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| 522s | hello everyone and welcome back happy |
| 525s | friday to all of you tuning in |
| 527s | uh if |
| 529s | you haven't been around last week we |
| 530s | kicked off our big |
| 532s | 1.3 update season one festival of ages |
| 536s | and at that time it's here |
| 538s | yeah it's it's here so it went live |
| 540s | yesterday yeah so it was last thursday |
| 542s | we were talking about this is coming |
| 543s | soon and it's coming next week and now |
| 545s | this week is that week because you know |
| 547s | what time does it just disappears from |
| 548s | us all uh so it's here |
| 551s | you've hopefully been in game and |
| 553s | checked it out already a little bit uh |
| 556s | before we do that uh first of all i'm |
| 558s | grant one of the community managers here |
| 560s | at relic entertainment uh working on aj |
| 562s | empire's four though you probably know |
| 564s | and then beside me on screen is elliott |
| 568s | hello |
| 569s | and yeah so first off thank you for |
| 571s | joining us and |
| 573s | continuing along last week we are going |
| 575s | to be talking more about one three as we |
| 579s | have our version 1.3 stream series we've |
| 581s | kicked off last week uh so that was the |
| 583s | first one we're going to be having these |
| 585s | every friday where possible |
| 587s | with the exception holidays next week we |
| 589s | are not here on friday so we'll be back |
| 592s | in two weeks after this stream but we're |
| 593s | gonna be doing these and there's gonna |
| 594s | be a variety of content different guests |
| 597s | from the different teams here at relic |
| 599s | watching elliott play some ranked |
| 601s | watching probably myself go through some |
| 602s | of the challenges coming later in |
| 604s | seasons so it's gonna be it's gonna be a |
| 606s | fun time uh but we'll get more to those |
| 609s | a little bit later in the stream we can |
| 610s | chat about it but also we'll see those |
| 612s | in future streams |
| 614s | uh |
| 615s | for the 1.3 update the whole the full |
| 618s | patch notes and they are quite long |
| 620s | elliot can attest to how long they are |
| 624s | yeah |
| 625s | it's like 11 000 words give or take they |
| 628s | are yeah |
| 630s | like no small fee getting that compiled |
| 633s | i am sure um |
| 634s | yeah the whole team put you know |
| 636s | full credit to the dev team like we we |
| 638s | put notes as we're writing like anything |
| 640s | that gets put into the game they put |
| 641s | notes for us so that we can uh pull from |
| 643s | them and you know that's why there's so |
| 644s | many developers notes and throughout the |
| 646s | whole um update so if you have any |
| 648s | chance to take a look it is on |
| 650s | the website it took an hour for me to |
| 652s | read the full patch note it took us a |
| 654s | while to get all the patch notes on |
| 655s | there so um it was like there's a reason |
| 658s | why this is called the season one update |
| 659s | now not only have we included the |
| 661s | content editor uh season starts next |
| 664s | week um a bunch of like quality life |
| 666s | fixes and massive balance changes so um |
| 669s | there's a reason for all so yeah |
| 671s | yeah there's so much stuff in there and |
| 673s | again if you haven't you can check out |
| 675s | on the age of empires website on the |
| 676s | blog there the |
| 678s | main post which talks a little bit about |
| 680s | see what seasons and what this update is |
| 682s | as a whole and then there are also sub |
| 683s | posts where you can |
| 684s | dig in learn a bit more about the ugc |
| 686s | content editor about what seasons mean |
| 688s | as well as those massive massive long |
| 690s | patch notes uh update notes there that |
| 692s | elliott has talked about all of it's |
| 693s | super exciting but |
| 695s | today this stream is actually the second |
| 698s | of our of our one three ones and we're |
| 701s | gonna be jumping into talking about that |
| 702s | content editor uh the age of empires |
| 704s | four content editor which is launching |
| 706s | in beta uh |
| 707s | and it is |
| 709s | just a great way to customize your game |
| 711s | to make changes to do |
| 713s | kind of make the game what you want and |
| 714s | to make |
| 715s | all sorts of stuff so we're going to |
| 717s | take a deeper look into ugc for that as |
| 720s | well as a bit of the mega random map as |
| 722s | well and what went into that |
| 724s | and yeah |
| 726s | exciting times and we've got some |
| 727s | special guests with us today as well so |
| 730s | we this is as i mentioned we're going to |
| 731s | have different guests from time to time |
| 733s | for some of these discussion streams |
| 735s | uh this time let me just get them on |
| 737s | camera here |
| 739s | get just a note to these people on |
| 740s | stream you're going to be on live all |
| 742s | right so there we go we have michael |
| 744s | konkin a game designer heads up yes just |
| 747s | a heads up you know you're live be |
| 748s | presentable now we got michael konkin |
| 749s | here he was with us last week as well |
| 751s | he's one of the game designers and we |
| 752s | have nick taylor who is a map designer |
| 755s | so welcome both of you thank you so much |
| 758s | for joining us thanks for having us oh |
| 760s | yeah thanks for having us on |
| 763s | awesome so call can yeah he was here |
| 765s | from last week you might know that face |
| 766s | and nick's going to be talking to us a |
| 768s | little bit about |
| 770s | mega random maps and all of that uh |
| 773s | full guns nick |
| 774s | oh thanks yeah oh yeah wow all right |
| 778s | and kanken a little bit later we're |
| 780s | gonna talk a lot about ugc highlighting |
| 783s | some of the stuff that's out there as |
| 784s | well as |
| 786s | how it works uh |
| 787s | but i think we're going to kick things |
| 789s | off with nick here |
| 793s | all right |
| 794s | so uh yeah you brought me on to talk |
| 796s | about maps what are we talking about |
| 799s | probably maps i think uh |
| 802s | yeah yeah i mean so yeah i guess i mean |
| 805s | you know we can start off with uh the |
| 807s | fact that you know i just want to thank |
| 808s | everybody for posting map seeds and like |
| 811s | whenever you see weird map generation |
| 813s | issues we you know we scour the internet |
| 815s | looking for all these things to help |
| 817s | improve uh the map generation you know |
| 819s | like all of those like weird discord map |
| 822s | rng photo you know compilations like i i |
| 825s | see you and you are important thank you |
| 828s | so much you are helping improve the maps |
| 830s | over time we we will always keep |
| 832s | iterating so yeah huge shout out to |
| 834s | everyone who keeps sending in weird maps |
| 838s | and not only that like we had so many |
| 840s | map changes and updates with the big |
| 842s | season update and not only that we also |
| 844s | included a couple of new maps too right |
| 847s | so |
| 847s | um or at least new map sorry um so |
| 851s | with that as nick was saying every time |
| 853s | you guys provide feedback we followed it |
| 855s | over to nick and his team |
| 857s | and we |
| 858s | yeah that's why all the changes happen |
| 861s | but that's not why |
| 863s | we're here to talk about what has |
| 865s | happened let's talk about what was done |
| 867s | in the update um why did i kick things |
| 869s | off first with |
| 870s | um just like just once like the maps |
| 873s | that we overhauled and update based on |
| 875s | feedback you want to talk a little bit |
| 876s | about like maybe black forest king of |
| 877s | the hill |
| 878s | uh yeah yeah sure so you know |
| 880s | between every patch we're always looking |
| 882s | at the maps that we have released and |
| 885s | you know where people are finding you |
| 887s | know maybe the rng is too crazy or you |
| 889s | know the map just isn't really working |
| 891s | the way people want it to um so you know |
