Talk:2024-01-31 Livestream

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Intro

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Hello, everyone. Welcome. We hope that you've all had an amazing month. I know it's been

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a pretty eventful month for me, but welcome to our glorious Ashes of Creation January

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development update. With me, as always, is the one and only Stephen Sharif, our creative

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director. Hello. It has been so long. I know. It feels like forever, but it's not. It's

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only been a month. I know. I'm having a deja vu between the last January live stream where

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we talk about how this is our longest spread between live streams. Actually, it hasn't

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been longer than a month. It's been almost...

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It's been 45 days.

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This is a long month, and I know the audio is quiet, so I will try to solve that for

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you all. I think I'm getting spammed in regards to that.

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Oh, okay. That's all good. That's all good. An extra two weeks can do that.

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It's okay. You all don't want to hear from me anyway. You just want to hear from Stephen.

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Uh-oh. That is not true.

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But, yeah, I don't know. It's very exciting. As always, below, you can see what we have

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coming up. So, we have reminders, caravan, PVP, and for those of you who follow us pretty

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closely, you've probably seen that we have... Hopefully, this is fixing the audio. Do let

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me know if I'm still quiet, but I think I've solved it.

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Definitely solved it for me.

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You solved it for me? Is it really loud? Sorry.

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No, no, no. It's totally fine. I can handle it.

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Okay. We've got the caravan, PVP, studio update, a little art, small, small art update,

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and then questions and answers.

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It has been an exciting last month or so as well. For those of you who are unaware,

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Margaret got married. I got married.

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Oh, my goodness. I'm married now.

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And then also, I think you announced just this last week that you're having another

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member...

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You're having another member of the family join soon?

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Yeah. I'm preggo ego.

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Oh, my goodness. How exciting.

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It has been very eventful. And the wedding was probably the crazy... I mean, Stephen

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was able to attend, but it was kind of the craziest thing.

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It was beautiful. It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen, actually. I loved it.

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It was so great. I mean, I know that it was a... It must have been just complete mayhem

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for you and so stressful for you, but watching the beauty of your close friends and your close

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family and friends and being able, privileged to be there for that and coming together like it did

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was something that was honestly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It was very beautiful.

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It was like a Hallmark movie. It was pretty crazy.

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Because for those of you who don't know, there's a huge storm that happened in Tennessee. So my

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fellow Tennessee folks out there, we had the biggest storm we've had in 15 years.

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In the area that I'm from, we don't normally get snow. So it's very weird.

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Um,

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so they're not prepared for snow and it was pretty, pretty bad. Um, so I don't want to scare

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the audience, but intrepid. There was a lot of key stakeholder individuals in our car when we

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were traveling down that hill to make it to the wedding. And then when we came back, that, that,

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that 45 degree mountain that we had to drive up in our four-wheel drive Jeep with like eight people

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in the car, it was...

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Black ice. There were cars like sliding down left and right. And we're like trying to navigate past

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them. It was scary, but we made it, we made it and it was all good.

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Yeah. So that is why we had to cancel our wedding venue and our, all of our vendors

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canceled, like pretty much all of our vendors canceled. It was, um, pretty, pretty chaotic

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for anybody who's planned a wedding or hasn't planned a wedding. Weddings are already stressful

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as is.

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Um, but yeah, it happened. We're okay.

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It did. It was a lot of fun. A lot of fun. And we have, we have got a great show in store for you

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guys. I know you've been waiting for some PVP. Um, and, and we're going to get into that in just

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a moment here.

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Yeah. But before we do that, as always, we have a little bit of a couple things, a few reminders

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and things of that sort to, uh, walk through. Um, the first and foremost one is our...

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Spotlight. Uh, don't forget that if you are subscribed to our YouTube channel and follow

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us in all of the places, um, if you subscribe to us on YouTube and leave a comment on our

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dev update one specifically, you could be spotlighted or your comment could be. And

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so for today's spotlight, we have the Lawrence 1970 who has said, how will weapon skills

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play into a class plus subclass? I think he means IE here. If I will play a cleric slash

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rogue, IE shadow disciple, who uses a dev update? I think he means IE here. If I will play a

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dagger, will I be able to augment the dagger or the active dagger skills too? If yes, how

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exactly will they be augmented? Since in my example with a shadow disciple, the augmented,

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the augmentation solely happens via the rogue class, but dagger plus rogue, it's not cleric-y.

Reminders

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Will they be augmentable by the main character, main archetype or even both?

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Okay. This is, I think they're a little confused. Yeah. Well, okay. Let me, let me clarify. This

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is a very, uh,

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big and complex question. So let me just go through real quick, um, as a reminder. And

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obviously before I get into that, I just want to say, um, Lex at the, uh, ashes wiki has done a

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great job in compiling so much of the information that we have over the years, uh, provided with

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regards to the design of the game. Um, and always make sure you're utilizing that resource when you

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have questions of these types, but you can also engage with the community because there are a lot

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of, uh, longstanding members of the community who are very familiar with the game designs as well.

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Those things are,

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are all subject to change because we're still in active development. But what I will tell you is

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that the intent behind the augment system is not to provide new active abilities. They're intended

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to augment existing active abilities that are provided through your primary archetype. And so

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your secondary archetype selection completes your class selection of which there are 64 types,

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and you get augment skills that can apply certain attributes and mechanics to your

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existing, excuse me, existing active skills. So if you have certain abilities, like a backstab as a rogue

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primary archetype, and you take that healer, uh, secondary archetype selection, now the properties

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of your backstab will still remain the same as an active ability. However, it might include things

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like lifesteal, right? Or it might include things like a susceptible weakness to the target and

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reduces their healing because the, the definition of what those augments are intended to provide,

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based on the archetype selected for the augments is within the schools of magic that live for that

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archetype. So a cleric is about, you know, balancing life and death and the control of

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those types of hit points. Now you mentioned also in there that weapon skills, and I'm not sure if

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you're referring to primary abilities, active abilities that live in the archetypes, uh, um,

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adventuring skill tree, or if you're talking about weapon skill trees, weapon skill trees

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are a little bit different. Weapon skill trees are skill trees that you can unlock,

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and invest points into as you continue to develop your experience with certain weapon types,

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certain weapon groups, like a dagger. And when you're doing your basic combo attack with those

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weapons, uh, which is universal for all classes, anybody can use any type of weapon because stats

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can be changed on these weapon types, um, through crafting and through drops. Uh, there will be

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certain proc effects that live on the weapon skill tree as you advance in them. And those proc effects

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will be able to interact with your, uh, archetypes.

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skills because they will have promotion type effects that occur when they synergize with one

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another. So hopefully that answers your question and gives you some, some insight there, but always

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I would recommend taking a look at the wiki. Uh, there's a lot of great information there.

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Yes. So thank you again to the Lawrence 1970 for leaving us a wonderful comment. And of course,

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again, like I said, um, if you leave a comment on our dev update, you too could be spotlighted

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in our next one and it has to be the full dev update one. Um, then next up,

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dev discussion. We have a new dev discussion out. I believe we always tell you kind of what's coming

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up. Uh, but this one is about utility skills. What utility skills do you feel are most important?

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Are there certain scenarios that should require specific ones? We want to know your thoughts. So

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please head on over to the forums, toss your feedback and thoughts over there. We always

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utilize these. We make some amazing reports for our development team regarding these.

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Um, and our next one is going to be regarding e-sports. Uh, there's been a lot of discussion

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about e-sports and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and,

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and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and,

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um, and you know, where does MMO, you know, where do MMOs fit into that space? Does Ashes

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of Creation fit in that space? Maybe not. Uh, so we'd love to hear your guys' thoughts about that.

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And, uh, our next thing here is, um, remember we announced our delicious dev discussion. Well,

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now we have, uh, some of our winners and we wanted to spotlight them. So

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video of those. So thank you so much for everybody who sent us submissions. Um,

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you guys voted on which recipes you wanted and um it was really cool hey look at nark

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i watched nark's uh video that he did as a as his uh profession as a baker and i thought he did a

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great job look at shaka khan those look great wow ones really turned out pretty cool too i think

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oh my gosh and also a meal which was cool wow look at these these are unbelievable and such

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great uh great picture taking here oh nicholas wow these look good i'm starving yeah

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i know we're like it's lunchtime i'm starving

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oh look at the doggo yeah i love the setup of some of these they're so pretty

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wow we have got some amazing photographers for we've we've got some instagram experienced uh

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yeah zara's got like the little skull in there it's so good

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but yeah

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yeah thank you all so much we we loved seeing these the team did we were you know we were

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originally not sure how many people would participate um with with that but it was

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really cool seeing it and we appreciate it that was great team was just so excited um we're

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definitely going to have more cool recipes i know there's been talks of maybe a recipe book

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later down the line at post-launch so you know maybe some things that you'll see um for those

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of you who enjoy that enjoy that kind of stuff as somebody who enjoys cooking i love cooking and

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baking um it was very

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very cool seeing that so thank you um and then the last thing that we want to remind you guys

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about and this is more of less of a reminder and it's more because we've gotten a lot of questions

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uh the pr inbox was full of questions cs has been getting questions i know our community team uh

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roshan and vaknar have been getting questions regarding it but as you guys know the shop update

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our pre-order packs have ended we are no longer selling pre-order packs we did give a plethora

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of months notice um whenever we put them up but we let you know when they were going to end

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so it's been a long many many months that we have let people know in advance but we tried to give

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as many reminders as we could email reminders social reminders we tried to do our best but

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we do want to let you know that we will continue to engage with the community and content creators

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to find other ways for folks to get giveaways and things of that sort so stay tuned for that stuff

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especially as we get closer to alpha 2. and then beyond that after our internal or maybe you know

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some of our external testing as well after we get some you know you know testing that we're satisfied

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with and we feel like we are able to you know service additional testers we will definitely

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find more methods for you guys to access the game um it won't be through pre-order packs it will be

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through other ways to purchase um but yeah we'll definitely find ways for you guys too but we also

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want to make sure that we can service you well so if we yes can't do that we don't we don't want to

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open up yeah and i know i i know it's weird i i have uh i have gotten some commentary from my

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colleagues within the industry our money yeah i know well also from yes from some

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industry colleagues i've gotten questions about wait a minute you closed your pre-order shop

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like uh yes we want to ensure that the testing is is going to go as we anticipate it to

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and quality is important to us obviously during that um and that's why we found it appropriate

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and gave ample notice as margaret said um to close that pre-order shop but as the testing

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continues we will give you guys updates so so be on the lookout for that we will update you

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as testing continues and is successful um which you're about to see some interesting

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here in just a little bit um yes which you know that's a great segue stephen why don't you kind

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of take it away i know maybe you want to do a little preposition before yes i i love to preface

Caravan PVP Update

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before the preface i'll preface multiple prefaces within the video but uh i preface here in the

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stream because it's important that you guys uh understand obviously that this is still a work

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in progress and i want to talk to you a little bit about what work in progress means um now obviously

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we as gamers you know have not perhaps experienced uh historically a lot of projects especially of

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this size going through such a unique process of transparent development it has been something that

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i'm very glad to see that has been that has picked up a bit over the course of the last several years

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with more independent studios which i think is great personally i think it's great for the

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industry i think it's great for the genre and the genres that it applies to i think it's great for

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consumers the players to have a a voice in that process um you know that's something that we have

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tried to champion over the course of our development um and i think our team has done

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a great job it is not without its difficulties obviously having to juggle the tasks of showing

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what you're working on in a digestible format through these types of live streams and updates

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while also actively working on the thing that you're

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trying to ship is a difficult balance right and it can be taxing a bit on the development team

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and not only that but it also can be a great source of reward and and um you know we here at

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intrepid it is the highlight of our development team to watch the community's reactions to get

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motivated by your guys's excitement uh to have validation in the direction of our design theory

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and implementation

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of these different systems and also i will say like you know for our phoenix initiative

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members who um are very dedicated individuals to help us test um you know there was a 10 hour long

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straight test session that we had on monday which was which was rigorous uh to say the least

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um and you know as we continue to move towards alpha 2 you know phases of development move from

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the area of kind of pre-production into production into like polish and getting ready

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for external testers like those different phases exist and as we started this year

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you know a lot of the outstanding core feature work that we've been doing has started to

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transition into let's harden the game systems let's solidify the interactions let's address

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the bugs let's address the visuals let's start doing some second passes on visual effects and

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ui you know to get it ready to be tested by an external audience of our customers our players

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the people with you know whom we're building this game for um and so when you watch this video i

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want you to take with a grain of salt obviously there are three primary areas that still require

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significant improvement and it's not difficult improvement it's just work it's work that we

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need to do we tend to do the more difficult work up front and that's the feature development that's

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the you know prototyping and testing of difficult engineering solutions that need to be required

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the three things i would tell you about that are a work in progress in the video you're going to see

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are related to the ui the visual effects and the character models and the lighting so those are

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additional passes that need to be done so when you're watching know that we're aware of that

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and we are going to address those things right visual soup language that lives in combat

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you know the targeting that's required

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on player nameplates um uh you know the character models and the material usage with the lighting is

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going through a significant revamp be aware that we are aware of those things we'll be working on

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those things but what we're going to show you today i think is is pretty exciting it's a very

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fun system uh it revolves around the caravan caravan pvp that's intended in the world

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obviously emphasizing our risk versus reward philosophies

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when it comes to the ways that players meaningfully interact with one another through pvp

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but also our raft system and some water elements that you're going to see included

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so take all of that and as people who might be less engaged with our development view this

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because that's the double-edged sword of transparency uh be out there and give uh give

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this message to them so that they're aware we're aware of the things that they're commenting on

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and i think that's a very positive launched game yes that is right absolutely um

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we're very grateful for the people telling the pi folks to give them deeds um we we did allow them

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to tell people that they have partaken in this and obviously we have announced that they did and

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we're very thankful for their assistance but at this time they're not going to share any further

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details about their testing experience there will be a time where we uh you know unlift some

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nda elements thing of things but not right now absolutely so we're ready to play enjoy enjoy

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

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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

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

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

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

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and performance as well with that being said we're going to take a look today at some pbp

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and

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we're going to talk about pvp specifically in the context of caravans and i am joined

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by some of our glorious developers all of whom you have heard from in the past we have one of

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our glorious senior designers mr chris chris how you doing buddy oh i'm just wonderful thanks for

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having me happy to have you but i know you've been putting a lot of work into this

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

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by two other glorious designers on the combat side uh bucky trat 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 in um getting ready for alpha 2 obviously alpha 2 as we announced

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is going to be starting in the third quarter of this year.

