a little slate wolf over here let's

• 35:21

take care of him first all right poor guy i am going to go ahead and i assume chris i'm going to

• 35:37

open my inventory yep so you're gonna have a little caravan item and when you right click it

• 35:44

you're going to be in deployable mode for you to be able to place that uh your it's a representation

• 35:53

that you're summoning the caravan so that people around you know that you are launching a caravan

• 35:58

ah very cool all right so then it's important for me to find a place that's relatively obscure

• 36:06

so as not to attract any unwanting eyes yeah it's part of us to get away from the note a little bit

• 36:11

in case any other players would have seen our expedition yes good call good call well done

• 36:18

all right you're summoning yours too over here how come your caravan isn't like

• 36:24

it looks like it's on par with mine yes it could be but it might not be

• 36:31

might be the default caravan bucky if you just needed some components i could have given them to

• 36:35

i could have given them to you know this this one's gonna work good i believe in it he's a

• 36:41

pro gamer lucky are you a pro gamer yes i in fact am a pro gamer very nice so this is taking a good

• 36:49

amount of time it's only mine's only about 50 completed right now this this takes um by default

• 36:58

about two minutes uh the amount of time it takes can be augmented by how players choose to upgrade

• 37:03

the caravansary um but this is taking an amount of time so that people can start to scout for

• 37:12

caravans that might be popping up very nice now another very important aspect of that time that

• 37:17

it's taking is that the time is relative to the distance that the summoning is occurring

• 37:24

even out in the world let's say you find some some loot that is in the form of cargo and you want to

• 37:31

haul that back somewhere you can use an action to summon your caravan from the closest node to that

• 37:38

location and you will spawn this similar summoning function and the time to travel to you will be

• 37:45

predicated on the distance to the node the components of the caravan and any other potential

• 37:50

benefits or buffs that are denoted by special building construction relics or policies is that

• 37:56

correct exactly um and it's also worth keeping in mind you can only summon out in the wild

• 38:02

if it's an empty caravan very nice yes look at mine and look at yours bucky

• 38:11

all right it's the same caravan they both look great

• 38:15

show us these two pictures they're the same picture oh my gosh how this is a great looking caravan

• 38:22

oh it looks amazing mine's like a tank and this is the default kalar caravan is that correct

• 38:31

oh no i believe this is the tier two or a tier five i think actually for these yes yes so i have

• 38:37

the upgraded components of it um and there are obviously a different number of skins that you

• 38:43

can acquire in the game and um uh and or cosmetics that have been purchased that will be different

• 38:49

looking caravans but if you don't have skins applied this is the version of tier one and

• 38:54

tier two that you will see in the game by default that looks that that looks great i mean this is

• 39:00

this is amazing talk to me how a little bit about what it took to construct these caravans to build

• 39:06

them i mean this is a highly componentized system yeah yeah that is correct so you actually have a

• 39:13

couple different components like you saw in the um caravan screen before and each of those are

• 39:19

things that can visually be upgraded kind of as like as their own thing so it would be possible

• 39:24

to have like only nicer wheels or like only a nice chassis and that's going to be visually

• 39:30

represented so players can kind of like see what potential buffs you might have for example you

• 39:35

can see stevens has all that tank looking armor that's going to be able to kind of let people just

• 39:41

like looking from the outside maybe attackers not that we support stealing caravans but no if i

• 39:48

didn't want to do that you know i could see that maybe i would want to go for stevens caravan yes

• 39:55

that's right i want everyone maybe i would go for not stevens caravan yeah every caravan now in ashes

• 40:06

is going to be named not stevens caravan oh no well then they would go after not stevens caravan

• 40:13

so you don't want to name it yeah don't do that oh man i should have got the two horses

• 40:21

edition dude i'm going so slow literally half the horsepower

• 40:29

you do have half the horsepower why are you moving so slowly back there

• 40:33

well my beast of burden isn't as upgraded as first so i don't have as high of a boost status you do

• 40:38

do this road though we're gonna we're just gonna get a road buff which boosts both speeds

• 40:46

ah very cool okay so so being on a road versus off-road is more beneficial because of that buff

• 40:53

but in addition the components that we are using are not necessarily made for offering

• 41:01

yeah so some of the dark yeah exactly so there'll be different variants of each of the components

• 41:05

with the wheels for example would have variants that will excel perhaps at off-road over on-road

• 41:11

and vice versa and so right now we have caravans that are set up more for the on-road portion but

• 41:17

you do we will travel faster over roads but that obviously comes with the increased risk running

• 41:22

into other players or monsters that are blocking the oh wow i see i have that i have the road buff

• 41:27

now where are you i'm almost on the road should i wait for you uh yes this is a this is a caravan

• 41:39

of caravans right we're a team here oh okay caravan apparently i like that all right here we go

• 41:44

we know you know there we go i see the importance i mean this the caravan system is is somewhat

• 41:52

treacherous i mean you should be you should uh take caution with this i mean i feel very susceptible

• 42:00

yeah well we got our group of defenders with us at least we're not running completely solo

• 42:05

that's true yeah it's definitely something and this goes for a lot of the node features right

• 42:10

where we're trying to create these ways for you know people who maybe are used to sort of the

• 42:16

more solo mmo like gameplay experience to have easy ways to take that first step into like

• 42:22

collaborating or competing with each other so that's really one of the things that we

• 42:26

spend a lot of time talking about for this system absolutely and perhaps i assume um bucky or chris

• 42:33

that in regards to the design of the component system if i am utilizing components that might

• 42:40

give my caravan a significantly higher stat of speed it's unlikely that i would also at the same

• 42:48

time be able to select components that were to give an equitable amount of benefit in the stat

• 42:54

of let's say cargo or health it's going to be a trade-off in that sense yeah that's exactly right

• 43:00

like so you'll be able to have caravans of different customizations but there won't be

• 43:04

one caravan does everything the best you'll have to make sacrifices depending on what you want to

• 43:07

use your caravan for if you want to have an off-road caravan a really fast on-road caravan or

• 43:12

just a slow tanky caravan that can hold a lot of stuff there'll be other options players can can

• 43:17

choose to uh outfit their caravans with very cool already i can see the obvious benefit and choices

• 43:28

that certain players will have i mean if as nathan was saying if you're the most more solo oriented

• 43:32

player you might just want to have the fastest possible caravan around because one you're not

• 43:38

worrying about people to stick you know close to you but also if you do come under attack

• 43:43

your chances of succeeding at a fight are far less than getting away by speed

• 43:49

yeah that's that's true or i could also see a variant though where you want to just you know go off

• 43:53

road guys why is tubac here uh is he just on his path i think he's just on his path uh you're gonna

• 44:03

want to turn around we cannot take that oh i wonder if he'll turn around if he detects us

• 44:10

i think he probably would okay should we stay back here yeah yeah this path is not uh not for us we

• 44:20

go ahead give us a turnaround and i'll show you my secret little off-road path all righty okay

• 44:34

this is what we're lucky for i'm on over this way no i do i stopped so quick when you guys said that

• 44:39

i was like hiding in the rocks already back here that would have turned out to be a very bad stream

• 44:49

all right come on through okay this is like a super peaceful pathway right like oh it's

