Talk:2017-05-24 Livestream
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Oh you know what?
Oh oh
Oops oh [laughter]
We're live everybody!
Sorry about that hey everybody welcome to our Wednesday stream we are excited to be here with you we have what 8 days left in our Kickstarter?
Yeah
Yeah it's getting there [cross-talk]
Eight days left in the Kickstarter world we're 2.3 million people or 2.3 million people 2.3 million dollars raised with just about 13,000 I know did we pass it? [cross-talk]
We're creeping up on it [cross-talk] man past 13 I don't know
Not sure the exact number
We're confirming
Alright no but things are going amazing we're having a great time a blast here this month has been like gosh it feels to me like we started the Kickstarter
Like a year ago [cross-talk]
Right
Yeah yeah
I was going to say a year ago [laughter] but we're really enjoying being here with you guys on these streams three times a week I'm gonna miss it just a little bit
It's been fun man
It has been fun
I've been really enjoying myself
Yeah but don't forget you know we are gonna be doing these streams twice per month for every month following the Kickstarter
Yeah just to keep you guys informed talk about what's going on give you some inside scoops
Absolutely
Show you the Baconator
The Baconator will be there
What kind of gun is that?
Terminator man
So we don't have a guest with us today actually we do have a guest with us today our guest is you [Laughter] we have we're gonna be taking questions from the Twitch chat and from our discord if you're not on our discord I highly recommend you go on to our discord it's pretty easy to get there you just go to discord.gg/ashesofcreation put that in your url and i think you'll end up in a safe space of our discord
Yeah
Right but we have a dedicated channel we're gonna open up now I don't know did we live excuse me do we live announce Jennifer that we're good we're live on now on discord cool okay
The channel's not open yet
Oh channel's not open yet yeah right I know yeah we're gonna open that in just a second so we're pretty much gonna field a bunch of questions and just kind of you know
Chat and talk and have a good time like we're sitting by the fire place [cross-talk]
Oh fireplace do we have a fireplace?
Yeah it's right behind the camera
That's a fire hazard we also have some some footage that we're gonna be showing that's actually get getting recorded literally right now
Right now at this very moment
I don't even have a chance to watch it first
It was so much fun
But that's okay [laughter] of the predator class going out and hunting and getting some meat for his brethren his citizens of the node that may want to eat
Yeah
Right [cross-talk]
Everyone wants to eat [cross-talk]
I love venison personally
Actually I've only had it once didn't like it too much
Not a fan
Really?
Yeah
You don't like venison?
No
Interesting okay [laughter] well let's go ahead and open up the chat channels we can
Open up the flood gates
Now it's gonna hopefully it's not too spammy but I recognize it might get a little spammy and it might be difficult to read the questions for us but we're going to unlock oh look at that I can see that actually a little bit better maybe we can increase the resolution on that can you see it okay Peter
Me yeah
Can you read them okay
Like yeah the part or the discord part
So if you're on Twitch you're gonna go ahead and put question in front of your question and then put the question so do question and then your question and if you're in discord just tag Intrepid Studios do @Intrepid Studios and include your question let's see Baconator can you right-click on that channel the live stream QA are not right-click on it but click that little cog next to it in discord live stream Q&A channel we're yeah they go the cog next to it perfect yep yeah no just regular click it and then go to permissions perfect and that send messages right there you see that send messages where has a big X in the middle of it
Down the bottom
It's red yeah
Yeah click that checkmark next to the X instad check mark and then Save Changes boom discord is now open by the way congratulations discord is now open over 13,000 members on discord yeah you can exit out it's perfect and it's happening
And I can read nothing [cross-talk]
It's happening [laughter]
Let's start with Twitch and we'll let that slow down a little
And I saw one question can you build a shrine on your freehold?
Okay cool I saw that that's a good question right so I guess that that's an interesting question it's definitely a possibility something we've examined a little bit like that shrine would be tied to an unlock that is granted through your progression in the middle or religion system maybe and that shrine could grant access to certain types of givings that you could write
Tithes and stuff that you can make to your gods [cross-talk]
Exactly and that could help further progress you within the religion system it could be actually like a stepping stone to get deeper into the religion system itself [cross-talk]
It's not like going to a full-on temple you know next thing
Yeah and then perhaps the way that players can kind of visit your freehold and eat at a tavern or sleep at an inn they can also visit your shrine if they're a fellow worshipper and maybe they could have some interaction there
Maybe you could charge them for something
Ooh I like it, that's not a bad idea we'll let's see now that we have seen this is from Adrienne stark now that we have seen and it's gone okay [laughter]
So I saw one to the left that said [cross-talk]
Let's go let's go with discord for now
Okay 'cause I saw one on Twitch
Oh did you see one on Twitch go ahead
It said what type of tavern games will there be so what type of the parlor games?
I like that that's a good question [cross-talk]
I don't know who it's by because it went way to fast [cross-talk]
I think that when we've been discussing a little bit about the parlor game something that would be cool would have would be having the the parlor games reflect the race that is predominant race in a node
Yeah and each race would have some type of parlor game to offer [cross-talk]
Kind of style
Exactly right
It's because you know the the civilizations of our world right we all have different games we all you know share that in common and we think that's a cool way to tell a story without you know getting in your face about it
Absolutely I like it throw some dice play some cards
Absolutely
Maybe some bones
Maybe some bones
Yeah maybe orc orc style games
Okay Hawk says question will we get to choose the color of our puppy or kitten for the Kickstarter or choose the breed at all?
