Talk:2024-01-31 Video - Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Caravan PvP Update

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• 00:00

hello everyone and welcome to yet another day in vera and today we have a pretty exciting

• 00:27

showcase for you i know it's one that many of you have been waiting for for quite a while

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but before we begin i do want to provide you with a little bit of our normal reminder that

• 00:41

this is still a work in progress and there are a lot of visual bugs obviously work in progress ui

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and art that you're going to see here which will continue to improve but with that being said and

• 00:54

performance as well with that being said

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we're going to take a look today at some pvp and we're going to talk about pvp specifically in the

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context of caravans and i am joined by some of our glorious developers all of whom you have heard

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from in the past we have one of our glorious senior designers mr chris chris how you doing

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buddy oh i'm just wonderful thanks for having me happy to have you but i know you've been putting

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a lot of work into this

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um

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and it's great to see it kind of come together here um and i think we're also joined by two

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other glorious designers on the combat side uh bucky tratt how you guys doing doing good

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yep good to be back and for uh oh i've lost count

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many many times um so we also have a number of different testers who are going to be joining us

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who are assisting us with the design of the pvp and we're going to be talking about the pvp and

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we're going to be talking about the pvp and we're going to be talking about the pvp and

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um getting ready for alpha 2 obviously alpha 2 as we announced is going to be starting in the

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third quarter of this year um there's still a lot of work to be done and and part of that work is

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finding all the bugs and all the crashes and in hardening the systems uh as we prepare for alpha 2

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but today like i said we're going to be talking about a really fun system as it relates to

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caravans and one of the most important aspects of caravans is that there is no reward without

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significant risk in ashes of creation and the caravan system is a particular risk because

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it is how materials and commodities are transited within the world of vera and it's difficult to

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navigate the world of vera it's a large world and the train is not always kind especially to large

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vehicles like a caravan and today we're going to talk about as you transit this world if the

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node structures are not advanced you're not going to be able to navigate the world of vera

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and the world state isn't changing and you're not seeing different

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bridges being constructed sometimes you might have to ford rivers and rivers can be quite the

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obstruction uh for you and present some danger wow look at these look at this look at this crew

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you'll know you'll notice that this crew they all have swords above their head and they're blue to

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me but that's because we've discovered we've discovered we've discovered we've discovered that

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a caravan is taking the perilous journey nearby and trying to reach a location where they'll be

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rewarded for all their hard work but little do they know we are here waiting for them and the

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bandits are going to attempt to to take this caravan chris talk to me a little bit about

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the risk of caravan travel and what people are about to see here

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yeah i mean well you risk everything you're traveling with when you run a caravan right um it's

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definitely way more efficient than running a bunch of goods in your inventory to and from nodes but

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it's uh definitely a lot more dangerous absolutely rangers if you guys want to come over here with me

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i've just gotten word that there might be a caravan down here approaching but they appear

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to have some defenders i can see them i think they might even see us here in the distance

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what do you guys say we engage them do we want to just see them or do we just see them

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just kind of ambush them here i don't think they can see us we fight you guys should be stealth

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stealthy about it okay i got a tar i got a target mcstackerson rangers we should open up on them

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right when they kind of arrive here let them let them come up a little bit closer and prepare your

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uh your snipe they have no idea actually let's switch targets over to this nastharis let's open in three two one

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oh no okay gauge them go go go

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oh my god

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oh it's bloodshed

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this is our loot

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don't let them get away

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okay i think we may only there's a few left i see chibi brie

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focusing the

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caravan

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all right take down the caravan

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time for that delicious loot

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oh my god okay nobody nobody grabbed the loot nobody grabbed the loot what just happened here

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chris buck you talked to me a little about a little bit about what we just saw obviously

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this caravan is now destructed what does that mean yeah so this this caravan was loaded with

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a combination of it looks like uh commodity crates and material crates okay all right so these crates

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have different contents in them yeah so um like the last caravan live stream uh we transited a

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bunch of commodities those special goods you bought with glint um well obviously we can steal

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them now that we've killed their caravans if you want to open up one of these guys with a green

