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Alpha Two Phase III testing has begun! During this phase, our realms will be open every day, and we'll only have downtime for updates and maintenance. We'll keep everyone up-to-date about downtimes in Discord.
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.
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I don't understand this prospective.
As a human that is more attractive than my in-game abomination I find it annoying that people would defend the state of AOCs character models.
Coping that everything is in its minimal state is one thing but advocating for it to be this way I just don't understand.
It is a failure point for the game that will drive people away. It could be a reason the game fails.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Sure 😂any day (btw the feeling is mutual worry not)
Well imagine reading...if you did... i did state it does need improvements its a must at this point, even gw2 has more presets options
But it is as it is.
There is one thing that would interest me, though.
Are there any Talks between Sir Steven and his mighty Crew and the Tester Community about how well the Use and Utilization of Data gained from the Testers is doing ?
I am aware they can't speed things up. They have to keep coding to at least November to ready the Summoner and a few other Mechanics, right ?
But how well are they doing with the Data gained from the Testers ? I think i've never asked this before - and i have no Idea if someone else ever asked this.
✓ Occasional Roleplayer
I am in the guildless Guild so to say, lol. But i won't give up. I will find my fitting Guild "one Day".
I read your posts. A lot of caps and exclamation.
I still don't understand this prospective.
Are Koreans and body builders not human?
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
" I AM ABANDONING MY HUMANITY, VHAEYNEEEE !!! " -
✓ Occasional Roleplayer
I am in the guildless Guild so to say, lol. But i won't give up. I will find my fitting Guild "one Day".
???? what are you on about?
(maybe you dont get sarcasm (wonder why...) and sarcasm is my expertise)
what are you referring to? what is that 'that'? yourself?
You not the only one unfortunately (maybe as if in a coincidence the 3 of you happen all to be koreans and on top of it also body builders?)...
i proceed to open twitch and
you wont believe it
for my surprise and of many
there is like a lot of people playing
and you do ask HOW is it possible
I dunno who would have thought [ i hope you catch the sarcasm this time]
Actually is probably the 3rd or 4rt of the same as just of today that appear like a plague on my yt feed;
(side note ») I even tried to block (im going to drop for a second my composure) that ugly ass face aka called asmongold out of my feed,
Aslo to @Aszkalon this as well showed up
reminder of our prior i dont know if we can really call it a conversation
P.S.: I look forward for Witcher 4 and Fable 😁
My Hopes are low. But MAAAAAAAAAAAAAYBE i get surprised with Witcher 4 - and it is actually purchasable and i don't have to identify as Non-Buy-nary again, lol.
I am excited for the Summoner.
✓ Occasional Roleplayer
I am in the guildless Guild so to say, lol. But i won't give up. I will find my fitting Guild "one Day".
You are not much of an expert if your "sarcasm" does not work.
Yes, myself and I would bet most people look better IRL than anything they could hope to create with the awful state of the character creator. This is my main issue with the character models.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Well that is on you if you are not capable of understanding sarcasm, not my fault 😄
And once again been stated it absolutely needs improvements
I think with Character Creators like :
- Skyrim
- Eldenring
- pretty much any Souls Game
- BALDURS GATE THREE (!!!)
- The 2018(??) Presentations of Ashes of Creation itself
this may sound easier said than done, but why not try to put all praised Options together and create something like the best Mix out of all of them ? There is nothing to lose and everything to win, right ?
✓ Occasional Roleplayer
I am in the guildless Guild so to say, lol. But i won't give up. I will find my fitting Guild "one Day".
I have said in the past that I am very optimistic they will get there. The promise they made the community was "On par or better than Black Desert."
The only issues that keep me discussing this is the lack of progress since Alpha 1 shown to the community and the potential for them to purposely be making the characters ugly like many modern western games.
It is still not proven that they will purposely limit beauty. It could just honestly be how bad the "Minimum Viable Product" is. It is still always something to worry about with any modern western studio.
Ugly characters will only limit the game's ability to grow. People that could be into Ashes old-school PvX style might skip over it of Aion2 or something else because the looks are a non-starter.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Ashes is... UE5 slop.
Between Zero for nothing - and Hundred for Everything,
where about would your Trust be - that it can be tackled that the Characters can look just as well and fine like in other Engines ? Like - Zero Trust ? Full Trust ? Anything inbetween ?