That's a good question
That's a good question I mean
I don't I don't necessarily [cross-talk]
Are they all going to be exclusive for the Kickstarter?
It is yeah [cross-talk]
It's not going to be
Customizable?
Yeah
Because we want them to stand out as the exclusive Kickstarter pet
Yeah
Right and if yours is a pink pug and the other one is a black pug you know I mean which one's the Kickstarter pet I mean our pugs just you know no I think that's gonna be a unique specific pet that's a that's inherent to the [cross-talk]
With a fixed color right and fixed texture
Yeah what type of dog though that's the question what type of puppy
We haven't decided on that yet
Ooh maybe we should do a Kickstarter community only vote
Oh we can do that [cross-talk]
That would be awesome! [cross-talk]
That would be pretty fantastic
We could totally do that so for the puppies and kittens we should do a vote for only Kickstarter members to vote for the breed
That would be fantastic
I like it
I'm down with that
Okay my personal [cross-talk]
We're making decisions online right now [cross-talk]
On the fly what's your favorite cat?
My favorite cat Maine Coon man giant fluffy thing
I think I'm a British Shorthair
I have no clue on cat breeds so
Really wow
Just cat is enough for me
Oh my gosh okay let's pause the discord chat and we'll grab another one from there you can just kind of grab it Baconator there we go perfect okay here we go Haste can we drop items on the ground that can be seen in game and picked up? That's a very good question
Um probably not unless yeah probably not because that requires a lot of work on our art team do you make all those measures
Not only that but actually there's a little bit of an issue that I've experienced in a previous MMO where that was the case I've seen that and we would have like a castle siege right and we would go to the castle and all of the players of the opposing team
Right
Lay down gold everywhere on the ground like won gold everywhere and as soon as I would try to like run into that area it was just like stopped
Yeah
I had to render every single asset on the ground
Yeah pretty abusable it cuz it took the players like 30 to 60 minutes to actually set up that labyrinth [laughter]
Okay let's see Wolf can you speak to the variety of weapons that you plan to implement?
Yeah we can actually let's see if I can remember them off the top of my head
Oh that's good there's a lot of them
There's a lot of them
I mean we've got spellbooks we've got orbs we've got staves we've got swords we've got [cross-talk]
Yeah remember the grid [cross-talk]
Daggers we've got [cross-talk] there's a lot of weapons [cross-talk]
Lots of magic stuff we're gonna have one-handed two-handed swords one-handed two-handed maces
Polearms
Polearms
Axes
Axes Axes one-handed two-handed axes ... stuff
Do you see my phone right now it looks like a carousel going too crazy [cross-talk]
Can't wait to see your battery just [laughter]
Maybe yeah it's like 80% now we'll see when it goes lower [cross-talk]
Okay yeah there's gonna be a pretty even split between [cross-talk]
I'll put aeroplane mode on [cross-talk]
Sort of Magey type of weapons and kind of melee rangey kind of weapons
Right
So so there's gonna be a pretty broad stroke we want to have a role for each of those weapons in the game and then they all kind of have their own way of being used
Okay let's see here we've got it's from Rico you mentioned the predator hunting hunting to supply their node with meat will there be a need to consume food will it provide buff?
Yes
Yes it will provide some type of benefit to your character obviously
We're not gonna go down the survival route we're not gonna have you know you have to eat to survive [cross-talk]
No you starve to death [cross-talk]
Right no [cross-talk]
You're emaciated and you can't like do anything [cross-talk]
It would be really cool in another game [cross-talk]
What if you turn into a zombie if you didn't eat?
Does that happen I've not eaten for a while before and I've never turned a zombie [cross-talk]
That's true that's a good point no but I think another cool thing about food in the game is going to be the fact that not all recipes are going to just be known by the players there's gonna be some combination [cross-talk]
Experimentation [cross-talk]
And experimentation yeah like what dish can you make and what does that do for me?
Right
Right
And then as far as the nodes go nodes will all require resources right and those resources could be anything and that includes food it could include wood or all those things almost [cross-talk]
NPCs need to eat [cross-talk]
They do
Right and they can't fend for themselves
Right
They can't well I mean [cross-talk]
Right and really to make cooking relevant like to make cooking relevant at all the food needs to do something so
Right right
So that's a major part of it as well
Okay let's let's switch over to Twitch
Okay
Question from Senpai zenpai really nice I like that name will there be wait no no no ooh
And he's gone
Sorry Senpai zenpai no wait are we back?
I don't think there's any way we'll find that again [cross-talk]
And that's a good question though I felt it was gonna be something
The answer is maybe
Maybe [laughter] okay twitch how about Jennifer why don't you watch twitch chat and maybe grab a couple questions and we'll watch discord because it's easier to stop okay
We could slow it as well but that's yeah
Let's go back to discord that while Jennifer grabs a couple questions and trap Studios will there be player Shipbuilding
Where is it?
