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1:33

[Music]

You didn't finish it?

Hello welcome to our Friday stream

Hi everybody

How's everybody doing out there in twitch land we're excited to be here with you today with special guest star Ashes of Creation community

Yes welcome everybody!

Welcome we've heard amazing things about you got you guys

You have a great stream I love it

Yeah your community is the fastest and most ever kick-started MMORPG community

Yeah it's pretty awesome we're so glad to have you here is it

So well done with that and we are going to be looking at some questions on our discord and on Twitch so if you are not on our discord that is discord.gg/ashesofcreation so go on over there get registered and there is a channel called what is this channel called live stream Q&A

That's a good name for a channel

Pretty pretty good good channel name you can post a question there once every 500 seconds to help with the spam

Synchronize watches

And you can pretty much post any question you want hopefully that's up and running right now because I don't see any questions in it yet so but we'll also be taking questions from twitch as well so cool news we passed 13,000 backers on unlocking the unique Kickstarter die set

Yeah everybody gets one

3:05

Yeah I know that there was some questions about how dyes work in the game and just to give you a brief answer on that dies within the game will be one-time use items however the Kickstarter exclusive die set will be used to override the color of a dye item you have attained so basically you're gonna be able to use this Kickstarter dye set to change a die you've achieved in game to the color of the Kickstarter dye set that you want and then you can use that on a piece of armor or whatever is applicable

And that persists too you're not gonna lose it

Right exactly yeah and I think our next to our next goal that we unveiled on Wednesday was the 16,000 backers which I think we're at just about 14,000 right now

Yeah yeah we're churning up real quick you guys are turning on the juice

Yeah so over six days remaining in the Kickstarter we're coming up across upon the 2.5 million dollar goal and

Getting real close to releasing that race

That's exciting I'm excited abotu that

That's pretty big that it's a pretty cool race I think and it adds well to to kind of reflect another aspect of races

What's been happening on this world

Right exactly so pretty excited about that so guys if you have some questions you can start asking them

Did you set it to 500 minutes?

I no I don't I just set it to 500 seconds I don't know can you open the channel oh okay I'll open the channel so I guess we could take questions from twitch well I'm opening up the channel should be read messages and send messages is available I've never tried to open the channel from up there we go got it oh my god it's happening

The floodgates

Alright very cool so we have a question from Reaper of Cookies I like that name will you allow us to save our UI settings on our drives as well

Yes

Yeah

Yeah that's all gonna be local we can probably pack that out into a little file for everybody to take along with them

There we go ui UI settings are savable from como how will blacksmithing work will it be like traditional MMOs where you have to get the materials and then click craft or I'm trying to hold this there or will there be QuickTime events or something to make the weapons stats and better hmm I think it's going to be I think it's going to be a combination of collecting obviously the materials that are necessary in accordance with the recipes that would be necessary for certain items that you're crafting as well and then there's going to be dials that are available for you to manipulate the stats of the item you're creating based on your crafter level and/or achievements as a crafter and then also relating to what that recipe kind of allows within the realm of that weapons capabilities

Right

6:16

Right let's see from Slice Effect at ThreeView games for the royalty package on Kickstarter will we be able to stream the Q&A session to our own channels that's the royalty package is the $2,500

I believe so yeah

Yeah and that's the private Q&A

Yeah

Yeah yeah

That's a good questions

Those would probably be under NDA?

I would imagine

Yeah

Yeah I think that we would not allow streaming of that Q&A outside of the group of people who are participating in that

It might depend on what we're talking about too

Yeah

And there could be an embargo on it as well like you might be able to after a certain period of time [cross-talk]

Yeah 'cause it just depends on how deep and how secretive we get with what we're releasing on what kind of questions come up there definitely probably going to be some conversations that we'll have that we don't want getting out to the bigger community right at that moment

Mm-hmm

7:17

Right good yeah okay question from Dozer026 the Kickstarter items will be permanent for us to use unlimited charges skin overrides? so that's a good question we had a little bit of a question about mounts specifically in regards to the Kickstarter rewards so I mean you are the mounts are actually mounts they have unique abilities like cosmetic abilities for example you know the white runic steed will be able to activate a cosmetic skill that allows the runes the emissive runes on its body to glow a little bit the obsidian steed is going to have a skill that you can use which will probably cause flames to come out of its hooves while it's moving in the room for a period of time and the spectral mare is going to have kind of an effects ability that you can use which kind of lets its body you know kind of mist out into the into the world while you're moving with it so what the way we've done it is you know we don't want to give you a single mount that's going to become obsolete through you know you breeding a new one through the animal husbandry system or coming across a better one later in the game and achieving that kind of thing we want to be able to give you an item that we call a skin although technically it's not really a skin but it is it is sort of in the sense that you get to take that item that Kickstarter reward that Kickstarter mount and you can apply the white runic seed item to a horse you earn in the game and that will turn the appearance of that horse into the white runic seed with the abilities and you'll keep the stats of what that horse that you earned had

