Talk:2024-02-29 Video - Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Commissions Preview

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Hello everyone and welcome to yet another stream in Vera and we have an exciting stream

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for you today. We are going to be talking about one of the most core experiences that that all

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of us come to expect from the MMOs that we play and that is questing. But Ashes does questing a

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little bit differently than your average MMO and today to help me talk about that I have three

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of our absolute glorious developers to our senior designers on the narrative side. Scott, Tony,

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how are you guys doing? Doing great. I'm awesome.

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I am awesome. Everything is awesome. Yes, absolutely. You are awesome and your guys'

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team have been doing an awesome job at creating compelling stories and I'm excited to kind of go

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through these today with the community and give them some insight into what they can expect

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with their normal day in Ashes of Creation. And of course, one of the gentlemen behind the magic,

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our glorious engineer, Tyler, is joining us as well. Tyler, how are you doing, buddy?

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I'm doing amazing. Thank you so much for having me.

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Absolutely. Excited to have you too. So we are starting out in a familiar space,

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obviously. This is the node of Miraleth. We have been here before. We have turned in some

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glorious caravans within this node. And you know, some of you might be thinking to yourself, well,

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outside of caravans, outside of these grand kind of core architectural systems like citizenship and

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housing and story arcs and, you know, all of those types of systems, what is the normal day-to-day

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questing like in Ashes of Creation? And we're going to look at this from a solo player perspective.

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And later on, we might have some aid and assistance in completing perhaps some of the

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group-based stuff. But it all begins in a node and it begins specifically at this location.

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What am I looking at here, Scott?

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So this is a commission board. Every node has many different commission boards,

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depending on what service buildings are installed there. And commissions are basically these teeny

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tiny little single objective quests that are sort of like appetizers or quick little digestible

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things to help you get out into the world and start progressing both your character and your

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node contribution. Okay, cool. And I see that these commissions,

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obviously there's eight of them that I can see here that says that it refreshes in the next

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roughly 30 minutes. So I'm going to go ahead and click on that. And then I'm going to go ahead and

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do the same for the rest of the event, and I guess I'll wait for some more of them.

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Although the clock is not moving for some reason. Let's see if that, oh, it is moving.

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We're just not seeing a live update.

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So that's a bug. Guys, I do want to take this moment to obviously give our standard disclaimer.

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Everything you see here is a work in progress.

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Obviously, we are working towards our Alpha 2, which is an Alpha of Ashes of Creation.

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We're here in the Riverlands. You're going to see UI. You're going to see VFX.

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You're going to see systems like this that are still in a very

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functional state um but we are looking at a very um a very pretty board here and these kind of

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remind me about a little bit about cards almost they feel like cards kind of um and there's some

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standardized information on here i see level i see some reward i see some basic information about the

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story of these commissions and i also see some colors talk to me a little bit about the colors

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sure so commissions uh they come in basically different rarities the same way that collectible

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cards might so pretty astute there uh we the rewards are the rewards basically grow quite a

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lot depending on the rarity of the commission that gets dealt and these get dealt for everybody

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like on this board so in this node right so and you can improve your chances of getting rare

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commissions for your node depending on how you develop your node okay very cool absolutely um

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the oak and bane overlook i just i just took that i see that it's been added to my object

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objective tracker and um

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sounds pretty interesting so i'm going to grab those and i should be able to now see them

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obviously in my journal um this gives me under mirrorleth kind of my active commissions that

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are here within this node um and i can take a look at the map i assume here and go around and

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take a look at the objective so we have the scatter the horde that's here um and oak and

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bane overlook here which is good because i think we have some business perhaps

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in the oak and bane area we've shown that off before but it has some some updated interesting

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things going on there okay so let's let's grab these two and let's let's head out um now obviously

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you're saying these are these are kind of bite-sized digestible easily let me grab and go

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um you know show some progress in the world but commissions are more than just bite-sized pieces

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of content they also they also feed other content systems too right talk to me a little bit about how