I don't know it went away
Oh wait okay will there be player shipbuilding that's the question yeah yes there's player Shipbuilding
Yes basically anything that you want to bring into existence in the world is going to be built by players
Mm-hmm
Whether that's ships with a siege engines whether that's weapons armor all that kind of stuff
Very good okay all right let's see here can we expand on tanking mechanics? okay who's that from we know? Battlewrath like it expanding on tanking mechanics so I mean tanking as a role in MMORPGs typically is in regards to controlling the battlefield and mitigating damage for the party so to speak
Yeah I mean we've really tried to break down the archetypes and kind of enhance them like tanks can be feel a little bit OneNote when it comes to you know what they do in the game they deal some damage and they mostly worry about the threat but really what they're doing is they're controlling the battle and so we kind of wanted to kind of amplify that feeling of like hey I'm not just this this brick wall right I can make brick walls and I can kind of control who's going where and it's not just going to be about managing threat it's gonna be about managing the battlefield itself
Apex divinity on discord will there be player owned taverns yes there will be player owned taverns mmm Jesmo will there be a spear and shield combo?
Spear and shield we'd actually talked about this [cross-talk]
One-handed spear
We talked about one-handed Spears
300
We talked about 300 I think we came to the conclusion that we had too many weapons and that wasn't going to be a thing we were going to do [cross-talk]
Did we really
We did
Well hey we always have testing phases
Yeah it's it's it's it's one of those things we had to cut just because of how many weapons we had [cross-talk]
How many weapons [cross-talk]
We had a good amount
Let's not gonna firm no on that yet cuz I like [cross-talk]
I love it I mean I think that's such a great silhouette [cross-talk]
Did I say no to one-handed spears?
You did
Oh no I'm sorry
But it's okay
Wait I like one-handed Spears I think I've changed my opinion alright let's consider that
Let's see are you no wait Modley what is your anticipated level time to get to max level? it's a good question
It's it's it's that's a difficult one to say because it really depends on what's going on with you server it depends on what's going on with you it depends on what's going on with everything what your average play session is
Your leveling style
Yeah
There is a lot of different ways to level
But it's not going to be a into max level in a day it's not going to be I get to max level in a week
Right you know
Probably not a month
Probably not a month
And probably
I would say somewhere between that like 45 to like you know 45 day range really I don't know I don't want any want to give a number yet the the aspect of our leveling is going to be more towards that meaning side of things is
Towards the experience right it's not not experience as in numbers but in experiences in I am participating in the world
But it absolutely will not be a grind fest but that's that's that's it one thing a hundred percent it won't be okay how about any many twitch questions
Hmm I guess technically you could use a map for level 1 the question would be is when you're going to get your mount like when's the normal range of level you'll get your mount
Mm-hmm
And I don't think that'll be at level 1
It's it's really gonna depend on what's out there on the market how much money you have right what the animal husbandry people are doing there's not going to be a fixed level that amount it's going to be more of [cross-talk]
There maybe a quest line that grants access to like a starting mount
Yeah
And that may be you know startable around like level five ish maybe somewhere early on [cross-talk]
And that might be the first mounts that you see the game before people actually start experimenting with some of these mechanics so [cross-talk]
But you could technically come out level one doing that you know if you had access to [cross-talk]
Especially later in the game
The feel is definitely earlier because animal husbandry is so important
Yeah
That it's like we kind of want mounts to be ubiquitous for people
Right and you're not coming out of the portal excuse me out of the Gateway not coming out of the Gateway as baby
Right
You're coming out of the Gateway as a young adult
Back to this yeah right [laughter]
I'm just saying the Gateway
Kickstarter mounts so Kickstarter mounts are our mounts that replace the appearance of mounts you would have in game is that what we're asking that was I was question? right so what happens is with those with the runic steed with the obsidian and the and the spectral steeds you're going to be replacing your horses you would gain in the game normally with that appearance you know obviously because again we're not going down the pay to win route so okay let's see how about some more discord wings Michael
Scroll on discord a little bit
Gonna scroll a little bit down okay good oh no a little bit further down yes okay good here we go so Edmund lemon Edmund lemon question will there be a boss able to destroy or will there be a boss able to destroy a high-level metropolis full of high-level guards and other things? will a boss be able to destroy a metropolis no is he talking about like monsters?
Yes I believe so [cross-talk]
Monsters cannot destroy our delevel nodes they can disable our monster coin event specifically can disable services and buildings of a node but the chief mechanic to deleveling or destroying a node is reserved for the siege mechanic system and you know there's going to be there's gonna be ramifications if players don't react to events that occur but it won't be in regards to destroying a node what else is there? click that gray bar jump to present bacon there we go alright then there we go now pull us up a little bit to pause it there we go good good good good okay let's see Serb will there be any way to upgrade gear and weapons if it is already the best grade by adding one extra stat with the RNG like + one two three so kind of over enchanting?
Yeah that's what it sounds like
We've decided there is over enchanting in the game obviously everything is a risk versus reward in that regard so you know tread lightly in that over enchantment of the of the gear you're trying to make better because there's gonna be risks involved are there plans for native Linux support
Not out of the box not right now right now we're really focused on Windows environments it's going to depend on how easy it is to get that working it may be very simple and and but right now we really want to focus on getting this game complete on our side for what we're going to do with Windows so it's a maybe it's a maybe
Okay maybe Zane oops no okay Zane will crafters be able to determine what their crafted items look like? so early on I thought it could be a cool idea and we haven't fully explored this yet but it could be a cool idea similar to how you have a character creation suite you could have an item creation suite where you have applicable components based on tier based on type those kind of things where they kind of mesh together and the and the crafter has the ability to create a unique appearance based on the building blocks
It would be very cool
Yeah it'd be very cool so that's something we were going to look into look into right [laughter] you're giving me that look! It'd be cool listen I'm all in favor of that we'll see if we can get that to happen
It'd be a nice stretch goal
It would be oh hey item creation suite stretch goal okay David appear what will the average boss count me be Oh count be will it be one boss thirteen or anything between I don't know if that question means [cross-talk]
Like how are they trying to say how many bosses will be in the world at one time?
