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Alpha-1 Teaser.[1]

This is a true development alpha. This is not a marketing alpha; and what that means is as you know part of the process here in developing Ashes of Creation is being open with that development so you guys can see that progress; and it is a double-edged sword. There are going to be a spectrum of people that exists who are very involved with the game's development and those who are just completely at an arm's length away in understanding the process; and they may look at alpha one- the people who don't really understand the development process or haven't been a part of it- they may look at it and they may think oh you know this is trash, looks like trash, you know whatever it's the end-product. But at the end of the day what's important for us and what yields the best possible product is for us to include as much as possible the community in that development process with no NDA so that you guys give valuable feedback; and as we go through the iterative process in further defining the game and fleshing out that content were doing so with the player in mind and their voice in our ear. That is I think one of the key distinguishing factors between our development and many developments that you guys may have seen in the past.[2]Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 preview ancients mobs.[3]

What this experience for Alpha one is going to be- that month-long experience- it is not intended to be a content experience... It is not intended to be a game experience. It is not intended to be a fully-fledged content experience. So keep that in mind.[4]Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 was a testing release of the Ashes of Creation MMORPG.[6]

  • Personaje
    • Progresión to level 15.[9][10]
      The composition of class skills or archetype skills has to tread a fine line between two roads: One we wanted to be representative of skills not just that would traditionally be found 1 through 15 but we're actually introducing some skills that might be found later, because we want to test those particular ideas and how the skill functions.[9]Steven Sharif
    • Creador de personajes (basic).[11][12][13][14]
  • Razas
    • 4 playable races Kaelar, Vaelune, Dünir, Empyrean.[19][12]
      A lot of times people ask well why haven't we seen the other races and stuff? We want to establish the quality bar and process with these races first and then when we move into further content production for the other races we have have those pipelines in place and we have the processes in place and we know how to approach them.[20]

The weapon attack is an important component of the combat system, so we want to make sure that as we're doing this combat revamp that we are essentially taking into consideration player feedback and sentiment about how they want a reactive and more mobile weapon attack system.[21]Steven Sharif

info-orange.pngParte de la siguiente información no ha sido confirmada recientemente por los desarrolladores y es posible que no esté en la hoja de ruta de desarrollo actual.

Alpha-1 availability

Pre-order pack upgrades are possible for current pack holders for the difference in price.[45][46][47] Upgrades to Kickstarter and El verano de la financiación packs are also available in the store for the difference in package price.[48]

Alpha-1 playtest schedule

Hail and well met glorious Ashes of Creation testers. My name is Sean Farrens. I am the manager of quality assurance on Ashes of Creation and on behalf of the Ashes QA team I would like to extend a deep and heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated in testing Ashes of Creation during the weekend of May 14 through May 16th for our Alpha 1 build. In spite of instability and uncertainty you have all proven to be invaluable in regards to your feedback and bug reports; and for that I cannot express my gratitude enough. As many of you know, developing an MMORPG is an epic endeavor that is filled with trials and tribulations that no other game will ever encounter; and your illustrated dedication has proven to our team that we are on a high road to the best MMORPG gaming experience to date. During this most recent testing period we received over 2,600 bug reports, which have been an absolute boon to our testing process. We review each report individually and I continue to be impressed with how detailed and helpful each of these reports has been. Like seriously you guys give repro steps and everything. Super duper handy. I greatly look forward to your feedback in the future and hope you enjoy our content so far, so thank you so much everybody.[51]Sean Farrens

While we will have specific spot tests for certain systems as we develop them post the Alpha one month, it should be expected and understood that after this Alpha one month there will be probably a significant amount of downtime where there won't be spot testing as we break apart a lot of systems, take what we learned from alpha one month and implement and iterate upon those learnings. So there's gonna be several months probably worth of significant downtime where there will not be access to spot testing, where we are going to go in and really rejigger a lot of systems[52]Steven Sharif

