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| 17s | hello everyone and Welcome to our |
| 19s | glorious ashes Rec creation November |
| 21s | development update we hope that everyone |
| 24s | has been having a wonderful month it has |
| 26s | been a long one for us even though it's |
| 28s | like short so uh because of the holidays |
| 30s | it just makes everything so cram bag for |
| 32s | us so we're like trying to make sure we |
| 34s | get everything done uh same with |
| 36s | December so it's like those two sprints |
| 38s | for us um in development we use like |
| 40s | Sprints and Milestones to do our our our |
| 43s | calculations of what we're going to be |
| 44s | doing um in Milestones it gets a little |
| 47s | hectic yeah because everyone's just |
| 48s | trying to power through but everyone is |
| 50s | amazing and doing rocking and rolling |
| 52s | and kicking major butt um yeah it's |
| 55s | always oh go ahead it's always |
| 56s | interesting the end of the year we have |
| 58s | these two backtack streams in November |
| 61s | and December and then our longest uh |
| 64s | stream until the end of January so |
| 67s | that's true because January is so long |
| 68s | that's true um but of course I'm |
| 70s | Margaret cron I'm the director of |
| 72s | communications here at interpid Studios |
| 74s | and with me as always is Steven Sharie |
| 75s | our creative director and we have a |
| 77s | whole slew of things for you uh we have |
| 79s | some quick reminders we're going to try |
| 81s | to go through this pretty quick uh |
| 82s | artisanship preview which I think a lot |
| 84s | of you Crafters out there are probably |
| 86s | really excited about this we've had a |
| 87s | lot of questions um and of course to |
| 89s | preface we will this is going to be more |
| 91s | of our core functioning stuff so not |
| 93s | super in depth um in regards to like |
| 96s | manual crafting but we'll go we'll talk |
| 98s | a little bit more about that and of |
| 99s | course if you have questions feel free |
| 101s | to pop those in to the uh you know |
| 104s | twitch channel uh Discord and of course |
| 107s | uh we have a watch party on Discord |
| 109s | right now so there's a lot of places for |
| 110s | you to interact with us our community |
| 112s | team is Full Throttle um so of course we |
| 116s | are always pulling those in after those |
| 117s | segments as well um and then we'll have |
| 119s | like a quick little Studio update art |
| 121s | update and then do our Q&A as well like |
| 124s | our Forum Q&A that we always pull from |
| 126s | but before we do that we do have our |
| 129s | Spotlight uh whoops wrong one there we |
| 132s | go our Spotlight comment so if you uh on |
| 135s | our development updates leave a comment |
| 137s | subscribe to us uh you may be selected |
| 140s | make sure that you have it so that we |
| 141s | can see that you're subscribed to us and |
| 143s | then you will maybe get your comment |
| 145s | selected it's random so um today's |
| 149s | comment is from PW beats and they would |
| 151s | like to know it's less of a question |
| 153s | more of a statement Caravans are my |
| 154s | number one most loved feature when it |
| 157s | comes to MMOs this is uh this this is it |
| 161s | I will pre-order the game first thing uh |
| 165s | uh first time in like 15 years PS would |
| 168s | love to see the other side of that |
| 170s | feature uh specifically how a party of |
| 172s | robbers attacks a caravan and how they |
| 175s | can then flee and sell it to a fence or |
| 178s | something of that sort um yeah I figure |
| 181s | we could talk a little bit about that |
| 183s | sure absolutely a statement |
| 186s | and know we showed off Caravans so if |
| 189s | you're curious about those definitely |
| 191s | check that out there's a lot of people |
| 193s | in the studio that share uh uh that |
| 196s | excitement uh for Caravans as a system |
| 200s | um it is the epitome of risk versus |
| 202s | reward obviously and and knowing that |
| 205s | that is a core pillar of of a lot of the |
| 207s | systems design in ashes um Caravans |
| 210s | represent that very well um you know it |
| 213s | it took a lot of work to kind of get |
| 215s | Caravans to a place that felt good both |
| 217s | from a drivability perspective but also |
| 219s | from a customization perspective as it |
| 222s | relates to crafting unique components |
| 224s | and creating these vehicles that live in |
| 226s | stalls that are located at different |
| 228s | nodes and and kind of their summoning |
| 230s | mechanic and you know leveraging them |
| 232s | for the transit of these cargo and |
| 233s | materials that are so vital to the |
| 235s | economy um you know all of that in a |
| 238s | fantasy world you know you you might see |
| 240s | that in games like uh an eve or or |
| 243s | something that's a little bit more |
| 245s | sci-fi with transport but it's not often |
| 247s | seen in fantasy style games and so I |
| 250s | think that's super cool um obviously uh |
| 253s | when we talk about the PVP element of |
| 256s | them and that risk um I am happy to |
| 259s | announce that in January we will be uh |
| 262s | showcasing this is I guess a little bit |
| 264s | of a leak of things to come but we will |
| 267s | be showcasing a large PVP battle |
| 270s | uh around Caravans and you guys will get |
| 272s | to see a little bit of the Caravan uh |
| 274s | raft uh take place as well we should be |
| 277s | in a good spot for that uh come January |
| 280s | um so that's going to be really exciting |
| 282s | I think for people to see I know that |
| 283s | we've had uh the last few streams have |
| 285s | been kind of focused um around uh |
| 287s | mechanics within ashes that aren't |
| 290s | combat or PVP related um that's a good |
| 293s | thing because what makes the world go |
| 295s | round in Vera uh is obviously those |
| 297s | types of systems and it makes the the |
| 300s | events where player conflict does occur |
| 303s | that much more exciting because of how |
| 304s | much it took to kind of set the stage uh |
| 308s | for high-risk reward type encounter and |
| 310s | that's what Caravans are all about so |
| 312s | January is going to be a really fun |
| 313s | thing to see uh I believe and and you |
| 315s | guys are going to be uh uh there |
| 317s | definitely a lot of questions regarding |
| 319s | uh the PVP element of just our game in |
| 321s | general and of course uh when we |
| 323s | showcase the Caravan system there were a |
| 325s | lot of follow-up questions in regards to |
| 327s | how PVP would play into that and of |
| 329s | course we had our already planned to |
| 330s | share that but the Caravan system alone |
| 333s | is such an in-depth system and the PVP |
| 335s | on top of that is so we just split those |
| 337s | up hopefully you all understand that and |
| 339s | of course we didn't want to put too much |
| 341s | pressure on those teams right back to |
| 342s | back so you know kind of giv a little |
| 344s | love here and there um but of course um |
| 348s | I think I misspoke last month I meant to |
| 350s | say that uh in our in the December like |
| 354s | at the end of the year we are going to |
| 355s | share the quarter I believe that's what |
| 357s | we had said earlier on as well when we |
| 359s | announced the 2024 uh Alpha 2 timeline |
| 363s | as well and I I think I misspoke and |
| 365s | said next live stream what I meant to |
| 367s | say like at the end of the year um so we |
| 370s | will be announcing what quarter Alpha 2 |
| 371s | will be next live stream in December's |
| 374s | live stream to make it very clear |
| 375s | apologies not too far away yeah oh yeah |
| 378s | absolutely it's only we're only a few |
| 380s | weeks away from that actually like true |
| 382s | we're not that far away yeah we got a |
| 385s | lot of testing that's been that's been |
| 386s | going on over the course of this month |
| 388s | and uh obviously December's going be a |
| 390s | big month when it comes to testing as |
| 391s | well I made a little bit of commentary |
| 393s | about that uh um in the Discord uh |
| 396s | things are heating up for sure but I do |
| 398s | want to temper expectations I want to |
| 400s | remind everybody that this is Alpha |
| 403s | Testing right and so because of that you |
| 406s | know you can look historically at how |
| 408s | far the game has come year after year |
| 410s | the improvements that get made and what |
| 413s | we're about to show you right now which |
| 415s | is a little over an hour long uh |
| 417s | showcase regarding all things |
| 420s | artisanship right um you know I made a |
| 423s | post in Discord yesterday that just went |
| 425s | over kind of all the types of updates |
| 427s | that we're going to see and I want to I |
| 428s | want to reiterate them here before we |
| 430s | actually move to uh to the video segment |
| 433s | and I know a lot of you guys take your |
| 434s | hour your hour break to kind of watch |
| 436s | this uh to watch our live stream oh I |
| 440s | apologize oh I'm sorry I thought that |
| 441s | was my C no go go through the reminders |
| 443s | and then I'll do that okay okay go um |
| 446s | but yeah I just wanted to kind of let |
| 447s | people know that that was a m spake uh M |
| 450s | spoke on my on my side um and of course |
| 453s | we do want to thank you all for helping |
| 455s | us raise money for extra life what an |
| 457s | amazing campaign that we have as a team |
| 460s | you're wonderful I I mean we can't thank |
| 463s | you guys enough for what you done this |
| 465s | month I feel like that was a year ago |
| 467s | already I I know um but we did put an |
| 470s | article up H it also has like the |
| 472s | winners too and we've all the winners |
| 473s | have been reached out to and given their |
| 476s | rewards I think the last of rewards are |
| 478s | the three thank you videos which we're |
| 480s | going to be recording right after this |
| 481s | and sending out so everyone should be |
| 483s | getting all of their things or have |
| 484s | information on when your things are |
| 486s | going to be shipped to you so I just |
| 488s | wanted to reiterate that to folks um and |
| 491s | just and just a last a last parting |
| 495s | comment regards to to extra life those |
| 498s | of you who didn't get to participate or |
| 499s | didn't and didn't get to take a look I |
| 501s | think that um as a community we we need |
| 504s | to um we need to celebrate our |
| 507s | accomplishments and uh it is a really |
| 510s | cool thing that we as a community have |
| 511s | come together over the course of the |
| 514s | last several years to raise over |
| 517s | $325,000 for radi children's hospital |
| 519s | and that is that is truly something um |
| 522s | that is unique about the ashes Community |
| 524s | I mean we're not even in our game yet |
| 526s | playing right and we have come together |
| 528s | as a community very strongly and are |
| 532s | capable of doing these things that help |
| 534s | others and demonstrate the quality of |
| 537s | what it means to be and Ashes of |
| 539s | creation Community member um and that's |
| 541s | something that I think is very unique |
| 543s | and it's something that we should be |
| 544s | proud of and that we should carry with |
| 546s | us to the other gaming communities that |
| 548s | we are a part of and and you know we're |
| 551s | all an Eclectic bunch of Gamers we enjoy |
| 553s | lots of different games um the cause |
| 556s | that that extra life presents I think is |
| 559s | a worthwhile one and it is something |
| 561s | that touches the hearts of people who |
| 564s | are Gamers just like you and I like |
| 566s | Margaret and I um and it's really |
| 568s | something that's noticeable for for for |
| 570s | us to come together and perform like |
| 572s | that so kudos to you guys out in the |
| 573s | community that is truly something |
| 575s | remarkable and I can't wait to see what |
| 578s | even crazier things we get to do in the |
| 580s | future as we get closer and closer to |
| 581s | launch and then post launch as well um |
| 584s | and how we can integrate Ash's of |
| 585s | Creations into more of those type of |
| 587s | things so thank you all and of course |
| 589s | our community is just amazing as as a |
| 590s | whole so we love how much you all |
| 593s | interact with us on all of the platforms |
| 595s | so keep keep that up and I know it's |
| 597s | only going to get crazier when we start |
| 598s | doing more Guild stuff cuz because we |
| 599s | are definitely going to expand to more |
| 601s | of that as we get like in game and and |
| 603s | do that kind of stuff because guilds are |
| 605s | very important but of course I just want |
| 606s | to remind you that we do have some Dev |
| 609s | discussions up we have our um Dove |
| 612s | discussion for respawn times um so if |
| 615s | you have not partaken in that we are |
| 616s | going to be wrapping up our reporting |
| 618s | for that so please feel free to pop in |
| 621s | there give us some some of your thoughts |
| 623s | of course you can even after our |
| 624s | reporting still continue to give us |
| 625s | feedback we always go back and double |
| 627s | check things but uh did want to do that |
| 629s | and of course I wanted to give you a |
| 631s | little teaser uh Vagner shared that the |
| 633s | next one will be on drop Rarity and so |
| 635s | if you have feelings and thoughts on |
| 637s | drop Rarity which I know most of y'all |
| 639s | out there do uh definitely give us your |
| 641s | thoughts in regards to that because we |
| 643s | are going to be compiling a report for |
| 645s | the devb team in regards to that also I |
| 649s | don't have an asset for this because |
| 650s | it's more of a a surprise thing uh we |
| 654s | always do something kind of cool and fun |
| 656s | or silly during the holidays but our |
| 658s | next uh one is going to be a bonus Dev |
| 660s | discussion it's going to be a special |
| 662s | holiday delicious Dev discussion for |
| 664s | those of you who have partaken in the |
| 666s | past we've made some really cool recipes |
| 667s | and things like that uh and especially |
| 669s | tying in with artisanship stuff for |
| 671s | those who enjoy cooking and things of |
| 673s | that sort uh you definitely want to head |
| 675s | over to the forums next week and vote on |
| 677s | which Varon holiday recipe you would |
| 679s | like to see um and we'll be putting some |
| 681s | of those out to share with you guys uh |
| 684s | for the holiday season and hopefully |
| 685s | some people will make them and then send |
| 687s | us pictures that would be super cool |
| 690s | what if what if some people did make |
| 692s | them and we had a little bit of like |
| 694s | some Alpha keys that we gave out for the |
| 696s | best version of those recipes I don't |
| 700s | know that could be interesting that' be |
| 701s | hard we'd have to do a whole uh Camp |
| 704s | that's true that's true we could do |
| 705s | community |
| 706s | voting I don't know just we can figure |
| 709s | something out we might Mar's like stepen |
| 710s | no quiet we might be able to do |
| 713s | something like that definitely contest |
| 715s | in the future but I think we might be |
| 716s | able to give some Alpha Keys away if |
| 717s | people make some stuff and share with us |
| 719s | as like bonus not not contest oriented |
| 723s | um we'll see we'll talk we'll discuss on |
| 725s | that front um and of course uh just |
| 729s | reminder that the Unseen order uh will |
| 731s | be ending January 17th uh I know that |
| 734s | some people uh just want to make sure |
| 736s | that they're being conscious of that so |
| 738s | if you would like a pre-order pack this |
| 740s | is the last time we will be offering a |
| 742s | pre-order pack specifically so if you |
| 744s | would like that definitely head on over |
| 746s | there and snag yourself one and with |
| 749s | that Stephen I will hand it over to you |
| 751s | to do some |
| 752s | prefacing thank you all right let's |
| 755s | everybody breathe together on stream we |
| 758s | want to breathe |
| 760s | in hold and breathe out okay |
| 767s | so as a reminder this stream is going to |
| 770s | be focused on artisanship as a whole and |
| 774s | um artisanship and the economy is a |
| 776s | obviously a very integral component of |
| 779s | of creating a world where progression |
| 781s | matters um where decisions and choices |
| 784s | matter um the world state that do |
| 787s | constantly in flux and changing around |
| 789s | you is very relevant as it relates to |
| 792s | supply and demand within the economy |
| 794s | that creates opportunity it also creates |
| 797s | unfortunately downsides and downturns um |
| 800s | but that keeps a market interesting |
| 802s | right it also makes you remember things |
| 805s | the times when you're having struggle |
| 807s | when you win and overcome those is like |
| 809s | the things you remember the most I mean |
| 811s | imagine your favorite Guild moments are |
| 813s | usually when you're like we tried 10 |
| 815s | times on the boss but then we fin right |
| 818s | 100% I mean some of the um some of the |
| 822s | more interesting moments that I've had |
| 824s | in other games um was where there were |
| 828s | unique um there were unique and um |
| 832s | scarce resources that everyone was |
| 835s | contending for right and those created I |
| 837s | think a very emergent and dynamic |
| 840s | interactions between the players uh |
| 842s | obviously that was that was interesting |
| 845s | um but okay so what we're going to see |
| 847s | today is not just about artisanship um |
| 850s | it is also going to be related to um |
| 854s | several changes that happen within uh |
| 856s | the game over time and so being that |
