Mundo abierto

Alpha-1 open world dungeon entrance.

80% of the content that will exist in Ashes of Creation is open-world and there's a specific reason for that. So because of the way that friendships and or enemies are forged in the game and people have the opportunity to create their own friends or foes. We want that to play out from a contesting standpoint as well. So a lot of these hunting grounds or raid bosses that people are going to have opportunities to kill, they're going to be essentially contested potentially by your your enemies that you've created in the game or you can work together to create alliances in order to defend those contested zones. – Steven Sharif

Ashes of Creation será una experiencia absoluta de mundo abierto.

• No habrá ni tiempo, ni pantallas de carga entre regiones.

Más o menos habrá una proporción de 80/20 entre mundo abierto y encuentros instanciados.

• Los asedios a castillos y nodos pueden tener zonas instanciadas donde grupos específicos pueden participar en encuentros basados en objetivos.
• Las mazmorras y las raids mantendrán una sensación de mundo abierto, aprovechando al mismo tiempo las mecánicas instanciadas.
  • La creación de zonas instanciadas solo se verá en determinadas mazmorras con el objetivo de tener un mayor impacto narrativo. Más allá de esto y de las arenas no habrá casi zonas instanciadas en ningún lugar.

There will be some open dungeons that have bosses at the end of the dungeons. There will be some open dungeons that just have a multitude of dungeon bosses, not necessarily world raids or something; and there will be lots of different rooms and they'll be progressive in the sense that in the earlier parts of the dungeon they'll be lower level and then at the later parts of the dungeons deeper down they'll be higher level and more difficult; and that creates again I think an ecosystem of where players across a multitude of levels have an opportunity to coexist within certain areas of the world; and that's good from a social dynamic. It's good from a recruitment dynamic. It's good from just a liveliness and relevance of particular areas. So that you don't end up with these locations that once you pass a certain level like it's empty. – Steven Sharif

• No hubo zonas instanciadas en el Alpha-1.

We're probably going to do instancing only in certain dungeons and in arenas. You probably won't see instancing too much anywhere else. What you see is gonna be what you get. – Jeffrey Bard

El sistema de PvP flagging favorecerá las oportunidades de pvp abierto.

Q: When you reach the bosses in [open world] dungeons can you be jumped?

A: For the most part if there are bosses at the end of dungeons, it is possible for you to get jumped. – Steven Sharif

Cotos de caza

You are on the prowl, and notice an unsuspecting player chopping trees. What would you do?

Los cotos de caza son zonas de Pvp de mundo abierto con el sistema de corrupción habilitado que y que abarcan la mayor parte del mapa.

• Los cotos de caza se refieren a matar monstruos o PNJs en mundo abierto.
• También se refiere a la lucha por recursos.

One of the interesting components of Ashes of Creation and our flagging system is that it presents the potential for two conflicting parties to have open conflict in the open world over pretty much anything that they may want or disagree with; and if that pertains to a hunting ground, not just the caravan or the castles or the nodes or whatever, it can exist in that area. – Steven Sharif

Outside of PvP for certain things like caravans, sieges of nodes and/or castles is that you're going to have those open-world hunting ground fights that may occur. You're going to have resources fights that may occur. You're going to have political fights that may occur between members of guilds; and we're taking the guild politics to a whole new direction in regards to playing those conflicts out. – Steven Sharif

Our PvP mechanics follow a flagging system, as well as static PvP zones at certain points of interest; fight for control over cities, castles, caravans, or hunting grounds. Our PvP is designed to offer the players a well-balanced and fair world to shape through the pen, or sword should they choose.

Entornos

Volcano area concept art by Ricky Ho.

We are a high fantasy game... That means that outside of the traditional sorts of environments you're going to start seeing some pretty crazy and wild stuff that will also change based on seasons. – Jeffrey Bard

Verran environments video.

Alpha-1 Oasis environment preview.

This is a second one of two of the large water oasis areas that we incorporated into the tropics biome. – Michael Bacon

Hay aproximadamente 18 biomas (entornos) en Ashes of Creation.

We just wanted to represent just about every biome type under the sun really and just have enough diversity over the world that like when you went from area to area , you really just got a contrast of different biome types. – Michael Bacon

Puntos de interés

Alpha-1 preview pirate themed dynamic point of interest.

This is actually a dynamic POI. This one will evolve as players evolve the node that it's attached to. So this is its final state. – Jeffrey Bard

Los nuevos puntos de interés (como las mazmorras, jefes de mundo, y zonas corruptas) aparecen conforme los nodos se desarrollan.Este contenido se adapta a la progresión del nodo de la zone donde se encuentra.

• Aparecerán Edificios adicionales.
• Aparecerán Enemigos adicionales.
  • Diferentes antagonistas/líderes con diferentes arcos de historia.
  • La población cambiará.
• La dificultad del contenido cambiará.
  • El contenido puede ser completamente diferente.
  • Ganchos de misiones diferentes.
• Las mazmorras se desbloquean cuando el nodo avanza a determinadas fases.
  • Múltiples nodos cercanos puede influir de forma colectiva en PDIs (Puntos de interés) más grandes.
  • Las mazmorras más grandes obtendrán contenido de mayor nivel a medida que avancen los nodos cercanos.
  • Los objetivos de la historia para los jugadores en las mazmorras dependerán de los arcos de historia elegidos a través del sistema de nodos.
• Las tablas de drop de zonas y mazmorras dependerán del avance de ciertas áreas.
• Los eventos de punto de interés son eventos relacionados directamente con determinados puntos de interés (POI).
• La ubicación de los puntos de interés será la misma en cada servidor, pero algunos servidores pueden tener acceso limitado o inexistente a los mismos.

Certain dungeons and other points of interest across the map will all be affected by the server’s node development. Some dungeons will only be unlocked if nodes are developed to certain stages. The storyline objectives for players inside dungeons will also be dependent on the story arc paths chosen through the node system. The drop tables in area and dungeons will also be tied into the progression of certain areas. For example, let’s say that the humans have developed a node in Region A, and a storyline has opened up that leads players to inspect the ruins (dungeon) of a nearby area. And let’s say that this node was developed in a scientific (crafting) zone… Well before the node developed, this dungeon was accessible… But now the dungeon has propagated new monster assets that include a drop table catering to a crafting emphasis because of the development of that academic node. And perhaps, a new boss appears in different rooms of the dungeon that includes different adventure quest starts, like a mysterious item with a storyline that can only be progressed if a node develops to the metropolis stage in a certain region, across the world. Our system is so vast, when it comes to interconnectivity and how the world reacts to the players.

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• Pvp
• Mazmorras
• Incursiones
• Entornos