PvX

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Nous préférons grandement nous qualifier de jeu JcX, car dans ce systèmes JcJ, JcE et artisanat sont tous interconnectés: ils sont co-dépendants l'un avec l'autre... Notre système nécessite réellement quelques co-dépendances entre ces éléments. Vous aurez besoin d'un artisan pour vous fournir les meilleurs objets. Vous aurez besoin de JcJ pour sécuriser les villes et châteaux. vous aurez besoin de JcE pour vaincre les world bosses pour les ressources d'artisanat. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation est un jeu JcX. Les joueurs seront naturellement confrontés au éléments JcJ et JcE. Il est très peu probable qu'un joueur puisse se concentrer uniquement sur le JcJ ou le JcE.

• Il y aura un équilibre entre le JcJ et JcE dans Ashes of Creation.
• Certains serveurs pourront être plus orientés JcJ que d'autres.
• Il n'y aura pas de différence entre les types d'équipements JcJ et JcE .
• La progression en jeu pourra nécessiter des éléments JcE.
• Toutes les stats seront en rapport avec l'efficacité au combat du joueur en JcX.

Nous sommes très clair sur notre objectif et philosophie sur le jeu et nous comprenons que ça ne plaira peut être pas à tout le monde. Mais vous savez que c'est une relation réciproque importante entre le contenu qui est orienté JcE et celui orienté JcJ et qu'ils s'alimentent l'un l'autre. Ils sont les catalyseurs pour un changement: leur progression, leur développement. Ce sont des choses que les gens apprécient quand ils voient quelque chose de gagné et quelque chose de perdu. Cela entraine une réponse émotionnelle des joueurs: le fait qu'ils aient investis du temps pour réussir ou échouer; et le JcJ permet à cet élément d'être introduit dans la partie. Et nous sommes très clair que c'est notre objectif: cette relation entre le risque et la récompense, cette mentalité basée sur les succès. tout le monde ne sera pas un gagnant et c'est normal. – Steven Sharif

JcJ

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Gameplay de combats JcJ dans un siège de château de l'Alpha-1.

Combats JcJ autour d'une caravane en monde ouvert dans l'Alpha-1.

Le combat entre joueurs dans Ashes of Creation est à la fois vaste et intime. Il couvre de nombreux aspects du jeu lui-même. Des grandes batailles politiques tenues dans les champs de vastes châteaux, aux conflits en monde ouvert menés pour la fierté des Chefs de Guilde. Un joueur peut choisir de participer au destin du monde en influençant le cours de la bataille avec ses prouesses au combat. Nos mécaniques PvP suivent un système de marquage, ainsi que des zones PvP statiques à certains points d'intérêt ; combattez pour le contrôle de villes, châteaux, caravanes ou terrains de chasse. Notre PvP est conçu pour offrir aux joueurs un monde bien équilibré et équitable à façonner par la plume, ou l'épée s'ils le choisissent.

Le JcJ est le catalyseur du changement dans Ashes of Creation. Le combat JCJ (combat joueur contre joueur) est destiné à être significatif, allant des batailles de caravanes à de vastes conflits en monde ouvert menés pour la fierté des Rois et Reines.

Puisque les joueurs sont motivés par différentes choses, parce qu'ils veulent quelque chose du jeu que d'autres joueurs ne veulent pas, cela va causer des conflits. Différents joueurs vont vouloir différentes expériences et le conflit entre eux créera quelque chose de plus grand et meilleur. De la lutte naît la renaissance et c'est un symbole central, un thème central qui se produit tout au long du jeu. – Jeffrey Bard

• La majorité des joueurs feront l'expérience du JcJ à travers des champs de bataille basés sur des objectifs avec participation volontaire. Ce sont des rencontres à haut risque et à haute récompense qui n'utilisent pas le système de corruption.

En voici quelques exemples :

• • Sièges de nœuds, forteresses, châteaux.
  • Attaques de Caravanes.
  • Guerres de guildes.
  • Combat PvP naval en pleine mer.

  Des choses meilleures et en plus grande abondance peuvent être trouvées dans la zone de mer ouverte. Et c'est pourquoi il y a un niveau de risque supplémentaire associé à l'opt-in dans ces lieux. – Steven Sharif

  • Les pénalités de mort ne s'appliquent pas (la plupart du temps) aux événements à objectifs (également appelés événements dynamiques).
    • La dégradation de l'équipement s'applique en cas de mort durant du PvP de caravane.