Right

What's just the appearance from the Kickstarter map that sticks to our principles of no pay to win and it also allows that horse to stay with you throughout your progression in the game if you want to apply it to different mounts

Right ten years down low and it's going to be still relevant

9:08

Exactly and it's still gonna be extremely unique

Right

Let's see Drive Guto Guido oh oh wow right wow thank you aside from races what did you take inspiration from in Lord of the Rings? that's an interesting question [cross-talk]

That's a really good question I love questions like that oh that kind of stuff is always really hard to unpack though I could probably write a whole paper on that cuz it's hard to tell right because we all grew up with with you know D&D and we grew up with a Lord of the Rings and then we grew up with the books and

And it's hard not to take inspiration from something so fundamental

Yeah

Right in the fantasy genre

Yeah I mean we're all influenced by it we're all we're all kind of a fantasy fan but

It's hard to separate specifically out like what that you know it's just so fundamental at this point to fantasy

I mean to me like for me a lot of Frodo's discovery of or use of sting in Lord of the Rings always was really cool to me right like [cross-talk]

The singer?

No the sword

I thought you meant Sting the singer [laughter]

But I mean that was a weapon that had a story that had like purpose in the world above and beyond just being like a +1 sword right I think we kind of like like take stats and we just make the math of the important part whereas in Lord of the Rings the weapon had a story had a background it had a reason for being there and that's sort of something that I'm taking with me from Lord of the Rings

10:55

Yeah all right here we go will the religion of assist us from ZBuccaneer will the religions rival each other in belief or are they all just completely different and unrelated?

They're all related related

Yep

Yeah we're talking about a pantheon here not necessarily like separate religions they're all kind of offshoots of who is the better God or who is the God who identifies best with you

And I think that another thing about our Pantheon to note is that each God kind of has a specific realm that they relate to in the world and its creation

Right

Like what are they responsible for [cross-talk]

What facet of the world are they part of and which part of that do you identify most with um so so think of it less like different religions but different aspects of religions you know

Yeah I think we mentioned the last time it's the ice cream truck yeah [laughter] I saw the blank stare but I think we mentioned last time that there's no direct like combativeness between the religions it's more so incentive player based so

Right there is gonna be in regards to development some competition perhaps between the followers of different religions in in progressing them across the world

If a node gets built and that node has a temple slot

Exactly

And there's only one temple slot whose religion gets that temple built

It stopped right outside there

It it's stopping right

It knows [cross-talk]

It's waiting for your Steven

Look it he is standing there

It knows your weakness

Should I go get some?

You should

Really?

If you want

In the middle of the stream? no I can't do that okay sorry about that so those are good questions oh another thing about our pantheon of gods is that there are antagonists

Mm-hmm

And in the how far should we get into this? [laughter]

Hmm I don't know I don't know

Just be careful

I don't think you need to

Really okay

The stream is saying you should get ice cream

Really? I can't he ran away he's driving away

We could take a video of you running after him

Oh no no no I don't need that I life right now okay

Shall we get some twitch ones or?

No

No I mean some Twitch questions [cross-talk]

Yeah should get some Twitch ones

Oh Twitch questions I thought you said get twitch the ice cream [laughter]

Is what say again? yeah uh-huh we will reveal more about our music in the future very few near future next question what oh it's okay

Will there be a level cap

Hmm did you say manga thief?

Manga manga thief will there be a level cap?

Yes

Absolutely yeah yes but that's in regards to also like different progression paths right you have a level cap in an adventuring class and then we have like hierarchical social paths that progress within different organization

There's all sorts of ways you can progress um but like if you're talking about like the strict adventuring kind of classic yeah there's a cap there.

14:23

Yep okay next one

Can we cover our characters bodies in tattoos?

Like a full body sleeve? [cross-talk]

Like one tattoo

I mean that wasn't what we had mind

But I [cross-talk]

I'm trying to think the character creation suite like if that would be applicable?

Right I [cross-talk]

I mean we could [cross-talk]

I would [cross-talk]

You could technically make it that it would be like a brush you could put on the character and you could just completely brush the body with it right?

No more like a because you want it to like fit the character right so what you'd probably do is we just we could either right make like sleeves you put on different parts of your body right and create your own kind of full body sleeve out of parts or we can make compose like finished sleeves for the whole body and then just give you a couple of options there um that's not what we were intending but it's something we can really think about

Yeah

Got it

I've never seen it but yeah [cross-talk]

That was an interesting question

Yeah

Yeah

15:27

Alright here we go let's see a question from discord do we have evil gods or demonic beings to worship?

Well that was a

Logical next step yeah I guess so I guess we'll just give a little bit of a reveal

Okay so this relates back to you the previous question that I said we shouldn't talk about [cross-talk]

So the beginning of the the creation of this universe that exists within Ashes of Creation was a result of a group of God's beings there were ten of them and there was a celestial struggle in this in this world in this universe that resulted in a fraction of those of those gods yeah and there exists within this story two components of good and evil so to speak

Yeah

And and it's it's it's potentially possible for some storylines to relate to that evil path if a character should choose to

It's a darker path [cross-talk]

Exactly [cross-talk]

It's not necessarily evil [cross-talk]

Yeah that's true I wouldn't [cross-talk]

But it's dark and [cross-talk]

It's pretty evil though [cross-talk]

Probably evil yeah [laughter]

But yes to the short short answer that question there is absolutely a darker path that you could walk should you choose

Right

Definitely a different world view

16:58

Yes [laughter] okay Deadly asks do you like cookies?

