[2023] Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Event Update

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20s	hello everyone and welcome to another
24s	live stream from the Glorious world of
26s	Vera and we have an exciting showcase to
29s	give you all today we're going to be
31s	talking about our event system and I am
35s	actually joined by three of our
37s	absolutely wonderful developers with
40s	whom you've spoken with in the past on
43s	some other live streams we have one of
45s	our glorious Engineers Clayton Clayton
47s	absolutely wonderful glorious what an
50s	introduction I'm doing great I know
51s	really somebody really so many words to
54s	show off all of our hard work so
57s	very excited to see it with you and
59s	excited to chat with the community about
61s	it I know you guys have been doing a lot
62s	of hard work on this we also have two of
65s	our wonderful designers uh Scott how you
68s	doing buddy excellent I'm very excited
70s	to be here
71s	yay and Amy Amy how are you doing hi I'm
75s	good last time I was here we took down
76s	two rocks so I'm I'm ready today I'm
79s	playing cleric again so um yeah I got
81s	your back
83s	thank you I okay so you heard it here
85s	first folks if I die
89s	it's of course not my fault it would be
92s	the clerical no
93s	um but okay so where where are we we are
96s	in a familiar biome uh many of you guys
99s	should be expecting where we are we are
101s	in the wonderful riverlands yep we are a
104s	little bit
105s	east of the last live stream location
108s	which was Winstead node
110s	um yeah I see Carfin in the distance
112s	Carfin is even further east from
113s	Winstead so we're kind of sandwiched
115s	between Winstead and Carfin right now
118s	um no big curse happening right now so
120s	it's a nice day out okay so it's a nice
122s	day out there's not like any type of
124s	blood curse or Undead roaming the area
126s	no not at the moment no
127s	okay very cool and what are we doing
130s	here in the riverlands talk to me a
133s	little bit about what has brought us out
135s	here and I'm gonna jump off my my
136s	glorious Steed here while we talk about
138s	that absolutely so uh we're actually
141s	just out here to uh kill some mobs grind
143s	some experience get some get some
145s	resources maybe out of the land here and
148s	uh eventually
149s	um the world should react to that and we
152s	could potentially create an event here
155s	I see a a web weaver so okay so our
158s	objective right now is
161s	um we're going to be showing off
162s	obviously the event system and part of
164s	that event system is that it can take a
168s	whole host of different predicates to
169s	kind of kick off different types of
171s	events Clayton talk to me a little bit
173s	about what that oh he's on me he's on
175s	yeah as soon as I'm not dying but yeah
179s	so uh the event system uh it can query
183s	uh a lot of different aspects of the
186s	dynamic World state right now it's
188s	actually just tracking player activity
190s	in the world uh and uh you know for this
193s	event in particular and uh it's looking
196s	for us to kill some stuff so we're out
197s	here killing some stuff and eventually
199s	the event should trigger once uh it's
202s	detected enough player activity
204s	very cool and and these and these this
207s	type of predicate that is the
209s	essentially the activity map for killing
212s	yeah the activity Maps that's not the
214s	only way that these events can get
215s	kicked off there's a whole host of
217s	different ways that they can also yeah
218s	for sure yeah so we we have a really
221s	really awesome system that the designers
223s	have access to uh that lets them uh hook
226s	into really any Dynamic World State and
229s	use that to inform the instantiation or
232s	even just like the progression of uh any
235s	event
238s	very cool yeah these spiders are gross
241s	Scott what are what are some uh plans
244s	that you have for uh different
246s	predicates for uh instantiating some of
249s	these events yeah so obviously we just
251s	got this kind of generic sort of kill
254s	one here uh that we can use for all
256s	sorts of different things for tracking
257s	player activity
258s	um no Big Bear time uh we also are
261s	looking at the amount of resources that
263s	players can Harvest as a predicate we
265s	have
266s	uh story arcs that are going on so
268s	active stores could cause different
270s	events to start yeah um trade Caravans
273s	happening relationships between
274s	different nodes and also just the state
276s	of the nodes themselves oh even let him
280s	beat me up here because it's kind of
282s	cool he's charging you yeah
286s	he will throw you around those Bears can
289s	can really catch you off guard if you
291s	let them
292s	okay
294s	so I see that a nearby event has started
297s	the predicate has been met
300s	yep oh and I see now on the mini map we
302s	have a little bit of a location for it
304s	yeah so just the south of us here um
307s	we were just kind of uh the event has
310s	kind of kicked off because of the just
312s	us killing stuffer in the area here
