So Ashes of Creation forumers

I am bored, forums post are slow and content is drier than the Sahara. What's got you excited about AOC recently?

-We just got animal husbandry details
-Mounts are looking cool as always
-Perhaps their optimization regarding the 250v250 siege battles we saw many months ago?
-Caravan systems seem like they have gnarly potential maybe the guild v guild v guild conflicts that are sure to arise from caravans?
-What do you think about an alliance guild helping in a siege and potentially ending up stealing the castle from their alliance member?
-Crafting and gathering looks like it might have a lot of potential has anything drawn your eye in particular?
-Combat, Tab targeting hybrid system seems ambitious, is it to ambitious? Their certainly a fine line between failure and success potential for it, what do you think?
-AOC certainly has a lot on it's plate, what are your thought regarding their ability to deliver? Seems like so far they have tried to be transparent in a world where transparency can certainly be punishing.

Load me up with AOC opinions because I want to read them all because I am way to excited for a game that is a ways away from releasing even the A2.

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Shoelid

The stuff that keeps me excited for Ashes is still the basic, old-school MMO philosophy. I want a multiplayer RPG, not whatever 'MMORPG' has come to mean recently. I want to explore dungeons and fight for land with my friends. I want guilds to mean something. I don't want to grind up my item level. I want to spam dungeons for a specific weapon/material for my specific build.

I'm hoping that the node system will allow me and my friends to carve out our corner of the world, instead of feeling like we have to compete with the best of the best.

Dygz

Recently?

1: Nagash has been resurrected.
2: New player race models.

Caww

No - Do not make the forums more interesting and engaging.... I have real work to do and can not afford to be distracted with enticing topics, forum drama and actual game updates and announcements.

daveywavey

Nagash wrote: »

Forum burnout is a thing just take a brake from ashes and come back in a month or two

It's aliiiive!!! ....... Sort of...

Voxtrium

@Shoelid I think that potential is key for many of us. AOC has potential to make more than just the small area you can customize to feel like home. If they can nail the head and actually manage to put a node above a guild in term in loyalty then this game will have a lot of potential.

Voxtrium

@Goalid Definitely always best to temper expectations, so just lvl 4 on the start of A2 lvl 5 late and lvl 6 after A2 transitions to beta. Thats reasonable, definitely could see it. Although I will say they have like 100 staff right now, and they are definitely doing something more than just whats released in their streams, maybe its all backend and not art but i doubt it. UE5 might also help.

McShave

The forums been dead because there's been no interesting gameplay reveals from Intrepid, just tidbits and the new races. New races are interesting, but nothing to really say there. I like the road feature they showed that one stream, it looked cool.

I feel bad for the content creators out there because there has been nothing to talk about and discuss with the community. It seems that everyone will just have to wait until Alpha 2 drops, which could be 6 or more months, until we have something interesting to talk about.

This is my personal opinion here, and Steven has talked about this many times, but I don't really care about a character creator. The game isn't even releasing for 2 or more years probably, that feels like something I would care more about at release. In most games I just go for generic look anyways, it's all about the gameplay for me.

JustVine

I feel like things might get more lively once we have a replacement for Jeff. Until then, probably not.

Goalid

QuiQSilver wrote: »

@Goalid Definitely always best to temper expectations, so just lvl 4 on the start of A2 lvl 5 late and lvl 6 after A2 transitions to beta. Thats reasonable, definitely could see it. Although I will say they have like 100 staff right now, and they are definitely doing something more than just whats released in their streams, maybe its all backend and not art but i doubt it. UE5 might also help.

I would still lower my expectations because that 100+ staff all have different jobs, and aren't all just focused on node development.

Something I've also gotten excited for recently, is the underwater combat and underwater exploration. Want to start seeing that in Alpha 2.

Goatrek

Shoelid wrote: »

I'm hoping that the node system will allow me and my friends to carve out our corner of the world, instead of feeling like we have to compete with the best of the best.

My gaming group have been salivating about the idea of wandering off and working up some distant node in the corner of the map and see who decides to join in around that area but after reading about nodes it seems like you are heavily Incentivized to just be a citizen of the largest node (with node type as a factor as well ofc). Not super keen if this is how the node meta will play out with developed nodes giving exclusive and strong benefits. Will see in A2 I guess.

Sunboy

Nothing specific. Just a thought in the back of my head that some day I might play a decent MMO again.

Much love ❤️

Percimes

Not much new infos to discuss, so although I visit the forum everyday and check a few topics, I rarely log in to comment.

Balrog21

I think they all have their heads down working hard, and when it's time to show/reveal something to us they will, and when it's time, vids, articles, etc will start flowing again probably at an alarming pace as we gear up for Alpha2. Remember Alpha2 will be an ongoing thing (persistent), so for all who have access we will have plenty of time to try out all the shiney's so to speak, plus the new stuff they implement during development.
In short, we all are traversing up a very steep hill, the top is in sight, but it's still a ways off.

Voxtrium

@Goatrek I also liked the idea of going to a relatively remote node with my buds and marking our territroy over a lvl 3 village. Who knows, i think there will be tons of benefits from living in a metropolis but i also believe that living in villages will still be plenty viable. I know me and my guild mates won't be living in a metro most likely just so we can move easier when doing guild related stuff.

Voxtrium

@Balrog21 agreed, a very very steep hill

Voxtrium

@Goalid Honestly underwater combat seems interesting, i must imagine that it will be based more heavily around your mount but in general i hope that theres a solid system in place for pirating so pirate ships and raiding is common. (which would increase the liklihood of those underwater fights)

Goalid

QuiQSilver wrote: »

@Goalid Honestly underwater combat seems interesting, i must imagine that it will be based more heavily around your mount but in general i hope that theres a solid system in place for pirating so pirate ships and raiding is common. (which would increase the liklihood of those underwater fights)

Look at some Archeage videos for some good underwater combat.

Yeah they have to really do naval caravans and pirating right, I think a pirates social organization could facilitate a lot of that happening.

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