Talk:2023-10-31 Video - Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Caravan Preview

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Hello everyone and welcome to another live stream from the world of Vera and we have

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an 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, actually I

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believe since Alpha 1, but there has been a lot of work that has been put into caravans 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 Steven? I am doing

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swell. It is Monday, the day before Halloween, we've got Extra Life coming up in just five days

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where we're gonna be up straight for 24 hours or actually a lot more than 24 hours that's gonna be

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crazy but I am doing swell. Sorry that's a long-winded answer. I love it. We also have another

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regular on the stream, the man between two ferns being combat design and systems design, our glorious

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designer Dr. Bucky. Bucky how are you doing sir? Hello I'm doing well, ready to move some cargo.

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Oh some cargo, cargo actually this is the first time I think the community has heard it referred

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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 Hal who built all things caravans in this live

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stream. Hal how are you doing? Oh I'm doing good yeah I had a lot of help from a lot of different

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disciplines but it's not just me I promise. That is true, Hal'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 Hal

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specifically modeled I thought what is a glorious Kalar caravan, the default Kalar caravan which

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

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Aw happy to be here. And then we have joining us an unfamiliar role on our live streams but a role

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nonetheless an integral one of keeping all the pieces moving in a non-chaotic and somewhat

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somewhat orderly fashion one of our glorious producers Mr. Nathan Moore. Nathan how you

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doing buddy? Oh I'm so excited excited to go drifting around some corners drop off some goods

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make a ton of money it's gonna be a good day in Vera. Yes it is gonna be a good day in Vera indeed.

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Now speaking of a good day we are in a default building for nodes is that correct Chris?

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This is a default building in the node meaning it comes with the node when it reaches level three.

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Very cool okay so this is the hunting lodge or the hunter's lodge and I see that there is a

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particular vendor of note in this fine abode a commodity vendor tell me what exactly the commodity

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vendor does. Well he does kind of what his name says he sells commodities which as alluded to

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previously is a form of cargo that is transited by caravans but before we talk to him I'd like

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you to open up your inventory and we can talk a little bit about what you're gonna spend to get

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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 if it

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

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formally known as the monster certificates but we have rebranded them. All right now that is a

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

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

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the economy within Ashes of Creation. It is a material substance that is acquired through

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various means but primarily hunting different antagonists within the world and it is the

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it is the physical form of essence within the beasts of Vera. So when you acquire this it is

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bound to your character and that is a very important component of the economic systems

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

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have 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 are 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

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

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most 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 gonna 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 Kalar wooden soldiers those

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are toys I assume that's cool and some aged ale and whiskey barrel are these like GI Joe's like

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Kalar versions of the GI Joe's they are in fact that is super cool okay so I have acquired a

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number of these commodities that are unique to this particular biome and or node and now I have

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an 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 conversion

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but you would be putting them in a caravan and taking them to another node because that will

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

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commodity has been sold at that node over the last seven days got it now what types of exchange are

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possible ratio wise for taking this amount of cargo right now I can get 150 it looks like gold

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and 50 silver on this salt cured meat shipment what type of multiple can I get if I take it to

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another node also again that's going to vary based on turn in rates at that node but we're probably

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looking at the node we're taking it to being around eight gold for that wow that's huge and

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that node is only actually the closest one to here is that right now that is that is correct now

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typically at launch we're obviously gonna have to balance these numbers a lot more as the world

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keeps getting bigger yes well actually thank you Chris thank you for that cue because as we have

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said many times before and you shall hear now once again the most important disclaimer you will hear

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in this live stream is that everything you see today is a work in progress towards our alpha 2

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testing environment which means that the art gets better particularly as it relates to our UI

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and our visual effects so keep everything you're seeing with a grain of salt since this is the

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first time you've seen Ashes of Creation and heard that particular disclaimer you can take a look at

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streams from many many ages ago and see the difference between today and then all right so

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I have arrived at a building that you guys did see during our nodes demonstration this is the

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caravansary which is also a default building in addition to the hunting lodge is that correct

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Chris it is in fact and this is where you're gonna do all your caravaning exciting exciting okay now

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I don't have a caravan obviously because I mean I'm just a lowly ranger out in the

