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Alpha Two Phase II testing is currently taking place 5+ days each week. More information about 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.
I want to learn more about Ashes Of Creation!
Hey you amazing people!
I ended up finding this game a couple days ago just through a rabbit hole of YouTube videos. I was wondering where the best place is to get all sorts of cool information that is out currently for the game as I would love to get to know more about the game. Like areas, races, classes,Abilities, professions, PVE, and PVP stuff. When it comes down to PVP will most places be open world areas where you can just attack anyone? Because I know there is different races but I am unsure about if there is factions. Aswell do you think there will be many people griefing other players in PVP? Will there be a "Battleground" area similar to WoW where you you will be given gear or items as a reward or will it be currency for the reward?
Aswell I would love to hear your thoughts on this game and why you have taken interest in the game.
Sorry if this is abit of a all over the place post just wanting to learn more about the game and the people who will be playing the game.
I ended up finding this game a couple days ago just through a rabbit hole of YouTube videos. I was wondering where the best place is to get all sorts of cool information that is out currently for the game as I would love to get to know more about the game. Like areas, races, classes,Abilities, professions, PVE, and PVP stuff. When it comes down to PVP will most places be open world areas where you can just attack anyone? Because I know there is different races but I am unsure about if there is factions. Aswell do you think there will be many people griefing other players in PVP? Will there be a "Battleground" area similar to WoW where you you will be given gear or items as a reward or will it be currency for the reward?
Aswell I would love to hear your thoughts on this game and why you have taken interest in the game.
Sorry if this is abit of a all over the place post just wanting to learn more about the game and the people who will be playing the game.
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Great things come from small beginnings. In games, it often starts with vision. From years of being involved in the MMO genre, playing games such as Lineage 2, World of Warcraft, and Final Fantasy 14 (among many others) there always seemed to be something lacking. Sometimes PvP was masterfully incorporated into the game, others had dungeons so fun you forgot what PvP even stood for, while a few had great new ideas that were like a breath of fresh air. The problem always seemed to come with the trade you made in order to enjoy a certain aspect. Our vision is to tie all of these elements together, to make a complete game that specializes not in one category, but rather aims for the ultimate goal of perfection. We know: that’s a tall order.
So we wanted to take a step back, to check ourselves before we wrecked ourselves; to really dive into what makes MMOs so addictive, and why we kept coming back to them. The primary question is: What makes an MMO fun, at its core? Well, it’s got to be the thing that makes an MMO an MMO, right? What separates an MMO from all the fantastic Mass Effects and Dragon Ages and Witchers? It’s the MASSIVENESS. It’s the community and the forums and the competition and the people who you’d never meet in real life. It’s that Massively Multiplayer promise. It’s the people that make an MMO what it is. Not a hotbar or a raid boss or a fetch quest. Those are mechanics, those aren’t the genre.
And there was our answer, and there was our game. We decided to focus on mechanics that bring the idea of community to the forefront. To get people to interact with each other meaningfully – not just to conquer a raid boss, or to get some coin from a faceless auction house, but to maybe save a city. A city that all the local residents had a stake in. A city that the players had spent weeks or months developing; the defense of that city, the attack on that city! Or building a world together as a community choosing our own fate with our friends. We believe that’s going to be a story far more memorable and far more meaningful to players than just about anything we can come up with.
So that’s our design philosophy in a nutshell. Give players reasons to interact, and make those interactions meaningful. And make both of those things feel cool and appropriately epic.
In enters our new MMO in development, Ashes of Creation. As you’ve probably guessed by now, we’re creating an MMO based on our core principles as designers; we believe in choice, organic events, player narratives and massive communities. All of these come together in what we call our “Reactive World.” Players will shape the world we create through dynamic quests, castle sieges, our Node system, an economy that goes well beyond the auction house, and player housing (among many other systems). We’ll set up the initial state, you decide where it goes from there.
Ashes of Creation is a unique take on the MMO experience. Our world structure is dynamic and built to react to the actions of our players. Cities will rise and fall, their populations based on the history of the world as the players create it. Quests will unlock as these populations gather, their needs grow, and secrets are unlocked.
As the world’s NPC structure is established in real time, players will have the ability to destroy what they’ve created, paving the way for new development, new populations, and real change. Political strife and intrigue will play a very real role in the structure of your world.
Gone are the days of static worlds, change is here to stay.
30 Awesome things in Ashes of Creation
Ashes of Creation Official Videos and Livestreams
I watched that video you linked of the 30 things, and oh man I am more hyped then ever now. I watched a couple of videos on it but this one brought up alot of things I did't know about.
Thanks alot.
It is a lot to watch but really is the best source of information ^^
The wiki is good too
I also use:
https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/10158/quotebin-quotes-of-intrepid-team-from-discord/p1
http://www.ashesofcreation-the-odyssey.com/
and their twitter for snapchats https://twitter.com/AoCtheOdyssey
Many other resources too
Without a doubt, the LiveStreams are the most informative. Go to YouTube and look at the description - each question is time-stamped ; you can choose which question you want to here
( although some LiveStream Vids don't have a Time-stamp ...maybe the Comment Section might xD ? )
To answer one of question(s), there are no Factions in this MMO. Instead, it is up to the individual Player to decide who is Friend or Foe. Additionally, I am unsure if Open-World PvP will occur in Nodes - they most likely will ... but depending on the Node's Stage, the " OP NPC Guards " might intervene.
i know a bunch of Gameplay Vids too. My personal favs tbh
There's a few others you can find on their YouTube Channel too
The most informative Video ... would have to be their Node Part 1 & Part 2 Videos in their blog
he discord channel are by far the best source of confirmed rather than theorized info.
Welcome to the community o/