[2022] Development Update with Alpha Two Character Creator - 11AM PT Thursday, March 31, 2022 | Ashes of Creation Dev Tracker

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0s	[Music]
5s	so
7s	[Music]
20s	hello everyone welcome and salutations
24s	we hope you are having a great and
26s	glorious month uh we are here for our
28s	march march development update
31s	i know and we're doing it on a thursday
34s	i know
36s	just some people who are like what's
37s	this fan friday it's not friday and i
39s	was like ah normally we stream on
41s	fridays um but we needed a little extra
43s	time as you can see on our current
45s	topics list we are going to be not only
48s	doing our reminders on studio update our
50s	big focus for the stream is actually
52s	going to be the character creator and
54s	yes you are going to see it in action
57s	yes fiddling with it um
60s	i think we did one little edit that we
62s	had uh because the we had a crash i but
65s	i crashed it i was manipulating the
67s	tattoos and the put too many tattoos on
69s	i put too many tattoos and scars and
71s	then we found a crash that qa was like
74s	yeah you know we only really hit this
75s	crash like once out of like 40 times and
77s	i was like oh okay then it's safe and
79s	then at the moment i did it boom so we
82s	did a little bit little edit but it's
83s	okay um yeah i know super excited with
85s	that with the character creator today
87s	guys
88s	of course we're going to preface that
90s	this is the alpha 2 character creator so
92s	there's a lot of features that still
94s	aren't going to be present in it but i
96s	think it's not done
97s	yeah ui is not done there's still a lot
99s	of you know feature development that's
101s	necessary a lot of presets that aren't
102s	present some of the you know options and
104s	we'll go through that stuff a little
105s	later but
106s	um what i will say is i played a lot of
109s	mmos
110s	and i have very rarely ever encountered
113s	a character creator even at this state
116s	that is as
118s	versatile and capable uh as what our
121s	team has has been able to develop so i'm
123s	super excited to show that with you guys
125s	i was able to
127s	record with margaret and zach mallett
130s	and clayton stamper and um and we had a
133s	lot of fun and chris atkins as well yeah
136s	it was uh i'm sure you guys are gonna
138s	enjoy it we're a little silly at times
140s	but we do get into
142s	some more technical details as well um
144s	our
145s	programmers nerding out which you know
147s	is always a lot of fun and then we also
149s	have this very character heavy a stream
152s	we also have some more character art
153s	updates if you've been watching and
155s	follow along with our journey the last
157s	couple months you may have noticed that
158s	we've been showing a lot of the you know
161s	different races art uh because we're
163s	kind of finalizing some of those things
164s	and getting them to the point where you
167s	know in alpha 2 you will be able to play
168s	these so we had another
172s	new showcases and reveals as well on
173s	that front i was just going to say
175s	another really important thing
176s	on the art side at least as you're
178s	seeing a lot of this character work um
180s	starting to get revisions and
182s	additional passes you're actually going
184s	to start now seeing the real
186s	real kind of almost
188s	launch quality characters that we're
190s	intending to have in ashes of creation
192s	so um that's always exciting because as
195s	we've as we told you in alpha one and
197s	prior to alpha one during development
199s	like art is always a work in progress
201s	right it's always getting you know
202s	iterated upon and
204s	and improved and um one of the great
207s	things about a transparent development
208s	process of an mmorpg is you get to see
210s	that from start to finish and now we're
212s	kind of reaching a point in the quality
214s	where you know we're feeling like this
216s	is this is where we want to be with our
218s	character art um so it's exciting to
221s	share that with you guys yeah
224s	and last but not least we also have our
225s	q a as per usual and we'll probably also
228s	during the character creator segment
231s	i'll be keeping an eye out for chat if
233s	there's any upcoming questions that i
234s	notice that we don't answer throughout
237s	um and i will also bring those up at the
239s	end of that so let's get quickly into
242s	our reminders don't have a ton this time
244s	but we do have a little bit of a new
246s	segment
247s	first and foremost we actually are going
249s	to be spotlighting a youtube comment
251s	every stream now so if you are a
254s	subscriber on our youtube
257s	if you leave us a comment you may be
258s	spotlighted so today's one is from
260s	josh23 and they said i love the
263s	diversity in the classes i know they
265s	already showed the value but i would but
267s	i wonder if they will further diversify
270s	them from the klar like the other races
273s	and their counterparts and i figured you
275s	could talk a little bit on that front
277s	stephen if you'd like
279s	yeah
280s	absolutely so i mean
281s	you know the the classes
285s	so the diversity in the classes i know
286s	they already showed the value but i
288s	wonder if they will further so we're
289s	talking about classes here are you
290s	talking about character races i think
291s	they're talking about character races
293s	but there's some language barrier
294s	happening here i see sac yeah so
297s	one of the cool things about uh ashes of
299s	creation is we have nine separate
301s	character races each of which have their
303s	own defined cultural influences right um
306s	those cultural influences are seen not
308s	just from the armor sets and how those
311s	armor sets get adapted when you don them
313s	as a different race right we have same
316s	we have essentially sets that exist
317s	across all races and each race that dons
319s	those armor sets is going to have their
321s	own racial influence on the presentation
324s	of those particular sets so that's
325s	something that's unique in how each of
327s	the races get diversified additionally
330s	our node structures in the way that
331s	cities get developed take into account
333s	the predominant experience that's
334s	gathered from the players around the
336s	node so the more that one particular
338s	race contributes to a node's development
340s	it's going to manifest in that
342s	particular node's architectural
344s	influences you're going to see the
346s	architectures of those races become
348s	manifest within the nodes as well that's
350s	another way that we diversify each race
352s	and we present each race's culture in
355s	the game as through those architectures
356s	through those props that exist through
358s	the tailoring of the armor sets that the
360s	npcs might wear to the different
362s	factions that exist factions will have
364s	their own
366s	affiliation with different races as well
368s	each race will also have
370s	you know some different um nomenclature
373s	when it comes to the lore or comes to
376s	locations in the world um they're going
378s	to have you know their own language
380s	influences as well um the way they kind
383s	of speak is something that's going to be
385s	distinct between races when you have
387s	dialogue trees with particular npcs so
389s	all of those things really go into kind
391s	of setting an immersive world where um
394s	the cultures have their own identity
397s	yeah and uh i think that the main thing
400s	is here is that they're saying like the
402s	classes are so diverse that there's so
404s	many different ones that they're
405s	wondering if the races were going to be
406s	that as diverse as the classes so that's
409s	what they meant by that but thank you
411s	josh23 for being a subscriber on our
412s	youtube channel and for leaving us a
414s	lovely comment if you would like to be
415s	spotlighted in the future uh just leave
418s	us a comment subscribe to us on youtube
420s	yes we know you're watching all right
422s	next up a reminder that the uh secrets
426s	of shade glenn will be swapping over
427s	april 6 2022 at 11 a.m pacific for the
430s	new set uh so if you'd like these snag
433s	them while they're hot and of course we
435s	do have a dev discussion that just went
437s	live so if you uh would like to give us
440s	some feedback and have a little say in
442s	what happens with our development uh we
444s	would love for you to pop over to our
446s	forums and leave us a comment in regards
448s	to this this month's one is when it
450s	comes to enemy conning indication
452s	systems in game what features do you
455s	like
456s	if you do like indicators to what extent
458s	or delineation
459s	so this is like you come upon an enemy
461s	how do you know uh what level it is if
464s	you are going to be able to take it or
465s	if you need to get a group together that
467s	kind of thing so definitely toss us your
469s	feedback it's a heavy one some people
471s	love a lot of indicators some people
473s	don't so we definitely like to hear your
476s	opinion on that and of course last but
477s	not least we do have our content creator
479s	program application still up we will let
481s	you know when the application process
483s	closes and we begin to invite folks but
485s	right now we're just in the application
487s	phase um we are getting you know closer
490s	to that point where we're going to be
491s	closing it up and uh replying to people
493s	so
495s	get it in there if you are a content
497s	creator and you'd like to be part of our
499s	program it's going to be a very
501s	different program from the others that
503s	you've seen probably yeah
505s	and with that that is our reminders so
507s	i'm going to toss it over to stephen to
508s	talk about our studio update i know how
512s	anxious everyone is to get into the
513s	video that we have for the character
514s	creator so i'm going to make our update
516s	quick on the studio front um hiring is
518s	going very well uh this year we have now
521s	we're in the end of march um since the
523s	start of the new year we've hired uh
525s	just about 20 new uh heads at the studio
529s	um so very excited to have
531s	you know the great talent that we're
533s	attracting to this project we have a lot
534s	more seats to fill um
537s	but our our hr team john stacy um and uh
542s	cameron are doing great jobs and midori
544s	are doing great jobs in hiring
546s	incredible talent for the studio
548s	and you're going to be able to see their
549s	work soon uh in our development updates
552s	but other than that things are going
553s	great at the studio yeah um i know that
555s	people want a tour when we're ready we
557s	will uh we still have some
559s	beautification stuff happening our
560s	office is still pretty corporate office
562s	looking
563s	but we do have some art coming in as
566s	well as uh some cool plants and things
568s	so i think that it's gonna we're getting
570s	there plants
571s	cool plants man you know yeah yeah all
574s	right well i think with that let's get
576s	to the thing that everybody wants to see
578s	so i'll let you preface no yes
581s	play this
582s	all right so i said as i said in the
583s	beginning uh there's still a lot of
585s	outstanding feature work that's
586s	necessary um the character creator is a
588s	little bit unique for ashes of creation
590s	because
592s	a lot of times your experience with a
594s	character creator is minimal in mmos
597s	because you're there on launch day you
599s	want to get through making a character
601s	you don't want to spend too much time on
603s	it right um so you jump straight into
605s	the game one thing that we're going to
606s	be offering is people will be having
608s	access to the character creator before
610s	launch day so they'll be able to create
611s	their character spend time on it save
613s	that character and then um have that
616s	ready to go immediately when launch day