| 893s | we love going back and doing overhauls |
| 895s | of maps to make them work better uh you |
| 897s | know black forest is a good example uh |
| 898s | we tried taking out the sacred sites uh |
| 900s | we you know found out that didn't really |
| 902s | work as well as we thought it might uh |
| 905s | so you know happy to put them back in um |
| 907s | and and we'll probably be you know |
| 908s | continuing to iterate on black forest as |
| 910s | we go forward uh king of the hill is |
| 912s | another really great example um so you |
| 914s | know the the base concept was you know |
| 917s | here's you know sacred site a bunch of |
| 918s | resources up in the hill with less wood |
| 920s | around uh which you know in theory works |
| 924s | but our initial implementation obviously |
| 926s | had you know some issues people may have |
| 928s | seen that you know not as much wood |
| 930s | could be generated for one player as as |
| 932s | for the other uh so you know we went |
| 934s | back in there |
| 935s | take a look at you know what the main |
| 936s | feedback was and and did a big overhaul |
| 939s | of the map to make sure that that the |
| 941s | core sort of principle of it uh remained |
| 944s | but then we could smooth out all of the |
| 946s | the issues that people were having so |
| 947s | now everybody has the exact same kind of |
| 950s | like access to a big ring of wood around |
| 952s | the edge of the map and we made sure |
| 954s | that the top of the hill is nice and |
| 956s | symmetrical so you know each person has |
| 959s | a way up um and all the resources that |
| 962s | spawn up there are mirrored and the |
| 964s | sacred site is right in the middle um |
| 966s | and you know we're always looking at |
| 968s | which maps uh need that kind of overhaul |
| 970s | that kind of love you know you saw with |
| 972s | uh danny river back in the day and uh |
| 975s | you know ancient spires i've got my eyes |
| 977s | on you so keep an eye out for that i |
| 979s | know you're a little crazy right now |
| 985s | all right awesome uh definitely exciting |
| 987s | to see that and i don't i know chat i |
| 989s | saw someone saying that they really like |
| 990s | the new king of the hill they're like oh |
| 992s | elliot's gone |
| 994s | ellie disappeared what happened |
| 996s | i'm here i just got a one second all |
| 998s | right okay i just saw your webcam |
| 1000s | disappeared i'm like okay this is life |
| 1002s | this is the life of having a toddler in |
| 1003s | the household so we're good we're good |
| 1005s | now |
| 1007s | all right uh yeah so that's definitely |
| 1009s | some of the map overhauls there |
| 1011s | and again this is |
| 1013s | thanks to feedback from all of you from |
| 1015s | all of you and chat from all of you |
| 1016s | playing all of you in the forums again |
| 1018s | do you want to say if you're not a part |
| 1020s | of the age of empires forums you should |
| 1021s | definitely sign up go over there you can |
| 1024s | share your feedback this is what helps |
| 1026s | our team so so much we also have a |
| 1028s | discord uh |
| 1029s | we don't necessarily moderate discord in |
| 1031s | this or monitor in the same sense we do |
| 1032s | for bugs or for reports there we keep an |
| 1034s | eye on what's going on but the best spot |
| 1036s | for that is the forums because if |
| 1038s | someone has a thread already about what |
| 1039s | you want to talk about you can |
| 1040s | definitely respond we can see hey |
| 1041s | there's a lot of volume people are |
| 1043s | passionate about this change they want |
| 1044s | to see this happen and that's kind of |
| 1047s | what we end up sharing with the team our |
| 1048s | team also does |
| 1050s | scour them themselves as well they like |
| 1051s | keeping an eye on what's going on in the |
| 1053s | community |
| 1055s | yeah we're learning uh |
| 1057s | yeah |
| 1058s | yeah we're there we said we we are |
| 1059s | looking at reddit and socials as |
| 1061s | grandson like forums is our main bread |
| 1063s | and butter but you know |
| 1065s | can't expect everybody to be on there so |
| 1067s | we're also on reddit mostly me you guys |
| 1070s | you guys see me in reddit |
| 1072s | always always yeah totally totally being |
| 1075s | efficient with my time surfing through |
| 1077s | reddit right like that's the that's the |
| 1078s | dream right anyway so um another thing |
| 1081s | that i want to ask nick is that um |
| 1083s | obviously with the map overhauls we did |
| 1085s | for update uh this pre-season one update |
| 1088s | um one of the things i know that we |
| 1089s | worked on was the resource spawning |
| 1091s | right we did some hefty work on that so |
| 1093s | if you want to go a little bit into that |
| 1095s | yeah yeah for sure so um we've been |
| 1097s | collecting feedback uh around you know |
| 1100s | resource spawning uh map fairness uh |
| 1102s | basically since the game came out um and |
| 1104s | we had uh some some really really |
| 1106s | helpful community members come to us |
| 1108s | after the first couple tournaments uh |
| 1110s | telling us you know like hey these are |
| 1112s | some of the the issues that we were |
| 1113s | seeing when we were trying to find good |
| 1114s | tournament seeds you know how uh you |
| 1116s | know can we try to at least get the 1v1 |
| 1119s | resource spawning into a better place |
| 1121s | and so you know we took that really |
| 1122s | seriously uh we saw that you know there |
| 1124s | were things like relics that were |
| 1126s | spawning really disproportionately uh |
| 1128s | around the map um and you know gold |
| 1130s | deposits stone deposits that sort of |
| 1131s | thing especially on divided maps you |
| 1133s | know if you look at like mongolian |
| 1134s | heights or mountain pass there's like |
| 1137s | maps that are split into two distinct |
| 1139s | areas right and so as soon as you have |
| 1141s | an odd number of anything spawning uh it |
| 1144s | becomes really impossible to to say like |
| 1146s | hey there's exactly even numbers of |
| 1148s | things on both sides right um so we did |
| 1150s | a big big pass on everything to ensure |
| 1153s | or at least to try to ensure that uh you |
| 1156s | know divided maps like that are much |
| 1157s | more even so uh on a lot of those maps |
| 1160s | like you saw in the patch notes um we've |
| 1162s | bumped up the relic count from five to |
| 1164s | six for 1v1s um just to make sure on |
| 1166s | those maps that you know there's three |
| 1168s | relics sort of per side um and it's it's |
| 1171s | kind of difficult like if i had like a |
| 1172s | whiteboard or something it would be it'd |
| 1173s | be easier to explain but like say you've |
| 1175s | got you know mountain pass you've got |
| 1176s | the map split down the middle and maybe |
| 1178s | the choke point opening is is near the |
| 1180s | bottom right if you've got one player |
| 1182s | that spawns kind of near the bottom on |
| 1184s | his side of the map and one player that |
| 1186s | spawns kind of |
| 1187s | further away from the choke point on the |
| 1188s | other side of the map how we uh |
| 1190s | calculate where to place things uh is is |
| 1193s | based on how far pathfinding wise uh |
| 1196s | everything is from the initial starting |
| 1198s | town centers so if we're wanting to |
| 1200s | place relics right in between players if |
| 1203s | one player is kind of closer to the |
| 1204s | opening then their sort of midpoint |
| 1207s | between the other player will actually |
| 1208s | be on the other side of that that choke |
| 1211s | point right so it's it's uh it becomes |
| 1213s | much more like a fine-tuning numbers |
| 1215s | game per map to say like okay hey um you |
| 1219s | know we need to actually like pull |
| 1220s | things in to one side to make sure that |
| 1222s | uh you know all of the things that you |
| 1224s | should have on your side are actually on |
| 1226s | your side and not like sort of just |
| 1228s | right smack in the middle because the |