Or how many bosses will be in a dungeon
Right
Or how old are the bosses one or thirteen?
Right
I don't think [laughter]
But that's gonna be arranged there's gonna be far more than thirteen bosses in the world
Right
In a dungeon it could range from 1 to 13
And the range is elastic depending on how the world is reacting to certain things so
Okay wait pause David I mean sorry David Michael I worry about before Panzini I saw Panzini will there be oh here we go will there be skill trees stat points in this game? excuse me yes there are skill trees
Yes
And there is gonna be some type of potentially point system used to allocate which skills you're choosing down that tree path you know not having access to every single skill
Yeah
You're going to have to choose a path
Yeah it's it's it's either gonna be points or it's going to be slots they kind of come down to the same thing it's just a matter of how we're going to express that to you guys there is going to be basically a web and tree of skills right and then stat points yes we do have stat points
We are of a few different ideas on this
We're working very hard on making all of the stats relevant we want people to have different builds right we want to have a smart tank we want to have a dexterous mage we want to have all these things be viable so yeah there there are stats what we're going to name them is not set in stone right now you might see them in our character sheet if you see some live play
Don't take that as canon [cross-talk]
Don't take that as gospel but it's pretty close to where we're gonna stick [cross-talk]
I said cannon yes we're going to do after we're going to do after we do the live questions we're gonna go forum questions how about any twitch questions?
Are there going to be scythes in the game
Scythes!
I saw that
Scythes that's not our list not on our list list again lot's of lot's of [cross-talk]
Lot's of weapons
Scythes are very cool and I love them
Isn't that like a gardening tool too?
It is that's how it started
Kind of synonymous with like a dark nighty type classes [cross-talk]
I was thinking like you're calling wheat or I mean you know
Well that's that's I'm harvesting lives right [cross-talk]
Oh I get it! [cross-talk]
Take the soul type thing [cross-talk]
This is true maybe that's like an ultimate unlockable like evil weapon or something in like a church knows I'm just saying
Right
Just saying [laughter]
Okay well any other Twitch questions?
I saw one up there will there be elements with something I saw from twitch
Elements yeah
Um like fire water are these things going to have different resistances
Oh right
Will be able to make builds around them and the answer is yes
There are elements absolutely and another thing that's cool some elements may have more strength in certain climates that exist in the game another gameplay aspect were season changes
When it comes to season changes and environments you're gonna see that reflected in that
If you use a frost ability in winter it may have a little bit more potency
A little bit more kick [cross-talk]
Yeah I like it okay will we be able to save character customizations on our hard drive from Ruby 437 unicorn
Yeah that's so
In our character creation suite we have a save file [cross-talk]
Yeah that's that's going to be something that you can save your appearances out to your local and share them with people if you want to
Right
Just so you can load them faster and don't have to twiddle with all the buttons
There was a recent game that came out that I won't name but it had a really cool character question a character creation suite and you could prior to launch create awesome characters in there they had like contests
Yes
I thought that was a great idea
No it's fantastic
Yeah I love that [cross-talk]
Thank you that's what I'm talking about you know a lot of people like to do that let's see boba fried wait well I'm sorry boba I love boba though we lost you strawberry slushy boba it's really good strawberry slushy Bobo's I'm a support class how will the solo experience be from testing to five two one nine nine five
It's going to be awful you're going to hate it [cross-talk]
No!
It's going to be just misery [laughter]
That is not true
No it's gonna be awesome!
Yes it's gonna be awesome
Yeah the intention is not to make these classes like not fun right like like
Or solely dependent on having a group necessarily
That's right right just because I picked a support doesn't mean that I'm not awesome myself so so yeah
Yeah Berrytak will we will I be able to place furniture freely in my home or freehold? absolutely if the furniture art you know
Right any type of cosmetic [cross-talk]
Trophies you get out a whole bunch of realm of cosmetics or just like stuff you can put in there okay will there be fishing boats [cross-talk] Morean dude I would love to have fishing boats
Ah yeah
Can we talk about fishing boats?
We can talk about fishing boarts
'Cause you can do fishing from the shore that's one thing right
Yep
And I'm all about shore fishing too but if you get like a boat that has like fish finder or something on it and like
Fish finder 2000 [laughter]
No I think we're gonna probably do some type of fishing vessel Yenroute Yenrut since we are nearly triple of your Kickstarter goal can we hope for a slightly earlier release date think face?
No!
