[2024] Ashes of Creation Alpha Two - Befallen Forge Playthrough | Ashes of Creation Dev Tracker

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18s	hello everyone and welcome to another day in Vera and Boyd do we have an exciting showcase for you
25s	today we are just T-minus 20 hours away from starting Phase 2 of Alpha 2 and the team has
33s	been hard at work getting a lot of content and new features ready for us to test um we are going to
39s	be showing off one of those big content expansions here at the beff Fallen Forge and I am joined by
45s	some very amazing developers who helped bring to life what you're about to see today um joining us
52s	of course we have the classic uh world team owner that is Jeremy Jeremy how are you doing buddy
59s	doing pretty good show this off yeah yeah excited I'm excited to see what your team has been cooking
66s	uh and of course we have one of our glorious level designers uh Jessica Jessica I believe
71s	this is this your first time on the show or second time first time but I'm hyped welcome very excited
77s	I know that you've done a lot of uh a lot of cool stuff in here and I think players are going to be
81s	excited to see that we are live by the way on on the production environment uh obviously this week
86s	we've been doing um some testing uh on prod since last weekend was our last weekend of uh Phase 1 so
93s	you may see some players run through us uh that is all cool we're down uh to clown with some people
99s	on prod um think if we get some strange uh you know comments or whatever it is what it is this
106s	this is where we are um but joining us as well on the design side of course is our director of
111s	design Bill Bill how are you doing buddy awesome you know just uh ready to go in here and uh see
118s	what happens yes it's going going to be exciting I think and then we have of course our uh lead
124s	environment artist James James how you doing buddy I'm doing good excited to uh dwarf it up yes you
130s	are a dwarf lover and now we do have some dwarves I see our tiny little dwarves here with very
136s	strong legs of course uh very excited for that so cute I know uh and then we have joining us as well
143s	um our producer plan and dworf a familiar face for many of you in the look at this Stephen give God
150s	Shield please uh Planet dorf uh how you doing buddy Nathan how you doing I'm I'm here to chew
157s	bubblegum and channel mana and I am not allowed to channel Mana anymore so I'm ready to have a good
162s	time love it love it uh and then we have our one of our glorious QA members Anastasia first time
169s	on the show Anastasia I know you have been finding all the possible bugs in what short period of time
174s	has been given to QA for this space but welcome Anastasia how are you thank you a huge imposter
180s	syndrome but thanks no you've been doing a great job here the whole team has I mean really this is
186s	it's such a beautiful looking just exterior even and of course you know this is the worst that this
190s	place is going to look um it's going to only get better from here there's a lot of still polish
195s	that we want to do there's a lot of set dressing that we want to do and of course lighting as well
199s	but it is in a place where we expect players will be interacting with this throughout uh the Alpha
204s	2 um uh break excuse me the the Christmas break which by the way we've probably have already
211s	announced this but we will be leaving the Alpha 2 servers up for Phase 2 through the entirety of our
219s	Christmas break which starts on December 20th and ends on January 6th I know that traditionally we
224s	had said that Phase 2 would be over a 5day period of time but things are feeling pretty stable the
229s	team is feeling pretty uh aggressive in which case we are going to be um to be keeping things up over
236s	the whole break so I think a lot of people are going to have a lot of fun playing um there's
240s	a lot of new systems and features which we'll be talking about on the live stream but today
244s	we are going to focus in this video on befallen Forge so let's head in but we will come down at
250s	2 a.m. for Server restarts yes yes servers will be restarting daily at 2 a.m. uh Pacific time uh
257s	for those of you of course who are late night owls you will see that downtime is expected probably to
263s	be you know less than an hour but I don't know um and I think it's 2 2 e uh C for the oh my bad oh
271s	okay got you're good okay all right so this is the befallen forge I know that we have a lot of people
278s	following us oh is there a group there is a group but you're not in just follow gindra because he's
283s	going to be our tank oh here we go gindra you are our tank so so cool why is Sten leading why
293s	is the Mage leading I'm just looking at these this stuff I mean this is kind of nasty what happened