| 1230s | middle might be on you know a divided |
| 1232s | side of the map it's the same on like |
| 1234s | mongolian heights if you look at where |
| 1236s | the river is um we we saw the same sort |
| 1238s | of thing on uh on nagari because you |
| 1240s | know you could have things on one side |
| 1241s | of the lake or once at the mountain |
| 1242s | range um and that's something that we're |
| 1244s | constantly looking at in tuning um so |
| 1247s | you know i i fully expect to see uh more |
| 1249s | more images of like |
| 1251s | uh oh no i got like four relics on my |
| 1254s | side because one guy's like right beside |
| 1255s | the opening on mountain path uh we're |
| 1257s | going to keep working on that um |
| 1259s | hopefully |
| 1261s | right that we said earlier that if |
| 1262s | you've got the mapses if you've run into |
| 1264s | where there's wonky |
| 1266s | generation please post it so that we can |
| 1269s | track and see um it's something that |
| 1270s | like said super valuable for your team |
| 1273s | to be able to dig into right |
| 1277s | yeah yeah one that that i saw today or |
| 1280s | yesterday or something like that was |
| 1281s | mega random and some of the weird like |
| 1284s | geological islands that will appear and |
| 1287s | and people were combining that with uh |
| 1288s | the nomad game mode and and putting |
| 1291s | their starting tc there was pretty great |
| 1293s | awesome |
| 1295s | i mean it's called mega random for a |
| 1296s | reason |
| 1297s | yeah i feel like it's a perfect segue |
| 1299s | because i think we want to ask nick a |
| 1302s | little bit about mega random you know |
| 1303s | it's something that has been uh kind of |
| 1305s | a hallmark map and previous age titles |
| 1307s | how did how was mega random built for h1 |
| 1310s | press four you know yeah so mega random |
| 1313s | has has been something of like a passion |
| 1315s | project of mine going back to probably |
| 1317s | like mid-2018 or something it's been in |
| 1319s | the works for a long time um and it was |
| 1321s | one of those things where like as we |
| 1323s | were building all the all the map |
| 1324s | generation systems for age four you know |
| 1326s | we you know we'd get cliff tech in be |
| 1329s | like oh okay i'm gonna add cliffs to |
| 1330s | mega random an hour you know we got we |
| 1332s | got lakes and it's like okay i'm gonna |
| 1333s | add function to make lakes and mega |
| 1335s | random now and so it was always kind of |
| 1337s | this this |
| 1338s | iterative process of continuously kind |
| 1340s | of like building more and more options |
| 1342s | onto one map that could just kind of do |
| 1345s | whatever um but of course you know it |
| 1347s | can't do whatever because then you know |
| 1350s | you might get a map that's just in one |
| 1352s | giant mountain and then it's not |
| 1354s | playable uh so of course it's it's mega |
| 1356s | random |
| 1357s | constrained asterisk you know like mega |
| 1360s | random but |
| 1361s | playable mega random at least that's |
| 1363s | been the goal so you know there there |
| 1365s | have been a ton of uh sort of iterations |
| 1367s | of it uh over the years where you know |
| 1370s | we sort of start with it's it's kind of |
| 1372s | like if you imagine a big flow chart |
| 1374s | right it's like trying to |
| 1376s | paint a picture but then you're telling |
| 1378s | a computer how to paint a picture but |
| 1380s | you're telling the computer how to paint |
| 1382s | a picture but start from here and don't |
| 1385s | do all of these things um and it's it's |
| 1388s | it's an interesting process so you know |
| 1390s | we we start at the top and say like okay |
| 1392s | what kind of map do we want do we want |
| 1393s | you know like at an open map do we want |
| 1396s | to you know a chokepointy map do we want |
| 1397s | a naval map um what do we want and then |
| 1400s | you know i can assign a weight to all |
| 1401s | those things and so then it goes down |
| 1403s | through the flow chart okay say we want |
| 1404s | an open map now uh you know what what do |
| 1407s | the sides of the map want to look like |
| 1408s | you know do we want to have an ocean on |
| 1409s | one side do we want to have a lake on |
| 1411s | one side do we want to have a big forest |
| 1412s | on one side um and there's there's you |
| 1415s | know there's different options with all |
| 1416s | the different you know weight |
| 1417s | percentages for all of those things so |
| 1419s | even even just from there you can have a |
| 1421s | pretty different looking map depending |
| 1423s | on just those those opening choices um |
| 1425s | and you know then from there we keep |
| 1427s | going down and say like okay um you know |
| 1429s | we want to make a choice do we want |
| 1430s | rivers on this map um you know yes or no |
| 1432s | flip coin um and if we do want rivers |
| 1434s | how many do we want and then if we do |
| 1436s | want rivers do we want bridges on those |
| 1438s | rivers do we want fords on those rivers |
| 1439s | and we keep making all these decisions |
| 1440s | as it goes down right um |
| 1443s | and so in the end uh the resulting mega |
| 1446s | random map is is sort of a a culmination |
| 1449s | of all of these different decisions that |
| 1451s | have been made um and then you know i |
| 1453s | generate like 100 of them and i go and |
| 1455s | look and see you know like |
| 1457s | okay out of all these decisions like |
| 1459s | which which decision tree ended up in |
| 1461s | something like really unfair or like is |
| 1463s | there is there some way that i can kind |
| 1464s | of sand off the the rough edges here and |
| 1467s | that's what a lot of the iteration time |
| 1468s | on mega random was um you know going in |
| 1470s | and seeing like okay you know if i have |
| 1472s | a lake chance for for a given terrain |
| 1475s | square to be at like 30 percent maybe |
| 1477s | that just totally floods the map and |
| 1478s | there's no you know playable buildable |
| 1480s | space so i've got to turn that down uh |
| 1482s | or you know like oh maybe one player |
| 1484s | spawns on like this weird little island |
| 1485s | and the other three players have the |
| 1487s | whole rest of the map okay that's no |
| 1489s | good i should probably go in and you |
| 1490s | know make a a pathable uh route between |
| 1493s | every player's town center and the |
| 1494s | middle of the map if it's set to be like |
| 1496s | an open style map um or you know like if |
| 1499s | it's set to be a chokepoint style map |
| 1501s | like is there only one choke can that be |
| 1503s | you know like clumped up with trees like |
| 1504s | i better make sure that the chokepoint |
| 1506s | opening is like a piece of train that |
| 1508s | can you know push the trees away to make |
| 1510s | sure that people go through uh stuff |
| 1512s | like this so it's it's always kind of |
| 1514s | like this this combination of looking at |
| 1516s | all of the options and then generating a |
| 1518s | whole bunch seeing what's unfair and |
| 1521s | then you know um making |
| 1523s | very specific additions to ensure that |
| 1526s | um you know the the randomness is kind |
| 1529s | of constrained in in a healthy way um |
| 1531s | and you know i'm sure it's been out for |
| 1533s | what like a day there's there's probably |
| 1535s | a ton of people that have found crazy |
| 1537s | unbalanced mega random maps already uh |
| 1540s | send them my way |
| 1541s | um you know we want to make mega right |
| 1543s | of a fun playable experience that's a |
| 1544s | great thing to see because i do see |
| 1545s | someone in chat was like how do you |
| 1547s | balance mega random and as you mentioned |
| 1548s | you run through your your sequence of |
| 1550s | like what works what can you take out |
| 1551s | that makes it too far but there's always |
| 1554s | going to be these edge cases that we run |
| 1555s | into and this is the thing of at scale |
| 1557s | as players are playing these if they |
| 1558s | find one again the seeds are super |