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wilds trying to find my way in life well this gentleman the caravan master can help you acquire

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one the caravan master all right I see okay all right he has some thing here I see my storage

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I'm gonna my materials section I have some cargo available but I do not see it says no caravans

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currently available for me that's sad yep so at the top left there you're gonna be able to purchase

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a caravan okay so here I see it says purchase and I'm assuming this means that I can not only

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purchase the caravan but also the stall within which the caravan resides yep so purchasing a

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caravan will unlock that stall as well and put a default caravan in it all right let me go ahead

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and make a purchase here ah we have our caravan it looks like with a number of considerable and

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formidable stats I might add uh available to it but these stats could be improved could they not

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bucky yeah so caravans have these items within them called components and those kind of act like

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the gear on the caravan so they can modify their stats uh grant them passive and even active

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abilities so you can if you upgrade your components you can get power powerful caravans I see and

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just looking at this basic caravan it only has a capacity for one by two cargo that's relatively

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unfortunate because that doesn't seem like a lot for my time but I assume if I were to perhaps

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equip this carriage in its place nope that didn't do anything let's try the reinforced chassis

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

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but that's not all I'm gonna add the wheel set the uh beast of burden and the plated armor all of

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which I assume are doing some amazing things down here in the caravan stat section yeah the beast

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of burden primarily affects speed uh armor will make you more survivable and shoot you to counter

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combat and then yeah like you were looking at just now the uh chassis and body kind of provides some

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of the core stats like the health and also the storage capacity for the caravan very cool that's

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awesome um I'm gonna take two salt cured meats because I assume that we're gonna be successful

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we will deliver okay very good we're powerful we are very powerful all right let me go ahead now do

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I click launch Chris correct you're gonna hit launch and you're gonna get uh an item in your

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inventory once you click launch oh yeah I'll launch a caravan too with you guys oh okay very cool

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very cool you got a busted caravan or you got a good one it's uh you know it's pretty standard but

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you know it'll get me there oh okay very nice all right uh I see that I have a caravan event

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oh it's telling me to find a location to summon the caravan so this caravan event starts even

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prior to me finding the location for my caravan because because you gotta organize your event you

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know and you also want to find a safe spot to launch your caravan very cool all right now we can

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go out here in the world I assume within some level of proximity proximity to the node okay I

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see that you can see the radius by the uh in-game radius okay very cool that's cool

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got a little slate wolf over here let's take care of him first

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all right poor guy I am going to go ahead and I assume Chris I'm going to open my inventory

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yep so you're going to have a little caravan item and when you right click it you're going to be

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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it could be but it might not be it might be the default caravan bucky if you just needed

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some components I could have given them to you no this one's gonna work good I believe in it

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it's like he's a pro gamer bucky are you a pro gamer yes I in fact am a pro gamer very nice

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so this is taking a good amount of time it's only mine's only about 50 completed right now this this

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takes by default about two minutes the amount of time it takes can be augmented by how players

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choose to upgrade the caravansary but this is taking an amount of time so that people can

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start to scout for caravans that might be popping up very nice now another very important aspect of

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

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

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

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

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to you will be predicated on the distance to the node the components of the caravan and any other

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

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

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

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it's the same caravan they both look great show us the difference between these two pictures

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they're the same picture oh my gosh how this is a great looking caravan oh it looks amazing

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mine's like a tank and this is the default kaylar caravan is that correct

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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like only nicer wheels or like only a nice casting and that's going to be visually represented so

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players can kind of like see what potential buffs you might have for example you can see stevens has

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all that tank looking armor that's going to be able to kind of let people just like looking

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from the outside maybe attackers not that we support stealing caravans but no if i didn't

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want to do that you know i could see that maybe i would want to go for steven's caravan yes that's

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

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is going to be named not steven's caravan oh no well then they would go after not steven's caravan

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

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

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

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

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status you do once we get to this road though we're gonna we're just gonna get a road buff

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which will boost both speeds ah very cool okay so so being on a road versus off-road

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is more beneficial because of that buff but in addition the components that we are using

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um are not necessarily made for offering yeah so some of the dark yeah exactly so there'll be