298s	to these people what why are we here yeah why are we here what is this place Jeremy talk to us all
304s	right why are there so many dwarves buff Fallen Forge it's original name was the braith reach
310s	and it was a collaboration with the dwarves and the humans to create a forge because over on the
315s	other continent over in yium the Toren Empire was starting to cause a lot of problems so they wanted
322s	to create this collaboration for so that start cranking out some gear to fight off this this
330s	Army that's going to be coming their way um then eventually during the Great War of the undy the
337s	Torin did come and take over this location and cursed everyone inside of it and then sealed it
343s	up so after the war we weren't the humans and and dwars weren't able to break the seal and
352s	it was just us coming back from Sanctus in The Exodus that the Seal's finally broken so we have
360s	the remains of Toren and uh dunes and Kell and alens who were working this Forge that have been
367s	cursed and to this afterlife of maintaining this Forge and creating cursed weapons and things out
376s	of it nice very cool yeah I know I mean the forge obviously is it speaks for itself with all of this
382s	lava on the interior I assume that they use uh for the forges purposes um let's head in if you want
390s	if you want to grab one of these or just if you just want to Leroy it you're welcome to
395s	Jeremy now of course this is intended for full parties so uh if you need to to find friends the
407s	entrance area as is a classic dungeon maneuver to find groups and people waiting but there's also
413s	some um nearby uh uh we're close to kind of new AA and what is the other one is it Isa that's right
425s	it's also a good place to pick up parties yeah so this isend is a full group of eight everything you
432s	see in here is going to be three stars or more so this is kind of a higher higher end dungeon
438s	for the riverlands oh I'm loving look at this this is I mean it definitely speaks dunar to me I mean
445s	looking at the looking at just the shape language of the uh of the doors and the archways and the
452s	blocky nature of it uh it looks great I'm loving this the giant chains look perfect inside oh God
460s	there's a great there fall inside that these slag born they have a lot of hit points 70k mhm you
471s	can hit hard as mentioned with the greates like the environment hazards are are pretty spicy oh
480s	really oh I didn't even say so so so the the uh grates back at the entrance area those actually
485s	deal damage to you as well right y they do about 10% of uh Health damage but you can roll out of
493s	it as long as you're not like standing for a good manners so you'll be just fine but we're
498s	going to crank that up right oh for sure for sure it's going to be up to like 25% in the next play
503s	through it feels pretty good I got to tell you I think we we've definitely brought some stragglers
514s	along with us added Firepower here yeah they're kind of helping we have extra Firepower for sure
519s	let's get this patroller down that's good though we can make our ways a little bit deeper in the
523s	dungeon for the Showcase true yeah and we're in a we're in a room right now that has uh one
531s	of the mini bosses the Bellow Smasher that's on the other side oh no oh God oh God help
540s	healer the problem is you guys are going around this pill you all are on different
546s	sides of this pillar so you're not making my job easy so what you're saying is the
550s	level design is how dare you how dare you got to be aware of your
558s	surroundings okay uh for for this room in general even though the pillars do seem a
567s	bit perilous um they're definitely used for like cover so that way you can Tien
573s	up each of the enemies and the mini boss to kind of have some different
577s	tactics and stuff um when you're raiding through this this dungeon my bad um sorry
586s	telling these guys to take their party down south we will go north is this North yes
600s	okay there's in the middle of uh this room as well has uh the first showing of those
606s	cursed D that you were mentioning Steven oh really mhm where's that at right in the
615s	middle they're uh on workbenches as as if they were working on different pieces and
622s	tools based on Tech menus uh manuals you going to pull one of these guys gendra we have to go
629s	go south or is there an alternate way for us to go how' they get cursed you know what I'm
635s	going to I'm going to actually separate um from this group and I'm going to summon our
640s	party down somewhere real quick hold on how about down here Jess in the wall uh where
650s	are you at I'm floating down into this area kind of down in this section I don't know if
