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Phase I of Alpha Two testing will occur on weekends. Each weekend is scheduled to start on Fridays at 10 AM PT and end on Sundays at 10 PM PT. Find out more here.
Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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Like Misha Tor'kren in Durotar, who waits perpetually for someone to find news of her lost son, Kron. Even after I've brought her his belongings and she says she knows he's dead.
What was really funny was when certain mobs would have zone-wide dialogue that everyone would be able (forced?) to read whenever someone aggrod them over and over.
"Pitiful meat bags! Feel the full force of the Dragonmaw!"
It's pretty difficult for successful games to avoid. At some point the demand for content outstrips the content.
Seeing terminology like this is what kills the game for me. People spouting nonsense that isn't even related to the game.
"Yeah I hate quarterbacks in this game." Oh, wrong game, this isn't football.
Does Ashes of Creation consist of Zerg?
No it doesn't, due to copyright issues.
I'm not so much into immersion but things that do annoy me are:
There is a small one that always causes my eye to tick, that is in every game I go . . . Invisible sheaths, weapons that stick to clothing, or simply hover there impossibly unaided by magics.
I just don't get it. My weapons should drop to the ground if I try to adhere them to my waist or back.
Sheathes, scabbards, holsters, harnesses, bandoleers, what-have you. I need these. They hold my weapons. At least they SHOULD. Also, options on where and how to wear them (within reason; I won't be drawing a claymore from my hip, obviously.)
For those who seem unable to make the same immersion connections as some of us here, keep in mind many of us are likely pen-and-paper gamers coming from long backgrounds of DnD and the like. We relied heavily upon these things to keep the stories in our heads steaming forward. We spoke in different accents. We may have used props. Some of us might have even worn robes and wizard hats. It isn't that we can't enjoy and play this game if it has these labeled "breakers," they are simply personal story speed bumps we'd love to see smoothed out.
But, I think that Ashes has sheathes.
If you don't have at LEAST the minimum of creativity needed to make up a name then maybe you should be doing something else. Really not that damn difficult.
However for me, the thing that really breaks immersion is linked to difficulty.
When I get a quest like:
"you must kill creature/enemy X in cave Y. But be careful, creature/enemy X is really dangerous! he has killed many warriors!"
And I proceed by one/two shotting X, that really breaks the immersion for me.
PS.
Also people with goofy armour colours, breaks it for me, in a minor way though.
2) Inconsequential death penalties. I would like to have a RP server with permadeath;
3) Badly designed world: Loading screens, instanced areas, completely different biomes sitting next to each other, static NPC's that never change, static buildings and locations rotting for ages in the same situation (i.e.: stuff that keeps burning for years before the devs decide to change it in a long overdue patch), invisible walls, and so on and so forth.
Could make me want to siege a metropolis on my own
Oh, and people spamming jump.
Please spare me, don't kill this poor duck....
THAT'S ENOUGH THIS TRIGGERS, ME I FIND THIS OFFENSIVE, I'LL FLAG YOU TO GM YOU WILL GET PERMABAN AAAARRGGHHH!11
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Fabulous names right? Call of Duty names are the best! 100%!