My glorious MMO BROTHERS AND SISTERS! Thank you…. For your continued support and feedback during this development journey. Today we showcased a big system that is integral in the economy of Ashes and a major gameplay loop in the game. Please leave your thoughts on discord, forums, twitter and here on KZread. Your thoughts are an important part of our iterative process. Hope you all enjoyed!! Much love and happy Halloween!!!🎉❤🎊

@sallee132

8 ай бұрын

Please, do not ruin the immersion of the game, don't add too much flashy skins and stuff, I quit Gw2 cause everyone there looks like Christmas tree.

@backstabber3537

8 ай бұрын

then the game might not be for you @@sallee132

@GKEnder

8 ай бұрын

My internet connection isn't strong where I'm at rn so I can't tell if this is already implemented, but: Could there perhaps be class-specific skills for folks who are "inside" the caravan? Opens door to optimization potential for who's in & out, being able to provide more defensive / offensive / speed / utility potential under attack, etc.

@olsonbrandon91

8 ай бұрын

Keep up the hard work, I hope this game is an amazing success!

@theclimbto1

8 ай бұрын

I'm ready for the next wave of Testing... LET ME IN! :D

Can really start to see the gameplay loops we’ll be losing our lives to starting to emerge. Game looks amazing as always and Intrepid is more motivated than ever. Huge love!

@TheHighborn

8 ай бұрын

Can't wait to play games like a degenerate again.

The fact that every damn thing in this game has some kind of way to be upgraded, modified or any other way of manipulated is so insanely cool. Logging on and believing you have alot to do but getting nothing done cause theres SO MUCH MORE TO DO is just so perfect. So hyped for this game and i really appreciate the transparent and constant updates on everything. You guys have a passion that most of us can only aspire to achieve. Thank you!

@relaxingsessions5325

8 ай бұрын

Try Black Desert, Game already done and still having updates every week. I think Ashes of Creation is getting ideas from bdo and other MMOs.

@jinz0

8 ай бұрын

So little to do for another 5 years until release

@Kussi_Slayer

8 ай бұрын

@@relaxingsessions5325 i played bdo before and i don't really vibe with slaying 50mobs at once while leveling up. :D tho the combat is insanely cool and smoothly executed.

@verschleppt

8 ай бұрын

Can anyone tell me why BDO has this abnoxious system to move your camera left/right when sprinting+strafing💀 this literally made me NOT play the game

@rosemccartney1538

8 ай бұрын

The one thing that makes BDO insanely steep for new players. Theres 1 million things to do, 1000 things in your screen and you have no idea where to start or what to do next. Good for player who have spend 8k hours into the game, but for the other 80% of people it’s just bad.

Bit by bit you can see the progress. Improvements, UI getting better, systems being introduced. Well done ashes team, you have alot of players hopes and aspirations in mind and best wishes

*"Caravans" in Silkroad Online were extremely fun, I hope that Caravans in AoC will make me have fun again playing an MMORPG.*

@nomad6174

Ай бұрын

I thought the same thing! That was a minute ago

Its really fun seeing the game come together and have its features showcase more and more. Working for your guys might be a goal of mine in the future :3

This system looks so immersive. I can already imagine Verra feeling like a living and breathing world once the servers are live and players are given the opportunity to interact with it. Edit: The caravan travel looks insanely immersive, but the caravan turn-in once you enter town is very abrupt and felt out of place. I would love to see the player actually bring the caravan to a specific point in town rather than suddenly be teleported off their wagon and have it vanish into thin air.

@Mr.Stephane_L

8 ай бұрын

Agree, or we will see thousand caravan vanishing at the entrance... Might disconnect the player from immersion.

@bitbraindev

8 ай бұрын

aye, instead, they could give the caravan an invincible buff (to avoid people camping the caravan at the entrance)

@markosz22

7 ай бұрын

Yes, absolutely! Seeing caravan traffic moving through the city to a drop-off point would be so immersive. Bonus points if the players had to reverse park it correctly :D Caravans should be safe inside the cities or close to them anyway, if guards do their job.

@stevenverhagen6784

7 ай бұрын

I agree on the caravan turn-in. Somehow I expected it to feel more rewarding and immersive.

This is crazy, alpha 1 to this feels mindblowing

@pepsipwns666

8 ай бұрын

What was crazy about it in your eyes? I really fail to see it, it looks like a very primitive version of everquest 1 / Archeage ?

@unphazd5137

8 ай бұрын

@@pepsipwns666 clown

At 32:36 mins it goes into autumn/evening time and the game & environment looks great, caravan gameplay looks really fun for open world content too.