• Il y a aussi des raisons de s'engager dans le PvP en monde ouvert, qui est soumis au système de marquage des joueurs et de corruption :
  • Contestation des donjons en monde ouvert ou des raids.
  • Contestation des ressources rares et des terrains de chasse.
• Le risque de gagner de la corruption est censé dissuader la grande majorité des joueurs de harcèlement d'autres joueurs, mais cela ne signifie pas que le PvP ne se produira pas en monde ouvert.

Juste parce que notre système de marquage donne de la corruption aux PK, cela ne signifie pas que le PvP ne se produira pas. Il y a plein de raisons pour que le PvP ait lieu en monde ouvert. – Steven Sharif

Q: Avez-vous envisagé une zone/aire PvP à haut enjeu de perte de butin dans le monde de Verra ?

A: Nous ne l'avons pas fait ; et la raison en est que nos systèmes PvP actuels permettent déjà un risque matériel essentiellement soit à travers le système de marquage soit à travers d'autres systèmes PvP basés sur des événements avec participation volontaire. – Steven Sharif

Les archétypes tels que Tank et barde sont viables dans le JcJ grâce à la philosophie de conception "pierre-papier-ciseaux", où chaque classe est naturellement forte contre certaines compositions de compétences.

Opt-in PvP battlegrounds

The Event system will also create a variety of PvP situations in the open world. From small skirmishes that lead into sieges to battles over capture points during a node or castle siege, PvP objectives will play a crucial role in determining the tide of battle.

The majority of Ashes of Creation players will experience JcJ through opt-in objective-based battlegrounds (also called sanctioned PvP events). These are high risk and high reward encounters that do not utilize the corruption system.

The majority of PvP that players will encounter- the vast majority- will be through consensual systems, meaning opt-in systems like sieges, like caravans, like wars, or going out into the open sea. These are conscious decisions that players will make knowing the risk profile- assessing that- and they will opt-in to those things.. – Steven Sharif

• Sanctioned PvP events allow players to join different teams during the event.

There are going to be events with sanctioned PvP, where there are multiple team options to join. – Clayton Stamper

• These events will flag participating players as Combatants (purple) and players will remain flagged for a period of time after leaving that battleground. Corrupted (red) players will remain red during PvP events.
  • Siège de Château (potentially).
  • Caravanes.
  • Guerres de guilde.
  • Naval PvP in the open sea.
  • Sièges de Nœuds.
  • Guerres de Nœud.

In a sanctioned event- sanctioned meaning that this is something you have the option to opt-out of. That's a castle siege, that's a node siege, that's a caravan, that's a guild war, that's a node war. You can drop your citizenship. You can drop your guild tag. You can drop participating in one of those things. In any of those types of opt-in and opt-out events, the death penalties do not exist. These are sanctioned. They're intended to allow people to engage in PvP. Now if I die to an NPC while I'm out hunting, or if I die to another player through the flagging system, those are where death penalties come into play; and that's where debt experience can be earned; and that's where corruption can be had. So it's important to separate those two realms. – Steven Sharif

• Death penalties (mostly) do not apply to objective-based/sanctioned PvP events.
  • Gear degradation applies on death during Caravane JcJ.

• Outside of these events, normal PvP flagging and corruption rules apply.

During PvP events such as caravans, guild wars, and sieges, the death penalties are disabled between participating characters on opposing sides. Attacking and killing players on the opposing side doesn't trigger the purple and red flags, nor does dying drop any resources or loot. However, you can't hide in this state as a Red corrupted player either. If you are Red, you'll still be Red in the siege or caravan and open to anyone to kill you and drop your loot, regardless of the side you are on. Being Red trumps everything.

• There will be limited functionality for spectating battlefields and potentially castle sieges from ghost cameras at fixed positions.

We will have limited functionality where players can spectate from either ghost camera from fixed positions at certain battlefields; some of which might include castles. – Steven Sharif

• The caravan system and other systems in Ashes of Creation that rely on intrigue do not lend themselves toward livestreaming the game.

We will have certain systems that won't lend well to streaming, because certain systems have a requirement of secrecy and/or at least some level of strategic ambiguity. So players need to be conscientious of that fact when they're intending to both stream and play Ashes of Creation. Those are things that we cannot solve because intrigue is an intrinsic part of the game. – Steven Sharif

• Open-world skirmishes may lead into sieges or other battles.