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that works

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yeah tyler you can take this one oh sure yeah i'll take it um so right every every 30 minutes or so

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the board will refresh the server will query a bunch of different information about uh the world

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um and this is from ranging from uh story arcs uh that are active story arcs that have been

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completed uh weather time of day a whole bunch of different range of factors very cool and then

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oh go ahead yeah no no sorry

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the board will attempt to deliver uh commissions that are relevant to these areas and they will

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try to lead you into areas where more content can be found kind of like a cascading effect of

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uh commissions and and events and just general things to do okay speaking of events i see i just

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had a pop-up here pale hornless minotaur is idling nearby and beckons me interesting

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so that is a call out for one of our side quests which are

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they're like you know like you know like you know like you know like you know like you know like you know

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like commissions but but but better uh tony do you want to talk about this a little bit

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yeah side quests are like commissions you know what you're getting with them you you go go to a

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commission board and pick out your cars what you want but side quests these are a variety of quests

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with a variety of objectives that are exist in the actual world itself so they can be hidden in

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various ways and so

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during your adventures you want to pay attention around you because one might pop up on your map

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and you if you're lucky you might notice it and be able to obtain it and it might lead into a really

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big quest chain or in the very least connect to a larger story awesome and i'm looking at one of

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these guys here his name is many exiled berserker now we've seen minotaurs in the past but minotaurs

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actually are a minor faction in ashes and and there are different kinds of minotaurs that are

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different um tribes of minotaur and different uh kind of species influence for the minotaurs

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this guy apparently is friendly so i could talk with him okay cool look at this guy

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he's got a little profile going on watch yourself godling my kith work nearby and they shall brook

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no intrusion you save yourself some money on voice acting i love it i said i love it it is

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you can handle it

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oh the the writing is is is impeccable it's impeccable um okay let's talk to him why is

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he standing here okay so he's trying to deliver some poultice to his brother but he's forbidden

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to see him okay let's see if i can take it over there uh he's too weak to fight that's a rude

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thing to say about your brother um knows his limitations you know okay so i've received a

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minotaur poultice and i see here i have some rewards

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just to deliver this um that includes some dull glint some experience and some cheap coin

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yep so uh side quests can give a variety of rewards uh they're bespoke for the side quest

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itself so uh as you progress this chain of side quests here you can you can unlock things that

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are specific toward minotaurs whether it's like their rare sort of crafting reagents

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uh recipes for their stuff um all kinds of different things can pop up and uh

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just like any of our spawning systems uh like what tyler is getting at with the commission board

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um they all are reading world states to determine what is allowed to spawn and where it should spawn

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and things like that so different side quests can appear depending on the world state as well

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okay very cool all right i see here i have this guy named maho

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yes that is who you should be delivering your poultice to and also they have an available

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quest for me as well

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i have brought a poultice from your brother

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let's just see here yes i'll accept that reward very nice

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oh look at him he's kind of they're stretching

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let's see if he's got something else for me so this kind of leads us down the daisy chain like

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tony was talking about of you know different connective tissues of story throughout the world

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relate either to the commission the events or story arcs in general

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exactly uh and the especially like commissions and side quests like those

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in completing those you're going to be participating in activity maps which you've

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laid all around here and those can spawn events those can make a number of things happen which

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then will in turn influence you know further spawns that can happen and things like that

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okay cool and i also see you know this is obviously thematic right it relates to kind of our

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progression of itemization i see this person has a recipe for storm callers x he is also talking

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about an event that relates to some type of it looks like storm beneath the stone shadows perhaps

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correct uh so that event is not currently happening but uh you can provoke that event uh

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basically by working on your commission uh to slay minotaur that will that will draw out their

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their leader whose name is una

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but it's sort of incumbent upon you and other players

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to provoke that event.

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Got it.

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Okay, so provocation means essentially

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I need to kill 10 minotaur,

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10 basically minotaurs, any type of minotaur here.

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And that's just for your commission.

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The activity map is actually a separate tally,

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a separate counter.

