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[Music]

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hello everyone and welcome to another

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live stream day with an awesome

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Showcase of our basic ranged combat

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revamp

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um excited to be here again showing you

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guys Ashes of Creation and its current

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progress towards Alpha 2. I have joining

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me today to Stellar senior designers on

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our team

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senior designer Trad and Jeremy how are

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you guys doing

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I'm doing well I'm just looking forward

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to showing some of the stuff we've been

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working on here oh I know it's always

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exciting Jeremy how you doing buddy

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doing really good really excited to be

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here really excited to show the stuff

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we've got this time yes and I my first

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my first ah

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is of course the world just the

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unbelievably beautiful environments that

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uh the environment team and the design

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team have just come up with with these

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ruins and this Forest I mean where where

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are we at right now Jeremy

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we are in the riverlands and which was

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the former heart of the island Empire so

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we're among their ruins from a long time

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ago after the fall yeah people saw some

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of these things

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um in the weather and Seasons

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um showcase uh so you guys might

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recognize this stuff but the alien

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Empire that was one of the largest if

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not the largest Empire at the town at

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the time of the Apocalypse right right

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it was at the height of their golden age

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when the uh

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the fall happened so we are just

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standing in their ruins now and it is it

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is so cool I always love environments

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where

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you have

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these ancient

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almost artifacts and and just locations

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that you get to explore

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um

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it's really compelling yeah is to to

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make a living breathing world that's an

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actual character of our game Vera should

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very much feel like a character that has

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so much history and story behind it uh

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they're like great fantasy worlds of the

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past and other franchises bearish should

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very much feel like one of those that

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just hearing the name invokes all kinds

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of history and character and and living

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breathing and and actually a world

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that's been in trouble for a long time

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now and the players are coming back to

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help rescue and recover that I love it

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and I also love the fact that Chris

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Atkins threw in some slits for this

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elf's ears to come through oh my gosh

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it's so awesome I feel a lot comfortable

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adorable they are adorable this is such

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a great outfit

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um I'm loving the cape cloth as well

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that's very cool so you were mentioning

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we are in an area yeah that is uh

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relatively dangerous right this is um

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these aren't Elite monsters right but

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they are still deadly these are looks

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like a Minotaur uh Hunting Party war

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party that are investigating this area

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for some reason it looks like some

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Shaman have have come down to this

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Riverland area

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and they're checking things out and they

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have some like guard dogs with them

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they've got some drudgers with them

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um kind of like reptilian dog kind of

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things that are acting as Lookouts and

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guards while they're looking around for

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things oh no oh I'm walking oh God

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hold on one second

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Chad what should I do what should I what

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what what items or abilities

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uh spam two on one of them take that guy

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down

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all right that was a quick shot right

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there

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um so quick shot is an ability that has

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three charges

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um and each shot does more damage than

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the last to the Target that you're

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attacking you can kind of use it as an

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opener Alpha strike kind of ability just

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drop somebody it's gonna have that two

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back again the quick shot

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yep yeah we haven't done like full

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cooldown pass on this or anything so you

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could pretty much disband right now but

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you've got that oh that guy oh God I

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have 16 health no no no no

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the shaman are not something to mess

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with they're they've got that chart how

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did we draw so how did I grab so many

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they're paying attention okay hold on

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yeah you have to be aware of your

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surrounding I did not

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I was not aware of my surroundings okay

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you guys may notice

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that I'm not dying right now and I would

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just like to comment that the stream

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would not be good if I died

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trying to fight these things what am I

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using here dread

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uh that would be snipe

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um so unlike quick shot that is an

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ability that you can press and hold and

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it kind of roots you in place so it's

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you gotta you gotta like use that at the

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right time but you gotta you do get a

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lot of payoff if you can pull off the

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whole thing

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um so the longer that you charge it uh

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the more damage it does I need to get my

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some of my health back I I apologize

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stream I let me just say that whenever

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we do these recordings and I uh am

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piloting right I have this very well

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thought out outline and plan about how

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things are gonna go and somehow

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something happens and it just doesn't it

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doesn't work I don't know why I think

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when Mike Tyson says everyone has a plan

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until they're punched in the face right

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yeah every now no no plan survives

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contact with the Enemy

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um but uh so I I didn't I turned on this