660s	there's a place for us to go from here there probably is let me summon you here hold on one
663s	second there we go I just pulled you all okay everyone back there is going to die
671s	in 5 seconds crazy I was like healing like a mad woman I was like oh my gosh what happened
677s	why were we taking so much damage oh no oh I think one of our victims here followed us yeah
685s	oh did they some some creative uh pathing there yeah like to see it this happens sometimes when
693s	you when you're when you're recording in a live test environment but I think it's fun this way
700s	all right we got a less a little bit less of a hit point dude over here maybe we can kill him
704s	first he blinks around oh he does strategies what is this got him okay Switching back
719s	I love the aesthetic in
721s	here yeah this part right here is definitely set up for later cont gosh what was that was
733s	some damage right there oh the explosion after the cursed Jers yeah they're spicy now where can
740s	we go from here Jess now from here we're actually part of a later content portion push where this is
746s	going to be like a battle royale PVP session but um wait hold on you can't just drop that bomb and
754s	not explain so this part right here the reason why it's blocked off is that there's going to be
761s	some A Relic or some cursed armor we'll see what what flavor we're feeling and once the players
770s	kill the final boss both these areas both the final boss area that's over here and the area of
778s	which we just came out of the uh Bellow Smashers room will unlock and there will be a timed event
785s	to grab the Relic that's over here oh that's cool okay that's cool and that that coincides
791s	kind of with our uh node sieges as well because obviously as nodes acquire those relics uh it's
798s	incumbent upon all the other nodes that are left without to seek out how they can acquire those
803s	things through battle that's very cool definitely now to get up now I told these people to go in a
811s	different direction they're going to I might have to murder them L and it's not because
819s	they're following us right and messing up the recording it's because we're in a pvx world we're
826s	lied right yes that's right I think all you know we just don't like to cut of their jib you know
834s	there's we flag up and we we do a little red wedding here yeah there is only enough
844s	room for our party sorry friends all right let's take a look who who's
854s	the first oh okay that's the first Target apparently murder thing all right the next
862s	one got to bring him down oh no not the oh he didn't fight us he we got we're getting
870s	corruption baited oh no I need heals I need heals I got I got this Lulu look guy take out Lulu
877s	look okay he uh they're fighting us so we can kill him now with infity all right
889s	murder murder death kill almost oh I'm flying whoops oh this is kind of unfair
899s	flying yeah I didn't even know I was flying still all right I'm going to
904s	wipe some corruption from folks let me uh I got to murder this person first guys we're
909s	not normally this Blood hungry I tried to to warn them all right some of us I need to take
919s	their stuff though see steal that very nice the are these are nice Goods here oh trust guy just
929s	jumped into the lava it off why not oh the guy the guy committed soku yeah or soku is it soku
938s	oroku okay where are we going here now game so Stephen if you could if um could you by chance
950s	bring us to that bridge that we kind of left off that oh really yeah I could totally do that where
955s	do you want me to go the bridge follow my little yes please the one that's uh by where we were
961s	chest at that was close that was close Bill all right I'm going back to this bridge location would
969s	that have been bad if I fell in the lava okay I'm going to I'm going to summon you guys to me I'm
972s	going to summon you guys to me don't jump off here careful hey oh oh no the run the AO run what have
982s	you done I'm going to bring you back I'm going to bring you back okay oh there's a there's a
988s	big beasty down here can we jump off hey there's a dude here that's flagged murder oh my God and he's
999s	dead Perfection and his horse is dead too oh he didn't have to kill the horse yes you do okay let
1008s	me see if he has any good stuff oh okay all right cool oh there's another person fo I got to kill fo
1018s	too this quickly becoming a pro oh my goodness hey I fell in the lava I don't know if this is
1024s	sustainable okay hold on there we go we got him we got him I'm back okay we're going to
1033s	have to we're going to have to make like a tree and leave here real quick is that
1036s	how that works we can do that real quick yeah okay where are we going um so let's no
1041s	Health's going on with my heels