@aidandesilva

8 ай бұрын

I actually think that's a characteristic of the biome being entered, rather than a seasonal/time change. It's still very nice seeing the change but it does look like some sort of change in the forest style and perhaps a mist or fog layered across.

This caravan system reminds me so much of Silkroad, an MMO I used to play and love 10+ years ago.. I love seeing that system coming back and I can't wait playing Ashes of Creation.

@oportium777

8 ай бұрын

not yet good as sro. some important thisgs left, like jobs. what make sro so good

@Dangerous1939

7 ай бұрын

@@oportium777 Basically everyone can be a thief in this game, and there will also be a system to have headhunters. It won't be directly connected with trades like sro did, but indirectly. Probably more like Archeage, where you can traderuns with your friends to guard each other

@oportium777

7 ай бұрын

@@Dangerous1939 it is cool. but having a thief job with alias...you know what i mean^^

I REALLY like the atmosphere filter that goes on terrain and objects... makes it feel so tangible.

In my opinion, this was overall quite interesting and fun. I liked it a lot. I personally would appreciate the option to remove fallen trees from Caravan Events from the road, either by chopping them up or dragging them out of the way. If the players have the right equipment for it. + Clearing the road for myself and other Caravans feels like the right thing for me to do. However, choosing to go around the fallen tree should still be an option, for those that prefer to do so. I think it would be nice to have a command or feature that allows you to match your movement speed with the speed of the caravan you are accompanying, if you can go that fast. This could help avoid issues like in games with escort quests, where your speed doesn't match what you're escorting, leading to an unpleasant experience.

@purplesnek4069

8 ай бұрын

I imagine maybe a high level lumberjack could do it over an extended time, Forcing them to either go offroad looking for an alternate route or sitting in the road like a duck while it's being chopped

This is exactly what I used to do in SilkRoad online probably 20 years ago. You'd transport goods from one location to another, and you could through an in game system hire other players to act as your bodyguards while you were traveling. There was a third job in the game in which other players would ambush your caravan, try to kill you and your bodyguards so they could steal what you were transporting to make money. It was a ton of fun, but unfortunately the game itself had a lot of problems with botting and hacks that eventually seen a majority of the players abandon the game altogether. I'm excited to do this again!

Transporting goods from one city to another in fear of thieves, while being protected by hunters(bodyguards)...brings me back to the prime Silkroad Online days. God I'm so hyped for this game. Silkroad had very rare drops called Seal of star/moon/sun for each tier of weapons and armor, Those special weapons had a cool glowing pattern and were already equal to +5,+10,+15. You could also add +1+2+3+4 etc to your weapons for an even more unique glow. For example a +3 weapon had a clear glow to it, +5 had pinkish red, +7 was gold, +9 teal. It was awesome to see a teal weapon because getting +9 was terrible rng, and seeing an SOSun +9 weapon was badass. I wish new games had something like this instead of everybody having the same weapons.

@skyrim654

6 ай бұрын

My god. And here I thought I was the only one that ever played that game. NO ONE I've met has ever been around that game. But I do remember the caravans that would go by, and thieves that are usually knipping at their heels... damn that does take me back.

@MarioLuigi141

6 ай бұрын

I also remember the days of traveling with a caravan in SRO. You had those different uniforms/hats or the banner you wore on your back if you were a bodyguard. I remember getting peeled both as a caravan and a thief SO many times but gosh dammit it was fun every single time. This is definitely a throwback.

Something that might help make the nodes feel more alive is if each the caravan that is turned in to a node would continue to be noch driven around the town after its turned in for certain amount of time. So that a node will have more or less noch traffic based on how many caravans are turned in. It would be extra cool if they could keep the skins and aesthetics of the turned in caravan. This effect would be pretty cool way to demonstrate how much trade is in each city. Also if caravans ever end up having an option for guild colors and these aesthetics are retained when the npc drives it, it would be easy to tell at a quick glance which trade guilds are active in the city. Lore wise you could explain it as the node npcs/warehouse workers taking over and driving the caravan to the warehouse to be unloaded and then watching over the caravan for the player in the meantime. I.e cleaning it, basic general maintenance taking care of the horses, parking it somewhere safe.

@skyrim654

6 ай бұрын

Yeah I agree. I feel like being able to parade through town on your successful caravan run would be like icing on the cake. Also, I feel like it would add further life to the city/town.

Really great showcase. When I saw the tree blocking the road, I started the imagine what could happen, if players have the option to chop tress and prepare an ambush. Of course this could be abused, but would also make it possible to block the economy of an entire node, which adds another layer of conflicts, for war between nodes

The game looks amazing! Keep going, you are doing a great job!