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cheat code which doesn't let me die if I

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fall below one hit point so every time

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you see me dropped one hit point know

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that I would have normally just died

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there and you guys can

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um you know take a shot of water or

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something

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um point for the Minotaur yeah

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okay so uh by the way you guys are

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seeing where this is early morning here

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on the the Varan riverlands

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um and you'll see that there's a lot of

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weather effects that are happening right

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here there's some there's some pollen

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because we're in the middle of spring

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but it's also early morning so we have

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this fog layer that's rolling through

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um of course

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the Aesthetics of Ashes of creation are

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very important we've always said that

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game systems makes games funds

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um and uh the game environment and the

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Aesthetics make it uh make it beautiful

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and make it immersive so

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um we double down on both of those but

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Jeremy talk to me a little bit about

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these minotaurs who are these minotaurs

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why are they here so these Minotaur well

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prior to the fall they were kind of uh

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just a nomadic chaotic race they're a

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race that really benefited when the the

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player races left saying or left

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percentage so they in the intervening

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time they've gotten stronger they've

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kind of found some techniques some help

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in some ways from other entities that

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aren't friendly so they've they've

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really got organized got equipped and

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they're kind of actually excited to see

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the players come back because they want

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some Revenge

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so they are looking for ways to uh they

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have oral histories and things that tell

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of these people that um held them down

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and and hunted them and they're uh

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they're brutally wanting to exact that

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Revenge can I um I'm gonna cheat here

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again because I just want to get go up

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to them and give people a look at what

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these minotaurs look like in the game so

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so the terrigora is one of those Clan

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clans or tribes uh this one's the the

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rain caller who uh has uh Essence that

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kind of evokes water he has water

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abilities throws water attacks and makes

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Shields of of water bubbles around them

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this guy is amazing I love the model

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work you know Eli's done an amazing job

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on these and these are just a shaman

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these are kind of the ones that are

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Divine and have a little bit of a

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connection there there's much bigger

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ones much more even scarier ones like

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the Marauders and the Berserkers and

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even the Khan

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oh wow look at that I'm sorry I'm just

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looking over in the distance and I see

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this this giant like Tower structure

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yeah that's the the Tower of Carphin

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under a curse that is causing a lot of

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problems for the area too oh you're

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right actually I think if we approach up

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here

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we actually cross over into the boundary

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of carfen the wreckage of Carphin right

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it's like science

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and Carphin was a one of the great cities

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of the island Empire and it's now and

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and

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there we go yes

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I see it

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that my friends that you're seeing off

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in the distance is gonna is in Alpha two

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obviously

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um and Jeremy tell us a little bit about

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the tower and it's and what you know

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just a little bit not nothing give away

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too much but just a little bit about the

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tower what is it what is the tower it

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was a focus of the the Mages and study

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of the alien Empire

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Carphin was a city that that kind of had

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a great Mage population so it had a

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university there

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um

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and things went bad there during during

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the last days of the of fall

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um they made some desperate measures and

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a really awesome

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uh Quest series that um that Scott's

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written up and and implementing things

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awesome so it's it's going to be a

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pretty fun tower that was intended for

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many groups to exist within and fight

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now track

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question

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what type of weapon am I guess thank you

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what type of weapon am I using here

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this would be the Longbow

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um so you can kind of tell like when

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you're when you're shooting your basic

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attack that the shots are a little bit

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slower but have more power behind them

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um yeah I really like the model that

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Atkins threw together for this oh that's

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so good the snockets of an Imperium

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design

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bow makers of the past maybe someone's

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remembered the techniques to make it it

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looks so good

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like go ahead and uh and hold the button

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down one thing that we're playing around

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with this that we haven't done with our

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melee weapons is has a contextual

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Behavior based on if you're tapping the

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um just you know pressing the the button

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versus holding it

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um so it kind of like snipe you know you

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can actually hold these attacks and

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instead of doing just a rapid fire sorry

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just Chad one second something happened

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these like these little birds just

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spawned right near me and they're like

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eating on the ground if I move will they

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move

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I hope so

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okay let's see let's find out

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Birds

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[Music]

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how are you just gonna sit here

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and let me run around you

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what what are they doing they're just

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kind of they're eating I guess oh no

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okay wait what do you want me to do this

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weapon

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um hold your Q button and charge up an