Phase Release Estimated/Actual date
Alpha-1 Alpha-1 early preview livestream.[53] March 27, 2020.[54]
Alpha-1 limited QA testing (NDA).[55][56] May 28, 2020.[57][58]
Alpha-1 preview pre-test 1 (NDA).[35] Dec 18 - Dec 21 2020.[35]
Alpha-1 preview pre-test 2 (NDA).[35] Feb 19 - Feb 22 2021.[59][60]
Alpha-1 preview intermittent spot testing (NDA).[61][62] Mar 19 - Jul 9 2021.[61][62]
Alpha-1 preview weekend (no NDA).[61] July 9 - July 11 2021.[63][64][61]
Alpha-1 (no NDA).[61] July 14 - August 15 2021.[65][49]

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The term "alpha" is a tricky one, and it typically has 2 meanings in gaming. The development meaning for alpha is a point in the process where we are ready to test the fundamental systems in their core form, without polish and without much of the content. Then, there is the external or "marketing" term for alpha. This is typically applied to Eastern-ported MMORPGs, when in fact that is a completed game being localized for a region, and not really indicative of a true development alpha. As you may know by now, game development has many stages - from the initial tech demos to the pre-production and pre-alpha states, then on to the alphas and betas and eventually launch.[35]Steven Sharif

I want to make emphatically clear, our alphas and betas are true development alphas and betas, and some have said I am crazy to allow these phases to be seen without an NDA…maybe I am crazy? lol… But I am trusting the community of gamers out there to get a glimpse into the process, and understand the long road ahead for what will eventually be worth the wait. Given time and talent, amazing things can happen, so make sure you help us in communicating that we are in open development which means people get to see the bare bones before the meat. And look, I know people see our 4K footage and say, "This looks better than most released games!", but trust me when I say, you ain't seen nothin’ yet.[35]Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 testing goals

Server deployment and performance testing
  • Stress-test our server deployments and player concurrency numbers with high volumes of player activity and interactions.[61]
  • Stand up multiple world server deployments across different geographical regions.[61]
  • Soak test server grid health over a continuous period of production use.[61]
  • Evaluate current networking architecture, and identify non-performant code and areas for additional optimizations or refactoring.[61]
  • Test our build strategy and hot-fix deployment procedures, account services, web-based systems, launcher and patcher stability, and cloud-based infrastructure.[61]
System functionalities and behavior testing (in their core state)
Player character systems (in their core state)
Ancillary systems (in their core state)

The above is not a comprehensive list of everything being tested in Alpha One, but it hits the primary points. There are many other data metrics being collected for our approach to the content production pipelines, system definitions, and refactoring as well. Not to mention a plethora of technical art implications and optimizations, but you get the gist. This is a very fundamental test that will impact the direction of development post-Alpha One, so you can understand the importance of testing and its need for player participation, attention, and feedback.[61]Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 participation

Alpha-1 testing was available to the following participants:

There were approximately 9,600 participants in Alpha-1 testing as of August, 2018.[66][67]

  • As of May 31, 2021, just under 5k additional participants have been added since Alpha-1 sales resumed. Less refunds and unclaimed codes, leaves a total of slightly over 13k testers.[66]
  • The weekend test of May 27, 2021 saw 5,300 unique logins over the 3 day period.[66]

There were roughly 9600 if I recall A1 participants prior to my closing the preorder packs in 2018. Since opening them up again there have been just under 5k additional participants added. And prolly around 300 refunds give or take. Of the roughly 14,000 a1 testers, there are still about 1k unredeemed ks codes which leaves a little over 13k testers? The weekend test saw 5300 unique logins over the 3-day period. And I think discord flags stand around 4k roughly?[66]Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 servers

Alpha-1 servers were provisioned in the following regions.[68]

info-orange.pngParte de la siguiente información no ha sido confirmada recientemente por los desarrolladores y es posible que no esté en la hoja de ruta de desarrollo actual.