| 859s | this is the end of the year or coming |
| 861s | close to the end of the year um you're |
| 863s | going to see a number of different |
| 864s | updates to uh several different systems |
| 867s | you're going to see uh some updates on |
| 869s | the UI front a little bit more |
| 871s | explanation and perhaps a clearer |
| 873s | picture for you as it relates to spatial |
| 875s | management and the inventory systems um |
| 877s | that's obviously something that is uh um |
| 880s | unique to the Gathering system you're |
| 883s | going to see significant updates to game |
| 886s | lighting um when we showed the night and |
| 888s | day cycle uh in the past there was a |
| 891s | resounding feedback from the community |
| 893s | uh to see a bit darker uh exploration |
| 896s | for the night times uh to kind of bring |
| 898s | that that field of view in um a bit more |
| 902s | and so we've updated that um you're also |
| 905s | going to see some significant changes |
| 906s | from our Tech art team uh with the |
| 908s | Skybox and our volumetric clouds um I |
| 911s | think it's something that that creates a |
| 913s | bit more dramatic atmosphere uh within |
| 915s | this video you're going to see the first |
| 917s | Showcase of processing and how |
| 919s | processing Works uh from a station's |
| 921s | perspective these are going to be um |
| 925s | these are going to be systems that allow |
| 927s | players within the node who may not have |
| 930s | a free hold to still participate in some |
| 933s | levels of processing um and that's a |
| 937s | that's an important uh distinction |
| 938s | between what's available on freeholds |
| 941s | and what's available within notes you're |
| 942s | going to see get a little bit of insight |
| 946s | to um to predicate systems that that |
| 949s | relate to what you can access in the |
| 951s | wild you know we've we made this change |
| 953s | a while ago that everything is |
| 954s | accessible obviously uh from a resource |
| 957s | Gathering perspective uh however we do |
| 960s | gatekeep some of the access points to |
| 963s | progression within the profession um and |
| 965s | you're going to see the certification of |
| 967s | a very low-level certification process |
| 970s | um that's Quest driven uh you're not |
| 971s | going to see that whole certification |
| 973s | process uh but you are going to see um |
| 975s | how those how those resources are |
| 977s | restricted you're also going to see some |
| 978s | tool making kind of the initial tools |
| 980s | that you'll get as a as a as a gatherer |
| 983s | um which is going to be uh uh Quest |
| 986s | related uh to start uh and then you'll |
| 988s | have to be making those tools yourself |
| 990s | you're going to see a little bit of our |
| 991s | recipe system in the recipe book uh as |
| 993s | well as the other crafting stations for |
| 995s | those recipes we're going to be |
| 996s | specifically crafting a weapon in this |
| 998s | video um and you're not going to see all |
| 1000s | of the accurate recipe components |
| 1003s | necessary to craft the weapon uh but you |
| 1005s | are going to see um a a version of that |
| 1008s | right now um you're also going to see |
| 1010s | something that you haven't seen since |
| 1012s | Alpha 1 um which is our corruption zones |
| 1016s | and the corruption zones are uh um um uh |
| 1021s | are something obviously that changes |
| 1023s | within the world State uh and the world |
| 1025s | state is a very important aspect of what |
| 1028s | resources are available at what time |
| 1030s | corruption spreads as players do not |
| 1032s | respond to it appropriately it can be |
| 1034s | the predicate for events it can be the |
| 1035s | predicate for story arcs uh to kick off |
| 1038s | um and it does dynamically change the |
| 1041s | spawners within the world uh something |
| 1043s | that's unique obviously to ashes of |
| 1045s | creation is that world State change |
| 1047s | affecting the supply and demand of |
| 1048s | resources and you're going to see a |
| 1050s | little bit of our adaptive resour and |
| 1052s | from that you're going to see a little |
| 1052s | bit of our adaptive resource Gathering |
| 1055s | Tech updates uh where you see those |
| 1057s | resources change from night to day or |
| 1060s | from uh corrupt to not corrupt uh and |
| 1063s | then there is going to be a little bit |
| 1064s | of a leak of of a couple of Ranger |
| 1066s | skills um I will give you another leak |
| 1068s | that next month we are going to be doing |
| 1070s | the ranger showcase again there's 18 new |
| 1072s | abilities within the archetype kit that |
| 1074s | we're going to show off um and I think |
| 1077s | that uh you guys will have a fun time |
| 1078s | with that uh but we did have to dispatch |
| 1080s | a few wolves while we were out looking |
| 1082s | for resources during this uh live stream |
| 1084s | so with that being said I do want to |
| 1086s | leave off with the last disclaimer as |
| 1088s | you all know what I'm about to say this |
| 1090s | is still Alpha yes that's right this is |
| 1093s | still Alpha this is still a work in |
| 1095s | progress things only get better from |
| 1098s | this point forward but as is our |
| 1100s | responsibility we want to show you how |
| 1102s | things are progressing and we want to do |
| 1104s | so so that you're able to provide us |
| 1106s | feedback on the directionality you see |
| 1108s | through the showcases and can let us |
| 1110s | know how this relates to your |
| 1112s | experiences how this is something you |
| 1114s | want to see or what you would change |
| 1116s | differently so keep in mind as you're |
| 1118s | watching what are the points of feedback |
| 1119s | that you want to give us you can give |
| 1121s | them to us on YouTube which will be |
| 1122s | released shortly after this uh live |
| 1124s | stream thread that we'll have up um |
| 1126s | that's the best way it makes it the |
| 1128s | easiest for us to compile it is it is |
| 1130s | the best way forums but I know not of |
| 1132s | you are not a lot of you are keyboard |
| 1134s | warriors on the Forum so if you want to |
| 1135s | be uh out on the Discord or on the |
| 1137s | social medias um if you want if you |
| 1140s | prefer to talk and then of course any |
| 1141s | social platform like Stephen was saying |
| 1143s | you can leave us feedback yes of course |
| 1145s | absolutely um let me think was that last |
| 1148s | thing was that the last thing I think |
| 1150s | that's I think that was the last thing |
| 1151s | we will see you guys in just over like |
| 1154s | packing when you leave for a trip and |
| 1155s | you're like did I bring everything I |
| 1156s | know do I got my phone I got my wallet |
| 1158s | I'm |
| 1159s | good all right we'll see you guys in |
| 1161s | just a little bit |
| 1164s | [Music] |
| 1167s | sad |
| 1168s | [Music] |
| 1184s | hello everyone and welcome to yet |
| 1188s | another stream from Vera and we have a |
| 1191s | very exciting stream for you today we |
| 1194s | are going to be going through the |
| 1197s | artisanship system and and it has been a |
| 1199s | little while since we last talked about |
| 1203s | artisanship and showcased um the |
| 1206s | Gathering and we're going to do a little |
| 1208s | bit of that today and we also during our |
| 1210s | uh last stream with uh freeh Holtz |
| 1212s | talked a little bit about processing and |
| 1214s | we're going to be doing that uh today as |
| 1216s | well and we're also going to be crafting |
| 1218s | something pretty interesting and I have |
| 1220s | joining me four of our |
| 1223s | glorious team here at Intrepid some of |
| 1227s | them regulars I think all of them |
| 1228s | actually regulars have been on the |
| 1230s | stream before um we have two of our |
| 1233s | glorious designers Mike and Corey Mike |
| 1236s | Cory how you guys |
| 1237s | doing doing great how are you glad to be |
| 1240s | here doing very good I'm excited to show |
| 1241s | off what you guys have been working on |
| 1243s | and how far it's come since people last |
| 1244s | saw it yeah same here it's it's very |
| 1248s | exciting for us yes we also have joining |
| 1252s | us one of our glorious Engineers Alex |
| 1256s | how you doing buddy doing great how are |
| 1258s | you doing very good you have been doing |
| 1260s | a lot of work on the engineering side of |
| 1262s | things getting all these glorious |
| 1263s | designs up and running it's going to be |
| 1265s | exciting to take a look at that today as |
| 1267s | well yeah it's been a challenge have to |
| 1270s | fulfill all the wishes of my |
| 1274s | designers not bad was it they're like |
| 1277s | wait all of our |
| 1279s | wishes the one that passed |
| 1283s | visibility we also have joining us uh |
| 1286s | for this is your second time now Nathan |
| 1289s | our glorious producer I know back to |
| 1292s | back I know The Artisans ship is the |
| 1295s | peanut butter to the Jelly that is noed |
| 1297s | so I'm super excited to show how these |
| 1299s | start interacting with each other yes it |
| 1302s | is totally 100% and you guys have done a |
| 1304s | great job so far uh I know you guys have |
| 1307s | been really pushing it uh this last this |
| 1310s | last Sprint and uh it has definitely |
| 1313s | shown through to me so I'm excited to |
| 1314s | show the audience um all right so why |
| 1317s | don't we talk a little bit of bit a |
| 1319s | little bit about what we're going to be |
| 1322s | doing |
| 1324s | today Cory yeah Mike sounds good um so |
| 1329s | um you had brought up that you had done |
| 1332s | a little uh lumberjacking uh but we're |
| 1334s | kind of interested in getting into some |
| 1336s | Mining and |
| 1338s | herbalism uh because you picked up a |
| 1340s | recipe um I think it's like uh you're |
| 1343s | saying that's a pretty nice sword or |
| 1344s | something so okay let me take a look at |
| 1346s | that is that that's going to be in my |
| 1347s | inventory yeah it should in your |
| 1348s | inventory yeah um so I was thinking we |
| 1351s | could go out and uh get some of the |
| 1353s | stuff that we would need to um make that |
| 1357s | sword U some of them are a little harder |
| 1360s | to come by so I'm not sure whether or |
| 1361s | not we'll be able to get our hands on |
| 1363s | that if not I think we might have some |
| 1365s | stuff for you but um yeah I guess uh we |
| 1368s | just need to kind of get our get our |
| 1370s | stuff together at um as as you mentioned |
| 1372s | uh or as I mentioned you you already did |
| 1374s | some lumberjacking but we'll probably |
| 1376s | need to get you um uh herbalism sickle |
| 1381s | and uh maybe some extra bags so you have |
| 1383s | some space um so yeah let's uh yeah |
| 1387s | let's make our way over to the |
| 1389s | agricultural Supply I think there |
| 1391s | there's one of those built in uh |
| 1393s | Winstead right now so we can head down |
| 1395s | there and um so now talk to me a little |
| 1397s | bit about obviously we have this recipe |
| 1401s | um when players are looking to create |
| 1404s | different items in the game they're |
| 1406s | going to need to go out and either uh |
| 1407s | purchase or get drops of recipes or |
| 1410s | trade with other players and when they |
| 1412s | acquire that recipe like I have here |
| 1414s | this it says night blade I can use the |
| 1417s | recipe and I will learn a weapon |
| 1419s | smithing recipe for the night blade so I |
| 1421s | have a recipe book that I get to keep |
| 1423s | essentially I learn these recipes once y |
| 1426s | pretty much um there might be some |
| 1428s | unique cases where some recipes might |
| 1431s | have a charge count so when you craft it |
| 1432s | five times it might disappear but |
| 1434s | generally most of the cases all the |
| 1435s | recipes should be permanently learned |
| 1437s | okay nice that's that's very cool um and |
| 1441s | right clicking this is going to consume |
| 1442s | it I assume but I'm I do get a preview |
| 1444s | of the materials that we need and Cory |
| 1446s | this is what you were talking a little |
| 1447s | bit about going out and collecting some |
| 1449s | of these there's a night opal Moon Bell |
| 1451s | I assume that is some type of |
| 1453s | flower yeah so um uh the night opal and |
| 1458s | the moon bells are those are the ones |
| 1459s | that I was kind of alluding to that are |
| 1460s | a little difficult to get our hands- on |
| 1463s | um the night Opals you basically can't |
| 1465s | see them at all during the day uh but um |
| 1468s | as it gets closer to night if they're in |
| 1470s | the world they'll sort of uh um uh push |
| 1474s | away their shell and start shining a bit |
| 1476s | and then the uh the the uh Moon Bells uh |
| 1479s | only bloom at night so we'll have to |
| 1482s | kind of you know maybe we'll work on |
| 1484s | some of the other uh things you need for |
| 1486s | the recipe and hopefully night time |
| 1487s | will'll come around and we can uh find |
| 1489s | some of those things okay very cool so |
| 1491s | I'm going to right click this recipe to |
| 1492s | learn it let's see here oh very cool |
| 1496s | okay it says learned new recipe night |
| 1499s | blade okay yeah now where are we going |
| 1502s | to go to get this sickle you mentioned |
| 1504s | oh yeah so right over here |
| 1509s | um oh okay they got this area in kind of |
| 1511s | the back alley of the the town yeah so |
| 1514s | if we head through here this is the |
| 1516s | agricultural |
| 1517s | Supply um this is one of the you know |
| 1519s | service buildings that you can build in |
| 1520s | the node this one kind of focuses |
| 1522s | specifically on artisanship and you'll |
| 1524s | find stuff for herbalism farming and |
| 1526s | animal husbandry here um so if you talk |
| 1529s | to um Mr Willie over here um yeah so he |
| 1535s | if you talk to him he should um give you |
| 1538s | some stuff that you can use to construct |
| 1540s | your uh first sickle so okay and then uh |
| 1543s | once once you have those things there's |
| 1545s | a little Anvil here over here to your |
| 1547s | left um and you can craft the sickle |
| 1549s | there and then I think once you have the |
| 1552s | sickle you can talk to him and um it'll |
| 1555s | it'll complete the quest and and you |
| 1557s | give you your first sickle you'll be |
| 1558s | ready to go this guy is incredibly rude |
| 1560s | we need to have a conversation with the |
| 1562s | narrative team about how these these |
| 1566s | vendors speak to the citizens of this |
| 1568s | Village this is |
| 1570s | unbelievable he said he just can't he |
| 1572s | can't teach just any Drifter am I just |
| 1575s | any Drifter does he not see the crown on |
| 1576s | this helmet I guess not yeah we'll have |
| 1579s | to add to the uh mayoral um narrative |
| 1582s | tags just so they can uh and up their |
| 1585s | respectful speech he's not even going to |
| 1587s | pay me too for achieving these many |
| 1590s | tasks he has for me he's paying you in |
| 1593s | experience that is not enough oh man |
| 1596s | I've had those jobs before |
| 1600s | same oh that was so good that was so |
| 1604s | good oh no okay I have achieved this |
| 1607s | Quest it's called a feast of |
| 1610s | flowers |
| 1612s | awesome um so you uh he wants me to show |
| 1615s | him my crude |
| 1616s | sickle nice you should do that we'll |
| 1619s | turn |
| 1621s | away whoa |
| 1623s | whoa this is going to be one of those |
| 1626s | streams okay all right so um what do I |
| 1629s | need to do with this uh come over here |
| 1632s | next to the envil all right behind you |
| 1635s | yeah so there's an little Amil right |
| 1636s | here U you can interact with that and |
| 1638s | that should pull up the the crafting |
| 1639s | menu so as a uh as a gatherer you'll be |
| 1642s | able to craft your own tools um uh |
| 1645s | they're going to take you know resources |
| 1647s | that come from from all sorts of |
| 1649s | different uh professions you won't be |
| 1651s | able to you know always Source all of |
| 1653s | those things just just yourself but um |
| 1656s | uh luckily you know Will's nice and he |
| 1659s | gave you some um some components and you |
| 1661s | can kind of just throw them together to |
| 1662s | make your first uh your first sickle |
| 1664s | here so go through with the go through |
| 1666s | the craft you should get that thing and |
| 1668s | you know show it to him and um he'll |
| 1670s | give you a little pat on the back all |
| 1672s | right so now this is a this is a great |
| 1674s | example as we kind of um players as |
| 1677s | you're entering into Alpha 2 and and |
| 1678s | you're wanting to get started into um |
| 1681s | artisanship these different professions |
| 1683s | will have a number of quests available |
| 1686s | to introduce players to their first tool |
| 1688s | sets um and then from their tool set |
| 1692s | sustainability will be will be incumbent |
| 1694s | on the player to continue to gather the |
| 1697s | resources necessary to repeatedly create |
| 1699s | these tools because they have a |
| 1701s | durability that gets expended when |
| 1703s | interacting with the resources in the |
| 1704s | open |
| 1706s | world exactly |
| 1708s | all right okay so I'm going to talk to |
| 1711s | him again and yes I made the |
| 1714s | sickle um okay now he's criticizing my |
| 1717s | crude |
| 1719s | work okay okay all right but that's fine |
| 1721s | he uh we all know what your first mayor |
| 1725s | mayoral like decision is going to be is |
| 1727s | destroy |
| 1728s | agricultural guy is the agricultural |
| 1733s | SP oh no all right very cool so I |
| 1738s | oh you can preview it in AR page |
| 1742s | actually yeah once you once you there |
| 1745s | you go you should have rewards now there |
| 1747s | we go equipped to Artisan tool slot very |
