Talk:2023-06-30 Video - Alpha Two Freehold Update

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• 00:00

Hello everyone and we find ourselves now in the world of Vera once again.

• 00:27

And Bucky, I think you were talking a little bit about a freehold that you have nearby

• 00:32

in the Riverlands here, where we're going to perhaps participate in some of your...

• 00:37

What do you got on that freehold?

• 00:38

What are you doing over there?

• 00:41

So we got a lot of farming stuff, mainly is what we're focusing on, but we also have an

• 00:45

artisan building as well.

• 00:46

Oh nice!

• 00:47

It's a forge station because we got some good mining opportunities out here.

• 00:51

Okay, very cool.

• 00:53

And I see you kind of are close to this kind of these ruins with your freehold, I guess.

• 01:01

Is there any happening spots around this area for you guys?

• 01:06

Yeah for sure.

• 01:07

I mean we got some mob packs around here.

• 01:09

Players are coming through here a lot to obviously get this nice resource here.

• 01:13

We got some alicanite.

• 01:14

Is that why you formed your freehold near this precious resource?

• 01:20

Talk to me a little bit about this resource, Corey and or Mike.

• 01:27

So this is halcyonite.

• 01:29

It's kind of a mid-tier journeyman gem.

• 01:34

And yeah, it's just sort of something you would use in weapons and for decorations,

• 01:40

jewelry.

• 01:41

So it's pretty sought after for a lot of crafts.

• 01:45

So that's pretty valuable.

• 01:47

I love just its look.

• 01:50

I mean it adds a really kind of magical blues to this area.

• 01:55

Wow this is a beautiful... now Bucky I know why you made your freehold here.

• 01:59

This is a beautiful view.

• 02:01

Yep, just another beautiful day in Vera.

• 02:04

Oh my gosh.

• 02:05

Do you ever get like afraid of heights here?

• 02:07

I mean this is kind of crazy.

• 02:10

I think actually I might have something that could help you with this.

• 02:13

Hold on, let me see.

• 02:15

I can just bring it up here and then if you ever need to use it one day, feel free to.

• 02:20

You're more than welcome.

• 02:21

Oh yes, beautiful, perfect.

• 02:22

Oh it's even on theme for the fall weather.

• 02:26

I know, exactly.

• 02:27

It's the Drake of the Canopy.

• 02:28

Perfect.

• 02:29

Yeah, if you ever want to take him for a spin, just let me know.

• 02:32

Okay.

• 02:33

All right, but yeah, there you go.

• 02:35

Actually I'll put him away.

• 02:36

He's kind of afraid of heights himself.

• 02:39

So I can mine this, so I've maxed out my artisanship levels through a little bit of a cheat, but

• 02:47

if you have the tools and... oops, do I have the tools?

• 02:52

Okay guys, you're seeing a little bit of a preview of some of the work in progress UI

• 02:57

with the artisanship windows and obviously you have a number of tools here that are possible.

• 03:01

This UI of course is getting completely revamped.

• 03:02

This is just kind of the wire framing for it, but talk to me a little bit about the

• 03:08

tool setup.

• 03:09

Why is it important to have these kinds of tools?

• 03:11

How do tools aid you in your gathering adventures?

• 03:17

So each gathering profession will have three tools.

• 03:21

The tools kind of come online as you progress through the profession and the different resource

• 03:26

types for each one of the profession may require different tools.

• 03:30

So you basically want to carry around the right tool for the job and tools along with

• 03:37

the artisanship gear will have stats on it.

• 03:40

So you can itemize towards how you want to gather, how fast you want to gather.

• 03:45

Yeah.

• 03:46

Oh, it looks great.

• 03:48

I love the destruction of the actual... is it halcyonite?

• 03:55

Halconite?

• 03:56

Halcyonite.

• 03:57

Yeah, halcyonite.

• 03:58

Yeah, I mean we sort of set the precedent with the trees, right?

• 04:01

So we're trying to get similar feelings that the trees bring with our other gatherables.

• 04:09

Yeah, it's looking great.

• 04:11

Now where is your freehold?

• 04:14

It's just over this hill here off to the left of the path.

• 04:16

I think you might be able to see my house there with the chimney smoke as well.