Yes yes actually cookies [cross-talk]

You don't like cookies

Ah yeah I don't like cookies

What?

You know when I eat a big bowl of ramen oh the thing I want most afterwards is a chocolate chip cookie

How interesting is that that's strange I'm I like macadamia nut cookies

I'm not a fan

Wow

Macadamia nuts kind of take away from the rest of the cookie

No they add to it

It's a nut I don't want to eat a nut in my cookie [cross-talk]

They definitely add to it what are you what are you talking about that's like the best part of cookies unbelievable just when I thought I knew you [laughter] SomeTesting2521995 asks some game play please and I do believe actually we will be showing our additional freeholds I think our Empyrian elf

Yeah freeholds

Yeah yeah the Empyrian elf freeholds will be showing here momentarily in addition I think we'll be releasing a freehold in-game look on YouTube after the stream that's just going to show some of the the Kaelar and Empyrian freeholds so yes friend gameplay

18:10

T-Elf asks will you discuss banking if there will be shared spaces between alts?

Shared spaces between alts

So you're gonna have an account management page that especially for like Kickstarter items you'll be able to assign certain items to specific characters

Right

Right and you could move those items if you wished between the characters of course it's only gonna be applicable to one at a time

Right

So there's that kind of thing

But yeah as far as banking between characters is is probably not going to yeah

I don't think we necessarily have an answer for that yet

Yeah yeah [cross-talk]

I think that's something

Yeah we'll stay away from that for now [cross-talk]

It's something we're looking at or still discussing

18:54

Okay let us see this one is ISS asks the International Space Station can the cleric skills do extra damage to corrupted monsters / players

That was something that we alluded to I can't remember I think was in a dev blog I think I can't remember I remember writing this but but yeah that's kind of one of the clerics utility skills off the off the you know off the top is that they they are they have control over life right which gives them control over the status of that life which also keys into corruption so you'll be seeing stuff like that

19:49

Okay and Nazoki asks will you go for a bikini plate armor for females? personally personally I'm more of the mind that it wouldn't really serve a purpose to have bikini plate armor just in like reality like if you're gonna have armor it should be protective

Mm-hmm

And I think from a fashion statement it's enjoyable for some people but it's a kind of immersive and issue immersive issue to have bikini [cross-talk]

It really depends on what your flavor is right and we're going for kind of a more realistic look

Right

Not necessarily realistic setting but kind of we want our characters to have weight and kind of feel like you know they're there that this could possibly maybe be an alternate world somewhere so

Right

Yeah

Okay another question it's hard to this thing keeps moving so fast

I've got a few from Matthew

Okay sure

20:45

McCheshire asks will each race have their own armor and weapon appearances?

The answer to that is yes

Yes so armor sets and or armor pieces are going to have unique they're gonna be somewhat similar in the sense of maybe color scheme or reflective of what that set is [cross-talk]

What that thing is right plate armor is gonna look like plate armor but plate armor on you know and an Empyrean elf is going to look different than plate armor on

Py'rai or Kaelar

Right

So yeah different races are going to reflect different armor the armor same pieces of armor differently

Yeah

21:22

And TheGamerKid118 asks how does the sub type of race affect gameplay?

So it affects gameplay in quite a few different ways the one of the main primary ways is how it affects your class you you will get race racially aspected abilities based on your class

And augments

And augments and then also you have your stats grow in different ways based on what what race you choose [cross-talk]

You're going to have base stats that are that are different among the races and you're also going to have stat growth as you said that are going to be different

Right

As your character progresses and those augments will come into a pretty big play I think

And also the the appearance and the NPC's that are available in nodes changes based on what race has contributed the most to that node

Mm-hmm

22:14

I have one that sounds really cool to me

Okay go for it

Macca duper asks

Macca duper

If if a guild all got monster coins would they all be able to turn into monsters and wreak havoc

No no so another question that was asked in regards to our monster coin system so owning a monster coin does not entitle you to spawn a monster at will

Right

Monster coin events will occur triggered by different things in the world whether the encroachment of nodes into a certain area or the successful defeat of a boss or you know the building of a certain type of building within a node there are a lot of different triggers that that spawn these these events within the world and when the event spawns people who own monster coins will be in a queue based on what ID is associated with the monster coin so it's gonna be difficult for four groups to time their events together unless they acquired the monster coins it at around the same time