314s	yeah and we might see some visual
316s	indicators over the hill here in a
319s	second
320s	and so when when one of these events
322s	kick off it's not just obviously
324s	notifying players based off of their
326s	proximity with uh the mini-map and with
328s	the you know UI toast that pops up but
330s	also as you said Clayton we have a
332s	visual indicator in world that's also
334s	rooting the the event as well yeah for
336s	sure uh you know Scott can could
338s	probably touch on you know uh the
340s	diegetic nature of all of our narrative
342s	content and the uh the goals there but
347s	uh oh wait hold on before we get too
349s	close I'm seeing that there's some gray
351s	Shore archers and a Grace or Grace or
354s	swordsman
356s	okay all right oh should I join this
359s	event as a Defender team definitely yes
361s	that'll allow if some other players do
365s	come around while we're playing that'll
367s	allow them to uh
369s	join the event raid group with us so
372s	we've effectively taken the party that
374s	we had pre-formed and and merged that
376s	into a new raid group
381s	okay I slept a couple of these
383s	um of the highway captains there's some
386s	of them on the settlers right now okay
390s	and the settlers are an objective type
392s	that exists within this particular
394s	archery exactly what I mean yeah oh my
398s	God there's a lot no they're sniping
400s	from up on top of the rocks
402s	thanks Amy oh I see
405s	I'm sorry I'm gonna go put the one spots
407s	down oh god oh no no no no okay the
410s	event difficulty didn't change though
425s	we're distracting the the bandits from
428s	the settlers right now so that's good
429s	none of them have died it's Caravan
431s	Integrity is good
433s	um
435s	um okay I see the Caravan Integrity on
438s	the uh on the event note uh notification
441s	window it looks like they're mostly just
443s	going for the settlers right now
445s	oh no those poor settlers we've we've
448s	kept them up
449s	nope I just saw one die oh God two of
452s	them two of them went out at once
457s	I shouldn't have mentioned it they would
459s	have been fine
460s	so our objective here is to protect
463s	these settlers while we eliminate 20 of
465s	these Highwaymen
467s	okay okay
469s	but there's probably another wave coming
472s	yes there's still some Shore there's
475s	still some gray short people around I
477s	see is some of them coming from uh
478s	Northeast there's an arsonist coming oh
480s	there we go there we go
482s	oh and some from uh downhill Northwest
484s	too Scott why are they coming from the
487s	north
488s	so we're actually pretty near one of our
490s	pois which is actually under Bandit
493s	control uh the apathy named Highwayman
496s	Hills is just over the corner just
498s	around the corner here
500s	um so they'll be attacking NPCs kind of
502s	in this area until such a time as uh
505s	players deal with it via story arc
512s	guys alive right
514s	okay all right we did it
516s	all right okay do you survive okay so it
520s	says prepare for the final assault so
522s	this is this is stage based off of our
524s	kind of
525s	our progress our activity our our
527s	success what is this yeah so we just we
530s	defeated the requisite number of of
532s	bandages which is going to progress the
536s	stage here and and during this stage
538s	here we can reset some of the traps that
540s	the bandits used to initially destroy
543s	the Convoy and we can use those against
544s	the bandits in the next phase which is
546s	actually more difficult so
549s	yeah we'll definitely need them uh
552s	whenever they they the bandits do come
554s	with reinforcements they're probably
556s	going to be bringing their best so
558s	especially because we have more players
560s	now so the difficulty of the event will
562s	be more when there are more players and
564s	of course like all things in ashes the
566s	more difficult to challenge the better
567s	the rewards and also uh you know our
571s	clerics can have some time to heal up
573s	the the settlers and uh you know
576s	hopefully set us up for Success whenever
578s	the next round does come in
581s	and how do we how do we leverage the
583s	reward system how are people you know
586s	getting calculated what rewards they
587s	should get uh so for events like this we
590s	have kind of a number of metrics that we
593s	can use I think we're going to be doing
595s	a lot of testing to figure out what the
596s	best metrics are because there are some
598s	ups and downs using like pure the amount
600s	of damage you've done you know in the in
601s	the raid and stuff like that um and
603s	we're also look like more relaxed things
605s	like how much time you spent you know
607s	participating in the event whether
608s	that's doing damage or healing allies
610s	and things like that as a as a
612s	percentage of the total time of the
613s	event
614s	um they all have their drawbacks and
615s	benefits some are
617s	uh you know we got to be careful about
618s	yeah
620s	um but yeah we'll just count up the
621s	contribution however we end up balancing
623s	that and uh then we have different tiers
625s	of rewards that are given to each