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uh little symbol on it okay i'll come up there

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after we've killed them

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where are you at

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uh i'm right here i'm right here right next to

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you one of these guys got it okay i can interact with it i see that there's stolen commodities

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yeah so you can go ahead and loot those um now you don't actually get the commodity that it was you

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get these special certificates that um we will offload at uh the node we're gonna head to after

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this uh for some monies

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nice i like the money

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kind of crate here if you come turn around and walk back here it's this with with this black icon

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um now this is a material crate which means they were transiting their materials as well

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oh my god they have a bunch of rubies oh spicy i know let me take a look at these rubies

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oh nice okay i have 30 of their rubies nice but now obviously this is too much for us to carry

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right that's one of the aspects of the of the caravan system is that it provides you large

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carrying capacity what do we do when there's too much for us to carry on our backs so there's an

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item in your inventory um that you can use to summon an empty caravan that you have stashed

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at a node um if i recall correctly you stashed one at winstead nearby i do have one at winstead

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let me summon that so out in the wild right now i am able to summon this caravan

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and that's going to come from winstead yep um now the way summoning works is the length of that

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summon is determined by where you're right if you were to summon from winstead which is pretty close

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to us the weight's not going to be super long but if you're summoning from you know very very far

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away it's going to be a rough weight okay all right so now i've begun summoning my empty caravan

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to come pick up these supplies that we've just acquired

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and obviously if you were in the previous raid you can go ahead and leave that raid

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um because right now the there's some still outstanding functionality required on the ui

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front but it will be intended for that to be seamless in the future um but now you guys are

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joining my raid to defend this and once this caravan arrives it's going to allow us essentially

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to grab these outstanding supplies is that right correct yeah and another um additional reason why

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you may want to summon a caravan instead of having all your people here pick up this stuff

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is you're going to get more for bringing the crate unopened to a node right so that like material

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crate you got you said 30 rubies from it yes you're going to get way more if we take that to

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the node without opening it in the field okay that's cool that's awesome and now you know we

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just happened upon obviously this caravan here that was carrying supplies but talk to me a little

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bit about the intended interaction of hunting caravans right what does that

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mean can you progress in that can you identify these carrier vans from a distance is it intended

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to be diegetic or is it you know aided with mini map like talk to me a little bit about that uh

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bucky and chris yeah so uh hunting a caravan is starting to be a lot more diegetic right you plant

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spies and other guilds you um you know build your information network in the world of vera um kind of

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uh through do whatever means you can right um now there is progression paths involved with attacking

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and defending a caravan and so you know what's important is that you have a certain amount of

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caravan, that can aid you in doing so, either with better equipment for it, faster ways

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to open crates more, yield from crates, and if you're a defender, right, better components

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for your caravans, stuff like that.

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Okay, very cool.

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Ah!

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The caravan has arrived!

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I should be able to move up to these crates and collect the cargo, I see.

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Yep, so you should have an ability to collect cargo.

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Oh my god, yeah, I have a whole bunch of cargo that I can select from.

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So I'm just gonna grab each of these cases.

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Okay.

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I have a very large chassis, and I've collected a number of them, let me see if I can collect

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some more.

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There's a case of Everburn scented candles, and some more scented candles.

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Alright, I think we have grabbed pretty much everything that we didn't already loot.

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Now talk to me a little bit about the differences between looting here, kind of, at the spot,

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and collecting the cargo with the caravan.

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I can take this one, yeah, so like, looting at the spot, obviously, you can do right away,

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and the problem with that though is you forfeit a lot of the materials, a lot more get lost

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as you crack open those crates, but if you're able to have your own caravan and bring it

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there, you can loot and you'll get more of the overall materials that way.

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But there will be progression for, you know, like you were saying about the highwayman

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faction versus the defender faction, and maybe there'll be some progression where you can

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get better loot percentage out in the field.

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Very cool.

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Now we talked a little bit ago about stolen goods, stolen supplies, what are the intent

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of that system?

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How do stolen goods and supplies work differently than commodities?