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We've tuned it down for the purpose of the live stream

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because it's just you here,

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but other players that have grabbed that commission

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from the node might be here as well helping

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and that would progress that counter a lot more rapidly.

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Good luck with the birds.

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Oh no, my gosh.

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This guy summoned a bunch of birds.

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Ah, got him.

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Cool, so the summon creatures actually dissipate

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with the NPC that you kill.

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Correct.

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The summoner.

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And the world team has done a very, very good job

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with setting up the encounters here

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and the points of interest I think are looking great

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and they feel good.

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They feel great to play through.

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The encounters are difficult if you're not careful.

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If you're pulling multiple mobs,

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I don't know who would do such a thing.

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I know.

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Hey, that's why I have sleep.

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That's true.

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That was a nice arc.

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Thank you.

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It was beautiful.

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Go away.

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.

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Oh no.

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Oh God.

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Oh my God.

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No, no, no.

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Not even his final form.

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Let's sleep the other guy.

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Oh, that did not work.

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A quick release there.

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I might need to use some potions.

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Yeah, the berserker are really tough when they're on top of you like that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's not going to work.

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That's a good one.

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That's a bad one.

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I'm going to go.

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Oh, I have to go.

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I'm going to go.

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It's a good one.

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Okay.

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Hold on.

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Let's put some ice down in front of him.

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I'm out of mana.

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Oh no.

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Oh God.

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I'm totally out of mana.

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You got to plan ahead when you're adventuring by yourself in Vera.

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Okay.

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Here we go.

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Here we go.

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Here we go.

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Here we go.

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One thing you'll see about the commission board and how it generates its commissions, one thing

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is that all players are going to have an adventure.

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all players in the node will see the same commissions.

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So there is a really good chance when you take one of these from the board

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that there will be many other players fighting alongside you.

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And that's how we get those large activity map generation

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to start spawning events.

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Yeah, that is, I mean, obviously these help to kind of, you know,

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move player traffic throughout the world because, as we said,

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nodes act as a hub.

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And one of the ways they direct player traffic is obviously

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through the commissions, the buy orders, you know,

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things that essentially are supplying that demand, right,

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of activity or action from the player.

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And then what the players choose to do is essentially the agency

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that's provided in helping to dictate how the world state will change.

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And I think that's obviously, you know, questing is a kind of,

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you know, standard and staple tried true method of core gameplay loop

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that players come to expect from MMOs.

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But what they haven't traditionally seen is the follow-up of how those actions

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that the players participate in yield a response from the environment,

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from the server, from a historical identity that now can be kind of seen

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in the world.

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And we're going to see that here, right?

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Yeah, and that's not to say that our quest content doesn't get

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much more complicated.

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Especially when you start getting involved in story arcs at that level.

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But this is all sort of, you know, story arcs don't happen without nodes

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being built up.

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And nodes don't get built up without players doing commissions and

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granting experience and things like that.

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So all of this stuff does all play together and creates a very nice loop

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to, like, unlocking the bigger, more complicated adventuring content.

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And story arcs as well, like, are also one of the potential predicates

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for side quests and things like this starting.

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So as you level up your node, and that begins more story arcs,

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even more content related to those stories as they progress in real time

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become available.

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How many do I have so far?

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I have seven.

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Oh!

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Okay, so you've sufficiently agitated the Minotaur and they've brought

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out their leader, the Stormcaller, and he comes with a storm.

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Oh, very cool.

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Okay.

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This is pretty awesome.

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Doubly so, because since you instigated this event, which changed the

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weather that will also now influence spawns nearby, you could potentially

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be spawning, or you are spawning, side quests that relate to the rain,

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changes in enemies that relate to the rain, and that's just driven on player action.

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So it is like a feedback loop in a way as well.

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All right, very cool.

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So I see obviously the weather here, as you said, has changed.

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It is now raining and the wind is picking up.

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And I also see that there is lightning that, ooh, looks a little hazardous.

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Yes.

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That lightning will hurt you very bad if it's raining.

