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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.
Intrepid... Devs.. Steven... Corruption needs to be addressed...
Liniker
Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
Please, dont make the heart of your community that will be on the Fresh Start and P3, which are the multiple Guilds suffer the PAIN of having to deal mob training as the most effective way of fighting over grind spots during our leveling rush....
Its terrible game design right now dropping 1-3 pieces of GEAR with the first corruption stack its just game breaking for people, and no one with a brain ever goes corrupt - the only times that your logs are recording people being corrupt and dropping gear is either by accident or in many cases due to BUGS that unintentionally flags people, and gets them corrupted making us lose hundreds of hours of progress over a bug...... whyyyyyy
this is just game breaking for your most dedicated testers... and the experience of doing World Bosses when they are not PvP zones and people are talking shit in chat while you can not do nothing about it its also extremely toxic
and I know what people might argue that this gives smaller/casual guilds a chance of doing the content but no, casual guilds do not have a chance of taking world bosses regardless if its a PvP zone or not, because its a DPS dispute and the most geared out guilds will still take them 99% of the time as P1 and P2 showed, so at the end of the day its mainly a PVE-only content for the top guilds that they can not even fight it out, we just try to out-dps each other its very boring...
what happened to the stories of hour-long bosses with guilds fighting each other to contest that steven used to talk about? man that would be AMAZING content....
Open world PvP over grind spots during leveling are also non-existing its mainly just a dispute of who has more patience to out-grief eachother pulling mobs and disrupting until someone gives up.... the meta is learning the best ways to train mobs and hoping the other group gets tired and leaves....
Please Intrepid, developers, Steven, we love the project, and we want to continue putting in thousands of hours to help you build the best game possible, but pls make it more enjoyable for us, consider a very BASIC change for the fresh start and P3 and tune down corruption, get world bosses to be PvP Zones and let your community have the fun PvX experience we are hoping for without all the frustrations mentioned above
@StevenSharif @Roshen
Its terrible game design right now dropping 1-3 pieces of GEAR with the first corruption stack its just game breaking for people, and no one with a brain ever goes corrupt - the only times that your logs are recording people being corrupt and dropping gear is either by accident or in many cases due to BUGS that unintentionally flags people, and gets them corrupted making us lose hundreds of hours of progress over a bug...... whyyyyyy
this is just game breaking for your most dedicated testers... and the experience of doing World Bosses when they are not PvP zones and people are talking shit in chat while you can not do nothing about it its also extremely toxic
and I know what people might argue that this gives smaller/casual guilds a chance of doing the content but no, casual guilds do not have a chance of taking world bosses regardless if its a PvP zone or not, because its a DPS dispute and the most geared out guilds will still take them 99% of the time as P1 and P2 showed, so at the end of the day its mainly a PVE-only content for the top guilds that they can not even fight it out, we just try to out-dps each other its very boring...
what happened to the stories of hour-long bosses with guilds fighting each other to contest that steven used to talk about? man that would be AMAZING content....
Open world PvP over grind spots during leveling are also non-existing its mainly just a dispute of who has more patience to out-grief eachother pulling mobs and disrupting until someone gives up.... the meta is learning the best ways to train mobs and hoping the other group gets tired and leaves....
Please Intrepid, developers, Steven, we love the project, and we want to continue putting in thousands of hours to help you build the best game possible, but pls make it more enjoyable for us, consider a very BASIC change for the fresh start and P3 and tune down corruption, get world bosses to be PvP Zones and let your community have the fun PvX experience we are hoping for without all the frustrations mentioned above
@StevenSharif @Roshen
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This was one of the reasons why I was surprised to learn that Steven didn't want "just kill each other" type of wars in Ashes. And now it's obvious that this approach is not really working out for the game.
And in L2 it was the guilds that would drop the war tag (cause in L2 wars weren't forced) would be the laughing stock instead. Obviously the gaming culture has shifted to being a little weakling and not even attempting to properly contest content, so I think that forced wars are the way to address that. But those should still come with a proper cost. And ideally we'd have "POI-contest" wars that would give goals, higher rewards and motivation to fight over a POI, within a certain timeframe.
Though I know that those very weaklings would either surrender immediately or just bring their 2nd or 3rd sub-guild to that spot, just to avoid the war. HAVING ONLY GEAR DECAY AS DEATH PENALTY WOULD ALSO HELP MOTIVATE PEOPLE BTW, STEEEEEVEN!
As for corruption, yes, I agree that the first couple of kills should have a really limited impact on the threat to the killer, though PK count costs should counterbalance that.
But ultimately, I say that it's still too early to ask for either of those, cause I want other parts of the game figured out and implemented first. And yes, it's probably separate teams working on any of those features, but considering the overlap of systems and the potential to just break the game - I'd imagine that implementation of broad system changes could fuck things up in a major way. So, stabilize the game first and then add/change pvp features.
I'm sure it's annoying to redo the whole "server start suffering" dance again, but we've done it twice already (and for some even more), so what's another one?
However, that PvP had no penalty cross faction - at all.
This is the reason I have always assumed boss mobs in Ashes will eventually be set up like caravans, it is the only way to achieve what Steven has said he wants.