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So when you crack open a crate of commodities, you get, you don't get the commodities themselves

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since they're like crated cargo items.

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You actually get stolen goods.

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And you can use those stolen commodity certificates to go and turn them into the black market

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to get some money back.

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Okay, nice.

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And that's an upgrade path that's available at different marketplace buildings?

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Yeah, that's a specialization of the market.

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Normally you can sell them back to anything, but it's not going to be very much like the

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normal vendors of Vera don't want those stolen goods.

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But if you know the right people, you can get you can get your money's worth out of

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it.

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Very nice.

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Very nice.

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Now, obviously, we just had a large scale.

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Relatively large scale combat between two of these raids.

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Trad talk to me a little bit about kind of, you know, how our approach towards Alpha 2

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is going to incorporate additional development of this group based combat and PvP and kind

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of where we are with it now.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So as you've seen in a lot of our previous archetype live streams, there's been a lot

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of, you know, representation of single player combat.

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Like, you know, we usually go in there with one, two.

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Like maximum.

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Like maximum of three people just because we want to really highlight like the abilities.

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But here you're obviously seeing that much larger scale scenario.

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And that's where we're going to continue moving forward, thinking about like the group utility,

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because that's that's what like adds a lot of class identity to your character, right?

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Is like when your party invites me, invites me or your raid invites me, like, what do

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I provide to the group?

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And that's where we've sort of shifted our focus on for this next iteration of ability

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design.

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Okay.

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I see there's some dead brown bears up here.

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That's concerning.

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Oh, let's hitch a left here.

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Okay.

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And so what we're going to do down here is we need an alternate path to reach Merilith

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because the path by road is a bit obstructed.

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Some of the bridges have not been developed yet.

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So what are we about to do now?

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Okay.

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So there's this nifty thing that I think you alluded to last time we talked about caravans,

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but we are going to traverse the river instead of the land.

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All right.

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So what you're going to do is roll up here and go ahead and walk your caravan as far

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into the water as it'll let you.

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All right.

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I see beautiful carfin.

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All right.

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Now you should have an ability.

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You should have an ability on your caravan hop bar to transition to raft.

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Convert to raft.

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Ooh.

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Okay.

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And I just deployed this.

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Yep.

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Just deploy it.

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Oh, that is awesome.

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So this process takes a few minutes.

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You're going to have to basically wait and defend your caravan while you're transitioning

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to raft, but riding on the water has its benefits.

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I love this.

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Now, you can still target the dock, right?

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And part of this transition process is, again, the risk that you're introducing for the reward

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of having greater flexibility in movement through the land.

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And that risk is basically you're a sitting duck here, for lack of a better term.

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Yep.

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Basically, like I said, you can't escape and you can undo this process, but the amount

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of time you've already sunk into it must be paid to undo it.

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I see.

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And now as this raft is getting constructed, I notice that it's essentially destructing

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the caravan.

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And using that to construct the raft.

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Yep.

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Correct.

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And if you actually...

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Once it's done constructing, you'll notice the body of your caravan is sitting on the

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raft.

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Oh, I love it.

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Oh, okay.

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That's cool.

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That's some Lewis and Clark shit.

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I mean, stuff.

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Oh, no.

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Now, as we're kind of a sitting duck, we should probably put maybe some scouts up near the

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top of that hill so we don't get jumped.

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I don't know.

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It may not be a scout, but I can go take a look.

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I mean, I can't imagine that they just left.

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Oh, boy.

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We got some people up here.

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Oh, no.

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They're back.

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They want their stuff back.

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Oh, no.

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Heal me.

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I'm going to go chill with the raft as it kind of comes down while you guys fight

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them for a second.

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I think it's almost done.

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There we go.

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Oh, I've gotten the raft.

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I'm running.

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Oh, God.

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Rangers to the ship.

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Quickly.

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Join me.

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We must depart this area.

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All right.

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We'll catch back up.

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Everyone on board.

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Chris, Bucky, do what you can to hold them.

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It's just some rabble, you know?

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These guys don't have anything on us.

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Easy.

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Mopping them up.