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Yes. That lightning will hurt you very bad if it's raining.

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But if it strikes you, weather events and encounters themselves can

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include hazards like that that can appear and shake things up.

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It can also help too, if you can kite enemies into the lightning strikes or whatever.

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Very cool.

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Now, do I have a, I think I might need a little team for this.

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This seems to be a lot of stream leaders.

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There's quite a lot of them there.

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I'm perched up on this hill if you guys are nearby and want to join me.

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Let me see if I can find you.

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I don't know.

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Yeah, I'm sure you can help me out.

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Yeah.

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So you starting that event would have, like...

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We can see that from quite far away, which would be, if players weren't already here for the purpose of the commissions,

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they might be tempted by the event as well.

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We can invite you into our party here.

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We'll just gather some of these bushes.

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Yeah, there's some Minotaur just behind you, Tyler, watch out.

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All right.

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Wait, where's Tony?

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We need Tony.

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He's right here.

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Oh, no, wait, where is he?

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I'm here.

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Oh, he's coming.

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I'm wearing a lot of armor.

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I'm not going into that lightning.

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Oh, God.

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Oh, God.

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Maybe we can kill one of the Minotaurs with the tree.

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Looks like you're going to die to the lightning.

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Oh, my God, seriously?

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Yeah.

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All right, let's do this.

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Leroy, let's go kill him.

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All right, so these are the storm weavers that he was trying to kill.

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I see this guy over here.

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I will call the lightning.

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Oh, I have a healer.

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That's nice.

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I got your back.

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Oh, I need to get my back.

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Oh, no, wait.

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This is just kind of into the lighting.

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Oh, there's a supply chest.

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It.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God.

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Oh, no.

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Oh, no.

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You two are going down.

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All right, let me sleep him.

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Let me sleep him.

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I'm going to sleep him.

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Okay, all right, hold on.

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He's asleep.

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Let's see if we can get a bolt of lightning.

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We need some lightning.

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Several of them have died to that as well.

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I'm ashes, I'm ashes and ashes, so.

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Oh, maybe we can get you rez up.

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Hold on.

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I'm going to.

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Where's the healer?

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I'm going to keep him.

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I'm going to keep him slept while you guys come back.

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Wait for it.

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Sleeping the dragon.

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The streamweavers are pretty hard to move.

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Yeah, they are.

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Oh, you know what?

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We need to show off as well, but we didn't show off last time.

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Oh, here we go.

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Oh.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Somebody rez me.

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I can't rez, I'm just the sword guy.

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Somebody get back here and rez me.

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Oh, there he goes.

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You just got hit.

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Got him.

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Oh, no.

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OK, I got 45 seconds before I got a release.

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Nope.

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That was you.

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I got you.

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That was coming.

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Oh, sweet.

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Yes.

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Oh, nice.

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OK.

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All right.

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Very cool.

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Very cool.

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Let me grab some of my stuff.

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Great.

• 20:19

I'll grab some of your stuff.

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You got your stuff as well?

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Oh, yeah.

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Help yourself.

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Thank you.

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Let me actually get the supply chest.

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So this is just the reward for participating in the event.

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So even people that didn't have the side quest to do the event

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could still get rewards from participating.

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Oh, OK.

• 20:39

That's cool.

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That's awesome.

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And again, guys, this is all a work in progress still, right?

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This is a very functional implementation currently of the system.

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OK.

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And there will be additional controls where you can split raid, essentially,

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and each person can interact with the supply chest and get their reward from the event.

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Yep.

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Oh, God.

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Oh, he brought the rabbits.

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Oh, no.

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Not the rabbits.

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Oh, let me kill these guys real quick.

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I'm going to sleep that battle priest while you guys murder the rabbits.

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They're gone.

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OK.

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There we go.

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All right.

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Now, we've cleared this little portion, but obviously, the weather is still active.

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And that's because the zone has changed kind of to the activity that we have presented here.

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Yep.

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So that means there's some new opportunities together, or new opportunities available for you.

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We can leave you to carry on turning your quest.