| 1559s | important send them our way we make sure |
| 1561s | we can take a look at them and again |
| 1563s | continue to improve that's that's what |
| 1565s | we do here |
| 1567s | like like is mega random as fair as the |
| 1570s | other maps or is it a bit more volatile |
| 1572s | but that's kind of |
| 1573s | part of the fun |
| 1574s | it's it's definitely a bit more volatile |
| 1576s | like there are specific things that are |
| 1579s | in there like you know there's a chance |
| 1581s | for a square to like just spawn like 10 |
| 1583s | deer on it um |
| 1585s | and that square can be in a lot of |
| 1586s | places so you know maybe if you're |
| 1588s | playing ruse and you get a spawn like |
| 1590s | that it's like oh hey my bounty is done |
| 1592s | um so yeah it's definitely a little more |
| 1595s | uneven |
| 1596s | in the balance than than some other maps |
| 1598s | but i think that for you know for custom |
| 1600s | games and stuff that that really adds to |
| 1601s | the fun of it where you know you load in |
| 1603s | and suddenly like i've like got this |
| 1605s | little protected corner of a bunch of |
| 1606s | gold what'll i do with this um |
| 1610s | but that said uh all of these sort of |
| 1612s | regular resource balancing constraints |
| 1614s | are still in there so like where the |
| 1615s | holy sites or sacred sites go that uh |
| 1618s | that constraint is the same as it is in |
| 1620s | like dry arabia or any other map um you |
| 1623s | know like where we're placing like the |
| 1624s | the neutral markets and and the regular |
| 1626s | deposits and all that kind of stuff |
| 1628s | that's still all using the same uh sort |
| 1630s | of balanced resource distribution that |
| 1632s | we're using through the rest of the |
| 1633s | procedural maps um so it's it's really |
| 1636s | kind of a nice showcase of the fact that |
| 1638s | we've built these systems that can be so |
| 1640s | kind of like arbitrary to the terrain |
| 1642s | that it can make somehow kind of |
| 1646s | balanced maps even when all the |
| 1647s | parameters are so ridiculously off the |
| 1650s | wall um but you know obviously there's |
| 1652s | there's room for tuning everywhere and |
| 1654s | and we're going to keep adding weirdness |
| 1656s | to make a random as we go on there's if |
| 1658s | you look into the lua code if you're |
| 1659s | modding uh there's there's some fun like |
| 1662s | weird layouts that you can get like 0.02 |
| 1665s | percent of the time and stuff like that |
| 1667s | so so we'll we'll keep uh we'll keep |
| 1669s | adding to it |
| 1672s | that's a good segue isn't it to talk a |
| 1674s | little bit about the content editor yeah |
| 1678s | i think we can we can make our way over |
| 1680s | to the content editor there yeah uh all |
| 1683s | right let's one quick yes i was going to |
| 1685s | say nick before we like before we switch |
| 1687s | over if there's anything else you want |
| 1688s | to continue on just to |
| 1690s | because i know you were definitely a |
| 1691s | chat sees too you're very passionate |
| 1692s | about this and it's great to hear from |
| 1693s | you yeah i i like maps a lot um so i you |
| 1697s | know we we watch the forums we see what |
| 1699s | you're saying |
| 1700s | we know team games are too big right now |
| 1702s | we know that um |
| 1704s | and we we are working on it it's |
| 1707s | unfortunately not as easy as just like |
| 1709s | you know changing like you know just put |
| 1711s | eight players on large like it's just a |
| 1713s | chick box right no it's it's |
| 1715s | unfortunately not that easy um you know |
| 1717s | we've got to go through and check every |
| 1718s | single map find it a whole bunch make |
| 1720s | sure there's not like weird overlapping |
| 1722s | resources or players spawning like right |
| 1723s | on top of each other or like you know |
| 1726s | mountains disappearing because there's |
| 1728s | an extra player there now that needs |
| 1729s | space to build things um so so there is |
| 1731s | a process there it takes a bit of |
| 1733s | iteration you know gotta look at every |
| 1735s | every map every team combination every |
| 1737s | number of players uh but we hear you |
| 1740s | we're working on it yep yeah it's a work |
| 1742s | in progress i know you and the team are |
| 1744s | investigating and looking into that so |
| 1746s | uh while we don't have a definitive |
| 1748s | update right now obviously nick and team |
| 1750s | are looking into it so |
| 1752s | as soon as we do know it's on course for |
| 1756s | uh rolling it out to the community we'll |
| 1758s | let everybody know but for the time |
| 1760s | being uh we do thank you for that |
| 1762s | feedback and we are going to be like i |
| 1764s | said looking into it so |
| 1767s | yeah |
| 1768s | all right |
| 1771s | so i think elliot as you mentioned it's |
| 1772s | probably a good time to make our way |
| 1774s | over to the next guest here thank you |
| 1776s | nick for that and you're definitely |
| 1778s | you're |
| 1779s | happy to |
| 1793s | as you talk about maps i think it'd be |
| 1794s | great to have nick chime in on uh some |
| 1797s | hot tips on how to uh |
| 1800s | make great maps yeah also i wanted to |
| 1802s | shout out befriend a beef who's going to |
| 1804s | make a hyper random mod that |
| 1806s | is basically mega random but but doesn't |
| 1809s | do any any smart stuff i saw that in |
| 1811s | chat |
| 1813s | i saw that this is amazing |
| 1815s | hyper random chaos random i don't know |
| 1817s | it's like yeah what was it a one percent |
| 1818s | chance of like anything happening on any |
| 1820s | tile |
| 1821s | yeah yeah now it's impossible i would |
| 1823s | love to try it |
| 1824s | yeah that would that would be like |
| 1826s | beyond chaos uh yeah |
| 1828s | and so this next section i did see |
| 1830s | someone in chat earlier asked what ugc |
| 1832s | is it stands for user generated content |
| 1834s | also known as mods in this case and that |
| 1836s | coincides with the aj empire's four |
| 1838s | content editor beta here which is kind |
| 1840s | of our next discussion point |
| 1841s | this was |
| 1843s | a huge thing i know a lot of people in |
| 1845s | the community have been super super |
| 1846s | looking forward to it super excited |
| 1847s | because it means you can customize the |
| 1849s | game |
| 1849s | uh in |
| 1851s | so many different ways |
| 1853s | and realistically it's whatever way you |
| 1854s | can imagine this came out with our one |
| 1857s | three update as well the season one |
| 1859s | festival of ages and |
| 1861s | yeah i think we can dive a little bit |
| 1864s | more into what this means with michael |
| 1866s | conkin here |
| 1868s | and what the editor does there's yeah uh |
| 1870s | i don't know if you want to hop into |
| 1871s | that concern or i can go over the kinds |
| 1872s | of content that you can make with it but |
| 1874s | you're welcome to |
| 1876s | hop in as well |
| 1877s | yeah i'll jump in so yeah we launched um |
| 1880s | the content editor this week it's been |
| 1883s | amazing so far |
| 1884s | um so many mods we were watching like in |
| 1887s | real time as as people were uploading |
| 1889s | their mods and a lot of those were |
| 1891s | actually built ahead of time people |
| 1892s | weren't making these in like five |
| 1894s | minutes they were built in the public |
| 1895s | update preview um but we're still seeing |
| 1898s | new ones roll in and people are are |
| 1900s | updating their mods and making |
| 1901s | modifications so that's really really |
| 1902s | cool to see |
| 1904s | um we have a really good documentation |
| 1907s | website that maybe maybe we can link in |
| 1909s | chat and yeah people can take a look at |
| 1911s | that as well definitely link in chat i |
| 1912s | have that i will get that in there and |
| 1913s | i've just got it on the screen as well |
| 1915s | very briefly in just a second as soon as |
| 1917s | this transitions over the mod workshop |