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I expect you to make quick work of them.

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Chris, are you with me or are you over there?

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I don't know where I'm going.

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Oh, I'm running down.

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I'll run to you.

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I'll run to you.

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I'm abandoning the fight.

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Okay.

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We'll wait for you.

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Yeah, we've taken them out.

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We're coming back now.

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Okay.

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Very nice.

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We'll run along the shore.

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I like the...

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I love the raft.

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It's looking good.

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I know Adam worked pretty hard on the new water shader.

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It looks beautiful.

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It's a nice day out.

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Yes.

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It definitely turned out real nice.

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And shout out to Hal for the raft.

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Yes.

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Oh, the raft looks good.

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It's a nice day out.

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It's a nice day out.

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It's a nice day out.

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It's a nice day out.

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It's a nice day out.

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It's a nice day out.

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It's a nice day out.

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It's a nice day out.

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Shout out to Hal for the raft.

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Yes.

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Oh, the raft looks so good.

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I assume we're going left, yes?

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So we're gonna keep going straight here.

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All right.

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Now, this can be very helpful, having the option, but it can also be kind of dangerous,

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because you don't know who might be laying in wait ahead of you along the shorelines.

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But it also lets you, as we said, traverse the world in a little different way.

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And there's also a current here, correct?

• 19:43

Yeah.

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So there's a current system that increases your speed if you go with the current, and

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decreases it if you go against it.

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You're gonna want to hitch a right here, Steven.

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And those currents are kind of different based on the location in the river, correct?

• 20:03

Yeah, they are.

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They're different based on the location in the river and the strength of the river,

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right?

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So, you know, where we kind of started there was more of a lake body, so the current's

• 20:14

not super intense.

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But, you know, we could have a place that's, you know, near rapids, right?

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Got it.

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Where are we going here?

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This is looking concerning.

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Oh, Steven.

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Did I ever tell you you have the sense of direction of a mongoose trapped in a paper bag?

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Oh, god!

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Oh, my god.

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Shoot the tatters on the rock.

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Turn around.

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On the rock.

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Go the other way.

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Take them out!

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Steven, you're gonna crash into a rock.

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Oh, god.

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You're gonna want to hitch a right here.

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I'm sorry.

• 20:53

I wasn't paying attention to my map.

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No, no, no, no.

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Not yet.

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Not yet.

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Not yet.

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I'm trying to watch behind us.

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You're gonna beach us.

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Is there someone on board?

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Not anymore.

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Oh, no.

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That was a defender.

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Oh, heavy fire on Dread.

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All right.

• 21:17

I think we made it out.

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We're safe now.

• 21:19

Trad, how's it going on the battle side?

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I'm outnumbered.

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I'm running.

• 21:23

Oh, no.

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Meet us at the landing point.

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If you are a bandit, get out of there and meet us at the landing point.

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Don't let them follow you, though.

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Win the fight, then meet us.

• 21:37

Win the fight, then meet us, or die and meet us.

• 21:41

How about we do that the other way around?

• 21:44

Yeah.

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That'd be good.

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So, these are obviously some of the risks of traveling by raft.

• 21:53

Let me turn down my sound effects just a little bit.

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There we go.

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Now, it's not all bad, because we can land and turn us back into a...

• 22:07

A land caravan again, and that's coming up here, correct?

• 22:12

It's coming up pretty shortly.

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Now, you can't turn into a land caravan anywhere, right?

• 22:17

You still need...

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Kind of like how you saw we showed up at a beach to turn into a raft.

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Well, we need to do something similar, and if you notice around us,

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there aren't a huge amount of beaches, and that's super intentional to create,

• 22:29

like, you know, locations players can rely on.

• 22:33

Got it.

• 22:36

Are we coming up on one up here, yeah?

• 22:39

Yep, we're coming up on one on the right there.

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We're up here.

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Let me see if the current kind of carries us forward a little bit.

• 22:47

Oh, it does!

• 22:48

I'm not moving.

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Our current moves.

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That was a very light influence for this current.

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Very light current.

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All right, everybody secure the perimeter.