• 04:21

Okay, yeah, that looks good.

• 04:24

Let's get over there a little bit faster.

• 04:26

Maybe we can...

• 04:27

Oh yeah.

• 04:28

What do we got?

• 04:29

Oh, I don't think people have seen the Lightfoot yet.

• 04:36

Let's bring him out.

• 04:37

Oh, look at him.

• 04:39

How cool is that?

• 04:41

Oh, he looks so good.

• 04:46

I love the eyes.

• 04:50

Super cool.

• 04:51

Do we know who did this one?

• 04:52

Was this Jinsei?

• 04:53

I think it was Jinsei.

• 04:54

I believe it was a Jinsei, yeah.

• 04:57

Oh wow, this guy's fast.

• 05:01

It's high speed.

• 05:02

It is a rabbit after all, you know.

• 05:06

It's so cool.

• 05:07

Wait, we got to slow it down a little bit.

• 05:10

I can't approach at such fast pace to your freehold.

• 05:13

That would be disrespectful.

• 05:14

Oh yes, thank you.

• 05:16

Don't trample my plants, please.

• 05:18

Oh, perfect.

• 05:20

This is great.

• 05:21

The Horde of Rabbits.

• 05:23

So what have you geared?

• 05:25

It looks like you don't have a lot of buildings on the freehold for yours, Bucky.

• 05:30

Is that because you're trying to utilize the land for farming?

• 05:34

I know of course you are Dr. Bucky, so the animal husbandry system and livestock.

• 05:40

That's exactly right.

• 05:41

Yeah, so I sacrificed some of the space I could have used for buildings to just have

• 05:45

more farm space basically.

• 05:47

As you can see here, we got some sheeps, we got some cows and pigs, and we got some chickens

• 05:54

back there, and we have a lot of space for different farmables.

• 05:57

So we have wheat here, corn, and then the tomatoes over there as well.

• 06:01

Oh, this looks great.

• 06:02

So now Mike, when we're talking about these types of farmable spaces, obviously as we

• 06:10

discussed previously, the customization options for your freehold are really kind of up to

• 06:17

you and what you want to delve into on the processing side of things and how you want

• 06:21

to use the space.

• 06:22

But players who want to participate in the farming, talk to me a little bit about that

• 06:26

system.

• 06:27

I mean, the intent to provide this open area space for people to utilize just growing different

• 06:34

crop rotations and livestock, and how does that feed the general processing system?

• 06:39

Yeah, so the farming is kind of generally focused on growing crops like this and then

• 06:44

dealing with livestocks over there like that.

• 06:47

It's generally what you want to do is gather some seeds from either vendor or in the world,

• 06:54

you can gather or find some seeds on the open content and you're going to come to your freehold,

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plant them and then depending on what kind of processing level you have and what kind

• 07:04

of processing stations or buildings you might have, you might grow crops a little faster,

• 07:09

produce better crop rotations and just generally farm things that's unique to farming produce

• 07:18

like compared to the open world.

• 07:21

Yeah, I just got a bunch of wheat, by the way, apologize Bucky on stealing your wheat.

• 07:28

But I got plenty.

• 07:30

It's harvest season.

• 07:31

Yeah, we got a big crop coming.

• 07:32

I need some help getting all the harvest done.

• 07:35

Yeah, it looks super cool.

• 07:38

Another cool thing about farming, too, since it has the livestock is that it kind of feeds

• 07:43

directly into hunting and synergizes with animal husbandry.

• 07:47

So if you're interested in raising animals, taming animals, you know, farmers will have

• 07:54

a use for them.

• 07:56

Yeah, exactly.

• 07:57

So yeah, animal husbandry has multiple lanes of ways to breed and specialize your creatures

• 08:02

and mounds and pets are one of the more popular ones, but then obviously livestock as well.

• 08:07

So not only can you breed your animals for traits such as like movement, speed and health

• 08:12

and different combat stats, but you also be able to breed them for desirable traits like,

• 08:16

you know, fertility, increased harvesting yield and even increased yield from butchering.

• 08:21

What are you guys doing?

• 08:25

Oh my God, that is awesome.

• 08:28

This is the...