| 1749s | cool so now it is in my Artisan tool |
| 1751s | slot should I open that and take a look |
| 1753s | here yeah perfect okay okay Co |
| 1758s | so yeah so we have that panel open this |
| 1761s | is kind of like the the hub for all |
| 1762s | artisanship stuff I think we poked |
| 1764s | around here a little bit um in some of |
| 1766s | the previous streams but on the right |
| 1768s | hand side there you can see all the |
| 1769s | different slots for the the tool types |
| 1772s | um for each of our five Gathering |
| 1774s | professions so awesome um looks like you |
| 1777s | have one of each of the tools that we're |
| 1778s | looking to use today um and also kind of |
| 1781s | no already very progressed in my uh in |
| 1784s | my |
| 1785s | lumberjacking oh yeah you said you're |
| 1787s | like what level are you I'm like level |
| 1789s | nine I'm about to be level 10 oh that's |
| 1791s | awesome okay so like while we're out and |
| 1793s | about you'll if you hit Level 10 you |
| 1795s | should be able to uh upgrade your CER of |
| 1797s | C ification to apprentice and that's one |
| 1799s | of our uh certification break points um |
| 1802s | and you know once you each hit those |
| 1804s | break points it kind of opens up a whole |
| 1806s | new uh range of stuff that you can do |
| 1809s | new tools yeah exactly right um a new |
| 1812s | portion of your skill tree so we should |
| 1814s | for sure um get you that level 10 and |
| 1816s | see what happens what up Sten we need to |
| 1818s | prepare for a journey oh where yeah we |
| 1822s | need to get some potential bags oh okay |
| 1825s | yeah yeah yeah so uh we talked about the |
| 1827s | in the past with the with the tetris |
| 1829s | inventory um kind of having different |
| 1832s | spatial layouts um of our bags and also |
| 1835s | our um our resources and so uh we've |
| 1838s | been working on that a little bit and um |
| 1841s | trying to set up bags that have uh |
| 1843s | spaces that are optimal for you know the |
| 1846s | the shapes that are going to be |
| 1847s | associated with the resources and um |
| 1850s | having stats on on the bags that will |
| 1852s | change you know the the stack size and |
| 1853s | how much you can stack stuff up so um |
| 1856s | since we're going out we're going to |
| 1857s | collect a bunch of stuff you should grab |
| 1859s | one of the um bountiful bags from Willie |
| 1863s | and then we'll go over to the Stoneworks |
| 1865s | and see if we can grab a I see that um |
| 1868s | Willie has a number of different uh |
| 1871s | farmer shirts and Novis |
| 1874s | herbalism or herbalis skibbies do I want |
| 1877s | any gear from |
| 1878s | this um yeah it's up to you I mean |
| 1880s | there's so there's gear for all of the |
| 1882s | different um crafting Gathering and |
| 1885s | processing professions that'll help you |
| 1886s | you know do do those uh different trades |
| 1889s | so um it's up to you like if if you you |
| 1892s | said you're higher level in |
| 1893s | lumberjacking so you know you could grab |
| 1895s | some of that stuff um to kind of |
| 1897s | compound on the stats make you make you |
| 1899s | faster chopping or oh should I go over |
| 1901s | that guy buy that stuff okay cool cool |
| 1903s | cool so from this guy let me purchase |
| 1905s | his um bags yeah why don't you grab yeah |
| 1909s | grab the Bountiful bag from him the |
| 1911s | Bountiful ones are pretty great they um |
| 1913s | I think they have the increased stack |
| 1914s | size on them so you can uh stack up more |
| 1917s | or herbs um in that bag than you can in |
| 1919s | in others um I see that there is a |
| 1923s | novice herbalism |
| 1926s | bag and if you scroll down at the bottom |
| 1928s | there's alen ha and basket oh okay so |
| 1930s | I'm going to grab the basket yeah all |
| 1934s | right done I got one of those sweet |
| 1938s | awesome I need anything else do I need |
| 1939s | any other bags uh yeah let's run over |
| 1943s | this way to the |
| 1945s | Stoneworks there's another uh |
| 1948s | gentleman over here that we can talk to |
| 1951s | kind of |
| 1952s | standing by this crane okay um and you |
| 1955s | can do the same thing from him throw |
| 1957s | throw a little gold at him and he'll |
| 1958s | give you some give you some bags and |
| 1960s | stuff I'll get um from this guy the |
| 1963s | stone noice Bountiful mining bag novice |
| 1966s | Bountiful okay got it awesome so now |
| 1970s | those those bags should be in your |
| 1971s | inventory um and if you right click them |
| 1974s | they'll equip and then if you go over to |
| 1976s | your materials tab |
| 1978s | um you should be able to see uh those |
| 1981s | new bags that we got okay so just real |
| 1983s | quick you were speaking earlier about |
| 1985s | the unique stack sizes as being part of |
| 1988s | the um kind of asymmetric design for bag |
| 1992s | crafting um and these bags have |
| 1995s | specifically curated benefits for stack |
| 1999s | sizes of the type of resources they |
| 2002s | relate to and that's the specific |
| 2004s | profession of gathering and the |
| 2005s | resources you would gain from those |
| 2007s | those different unique professions so by |
| 2010s | equipping this herbalism bag oops let's |
| 2012s | see |
| 2013s | here um and then also let me just open |
| 2018s | up the material section and this |
| 2021s | one I see now I've actually gotten a |
| 2026s | unique |
| 2027s | looking um structure for the alen |
| 2031s | herbalism basket and those are the types |
| 2033s | of structures you would expect them to |
| 2035s | gather that are the gather bles forb ISM |
| 2038s | correct correct correct yeah so that's |
| 2040s | not necessarily to say that I can't |
| 2041s | collect non herbalism resources I could |
| 2046s | and I could put them in that bag but it |
| 2048s | just wouldn't utilize the most |
| 2050s | beneficial aspect of it which is the |
| 2051s | higher stack count for those types of |
| 2054s | verbalism resources yeah exactly we can |
| 2057s | also um you know can also be constraints |
| 2061s | on the on the shape right like um we |
| 2063s | were talking about like you can kind of |
| 2065s | see um I I'm not sure what materials you |
| 2068s | you have in your bags but like I I have |
| 2070s | a couple pieces of wood that are you |
| 2071s | know uh one by3 and so you know in in |
| 2075s | the herbalism bag I'm not sure that |
| 2076s | there's any any slots for for uh pieces |
| 2079s | of wood that are that size right so um |
| 2082s | some there'll be some constraints and um |
| 2085s | benefits in terms of shape and then also |
| 2088s | you know the the stack size based on the |
| 2090s | on the type so okay cool very cool so |
| 2092s | now let's oh go ahead Mike a good |
| 2095s | example would be if you equip the mining |
| 2097s | bag bag as well on top of the herbalism |
| 2099s | bag um you'll be able to see the shapes |
| 2103s | are different but um you can see the |
| 2106s | mining bags are 2x2s and overing bags |
| 2108s | are um 1 by tws so you can technically |
| 2111s | put herbs into your mining bags but you |
| 2113s | won't get the benefit of the stock |
| 2115s | bonuses of the mining stuff right yeah |
| 2119s | that's very |
| 2120s | cool sorry go ahead Mike something else |
| 2122s | um also um the the earlier versions |
| 2126s | might be very restricted in sizes so |
| 2128s | like uh the noice mining bags and no |
| 2130s | herbalism bags are very shape |
| 2132s | restrictive but as you level up and then |
| 2135s | make better bags might be more generous |
| 2137s | of um shapes so you could technically do |
| 2139s | some other things as well and then have |
| 2141s | more bigger sizes and have be able to uh |
| 2145s | hold more variety of things as well okay |
| 2147s | very nice that's I I think that's pretty |
| 2148s | cool should should we go to The |
| 2150s | Lumberjack to grab those were you |
| 2152s | talking about some um equipment that he |
| 2155s | might have that might help us with our |
| 2156s | Lumberjack oh yeah defitely that |
| 2159s | up |
| 2161s | sweet oh I see okay hold on let me see |
| 2164s | here I have I also have a quest that |
| 2166s | relates to We rise after |
| 2170s | felling oh yeah that's so that's the |
| 2172s | certification Quest so um as you |
| 2174s | mentioned before you know that we're um |
| 2178s | we're we're planning on having some some |
| 2180s | content related to you know onboarding |
| 2183s | players to the different professions and |
| 2186s | you know you're going to need a tool for |
| 2187s | the first time and um you're going to |
| 2189s | want to craft a thing for the first time |
| 2191s | and kind of learn how to do those things |
| 2193s | uh but we also want to extend that out |
| 2195s | to kind of more of a a individual story |
| 2198s | arc um like experience for players um so |
| 2201s | as you as you become a better Lumberjack |
| 2204s | you'll you'll you'll uh play out your |
| 2206s | story as as a lumberjack so um these |
| 2208s | different certification quests um are |
| 2212s | are meant to be kind of uh Keystone |
| 2214s | moments in that story progression so you |
| 2217s | know right now we have something kind of |
| 2218s | you know simple set up uh looks like you |
| 2221s | already had collected all the the wood |
| 2222s | that you needed right but um you also |
| 2224s | need to reach the level needed to even |
| 2227s | be take on an apprentice ship so um so I |
| 2232s | think yeah see see what he's got um I'd |
| 2235s | check out some of the gear I think that |
| 2236s | will um since you're already pretty |
| 2239s | pretty good with the wood choing you |
| 2240s | could probably get a little little |
| 2241s | faster with the gear that he has so he |
| 2243s | does have he has a shirt pants um |
| 2248s | and I think it's that and a tool belt |
| 2250s | and and each of them are |
| 2252s | giving different |
| 2255s | benefits looks like I'm getting |
| 2256s | lumberjacking speed from the pants and |
| 2259s | from the |
| 2260s | shirt and the tool belt is going to give |
| 2262s | me |
| 2263s | processing |
| 2265s | um oh I think you might be looking at |
| 2267s | Lum Milling oh that's my bad so at this |
| 2271s | at this service building um we're we're |
| 2274s | housing another three professions so |
| 2276s | there's there's carpet stuff here |
| 2278s | there's the lumber Milling stuff here |
| 2280s | and there's also the lumberjacking stuff |
| 2282s | here so um Woody's going to have stuff |
| 2285s | from from all three um if you're looking |
| 2287s | to do any you know uh woodworking |
| 2290s | related activities uh he's your guy so |
| 2293s | and that's sort of what we mentioned |
| 2294s | when we were showing the nodes uh in a |
| 2297s | live stream a few months ago was like |
| 2299s | your ability to build buildings to |
| 2301s | really cater to uh the important |
| 2304s | industries to your region or or your |
| 2307s | node yeah |
| 2309s | yeah let me just take a look here I know |
| 2312s | this is obviously guys this is I want to |
| 2315s | State this again we always State this in |
| 2316s | every uh showcase but uh everything you |
| 2319s | see here is still a work in progress we |
| 2321s | are working towards our Alpha 2 um that |
| 2324s | includes things like visual effects like |
| 2327s | uh UI these are all very functional |
| 2330s | States but not necessarily at their |
| 2332s | polish States um so there's still a lot |
| 2333s | of work that needs to be done there I |
| 2335s | noticed that um we have three slots for |
| 2338s | the uh the equipment that I just put on |
| 2341s | and they're not displaying visually uh |
| 2344s | but we do intend to provide that visual |
| 2346s | display as an option to the characters |
| 2348s | correct correct |
| 2351s | yeah it would be a toggleable thing that |
| 2354s | players could be do um in the future |
| 2356s | when we get some assets yes absolutely |
| 2359s | there's a lot of |
| 2362s | assets all right let us so what should |
| 2365s | we do here we want to go out and gather |
| 2366s | some stuff yeah yeah yeah so um you know |
| 2370s | we we're kind of scouting out there uh |
| 2372s | beforehand and we know we know a pretty |
| 2373s | good spot um if you're if you're heading |
| 2377s | out kind of past the |
| 2378s | Smithy you should see a good old Tower |
| 2381s | Carin out there in the distance and if |
| 2383s | you |
| 2385s | head uh a little bit east of that um you |
| 2388s | can kind of see some like rock |
| 2390s | formations up there that's where we're |
| 2391s | heading there's a nice little um little |
| 2394s | Valley in there um has I think it has |
| 2397s | pretty much everything that we're |
| 2397s | looking for so okay I love the Autumn |
| 2401s | look out here I think the it fits |
| 2405s | perfectly for this time of year I mean |
| 2407s | definitely we did just have Thanksgiving |
| 2409s | feels kind of a little bit like |
| 2410s | Thanksgiving out |
| 2411s | here does does feel like Thanksgiving |
| 2414s | it's beautiful I really like the colors |
| 2416s | it's turning out really good ab it's my |
| 2419s | favorite season uh so far by way does |
| 2422s | ver have thanksgiv too or no hey no |
| 2426s | trying to get l out of me this is an |
| 2428s | artisanship Focus give us we won't leak |
| 2432s | during a live stream I know right Lord |
| 2435s | the one thing I really love the lease |
| 2438s | falling down effect just walking by nice |
| 2441s | speaking of of leaks however I know that |
| 2444s | I am uh playing a ranger class you might |
| 2447s | see a couple of early uh look at the |
| 2449s | ranger skills here in case we run into |
| 2451s | any potential resistances um but next |
| 2455s | month we are doing a ranger update and |
| 2457s | it's going to be pretty fun too so |
| 2460s | there's a little leak little leak nice I |
| 2462s | see how it is it's okay for skill |
| 2464s | abilities but not for the |
| 2465s | lore that is true that is true the lore |
| 2468s | is safely |
| 2469s | unbelievable so we do have have some BS |
| 2472s | someone's chopping out there is that |
| 2474s | youan chopping |
| 2476s | yeah I see it falling in the distance |
| 2479s | where that's great over to the |
| 2483s | left I think he's up on that Hill are |
| 2485s | you trying to beat me to the |
| 2488s | uh here we go I'll chop down some trees |
| 2490s | too oh we do we this is Ash we need Oak |
| 2492s | though right or do I need Oak |
| 2494s | yeah |
| 2496s | yeah yeah that that be helpful Nathan |
| 2500s | just trying to become grandmas Before |
| 2502s | You Stephen exactly I will leave this |
| 2504s | land A baren |
| 2505s | Wasteland no trees for you to chop he |
| 2508s | sicked some uh wolves on me yeah all |
| 2511s | part of my master |
| 2515s | plan |
| 2516s | [Music] |
| 2519s | nice yeah get the get a few of these |
| 2522s | Oaks at least enough to level up and |
| 2524s | then we need to find some Basalt Basalt |
| 2526s | is going to have the zinc and copper uh |
| 2529s | that you need oh here's some over on the |
| 2531s | ridge um oh up the cliff assult yeah can |
| 2535s | you see me oo that area looks kind of |
| 2537s | Twisted and |
| 2539s | gross |
| 2541s | yeah wolf |
| 2545s | where |
| 2549s | oh |
| 2552s | wow really what so now this area appears |
| 2557s | to have a little bit of a corruption |
| 2558s | that started seeping in looks like the |
| 2560s | citizens of this town aren't doing their |
| 2563s | job fight back the corruption old |
| 2567s | neighborhood's going to hell there rues |
| 2569s | here too yeah yeah I think you can grab |
| 2571s | those you're yeah it's novice yeah these |
| 2574s | are the new rubies that we just |
| 2576s | introduced with uh C physics enabled oh |
| 2580s | nice uh yeah um thanks to Noah and some |
| 2584s | magic from engineering uh when you see |
| 2587s | it gather it's you see it shuts oh |
| 2589s | that's awesome love that that's super |
| 2592s | cool additionally if you open your |
| 2594s | backspace now um you'll see that your |
| 2596s | mining bag has now rubies and it |
| 2599s | prioritized based on your stack size oh |
| 2601s | let me see here hold on first let me |
| 2604s | gather a little bit of |
| 2607s | um look for some BT I think there's some |
| 2610s | over here over here to the |
| 2613s | right there's one right there |
| 2618s | yeah right here no this is opal |
| 2623s | nope opal I can't even interact with the |
| 2625s | opal no it's right here |
| 2628s | yeah oh don't we need |
| 2631s | opal I think so I think we need night |
| 2634s | opal which is the one that only really |
| 2636s | appears at night um |
| 2640s | okay |
| 2645s | interesting oh I've gotten some Zin and |
| 2648s | balt nice okay so you got lucky you got |
| 2650s | the you got the drop chance so this gave |
| 2652s | me two things it gave me it gave me zinc |
| 2654s | as well yes yeah yeah so when you're |
| 2658s | when you're mining stone like we're |
| 2659s | trying to we're trying to do stuff that |
| 2660s | make sense right with the drops so you |
| 2662s | know in stone you'll find metal and gems |
| 2664s | and you know depending on the you the |
| 2666s | tier and the type of type of stone um |
| 2669s | there'll be different kind of selection |
| 2670s | of gems and stuff you can get in it or |
| 2672s | or Metals so um you may if you're trying |
| 2676s | to Target a certain you know metal you |
| 2678s | might want to consider um some |
| 2680s | particular Stone as well and um as you |
| 2683s | get better at at uh binding and doing |
| 2685s | Stone related stuff you'll kind of learn |
| 2688s | learn the ropes there so you can make |
| 2689s | better decisions okay that's cool |
| 2692s | additionally as you gather you can |
| 2694s | actually notice that your um durability |
| 2696s | goes down for your tools oh |