This was a great showing of the caravan system, it makes me remember when i played silkroad online, thanks for incorporating this game feature and for all the hard work, very excited with each new video!

Can't wait for it to come out. I would love to see more Lore on dwarves.

@byali4360

8 ай бұрын

Who's creating racist dwarf mountain city with me? No pointy-ears allowed!

@MicaelN

8 ай бұрын

@@byali4360 i join you in that 😁

@abyssus9304

8 ай бұрын

@@byali4360I mean, Ill vist and drink all your beer.

@Skwolfe

8 ай бұрын

@@byali4360im in

@byali4360

8 ай бұрын

@@abyssus9304 You're going straight into the book of grudges.

This is incredible guys, the amount of work & love in this game is insane, thanks you for all of that !

Cant' wait to play this in 12 years!

I LOVED IT!!! Such a simple feature looks to add a lot of gameplay and purpose to the world. Very excited!

This will be remembered as one of the best mmorpgs of all time.

@ebuleheb305

7 ай бұрын

Whats name

this gave me another shot of stoke!! really fun to see this gameplay loop we will be interactive with constant. i love the risk/reward we see everywhere in this stream. can't wait for A2

A suggestion and a criticism: Suggestion: There is this old MMO called Silkroad of wich the entire premise was to create a dynamic caravan system to emulate the old Silkroad. It is a ridiculous game by todays standards, but they had this Thief, Hunter, Trader job system that worked really well and was super fun, with this awesome engine and today's technology you could create something truly amazing using that as inspiration. minor, petty criticism: The problem with this road blocked event is that this caravan is being run by a superhuman powerful warrior with magical abilities and a tree trunk is not an immersive realistic barrier.

@monetrico

8 ай бұрын

old silkroad online caravan days pretty pretty cool

This looks like a lot of fun! Exceeds what I expected to see today and will probably lose hours of my life driving caravans back and forth!

Looks awesome and felt immersive, love the concept keep up the good work.

Omg the world presence and atmosphere is unmatched! Amazing progress, Intrepid. It's coming more to life each month! ❤🎉

Lmao them cutting down the tree on Steven was funny as hell :)

@husleman

8 ай бұрын

Yea, that was pretty funny. I thought his horses was goners.

you should add a trample feature. if a caravan is moving at a certain speed, and a player's hitbox encounters the horses hitbox, they're smashed flat for 5 seconds

Caravans looked better than I expected, looking forward to seeing the raft and the animations associated with that, the time required to get to the next closest city was great, can see your vision for the game slowly coming together Steven. 😊

I hope that once this game is up for play that you guys keep giving us videos like this, having developers be very involved with the community is great. Jagex does this as well with OSRS

Does this have a First person mode? Be great for screenshots and immersion moments :D

The amount integration between systems and depth of thought that has gone into them at this early stage is both impressive and encouraging for future iterations! It been an AMAZING journey watching this game grow up cant wait for A2 and beyond!! To echo Steven's closing remarks - THANK YOU to the entire dev team at Intrepid!!

The focus of this showcase is Caravans but I can't help but just stare at everyone's armor sets. They all look so good. The armor and weapon designers are doing an awesome job.

getting to point B from point A in new world is years behind what I just witnessed

@robertchandler2063

8 ай бұрын

You have to be kidding this is so slow and stupid.

Loved this one

FINALLY the carravan system... I've been waiting for years to see it

I'm curious if you still intend to allow PCs to purchase caravans to move their own (non NPC) gear? In the past it was said that the caravan system was for moving large amounts of raw resources and the like, is that still possible? Loved the demo btw.

@justinwhite2725

8 ай бұрын

This was the most important thing they could have shown in this video and it would have been like 3 minutes to show how to add a crate of materials among all the others.

*Just outstanding!*

Hope you guys get it right. Don’t rush take your time ❤

I'm really pleased and a bit releaved after watching the caravan gameplay. It is giving me hope that Ashes will be phenomenal. Can't wait, and keep it up!

Just...Awesome!

Thank you for another banger video, Happy Halloween \m/

The environment looks so good and inmersive >_

This looks so interesting. I can't really afford Alpha 2 access, but I'm extremely excited to spectate everone messing around with all these systems in Verra.

The dynamic spawning events that Mortal Online 2 wishes it had. Well done intrepid!

LFG!!! SO PUMPED FOR THIS GAME AND HAVE BEEN FOR A LONG TIME!! KEEP ROCKING!

Top 5 streams of the year. Great job, all!