• 08:29

Leave our eggs alone.

• 08:30

Makes them more comfortable with you taking their eggs away.

• 08:33

Leave our eggs alone.

• 08:35

Yeah, they won't peck us if we come with their style.

• 08:41

Very nice.

• 08:43

Very nice.

• 08:44

I just got some eggs.

• 08:45

Okay, now, one of the other things that we wanted to obviously collect player feedback

• 08:49

on, I'm going to open up the inventory just to kind of take a look at the materials resource

• 08:57

bag.

• 08:58

Talk to me a little bit about how we are implementing resources differently from your general item

• 09:04

inventory.

• 09:08

So we're taking an approach from other games, but the idea of resources is going to have

• 09:17

somewhat of a slot base instead of having a slot base like traditional MMO, we're going

• 09:21

to look for like a Tetris kind of idea of having different shapes and different stock

• 09:27

sizes kind of like that to make some interesting choices out in the world where you have to

• 09:33

do inventory management and have a pick and choose depending on like what you have available,

• 09:38

what kind of bags you have.

• 09:40

Now I seem to have kind of run out of space.

• 09:43

Maybe I can grab...

• 09:44

Do you have any?

• 09:45

Oh yeah, if you want, you can come put some stuff in the chest in the house or...

• 09:50

Your bag's too small or what?

• 09:51

Yeah, no, I only have one bag.

• 09:53

It's called a Sanctus resource bag.

• 09:54

Oh yeah, I got some extra bags for you actually.

• 09:56

You could take some from my chest.

• 09:57

Oh, this is a nicely decorated home here.

• 10:01

Oh, you have the...

• 10:06

You have the...

• 10:07

Oh man, I can't remember what we called this, but this was for the pandemic.

• 10:13

Everyone who I think registered prior to a certain date during the pandemic, Margaret

• 10:17

will know, we granted this item to people or will be granted to people.

• 10:22

That's cool.

• 10:23

It's modeled.

• 10:24

Look at that.

• 10:25

I think Ryan Richmond actually did the modeling for that and then John Wainik did the implementation.

• 10:30

Very cool.

• 10:31

That's awesome.

• 10:32

Yeah, I love it.

• 10:33

Where's the chest I can grab?

• 10:34

Right here by the fireplace.

• 10:35

Oh, okay.

• 10:36

Sweet.

• 10:37

Let me see here.

• 10:38

The materials.

• 10:39

Oh, okay.

• 10:40

All right.

• 10:41

So what do I do here?

• 10:45

Just grab this.

• 10:46

I think you should take them all and swap it out, I think.

• 10:50

I'll equip them.

• 10:51

Okay, cool.

• 10:52

I have some...

• 10:53

Now this is obviously work in progress UI.

• 10:56

This is not the final UI, but this kind of demonstrates the functionality of the system.

• 11:01

Let me go over here.

• 11:04

What can I do with these sheep?

• 11:07

You can harvest them for wool, shear them.

• 11:10

All right.

• 11:13

This is not going to hurt them, is it?

• 11:15

No.

• 11:16

No.

• 11:17

Okay.

• 11:18

You do a good job.

• 11:19

Pretty sheep.

• 11:20

Give me your wool.

• 11:21

Oh, it gave me some wool and now it's naked.

• 11:26

That's so sad.

• 11:27

It'll grow back.

• 11:30

So talk...

• 11:31

Perfect.

• 11:32

That's a good point.

• 11:33

So it'll grow back.

• 11:34

Talk to me a little bit about kind of the intent behind the livestock here and the crops

• 11:39

as well.

• 11:40

Like you're planting and you're placing these livestock on farmable space within your freehold,

• 11:47

and then over time they mature and become processable?

• 11:51

Or how does that work?

• 11:52

Oh, yeah.

• 11:53

That's pretty much exactly it.

• 11:55

So certain things, like for the crops, for example, you need to acquire seeds first,

• 12:00

which can be acquired through a number of ways.

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But once you plant them, you'll have to water them and care for them.

• 12:05

And then after a certain point, depending on the crop itself, would be when you can

• 12:09

harvest them.

• 12:10

And then you can replant them at that point.

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And then for animals, different animals have different sort of byproducts that you can

• 12:17

get.