| 1919s | you're talking about right yeah and it |
| 1920s | also um it also explains how to actually |
| 1923s | launch the editor because it depends if |
| 1925s | you're on windows store or steam |
| 1927s | but once you get that booted up there's |
| 1928s | kind of a wizard that steps you through |
| 1931s | and and allows you to select what type |
| 1933s | of mod you want to make |
| 1934s | so right now at launch uh you can see we |
| 1937s | have like a getting started section and |
| 1938s | an editor interface and all of all the |
| 1940s | stuff you'd expect out of a tool |
| 1942s | um like this but the the types of mods |
| 1945s | that you can make are crafted maps which |
| 1947s | are uh |
| 1949s | kind of kind of new to age four in the |
| 1952s | sense that all of the maps that we |
| 1953s | shipped with are are called generated |
| 1956s | maps and |
| 1957s | i mean nick could do a better job than |
| 1958s | me explaining how they work but every |
| 1960s | time you select one it will give you |
| 1963s | something new but it'll give you |
| 1964s | something |
| 1965s | on brand i guess is is that a good way |
| 1968s | to say it neck like it'll if there's a |
| 1970s | river down the middle there might always |
| 1972s | be a river but where the bridges are |
| 1973s | might change the mountains and things |
| 1975s | like that yeah yeah so |
| 1977s | um yeah the generator maps are basically |
| 1979s | kind of blueprints for for how you know |
| 1982s | the map should play it essentially |
| 1984s | guarantees kind of an archetype of map |
| 1986s | that you're gonna see um oftentimes a |
| 1988s | bit more constrained than that um for |
| 1990s | you know balance and things but |
| 1992s | essentially the difference is like you |
| 1993s | know if you see something like a |
| 1995s | starcraft map that is the exact same |
| 1996s | every time that is a crafted map but all |
| 1999s | of the generated maps that we uh |
| 2001s | launched with you know like you're |
| 2002s | looking at ancient spires dry arabia |
| 2005s | mongolian knights all those uh they're |
| 2007s | always going to be a bit different uh |
| 2008s | and that's because we don't actually |
| 2010s | have like you know somebody going in and |
| 2012s | like using the level editor to you know |
| 2014s | make the exact like mongolian height |
| 2016s | seed that you're you're seeing it's it's |
| 2019s | all you know data that we put into |
| 2022s | yeah and when you kick off a crafted map |
| 2023s | you have a couple of options you can |
| 2025s | start with one of our generated maps |
| 2027s | that'll give you just like a base to |
| 2028s | work with and then from there you can |
| 2031s | you can drop in buildings you can drop |
| 2032s | in units you can create walls you can |
| 2035s | modify the terrain you can add resources |
| 2038s | you can do a bunch of cool stuff and |
| 2039s | when that map is launched in a |
| 2041s | skirmisher a custom game it's always |
| 2043s | going to start the same it's always |
| 2044s | going to be identical |
| 2046s | and there's a couple of benefits to that |
| 2048s | and a couple of cool things you can do |
| 2049s | like you can add a script on top of it |
| 2052s | that adds objectives and can kind of |
| 2054s | create your own like single player |
| 2056s | campaign mission |
| 2058s | you could have a map dedicated to a game |
| 2060s | mode right like think like dota and the |
| 2063s | three lanes you could do something like |
| 2064s | that the possibilities are kind of |
| 2066s | endless there |
| 2067s | um so that's crafted maps nick did a |
| 2070s | good job of explaining generated |
| 2072s | we also have tuning packs which uh |
| 2075s | like effectively allow you to be your |
| 2078s | own eric and and kind of play balance |
| 2080s | designer um you can tweak a lot of the |
| 2082s | values that are available to um |
| 2086s | just change how the game plays change |
| 2088s | how things look |
| 2090s | and what sort of abilities and things |
| 2092s | buildings and units have |
| 2093s | so that's pretty powerful and then we |
| 2095s | also have game modes which is |
| 2097s | a way to run your own |
| 2100s | lua scripting on top of a multiplayer |
| 2102s | match |
| 2103s | and |
| 2104s | change the wind conditions spawn in |
| 2107s | things change how how basically how the |
| 2110s | simulation behaves |
| 2112s | so that's what we |
| 2113s | had at launch and |
| 2115s | the content editor shipped in beta and |
| 2118s | we're not quite ready to talk about |
| 2119s | what's next but we're definitely |
| 2120s | thinking about about what else we can |
| 2123s | kind of |
| 2124s | polish up and get to you guys |
| 2127s | now |
| 2127s | this question popped up in chat but we |
| 2129s | also have a link for all the tutorials |
| 2133s | and stuff that we've already done from |
| 2134s | our side um obviously there's also a lot |
| 2136s | of |
| 2137s | folks that are doing it like you know we |
| 2139s | did notice that you know what was it |
| 2140s | there's a subreddit that's been spun up |
| 2141s | for the mod scene as well as decor so |
| 2144s | there's going to be plenty of community |
| 2145s | resources as well but one question was |
| 2147s | asked is are are people able to look at |
| 2150s | the little scripts of existing |
| 2152s | generated maps to kind of get |
| 2153s | inspiration or figure out how to create |
| 2155s | their own like is that possible to do |
| 2158s | yeah yeah they have access to the base |
| 2159s | game data so they can take a look at |
| 2161s | that and see how it's done yeah yeah and |
| 2163s | i definitely recommend uh poking around |
| 2165s | in there um you know when we were uh |
| 2167s | trying to finish up all of our generated |
| 2169s | maps um i had like a like a two week |
| 2171s | period of time where i just went in and |
| 2173s | did a bunch of comments all through all |
| 2174s | those so you know you can see exactly |
| 2177s | how we we did you know the river |
| 2178s | spawning and confluence or you know |
| 2180s | making the lakes in in ancient spires |
| 2183s | and all that kind of stuff it's all |
| 2184s | there um so please check it out |
| 2186s | and i'd encourage everyone to give the |
| 2189s | editor a shot it's um it's basically |
| 2191s | like already downloaded on your machine |
| 2193s | you just kind of have to launch it um |
| 2195s | and |
| 2196s | yes it is it is complicated it's a big |
| 2199s | engine but it's so powerful |
| 2200s | and it's also a lot of the types of mods |
| 2202s | that you can make are actually easier |
| 2204s | than you would kind of expect right like |
| 2206s | the fact that you can start with one of |
| 2208s | nick's generated maps |
| 2209s | and and then just like drag and drop |
| 2212s | units and buildings onto it like that's |
| 2213s | that's an awesome place to start and |
| 2215s | just kind of get into the habit of |
| 2217s | building something and seeing it in game |
| 2219s | and and if |
| 2220s | it gets to a spot where you're happy |
| 2221s | with it you can publish it and play with |
| 2222s | people as well |
| 2224s | yeah and on that note too um you know |
| 2226s | starting with with uh one of the maps |
| 2229s | that i wrote for the base game as you |
| 2231s | know a base for your own generated maps |
| 2233s | is also a really great option you know |
| 2235s | if you load up the dry arabia script |
| 2236s | it's it's pretty empty so you can you |
| 2238s | know just start you know plop a mountain |
| 2239s | in the middle and then you've got a |
| 2241s | generated map already you can go from |
| 2242s | there um also if you look in the there's |
| 2245s | like a bunch of like map setup library |
| 2247s | files and um the way that we built mega |
| 2250s | random is actually just using a whole |
| 2251s | bunch of different kind of like map |
| 2253s | setup templates uh so you know if you |
| 2256s | want an open map if you want a |
| 2258s | chokepoint map if you want a bunch of |
| 2259s | rivers in your map there's there's |
| 2261s | functions already written for all that |