And event triggers that can handle everybody

Exactly right yes in addition you know monster coin events they don't grant any advantage for certain players they have cosmetic rewards for both the defenders and the attackers and that's something that we wanted to make sure was was specific to the monster coin so that there was no pay2win element there and that kind of stuff we're very well aware that systems if they can be gamed they will be gamed and we're making sure to develop the monster coin system so that there is no potential for gaming there you cannot use your monster coins for an event that we're is reacting to a node of which you're a citizen of and you know if a player doesn't use a monster coin during these events they're run by the AI naturally

Right yeah these are events that would occur regardless of whether or not you've had in monster coin

Mm-hmm

It's just you get to kind of ride them think of them like you know a pub you know we all know what public quests are right and that's kind of like where our event system comes from is that kind of an idea so think of it like I am part of a public quest and now I am riding one of those monsters in that public quest

24:33

All right all right boy man this thing doesn't stop moving let's see how okay don't move Patheros asks how will the difficulty / level of monsters be determined will it differ between location or will it be based on the level of a node?

Little bit of both

Little bit of both so I think you're going to see in the world naturally there will be locations that are going to have a mix of different levels of monsters and difficulty levels and then those spawn tables relate to the development of nearby nodes so as nodes develop they'll be changing the spawn tables around them to reflect their further development in the world presenting new and more difficult dangers that the players can can participate in

Yeah and our our zones really aren't separated out by like levels so you know as you go out in the world you're not going to find the level ten zone will 15 zone level 20 zone when you go through the zone you're gonna see different sized creatures and different level creatures kind of all over the place so so it's something that you're going to have to be careful going out in the world you'll probably see some cool things that you can't take on right now but that's okay

And it kind of came from a place of trying to eliminate you know drawing a line for you guys just to follow

Right

Instead of making it a little bit more mysterious

25:59

Okay question from Valla for crafting will recipes be automatically learned or will we go out and find the recipes? I think you're going to be finding the recipes for the most part and one cool thing remember your discussion about royalties

Yeah I did

Do you want to talk about that a little bit?

I don't know 'cause that's not confirmed

It was not confirmed but you know we can speculate

Yeah

They like speculation right?

Okay yeah [cross-talk] so we talked about having yeah so yeah so we talked about having this idea where if somebody discovers a recipe they get kind of exclusive access to that recipe for a given amount of time kind of similar to a patent and then they can license that recipe out to other crafters so they can use the recipe and eventually that that timer runs out and then everybody can use it but we wanted to kind of reward people for experimentation and kind of going out in the world and finding something new [cross-talk]

And let's say you come across a boss and and you get that that rare you know kind of drop from that boss and you you want to disassemble it so you can replicate it or whatever and you get that rare recipe

Right

You license it out taking a cut of some of the fees associated that you can potentially adjust

Right

And you collect income from that too

Yeah so that's something we're talking about that's not in any way shape or form confirmed but it is something that we thought was interesting and something that would be pretty doable so [cross-talk]

Hey I like it I love it

Take that with a grain of salt

27:33

Yeah do we want to show some of the gameplay footage now? we can show some of the okay so this is the Empyrian elf elven freehold

Do you want to do a raffle right before then?

What?

Raffle we didn't do the beginning rifle

So we'll also do the raffle now while we're watching this

Okay

Raffle raffle raffle

Raffle raffle all right so let's keep asking questions I don't think there's any music to this

That's why I was singing

28:13

Okay so I get it very nice question from Sanctum Trollamonder Trollmonder how will we know how much we need of X item/resource to build/level the node

You're not really going to

Yeah I don't think you're going to know how close the note is I mean that's part of the competitive nature of the node system

Right

Right different people have different resources invested in nodes progressing and it would be a little gamey if you could know exactly what was necessary [cross-talk]

Right

At that point because that would disincentivize people from participating

You'll be able to see sort of like the relative you know growth of the node but you're not gonna really be able to track you know exactly how what percentage what item gave you or what this monster kill gave it that's all going to be stuff that's going to be not observable

29:05

So Goat asks and there's a little goat emote on his question which I love I love goats will there be any server versus server PvP the best from all servers becoming the quote-unquote hero of their main goat class I mean class? so it's something we've definitely discussed in regards to specifically like the arena system being cross server and even potentially one of the contenders for our military metropolis unique benefits would be access to a kind of hero system based cross server competition for for specific archetypes but we're still in discussions about that there's a lot of contenders for that role but yeah we definitely like the cross-server play I think it's cool because it it is something that players get to participate in

It is just a large exposure right like you get to kind of you know interact with other people that you wouldn't normally get to interact with and we think that's cool and of course you know when you're talking about arena play especially like one server might not be able to support that depending on what's going on with it but across all the servers then we've got a really great pool for for matchmaking and all that

Absolutely and we want to have a lot of good matchmaking okay question all right here we go

30:33

When do you think okay question from Desminith Desminith and when do you think you will have your royal and above pleasures come to visit the studios?

That's a really good question!