618s	comes
619s	that is going to be something that i
620s	think is is very helpful um additionally
624s	we're going to be running some contests
625s	i know that margaret's excited about
627s	some character creator contests and some
629s	prizes that we're going to hand out as a
631s	result of those contests in the future
633s	um that's going to be able to get down
634s	the line when we're ready we're not
636s	absolutely yeah absolutely we're not
637s	quite there yet still some work to do
640s	but what you're going to see in this
641s	video is our own custom created
644s	character creator and um this was a feat
648s	of of great uh engineering work along
651s	with our our incredible artists
654s	um and we're going to talk a little bit
655s	about that in this presentation but i
657s	want you to keep in mind this is the
659s	alpha 2 character creator
662s	and one other component of this
664s	character creator which we talk a little
665s	bit about is it has application just out
667s	not just for your character but also for
670s	any npcs you may hire that exist on your
673s	freehold that you might want to create
675s	custom npcs
677s	it's a great tool for our design team to
679s	create marquee characters within the
680s	within the game itself and this
682s	technology is also applicable to our
684s	animal husbandry system and how we're
685s	going to manipulate creatures as well so
687s	keep that in mind uh but otherwise i
690s	think we're ready all right we'll see on
693s	the flip side
694s	i'm so excited
696s	[Music]
705s	hey
714s	[Music]
731s	[Applause]
741s	welcome everyone to our first look at
745s	the ashes of creation character
747s	customization
749s	and creator character customization
751s	creator ccc yeah
754s	how cool he looks i know we get to see
756s	the vec look at him in the model forum
760s	super excited well we're happy that
762s	you're joining us and taking a look at
764s	this uh first look at our character
766s	creator we have an awesome crew with us
769s	actually here today um some
770s	representation from the character team
772s	with our lead character artist mr chris
775s	atkins how you doing buddy i'm doing
777s	great good to see the vec in there i
779s	know it's your your your creations are
781s	coming to life your team's creations are
783s	coming to life it's so cool to see
786s	and then we also have some of the brains
788s	behind uh creating all the cool
791s	customization options that we have
792s	available to us in this creator uh two
794s	of our engineers mr clayton stamper and
797s	mr zachary malott how you doing buddy
801s	hey uh clayton here
803s	very excited to have you guys and then
804s	of course this wouldn't be a stream
806s	without our amazing and glorious uh
810s	community marketing lead
812s	mrs or miss margaret crone
815s	not misses yet i know not yet soon
818s	excited
819s	i'm very excited yeah and i know of
822s	course um for those of you who are
823s	tuning in on the stream and who are
824s	seeing this for the first time on the
825s	stream we just uh we just cut to this
827s	video but for those of you who are
828s	tuning in on youtube um you know as
831s	you're watching these customization
833s	options please feel free to leave
834s	comments let us know your thoughts join
836s	in on our discussions on our forums on
839s	twitter on all the places so that we can
841s	get your guys's feedback because that's
842s	why we showcase this stuff in
845s	development is to get everyone's
846s	feedback
847s	so
848s	i'm excited to take a look at this
852s	character creator with our glorious
853s	community
855s	this guy is looking pretty cool i'm
857s	loving the model and it really stayed
859s	true to the concept
862s	yeah i mean manny's such a great artist
864s	and you know i think that's why we
865s	picked him up is because he had such a
866s	strong sense of like overall silhouette
869s	and style and so yeah you can see his
871s	work right here and then
872s	you know a little more realistic
875s	direction for textures and yeah yeah i
877s	think he's i think he's looking pretty
879s	good into what you envisioned i i hope
881s	anyway oh yeah no he's he's looking
884s	great i mean this is one of my favorite
886s	races actually in our in our
888s	with our different cultures right
890s	because
890s	it's so different than what i'm
892s	accustomed to seeing from a character
894s	race standpoint like most player
896s	character races don't look like these
898s	guys and this isn't even in their actual
900s	like animated stance that they're
902s	intending to have that more crouched
903s	look right that hasn't been implemented
906s	yet but just the model itself is is
908s	really cool
909s	yeah it's just i'm sharing right now
911s	kind of with the klar and and same from
913s	a technical standpoint they shared sort
915s	of the same geometry and
917s	uvs so we're trying to make things you
919s	know pretty efficient and intelligently
921s	as we go along
922s	i like the tusks the tusks were such a
924s	great touch
926s	oh yeah no they're great and again
928s	manny's concepts are awesome he does
930s	stick right to him you know once we get
932s	something approved he nails it have you
934s	guys ever played oh go ahead go ahead i
936s	was gonna say the community definitely
938s	has
938s	opinions on the tusks and you know being
941s	able to customize them or
943s	oh yeah i know some people have asked
944s	about removing them completely
946s	uh things like that right or yeah
948s	drilling them down like significantly to
950s	the point where they're
951s	barely noticeable right
957s	okay so one of the cool things about um
960s	this demonstration today again want to
961s	preface this is a first pass on our
964s	actual character creator um clayton and
967s	zach have done a
969s	an incredible amount of work along with
971s	a lot of other people who have
972s	participated in making our character
974s	creator um but from a functionality
976s	standpoint um what we're gonna do is
978s	we're gonna take a look at all the
979s	different customization options that are
982s	presently available then we're going to
983s	talk a little bit about the
984s	customization options that have yet to
986s	be implemented but are still on um on
989s	our course on our on our on our feature
991s	roadmap right um and to do that we're
994s	actually going to select
999s	still very very early so keep that in
1001s	mind all the prefaces all the preface
1004s	all the work in progress prefaces you
1006s	guys our core audience who have been
1008s	following development of ashes creation
1009s	you know this um you see our monthly
1011s	updates as we show you you know ongoing
1013s	progress um but that's really part of
1016s	the fun right you're seeing a
1018s	massive massive mmorpg being made in
1021s	real time with regular updates on the
1024s	monthly um showing you guys our movement
1026s	from where we were to where we're going
1028s	and every step in between and that's
1030s	part of the fun um but in order to show
1033s	off some of these customization options
1034s	the vec aren't quite there yet with uh
1036s	being able to be customized yet in the
1038s	character creator we can randomize it
1040s	but actually let's go over to the klar
1044s	oh i love that effects
1047s	jim did such a great job with those
1049s	effects
1050s	so when you switch over obviously you
1052s	see the kind of you burn away that's uh
1054s	part of the lore and ashes uh it also is
1057s	something that you see in death um you
1059s	know if you played the game you kind of
1061s	have seen as your character dies you
1063s	turn into these pile of ash but this
1064s	guy's looking pretty cool what is he
1066s	he's like almost looks like a viking
1068s	yeah like a viking cleric or something
1071s	i love the detail on his face
1075s	yeah it's very cool
1076s	it's been really fun to make these guys
1078s	and yeah i mean you can start to see
1080s	kind of you know some of the
1081s	imperfections that you're able to add
1083s	and everything else i mean i'll let you
1084s	keep getting into it but yeah no it's
1087s	it's looking really working yeah clayton
1088s	i know uh and zach i know you guys have
1090s	put a lot of work into
1092s	showcasing some of the scarring here and
1094s	being able to like manipulate that
1095s	scarring we're going to talk a little
1096s	bit about that
1098s	yeah so i i i tend to focus on
1102s	the art side of it um i work with the
1105s	artists pretty closely and i do some
1107s	shader programming so i did a lot of the
1108s	behind the scenes that's driving the
1110s	appearance of the scars
1113s	um
1114s	and uh atkins uh chris atkins did a
1117s	really good job uh getting us the assets
1119s	that bring it all to life the loincloth
1122s	the loincloth yes
1126s	yeah we had a little underwear thing
1128s	going on oh yeah get us some loincloth
1131s	chris where's the or uh
1133s	maybe this should be better for uh
1135s	yeah for chris where is the physics on
1137s	this i would like when i twirl that the
1139s	loincloth flares up you know
1141s	it does have it i'm not sure if it's
1144s	enabled right now but it does it will
1146s	flap i promise
1148s	accidental uh flashing of people wait i
1151s	need to check something is for that
1153s	particular loin cloth
1156s	is their customization
1160s	options let me see
1166s	[Music]
1169s	[Laughter]
1174s	that is that's been a question that the
1175s	community has asked for some time
1177s	actually whether or not we're going to
1178s	have certain sliders uh i guess this is
1181s	a little showcase of what's to come in
1183s	the future with being able to manipulate
1184s	aspects of the of the character
1187s	including chest cross crotch i don't
1189s	know about the name crotch
1192s	that could be grat selection oh yeah
1194s	that's true grat and kobe and tim uh
1197s	worked on the ui side of this for our
1200s	character creator and that was it's that
1202s	definitely sounds to me like a grand
1204s	selection and the wording there
1206s	um but yeah i like that he went nice
1209s	nice and casual with the booty though he
1211s	was like bottom bottom bottom yeah
1214s	that's that's a fair that's i'm okay
1215s	with that one i just thought about the
1216s	crotch one i know i know but i just i
1218s	think it's funny that he went crotch but
1220s	then for butt he went butt up bottom
1223s	so now some of these um
1226s	options we're talking like body
1228s	type in here we can adjust height and
1231s	weight
1232s	[Music]
1234s	you can make them a little bit you know
1236s	thicker looking right
1238s	and of course there's gonna be sizes
1240s	here that we're going to kind of adhere
1243s	to based on the race right we obviously
1245s	we we incorporate some limitations on
1247s	that right
1250s	yeah we're definitely going to be doing
1251s	that i think clayton can speak more to
1253s	that
1257s	oops are we losing there
1260s	we lost him
1262s	well so so the
1264s	the weight entitlement system for how
1265s	those inputs affect the bones is
1267s	actually something that zach worked on
1269s	more oh nice yeah it's a bone by bone
1272s	basis on a per race and per gender basis
1276s	so so now people who don't know what
1277s	they should bonus zach can you tell them
1280s	a little bit about what a bone is
1281s	[Music]
1283s	each
1285s	messed up
1287s	so
1287s	bones uh it's pretty much
1289s	you can visualize it just like you would
1290s	visualize a bone in a skeleton but
1292s	really what it is it's just a transform
1294s	in space that describes how each vertex
1296s	should be
1298s	transformed if that bone is also
1300s	transformed so whenever the bone in the
1302s	arm moves all the vertices that are
1304s	skinned or weighted to that bone will
1305s	move the same way that that bone does in
1308s	a proportion to
1309s	the weight
1310s	with that bone in that vertex
1313s	ah
1314s	so if you scale it up it makes all the
1316s	vertices around it scale up and one