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There's still a lot of work to be done,

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and part of that work is finding all the bugs and all the crashes

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and hardening the systems 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

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as it relates to caravans,

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and one of the most important aspects of caravans

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is that there is no reward without significant risk in Ashes of Creation.

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And the caravan system is of particular risk

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because it is how materials and commodities are transited within the world of Vera.

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And it's difficult to navigate the world of Vera.

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It's a large world, and the terrain is not always kind,

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especially to large vehicles like a caravan.

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And today we're going to talk about, as you transit this world,

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if the node structures are not advancing with you

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and the world state isn't changing

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and you're not seeing...

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different bridges being constructed,

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sometimes you might have to ford rivers.

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And rivers can be quite the obstruction for you

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and present some danger.

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Wow, look at these...

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Look at this...

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Look at this crew.

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You'll notice that this crew,

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they all have swords above their head,

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and they're blue to me,

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but that's because we've discovered

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that a caravan is taking the perilous journey nearby,

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and trying to reach a location

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where they'll be rewarded for all their hard work.

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But little do they know,

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we are here waiting for them.

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And the bandits are going to attempt to take this caravan.

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Chris, talk to me a little bit about

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the risk of caravan travel

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and what people are about to see here.

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Yeah, I mean, well,

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you risk everything you're traveling with

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when you run a caravan, right?

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It's definitely way more efficient

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than running a bunch of goods in your...

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inventory to and from nodes,

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but it's definitely a lot more dangerous.

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Absolutely.

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Rangers, if you guys want to come over here with me,

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I've just gotten word that there might be

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a caravan down here approaching.

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But they appear to have some defenders.

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I can see them.

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I think they might even see us here in the distance.

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What do you guys say we engage them?

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Do we want to just kind of ambush them here?

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I don't think they can see us.

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We fight.

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You guys should be stealthy about it.

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Okay, I got a target.

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McStackerson.

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Rangers, we should open up on them

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right when they kind of arrive here.

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Let them come up a little bit closer

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and prepare your snipe.

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I have no idea.

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Actually, let's switch targets over to Nestaris.

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Let's open in three, two, one.

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Oh, no.

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Okay, engage them.

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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.

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I think we may only there's a few left.

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I see Chibi Bree.

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Focusing the caravan.

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That's right.

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We need to kill the thing.

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All right.

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Take down the caravan.

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We need to take down the caravan.

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We need to take down the caravan.

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We need to take down the caravan.

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All right.

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Take down the caravan.

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it's understandably easy for them because we have and it was.

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We need to do everything perfectly.

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We need to do everything perfectly.

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It seems like all we have to do carried

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those in the vehicle out there is your stop signal.

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You need to come up with a plan immediately.

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Okay.

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That's better.

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I won't have to do it.

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I'm emotionally afraid with him.

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We still got him.

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He got us almost being

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DismСТ?

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We had enough now.

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Power with it.

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All right.

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See you.

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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 bucky talk to me a little about a little bit about what we just saw obviously this caravan

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

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

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

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

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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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okay

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okay

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where you at um right here right here right next to you one of these guys got it okay i can

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interact with it i see that there's stolen commodities yeah so you can go ahead and loot

• 26:31

those um now you don't actually get the commodity that it was you get these special certificates

• 26:37

that um we will offload at uh the node we're gonna head to after this uh for some monies

• 26:44

nice i like monies and then there's a second kind of crate here if you can get it you can get it

• 26:48

uh come uh turn around and walk back here this with this black icon um now this is a material

• 26:54

crate which means they were transiting their materials as well oh my god i have a bunch of

• 27:00

rubies oh spicy i know let me take a look at these rubies oh nice okay i have 30 of their rubies

• 27:10

nice but now obviously this is too much for us to carry right that's one of the aspects of the

• 27:16

of the caravan system

• 27:18

is that it provides you large carrying capacity what do we do when there's too much for us to

• 27:22

carry on our backs so there's an item in your inventory um that you can use to summon an empty

• 27:29

caravan that you have stashed at a node um if i recall correctly you stashed one at winstead

• 27:34

nearby i do have one at winstead let me summon that so out in the wild right now i am able to

• 27:40

summon this caravan and that's going to come from winstead yep um now the way summoning works is

• 27:50

the length of that summon is determined by where you're right if you were to summon from winstead

• 27:56

which is pretty close to us the wait's not going to be super long but if you're summoning from you

• 28:01

know very very far away it's going to be a rough wait okay all right so now i've begun summoning

• 28:09

my empty caravan

• 28:10

to come pick up these supplies that we've just acquired and obviously if you were in the previous

• 28:17

raid you can go ahead and leave that raid um because right now the there's some still

• 28:23

outstanding functionality required on the ui front but it will be intended for that to be

• 28:27

seamless in the future um but now you guys are joining my raid to defend this and once this

• 28:31

caravan arrives it's going to allow us essentially to grab these outstanding supplies is that right

• 28:36

correct yeah and another um additional reason why you may want to summon a

• 28:40

caravan instead of having all your people here pick up this stuff is you're gonna get more for

• 28:46

bringing the crate unopened to a node right so that like material crate you got you said 30 rubies

• 28:53

from it yes you're gonna get way more if we take that to the node without opening it in the field

• 29:00

okay that's cool that's awesome and now you know we just happened upon obviously this caravan here

• 29:10

tell me a little bit about the intended interaction of hunting caravans right what does that what does

• 29:14

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

• 29:18

is it intended to be diet athletic or is it you know aided with minimap like talk to me a little

• 29:22

bit about that uh bucky and chris yeah so uh hunting Alexander combi a lot more diet

• 29:29

right you plant spies and other guilds you you know build your information network in the world

• 29:35

of viera um kind of uh through through whatever means you can

• 29:40

Um, now there is progression paths involved with attacking and defending a caravan, um, that can aid you in doing so, um, either with better equipment for it, um, faster ways to open crates more, yield from crates, and if you're a defender, right, better components for your caravans, stuff like that.

• 30:00

Okay, very cool.

• 30:01

Ah, a caravan has arrived, and I, I should be able to move up to these crates and collect the cargo, I see.

• 30:23

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

• 30:26

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

• 30:31

Okay.

• 30:31

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

• 30:39

Okay.

• 30:41

I have a very large chassis.

• 30:48

And I've collected, I've collected a number of them, let me see if I can collect some more.

• 30:53

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

• 30:59

Alright, I think we have grabbed pretty much everything.

• 31:01

Now, talk to me a little bit about the differences between looting here, kind of, at the spot, and collecting the cargo with the caravan.

• 31:10

I can take this one, yeah, so, like, looting at the spot, obviously, uh, you can do right away, and the problem with that, though, is you, you forfeit a lot of the materials, a lot more get lost, and, as you crack open those crates, but if you're able to have your own caravan, uh, and bring it there, you can loot, and you'll get more of the, uh, more of the overall materials that way.

• 31:28

But there will be progression for, you know, like you were saying about the height of the caravan.

• 31:31

The Highwayman faction versus the Defender faction, and maybe there'll be some progression where you can, uh, get better loot percentage out in the field.

• 31:41

Very cool.

• 31:44

Now, we talked a little bit ago about, um, stolen goods, stolen supplies.

• 31:51

What are the intent of that system?

• 31:53

How does, how do stolen goods and supplies work differently than commodities?

• 31:57

So, when you crack open a crate of commodities, you get, um, you don't get that much loot.

• 32:01

You get the commodities themselves, since they're, like, crated cargo items.

• 32:04

You actually get stolen goods, and you can use those stolen, uh, commodity certificates to go and turn them into the black market to, uh, get some money back.

• 32:15

Okay, nice.

• 32:16

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

• 32:19

Yeah, that's a specialization of the market.

• 32:21

Normally, you can sell them back to anything, but it's not gonna be very much.

• 32:24

Like, the normal vendors of Vera don't want those stolen goods, but if you know the right people, you can get, you can get your money's worth out of it.

• 32:30

Very nice.

• 32:31

Very nice.

• 32:33

Now, obviously, we, we just had a large-scale, a relatively large-scale combat between two of these raids.

• 32:40

Um, Trad, talk to me a little bit about, kind of, you know, how our approach towards Alpha 2 is going to incorporate additional development of this group-based combat and PvP, and, and kind of where we are with it now.

• 32:53

Yeah, absolutely.

• 32:54

Um, so, as you've seen in a lot of our previous, uh, Archetype livestreams, there's been a lot of, you know, representation.

• 33:01

Of single-player combat, like, you know, we usually go in there with one, two, like, maximum of three people, just because we want to really highlight, like, the abilities.

• 33:10

But here, you're obviously seeing that much larger-scale scenario, and that's where we're, um, going to continue moving forward, thinking about, like, the group utility.

• 33:18

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

• 33:24

It's like, when your party invites me, invites me, or your raid invites me, like, what do I provide to the group?

• 33:29

Um, and that's where we've, sort of, shifted.

• 33:31

Our focus on, for this, uh, next iteration of Abilities and Guns.

• 33:38

Okay.

• 33:40

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

• 33:42

That's concerning.

• 33:44

Oh, let's hitch a left here.

• 33:46

Okay.

• 33:47

And...

• 33:49

So, what we're going to do down here is, we need an, an alternate path to reach Marilith, because the, the path by road is a bit obstructed.

• 33:59

Some of the bridges have not been...

• 34:01

...developed yet.

• 34:03

So, what are we about to do now?

• 34:05

So, there's this nifty thing that I think you alluded to last time we talked about caravans, but we are going to traverse the river instead of the land.

• 34:17

Alright.

• 34:19

So, what you're going to do is roll up here, and go ahead and walk your caravan as far into the water as it'll let you.

• 34:25

Alright.

• 34:27

I see both of them.

• 34:29

I see both of them.

• 34:30

I see both of them.

• 34:30

I see both of them.

• 34:30

I see both of them.

• 34:31

You have a beautiful carfan.

• 34:33

Alright, now you should have an ability on your caravan hop bar to transition to raft.

• 34:41

Invert to raft.

• 34:43

Ooh, okay.

• 34:46

And I just deploy this?

• 34:49

Yep, just deploy it.

• 34:53

Oh, that is awesome.

• 34:55

Oh, that is awesome.

• 34:57

So, this process takes care of it.

• 34:59

So, this process takes care of it.

• 35:00

So, this process takes care of it.