I'm excited about that actually

I can't wait actually

I don't know when though that's a good question it's something we're gonna have to we're gonna be in communication with those pledgers [cross-talk]

Because we want everybody kind of [cross-talk]

And we'll probably have a couple of dates too so that we can have maybe two groups but you know we have a lot of pledges at that level too

Yeah

Yeah

And at least then that gives people a wider range to choose from and stuff like that [cross-talk]

Right [cross-talk]

But we're definitely going to be in communications with those people to to get this [cross-talk]

Because it's not gonna be just our schedule it's gonna be their schedule too [cross-talk]

Exactly [cross-talk]

So we're going to make sure that nobody loses out on that so

And I'm very excited about that we've had some random visitors already actually

Yes we have had some people say hello to us

31:25

Yes let's see here will underground nodes okay this is from DI Dollar AoC buff bot well

No such thing as a buff bot

Yeah there's no buff bot

It's not gonna happen

Will under wilk underground nodes use the same Caravan routes as above-ground nodes or will they be underground as well?

They will be underground as well we want to make it so that potential routes go underground

Oh yeah

There will be advantages and disadvantage to doing that it's a little bit dangerous but also might be safer at the same time so so yeah there's some fun stuff we're gonna do with that

32:07

Yes underground for sure okay here we go we have another question Birchtree will users be able to purchase party items from the cash shop such as fireworks water toys?

Oh yeah totally

Perhaps a temporary repell effec if monsters for monsters if they wanted I can't see because it keeps bouncing wanted to host a picnic or somesuch

Yeah so definitely for for a lot of those but other things not for repelling monsters [cross-talk]

Yeah that would be gameplay specific [cross-talk]

But but yeah we're totally gonna have a lot of social stuff for people to do fireworks are big picnics a great idea I didn't really think about that I've been thinking in terms of like camps and stuff but but going out having picnic with a couple people would be really rad so [cross-talk]

32:59

That'll be pretty cool okay let's see question from Almers can you be good can you be a good tank without using a shield like a shadow night in eq2 or a dread night in Vanguard? Evasion tank [cross-talk]

Yeah totally we're building around kind of like lots of different options for that um a bit like Steven said Evasion tanks control tanks shield tanks there's gonna be there's gonna be a good mix of all that and then sub class will also determine a role in that too

Tanks will not be forced to have a shield but it will definitely be a viable option

Mm-hmm

This is a good question from MakeMMOsGreatAgain how come Stephen only steals Jeff's water but but will not touch Peters water what has Peter done to his water to make me avoid it?

You'll notice that I'm sitting on this side I'm not sitting on that side

Right

Well I think that's one of the great life mysteries and it might even be lore-specific [laughter]

Wow big reveal big if true

It's just closer it's just closer and and Peter drinks so much coffee that I feel he needs the water [laughter]

I need to hydrate I definitely need to hydrate

So you know there's that okay Yogurt will players gathering and building a village purely out of freeholds be viable?

So so I mean that's gonna be sort of more of a player story kind of thing like yes you can have a bunch of friends all build freeholds in the same place but but it's not going to be a village right not in the sense that you use it in discussions here yeah

Yeah no nodes no node villages is I mean the most important thing about a freehold also is that you actually cannot place a freehold unless you have a village stage node or above

Right so you know the nodes the node mechanics work outside of that but you could as you said you know RP cosmetic whatever place those freeholds in some kind of closer proximity

Right

And that's your de facto village area

35:08

Okay Dozer26 asks am i able to start up a tavern on a ship like a like a riverboat casino?

Okay

Or something

Okay dozer

Well I'm just getting excited I'm sorry [laughter]

No it's awesome it's totally awesome I mean it's not something that again I considered but alright

Could you have a party boat ship?

We should totally have a party boat

We should think about that

We should totally have a party boat

I love that thought dozer we're gonna think about it

I want the person who makes the party boat charge a little entry fee

Right [cross-talk]

You can take 'em out on a cruise [cross-talk]

And come back [cross-talk]

They go shoot some whales and come back it would be awesome [cross-talk]

It sounds awesome oh my god we're gonna think about this [cross-talk]

Shall we take some Twitch?

Oh yeah Twitch okay do we have some twitch ones

Okay

Sorry discords right here so it's so much easier [cross-talk]

But if you're on Twitch and you're not on discord you should go get on discord because there's a lot of information there you know Ron discord a lot and there's a great easier than twitch

But also subscribe on Twitch and follow us [cross-talk]

Yeah yeah subscribe on Twitch

36:17

Meletey asks what role will alliances play in regards to Guild Wars and castle sieges?

What roles will guilds play

Alliances play

Alliances play

In castle sieges?