1318s	thing that chris does very frequently is
1320s	he'll go in and like touch up the skin
1322s	weight so that the vertices scale kind
1325s	of how we want them to because
1326s	like originally we had kind of like a
1328s	blockier look with the weight but he
1329s	went in and like uh
1331s	really tweaked that and got got
1332s	something that looks pretty good for the
1333s	larger weights too
1335s	oh very cool yeah and i think it's a
1337s	combination of that and what you and
1339s	zach are doing under the hood because
1340s	you guys are kind of averaging in
1342s	between all these bones too to make
1344s	smooth transitions which really makes my
1346s	job easier as well
1348s	i'm just going to play around while kind
1350s	of you guys talk about all this fun
1351s	stuff yeah and it's also um super
1353s	awesome that we get to
1355s	do all these manipulations and get a
1357s	really wide variation of body types and
1360s	faces and characters
1362s	just from like one standard mesh you
1364s	know
1365s	um yeah so a lot of times some character
1367s	creators they just swap it out and and
1368s	different meshes you know
1370s	but we're really like manipulating and
1372s	molding and sculpting a single mesh that
1375s	can achieve like a really wide array of
1378s	results
1379s	and he was showing some of the wrinkles
1381s	and the textures on the face i know you
1383s	guys have are really excited about like
1385s	the detail system i don't know if you
1386s	want to talk a little bit more about
1387s	that
1391s	i'm pretty excited about the detail
1392s	system right now we're just using it for
1394s	wrinkles but that's a system for pretty
1396s	much blending any texture detail
1397s	holistically over the entire body of a
1399s	character so whether that's like scales
1401s	on the renkai or uh doing like the you
1404s	saw that the vec has like scar asian
1406s	over their body you could blend in like
1407s	different starvation patterns and we
1409s	could even use it for like body hair
1411s	sliders for the dwarves and yeah all
1413s	sorts of things for something as crazy
1414s	as the tulnar once
1417s	yeah i keep forgetting about that body
1419s	here
1422s	how do you feel
1423s	catkins about
1425s	making holes for armpit hair and all the
1427s	armor
1429s	yeah
1430s	going to be quite the authoring hey i
1431s	guess we have to figure out horns anyway
1433s	so why not right true true fair fair
1436s	yeah i love the hair customization
1438s	you're on right now oh i do too i love
1440s	it
1442s	yeah
1443s	i really haven't seen that actually very
1445s	much in many character creators
1448s	it would be cool that over time when
1450s	you're in game you have to get a haircut
1451s	because your hair grows out
1454s	especially with all the combinations of
1456s	your cheeks like hair your chin hair
1458s	your lip hair
1460s	i i like the difference yeah the the the
1462s	different um options that you can kind
1465s	of touch on right look at the look at
1467s	the variance and just the lip length
1470s	like yeah that is that is pretty cool
1472s	because in a lot of other character
1474s	creators that many of us probably have
1476s	experience with right these are presets
1478s	that you choose you don't really get to
1479s	manipulate the preset itself like i
1482s	would choose this super long length you
1484s	know mustard or the short one
1486s	and i wouldn't have the variance in
1488s	between that i could customize that's
1490s	pretty cool
1492s	yeah i mean this is an impressive feat
1494s	of engineering by the team i mean
1496s	they've really done some awesome stuff
1498s	and they've really worked out a ton of
1499s	the extra parts of the character
1501s	pipeline that we didn't quite have
1503s	nailed down yet and and these guys have
1505s	really flushed everything out and it's
1507s	yeah it's really cool to see i mean i
1509s	think we all get mesmerized by this
1510s	thing every time we play with it
1513s	and we've been talking about
1515s	letting people customize each eye
1516s	separately i know because that's going
1517s	to be a question that comes up too
1519s	but right now we don't have that feature
1521s	in
1523s	yeah there's still so much more left to
1525s	do
1526s	having one blind looking eye would be
1528s	sick absolutely or different colors a
1530s	hundred percent
1532s	yeah in tandem with the scars you know
1533s	you put a scar over that eye and then
1535s	sort of make it milky
1537s	i also like that you can adjust the uh
1539s	fingernail colors as well i want to
1542s	rotate them
1546s	you'll have to up the strength of the
1548s	yeah yeah because you're transparent
1550s	yeah
1552s	i was telling steven i want to be able
1554s	to put like the tattoos on my nails to
1556s	make nail art
1557s	so if you zoom out you'll see his
1559s	toenails too yeah
1561s	oh that's so cool
1563s	that is so cool
1565s	i love that
1567s	let me see if there's some other other
1569s	presets we can play with
1570s	now you put in a guy needs like a
1572s	trifold hat
1574s	oh yeah for sure it looks like a
1575s	musketeer that's gonna be a very piratey
1577s	yeah
1579s	let me see here let me go to
1582s	some other presets oh there we go this
1584s	one's my one of my favorites too because
1586s	i love the hairstyle it's cool yeah
1589s	really good on that yeah the hairstyles
1591s	are awesome uh jinzy as everyone knows
1593s	is a favorite i think of the community
1596s	but yeah she's been leading a ton of the
1598s	charge on the hair eye customization
1601s	stuff while i've been dealing with more
1602s	of the body
1605s	now let's talk about these so this is in
1607s	the appearance section right this is
1608s	mainly like adjusting
1611s	attachments to the character but when we
1613s	talk about the model itself and we move
1615s	into things like being able to sculpt
1618s	sections of the face
1621s	this is such a cool yeah
1624s	these are areas that we can actually
1626s	touch up on so when i grab this and i
1629s	pull it in a direction right it starts
1631s	customizing different segments of the
1633s	body uh zach you worked on this yes
1636s	yeah clayton and i tag teamed on this
1638s	one um we really wanted to give players
1642s	that feeling that they were
1644s	grabbing and pulling and sculpting their
1646s	own character
1648s	especially with like more minor details
1650s	i mean it would have been easy to give
1651s	character like players like 100 sliders
1654s	you know
1655s	but
1656s	it's
1657s	it feels better to have a much more
1658s	tactile response than like clicking and
1660s	dragging dragging
1662s	and pulling all these like uh
1664s	points around
1667s	i appreciate that i can have
1669s	the the flat filipino nose
1673s	yeah i mean again not every game allows
1675s	it so
1678s	yeah so
1679s	i i remember zach mentioned uh how much
1682s	variation we achieve through the
1684s	customization features a lot of that is
1687s	achieved through what steven is playing
1689s	with right now with these dots that are
1691s	appearing and the reason why those are
1693s	dots instead of the little plates that
1695s	you see highlighted on the character is
1697s	because these are actually changing the
1699s	shape of the character's features all
1701s	together
1702s	very more micro level adjustment tool
1704s	yeah
1706s	plates are used for
1707s	moving things around
1709s	and it sort of maps exactly to your
1711s	input and that's why that pick map or
1713s	the the plates feel so nice
1716s	but then you can click on those dots and
1718s	drag those around and actually change
1719s	the shape of a feature altogether
1722s	you can go for some intense eyebrow
1724s	cheeks and make like make a make them
1726s	bigger smaller change the location and
1729s	then you can go in
1730s	and refine the actual shape of it using
1733s	those thoughts
1735s	yeah this is this is phenomenal sorry
1737s	chris go ahead no i'm just saying they
1739s	did really spend a lot of time i think
1741s	sort of getting the feel right you know
1743s	we've all been playing with it till it
1744s	felt kind of intuitive or kind of easy
1746s	to use and friendly
1749s	yeah
1750s	i mean watching the progress over just
1753s	even the last three weeks has been
1755s	unbelievable um
1757s	you know
1759s	i'm i'm excited to see the the backlog
1761s	of features that are going to be
1763s	incorporated as
1765s	you know we move forward with the
1766s	character creator beyond alpha 2 um
1769s	but if you guys you know are like i said
1772s	our core audience that kind of watches
1774s	our development just from alpha 1 to
1776s	alpha 2 this is an entirely different
1779s	thing right alpha one was
1782s	was something where you know we had a
1783s	number of preset options that were very
1785s	limited there was there was little to no
1787s	manipulation that was possible at all
1790s	and this is a fully fledged first pass
1792s	in alpha pass but nonetheless still
1796s	is something i don't see every day in
1798s	games that i play or in mmos
1801s	particularly right
1803s	and that's really cool to see
1805s	one of the other things that's
1806s	interesting about this and you know a
1807s	lot of people sometimes beg the question
1810s	you know you only spend so much time in
1811s	a character creator right like that's
1813s	your initial experience a lot of people
1815s	when they're trying to get into the game
1816s	and
1818s	and uh level up as quickly as possible
1820s	from a competitive competitive
1821s	standpoint like they don't spend a lot
1823s	of time in the character but the cool
1824s	thing about this character creator is
1826s	that it's not just intended for your
1829s	character
1830s	right it has application
1832s	with npc's that you might hire that our
1836s	design team might leverage this tech and
1839s	in order to create you know marquee
1841s	characters um
1843s	uh it also has some application outside
1846s	of just uh
1847s	humanoids right um
1850s	zach or clayton you guys want to talk
1851s	about that a little bit
1854s	yeah i mean so we're going to use
1855s	similar tech uh for implementing things
1858s	like animal husbandry or
1860s	even just for creating creatures i have
1863s	some tasks slated for myself to
1866s	implement something similar to what i
1867s	did for characters but for creatures um
1870s	and
1871s	yeah tooling is a big focus for us and
1872s	making sure that designers have
1874s	everything that they need to build the
1876s	game with a lot of variation in the
1877s	content
1878s	yeah we spent a lot of time just working
1880s	out the tech for this so it'd be nice to
1884s	use this tech in other areas of the game
1886s	when it's applicable whether that's the
1888s	husbandry system
1890s	or any more customization points we give
1893s	players in the future
1895s	i would also like to add that we are not
1898s	sacrificing a lot of
1900s	runtime computational efficiency for
1902s	this we are
1904s	making sure that optimization is always
1906s	at the forefront of these decisions
1908s	i i was doing a lot of the optimizations
1910s	that we shared a while back with uh
1912s	the simulated siege with a thousand
1914s	characters and
1915s	with just the early rendering test a
1917s	thousand characters and this is using a
1919s	lot of the or in a lot of these features
1921s	implemented with the same tech for
1922s	merging the mesh and merging the
1924s	materials and batching that data for the
1925s	gpu so that it can just crunch it all
1928s	out at once so the first uh couple weeks
1931s	was just spent making sure that this is
1933s	viable for an mmo because you really
1935s	don't see this type of large scale and
1937s	this detail of characters
1940s	uh with this level of customization
1943s	in any game regardless of a large scale
1945s	mmo so we had to do a large amount of
1948s	due diligence and tech to make sure that
1950s	it can actually work
1952s	yeah i think that if you look at how
1955s	like the facial hair we broke that into
1956s	slots like that's an obvious example