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different variants of each of the components with the wheels for example would have variants that

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will excel perhaps at off-road over on-road and vice versa and so right now we have caravans that

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are set up more for the on-road um portion but you do we will travel faster over roads but

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that obviously comes with the increased risk of running into other players or monsters that are

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blocking the oh wow i see i have that i have the road buff now where are you bucking i'm almost on

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the road should i wait for you uh yes this is a this is a caravan of caravans right we're a team

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here oh okay caravan of caravans i like that all right here we go we know you know there we go i

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see the importance i mean this the caravan system is is somewhat treacherous i mean you should be

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you should uh take caution with this i mean i feel very susceptible yeah well we got our

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group of defenders with us at least we're not running completely solo that's true yeah it's

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definitely something and this goes for a lot of the node features right where we're trying to

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create these ways for you know people who maybe are used to sort of a more solo mmo like a gameplay

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experience to have easy ways to take that first step into like collaborating or competing with

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each other so that's really one of the things that we spend a lot of time talking about for this

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system absolutely and perhaps i assume um bucky or chris that in regards to the design of the

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component system if i am utilizing components that might give my caravan a significantly higher stat

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of speed it's unlikely that i would also at the same time be able to select components that were

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to give an equitable amount of benefit in the stat of let's say cargo or health it's going to

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be a trade-off in that sense yeah that's exactly right like so you'll be able to have caravans of

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different customizations but there won't be one caravan does everything the best you'll have to

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make sacrifices depending on what you want to use your caravan for if you want to have an off-road

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caravan a really fast on-road caravan or just a slow tanky caravan that can hold a lot of stuff

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there'll be other options players can can choose to uh outfit their caravans with very cool

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already i can see the obvious benefit and choices that certain players will have i mean if as

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nathan was saying if you're the most more solo oriented player you might just want to have the

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fastest possible caravan around because one you're not worrying about people to stick you know close

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to you but also if you do come under attack your chances of succeeding at a fight are far less than

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getting away by speed yeah that's that's true or i could also see a variant though where you want

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to just you know go off-road guys why is tubach here uh is he just on his path i think he's just

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i think he's just on his path uh you're gonna want to turn around we cannot take that oh i

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wonder if he'll turn around if he detects us i think he probably would okay stay back here yeah

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yeah this path is not uh not for us we go ahead give us a turnaround and i'll show you my secret

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little off-road path all righty okay all right let's just turn around here apology holds them off

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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that make traveling off-road a bit easier perhaps yeah certainly

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okay i'm trying to get back to the yeah it's definitely slower i'm rolling we're still rolling

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should have gone for the off-road real wheels maybe did we get lost is it like a path up here

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back to the road yeah no no you're good you're good you're going the right way

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let's follow the spiders oh yeah oh god um i'm taking it's starting to take a little bit of

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damage here hey stephen we might need a heal and i remember you booking some kind of healing item

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yes okay all right they're eating the horses they're definitely

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

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

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

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

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uh-oh

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

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these were those kinds of horses with the cliff jumper horses yeah we need them

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

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jumping horses so can i get spider horses just different kinds of man i don't know let's even

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

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these horses are that fragile

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

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

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

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

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

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

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whoa no i can't where are you hold on we gotta get the good album cover photo where we're all

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looking away just looking off into like desperation another day in vera

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another day in vera that's my chance they're distracted i can pass them no even

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oh no now with that little hoopty oh yeah my money's on steven here okay so now

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uh we were intending to show this update with this update the transition from land to river

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with the raft system caravans when they intersect with a river they uh go into a construction stage

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why don't you talk to me a little bit about that uh how and chris yeah so um the primary there's

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like two kind of methods crossing rivers right one of them is with bridges which are constructed by

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mayors and players but the other method is via a transformation into a raft now it will push you

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at a little bit of a um they'll make you a little bit of a sitting duck while you're transitioning

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once you're in the water you'll get kind of a nice speed boost from the currents and it's a

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alternate means to getting stuck on the choke points that are bridges

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very cool yep that will be an update coming shortly is uh we were having some bugs i'm

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really stoked for you guys to see it though it's already looking really cool and i'm so hyped about