And Guild Wars

And guild wars that's a good question

It's all on how you use it [cross-talk]

Right it depends [cross-talk]

It's it's how you want to leverage that Alliance basically

And and yeah and there are some Alliance mechanics that are gonna be at play as well like you know you will have Alliance indicators where you can invite guilds with them into the Alliance so to speak it will show you as a part of an alliance and there can be there's gonna be some mechanics at play there that could have even Alliance Wars so to speak a war between guilds and a war between alliances maybe yeah I think that I think we're gonna discuss a little bit more about those systems when we delve into that blog about Guild Wars we're gonna talk about alliances and that

37:14

What else

Anyone

Concality asks will there be flying mounts in any form? [cross-talk]

No [cross-talk]

Will there be flying mounts in any form? [cross-talk]

Oh no there's flying mounts there's there's a dragon that is is claimable by kings and queens of castles and mayors of metropolis in addition there may be a very rare drop that comes from a you know epic world bosses that may have an egg that's a timed dragon so that you know a few players in addition in the world may have access to those but it would die after a period of time and what if you lose your king or queen position or your mayor's position you lose access to the dragon

Generally flying is not something that we're going to be doing in this game and there's a lot of reasons for that a lot of some of it is economic some of it is just you create this this really great looking world and and we don't want you flying over all the time yeah so everything kind of happens on the ground and making kind of a flying game kind of changes that in our approach so

That's why we reserved it to very very few people per server which is also going to make it a lot more meaningful when those flying dragons come into play for certain events and stuff it's a cool objective to have there

38:24

Okay question there we go if okay Sir Lagsalot nice if AoC becomes a huge hit

Which it will

Which it looks like it will [laughter] do you think you will bring it to console for people who don't play on PC?

I think we had a touched on that one

Yeah we touched on this a little bit you know obviously our goal with if Ashes is very specific to getting out a perfectly built game to PC first and foremost that is our dedicated focus whether what that brings in the future after that comes to be in regards to console whether the franchise moves in a console direction with a single-player RPG or something else

Yeah

That's a different question

I mean it's also you kind of like how Xbox is now adapting official keyboard and mouse support that makes it a lot easier for us to consider a port yeah so it's it's something that we are it's always in the back of our head we know there's a huge audience out there but yeah right now we are fully 100% committed to to PC and Windows first

39:34

Dirty dirty sloth ninety-four asks how will the new race that we may unlock which it's looking like it may be today interact with the other races will they be able to go to the surface and will they be hostile or friendly? well I think that's up to the player of the character

Yeah up to the player

You know there's no factions so and this race absolutely is going to be able to go to the surface and vice versa

Maybe they don't get that it's a player race? It's a player race yeah like right [cross-talk] like me I don't know yeah I don't know if that's where the hangup is [cross-talk]

Oh yeah yeah yeah a player race [cross-talk] yeah yeah yeah no yeah player race no but [cross-talk] so you can go to the surface they can come to you you know it's all part of that underrealm expanse and it's just gonna be like any other race in regards to affiliations

Right

It's going to be up to the player to make those

40:25

Okay let's see question from oh gosh it keeps moving here we go wait let's just pause this I can't

Jen you got a Twitch one?

Yes Enestar13 asks will we ever do a meet-and-greet for fans?

A meet-and-greet yeah

Of course

Sure

Yeah yeah

I think we're gonna be at we are gonna be at PAX West this year

PAX prime

PAX prime

PAX prime PAX West PAX prime and that's in September first week of September

First week of September yep so that's gonna be fun

Yeah

Oh did we just officially make that announcement

Oh we did

Oh it's out of the bag [laughter]

Okay official announcement

See you there [laughter]

We're gonna send out a press release

So yeah we'll probably be hitting up a lot of the major the major conferences and yeah and who knows what the future will bring right if we blow doors off on the first day of our launch then you know we'll probably have a fanfare of our own we'll do stuff like that yeah

41:34

Zapp asks what happens if I breed a horse with a turtle? [laughter] You get a tourse or you get a hurtle! [laughter]

Okay I can go with that

That's a great question Zapp

Bring in the hard ones right

So I guess specifically animal husbandry related breeding are going to have different classes of mounts that are going to be

Breedable

Breedable

Yeah yeah we're not gonna be creating gryphons and stuff out of things you know like as cool that would be that's [cross-talk]

We're not going down like the chimera route

Yeah yeah

Although obviously a hortle would be so cool [cross-talk]

There will probably be chimeric type creatures [cross-talk]

A hortle would be very cool but [cross-talk]

It would be much more comfortable 'cause they'd have a firm saddle area [cross-talk]

You could build a little house on it [cross-talk]

I'm trying to imagine can you picture it?

It would have turtle legs but with a horse head and a turtle back

Okay

With a horses like mane and tail it could be interesting let's do it [cross-talk] we'll get Jeff the concept artist on it okay Ardoron asks what about underground nodes if it exists how will it be sieged? Well they do exist first of all they're not right there in the game and

Thanks to you guys

Yes absolutely and they'll be sieged the same way

I mean terrain-wise yeah it'll be a little bit different but not terribly different it just

It's still going to be balanced [cross-talk]

43:16

Okay question from from McStackerson can summoners fuse with their summons? like a synthesist summoner oooh that was such a

Overpowered piece of

Wow! Wow! I couldn't help but that I was a venerable elf with a synthesist eidolon [cross-talk]

Right can't sleep

Okay and I couldn't sleep exactly no to answer question I don't think we're outside of the siege one where you can fuse with the with the thing I don't think we're going to have like an eidolon fused I mean I don't know

