Betty the Fish

JustVine · April 2022

Get a load of this cutey. I love the art direction for the mobs in this game. The fact that they showed off a sea creature this detailed and appropriately sized gives me hope they are working on mobs for a sea biome.

What are your thoughts on this being able to be fought on surf areas like the otters and crabs in Alpha? Any other 'surf' style biome creatures you are interested in? Perhaps some deadly leg snails?

bloodprophet · April 2022

Love to see some truly scary mobs of all types.
Nothing like a good old fashioned kraken hiding below the waves waiting to drag your ship down to keep the blood pumping.

pyreal · April 2022

Betty made me think of:

And its not ever her name..

Caww · April 2022

The fact that they spent the time to do a single mob in this detail and that it was practically a throw-away cameo shot says a lot about the other creatures we don't know anything about.

Balrog21 · April 2022

Yeah, I do want to see some of the truly horrifying types of creatures that have evolved or with magic from the the others came to inhabit Vera. Regular animals changed a bit is all fun and all, but there should definitely be some truly horrific denizens as well.

DFirehawkC · April 2022

Caeryl · April 2022

The ocean is full of monstrosities and I wanna see them

truely · April 2022

I hope it's absolutely massive

TeemEmurica · April 2022

They said in stream it was a Raid Boss out in the ocean.

truely wrote: »

I hope it's absolutely massive

They also said that it was indeed huge.

Vaknar · April 2022

Can't wait to battle big monsters while I'm out at sea

What other monsters/sea creatures do you hope to see in Ashes of Creation?

-T0Mb- · April 2022

Anglerfish, squid, reef stonefish and sea urchin. All these creatures and their crossbreeds in giant scale would be terrifying.

Also I would like to see some kind of hybrid of elephant seal and leopard seal.

Walruses and sea lions could be a very good pets and mounts!

AidanKD · April 2022

What TeemAmurica said - it should be a raid boss akin to the KRAKEN (in Archeage?) - and should be bigger! I like the idea that it will be Naval combat using ships, harpoons and cannons - maybe if we get close enough we can use range spells but I wouldn't want melee characters to feel gimped, though maybe they would get priority on the guns

And this is just the one we have seen, so the idea that we will have a bunch is really exciting.

Caeryl · April 2022

Just imagine waddling along on your aquatic mount and you see teeth the size of your leg underneath you

Sathrago · April 2022

Oh betty, It's been a while.

I am hype for more aquatic stuff. This is a great start.

Caww · April 2022

I would expect the usual mermaids & sirens to be evil, maybe some generic mobs like seals, walruses, octopus, whales and maybe throw in a nasty goldfish...

JustVine · April 2022

No joke, a walrus can kill you in multiple ways irl lol. They are pretty intimidating majestic creatures.

truely · April 2022

JustVine wrote: »

No joke, a walrus can kill you in multiple ways irl lol. They are pretty intimidating majestic creatures.

yup they just sit on you and splat XD

JustVine · April 2022

I was looking at this most recent AoC wallpaper and staring at how close the ungulates were to the river side. And then I thought to myself 'why is kingdra the only well known terrorizing sea horse in videogames and why are there not lava and lightning varieties?'

The real question, of course, isn't if AoC should have them, but if it should be elemental breath cannon sea horses or 1 giant one.

CROW3 · April 2022

JustVine wrote: »

I was looking at this most recent AoC wallpaper and staring at how close the ungulates were to the river side. And then I thought to myself 'why is kingdra the only well known terrorizing sea horse in videogames and why are there not lava and lightning varieties?'

The real question, of course, isn't if AoC should have them, but if it should be elemental breath cannon sea horses or 1 giant one.

My first thought was whether the dude way off in the distance was flagged and mining something rare. 😉

One of the aspects of GW2 I miss (I haven’t played in a loooong time) is the attention they put into the underwater experience. Just well thought out, intriguing, and pretty to swim through.

From everything we’ve seen, it appears (being cautious) that Intrepid sees the importance of investing heavily in this biome as well.

JustVine · April 2022

I love bdo's water biome for similar reasons. Unfortunately there isn't much more than gathering points but it'd be my main spot in game if it were.

I was liking what I saw in Alpha of Intrepid's idea of a water biome. It was only spoiled by a slightly unrealistic feeling amount of mobs for the beaches/surf, lack of surf mob diversity, and the lack of ocean mobs. All very understandable in an Alpha, so pretty good make for me. I think I spent at least 4 hours swimming from coast to coast (I avoided the teleporter bugs since I don't mind swimming anyway) and another couple of hours just appreciating their water physics, particle fish, and lighting in various locations.

I am really looking forward to their idea of aquatic combat based on 'ole betty' above.

JamesSunderland · April 2022

Vaknar wrote: »

What other monsters/sea creatures do you hope to see in Ashes of Creation?

I really hope to see some insane nightmare fuel world boss sea dwelling creatures from mythology such as Good ol' Kraken, Leviathan and Charybdis in Ashes. (I believe Archeage did those 3 pretty well)
I would also like to see some prehistoric sea creatures.

As for average sea creatures the basic stuff big crabs, lobsters, octopus, squids, stingrays, jellyfish, walrus, sharks, orcas and maybe some sperm whales.

Archeage's Kraken:

Archeage's Leviathan:

Archeage's Charybdis:

JustVine · April 2022

Archage definitely chose 1 giant betty when considering 100 vs 1 giant. That Leviathan looks so cool.

JamesSunderland · April 2022

Ikr Archeage's Leviathan is my favorite, i hope Betty's sea friend in Ashes are big and scary like Levi is.

JustVine · May 2022

I've been thinking about it a lot and think a giant nautilus fortress (Mage/tank) would make for the most effective large scale fight on water. Especially if it had the ability to call for little nautilus monsters from the deep as adds.

Bstone2691 · May 2022

MANATEES just so darn cute and chubby

Betty the Fish

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