Alpha-1 servers will support 1,500 concurrently connected users per server.[70][71][72]

Server wipes

Los servidores de las Alpha y Beta serán reseteados antes del lanzamiento.[73]

  • Los servidores podrán ser reseteados antes de testeos individuales.[74][75][76]

As a general rule, if the testing phase contains the word Alpha, it is safe to assume there will likely be wipes.[76]Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 NDA

El NDA o ADC (acuerdo de confidencialidad) cubría las pruebas de Alpha-1 antes del lanzamiento completo de Alpha-1.[77][56]

  • La revisión y aceptación de NDA (ADC) se realiza a través del cliente del juego.[78]
  • El NDA de texto y voz se eliminó de la fase de prueba de control de calidad PI el 28 de mayo de 2020.[77]
  • El NDA verbal se eliminó de las pruebas preliminares de Alpha-1 y de las pruebas futuras el 17 de mayo de 2021.[79]
  • El NDA se levantó el 9 de julio de 2021 para la prueba de fin de semana de vista previa Alpha-1 de tres días.[64][61]
  • El NDA fue levantado el 14 de julio de 2021 para Alpha-1.[80]

We are extremely excited to invite folks to this glorious milestone of our development journey with NO NDA as we want everyone to be able to provide feedback unfiltered. During Alpha One testing, we'll be looking for your feedback specifically on the following things: download and installation process, client performance, and server performance.[80]

Requisitos del sistema para la Alpha

Alpha-1 stress testing, March 17, 2021.[81]

These are fully operational NPCs. They have behavior trees, they have AI blackboards; they are functioning as an NPC would; and to my surprise, to everyone's surprise actually, the server handled it quite well: 5000 entities all within a very dense area.[82]Steven Sharif

Requisitos mínimos para la Alpha-2.[83]

Especificaciones mínimas - 1080p
  • Procesador: Intel i5 8400 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600
  • Memoria: 12GB
  • Tarjeta gráfica: NVIDIA GTX 1070 o equivalente.
  • DirectX: Versión 12
  • Red: Broadband Internet connection
  • Almacenamiento: 100GB SSD Storage
  • Windows 10/11
Especificaciones recomendadas - 1440p
  • Procesador: Intel i7 8700 | AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • Memoria: 16GB
  • Tarjeta gráfica: NVIDIA RTX 3070 o equivalente.
  • DirectX: Versión 12
  • Red: Broadband Internet connection
  • Almacenamiento: 100GB SSD Storage
  • Windows 10/11
Please note that these requirements will change throughout our testing phases.[83]

Alpha-1 testing zone (Alpha island)

Map of Alpha-1 testing zone.[84][85] Credito de imagen: Axiom: Angelcry

The Alpha One map including nodes, dungeons, quest givers, POI, teleporters, and camps will be explorable! Note that this is only a small portion of the world of Verra.[80]

Alpha-1 testing tropical zone featuring a war beast and a tribe of pigmy goblins.[86]

This is a rather large tropical area; and what we use some of the creatures for is establishing character for different parts of this tropical place. So that even though it's the same biome, it feels different when you are going from place to place based on what's there and how those things are interacting with the environment.[87]Jeffrey Bard

Las pruebas de la Alfa-1 tuvieron lugar en una zona al noroeste del mapa del mundo.[88] Esta zona tiene muchas islas y un área continental.[89]

Castle sieges in Alpha-1

Trebuchets in the Alpha-1 preview castle siege attackers headquarter camp.[98]

Alpha-1 castle sieges are based on Ashes of Creation Apocalypse castle sieges.[36][38]

