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| 0s | something I'm I'm seeing uh a lot of |
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| 2s | people talking about is uh you know |
| 4s | there's there's there's PVP uh there's |
| 7s | PVE and then there's this new thing |
| 9s | called PVD can you tell me about that |
| 11s | what is that oh yeah player versus |
| 17s | door hello and welcome to forge in |
| 19s | eternum where we talk about all things |
| 21s | new world uh this is a special episode |
| 24s | of balance of power uh and I'm your host |
| 27s | Jr taking over for Dave V the previous |
| 30s | running Runner of this show um I'm here |
| 33s | with |
| 33s | Josh and uh yeah I just wanted to |
| 36s | acknowledge our our new cool set we have |
| 39s | here as you can see behind me uh this is |
| 41s | everfall live feed not really but it |
| 46s | looks real um but yeah let's just jump |
| 48s | right into it and talk about PTR because |
| 50s | PTR is out there uh we've been getting a |
| 53s | lot of great feedback from everyone uh |
| 55s | we have a lot of really really big |
| 57s | features um in this PTR uh one of the |
| 60s | ones I'm most excited about is |
| 61s | controller support um that's something |
| 63s | that has it's been a long time coming |
| 65s | and uh we've been working on it it's |
| 67s | just really great to to see it out there |
| 69s | and and and see the responses um what |
| 71s | are you excited about Josh in in this |
| 73s | PTR I think the thing I'm most excited |
| 75s | for is the the combat scripting changes |
| 77s | uh it just opens up a door to do so many |
| 79s | cooler things that we couldn't |
| 80s | previously do with the older system just |
| 82s | due to Performance and just yeah gives |
| 85s | us a little bit more freedom to |
| 87s | experiment and see what we can do with |
| 89s | it yeah let's talk about that a little |
| 90s | bit we are aware that it's not perfect |
| 93s | um there this was definitely this was a |
| 96s | huge undertaking I I mean basically uh |
| 99s | the entire scripting um language has |
| 103s | been replaced with a new language um and |
| 105s | we had to rewrite everything from |
| 107s | scratch um basically you know trying to |
| 108s | convert things over keeping it one as |
| 111s | one to one as possible U but we know |
| 113s | that there's there's issues out there |
| 114s | and um it's been great getting the |
| 116s | feedback on PTR that this why it's so |
| 118s | important that we have PTR is cuz |
| 121s | uh we can see these these issues and and |
| 124s | actually address them before they go |
| 126s | live uh in season 5 so um we're and |
| 129s | we're definitely uh on track to to get |
| 132s | like the most major issues fixed by by |
| 135s | launch there might still be some minor |
| 137s | cosmetic things um and we'll be fixing |
| 139s | those over the next uh coming updates uh |
| 141s | so what else is coming out in in PTR |
| 144s | like or people should be aware of that's |
| 145s | coming for season five couple things one |
| 148s | of the big ones is kind of like |
| 149s | Universal across all players will notice |
| 151s | is that uh we did some equip load |
| 153s | balance changes um that they're still |
| 156s | the first step ideally we'd want to keep |
| 157s | adding to them and kind of make more |
| 158s | interesting changes with the equip load |
| 161s | but this was just kind of like the first |
| 162s | uh modification to try and make medium |
| 165s | the kind of default where there's no Pro |
| 167s | Pros or cons or positives or negative |
| 169s | negatives to it we're paying attention |
| 171s | to feedback on those we have a couple |
| 172s | ideas of things to change but we want to |
| 174s | kind of let it stew a little bit to kind |
| 176s | of see how equip loads change since |
| 178s | we've done that um another one is just |
| 180s | artifacts there's a new wave of |
| 182s | artifacts coming in which uh we've |
| 185s | already seen a good amount of feedback |
| 186s | on them and there's two that we're |
| 187s | looking into potentially making |
| 189s | adjustments for which is the Phoenix and |
| 191s | the Venom ones uh they're likely just a |
| 194s | little bit too strong so we want to kind |
| 195s | of reel them back in a little bit before |
| 197s | we let those go live cool uh what about |
| 200s | something I'm I'm seeing uh a lot of |
| 202s | people talking about is uh you know |
| 204s | there's there's there's PVP uh there's |
| 207s | PVE and then there's this new thing |
| 208s | called PVD oh can you tell me about that |
| 210s | what is that oh yeah player versus door |
| 212s | uh so yeah the endgame boss that we that |
| 215s | got implemented on not really |
| 216s | intentionally with that oppr door uh |
| 219s | just too much health we're healed too |
| 221s | quickly uh so we tried to reel that boss |
| 223s | back in and make it a little bit more |
| 225s | manageable so we've uh made it take a |
| 227s | little bit longer to repair added a |
| 229s | couple weaknesses to it um we still want |
| 232s | the PVE aspect of oppr to still have |
| 235s | some use to it so they're still like |
| 237s | hopefully the doors still get built but |
| 239s | they hopefully they're not just |
| 240s | invulnerable anymore like they used to |
| 242s | be so I'm sure that's a welcome change |
| 245s | for the community yeah so uh for |
| 249s | upcoming things like for future Seasons |
| 251s | so we we covered season five um and and |
| 254s | largely uh PTR is is you know what what |
| 257s | we're g to ship in season five um but |
| 260s | what about future Seasons um we're uh |
| 262s | we're working on some some new uh |
| 265s | quality of life improvements on on some |
| 267s | of the weapons like can you tell me a |
| 268s | little bit about what we've been doing |
| 269s | there cool yeah so one thing I've been |
| 271s | looking to do recently is just as we |
| 273s | talked about the previous episode uh |