628s	individual player based off of their uh
630s	contribution score in the event as it
632s	works right now it is just simply a
634s	matter of how much time you've
635s	participated in the event as a
637s	percentage of the total time of the
638s	event
639s	very nice and and so as that kind of as
643s	that winds down people will be you know
645s	granted a gold silver bronze tier kind
647s	of reward status and that will be the
650s	entitlement for the types of rewards
651s	they get from these events exactly and
653s	really that that's just going to
654s	determine the reward table that they're
656s	going to get and then each player is
657s	going to roll their own reward table uh
660s	independently
661s	very nice I hope I'm gonna get rewarded
663s	for all the healing I'm doing yeah yeah
665s	uh Amy you deserve it
668s	raid leader yep uh our timer is up and
672s	Corvin the crusher appears to be on the
675s	way
676s	oh God he's coming all right we're gonna
678s	heal almost immediately
683s	oh my God there's a lot I'm gonna I'm
685s	gonna try to sleep some of them
688s	oh never mind there's multiple balls of
690s	lightning
692s	see if I can line this up right
695s	he's gonna try and use the wraps as best
698s	I can
703s	man this is really great I am on fire
706s	wait we have them in a choke point right
707s	now we definitely want to keep them away
709s	oh there's birds we want to keep them
710s	away from the Caravan and in this choke
712s	point
713s	I got him to trigger the Trevor here I'm
715s	hitting them with a lot of aoes right
716s	now
719s	and the only objective here as you can
720s	see from the cracker is to kill Corbin
722s	uh so until Corbin goes down yep uh I'm
726s	trying to prioritize their healing and
729s	DPS
730s	so that we can have a better chance here
731s	I think with with the uh
734s	The Raid group of eight we seem to be
736s	set up for Success here
738s	uh Corbin the crusher Amy uh Scott would
742s	either of you want to touch on uh the uh
744s	event difficulty tier and what we intend
747s	to do with that as more players join the
749s	event
751s	as soon as people join in I I yep
755s	it's more difficult
760s	I don't know if you thought but we had a
762s	toast saying that the event has
765s	progressed from its original state as a
768s	group event to a rage level event that
771s	was a veteran better level and of course
774s	that comes with more challenges more
776s	optional objectives but also uh
780s	more rewards so it's never it's never
783s	going to be like a bother to have other
786s	people join you it's uh it's all part of
789s	uh part of being in a like multiplayer
792s	environment is you know the more friends
794s	growing up with you the bit
798s	yeah you know I think it's uh cool that
801s	you touched on the rewards because yeah
802s	the designers have have the ability you
807s	know just from a technical perspective
808s	to use the difficulty tier however they
810s	like in the event they can modify any
812s	aspect of the event's difficulty or even
814s	you know the the reward that you're
816s	you're getting they can query that in
818s	the reward table data
820s	we're doing pretty good here this
821s	Caravan hasn't really been taking much
823s	damage at all yeah people hold them off
824s	pretty well yeah the tank was able to
826s	intercept him at that choke point so
829s	yeah seems to be working too this Elite
832s	healer is rough
834s	yeah that should be very hard to kill
836s	some of the gray Shore Swordsmen and The
839s	Archers are still alive
842s	we can change that we have the
844s	technology
845s	ah there we go
849s	we win
851s	congratulations is there reward well you
854s	know there's also a grateful settler
856s	here presenting us the the reward uh
859s	maybe he has something to say let me
861s	talk to him
862s	greetings grateful settler
866s	praise aryak
868s	they might have killed us without your
870s	intervention please help yourself I will
872s	help myself thank you what type of
875s	supplies are we talking about oh you're
876s	one of those Heroes
878s	unbelievable this is difficult difficult
882s	uh task you know you just head over to
886s	Highwaymen Hills and join the Bandit
887s	Stephen unbelievable clay unbelievable I
891s	am a hero in this I'm a mayor of a local
893s	network oh my God
895s	a shame it came to violence we are
897s	hopeful we could leave that behind on
899s	Sanctus okay yeah I want you know I'm
901s	hopeful of that too but you know
902s	sometimes we can't just get what we hope
904s	for so Whoa We got some wool
908s	yep
910s	we got some more okay I got some wool
913s	you're also granted uh on the events
915s	completion you're granted like a little
917s	stipend of golden experience just right
918s	away uh but items that can be looted off
920s	your body they have to come from like
922s	reward chest so every event will have
924s	its own little reward cache at the end
925s	of it you'll grab your materials and
927s	items from and I
928s	know
930s	that's my reward why'd you get Tim
933s	Amber uh well that it rolled I got that
935s	uh reward from my reward table maybe I I