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Yeah, it was an honor, by the way.

• 21:48

Yeah.

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No.

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Just glad to be here.

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Thanks for the carry, Steven.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Absolutely.

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No problem.

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Yeah.

• 21:53

Yeah.

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Definitely couldn't have done it without you.

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Grab that Minotaur pigment.

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I see a Sudden Scholar has also spawned.

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Oh, and I see the event is still going there.

• 22:01

That's cool.

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That was just to collect the rewards, yeah.

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Let me go over to the Sudden Scholar.

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Where is that at?

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So talk to me a little bit about this weather system, right?

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That's pretty cool that we had the environmental hazards that spawned.

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And that doesn't just pertain to the event.

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It's the weather.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

• 22:19

It doesn't just pertain to the event, right?

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These types of weather systems, they can kind of be anywhere in the world.

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Yes.

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So just like regular weather, they can also just spawn based on a number of, like, variables in the environment,

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like precipitation, things like that.

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So you can get weather naturally, but players can also affect it, too.

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And it can be more than just the weather.

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Like, there's Star Arcs and side quests that can do things like placing an Eternal Knight in an area,

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change the seasons, and things like that.

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They can be quite stark.

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And all of those things, like we mentioned before, create new and different opportunities for what types of content you might find.

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Oh, no.

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I'm sorry.

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Give me a second.

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Oh, no.

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Are you still in trouble, Steven?

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Do we need to help you again?

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No.

• 23:15

I'm doing fine.

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Okay.

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I'm doing fine.

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Okay.

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I'm going to take my pigment and get out of here.

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Okay.

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There we go.

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Talk to me a little bit about kind of this area, the Minotaurs as a faction,

• 23:31

and kind of what, you know, how the spawners can kind of change around the world to represent that player activity.

• 23:39

Yeah.

• 23:39

It's especially prevalent with the Minotaur who are nomadic.

• 23:43

So these Minotaurs in particular are interested in, like, spiritual things.

• 23:48

So sites that have to do with, like, funerary rites and things like that of ancient aliens.

• 23:54

And that ties a lot into the story of this POI, which is called Titan's Ring.

• 24:01

All that stuff gets developed in other side quests and story arcs potentially that can come around because, like you mentioned before, these aren't just necessarily Minotaurs all the time.

• 24:14

There are other things that can be happening here, depending on the situation.

• 24:16

Yeah.

• 24:17

Depending on the state of the world.

• 24:19

Got it.

• 24:19

And I see Luna here, for example.

• 24:22

She spawned as a side quest because this rain event occurred.

• 24:26

Correct.

• 24:27

Yes.

• 24:28

She is one of the side quests that are attached to the rain state.

• 24:32

Okay, cool.

• 24:33

She wants me to defeat some mycelium along the Lonely Oak Creek, which I assume is up ahead.

• 24:40

It's, yeah, right around the corner there from you.

• 24:43

Oh, okay.

• 24:44

Very cool.

• 24:44

All right.

• 24:45

Let's take a look.

• 24:46

Yes.

• 24:46

I love the stormy effect.

• 24:48

I think, obviously, players have seen our season system in place, but we haven't really seen a bit more of the weather events, and this looks great.

• 24:59

I think Todd did a great job on the kind of rain effect here.

• 25:03

Sounds good.

• 25:05

I love the WPO on the trees and the wind.

• 25:08

Cool.

• 25:09

Yeah.

• 25:10

The standard environment really, really, really shined in this game.

• 25:15

I really loved it.

• 25:16

I just love the way that they're doing on it.

• 25:17

So if you follow the river south, because you do still have that commission that you picked up very early on to go to the Oakenbane Overlook, which is not too far from where you are.

• 25:27

It's just south of you a little ways.

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And that is kind of, you wanted to check out Oakenbane anyways, and that will take you to a really nice place to take a look at it.

• 25:37

All right.

• 25:38

So you can clear the mycelium along the way.

• 25:40

I noticed you forgot to turn in your unit quest, but that's okay.