• 35:00

process takes a few minutes you're gonna have to basically wait and defend your

• 35:07

caravan while you're transitioning draft but riding on the water has its benefits

• 35:12

I love this now you can still target the dock right and part of this transition

• 35:20

process is again the risk that you're introducing for the reward of having

• 35:26

greater flexibility in movement through the land and that risk is basically

• 35:31

you're sitting duck here for lack of a better term yeah basically um like said

• 35:37

you can't you can't escape and to you can undo this process but the amount of

• 35:43

time you've already sunk into it must be paid to undo it I see and now as as this

• 35:49

raft is getting constructed I noticed that it's it's essentially de-structing

• 35:55

the

• 35:56

um the caravan and using that to construct the raft yep correct and if you actually once it's

• 36:05

done constructing you'll notice the the body of your caravan is sitting on the raft oh I love it

• 36:11

oh okay that's cool that's some Lewis and Clark I mean stuff oh no um now

• 36:21

as we're kind of a sitting duck we should probably put some uh maybe some Scouts up near the top of

• 36:26

the walls we don't get jumped I don't know I mean it may not be a Scout but I can go take a look

• 36:31

I'm I mean I'm I I can't imagine that they just left oh boy we got people up here

• 36:40

they're back they want their stuff back oh no I'm gonna go I'm gonna go chill with the uh the raft

• 36:45

as it kind of comes down while you guys fight them for a second I think it's almost done there we go

• 36:53

ah I've gotten the raft

• 36:56

oh god rangers to the ship quickly join me we must depart this area

• 37:05

all right we'll catch back up

• 37:09

everyone on board

• 37:13

chris bucky do what you can to hold them uh it's just it's just some rabble you know

• 37:21

these guys don't have anything on us easy

• 37:23

bop them up i i expect you to make quick work of them um chris are you with me or are you over

• 37:33

there i don't know where i'm going oh i'm running down i'll run to you i'm abandoning the fight

• 37:39

okay yeah we've we've taken him out we're we're coming back now okay very nice we'll run along

• 37:46

the shore i like the uh i love the raft it's looking good i know adam worked pretty

• 37:53

hard for me

• 37:53

on the new water shader it looks beautiful it's a nice day out

• 37:58

it definitely turned out real nice and shout out to how for the raft

• 38:04

yes oh the raft looks so good i assume we're going left yes uh so we're gonna keep going

• 38:09

straight here all right

• 38:15

now this can be very helpful having the option but it can also be kind of dangerous because

• 38:23

you don't know who might be laying and wait ahead of you along the shorelines

• 38:27

but it also lets you as we said traverse the world in a little different way and there's

• 38:33

also a current here correct yeah so there's a current system that increases your speed if you

• 38:40

go with the current and decreases it if you go against it you're gonna hitch a right here steven

• 38:45

and those currents are kind of different based on the location of the raft so you're gonna have to

• 38:53

look at the location in the river correct yeah they are they're different based on the location

• 38:57

in the river and like the strength of the river right so like you know where we kind of started

• 39:03

there was more of a lake body so the current's not super intense but you know we could have a place

• 39:10

that's you know near rapids right got it where are we going here this is looking concerning oh

• 39:21

steven

• 39:22

steven

• 39:23

did i ever tell you have the sense of direction of a mongoose oh god

• 39:26

oh my god shoot on the on the wrong the other way

• 39:31

take them out steven you're gonna crash into a rock

• 39:38

oh you're gonna hit you right here i'm sorry i wasn't paying attention to my map

• 39:46

no no no not yet not yet not yet oh i'm trying to watch behind us

• 39:52

you're gonna beach us

• 39:53

is there someone on board

• 39:56

oh not anymore that was a defender

• 40:03

oh heavy fire on dread all right i think we made it out we're safe now trad how's it going on the

• 40:12

battle side uh i'm outnumbered i'm running oh no meet us at the landing point if you if you're if

• 40:19

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

• 40:23

don't let them follow you though

• 40:26

win the fight then meet us yes win the fight then meet us or die

• 40:32

how about what we do that the other way around yeah that'd be good

• 40:38

so these are obviously some of the risks of traveling by raft

• 40:45

let me turn down um my sound effects just a little bit there we go

• 40:53

now it's not all bad because we can land and turn us back into a land caravan again

• 41:01

and that's coming up here correct it's coming up pretty shortly now you can't turn into a land

• 41:07

caravan anywhere right you still need kind of like how you saw we showed up at a beach to turn

• 41:13

into a raft uh well we need to do something similar and if you notice around us there aren't

• 41:17

a huge amount of beaches and that's super intentional to create like you know locations

• 41:23

that players can rely on got it are we coming up on one up here yeah

• 41:30

one on the right there we're up here let me see if the current kind of carries us forward

• 41:39

a little bit oh it does i'm not moving our current moves

• 41:43

a very a light influence for this current it's a very light current all right

• 41:53

everybody secure the perimeter i am converting into a land caravan again

• 42:00

it has begun

• 42:04

securing perimeter perimeter secured so after we go back and forth with the um

• 42:11

with the caravan turning back into a land caravan it's keeping all the components that it had before

• 42:15

obviously right chris yeah so um all your components all of the stuff in like that you've

• 42:22

either looted or looted or looted or looted or looted or looted or looted or looted or looted

• 42:23

or launched with sticks with you um all that all that good stuff oh da's not in the raid anymore

• 42:32

re-invite him let's bring da back i'm sure that the the opposing side is going to try one last

• 42:40

time to recover their goods oh they will for sure so we need to be conscientious of that as we kind

• 42:45

of progress through these these this more rocky area a lot of places yeah this is it's also very

• 42:53

uh not a lot of places for us to run

• 42:58

love the view of carfin here

• 43:02

so when we when we get to mirror left though assuming that we successfully navigate past

• 43:08

the evil merchants um what are we going to be doing that we're gonna be turning in this

• 43:16

this cargo yeah so we're you know you're gonna be able to unpack those crates which

• 43:23

You currently don't know what's in them.

• 43:26

You know, we do have a plan for a progression path

• 43:28

for kind of caravans in general,

• 43:30

where you will be able to look into them,

• 43:32

but you haven't done your grind, Steven.

• 43:35

What?

• 43:38

I haven't done my grind yet?

• 43:40

Nope, and you're also going to go

• 43:42

and turn in those black market,

• 43:45

or not the black market certificates,

• 43:47

the stolen commodities at the black market

• 43:49

to make some money.

• 43:51

Got it.

• 43:53

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

• 43:55

and you're seeing the kind of transition,

• 43:56

again, as a reminder,

• 43:58

everything you're seeing is a work in progress,

• 44:00

especially from an art perspective.

• 44:03

UI, visual effects, animation,

• 44:06

those are all still works in progress.

• 44:09

I'm going to jump on this.

• 44:11

Okay, here we go.

• 44:13

I am ready.

• 44:14

We're back.

• 44:15

Let's do this.

• 44:18

I'm speed boosting.

• 44:20

It would be very nice if some tanks

• 44:22

were on the front lines.

• 44:23

I'm going with this sad little mage.

• 44:24

Get out of the way.

• 44:26

Yeah, let's see some rangers ahead, too,

• 44:29

and their camo.

• 44:30

Get some scouting going.

• 44:32

Nice.

• 44:35

We must protect.

• 44:37

I'm in danger.

• 44:39

I'm in danger.

• 44:40

I need an adult.

• 44:42

Go, Trad.

• 44:43

Dispense the heathens.

• 44:48

We should pull back a little, maybe.

• 44:50

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

• 44:52

I got eyes.

• 44:53

All right, stay out of my way.

• 44:56

I'm just going to go straight through this.

• 44:58

Just send it, Steven.

• 44:59

I'm going straight through.

• 45:00

Everybody get out of my way.

• 45:03

Run.

• 45:06

Oh, God.

• 45:08

Some casualties on our own side.

• 45:11

It's worth it, though.

• 45:14

Tanks, pull them down from the rock.

• 45:17

Use your javelins.

• 45:23

Oh, no.

• 45:24

Running, running.

• 45:25

You guys got those?

• 45:26

Yeah, we're kind of just walking right through them, honestly.

• 45:32

Not even really scared at all.

• 45:33

They don't have enough to contest us.

• 45:35

We're too powerful.

• 45:36

Yeah, look at them.

• 45:37

They fear.

• 45:38

They fear the might of our bandit army.

• 45:43

I remember this way.

• 45:47

Last time there were a bunch of zombies and skeletons here.

• 45:50

Yeah.

• 45:51

Yeah.

• 45:52

Yeah.

• 45:53

I think the world team has changed them to rock golem.

• 45:56

Oh.

• 45:57

Or the world state has changed, perhaps?

• 46:00

Or maybe they did change to rock golems.

• 46:03

That's going to be a Jeremy question.

• 46:05

Yeah.

• 46:06

And we've left Vertec.

• 46:09

Good sacrifice.

• 46:11

Did we make it out?

• 46:13

We're still being chased.

• 46:16

Hey, everybody up here, go back and kill those people.

• 46:19

Don't let them near me.

• 46:20

Back.

• 46:21

Back.

• 46:22

Back, fiends.

• 46:23

I'm going to use my last speed boost.

• 46:28

My god, they're using dark magic.

• 46:30

There's a rock elemental.

• 46:32

Oh.

• 46:33

Yeah, don't pull aggro.

• 46:34

Definitely not.

• 46:35

I'm trailing behind you.

• 46:36

I found the skeletons.

• 46:37

Cyclotons.

• 46:38

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

• 46:39

They've overextended.

• 46:40

The foobles.

• 46:41

The foobles.

• 46:42

The foobles.

• 46:43

The foobles.

• 46:44

The foobles.

• 46:45

The foobles.

• 46:46

The foobles.

• 46:47

The foobles.

• 46:48

The foobles.

• 46:49

The foobles.

• 46:50

The foobles.

• 46:51

The foobles.

• 46:52

The foobles.

• 46:53

The foobles.

• 46:54

Heal, heal.

• 46:55

I cannot heal here.

• 46:56

Oh, where are you?

• 46:57

Oh, I see, I see you.

• 46:58

Oh my gosh.

• 46:59

All right, we're almost there.

• 47:00

We're so close.

• 47:01

You know, I'm really envious of you, Steven, being able to like sit and drive something

• 47:20

while we all have to walk.

• 47:22

I know.

• 47:23

My legs hurt.

• 47:24

Honestly, it's not a very comfortable ride.

• 47:25

The suspension on this vehicle and the rocks on the ground.

• 47:30

Well, you know, the roads will upgrade when the node levels up and it'll get a little

• 47:34

nicer.

• 47:35

That's true.

• 47:36

That's a good point.

• 47:37

So, as the nodes advance, as we've said in the past, the roads advance as well, and that

• 47:43

speed buff does get some benefit.

• 47:45

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

• 47:49

So the caravan won't be as bumpy.

• 47:51

We have almost arrived at Miraleth.

• 47:56

I've lost the road buff.

• 47:59

Now we're super slow.

• 48:01

You're officially in Miraleth.

• 48:04

I still see Lex behind us.

• 48:06

Is Lex on the good side or the bad side?

• 48:08

He's on our side.

• 48:09

Oh, okay.

• 48:10

We do have enemies coming up, though.

• 48:11

Okay.

• 48:12

We still haven't killed them.

• 48:13

Guards, get them.

• 48:14

Kill the...

• 48:15

If I had more heals, I'd be up there more.

• 48:18

Somebody help them kill them.

• 48:19

Help these people.

• 48:20

All right.

• 48:21

Go, Trad.

• 48:22

I'll stay with you until the end.

• 48:23

We're going in.

• 48:24

Don't wait up for us, guys.

• 48:25

I don't even think they followed.

• 48:26

Oh.

• 48:27

They're gone.

• 48:28

Well, they're waiting.

• 48:29

I see one.

• 48:30

Good.

• 48:31

Go.

• 48:32

Get him.

• 48:33

He's running in.

• 48:34

We've almost arrived.

• 48:35

Who's that?

• 48:36

A solo hero.

• 48:37

The river town of Miraleth.

• 48:38

Look at that beautiful view.

• 48:43

It's a very nice little node.

• 48:48

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

• 48:59

Yep.

• 49:00

And then I also have cargo.

• 49:02

And I believe I remember you saying you picked up a bunch of...

• 49:07

Rubies?

• 49:08

Candles and a couple of crates.

• 49:11

Now, the crates are a mystery, so I'll walk you through how to find out what goes in them.

• 49:17

We did it.

• 49:18

Yes.

• 49:19

We've done it.

• 49:20

Should I dismount?

• 49:21

Yeah, get off that thing.

• 49:22

All right.

• 49:23

Great work, everybody.

• 49:24

Well done, everyone.

• 49:25

Beautiful.

• 49:26

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

• 49:27

Now, where are we going to go to turn this stuff in?

• 49:28

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

• 49:29

caravan master.

• 49:30

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

• 49:31

Okay.

• 49:32

If you want to go to the caravan master, we're going to go to the caravan master.

• 49:33

Okay.

• 49:34

If you want to go to the caravan master, we're going to go to the caravan master.

• 49:35

Okay.

• 49:36

If you want to go to the caravan master, we're going to go to the caravan master.

• 49:37

If you want to go to the caravan master, we're going to go to the caravan master.

• 49:38

Okay.

• 49:39

If you want to go to the caravan master, we're going to turn this stuff in.

• 49:40

First thing we're going to do, come back this way, we're going to talk to the caravan

• 49:41

master.