938s	participated better than you so I got a
940s	better resource
941s	how dare you
942s	I was out there doing a lot of work
945s	uh and uh Scott uh this this NPC he's
948s	also configured to actually uh interface
950s	with some of the story art content too
951s	right if the story arcs were online it's
953s	true yeah I think they it is online
955s	actually it's just not active check it
957s	out check it again Stephen
959s	oh okay where am I going uh talk to the
961s	guy again I think you might have missed
962s	a dialogue opener okay here we go okay
964s	okay the tough one who are these people
966s	why were they who are these people let's
968s	see they're desperate folks who prowl
971s	the hills captain
973s	udoxia in lionhold is looking into the
976s	matter I should seek her out and find if
978s	there is a better way I could help
980s	around here you know what I will do oh
982s	okay here we go
986s	oh I see a lot of different placeholder
991s	rewards A Bridge Too Far yeah they're
994s	rewards for the for a lot of the quests
996s	are still not uh fully Done Yet uh-huh
1000s	the events do hook into all of our story
1002s	our content so if there are store Works
1004s	online we can like since our quests are
1007s	non-linear events can help you kind of
1009s	into those quests
1011s	um if they're online this event can
1012s	happen whether or not the stroke is
1013s	online but if it is you can pick up the
1016s	like uh leave into that Quest from him
1020s	um if you're not you know if you haven't
1021s	been to line hold in a while since the
1022s	story arc has started
1023s	very cool and so obviously
1026s	um you know people saw a little bit
1028s	during this event that the Adaptive
1031s	Difficulty was predicated on the number
1033s	of participants that opt in to uh to
1038s	partake in this event right
1041s	correct yes so as more players join
1043s	um the the event does get more difficult
1046s	with who we went from the regular mobs
1048s	to the elite mobs
1049s	um in corvins entourage some of them can
1052s	be
1053s	you know more more enemies to fight some
1057s	can have completely different stages or
1058s	mechanics
1059s	um depending on which what the event
1061s	actually is and and what your objectives
1063s	are for that event
1064s	and these these events are based off of
1068s	different predicates within the world
1069s	state so for example this particular
1071s	event was a caravan that was moving
1073s	throughout the world and as you as we
1074s	said in the beginning it was based off
1076s	of the activity heat map of players
1078s	within this area but this type of event
1080s	this Caravan event that was transiting
1082s	Goods uh popped up because nearby nodes
1085s	may have either been advancing the
1088s	relationship between each other or there
1090s	might have been a trade Caravan that got
1091s	kicked off in the past and we're
1093s	representing kind of that
1095s	um that theming within the World by
1097s	these event types correct yes so events
1100s	are predicated by things that players
1102s	are doing whether that is no development
1104s	uh you know trade agreements between
1105s	nodes
1106s	um
1107s	all of it like relationships between
1109s	nodes I mean um so it could be more than
1111s	just that could be War States or
1113s	anything like that as well so so cool I
1116s	noticed that even though we succeeded in
1118s	the event we're still in our event raid
1119s	group Scott what's the thought behind
1121s	that are we supposed to go and adventure
1122s	with our new group right now
1125s	if we so desire yeah the event ending
1128s	doesn't dissolve the open party for the
1130s	event
1131s	um the open parties have some sort of
1133s	default
1134s	uh like party configurations that can't
1136s	be changed so they'll be stuck with a
1137s	group Loot and stuff like that
1139s	um but we do try to encourage people to
1141s	continue to stick together and play
1142s	together
1143s	um the game the game is hard so uh
1146s	it's good to play with friends yeah I
1149s	just left the raid I don't want to play
1150s	with you
1151s	he's going to join the bandits I called
1154s	it yes I'm looking for The Highwayman
1156s	Hill band yeah
1158s	very cool okay and then obviously we saw
1161s	during the event um there are obviously
1163s	multiple stages that exist each of those
1164s	stages having Unique Mechanics
1166s	associated with them
1168s	um there are a lot of different types of
1169s	events I me that you and the narrative
1172s	team and Scott that you guys are working
1173s	on creating each of those events types
1176s	will have different similar stages like
1178s	we saw there was a trap stage here that
1180s	we can set up is it intended that these
1182s	stages are going to provide players with
1183s	kind of downtime to recuperate and also
1186s	perhaps set up and strategize how they
1189s	want to address the upcoming challenge
1191s	well I I don't really know about you but
1194s	I'm I'm my heart's beating right now I
1196s	feel like we've been challenged and uh
1199s	of course there's going to be moments
1200s	where um there are like less less uh
1206s	thing challenges which rely Less on your