| 2699s | really |
| 2702s | see I'm using this pickaxe it's at |
| 2706s | 95 nice all right you got plenty of |
| 2709s | plenty of durability left it's good to |
| 2711s | good to repair when you get into town |
| 2712s | though so it kind of sucks when you find |
| 2713s | something real nice and your durability |
| 2716s | is low or tools broken and you won't be |
| 2718s | able to it ah nice and I really love the |
| 2722s | physics it's like I remember in the |
| 2724s | Gathering stream you know we're showing |
| 2725s | off uh um uh the trees and kind of like |
| 2729s | set a precedent with how that looks and |
| 2732s | now we have to make all the other stuff |
| 2734s | just as school so the the rocks and gems |
| 2736s | of metal were like kind of a big big uh |
| 2739s | hurdle for us and having in a place |
| 2742s | where it starting to look really good |
| 2744s | that was super exciting that was cool |
| 2746s | that was actually really cool that |
| 2747s | should definitely knock you over or kill |
| 2752s | you let's go hey there we go oh I've |
| 2755s | reached and oh my God that just killed |
| 2760s | Mike I'm alive please can't kill me grab |
| 2765s | some some da maybe so you you leveled up |
| 2768s | you said yes it said I leveled up ah |
| 2771s | okay well you got to okay so when when |
| 2773s | you level up you're going to get some |
| 2774s | skill points and you should be able to |
| 2776s | put those in your in your skill tree um |
| 2779s | you should uh pop that open there we go |
| 2782s | okay yes I have a bunch already |
| 2784s | allocated but now I have two n points |
| 2787s | oh nice yeah you should spend those and |
| 2789s | book around in the tree a little bit but |
| 2790s | yeah um that is something that we're wed |
| 2792s | to do with artisanship both you know or |
| 2795s | in all three of the branches you'll |
| 2797s | you'll have skill trees for your |
| 2798s | profession so those skill trees you'll |
| 2800s | be able to find you know passives |
| 2802s | that'll give you uh stat bonuses and you |
| 2804s | know predicates for extra functionality |
| 2807s | within whatever the profession is access |
| 2809s | to stations um expanding out some of the |
| 2812s | various systems like I don't know you |
| 2814s | can see some of the surveying ones right |
| 2816s | like |
| 2816s | you can uh add extra pylons or um extra |
| 2821s | uh scanning range and lower the cool |
| 2823s | down and how often you can survey so uh |
| 2826s | we're trying to make those trees uh |
| 2829s | interesting and give people you know |
| 2830s | different paths so they can progress |
| 2832s | through W that's cool yeah very cool um |
| 2838s | so obviously I'm looking at this uh the |
| 2841s | skill tree right now and I see one side |
| 2843s | is dealing primarily with yield the |
| 2845s | other side is dealing with with um |
| 2848s | excuse me with Rarity with quality um |
| 2851s | the other side dealing with yield and |
| 2853s | then the Survey System yeah talk to me a |
| 2857s | little bit about um the Survey |
| 2861s | System yeah so surveying um is uh |
| 2866s | something that we're trying to use for |
| 2869s | gatherers to really kind of interact |
| 2871s | with uh the things that we want to do |
| 2873s | with our Dynamic world uh one of that is |
| 2875s | one of the those things is we want to be |
| 2877s | able to spawn stuff randomly and we want |
| 2880s | to put it in uh places in the world that |
| 2882s | will make people you know travel and uh |
| 2885s | bolster up our um our local |
| 2888s | player-to-player economies have people |
| 2890s | you know kind of actually be out in the |
| 2892s | world looking for stuff and not um |
| 2895s | standing in the same place waiting for a |
| 2897s | tree or a flower to respawn over and |
| 2899s | over again so we're kind of we're kind |
| 2902s | of having the best of the Both Worlds |
| 2904s | where we have our lower tier stuff that |
| 2906s | will fill out you know the the based |
| 2908s | look of our world so that it's always |
| 2909s | kind of looking good um and then the |
| 2912s | higher tier stuff from Apprentice onward |
| 2914s | will will always kind of Spawn randomly |
| 2916s | in in places that we've deemed look uh |
| 2919s | you know look good and make sense for |
| 2921s | what that thing is um so surveying is a |
| 2924s | way that you can uh track that stuff |
| 2927s | down um it will help you uh find places |
| 2931s | will help you find particular resources |
| 2933s | will help you find resources at a |
| 2935s | certain Rarity |
| 2937s | um and yeah so it should be you know |
| 2939s | something you could do as a gather on |
| 2941s | your own or group up with other people |
| 2942s | to uh bolster up the um the power of |
| 2946s | your survey or the the the range or |
| 2949s | reach of it so um yeah it says I need a |
| 2953s | higher certification for this tree it's |
| 2956s | a corrupted Oak gotcha well we just |
| 2959s | leveled up so I bet you if we went back |
| 2961s | to town oh my God there's some |
| 2964s | crazy or excuse some C oh no you bleep |
| 2969s | that out bleep that out there's some |
| 2971s | dude up there that's awesome I would say |
| 2974s | the same thing if I saw that ancient |
| 2976s | horror away from a gentleman yeah let's |
| 2979s | uh back up a little bit yep how are you |
| 2983s | doing all back space by the way how am I |
| 2984s | doing on what say again back space yes |
| 2986s | let me open that up I have um three |
| 2989s | copper 22 Basalt 17 zinc uh five Ruby a |
| 2994s | number of dandelion PL and daffodils |
| 2997s | daffodils with some plant fibers okay |
| 3000s | that's cool and a bunch of wood and as |
| 3003s | you notice that all those materials |
| 3005s | actually sorted nicely in the |
| 3007s | appropriate BS based on your uh stack |
| 3009s | sizes oh yeah that is pretty nice so it |
| 3011s | didn't misplace them in a in a different |
| 3015s | bag than what is |
| 3016s | best yeah it Priti is basically the best |
| 3019s | stack size first and then it's finds the |
| 3022s | other empty spots |
| 3024s | after yeah quality of life feature |
| 3028s | definitely we we uh you know there's a |
| 3030s | lot of discussions about you know the |
| 3033s | the spatial inventory and the different |
| 3035s | stack sizes and you know whether that |
| 3038s | could cause like confusion for players |
| 3040s | or you know extra stress on um sorting |
| 3044s | of inventory and I was like all right |
| 3045s | well no M no matter what we do we got to |
| 3047s | try and make this um as easy and usable |
| 3050s | for players as possible and luckily |
| 3053s | really smart people like Alex and Alec |
| 3055s | and our UI team Kobe Kobe and the Gang |
| 3058s | uh that are helping us make um you know |
| 3062s | that the system that we want function |
| 3064s | really really nicely so uh that's what |
| 3066s | that was one of those features um that |
| 3069s | that came on that's like all right well |
| 3070s | I don't have to every single time I get |
| 3072s | something you know look and see what |
| 3073s | bag's the best for it to be in um the uh |
| 3078s | the code can do it for us so yep very |
| 3082s | cool nice we ready to head back now yeah |
| 3086s | let's uh let's head back to town and get |
| 3087s | your your uh your uh |
| 3091s | apprenticeship now obviously you know |
| 3094s | let's talk a little bit about how |
| 3097s | Gathering is a bit different in ashes um |
| 3101s | and one of the the most unique things |
| 3104s | about I think the world is obviously the |
| 3108s | number of different systems we have that |
| 3110s | change World State we just saw a corrupt |
| 3114s | Zone hold on kill this |
| 3120s | dude oh okay he died um we just saw |
| 3123s | corrupt Zone and um that zone becomes |
| 3127s | corrupt after a period of time in which |
| 3130s | players are not addressing some issues |
| 3132s | that arise uh through certain events or |
| 3135s | through through certain story arcs and |
| 3137s | that corruption can spread and |
| 3140s | Corruption changes the spawners for |
| 3144s | resources and for Monsters and that has |
| 3148s | a fundamental effect on the resource |
| 3151s | economy of the |
| 3153s | game yeah definitely it plays into you |
| 3156s | know scarcity it gets players out in the |
| 3158s | world searching for um uh different |
| 3161s | things that are predicated on on the |
| 3164s | dynamic parts of our world right we can |
| 3165s | do stuff with day and night time we can |
| 3167s | do stuff with Seasons um we can have |
| 3169s | things that are specifically related to |
| 3172s | some event or story arc or you know |
| 3174s | corruption um even |
| 3176s | particular locations right regionality |
| 3179s | of a biome um some you know frozen |
| 3182s | tundra place that's uh completely |
| 3184s | covered in ice versus you know the the |
| 3185s | riverlands and um uh the lushness there |
| 3190s | so um don't want to just have that stuff |
| 3194s | in and not be doing anything with it so |
| 3196s | we're we're trying to play on that for |
| 3198s | for Gathering um and open up um the |
| 3202s | diversity of stuff that you can process |
| 3204s | and Craft um by find those things so |
| 3207s | yeah I love that um we mentioned |
| 3210s | actually a time of day and seasonality |
| 3213s | is being part of that world State change |
| 3215s | um and as I understand whoops as I |
| 3218s | understand it we have a number of |
| 3220s | different oh let me see here go over |
| 3224s | to |
| 3227s | um |
| 3229s | recipes can I look at now um we have to |
| 3232s | don't we have to gather some recipes or |
| 3235s | some materials that are predicated on |
| 3236s | time of day yeah I think they were those |
| 3239s | are the ones that we're talking about |
| 3240s | that were part of your night blade right |
| 3242s | the moon bells and the night Opals uh |
| 3245s | night Opals like do not reveal |
| 3248s | themselves um during the daytime um |
| 3251s | surprise surprise um and then the the |
| 3254s | moon bells are similar yeah they they |
| 3256s | only bloom at night so um you if you're |
| 3260s | looking for those in particular you want |
| 3261s | to take uh keep an eye on the day night |
| 3264s | cycle and um you know know where they're |
| 3266s | found um in the world and yeah I do have |
| 3271s | some Powers if we want to perhaps change |
| 3274s | it to nighttime that I could use shall |
| 3278s | we cuz it it'll it it'll take a little |
| 3280s | while probably for us to get to night |
| 3281s | time at least another hour or so yeah |
| 3285s | okay let's do it all right hold on stand |
| 3291s | by oh my |
| 3294s | goodness there we go now oh okay things |
| 3298s | are getting little freaky decky out here |
| 3300s | you guys will probably notice uh that |
| 3303s | the nighttime is |
| 3305s | significantly darker than when you guys |
| 3307s | last saw our nighttime update um we saw |
| 3311s | feedback from the community that |
| 3313s | bringing in the field of vision through |
| 3315s | the uh through the lighting in the |
| 3318s | environment was something you guys |
| 3319s | wanted to see and that's what we have |
| 3321s | adjusted a bit um now I'm excited |
| 3324s | because |
| 3326s | I have a certification that I can I |
| 3329s | think update now right yes you should be |
| 3331s | able to upgrade your uh lumberjacking to |
| 3335s | Apprentice which um give you access to |
| 3337s | new tool so we can craft one of those if |
| 3339s | you want um we should make your you know |
| 3342s | chopping faster help you find some rare |
| 3344s | stuff um yeah all right let's see here |
| 3347s | I'm going to |
| 3351s | accept there we go t it yeah so shoot I |
| 3355s | think if you open your artisanship |
| 3357s | window if you look at your lumberjacking |
| 3359s | it should say that you're an apprentice |
| 3360s | now yes there we go and you got you got |
| 3362s | a nice little chunk of XP from that too |
| 3364s | it's nice yeah that was pretty good um |
| 3366s | cool so um now that you've done that uh |
| 3371s | go I think this envil yeah this is the |
| 3374s | same envil as the herbalism see see if |
| 3377s | you can craft a a tool there what uh |
| 3380s | what materials do you need it says that |
| 3383s | I need um zinc fragments and Oak Timber |
| 3386s | for a novice lumberjacking The |
| 3388s | Apprentice requires zinc fragments with |
| 3390s | copper fragments and Oak Timber awesome |
| 3394s | okay well um that's all novice stuff so |
| 3398s | um so the way that the certification |
| 3400s | stuff breaks down is that um every |
| 3402s | everyone gets to be a novice everything |
| 3404s | so all all 22 professions the players |
| 3406s | get to uh be novice of um and then it |
| 3409s | starts kind of like narrowing from there |
| 3410s | so after that you'll only be able to be |
| 3413s | Apprentice of five things um you can be |
| 3415s | a journeyman in four things you can be a |
| 3417s | master in three things and you can be a |
| 3418s | Grandmaster in two things so you'll |
| 3421s | you'll need to narrow but you can also |
| 3423s | sort of diversify to support you know |
| 3425s | the professions that you want to First |
| 3427s | push further in so now obviously those |
| 3429s | are um those restrictions are in place |
| 3432s | in order to create a dependency cross |
| 3437s | player faction right for how players |
| 3439s | specialize their progression in the |
| 3441s | artisanship uh |
| 3442s | trees yeah I mean like uh being social |
| 3447s | is is uh important to us right like we |
| 3449s | we want players to interact with each |
| 3450s | other we want the professions to make |
| 3452s | stuff for the other professions that uh |
| 3454s | that are useful you know um I um |
| 3458s | influenced quite a bit by the Star Wars |
| 3460s | Galaxy style crafting and you know just |
| 3463s | having people in your network that can |
| 3465s | you know Supply the the uh metal that |
| 3467s | you need to make your armor and the you |
| 3470s | know the the flowers that you need to to |
| 3472s | make your potions and you know maybe the |
| 3474s | potions that you need to make make your |
| 3475s | enchantments uh that that to me was was |
| 3478s | really interesting and part of the the |
| 3481s | game playay of economic gameplay of you |
| 3483s | know being being a good crafter being a |
| 3484s | good gatherer is having that um that |
| 3487s | system so and it and it really plays |
| 3489s | into the um the uh uh economic uh field |
| 3496s | of a particular server right um You you |
| 3498s | can come in and be like I want to be the |
| 3500s | the potion Mogul here right and like |
| 3502s | having good sources and you know have |
| 3505s | having a guild that supports you um is |
| 3507s | just really really interesting and |
| 3510s | without um without sort of narrowing |
| 3513s | down what you have access to yourself um |
| 3516s | uh it's sort uh it takes away from from |
| 3519s | the ability to achieve that right so |
| 3521s | yeah so now okay we're going to be |
| 3523s | creating this you said Apprentice tools |
| 3526s | what do I need to do that it said |
| 3527s | fragments Z fragments and um I think |
| 3531s | copper fragments awesome so the zinc |
| 3533s | fragments and copper fragments are going |
| 3535s | going to be from the metal working |
| 3537s | profession and then the Oak Timber will |
| 3539s | be from the lumber Milling profession so |
| 3542s | since we're here we can do the lumber |
| 3543s | milling and this is the station that you |
| 3545s | need right next to us so this is the |
| 3546s | debarker this is one of the the few |
| 3549s | stations that uh Lumber Milling has has |
| 3552s | the the debarker the heads saw um and I |
| 3555s | think the drying Kil along with the |
| 3558s | refinery so this is the the novice |
| 3560s | station um and I think this is an |
| 3562s | apprentice version here um since we're |
| 3564s | at a service building that's built um |
| 3566s | the service buildings usually come |
| 3567s | stocked with some some uh some better |
| 3570s | base stations and then you can kind of |
| 3573s | um progress them from there depending on |
| 3574s | how you you expand the buildings but um |
| 3577s | so why don't you interact with this and |
| 3580s | uh yeah I think this is the first time |
| 3582s | that we've ever done any processing |
| 3584s | processing yes absolutely now we we |
| 3585s | alluded to it a little bit when we were |
| 3587s | showcasing the uh the free holds uh but |
| 3591s | this is everyone's first look at kind of |
| 3594s | how process processing works and um as |
| 3597s | you said we're looking to make some Oak |
| 3598s | Timber here um and as I've clicked on |
| 3601s | the Oak Timber to add fuel it says to |
| 3605s | the Oak Timber side talk to me Mike a |
| 3608s | little bit about what fuel does for |
| 3612s | processing so fuel is the basic |
| 3614s | requirements on top of the resources |
| 3617s | that you need to craft a thing so every |
| 3619s | processing stations will require some |
| 3621s | kind of a fuel to automate the proc |
| 3626s | to make these processed uh resources |
| 3628s | though most of the resources or any type |
| 3631s | of resource or items could technically |
| 3633s | have a fuel value attached to them and |
| 3635s | then each recipe will require some kind |
| 3638s | of a fuel value to uh to be met to be |
| 3642s | able to process these things so think of |
| 3643s | it as like if you're melting um ore you |
| 3646s | need to put uh fuel to fire to melt the |
| 3649s | or right so that kind of concept exists |
| 3651s | on all our processing stations so when |
| 3654s | you click on it uh you should be able to |
| 3656s | put the oak wood or anything that you |
| 3659s | have gathered to Wood yeah so I've added |