• 49:42

Okay.

• 49:43

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

• 49:47

If you open that up and switch to the storage of the caravan you have here, you'll see the

• 49:51

goods are still in there.

• 49:53

Do you see the goods in there, Steve?

• 49:55

Cargo storage, yes, I do.

• 49:57

So you're going to, part of the change is

• 50:00

that when you land a caravan, it doesn't automatically flood the node's cargo with

• 50:07

the stuff that it needed.

• 50:07

that was on your caravan it stays on the caravan as additional cargo storage okay um so what you're

• 50:13

going to do if you notice there's a couple of crates i think they're two by ones in there i

• 50:18

see those so you're gonna medium crates you're gonna right click that okay oh look at that

• 50:25

there's some basalt in these so what you can do is unpack that crate which is going to move the

• 50:30

goods that were in there into your material inventory but um unpacking takes time so

• 50:37

they're going to be locked uh for a period of time okay so i won't see them in my you will see

• 50:43

them in your material inventory but you won't be able to take them out uh so if you want to go

• 50:47

ahead and unpack it you can tab over to the material inventory and check it out just show

• 50:50

up there later because it's not showing up there now uh did you hit the unpack button

• 50:53

oh i did not oh good call thank you so sorry

• 50:59

oh that was good that was good okay all right so they're locked right now

• 51:06

oh

• 51:07

okay so in five minutes i can access them yep now that timer scales with how the node progresses

• 51:11

um that's actually an extremely fast unpacking time um but typically it's going to be on the

• 51:17

scale of days okay very cool um and then what about these everburn scented candles those are

• 51:24

commodities you're gonna be able to sell that to the commodity man oh do i put those where in the

• 51:28

storage uh you can just leave it you can just leave them right there i can show you come on

• 51:32

this way all right sweet sweet sweet

• 51:37

and now obviously the unpacked unpack time fees everything associated with it

• 51:42

those are all options that you can choose to manipulate within a node

• 51:46

so you can make your node kind of the you know hub for trade or for landing caravans and whatnot

• 51:52

depending on the options that the cities choose exactly so if you go ahead and talk to this vendor

• 51:57

here okay uh it should open up your storage as well and if you go to cargo

• 52:05

oops all right go to cargo

• 52:07

and check out your cargo and mirror left done um you should be able to sell those commodities

• 52:13

to this gentleman straight from your caravan inventory if you scroll down to the bottom

• 52:17

of your cargo inventory there it is yes very nice okay cool hold on let me fix that guys remember

• 52:25

ui is a work in progress right now this is very functional not playable um okay so i

• 52:32

see a bunch of these i can sell them right now uh what am i selling them for oh you're selling them

• 52:37

gold you stole another man's uh potential gold

• 52:41

i recovered them they stole it from us to begin with that's right oh sure sure sure

• 52:45

yeah we're the good guys chris do i right click those to sell right click them to sell them um

• 52:51

this is functionality we showed in the last live stream it's just they're not they weren't

• 52:54

yours to begin with now i see when i right click it it it opens up the crate and inside

• 53:00

i see nothing that could be a bug that's a bug that could be a bug guys you're gonna see some bugs

• 53:07

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

• 53:09

Yes.

• 53:10

I want you to, while you're talking to this vendor,

• 53:12

in your inventory, your player inventory,

• 53:16

you should have those stolen goods

• 53:20

that you got from the crate that you opened up.

• 53:21

Oh, yes.

• 53:22

So, if you talk to this gentleman and hover over it,

• 53:26

it'll tell you how much they sell for to the commodity vendor.

• 53:29

But don't sell them.

• 53:32

Yeah, we know a guy, Steven.

• 53:33

Now, I'm talking to this vendor,

• 53:38

and do I just hover over them in my backpack?

• 53:42

Yep.

• 53:43

Sell price, it says, is zero.

• 53:45

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

• 53:50

How dare this man?

• 53:51

We've got a guy. Come follow me.

• 53:52

Yeah, we got a guy.

• 53:54

Oh, he doesn't trade in stolen goods.

• 53:56

Yeah, he's a reputable vendor, but...

• 53:59

Okay, all right.

• 54:03

We're looking.

• 54:03

We're looking for somebody over here.

• 54:05

So, this is the new upgraded marketplace here in Miraleth.

• 54:09

Now, as we kind of briefly mentioned,

• 54:11

there are upgrade paths to the marketplace.

• 54:14

Now, this one's been expanded.

• 54:16

So, if you follow me into this little back alley

• 54:18

and into this little outhouse...

• 54:21

Oh.

• 54:24

We've found the black market.

• 54:27

My goodness.

• 54:30

Ophelia Blackwater.

• 54:33

Okay.

• 54:33

Now, this...

• 54:33

Now, this was because this is an expansion

• 54:35

that Miraleth has in their market.

• 54:37

Correct, yeah.

• 54:38

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

• 54:41

and it's a part of the expansion tree,

• 54:43

so it's a choice you can make on your marketplace

• 54:45

to be where bandits take their stuff.

• 54:48

So, I'm going to right-click on the stolen commodities?

• 54:50

Yep.

• 54:53

Oh, okay.

• 54:54

It just gave me some gold.

• 54:57

Very nice.

• 55:00

I've sold it.

• 55:01

And now you have to pay us all,

• 55:03

so everyone line up to get traded.

• 55:04

All right, yep.

• 55:05

Where's my cut?

• 55:05

Oh, yeah.

• 55:06

Everybody line up.

• 55:08

All right, a little bit line up there.

• 55:10

A little bit.

• 55:11

All right, well done.

• 55:12

And then just wait here.

• 55:13

I'll be right back.

• 55:14

Oh, no, no, wait.

• 55:14

Let me...

• 55:14

Block the door.

• 55:16

Oh, no.

• 55:17

Okay, I'll be back.

• 55:18

You guys stay there.

• 55:20

Ladies and gentlemen,

• 55:22

we have just seen some PvP.

• 55:25

We've seen some whitewater rafting.

• 55:28

We've seen some caravan events.

• 55:31

And we've had a great time.

• 55:33

A little bit of some bugs, obviously.

• 55:35

This is still our road to Alpha 2,

• 55:37

so that's to be expected.

• 55:39

But I do want to thank, obviously, our developers

• 55:42

for joining us and explaining everything,

• 55:44

our testers for helping participate,

• 55:46

so that we're able to kind of show off all of these systems.

• 55:49

And as a reminder, of course,

• 55:51

I know I can't say this enough,

• 55:53

as we continue to progress towards Alpha 2,

• 55:56

you will continue to see polish be done,

• 55:59

bugs get fixed, stability be fixed,

• 56:01

quality improve, performance improve.

• 56:03

Right now we are on that road.

• 56:05

We have just come off of heavy development

• 56:08

of our feature and core systems,

• 56:10

our features and core systems.

• 56:12

And now we're going to be refining that.

• 56:14

We're going to be tightening that loop

• 56:15

and we're going to be fixing things up

• 56:17

so that we can get a lot of people in game

• 56:19

and start testing these systems.

• 56:21

I hope you guys enjoyed today.

• 56:23

We had a lot of fun doing it.

• 56:25

And there's a lot of stuff still yet to show.

• 56:27

But with that being said,

• 56:29

thank you all for joining me.

• 56:31

And thank you for watching.

• 56:34

We'll see you back on stream.

• 56:36

Bye.

• 56:42

Hello, everyone.

• 56:44

Welcome back.

• 56:45

We do have quite a few questions,

• 56:47

but it looks like most people really enjoyed it.

• 56:49

I will be playing it in the background whilst we chat.

• 56:52

Despite the odds of our team being severely outnumbered,

• 56:58

we managed to overcome

• 57:00

that just completely imbalanced set up

• 57:03

with the defending team and defeated them.

• 57:07

I hope you guys enjoyed that demonstration.

• 57:10

It was tough.

• 57:11

I think they couldn't see the everybody

• 57:14

that was battling you.

• 57:17

So they thought the numbers weren't even.

• 57:19

We didn't.

• 57:20

The numbers weren't even.

• 57:21

Purposely so, right?

• 57:22

I mean, guys, remember, part of this demonstration

• 57:25

is to show off certain systems.

• 57:27

So yes, you know, a lot of these things

• 57:29

are kind of run of show.

• 57:31

We're intended to defeat them.

• 57:32

We're intended to take their stuff.

• 57:34

We're intended to transition to the raft.

• 57:36

That's the intent, right?

• 57:38

And so don't get too harsh on the defending side.

• 57:42

They were purposefully outnumbered.

• 57:44

We even changed their composition

• 57:46

not to let them have too many healers.

• 57:48

So it was unfortunate for them.

• 57:51

Yeah.

• 57:53

But we do have quite a few questions.

• 57:55

The first one here is,

• 57:57

how will risk versus reward

• 57:59

be balanced for both the caravan attackers and defenders?

• 58:02

Some folks kind of seemed like they were feeling

• 58:04

like defenders were at a disadvantage.

• 58:07

Yeah, I mean, you know, here's the thing.

• 58:10

Emergent gameplay such as this, right?

• 58:14

Caravans are the induction of emergent gameplay,

• 58:19

which means you cannot predict the situation

• 58:22

you're going to be in when you use a caravan.

• 58:25

That's part of the risk.

• 58:27

The risk is the unknown.

• 58:29

If you could predict it,

• 58:31

then your ability to mitigate that risk

• 58:33

would unfortunately remove that dynamic,

• 58:36

that ratio of risk versus reward.

• 58:39

So you might come into situations

• 58:41

where you didn't anticipate...

• 58:44

Whoops.

• 58:46

Did we lose?

• 58:47

Are we back?

• 58:48

Okay, we're back.

• 58:49

I don't think we're down.

• 58:51

Oh, I was just looking at the chat.

• 58:52

On my end, it's just shown green.

• 58:54

Okay.

• 58:55

So that's weird.

• 58:56

I have no idea.

• 58:57

I think we're still here, so it's fine.

• 58:58

Okay.

• 58:59

So anyways, as I was saying,

• 59:01

you cannot predict the risk.

• 59:03

That is part of the equation, right?

• 59:06

In some cases, you may want to over-provision

• 59:10

depending on how valuable your load is on the caravan, right?

• 59:16

That means it's better to travel with friends.

• 59:20

There might be mercenary guilds that you can bring along.

• 59:22

You can invest more in the components of the caravan

• 59:24

so that it's more defensible, more maneuverable.

• 59:27

You might want to go at unique times

• 59:29

so you can mitigate the potential resistance.

• 59:32

You need to ensure that the flow of traffic

• 00:00

Hello, everyone. Welcome. We hope that you've all had an amazing month. I know it's been

• 00:24

a pretty eventful month for me, but welcome to our glorious Ashes of Creation January

• 00:29

development update. With me, as always, is the one and only Stephen Sharif, our creative

• 00:35

director. Hello. It has been so long. I know. It feels like forever, but it's not. It's

• 00:44

only been a month. I know. I'm having a deja vu between the last January live stream where

• 00:51

we talk about how this is our longest spread between live streams. Actually, it hasn't

• 00:57

been longer than a month. It's been almost...

• 00:59

It's been 45 days.

• 01:00

This is a long month, and I know the audio is quiet, so I will try to solve that for

• 01:05

you all. I think I'm getting spammed in regards to that.

• 01:08

Oh, okay. That's all good. That's all good. An extra two weeks can do that.

• 01:13

It's okay. You all don't want to hear from me anyway. You just want to hear from Stephen.

• 01:17

Uh-oh. That is not true.

• 01:22

But, yeah, I don't know. It's very exciting. As always, below, you can see what we have

• 01:29

coming up. So, we have reminders, caravan, PVP, and for those of you who follow us pretty

• 01:35

closely, you've probably seen that we have... Hopefully, this is fixing the audio. Do let

• 01:44

me know if I'm still quiet, but I think I've solved it.

• 01:51

Definitely solved it for me.

• 01:53

You solved it for me? Is it really loud? Sorry.

• 01:56

No, no, no. It's totally fine. I can handle it.

• 01:59

Okay. We've got the caravan, PVP, studio update, a little art, small, small art update,

• 02:08

and then questions and answers.

• 02:11

It has been an exciting last month or so as well. For those of you who are unaware,

• 02:18

Margaret got married. I got married.

• 02:21

Oh, my goodness. I'm married now.

• 02:24

And then also, I think you announced just this last week that you're having another

• 02:29

member...

• 02:29

You're having another member of the family join soon?

• 02:31

Yeah. I'm preggo ego.

• 02:33

Oh, my goodness. How exciting.

• 02:36

It has been very eventful. And the wedding was probably the crazy... I mean, Stephen

• 02:40

was able to attend, but it was kind of the craziest thing.

• 02:44

It was beautiful. It was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen, actually. I loved it.