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attack uh Houston we might have a

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problem all right ladies and gentlemen

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get your shots of water ready

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we may be uh been a little early I'm so

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sorry let me see if I can don't worry

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I've got it perfect all right sure I

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just don't want to give the minute oh

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yeah what was that did he charge me he

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got him

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let's hit me with those water bolts oh

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that's kind of cool so I can jump while

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shooting this

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now just imagine that I have a lot more

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Health nobody look at the house don't

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look at my house

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what are they shooting at Us Jeremy

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uh those are from their their casting

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this water bowl this really hardened

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water that's just slamming into you for

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Force damage that hits yeah

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that's kind of cool all right Chad I

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apologize I am now going to

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appropriately engage from the correct

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get the jump on them Physicians Okay so

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something cool about the longbow oh now

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they fly away look at that the birds are

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flying

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something cool about the Longbow is that

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as opposed to the short bow you are able

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to actually hold and charge each of the

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basic attacks is that correct

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yep and doing so what does that do for

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the weapon user

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uh currently it's just a damage increase

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but you know some we can do all sorts of

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things with this later like you know if

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you're charging it up longer then you

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can set up some kind of status effect

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combo there's all kinds of things that

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we can do with it but yeah right now

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um it just increases the damage so for

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example one thing you could do is you

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could do two basic shots and then charge

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the final shot and that will give you

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like a big spike of damage there at the

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end so oh that's cool be charged

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individually wow that's pretty cool

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and now we have some abilities that we

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talked about these are from the ranger

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archetype of course we're not going to

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show everything that the ranger has but

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we are going to give you guys some ideas

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of the abilities in its kit

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um what is this first ability called

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This is snipe

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yeah this is snipe um this is the one I

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was talking about earlier where it's

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kind of like the basic attack but a lot

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more powerful you can hold this and when

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you see that little flash there at the

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end that indicates that it's fully

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charged that's a strong ability

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yeah you can keep holding it in case you

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want to like you know wait for the

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Target to get low before you you know

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bring them down if they're getting

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healed all kinds of things I can do but

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after a certain point it stops um

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getting charged

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oh that's cool

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now the what happens let's get into that

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environment where I'm getting chased by

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a few creatures

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see if I can find a couple more because

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I know there's another ability we have

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called airstrike which is kind of cool

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see really cool

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so now let's say for example as the

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ranger I have these creatures and this

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melee guy is on me and I want to

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reposition

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tell me a little bit about what

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airstrike does

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airstrike does a lot of things

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character and the direction that you're

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facing

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and it rains three projectiles down in

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the path that you're going

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and each of those projects does damage

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foreign

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but it's it's definitely up there

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yeah that ability is so rad I love using

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it

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you can see it's generally nature

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Essence to cause roots to come up and

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bind to grab the Minotaur

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and now this quick shot ability by the

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way that

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um I see it it has a debuff that looks

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like the quick shot icon on the target

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what's that doing

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uh that so basically each shot of quick

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shot will increase the damage of the

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next application of that specific attack

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against the against the target so it

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kind of encourages to unload all three

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of your charges for a big spike of burst

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damage but that does come at the cost of

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each charge comes back individually so

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you either have to wait a longer period

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of time to get that burst or you can

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just kind of weave them in here and

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there if you want more readily available

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damage got it that's super cool so I

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have here

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now a reticle on my screen so we've

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switched from tab Target mode

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which is a point and click with the

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cursor or using tab to cycle targets

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based on proximity priority

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right and into this reticle-based mode

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which now you can see the targeting

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plate

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in the top is slightly grayed out

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and we do that to demonstrate that that

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is a soft lock Target versus a hard lock

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Target

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and what a soft flock Target is

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Chad you want to explain a little bit

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about that

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sure yeah so if you if you are in action

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mode and you don't have a Target

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actually selected like you would in a

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tad Target game

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um then it'll just smartly choose

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whatever Target it thinks is the most

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appropriate for where your camera is and

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attack that Target but if you were to

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actually select a Target I think is it

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right Mouse button in action mode right

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right now it's of course all this stuff

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is customizable by the user but if you

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press the the right Mouse button

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in action mode it will hard lock the

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target which means you can take your

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reticle off the Target and it won't

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change correct Chad

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right

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that's awesome

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now we have another type of ranged