• 25:44

Which one?

• 25:45

Did you turn in your stormcaller quest?

• 25:46

Oh, I think I did.

• 25:47

Where do I turn that in at?

• 25:48

Back at the...

• 25:49

Yeah, bring it back to Maho.

• 25:50

Okay.

• 25:51

I'm sorry.

• 25:52

I can do that.

• 25:53

I just want to make sure that you get your quest rewards.

• 25:54

Yeah.

• 25:55

All right.

• 25:56

Let me grab it.

• 25:57

You can give Steven a little Sherpa.

• 25:58

Actually, you know what?

• 25:59

I can probably...

• 26:00

Let me just run back there right now.

• 26:01

Okay.

• 26:02

All right.

• 26:03

All right.

• 26:04

All right.

• 26:05

All right.

• 26:06

All right.

• 26:07

All right.

• 26:08

All right.

• 26:09

All right.

• 26:10

All right.

• 26:11

All right.

• 26:12

All right.

• 26:13

All right.

• 26:14

All right.

• 26:15

All right.

• 26:16

I just want to run back there real quick.

• 26:17

I'm on my way.

• 26:18

Actually, can I complete it from here?

• 26:21

Side quests, no.

• 26:23

Okay.

• 26:24

Cool.

• 26:25

Commissions you can.

• 26:26

Yeah.

• 26:27

Yeah.

• 26:28

Side quests have to go back to either the place that the side quest was given or also

• 26:34

potentially other places the side quests will specify where you're supposed to bring your

• 26:39

completion.

• 26:40

All right.

• 26:41

And a lot of times it's a surprise.

• 26:43

Yeah.

• 26:44

of times those that's because they're leading you to another place that might

• 26:49

hold something else related to that side quest you just completed yeah all the

• 26:54

time but but that's one of the intense yeah very cool yeah breadcrumbing is

• 27:02

very important for these I'm going back to maho that's right yeah is right there

• 27:14

on your left okay sweet Oh my friend Yuna is dead yes that is very true he

• 27:27

did put up a little bit of a fight but the weather actually was to his

• 27:30

detriment as well yeah okay cool so I'm gonna get the the storm collars recipe

• 27:36

additional minotaur pigment which is obviously a rare material component

• 27:42

that's probably used

• 27:43

you

• 27:44

it is specifically for crafting minotaur objects yeah nice awesome okay so these

• 27:50

different factions hold unique rewards that are delivered both through the

• 27:54

questing as well as drop tables for the minotaurs and other you know local

• 27:59

environments that contribute directly to crafting those types of items yeah the

• 28:04

minotaur pigments are actually pretty rare so that we just got a little bit

• 28:07

lucky there but the side quests are a nice way to get a guaranteed little

• 28:10

injection of them

• 28:14

and yeah there's there's stuff like that for all of the factions especially ones

• 28:22

that have like a set of crafting like crafting sets and things like that cool

• 28:28

very cool all right I am headed back this way I believe that right under the

• 28:36

you need to make your way back toward that you can get there straight from the

• 28:40

way you were going but okay cool

• 28:43

yeah probably not

• 28:44

you you have the maesilian kills I can't see

• 28:47

I don't think you have it yet I don't think so although I see some my resilience down

• 28:56

here now yeah I mentioned just gonna be over the overlook was fairly close to where you

• 29:01

just were

• 29:02

yeah it's the very last objective you have in your tracker

• 29:08

oh my gosh that was unfortunate

• 29:11

I think I'm gonna take this lid off for you because I want to make sure that I don't need

• 29:12

you having a гарgoyle when you're in there I've got a lot of fire on my wrist so we're

• 29:13

Yeah, the NPC teams, I think they've done just an incredible job lately with the fights.

• 29:22

I feel like the encounters are getting very, very fun and dynamic and varied.

• 29:30

Absolutely, they're getting very good.

• 29:32

Very good, actually challenging, right?

• 29:34

Now that we're having good representative kind of progression within the A2 world.