Probably not

We don't have that [cross-talk]

It's not something that's currently in the cards I guess

43:59

Right here we go let's say okay Cuddly Stabbings that's a little bit of an oxy [cross-talk]

That's kind of [cross-talk]

A little bit of an oxymoron let's say you are elven and are you stuck quote-unquote with only elven Armor style weapons and freeholds or can you choose what style you want between the races? So armor or weapons aren't going to be reflective necessarily races but armor will have some reflect of the race freeholds you can choose any type of blueprints you want [cross-talk]

You you're not locked into your race creating any specific type of house [cross-talk]

Yeah I agree

There's a path to making it look at however you want

Yeah mm-hmm alright how about Twitch ones we got some more Twitch ones?

Yeah we have a couple there and then we need to start switching gears to the forum questions

Okay got it

Okay

For from Checkeredge is node citizenship necessary will you miss out by not choosing one aka can you be homeless treat every note as their enemy become an outlaw and raid and plunder for your own game? [laughter]

So the first part of that question is do you have to declare citizenship? no you do not will you be missing out on certain things if you're not a citizen yes there are certain citizenship things you'll be missing out and if you choose not to be a citizen

But you won't be paying taxes

Exactly yeah and then can you just be a bandit and a what did you call it the other stream something hobo

Murderer hobo

Murderer hobo could you be that?

Well I guess

It's not easy life

It's a hard knock life

Right

Wow

But I mean it's yeah you can do that

Sequeso asks can you tell us more about mounts such as can they die and if so are they lost forever?

No

I know we've answered this but I know some people are new [cross-talk]

Yeah if people are concerned about that you're never gonna lose a mount forever wait I should never say never never

Should never say never [laughter]

Should never say never but I can't think anything off the top of my head where you'd lose a mount forever

Ahh hold on

The dragon

The dragon is absolutely a mount that you can lose if you're no longer king queen or mayor in addition there there may be [cross-talk]

That's not exactly like a mount though like that's almost like a special superpower more than like [cross-talk]

In the realm of mounts [cross-talk]

In the classic sense probably not [cross-talk] but there I mean we may expand [cross-talk]

It is a thing you ride that you can lose

Yes [laughter] but outside there maybe epic timed mounts as well we may go down a little bit further that road not just having the dragon ones but you could have mounts be an epic drop that that would be timed as well so there could be timed mounts but traditional amounts of you to achieve in the game will not be killable so to speak however you may well we'll talk about that later but yeah traditionally no

46:42

On that note can you breed those special mounts in the animal husbandry system?

Which special mounts?

Such as dragons or the ones you're talking about with the okay [cross-talk]

You can not breed those [cross-talk]

That's what I mean by them not being [cross-talk]

You can breed specially you know very rare tameable animals that you can find out in the wild they're rare and that you know falls into that system of like exploring the breeding tree

Okay

Do we want to move to forums 15 minutes?

Oh yeah we can move to forums sorry 15 minutes okay let's move to forum questions

So do need my phone?

Sure

Okay

Really?

I got him like

No

Yeah I just got a scroll a little bit okay

Perón

Oh you got them up there too?

47:35

I'll them take okay Perón will there be a mechanism to transfer a guild leadership role to someone else in the guild if the leader doesn't come online a certain period of time?

That's something we've been talking about

Without the guild leader doing it himself?

Right as if they went inactive

When a guild gets kind of abandoned by their [cross-talk]

Leader [cross-talk]

The leader right [cross-talk]

Kind of dies

Yah it kind of dies [cross-talk]

Traditionally [cross-talk]

So yeah we've been talking about that there's it's it's tough though because it's it's there's a lot of abuse that could happen with that so it's something we're not really ready to talk about now it's something that we're it's a problem we're aware of and it's a problem that we're working on a solution for but we're not quite there yet

48:12

Okay crispy will there be an arena for guild vs. guild

Arena for guild yeah the open world [laughter]

The world is your arena [laughter]

No I don't think about arenas specifically for Guild vs Guild

Okay

There's team vs team battles yeah

I mean yeah

You can utilize the team battle system you know we were yeah like if you could if we had a 5v5 degree we were talking about how in the 5v5 arena you could enter the matchmaking as a team to face other teams

Yeah

Yeah that's that I guess would be your de facto kind of guild arena

48:48

Azurill will there be collection quest/side activities in Ashes

Yes

Yes

Yeah that's yeah

Easy one

Skyborne if I have a freehold on a land that is primarily Elven can I change my freehold to look like another races instead so we said yes to that already sorry

49:05

Aeon Auron how impactful are the social organizations going to be for instance are they always at war with each other can a member of the traders company freely kill a member of the Thieves Guild etc? so basically are their de facto pitted

Factions right

Where it's open no

Yeah

Again it's it's gonna be more like the [cross-talk]

Political intrigue [cross-talk]

The religion system where you know they have goals they're going to be working towards their goals sometimes two organizations goals might not align with each other right and there'll be conflict there but it's not going to be like everybody in the trait the traders guild is at war with everybody in the Thieves Guild