• 44:56

super peaceful okay barely even dangerous just as like i know a way guys don't worry

• 45:04

oh god spiders i'm just assuming you guys will take care of that yeah you know that's their job

• 45:12

as the defenders we just got to keep rolling better be careful not to aggro any stephen

• 45:17

no i am trying not to i don't really see any up here though

• 45:23

nothing too crazy up here yeah but this is one of the this is one of the dangers is

• 45:29

you may never know what's on the road the road has a buff that's great but it also has

• 45:35

a little bit more visibility and that can be a problem and so off-roading is a necessary component

• 45:43

of the caravan system and traveling in general and because of that there will be components that

• 45:48

make traveling off-road a bit easier perhaps yeah certainly i'm trying to get back to them

• 45:58

yeah it's definitely slower i'm rolling we're still rolling should have gone for the off-road

• 46:08

wheels maybe did we get lost is there like a path up here back to the road yeah no no you're good

• 46:13

you're good you're going the right way follow the spiders oh yeah oh god um i'm thinking it's

• 46:22

starting to take a little bit of damage here hey stephen we might need a heal and i remember you

• 46:27

cooking some kind of healing item yes okay all right they're eating horses they're definitely

• 46:36

where's the tank when you need one i just activated the healing thing wow that's actually

• 46:40

pretty good those are good heals yeah that's a that's a strong hot right there wow

• 46:49

it's perfectly balanced final pass i think we could have definitely taken too much

• 46:57

i don't know about that spiders versus giant 10 hours later

• 47:02

uh oh that would that did not work out oh no you can't you can't drive off cliffs stephen yeah

• 47:12

i thought these were those kinds of horses with the cliff jumper horses yeah we leashed them

• 47:21

you actually have to unlock a different service building to get recruitment of those

• 47:25

jumping horses so can i get spider horses just different kinds of you know let's even come down

• 47:32

this way i know this this looks fine uh you think yeah you'll make it you'll make it

• 47:38

i mean these these horses are that fragile

• 47:42

we've made it back to the watch tumach just comes out of nowhere yeah just like i found you

• 47:49

i've been waiting for you how you doing back there bucky um oh yeah oh yeah yeah i mean i've

• 47:59

i've just been here defending him the whole time uh-huh thank you guys yeah yeah you're welcome

• 48:03

we do it for you oh i see we've come across a little river up here that looks like we'll have

• 48:10

to make a crossing oh this is a little bit of a challenge but i think we're gonna make it

• 48:16

crossing oh this is a great little image i'm digging this oh let me turn off the uh

• 48:26

hold on can you catch me uh on my album cover looking away from the camera

• 48:31

well i can't where are you oh hold on we gotta get the good album cover photo where we're all

• 48:36

looking away just looking off into like desperation another day in vera that's my

• 48:43

chance they're distracted i can pass them no even if i gave you a head start now with that little

• 48:51

hoopty oh yeah my money's on steven here okay so now uh we were intending to show this update with

• 49:01

this update the transition from land to river with the raft system caravans when they intersect with

• 49:09

a river they uh go into a construction stage why don't you talk to me a little bit about that uh

• 49:15

how and chris yeah so um the primary there's like two kind of methods to crossing rivers right one

• 49:24

of them is with bridges which are constructed by mayors and players but the other method is via a

• 49:32

transformation into a raft um now it will push you at a little bit of a um it'll make you a little

• 49:40

bit of a sitting duck while you're transitioning once you're in the water you'll get kind of a

• 49:45

nice speed boost from the currents um and it's a alternate means to getting stuck on

• 49:51

the choke points that are bridges very cool yep that will be an update coming shortly

• 50:00

so we were having some bugs i'm really stoked for you guys to see it though it's already looking

• 50:05

really cool and i'm so hyped about it oh how how has been integral in creating the assets for

• 50:15

showcasing what that transition looks and feels like and helping to demonstrate the construction

• 50:22

process of the raft it is super cool to see even how how you've incorporated the more

• 50:27

componentized system of creating this caravan as a whole into being able to adapt for that

• 50:34

construction scene all the pieces that are relevant on different skins and cosmetics for

• 50:40

the caravan as well yeah it's been really fun kind of figuring out how we're gonna like like

• 50:46

show certain things make everything work together like balance all the pieces but it's yeah it's

• 50:51

been a fun time and i think kind of visually showing things like for example like the cargo um

• 50:57

to kind of like which can we're still kind of working with techart to get this fully up and

• 51:02

running but you are eventually going to be able to get a good visual view of like how much cargo

• 51:07

someone's going to be holding and you know the possible rewards you're going to be able to get

• 51:10

to so it's yeah it's it's been a really fun time yeah it's been it's been super cool to watch this

• 51:17

this bridge by the way is a bit slower than the road you're not getting a road buff on this bridge

• 51:23

steven oh that's so sad so bridges bridges can be upgraded you know and that will let them provide

• 51:33

you more speed i should be getting the uh uh road the bridge buff bridge buff should be just

• 51:39

super powerful utokyo drift off a bridge yes exactly they did that a few times in uh

• 51:50

there are lots of movies that have drifting i know no there's only one there's only one

• 51:58

it's the polar express isn't it no it has like been diesel in them um fast and the furious

• 52:08

fast and the furious yeah it's fast and the furious you know that one fast and the furious

• 52:13

movie that one out of 30 fast and furious we should get some fast and furious versions of the

• 52:21

caravan the more the more you say it the more you will it into existence justo has like his finger

• 52:29

on the trigger to just make like t7 caravan components you can't carry any cargo you just

• 52:36

max speed and you get a drifting ability that's it that's all he wants in life that'd be so good

• 52:43

it was so great i'm loving i'm getting like the cinematic shots right now

• 52:50

yeah the environment team has done such an amazing job about bringing vera to life and

• 52:55

that's another cool thing about us being able to show off this live stream is we've kind of

• 52:59

kept a lot of the uh exploration of vera uh under wraps because we want to you know make

• 53:05

sure that people get that first glimpse of it when the servers go online for a2 but

• 53:10

we can show off some of that stuff here super oh my god there's a bear oh oh no danger bear

• 53:21

oh we just entered a super moody part of the forest

• 53:26

okay there's a bear that way i'm gonna go this way i'm gonna go left opposite the direction of

• 53:32

the bears yes yes i'm gonna go oh there's little rabbits over there too oh no okay

• 53:42

boys bridge oh oh whoops my bad i just called it out you know for the team we're just gonna

• 53:49

wait here and admire the the beautiful scene which by the way zachery and um hans did a

• 53:57

phenomenal job with looks so good yeah it's looking really cool i like this next area coming

• 54:02

up too we're almost on our way to mere left here oh mirror like he's like i really like this next

• 54:09

area he's talking about the second bridge still yeah the river is you guys seen the river yet

• 54:18

there's a bridge there you need to be careful there were some trolls nearby

• 54:21

oh you made it welcome back bucky i really should have just given you some components

• 54:29

to put on your car really just the horse the extra horse could have probably helped a lot you know

• 54:33

yeah or just the horse yeah it's too bad we can't have like a pit stop and put on

• 54:41

another horse for you just spawn it into existence it would be cool although once the caravans are