• 29:38

Oh, that little dude disappeared.

• 29:40

He was attached to his parent that you destroyed.

• 29:43

Okay, let me see if I can avoid these guys.

• 29:46

I'm getting some type of injury.

• 29:49

Yeah, they will poison you.

• 29:51

I'm going to sit down here.

• 29:54

Nope, not going to sit down there.

• 29:58

Let me move forward.

• 30:00

Probably not going to sit down there either.

• 30:03

Oh no, we're doing the old train-a-roo.

• 30:07

I don't know, I can't. I'm pot committed.

• 30:09

Don't too far this way.

• 30:10

I am.

• 30:10

I am pot committed.

• 30:11

It's happening.

• 30:13

It is happening.

• 30:15

Where do I need to go?

• 30:17

Just turn around.

• 30:18

Turn around, okay, alright, alright.

• 30:19

The overlook is like on those ruins, just to your right.

• 30:22

To the right, up there?

• 30:24

Yeah, that's the top of the room, so go left here.

• 30:26

Oh no, no.

• 30:29

What are we doing?

• 30:33

Break left.

• 30:34

Go up the stream.

• 30:35

I'm going to go up here.

• 30:36

Oh god.

• 30:38

Oh my god!

• 30:39

Are you doing this on purpose?

• 30:44

No, I'm not, I'm really not, I'm really not, I swear, I swear, I'm just trying to run.

• 30:49

Okay, and to the right here.

• 30:50

I'm just trying to heal, let me put some, some, okay, up here.

• 30:55

I didn't know if you were going to see a mimic.

• 30:57

I did not know we were going to see a mimic either, holy smokes.

• 31:05

Can I go to the right?

• 31:06

Okay, the overlook, the overlook is to your right.

• 31:07

I don't know if it's safe to go to the right.

• 31:09

I don't know if it's safe to even go up there with this when he's chasing you, but.

• 31:11

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

• 31:13

Hold on.

• 31:14

Let me just see if I can sleep them.

• 31:16

Oh, okay, they're fleeing.

• 31:18

They're leashing.

• 31:20

I wonder if I can kill this thing.

• 31:22

Oh no, definitely cannot kill that thing.

• 31:26

Um.

• 31:27

Yeah, it's level 20.

• 31:29

Okay, they're fleeing, they're fleeing, they're fleeing.

• 31:31

Okay, good, good, good.

• 31:32

Oh, okay.

• 31:33

We did it!

• 31:34

And we did it!

• 31:35

Thank you!

• 31:36

Somehow.

• 31:37

Amazing.

• 31:38

We survived that.

• 31:39

Uh.

• 31:40

Oh my god.

• 31:41

Okay.

• 31:42

Up the, uh, so the overlook is up on top of these ruins here.

• 31:46

Yeah, you can climb up the ruins.

• 31:48

Okay.

• 31:49

So this is for, uh, the Oakenbane Overlook.

• 31:52

Got it.

• 31:53

Yep.

• 31:54

Okay.

• 31:55

Okay, this is also a little bit of a dangerous area.

• 32:00

Yep.

• 32:01

All right.

• 32:02

Let's go, oh, can't go this way either.

• 32:05

There's a little watch dude.

• 32:06

Yeah.

• 32:07

Jeremy made sure that it's pretty hard to sneak around through here.

• 32:11

Okay.

• 32:12

Let's just see.

• 32:13

Oh my god.

• 32:14

Nice.

• 32:15

Oh god.

• 32:16

Oh god!

• 32:17

Oh no.

• 32:18

Guys, everybody look away.

• 32:19

Oh no.

• 32:20

I muffs, I muffs.

• 32:21

I muffs.

• 32:22

I muffs.

• 32:23

I muffs.

• 32:24

I muffs.

• 32:25

I muffs.

• 32:26

I muffs.

• 32:27

I muffs.

• 32:28

I muffs.

• 32:29

I muffs.

• 32:30

I muffs.

• 32:31

I muffs.

• 32:32

I muffs.