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weapon

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show

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oh and I can still wow in action mode I

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can still tap to cycle Target as well

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yeah we really wanted to um case a more

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tab based combat here because we in the

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last live stream all of our melee

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attacks were there were more hitboxes

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right they didn't acquire a hard target

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and so we wanted to show a little bit

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more of that in this stream and so you

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know right right here for example Target

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you're not having any radicals or

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anything like that it's more what you um

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but at the same time we still have

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abilities like air strike and you know

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other things that were we haven't even

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shown yet that are going to be more

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action oriented so we can hopefully Hit

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The Sweet Spot of having a nice

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combination of all that and it's more

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fun I've played Rangers in EQ eq2 the

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great Archer types and Guild Wars and

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hunters and wow and what is this mode

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with the reticle and stuff it's just fun

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running around shooting these guys oh it

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is super fun and I've switched over to

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the short bow now so let me see if I can

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show off that short bow

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into a good light one second

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uh I'll exit this mode

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there we go so now I have a short bow

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equipped versus the

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excuse me versus the longbow

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and talk to me a little bit about the

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difference in the short bow tread

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sure yeah the direction that we went

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with the short bow was a lot more I

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almost want to say

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acrobatic like you can use this a lot

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more freely movement it doesn't slow you

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as much it's a higher rate of fire

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basically this is this is the more

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mobile feeling lightweight uh version of

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the Longbow

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um so it's not quite as powerful

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um because you are trade you're you're

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making some trade-offs here

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um with range and attack speed and I do

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think right now we're actually putting a

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higher current rate on this one so it's

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got the first potential but these are

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just the kinds of decisions

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who do I value

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I love the the movement of that yeah I

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think I mean it is a very different

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feeling right

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um one I'm much more mobile being able

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to shoot and not have to sacrifice a lot

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of my movement speed like I have to

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so just from that aspect alone it feels

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like a very different weapon I'm also

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not able to charge I'm just kind of I'm

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holding down the attack and it's just

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firing about you'll see that I can blind

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fire because I'm in action mode

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um

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that's why I've like fired an extra

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there but it is it feels very different

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um and of course it doesn't change the

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way you have access to your abilities

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your abilities are there regardless of

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the the type of range weapon necessarily

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you're using

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um

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short bow or longbow

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and then I don't have to have a hard

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target lock also now for the abilities

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either they tie off of the reticle

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and I know there's some feedback that we

  • 21:44

wanted to collect from players with

  • 21:45

regards to this demonstration you want

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to talk a little bit about that trend

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yeah

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um as always every time we make an

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ability we're pretty much always

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thinking about what is what is the right

  • 21:58

balance between

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restricting player movement for the sake

  • 22:03

of weight

  • 22:04

um you know getting getting the feeling

  • 22:06

of the weight in that

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being able to animate the full body all

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the good things that come along with you

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know

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restricting movement but at the same

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time we definitely don't want to be a

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game that makes it frustrating to you

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know attack and move at the same time

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and a lot of people you know what I

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think a lot a lot of people love them

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free to combat and we want to retain

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that so uh just as you see these

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abilities go off and

  • 22:38

get used in this environment like

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I guess we appreciate any feedback on

  • 22:44

how that direction is going absolutely

  • 22:49

also from the enemy side yes and asking

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on behalf of like Doug's encounter group

  • 22:55

it's

  • 22:55

how fast is the combat playing

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um is it too slow is it too fast does it

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feel good

  • 23:04

um the time to kill or

  • 23:06

what you're seeing right now are is it

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uh

  • 23:09

what what players are liking do people

  • 23:12

lights and and keep in mind these are

  • 23:14

our solo ones right now these are uh

  • 23:17

tuned more for solo fighting

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um these aren't Elite group mobs but

  • 23:22

one-on-one type of fights

  • 23:25

yeah I like um in the solo areas you

  • 23:30

know this for me this speed feels pretty

  • 23:32

good uh given that I'm a you know GPS

  • 23:34

class and these guys are particularly

  • 23:38

susceptible to Rangers because they are

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um they are uh Mage class NPCs but you

