Next Livestream + Q&A Submission - Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 11am Pacific

Vaknar · August 2023

Glorious Ashes of Creation Community!

Our next livestream featuring an Alpha Two Node Preview will be Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 11am Pacific! (Click here to convert this to your local time.)

Similar to our past streams, we'd love to gather some questions from you to answer live! Please submit your question for our development team in the thread below, and we'll select 10 of them at random to answer during the end of our livestream. In order to accommodate a variety of questions from our community, please only post ONE question below - the more direct, and succinct the better (think one to two sentences)! Submissions end Monday, August 28, 2023 at 11am Pacific, so we can select your questions before the broadcast.

We'll see you soon for our development update livestream! twitch.tv/ashesofcreation

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Edit:
🏰 🙌 Verrans, Nodes have been sent!

https://youtu.be/bJwLHPGPH5s
Watch the gameplay segment of the stream here ☝
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🏰 Glorious Verrans - If you missed yesterday’s livestream showing the latest update on Village Nodes, head over to our YouTube channel now!

https://youtu.be/JvsXn43Gak0
Watch the full stream VOD here ☝

Lash · August 2023

Does exp debt at max level interact with rested exp.

unknownwon · August 2023

Will there be a system in place where a player who wants to hire other players to escort their caravan would be able to ask players or guilds who will guard the caravan for collateral which will be repaid upon completion of the escort in addition to payment for the escort service?

Immortality · August 2023

We've heard of Nodes having a "building state" once it levels up or right before where npc's will visually "level up" the node. How will this work in practice?

Fantmx · August 2023

For freeholds, will giving permissions to guild members count towards the previously stated 9 person cap associated with families or is it a separate number?

Babayugah · August 2023

Since the world was increased by nearly 3x in size and the total number of nodes has decreased, has the size of a Metropolis increased as well? Or has it stayed the same 0.5km in diameter?

Draktar · August 2023

I would like to know the advantage of each type of node. (military, economic, divine and scientific)

Lark Wyll · August 2023

Hello, I'd like to learn more about how Node Sieges/warfare will be conducted. Could you update us on a general overview of objectives, capture points, if the node itself will be used during the siege, how many points of entry will need to be defended simultaneously, how rosters will be filled and if any control will be given to governors or guilds, etc.?

Second question regarding zvz pvp design, can you describe your intent with ability/combat design in regards to army movement patterns?

I'm hoping large scale combat is disbursed and not a forced zerg ball meta always. I'd love to see more spread out combat with agency encouraged for individual players rather than hive tactics w/one caller and 100+ robotic players forced to play in the aoe support ball to survive. I want to see combat be chaotic and with a multitude of attack/defense points being contested at once for more interesting group combat. Its one aspect New World got right.

Looking forward to this video. Oh, and is the plan still to move forward with pvp being allowed in cities/towns as pvp vs afk players I don't know if that is compelling gameplay players desire. As a pvp player myself I've never found interest in killing someone in a town while they stand idle at a Trading Post shopping in a UI menu. I see no value.

Gaul_ · August 2023

What is the intent for potion consumption during active combat? Will we chug potions regularly or will there be a moderate cooldown?

Roofian · August 2023

talking about average players, will having a freehold be the best way to be rich? will there be other ways for people focused on pve or pvp (not being corrupt)?

PD: just to clarify, not asking about goals, i'm asking about being rich, i misswrote my question last month and it was missinterpreted

White5hadow · August 2023

Can we get a bit more info about story arcs, specifically about their influence on the world and players.

For example, in the last showcase, what happens if another group unleashes zombies while my group is still fighting the minotaurs? Do they just turn into zombies? Will it be possible for my group to finish the quest requirements? ...

SkylarckTheBotanist · August 2023

What will the artistic influence be for the Tulnar (architecture)?

Liniker · August 2023

Can we get an updated full list of weapon groups (with unique skill trees) that are planned for Ashes of Creation?

Raven016 · August 2023

Will it be allowed to teleport resources to respawn points by letting friends kill you, or do you see it as an exploit?

Barab · August 2023

Will there ever be Dünir beard skins in the shop ?

Lupo · August 2023

When you add new content that may be locked behind node progression, will there be something along the lines of a Special Seasonal Event to allow players to more quickly unlock that new content – or can we expect new content to drop for all nodes simultaneously?

Also I work in tech in San Diego so Steven if you want to play a round at Torrey and – I don't know – maybe let me know when Alpha 2 is dropping, lmk!

DougBug27 · August 2023

For a Story Arcs that become Canon on a server, will the final result of the arc be determined by the decision made by the first completion, or will it be an aggregate of everyone who completes the arc counted as votes?

E.G. Guild "Hardcore" beats the story arc first and decides to kill the professor in Carphain whilst 60% of the players who complete the same arc decide to spare the professor. Which would be canon once the timed event/arc ends?

Roubi · August 2023

Would it be possible to get a list of all weapon types available?

Punkte · August 2023

When could we expect to see content related to battlegrounds, arenas, etc.
Additionally, is PvP going to follow classic Rock, Paper, Scissors style class balance?
Rogue > Mage, Mage > Warrior, etc (generally speaking).

ashone · August 2023

We all know that character creation works as we have seen the devs playing different types of avatars. When will we get access to the character creation screen?

Sersei · August 2023

How many players (minimum) would you expect it would take to build up a node at each of it's stages?

From an expedition to a metropolis.

Ex: 10 players to make an expedition / 25 to make an encampment / 50 to make a village

If you don't have a minimum number of players.

Can you give an idea of what a focused group of 50 players could accomplish (reasonably) in regards to building up a node?

Lineager · August 2023

Can Steven tell us more about the Tavern games? Maybe there is some concept of several games?

PlasticLemons · August 2023

Are y’all still considering adding a sailing bonus to Vek as a racial perk? I feel they would be more spiritual than nautical, and nautical should be left to the Nikua.

Thank you I love you

Drunkninja · August 2023

Can weapons mounted on boats deal damage to players?

Sengarden · August 2023

According to the wiki, some mountable creatures will be able to develop certain combat abilities based on their breed. How do you intend on making it evident to players in a PvP scenario what types of abilities they might anticipate from an enemy’s mount if its owner has a skin of another breed applied to it?

NyceGaming · August 2023

Could we expect ‘hard modes’ or ways to increase dungeon difficulty besides node progression or a large amount of players in proximity for better loot?

George_Black · August 2023

Steven could you talk about the requirements for Guilds Levels to:

Increase member slots
Participate in castle sieges
Form official alliances
Acquire guild passives?

Mitchz · August 2023

I posted a reddit post a year ago about wishing there was a boar mount in the game, this month by chance you released a boar mount. I'm wondering if this was a coincidence or the developers viewed my post and acted on it

So my question is:

How much influence do the artists take from player feedback and suggestions for concepts compared to in house concepts ?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AshesofCreation/comments/15tiu7g/a_year_ago_i_made_a_post_on_this_reddit_wishing/

Stalwart · August 2023

Will it be necessary for people to turn against their own nodes to unlock new content? Say an endgame group wants to get new gear, will it be commonplace that they destroy their metropolis to level a nearby node for that gear?