• 54:45

parked you're able to upgrade the components every time every time you park the caravan in the stall

• 54:53

at any node you can adjust oh whoa whoa what's up ahead there's a giant fallen tree

• 55:03

oh i don't think i can chop through this one guys no let's let's uh maybe we go

• 55:09

go off-road a little bit here so juiced i could be wrong but this looks like one of our

• 55:16

environmental hazards at work yeah oh juiced are you needed how about now there you go there we go

• 55:26

i made it uh yeah so something um that can happen to caravans while they're traveling along roads

• 55:32

are out in the world is um there are events kind of waiting for caravans yes i can chop them well

• 55:39

first i gotta i have to do a little cheating first but yes i can do that um you actually you

• 55:47

can interact with the environment that free up the area to move through too yeah that'd be yep hold on

• 55:53

don't show my gm panel oh my god just kill the horse what is wrong what is wrong with you oh no

• 56:11

chris no uh excellent this is carry on that we had an unbelievable you're we had an off-road pack

• 56:26

i didn't do it on purpose so we're gonna transfer the goods from steven's caravan over to pucky's

• 56:31

that's that's a good that's a good community question do players want trees

• 56:35

to fall damage we all know what the answer to that question is the answer is a resounding yes

• 56:42

trees should falling on people should do damage should destroy caravans one shot unbelievable

• 56:52

i'm sorry chris what were you saying uh something about caravans on routes um they uh

• 56:59

so yeah when you're traveling with the caravan um there are events that can trigger as a result

• 57:04

of you being there with a caravan um that can either block your way or um spawn things to attack

• 57:11

your caravan um and require you to kind of um make decisions about how you want to proceed right

• 57:17

whether you turn around and go somewhere else or you find a path off road um all with different

• 57:23

kind of dangers associated with them very cool how are you doing back there bucky all in your

• 57:34

tracks it's looking good after our assistance in clearing the path for you you're welcome

• 57:41

thank you yeah you were you were doing a good job guiding me too attempted murder

• 57:46

little colin my little colin b unbelievable listen i've only been playing a defender of

• 57:52

your caravan long con right before we get there it's actually good good call out though is that

• 58:05

uh you registered to defend the caravan you won't ever be able to unregister and immediately attack

• 58:09

the camera in the beginning of the end oh very good call very good so yeah and then in addition

• 58:14

to that you can be registered participant in multiple caravan events at once so if you had

• 58:23

let's say a caravan of care you could put both caravans in the same rate very cool speaking of

• 58:33

caravans welcome thank you i returned you have nice for you to join us caravan

• 58:37

yeah

• 58:49

it's some time for the holidays yeah oh they came back oh no oh no are they alive

• 58:58

i'm not stopping oh this is creepy with the fog too

• 59:02

okay there's another skeleton over there all right i'm sure this one won't notice this

• 59:15

yeah no you're good its eyes aren't so good zombies in the middle of the road

• 59:20

oh no okay maybe not zombies no i don't think these are zombies it says i'm gonna scout ahead

• 59:36

and see if uh oh god oh this this seems like hey bucky do you want to go ahead bucky okay

• 59:43

oh what are you doing you pulled them i didn't pull anything i learned from watching you

• 59:50

i'm gonna repulse your blast do it do it do it get out of here oh my god they went

• 59:57

fly just keep driving stephen oh i don't think they can find their way back to us i think we're

• 1:00:02

good okay all right we're good nope they found them oh it's shooting me those heels use your

• 1:00:10

speed run steven run it's shooting the caravan go on without us oh the blast oh no

• 1:00:24

can i get some of those heels no all right just just project

• 1:00:31

i'm actually i'm hanging in there

• 1:00:32

oh keeping up oh oh oh gosh i love that blast steven use the sprint get out of here

• 1:00:41

oh okay all right good luck run oh god i just activated that sprint i am oh there he goes

• 1:00:50

oh thanks guys maybe i'll make it after all all right now we target bucky no no

• 1:01:07

oh healers after your caravan i'm almost at mirror how far is mirror left holy

• 1:01:11

here you're right it's right around the corner this is the closest node

• 1:01:15

i mean the world's pretty big stephen yeah that was a nice little nice little caravan

• 1:01:24

expedition we did i am arriving oh god there's no skeletons and there's bats or ravens

• 1:01:31

where why aren't they in their rookery they're wild they're wild federal ravens

• 1:01:37

wow okay i am i think coming actually upon mirrorless yeah how'd you guys fare

• 1:01:50

i mean i'm uh hopping behind you very slowly oh the rudest steven

• 1:02:00

actually just speed boosting me right you're like why walk when you might just

• 1:02:03

see repulsor blast on cool down that was so funny

• 1:02:10

so i've lost the street buff uh yeah once you're in the nose

• 1:02:15

yeah once you're in the purview the node yeah you gotta travel at slow speeds or the guards will get

• 1:02:21

you we're almost there whoa we're almost there is that how it goes exactly that's the exact lyrics

• 1:02:38

of the song for sure it's copyright struck now what happens so i'm seeing that we have this little

• 1:02:49

area in front of us that denotes the turn in radius what happens when i reach it well you're

• 1:02:56

about a second away from finding out oh we did it oh not yet technically we're almost doing it

• 1:03:11

it is done

• 1:03:12

all right so i assume now that there is going to be a hunter's lodge here where i can go and sell

• 1:03:18

this cargo exactly come follow me follow me we'll go and see ah i see uh so if you want to give him

• 1:03:29

a little chat here all right let us discuss with this fine gentleman whoops there we go

• 1:03:36

you'll notice the cargo you're gonna go to your materials and look at that we got mirror

• 1:03:42

leth if you scroll down to me the bottom of the mirror left tab you're gonna see what you delivered

• 1:03:48

very nice okay that's cool so now this is worth yeah eight eight gold 69 silver i can do math

• 1:03:56

well done oh that's cool i'm gonna sell that sell that and that and that and you notice this

• 1:04:05

gentleman sells different items than the last node you were in oh yeah he's got some ancient

• 1:04:11

ale and wine in a case of dunier tools oh that's cool

• 1:04:17

very nice cool that's awesome well look at that we've fully demonstrated the caravan loop from

• 1:04:25

uh certificates or the newly named glint into commodities transited with the caravan system

• 1:04:32

discussed a little bit about the intents of that system and how it is intended to be used

• 1:04:36

for alpha 2 and alpha 3 and alpha 4 and alpha 5 and alpha 6 and alpha 7 and alpha 8 and alpha 9

• 1:04:42

discussed a little bit about the intents of that system and how it is intended to be used for alpha 2

• 1:04:47

as a core loop of the economic gameplay and we have succeeded in delivering through the perilous

• 1:04:54

journey that was the riverlands our commodities to mirror left justo bucky planendorf and hal

• 1:05:05

thank you all for joining us today and demonstrating the caravan system i know that i speak for the

• 1:05:11

audience when i say your guys's hard work is extremely appreciated and cherished by this

• 1:05:18

community that cannot wait for ashes of creation i hope that everyone in the audience enjoyed the

• 1:05:22

demonstration today if you have thoughts please share them with us that is why we do these streams