| 3663s | one of the oak wood and then I see I |
| 3666s | also have a number of different um |
| 3668s | herbalism resources here as well do |
| 3670s | those act as fuel potentially yeah um |
| 3673s | most of our resources will have some |
| 3674s | kind of a fuel value to it and like I |
| 3676s | mentioned like some items too but for |
| 3678s | for this recipe you'll only need one |
| 3680s | some other recipes might need 100 or 50 |
| 3682s | etc etc but the the thing is um some |
| 3686s | some items might be just um catered |
| 3689s | towards being a fuel right so something |
| 3691s | like charcoal or something like coal |
| 3692s | something like um anything that is just |
| 3695s | designated as a fuel will just have a |
| 3697s | very um efficient fuel value so you kind |
| 3700s | of want to save that for higher recipes |
| 3703s | or something simple like this one you |
| 3704s | can pretty much use anything that's |
| 3706s | common or or or lower or degrade or |
| 3710s | sorry the the tier one items uh to be in |
| 3714s | the fuel okay so i' so I've added in the |
| 3718s | wood for the fuel and now it's it has my |
| 3721s | fuel has been selected and I can start |
| 3723s | the job it says that the duration is 1 |
| 3725s | minute now I'm noticing at the top of |
| 3727s | the processing station that we have uh |
| 3731s | three available slots is that a queue |
| 3734s | that you players can use um and is it |
| 3738s | shared is it for just themselves talk to |
| 3740s | me a little bit about that for node it's |
| 3743s | personal so we didn't want to congest |
| 3746s | like only three spots for every single |
| 3748s | person in the note that would have been |
| 3750s | pretty bad um so it's the the Q system |
| 3753s | is only for yourself but um something |
| 3755s | personal like free holds um would be u |
| 3759s | station based so if five people wanted |
| 3761s | to use one one station at the freeh hole |
| 3763s | you have to wait in line and then that |
| 3765s | kind of comes into the family system we |
| 3766s | talked about on the freeh hole live |
| 3767s | stream where you want to have uh limited |
| 3771s | access to whoever is viable for the fuel |
| 3774s | or for the stations um but for any |
| 3777s | service buildings in the node um it's |
| 3779s | all personal so you can queue up as much |
| 3780s | as you want and then someone else can |
| 3782s | just combine and use the same station |
| 3784s | and then k for their station that's |
| 3787s | awesome additionally it will also be |
| 3789s | influenced by nodes so like right now |
| 3790s | you see three but it could be five it |
| 3792s | could be two simultaneous jobs Etc based |
| 3795s | how your note grows got it so there are |
| 3797s | specializations that the processor can |
| 3800s | take uh if the node should elect to do |
| 3803s | so and citizens participate and that |
| 3805s | upgrade that would increase that size or |
| 3808s | perhaps even the efficiency of the |
| 3810s | processing jobs as well both speed uh |
| 3813s | quantity of receipt any Rarity procs |
| 3815s | anything all of those play a role and |
| 3817s | upgrade potential uh that the node might |
| 3820s | choose to specialize in right but um |
| 3822s | just like we we discussed in through |
| 3824s | live stream as well the node um |
| 3826s | processing only goes up to journeyman so |
| 3828s | if you want to do the highest tier of uh |
| 3832s | processing you you probably want to seek |
| 3834s | out the the freeold uh owners |
| 3839s | basically |
| 3841s | uhoh did I I might be full hold on I |
| 3846s | can't claim it yet I need to I need to |
| 3849s | who needs this this cheap glint here |
| 3854s | actually let me move that down I don't |
| 3855s | need I didn't need to delete that whoops |
| 3859s | um okay are you just throwing money away |
| 3861s | that's how rich you pretty much |
| 3863s | additional thing I would like to add for |
| 3864s | processing uh as you can say see you |
| 3866s | could you could cancel the job um also |
| 3870s | so like let's say you accidentally |
| 3871s | scheduled wrong one and the only thing |
| 3873s | that gets consumed is the fuel so fuel |
| 3875s | is basically a sync for this job got it |
| 3880s | okay so fuel is always sunk regardless |
| 3881s | of if you cancel the job or not yeah |
| 3884s | another uh another thing as well is that |
| 3886s | um uh when you're when you're choosing |
| 3889s | the job you you'll see kind of on the on |
| 3891s | the right hand side that we have |
| 3893s | something called job size oops and right |
| 3895s | now uh right now there's only the |
| 3898s | ability to make a one job size but um |
| 3901s | this in the same vein of um you know |
| 3903s | this having like more jobs that you can |
| 3905s | cue and like you know better stats that |
| 3907s | make the them go faster or proc extra |
| 3909s | resources uh job size is another thing |
| 3912s | that we could do right um so you |
| 3914s | probably don't want to use three entire |
| 3917s | slots just to make you know three pieces |
| 3919s | of oak wood but if you had a job size |
| 3921s | that you know was 20 um you'd be able to |
| 3925s | make all 20 of those with the with the |
| 3926s | one job size so um so that's a little |
| 3929s | different than what people are used to |
| 3931s | with you know I I'm making exactly you |
| 3933s | know 17 pieces of of Oak Timber you |
| 3935s | might need to you know do a job SI of |
| 3938s | five plus one if you need specifically |
| 3941s | six so um that's awesome so those those |
| 3944s | are also influenced by customization |
| 3946s | options that the node can participate in |
| 3948s | uh as well and perhaps policies and or |
| 3951s | relics like all those things are an |
| 3952s | intricate web uh boot bons benefits and |
| 3955s | downsides that apply to these different |
| 3957s | game functions exactly yeah very cool |
| 3961s | love it all right so we made some Timber |
| 3964s | gotcha yeah let's head let's head down |
| 3966s | to uh the Smithy over here there should |
| 3969s | be a crushing station you can crush up |
| 3971s | the the copper and zinc that you got |
| 3973s | into fragments and then we should have |
| 3975s | what we need to make you a new pickaxe |
| 3978s | or um axe um yeah this is the crushing |
| 3983s | crushing station right here |
| 3986s | nice all |
| 3988s | right all right it's really nice of you |
| 3990s | to have built all of these uh |
| 3992s | artisanship service buildings look at |
| 3994s | look at all these jobs that you're |
| 3995s | creating this guy stays here he gets to |
| 3997s | hang out all night rushing |
| 4000s | rocks doing stuff that is awesome yeah |
| 4004s | great for the economy really really |
| 4006s | great mayorip uh decision thank you |
| 4008s | thank you very much that's why I'm a |
| 4010s | term after term mayor just no term |
| 4012s | limits at all it's the way we like it |
| 4014s | here |
| 4015s | right my my personal Investments have |
| 4018s | somehow miraculously just had the |
| 4019s | greatest returns of any citizen of the |
| 4021s | mayor agreed I think there's only other |
| 4024s | been one other mayor that was Alec and I |
| 4026s | haven't seen him for a really long time |
| 4028s | so right that is right Al his family |
| 4032s | members actually came by looking for him |
| 4034s | too oh |
| 4035s | no okay so I need to make copper |
| 4037s | fragments and zinc fragments yeah so I'm |
| 4040s | going to kick off I'm going to add some |
| 4041s | fuel here um oh okay cool that's cool |
| 4045s | put this and I'll kick that job off and |
| 4049s | then I'll use the sink oh my God you see |
| 4053s | the NPC working real hard yeah he is |
| 4055s | look that he's a go-getter I didn't even |
| 4057s | start the other job yet he just |
| 4058s | immediately went to work he needs |
| 4062s | arrays there we go cool okay yeah and uh |
| 4066s | just a just a comment too on the on that |
| 4069s | right like um we're trying to sort of |
| 4071s | marry the the visuals with what's |
| 4073s | actually going on the station right so |
| 4075s | if you have a job queued um and you're |
| 4077s | trying to you know do errands throughout |
| 4078s | the node or in your Freehold or whatever |
| 4080s | right like you should be able to look at |
| 4082s | the station and know what's going on |
| 4083s | with it so you know he's there working |
| 4085s | and you know once he's done he's going |
| 4087s | to stop and you can be like okay you |
| 4088s | know there's there's stuff ready to to |
| 4090s | pick up and have some visuals associated |
| 4092s | with that so U as much as we can have |
| 4095s | stuff you know rooted in World instead |
| 4097s | of you know throwing a bunch of UI in |
| 4099s | the player's face uh that's that's |
| 4101s | something that we're trying to do and is |
| 4102s | important to us that's right cool yeah |
| 4105s | and to add to that it's uh personal |
| 4107s | right so it's only like other people |
| 4109s | won't see you doing your um processing |
| 4112s | got it yeah in in nodes right the free |
| 4114s | the freeold ones would be uh since they |
| 4116s | are relevant to any of the people that |
| 4118s | have access to it you you'd be able to |
| 4120s | see that a that a job is going |
| 4123s | [Music] |
| 4125s | right this guy is a is a is a dedicated |
| 4128s | worker yeah definitely so now just to |
| 4132s | remind folks obviously when we talk |
| 4134s | about um processing as one branch of the |
| 4139s | artisanship tree even though you have |
| 4142s | access to all branches throughout the |
| 4144s | world up to some level of |
| 4147s | degree processing best processing is |
| 4150s | done on freeholds and the best crafting |
| 4153s | is done in nodes right when we talk |
| 4156s | about workstation availability but there |
| 4158s | is some overlap there as those of you |
| 4160s | will remember from our Freehold uh uh uh |
| 4163s | live stream um you do have up to a |
| 4168s | certain point to progress available to |
| 4170s | you for both Gathering processing and |
| 4172s | crafting uh without needing necessarily |
| 4175s | a free |
| 4176s | hole yeah |
| 4178s | exactly up to uh journeyman you'll be um |
| 4182s | journeyman's uh type of gathering |
| 4184s | crafting and processing should be |
| 4186s | available pretty much everywhere um and |
| 4188s | then just the specializations really |
| 4190s | kicks in at the master and |
| 4192s | above awesome |
| 4195s | aome all right I have I believe |
| 4200s | acquired now some |
| 4203s | fragments on well let's uh let's head |
| 4206s | back up to the crafting station um next |
| 4209s | to good old W Woody gunan and uh make |
| 4212s | yourself an apprentice Axe and I think |
| 4215s | we should be able to chop that corrupted |
| 4217s | tree down yeah that's right and then |
| 4220s | also now that it's night while we're out |
| 4222s | there you guys could grab perhaps some |
| 4223s | of the |
| 4224s | um what were the other ones that I |
| 4226s | needed uh the night opal yeah I think |
| 4228s | Mike has high enough mining to get the M |
| 4230s | opal night opal um and then I think I |
| 4233s | think New Moon bells are novice so you |
| 4235s | should have access to those yep yep all |
| 4238s | right so I'll grab the moon |
| 4240s | Bells Perfect all right I'm crafting my |
| 4243s | new Apprentice lumberjacking axe T it is |
| 4247s | equipped |
| 4249s | nice me see cool a very cool it's there |
| 4254s | how fast is it it's 30 lumberjacking |
| 4256s | speed nice I think the other one was |
| 4258s | like only five so you should be fast |
| 4260s | when we get out there we should race see |
| 4262s | if you can drop the tree down faster |
| 4263s | than me all right let's do it I'm ready |
| 4265s | let's |
| 4270s | go |
| 4272s | um I actually really like the nighttime |
| 4275s | I I think it was call from the community |
| 4277s | to to tune this a bit more on the darker |
| 4280s | side oh shooting star you see |
| 4283s | that let's see a shooting star make a |
| 4285s | wish oh yeah look at that Moon yeah I |
| 4288s | did I did look at the Moon Moon's |
| 4290s | looking pretty |
| 4292s | nice I think it might need a little |
| 4295s | atmosphere I like the uh the harbinger |
| 4298s | Moon we'll Ste Moon getting |
| 4301s | closer no don't say that that's not what |
| 4305s | we want to hear kill the moon H so do it |
| 4309s | Cory tell me a little bit like when we |
| 4312s | right now we're in this n phase oh I |
| 4314s | love the fireflies too Noah did a great |
| 4316s | job on these yeah Noah Noah is next |
| 4319s | level we love Noah Noah we love |
| 4323s | you um obviously moving to Knight now is |
| 4327s | going to give us access to these Moon |
| 4328s | bells and these night |
| 4330s | Opals um but when things like the world |
| 4333s | State change whether it be corruption |
| 4335s | related or time of day it's not just an |
| 4338s | introduction of rare materials it also |
| 4340s | is a removal of some other materials as |
| 4342s | well potentially so it's a it is a um |
| 4346s | and some World State changes like we |
| 4347s | talked about with corruption if not |
| 4349s | addressed can significantly alter the |
| 4352s | flow of resources across the world in |
| 4355s | such a way that creates a bit of |
| 4356s | turbulence in the world market and |
| 4358s | economy and that's what we're trying to |
| 4359s | achieve with these World State |
| 4361s | changes yeah you see |
| 4364s | um uh out in the open the NS lit up |
| 4368s | those little blue lights all over the |
| 4371s | place that wasn't there before yeah yeah |
| 4374s | you can see Moon BS as well by the |
| 4378s | trees oh yeah there so you should be |
| 4381s | able to grab up that's awesome those |
| 4384s | were just kind of just basic little |
| 4386s | rocks yeah so that's like a you know we |
| 4389s | we we thought those were all Opals and |
| 4391s | they were Opals during the day but uh at |
| 4393s | night um you know some of them are |
| 4394s | actually night Opals so um pretty cool |
| 4398s | oh look leveled up again oh I led cring |
| 4400s | it my |
| 4402s | herbalism herbalism |
| 4404s | God literal herbalism |
| 4408s | God yeah these Moon bells that exist |
| 4410s | before too we're at the same spot yeah |
| 4413s | oh my god oh no the |
| 4416s | wolf you |
| 4419s | uh protect |
| 4426s | him Mike no I'm like max level so I'm |
| 4429s | just slaughtering these |
| 4431s | W can you pet the dogs Ste no but I can |
| 4434s | shoot it with an arrow in the face |
| 4437s | faster than me wait let's chop the trees |
| 4439s | down together that's right here Sten |
| 4441s | where you at where you at right |
| 4444s | here all right I'll |
| 4446s | start all right wait no no wait no okay |
| 4449s | three two 1 |
| 4451s | go wait no we messed up we messed up we |
| 4453s | messed up we can do this we can do this |
| 4454s | how many people does it take to chop |
| 4456s | down a tree okay I'm pretty sure it |
| 4457s | doesn't matter you way faster I have no |
| 4460s | two |
| 4462s | three |
| 4465s | oh you just got wrecked excuse me just |
| 4469s | got wrecked this is where PVP |
| 4473s | starts excuse me |
| 4475s | sir he's already purple let's go cut |
| 4478s | down that uh corrupted tree oh yeah |
| 4482s | that's why we're here huh there we go |
| 4484s | yes this this place |
| 4488s | looks so good at night oh man there's |
| 4492s | the spooky dude again he's just chilling |
| 4495s | up there yeah he's eying us he |
| 4500s | Challenger will you approach him stay |
| 4503s | away |
| 4504s | from yeah oh my looks like one shot City |
| 4507s | up |
| 4508s | there oh I can't get these uh blood |
| 4511s | boiled |
| 4513s | Spirits |
| 4514s | yeah I can tell you the lore behind that |
| 4519s | or um never |
| 4522s | mind |
| 4524s | all right I got some of those let grab |
| 4526s | this |
| 4529s | thing come |
| 4531s | on oh bam tree explosion what do you |
| 4535s | think Mike you want to take on this |
| 4536s | ancient minion over |
| 4538s | here I think we need to n Ste time that |
| 4542s | was like less than two seconds yeah that |
| 4545s | was really I was like in there and out |
| 4547s | of |
| 4548s | there maybe uh a little balancing pass |
| 4550s | necessary take that note down Mike |
| 4554s | Nerf H incoming yep way to go stepen |
| 4558s | already nerfing Lumberjack I know y yep |
| 4562s | all right let's so now we do we have all |
| 4564s | the materials we need did you guys get |
| 4565s | the night |
| 4566s | oples yeah I got some all right sweet |
| 4569s | trade you back in town let's do it on |
| 4572s | let's get rid of this |
| 4577s | guy very good my goodness oh that was |
| 4581s | unfortunate animal abuse pet up |
| 4585s | so now talk to me a little bit about the |
| 4588s | sword that we're going to be crafting um |
| 4592s | obviously itemization in ashes of |
| 4595s | creation is not |
| 4597s | restricted um based on class right so |
| 4600s | anybody can wear kind of anything |
| 4602s | whatever is most beneficial towards |
| 4603s | their particular strategy and class kit |
| 4605s | and and build um but how do we influence |
| 4610s | that from a crafting |
| 4612s | perspective so |
| 4614s | the recipe that you learned is somewhat |
| 4616s | of a unique sword uh we want to |
| 4618s | introduce that uh mid level maybe a |
| 4620s | little bit high but generally for |
| 4622s | itemization purposes we want to have a |
| 4626s | viable option for every build that |
| 4628s | players want to try I know that's a full |
| 4631s | statement knows where his city is |
| 4635s | yeah where are we going we have a mini |
| 4638s | map top right guys come on is this way I |
| 4641s | always get lost out here when I take my |
| 4642s | nightly strolls |
| 4644s | just over to the South yeah okay all |
| 4648s | right sorry Mike to left to the left got |