Our castle system, our sieges against nodes, the caravan system, battlegrounds that exist, guild wars: We want there to be a meaning to this conflict. We want players to actually have some skin in the game when it comes to participating in PvP. – Steven Sharif

Background

While Ashes of Creation took inspiration from Lineage II (and other games) it has also addressed several flaws in the implementation of those games. The approach of the flagging system in Ashes of Creation is to further disincentivize griefing while still allowing the system to keep risk relevant in the open-world setting.

First and foremost, PvP in Ashes exists in both opt-in systems and events, as well as our open world flagging system. And while it is true that I enjoyed and took much inspiration from games like Lineage 2, we have innovated and adapted our approach to Ashes’ flagging system in order to further disincentivize griefing while still allowing the system to keep risk relevant in the open world setting. The overwhelming majority of player’s experiences with PvP in Ashes will be through consensual systems like caravans, sieges, wars, the open sea and other events. Players will make a choice to participate in those systems or not. And if they choose to participate there will be significant rewards for success. – Steven Sharif

• JcJ in Ashes of Creation exists in both opt-in systems and events as well as open-world PvP with a flagging (and corruption) system.

In the open world, when competing for the scarcity of resources, raids, dungeons and or hunting grounds, an important element of risk vs reward is introduced through our flagging system. Players must be aware of their surroundings and the reputation of other players who may be in proximity. The flagging system is intended to always provide an element of risk in all settings, but also architected to ensure that griefing and PK’ing is almost never worth it. The subtleties of this system are complex, which is of course why it will require considerable testing and feedback. – Steven Sharif

• Corruption gain takes into account level disparity between the attacker and the player that was killed. The greater the disparity the higher the corruption accrued. Corruption penalties occur as the corruption is gained.

These are all things that I've changed in the system that help to safeguard some of those loopholes. Now of course, as we said, we can't and we don't want to 100% remove the ability for that risk to be alive- for that risk to be realized. But what we do want to do is make sure that those occasions are few and infrequent, and are not the majority of a player experience, let's say in the open world; and we do so by incorporating all of those risks and costs into a decision to gain corruption and then PK another player in the open world. It's just not going to be done often and that is my expectation and opinion. It's also the goal of the system is that griefing is not a viable option or play style. And as a result of that desire for the system, we will fine tune it in such a way through testing that that outcome is achieved. And that is the intent and purpose of the design. – Steven Sharif

• Corruption score has a scaling impact on skill and stat dampening that will ultimately make them ineffective at PvP combat.

• Working corruption off through XP grinding takes significantly longer than Lineage II.

• There is also a bounty system that reveals corrupt player locations on the map.

• Abilities with CC effects do not apply to non-combatants. This prevents players from opening attacks that stun unflagged players.

• Players who heal, buff, or otherwise support corrupted players will flag as combatants.

• Non-combatants can attack corrupted players without flagging themselves as combatants.

• There is a 60 second timer to logout while corrupt. Force-disconnecting the client during the cooldown will leave the character in-game.

PvP quests

There will be PvP quests in Ashes of Creation.

There are quests that interact with PvP. PvP is not a secondary component of the game. PvP is an equitable component of the game. Remember we are a PvX game, which means that we emphasize both PvE quest lines and story modes and content as well as PvP. It is an intended design theory for Ashes of Creation that the world is not filled with just your friends. The world is also filled with adversaries; and because of that we will provide opportunities to encourage social friction; and that may be in the form of these PvP oriented questlines. – Steven Sharif

Open world

Alpha-1 open world dungeon entrance.

80% of the content that will exist in Ashes of Creation is open-world and there's a specific reason for that. So because of the way that friendships and or enemies are forged in the game and people have the opportunity to create their own friends or foes. We want that to play out from a contesting standpoint as well. So a lot of these hunting grounds or raid bosses that people are going to have opportunities to kill, they're going to be essentially contested potentially by your your enemies that you've created in the game or you can work together to create alliances in order to defend those contested zones. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation will be a seamless open-world experience.

• No loading time or loading screens between regions.

There will be an approximately 80/20 split between open world vs instanced encounters.

• Around 80% of the content is open-world, where healthy competition is an instigator for player friction; for potential cooperation; for the ability to yield alliances; and the political theater that comes with it. This is an intended part of the PvX design of Ashes of Creation.