1051s	oh you need to control F if you want to heal flag Players let's head towards the flame Elemental
1057s	room or or the Bell Smasher room and we can just go down and head towards the puzzle room
1063s	be following you all right let's go with Jess oh we're we're just going to leave this uh we're just
1069s	going just going to abandon tank yeah come on let's go tank we got to move we got Reds in the
1075s	party okay so after you kill a bell Smasher there's another boss
1082s	downstairs to Flame Elemental which both of them will drop um for later I saw that
1091s	planet dorf just got destroyed suicide up cleric cleric no here here we go well you
1100s	can okay there you go you're good hey what's where you're good you're good
1110s	all right okay okay so we've successfully made our
1118s	way now to an area where we are just a group alone let's kill this last
1124s	thing so after players killed a Bellow Smasher um their the secondary boss is downstairs is
1138s	the power element which is the untended flame um afterwards players will have to come down here to
1149s	approach the pule room to progress the dungeon ooh where's that at let's go yeah are you just going
1155s	to give away all the spoilers yeah yeah that's true look spoiler warning I love the lava wait you
1165s	said puzzle this isn't jumping again is this don't worry about it we'll be fine we'll oh no bill and
1171s	Maggie are shook to their very core are we jump are we jumping puzzl you I didn't know that was
1179s	going to be part of this we'll be fine we'll rally we'll rally where are we going so after we kill uh
1189s	this guy the puzzle room is in here okay oh I see I see I see ooh there's an unruly flame here yeah
1199s	there are the mobs that will engage us once the bridge is open so if you can see right here check
1205s	out this puzzle Stephen okay from Ash to Stone from Stone to tide the path of safety lies inside
1215s	o I like that that's so good nice nice job Jess did you come up with that yeah I actually used
1220s	it for one of my uh DND d uh sessions and players took a hot minute to solve a 5-year-old puzzle but
1229s	but as you can see from these little sparkles a bridge will rise right here oh oh did you
1237s	complete the puzzle yeah oh nice oh God oh God oh God oh God wait oh God ouch ouch nope
1247s	oh God are we sure that's a bridge and I died it is definitely a bridge but a little bug may
1254s	have caught in there real quick we may have to jump across it was still Battle of Endor Vibes
1260s	right there like The Shield's not down oh no oh no oh God the unruly flame destroyed me I I got
1271s	destroyed by the bridge here I know what to do I know what to do hold on let me uh let me is
1277s	lerza still alive yeah both Maggie and I were like we'll see how this goes we'll we'll see I was like
1283s	I'm not going to go across this bridge I'll let you be first okay I know what we can do so guys
1290s	you're going to see a little bug right we're going to get that fixed today don't worry it'll be fixed
1294s	before tomorrow you're ring your Target location so uh you just keep dying when I revive I am just
1300s	going to fly over here so we can keep checking out the dungeon but welcome to alha 2 sometimes there
1306s	are some bugs let me go ahead and summon you all to me including the corpses I call it extra spice
1315s	yeah ex that's ex that's definitely some extra spice it's a perfect showcase said if you die
1319s	in the lava good riddance yeah we we'll get that fixed we we just need to put a flat plane with
1326s	that with that bridge I'll definitely fix it I'm going to I'm going to put like a little higher
1332s	elevation for it but definitely be fixed today all right so we got Ginger coming up and then I think
1340s	we can probably pick up I love the interaction though the uh the puzzle it's not quite a jumping
1345s	puzzle it's a death puzzle with uh uh is there any Rhyme or Reason to the to the sequence that
1352s	you need yes so the reason why I chose that kind of that riddes thing cuz this is considered it
1359s	was considered like a safety precaution for uh the D to get across the the slag depository for
1370s	let's say not quality weapons or armor which is what that room is for so if for some reason the
1376s	lava overwhelmed or overflowed because of all of the the melted down armor and weapons they would
1385s	be able to access that riddle which is like a control panel to get across the depository
1393s	that's cool I like that anapilis and tro need to need a summoning yes oh do you guys I'm sorry
1400s	I'm so sorry let me let me bring you guys here oh thank you I pulled some of you back as well
1409s	oh and Jess is down lza is injured where I'm
1414s	loading
1417s	yeah okay we can get Jess up here that's just
1425s	payback for the bridge Jess I know I know wanted you to
