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Steven Sharif, our Creative Director, did a live Community Q&A with ChibiBree (The Golden Feather), RitchieSH, and Simurgh (Ashes Pathfinders). Timestamps are below for your ease!
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
07:41 Most Challenging and Enjoyable Parts of the Journey
13:36 Zones In Alpha 2
16:43 Souls and Their Connection to Realms, Planes, and Avatars
22:18 Will Alpha 2 Include Part of the Eastern Continent?
22:49 Underrealm Size
24:10 Elaboration of Milestones
27:30 Bodies of Water in the Underrealm
28:12 Length of Alpha 2 and Avoiding Burnout
31:50 When Will We Know About Cosmetics and Freeholds?
37:56 How Will World Events Affect Freeholds?
40:24 How Do You Go About Designing Old School Systems In a Modern MMO?
49:49 What is the Current Scope for the Combat System?
54:07 When Will We See an Update for the Character Creator?
55:21 How Far Are You Willing to Go In Response to Player Feedback On Core Systems?
58:44 How Will Branching Storylines Affect Future Expansions?
1:00:55 The Separation of Artisan and Player Level and its Effect On Gathering
1:04:20 Perks To Leveling an Alt
1:06:02 Classes and Their Relevancy In Gameplay Loops
1:08:30 Will Testing In Alpha 2 be Compounding or Cyclical?
1:10:13 Will Dialog Choices Have Any Impact On Quests?
1:11:14 Will Players Be Able to Wield Blood Magic?
1:14:05 Do You Plan on Introducing All Primary Archetypes Before Adding Any Secondary Archetype Systems?
1:15:06 Metagaming Node Concerns
1:18:02 True Natives of Verra
1:19:45 Hiring and Customizing Labors On Your Freehold
1:21:33 Will You Use Unreal Engine 5.2?
1:22:46 Have Any Mechanics or Systems Been Cut From The Game?
1:24:37 Will There Be an Ashes Of Creation Themed TTRPG?
1:26:44 How Exactly Does The Constellation System Work?
1:29:46 Biggest Obstacle to Overcome Before Alpha 2
1:33:00 Outro & Content Creator Plugs
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see yall in 2051 for Alpha 2
Thank you to our entire community for being glorious! We hope that you enjoy this Q&A session with our Creative Director and some of our lovely community members. Thank you to ChibiBree, RitchieSH, and Simurgh for your time, and questions. We appreciate you all for your continued support of our development. It's going to be an adventure journey, and we love having you along with us!
GGz to all the content creators! so happy to see intrepid taking good care of the community, shout out to Margaret, Roshen, Vaknar, the CS team and all the mods ❤
Why is there a cartoon girl in this? 🤣
The closer anything gets the more heat you feel. Keep it cool Intrepid! We got your back
Oh man I can't wait.
Loved this Q&A, it answered a lot of questions I had!
Excited to see how the rest of the development unfolds in 2023
Amazing information as well as a genuine feel of community and passion. Great job everyone 👏🏽
I hope we can get away from a bunch of dumb npc"s just standing around randomly wating to get killed. You know a field fully of randomly placed orcs just sniffing the daisies. Maybe pathing mobs,; mobs that are out hunting. Mobs that are constructing their own cities to fight against the invading human players, etc.
Thank you Intrepid for providing the community with continued transparency and including us all in the development of this amazing game. As a member of Simurgh's Ashes Pathfinders thank you for answering some of the concerns we've had. I look forward to more excitement in the future with the up coming mage and cyclops streams. Much love. "Let them cook"
Based on what I have heard about the "XP Debt" system, I am not a fan. In my opinion, death is a reasonable penalty for not achieving a goal. Introducing XP debt might discourage players from venturing into uncharted territories due to the fear of dying and accumulating more XP debt. Nevertheless, it could be linked to the corruption system, where the higher your corruption level, the more XP debt you accumulate.
Love all the statues that Steven got on the stream.
Most important question when is alpha 2?
I really hope we can turn on or off pvp in map.
If you guys nail in combat, Verra will be my new home for years to come. Congratz for the achievements so far
Ya just waiting to see if it's going to be on ps5 or not but if it dont still looking good😊
Thank You guys for this opportunity!!! It was a blast!
Timestamps were really helpful. Thanks!
Will you incorporate GPT AI technology in NPC building?
Where is Narc?
Average development time for a AAA mmo 5 years. You are 7 years into it and only on Alpha. Sad thing is, you know this. You have little to no competition and know we will play it no matter what, because we are bored with everything already out. So your faux sympathy for the gaming community is misplaced. You could literally tell everyone to shut up, sit down and wait, and they will have no choice. I don't watch your development videos as you are still a year or so out at your rate. So everything you talk about could and likely will change. I'm optomistic for the game but not impressed with anything else, yet, I am sure I will buy it and play because some friends will be. Nothing else on the horizon is coming out anywhere near this level so I have to just suck it up.
Combat iteration is what is going to keep Ashes from launch for years (should go back to promised tab targeting). What if you don't want to do processing on a Freehold since you can only master one crafting system and processing is only 1/3 of choices, and some parts of Freehold are dedicated to a "processing" placement? Experience debt in A1 was so massive that some people had to delete their characters and start over – might consider making a defeat penalty less punitive. Good questions were asked; thank you to CCs.
Why doesn't anyone ask about itemization will items have cool fun stats or will they be just same boring main stats but higher numbers?