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I am converting into a land caravan again.

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I'm on it.

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It has begun.

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Securing perimeter.

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Perimeter secured.

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So after we go back and forth with the caravan turning back into a land caravan,

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it's keeping all the components that it had before, obviously, right, Chris?

• 23:24

Yeah, so all your components, all of the stuff in, like, that you've either looted

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or launched with sticks with you.

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All that stuff.

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All that good stuff.

• 23:37

Oh, DA's not in the raid anymore.

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Re-invite him.

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Let's bring DA back.

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I'm sure that the opposing side is going to try one last time to recover their goods.

• 23:50

Oh, they will for sure.

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So we need to be conscientious of that as we kind of progress through this more rocky area.

• 23:57

There's a lot of places that can hide.

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Yeah, it's also very narrow, not a lot of places for us to run.

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Hmm.

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Hmm.

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Love the view of Carfen here.

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So when we get to Mir'leth, though, assuming that we successfully navigate past the evil merchants,

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what are we going to be doing then?

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Are we going to be turning in this cargo?

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Yeah, so we're, you know, you're going to be able to unpack those crates,

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which you currently don't know what's in them.

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You know, we do have a plan for a progression path for kind of caravans in general,

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where you will be able to look into them.

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But you haven't done your grind, Steven.

• 24:43

What?

• 24:46

I haven't done my grind yet?

• 24:48

Nope.

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And you're also going to go and turn in those black market,

• 24:53

or not the black market certificates, the stolen commodities at the black market to make some money.

• 24:59

Got it.

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Now, guys, obviously, as you're watching this,

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and you're seeing the kind of transition,

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again, as a reminder, everything you're seeing is a work in progress,

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especially from an art perspective.

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UI, visual effects, animation, those are all still works in progress.

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I'm going to jump on this.

• 25:19

Okay, here we go.

• 25:21

I am ready.

• 25:22

We're back.

• 25:23

Let's do this.

• 25:26

I'm speed boosting.

• 25:28

It would be very nice if some tanks were on the front line with this sad little thing.

• 25:32

A little mage.

• 25:33

Get out of the way.

• 25:34

Yeah.

• 25:35

Let's see some rangers ahead, too, in their camo.

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Get some scouting going.

• 25:40

Nice.

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We must protect.

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I'm in danger.

• 25:47

I'm in danger.

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I need an adult.

• 25:50

Go, Trad.

• 25:51

Dispense the heathens.

• 25:56

We should pull back a little, maybe.

• 25:58

We got the people on the cliff up on the right here.

• 26:00

I got eyes.

• 26:02

Awesome.

• 26:03

Awesome's ahead.

• 26:04

All right.

• 26:05

Stay out of my way.

• 26:06

I'm just going to go straight through this.

• 26:07

Just send it, Steven.

• 26:08

I'm going straight through.

• 26:09

Everybody get out of my way.

• 26:10

Run.

• 26:11

Oh, God.

• 26:12

Some casualties on our own side.

• 26:13

It's worth it, though.

• 26:14

Tanks pulling down from the rock.

• 26:15

Use your javelins.

• 26:16

Oh.

• 26:17

Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

• 26:57

Oh.

• 26:58

Oh.

• 26:59

Oh.

• 27:00

Oh.

• 27:01

the world team has changed them

• 27:03

to rock golem.

• 27:06

Or the world state

• 27:07

has changed, perhaps?

• 27:10

Or maybe they did change the rock golems.

• 27:12

That's going to be a Jeremy question.

• 27:16

We've left

• 27:17

Vertec. Good sacrifice.

• 27:20

Did we make it out?

• 27:23

We're

• 27:23

still being chased.

• 27:25

Everybody up here, go back and kill those people.

• 27:27

Don't let them near me.

• 27:28

Back, fiends!

• 27:35

I'm going to use my last speed boost.

• 27:37

My god, they're using dark magic.

• 27:39

There's the rock elemental.

• 27:41

Don't pull aggro.

• 27:44

Definitely not.

• 27:46

I'm trailing

• 27:47

behind you. I found the skeletons.