1428s	die I was trying to summon them oh no we almost got this dude
1440s	all right there we go we're good nice please the res We got Jess up all right now obviously Jeremy
1451s	when we talk about these types of open world dungeons um there are going to be some rooms
1457s	that are perhaps a bit better from an experience Andor drop perspective as well as some named mobs
1463s	which we're going to see here in a little bit uh that players are going to be you know contending
1468s	for right cuz the scarcity that exists this just put in we have three mini bosses B smash be in
1475s	one of them and then several names so we'll run into some of those those are um your loot
1481s	targets your uh your reasons for coming here and Mike and uh econ team have looted these guys up
1490s	so come on in and get all your gear here we're we're actually approaching a room that has one
1499s	of the named Bobs The duner Tavern that's up this bridge and entering that will be able to
1507s	get some good gear yeah it's the break room for the workers back in the day so the cast Master's
1513s	there and is this torren administrator well the torren took over the place for a
1520s	while for the bureaucratic nonsense got it yeah during the the hi of the Great War of
1530s	the undying they forced uh the DS and humans here to work for them while they occupied it okay a lot
1538s	of narrative backstory to learn while you're exploring this and we're not going to reveal
1543s	everything as part of this showcase we're just going to give you guys a peek inside and leave
1548s	it to you to find all the interesting lore and different bosses that live here but um
1556s	I think one thing that is oh my God oh my God waa what is this ability might have went time
1567s	a day sh oh let me see I can adjust that my bad here yeah we did let me just fix that my bad
1578s	guys okay I think we're good grab this guy too for everyone who is on
1589s	live at this point I'm sorry for the flashbang oh
1592s	yeah there he is oh here we go k this guy too
1603s	ooh you're tanking this pretty well so this is obviously intended for a full party and
1613s	full party it needs to be geared pretty well because these guys are level 27 mobs and it
1618s	goes was up to 30 so 25 to 30 in here so I put the range that where you're starting
1624s	at the entrance they level 25 so it shows like progression as you're going through
1629s	the dungeon oh that's cool and now from an econ standpoint there's also specific gear for this
1638s	dungeon as well that players can acquire yes ouch you just get down turn down I'm trying
1647s	to revive you oh no my go oh no we need to burn them burn them quick okay bring you
1654s	up
1658s	almost almost oh and he's
1664s	down he did have a fire infused you got like one shotted bro ooh what is
1673s	this so it's a little secret that uh you guys will have to find out
1679s	when we get to the B final like boss room oh that's cool now it's not yet online by the way but
1687s	there actually is intended to be quite a big raid boss in this dungeon as well is that right yes uh
1695s	a little bit of secret but maybe he has some wings and maybe he can like breath some necrotic or acid
1700s	breath at here so might be Undead might have a phactory might be a dragon yeah faact little
1709s	surpris oh can I just I just want to get a I just want to get a upwardly view here o yeah so this
1719s	is the uh Tavern SL break room where like as you know dun and dwarves like love ail so of course
1726s	they would have like celebratory stuff while in the past and the castmaster was the one who was
1733s	involved with with ensuring that the ale lasted as long as people were thirsty that's cool yeah this
1744s	looks awesome just I'm just going to get a nice view of the uh of the room for everybody this is a
1753s	great looking area while you guys kind of uh play around there I just want to give people kind of
1757s	a little bit of a fly through actually as I move around the dungeon just to give out it's nice that
1766s	our it's nice that our magic DPS is just roaming around yeah that uh that explosion at the end can
1773s	uh can get you oh yeah this is a huge complex I mean how many parties can this area support
1781s	easily about five or six uh parties like when we did uh a kind of a stress test ear earlier this
1789s	week there was a good junk load of people raiding through here and trying to get past that first
1793s	boss I mean it looks based on our results it looks like it can only support one party
1801s	right it's all for us yeah pull this here well we are pretty much a junk
1805s	load this is cool and the lava is dangerous yes oh for sure um as you saw the greats do the
1820s	that small bit of damage the burn damage and the lava is uh definitely an instakill so definitely