1958s	where we're achieving a lot of variation
1960s	by breaking those into components that
1962s	you can select individually and build
1964s	your own combinations where it's not
1965s	possible for a lot of other games
1967s	because we're combining those meshes and
1969s	combining those materials with our uh
1971s	utm slot pooling solution
1974s	and to steven's point earlier you know
1976s	when we had our sort of very limited
1978s	character creator you know in our
1979s	previous versions this really is i mean
1982s	you're able to do sort of what my job is
1984s	which was i was just making variants of
1986s	characters to sort of put in you know
1988s	and now that players can can do it it's
1990s	just really cool to see come together
1992s	the tattoos you should show that you can
1993s	change the color too oh yeah yeah
1996s	because i think you're showing the
1997s	tattoos which is cool but tiny ux
1999s	features which is just
2001s	being able to click on a uh
2004s	and drag it anywhere on the body
2006s	it's such like a good feeling experience
2008s	but
2009s	a lot of character creators you click it
2010s	and it's just there
2012s	and then you're changing it on a slider
2014s	in the ui you know
2015s	being able to like manipulate it on the
2017s	character it just feels really good
2020s	i agree this does feel good
2023s	yeah i mean it's the benefit of having
2024s	so many gamers as developers right you
2026s	guys know what feels good and what you'd
2028s	like to see and then you just get to
2030s	actually implement it and another one of
2033s	our core tenants is reusability of these
2035s	tech features
2037s	and you can see that we have scars and
2040s	tattoos available in this decal system a
2042s	lot of those are using the same
2044s	technology to drive it and a lot of the
2046s	details that you'll be able to place on
2047s	the character we're reusing
2050s	the technical features that we've solved
2053s	to implement more features for you
2056s	most of the hard hard work is done
2059s	in regards to tuck
2062s	yeah
2063s	sorry i'm just trying to find like a
2065s	nice little
2066s	place for the scorpion
2068s	tear drop the scorpion teardrop scorpion
2070s	teardrop that's what i'm talking about
2073s	okay it's cool that that's pretty cool
2076s	i love that i love it all right let's
2078s	talk about a little bit um
2081s	let me see here
2083s	play with the scars oh the scars yeah
2086s	let me play with the scars he did he was
2089s	messing around with it earlier when you
2090s	guys were nerding out
2092s	[Music]
2094s	oh yeah talk to me a little bit about
2095s	the scars clayton cause i know you did a
2096s	lot of work on that front with chris
2098s	yeah yeah so i
2101s	it's using mostly the same system as the
2102s	tattoos but it's using a little bit more
2105s	texture detail um
2107s	and yeah it still uses the same direct
2108s	manipulation and the scaling and
2109s	rotation whenever you select it it
2111s	highlights it for you so you know which
2112s	one you're manipulating but basically
2114s	it's just uh adding some bump detail and
2116s	some like roughness and metallic and it
2119s	has all this information that chris
2120s	worked really hard on uh to
2123s	uh
2124s	show three-dimensional uh information on
2127s	the character and you can sort of just
2128s	place that wherever
2130s	yeah it's always a fun process too
2132s	working with clayton and zach because
2134s	they're great at giving feedback and
2136s	they're great at explaining exactly what
2138s	they need they're like hey could you
2139s	just make a couple adjustments to this
2141s	map or this input and then we end up
2144s	getting pretty much where i think
2146s	everyone wants us to be with these
2147s	especially when it came to uh i think
2149s	you reworking a lot of the color clayton
2152s	and getting that into them yeah
2154s	basically there's like a flat color
2157s	which is basically just a multiplication
2158s	of the base skins color so we really try
2161s	to make sure that the scars look and
2162s	tattoos look good on every skin color
2164s	that was a focus for us
2166s	uh and
2167s	it so it takes a base color and like
2169s	multiplies it but then you also have a
2170s	discoloration value that you can add to
2172s	make it look a little bit more fresh or
2173s	a little bit you know more aggressive
2177s	yeah i love the um
2179s	kind of wrinkle setting too
2181s	really aging these characters
2183s	yeah and i i will be adding um a lot
2186s	more muscular detail as well so we will
2189s	be able to control that so that you can
2191s	kind of make your gut more i want my if
2193s	you'd like my one pack chris yeah no we
2196s	can do it you can get to the one pack
2197s	also
2198s	the one pack
2201s	that's awesome
2202s	the keg
2204s	your fantasy maggie
2206s	of course you know
2210s	oh you know dwarf action
2212s	need need to look like i drink all the
2215s	ale
2216s	so have you shown off the hair color
2218s	controls yet i have not yet
2221s	bring it down a little bit
2222s	sorry i was just being entranced by all
2224s	the options and playing things trying to
2226s	get people to
2228s	just see the versatility um all right
2230s	let's go to the hair color options where
2231s	are we going here the head head yes hair
2234s	i love it i worked
2236s	pretty hard on that one with uh gen c
2238s	and
2239s	um
2240s	so with you and the rest of the team
2241s	giving a lot of helpful feedback yeah
2243s	but yeah you can pick two different
2244s	colors and then it'll pretty much every
2247s	hair color uses the accent and fill
2248s	differently but usually the fill is the
2250s	root color and the accent is the tip
2251s	color and you can adjust the gradient
2253s	both the softness of the gradient and
2255s	the offset of the gradient to really
2257s	blend those colors however you want
2258s	across the entire hairstyle
2261s	yeah and jincy has a very scrutinizing
2263s	eye so i know it's not easy clayton she
2265s	kept coming back but like it needs more
2267s	sheen here but yeah it's she's great to
2269s	have leading this up too for all this
2271s	hair tech
2273s	let's see so this is now on the top
2275s	though let me go to the beard
2279s	and play with the beard one
2281s	so accent and filler
2283s	so i'm going to throw a little bit of
2284s	white in there oh that's a lot of white
2287s	bit of salt and pepper a little salt and
2289s	pepper
2290s	look at that gradient too
2293s	i like the highlighting though it looks
2294s	cool
2295s	yeah and we can control that through
2296s	sort of different uv manipulation and
2299s	get that salt and peppery mix in there
2302s	let me actually turn off
2306s	the hair and just do the beard
2310s	and so i'm playing with this gradient to
2311s	kind of determine
2313s	the strength of that highlight right
2317s	yeah so the contrast is sort of the the
2319s	strength of
2320s	that the differentiation between those
2322s	two colors and the gradient will shift
2324s	it along the hair
2327s	i mean i could spend all day in this
2329s	character
2332s	i feel like that's how most people feel
2334s	and the beauty of it is that you can
2335s	save your character and we already have
2337s	some of those features available
2339s	and
2340s	load them
2341s	right and in the future
2343s	we want people to be able to share those
2344s	characters uh amongst each other
2349s	for sure
2350s	and not only that but you can save them
2352s	for like we were talking about earlier
2354s	like future npcs that you might hire on
2356s	your freehold
2357s	um and have those npcs look a certain
2360s	way
2361s	um i think that would be really freaking
2364s	cool
2364s	that would be cool yeah
2367s	very cool yeah i was even talking with
2368s	the designers about integrating the
2370s	character creator into the quest
2371s	designer tool so that they can just
2373s	create npcs with the click of a few
2374s	buttons and have that already assigned
2377s	to the quest and data
2379s	all right i want to show off a sculpt
2380s	tool can we use like a is there a preset
2382s	that we have available let me see oh
2385s	wait we did this we want to show the
2387s	blend yeah okay so we're going to body
2390s	um let's see
2392s	yeah we did this guy a little bit
2395s	um
2396s	this guy looks pretty cool
2398s	[Music]
2404s	yeah that's pretty cool
2406s	oh my god
2408s	i know that guy oh my god i forgot about
2412s	this guy
2414s	we were playing with the uh the
2416s	functionality and how
2419s	we could get
2420s	um
2422s	how
2422s	granular we can get in the customization
2425s	options to create you know
2428s	different personalities out there
2430s	you know it's gonna
2431s	like backfire on you stephen there's
2433s	gonna be a ton of you and a ton of
2435s	people making you in game no no no this
2439s	actually looks great i hope hopefully
2442s	excuse me hopefully asmin likes
2445s	likes this little rendition of it right
2447s	it looks cool it does look cool it's
2449s	kind of creepy
2450s	how realistic it is too all right let's
2453s	talk about blending so explain to me a
2455s	little bit about the blending mechanic
2459s	yeah so blending is a little bit more um
2462s	it's not so in-depth especially for
2465s	those players i don't want to spend
2467s	you know time adjusting each angle of
2470s	like the ear tip this is more of a large
2472s	scale macro tool that you can select a
2475s	couple you know presets and then you can
2477s	get certain features from one preset or
2480s	different features from a another preset
2483s	so you place down your
2485s	your presets and then you can click and
2487s	drag and morph between those
2490s	different presets oh yeah
2493s	look at that that's pretty cool
2496s	yeah i'm i'm impressed with how many
2497s	options and ways you've given the player
2500s	to mess with this character
2503s	oh this would be cool for like a family
2505s	so when you're creating npcs and you
2507s	want them all to be similar like you
2509s	make a mom and dad and then
2511s	it'd be interesting
2513s	yeah so you're taking features from each
2515s	preset and you're making something
2516s	completely new out of it
2520s	oh that's looking great so weird
2525s	it's freaking awesome
2528s	i love this
2531s	so you can add as many as you want
2535s	and kind of pull between them huh not as
2537s	many as you want i think there's a max
2539s	at some point
2541s	oh yeah
2544s	for ui purposes
2550s	too far apart stephen
2552s	that's so cool it does give me the uh
2554s	yeah it gives me hope for the system i
2556s	will not name but
2558s	that would be plenty of hope
2560s	i'm the only one that's terrified of
2561s	that one that catkins is having like
2563s	nightmares about no
2566s	we love ourselves
2569s	i'm excited for that one
2574s	there you go
2576s	that's looking good
2581s	i mean
2582s	it's looking
2585s	yeah that's the right word it's looking
2587s	like something
2588s	i guess it's nice so you can make your
2590s	guy like haggard for certain days of the
2592s	week
2593s	wait what this is mondays
2596s	excuse me your character differently
2598s	yeah for each day like a monday
2601s	he looks like he's judging you
2604s	no i i know what we can do here
2607s	okay what can we do
2609s	oh my god i'm scared
2615s	oh yeah
2617s	okay i see where it goes
2619s	don't get us in trouble
2625s	i get where you're going
2628s	zach said this is a fantasy game
2631s	oh my god
2633s	on let's go back to the back to the
2635s	beginning and let's see what
2637s	what it could have been hold on let me
2639s	see real quick but it could have been
2642s	what do you mean
2643s	you know just
2644s	steve what
2648s	and bring this all in tune we gotta get
2650s	the hair into there we go all right
2652s	let's take a look at our options
2655s	now the length
2657s	oh wow look at that i like the length
2659s	that's not too bad that's not too bad
2662s	okay that's a lot of hair it's really
2664s	heavy on the hair front
2668s	this is interesting