• 27:50

Yes, that's what I wanted you to do.

• 27:57

They've overextended.

• 27:58

They're foomals.

• 28:02

Heal, heal.

• 28:03

I cannot heal you.

• 28:05

Where are you?

• 28:07

Oh, I see you.

• 28:07

I see you.

• 28:13

My gosh.

• 28:14

Alright, we're almost there.

• 28:18

We're so close.

• 28:24

I'm really envious of you, Steven, being able to

• 28:27

sit and

• 28:28

drive something while we all have to walk.

• 28:30

I know.

• 28:31

My legs hurt.

• 28:32

Honestly, it's not a very comfortable ride.

• 28:34

The suspension on this vehicle

• 28:36

and the rocks on the ground.

• 28:39

Well, you know, the roads will upgrade when the node

• 28:41

levels up and it'll get a little nicer.

• 28:44

That's true.

• 28:45

That's a good point.

• 28:46

So as the as the nodes advance, as we've said in the past,

• 28:49

the roads advance as well.

• 28:52

And that speed buff does get some benefit.

• 28:55

And a road like this would eventually become stone, right?

• 28:58

So the the caravan won't be as bumpy.

• 29:01

We have almost arrived

• 29:04

at Miralith.

• 29:07

I've lost the road buff now we're super slow.

• 29:11

You're officially in Miralith.

• 29:13

I still see Lex behind us.

• 29:15

Is Lex on the good side or the bad side?

• 29:17

He's on our side.

• 29:17

Oh, OK.

• 29:18

We do have enemies coming up, though.

• 29:20

OK, so we still haven't killed them.

• 29:22

Guards, get them.

• 29:24

Kill them.

• 29:24

I have more heals.

• 29:25

I'd be up there more.

• 29:26

Somebody help them kill them.

• 29:28

All right, go, Trad.

• 29:29

I'll stay with you until the end.

• 29:32

We're going in.

• 29:33

Don't wait up for us, guys.

• 29:35

I don't even think they followed.

• 29:36

Oh, they're gone.

• 29:37

Well, there might be one.

• 29:39

Go get him.

• 29:40

He's running in.

• 29:41

We've almost arrived.

• 29:43

Is that a solo hero?

• 29:45

The river town of Miralith.

• 29:48

Look at that beautiful view.

• 29:56

It's a very nice little node.

• 29:58

So now I have some stolen commodities in the form of stolen goods.

• 30:08

Yep.

• 30:09

And then I also have cargo.

• 30:11

And I believe I remember you saying you picked up a bunch of rubies, candles and a bunch of and a couple of crates.

• 30:21

Now, the crates are a mystery.

• 30:23

So I'll walk you through how to find out what goes in them.

• 30:28

We did it.

• 30:30

Yes.

• 30:32

We've done it.

• 30:33

Should I dismount?

• 30:35

Yeah.

• 30:36

Get off that thing.

• 30:37

All right.

• 30:38

Great work, everybody.

• 30:39

Well done, everyone.

• 30:40

Beautiful.

• 30:41

You all be paid 10 copper for your services and I'll get the rest.

• 30:44

Now, where are we going to go to turn this up?

• 30:47

First thing we're going to do, come back this way.

• 30:49

We're going to talk to the caravan master.

• 30:51

Talk about a change since last you guys saw the caravan system.

• 30:56

Okay.

• 30:57

And then switch to the storage of the caravan you have here.

• 31:00

You'll see the goods are still in there.

• 31:02

Do you see the goods in there, Steve?

• 31:04

Cargo storage.

• 31:05

Yes, I do.

• 31:06

So you're going to part of the change is that when you land a caravan, it doesn't automatically flood the nodes cargo with the stuff that was on your caravan.

• 31:17

It stays on the caravan as additional cargo storage.

• 31:21

Okay.

• 31:22

So what you're going to do, if you notice, there's a couple of crates.

• 31:25

I think they're two by ones in there.

• 31:27

You're going to right click that.

• 31:30

Okay.

• 31:31

Oh, look at that.

• 31:33

There's some basalt in these.