| 2262s | stuff so just just poke through there |
| 2264s | and you've got a lot already built that |
| 2266s | you can work with |
| 2268s | there's a question around uh creating |
| 2270s | cut scenes with custom audio |
| 2272s | we we do have the ability to create sort |
| 2275s | of the swoopy cams that you're used to |
| 2277s | seeing in campaign missions um there |
| 2279s | might be some limitations around audio |
| 2281s | right now um just because that's sort of |
| 2284s | a like a |
| 2285s | more complicated |
| 2287s | avenue for mod creation especially with |
| 2289s | the way that our engine handles audio |
| 2290s | but um but that's something that we're |
| 2293s | sort of aware of and thinking of |
| 2299s | all right someone asked |
| 2302s | so someone can go check and see if |
| 2304s | there's an exception the map scripts are |
| 2306s | good map gens for the viper yes you can |
| 2308s | go and take a look uh but really you're |
| 2310s | just gonna find comments there's there's |
| 2312s | no bias or you know finding a steam id |
| 2315s | your username of someone and getting |
| 2317s | extra gold just wait till someone ends |
| 2318s | up finding a way to make a mod that does |
| 2320s | just that though |
| 2321s | so like the viper mod |
| 2324s | probably already there but it probably |
| 2326s | exists already |
| 2327s | uh speaking of can we do a showcase can |
| 2330s | we do a little contest yeah |
| 2332s | yeah |
| 2333s | i do want to say just just following up |
| 2334s | as you've mentioned there are the four |
| 2336s | different types of content there crafted |
| 2338s | maps uh tuning packs generated in game |
| 2340s | mode they do have varying levels of |
| 2342s | difficulty but as mentioned hopping in |
| 2344s | starting with like a crafted map is |
| 2345s | probably the easiest best way to get |
| 2347s | going and then just spend time in the |
| 2349s | editor just play around and you'll i'm |
| 2351s | sure in no time you'll get you'll pick |
| 2353s | it all up like it's |
| 2354s | it looks like a lot at first when you |
| 2356s | open it up because it is so powerful but |
| 2359s | small things these small changes you can |
| 2360s | start making they go a long way and then |
| 2362s | just build from there |
| 2364s | i'm seeing a bunch of questions about um |
| 2366s | models and textures and assets as well |
| 2368s | and that's the same sort of story as the |
| 2370s | audio it's it's something |
| 2371s | we know more advanced creators will want |
| 2374s | to leverage so |
| 2375s | we know we know you want that |
| 2380s | but similar to |
| 2381s | other stuff or |
| 2383s | team is looking into it and we will |
| 2386s | share when we have more |
| 2388s | information and especially when as well |
| 2391s | so |
| 2392s | let's uh let's shift over to the uh |
| 2395s | the showcase |
| 2397s | okay i was thinking about a name for |
| 2398s | this showcase uh conkin's creative |
| 2401s | corner do you like that okay |
| 2404s | okay so that's what we're gonna ship it |
| 2406s | with is that is that the official ship |
| 2408s | name |
| 2412s | a twitch splash thing uh that shows up i |
| 2414s | i wish i had one for you i don't have |
| 2416s | one right now but you know maybe |
| 2418s | something to happen in the future okay |
| 2419s | all right sounds good |
| 2421s | you know maybe someone in chat wants to |
| 2422s | have fun with photoshop toss your face |
| 2424s | on there tell us a nice conkin's |
| 2425s | creative corner logo |
| 2428s | do you have some uh images for me i do |
| 2430s | yes uh feel free to start off with |
| 2432s | whatever one you'd like and i can toss |
| 2434s | it on for you |
| 2435s | okay so i wanted to just shout out a |
| 2438s | couple of mods that stood out to me |
| 2440s | these are |
| 2441s | you know a few of the gems out there but |
| 2444s | there are already so many good mods um |
| 2447s | so if yours wasn't wasn't in this list |
| 2450s | um no shade |
| 2451s | uh i'm sure it's amazing |
| 2453s | uh okay what do we have what do we have |
| 2454s | up first |
| 2456s | uh |
| 2458s | whatever you want take your pick i mean |
| 2460s | i can toss mine up if you want to just |
| 2461s | go with it is the advanced game settings |
| 2463s | uh yeah sure advanced game settings buys |
| 2466s | ladies lady |
| 2469s | this is |
| 2470s | uh a perfect example of how community |
| 2473s | mods can legitimately make the game |
| 2475s | better it's it's so impressive |
| 2477s | so it takes the standard game mode and |
| 2480s | it augments it with a bunch of options |
| 2484s | it adds |
| 2485s | a nomad start so you start with just |
| 2487s | villagers and no tc and |
| 2490s | you have a bit of time before your your |
| 2492s | resources build up and you can place |
| 2494s | your tc wherever you want that's kind of |
| 2495s | what we were talking about with with |
| 2497s | mega random and people were putting |
| 2498s | their starting tc on |
| 2500s | these obtuse islands um there is a |
| 2505s | diplomacy feature so you can switch |
| 2507s | allegiances uh which is amazing to see |
| 2509s | and a treaty mode that |
| 2511s | aligns you with everyone at the start of |
| 2513s | the match |
| 2514s | so you can't attack each other for a |
| 2515s | period of time so these are pretty like |
| 2518s | they're franchise staples right like |
| 2520s | they're in some of the previous games |
| 2522s | and uh it's awesome to see that this |
| 2524s | lady was able to to get a motto so |
| 2526s | quickly i think he started in the era |
| 2528s | they started in the public update |
| 2529s | preview but |
| 2530s | um completely blown away by this mod |
| 2533s | well done's lady |
| 2536s | uh let's go to |
| 2538s | castle blood automatic |
| 2540s | all right castle blood automatic there |
| 2542s | we go |
| 2544s | so this is a |
| 2546s | an interesting one to shout out because |
| 2548s | i wasn't actually familiar with |
| 2550s | i think it might be an h2 mod as well i |
| 2552s | wasn't familiar with that one but |
| 2553s | um this is really interesting especially |
| 2556s | in h4 because |
| 2557s | it's an example of a mod feature that |
| 2560s | is is a little bit under the hood that |
| 2562s | not everyone probably knows about and |
| 2564s | it's that you can kind of bundle mods |
| 2566s | together so if you go to the mods page |
| 2568s | and you see castle blood automatic it's |
| 2570s | this single sort of mod that you can |
| 2572s | subscribe to |
| 2573s | and then when you subscribe to it |
| 2575s | it's just a single download but when you |
| 2577s | go to a skirmisher custom screen you're |
| 2579s | going to see that it actually comes with |
| 2581s | a game mode a tuning pack and a crafted |
| 2583s | map and if you use all of the if you |
| 2586s | select all of those and play them |
| 2587s | together then they all kind of work in |
| 2589s | conjunction to make this |
| 2591s | this game mode happened and it's pretty |
| 2593s | neat it starts everyone with a castle |
| 2595s | and and it continually pumps out units |
| 2597s | and then you have to go destroy each |
| 2598s | other on on this um custom map so that |
| 2600s | one's pretty cool |
| 2603s | uh how about uh |
| 2604s | realistic overhaul v2 |
| 2606s | by gabriel all right yeah let's do it |
| 2609s | castle blood automatic by the way was |
| 2612s | grant i'm gonna leave the name to you do |
| 2613s | you know how to pronounce that kazoo |
| 2615s | kazoo again uh |
| 2617s | that's my best shot that's my best shot |
| 2619s | let's just go with that i'm not going to |
| 2620s | butcher some names here |
| 2622s | all of which are the names all right |
| 2623s | realistic overhaul v2 by gabriel um |
| 2626s | this one is a good example of how unit |
| 2628s | scale can change the feeling of a match |
| 2630s | uh with a couple of added bonuses like |
| 2632s | faster build times and realistic arrows |
| 2635s | um there are a couple of uniscale mods |
| 2637s | on the store |
| 2638s | uh gabriel gets the shout out because of |