| 4651s | it left okay |
| 4654s | um what was I saying anyways um I was |
| 4657s | saying that uh we want to support every |
| 4659s | kind of build that player wants to try |
| 4661s | out and I know that's a bold statement |
| 4663s | but that is something that we're going |
| 4664s | to attempt uh which means a lot of |
| 4666s | crafting recipes will need to support |
| 4668s | variable stats variable play Styles and |
| 4671s | for for this weapon for particular was |
| 4673s | um somewhat of a unique sword because |
| 4677s | it's a sword that has mag magic |
| 4679s | penetration so something that Mages |
| 4681s | maybe might be able to use or um cler um |
| 4686s | and then if we go to the crafter |
| 4689s | crafting station right here all right |
| 4693s | you should give them the my right uh can |
| 4698s | trade |
| 4700s | you |
| 4702s | done |
| 4705s | okay we got some night Opals |
| 4707s | sweet acting |
| 4711s | trade all right boom got some night opal |
| 4715s | let's do |
| 4717s | this so now I see I have my learned |
| 4720s | recipe the night blade is under weapons |
| 4723s | category okay that's cool yeah um La |
| 4727s | sure we touched on this on different |
| 4729s | live streams but uh our crafting menus |
| 4730s | will have some required materials so |
| 4733s | those are the things that you must have |
| 4735s | at that certain Rarity so we have the |
| 4737s | night of opal and the moon Bell that's |
| 4739s | required and then we have the selectable |
| 4740s | section where you can put different uh |
| 4743s | Rarity amounts um you want to do the uh |
| 4747s | the zinc one first Stephen so out of |
| 4750s | there and then S one and then now you |
| 4752s | can see that the item itself was |
| 4755s | uncommon and then if you add the |
| 4757s | fragments in oh I see what you're saying |
| 4759s | I see what you're saying the I so the |
| 4761s | uncommon night blade is |
| 4764s | here by adding in these legendary zinc |
| 4768s | fragments yep if you submit it now it |
| 4770s | turns |
| 4771s | rare okay cool and now you can see |
| 4774s | there's additional properties onto the |
| 4776s | item uh so things change and then if you |
| 4778s | put the Oak Timber also at legendary |
| 4781s | also legendary Oak okay got it and then |
| 4784s | now it becomes a heroic version of it |
| 4785s | and then that's increase um so these are |
| 4788s | the things that we kind of want to |
| 4789s | explore on Crafting side where we |
| 4792s | introduce maybe new stat line or uh |
| 4794s | different proportion or ratios of stats |
| 4797s | at certain uh tiers and when you craft |
| 4800s | these items with using better materials |
| 4803s | the Rarity of the item increases um for |
| 4806s | demonstration purposes we're using |
| 4808s | legendary but um basically when you use |
| 4810s | a higher tier than the recipe is |
| 4813s | intended for so we could technically |
| 4814s | build this item with common temp than |
| 4817s | zinc fragments then that would produce |
| 4818s | an uncommon item but since we're |
| 4821s | showcasing this at legendary here um you |
| 4823s | can move up the tiers and uh have the |
| 4826s | steps increase that's awesome and so |
| 4828s | obviously there's going to be a number |
| 4830s | of different types of |
| 4836s | selectblack block for the weapon but |
| 4839s | also increasing the quality predicated |
| 4841s | on the quality of the selectable that |
| 4843s | you're contributing right that would be |
| 4845s | our sub recipe system that we kind of |
| 4847s | Highly touch up on U so um a common |
| 4850s | copper sword might have sub recipes that |
| 4853s | changes the stat block completely which |
| 4855s | would be um let's say a brutal copper |
| 4857s | sword which um specializes in crit |
| 4860s | damage but that would be changing the |
| 4863s | selectable items from Oak Timber to Ash |
| 4865s | timber for example right and then when |
| 4868s | it's on the selectable level we can |
| 4870s | choose the the Rarity of those resources |
| 4872s | to increase the Rarity of the item |
| 4874s | produced awesome and each time you're |
| 4876s | kind of unlocking a different result |
| 4879s | with with regards to that particular |
| 4880s | recipe you're learning that interaction |
| 4883s | between the selectable materials and the |
| 4886s | output that comes from it so learning |
| 4888s | one recipe actually learns you a |
| 4890s | multitude of different potential um uh |
| 4893s | uh uh rewards from that one particular |
| 4896s | recipe yeah um we have a something |
| 4900s | unique yeah uh something unique in our |
| 4902s | crafting system where we want to have |
| 4904s | recipe XP of some sort and then those |
| 4907s | sub recipes could be earned by um |
| 4909s | leveling up your recipe which means that |
| 4911s | you have to craft a night blade multiple |
| 4913s | times to level it up to have a better |
| 4915s | result uh the sub recipe could be from a |
| 4917s | vendor recipe or World drops like we |
| 4920s | said earlier um but the idea is one type |
| 4923s | of item can have potential to be |
| 4926s | multiple different outcomes cool awesome |
| 4929s | okay let me go ahead and craft this |
| 4933s | weapon we've done it we've received a |
| 4936s | night Blade the loop is complete oh my |
| 4940s | God we made it through the entire Loop |
| 4943s | Loop let |
| 4945s | me I know let's see let's take a look at |
| 4949s | what we have in our inventory here so I |
| 4954s | see we have a heroic night blade that's |
| 4956s | doing some physical damage and magical |
| 4957s | penetration with some magical damage as |
| 4960s | well and if I compare that currently to |
| 4963s | my Longbow obviously we have some |
| 4964s | comparable version there but let me go |
| 4966s | ahead and equip |
| 4968s | this oh that looks |
| 4971s | good that that looks awesome you're |
| 4973s | styling you are styling you put in the |
| 4975s | work and now you're styling oh I love it |
| 4978s | that looks super cool sweet very |
| 4982s | nice let me see here you want to raise |
| 4984s | it up for the fam yeah I got I got to I |
| 4986s | got to get the right perspective here |
| 4988s | hold on stand by ladies and gentlemen we |
| 4991s | have crafted world |
| 4994s | first on the night |
| 4998s | blade we have done it yeah yeah |
| 5004s | ah very cool so guys we just walked |
| 5008s | through from start to finish crafting |
| 5011s | one particular recipe of course of many |
| 5013s | as itemization is a very key component |
| 5016s | of of player progression within the |
| 5018s | within the world of Vera um and as you |
| 5021s | can see from Gathering to processing to |
| 5025s | crafting um this is the type of |
| 5027s | experience and the unique aspects uh of |
| 5030s | that process that is uh within ashes of |
| 5032s | creation |
| 5033s | we do these demonstrations so that you |
| 5035s | guys get an early look during |
| 5037s | development on the direction of this |
| 5039s | particular core Loop this core system to |
| 5041s | ashes um and we want your feedback on it |
| 5044s | what did you think about the Gathering |
| 5046s | the processing the stations those the |
| 5048s | times that it takes the cue system for |
| 5051s | it um the unique interactions with the |
| 5053s | recipes the progression of the recipes |
| 5055s | um uh the tool dependencies and the the |
| 5058s | skill tree that you saw um the unique |
| 5061s | World state that influences the economy |
| 5063s | and the ability of of players to |
| 5065s | accumulate these resources and move them |
| 5067s | across the world we're fresh off of a |
| 5069s | caravan stream as well where you kind of |
| 5072s | see uh how those materials those |
| 5074s | resources that wealth gets acred and |
| 5077s | trans transited across the world um so |
| 5081s | all of these things are things we want |
| 5083s | you to app on in our YouTube uh on the |
| 5085s | forums on different social medias talk |
| 5088s | to us about what you saw today uh and |
| 5090s | how you feel about it where do you think |
| 5092s | that it could be improved improved um |
| 5094s | and how it relates to your previous |
| 5095s | experiences and other MMOs that you've |
| 5096s | played and what you've enjoyed about |
| 5098s | them um but otherwise Mike Corey Nathan |
| 5102s | Alex thank you guys for joining me I |
| 5104s | know the audience obviously appreciates |
| 5106s | all the hard work that you guys put in |
| 5107s | that everybody on the team puts in um |
| 5109s | and this is a very big group effort |
| 5111s | obviously to get these types of systems |
| 5112s | up and running um I know I appreciate it |
| 5114s | the audience does too thank you for |
| 5116s | joining us and chatting with us a little |
| 5117s | bit about um how all the stuff works and |
| 5121s | everyone I will see you guys back on |
| 5123s | stream in just a moment see |
| 5129s | [Applause] |
| 5134s | [Music] |
| 5137s | you woohoo we hope that you all enjoyed |
| 5140s | that Lucy did she was watching with |
| 5142s | baited breath for every single moment |
| 5145s | weren't you Lucy Lucy's ready to get out |
| 5148s | there and craft are you ready to craft |
| 5150s | do you want your own sword I think she |
| 5153s | does um but of course we do have some |
| 5156s | questions that we noticed from chat uh |
| 5158s | our wonderful Community managers have |
| 5159s | been pulling those in but while we |
| 5161s | answer those I will have the video up |
| 5163s | just kind of like playing in the |
| 5164s | background so you can kind of relive all |
| 5167s | the crafting goodness but um the first |
| 5170s | couple are more reiterations because we |
| 5172s | did answer these questions in the Stream |
| 5174s | but I think that it wasn't clear because |
| 5176s | people have been keep asking it post |
| 5178s | that so the first one was how many |
| 5180s | people can use the crafting stations at |
| 5182s | once and is there a cue to use |
| 5185s | them um so as it stands now crafting |
| 5189s | stations and processing stations that |
| 5191s | exist within |
| 5192s | nodes are unique to the player so |
| 5196s | meaning you can there is no limitation |
| 5199s | on who and how many people can use a |
| 5201s | crafting station within a node that's |
| 5203s | different on a freehold Freehold it |
| 5206s | shares the que so if you have family |
| 5209s | members that are wanting to use the |
| 5211s | processing stations on your Freehold |
| 5213s | uh those cues are limited uh on a per |
| 5216s | job basis right whereas in nodes because |
| 5219s | they don't go to the highest tier |
| 5221s | possible of crafting excuse me of |
| 5223s | processing um uh those get those get our |
| 5226s | are personalized so you saw when I was |
| 5228s | when I was doing a number of different |
| 5229s | processing actions they I had my own |
| 5232s | little Q section up above where I could |
| 5234s | have uh three jobs running at um uh |
| 5237s | sequentially uh now upgrades to in the |
| 5241s | node can change those things |
| 5243s | um so as the um as the service building |
| 5247s | that's offering the processing or the |
| 5249s | crafting um it has upgrades there are |
| 5252s | policies that exist um there are certain |
| 5254s | relics that you can acquire um all of |
| 5257s | which change the dials a bit on uh |
| 5260s | processing yield processing time um |
| 5263s | processing um uh uh job size like those |
| 5267s | things can get adjusted and that helps |
| 5269s | players determine where do I want to go |
| 5272s | to do the things I need to do which node |
| 5274s | should I use it is it is important to |
| 5278s | understand how that node has specialized |
| 5281s | because you only have a limited amount |
| 5282s | of specializations you can do with the |
| 5285s | service building plots the policies |
| 5287s | enacted um and the upgrades chosen can |
| 5290s | you provide more details in regards to |
| 5292s | the design philosophy behind why you |
| 5295s | it's a q system for freeh holds but not |
| 5298s | for uh nodes yeah absolutely um so |
| 5303s | on the |
| 5304s | Freehold processing can achieve the |
| 5307s | highest levels of processing that's |
| 5308s | where the highest levels of processing |
| 5310s | occur nodes can only go up to a certain |
| 5313s | level of processing um |
| 5316s | now we want to be able to throttle the |
| 5319s | amount of resources that can be |
| 5321s | processed at any given time in response |
| 5324s | to the fluctuation and flows of the |
| 5326s | economy right so we want to make sure |
| 5328s | that the economy is kind of a bigger |
| 5330s | ship when turning than being able to |
| 5333s | immediately start processing everything |
| 5336s | at once and and get new resources out as |
| 5339s | the flow of supply and demand changes |
| 5341s | within the world um and because again |
| 5344s | that's that's at the highest levels of |
| 5346s | processing and you're sharing uh um the |
| 5350s | available cues uh that exists at those |
| 5352s | stations it's going to take time and |
| 5354s | it's going to take a long time for the |
| 5356s | higher level |
| 5357s | materials all right and then the next |
| 5359s | one here is more of a comment in regards |
| 5363s | to there's been some mixed conversation |
| 5365s | in regards to this and I think in the |
| 5366s | past we've also done a whole uh feedback |
| 5369s | thread and report on this topic |
| 5372s | specifically but why did you go with a |
| 5374s | spatial inventory system for resources |
| 5377s | sure yeah ABS AB great question um so |
| 5381s | obviously there's a number of different |
| 5382s | methods that we can use uh in an effort |
| 5386s | to mitigate or again throttle um the |
| 5390s | amount of success that players can have |
| 5393s | in any one trip out in the world right |
| 5395s | now we're using a combination of three |
| 5398s | things we are using um progression |
| 5401s | gating through your profession level |
| 5404s | right so you need to have a certain |
| 5406s | level to access certain |
| 5408s | resources um we are utilizing the |
| 5411s | spatial inventory space as um a |
| 5415s | limitation on how much things you can |
| 5417s | gather before you need to go back to |
| 5419s | town um and then lastly we have |
| 5423s | a tool predicate where you need to have |
| 5426s | a tool that is relevant for the resource |
| 5429s | you're Gathering and those tools have a |
| 5432s | Decay value after each use um weight is |
| 5436s | obviously an approach that we could take |
| 5439s | uh if we wanted to limit |
| 5441s | however the spatial system works in |
| 5444s | concert with a a number of other types |
| 5447s | of systems for example we want to |
| 5451s | have itemization drop on death |
| 5455s | specifically as it relates to material |
| 5457s | items um and we want there to be an |
| 5462s | additional layer above just weight that |
| 5465s | introduces complexity and where there is |
| 5468s | complexity there is choice and there is |
| 5470s | strategy and there is planning required |
| 5472s | on behalf of the player in order to um |
| 5475s | set themselves up for the best possible |
| 5477s | success in certain situations right and |
| 5479s | so situationally it's Unique which bag |
| 5482s | type you choose this also gives us a |
| 5484s | unique progression realm within bags |
| 5487s | themselves so that bags are catered |
| 5490s | towards a specific quote unquote weight |
| 5492s | class and that is augmented by the |
| 5495s | spatial component right so as you |
| 5497s | introduce not just the weight aspect |
| 5500s | that you would normally see through |
| 5502s | stack size but you also have the grid |
| 5504s | formation of the spatial aspect um to to |
| 5509s | again make it a relevant Choice when |
| 5511s | you're Le leaving town which bags I'm |
| 5514s | going to have equipped and we want to |
| 5516s | have a deep progression in bag Choice as |
| 5519s | well because it not only interfaces with |
| 5522s | the resource Gathering but also the PVP |
| 5525s | aspect of things and players can cater |
| 5528s | themselves towards one of those |
| 5530s | directions so you know with a broader |
| 5533s | appeal that the game design provides |
| 5535s | through having these multiple |
| 5537s | progression Loops that are somewhat |
| 5539s | disperate in interest some being PVP |
| 5541s | some being PVE some being crafting |
| 5543s | oriented um this all provides a a matrix |
| 5548s | of decision-making on behalf of the |
| 5550s | player that I think yields a compelling |
| 5553s | gameplay Loop um and so that's why we're |
| 5555s | going to do it now it's important to |
| 5557s | note once again this is Alpha which |
| 5561s | means that these Concepts that live you |
| 5563s | know up here and get down into paper |
| 5566s | then get down into into implementation |
| 5569s | there is still an iteration phase that |
| 5571s | exists at after the implementation and |
| 5574s | so when we get into Alpha 2 and when we |
| 5576s | test these things we are going to |
| 5578s | fine-tune them and sometimes they might |
| 5580s | be completely changed that's just the |
| 5582s | nature of an iterative process and so uh |
| 5586s | we need to understand right now um while |
| 5589s | you're seeing this in action it's going |
| 5591s | to be different when players are |
| 5592s | Hands-On and we'll be collecting all |
| 5594s | that information all those logs we'll be |
| 5596s | querying how players interfaced with |
| 5598s | these different systems and will also be |
| 5600s | very importantly The Next Step |
| 5602s | collecting feedback directly from the |
| 5604s | players about these types of systems and |
| 5606s | whether or not they hit the mark and how |
| 5607s | they need to be fine-tuned in order to |
| 5609s | do so or wholely replaced um so I would |