| 276s | kind of Mana changes to kind of make |
| 278s | Mana feel a little bit more valuable so |
| 280s | I'm looking into the like regenerate how |
| 283s | much the abilities cost any sort of |
| 285s | benefit that can like give you Mana back |
| 288s | or give you benefits based on your Mana |
| 290s | so I'm kind of going through all the |
| 292s | atbs perks passives uh consumables to |
| 295s | just try and make Mana feel better but |
| 297s | less limiting in certain aspects of it |
| 300s | because yeah Mana is either kind of |
| 302s | useless or a major limiter especially in |
| 304s | lower levels as like starting characters |
| 306s | or you just start using a weapon and you |
| 308s | don't have all the benefits for it yet |
| 310s | or you may not have that many |
| 311s | consumables so just trying to make Mana |
| 313s | feel like it has a little bit more value |
| 315s | and then potentially with that uh treat |
| 317s | Mana as more of a limiter than uh |
| 320s | cooldowns are so we can kind of adjust |
| 322s | those to kind of just make it feel a |
| 324s | little bit more fun and different for |
| 325s | those weapons without having it just be |
| 328s | too kind of limiters at the other |
| 330s | weapons don't have cool yeah that's |
| 332s | definitely for me um when I think of |
| 334s | like Mana based weapons it's uh what |
| 338s | makes them unique is that they're |
| 339s | limited by Mana and not and and less so |
| 342s | on the cooldowns obviously the cool |
| 343s | Downs are still important for balancing |
| 345s | like the the like highly damaging |
| 348s | abilities but to you know to have the |
| 350s | ability to do more more like bursting or |
| 354s | and like more more resource management |
| 356s | and actually caring about Mana I think |
| 358s | is the goal there right yeah there's |
| 360s | just a lot of tuning with it so locally |
| 362s | I'm going to try a bunch we're going to |
| 363s | have play tests see how it works and |
| 365s | hopefully get it out in a really good |
| 367s | State the first try but if not we'll we |
| 368s | can always tune it and adjust it awesome |
| 371s | yeah and also like you know we're always |
| 373s | um looking to the Future and um thinking |
| 376s | about the next the next weapon uh we |
| 378s | don't have anything to announce at this |
| 379s | time but um it's definitely something |
| 381s | that uh we're starting to to to talk |
| 384s | about but in the in the short term what |
| 385s | we're actually uh focused on right now |
| 388s | is we're focused on doing more uh more |
| 391s | reworks of our existing weapons um to |
| 393s | kind of go back we you know we did a |
| 395s | little bit of that last year um with |
| 398s | like the the fire staff and the musket |
| 401s | um and and we want to get back to that |
| 403s | and and really just like focus in on |
| 404s | each weapon and like what makes this |
| 406s | weapon unique what makes it um fun and |
| 408s | and what can we what what can we do to |
| 411s | to just make it easier to use more fun |
| 412s | to use um like like Josh was talking |
| 415s | about um the the um the magic weapons |
| 419s | like making those more fun to play |
| 421s | especially like early early game like if |
| 424s | you if you picked up a fire staff and |
| 426s | you wanted to level up with it like uh |
| 428s | that that experience today isn't great |
| 430s | um so like those are the sorts of things |
| 432s | that we want to focus |
| 433s | on it is definitely we're definitely at |
| 435s | a point where we have you know so much |
| 438s | Focus has been on um on Slayer script |
| 441s | and uh getting um just getting the game |
| 444s | back into the same state that it was in |
| 447s | in in cage and uh in cage script which |
| 450s | was our old script scripting language um |
| 454s | and that's that's really taken uh the |
| 456s | bulk of our time um but we're we're |
| 459s | definitely getting back to a place now |
| 461s | where we can uh we can focus in on |
| 465s | making the game better right like this |
| 467s | animation uh and scripting replacement |
| 470s | that we we've implemented is the is it's |
| 473s | unlocking the future of of new world and |
| 475s | New World Combat um we will be able to |
| 478s | as designers um do way more than we were |
| 481s | ever able to do uh on our own in the |
| 484s | previous system like you know if you |
| 486s | wanted to make a a new a new weapon in |
| 489s | the old system like you know how much |
| 491s | engineering would you have to ask for |
| 493s | just to just to start on that oh yeah |
| 495s | just the core foundations of a new |
| 496s | weapon was just a lot of engineering |
| 499s | building that for us and then we'd have |
| 501s | to wait for them and then kind of start |
| 502s | getting our own scripting in but this |
| 504s | kind of streamlines it um also just yeah |
| 507s | like our main goal with the new rting is |
| 510s | just a it's either in parody with cage |
| 512s | which was our old system or or better |
| 515s | and yeah we have some rough stuff in the |
| 517s | PTR but our PTR build is also kind of |
| 519s | behind where we are in our like local |
| 521s | testing and development builds and so |
| 523s | there's already a pretty good |
| 524s | Improvement that we are experiencing |
| 527s | locally that will be hopefully going out |
| 529s | in either the another PTR update or when |
| 531s | season five goes alive all right that |
| 534s | brings us to the end uh that's all we |
| 536s | have to say for this episode uh but that |
| 539s | brings us to our community question and |
| 541s | what I'd most like to know is uh what |
| 544s | are you most excited about for this PTR |
| 547s | and what's coming up in season 5 let us |
| 550s | know in the comments and uh please like |
| 552s | And subscribe and uh we'll see you in a |
| 555s | turnam thanks for tuning |
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