• 1:05:29

that is why we show you guys monthly the updates to the game it is obviously very important to us

• 1:05:36

to hear your comments on what you enjoyed what you thought could be done differently leave them in

• 1:05:43

twitter on the forums on reddit on discord and on youtube it means the world to us we capture all

• 1:05:49

that information and we analyze it internally but with that being said very excited to get to alpha

• 1:05:57

2 so that all of you can start playing with these systems and testing it's going to be pretty

• 1:06:02

exciting guys thank you for joining us thank you see you back on stream bye

• 1:06:14

all right well i'm gonna play that video whilst we answer some questions from we had twitch chat

• 1:06:22

we've got we have a part a watch party if you didn't know you can head on over to our discord

• 1:06:27

there's a watch party and they all chat and listen to it at the same time and also from

• 1:06:32

discord so we've been pulling questions from everywhere roshan and vacknar have been killing it

• 1:06:36

they've been sending them to me if your question doesn't get answered here it might be because it's

• 1:06:40

already from a forum q a question because we did get quite a few caravan questions from that so

• 1:06:45

first and foremost uh people are wondering are we to transfer physical goods ie fish from a

• 1:06:51

coastal region into the mountains to sell to other players absolutely yeah that is this was commodity

• 1:06:57

focused right so there are um two primary or three i guess primary methods by which caravans transit

• 1:07:04

the world the first is when players are moving commodities the second is when players are moving

• 1:07:10

materials and resources right and that's to your question um that's relevant because materials and

• 1:07:16

resources across the world are unique to the geographic region in which they are produced or

• 1:07:22

which they spawn and crafting stations are located at certain nodes and nodes specialize the types of

• 1:07:29

crafting stations that they can have so the transit of those materials across the world is

• 1:07:33

a necessary component of keeping the economy alive and where there is a demand there will be a supply

• 1:07:39

so that's with regards to the second reason for transiting caravans the third is when mayors and

• 1:07:46

system generated caravans transit the world this is for nodes to acquire certain types of node

• 1:07:53

commodities or node resources that they need to initiate public work projects and to initiate

• 1:07:58

construction projects so what we saw today was commodities which is going to be the primary

• 1:08:03

method by which players earn gold and that's through acquiring commodities with glint which is

• 1:08:09

a bound uh currency uh and then turning that those commodities in for gold which is then player to

• 1:08:17

player traded currencies all right um our next question is can you lose the caravan upgrade

• 1:08:25

components if the caravan is destroyed you have to then get the upgrades again not only yeah not

• 1:08:30

only can you lose the caravan components if the caravan is destroyed you lose all of the caravan

• 1:08:35

components and you lose the caravan however if the caravan takes damage damage can be done to

• 1:08:42

components directly as well depending on the source and directionality of the damage

• 1:08:48

and those components can be destroyed even if the caravan survives which would require replacement

• 1:08:54

of those components as well all right and you talked a little bit about gold here people are

• 1:08:59

wondering on obviously i know the answer here but our gold prices seen on stream too low maybe

• 1:09:06

you know obviously we're not at balance point in regards to currencies yeah there's there's two

• 1:09:12

points there one which is the point you're making is that i wouldn't read into anything regarding

• 1:09:16

balance right now at this stage we are we have not done balance passes when it comes to currencies

• 1:09:22

when it comes to damage numbers when it comes to cool down timers probably be that time frame when

• 1:09:27

we want more right i mean we'll we'll do different levels of balance checks at different stages

• 1:09:33

right and how and what you're describing with beta is where we get really granular and we prepare the

• 1:09:38

balance passes for launch we do finger in the wind balances right now right so we don't spend a lot

• 1:09:44

of time in it we just do what kind of feels okay our poor economy folks are like i'm making

• 1:09:49

spreadsheets all day stephen i know exactly um but uh that's the first point the second point is

• 1:09:57

remember the demonstration you just saw was from one node to another that was the closest node

• 1:10:04

so the further you transit the commodities in the world the greater the return rate is for that

• 1:10:11

commodity why because the risk is greater the further you travel the more risk you inherit

• 1:10:16

um now it's important to note that at the end of this uh demonstration you just saw i sold those

• 1:10:23

commodities to the mirror leth node i didn't have to do that i could have kept the winstead commodities

• 1:10:30

that i originated with in mirror leth and launched another caravan at a later time to take those

• 1:10:37

commodities to a node even further away and sold it for a higher exchange rate in addition depending

• 1:10:44

on the times in which nodes exist it is entirely possible that winstead might be destroyed at some

• 1:10:52

point in the future and i have a hoard of winstead commodities that i've been saving in other nodes

• 1:10:59

that would dramatically increase the price as well so there's speculation within the market

• 1:11:04

also which is an important component i think of the intricacies that a good economic gameplay

• 1:11:10

needs to provide oh and any of us who have played any mmo you know there's a a whole game just with

• 1:11:18

selling and trading things so for people who enjoy that aspect there will definitely be that for you

• 1:11:24

um maybe even on a larger scale um the next question here is how large is the radius for the

• 1:11:30

announcement of the caravan like how how wide does that go out to people who are maybe in the area

• 1:11:37

who either want to uh take you know and attack it or maybe help defend absolutely so what you're

• 1:11:45

describing is essentially an event notification and at a certain proximity to the caravan any

• 1:11:51

player will receive the event notification to participate either as an attacker or as a defender

• 1:11:58

that proximity radius can be augmented either through uh players advancement within the high

• 1:12:06

waymen uh uh system which is for defenders or attackers um you can increase the radius

• 1:12:13

but also the components can increase and or decrease uh the radius of that um event notify

• 1:12:20

as well uh so it is something that we're going to be balancing as you described earlier uh through

• 1:12:26

alpha 2 testing is going to be important for that um but you know the idea here is that the caravan

• 1:12:32

system has an inherent risk and that is that players out on the roads when you're uh you know

• 1:12:38

far away from these node locations uh can gank your caravans but as i was describing uh in the

• 1:12:45

in the um uh stream in the showcase this is something that will influence how you construct

• 1:12:54

your caravan and which components you want to go for so for example if you're a solo player and

• 1:12:59

you don't intend on transiting a lot of materials at once you may not need the large cargo capacity

• 1:13:06

but instead you want the faster speed because you intend to outrun any potential adversaries

• 1:13:13

that you might face on the roads that is a viable strategic option for you when constructing your

• 1:13:21

caravan in addition you saw that there are a number of different abilities that caravans can

• 1:13:27

be equipped with based on the loadout of the components that you have for your caravan that is

• 1:13:32

also going to influence how you interact with pvp and potential adversaries and since you're talking

• 1:13:38

about you know how much you can put on your caravan folks are wondering what is the most one

• 1:13:43

caravan can transport that's a good question that that question has not been answered yet and it

• 1:13:49

likely will not be answered until we have been able to test the system with a good amount of

• 1:13:55

good amount of players and in a relatively persistent setting which is what alpha 2 is

• 1:14:00

intended to provide this next question is a very interesting one because it affects a lot of our

• 1:14:06

content creators especially those who stream live and they're curious are there any plans to prevent

• 1:14:11

streamers from getting harassed when trying to start a caravan that's a that's that's a tough