• 12:18

So for example, from here, from the cow, you can milk them and get some fresh milk.

• 12:22

Oh my God.

• 12:23

They have horns.

• 12:24

Are these the right cows to milk?

• 12:27

There's udders.

• 12:28

There's udders down there.

• 12:29

Oh, okay.

• 12:30

All right.

• 12:31

There's udders.

• 12:32

Let's see.

• 12:33

Oh, I got a little stool.

• 12:34

Wow.

• 12:35

That's some rapid-paced milking.

• 12:38

Holy smokes.

• 12:39

Yeah, you know.

• 12:40

That was crazy.

• 12:41

Hold on.

• 12:42

Let me make sure I got the milk.

• 12:45

Oh, we did get the milk.

• 12:46

Let me pull it down here.

• 12:47

Pull some corn down as well.

• 12:52

Do some reorganization there.

• 12:54

Yeah, kind of just reorganizing things.

• 12:57

Another sort of interesting thing that you'll see with livestock and other types of things

• 13:01

that you can gather is you'll be able to kind of choose the things that you want to gather

• 13:06

from it, right?

• 13:07

Bucky had mentioned animal byproducts, right?

• 13:11

And milk is a byproduct of a cow, and so is beef.

• 13:15

So it's up to you kind of how and when you want to harvest your livestock in certain

• 13:20

ways.

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Same thing with plants.

• 13:24

Maybe you want to take the corn, and maybe you want to cut down the entire corn plant

• 13:31

to make room for other crops.

• 13:34

There's different byproducts depending on how you interact with that gatherable.

• 13:37

Now this is going to be another point of good player feedback.

• 13:43

So one, we kind of talked to you and showed you guys a little bit of the systems for planting

• 13:48

crops on your freehold, for raising livestock, collecting resources from them, and then the

• 13:58

Tetris inventory type system.

• 14:01

But this one is more game philosophy slash immersion, right?

• 14:09

And what you're going to see now, I think, for those of you who are a bit squeamish,

• 14:16

if you want to turn away, understandable, but we're going to get some leather.

• 14:20

And what else from this guy?

• 14:24

Hide, meat.

• 14:26

Yeah.

• 14:27

Some meat?

• 14:28

Kind of whatever you'd expect from a pig.

• 14:31

Yep.

• 14:32

Bacon.

• 14:33

All right.

• 14:34

Well, all right.

• 14:35

I apologize, little buddy.

• 14:36

You had a good long life.

• 14:38

You did have a good long life.

• 14:39

Happy life on the farm.

• 14:40

And now...

• 14:41

Oh, God.

• 14:42

Go to sleep.

• 14:43

Ow.

• 14:44

You got the hide and the meat.

• 14:46

But it's...

• 14:47

Oh, that's sad.

• 14:48

Is it just sleeping?

• 14:49

Is it tired?

• 14:50

That was intense.

• 14:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 14:52

For sure.

• 14:53

It's sleeping.

• 14:54

Don't worry.

• 14:55

Let's go...

• 14:56

Yeah.

• 14:57

Nothing to see here.

• 14:58

Sorry, little piglets.

• 14:59

Oh, no, not the piglets.

• 15:00

Okay.

• 15:01

We'll take good care of you.

• 15:02

No.

• 15:03

Let them live a little bit of a life.

• 15:05

One day you'll become big and then we'll...

• 15:07

Oh.

• 15:08

All right.

• 15:09

So, guys, that's a great point of player feedback.

• 15:13

Plot twist a little bit about how real slash immersive do you want it to be or do you prefer

• 15:18

that perhaps the pigs don't die but rather they just go to sleep.

• 15:23

That's a good question, I think, for a lot of people to give their thoughts on.

• 15:27

Okay.

• 15:28

So, now we have...

• 15:30

I'm seeing over here there's another building.

• 15:32

Obviously, we have the home here.

• 15:33

We went inside a little bit.

• 15:35

This other building talked to me a little bit about that.

• 15:37

We talked a little bit in the presentation about the profession buildings and them giving

• 15:43

access to workstations.

• 15:46

What do we have here?

• 15:48

This is the artisan building that we talked about.