Looks fantastic!

Very good work keep it up!!!!!!!!!

Ive noticed that you always hear wind, birds etc. and see capes flowing inside, I'd really love to see that changed in a QOL update in the near future! I think this game is so immersive, that I'd hate a little continuity error such as this, and the ambient noises being constant regardless of environment, ruin a big part of that immersive feel! Thanks so much for the update it was awesome!

@dillonmariglia6918

8 ай бұрын

@A_Jeff_The_REAL_Jeff Not sure what's confusing to you, I think it has been a few updates now where ambient noises are not indicative of if the player is inside or outside, or where within an environment they are, it would be a nice QOL update that would add further immersion.

This reminds me of Silkroad, pretty sure you got influenced by that game. Very good feature.

if you are gonna make such a system, you better add mercenaries or guards that you can customize with equipment to guard your goods when you do runs so even solo players have a chance to get into the big market

@challenger3596

7 ай бұрын

They're not doing that because they want to emphasize it being a MMO and not a solo game. If people want a solo mmo, they can go play GW2 or Tera

@animereferences10

6 ай бұрын

You can always hire people. I bet there will be mercenary discords where people will organize stuff, or there will be in game mercenary finder. MMORPGs are about interaction between players.

The caravan gameplay looks sick. You can really feel how vulnerable you get out there. The slow speed and constant looming danger feel like they'll provide good motivation to look around and really see and appreciate your environment. One completely unrelated thing I'll never stop complaining about though, is how the characters ice skate instead of running.

Very excited to play caravan guard. This is such a cool thing to add to the game.

Looks dope!

I wish the caravans left a trail. Especially if they use the same route. Small detail. This looks amazing and it's been great to see the journey unfold. Yes, trees should do falling damage and block the way; however, the player should have more control over how it falls. Perhaps small bonuses for having rapidly successive caravans arriving as a true caravan to encourage team play?

Great work!

Looking great all, world is relaly coming to life, loving the atmosphere

I'm loving the Archeage inspo. :)

I bought a new PC just to be able to play and enjoy the Alpha 2 as best as i could. I've invested quite a bit in the game and hope to see it succeed , Cheers and thanks for all the hard work.

@theclimbto1

8 ай бұрын

Got a 4090, not specifically for this... but this was PART of the reason. :D

@MixMeister5000

8 ай бұрын

​@theclimbto1519 Haha right on !

@rjswas

8 ай бұрын

I did the same, got my new system a week ago with a 4060 Ti.

Looks great!

Friking beautiful

I really love how much more fluid the team is getting with these livestreams. Early ones felt a little bit more forced, whilst in this one in particular I can tell the team are enjoying themselves and having fun showing the work. To me it's a great indicator of progress Intrepid are making. Bullish :)

fantastic!! can't wait for the game to release

Using the Roleplay as the focus in a RPG, will make this game great

Looking amazing. Can't wait for retail. Just hope my PC will be good enough.

Is there a way for the escorts to ride the caravan too? Like an archer can perch on top & act as a lookout/turret

Thanks for the stream, the game looks fantastic and I'm really excited to see what it feels like to play it myself Greetings from Germany 🙂

are there any plans to alter the caravan's speed when going down hill vs. up hill?

Everything looks incredible, it looks unbelievably beautiful. This world in A2 is beyond what I expected when I first started following Ashes.. If I have one bit of feedback to give, nobody is gonna scroll down to find the rewards after turning their Caravan. People have smooth brains and they'll just cry in chat or put in a ticket.

41:07 the repulsor blast sound effect sounds identical to shadow fiend's shadowraze ability from dota 2

This was the reason that I wanted to play this game as a Silkroad Online player. Thievery is my passion!

ahhh.. very cool!

Com esse vídeo dá pra notar o quanto o jogo evoluiu desde o Alpha 1, slc muito bonito ta esse mundo 🤤

@Walter-wu7tb

8 ай бұрын

O mundo ta maravilhoso

@NDK_SnnakeEyes

8 ай бұрын

@@Walter-wu7tb vontade de explorar só aumenta kk

awesome system, reminds me of a more fun bdo caravan run...im so stoked to play this game that i designed a homebrew tabletop game with your class system...to the best of my ability...i have 36 combos only and i made up all my own techniques and secondary class alterations...this is how much i cant wait to play!