  • Players will be able to join guilds. These guilds can register for the siege events.[98]
  • Castle siege events will be 100v100 battles that occur daily and will last for three hours.[98]
  • Attackers will start on the opposite end of the map (from the defenders).[98]
  • Attackers will be able to use trebuchets to drive to and assault the castle.[98]
    • Trebuchets have a single primary fire that does a small amount of damage to players and heavy damage to buildings.[98]
    • Trebuchets will be fully physical when they are being driven.[98]
  • When the attackers have breached the castle they will be able to channel a cast on the relic in the throne room to try to capture the castle from the defenders.[98]
  • The victors of castle sieges will receive benefits, such as cloaks, flying mounts for guild leaders and potentially also for guild officers.[98]
  • Alpha-1 castle sieges are in a separate zone that is accessible via a NPC teleporter.[37][10][100]
    Currently the siege zone is actually in the open world, but separated by mountains and off in the sea a bit. There is actually no instancing in A1, although the siege zone will only be accessible in A1 through a registration NPC teleporter.[37]Steven Sharif
  • The opposing team is notified when these raid bosses are being attacked.[36]
  • Teams who get the last hit on these bosses will receive buffs that will help them in the siege battle.[36]

Last year, I spoke of attempting to incorporate sieges into the Alpha One experience. This has obviously been a goal of mine because it provides considerable data and a consistent event within the world that players can participate in to help stress test the deployment. Well, I am happy to say that it is appearing more and more likely by the day! Initial implementation of the Apocalypse siege code has been migrated into the Alpha One client, and we should begin internal testing next month. I will caveat this expectation with the fact that we are cutting it a bit close from an internal QA standpoint, but I have some confidence that the system will be online and capable of inclusion for the Alpha One test in the month of June. The siege component will obviously not be representative of what the siege system will be at launch, or even in Alpha Two.[38]Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 player flagging/corruption

Corrupción del jugador was implemented in early Alpha-1 tests but was subsequently disabled.[44]

Alpha-1 PvE content

Contenido PvE o JcE (Jugador contra Entorno) en Alpha-1:

Hay más de 200 misiones en el juego en este momento. Hay un montón de mazmorras. Hemos rediseñado todas las peleas de jefes. Esos dragones que ves en el asedio también son parte del mundo abierto. Habrá algo ligeramente diferente: hay algunas mecánicas adicionales en las versiones de asedio en comparación con las que están en el mundo, pero hay muchas cosas interesantes para obtener en ambas, así que asegúrese de revisarlas y cazarlas. [10]Jeffrey Bard

Artisan classes in Alpha-1

Las clases de artesanía (Recolección, Procesado, Elaboración (Crafting)) estarán disponible en su totalidad durante el Alpha-2 y las Betas.[30][31]

Crafting honestly will not come online in any sense of its true form until Alpha-2. Alpha-1 has essentially what are intended to be the core gameplay loop of crafting, meaning the collection of materials, the translation of those materials into processed goods, and the use of those processed goods into item acquisition. That's the core gameplay loop that is currently present in Alpha-1. But those are mostly facilitated piggy backing the merchant systems right now and not actually using the real crafting system; and that's because crafting hasn't been completed in a form that can be implemented in Alpha-1, but will be for Alpha-2. What's present in Alpha-1 doesn't even really scratch the surface for crafting[31]Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 name reservation

info-orange.pngParte de la siguiente información no ha sido confirmada recientemente por los desarrolladores y es posible que no esté en la hoja de ruta de desarrollo actual.

Name reservations were slated to begin during Alpha-1.[12]

Doble factor de autenticación

info-orange.pngParte de la siguiente información no ha sido confirmada recientemente por los desarrolladores y es posible que no esté en la hoja de ruta de desarrollo actual.

La autenticación de dos factores (2FA) basada en tokens puede que esté disponible en el Alpha-1.[102]

Alpha-1 easter eggs

Fases de testeo

Fases de testeo de Ashes of Creation.

The game will be feature complete before Beta... Beta really is intended to identify last minute bugs to make sure that everything is ready for launch; it's important that all features are complete by Beta-1. Alpha-2 will not be feature complete at the start of Alpha-2. There are going to be updates that are going to be incorporated as part of the Alpha-2 process and there are going to be additional features that come online that get fleshed out between that time and Beta-1. There's going to be regions of the maps that aren't going to be accessible of course during Alpha-2.[115]Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 videos

Alpha-1 screenshots

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