| 5612s | say as players are participating in |
| 5614s | Alpha 2 get a |
| 5616s | feel uh |
| 5619s | oh you systems and provide the feedback |
| 5621s | and we'll see how did I lose you can you |
| 5623s | hear me you're good now you froze for us |
| 5626s | for a moment I was like oh no my bad um |
| 5631s | so yeah I don't know where I left off |
| 5632s | there but that's that's basically you're |
| 5633s | asking for feedback definitely share |
| 5635s | feedback we actually have a For Thread |
| 5637s | already up so please do so I'll remind |
| 5639s | you guys at the end as well but um yeah |
| 5643s | good there were some kind of tangental |
| 5645s | questions in regards to what you were |
| 5646s | just talking about uh specifically |
| 5648s | because people were wondering um about |
| 5651s | crafting bags and different types of |
| 5653s | bags and can like Crafters create those |
| 5655s | bags yes um and you know the obvious |
| 5658s | answer is obvious yes yes absolutely |
| 5661s | that that that is a that is a wholesale |
| 5663s | crafting uh area so the next one here is |
| 5667s | in regards to alt characters how do we |
| 5669s | feel about people because we provided |
| 5672s | some uh details in regards to how many |
| 5675s | uh professions you and processing Prof |
| 5678s | classes and things of that sort that you |
| 5679s | can personally be on per character basis |
| 5683s | what if I create alts that have those so |
| 5685s | that I can cover all of it is that |
| 5688s | something that we're okay with as a |
| 5689s | company or how are we comp yeah I I I |
| 5692s | think so I mean look this is you know |
| 5696s | this is entirely a subjective Viewpoint |
| 5700s | of course but but in my opinion um if |
| 5704s | the effort necessary to progress a |
| 5707s | character to the point where you have |
| 5709s | access to those types of things um is |
| 5713s | parallel with the effort it takes for |
| 5716s | your main character to do those things |
| 5719s | um then that's a choice that you're |
| 5720s | making and you're splitting your game |
| 5722s | time efforts towards two different |
| 5724s | characters and presumably so that's a |
| 5725s | bit of an asymmetric balance point uh |
| 5728s | that gets provided uh I think that's |
| 5730s | fine um and I think that you know when |
| 5733s | we design the game we design with that |
| 5736s | in mind as well and that's why we have |
| 5738s | certain restrictions on the number of |
| 5740s | Grandmaster professions that one |
| 5742s | particular character can do now when we |
| 5744s | want to extend those restrictions out |
| 5747s | from a character basis to an account |
| 5749s | basis we do so and we do so particularly |
| 5751s | with housing that's an additional level |
| 5754s | of of limitation that's going to |
| 5755s | mitigate some of the alt atmosphere for |
| 5759s | let's say owning a freehold right um |
| 5762s | that is something that that we place as |
| 5763s | a restriction because we feel that um |
| 5766s | The Limited re real reality space that |
| 5769s | exists within the world is something we |
| 5771s | don't want to extend to the alt uh uh |
| 5773s | atmosphere and so in that situation a |
| 5775s | player might have to you know get |
| 5777s | another account or something or or do |
| 5779s | some aisc there but from the perspective |
| 5781s | of progressing within the crafting |
| 5784s | professions and within the processing |
| 5786s | and Gathering professions that's |
| 5787s | acceptable in my |
| 5789s | opinion okay um and then the next one |
| 5792s | here |
| 5793s | is Will Gathering and its noises |
| 5796s | increase the range the monsters will |
| 5798s | notice you so if you aren't being so |
| 5801s | stealthy and you're harvesting things |
| 5802s | and chopping down wood are creatures |
| 5804s | going to like perceive that sure that |
| 5808s | that um there has been some discussion |
| 5809s | about that in the past um we have not |
| 5812s | yet gotten to the types of unique |
| 5815s | perception behaviors that we want NPCs |
| 5818s | to have right now they're relatively |
| 5820s | rudimentary in their perception although |
| 5822s | it is what players would come to expect |
| 5824s | in the majority of MMOs they've already |
| 5826s | played but we're aiming a bit higher um |
| 5830s | and we haven't gotten to that work yet |
| 5831s | but we are talking about things like |
| 5834s | unique |
| 5835s | abilities excuse me played by characters |
| 5839s | that extend the perception radius um or |
| 5841s | uh sounds and different types of walking |
| 5844s | that are angular from the from the um |
| 5847s | from the mob's perception perspective uh |
| 5850s | to be unique uh different types of |
| 5852s | creatures that might be of |
| 5853s | three-dimensional in space whether it is |
| 5856s | in water or birds in the sky that have a |
| 5858s | downward cone angle type perception as |
| 5861s | well like those those are things we want |
| 5863s | to do but we haven't yet um spent the |
| 5866s | time on the AI a AI behaviors |
| 5869s | there and then the next one here is in |
| 5872s | regards to Artisan gear and will it be a |
| 5875s | viable thing for me to utilize in combat |
| 5878s | so if I'm crafting and someone asked me |
| 5880s | to help them with something can I just |
| 5882s | leave my Artisan gear on and go go out |
| 5885s | and fight or will I need to be swapping |
| 5888s | my armor so you will not need to swap |
| 5890s | your Armor artisanship Gear lives in |
| 5893s | alongside your adventuring gear um and |
| 5897s | there will be a toggle that you can use |
| 5900s | to display one or the other's visuals |
| 5904s | now that doesn't mean you need to swap |
| 5905s | the gears it means that if you want to |
| 5909s | be seen as wearing the herbalists outfit |
| 5913s | uh you can you're still going to have |
| 5914s | your adventuring gear present and on the |
| 5916s | character and benefiting from the stats |
| 5919s | that are conferred by them and vice |
| 5922s | versa for for the uh um for the |
| 5925s | Gathering gear or the artisanship gear |
| 5927s | excuse me all right um then the next one |
| 5930s | here is in regards to upgrading items so |
| 5935s | if I create an item at a low quality |
| 5938s | will I later be able to upgrade that |
| 5939s | item when I have the resources to do so |
| 5942s | yeah we want to be careful you know so |
| 5947s | right now as you saw on the stream the |
| 5949s | contribution of materials to crafting an |
| 5952s | item results in advancing the Rarity of |
| 5956s | that item um now that doesn't exclude |
| 5960s | players who don't have the |
| 5962s | legendary uh or the higher |
| 5964s | quality |
| 5966s | contributed resources from progressing |
| 5970s | their |
| 5971s | common item up the Rarity tree through |
| 5975s | enchantments such as uh scroll |
| 5978s | enchanting or through tempering the gear |
| 5981s | um both of those can affect the quality |
| 5983s | and the Rarity of the gear that you |
| 5986s | produce but by contributing the |
| 5990s | resources during the crafting process |
| 5992s | you are getting a head start with the |
| 5995s | higher quality item and now are less |
| 5997s | dependent on those other avenues to |
| 5999s | achieve that which might be uh again a |
| 6002s | different vertical space of progression |
| 6004s | that you don't have as good of access to |
| 6006s | right so it's kind of it's kind of |
| 6008s | Distributing that |
| 6011s | approach okay uh and then this is |
| 6014s | probably what I noticed a lot for more |
| 6016s | of our uh long-term uh fans who have |
| 6019s | been with us and on this journey for |
| 6021s | really long time they are curious about |
| 6023s | what happened to the more manual |
| 6025s | crafting side of crafting cuz we didn't |
| 6027s | showcase that here we showed is that |
| 6030s | fast crafting who's who's a long time a |
| 6033s | lot of people oh a lot of people I |
| 6035s | thought you said there's one person I |
| 6037s | thought I heard you say like we have a |
| 6038s | long time person who's been asking like |
| 6040s | oh my God who's that no I me I meant |
| 6042s | generally I I noticed this question from |
| 6044s | people who are are fans for a long time |
| 6046s | not for sure for sure people so that is |
| 6049s | still a work in progress um and you know |
| 6052s | we want to be careful all the names yeah |
| 6056s | no fair fair fair um we want to be |
| 6058s | careful that when we um when we list |
| 6061s | excuse me when we showcase certain |
| 6063s | systems that we're doing so in a way |
| 6065s | that's digestible obviously and allows |
| 6067s | for people to provide feedback but not |
| 6070s | all systems come online as fast as we |
| 6072s | want them to um that particular gameplay |
| 6074s | layer is still a work in progress um and |
| 6078s | you will likely be getting an update on |
| 6080s | it at some point in the future future |
| 6081s | when we're ready to Showcase it but it |
| 6083s | is still intended the question that's |
| 6085s | outstanding with that miname layer or |
| 6088s | you I don't really like calling it a Min |
| 6090s | yeah that's why I calling it manual |
| 6091s | crafting because it gets really |
| 6092s | confusing when you say mini games |
| 6093s | because it is not mini games agreed it's |
| 6096s | not it is a unique gameplay layer |
| 6098s | however um what I would say is that |
| 6100s | there's still some discussion about |
| 6101s | whether or not that occurs on a craft |
| 6103s | bycraft basis or if it occurs at the |
| 6106s | certification level right so when you're |
| 6109s | certifying up you participate in the uh |
| 6113s | that gameplay layer but what I would say |
| 6115s | is uh hold off on that for a moment |
| 6118s | we're still working on that we will give |
| 6120s | an update when we're ready also putting |
| 6122s | things into a core functional state |
| 6125s | allows us to test some of those core |
| 6127s | systems and features so we can kick out |
| 6130s | all the bugs that are potentially there |
| 6131s | and believe me we've fixed a lot of them |
| 6133s | already so and there's plenty more that |
| 6135s | will come along the way as we move |
| 6136s | towards that more manual crafting |
| 6138s | process um and then the next one here is |
| 6141s | will the skin of the weapons have slight |
| 6143s | changes depending on the Rarity that |
| 6145s | it's crafted at yes yeah you saw there |
| 6149s | that the |
| 6150s | uh the Rarity of that sword was heroic |
| 6154s | and when it equ when it was equipped you |
| 6156s | saw some effects that were kind of |
| 6158s | pulsating up the weapon um those types |
| 6162s | of effects will be yielded the higher |
| 6164s | quality and or Rarity that the weapon is |
| 6168s | um so it's something that also is |
| 6170s | visually conveyed to other players uh if |
| 6173s | not from just a threat assessment |
| 6175s | perspective but from you know uh um uh |
| 6178s | getting some data point on the equipment |
| 6180s | that that another player has um so yes |
| 6183s | there are some effects that get Scaled |
| 6184s | up when that happens all right we got |
| 6186s | two more and then we'll move on to the |
| 6187s | next segment otherwise we'll be here all |
| 6189s | day because back now Roan keep adding |
| 6191s | them which is awesome um the next one |
| 6194s | here is can a player of any profession |
| 6196s | level learn any recipe or do I have to |
| 6199s | be like a certain level to learn the |
| 6202s | recipes oh that's a good question um I |
| 6205s | know we've gone back and forth on that |
| 6206s | in the past um I believe that |
| 6211s | currently uh you might need to have the |
| 6214s | appropriate uh ability to craft the |
| 6217s | recipe in order to learn it um I believe |
| 6220s | that's the current approach uh but I |
| 6222s | could be wrong on that I'll have to |
| 6223s | double check and like Stephen said |
| 6226s | before everything's subject to change as |
| 6227s | we test things as you guys experience |
| 6229s | things as you provide your feedback we |
| 6231s | adjust things as well um and then the |
| 6233s | last one here is can a player equip |
| 6234s | multiple of the same types of bags or |
| 6237s | are bags unique to characters in some |
| 6239s | way no you can you can equip multiple of |
| 6241s | the same types of bags you can be highly |
| 6244s | specialized cool cool um and I think |
| 6247s | there was a tangental one here was can |
| 6249s | people put these crafted bags on their |
| 6252s | mules as |
| 6254s | well but um can they put craft I'm sorry |
| 6257s | my battery just said it's about to die |
| 6259s | sorry say again crafted uh can they for |
| 6261s | the crafted bags on their mules as well |
| 6263s | like the the Satchel on their bags no no |
| 6266s | the mules use the cargo system um so the |
| 6268s | cargo system is uh crate based uh you |
| 6271s | have to acquire the crates and then you |
| 6273s | can equip them to the vehicles and or |
| 6275s | mules um mules cap out uh uh at the |
| 6279s | small crate value um and you can add to |
| 6282s | that crate um wild in the wild all right |
| 6286s | well from there we're going to move on |
| 6288s | to our studio update I don't know if you |
| 6291s | want to share some Deets on how we're |
| 6293s | doing where we're at in regards to |
| 6295s | Studio goodness but um I know folks keep |
| 6298s | asking about all of that jazz yeah no |
| 6301s | absolutely things are going great at the |
| 6302s | studio we have gotten some um some |
| 6305s | really talented uh team members who have |
| 6308s | joined us over the course of this last |
| 6309s | month um that we're very excited about |
| 6311s | to have uh uh with the team um we are in |
| 6315s | the process of winding down for the year |
| 6318s | obviously um the studio goes on break |
| 6320s | from the 22nd until January 3rd uh and |
| 6323s | we have a lot of plans to get things |
| 6325s | done before the 22nd oh until the second |
| 6328s | sorry my got it um oops the studio is |
| 6331s | like oh we're getting an extra day yeah |
| 6333s | I like I just want because I know a lot |
| 6334s | of them watch the stream I don't want |
| 6335s | them to be like oh I know yeah 202nd to |
| 6338s | the second good call um but uh we have a |
| 6340s | lot of plans obviously to get some |
| 6342s | things done here before the end of the |
| 6343s | year um we will be finishing up our |
| 6346s | Milestone 7 which is a big big big |
| 6348s | milestone for us um obviously uh but um |
| 6352s | yeah a lot of things going great at the |
| 6353s | studio right now yeah we're trying to |
| 6355s | plan some little fun things that we can |
| 6356s | do as a team too for for December um we |
| 6359s | always try to do I think we always do |
| 6362s | like a Christmas sweater contest and we |
| 6365s | we have fun we try to we try to we're |
| 6367s | GNA do a I think we're going to do a |
| 6368s | movie as well we've got some gifts going |
| 6370s | out to the team I'm working out the |
| 6372s | event details on that so yeah we're |
| 6374s | we're GNA prep some stuff I know people |
| 6376s | uh who are are staff are probably like |
| 6378s | oo um but we'll announce that later |
| 6381s | internally um but yeah we're we're |
| 6383s | definitely rocking and rolling I think |
| 6385s | we talked about this in a previous live |
| 6387s | stream but our attrition rate is |
| 6389s | insanely great um you know people do |
| 6391s | come and go here and there but uh it's |
| 6394s | well it's crazy because like standard's |
| 6396s | like 12 plus% and well right now layoff |
| 6400s | insane we're at like 1% or two yeah |
| 6402s | we're at like 2% I think um but yeah so |
| 6405s | it's very very low um beyond that let's |
| 6408s | move on to character goodness |
| 6411s | uh so the first thing here that you're |
| 6412s | going to see is that we are starting to |
| 6415s | kind of change up our klar starting gear |
| 6418s | uh we're kind of re uh addressing those |
| 6421s | changing them you're going to see these |
| 6422s | for all of the races as we move forward |
| 6424s | um but feel free to share your feedback |
| 6427s | and thoughts on them as we continue yeah |
| 6430s | the fabric looks so good |
| 6434s | yeah let those go |
| 6437s | through materials just look so good |
| 6442s | of course lighting changes everything so |
| 6443s | it depends on like where you are in Game |
| 6445s | how the lighting is going to look on the |
| 6446s | armors and stuff like that the next |
| 6449s | thing here is a copper weapon set you're |
| 6451s | probably going to see these for every |
| 6453s | type of material so I think you've seen |
| 6456s | some of them for from previous materials |
| 6458s | too in the past um but you'll probably |
| 6460s | be seeing more of those as we move |
| 6462s | forward just a lot of weapons and stuff |
| 6464s | are being weapons and armors are being |
| 6466s | made tons of them a very rich diverse |
| 6469s | grouping of of itemization that can be |
| 6471s | progressed through going questing drops |
| 6474s | and |
| 6476s | crafting yeah speaking of which we have |
| 6478s | some Carfin weapons we have a dagger and |
| 6479s | a focus that are being worked on right |
| 6482s | now um I think we've shown some of the |
| 6484s | other Carin weapons in the past as well |
| 6486s | that you've seen but I like to sprinkle |
| 6488s | a little view in there um because |
| 6491s | obviously that's going to be a fun |
| 6494s | dungeon um and then we have the Scarlet |
| 6496s | remembrance the little ring that we had |
| 6499s | the lore for this is really sweet um so |
| 6502s | if you haven't read it I would highly |
| 6504s | recommend um and then we have the |
| 6508s | guards which this one was of contention |