In situations where we want to contain a particular type of raid, we will utilize instancing; and that can protect certain engagements with certain bosses. But that's really more on the 20% of the scenarios will have instancing protection like that. Around 80% of the content is open-world, where competition is- healthy competition is an instigator for soft player friction; for potential cooperation; for the ability to yield alliances; and the political theater that comes with it. So that's an intended part of the PvX design of Ashes. It's a core philosophical point. And just to be clear, that is not for everyone. We are not trying to make a product that appeals to every MMO gamer. That's impossible; and so we've been very upfront and forthright with what we are trying to accomplish and what our core pillars of philosophical design are. – Steven Sharif

• Castle and node sieges may contain instanced locations where specific groups can participate in certain objective-based waypoints.
• Donjons and raids will maintain an open world feel while also capitalizing on the benefits of instanced mechanics. Instancing is only going to happen in certain dungeons where the desire is to have greater narrative appeal. Outside of these and arenas there will not be too much instancing anywhere else.

There will be some open dungeons that have bosses at the end of the dungeons. There will be some open dungeons that just have a multitude of dungeon bosses, not necessarily world raids or something; and there will be lots of different rooms and they'll be progressive in the sense that in the earlier parts of the dungeon they'll be lower level and then at the later parts of the dungeons deeper down they'll be higher level and more difficult; and that creates again I think an ecosystem of where players across a multitude of levels have an opportunity to coexist within certain areas of the world; and that's good from a social dynamic. It's good from a recruitment dynamic. It's good from just a liveliness and relevance of particular areas. So that you don't end up with these locations that once you pass a certain level like it's empty. – Steven Sharif

• There was no instancing in Alpha-1.

We're probably going to do instancing only in certain dungeons and in arenas. You probably won't see instancing too much anywhere else. What you see is gonna be what you get. – Jeffrey Bard

The PvP flagging and corruption system is in place to safeguard against griefing without limiting opportunities for open conflict.

• Healthy competition is seen as an instigator for player friction; for potential cooperation; for the ability to yield alliances; and the political theater that comes with it. This is an intended part of the PvX design of Ashes of Creation.
• This friction presents an opportunity to engage in the political aspects of the game, which is the lifeblood of what keeps players interested and invested in the game.

Q: When you reach the bosses in [open world] dungeons can you be jumped?

A: For the most part if there are bosses at the end of dungeons, it is possible for you to get jumped. – Steven Sharif

Q: In an open world dungeon, what prevents others from just waiting until you're at the boss and then killing you and taking your boss's loot? What prevents mega guilds from just owning an area and preventing you from accessing or enjoying it?

A: In a majority of cases, we do not want to prevent another group from engaging potentially in PvP. We disincentivize it by creating safeguards within the flagging system that make that decision very concerning for the people that might go corrupt; and if you're in the large enough group of numbers I doubt you're going to experience that unless there's some rivalry between guilds. In which case there's apparatuses like Guild Wars that are more opt-in. You can drop guild tag if you want. But anyways, the competitive nature of this environment is a PvX element. – Steven Sharif

Terrain de chasse

You are on the prowl, and notice an unsuspecting player chopping trees. What would you do?

Terrain de chasse are open-world JcJ corruption-enabled areas that encompass most of the map.

• Hunting grounds refer to killing monsters or PNJs in the open-world.
• This also refers to contesting resources.

One of the interesting components of Ashes of Creation and our flagging system is that it presents the potential for two conflicting parties to have open conflict in the open world over pretty much anything that they may want or disagree with; and if that pertains to a hunting ground, not just the caravan or the castles or the nodes or whatever, it can exist in that area. – Steven Sharif

Outside of PvP for certain things like caravans, sieges of nodes and/or castles is that you're going to have those open-world hunting ground fights that may occur. You're going to have resources fights that may occur. You're going to have political fights that may occur between members of guilds; and we're taking the guild politics to a whole new direction in regards to playing those conflicts out. – Steven Sharif

Our PvP mechanics follow a flagging system, as well as static PvP zones at certain points of interest; fight for control over cities, castles, caravans, or hunting grounds. Our PvP is designed to offer the players a well-balanced and fair world to shape through the pen, or sword should they choose.

Voir également

• JcJ
• JcE
• Marquage de joueur
• Encounters