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Alpha Two testing is currently taking place five days each week. More information about Phase II and Phase III testing schedule can be found here
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
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Re: Broken on all ultra/super widescreen monitors; FIX FOR DEVS INCLUDED
Unfortunately, we're not being heard and at this point I don't expect anything to change. It's been THREE MONTHS now and the fix takes 30 seconds. I know this is true because I've fixed it on my end. Unfortunately, a dev needs to make the change for everyone else. This fix is literally nothing but changing an X to a Y in the engine config file of the project. The line already exists, but is explicitly set to scale to X not Y.
With this last update there were a bunch of changes in that INI file for things like automation testing, network configuration, etc. Still, this critical issue is missed. I'm guessing it's sitting in a backlog and while someone on the team is aware of it, an actual dev simply hasn't been assigned the task.
How many more months for a 1 second fix...
With this last update there were a bunch of changes in that INI file for things like automation testing, network configuration, etc. Still, this critical issue is missed. I'm guessing it's sitting in a backlog and while someone on the team is aware of it, an actual dev simply hasn't been assigned the task.
How many more months for a 1 second fix...
paratua
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Re: 📝 Dev Discussion #71 - Spells & Abilities ⚔
I love fire spells and DoT spells. I love flashy and powerful.
Two things comes to mind. Lost Ark. The spells felt big, powerful, and they were beautiful. Even if an attack isn't strong, it can still feel epic to use. As a mage I actually like sticking to one element (Fire) instead of being forced into all the elements. That's just not the immersion I enjoy most of the time.
Seperately from flashy fire magic spells, Functionally something I like is DoT and Consume DoT spells. D3 Witch Doctor you could apply lots of DoT and then consume them to do all the damage at once and Nuke. It's such a awesome feeling. And if you don't Nuke, things still die their slow DoT deaths while you kite. GW2 also does DoTs well where something like the Necro can apply all the DoTs instead of just one type. Seeing your enemies health bar filled up with DoTs and ailments always feels so good and watching those little tics fly by the tens or hundreds.
Two things comes to mind. Lost Ark. The spells felt big, powerful, and they were beautiful. Even if an attack isn't strong, it can still feel epic to use. As a mage I actually like sticking to one element (Fire) instead of being forced into all the elements. That's just not the immersion I enjoy most of the time.
Seperately from flashy fire magic spells, Functionally something I like is DoT and Consume DoT spells. D3 Witch Doctor you could apply lots of DoT and then consume them to do all the damage at once and Nuke. It's such a awesome feeling. And if you don't Nuke, things still die their slow DoT deaths while you kite. GW2 also does DoTs well where something like the Necro can apply all the DoTs instead of just one type. Seeing your enemies health bar filled up with DoTs and ailments always feels so good and watching those little tics fly by the tens or hundreds.
Re: FEEDBACK - DELETION OF FEEDBACK POSTS
👋 @Garmanicus looks like your post was flagged by our spam filter, but it should be back online now.
The spam filter surely isn't perfect, but it helps to prevent turning this forum into an advertising hell
The spam filter surely isn't perfect, but it helps to prevent turning this forum into an advertising hell
Re: Feedback to the current state of Artisanship
There are alot of lessons that the devs could learn from looking at other current MMO's.
If you want crafting to be viable, you need to have all items crafted. No mob drops of finished items. They can drop rare materials to make more unique variations of items, but it should have to go through a crafting step.
This is vital for a good economic system. I'm hoping that the full gear drops are only in place now as a stop gap, while more testing/systems are put in place for the overall economic system.
Re: 📝 Dev Discussion #71 - Spells & Abilities ⚔
I'd say that the most curious ability is mage blink. Teleportation makes the most fun, in all games. After all it allows for curious tricks with its mobility, even if it's usually carefully managed to avoid bugs and terrain clips.
I've played many games, and Warrior (Fighter) was always the kind of frontline character that might solo most of the content, relying on potent damage, mobility and defence. They rarely excel in either, but won't be toppled easily by others. The best representation was the ability of warrior to wield dual-wielded and dual swords, changing their attacks based on the type of weapon. It might even be one type of weapon; just split it into two parts. That was epic. Like Varian Wrynn in WoW, for supreme example, so to say.
Still, as I only play Fighter in Alpha Two, I might point out that the class is too squishy here for its role. I believe a Fighter should be a frontline warrior who is feared (in close quarters) by all.
And Blood Fusion shows that, albeit partially and somewhat imbalanced against large crowds, but otherwise with little use considering its CD.
Currently, it is just a lifesteal-based class that can do little compared to other DPS. The spin attack isn't exactly satisfying for me, even if it's kind of a canon in RPG.
Half of the warrior kit seems disjointed, and only bleeding + bloodfusion seems viable. I think it's just one extreme.
The attack that reaches you regardless of distance, even if they're supposed to be melee, makes a form of Celesity, for example, even less viable.