• 1:14:17

question um you know obviously we will have um you know certain systems that won't lend well

• 1:14:27

to streaming uh because certain systems have a requirement of secrecy and or at least some level

• 1:14:35

of strategic ambiguity so players need to be conscientious of that fact uh when they're

• 1:14:41

intending to both stream and play ashes of creation um you know those are things that we

• 1:14:47

cannot solve uh because intrigue is an intrinsic part of the game um recommendations there are

• 1:14:55

options to have stream delays for your stream you can choose how long that delay is i know that that

• 1:14:59

makes it hard for having interactions but as a fellow streamer i understand i've played many pvp

• 1:15:05

games and uh sometimes it's fun because it brings the battle to you so if you're cool with that

• 1:15:10

i've always enjoyed that in that in like fps games mmo games i've always brought friends with me so i

• 1:15:15

would highly recommend you know having a crew that acts as protection for you because you're going to

• 1:15:21

need it absolutely um but that's the whole point of mmos is to have friends create a community i'm

• 1:15:29

still friends with some of the people i've met when i was like 14 which is pretty cool um yeah

• 1:15:35

uh the next one here is does speed vary based on the weight of the items in the caravan or is it

• 1:15:40

primarily just the caravan itself and the upgrades that you have on it yeah at this time speed is not

• 1:15:46

influenced by capacity uh speed is a stat that lives on the vehicle and that stat can be augmented

• 1:15:53

through the component choices that are made uh but weight is not a factor that's where we leave the

• 1:15:58

gameplay primarily to the spatial system obviously we want to emphasize that components have the

• 1:16:05

ability to expand the spatial uh inventory of the caravan and being kind of strategic in the choice

• 1:16:14

of components you utilize for the shapes that are available is going to be relevant because it will

• 1:16:20

influence how much of a thing you can transport in any one given trip but weight does not influence

• 1:16:25

the speed of the caravan now all right we just have a few more here uh and then we're gonna have

• 1:16:30

to move on otherwise we'll be here all day we can't answer every question y'all um our next one is

• 1:16:36

and there's a potluck by the way yeah there's a potluck going on we have a costume contest in the

• 1:16:42

office so lots of fun stuff going on at the office i'm like juggling announcements for all these

• 1:16:47

things at the same time as being on a stream um but our next thing is could you upgrade roads in

• 1:16:53

the node to upgrade the path the speed of the caravan because you kind of talked a little bit

• 1:16:57

about how you can create a bridge and things of that sort are there ways that like the mayor or

• 1:17:03

other people can help uh you know caravans move faster from one node to the other absolutely so

• 1:17:09

that buff that you saw is a buff that can be changed in the world based on the world state

• 1:17:15

some of those world state uh interactions include certain types of relics that the nodes which

• 1:17:22

govern your area might have access to and might be actively employing some of it might have to do

• 1:17:27

with policies you might be able to extend the guard influences across the road radius further

• 1:17:35

out for certain nodes if you have certain policies you might be able to enhance and empower those

• 1:17:40

guards through itemization choices that are granted by building upgrades that the node selects to

• 1:17:45

build um you know there's a number of different influences uh that the intricacies of our systems

• 1:17:52

provide um and it is a complex landscape because um again this is a very high level meta strategy

• 1:18:00

style of mmorpg uh where player player activity community choice and uh certain key personnel

• 1:18:11

within the world key players that have assumed certain positions have the ability to influence

• 1:18:20

sorry had a cat that's okay um hopefully that helps you get bingos i don't know uh i haven't

• 1:18:27

seen the bingo card today so i don't know what's on it um usually the cats are uh but i'm going to

• 1:18:33

wrap it up with these last two so in pvp what is looting a caravan like with the cargo system seen

• 1:18:39

on stream sure um so when a caravan gets destroyed it creates a wreckage that wreckage will have a

• 1:18:50

number of the supplies that the caravan was carrying and when stolen by attackers those

• 1:18:56

supplies become essentially stolen glint or corrupted glint uh and or stolen resources

• 1:19:05

that the caravan was hauling um if they are commodities they uh they can they maintain

• 1:19:11

their commodity type um and players will have to summon a caravan from a nearby node

• 1:19:17

uh that would be empty in order to haul those crates back if they um you can also break into

• 1:19:25

the crates or the cargo itself uh instead of hauling the cargo as a completed shipment doing

• 1:19:30

so reduces the number of total um um uh resources that you can gather from the crate so a portion

• 1:19:38

of it is sunk to the system and then a portion of it gets sunk further if you choose to break

• 1:19:43

open the crates uh versus attempting to haul them back all right and in the future you may see more

• 1:19:50

of that keeping in mind keeping in mind a few things obviously systems like this which are

• 1:19:55

highly detailed and incredibly intricate in the world they are subject to constant revision

• 1:20:03

play testing internally and the designs may change you might even have noticed i saw some

• 1:20:09

commentary during the presentation that when you summon the caravan uh previously we had stated

• 1:20:15

that caravans would have a top down view of a map that you would select a location and the radius of

• 1:20:20

the node we opted to change that design to a held item that you can summon in front of your character

• 1:20:28

because we felt that it was more um it was more immersive because it's like in the world versus

• 1:20:35

taking it out into ui and not only that but there's inherent risk in deploying a construction

• 1:20:42

zone at a location that you cannot see with the top down map view as opposed to having that item

• 1:20:48

in your inventory and summoning it in front of you when you know there's no one around to see

• 1:20:53

and you want to eat that time up in a safe location yeah you saw on the stream they were

• 1:20:58

like hey let's not do this right in the open here let's move off to the side absolutely the last

• 1:21:03

question here since we are talking about wreckages of caravans or people coming and stealing your

• 1:21:08

stuff can you purchase some kind of form of insurance for your caravans no there's no

• 1:21:15

insurance system for the caravans caravans you know it's a treacherous road out there not a lot

• 1:21:21

of insurance companies are willing to assume that level of risk i'm gonna see i'm like imagining

• 1:21:25

people like knocking up on people's like freehold being like i'm here to ask you about your caravan

• 1:21:30

insurance yeah but there's nothing to say that that can't be player organized if some particular

• 1:21:37

guild wanted to go and create a caravan mercenary corps that helped aid in the defense and transit

• 1:21:44

of caravans they could employ some type of insurance system if they had you'd offer that

• 1:21:49

to streamers so that you can protect them on their stream that would be pretty sweet 100

• 1:21:56

and they would live and die by their reputation so um you know obviously the bigger more reputable

• 1:22:01

guilds would have an opportunity i think to capitalize on those types of things but i would be

• 1:22:06

um i'd be scared to see the type of premiums if you organize things like that uh definitely let

• 1:22:11

us know because uh i know roshan and vackner on the community side we have a lot of plans to um

• 1:22:17

kind of do some server specific news and things like that and i think it'd be really fun to see

• 1:22:22

like what kind of cool community things that people come up with that they end up doing i

• 1:22:27

always love that stuff that that's what makes them the most for fun um next up we're just gonna talk

• 1:22:32

a little bit about studio update stuff and i apologize if it keeps switching between october

• 1:22:38

and september legit that september asset is nowhere in the scenes it's like some weird ghost