• 02:48

It was so great. I mean, I know that it was a... It must have been just complete mayhem

• 02:53

for you and so stressful for you, but watching the beauty of your close friends and your close

• 02:59

family and friends and being able, privileged to be there for that and coming together like it did

• 03:04

was something that was honestly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It was very beautiful.

• 03:08

It was like a Hallmark movie. It was pretty crazy.

• 03:12

Because for those of you who don't know, there's a huge storm that happened in Tennessee. So my

• 03:17

fellow Tennessee folks out there, we had the biggest storm we've had in 15 years.

• 03:23

In the area that I'm from, we don't normally get snow. So it's very weird.

• 03:27

Um,

• 03:29

so they're not prepared for snow and it was pretty, pretty bad. Um, so I don't want to scare

• 03:36

the audience, but intrepid. There was a lot of key stakeholder individuals in our car when we

• 03:45

were traveling down that hill to make it to the wedding. And then when we came back, that, that,

• 03:52

that 45 degree mountain that we had to drive up in our four-wheel drive Jeep with like eight people

• 03:58

in the car, it was...

• 03:59

Black ice. There were cars like sliding down left and right. And we're like trying to navigate past

• 04:04

them. It was scary, but we made it, we made it and it was all good.

• 04:11

Yeah. So that is why we had to cancel our wedding venue and our, all of our vendors

• 04:17

canceled, like pretty much all of our vendors canceled. It was, um, pretty, pretty chaotic

• 04:23

for anybody who's planned a wedding or hasn't planned a wedding. Weddings are already stressful

• 04:28

as is.

• 04:29

Um, but yeah, it happened. We're okay.

• 04:32

It did. It was a lot of fun. A lot of fun. And we have, we have got a great show in store for you

• 04:40

guys. I know you've been waiting for some PVP. Um, and, and we're going to get into that in just

• 04:46

a moment here.

• 04:47

Yeah. But before we do that, as always, we have a little bit of a couple things, a few reminders

• 04:51

and things of that sort to, uh, walk through. Um, the first and foremost one is our...

• 04:59

Spotlight. Uh, don't forget that if you are subscribed to our YouTube channel and follow

• 05:04

us in all of the places, um, if you subscribe to us on YouTube and leave a comment on our

• 05:07

dev update one specifically, you could be spotlighted or your comment could be. And

• 05:12

so for today's spotlight, we have the Lawrence 1970 who has said, how will weapon skills

• 05:18

play into a class plus subclass? I think he means IE here. If I will play a cleric slash

• 05:26

rogue, IE shadow disciple, who uses a dev update? I think he means IE here. If I will play a

• 05:29

dagger, will I be able to augment the dagger or the active dagger skills too? If yes, how

• 05:35

exactly will they be augmented? Since in my example with a shadow disciple, the augmented,

• 05:41

the augmentation solely happens via the rogue class, but dagger plus rogue, it's not cleric-y.

• 05:47

Will they be augmentable by the main character, main archetype or even both?

• 05:52

Okay. This is, I think they're a little confused. Yeah. Well, okay. Let me, let me clarify. This

• 05:58

is a very, uh,

• 05:59

big and complex question. So let me just go through real quick, um, as a reminder. And

• 06:04

obviously before I get into that, I just want to say, um, Lex at the, uh, ashes wiki has done a

• 06:10

great job in compiling so much of the information that we have over the years, uh, provided with

• 06:14

regards to the design of the game. Um, and always make sure you're utilizing that resource when you

• 06:20

have questions of these types, but you can also engage with the community because there are a lot

• 06:24

of, uh, longstanding members of the community who are very familiar with the game designs as well.

• 06:28

Those things are,

• 06:29

are all subject to change because we're still in active development. But what I will tell you is

• 06:34

that the intent behind the augment system is not to provide new active abilities. They're intended

• 06:41

to augment existing active abilities that are provided through your primary archetype. And so

• 06:46

your secondary archetype selection completes your class selection of which there are 64 types,

• 06:52

and you get augment skills that can apply certain attributes and mechanics to your

• 06:59

existing, excuse me, existing active skills. So if you have certain abilities, like a backstab as a rogue

• 07:05

primary archetype, and you take that healer, uh, secondary archetype selection, now the properties

• 07:12

of your backstab will still remain the same as an active ability. However, it might include things

• 07:17

like lifesteal, right? Or it might include things like a susceptible weakness to the target and

• 07:23

reduces their healing because the, the definition of what those augments are intended to provide,

• 07:28

based on the archetype selected for the augments is within the schools of magic that live for that

• 07:35

archetype. So a cleric is about, you know, balancing life and death and the control of

• 07:39

those types of hit points. Now you mentioned also in there that weapon skills, and I'm not sure if

• 07:44

you're referring to primary abilities, active abilities that live in the archetypes, uh, um,

• 07:50

adventuring skill tree, or if you're talking about weapon skill trees, weapon skill trees

• 07:55

are a little bit different. Weapon skill trees are skill trees that you can unlock,

• 07:58

and invest points into as you continue to develop your experience with certain weapon types,

• 08:03

certain weapon groups, like a dagger. And when you're doing your basic combo attack with those

• 08:09

weapons, uh, which is universal for all classes, anybody can use any type of weapon because stats

• 08:13

can be changed on these weapon types, um, through crafting and through drops. Uh, there will be

• 08:19

certain proc effects that live on the weapon skill tree as you advance in them. And those proc effects

• 08:25

will be able to interact with your, uh, archetypes.

• 08:28

skills because they will have promotion type effects that occur when they synergize with one

• 08:34

another. So hopefully that answers your question and gives you some, some insight there, but always

• 08:38

I would recommend taking a look at the wiki. Uh, there's a lot of great information there.

• 08:42

Yes. So thank you again to the Lawrence 1970 for leaving us a wonderful comment. And of course,

• 08:49

again, like I said, um, if you leave a comment on our dev update, you too could be spotlighted

• 08:54

in our next one and it has to be the full dev update one. Um, then next up,

• 08:58

dev discussion. We have a new dev discussion out. I believe we always tell you kind of what's coming

• 09:04

up. Uh, but this one is about utility skills. What utility skills do you feel are most important?

• 09:10

Are there certain scenarios that should require specific ones? We want to know your thoughts. So

• 09:15

please head on over to the forums, toss your feedback and thoughts over there. We always

• 09:19

utilize these. We make some amazing reports for our development team regarding these.

• 09:23

Um, and our next one is going to be regarding e-sports. Uh, there's been a lot of discussion

• 09:28

about e-sports and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and,

• 09:28

and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and,

• 09:29

um, and you know, where does MMO, you know, where do MMOs fit into that space? Does Ashes

• 09:34

of Creation fit in that space? Maybe not. Uh, so we'd love to hear your guys' thoughts about that.

• 09:40

And, uh, our next thing here is, um, remember we announced our delicious dev discussion. Well,

• 09:46

now we have, uh, some of our winners and we wanted to spotlight them. So

• 09:50

video of those. So thank you so much for everybody who sent us submissions. Um,

• 09:57

you guys voted on which recipes you wanted and um it was really cool hey look at nark

• 10:04

i watched nark's uh video that he did as a as his uh profession as a baker and i thought he did a

• 10:10

great job look at shaka khan those look great wow ones really turned out pretty cool too i think

• 10:16

oh my gosh and also a meal which was cool wow look at these these are unbelievable and such

• 10:25

great uh great picture taking here oh nicholas wow these look good i'm starving yeah

• 10:32

i know we're like it's lunchtime i'm starving

• 10:36

oh look at the doggo yeah i love the setup of some of these they're so pretty

• 10:43

wow we have got some amazing photographers for we've we've got some instagram experienced uh

• 10:52

yeah zara's got like the little skull in there it's so good

• 10:55

but yeah

• 10:55

yeah thank you all so much we we loved seeing these the team did we were you know we were

• 11:00

originally not sure how many people would participate um with with that but it was

• 11:04

really cool seeing it and we appreciate it that was great team was just so excited um we're

• 11:10

definitely going to have more cool recipes i know there's been talks of maybe a recipe book

• 11:15

later down the line at post-launch so you know maybe some things that you'll see um for those

• 11:20

of you who enjoy that enjoy that kind of stuff as somebody who enjoys cooking i love cooking and

• 11:24

baking um it was very

• 11:25

very cool seeing that so thank you um and then the last thing that we want to remind you guys

• 11:31

about and this is more of less of a reminder and it's more because we've gotten a lot of questions

• 11:36

uh the pr inbox was full of questions cs has been getting questions i know our community team uh

• 11:41

roshan and vaknar have been getting questions regarding it but as you guys know the shop update

• 11:45

our pre-order packs have ended we are no longer selling pre-order packs we did give a plethora

• 11:50

of months notice um whenever we put them up but we let you know when they were going to end

• 11:55

so it's been a long many many months that we have let people know in advance but we tried to give

• 12:01

as many reminders as we could email reminders social reminders we tried to do our best but

• 12:05

we do want to let you know that we will continue to engage with the community and content creators

• 12:09

to find other ways for folks to get giveaways and things of that sort so stay tuned for that stuff

• 12:15

especially as we get closer to alpha 2. and then beyond that after our internal or maybe you know

• 12:19

some of our external testing as well after we get some you know you know testing that we're satisfied

• 12:25

with and we feel like we are able to you know service additional testers we will definitely

• 12:30

find more methods for you guys to access the game um it won't be through pre-order packs it will be

• 12:35

through other ways to purchase um but yeah we'll definitely find ways for you guys too but we also

• 12:39

want to make sure that we can service you well so if we yes can't do that we don't we don't want to

• 12:44

open up yeah and i know i i know it's weird i i have uh i have gotten some commentary from my

• 12:50

colleagues within the industry our money yeah i know well also from yes from some

• 12:55

industry colleagues i've gotten questions about wait a minute you closed your pre-order shop

• 13:00

like uh yes we want to ensure that the testing is is going to go as we anticipate it to

• 13:07

and quality is important to us obviously during that um and that's why we found it appropriate

• 13:12

and gave ample notice as margaret said um to close that pre-order shop but as the testing

• 13:17

continues we will give you guys updates so so be on the lookout for that we will update you

• 13:21

as testing continues and is successful um which you're about to see some interesting

• 13:25

here in just a little bit um yes which you know that's a great segue stephen why don't you kind

• 13:31

of take it away i know maybe you want to do a little preposition before yes i i love to preface

• 13:36

before the preface i'll preface multiple prefaces within the video but uh i preface here in the

• 13:42

stream because it's important that you guys uh understand obviously that this is still a work

• 13:47

in progress and i want to talk to you a little bit about what work in progress means um now obviously

• 13:55

we as gamers you know have not perhaps experienced uh historically a lot of projects especially of

• 14:03

this size going through such a unique process of transparent development it has been something that

• 14:09

i'm very glad to see that has been that has picked up a bit over the course of the last several years

• 14:16

with more independent studios which i think is great personally i think it's great for the

• 14:20

industry i think it's great for the genre and the genres that it applies to i think it's great for

• 14:25

consumers the players to have a a voice in that process um you know that's something that we have

• 14:33

tried to champion over the course of our development um and i think our team has done

• 14:38

a great job it is not without its difficulties obviously having to juggle the tasks of showing

• 14:47

what you're working on in a digestible format through these types of live streams and updates

• 14:52

while also actively working on the thing that you're

• 14:55

trying to ship is a difficult balance right and it can be taxing a bit on the development team

• 15:04

and not only that but it also can be a great source of reward and and um you know we here at

• 15:12

intrepid it is the highlight of our development team to watch the community's reactions to get

• 15:18

motivated by your guys's excitement uh to have validation in the direction of our design theory

• 15:24

and implementation

• 15:26

of these different systems and also i will say like you know for our phoenix initiative

• 15:31

members who um are very dedicated individuals to help us test um you know there was a 10 hour long

• 15:39

straight test session that we had on monday which was which was rigorous uh to say the least

• 15:47

um and you know as we continue to move towards alpha 2 you know phases of development move from

• 15:55

the area of kind of pre-production into production into like polish and getting ready

• 16:02

for external testers like those different phases exist and as we started this year

• 16:08

you know a lot of the outstanding core feature work that we've been doing has started to

• 16:12

transition into let's harden the game systems let's solidify the interactions let's address

• 16:19

the bugs let's address the visuals let's start doing some second passes on visual effects and

• 16:25

ui you know to get it ready to be tested by an external audience of our customers our players

• 16:32

the people with you know whom we're building this game for um and so when you watch this video i

• 16:38

want you to take with a grain of salt obviously there are three primary areas that still require

• 16:44

significant improvement and it's not difficult improvement it's just work it's work that we

• 16:49

need to do we tend to do the more difficult work up front and that's the feature development that's

• 16:55

the you know prototyping and testing of difficult engineering solutions that need to be required

