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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.
You got Questions - We Got Answers
Jahlon
Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
With four live-streams done now in the last 8 days, there is information overload out there.
Some of you may still have questions. Go ahead and put them here.
A lot of different creators are working on a lot of different projects, and we have some more interviews coming up, so load up those questions and lets see if we can't either direct you to an answer, or get your question queued up to the next CCs doing interviews.
Some of you may still have questions. Go ahead and put them here.
A lot of different creators are working on a lot of different projects, and we have some more interviews coming up, so load up those questions and lets see if we can't either direct you to an answer, or get your question queued up to the next CCs doing interviews.
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My question is this:
Are there astrological phenomenon that actively effect the world, or reflect actions in the world?
Ex1) Meteor showers destroying cities.
Ex2) A dragon has awoken, and a star changes color to signal it.
We've read in a blog post about the stars ushering in the end of a city as they were getting brighter, that the Vek are a race of stargazers, and there are freehold buildings that are for astrological purposes. It could all be lore, but the freehold buildings raise suspicion.
Personally for me this is a difficult topic to think/reflect about, however:
1) Will there be spells that needs a reagent (difficult to get/craft/gather) to be activated?
2) Will there be long casting spells or weapon abilities? (longer casting time --> stronger/bigger the result; result related to the character who does the action, who can be, in general, strong or weak)
3) Will it be possible to customize some parameters, if not every aspect, of a spell/weapon ability somehow (or is it better not to because in this way the game cannot be balanced)?
Excellent Question - and one that I know is going to be a held close to the chest one from Steven, but I have it written down and I'll try to get answers to this one at a later date.
This was already a follow-up question I have for Steven. We aren't sure what the Node War mechanic is going to mean for guild members. We aren't sure where the war mechanics are in place (is it just in those 2 nodes, is it the whole world). We aren't sure if it prevents grouping with Guild Members.
More to come on this topic when Margaret does the Node Wars blog [whenever that one comes around]
1) This has never been mentioned anywhere.
2) Yes
3) Yes - Abilities will be customization through the Augment System which includes Racial, Sub Class, Nodes, Social Organizations, Guilds, etc. Weapons have the new stones that were talked about, we are still getting more details on that.
I can be a life devouring nightmare. - Grisu#1819
1- will the game be fully voice over?
2- what about daily/weekly quests? Are we going to have those?
3- can you hop guilds without limit? Only 1 guild, or we can have more?
4- can you drop one citizenship and get another right away? Or are there steps to get it, like something you have to earn? Is money the only way to be a citizen?
4a- What is forbidding me to be a new citizen (Spy) and relay information to the attacking side? What vision does citizenship grants me of defenses?
5- Are there limits on when you're going to be able to defend a city or participate as a guild member in guild stuff?
6- can you betray your city? Can you be inside the city and just drop citizenship and attack the place you were supposed to defend?
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No
2- what about daily/weekly quests? Are we going to have those?
There will be daily quests yes. But they won't be grindy go kill 50 things.
3- can you hop guilds without limit? Only 1 guild, or we can have more?
Unknown what the guild transfer cool down is, but yes you can only have 1 guild
4- can you drop one citizenship and get another right away? Or are there steps to get it, like something you have to earn? Is money the only way to be a citizen?
There is a 2 week cooldown after transfering citizenship, plus you loose all your status, standing, augments, etc.
Money isn't what you need. Housing is what you need...with the exception of "citizen tickets" which were mentioned once and then never again.
4a- What is forbidding me to be a new citizen (Spy) and relay information to the attacking side? What vision does citizenship grants me of defenses?
Nothing, however all your alts share citizenship
5- Are there limits on when you're going to be able to defend a city or participate as a guild member in guild stuff?
Node defense aren't guild stuff, they are citizen stuff. Not sure what the rest of this mean
6- can you betray your city? Can you be inside the city and just drop citizenship and attack the place you were supposed to defend?
No. All citizens are automatically registered as defenders for node sieges.
Thanks Paradox! Really enjoying your content.
I meant, if as a new guild member or citizen member I have full access or there's a timeout for some things.
For example in one game to be able to participate in Guild wars you needed to be a member for at least 1 week, so the first Guild War was never available. But since Node wars are related to citizenship, I guess Guilds don't matter for that!
Oh, you mean if people can hot swap into guilds while they are at war?
Yeah that I don't know. Guilds may be locked while inside conflict like it was in Archeage and Eve Online.
Does artisan mastery/specialisation preclude being able to do other professions at all or does it just limit how skilled you can become in them (e.g. a point allocation system in the whole artisan tree)?
We do not have information on the point system and how many you get, how many it takes, etc. etc.
We do know you will not be a Master of all the professions.
Waiting for more information from Steven or Margaret on this.
and tnx for the streams, i enjoyed yours as always.
i have few questions but ill try to only ask the ones that i think will be more realistic for you to get answers at this point.
1: we know that if someone attacks you and doesn't land the killing blow but lets a mob do it instead, they don't get flagged / corrupted. is there a way to prevent this kind of annoyance and griefing?