• 1:22:43

of the machine happening during the during the video i was like searching and i was like that

• 1:22:48

assets nowhere i don't know how it's switching between it it's creepy but if you want to talk

• 1:22:55

a little bit studio updates we've had uh we just recently this last uh week had a bungee do a bunch

• 1:23:02

of layoffs which has been really rough i know um it's been rough in general in the game industry

• 1:23:08

it has been rough you know it's been a rough time for the world just thinking about where we were

• 1:23:14

last stream in the world and where we are this month a lot has changed and it's you know it's

• 1:23:21

getting a little bit more um concerning and you know especially from a job market perspective as

• 1:23:27

well in the industry um you know we continue to see layoffs but intrepid is continuing to grow

• 1:23:32

as a matter of fact i believe this month we've i think this month we've hired almost 11 people

• 1:23:38

um quite a considerable number of people so far for the team so we're continuing to hire and we

• 1:23:45

continue to search for incredibly talented individuals to join our team there's a number

• 1:23:50

of positions that are posted on intrepid studios.com obviously you guys in the community are

• 1:23:55

incredibly helpful in helping to spread that information about both the game but also the

• 1:23:59

opportunity of the company um but things are going great things are going good at the studio

• 1:24:05

yeah we're doing really good like look steven said we have a potluck right now we have a costume

• 1:24:09

contest um we have extra life coming up which a ton of our staff are going to be partaking in

• 1:24:14

in a very in a variety of different ways um and however they can assist and volunteer their time

• 1:24:20

because this remember this is like outside of our work hours so um yeah it's really really good

• 1:24:25

stuff we have a good family here and everyone's just kicking butt and trying to make this awesome

• 1:24:32

game and sometimes you know um it can be hard when you see other folks you have like survivor's guilt

• 1:24:40

because you're not sure like how can i help you so if there's any way uh if there's hr folks out

• 1:24:45

there or anybody who wants to reach out please reach out to us um we will you know assist you

• 1:24:51

in any way that we can even if we don't have job offers we can also you know help point you in the

• 1:24:55

right direction for other positions like that yeah anybody out there jobs at intrepid studios.com is

• 1:25:01

a great resource uh and our website intrepid studios.com all right and uh we just have a

• 1:25:08

little bit of art to share with you all um so first and foremost we have this cutie um this

• 1:25:15

was made by ginsy this is the fichon komodo um and we have some images of that guy as well with the

• 1:25:23

3d model um yeah that one's looking awesome so if anyone has nagged that can't wait to see how it

• 1:25:31

walks because those ones always crack me up a little waddles a little fast waddle yeah next up we've got

• 1:25:38

the charmed threads a couple images of that

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if it'll rotate there you go see the cloak yeah like it's great got very autumn autumnal colors

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i know yes desert biome goodness for sure you could wear this in the desert see folks saying that

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um and i think i have a turntable of this and this was done by danny so danny good job great job danny

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yeah reminds me of tennessee next up we've got the um

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duck ears labeled different uh this is the veteran or right drake and this was done by

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jan jan jan jan this is a german in me wants to say jan jan jan um this guy flies by braille

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well this one doesn't fly this is a ground uh this guy walks by braille uh stephen thought

• 1:26:52

his ear holes were eye holes he's like well if he's gonna be blind he should cut you should cover

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his eyes and i was like those are his ears they did not look like yours to me they look like uh

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they look i think maybe i can show you again unfinished eye sockets i messaged our glorious

• 1:27:08

character team last night and i was like is the blindfold offset it's like should be covering

• 1:27:17

those there so this is the image he was referring to where you could see the he thought that was an

• 1:27:21

eye socket but it's just their ear hole um that looks pretty awesome this was one of from one of

• 1:27:28

our sets it's all broken and blind but very very cool so good and with that we are going to swap

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over i'll just play more of the caravan video um so you all can have something uh you know

• 1:27:42

pleasant to look at whilst we answer the final bit of questions from the q a from the forums

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some of these do include some caravan questions um so the first one is from the dark sorcerer and

• 1:27:54

they want to know about caravan controllers this was also asked a bunch in the in the twitch chat

• 1:27:59

and watch party too i think some folks asked um who is able to pilot the different types of caravans

• 1:28:05

and will it be possible for trolls to take over your caravan and then also there was tangentially

• 1:28:11

from twitch and and discord people were wondering if other people could ride your caravan so if you

• 1:28:17

can answer both of those so uh i'll break those up with regards to uh caravan driver settings uh the

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owner of the caravan will have an option to create a permanent list of friends uh from their from their

• 1:28:33

known players that they can select to have the rights to drive the caravan um in addition anyone

• 1:28:41

can drive the caravan unless the owner of the caravan activates the um uh the uh writer's

• 1:28:50

permission uh ability and the writer's permission ability restricts access to the driver's seat for

• 1:28:57

a period of time um to only that owner and the selected members that the owner approves of now

• 1:29:07

the player who's driving caravan receives a very significant buff that uh alleviates any concern

• 1:29:15

for cc effects that can be applied while they're driving the driver so they have a strong driver's

• 1:29:20

buff and it also increases damage mitigation significantly so it's quite a task to dethrone

• 1:29:27

the writer from the actual vehicle this is true not just for caravans but also for uh ships as well

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but not for mounts so just vehicles uh now should that driver however be killed and removed from the

• 1:29:42

vehicle um after a period of time that uh owner's lockout um will be released and anybody can grab

• 1:29:51

the caravan and drive it off now the caravan will de-summon after a time a significant amount of time

• 1:29:59

right now i think we have it coded at 15 to 20 minutes um so that robbers could potentially drive

• 1:30:05

the caravan away if necessary same for ships um now if the caravan does get despawned the cargo is

• 1:30:12

then left as a wreckage as if the caravan were destroyed uh for either the owner to reach and

• 1:30:18

pick up um themselves by summoning another caravan that would have to be empty they'd have to have a

• 1:30:23

caravan available to do so uh at a nearby node and the further the node is the longer it'll take to

• 1:30:31

summon the caravan um uh or the attackers can do so um so that was a question with regards to the

• 1:30:39

driver there's a second part of the question the second part is like can other people ride on your

• 1:30:44

caravan oh yes so the caravan does have collision um uh and players could jump on top and and kind

• 1:30:51

of get out of the caravan yes all right um the next one here is from aka bear or aca bear and

• 1:30:59

they would like to know about caravan sabotage will players have the ability to set up an ambush

• 1:31:04

or trap a caravan caravan that may block the route temporarily we did see a log that was down there

• 1:31:10

examples was the uh like a falling tree rolling boulders uh lighting fires things like that yeah

• 1:31:17

um as it stands currently uh it would be difficult for players to be able to block the caravan now

• 1:31:25

that's not to say that certain types of effects cannot be applied to the caravan through ability

• 1:31:29

use such as slowing effects or or um uh pause effects stun effects against the caravan itself

• 1:31:36

not the rider um but uh right now we do have a collision priority system which means that

• 1:31:44

vehicles move players and mounts right mounts and players cannot stop vehicles from moving

• 1:31:51

uh the vehicle its collision has priority um and then ships have the ultimate priority uh nothing