• 31:35

So what you can do is unpack that crate, which is going to move the goods that were in there into your material inventory.

• 31:43

But unpacking takes time.

• 31:45

So they're going to be locked for a period of time.

• 31:48

Okay.

• 31:49

So I won't see them in my.

• 31:51

You will see them in your material inventory, but you won't be able to take them out.

• 31:55

So if you want to go and unpack it, you can type over here.

• 31:56

If you want to unpack it, you can type over to the material inventory and check it out.

• 31:59

I'll just show up there later because it's not showing up there now.

• 32:01

Did you hit the unpack button?

• 32:03

Oh, I did not.

• 32:05

Oh, good call.

• 32:07

Thank you.

• 32:08

I'm so sorry.

• 32:11

Oh, that was good.

• 32:13

That was good.

• 32:14

Okay.

• 32:15

All right.

• 32:16

So they're locked right now.

• 32:17

Oh, okay.

• 32:18

So in five minutes, I can access them.

• 32:19

Yep.

• 32:20

Now that timer scales with how the node progresses.

• 32:21

That's actually an extremely fast unpacking time.

• 32:24

But typically, it's going to be on the ground.

• 32:26

On the scale of days.

• 32:27

Okay.

• 32:28

Very cool.

• 32:29

And what about these everburn scented candles?

• 32:32

Those are commodities.

• 32:33

You're going to be able to sell that to the commodity man.

• 32:35

Oh, do I put those where?

• 32:37

In the storage?

• 32:38

You can just leave them right there.

• 32:39

I can show you.

• 32:40

Come on this way.

• 32:41

All right.

• 32:42

Sweet, sweet, sweet.

• 32:43

And now, obviously, the unpack time, fees, everything associated with it, those are all options that you can choose to manipulate within a node.

• 32:54

So you can make your node kind of work.

• 32:55

You can make your node kind of the, you know, hub for trade or for landing caravans and whatnot, depending on the options that the cities choose.

• 33:03

Exactly.

• 33:04

So if you go ahead and talk to this vendor here.

• 33:07

Okay.

• 33:08

It should open up your storage as well.

• 33:10

And if you go to cargo.

• 33:14

All right.

• 33:15

Go to cargo.

• 33:16

And check out your cargo and mirrorleth.

• 33:18

Done.

• 33:20

You should be able to sell those commodities to this gentleman straight from your caravan inventory.

• 33:24

If you scroll down to the bottom of your cargo inventory.

• 33:27

Oh, there it is.

• 33:28

Yes.

• 33:29

Very nice.

• 33:30

Okay.

• 33:31

Cool.

• 33:32

Hold on.

• 33:33

Let me fix that.

• 33:34

Guys, remember, UI is a work in progress right now.

• 33:35

This is very functional, not playable.

• 33:40

Okay.

• 33:41

So I see a bunch of these.

• 33:42

I can sell them right now.

• 33:43

What am I selling them for?

• 33:44

You're selling them for gold.

• 33:46

You stole another man's potential gold.

• 33:49

I recovered them.

• 33:50

They stole it from us to begin with.

• 33:51

That's right.

• 33:52

Oh, sure, sure, sure.

• 33:53

We're the good guys, Chris.

• 33:56

Do I right-click those to sell them?

• 33:58

Yep.

• 33:59

Right-click them to sell them.

• 34:00

This is functionality we showed in the last livestream.

• 34:02

It's just they weren't yours to begin with.

• 34:04

Now I see when I right-click it, it opens up the crate, and inside I see nothing.

• 34:10

That could be a bug.

• 34:11

That's a bug.

• 34:12

That could be a bug.

• 34:14

Guys, you're going to see some bugs.

• 34:15

That's the way things go.

• 34:16

So last thing I want to show you, though, Steven.

• 34:18

Yes.

• 34:19

I want you to, while you're talking to this vendor, in your inventory,

• 34:23

your player inventory, you should have those stolen goods that you got from the crate that you opened up.

• 34:30

Oh, yes.