2: will there be more racial interaction such as bad blood between dwarves and elves or etc ? (in general i would love to know more about in-depth possibilities and features of races)
3: can a solo player for example, upon first arriving through the gate, ignore the first node and just keep exploring and going ahead and finding different nodes and places or is it just out of the question for low level and one player alone?
*i want to give other Characters the love they deserve.
**So far, the wiki only speaks about dancing and hugging that need to be agreed-upon so that you can do that with other Characters.
Q: Dab Emote(?) to celebrate the good things in life, like surviving a gank.
Q: Pearl Diving(?) & Pearls as a resource for Crafting; examples: Alchemy, Jewellery?
Q: Can you harvest the corpses of fallen (corrupted?) players (their Bones) for Crafting; Bounty Hunter Bone necklace (cosmetic Item)?
Q: Can you harvest the corpses the of fallen enemies for Organs or Bones that you can feed to your Summons as a Necromancer to (temporarly) empower them?
Yes, this is already talked about as something they are going to look into.
But you've read too much into this. We know it says "kills" but that may also mean "dies"
So if you are engaged in combat with the person and they die, you may end up with corruption. Unlike Archeage where everyone gets an "assult" and only one person ends up with a "murder" every person in combat with the person may end up with corruption.
2: will there be more racial interaction such as bad blood between dwarves and elves or etc ? (in general i would love to know more about in-depth possibilities and features of races)
Yes. I can say from Alpha Zero there was already some of this between the two races of Elves.
3: can a solo player for example, upon first arriving through the gate, ignore the first node and just keep exploring and going ahead and finding different nodes and places or is it just out of the question for low level and one player alone?
Yes
Every Node has a range of content from Low Levels. There is a "safe" path through the world, with safe being a relative term.
Q: Can we expect interactive social animations to include Headpats and Kissing?
*i want to give other Characters the love they deserve.
**So far, the wiki only speaks about dancing and hugging that need to be agreed-upon so that you can do that with other Characters.
Honestly, this is the sort of thing that makes people hate roleplayers and this takes being creepy to a whole new level.
There are going to be some emotes that require consent. You can try to initiate, but much like real life, you can get denied.
Q: Dab Emote(?) to celebrate the good things in life, like surviving a gank.
With the range of emotes from Apoc, probably will see this added.
Q: Pearl Diving(?) & Pearls as a resource for Crafting; examples: Alchemy, Jewellery?
No mention, will add to the list
Q: Can you harvest the corpses of fallen (corrupted?) players (their Bones) for Crafting; Bounty Hunter Bone necklace (cosmetic Item)?
Not mentioned anywhere and probably not
Q: Can you harvest the corpses the of fallen enemies for Organs or Bones that you can feed to your Summons as a Necromancer to (temporarly) empower them?
Not mentioned anywhere and again probably not.
Not a super important question, but when will the Kickstarter and Summer Crowdfunding backer unlocks be added to certain profile inventories?
At the same time the other tiems get fixed in the account database. Its not exclusive to KS/SB, the problem is everywhere in the database.
Kraken is en very currently but I'd love to see random-ish spawns of large sharks, giant squid and other sea monsters.
Edit: ?
Sea Monsters are plentiful yes.
Confirmed in my interview.
No pirates though
No pirates?!
I'm out, it was a good run for me.
Open seas for all the pirates that will play Ashes without NPC competition!
1.)Can all classes stealth with the correct subclass?
2.)How long does non combat stealth last while moving around?
3.)Is there a way to restealth while in combat? (example would be the vanish ability for rogues in WoW)
Thanks Jahlon for all that you do!
Legendary craftable items.
We do know that there will be most likely legendary weapons and armour, but will there be other legendary craftable items?
Items like... i dont know.... legendary gems, for jewel crafting, or something in that direction.
My main goal is to craft the first legendary gemstone on my server, so this is a bit important to me xD
1.)Can all classes stealth with the correct subclass?
Not confirmed. We do know Cleric/Rogue can stealth, but we have no other details other than a singular soundbite.
2.)How long does non combat stealth last while moving around?
Unknown. We won't know this until A1.
3.)Is there a way to restealth while in combat? (example would be the vanish ability for rogues in WoW)
Again unknown. We won't know this until A1.
Steven is pretty closed off to the idea of talking about skills and classes until the appropriate time in. We do have the Cleric/Rogue thing confirmed as having a Stealth, if by Confirmed™ you accept that it was mentioned once and was subject to change.
And don't forget, Stealth isn't a true invisibility. Its more like the cloak the Predator has from the movies.
While not Confirmed™ with a soundbite, we know there are legendary item, we know there are legendary craftables, and we got word that there are a range of gems/enchants with a range of grades, so Legendary could be among them.
What will the rating for the game be, and will there be tasteful nudity?
I noticed an ARTISTIC painting hanging on the wall (left side of the door) in one of their walk throughs.
https://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2452&v=KCr9yh2Y97I