So so just so you're aware you know we're not putting a release date out because we want to like torture people in anticipation
We want to make sure we have enought room to get it done
Right not only that but get it done right and good and working
And the correct way
Exact
You know measure measure twice cut once
Exactly
And that's kind of our philosophy
Because if we release a product that's gonna be glitching buggy and nobody's gonna enjoy it [cross-talk]
Nobody's gonna play it
Then there's no point for it
Yeah and and also like you know it's it's we don't want to disappoint you guys by saying like yeah it's gonna be done now and then us having to push things back we've seen how that's worked in the past and it's it's it's unfair to you guys and it's not
For sure
We want to get make a good game and that's our most important thing
Yes okay Garon Dale will there be metropolis in the under realm well we have nodes now in the underrealm because we've unlocked that and that means that there could potentially be underground metropolises
It's true this my friend is a mine! [laughter] What? they dealt too deep okay let's see Jake Desu Mr. Jake well with the profession system Trinity will will I be able to want to have one character for each role and through that way do everything myself or will the profession experience be account wide? well technically if you had a character each with a role you wouldn't be doing it you're quote-unquote self you'd be doing it in concert with other people yeah they just happen to be played by you as well right
Sure but yeah this I mean [cross-talk]
But the experience is not gonna be account-wide well it's going to be on your character
It's going to be on a character hmm okay when can we expect from Pouran to see some summoner and bard gameplay so we're pretty real about like releasing gameplay like as soon as we get it or in this case today before I actually get it
Yeah yeah
And you can expect us to to be releasing regularly through our twice a month broadcasts content and that's gonna include like bard play and we have a Bard here
That's true you see me every day I don't even know why you're asking? [cross-talk]
Do we have a flute for him? Can we get a flute?
I've got a recorder
Can you tell a story?
Right
Tell me a story bard [laughter]
One day long long ago there was a castle called Intrepid
Nice I like it
It was a silly place
Okay mmm Just Marcus explained the dye system permanent unlimited partly dyed armor or one-time use?
So there are two different types of dyes one is for Kickstarter and one is for regular consumption
Right the kickstart is gonna be unique colors that are not going to be accessible from in game and then the the dye system in general is going to incorporate your ability as a character to customize certain armor pieces to reflect different colors so I think it's a pretty traditional system
Yeah
Now we're planning to have eight unique armor pieces displayed on a character
Once you use the dye it's gone
Right once you die it's gone and you're going to change the appearance of one of those pieces
Right
Yeah
I think Jennifer might
Oh Jennifer
Were you trying to get us?
They want you to start answering some of the Twitch questions
Okay Twitch questions go
What do we got?
Democracy now
From Sarumonin he wanted to know Sarumonin is one of our [cros-talk]
Sarumonin a community moderator
Can you explain the friend system more will there be private messages special groups that they can go into so that they can message their friends
Sarumonin asks can we explain the friend system a bit more in regards to how our chat works [cross-talk]
How the chat works and how that's all organized
So we've got private messages we've got friend lists that are gonna be in the game we've got [cross-talk]
Yeah groups [cross-talk]
If you want to set up a channel for yourself you are welcome to [cross-talk]
Yeah
Yeah that's that's all stuff that you can do
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Do you have a plan to prevent certain class combos from being sort of min/maxed so that those are the only ones that will be played by people because they are so much more [cross-talk]
Who asked that question who asked do we know who asked that question?
Feel you burn
Feel you burn so balancing question in regards to classes and whether or not we're going to be able to stay away from there being a meta build
Cookie cutter builds basically
Cookie cutter right exactly a hundred percent balancing is such an important aspect of this class system that we want to make sure that there's a role to be had for every possible combination
For sure
Right
You know you don't make 64 classes for four to be played [cross-talk]
To have four right exactly [cross-talk]
So it's you know trying our best to balance it [cross-talk]
That would be [cross-talk]
Yeah um and then there's some stuff that we're kind of talking about in the back end that kind of maybe sort of address that they're all experimental so that's stuff that will kind of roll out as we kind of nail that kind of stuff down
Do we have the video?
Almost
Almost okay so something interesting for you guys out there you're actually gonna see this video before we do because we're watching [cross-talk]
We're like 4 seconds behind
Well not like that we're not gonna be able to see the video because I'm gonna be asking questions
Yes yes
So alright that's cool better be good trick Tristan
Tristan does a great job Tristan Snodgrass is one of our level or is our level designer and not only that but he's an amazing editor and he takes in game footage and he oh hello I can actually see it now so you know what why don't we [cross-talk]
He's a wizard Harry
I really want to watch these he's a wizard Harry he's a wizard I want to watch
We can keep answering questions
It's going fast
It's okay
They're not seeing that
yeah he's just playing it in [garbled]
Okay okay cool no so more Twitch questions
Yeah
What have we we got?
It's ready to go
Will there be a deserter buff or debuff if somebody leaves a siege in the middle of a siege?
No so will there be a deserter buff for leaving a siege during the siege no there would not be a deserter buff
Yeah I'm trying to think of the purpose of that but if people like you know if morale breaks we want we want that to be a thing that happens
That's another decision by the players
So yeah right
It's swinging the battle anyway by having deserters so
Yeah exactly and like I mean morale is an important aspect of any leader
mm-hmm
And if there are leaders involved in certain circumstances like castle sieges or node sieges or whatever it's incumbent upon them their responsibility to make sure the troops are properly moraled
Motivated
Motivated yeah
Other Twitch questions
Footage is ready to go
Oh footage is [cross-talk]
Will there be gnomes or halflings?
Okay we're gonna play the footage now oh and is the volume off?