• 34:31

So if you talk to this gentleman and hover over it, it'll tell you how much they sell for to the commodity vendor.

• 34:38

But don't sell them.

• 34:40

Yeah, we know a guy, Steven.

• 34:44

I'm talking to this vendor, and do I just hover over them in my backpack?

• 34:50

Yep.

• 34:52

Sell price, it says, is zero.

• 34:54

So this man is not going to give you a lot of money for that.

• 34:58

How dare this man.

• 35:00

We've got a guy.

• 35:01

Come follow me.

• 35:02

Yeah, we got a guy.

• 35:03

Oh, he doesn't trade in stolen goods.

• 35:05

Yeah, he's a reputable vendor.

• 35:07

Okay.

• 35:08

All right.

• 35:10

We're looking for somebody over here.

• 35:13

So this is the new upgraded marketplace here in Miraleth.

• 35:17

Now, as we kind of briefly mentioned, there are upgrade paths to the marketplace.

• 35:20

Okay.

• 35:21

There are upgrade paths to the marketplace.

• 35:23

Now, this one's been expanded.

• 35:25

So if you follow me into this little back alley and into this little outhouse.

• 35:30

Oh.

• 35:33

Okay.

• 35:34

We've found the black market.

• 35:36

My goodness.

• 35:39

Ophelia Blackwater.

• 35:42

Now, this was because this is an expansion that Miraleth has in their market.

• 35:46

Correct.

• 35:47

Yeah.

• 35:48

So marketplaces don't normally come with a black market.

• 35:50

This is a part of the expansion tree.

• 35:52

So it's a choice you can make on your marketplace to be where bandits take their stuff.

• 35:57

So I'm going to right click on the stolen commodities.

• 35:59

Yep.

• 36:02

Oh, okay.

• 36:03

It just gave me some gold.

• 36:07

Very nice.

• 36:10

I've sold it.

• 36:11

And now you have to pay us all.

• 36:12

So everyone line up to get traded.

• 36:13

All right.

• 36:14

Yep.

• 36:15

Where's my cut?

• 36:16

Oh, yeah.

• 36:17

Everybody line up.

• 36:18

All right.

• 36:19

That's it.

• 36:20

All right.

• 36:21

Well done.

• 36:22

And then just wait here.

• 36:23

I'll be right back.

• 36:24

Oh, no, no.

• 36:25

Wait.

• 36:26

Let me.

• 36:27

Block the door.

• 36:28

Oh, no.

• 36:29

Okay.

• 36:30

I'll be back.

• 36:31

You guys stay there.

• 36:32

Ladies and gentlemen, we have just seen some PVP.

• 36:33

We've seen some whitewater rafting.

• 36:34

We've seen some caravan events.

• 36:35

And we've had a great time.

• 36:36

A little bit of some bugs, obviously.

• 36:37

This is still our road to Alpha 2.

• 36:38

So that's to be expected.

• 36:39

But I do want to thank you all for joining us today.

• 36:40

Thank you.

• 36:41

Bye.

• 36:42

Bye.

• 36:43

Bye.

• 36:44

Bye.

• 36:45

Bye.

• 36:46

Bye.

• 36:47

Bye.

• 36:48

Bye.

• 36:49

And I do want to thank obviously our developers for joining us and explaining everything,

• 36:53

our testers for helping participate so that we're able to show off all of these systems.

• 36:58

And as a reminder, of course, I know I can't say this enough.

• 37:02

As we continue to progress towards Alpha 2, you will continue to see polish be done, bugs

• 37:09

get fixed, stability improved, performance improved.

• 37:12

Right now, we are on that road.

• 37:14

We have just come off of heavy development of our feature and core systems.

• 37:19

our features and core systems and now we're going to be refining that we're going to be tightening

• 37:23

that loop and we're going to be um fixing things up so that we can get a lot of people in game and

• 37:28

start testing these uh these systems i hope you guys enjoyed today uh we had a lot of fun doing

• 37:33

it um and there's a lot of stuff still yet to show but with that being said thank you all for

• 37:39

joining me and thank you for watching we'll see you back on stream

• 37:49

you