• 15:51

And then these give general benefits to the freehold.

• 15:55

It could be profession specific.

• 15:57

It could be just general specific.

• 15:58

But it also gives you access to putting down stations like this.

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So, this would be the metalworking station.

• 16:05

Oh, nice.

• 16:06

Okay.

• 16:07

So, this station is pretty intensive.

• 16:10

And that's, I think, something we're going to be showing in a future stream, which is

• 16:14

all about the crafting process and the recipe acquisition and the tools, but also a little

• 16:21

bit of a gameplay layer that Corey, Mike, you guys have been working on with crafting

• 16:28

in the future that we're going to show.

• 16:29

But this one's all about processing.

• 16:30

And talk to me a little bit about...

• 16:32

We talked a little bit about what it takes to go into the fuel to prep the station, to

• 16:37

do the processed goods, and then kind of leaving and letting that process over time.

• 16:44

Do you expect that players are going to want to fully kit out their freeholds with the

• 16:50

profession building so they have access to all the stations?

• 16:52

What would be the benefit of that?

• 16:56

I think so.

• 16:57

I think if players are really interested in investing in processing, freeholds are supposed

• 17:05

to give the players the furthest reach up to the highest tiers of processing.

• 17:10

So if you want to allocate most of your space in your freehold for processing buildings,

• 17:20

processing stations, you could create your own processing plant or factory and really

• 17:28

sort of have a stranglehold on a market or particular goods.

• 17:34

The freehold is supposed to be free space for players to do whatever they'd like, decorate

• 17:39

housing, have businesses, or create a processing empire.

• 17:45

Cool.

• 17:46

Very cool.

• 17:47

I did get some supplies.

• 17:50

Oops.

• 17:51

I did get some supplies.

• 17:53

Bucky, do you want me to put this in the chest or anything?

• 17:57

Yeah, yeah.

• 17:58

You can just store it here in my chest for now.

• 18:00

Are these tomato plants?

• 18:01

Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 18:02

That's right.

• 18:03

I forgot to harvest these.

• 18:04

Oh.

• 18:05

Let's see.

• 18:06

Get some other ones here.

• 18:07

Very nice.

• 18:08

Aw.

• 18:09

Some more exploded.

• 18:10

Oh, no.

• 18:11

Well, you got some at least, right?

• 18:12

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 18:13

We did.

• 18:14

We did.

• 18:15

We did.

• 18:16

We did.

• 18:17

We're good.

• 18:18

All right.

• 18:19

Let me go put this inside.

• 18:20

Wait.

• 18:21

Let me make sure I actually did get the tomatoes.

• 18:22

I got a full bag at this point almost.

• 18:24

Did I?

• 18:25

Oh, I did get some tomatoes.

• 18:26

Okay.

• 18:27

There we go.

• 18:28

There we go.

• 18:29

All right.

• 18:30

I'm going to go put this in for you.

• 18:31

Now, you've obviously done a great job with the decorations here and the furniture.

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And we don't intend furniture to obviously just be visual aspect of the interior, but

• 18:45

functional as well.

• 18:46

Talk to me a little bit about that.

• 18:48

Yeah.

• 18:49

So, obviously, we've seen here the chest, right?

• 18:51

The chest is a placeable furniture prop that actually increases the storage capacity of

• 18:55

your freehold property.

• 18:58

But we're going to have a variety of other functional furnitures, like besides just even

• 19:02

the artisanship stations.

• 19:03

So, for example, we have a bed over here, which you'll be able to sleep in as well,

• 19:07

get some rest experience perhaps.

• 19:09

Also, we'll have chairs.

• 19:11

Those are just like kind of cosmetic you'll be able to sit in.

• 19:13

And yeah, there'll be a variety of functional prop items as well that will have actual gameplay

• 19:18

uses.

• 19:19

Nice.

• 19:20

That's awesome.

• 19:21

Let me see.

• 19:22

I'm just putting all this stuff into your storage chest so you have it.

• 19:32

Very nice.

• 19:33

Free labor.

• 19:34

I see you have some pictures in here as well.

• 19:37

Yep.

• 19:38

Yep.

• 19:39

That's the picture I commissioned to myself.