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it oh how how has been integral in creating the assets for showcasing what that transition looks

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and feels like and helping to demonstrate the construction process of the raft it is super cool

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to see even how how you've incorporated the more componentized system of creating this caravan as a

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whole into being able to adapt uh for that construction scene um all the pieces that are

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relevant on different skins and cosmetics for the caravan as well yeah it's been really fun kind of

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figuring out how we're gonna like like show certain things make everything work together like

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balance all the pieces but it's yeah it's been a fun time and i think kind of visually showing

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things like for example like the cargo um to kind of like which can we're still kind of working with

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techart to get this fully up and running but you are eventually going to be able to get a good

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visual view of like how much cargo someone's going to be holding and you know the possible rewards

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you're going to be able to get too so it's yeah it's it's been a really fun time yeah it's been

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it's been super cool to watch this this bridge by the way is a little a bit slower than the road

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um you're not getting a road buff on this bridge steven

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

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

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

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

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

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fast and the furious you know that one fast and the furious movie that one out of 30 fast and furious

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we should get some fast and furious versions of the caravan

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

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to just make like t7 caravan components you can't carry any cargo you just max speed and you get a

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drifting ability that's it that's all he wants in life oh my god that'd be so good that would be so

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great i'm loving i'm getting like the cinematic shots right now yeah the environment team has done

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such an amazing job about bringing vera to life and that's another cool thing about us being able

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to show off this live stream which we kind of kept a lot of the uh exploration of vera uh under wraps

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because we want to you know make sure that people get that first glimpse of it when they're in the

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servers go online for a2 but we can show off some of that stuff here super oh my god there's a bear

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oh oh no danger bear you know somebody oh no oh we just entered a super moody part of the forest

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

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

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just got off the bridge oh oh whoops my bad i just called it out you know for the team

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we're just gonna wait here and admire the the beautiful scene which by the way

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zachery and um hans did a phenomenal job with looks so good yeah it's looking really cool i

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

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i really like this next area he's talking about the second bridge still yeah the river is getting

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the river yet oh no there's a bridge there you need to be careful there were some trolls nearby

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ah you made it welcome back bucky i really should have just given you some components to put on

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your car really just the horse the extra horse could have probably helped a lot you know yeah

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

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just spawn it into existence it would be cool although once the caravans are parked you are

• 33:56

able to upgrade the components every time every time you park the caravan in the stall at any node

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you can adjust oh whoa whoa oh what's up ahead there's a giant fallen tree oh i don't think i

• 34:15

can chop through this one guys no let's let's uh maybe we go off road a little bit here

• 34:22

so juiced i could be wrong but this looks like one of our environmental hazards at work yeah

• 34:28

oh juiced are you needed how about now there you go there we go i made it uh yeah so something um

• 34:38

that can happen to caravans while they're traveling along roads or out in the world is um

• 34:43

there are events kind of waiting for caravans and uh you know i think that's a good thing

• 34:48

events kind of waiting for caravans yes i can chop them well first i gotta i have to do a little

• 34:57

cheating first but yes i can do that um you actually you can interact with the environment

• 35:02

that free up the area to move through too yeah that'd be yep hold on don't show my gm panel

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oh oh my god just killed a horse what is wrong what is wrong with you oh no chris no

• 35:30

uh excellent this is carry on

• 35:32

yeah that we had an unbelievable you're supposed to help me i didn't do it on purpose

• 35:41

we're gonna transfer the goods from steven's caravan over to bucky's

• 35:45

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

• 35:48

oh my god we all know what the answer to that question is the answer is a resounding yes

• 35:56

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

• 36:06

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

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

• 36:17

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

• 36:24

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

• 36:31

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

• 36:36

different kind of dangers associated with them very cool how are you doing back there bucky

• 36:48

all in your tracks it's looking good

• 36:49

after our assistance in clearing the path for you you're welcome thank you yeah you were you were

• 36:54

doing a good job guiding me too attempted murder little call on my little call and be

• 36:59

unbelievable listen i've only been playing a defender of your caravan

• 37:07

long con right before we get there

• 37:10

it's actually good good call out though is that uh you registered to defend the caravan you won't

