Ashes of Creation Dev Tracker

YAY!!!! WELCOME!!!

WOOOO!! \o/ Welcome to the party 🕺🥳 So excited to have you on board :D

Greetings and salutations! My name is Nyx - I’m a newly anointed Community Manager at Intrepid Studios, and it brings me great joy to make your acquaintance. This week marks the beginning of my journey into Verra with the Ashes of Creation community, and I look forward to getting to know you all on the adventure ahead! Like many of you, I have a deep love for MMOs, incredible stories, and all things gaming. I’ve been a CM for the past 15 years, working on a wide variety of titles across genres, and platforms, but my roots began with FlyFF; an old-school MMO that ignited my passion for working with gaming communities. From there, I joined Zynga to create FarmVille, and FarmVille 2, and after about 5 years of digital cows and crops, I joined Riot Games to work on League of Legends. In the past few years, I’ve worked on Neopets, launched a series of mobile games for Kongregate, and more.  My favorite MMO is FFXIV, but I also spend time playing RPGs like Witcher 3 and Baldur’s ... Read more

Dev Discussions are an opportunity to join in on player discussions about topics that Intrepid Studios want to hear your thoughts on. This is less about asking us questions, and more about us asking YOU the questions! If you do have questions about Ashes of Creation, keep an eye our social media channels for our monthly Q&A thr... Read more

The floodgates are open. Let the feedback commence!

Will open up after the showcase ;)

Hello glorious community, We’d like your feedback on the Citadel of the Steel Bloom & Firebrand Preview shown during the August 2024 Development Update Livestream. To help guide this conversation, here are a few thought starters you can choose from:

• How do you feel about the Citadel of the Steel Bloom & Firebrand Preview?
• What excites you about playing and interacting within the Citadel, its enemies, and Firebrand?
• Is there anything in particular you’re excited or concerned about regarding what was shown with the
Citadel of the Steel Bloom & Firebrand Preview?
• Are there similar areas or enemies you’ve seen in other games that you like or dislike? If so, please explain!

Please don’t feel limited by the thought starters above. Feel free to share anything you’d like about Ashes of Creation’s Alpha Two Citadel of the Steel Bloom & Firebrand Preview shown during th... Read more

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Edit : strange. now it works ... ... ... hold on a Moment ... ... ... edit 2 : should i be curious of why exactly this Forums is trying to struggle against the Quotes i want to, well, quote here ? This Topic is not closed, now is it ? So why this Attempt to suppress further talk ?

Your posts were being auto-flagged for breaking the forum rules <3 Feel free to DM me if you'd like clarification :)

Dev Discussions are an opportunity to join in on player discussions about topics that Intrepid Studios want to hear your thoughts on. This is less about asking us questions, and more about us asking YOU the questions! If you do have questions about Ashes of Creation, keep an eye our social media channels for our monthly Q&A thr... Read more

I'll open this up after the showcase! It's a long one today 😅 Thread has been opened :)

Hello glorious community, We’d like your feedback on the Bard Archetype Preview shown during the July 2024 Development Update Livestream. To help guide this conversation, here are a few thought starters you can choose from:

• How do you feel about the Bard Archetype Preview?
• What excites you about playing and interacting with the Bard Archetype?
• Is there anything in particular you’re excited or concerned about regarding what was shown with the
Bard Archetype Preview?
• Are there similar Archetypes you’ve seen in other games that you like or dislike? If so, please explain!
• What are your thoughts on the Bard abilities, mechanics, and combos?
• Do you have opinions on the instrument animations, Bard VFX, and Bard SFX? If so, please share them!

Please don’t feel limited by the thought starters above. Feel free to share anything you’d like about Ashes of... Read more

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https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Backgrounds ...(Plus, Vaknar asked about Backgrounds feedback in my Racial Augments thread, so I'm reading that as Backgrounds in and Racial Augments out). So that raises the question, what do you want out of backgrounds?...

Hmmm... I think you may be taking some leaps with this statement 😅, but there is still good merit to your thought starter here. <3 Here is my comment in your other thread in which I engage with follow-up questions :)

In-depth posts like these are always a joy to read through and a great place to start discussions on game systems! Love the passion in your discussion of ship sails, OP! Are there any games that you feel have nailed the accuracy of ships and sails? :)

As @Noaani stated, this was the final Pre-Order Package <3 https://ashesofcreation.com/news/2023-09-12-the-unseen-order

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Nice assist, @Tryol !

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I'm not a fan of the idea of backgrounds, either. If they provide some mechanical benefit, there will inevitably be some "best" choice for archetype x. I think it's bad design to lock players into a choice they were forced to make when they didn't understand the game.

What would make you like the background system more? Perhaps besides simply less of a mechanical importance? Also, awesome thought-starter in your OP <3

Great topic and question, @Garren ! @Roshen and I are working on some community programs regarding feedback, so stay tuned for more details about that in the future. For now, I'd look forward to testing whatever excites you most for the content available at the launch of Alpha Two! What Ashes of Creation content are you wanting to test out the most (or first!)?

Interesting topic! Good looking out for the community and Intrepid, @Nerror <3 Hopefully there are swift solutions to these issues! Personally, I have a couple of years left out of my main gaming rig. How about all of you? Looking to upgrade soon?

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The Node Wars demo is just as pre-recorded as the Tower of Carphin Demo.

then why do they look like completely different games?, obviously i know it was pre recorded in the fact that it wasn't live but i don't think they were recorded on the same engine

Because they're different locations with completely different lighting due to in-game variables? The Carphin video is in a heavily corrupted area with different environmental lighting. Overall they look like the same game. There are a few other differences like having the camera zoomed out more in the Node wars demo and they may have some graphics settings reduced because of performance issues (the game is still unoptimized), but they are clearly both footage from the same game...

There are a few helpful responses in this thread, but to summarize, Ashes of Creation is being developed with Unreal Engine 5. We ... Read more

In case you haven't already checked it out, there is a wiki page that goes over playstyles, which may give you more insight into what you can look forward to as a casual player <3 https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Playstyles