• 1:31:58

can move ships or do they just push the players out of the way if they're in the way that's

• 1:32:03

correct yes all right uh the next one here is um how will the game handle multiple people trying

• 1:32:13

to send caravans from the same place at the same time and this is from land shark x like for example

• 1:32:17

let's say i've got 300 people my guild we all stand on where we're like all right we're gonna

• 1:32:22

summon our caravans right here absolutely so as a player you can you can participate in events that

• 1:32:29

have as many caravans co-located as you want so if you have you know 20 caravans that you're trying

• 1:32:35

to move all in a single caravan raid with all of your players uh you can join all 20 of those

• 1:32:41

caravans into the same caravan defense group um and that is that is the intent of the system

• 1:32:48

um the same is true for then the attackers the attackers can join against all of those caravans

• 1:32:54

speaking of attackers and defenders um gall is actually wondering about caravan affiliation

• 1:32:59

and their question is will players receive the player and guild name of the caravan owner before

• 1:33:03

choosing to attack or defend to determine friend or foe yes that'll be part of the event notify

• 1:33:09

uh when you choose to either participate as an attacker or defender again keeping in mind what

• 1:33:14

you're seeing here with regards to the ui is a work in progress this is our very functional

• 1:33:20

form of ui after functional comes testable after testable comes playable right um and so we are

• 1:33:26

not even at those stages of iteration yet someone wanted to let you know steven that you're the most

• 1:33:32

informed stormtrooper they've ever encountered um and they would like to give kudos to your trainer

• 1:33:38

uh within the empire thank you that is actually john john is my trainer now i'm not that good

• 1:33:44

with a blaster but i can i can riff on something it's okay they just kind of shoot everywhere

• 1:33:50

anyway um the next question is from guild cheese mojito which is the most ridiculous name and they

• 1:33:57

want to know about buffing the van can the caravan itself be affected by defense buffs or protected

• 1:34:04

by any like cover style abilities from the tank uh there are certain abilities that do interrupt

• 1:34:11

projectiles uh they do offer collision and block collision presumably yes you could utilize some

• 1:34:18

of those abilities especially on the tank um to block some incoming attacks against the caravan

• 1:34:25

um okay yeah so not like a ton of abilities but there might be some it just kind of depends on

• 1:34:33

the circumstances um to tome wants to know about or tomb sorry tomb wants to know about node

• 1:34:39

representation do nodes provide their citizens some kind of clothes or ornaments capes taverns

• 1:34:45

or something that they can basically represent their node be like i'm from merrillith look how

• 1:34:51

cool i am for player characters yeah for player characters um you know the npcs do i'm not sure

• 1:35:00

if that if that is part of the i mean technically the node does have a sigil or insignia um and there

• 1:35:08

will be certain armors that you can uh customize insignia and or symbols on so yes you could

• 1:35:17

probably achieve that all right and then uh arcano wants about node elections is the

• 1:35:25

uh economic node blind bid election process a gold sink or does the gold go into the node treasury

• 1:35:32

so whatever one's gold sink okay yeah it's a gold thing how we get the gold out of the system brah

• 1:35:37

that's right it's i mean you're paying for the political power um and you're paying for the position

• 1:35:46

paying for the position correct that's right and then that gold goes to uh charity oh i like that

• 1:35:54

goes to the orphanage down the street exactly uh azuray wants to know about religion can the

• 1:36:00

special items that are only available for the highest ranking members of a religion be traded

• 1:36:05

or soloed or sold uh to other players nope they are bound to the character and they are timed

• 1:36:12

so when you lose that position you lose access to the items all right and then nick wants to know

• 1:36:18

about player gear progression could you explain in detail what you mean by 50 of player power

• 1:36:23

when talking about gear influence on player power this is something you had mentioned in a previous

• 1:36:28

stream in regards to where the player power comes from for sure that's just a kind of general

• 1:36:36

allocation of what players can expect to pursue when enhancing their player character power

• 1:36:42

now obviously the distribution and ratio of those types of influences whether it be itemization

• 1:36:47

whether it be level whether it be um augments uh choices and or skill tree choices like those

• 1:36:56

influences and ratios change through the leveling curve uh so at lower levels your character level

• 1:37:03

is going to be more influential over character power than itemization will be but at end game

• 1:37:07

or higher levels or at the end of the adventuring level progression that's when itemization really

• 1:37:13

gets an emphasis for its ratio of player power and our last question here is from top wombat

• 1:37:21

which is an adorable name i love wombats they're so cute uh they want to know about server tech

• 1:37:26

how do you expect to handle many people at once in certain zones like some of most some of them

• 1:37:33

always do layering or uh different you know sure um so player density is a very important aspect of

• 1:37:41

our uh of our custom network layer um zack and his team have been doing an incredible job of

• 1:37:49

creating a uh unique uh network layer that we utilize in ashes of creation to facilitate

• 1:37:57

not just the player density goals but also the open world and seamless travel across that world

• 1:38:06

there's a number of different strategies that we employ when architecting the network layer

• 1:38:10

some of those things have to do with um uh with the significance of replicated data that the player

• 1:38:17

is receiving as the density gets higher we mitigate call and reduce uh the significance distance the

• 1:38:25

um the net relevancy distance um you know we keep things specifically that uh need to be

• 1:38:34

known for the player directionality which which direction they're facing

• 1:38:38

those are the most pertinent data that we transfer to transmit to the to the player character

• 1:38:43

so there's a lot of different strategies it's a it's a relatively complex system

• 1:38:47

um but our goal is to is to satisfy hundreds of players available within a given area and certain

• 1:38:54

events especially castle sieges caravans are one of those types of events as well

• 1:38:59

um and our architecture facilitates that fabulous and that will wrap that up so just as a reminder

• 1:39:07

if you have some thoughts if you have feelings about caravans we will have a thread over on our

• 1:39:12

forums you can check that out at forums.ashlesofcreation.com we implore you to head on over there

• 1:39:17

our developers read everything it's pretty amazing roshan and back in our community managers put

• 1:39:22

together these wonderful reports that make everything uh concise for them so they're able to

• 1:39:27

kind of sift through that information and really understand your guys's thoughts and opinions on

• 1:39:31

uh these different systems obviously when we head into alpha 2 you get your hands on it you can

• 1:39:36

really tell us how it feels right now we're just looking for feel in the water so kind of give us

• 1:39:41

your thoughts on and i guess steven if you have any specific things you're looking uh for feedback

• 1:39:46

on i can yeah i mean you know obviously um with regards to the caravan loop uh thoughts about the

• 1:39:54

components thoughts about uh the commodities and the glint um the interactions between the exchange

• 1:40:01

rate turn in values and ratios the risk versus reward aspect of the system what concerns you what

• 1:40:08

excites you you know anything that uh has to do with what you saw today and we're going to be

• 1:40:14

uploading obviously this video in 4k a little bit later after the stream so you get to watch it in

• 1:40:18

all of its glory um but you know we do these things so that we can collect your feedback and

• 1:40:23

we can make sure that the ship is going in the right direction the proverbial mmo ship is going

• 1:40:28

in the direction that that our community wants and that the the genre is asking for that's why it's so