• 17:00

the three things i would tell you about that are a work in progress in the video you're going to see

• 17:05

are related to the ui the visual effects and the character models and the lighting so those are

• 17:13

additional passes that need to be done so when you're watching know that we're aware of that

• 17:17

and we are going to address those things right visual soup language that lives in combat

• 17:23

you know the targeting that's required

• 17:25

on player nameplates um uh you know the character models and the material usage with the lighting is

• 17:32

going through a significant revamp be aware that we are aware of those things we'll be working on

• 17:36

those things but what we're going to show you today i think is is pretty exciting it's a very

• 17:40

fun system uh it revolves around the caravan caravan pvp that's intended in the world

• 17:46

obviously emphasizing our risk versus reward philosophies

• 17:49

when it comes to the ways that players meaningfully interact with one another through pvp

• 17:55

but also our raft system and some water elements that you're going to see included

• 17:59

so take all of that and as people who might be less engaged with our development view this

• 18:06

because that's the double-edged sword of transparency uh be out there and give uh give

• 18:12

this message to them so that they're aware we're aware of the things that they're commenting on

• 18:16

and i think that's a very positive launched game yes that is right absolutely um

• 18:25

we're very grateful for the people telling the pi folks to give them deeds um we we did allow them

• 18:31

to tell people that they have partaken in this and obviously we have announced that they did and

• 18:34

we're very thankful for their assistance but at this time they're not going to share any further

• 18:38

details about their testing experience there will be a time where we uh you know unlift some

• 18:43

nda elements thing of things but not right now absolutely so we're ready to play enjoy enjoy

• 18:55

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

• 19:19

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

• 19:24

but

• 19:25

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

• 19:33

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

• 19:41

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

• 19:46

and performance as well with that being said we're going to take a look today at some pbp

• 19:54

and

• 19:54

we're going to talk about pvp specifically in the context of caravans and i am joined

• 20:02

by some of our glorious developers all of whom you have heard from in the past we have one of

• 20:08

our glorious senior designers mr chris chris how you doing buddy oh i'm just wonderful thanks for

• 20:14

having me happy to have you but i know you've been putting a lot of work into this

• 20:18

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

• 20:24

by two other glorious designers on the combat side uh bucky trat how you guys doing doing good

• 20:34

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

• 20:39

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

• 20:48

who are assisting in um getting ready for alpha 2 obviously alpha 2 as we announced

• 20:54

is going to be starting in the third quarter of this year.

• 20:57

There's still a lot of work to be done,

• 21:00

and part of that work is finding all the bugs and all the crashes

• 21:03

and hardening the systems as we prepare for Alpha 2.

• 21:08

But today, like I said, we're going to be talking about a really fun system

• 21:11

as it relates to caravans,

• 21:12

and one of the most important aspects of caravans

• 21:15

is that there is no reward without significant risk in Ashes of Creation.

• 21:22

And the caravan system is of particular risk

• 21:25

because it is how materials and commodities are transited within the world of Vera.

• 21:32

And it's difficult to navigate the world of Vera.

• 21:35

It's a large world, and the terrain is not always kind,

• 21:39

especially to large vehicles like a caravan.

• 21:42

And today we're going to talk about, as you transit this world,

• 21:46

if the node structures are not advancing with you

• 21:49

and the world state isn't changing

• 21:50

and you're not seeing...

• 21:52

different bridges being constructed,

• 21:57

sometimes you might have to ford rivers.

• 22:01

And rivers can be quite the obstruction for you

• 22:06

and present some danger.

• 22:07

Wow, look at these...

• 22:08

Look at this...

• 22:09

Look at this crew.

• 22:11

You'll notice that this crew,

• 22:14

they all have swords above their head,

• 22:16

and they're blue to me,

• 22:16

but that's because we've discovered

• 22:18

that a caravan is taking the perilous journey nearby,

• 22:22

and trying to reach a location

• 22:24

where they'll be rewarded for all their hard work.

• 22:27

But little do they know,

• 22:28

we are here waiting for them.

• 22:30

And the bandits are going to attempt to take this caravan.

• 22:35

Chris, talk to me a little bit about

• 22:37

the risk of caravan travel

• 22:39

and what people are about to see here.

• 22:42

Yeah, I mean, well,

• 22:43

you risk everything you're traveling with

• 22:46

when you run a caravan, right?

• 22:48

It's definitely way more efficient

• 22:50

than running a bunch of goods in your...

• 22:52

inventory to and from nodes,

• 22:54

but it's definitely a lot more dangerous.

• 22:58

Absolutely.

• 22:59

Rangers, if you guys want to come over here with me,

• 23:02

I've just gotten word that there might be

• 23:04

a caravan down here approaching.

• 23:07

But they appear to have some defenders.

• 23:09

I can see them.

• 23:10

I think they might even see us here in the distance.

• 23:15

What do you guys say we engage them?

• 23:18

Do we want to just kind of ambush them here?

• 23:19

I don't think they can see us.

• 23:20

We fight.

• 23:22

You guys should be stealthy about it.

• 23:25

Okay, I got a target.

• 23:27

McStackerson.

• 23:29

Rangers, we should open up on them

• 23:30

right when they kind of arrive here.

• 23:32

Let them come up a little bit closer

• 23:34

and prepare your snipe.

• 23:39

I have no idea.

• 23:42

Actually, let's switch targets over to Nestaris.

• 23:45

Let's open in three, two, one.

• 23:50

Oh, no.

• 23:55

Okay, engage them.

• 23:56

Go, go, go.

• 24:03

Oh, my God.

• 24:12

Oh, it's bloodshed.

• 24:19

This is our loot.

• 24:20

Don't let them get away.

• 24:32

Okay.

• 24:41

I think we may only there's a few left.

• 24:46

I see Chibi Bree.

• 24:48

Focusing the caravan.

• 24:50

That's right.

• 24:52

We need to kill the thing.

• 24:57

All right.

• 25:03

Take down the caravan.

• 25:04

We need to take down the caravan.

• 25:04

We need to take down the caravan.

• 25:04

We need to take down the caravan.

• 25:07

All right.

• 25:07

Take down the caravan.

• 25:07

it's understandably easy for them because we have and it was.

• 25:11

We need to do everything perfectly.

• 25:15

We need to do everything perfectly.

• 25:16

It seems like all we have to do carried

• 25:16

those in the vehicle out there is your stop signal.

• 25:17

You need to come up with a plan immediately.

• 25:17

Okay.

• 25:17

That's better.

• 25:17

I won't have to do it.

• 25:17

I'm emotionally afraid with him.

• 25:18

We still got him.

• 25:18

He got us almost being

• 25:18

DismСТ?

• 25:18

We had enough now.

• 25:19

Power with it.

• 25:19

All right.

• 25:20

See you.

• 25:20

time for that delicious loot

• 25:30

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

• 25:39

chris bucky talk to me a little about a little bit about what we just saw obviously this caravan

• 25:43

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

• 25:48

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

• 25:57

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

• 26:03

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

• 26:09

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

• 26:12

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

• 26:16

okay

• 26:16

okay

• 26:18

where you at um right here right here right next to you one of these guys got it okay i can

• 26:25

interact with it i see that there's stolen commodities yeah so you can go ahead and loot

• 26:31

those um now you don't actually get the commodity that it was you get these special certificates

• 26:37

that um we will offload at uh the node we're gonna head to after this uh for some monies

• 26:44

nice i like monies and then there's a second kind of crate here if you can get it you can get it

• 26:48

uh come uh turn around and walk back here this with this black icon um now this is a material

• 26:54

crate which means they were transiting their materials as well oh my god i have a bunch of

• 27:00

rubies oh spicy i know let me take a look at these rubies oh nice okay i have 30 of their rubies

• 27:10

nice but now obviously this is too much for us to carry right that's one of the aspects of the

• 27:16

of the caravan system

• 27:18

is that it provides you large carrying capacity what do we do when there's too much for us to

• 27:22

carry on our backs so there's an item in your inventory um that you can use to summon an empty

• 27:29

caravan that you have stashed at a node um if i recall correctly you stashed one at winstead

• 27:34

nearby i do have one at winstead let me summon that so out in the wild right now i am able to

• 27:40

summon this caravan and that's going to come from winstead yep um now the way summoning works is

• 27:50

the length of that summon is determined by where you're right if you were to summon from winstead

• 27:56

which is pretty close to us the wait's not going to be super long but if you're summoning from you

• 28:01

know very very far away it's going to be a rough wait okay all right so now i've begun summoning

• 28:09

my empty caravan

• 28:10

to come pick up these supplies that we've just acquired and obviously if you were in the previous

• 28:17

raid you can go ahead and leave that raid um because right now the there's some still

• 28:23

outstanding functionality required on the ui front but it will be intended for that to be

• 28:27

seamless in the future um but now you guys are joining my raid to defend this and once this

• 28:31

caravan arrives it's going to allow us essentially to grab these outstanding supplies is that right

• 28:36

correct yeah and another um additional reason why you may want to summon a

• 28:40

caravan instead of having all your people here pick up this stuff is you're gonna get more for

• 28:46

bringing the crate unopened to a node right so that like material crate you got you said 30 rubies

• 28:53

from it yes you're gonna get way more if we take that to the node without opening it in the field

• 29:00

okay that's cool that's awesome and now you know we just happened upon obviously this caravan here

• 29:10

tell me a little bit about the intended interaction of hunting caravans right what does that what does

• 29:14

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

• 29:18

is it intended to be diet athletic or is it you know aided with minimap like talk to me a little

• 29:22

bit about that uh bucky and chris yeah so uh hunting Alexander combi a lot more diet

• 29:29

right you plant spies and other guilds you you know build your information network in the world

• 29:35

of viera um kind of uh through through whatever means you can

• 29:40

Um, now there is progression paths involved with attacking and defending a caravan, um, that can aid you in doing so, um, either with better equipment for it, um, faster ways to open crates more, yield from crates, and if you're a defender, right, better components for your caravans, stuff like that.

• 30:00

Okay, very cool.

• 30:01

Ah, a caravan has arrived, and I, I should be able to move up to these crates and collect the cargo, I see.

• 30:23

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

• 30:26

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

• 30:31

Okay.

• 30:31

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

• 30:39

Okay.

• 30:41

I have a very large chassis.

• 30:48

And I've collected, I've collected a number of them, let me see if I can collect some more.

• 30:53

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

• 30:59

Alright, I think we have grabbed pretty much everything.

• 31:01

Now, talk to me a little bit about the differences between looting here, kind of, at the spot, and collecting the cargo with the caravan.

• 31:10

I can take this one, yeah, so, like, looting at the spot, obviously, uh, you can do right away, and the problem with that, though, is you, you forfeit a lot of the materials, a lot more get lost, and, as you crack open those crates, but if you're able to have your own caravan, uh, and bring it there, you can loot, and you'll get more of the, uh, more of the overall materials that way.

• 31:28

But there will be progression for, you know, like you were saying about the height of the caravan.

• 31:31

The Highwayman faction versus the Defender faction, and maybe there'll be some progression where you can, uh, get better loot percentage out in the field.

• 31:41

Very cool.

• 31:44

Now, we talked a little bit ago about, um, stolen goods, stolen supplies.

• 31:51

What are the intent of that system?

• 31:53

How does, how do stolen goods and supplies work differently than commodities?

• 31:57

So, when you crack open a crate of commodities, you get, um, you don't get that much loot.

• 32:01

You get the commodities themselves, since they're, like, crated cargo items.

• 32:04

You actually get stolen goods, and you can use those stolen, uh, commodity certificates to go and turn them into the black market to, uh, get some money back.

• 32:15

Okay, nice.

• 32:16

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

• 32:19

Yeah, that's a specialization of the market.

• 32:21

Normally, you can sell them back to anything, but it's not gonna be very much.

• 32:24

Like, the normal vendors of Vera don't want those stolen goods, but if you know the right people, you can get, you can get your money's worth out of it.

• 32:30

Very nice.

• 32:31

Very nice.

• 32:33

Now, obviously, we, we just had a large-scale, a relatively large-scale combat between two of these raids.

• 32:40

Um, Trad, talk to me a little bit about, kind of, you know, how our approach towards Alpha 2 is going to incorporate additional development of this group-based combat and PvP, and, and kind of where we are with it now.

• 32:53

Yeah, absolutely.

• 32:54

Um, so, as you've seen in a lot of our previous, uh, Archetype livestreams, there's been a lot of, you know, representation.

• 33:01

Of single-player combat, like, you know, we usually go in there with one, two, like, maximum of three people, just because we want to really highlight, like, the abilities.

• 33:10

But here, you're obviously seeing that much larger-scale scenario, and that's where we're, um, going to continue moving forward, thinking about, like, the group utility.

• 33:18

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

• 33:24

It's like, when your party invites me, invites me, or your raid invites me, like, what do I provide to the group?