Yeah okay cool oh there we go so you're seeing a nighttime village excuse me and our mage is running through that nighttime village this is cool I like this we're running through the village just a lot of NPCs this is a happening place a little dog ran by feels like a little sped up though will there be I'm sorry was the question will there be halflings
Or gnomes
Or gnomes
We have a few little races none of them are explicitly gnome or halfling
Correct
Yeah
Yeah another twitch question you can pick from discord too if you want to since we don't have the visual here
Yeah because we're seeing the video
That's okay you can always like grab the cursor on the side to stop it what do we got that's okay
Will blood be one of the elements such as fire or wind? [cross-talk]
Blood mages [cross-talk]
Like blood mages who focus on blood [cross-talk]
I wouldn't say specifically [cross-talk]
Not like not as an element
Right
Rigth
But there will be blood
Yeah there's wow
Wow [laughter]
Thanks Peter appreciate it
That was a good movie
It was a good movie
Okay what can we expect from the summoner Oh wait no I already saw that one Diabolic Nick will there be a /roll feature that players there are people can use in chat when rolling for loot and other things in game? yes
Yeah
Absolutely
Yep
There will be a /roll feature explosive man question can people who who paid over 2500 dollars have their username shine in the text chat in-game
Oh like have like a little glow on it like like a Las Vegas you know
Yeah you know first level second level third level
Look at me
Right um
No
No
There's a lot of things [cross-talk]
It's harder to do than you think it might be [cross-talk]
And not only that there's a lot of things in the upper tier packages that really set players a part as being a community member that helped found
Yeah
You know Ashes of Creation and we're pretty I think content with those let's see we got here now bring us down a little bit further there okay
Let's see do you know where the games servers will be located I think we're intending on launching with EU NA and oceanic those are those are pretty much confirmed other locations are going to be you know dependant on the interest and community that we see from those
Yeah if there's a critical mass of players where those regions will definitely consider that
Absolutely but it's very very early right now to discuss server locations right you know in the coming months it's very likely that we can announce hey we have new servers and locations we plan on launching and stuff like that
There's a cool question from fervent fiend is civil war within a city a possibility without an external siege I think it's not like a civil war then that you're thinking of it's more of a political war
Right
It's about undermining you know who's in charge trying to disrupt you know trade and stuff and hurt your enemies so it's going to be much more on the political side then it will be like straight out and out war side but that's within a node [cross-talk]
Not only that but players can only declare a citizenship to one node so you know when you start seeing populations fluctuate of citizens within a node as a result of that kind of a civil war or the decisions of the government
Right then somebody can come in and take advantage of that
Exactly let's see okay
There was a good question from Twitch
Okay twitch question
I don't remember who who said that
Somebody
They said if their subscription runs out and they have a freehold does their freehold get dismantled or able someone else able to get it?
If the subscription runs out will the freehold with a property be lost?
Disappeared
Right so I think we're gonna have a grace period obviously when it comes to like subscription times
Right
If you're if the subscriptions going out I think it's pretty common for special games in regards to assets in game I think there's gonna be a mechanic for taxes that get paid instead
Right
And if that if it's on default then it's just gonna naturally run its course and
Right
And become available okay let us move to perhaps some of the forum questions do we have that list of forum questions all right that's fine you just drag it over to that second screen yeah cool alright mister first question giver is VicTey will players be able to give their Kickstarter packages to other users or sell them haha that's an interesting question
No for the most part they're gonna be account locked
Well they are they are account locked absolutely
Right
That's somewhat some of the other more like open-ended ones like design a Quest or events those things are not really account locked
Right because those influence other players
Right if you wanted to maybe talk with us and be like hey I've got this friend of mine I kind of wanted to give this to him on my part you could totally do that
Not only that but like if you're if you're currently you know wanting to buy a package for friend you can create a separate Kickstarter account buy that package and be like hey I got you the package right make your account you can use the code you know that thing Dingo8 my baby no Dingo8 will monsters drop gold or items or mob specific crafting materials
Yes to all of the above
It depends on the monster regards to gold right
There's a range of what they'll drop
There's a range of what they'll drop obviously but like a wolf is not gonna be carrying with him a sack of gold
Right
Correct
But depending on the monster all these things are possible [cross-talk]
Right that's true yes and but but more specifically I think a good question and what you're trying to get at is how will you get how will you earn wealth by going and killing wolves and stuff well that's gonna be more of like a you know pelt system that you take to a hunter's Lodge and depending on like maybe how many pelts they're receiving within that zone or something could fluctuate the price that the pelts worth and then you'll get gold in exchange something along those lines especially if we get to our economic goal that could be another aspect of it potentially
Right it's going to tend toward the crafting side that's going to be towards the trash side but yeah
Yeah Melete will there be diminishing returns in PvP? so diminishing returns in regards to like crowd control and conditions like stun and sleep and slows and all that kind of things yes we will have absolutely diminishing returns I think it's a necessary component to balance out classes that have high control ability obviously or else they'll just become like the penultimate meta you must have control [cross-talk]
We're trying to stay away from hard locks as much as we possibly can we want to have the system be very play counter play counter counter play kind of feel so that if somebody does something to you you have some way of countering that so so yeah
JaPeMo JaPeMo will an upcoming Kickstarter goal be translations into other languages including Spanish? hola mi amigo right what
Yes
I said hello I know JaPeMo he's cool he's cool dude well well we well I don't think I don't be a kickstarter goal I think it's going to be naturally again getting back to the interest from those regions right and then our localization efforts will include translation
Yeah to those those places that have the most demand are the places that we will probably be localizing
Absolutely DEFCON will a player be able to level their overall levels through only crafting or is pvp/e separate? overall levels so adventure class levels
Right
Right that's going to involve a lot of different ways to level right PvP PvE some crafting may get it exploration may get it you know collecting materials and stuff may get a building things may get it participating in node events may get experience towards those things there's a lot of different ways that players can receive experience