2669s	this is like a bro version
2672s	oh yeah
2674s	i kind of like that i like that too yeah
2677s	that's pretty interesting
2680s	now let me go ahead and
2683s	go back to the blend oh no actually the
2685s	sculpt
2686s	and let me adjust the eyes
2689s	real quick
2691s	no
2692s	no
2694s	no
2695s	okay that's better
2697s	look at that yeah that's pretty good
2699s	yeah
2700s	yeah were we talking about clayton no
2702s	negative results yeah that's what you're
2704s	talking about
2705s	so yeah that is one of our coordinates
2708s	this is one of our core tenants that we
2709s	want to make sure that the the user is
2711s	always getting positive results with
2713s	whatever they're customizing of course
2715s	you can go crazy with it and try to make
2717s	it look as goofy as possible but i
2719s	definitely know monster factories no no
2722s	factories i mean you could do some
2723s	monster factories like
2725s	with the tattoo put the scarring like on
2727s	the eye
2728s	yeah we can just grab the scarring
2731s	and put that over the eye oh there we go
2734s	let me manipulate this now wait for it
2738s	i think i can make it super crazy large
2741s	and like pull it down
2744s	oh now that looks kind of creepy
2747s	that doesn't look like it's slashed by
2749s	like an axe or something you might have
2751s	lost that fight i know i did lose that
2753s	fight now we can adjust in the eyes hold
2756s	on let me go back to the eyes and put
2758s	this like weird film over it and make it
2760s	maybe a little bit more sick yeah like a
2763s	mage hit him with a fireball in the face
2765s	or something yes and then oracle vibes
2768s	we can take the pigmentation here make
2771s	it a little bit
2773s	little uh
2775s	hold on let me see
2778s	now he's starting to look a little
2779s	creepy
2780s	right
2781s	that doesn't look too bad
2784s	oh that's scary
2786s	i like that
2787s	i wouldn't mess with that guy
2789s	no he seems creepy give him some more
2791s	wrinkles so now something interesting is
2793s	that
2795s	you know unreal obviously is a
2796s	phenomenal engine epic is such a
2799s	such a great company with you know the
2801s	amount of resources that they pour in
2802s	really to
2804s	helping um you know out of the box this
2807s	there being options for developers to
2809s	use but
2810s	at intrepid we really like you know
2813s	creating
2814s	the functionality ourselves i know that
2816s	there's some some other
2818s	character creators out there that people
2820s	probably have seen with unreal engine
2821s	one of which is what what's it called
2822s	meta human i think meta human yeah
2824s	yeah
2825s	yeah and yeah
2827s	it makes awesome characters but um
2830s	yeah we we built all of this tech
2832s	in-house uh yeah zach and i worked
2834s	pretty yeah we wanted a solution that
2836s	was tailored for the experience that we
2838s	want to give players and especially the
2840s	tech we needed to support it yeah
2842s	especially for an mmo right because that
2843s	that those technical requirements those
2846s	those limitations are very specific to a
2848s	per project basis almost
2851s	100
2852s	if we want to render as many characters
2853s	as we want to in large scale battles we
2855s	have to
2857s	yeah
2858s	well you guys did a phenomenal job and
2861s	yeah everyone and even the people who
2863s	are not here in this call like right
2865s	that's what i was about to say like
2867s	great job this is a wide-ranging um
2870s	effort by not just clayton zach and
2873s	and chris but with ginsee and brian gans
2876s	and tristan and uh jim and the effects
2880s	side um colby
2882s	colby with the ui
2884s	um
2885s	mike with the yeah manny
2888s	um you know gotta list them all now
2890s	stephen
2891s	i'm listing the mom listen all the
2893s	production especially benoit uh very
2896s	important role of course through any
2898s	development as a production team and
2899s	benoit did an awesome job organizing
2902s	um organizing a lot of it um
2906s	you're falling apart without him for one
2907s	day
2909s	one day
2910s	he's great for morale too because we'll
2912s	be in the meetings and he's like i'm
2913s	sorry i was mesmerized by the screen
2916s	also let's not forget stephen
2919s	stephen was here with us through this
2921s	entire process he was guiding the entire
2923s	thing giving us tasks on how to make
2924s	this better it also is the driving force
2928s	it was crazy enough to hear my pitch on
2929s	what i wanted to make for the character
2931s	creator and actually give me
2933s	the responsibility to make it happen
2936s	well you guys have done a phenomenal job
2938s	and i hope that out there in the
2939s	community you know you you guys are
2941s	seeing the quality right
2943s	um that we're striving for in ashes of
2945s	creation you're seeing that continual
2947s	improvement the development i'm going on
2949s	a monthly basis right now on our march
2951s	towards alpha 2 and you guys are going
2953s	to have an opportunity to play with this
2954s	character creator to find the bugs in
2956s	this character creator there's going to
2958s	be additional functionality that we're
2959s	going to discuss probably back on stream
2961s	when we get there um that wasn't
2963s	included as part of this first offering
2965s	or this work in progress but is is the
2967s	intent that we have for for this
2969s	particular area of the game that we want
2970s	to showcase eventually um so you know
2974s	we're really just excited to see this
2977s	this game come to life and to see you
2979s	guys you know
2980s	react to the hard work that our
2982s	developers are putting into it and that
2983s	that's exciting for me and i know it's
2985s	exciting for you guys too um margaret is
2987s	there anything else or guys doing
2989s	randomization and also maybe the vec
2991s	randomization so we can show maybe some
2993s	more of those like uh sure
2995s	tusk options and stuff
2998s	but yeah i think that you know you said
3000s	a lot of what i would resonate as well
3003s	everyone worked really hard did an
3005s	amazing job i mean look at this this is
3007s	phenomenal
3008s	um and there's more to come in regards
3010s	to i know there's going to be a lot of
3012s	questions about the other races and the
3014s	different differences between them in
3016s	character creation as well as you know
3019s	uh the sexes we'll we'll be showcasing
3022s	more of that like as we progress in our
3024s	development so stay tuned oh the
3026s	textures here are taking a little bit
3028s	huh oh there we go perfect now this
3030s	guy's uh this guy's a chunky vec little
3033s	chalkiness here
3034s	he's got a little song going on
3039s	some of the face here
3041s	if you go to the parents tab it'll
3045s	be a little easier for the randomization
3047s	yes
3048s	oh yeah there you go
3053s	cool to see the tusks change whenever
3054s	you hit randomize yeah i love that so
3056s	much
3057s	since he did really good on the tusk
3060s	customization with a lot of variation
3062s	yeah and that's something we'll make
3063s	sure to bring into the other creature
3065s	races as well
3067s	yeah it looks great i think one thing
3068s	that's really cool about uh doing the
3071s	races and the features that we've done
3072s	so far for the character creator is that
3074s	it paves the way for the cooler things
3076s	that we're gonna be doing later
3079s	yeah totally agree very excited you guys
3082s	have done a phenomenal job
3084s	um and i know
3086s	that i share the feelings of the
3088s	community when we say
3091s	that we are very excited for the future
3092s	and what not just a character
3095s	brings but watching all the other
3096s	features for alpha 2 start coming online
3100s	it's pretty exciting
3101s	awesome well we will see all of you back
3104s	on stream and for those of you who are
3105s	watching on youtube feel free to leave
3107s	us comments as i said before we're
3109s	always excited to read feedback from all
3111s	of our followers all of the people who
3113s	are excited for ashes oh my god look at
3114s	that guy's face
3116s	excited for ashes of creation we read
3118s	that we internalize it and we
3120s	come back to the community with actions
3121s	that represent those those feelings so
3124s	thank you for joining us during this
3126s	video and we will see you back on stream
3130s	bye
3131s	[Music]
3142s	hey
3150s	[Music]
3159s	well
3160s	seems like everyone liked it from the
3162s	chat i do know there are quite a few
3164s	questions so we're gonna try to answer
3166s	some of those um for sure and before we
3169s	get into the question i just want to you
3170s	know
3171s	kind of express to you guys that it's
3173s	been a long journey so far in our
3176s	development we're we're not creating
3178s	something small mmos are
3180s	obviously big things to make right
3183s	they're probably the biggest game you
3184s	can make and ours
3186s	is a particularly ambitious mmorpg but
3190s	what i do hope is that with the
3193s	demonstration of our alpha 2 character
3194s	creator
3195s	and as we lead up to alpha 2 and you
3198s	start seeing these progress updates on
3200s	systems and on combat and on the world
3203s	and on everything that goes into making
3205s	an mmo
3206s	you understand the bar of quality that
3209s	we are trying to hit with this project
3212s	that is something that is very near and
3214s	dear to us as developers our hearts
3217s	right is that we want to make something
3218s	that makes us proud that makes our
3220s	community proud um and on the quality
3223s	front this isn't even its final form
3225s	like we're not completely like there's
3227s	still more stuff that's going to be
3228s	happening so
3230s	absolutely and i i will say one very
3232s	important thing it takes a lot of people
3234s	to build an mmrpg of ashes of creation
3236s	size and we are hiring so out there this
3240s	is going to be a great tool for you guys
3242s	to spread the word and help us spread
3244s	the word about the project and intrepid
3246s	studios because we still have a lot of
3249s	bodies to hire we want to be at a little
3251s	over 200 people within this year
3254s	so um we have a great hr team that's
3256s	helping on that front but please share
3259s	this stuff talk to the developers of
3261s	your favorite games that they've made
3263s	and let them know that ashes is hiring
3266s	it's very important that we get the best
3268s	possible talent because when you acquire
3271s	talent like we have at intrepid
3273s	you get these types of results and these
3276s	are the this is the quality bar we all
3278s	want to play in um and you know i can't
3281s	i can't say enough how proud i am of our
3283s	developers i've intrepid of everybody on
3285s	the team i know we mentioned some of the
3286s	names there in that video but um you
3288s	know we are we are
3290s	we are hard at work and there's a lot of
3293s	work still left to do and even you know
3296s	within our team uh like during our last
3298s	like potluck
3300s	i heard a lot of discussion of people
3302s	talking about what they love about
3304s	working at intrepid and it just warms my
3306s	heart to see that you know
3308s	a lot of people have had bad experiences
3310s	but from from our what we're trying to
3312s	achieve is making like really a home for
3314s	people yeah where they can be passionate
3317s	and
3318s	make and create the things that they
3319s	want um absolutely obviously within line
3321s	of what we're creating um and i know
3324s	that people have said are you guys going
3325s	to create other games i'm like let's
3327s	just let's launch one game focus on
3328s	action
3331s	but you never know
3333s	absolutely so with that i'm gonna play
3336s	kind of some b-roll video in the
3337s	background uh will's tweet chat
3340s	awesome
3341s	but the first question we have here is
3344s	obviously where the female is at um so
3346s	if you want to talk a little bit about
3348s	why we're showcasing and obviously we