✓ Occasional Roleplayer
I am in the guildless Guild so to say, lol. But i won't give up. I will find my fitting Guild "one Day".
I have honestly been playing Minecraft again since P3 has been a wash. I got to say with the right shaders Minecraft characters end up looking better to me than what AOC has now.
This is my personal feedback, shared to help the game thrive in its niche.
Just as fine as... what we have right now?
What we got isn't looking fine by any measure. It's a flickering, buggy mess with performance problems and only rudimentary customisation. You can create better looking characters in UE 2, released in 2002. Of course, you can also create better models in UE5, but I don't believe this team will pull it off. I don't think they even want to have characters look better. They seem to be happy with what they got.
I've been playing Turtle WoW for a while now, with the HD patch, and frankly, even the WoW chars look a lot better than Ashes. And I'm not even a fan of that Disney/Pixar look
This is exactly what i kinda think all the time but never wanted to say since Months and Months and Months on end.
I am just so immensely annoyed over when i look at Presentations from around 2018 - > or Concept Arts which can be in pretty much ANY monthly Presentation/Video/Stream even right now - then i see always these nice Views and Sights of Characters which look just superior.
I refuse to believe that everything is supposed to look tinier, uglier, stiff and so on - because it is a "new/better/newer Engine"-kind of, than what was used Years before.
I also refuse to believe that Sir Steven pours insane Amounts of Money into this Project every single Year, only to then make a Product that will be "so-so" and will not even impress. I can't believe Ashes it's at it's Limit.
The fact that i wait now until " NOVEMBER " or even later when i was looking forward to "May FIRST/1th" this Year, when it was THIS TIME AROUND "last" Year - is pretty much a Brainfuck i can not really accept.
What the heck even is this ?? The greatest Labor Pains of ALL TIMES which an MMO ever had ?? I wonder how People must feel who poured Thousands of Dollars or €uros into this (((Braver of Worlds and so on))) and who wait religiously like 2018.
How many even are still alive ? Cancer is a thing in Reallife. We won't live forever.
✓ Occasional Roleplayer
I am in the guildless Guild so to say, lol. But i won't give up. I will find my fitting Guild "one Day".
Wait is the unreal 5 Turtle wow update out???
@Aszkalon If we take a look at what Intrepid has achieved so far, how many of the original devs are gone, and how much their vision has shifted; if we look at where this game is going, compared to what it was advertised as during Kickstarter (back then: a dynamic world, where zone levels, monsters and content were depending on the nodes, with certain pvp objectives to drive meaningful conflict and politics. now: a pvp theme park with static zones and no real content, despite the same 3 mobs everywhere, and the pvp being "lawless zones"), I honestly don't believe the game will even see the light of day, but if so, that it'll stay alive for long. It will end up with 1 server with a peak of 200 people online, much like Pantheon, but for murder hobos. What else will these games have in common? Characters that look like the intern did a quick prompt in the OG DALL-E in 2023.
Since I started this thread (a year ago!), I've pretty much lost hope. Just hanging out here on the off chance that Steven gets his feet back on the ground.
Yeah I tend to agree, I know that it's alpha and all that but by this point we should have started seeing non place holder systems coming online, better art design ( everything just looks like it's done with AI, not much point having 2 continents and 18 biomes if they are all the same with the same 4 mob types and AI placement ), the systems we have are nothing like advertised in the " vertical slices "
Where are the freeholds, the crafting system where different mats change the outcome, the meaningful PvP and pve, the lore, the story arch's, the castles, the different racial node styles. It feels like all we have really done the past year is make the game even less casual and add boring zones with no point to even explore them
The crate system sucks, there is no end game loop in sight, we are releasing arch types with placeholder skill trees? Honestly no idea what the direction for this game is any ore, hit level 50 and run crates. This game needs a strong player base to survive so unless they release with only one server per region I am concerned for the longevity of this project.
I needed that positive Comment, Andi. Thanks.
Yes. It is progressing tripping and stumbling, but it is progressing. 🫡
✓ Occasional Roleplayer
I am in the guildless Guild so to say, lol. But i won't give up. I will find my fitting Guild "one Day".