Right

It's gonna be up to the players to kind of decide [cross-talk]

But the player's gonna be faced with options of their incentive versus another person's incentives and that's kind of where

It will be more of an intrigue kind of war than be an open like I'm gonna kill you because you're a trader and I'm a thief and that's what we do

Right

Right traders guild might want to work with the thieves guild

Exactly they gotta move that loot [cross-talk]

50:00

The Trolls Creed can you own a business change across notes such as a chain okay gotcha can you own business chains across nodes such as a chain of inns or stores so can you have franchises almost like [laughter] can you have you know

You can only have one freehold so the answer to that like off the top of like the mechanics is no but there's no reason why you couldn't license your name to somebody else who also has a freehold in who also has an inn and work together to create a system like that that's totally possible

50:37

Okay um Zesty how many players will be able to be rendered on screen at a time? how will this affect large-scale player battle such as sieges?

So I think one of the cool things about Unreal is you have a lot of Mechanics for client-side to render what they I know what I render

Right mhm yeah I mean ultimately that's kind of outside of like what our networking kit is capable of that's kind of up to the client we try to make it as easy as possible for the client to handle as many as we want to throw them so I mean

It's gonna be a lot yeah I mean

We don't have hard numbers yet but we've got we've gotten quite a few characters on screen at the same time without too much impact so

And that's at this early

Right

Right yeah

That's the only gonna grow

51:25

So Tephra will ships be player craftable?

Yes

Yeah okay

Pretty much anything in the world that you're like its constructed or is built or you know it's all gonna be done by the players

51:37

Samuel Lancaster will there be a scribe or anything similar

Scribe as in like scrolls and stuff

Like scrolls or books or I guess anything that contains writing

They want to be able to collect information about the events of the as they see it from their point of view for instance nodes leveling up they want to be able to take that information down and be the one who distribute it

To document it yeah [cross-talk]

Yeah yeah

That's cool I like that

52:09

Okay Herosigh will there be a chance for a summoner to tame an epic boss and replace slash add them to his or her summon? A little strong [laughter] a little strong but

The summoner inside me wants to say yes [laughter]

I was just going to say, if anybody was to say yes to that it would be Steven

Oh man ah no you're not gonna be able to tame an epic world boss and make them your summon

We might be able to do something with appearances though

Oh apparences I'm sure we plan to have a very extensive appearance shop when it comes to like what you're capable of doing with your summons and stuff but like literally claiming a boss and saying hey I have the boss now that's crazy although their appearance of the boss like a mini boss yeah that's cool yeah yeah like I like that I played a previous game where you could do that you have to like net it there's like your little baby one that would walk around [cross-talk]

53:03

Greece ooh will there be other pack mounts besides the Kickstarter Moonstrider

Yes

Vorch21 will there'd be some kind of equipment penalty system for different types of armor such as run speed/casting speed/dodge

Yes so it's not it's not really a penalty right it's more of what am I giving up to game ring right lighter armor is more mobile armor heavier armor is less mobile armor but in in exchange for that right you've gained more longevity more effective HP that kind of stuff so

53:40

Zen PI will players be able to choose different voices for their characters?

Hmm that's interesting I I played an MMO where you got to choose your voice there's a few of them that have that you have to choose your voice and stuff yeah I think so

Usually if for a few like presets for that kind of

Right

53:54

Zilfile will currencies have in-game weight?

No

The currency will not no

Purple Bengal Tigers can a [cross-talk]

That's a really cool name by the way

Can a single player advance a node if no one else is around just gonna take you a long time

Yeah you could conceivably do that [cross-talk]

Nodes are meant to be community driven

Yeah it's meant to be community driven you could conceivably level a node by yourself but it would take really long time

I think like last time we mentioned like it where when we give those type of like kind of raw time numbers we're thinking as an average player base contributing to that so you know if you slide that scale of players down the other one is way up

It's safe to say though expectations wise no a single player will not be able to level up a node

Right

Yeah unless you've got a lot of time

Unless you got a lot of time [cross-talk]

There is always that guy out there

Mm-hmm

Yeah there's a guy who's gonna try

Yeah and probably will do it you'd be surprised [cross-talk]

Like a merchant level [cross-talk] all right so is that all our questions in the forums

Yep

Cool yeah next week we are on Tuesdays and Thursday yeah at 3 p.m. Pacific time so be aware of that

And Thursday is our last day so it's get everybody on board

I can't believe Thursday is our last day it's been like 2 years this has been running

Like five I think

Five years kickstarter?

Yeah

Wow we're having a lot of fun [cross-talk] we're having a lot of fun and you know keep doing what you're doing get that word out there we love your guys's support it's it makes

You guys have been an amazing player base it's incredible

Absolutely we cannot wait to get this show on the road get that game out there to you and just see where we can take it together so thank you guys for tuning in we love you all and we will see you on Tuesday have an awesome weekend we will chat with you guys soon

Bye everybody

Bye

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