3350s	this we haven't even shown you all the
3351s	races yet um so if you want to talk a
3354s	little bit about why we focused on one
3356s	first yeah absolutely i mean there's a
3358s	lot of technical hurdles that come into
3360s	um setting up the you know skeleton and
3363s	the the rig for the each race and um you
3366s	know the the different genders um right
3368s	now we want to kind of get this out in
3370s	front as quickly as possible so we use
3372s	kind of our base klr male model um to
3375s	stand up all of the tech that zach and
3377s	clayton were working on um it just takes
3380s	a little bit of time for us to convert
3381s	those over uh on the female side and as
3384s	well as on the other races um so you'll
3387s	be seeing that those options uh probably
3389s	as updates through our community team
3392s	showcasing that on different social
3393s	channels in the future so stay tuned
3395s	we'll be showing off more
3397s	uh you know creation process as we get
3400s	further along with the creator
3402s	beyond that
3403s	i know there was a lot of comments and
3405s	even internally i saw some devs talking
3407s	about it who are maybe not working on
3409s	the character creator and in regards to
3411s	blinking um because obviously when
3413s	you're creating your character and
3414s	they're just like staring at you it's a
3416s	little horrifying uh yeah i don't know
3418s	if you're gonna talk a little bit about
3419s	it absolutely any any time you're in a
3421s	scene where you really want to have
3423s	close control over the face that you're
3426s	manipulating um it's sometimes a little
3429s	bit difficult to incorporate heavy
3430s	animations in that right so the idol
3432s	stance is is not really present and then
3435s	also as you're like manipulating the
3436s	eyes um right now if we had like
3439s	blinking or eye darting like following
3442s	the cursor or like oh my god you know
3443s	what are you doing to my face kind of
3444s	thing
3446s	that that takes a little bit more time
3447s	to set up as well um but it is something
3450s	that the animation team is working on
3452s	yeah we did we definitely discussed it
3454s	we thought about you know
3457s	if we'd be able to get the in by time
3459s	but we weren't
3460s	we weren't feeling confident in regards
3463s	to the quality that obviously we have a
3465s	quality level that we're trying to meet
3466s	so and we want to make sure that when we
3468s	showcase these things to you guys that
3469s	you're not going to see weird wonky
3471s	stuff absolutely as much as possible
3474s	there's some cases where you know uh
3477s	there will be bugs by the way i do want
3479s	to mention um you know obviously we
3481s	talked about a little bit about features
3482s	that are not currently present in this
3485s	alpha 2 character creator but
3486s	one important thing for all of us out
3489s	there who love experimenting with
3491s	character creators and making cool
3492s	creations is the ability to adjust the
3495s	environmental controls around the um the
3498s	level that the character creator exists
3500s	in this might include different scenes
3503s	that you can put your character in it'll
3505s	include lighting adjustments that you
3507s	can have in this b-roll footage you're
3509s	kind of seeing the emissive colors
3510s	change in the background every now and
3512s	then there's going to be a lot of
3513s	environmental controls that are offered
3515s	to the character creator so that people
3517s	can set it up their scene that they want
3518s	to kind of grab screenshots or to grab
3520s	recordings or you know whatever they
3522s	want to do
3523s	that's also some additional
3525s	features that tristan was working on
3527s	speaking of additional features um
3530s	there's quite a few questions here in
3532s	regards to that so i'll just go through
3535s	it i saw some people talking about
3536s	asymmetry and we talked a little bit
3538s	about the fact that we want to have this
3539s	for eyes in the future
3541s	but just in general people would like to
3543s	have some asymmetry in their body and
3545s	things of that sort so yeah
3547s	absolutely i mean the asymmetry is going
3549s	to be um you know functionality that's
3551s	possible in manipulating either you know
3553s	different um components of the body or
3556s	different features like hair the beard
3559s	we saw a little bit of that blending
3560s	with highlights that you can do
3563s	margaret talked a little bit about the
3564s	light excuse me the eye asymmetry that
3566s	you can include um you know obviously
3568s	those are going to exist within certain
3570s	parameters that we want to define on a
3572s	per race basis um but it is something
3575s	that we think is cool asymmetry is a
3577s	really cool thing and those will be
3578s	available for other parts of the body as
3580s	well
3581s	next um a lot of people were looking at
3584s	the vec and being like it'd be really
3585s	cool to have piercings
3587s	is that something that we'll showcase
3589s	maybe not just for back but for the
3591s	other races as well uh 100 i mean i
3593s	think even um we had some of the body um
3596s	adornment or jewelries that were uh
3599s	available on the vec model but we just
3602s	didn't have time to for this
3603s	demonstration to bring those over into
3605s	the character creator yet um but that'll
3608s	be also kind of culturally dependent as
3610s	well
3611s	but there will be options like that to
3612s	customize with your character yeah
3615s	and
3616s	when we were showing off the hair
3618s	options and colors we showcased a lot of
3620s	very natural colors and people were
3622s	wondering if they can have more vibrant
3624s	greens and blues and stuff like that or
3626s	if they're going to be more specific to
3628s	those cultures and races uh
3631s	the options they can choose options are
3633s	definitely going to be um culturally
3635s	dependent however with regards to the
3637s	question about high saturation or you
3639s	know certain types of color ranges um
3642s	obviously we have a style guide that we
3643s	want to hit from our art from our
3645s	perspective right in the game um so
3647s	those options will be dependent on
3649s	whether or not they match with you know
3652s	excuse me
3653s	whether or not they match with the kind
3655s	of style that we want to have
3657s	within the game
3658s	all right cool cool
3659s	and um i know there's a lot of
3662s	customization options that you guys want
3663s	we will we have a ton more so stay tuned
3666s	as we showcase more of those features
3669s	the last question i have here before we
3671s	move into our character art segment um
3674s	is people were asking about we've talked
3677s	about this in regards to paintings and
3679s	pictures in your freehold of being able
3680s	to upload images people were wondering
3683s	when they were looking at the tattoos if
3684s	they'd be able to upload images for
3686s	those
3688s	that's a good question um
3690s	it's a tricky one um
3692s	you know for me i think it would be cool
3695s	if we could do that of course um you
3698s	know that does add an additional layer
3700s	of customer service need on our side
3703s	right we're gonna have to answer tickets
3704s	and reports that come in if people put
3706s	questionable you know markings and then
3708s	we have to do like um you know warnings
3710s	and removals and bans or you know
3713s	whatever like that's a that's a whole
3714s	other
3715s	element so um
3717s	we will see we will see uh it is still
3720s	an open-ended question in my mind yeah
3722s	um from my perspective i've
3725s	worked on products where we did allow it
3727s	and there were a lot of service issues
3728s	that we had in regards to customer
3730s	service and
3731s	we had to remove them in some cases so
3733s	oh yeah it's definitely not an easy
3735s	thing to say yes or no to um but we'll
3738s	see where we're at on that run but i
3739s	know it was a question that was asked so
3740s	i wanted to make sure you you all felt
3742s	heard um
3744s	so moving from there let's go into our
3746s	character art stuff before the stream
3748s	gets ridiculously long and by the way
3751s	yeah before we move into the character
3753s	stuff i just want to also add one
3754s	additional thing um for those of you in
3756s	our core audience our in our community
3758s	who's been following development for a
3760s	long time um and has had you know
3763s	the
3765s	the outlook to anticipate the day you'll
3768s	start seeing our quality bar hit the
3770s	area we want it to um
3772s	i just want to thank you guys for the
3774s	support
3775s	um i know that you know a lot of
3778s	projects in the past have failed to live
3779s	up to your standards they promised the
3781s	world and they haven't they they didn't
3783s	deliver uh in many cases um our intent
3786s	is to deliver so
3788s	uh i hope you guys that are watching and
3789s	anticipating the future developments and
3791s	seeing the progress on the work that
3793s	we're all doing um that this level of
3795s	quality is is something that's speaking
3797s	to you from a gamer's perspective and
3799s	something you want to see and play uh
3801s	because that's our target goal um so
3803s	really appreciative of your guys support
3805s	continued support watching our
3806s	development giving us feedback it's so
3808s	important like
3810s	you know i go on like reddits and i go
3812s	on other channels and i i read feedback
3814s	from pretty much everywhere we can get
3816s	it um and in the early days of our
3819s	project there was a lot of skepticism
3821s	now as people have seen our alpha one
3823s	and they're starting to see more updates
3825s	on the monthly basis um it's nice to see
3828s	that the the support from the community
3830s	is there our objective is to take the
3833s	time that's necessary right we don't
3834s	have a publisher breathing down our neck
3835s	i don't have investors breathing down my
3837s	neck like our goal is to create a
3839s	quality product
3841s	and your patience in that regard is very
3843s	helpful your support in that regard
3845s	verbally participating in the feedback
3847s	is extremely helpful so please make sure
3849s	if you're watching this and you want to
3851s	see these types of game designs come out
3853s	and at the quality that we're showing
3855s	now
3856s	it's important for you to get involved
3857s	go on the reddit go on twitter go on our
3859s	forums give us feedback we're not
3861s	looking for
3862s	you know people to purchase into the
3864s	game or to pre-order we're really just
3866s	looking for people who are mmo gamers to
3868s	come out and talk about the ideas that
3870s	we're presenting and the updates that
3871s	we're giving that's a super important
3873s	thing that's part of the process and
3874s	it's very important to us and almost
3877s	every platform that you go to where we
3879s	are officially there you will get an
3881s	interaction with the like one of our
3882s	development team um our whole community
3884s	team is on staff during our core hours
3887s	and you know if you come ask a question
3890s	in discord we'll answer if you're on our
3892s	social media we will respond to you if
3895s	you head over to our forums we will
3897s	engage with you so it's one of those
3898s	things where
3900s	not only are you posting but you're also
3901s	going to get a response from us
3904s	i strive to build that as a team i think
3906s	i've worked on a lot of projects where
3908s	you know that isn't something that was
3909s	that was restricted from doing that yeah
3912s	exactly and so i think that you know
3914s	we as gamers all
3916s	want that interaction with a development
3919s	team and you can get that with us so yes
3921s	um yeah very very proud of margaret very
3923s	proud of the community team as a whole
3924s	you guys are doing an awesome job um
3927s	interacting with our with our player
3928s	base it's it's very important they kick