• 37:14

ever be able to unregister and immediately attack the camera in the beginning of the end

• 37:18

ah very good call very good so yeah and then in addition to that you can be registered

• 37:23

participant in multiple caravan events at once so if you had let's say a caravan of

• 37:32

care you could put both caravans in the same rate very cool speaking of caravans welcome

• 37:41

thank you i've returned you have nice for you to join us caravan

• 37:48

last caravan do i go right here are you gonna go right yeah yeah

• 37:53

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

• 38:03

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

• 38:10

okay

• 38:11

there's another skeleton over there all right i'm sure this one won't notice this yeah no you're

• 38:20

good its eyes aren't so good zombies in the middle of the road

• 38:30

oh no

• 38:32

oh no okay maybe not zombies no i don't think these are zombies it says

• 38:48

i'm gonna scatter ahead and see if uh oh god oh this this seems like hey bucky do you want to

• 38:54

go ahead bucky okay oh what are you doing you pulled them i didn't pull anything oh no i learned

• 39:03

these are watching you i'm gonna repulse your blast do it do it do it get out of here oh

• 39:12

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

• 39:16

okay there we go nope they found them oh it's shooting me those heels use your speed run

• 39:25

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

• 39:38

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

• 39:41

this

• 39:45

i'm actually i'm hanging in there

• 39:48

it's not keeping up oh oh oh gosh i love that blast steven use the sprint get out of here

• 39:55

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

• 40:04

running out of here right now

• 40:09

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

• 40:21

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

• 40:25

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

• 40:29

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

• 40:37

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

• 40:45

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

• 40:51

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

• 41:04

i mean i'm uh hopping behind you very slowly

• 41:08

oh the rudest steven actually just speed boosting me right you're like why walk when you might just

• 41:17

see repulsor blast on cool down that was so funny so i've lost the street buff uh yeah once you're

• 41:28

in the nose to the node yeah once you're in the purview the node yeah you gotta travel at slow

• 41:33

speeds or the guards will get you almost there whoa we're almost there is that how it goes

• 41:51

that's the exact lyrics of the song for sure it's copyright struck

• 41:55

oh no no now what happens so i'm seeing that we have this little area in front of us that

• 42:04

denotes the turn in radius what happens when i reach it well you're about a second away from

• 42:12

finding out oh we did it well not yet technically we're almost doing it it is done

• 42:30

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

• 42:36

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

• 42:47

a little chat here all right let us discuss with this fine gentleman there we go you'll notice the

• 42:57

cargo you're gonna go to your materials and look at that we got mirror leth if you scroll down to

• 43:03

the bottom of the mirror left tab you're gonna see what you delivered very nice okay that's cool

• 43:10

so now this is worth yeah eight eight gold 69 silver i can do math well done oh that's cool

• 43:20

i'm gonna sell that sell that and that and that and you notice this gentleman sells different items

• 43:27

than the last node you were in oh yeah he's got some ancient ale and wine in a case of dunier tools

• 43:36

oh that's cool nice very nice cool that's awesome well look at that we've fully demonstrated the

• 43:47

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

• 43:55

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

• 43:59

be used for alpha 2 as a core loop of the economic gameplay and we have succeeded in delivering

• 44:07

through the perilous journey that was the riverlands our commodities to mirror left

• 44:15

justo bucky planendorf and how thank you all for joining us today and demonstrating the caravan

• 44:23

system i know that i speak for the audience when i say your guys's hard work is extremely

• 44:29

appreciated and cherished by this community that cannot wait for ashes of creation i hope that

• 44:34

everyone in the audience enjoyed the demonstration today if you have thoughts um please share them

• 44:41

with us that is why we do these streams that is why we show you guys monthly the updates to the

• 44:47

game it is obviously very important to us to hear your comments on what you enjoyed what you thought

• 44:54

could be done differently leave them in twitter on the forums on reddit on discord and on youtube

• 45:01

it means the world to us we capture all that information and we analyze it internally but

• 45:07

with that being said very excited to get to alpha 2 so that all of you can start playing with these

• 45:13

systems and testing it's gonna be pretty exciting guys thank you for joining us thank you see you

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back on stream bye