14:42 hahahahahaha metin2 wolf sound. Glorious. Ah, the memories

route event with broken cart driver offers to reward you for taking his cargo, you might dump some of your own to make space

archeage trade run vibes, always good to see

This is perfect, so beautifull too see and cant wait to star playing this game, that travel in the caravan makes me loose in another world and forget problems and disconnect to the real life for a moment. thx guys to make this whit somany love

Instead of having the caravan disappear at the end of the journey, maybe you could hand it off to a local merchant to valet the caravan into a local stable of sorts.

great update this month

Will two players be able to share the same caravan? Or do they both have to drive their own?

I really love what I'm seeing so far with the caravan system. I really appreciate that it's got the sorta packaged system similar to ArcheAge where you spend some amount of resources to send to another node and that each node has it's specialties that other nodes want based on the amount they're getting. Really solid system. One thing I would note that would be cool to see is how actual materials play into these systems. I know each node has to have a certain level of access to each material so it can be generally self sufficient, but it would be very cool to be able to send for instance "bundles" of something like iron. It would require you to physically spend iron to purchase the bundle and then delivering the iron to the other node would then make it purchasable there. The price it's purchased and sold at would be based on the general availability of the material. Could even tie the value of these types of bundles to ebbs and flows of spawn rates of different material node types. For instance, if Node A is undergoing a shortage of Iron causing iron nodes to respawn more slowly, Node B could send some to them for a better price to players of Node B. Then this would help players of Node A still be able to get access to Iron at a normal rate overall.

I think it would be nice if a group of multiple caravans had a way of matching each others speed, which could then be toggled on and off - (Auto toggle off in combat). That way the fastest caravan wouldn't have to stop go stop go.

Man i'm looking forward to protect caravans with my friends

It's been mentioned that having the caravan disappear suddenly is a bit off, and I agree. My suggestion is that once you are in range you are pulled off the driver's seat and the caravan becomes an non-interactable vehicle that then self drives (an npc maybe or just bring in tesla-vans) to the hunter's lodge. this helps with immersion, visual clarity and adds a good way of confirming the caravan is safe/you reached the destination successfully. Personally I also don't like that I says "victory" when you finish. This was a caravan, not some big glorious quest. If it's just me then ok, but it felt weird compared to something like "Trade Successful" or "Reached Destination". I am also still thinking about the fact that commodities are bought with Monster Drops compared to gold. Maybe I'm stuck in my archeage brain, but whilst the "potential gold" is lost if the caravan is stolen or something, you don't actually risk that much if it is lost. I understand that just selling it at the main node is one option, and the risk/reward is that price vs a trade price somewhere else, but you don't lose much in terms of value I feel. In comparison to buying materials/commodities with gold and risking that on the caravan. I think this is specifically because (unless there is more to come) commodities at the moment looks to be a 3rd resource that doesn't appear to be very interactable except for either gold trading or I assume (and hope) for node specific progressions/missions.

want to see a special and huge update to see how art and visul will be at the end this thing can look so amazing

Great video. Question: Can commodities only be transported via caravans? Or can I just put them in my inventory and walk them to a different node?

this brings me back to good old archage, god i hope there will be sailing

me and my brother in law are so excited for this. We have both said that we will be on this game as soon as possible XD.

Very cool guys! The caravan is my most looked-forward-to feature in Ashes of Creation, and I'm happy to hear the high exchange rates in other nodes for cargo make the system worthwhile. Obviously might need balancing issues for exchange rate vs distance, with player demand for resources likely being a key driving factor as well (but I'm sure you guys are on all that, lol). Overall, very happy with how the system looks with the only input being that a higher cargo load would be nice, as the max 8 and minimum 2 slots seems a little small. Maybe certain larger caravans should be purchasable, but only for travelling larger distances? Seems like it would be fun to have different caravans with higher risk vs reward for larger distances, as well as making a fun 2-3 hour (maybe longer) experience for friends to enjoy. In any case, happy to see the progress as always! Good luck guys!

@relaxingsessions5325

8 ай бұрын

Try BLack Desert

@rjswas

8 ай бұрын

@@relaxingsessions5325 Dude, you have said this to 20 people, Black desert is just a p2w infested money pit with a broken engine that cant be fixed, i am sure if anyone here wanted to play BDO they would, but they won't, granted they are slowly fixing things, but its still a mess of a game.

Soooo gooood!

Sadly was working during the original Twitch Stream, so let's try this again. Looking forward to testing Alpha 2.

This game is so beautiful 🥲cannot wait for release.

Hello glorious team at Intrepid, will we know what passive bonuses each race will have before the release of Alpha 2?

Damn...This is insane!

Steven should have 4 horses with that big of a caravan lol

Show us the bard next pls, its time to rock my world. Pretty awesome the way the caravans work, probably gonna be loads of fun to do it with friends.