| 2640s | this killer mod image um like look at |
| 2642s | how on brand that is and if you if you |
| 2645s | want me to feature your mod you got to |
| 2646s | have that mod image because that's how |
| 2648s | you stand out in the store and um |
| 2650s | uh and it makes the whole mods page look |
| 2652s | a lot nicer too but |
| 2654s | um really cool to see the the villagers |
| 2656s | and everything like two scale they could |
| 2658s | actually walk through those doors if you |
| 2659s | want to maybe a little bit harder to |
| 2661s | play but um but really cool to see |
| 2664s | i can't wait to see someone using this |
| 2666s | to make like a like a helms deep at |
| 2667s | night map like i think that would be so |
| 2670s | cool yeah absolutely which that being |
| 2672s | said is your showcase showing off any of |
| 2675s | the lighting stuff by any chance |
| 2677s | elliott you're reading my mind |
| 2680s | a lighting showcase |
| 2681s | all right it sounds like it sounds like |
| 2683s | elliot just |
| 2684s | knows what we're doing here sorry i i |
| 2686s | jumped the gun here it's just it was |
| 2688s | excited to see the |
| 2689s | in the pub people |
| 2691s | the public update preview people like |
| 2693s | messing around with it so yeah and that |
| 2694s | is what's really cool is that this was |
| 2696s | during the public update preview there |
| 2698s | where a lot of people did have time to |
| 2700s | experiment with mods so they got like |
| 2701s | not necessarily ahead start but they got |
| 2703s | their hands on it first and they got to |
| 2704s | check it out start making stuff so when |
| 2706s | the update did come out there were these |
| 2708s | mods that basically they could just |
| 2709s | publish then and get it going |
| 2711s | so this is by heavenly chorus and |
| 2715s | um i don't know that that they're |
| 2716s | intending it to necessarily be a map to |
| 2719s | go hard on and play but i definitely |
| 2721s | recommend you download it and load it up |
| 2723s | even if it's just on your own um because |
| 2725s | it's a really good showcase of |
| 2727s | what the atmosphere feature of the |
| 2728s | engine can do to change the feel of a |
| 2731s | map and and sort of change the time of |
| 2733s | day it's it's almost like a dusky |
| 2735s | a dusky lighting setting there um |
| 2738s | and that's really neat and honestly i |
| 2740s | think it's the tip of the iceberg like |
| 2741s | i'm i'm waiting for |
| 2743s | some night maps like nick said |
| 2745s | um i'll put a bounty o right now i want |
| 2747s | to see a day in night cycle mod i want |
| 2749s | to see like a |
| 2750s | 15 minute cycle of of day to night so |
| 2753s | someone make that happen um somewhere |
| 2755s | like what what's the call tonight |
| 2758s | they get to make it to konkin's creative |
| 2760s | corner yeah they get it you get the |
| 2761s | shout out the first person i see all |
| 2763s | right |
| 2764s | they have to have a good mod image too a |
| 2766s | choice right so it's got to be it's got |
| 2768s | to be the complete package i will say |
| 2770s | later on not not for this stream but as |
| 2772s | i mentioned we have a lot of streams |
| 2773s | coming for this one three update later |
| 2775s | in our stream series we do have plans |
| 2777s | for a ugc highlight stream similar to |
| 2779s | this but probably a bit more in detail |
| 2781s | looking at them this was just not |
| 2782s | showing off some of the ones that first |
| 2783s | came out so if you want to be in |
| 2784s | kanken's mod corner honking's creative |
| 2786s | corner |
| 2787s | definitely stay tuned |
| 2789s | you need the alliteration all right we |
| 2791s | will see if we can get that image made |
| 2792s | up for when that does come around |
| 2794s | okay and saving the best for last no |
| 2797s | shame in calling this the best is my |
| 2798s | favorite mod |
| 2800s | can you put it up there trojan sheep by |
| 2802s | country |
| 2804s | so |
| 2805s | with this mod this is a tuning pack |
| 2807s | uh you get a new unit that can be |
| 2809s | produced at the town center it's called |
| 2810s | the friendly sheep so points for |
| 2813s | humor uh extra points for the realistic |
| 2816s | sheep icon because i think that's funny |
| 2818s | and um so you make this sheep in h2 |
| 2822s | uh it's expensive and it takes a while |
| 2824s | and it i think it takes like five pop |
| 2826s | cap |
| 2827s | and then you can navigate the sheep to |
| 2829s | your enemy base and trigger an area of |
| 2831s | effect |
| 2832s | explosion and completely decimate |
| 2834s | everything |
| 2836s | and my absolute favorite detail that |
| 2838s | kotri either added or included by |
| 2840s | mistake is that the sheep doesn't have a |
| 2842s | walk animation so you just see this like |
| 2845s | sheep sliding into your base |
| 2847s | and |
| 2848s | if you're if you have a keen eye you |
| 2850s | know something sus you know something |
| 2851s | bad is about to happen if you see that |
| 2853s | sheep and none of your none of your |
| 2854s | units will aggro on it either because |
| 2856s | they they think it's just a sheep so you |
| 2857s | have to be on your a-game to see that |
| 2859s | thing |
| 2860s | also yeah chad is noticing so they |
| 2861s | called it fluffy siege which is a really |
| 2863s | good |
| 2864s | shout out |
| 2865s | to um bitey infantry if anyone's ever |
| 2868s | selected a wolf in the game |
| 2871s | amazing yeah |
| 2873s | it's just a regular shape nothing to see |
| 2874s | here probably |
| 2876s | yeah that concludes uh kanken's creative |
| 2879s | corner |
| 2882s | and as mentioned if you are interested |
| 2884s | in making mods go check it out go check |
| 2887s | out this uh the content editor here see |
| 2889s | what you can make |
| 2890s | and you might be featured in a later one |
| 2894s | yeah big big shout out to the the mod |
| 2896s | discord too um you know there's an |
| 2898s | awesome group of people in there you |
| 2899s | know breaking apart the game pulling |
| 2901s | things apart seeing how they work um you |
| 2903s | can say out of me i'm in there giving |
| 2905s | map tips to people sometimes |
| 2907s | it's it's a great place and i love to |
| 2909s | see all the all the things just |
| 2910s | flourishing it's so so cool |
| 2913s | yeah no it's absolutely amazing uh |
| 2915s | so |
| 2916s | i guess after conkin's creative corner |
| 2918s | there we're that brings us somewhat to |
| 2920s | the end of this but i do want to turn |
| 2922s | both to |
| 2923s | michael konkin here and nick taylor if |
| 2924s | either if you have anything else you |
| 2926s | want to expand upon anything that's hit |
| 2927s | you as we've been talking |
| 2929s | uh |
| 2930s | but otherwise yeah we'll probably wrap |
| 2931s | this up in the next little bit here |
| 2933s | we might need a segment for nick stash |
| 2935s | um |
| 2936s | because everyone's been been giving it a |
| 2938s | 9 out of 10 in chat so 9 out of ten come |
| 2942s | on |
| 2944s | what do i have to do for that ten |
| 2946s | yeah yeah what do i have to do let me |
| 2947s | know |
| 2949s | there you go you got a 10 out of 10. |
| 2950s | well either way |
| 2952s | you i can't grow a stash to save my life |
| 2954s | so |
| 2955s | um nick and uh konkin you guys will have |
| 2958s | to represent for that |
| 2960s | on the stream but yeah that being said |
| 2962s | uh |
| 2963s | obviously you know it's a lot of |
| 2964s | exciting stuff and we're going to |
| 2965s | continue to keep looking out and |
| 2967s | watching if if you guys have any |
| 2969s | questions around the content editor |
| 2971s | please post them in forums reddit uh if |
| 2972s | we can poke pick it up we'll get it over |
| 2974s | to the dev team and let them see if |
| 2975s | they're answering any questions |
| 2977s | um but yeah um |
| 2981s | oh people are saying if you fix the team |
| 2987s | that's the |
| 2988s | that's the condition nick to get a 10 |
| 2989s | out of 10 on your mustache |