1829s	jump on your own
1830s	Peril I'm trying to come back to find you guys oh there you
1839s	are all right I'm sorry I'm back well this is pretty awesome I think players is going to have
1846s	a lot of fun obviously as you said this is a higher level content uh lot of great rewards
1851s	that are possible in here um and you know we want players to have a little bit of friction perhaps
1857s	over those rewards and the scarcity of uh of what it represents super cool yeah great job on this by
1866s	the way Jess and Jeremy and and James oh my gosh um I think players are going to have a lot of fun
1873s	in here and and it definitely I think is oh this is the guy killed me on the bridge representative
1878s	of what people expect from an open world you know massive dungeon yeah did a really good job on this
1887s	was the artist to uh Tran was the primary artist who uh finished up the blockouts by making it look
1896s	like an actual dungeon very nice yeah I took a lot of inspiration from um Moria as well as a couple
1905s	other dungeons from like Dungeons and Dragons and uh made a solid block out for and test out some
1913s	pop for passing off to Tristan to to beautify it and make it look like an actual dungeon like James
1920s	was saying now where's the where's the one of the bosses did we already fight one of the bosses uh
1927s	no we did not uh we can fight one of the named bosses which is right over here o fire Rune oh
1934s	is there maybe we should try to fight that boss first let's see yeah there's a the cask master
1940s	is over here let me let me Mark him sounds like a producer askm yeah yeah I'll take that 100%
1951s	where's my ale ale is for
1954s	closers I like it where's the task masker I lost I lost you guys oh he's up here yeah I
1966s	marked him with a nice little axe oh a cask master I thought he said task
1974s	that'd be too closer that to that producer you were talking about we got an ad tro oh
1981s	theole you blaming tro sleep it oh we got the Cal Master too oh God St got it I think we got
1993s	them all we got a bunch uh well no no we're good we're good Focus kill that last dude this tank
2002s	here hold them
2008s	B
2017s	almost oh no over here oh watch out watch out oh that's
2023s	great wait these enemies do damage wait hold up oh yeah
2030s	there people are dying oh the tank is down yeah I'm taking damage I uh
2039s	having trouble being everybody alive uhoh okay think we got it get his fat
2046s	loots okay I'm still on the
2055s	Taskmaster
2064s	o oh almost watch out for the explosion afterwards oh no he's gaining health I'm cleansing his his
2077s	Buffs watch the boat watch blow up oh my gosh he has Health again dude he is getting so
2086s	much health back what is going on health from it's the ale he's drinking no oh my god dude y
2098s	well that happens to me too okay we got to kill the other things then first we
2101s	got to kill the other things oh my gosh I got the heals that is rough
2109s	okay okay almost got another guy okay we got to let's pull back let's pull
2117s	back a little bit pull it back I think we're going to get respawns so yeah kill kill this
2125s	cursed Smith first Focus on one target yeah oh slag born slor up I was just ready to close us
2137s	out I died guys I know you can't do what I'm doing but it is much easier if you
2149s	can okay I'm going to hack too no stop it oh my God this is starting getting very
2159s	lonely uh you guys are all dead all right well that has been our Showcase
2165s	of uh couple bugs here and there that's cool um but honestly this is a super super awesome
2175s	uh dungeon and I think players are really going to enjoy it um it is definitely uh not for the
2180s	faint of heart it is difficult uh so be aware players if you want to overcome this difficulty
2186s	in in favor of trying to find the loot and rewards that come with this place you're going to need to
2191s	come um you're going to need to come prepared um Jess Jeremy James Bill uh Anastasia Nathan
2202s	Margaret thank you guys for joining us this was a a fun experience I think players are going to
2207s	love the new content that's in Phase 2 and obviously uh as you all know out there in
2211s	the audience this is just the start of phase 2 we have a lot of plans for Phase 2 uh Intrepid
2216s	is going to be on holiday from the 20th to the six but when we return we are going to
2220s	be ready to kick some butt and to implement some new content and features uh as part of the phase 2
2226s	development so um thank you for joining us today and we will see you guys back on stream have a
2232s	happy holidays and a merry Christmas everybody thanks y'all chras bye take it easy thank you

[2024] Ashes of Creation Alpha Two - Befallen Forge Playthrough

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