| 6511s | some people loved this set and some |
| 6513s | people |
| 6514s | didn't um but now you're seeing the 3D |
| 6516s | render of it which yeah it's different |
| 6520s | too which I think is |
| 6523s | fun and then we've got the bloomfest |
| 6526s | which is from that same |
| 6529s | set |
| 6532s | I love it |
| 6535s | beautiful who did this one this one |
| 6538s | bloomfest |
| 6540s | was H our wonderful intern |
| 6543s | marleene oh my |
| 6545s | God Marlene good a shout out Marlene |
| 6550s | very cool um and then we have the mat uh |
| 6553s | mature drill spider uh this isn't a te |
| 6556s | pose so |
| 6557s | the little spiky thing is you know would |
| 6560s | be up not flat like |
| 6563s | that |
| 6565s | um and then we have the rain Rock |
| 6569s | Fon I think I have a turntable for this |
| 6572s | one |
| 6573s | too love it so |
| 6576s | cool very cool I can see it's making a |
| 6580s | lot of different versions of this with |
| 6581s | the different materials in the game too |
| 6584s | oh yeah little corrupt version of it |
| 6586s | yeah oh oh no turns red this one is one |
| 6589s | of my favorites this is the sh |
| 6591s | Skipper we were joking that this is what |
| 6594s | we all look like after Thanksgiving |
| 6596s | dinner I can't wait to to ride that |
| 6598s | thing in the in the ocean and just like |
| 6600s | lay down a bunch of mines for ships and |
| 6602s | stuff that would be crazy oh my |
| 6604s | gosh I love that Stephen's plotting his |
| 6608s | revenge just have like just have like a |
| 6611s | a squad of these that'd be so fun to see |
| 6614s | a squad of them oh my gosh uh in alpha 1 |
| 6618s | we all went in the water we were all on |
| 6619s | those Turtles you remember remember and |
| 6620s | then we did the barrel roll all in a row |
| 6622s | like a wave yes remember so good that |
| 6626s | was so fun I think it was with the pi |
| 6627s | folks when we did that I don't know if |
| 6629s | the pi folks |
| 6630s | remember but it was a lot of fun um |
| 6633s | that's what happens in private testing |
| 6635s | you do weird things because we were we |
| 6636s | having everybody line up and they were |
| 6638s | like run to the shore because we were |
| 6639s | trying to test having a lot of people in |
| 6641s | one area I remember that that was good |
| 6643s | times |
| 6645s | yeah um and with that we are heading on |
| 6648s | to our Q&A so thank you to our amazing |
| 6650s | artist obviously they work on way more |
| 6653s | things than that um we just try to |
| 6655s | sprinkle in a little bit here and there |
| 6656s | that they're really proud of that they |
| 6658s | want to share um sometimes I ask them |
| 6661s | for additional things that they're not |
| 6663s | quite ready to share but I'm like come |
| 6664s | on people will like it um and of course |
| 6667s | we keep some stuff for you guys so that |
| 6669s | you you know you get to experience them |
| 6672s | um so we're going to move on to our Q&A |
| 6675s | uh if you don't know we grab some |
| 6677s | questions from our forums we always put |
| 6678s | these up in advance when we announce our |
| 6680s | live stream so if you are following us |
| 6682s | on all the social you'll be notified of |
| 6684s | that um and of course on the forums the |
| 6687s | first question here is from nice gaming |
| 6688s | thank you nice for also making amazing |
| 6690s | content we always love uh seeing that |
| 6692s | they want to know about new player |
| 6694s | experience and is there a plan to have a |
| 6696s | tutorial or Quest detailing corruption |
| 6698s | the flagging system um Etc as new |
| 6701s | players enter |
| 6702s | Vera absolutely um that is not something |
| 6706s | however you will be noticing in Alpha 2 |
| 6708s | um we call this obviously our firsttime |
| 6710s | user user experience the first-time user |
| 6712s | experience is something that's going to |
| 6714s | have a lot of love and attention during |
| 6716s | betas uh but is not going to have much |
| 6718s | attention during Alpha 2 but it is |
| 6720s | intended for us to have a very in-depth |
| 6722s | uh first-time user experience to kind of |
| 6725s | introduce players to the number of |
| 6727s | different systems right they're not |
| 6729s | going to be super in-depth we don't |
| 6730s | believe that first-time user experiences |
| 6732s | should handhold players through all of |
| 6734s | the processes and reveal the world so to |
| 6736s | speak but just to give them a shallow |
| 6739s | touch uh for these system so that they |
| 6741s | understand the concepts uh and and |
| 6743s | essentially how to how to navigate but |
| 6745s | we want to leave overwhelming to have |
| 6747s | like a bunch of UI popups I think also |
| 6749s | we've been trying to take a more |
| 6751s | tangible process of like you learn |
| 6753s | you're learning through the game and not |
| 6755s | always through Windows popping up at you |
| 6757s | too um the next question is from Nara |
| 6761s | who wants to know about stolen glint |
| 6763s | this was this was a contentious question |
| 6765s | after you talked about this on the |
| 6767s | Caravan live stream so I think this is a |
| 6769s | great one to also clarify so I'm glad it |
| 6770s | got picked in the random generator um |
| 6774s | the question is will a character be able |
| 6776s | to loot their own corpse and retrieve |
| 6778s | their dropped glint as normal glint |
| 6780s | again or is it forever stolen glint the |
| 6783s | second that the character dies does this |
| 6785s | also mean that if my friends loot my |
| 6788s | body and gives me my glimp back it's |
| 6790s | considered |
| 6791s | stolen I think the problem here was that |
| 6794s | you die and then your your glint becomes |
| 6796s | stolen glint but then if you lose it |
| 6798s | it's weird for it to be stolen |
| 6800s | the the glint does not become stolen on |
| 6803s | death it becomes stolen on looted on |
| 6806s | looting and you right correct yeah if |
| 6810s | you're if you're able to loot your own |
| 6811s | body uh it will not be converted into |
| 6814s | stolen glint um if however another |
| 6817s | player regardless of their affiliation |
| 6819s | uh loots the body it will then be |
| 6821s | converted uh the glint will be sunk and |
| 6823s | the stolen glint will replace your |
| 6824s | friends can steal stuff from you it is |
| 6828s | true um and of course of course the next |
| 6831s | one is from lashing and they want to |
| 6832s | know about NPC levels will Mob level |
| 6836s | keep scaling past player max level as an |
| 6840s | indicator for power level I think this |
| 6841s | is more in regards to uh at high level |
| 6844s | will there still be challenging combat |
| 6846s | for me beyond |
| 6849s | that wait so what's the |
| 6851s | question will Mob level keep scaling |
| 6854s | past the max player level yes yes uh |
| 6857s | when the game both in Alpha 2 and when |
| 6859s | the game launches |
| 6860s | there will be monsters whose technical |
| 6862s | level is above that of the cap um and |
| 6865s | the intent there is obviously again to |
| 6867s | provide um some level of of challenge um |
| 6871s | that exceeds uh a comparable level uh |
| 6874s | challenge rating um yes that is expected |
| 6878s | all right and then neurotoxin wants to |
| 6880s | know about crafting agency what |
| 6882s | percentage of an items specifically like |
| 6885s | a weapon that hits corruption Target or |
| 6887s | corrupted targets harder will be defined |
| 6890s | specifically by blueprint material |
| 6893s | character skill the station and region |
| 6895s | where it was crafted and by the player's |
| 6897s | own selective inputs so I think this is |
| 6899s | a pretty meaty question but just I guess |
| 6901s | kind of breaking it up what where do the |
| 6904s | power elements come from percentage wise |
| 6906s | per uh the different elements of |
| 6909s | crafting well a big chunk of it going to |
| 6912s | come from the static recipe value right |
| 6915s | um that's going to drive a lot of the |
| 6916s | stat block and then as we saw here you |
| 6919s | will be able to influence the the |
| 6922s | quality of the recipe and the |
| 6924s | distribution of stats within the stat |
| 6926s | block uh based on the components uh that |
| 6929s | are dedicated to the craft um so that |
| 6933s | that presents a wide variety of |
| 6935s | potential output from a single recipe um |
| 6938s | recipes have the ability to to gain |
| 6942s | recipes themselves can gain experience |
| 6944s | you can unlock um uh different results |
| 6948s | through different compositional |
| 6951s | contributions of resources and that in |
| 6954s | and of itself is kind of an exploration |
| 6956s | progression that Crafters will have |
| 6958s | access |
| 6962s | to and our next one is about crafting |
| 6965s | Innovation from old cat a um and they |
| 6968s | want to know will players have the |
| 6970s | ability to innovate within the crafting |
| 6973s | system creating unique items or designs |
| 6976s | if so how much customization can players |
| 6978s | expect when it comes to crafting their |
| 6980s | own gear or |
| 6981s | items yeah I think this is pretty much |
| 6984s | the same kind of answer that I just gave |
| 6986s | um which is that obviously there are |
| 6988s | statically defined |
| 6992s | um there are statically defined an an |
| 6995s | array of results that can come out of a |
| 6997s | particular recipe and your ability to |
| 6999s | unlock those results is predicated on |
| 7002s | what composition of resources you |
| 7004s | contribute to crafting that particular |
| 7006s | weapon type um and so in that sense yes |
| 7009s | uh craft will have the ability to to um |
| 7014s | uniquely create certain types of the |
| 7018s | recipes results based on how they're |
| 7020s | contributing resources to it yeah I |
| 7022s | think this |
| 7023s | question just manifest yeah manifesting |
| 7026s | their own yeah that you yeah exactly uh |
| 7030s | the the the result has to have a |
| 7032s | corresponding recipe definition and so |
| 7035s | in that sense it isn't completely |
| 7037s | customizable to the point where the play |
| 7040s | gets to uniquely create these uh |
| 7043s | particular items uh but rather they are |
| 7045s | discovering what Creations are possible |
| 7047s | with each recipe type okay and then uh |
| 7052s | I'm sorry if I I say your name wrong |
| 7053s | just DM me on Discord or something and |
| 7056s | nor forums and let me know how to |
| 7057s | actually pronounce it uh M Mo molu molu |
| 7064s | to uh they want to know about crafting |
| 7066s | recipes will the recipe book be account |
| 7070s | bound or player character bound will |
| 7072s | there be account wide sharing recipes so |
| 7075s | can I share my recipes with my other |
| 7076s | characters or do I have to do them per |
| 7078s | character this brings us back to the alt |
| 7082s | question and the alt question was you |
| 7086s | know how do we feel about people making |
| 7087s | alts in order to kind of corner the um |
| 7091s | uh the Mastery professions um if you |
| 7094s | learn a recipe it stays on that |
| 7096s | character and if you want another |
| 7098s | character to have access to the those |
| 7100s | recipes they have to achieve those |
| 7102s | recipes in order to do so um and so in |
| 7104s | that sense we're not making it easier |
| 7106s | for alts right it is an equitable amount |
| 7108s | of effort required in order to achieve |
| 7111s | uh the type of payoff you want from |
| 7113s | these old |
| 7114s | characters all right and then roon |
| 7117s | scoponi I always love that name uh they |
| 7119s | wanted know about Gathering skills do |
| 7121s | gatherers need to spec into group-based |
| 7123s | gathering at the expense of solo |
| 7127s | Gathering uh do they need to |
| 7130s | no no I do not believe so so they can |
| 7132s | spec into they can do both equally |
| 7135s | correct okay and then tiger blue eyes |
| 7138s | wants to know about crafting materials |
| 7139s | are crafting materials going cross tiers |
| 7143s | for example using highle material in |
| 7145s | low-l recipes or lowlevel materials in a |
| 7148s | higher level recipe is that allowed yes |
| 7151s | MH and then Phantom MX or Phantom X |
| 7155s | wants to know about uh crafting skill as |
| 7158s | character artisanship skills improve |
| 7161s | will RNG in the process go |
| 7164s | down that is a good question as I level |
| 7167s | up am I more likely to succeed to to a |
| 7171s | degree um |
| 7174s | well right now we don't really have a |
| 7178s | failure chance when it comes to |
| 7181s | crafting the the RNG chances that we |
| 7184s | place on itemization live more within |
| 7187s | the enchant realm and and within the uh |
| 7191s | deconstruction realm |
| 7195s | um uh and socketing like that's where |
| 7199s | RNG comes into play the recipe is a |
| 7203s | relatively um uh High degree of |
| 7206s | certainty when inputting things um you |
| 7210s | may not know what the outcome of that |
| 7211s | input's going to look like but I |
| 7213s | wouldn't call that necessarily RNG BEC |
| 7215s | RNG for failure because you can't |
| 7217s | necessarily fail that um so yeah |
| 7221s | hopefully that answers your question |
| 7223s | yeah uh and then drunk ninja wants to |
| 7225s | know about crafting consumables will |
| 7227s | every crafting profession be able to |
| 7228s | make some form of a |
| 7232s | consumable no not every crafting |
| 7234s | profession will be able to make a form |
| 7236s | of |
| 7237s | consumable all right that wraps up our |
| 7241s | Q&A wo we made it through it all um and |
| 7246s | of course uh we do have um you know some |
| 7249s | reminders again for you all uh just head |
| 7252s | on over to our forums we would love your |
| 7253s | feedback forums. ashesofcreation |
| 7263s | docomo long stream it was a long this is |
| 7266s | a long stream uh the video for the um |
| 7270s | the 4K version of the artisanship |
| 7272s | segment it will be up on YouTube right |
| 7274s | when this is over so you can go watch |
| 7276s | that pause it look back so you can |
| 7278s | really give us feedback on what your |
| 7280s | thoughts are um and of course our team |
| 7282s | is going to be creating a report for the |
| 7283s | dev team which is always uh something |
| 7285s | that is is beneficial for us um again |
| 7289s | thank you all so much for helping us |
| 7290s | with extra life there's also a ton of |
| 7292s | other Dove discussions and things of |
| 7294s | that sort that are over there we're |
| 7295s | going to have a delicious one that's |
| 7297s | coming up uh with recipes and maybe |
| 7299s | we'll do uh some bonus uh Alpha 2 keys |
| 7302s | for anybody who actually creates the |
| 7304s | recipe and sends us a photo or something |
| 7306s | so it's like a bonus just fun um but |
| 7308s | yeah definitely definitely keep your eye |
| 7310s | out for some fun things that are coming |
| 7311s | along the way uh the Unseen order |
| 7313s | Cosmetics will be ending on January 17th |
| 7315s | at 11:00 a.m. Pacific reminder that this |
| 7317s | is the last uh pre-order pack that will |
| 7320s | be available and you can check out all |
| 7321s | the information on our FAQ on our site |
| 7324s | um and of course thank you so much to |
| 7326s | all of you for tuning in this was a long |
| 7327s | one so we appreciate you sticking it |
| 7330s | through with us um and of course um to |
| 7333s | Corey Mike Alex and Nathan for helping |
| 7335s | us with the artisanship Showcase they |
| 7338s | all did an amazing job I know it is not |
| 7340s | an easy feat to come and talk in front |
| 7342s | of a bajillion people um I know people |
| 7345s | can make fun of folks so be kind |
| 7348s | developers that's not our main thing to |
| 7350s | do we're making a game man we're and |
| 7351s | we're just trying to help explain things |
| 7353s | at the same time um and of course to |
| 7355s | Stephen for all of your time I know that |
| 7357s | it is precious we always appreciate all |
| 7359s | of it and with that we hope that you all |
| 7361s | stay healthy and safe um like I said the |
| 7364s | VOD will be up on Twitch as well right |
| 7365s | away so you can watch the whole thing if |
| 7367s | you want to rewatch any of the FAQ SE |
| 7370s | um the videos up on YouTube leave us a |
| 7372s | comment and next on next month's or on |
| 7374s | this Dev development update so when the |
| 7376s | full one goes up on Friday um and we |
| 7379s | will be picking a lucky winner to be |
| 7381s | spotlighted again like we did in this |
| 7383s | one for next month in December uh also |
| 7385s | follow us on all the places we are ashes |
| 7387s | of creation everywhere we post stuff |
| 7388s | almost like you know multiple times a |
| 7390s | week it is we try not to spam you too |
| 7392s | much but we also try to make lots of fun |
| 7394s | engaging posts also sharing you sharing |
| 7396s | with you like lots of cool things from |
| 7398s | the game sometimes you get some unique |
| 7399s | stuff that doesn't get shown on the live |
| 7401s | stream so definitely uh follow us in all |
| 7403s | of the places so that we can keep you |
| 7405s | informed on what's going on and with |
| 7407s | that we will see you all next month for |
| 7410s | the final live stream of |
| 7412s | 2023 yeah is it like two weeks away |
| 7414s | three weeks away yeah two two or three |
| 7416s | weeks away it's not very far because uh |
| 7418s | we wrap up on the 22nd here like no |
| 7420s | one's working on the 22nd at Intrepid so |
| 7423s | hopefully not that's right all right all |
| 7427s | right everyone thank you for joining us |
| 7428s | we had a lot fun we'll see you |
| 7432s | [Music] |
| 7442s | soon |