• 33:29

Um, and that's where we've, sort of, shifted.

• 33:31

Our focus on, for this, uh, next iteration of Abilities and Guns.

• 33:38

Okay.

• 33:40

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

• 33:42

That's concerning.

• 33:44

Oh, let's hitch a left here.

• 33:46

Okay.

• 33:47

And...

• 33:49

So, what we're going to do down here is, we need an, an alternate path to reach Marilith, because the, the path by road is a bit obstructed.

• 33:59

Some of the bridges have not been...

• 34:01

...developed yet.

• 34:03

So, what are we about to do now?

• 34:05

So, there's this nifty thing that I think you alluded to last time we talked about caravans, but we are going to traverse the river instead of the land.

• 34:17

Alright.

• 34:19

So, what you're going to do is roll up here, and go ahead and walk your caravan as far into the water as it'll let you.

• 34:25

Alright.

• 34:27

I see both of them.

• 34:29

I see both of them.

• 34:30

I see both of them.

• 34:30

I see both of them.

• 34:30

I see both of them.

• 34:31

You have a beautiful carfan.

• 34:33

Alright, now you should have an ability on your caravan hop bar to transition to raft.

• 34:41

Invert to raft.

• 34:43

Ooh, okay.

• 34:46

And I just deploy this?

• 34:49

Yep, just deploy it.

• 34:53

Oh, that is awesome.

• 34:55

Oh, that is awesome.

• 34:57

So, this process takes care of it.

• 34:59

So, this process takes care of it.

• 35:00

So, this process takes care of it.

• 35:00

process takes a few minutes you're gonna have to basically wait and defend your

• 35:07

caravan while you're transitioning draft but riding on the water has its benefits

• 35:12

I love this now you can still target the dock right and part of this transition

• 35:20

process is again the risk that you're introducing for the reward of having

• 35:26

greater flexibility in movement through the land and that risk is basically

• 35:31

you're sitting duck here for lack of a better term yeah basically um like said

• 35:37

you can't you can't escape and to you can undo this process but the amount of

• 35:43

time you've already sunk into it must be paid to undo it I see and now as as this

• 35:49

raft is getting constructed I noticed that it's it's essentially de-structing

• 35:55

the

• 35:56

um the caravan and using that to construct the raft yep correct and if you actually once it's

• 36:05

done constructing you'll notice the the body of your caravan is sitting on the raft oh I love it

• 36:11

oh okay that's cool that's some Lewis and Clark I mean stuff oh no um now

• 36:21

as we're kind of a sitting duck we should probably put some uh maybe some Scouts up near the top of

• 36:26

the walls we don't get jumped I don't know I mean it may not be a Scout but I can go take a look

• 36:31

I'm I mean I'm I I can't imagine that they just left oh boy we got people up here

• 36:40

they're back they want their stuff back oh no I'm gonna go I'm gonna go chill with the uh the raft

• 36:45

as it kind of comes down while you guys fight them for a second I think it's almost done there we go

• 36:53

ah I've gotten the raft

• 36:56

oh god rangers to the ship quickly join me we must depart this area

• 37:05

all right we'll catch back up

• 37:09

everyone on board

• 37:13

chris bucky do what you can to hold them uh it's just it's just some rabble you know

• 37:21

these guys don't have anything on us easy

• 37:23

bop them up i i expect you to make quick work of them um chris are you with me or are you over

• 37:33

there i don't know where i'm going oh i'm running down i'll run to you i'm abandoning the fight

• 37:39

okay yeah we've we've taken him out we're we're coming back now okay very nice we'll run along

• 37:46

the shore i like the uh i love the raft it's looking good i know adam worked pretty

• 37:53

hard for me

• 37:53

on the new water shader it looks beautiful it's a nice day out

• 37:58

it definitely turned out real nice and shout out to how for the raft

• 38:04

yes oh the raft looks so good i assume we're going left yes uh so we're gonna keep going

• 38:09

straight here all right

• 38:15

now this can be very helpful having the option but it can also be kind of dangerous because

• 38:23

you don't know who might be laying and wait ahead of you along the shorelines

• 38:27

but it also lets you as we said traverse the world in a little different way and there's

• 38:33

also a current here correct yeah so there's a current system that increases your speed if you

• 38:40

go with the current and decreases it if you go against it you're gonna hitch a right here steven

• 38:45

and those currents are kind of different based on the location of the raft so you're gonna have to

• 38:53

look at the location in the river correct yeah they are they're different based on the location

• 38:57

in the river and like the strength of the river right so like you know where we kind of started

• 39:03

there was more of a lake body so the current's not super intense but you know we could have a place

• 39:10

that's you know near rapids right got it where are we going here this is looking concerning oh

• 39:21

steven

• 39:22

steven

• 39:23

did i ever tell you have the sense of direction of a mongoose oh god

• 39:26

oh my god shoot on the on the wrong the other way

• 39:31

take them out steven you're gonna crash into a rock

• 39:38

oh you're gonna hit you right here i'm sorry i wasn't paying attention to my map

• 39:46

no no no not yet not yet not yet oh i'm trying to watch behind us

• 39:52

you're gonna beach us

• 39:53

is there someone on board

• 39:56

oh not anymore that was a defender

• 40:03

oh heavy fire on dread all right i think we made it out we're safe now trad how's it going on the

• 40:12

battle side uh i'm outnumbered i'm running oh no meet us at the landing point if you if you're if

• 40:19

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

• 40:23

don't let them follow you though

• 40:26

win the fight then meet us yes win the fight then meet us or die

• 40:32

how about what we do that the other way around yeah that'd be good

• 40:38

so these are obviously some of the risks of traveling by raft

• 40:45

let me turn down um my sound effects just a little bit there we go

• 40:53

now it's not all bad because we can land and turn us back into a land caravan again

• 41:01

and that's coming up here correct it's coming up pretty shortly now you can't turn into a land

• 41:07

caravan anywhere right you still need kind of like how you saw we showed up at a beach to turn

• 41:13

into a raft uh well we need to do something similar and if you notice around us there aren't

• 41:17

a huge amount of beaches and that's super intentional to create like you know locations

• 41:23

that players can rely on got it are we coming up on one up here yeah

• 41:30

one on the right there we're up here let me see if the current kind of carries us forward

• 41:39

a little bit oh it does i'm not moving our current moves

• 41:43

a very a light influence for this current it's a very light current all right

• 41:53

everybody secure the perimeter i am converting into a land caravan again

• 42:00

it has begun

• 42:04

securing perimeter perimeter secured so after we go back and forth with the um

• 42:11

with the caravan turning back into a land caravan it's keeping all the components that it had before

• 42:15

obviously right chris yeah so um all your components all of the stuff in like that you've

• 42:22

either looted or looted or looted or looted or looted or looted or looted or looted or looted

• 42:23

or launched with sticks with you um all that all that good stuff oh da's not in the raid anymore

• 42:32

re-invite him let's bring da back i'm sure that the the opposing side is going to try one last

• 42:40

time to recover their goods oh they will for sure so we need to be conscientious of that as we kind

• 42:45

of progress through these these this more rocky area a lot of places yeah this is it's also very

• 42:53

uh not a lot of places for us to run

• 42:58

love the view of carfin here

• 43:02

so when we when we get to mirror left though assuming that we successfully navigate past

• 43:08

the evil merchants um what are we going to be doing that we're gonna be turning in this

• 43:16

this cargo yeah so we're you know you're gonna be able to unpack those crates which

• 43:23

You currently don't know what's in them.

• 43:26

You know, we do have a plan for a progression path

• 43:28

for kind of caravans in general,

• 43:30

where you will be able to look into them,

• 43:32

but you haven't done your grind, Steven.

• 43:35

What?

• 43:38

I haven't done my grind yet?

• 43:40

Nope, and you're also going to go

• 43:42

and turn in those black market,

• 43:45

or not the black market certificates,

• 43:47

the stolen commodities at the black market

• 43:49

to make some money.

• 43:51

Got it.

• 43:53

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

• 43:55

and you're seeing the kind of transition,

• 43:56

again, as a reminder,

• 43:58

everything you're seeing is a work in progress,

• 44:00

especially from an art perspective.

• 44:03

UI, visual effects, animation,

• 44:06

those are all still works in progress.

• 44:09

I'm going to jump on this.

• 44:11

Okay, here we go.

• 44:13

I am ready.

• 44:14

We're back.

• 44:15

Let's do this.

• 44:18

I'm speed boosting.

• 44:20

It would be very nice if some tanks

• 44:22

were on the front lines.

• 44:23

I'm going with this sad little mage.

• 44:24

Get out of the way.

• 44:26

Yeah, let's see some rangers ahead, too,

• 44:29

and their camo.

• 44:30

Get some scouting going.

• 44:32

Nice.

• 44:35

We must protect.

• 44:37

I'm in danger.

• 44:39

I'm in danger.

• 44:40

I need an adult.

• 44:42

Go, Trad.

• 44:43

Dispense the heathens.

• 44:48

We should pull back a little, maybe.

• 44:50

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

• 44:52

I got eyes.

• 44:53

All right, stay out of my way.

• 44:56

I'm just going to go straight through this.

• 44:58

Just send it, Steven.

• 44:59

I'm going straight through.

• 45:00

Everybody get out of my way.

• 45:03

Run.

• 45:06

Oh, God.

• 45:08

Some casualties on our own side.

• 45:11

It's worth it, though.

• 45:14

Tanks, pull them down from the rock.

• 45:17

Use your javelins.

• 45:23

Oh, no.

• 45:24

Running, running.

• 45:25

You guys got those?

• 45:26

Yeah, we're kind of just walking right through them, honestly.

• 45:32

Not even really scared at all.

• 45:33

They don't have enough to contest us.

• 45:35

We're too powerful.

• 45:36

Yeah, look at them.

• 45:37

They fear.

• 45:38

They fear the might of our bandit army.

• 45:43

I remember this way.

• 45:47

Last time there were a bunch of zombies and skeletons here.

• 45:50

Yeah.

• 45:51

Yeah.

• 45:52

Yeah.

• 45:53

I think the world team has changed them to rock golem.

• 45:56

Oh.

• 45:57

Or the world state has changed, perhaps?

• 46:00

Or maybe they did change to rock golems.

• 46:03

That's going to be a Jeremy question.

• 46:05

Yeah.

• 46:06

And we've left Vertec.

• 46:09

Good sacrifice.

• 46:11

Did we make it out?

• 46:13

We're still being chased.

• 46:16

Hey, everybody up here, go back and kill those people.

• 46:19

Don't let them near me.

• 46:20

Back.

• 46:21

Back.

• 46:22

Back, fiends.

• 46:23

I'm going to use my last speed boost.

• 46:28

My god, they're using dark magic.

• 46:30

There's a rock elemental.

• 46:32

Oh.

• 46:33

Yeah, don't pull aggro.

• 46:34

Definitely not.

• 46:35

I'm trailing behind you.

• 46:36

I found the skeletons.

• 46:37

Cyclotons.

• 46:38

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

• 46:39

They've overextended.

• 46:40

The foobles.

• 46:41

The foobles.

• 46:42

The foobles.

• 46:43

The foobles.

• 46:44

The foobles.

• 46:45

The foobles.

• 46:46

The foobles.

• 46:47

The foobles.

• 46:48

The foobles.

• 46:49

The foobles.

• 46:50

The foobles.

• 46:51

The foobles.

• 46:52

The foobles.

• 46:53

The foobles.

• 46:54

Heal, heal.

• 46:55

I cannot heal here.

• 46:56

Oh, where are you?

• 46:57

Oh, I see, I see you.

• 46:58

Oh my gosh.

• 46:59

All right, we're almost there.

• 47:00

We're so close.

• 47:01

You know, I'm really envious of you, Steven, being able to like sit and drive something

• 47:20

while we all have to walk.

• 47:22

I know.

• 47:23

My legs hurt.

• 47:24

Honestly, it's not a very comfortable ride.

• 47:25

The suspension on this vehicle and the rocks on the ground.

• 47:30

Well, you know, the roads will upgrade when the node levels up and it'll get a little

• 47:34

nicer.

• 47:35

That's true.

• 47:36

That's a good point.

• 47:37

So, as the nodes advance, as we've said in the past, the roads advance as well, and that

• 47:43

speed buff does get some benefit.

• 47:45

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

• 47:49

So the caravan won't be as bumpy.

• 47:51

We have almost arrived at Miraleth.

• 47:56

I've lost the road buff.

• 47:59

Now we're super slow.

• 48:01

You're officially in Miraleth.

• 48:04

I still see Lex behind us.

• 48:06

Is Lex on the good side or the bad side?

• 48:08

He's on our side.

• 48:09

Oh, okay.

• 48:10

We do have enemies coming up, though.