  • 23:46

know getting your guys's opinion on

  • 23:48

those things also the differences

  • 23:50

between the weapon types right we talked

  • 23:52

a little bit about the Longbow we talked

  • 23:53

a little bit about the short bow

  • 23:55

um you know being able to kind of uh

  • 23:57

give us feedback on how you feel the

  • 23:58

direction uh has gone now uh is this the

  • 24:01

type of range combat if you're looking

  • 24:03

for those of you out there especially

  • 24:05

who are bow users and enjoy these

  • 24:07

classes you know what is it about the

  • 24:10

games that you have played that you felt

  • 24:12

had good uh range combat uh in it and

  • 24:16

are you seeing elements of that

  • 24:17

demonstrated in this type of combat as

  • 24:19

well I can tell you that obviously

  • 24:22

seeing is one thing in Alpha 2 those of

  • 24:26

you who have access will be able to give

  • 24:27

us kind of your feel feedback and you

  • 24:31

know of course that's not under NDA so

  • 24:32

all of us get to watch and participate

  • 24:34

in Alpha 2

  • 24:36

um through through watching others play

  • 24:39

it and and getting their feedback and

  • 24:41

experiences as well

  • 24:42

um another thing that I think is is

  • 24:45

pretty cool that I wanted to talk about

  • 24:48

actually

  • 24:49

was these uh weapons and the types of

  • 24:53

skill trees that they have associated

  • 24:56

with them Trey do you want to talk to us

  • 24:57

a little bit about you know how these

  • 24:59

skill trees interact with the weapon

  • 25:03

for sure yeah

  • 25:05

um part of the plan with each of these

  • 25:06

weapons is they'll each have a unique

  • 25:08

skill tree associated with them to

  • 25:11

differentiate them not only in terms of

  • 25:13

feel but also in terms of mechanics and

  • 25:17

an important thing that we really want

  • 25:20

to capture in ashes is is the important

  • 25:23

ability

  • 25:24

basically consider the player can build

  • 25:26

their character you know how they want

  • 25:28

and that's been beyond just their

  • 25:30

classrooms right

  • 25:32

um so for example if I'm the ranger I

  • 25:34

can spec into my short bow or I can

  • 25:36

inspect into my Longbow and those will

  • 25:38

be two different very different builds

  • 25:40

for example

  • 25:42

made Specialized or have have a part of

  • 25:45

its stream that specializes and leads

  • 25:48

might synergize with specific Ranger

  • 25:50

abilities that you know the Longbow

  • 25:53

um might not necessarily synthetize with

  • 25:55

their weapon choice will play into like

  • 25:58

what abilities

  • 26:04

we're just starting to scratch the

  • 26:06

surfaces up and you would also want to

  • 26:09

take into account the enemies you're

  • 26:11

going up against what areas you're going

  • 26:12

into what enemies you're hunting and is

  • 26:14

it a player versus uh a monster players

  • 26:18

very differently and it's a longbow

  • 26:21

getting the drop bottom important are

  • 26:24

you respect for short bow for being

  • 26:27

dodgy and moving around them you got all

  • 26:30

those things to keep in mind

  • 26:32

absolutely

  • 26:33

well guys appreciate you joining us

  • 26:36

today to talk about this stuff it is

  • 26:37

amazing that the the world you guys are

  • 26:40

building the the mechanics here I hope

  • 26:42

everyone in the audience has enjoyed the

  • 26:44

demonstration to talk to us give us your

  • 26:46

feedback tell us what you liked about it

  • 26:48

uh what you would like to see changed uh

  • 26:51

make sure you do so on the YouTube video

  • 26:52

and twitch on Reddit on our forums

  • 26:55

everywhere you possibly can it means so

  • 26:57

much to us to be able to kind of reflect

  • 26:58

on what the community has to say about

  • 27:00

the works in progress we're showing you

  • 27:02

towards Alpha 2.

  • 27:04

um Jeremy Trad thank you very much for

  • 27:07

joining it is always appreciated hearts

  • 27:09

in chat these guys are awesome yes you

  • 27:13

guys are doing awesome uh awesome work

  • 27:15

and I'm loving the progress and I'm

  • 27:18

loving sharing with videos I know you

  • 27:19

and everyone else on the team who make

  • 27:21

these streams possible enjoys it

  • 27:24

and with that said everyone we will see

  • 27:28

you back on stream

  • 27:31

thanks everyone

  • 27:33

a good one

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