• 32:33

I muffs.

• 32:34

I muffs.

• 32:35

I muffs.

• 32:36

I muffs.

• 32:37

I muffs.

• 32:39

And we're good.

• 32:40

We're good.

• 32:41

Let me just pick up all these things that I died with, and that's good.

• 32:47

And I normally don't want to do that, but I am trying to just, I didn't know that guy

• 32:52

was going to spin to win right as I was uh, trying to pass him.

• 32:59

That's a, that's a berserker for you, just when you least expect it.

• 33:03

I know.

• 33:04

And watch.

• 33:05

We're going to get him low here, and he's going to probably get some temp health, as usual.

• 33:12

There's the temp health.

• 33:15

Go.

• 33:21

Got him.

• 33:21

At least he spun to one that time, and it didn't work out for him.

• 33:24

Yeah.

• 33:24

That was a nice shatter.

• 33:25

Look at that.

• 33:25

That was a nice shatter.

• 33:27

Thank you.

• 33:27

Thank you, Tyler.

• 33:28

I appreciate the additional support there.

• 33:30

Right now, the stream is most definitely roasting me.

• 33:35

Okay, so I'm assuming, since this is getting a view of Oak and Bane, that I should be up here.

• 33:43

Yeah, it's also marked on your map and implied in the quest text that you're supposed to go up here.

• 33:47

Oh, okay.

• 33:48

This is a beautiful view, actually.

• 33:51

Yep.

• 33:54

Nice.

• 33:55

We did it.

• 33:55

We have discovered the location.

• 33:58

Oh, the node is up.

• 33:59

Oh, the node is there.

• 34:00

Okay.

• 34:02

Wow, look at this view.

• 34:05

Oh, my God.

• 34:07

What is this?

• 34:09

So, yeah, when nodes level up, they will create new content.

• 34:12

New story arcs will start, and story arcs are very big, like, big area-changing things that can happen.

• 34:19

Right, like we saw with Karfen.

• 34:21

Like we saw with Karfen.

• 34:22

This is one for Oak and Bane.

• 34:25

Oh, my gosh.

• 34:26

That is cool.

• 34:28

Oh, I want to go down there and check it out.

• 34:33

It'd be pretty tough.

• 34:34

It's a long drop.

• 34:36

Yeah.

• 34:38

Ow.

• 34:39

Oh, okay, I made it.

• 34:41

Oh, this is awesome.

• 34:42

Okay, so this area now has entered into a story arc.

• 34:47

Correct.

• 34:49

And you're not right near where the quest givers would get you kind of started on the story for this, but they're not far.

• 34:59

And, yeah, these would be...

• 35:00

The quests involved in story arcs are a little bit more complicated than Commission Style Encyclopedia.

• 35:04

They're not quest-style quests, but there's a whole big, long chain to deal with.

• 35:11

The dark magic that you just saw settling in over this once-sacred resting place for your heroes.

• 35:17

All right, I love it.

• 35:18

This looks great.

• 35:19

Well, this was quite a presentation.

• 35:21

Obviously, it was really enjoyable to kind of go through commissions and give the community an insight to Alpha 2,

• 35:29

kind of what their daily activities are going to include,

• 35:33

but more importantly, how those...

• 35:34

How those commissions change the state of the world around you

• 35:39

and kick off these almost domino-like effects with regards to events and side quests in the story arcs

• 35:47

where you constantly see a changing world around you.

• 35:50

That is really the promise of Ashes.

• 35:53

And as the world changes, you're a part of building what's to come next.

• 35:58

So, Scott, Tony, Tyler, thank you very much for joining me,

• 36:03

and thank you for all the hard work you guys have been doing.

• 36:04

It's really paying off, and it's looking really, really fun.

• 36:08

Thanks for having us.

• 36:09

It's great to show it.

• 36:10

Thank you so much.

• 36:11

Absolutely.

• 36:12

And everyone, I'll see you guys back on stream real soon.

• 36:16

Bye, everybody.

• 36:17

Bye.