I can see the potential, though, so keep it up.
I've played many games, and Warrior (Fighter) was always the kind of frontline character that might solo most of the content, relying on potent damage, mobility and defence. They rarely excel in either, but won't be toppled easily by others. The best representation was the ability of warrior to wield dual-wielded and dual swords, changing their attacks based on the type of weapon. It might even be one type of weapon; just split it into two parts. That was epic. Like Varian Wrynn in WoW, for supreme example, so to say.
Still, as I only play Fighter in Alpha Two, I might point out that the class is too squishy here for its role. I believe a Fighter should be a frontline warrior who is feared (in close quarters) by all.
And Blood Fusion shows that, albeit partially and somewhat imbalanced against large crowds, but otherwise with little use considering its CD.
Currently, it is just a lifesteal-based class that can do little compared to other DPS. The spin attack isn't exactly satisfying for me, even if it's kind of a canon in RPG.
Half of the warrior kit seems disjointed, and only bleeding + bloodfusion seems viable. I think it's just one extreme.
The attack that reaches you regardless of distance, even if they're supposed to be melee, makes a form of Celesity, for example, even less viable.
I can see the potential, though, so keep it up.
Re: 📝 Dev Discussion #71 - Spells & Abilities ⚔
Hoarfrost has been one of the most satisfying abilities on mage so far. When the game is stable connection-wise. The instant gratification of the spell instantly going off and having an immediate impact feels amazing, especially when there are so many enemies that you are flooded with damage number values. An ability that feels incredible is Vanish from Rogue in World of Warcraft, this allows the rogue to use a cooldown to re-enter stealth regardless of combat status. This feels great because it allows rogue to continue to have a valuable impact in combat while at the same time being able to be used as an escape tool in sticky situations. When an ability is versatile it adds a lot of depth and skill expression, it becomes harder to balance as anything that is versatile in nature will be more overloaded; but the main thing is being able to show skill expression in combat. If you are unable to discern in terms of skill level in the class a "poor" X class player from a "good" X class player, to then even a "fantastic or pro" X class player then as much as you think there is skill expression. There truly isn't.
Purecpu
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Re: [FEEDBACK] Guild Leveling
Garmanicus wrote: »
So can we talk about the Guild Leveling system for a minute? Guild progression being locked behind caravans and 5765 gold worth of glint for Guild Seals for ONE LEVEL is absolutely insane. I think there needs to be a better way or more avenues in place to accumulate experience for the entirety the guild. Asking 1 person to shill out 5 gold (in glint no less) for a commodity crate doesn't seem practical or fair of me to ask of someone. If everyone in the guild could ALL pool together their glint, the financial blow would be severely lessened. OR maybe for those individuals that prefer not to run caravans there could be a system in place that a small portion of experience earned while in a group with fellow guild mates could be contributed toward guild experience? I'm sure there are plenty of ways this system could be improved upon but the product we have in our hands right now needs some definitive tweaking. 5.7 Million experience if adequately portioned out in a fair way for an entire guild would not be difficult to attain in any way shape or form but currently, there are WAY too many systems locked behind glint.
Agreed 100000000% with your entire post. It's ridiculous. so much so, that most people I talk to are like 'why even bother?'.
Even bigger guilds are like 'naw, next implementation pls!'
Re: nothing changed ...
I would also check this part of the forums
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/categories/alpha-two-bug-reporting
Read and look for people that have similar problems. See if they found fixes. Add your thoughts to posts that you can help IS see your having the same problem. They may reach out to you if they need more info.
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/categories/alpha-two-bug-reporting
Read and look for people that have similar problems. See if they found fixes. Add your thoughts to posts that you can help IS see your having the same problem. They may reach out to you if they need more info.
Re: Major Graphic Upgrade Needed.
I don't know what kind of superficial teens you're surrounded by, but where I grew up, young people still care about substance more than aesthetics. Weird flex there.jimmyhoffa wrote: »I suppose they could leave the graphics as is if they think Gen X will give them enough players to sustain the game?
Not to mention this game looks gorgeous, you're just either getting overly distracted by a lack of minor short-range eye-candy that will still be improved as the performance gets optimised, or don't to understand that not every genre lends itself look like AAA single-player titles.
https://youtu.be/GnybRgoPac8?t=1545(Open in YouTube for fewer compression artifacts.)
25:45
40:55
Not to mention the close-up renderings in the glamour trailers at 13:40 (which are admittedly not *super* relevant to bring up, but still. Just these first 2 timestamps are glorious already.)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2357503626?t=4h2m05s
4:02:05
4:05:45
I'm personally also a huge fan of the environments like this in live already. But if you need the closeup eye-candy, you'll need to wait for optimisation, so it'll look more true to the YouTube Dev presentation above.
Re: FEEDBACK - DELETION OF FEEDBACK POSTS
who are you lol were you in the room when it happened?
rolle999
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