3931s	butt i love them all they are great
3934s	beyond that um like stephen said in
3937s	regards to delivering on that quality
3939s	that takes time so bear with us give us
3941s	the time that we need in order to ensure
3943s	that we can we can release a product
3945s	that is going to be what we've all been
3947s	waiting for and dreaming of i'm going to
3949s	spend all my out
3952s	of office hours playing so
3955s	um i'm excited
3957s	you too
3958s	yeah
3959s	i mean we're the people who would play
3961s	all night i'm just ready to wander
3963s	around as an npc like that would be fun
3966s	oh yeah
3967s	i just want to like inhabit the body of
3969s	an npc that somebody's fighting and just
3971s	be like whoa where did that come from
3973s	why does npc start going crazy now i'm
3974s	just kidding
3977s	no i think it's great i wouldn't have
3978s	been a boss during a raid or something
3980s	uh
3982s	dynamic dynamic content a little
3984s	different it would be super sweet we'll
3986s	definitely have events and stuff like
3987s	that that's one of the things from a
3989s	community perspective that we've been
3990s	putting in we're putting together some
3992s	requests in regards to some tools we'd
3994s	like and one of those tools is being
3995s	able to do something like what stephen
3997s	had suggested which is you know spawning
3999s	ourselves as a boss and fighting uh
4002s	having an apartment i'm totally just
4004s	joking it's like i would do that on the
4006s	public test server but yeah all right uh
4008s	what do we got for character characters
4010s	moving on so before we get into the
4013s	character uh stuff
4015s	one of the things that has come up quite
4017s	a bit from the community and even
4019s	internally is how do we pronounce all of
4021s	the races so
4023s	i was going to get a little steven sound
4024s	bite let's start with our human races
4028s	so we have the klar and we have the
4030s	value all right and then moving on to
4032s	our
4033s	elven
4034s	we have the empyrean and we have the
4036s	pyre
4037s	right and then our orcs
4040s	our orcs are the vek and the renkai
4042s	and then our dwarves
4045s	are the duneer and the nakua
4048s	and then the last and final our
4051s	conglomeration of
4053s	madness
4054s	the tulnar
4057s	all right there you guys have it um i've
4059s	also sent uh
4060s	our wiki folks lex over there um kind of
4063s	like the pronunciation for those so
4064s	they'll be updating that
4066s	um as well so
4068s	you know just quick quick get that out
4070s	of the way because people have been
4071s	asking um in regards to the character
4074s	art you saw some of the wrinkles um in
4077s	the character creation but we kind of
4079s	wanted to show you what this looks like
4080s	um it's not in a final form but you know
4083s	they're still working on it
4086s	very cool yeah i love the wrinkles and
4088s	helping to establish age of character is
4090s	really cool
4092s	and i won't have a turntable for this
4093s	because you guys did see the vecmail um
4096s	in
4096s	in the character creator already but i
4098s	wanted to show some still images of them
4100s	as well
4101s	um
4102s	you saw the concept art for them and
4105s	this is the first time we've been
4106s	showing you guys the 3d models but our
4108s	concept art looks almost the same so
4111s	one thing you do see here that you
4112s	didn't see in the character creator is
4113s	hair options right so these are some of
4115s	the vec hairs um that are possible as
4118s	well and some more of the piercings and
4120s	bones and stuff right yeah the
4122s	adornments are present as well yeah
4126s	and then
4128s	the female that you all have been
4129s	waiting for
4134s	oh yeah there we go
4136s	some of the jewelry options
4138s	another hair option
4144s	yeah and again
4145s	the reason why obviously we didn't have
4146s	the female characters present in the
4148s	demonstration was because we got to hook
4150s	up a lot of those technical components
4153s	uh that allow for the manipulation um
4155s	within the character creator
4157s	and i do have a turntable for her
4161s	so nice
4163s	you can see the
4164s	full 3d
4165s	y'all thirsty over those booties though
4168s	i know
4169s	the beck booties
4171s	i saw like the chat going nuts i was
4173s	laughing so hard oh no they really
4176s	wanted to see us do the butt slider i'm
4179s	waiting for some creator as they review
4181s	the chara the uh the presentation today
4183s	to do the whole booty booty booty
4185s	everywhere song
4186s	oh you know they're going to they've
4188s	already done it
4190s	um and then
4192s	we are going to be showing the male pi
4194s	ray
4195s	oh so this is the male pirate yeah the
4198s	concept art of them
4200s	right
4201s	but you can see the delineation between
4203s	the male and female in the ears and in
4206s	the antlers or as some were calling the
4208s	branches or what were they called branch
4211s	layers branch
4213s	um as well but that's the that's the
4215s	pirate uh mail
4217s	yeah very very cool
4219s	um and if you have feedback for us on
4222s	the vec or the pirate we have some
4224s	threads already up on the forums
4226s	definitely pop over there give us some
4227s	feedback we love hearing from you guys
4230s	obviously along our journey we've been
4231s	continually making changes and updates
4233s	based on that feedback
4235s	so keep it coming
4236s	next up we have our
4238s	fishy friend
4240s	maybe one that you might not want to
4244s	engage with this is one of the alpha 2 i
4248s	believe this is one of the alpha 2 raid
4249s	bosses that are going to be in the ocean
4252s	um that'll be interesting when you come
4254s	across that what might happen
4257s	yes
4258s	good luck that's all i'm going to say
4259s	good luck good luck good sir we should
4262s	have added a scale there because uh
4264s	oh yeah it's a big boy like a little
4266s	fishy
4267s	like next to his cheeks the number of
4269s	ships needed for that one's going to be
4270s	a lot all right
4273s	um and then we have our whispering
4276s	watcher whispering watcher
4280s	um
4281s	oh yeah i love this creature or this
4283s	mount yeah it's a mount
4285s	yep very cool
4288s	very sphinxy feeling
4291s	it was definitely inspiration
4293s	this is one that i got to design so
4296s	it was very
4297s	very exciting
4298s	it was creepy but uh i know a lot of
4300s	people were like this could be so creepy
4302s	but look at the 3d model it's so good
4304s	i would really love if this mount had
4306s	like a social action that it could do
4308s	where it like yells at somebody near you
4309s	or something right
4311s	or whisper what i want to see is that
4313s	it's like a dungeon where like you're
4315s	going through the dungeon and you just
4316s	hear whispering throughout the dungeon
4318s	and then you find that this is the
4320s	creature that's been whispering to you
4321s	the entire time
4322s	you have to battle it
4324s	that's what i'd like to see
4326s	all right and with that we will head on
4328s	over to
4330s	the questions that you guys asked over
4331s	on the forums
4333s	um obviously our artists are amazing we
4336s	show off their all the time but uh
4339s	shout out to all of them they are
4341s	phenomenal amazing yeah it's crazy we
4345s	love our team yes all of them
4347s	um so our first question is from uh
4350s	azalea isaiah over on the forums and
4352s	they wanted to know about world pvp have
4355s	you considered a high-stakes loot drop
4357s	pvp zone slash area in vera
4362s	um
4363s	i
4363s	we have not and the reason for that is
4366s	our current pvp systems already allow
4368s	for material and
4371s	material risk essentially
4374s	that's either through the flagging
4376s	system or through other event-based pvp
4378s	opt-in systems as well um so yeah oh it
4381s	was as ezreal
4383s	and the next one similar name
4385s	as array wants to know about nodes will
4389s	infrastructural issues requiring
4391s	reactive tasks be part of node gameplay
4395s	outside of monster coin siege weather
4398s	and natural disaster events what was the
4401s	first part of that well
4403s	infrastructural issues requiring
4406s	reactive tasks be part of node gameplay
4409s	absolutely um there are f there are
4412s	three
4413s	primary systems that deal with
4416s	um building damage and or building
4418s	destruction within nodes um those are
4421s	npc driven events that are a response to
4423s	you know some type of either story arc
4425s	predicate or
4427s	atrophy
4428s	issues that happen with the node there
4430s	are node sieges and there are node
4433s	wars
4434s	all of those
4436s	the event system could be a hazard like
4438s	a tornado or hurricane and that could
4440s	deal damage to buildings which require
4442s	then the players in order to reactivate
4445s	those services from a particular
4446s	building to repair the building
4449s	there is the ability for buildings to
4451s	take damage during wars or during sieges
4453s	when those abilities take damage they
4455s	could potentially be destroyed at which
4457s	point a
4458s	rubble appears on that plot within the
4461s	node and the government has to clear
4463s	that plot before they can either
4465s	reconstruct
4466s	a new building or the previous building
4468s	that was there buildings also live
4470s	within a prerequisite system
4473s	so in order to build uh uh down the tech
4475s	tree essentially of what these buildings
4477s	provide as the node grows larger to
4479s	access more
4481s	um to access stronger building types you
4485s	may get a kink in that chain
4487s	if it's destroyed and you'll have to
4488s	stand that back up in order to support
4490s	the service again so there's a lot of
4492s	reactive type of systems
4495s	that can interface with nodes and the
4497s	development of those nodes and players
4499s	and governments will have to respond to
4501s	that in order to keep their services
4502s	running
4504s	right
4505s	and this one is from its fame
4507s	and it is regards to rare items with
4510s	unique and rare legendary items limited
4513s	to one per server what will happen to an
4516s	item of such rarity when the player
4518s	character in possession leaves the world
4520s	or server
4522s	that item will then be available again
4524s	for uh acquisition um through whatever
4527s	means it was acquired previously
4529s	and then captivated would like to know
4531s	about lore how do you plan to establish
4533s	big characters and story arcs in an
4535s	ever-changing and node-driven world
4538s	that's a hard one but yeah
4540s	that's a that's a that's a very long
4542s	answer required um
4544s	so our story arc system which is being
4546s	championed by our lore and narrative
4548s	teams um scott wynn jeremy ime
4553s	these are built in such a way
4556s	that and i don't want to get into too
4557s	much detail but they're built in such a
4559s	way where these marquee characters or
4561s	these these story plots have multiple
4565s	um and i don't want to use the word
4566s	nodes because nodes has a specific
4568s	connotation to cities but within the
4571s	context of these story arcs there are
4573s	specific points that they can pivot to
4575s	tell a different story that different
4577s	story can be based on predicates that
4579s	are in the world from a player decision
4582s	standpoint from a cultural
4584s	representation standpoint from
4586s	situational to which node gets developed
4589s	there's a lot of different components
4591s	that interact with the way the dialogue
4594s	and narratives play out on a particular
4597s	server
4598s	and what that means is and i've said
4599s	this from the beginning
4601s	many sandbox mmorpgs
4603s	they
4604s	they do not create as much curated
4607s	content as theme park
4608s	mmorpgs and their excuse for doing that
4611s	is because they incorporate player
4612s	driven mechanics but that's a bit of a
4615s	cop-out and it's the opposite approach
4617s	that we've taken with ashes of creation