• 1:40:34

beneficial to be transparent about our development process and talking about that you know i think

• 1:40:39

people say well you've been developing for a while mmo's are big big items it is a lot of moving paces

• 1:40:47

and remember we didn't have as much staff as we did then and now we have a lot so things are moving

• 1:40:52

a lot faster now and i think people can even notice that as you're seeing our updates change

• 1:40:56

but we've taken you through the entire journey what it looks like from concept to prototype

• 1:41:00

to what development is fully fleshed looking like as we move into alpha 1 and alpha 2 and for those

• 1:41:07

of you who maybe haven't been with us the entire time we did announce last month that we are going

• 1:41:12

to be moving into alpha 2 in 2024 so we have announced that probably in our next stream we'll

• 1:41:18

talk a little bit more about quarter and then later on we'll talk a little bit more about like

• 1:41:24

hard dates so kind of keep that in mind we we will share information with you we just want to make

• 1:41:28

sure we have dates that we're we're confident we can hit for you all yeah i would i would say just

• 1:41:33

to add on to that a little bit look it is a it is a journey it is a journey to make this game

• 1:41:42

and it is a massive game it's an ambitious game it's a game that's doing certain things that

• 1:41:48

haven't been done before and because of that particular reason there's obviously a considerable

• 1:41:55

amount of risk in doing things in a way that haven't been done before but honestly that's how

• 1:42:02

you innovate that's how you create explosive change within a particular genre and it should

• 1:42:10

be the desire of every one of us who love mmorpgs to encourage studios and publishers to take risks

• 1:42:19

and to do what hasn't been done before the world building aspect of ashes of creation is one of its

• 1:42:27

greatest appeals and one of its greatest risks and as margaret said we're an independent developer

• 1:42:33

meaning we don't have a major publisher behind us we are self-publishing and we are self-developing

• 1:42:40

and which comes with some strengths and some weaknesses you know of course we understand

• 1:42:45

everything yeah yeah like like everything there are strengths and weakness and in in the dynamic of

• 1:42:49

of any situation but you know the strength that we have in being that self-publisher and that

• 1:42:56

developer is that we get to dictate what we feel is right when it comes to the development of this

• 1:43:03

game and we're doing that in concert with you guys the community and the way we keep those

• 1:43:12

communication channels is through these development updates is through the forums where we ask you the

• 1:43:18

questions to participate in the discussions these types of games don't get made quickly

• 1:43:25

and we have taken a very sustainable growth trajectory as a company so that you know when

• 1:43:33

we are when we are looking at our production schedule going forward we're hiring the right

• 1:43:38

amount of people we're not over hiring at a time where things are still in the air about how we're

• 1:43:44

going to develop some things right now we're a little bit more into that groove that swing of

• 1:43:49

hiring and we've had a lot of success there which is now we're like oh my gosh just make it all

• 1:43:53

things exactly but in 2017 and in 2018 and in 2019 you know a lot of that stuff was still very

• 1:44:01

paper design oriented and some of those pipelines weren't well established so we didn't over hire

• 1:44:08

then even though we had you know goals that we wanted to achieve so with that being said

• 1:44:14

transparent development process is not for everybody if you are finding as a community

• 1:44:19

member that there is just too much angst to wait for this game that you know you are you are becoming

• 1:44:27

you know kind of impatient with the development process that's totally fine that is absolutely

• 1:44:32

fine absolutely 100 step away play another game you know come back to us later when we're closer

• 1:44:39

to launch you know we will still be here and we will still be constructing something that is what

• 1:44:45

the players want hopefully and when we do launch that's your opportunity to come back and take a

• 1:44:51

look so just keep that in mind it's a real based perspective but i think it is it is the right one

• 1:44:58

not just for our game but for any game yeah i think sometimes people hype themselves up a little too

• 1:45:02

much get a little too excited which is not a bad thing it's not a bad thing it's just whenever

• 1:45:08

things don't meet your expectations sometimes it can be rough but of course we do want to remind

• 1:45:13

you all that we are going to be streaming more this weekend if you want to meet more of our

• 1:45:17

developer developers and come hang out with us while we play games we're going to be playing on

• 1:45:23

friday november 3rd from 3 pm to 10 pm a bunch of virtual games so come hang out with us and play

• 1:45:28

some games with us or watch us play games i should say some of them you might be able to

• 1:45:33

battle against us could be fun and spread the word tell your friends come join us just hang out you

• 1:45:38

don't have to donate just come chill with us yeah and then on saturday we're going to be starting

• 1:45:44

our 24-hour live stream which is more like a 25 due to daylight savings uh but it will will start

• 1:45:49

from saturday november 4th 10 am pacific to sunday november 5th at 10 am pacific so we hope that you'll

• 1:45:55

tune in we're going to be playing uh pathfinder games set in the world of vera with varan creatures

• 1:46:00

and our characters so we're going to be toying around with some of the stuff that's in pathfinder

• 1:46:04

to make it work for us um but we hope that you'll hang out and donate and you can donate to affect

• 1:46:09

the game as well which is really cool and then also uh we'll be doing a minecraft part to let

• 1:46:14

our main pathfinder crew get some sleep and oh my gosh have they put some crazy things together for

• 1:46:20

the community building game uh it is going to be an insane competition the world area that they built

• 1:46:26

out is freaking phenomenal with all the mini games so i really hope that you all will tune in and you

• 1:46:31

can check everything out at bit.ly slash 2023 aoc extra life make sure you keep all of the caps

• 1:46:36

proper there um but we also have the link over on our news page and ashes of creation.com news so

• 1:46:42

you can get all of the information but if you just pop in and watch over on twitch.tv slash ashes of

• 1:46:47

creation this weekend we will be sharing tons of information and links for you throughout the time

• 1:46:53

and with that i do want to thank you all for tuning in with us for hanging out i know it's

• 1:46:57

been a little bit long of a stream um we also want to thank hal and jusdo and bucky and nathan

• 1:47:04

of course for helping us with showcasing this showcase and steven of course all of your time and

• 1:47:11

your answers to a million questions um we appreciate it as a community and we hope that

• 1:47:17

everyone stays safe and healthy throughout this halloween weekend um definitely send us your

• 1:47:22

costume pictures we want to see them we love seeing that on social media um and of course

• 1:47:27

you can follow us on all of the places um we are ashes of creation super easy to find us

• 1:47:32

and we do try to post often and interact with everybody as much as possible um the vod will be

• 1:47:39

up on twitch for you if you're watching here on twitch but we'll also have a 4k version over on

• 1:47:42

our youtube channel shortly so stay tuned for that and um if you leave a comment on the development

• 1:47:48

update so the october the one labeled october development update this one when it goes to

• 1:47:53

youtube uh you could be a possible lucky winner to be spotlighted for a comment all you need to

• 1:47:58

do is subscribe to our channel and uh follow us there and um leave a comment for that and with

• 1:48:05

that we are going to wrap things up i think steven wants to have his helmet on for this part

• 1:48:13

i don't know if he's gonna be able to say anything but uh we will wrap this up we hope that we will

• 1:48:18

see you all next month if we don't see you this weekend like i said this weekend's gonna be a lot

• 1:48:23

of fun for us and our developers so kudos everybody