• 19:40

Oh, is this it?

• 19:42

Is that you?

• 19:43

Yes.

• 19:44

It is actual Bucky.

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Me in armor.

• 19:46

It's actual Bucky.

• 19:47

That is so great.

• 19:51

I think this is your favorite, Steven.

• 19:53

Yes, the sandals.

• 19:54

Oh, that's so awesome.

• 19:55

Classic.

• 19:56

That is super cool.

• 19:58

Now, obviously, players that we talked a little bit about businesses and how players can kind

• 20:03

of stand up different taverns and whatnot.

• 20:05

And Bucky, you had stated like one of the reasons why you wanted to have your freehold

• 20:09

here in this location was because of some of the access to the rare resources.

• 20:13

But there's also some interesting hunting grounds nearby.

• 20:17

And one of the things that is interesting about the freehold system is that it's not

• 20:22

just architected for processing, but it can also be a profitable location based on where

• 20:30

and what you're providing other players access to from a drink and food tavern perspective.

• 20:38

We mentioned before there's business types of buildings that you can build.

• 20:42

Some of these could be very region specific, like if there was a hunting ground nearby

• 20:47

that is very populated, we could set up a tavern, sell like food buffs and drinks that

• 20:52

is really good for XP bonuses or increase to your loot chance or something like that.

• 20:58

Whatever that may increase some kind of a benefit to the player that is good business,

• 21:05

like I said, would be set up here where you could just take advantage of the populated

• 21:14

player area.

• 21:15

That's awesome.

• 21:16

That's super cool.

• 21:17

I love it.

• 21:18

And you were saying, you know, obviously having access to an open world where you're not necessarily

• 21:30

restricted to the locations that you can place these freeholds, but allowing the players

• 21:37

to kind of place them themselves.

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Obviously we are going to block out certain areas that can't be placed like certain road

• 21:45

networks and POIs, but generally the intent is to provide these freeholds as layable plots

• 21:54

in the open world.

• 21:55

Is that right?

• 21:56

Yeah, that's right.

• 21:57

So as long as you purchase a certificate from the owning node of the land, you'll be able

• 22:02

to place it in many places around the node, basically anywhere that's not like a dungeon

• 22:08

or a POI with monsters, you'll be able to place it in a lot of areas.

• 22:12

So players will have a lot of freedom in choosing where they want to build their freehold and

• 22:17

lay down their plots.

• 22:18

So it'll be a big, like obviously here, like you said, I was looking at the, you know,

• 22:22

we got the mines over there, we got the POIs, but we also have this large flat area for

• 22:26

a lot of farming.

• 22:27

And so it's kind of a good mix of this freehold.

• 22:31

Yeah.

• 22:32

Super cool.

• 22:33

Love it.

• 22:34

Bucky, you have a very cool freehold.

• 22:36

You know, I think I'm getting a little bit tired.

• 22:39

Can I, mind if I just take a little nap, you know?

• 22:42

Oh sure.

• 22:43

Yeah.

• 22:44

I mean, just, it's a great, great bed.

• 22:45

You'll get some rest and experience.

• 22:46

It'll be perfect.

• 22:47

I, I was concerned a little bit with the nearby enemy populations, perhaps.

• 22:54

Maybe you guys can keep watch over me as I go to sleep.

• 22:56

Oh yeah, yeah.

• 22:57

Yeah, for sure.

• 22:58

Don't worry.

• 22:59

You'll be, you'll be safe.

• 23:00

We'll be safe.

• 23:01

We'll set up a guard.

• 23:02

Well everybody, I hope you guys enjoyed this brief look at Bucky's freehold.

• 23:07

A little bit about the processing for livestock as well as crops and take a look at the new

• 23:17

mounts, some of the resources that are placed around the Riverlands area.

• 23:22

And also a little look at the housing system with some of the furniture that you have access

• 23:27

to kind of use and provide a little bit of benefit that you have access to for your gameplay.

• 23:36

And with that being said, I think we'll wish you all a do and a good night and we will

• 23:41

see you next time.

• 23:42

Thank you guys for joining us.

• 23:43

Later.

• 23:44

Thank you for having us.

• 23:45

Bye guys.

• 23:46

Hello.