Shimmer will players be able to build a shrine to okay got that one Goat will there be benefits to doubling up on the same class such as Mage Mage? I think the term benefit may be misplaced because technically benefit it's beneficial for you to have a subclass in anything right because it's more customization for you to flavor any class and everything like that in regards to choose it to doubling down on your archetype and that's going to be more towards you know what role do you want to play
Right
Right and if you want to further identify as that mage class
Right a mage/mage is basically a pure mage there they're an archmage they they are you know the guys who are going to blow stuff up so yeah there there is a benefit of course you're giving up something by choosing that and that's that kind of flexibility and whatever role that that another subclass can provide
Right okay Snipe TDF when your location is revealed to bounty hunters due to corruption is your exact location revealed or only your general area? this is going to depend on the the advancement within the bounty you know bounty hunter class so to speak not class but like progression path your progression within that is going to determine how localized how specific the location counter is so like if you're a noob at the bounty hunter thing you just came in
Mm-hmm
You know you may get a bigger blob area of where this person is and if you are like an expert bounty hunter you may get really specific location
Yeah that's something else so we're gonna have to balance you know throughout the process obviously
Absolutely a lot of testing Elven Noob will there [laughter]
I was waiting [cross-talk]
How did this get on that question list?
It's a legitimate question
What?
All right okay okay [cross-talk]
Endowment slider [cross-talk]
Who are gonna be what? oh my godness well there be...
Boobie sliders
What?
Oh okay you just did it
All right you just want for it
That's the question!
Oh my goodness
You gotta commit man
Boobie sliders in character creation there is a quote-unquote boobie slider um you know how far we can take that is-
It's gonna be relative to what the the actual race is
Exactly
Um it's not going to be ridiculous it's not going to be [cross-talk]
Similar to the height slider
Right
Right you can't have a one inch tall character
Right right and in that same regard [cross-talk]
We're not dead and alive [cross-talk]
Exactly yeah thank you for that question Elven Noob Thank You lethality how long and how much effort will it take for a node to reach a metropolis stage six months two years? he asks so the answer to that we've put out a little while ago is obviously it's gonna depend on the effort of the community
Mhmmm
Right that's an important aspect of it [cross-talk]
It will also depend on how much counter effort there is
Exactly that's a good point and it's going to depend on whether or not there are as you said counter efforts whether or not there are other nodes that are stifling growth and stopping that kind of stuff but I would say if you just had a node without any counter effort and you had a nominal amount of players participating in that development I would say a rough estimate would be a couple of months
Yeah
Just about
Yeah
Yeah
It's a long-term goal
All three being average right
That's the difficult part it's hard to give an estimate like that because there's so many variables in a world that's truly alive we're you know giving that kind of fuzzy average is the best we can do
Yes OrXasro if you were in front of a potential Kickstarter backer who was skeptical about backing due to previous quote-unquote unnamed MMORPGs that didn't deliver what would be your elevator pitch to them?
That's a really good question I love that [cross-talk]
I like that question [cross-talk]
Yeah that's a well-put-together question
Well I would first say that you know take a look at the project look at our design philosophies look at our pillars of design and see first if that's something that interests you right now if it does interest you take a look at who we have on the team their pedigrees where they've come from being specifically MMORPG developers themselves and actually we have a few new hires that are gonna be announced next week
Yeah
Which probably are gonna excite some people out there
I know I'm excited
And then if that is is comfortable for you realize that those other projects we're not those people like you know we're doing this out of a passion we're doing this out of being upset similar similarly to other projects coming along and promising things and not delivering and that's our whole goal and why we came to Kickstarter in addition to that community is so important to us and and being in communication with the community is something that we strive to do as seen here on these live streams and our interaction with people on discord and on the forums I would say that that kind of has set us apart from other developers as well
And I mean take a look what we've built so far too
Right
And the chord we've struck and I mean we're just I think we're really clear with our vision and presenting our vision you know and like having that feedback from the community is just I mean I think the right really being part of it
Absolutely I would say that's our that's our elevator pitch so to speak but at the same time at the same time we are gonna get this game done
Yeah
And and if it's if you're more comfortable sitting back and watching by all means
Right
We're not we don't want people to do something they're not comfortable with VetenD63 if a node is built up and destroyed multiple times will the content that it unlocked be different each time? No so [cross-talk]
It's an interesting question [cross-talk]
There is there is a there is a caveat [cross-talk]
I assume he's referring to like questlines and stuff because the quest lines in of that particular node will be the same unless like things change with other nodes getting developed and reacting with that node right
There's that and then there's also what racial are aspect it ends up taking can change what's available [cross-talk]
Oh that's true that's true that's true
And also the buildings like that were there you know they're getting rebuilt possibly differently things like that that are going on you know that's like it's a whole new path when you have on new control control structure
So I'll apologize then it shouldn't have been no answer actually that I didn't think about the cross applications that's a very good point different races becoming primary contributors obviously affect things in different design elements of the city determined by different governments are going to affect things differently what other nodes are available within the world and what those reactions and interactions unlock are going to be different so there's a lot of potential difference between what that node can present previously and later in its development
Yeah we're not saying it's going to be completely different but but yeah there's definitely you'll you'll probably have a different experience
Yes Shanell how will marriage system work? it's a great question so there's a lot to I guess going to be the marriage system and I think that's probably something would probably delve into a little bit deeper in a future blog
Yeah I think so
But like generically the way it's gonna work is is combining those characters in a sense and like what they can can do together
Right
In a world right so like that could pertain to the freehold system and interaction there potentially different things within the node from like certain quests may be unlocked for people who are married that may not be available and other things it it may have societal organization impacts as well there's a lot of different things that we can we can do with the marriage system that we haven't fully fleshed out yet but we will be discussing in the future
Okay Gala Dione how does Intrepid intend to overcome the replication problem and net role issues with Unreal Engine?