| 2991s | i'm working on it |
| 2994s | but no team is like we we've seen the |
| 2997s | feedback and we're we are investigating |
| 2999s | into it so um yeah we are looking for |
| 3002s | that so definitely go |
| 3004s | try try your hands on the the content |
| 3006s | editor beta there take a look see what |
| 3008s | you can make uh otherwise there is a lot |
| 3010s | of content |
| 3012s | in season one festival of ages there |
| 3014s | this is an ex |
| 3015s | it is a huge update there's a lot there |
| 3017s | and |
| 3018s | as mentioned there is still more coming |
| 3020s | there is the actual season portion of |
| 3022s | this the ranked seasons and the seasonal |
| 3024s | events those are coming next week so |
| 3027s | that's also april 13th just as a heads |
| 3029s | up the actual date it's april 13th so |
| 3032s | so that's going to be a good way to get |
| 3034s | out there be competitive see where you |
| 3037s | rank we're going to watch elliot be in a |
| 3039s | little bit of this as well on some |
| 3040s | stream so you'll get to see that earned |
| 3042s | a bunch of rewards |
| 3043s | and yeah should be really exciting to |
| 3045s | get that out there as well |
| 3047s | elliott the conqueror |
| 3049s | yeah i think i think you did say you're |
| 3050s | going for conqueror right |
| 3052s | no no no |
| 3053s | let's start low i'm going to aim for her |
| 3055s | let's let's see if i can get to gold |
| 3057s | that'd be the initial goal and then we |
| 3058s | could if i can hit it then we'll but |
| 3060s | that being said we are going to be |
| 3062s | getting a couple of the dev team folks |
| 3064s | probably you know look coach in the year |
| 3065s | uh to sit along but also to poke fun and |
| 3067s | laugh at my build orders and lack of any |
| 3071s | semblance of a proper meta build um i i |
| 3074s | pretty much am a one trick pony where i |
| 3075s | just played hre and only day 30 |
| 3078s | but you know i could play english french |
| 3080s | a little bit of delhi mongols is a |
| 3083s | little hard for me but we'll see like |
| 3085s | and that's part of where you know we're |
| 3086s | going to do the little road to ranked uh |
| 3087s | elliott the conqueror has a nice ring to |
| 3089s | it it does but you know you can those |
| 3091s | are one of the things where i have to |
| 3092s | like you know |
| 3094s | prove it by actually getting the rank i |
| 3095s | can't just call myself that right |
| 3098s | so you got to get the rank elliot it's |
| 3099s | that's yeah |
| 3101s | we believe in you i just give myself |
| 3103s | [Laughter] |
| 3105s | the end of the season you just like i've |
| 3107s | done it |
| 3108s | i've made it yeah i jumped from gold to |
| 3110s | conquer in in one match right i think i |
| 3112s | think jokes decided people might come |
| 3114s | after you for that |
| 3115s | the point of the road to rank though is |
| 3117s | to show that you know it's |
| 3119s | nothing to |
| 3120s | uh be scared of but just to get started |
| 3123s | playing and now that being said though |
| 3125s | with the rank seasons and the seasons |
| 3127s | going live next week on the 13th |
| 3129s | there are rewards and other stuff that |
| 3131s | you can unlock without having to play |
| 3133s | ranked um that's part of our season |
| 3134s | update so there are events that you can |
| 3136s | do there are unlockables there so you do |
| 3138s | not have to play rank to get some cool |
| 3141s | exclusive stuff in game yeah and i think |
| 3144s | that's that's the nicest thing is we |
| 3146s | understand people play the game in |
| 3147s | different ways not everyone wants to be |
| 3148s | super competitive and ranked they just |
| 3149s | want to play the game and there are |
| 3151s | rewards for that as well you can play in |
| 3153s | whatever way you'd like they are |
| 3154s | different sets of rewards so if you |
| 3156s | really want everything you can go all |
| 3158s | out and try every way but they're not |
| 3160s | meant to |
| 3161s | i think michael you can probably talk a |
| 3163s | little bit more about this too these |
| 3164s | seasonal events they're not meant to be |
| 3165s | punishing they're meant to be something |
| 3166s | you're doing that you're going to enjoy |
| 3167s | in the game they're not |
| 3169s | they're not like a crazy crazy grind |
| 3171s | fest going on |
| 3172s | yeah try out a mod play play a ranked |
| 3174s | game |
| 3175s | yeah sounds easy exactly |
| 3178s | uh yeah so as mentioned by elliot the |
| 3180s | road to ranked is going to be our next |
| 3182s | stream we have |
| 3184s | again so our v1 our 1.3 update streams |
| 3187s | we're going to do these every friday |
| 3189s | with the exception of holidays or if |
| 3192s | something crazy goes on and we can't but |
| 3193s | realistically this is our schedule that |
| 3195s | we have set up so we're gonna miss next |
| 3197s | week because it's a holiday here for |
| 3199s | relic in canada |
| 3200s | uh we do then we'll be back the friday |
| 3203s | following april 22nd for the first of |
| 3206s | elliot's road to ranked |
| 3208s | after that we're probably going to have |
| 3209s | michael konkin back on the 29th for a |
| 3212s | chat with our ritual and retention team |
| 3214s | quest quashing after that which will be |
| 3216s | myself most likely playing through some |
| 3218s | of those seasonal events uh so those are |
| 3221s | what we're talking about where it's |
| 3223s | i probably won't do the download and |
| 3225s | play a mod one that sounds too easy but |
| 3226s | i'll find one to do |
| 3228s | um and then cycle back to road track |
| 3230s | we're gonna have more streams coming as |
| 3231s | well uh this is just the first set of |
| 3233s | them so be sure to tune in every week |
| 3237s | here and yeah |
| 3239s | gonna be great exciting update exciting |
| 3241s | times exciting streams |
| 3244s | thanks all |
| 3245s | yeah |
| 3246s | all right i think that is probably it so |
| 3250s | i want to say a huge thank you to |
| 3252s | you michael honkin to nick taylor and to |
| 3254s | elliot everyone here for being on the |
| 3256s | stream alongside me here chatting for |
| 3258s | the good part of an hour here |
| 3261s | and |
| 3262s | to everyone in chat for being here with |
| 3263s | us listening to some of this talk i know |
| 3265s | some of the stuff we've talked about |
| 3267s | this is something we like is having |
| 3268s | members of our team who are super |
| 3269s | passionate who have expertise in |
| 3271s | different areas so i know chat i saw |
| 3273s | people asking where eric is he'll be |
| 3275s | back probably in a future one but we've |
| 3276s | got michael konkin who can talk to some |
| 3278s | of the game design side of things as |
| 3280s | well as nick for map and as chad saw |
| 3282s | both of these people incredibly |
| 3284s | passionate passionate i cannot speak |
| 3286s | incredibly knowledgeable and |
| 3288s | they just so happy to have them here |
| 3290s | with us |
| 3292s | thanks for having us end of the week |
| 3293s | rant it is it is a friday rolled out a |
| 3295s | major update the whole team did so i |
| 3297s | want to give a special kudos to the |
| 3299s | whole dev team |
| 3300s | uh for putting in the work for this and |
| 3302s | yeah we're so excited please update the |
| 3305s | game and jump into it um and yeah we're |
| 3308s | looking forward to seeing the feedback |
| 3309s | what you guys like what don't like and |
| 3311s | you know any uh you know bugs and issues |
| 3313s | because those are things that teams can |
| 3314s | continuously be working on um as we move |
| 3317s | forward throughout the season |
| 3319s | yeah awesome and i think that's gonna |
| 3322s | wrap up our stream today everyone we |
| 3323s | will see you in two weeks time for the |
| 3326s | next one of these on friday |
| 3329s | all right |
| 3330s | thank you so much everyone |
| 3331s | have a great weekend |
| 3334s | catch everybody |
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