4618s	and the reason for that is if you give
4620s	the player a door and there's nothing
4622s	behind that door then opening the door
4624s	is meaningless so what we have to do is
4626s	we have to create a very functional
4627s	story arc system that provides content
4630s	in many different ways but is behind a
4633s	door of world progress or world
4636s	development that is then executed by the
4638s	player population um and that's how we
4640s	construct uh our narrative systems
4642s	essentially with a short answer
4645s	yeah um there's a lot that's going to
4648s	interact with our narrative stuff so
4650s	stay tuned
4650s	we may showcase some of those things
4653s	absolutely throughout the upcoming
4654s	months so
4656s	um our next question is from george
4657s	black and they want to know about armor
4660s	since heavy armor will be strong against
4661s	physical damage and cloth armor strong
4664s	against magic damage what would make
4666s	players want to wear leather armor
4669s	i think i think your armor is really
4672s	based on your threat assessment like
4674s	what encounter are you going with is
4676s	there a blend of incoming physical and
4678s	magical damage based on the types of
4680s	opponents uh other players creatures
4683s	that you're facing that's going to be
4684s	completely situational so
4687s	that's how our armor systems essentially
4689s	are you're not going to get one set of
4691s	armor that's going to be situationally
4693s	relevant for every encounter you might
4694s	face that's crazy um
4697s	and as a result of that you're going to
4699s	have to
4700s	uh succeed in acquiring sets that are
4703s	situationally relevant uh for the types
4706s	of encounters you are intending to face
4708s	leather gives you a blend between both
4709s	worlds it also will have different types
4711s	of set benefits that aren't purely
4713s	related to damage mitigation right
4716s	so that could be outgoing skill damage
4718s	it could be
4719s	critical chances it could be some water
4721s	some other waterfall stats that are
4722s	associated with it um our armors don't
4725s	just boil down to uh damage type
4727s	mitigation
4728s	all right
4729s	and uh our next question is from doug
4732s	bug27 and we're going back to a little
4735s	bit of lore i'm not sure if you're gonna
4737s	be able to answer this one but uh will
4739s	the racial capital cities such as ren
4741s	for oryx ayla for human and amera for
4744s	elves be player cities potential nodes
4747s	or has the cataclysmic cataclysmic event
4750s	done something else to them entirely
4752s	so we have to remember that part of the
4755s	the story and this has been expressed in
4756s	the past is that you are returning to a
4759s	world that has essentially been
4760s	destroyed and left untouched for many
4763s	millennia and as a result those old
4766s	capital cities are essentially the ruins
4768s	of which you're returning to and the new
4771s	cities that you are developing the node
4773s	structures that exist these are brand
4774s	new cities right they might be couched
4777s	within ruins of old you know empires so
4780s	to speak um but they will not be
4782s	representative of the old capital cities
4784s	there you go
4785s	and then akatosh and zillan had the same
4788s	question in regards to instances will
4790s	the instance content still have scripted
4793s	and difficult boss fights that drop gear
4795s	and loot
4797s	yeah um you know obviously that's our
4799s	incentive wheel right that's why you do
4801s	content for the most part is as it
4803s	relates to your progression as a
4805s	character both in your vertical power
4807s	and horizontal capabilities um and in
4809s	that sense even though we're mitigating
4811s	the amount of instances that are really
4813s	relevant within the world to a 80 20
4815s	split is our objective um 80 open world
4819s	content 20 instance content really
4821s	instance content is meant to provide
4825s	um
4826s	rails for an experience right the
4828s	designers want the experience either to
4831s	be like you know
4833s	single player or or just a party and
4836s	they want to control like that
4837s	environment and that encounter they use
4839s	an instant if it's especially if it's
4841s	important to a story line whether it be
4843s	class-based storyline culture-based
4845s	storyline you know node-based whatever
4847s	affiliation related to the character is
4849s	a path they want to take down the
4851s	instance category there's not going to
4853s	be too much of that but they will
4854s	incorporate of course our traditional
4855s	reward structure yeah i'm just going to
4858s	note that we're straying away from that
4859s	as much as possible but in some cases it
4862s	is a tool that is useful for us now to
4864s	be to be fair that doesn't mean that the
4866s	reward structure of incentives will be
4868s	you know bis they won't be best in slot
4870s	type items you will not accomplish that
4872s	from in from instanced based content um
4875s	those will be found within the open
4877s	world it'll be a competitive area for
4879s	you to to achieve those things because
4882s	other forces will want to achieve them
4883s	as well and because it's open world
4885s	there will be a limited number of those
4887s	who can successfully complete on whether
4889s	it be some timer for a world boss or
4891s	some condition or other world state
4893s	predicate um those are things that
4895s	people are going to have to contend with
4896s	each other for and that's where that
4898s	risk versus reward comes and you know if
4900s	you want the cool reward you gotta take
4902s	the risks absolutely and speaking about
4905s	gear uh song rune actually has a
4906s	question saying will accessories such as
4909s	necklaces and rings be vertical power
4912s	changes or horizontal power changes
4915s	both and it depends on how you engage
4917s	with them um but there will be options
4919s	for both yes
4920s	and then
4921s	uh
4923s	tom tomb not sure how you want your name
4925s	to be pronounced uh is asking about
4928s	mounts
4929s	will
4930s	some aquatic mounts have any utility
4933s	skills that can be used in fishing
4936s	yes absolutely that will be a
4940s	excuse fishing is a big part
4942s	of the game i personally love fishing um
4945s	i think we're gonna have a really cool
4947s	um system for fishing and um
4951s	mounts will have skills that relate to
4952s	fishing in some way shape or form at
4954s	least at least the water mounts right
4956s	whether that be getting out to a
4957s	particular area
4959s	whether it be like some type of fish
4961s	finding or
4962s	uh um you know chumming the area um
4966s	there could even be benefits while you
4969s	know fishing in the water while mounted
4970s	right like you're on the back of your
4972s	turtle out there just sitting in the
4973s	water casting your rod uh or your line
4976s	and uh to fish um there can be some
4980s	benefits conferred upon upon you based
4982s	on the mount yeah right
4984s	and
4985s	i'm probably not going to say this
4987s	person's full name because it has a like
4989s	a little bit of a swear word in there so
4990s	we're going to call you joker um
4993s	oh now i mentioned cody should have
4994s	caught that
4998s	they want to know about raid pvp and
4999s	they're asking how will raid loot be
5002s	dispersed when pvp battles are involved
5005s	during the raid fight
5006s	uh there is going to be there is already
5009s	a complex system in place when it comes
5011s	to
5014s	raid loot settings that each raid can
5016s	have uh if we're talking about two
5018s	competing raids um we have a blended
5021s	approach of damage done and a tag
5025s	benefit so um you know
5028s	if you tag the boss first or you tag the
5030s	loot you know whatever the loot target
5032s	is first you're gonna get a benefit in
5034s	the damage overall determination so if
5038s	you need to have 51 percent of damage
5040s	done in order to qualify your raid or
5042s	the plurality of damage done if there's
5044s	even three or four raids um
5046s	then tagging first might give you a five
5049s	or ten percent edge we'll play with that
5050s	number uh balance it based on testing
5053s	but generally that's our approach in
5055s	competing loot rights and there's been
5057s	some quite i've actually seen a lot of
5059s	discussion regarding this topic um
5062s	people do have concerns in regards to
5064s	you know i go into an area and i just
5066s	tag all the monsters
5067s	and now i have some percentage of that i
5070s	know yeah okay
5071s	yeah i know if you tag all the monsters
5073s	you're really only going to be able to
5074s	focus you damage a certain subsect of
5076s	them right um and and players will be
5079s	able to over damage essentially the
5080s	other monsters that you're tagging so
5081s	that's that's what that's why we have a
5083s	blended approach so people can't do the
5084s	tag all and now i own them all okay
5088s	and i'm sure there will be follow-up
5089s	questions in regards to that but if your
5091s	question didn't get answered here our
5093s	amazing community team um roshan and
5096s	vakner bachner does a lot of work on
5098s	this um he basically goes through every
5100s	question to make sure that if you asked
5103s	a question that we've already answered
5104s	he gives you the answer to that question
5107s	and then also lets you know if your
5108s	question didn't get selected so that you
5110s	can you know make sure to ask it again
5112s	for the next month's
5113s	questions and possibly get picked as one
5116s	of the random questions so thank you
5118s	again to everybody for submitting them
5121s	and like i said check it out over the
5122s	forums if you didn't get your answer
5124s	here and i think that will wrap us up
5127s	for our march development update awesome
5131s	how are you feeling that was i'm feeling
5133s	good that was i i i'm glad that you guys
5135s	uh enjoyed watching the the character
5137s	creator um you know there's like i said
5140s	a lot of work ahead of us for alpha two
5142s	uh we're hard at work uh on that march
5145s	um
5146s	but um stay tuned for our future updates
5148s	because we're gonna have a lot of fun
5149s	stuff to share yes a lot this is there's
5152s	so much more to come we are very excited
5156s	uh so thank you all for joining us we
5157s	will see you next month for another
5159s	development update and in the interim
5161s	please follow us on all of the social
5162s	channels we constantly keep you all
5164s	updated
5165s	uh you know every day almost there's
5167s	some social uh post up there peter does
5170s	an amazing job interacting over there so
5172s	hop on uh give us your infos we might
5175s	have some other exclusive stuff to
5176s	socials so
5178s	since this was a very long stream as is
5179s	there's some pieces that didn't quite
5181s	make it in here so stay tuned over there
5183s	and of course if you want to join our
5186s	dev discussion we just had a new one go
5188s	up so pop on over to our our forums and
5190s	leave your feedback over there in
5192s	regards to
5193s	um
5194s	indicators for like conning and enemies
5196s	and things of that sort and then of
5198s	course our april cosmetic swap overs on
5200s	april 6th so get those sets if that's
5202s	something you're interested in before
5204s	the swap over and the video for this
5206s	we'll have two videos one is going to be
5208s	the 4k video of the character creator
5211s	segment that will be going up probably
5213s	later today and then we'll have the full
5215s	video of the whole live stream go up um
5217s	probably on friday so stay tuned for
5220s	both of those and then of course leave
5222s	us a comment over on our youtube channel
5223s	if you're watching this right now um
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[2022] Development Update with Alpha Two Character Creator - 11AM PT Thursday, March 31, 2022

Transcript (by Youtube)

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