I mean it's it's basically the answer that is kind of the same question that we've answered before [cross-talk] where we're ripping out most of the network code that Unreal has and putting in our own just so that it works with our game and so everything is as efficient as possible we're not going to have any replication problems because we're building it ourselves so
Exactly yeah and I think that that the one of the most important things about Epic Games as the creators of Unreal Engine is that the way they've allowed developers to have access to that source code to be able to do that it makes the engine very versatile [cross-talk] a and you know the engine may come out of the box not necessarily having the the ability to take on an MMORPG necessarily but because it's so open source to developers to come in and put in their own stuff that's what makes it a great engine in addition Unreal Engine has tremendous support for developers and studios that are working with their engine and they have a lot of very talented engineers who have have been working on this engine for a long time
Inside and out
And unreal has been used for several triple-a in a large MMOs in the past like Lineage II and Terra [cross-talk] exactly yeah so you know
It's not an unsolvable problem at all
And it's not even really a problem
Yeah
I mean it's not a problem [cross-talk]
We went into it knowing that that was probably happen anyways
Absolutely and if you think about it you know the alternative is like are you gonna build an engine from scratch? well why because essentially that's what you're doing with the back end of it anyways right as you're building your engine from scratch on the back end while also utilizing the graphic fidelity that the engine has to offer
Right and a lot of the hooks that they have for blueprints and everything I mean it's it's amazing how quickly we can build stuff with Unreal you know
Actually we had a great article come out on on UnrealEngine.com's spotlight yeah if people want to check it out [cross-talk]
Yeah it was actually really rad
Cool okay let's see here Monk Long will there be character limits in alpha alpha and beta?
There will have to be character limits just from a database standpoint you know we're probably going to relax it from from live just so that you have different builds that you can go on server with and help us test things when we need it will also probably have you know buffers on server and stuff to kind of configure tests out and and kind of help you guys get to what you where you need to be with what equipment you need in order to test whatever scenario we're doing that day
Okay I think we have time for one more question and we will answer from CareNuno's in the predator video we saw the stealth to have a slightly visible shimmering effect is this visible only to the player so that they can track their own position or will stealth look this way to other players as well allowing an observant player to notice an incoming rogue? so something interesting about stealth in our game is that you know we we don't just have the approach of your class be reflected in your combat abilities but also there are utility abilities that certain classes have that other classes don't have and some of the uses utility abilities pertain to the detection of stealth characters right so stealth characters are going to be detectable so to speak by classes that hold those certain types of utilities right to other classes that make [cross-talk]
To a greater and lesser degree
Exactly
Right
And other classes that do not have that accessible utility detection method probably will have a very difficult time locating a stealth character
Which again is another reason to have friends
Exactly very much so
Everybody has a role
Yes all right so I hope you guys got some of your questions that you wanted to have answered I'm sorry that we can't get to every question
There are so many questions
There are a lot of questions but will continue to be answering questions on our discord and on the forums and guys we love actually interacting with the community and getting these questions [cross-talk] it's expressed in passion that's there for Ashes of Creation because it's shared by everybody here at the studios [cross-talk]
And it's great to hear those questions too because we don't always know what people are interested in
Absolutely
And it gives us a sense of like okay this is an interesting idea I never thought about this before [cross-talk]
Yeah those questions are thought-provoking
Yeah
Like I mean they actually bring you know the community's perspective exactly into play and and and that's really cool it's a great part of this process but guys we cannot thank you again enough for the unbelievable support we have eight days remaining in the Kickstarter
I know we're getting close
We're getting there
It's getting close so keep spreading that word keep telling your friends and your your guilds out there hey we're gonna have a fun time with this project and it's gonna be a pretty awesome story and environment and just play for you guys so we will see you on Friday and next week we're actually gonna have a pretty cool video
Yeah we're changing up our schedule next week too you might want to tell everybody [cross-talk]
Good point that is a good point Tuesday and Thursday we're doing live streams on Tuesday and Thursday of next week instead of the Monday Wednesday Friday and this is kind of to give people who may not have been able to tune in to the livestream an opportunity to come in if they could only make it on a Tuesday or Thursday
Yeah and Thursday is our last day of Kickstarter so we wanted to make sure we go out big [cross-talk]
It'll still be what? 3 o'clock 3 p.m. pacific time thank you guys for tuning in we appreciate your support and we love you all thank you
Thank you
Bye everybody [Music]