• 48:11

Okay.

• 48:12

We still haven't killed them.

• 48:13

Guards, get them.

• 48:14

Kill the...

• 48:15

If I had more heals, I'd be up there more.

• 48:18

Somebody help them kill them.

• 48:19

Help these people.

• 48:20

All right.

• 48:21

Go, Trad.

• 48:22

I'll stay with you until the end.

• 48:23

We're going in.

• 48:24

Don't wait up for us, guys.

• 48:25

I don't even think they followed.

• 48:26

Oh.

• 48:27

They're gone.

• 48:28

Well, they're waiting.

• 48:29

I see one.

• 48:30

Good.

• 48:31

Go.

• 48:32

Get him.

• 48:33

He's running in.

• 48:34

We've almost arrived.

• 48:35

Who's that?

• 48:36

A solo hero.

• 48:37

The river town of Miraleth.

• 48:38

Look at that beautiful view.

• 48:43

It's a very nice little node.

• 48:48

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

• 48:59

Yep.

• 49:00

And then I also have cargo.

• 49:02

And I believe I remember you saying you picked up a bunch of...

• 49:07

Rubies?

• 49:08

Candles and a couple of crates.

• 49:11

Now, the crates are a mystery, so I'll walk you through how to find out what goes in them.

• 49:17

We did it.

• 49:18

Yes.

• 49:19

We've done it.

• 49:20

Should I dismount?

• 49:21

Yeah, get off that thing.

• 49:22

All right.

• 49:23

Great work, everybody.

• 49:24

Well done, everyone.

• 49:25

Beautiful.

• 49:26

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

• 49:27

Now, where are we going to go to turn this stuff in?

• 49:28

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

• 49:29

caravan master.

• 49:30

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

• 49:31

Okay.

• 49:32

If you want to go to the caravan master, we're going to go to the caravan master.

• 49:33

Okay.

• 49:34

If you want to go to the caravan master, we're going to go to the caravan master.

• 49:35

Okay.

• 49:36

If you want to go to the caravan master, we're going to go to the caravan master.

• 49:37

If you want to go to the caravan master, we're going to go to the caravan master.

• 49:38

Okay.

• 49:39

If you want to go to the caravan master, we're going to turn this stuff in.

• 49:40

First thing we're going to do, come back this way, we're going to talk to the caravan

• 49:41

master.

• 49:42

Okay.

• 49:43

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

• 49:47

If you open that up and switch to the storage of the caravan you have here, you'll see the

• 49:51

goods are still in there.

• 49:53

Do you see the goods in there, Steve?

• 49:55

Cargo storage, yes, I do.

• 49:57

So you're going to, part of the change is

• 50:00

that when you land a caravan, it doesn't automatically flood the node's cargo with

• 50:07

the stuff that it needed.

• 50:07

that was on your caravan it stays on the caravan as additional cargo storage okay um so what you're

• 50:13

going to do if you notice there's a couple of crates i think they're two by ones in there i

• 50:18

see those so you're gonna medium crates you're gonna right click that okay oh look at that

• 50:25

there's some basalt in these so what you can do is unpack that crate which is going to move the

• 50:30

goods that were in there into your material inventory but um unpacking takes time so

• 50:37

they're going to be locked uh for a period of time okay so i won't see them in my you will see

• 50:43

them in your material inventory but you won't be able to take them out uh so if you want to go

• 50:47

ahead and unpack it you can tab over to the material inventory and check it out just show

• 50:50

up there later because it's not showing up there now uh did you hit the unpack button

• 50:53

oh i did not oh good call thank you so sorry

• 50:59

oh that was good that was good okay all right so they're locked right now

• 51:06

oh

• 51:07

okay so in five minutes i can access them yep now that timer scales with how the node progresses

• 51:11

um that's actually an extremely fast unpacking time um but typically it's going to be on the

• 51:17

scale of days okay very cool um and then what about these everburn scented candles those are

• 51:24

commodities you're gonna be able to sell that to the commodity man oh do i put those where in the

• 51:28

storage uh you can just leave it you can just leave them right there i can show you come on

• 51:32

this way all right sweet sweet sweet

• 51:37

and now obviously the unpacked unpack time fees everything associated with it

• 51:42

those are all options that you can choose to manipulate within a node

• 51:46

so you can make your node kind of the you know hub for trade or for landing caravans and whatnot

• 51:52

depending on the options that the cities choose exactly so if you go ahead and talk to this vendor

• 51:57

here okay uh it should open up your storage as well and if you go to cargo

• 52:05

oops all right go to cargo

• 52:07

and check out your cargo and mirror left done um you should be able to sell those commodities

• 52:13

to this gentleman straight from your caravan inventory if you scroll down to the bottom

• 52:17

of your cargo inventory there it is yes very nice okay cool hold on let me fix that guys remember

• 52:25

ui is a work in progress right now this is very functional not playable um okay so i

• 52:32

see a bunch of these i can sell them right now uh what am i selling them for oh you're selling them

• 52:37

gold you stole another man's uh potential gold

• 52:41

i recovered them they stole it from us to begin with that's right oh sure sure sure

• 52:45

yeah we're the good guys chris do i right click those to sell right click them to sell them um

• 52:51

this is functionality we showed in the last live stream it's just they're not they weren't

• 52:54

yours to begin with now i see when i right click it it it opens up the crate and inside

• 53:00

i see nothing that could be a bug that's a bug that could be a bug guys you're gonna see some bugs

• 53:07

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

• 53:09

Yes.

• 53:10

I want you to, while you're talking to this vendor,

• 53:12

in your inventory, your player inventory,

• 53:16

you should have those stolen goods

• 53:20

that you got from the crate that you opened up.

• 53:21

Oh, yes.

• 53:22

So, if you talk to this gentleman and hover over it,

• 53:26

it'll tell you how much they sell for to the commodity vendor.

• 53:29

But don't sell them.

• 53:32

Yeah, we know a guy, Steven.

• 53:33

Now, I'm talking to this vendor,

• 53:38

and do I just hover over them in my backpack?

• 53:42

Yep.

• 53:43

Sell price, it says, is zero.

• 53:45

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

• 53:50

How dare this man?

• 53:51

We've got a guy. Come follow me.

• 53:52

Yeah, we got a guy.

• 53:54

Oh, he doesn't trade in stolen goods.

• 53:56

Yeah, he's a reputable vendor, but...

• 53:59

Okay, all right.

• 54:03

We're looking.

• 54:03

We're looking for somebody over here.

• 54:05

So, this is the new upgraded marketplace here in Miraleth.

• 54:09

Now, as we kind of briefly mentioned,

• 54:11

there are upgrade paths to the marketplace.

• 54:14

Now, this one's been expanded.

• 54:16

So, if you follow me into this little back alley

• 54:18

and into this little outhouse...

• 54:21

Oh.

• 54:24

We've found the black market.

• 54:27

My goodness.

• 54:30

Ophelia Blackwater.

• 54:33

Okay.

• 54:33

Now, this...

• 54:33

Now, this was because this is an expansion

• 54:35

that Miraleth has in their market.

• 54:37

Correct, yeah.

• 54:38

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

• 54:41

and it's a part of the expansion tree,

• 54:43

so it's a choice you can make on your marketplace

• 54:45

to be where bandits take their stuff.

• 54:48

So, I'm going to right-click on the stolen commodities?

• 54:50

Yep.

• 54:53

Oh, okay.

• 54:54

It just gave me some gold.

• 54:57

Very nice.

• 55:00

I've sold it.

• 55:01

And now you have to pay us all,

• 55:03

so everyone line up to get traded.

• 55:04

All right, yep.

• 55:05

Where's my cut?

• 55:05

Oh, yeah.

• 55:06

Everybody line up.

• 55:08

All right, a little bit line up there.

• 55:10

A little bit.

• 55:11

All right, well done.

• 55:12

And then just wait here.

• 55:13

I'll be right back.

• 55:14

Oh, no, no, wait.

• 55:14

Let me...

• 55:14

Block the door.

• 55:16

Oh, no.

• 55:17

Okay, I'll be back.

• 55:18

You guys stay there.

• 55:20

Ladies and gentlemen,

• 55:22

we have just seen some PvP.

• 55:25

We've seen some whitewater rafting.

• 55:28

We've seen some caravan events.

• 55:31

And we've had a great time.

• 55:33

A little bit of some bugs, obviously.

• 55:35

This is still our road to Alpha 2,

• 55:37

so that's to be expected.

• 55:39

But I do want to thank, obviously, our developers

• 55:42

for joining us and explaining everything,

• 55:44

our testers for helping participate,

• 55:46

so that we're able to kind of show off all of these systems.

• 55:49

And as a reminder, of course,

• 55:51

I know I can't say this enough,

• 55:53

as we continue to progress towards Alpha 2,

• 55:56

you will continue to see polish be done,

• 55:59

bugs get fixed, stability be fixed,

• 56:01

quality improve, performance improve.

• 56:03

Right now we are on that road.

• 56:05

We have just come off of heavy development

• 56:08

of our feature and core systems,

• 56:10

our features and core systems.

• 56:12

And now we're going to be refining that.

• 56:14

We're going to be tightening that loop

• 56:15

and we're going to be fixing things up

• 56:17

so that we can get a lot of people in game

• 56:19

and start testing these systems.

• 56:21

I hope you guys enjoyed today.

• 56:23

We had a lot of fun doing it.

• 56:25

And there's a lot of stuff still yet to show.

• 56:27

But with that being said,

• 56:29

thank you all for joining me.

• 56:31

And thank you for watching.

• 56:34

We'll see you back on stream.

• 56:36

Bye.

• 56:42

Hello, everyone.

• 56:44

Welcome back.

• 56:45

We do have quite a few questions,

• 56:47

but it looks like most people really enjoyed it.

• 56:49

I will be playing it in the background whilst we chat.

• 56:52

Despite the odds of our team being severely outnumbered,

• 56:58

we managed to overcome

• 57:00

that just completely imbalanced set up

• 57:03

with the defending team and defeated them.

• 57:07

I hope you guys enjoyed that demonstration.

• 57:10

It was tough.

• 57:11

I think they couldn't see the everybody

• 57:14

that was battling you.

• 57:17

So they thought the numbers weren't even.

• 57:19

We didn't.

• 57:20

The numbers weren't even.

• 57:21

Purposely so, right?

• 57:22

I mean, guys, remember, part of this demonstration

• 57:25

is to show off certain systems.

• 57:27

So yes, you know, a lot of these things

• 57:29

are kind of run of show.

• 57:31

We're intended to defeat them.

• 57:32

We're intended to take their stuff.

• 57:34

We're intended to transition to the raft.

• 57:36

That's the intent, right?

• 57:38

And so don't get too harsh on the defending side.

• 57:42

They were purposefully outnumbered.

• 57:44

We even changed their composition

• 57:46

not to let them have too many healers.

• 57:48

So it was unfortunate for them.

• 57:51

Yeah.

• 57:53

But we do have quite a few questions.

• 57:55

The first one here is,

• 57:57

how will risk versus reward

• 57:59

be balanced for both the caravan attackers and defenders?

• 58:02

Some folks kind of seemed like they were feeling

• 58:04

like defenders were at a disadvantage.

• 58:07

Yeah, I mean, you know, here's the thing.

• 58:10

Emergent gameplay such as this, right?

• 58:14

Caravans are the induction of emergent gameplay,

• 58:19

which means you cannot predict the situation

• 58:22

you're going to be in when you use a caravan.

• 58:25

That's part of the risk.

• 58:27

The risk is the unknown.

• 58:29

If you could predict it,

• 58:31

then your ability to mitigate that risk

• 58:33

would unfortunately remove that dynamic,

• 58:36

that ratio of risk versus reward.

• 58:39

So you might come into situations

• 58:41

where you didn't anticipate...

• 58:44

Whoops.

• 58:46

Did we lose?

• 58:47

Are we back?

• 58:48

Okay, we're back.

• 58:49

I don't think we're down.

• 58:51

Oh, I was just looking at the chat.

• 58:52

On my end, it's just shown green.

• 58:54

Okay.

• 58:55

So that's weird.

• 58:56

I have no idea.

• 58:57

I think we're still here, so it's fine.

• 58:58

Okay.

• 58:59

So anyways, as I was saying,

• 59:01

you cannot predict the risk.

• 59:03

That is part of the equation, right?

• 59:06

In some cases, you may want to over-provision

• 59:10

depending on how valuable your load is on the caravan, right?

• 59:16

That means it's better to travel with friends.

• 59:20

There might be mercenary guilds that you can bring along.

• 59:22

You can invest more in the components of the caravan

• 59:24

so that it's more defensible, more maneuverable.

• 59:27

You might want to go at unique times

• 59:29

so you can mitigate the potential resistance.

• 59:32

You need to ensure that the flow of traffic