1209s	class kit than usual but I think that in
1211s	general if you want to like really get
1213s	down and understand the story and the
1215s	appreciate the world and then probably
1218s	uh you're gonna want to focus more in
1221s	the story arcs where you can take things
1223s	at your own pace
1225s	we have we have some events that do
1227s	other things like there could be some
1229s	that are just puzzles
1230s	we have an event in here that is
1233s	actually just like you can attend a
1234s	funeral for just an NPC that can pop up
1238s	and there isn't actually any combat to
1240s	do in that one rewards are adequately
1243s	scaled but there are events in here that
1245s	are just kind of for flavor and for
1246s	fleshing out the world a little bit too
1247s	that you can participate and learn more
1248s	about yeah I think there are going to be
1250s	some moments where where um you might be
1252s	like frustrated that an event is like
1254s	obscuring something that you want to get
1256s	to like a
1257s	NPC that you need to talk to for your
1260s	quest or something so then then
1262s	Gathering people to help you is going to
1264s	be really useful
1266s	awesome very cool and that that event
1268s	there at the last stage had
1270s	um kind of like a little mini boss dude
1273s	um is that kind of a component of all
1275s	events that you guys are intending to
1277s	incorporate or just kind of some events
1278s	will have those mini bosses some will
1280s	have them uh there's gonna be a whole
1283s	lot of these and they're going to be at
1285s	different tiers of of Challenge and uh
1288s	you know kind of I guess uh
1291s	like power level tiers
1294s	um you know they're not all going to be
1296s	you know defeating the you know
1299s	end-all Dragon being at the end some are
1302s	just you know about helping people
1303s	there's somewhere about
1305s	um
1306s	uh just building up the world of Vera
1308s	which is a very difficult and
1309s	challenging place as people are trying
1310s	to resettle it there's
1312s	um there's all kinds of tiers for
1314s	different levels of heroism
1315s	um
1316s	and helping the small time people to
1318s	Downing giant foes and these are
1321s	obviously a bit different than what
1323s	people have seen previously with Carfin
1325s	where we showed off kind of the story
1326s	arc system that fundamentally changes a
1329s	particular location or area for an
1332s	extended period of time that exists
1333s	within stages that are might be
1335s	multi-days in length these are more
1338s	bite-sized kind of digestible end-to-end
1341s	20-minute gameplay right right
1343s	definitely a shorter than a story arc
1345s	which yeah as you mentioned before is
1347s	meant to be taken kind of at a slower
1348s	Pace
1349s	um can your individual path through the
1352s	story arc is a little bit more measured
1354s	like you're less reliant on uh
1357s	like the pace of the actual story arc
1358s	it's more about your own personal Paces
1360s	through the quests and then as the story
1362s	arc advances
1363s	over time like over the course of days
1366s	then you you know can dive back into it
1368s	and get more involved in it again
1370s	very cool and then if there are people
1373s	who you know might be
1377s	um problematic to a particular event
1379s	like this gendrach guy oh okay
1384s	I think it's triggering like this
1385s	gingrac guy we could like you know
1388s	attack them or something right oh sure
1390s	we could yes
1391s	you were aligned with the bandits Maybe
1395s	and there are some events that do have
1397s	you pick sides in PvP yeah uh you know
1400s	whenever Stephen joined this event uh he
1402s	had one option to just merge us into the
1403s	event rate group this was a PVE event uh
1406s	but there are going to be events with uh
1409s	sanctioned PVP where there are multiple
1412s	team options to join
1414s	got it got it got it got it okay very
1417s	cool well
1419s	I'll let jindrak live this time guys
1421s	that was a super exciting uh event
1424s	showcase I know that the community love
1426s	to kind of see this stuff obviously
1427s	events are an integral component of
1429s	making the world feel uh kind of dynamic
1431s	and representative of what is happening
1433s	around the area it gives people insight
1435s	into particular locations and the type
1439s	of activities that might be occurring
1440s	but it also gives really interesting
1442s	ways for us as players to interact with
1444s	that environment and affect change as
1446s	well and be rewarded for that uh
1448s	activity I think it's super cool you
1450s	guys done a great job with standing up
1452s	the event system and populating the
1454s	world of really compelling activities so
1456s	thank you for showing us a little bit of
1458s	the work you guys have been doing
1460s	towards Alpha 2. I know that the
1462s	community loves it and we'll be back on
1464s	stream to talk a little bit more about
1466s	this
1467s	all right thanks guys for having me
1468s	Stephen bye thanks Steven absolutely bye
1470s	everybody
1473s	foreign

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