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Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Sea shanties and Idle chatter
chiefbird
Member, Alpha Two
I was watching a youtube video from AC Black Flag ... I think it would be cool to have sea shanties sung by your crew (NPC) or (Players) it would add so much to immersion. It could include added benefits to increase group morale etc. Maybe find rare ancient songs that would do X.
In the towns you can hear idle chatter if youre in the bar / town as events unfold, gossip etc. It would make the game feel more live. In the mountains you can have drunken dwarfs singing songs of adventures (racial songs?)
I get that VA would have to be considered and debated with time, budget
In the towns you can hear idle chatter if youre in the bar / town as events unfold, gossip etc. It would make the game feel more live. In the mountains you can have drunken dwarfs singing songs of adventures (racial songs?)
I get that VA would have to be considered and debated with time, budget
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Money is better spend on the social systems vision for the game
I agree with you one hundred percent, but a few well placed songs could end up being a fan favorite.
Imagine if there was something like the this when you walk into a tavern:
I want all of the time and money to go to the vision of the game as well, but I would not be upset if they had a few well placed bards doing passive world building.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Player characters might choose to write some poems and songs, too.
If it's cheaper than voice acting and music combosition.
A good soundtrack is a must for the environment tho.
This is something I expect to see those with more talent than me to do.
Since this kind of thing is fairly server specific, I can even see people that are actually good at it being asked to write songs for servers other than those they play on.
This is a terrible idea. Do you want Intrepid to get sued into the ground for copyright infringement? You can't build a system to let people just openly play music like that. There are licenses and permits you need for that sort of thing.
Do discord/ts/ventrilo have these licenses?
That's completely different... Discord can't control what you play into an open microphone. They're not held legally responsible for that. If Discord built a system that let you stream music *directly into the program* then they'd get in trouble. We also know Ashes doesn't currently have plans for voice chat. It's the same reason why Twitch blams people who play copywritten music on their streams, because if they *don't* then the copyright companies will come after Twitch.
It isn’t voice acting, it’s a soundtrack. We have Bear freaking McCreary doing the game’s soundtrack for crying out loud. He’s won a number of awards including an Emmy for his soundtracks. Clearly Intrepid isn’t shy about spending some money for a good soundtrack. Nobody is asking to voice the whole game like Star Wars: The Old Republic, it’s just a handful of songs.
I’d like it if different races have different songs. In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey for example, they had the same songs but a male crew would sing in a male voice and females in a female voice, which added enough realism to add something to the game’s atmosphere. Ashes could go further with songs per race.
I know want go go Godzilla on my boat