🎅Merry Christmas Everyone! ☃ I hope you all have a great day and i'll pray that santa brings you all the presents you asked for! I will enjoy a couple of days off and i'll be back on the 27th with another banger of a video, and stream! www.twitch.tv/Narciverse

@Auld17

7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas Narc.

@IamHolou

7 ай бұрын

Merry christmas, may the copium last till release

@Shazzam40

7 ай бұрын

Peace to you and yours! Great vid.

@lordbangbang6817

7 ай бұрын

Merry christmas, cant wait for the next stream

@R_o_o_k_i_n_g_t_o_n

7 ай бұрын

!OOOOOOO!!!! I HOPE THE HUNTS ARE ONE OF THE AUGMENTS!!!! these hunts are literally perfect to make a sort of spirit summoner native shaman type character which i have been wanting to do!!!

I am totally ok with night time changes. Reducing the vision in night time opens up new aspect of the game mechanics. With this they can then use small buffs and debuffs to classes like ranger, rogues having better vison in night then others, you could use skill points or some other resources to improve your night time vision, ranged user by default would have a bit reduced accuracy unless you are using a ranged weapon that you have mastered, some places like vallies or narrow road ways between two hills or in dense jungle the viability would be so low that you would need torches to see your way or risk getting close to a dangerous mob and getting killed, some classes could have utility skills that unable them to see clearly at night like a ranger could use animal vison, a rogue could use all seeing eye(which can also be used to identify the weakness of your opponent to reveal their weak point granting a guaranteed critical strike) or something like that, a summoner could summon a night spirit and have them posses themselves improving their vision and mobility in night. And many many more. Without a properly dark night time, these things would not be possible and for me it would be a wasted opportunity to have great fun if not implemented.

@patrickordos425

7 ай бұрын

I also like it... in theory... I'm not opposed to it but if I'm being honest I always skip night time in gsmes like skyrim, fallout etc because it's just such a pain not being able to see anything

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

but you can do all of that regardless of how it looks because everything you described is mechanical, not visual? Indentifying weakspots at night time, that's mechanical having higher stealth stats are night, that's mechanicial giving rangers better ability to see stealth is mechanical not visual summoners summoning a night spirit for mobility and stealth detection... is all mechanical. When people are forced to change the gamma of a game because they cannot see anything at night time, that is bad game design, especially for an MMORPG. there's a reason why it's not been used since EQ in 1999

it's funny because I have been following this game since kick starter and I've watched every live stream, but I still watch all of your videos because I enjoy your perspective. Keep up the good work.

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

i appreciate you x

the darkness at night is totally an awesome thing. The gameplay possibilities this opens up is insane. Sissies running at daytime vs dangerous and high reward night time... The people who would increase the gamma, brightness at night are just revealing their brain level...turning on day at night...

Seriously hope Intrepid has a good feedback filter, I have seen many games go south because of bad feedback, the major example being new world.

This showcase gave me major flashbacks when playing a Primeval in Vanilla Archeage. A lot of the skills are very similar but with better QoL features.

I was one of the fucks who complained about the speed :D Look, I am just asking some major change, just a little bit of tweaking on shortbow basic attack speed. Nothing much, just reduce it maybe 5-10%

@vrdynasty3896

7 ай бұрын

Drop it 50% base and allow shortbow to have scaling attack speed and longbows scaling damage and/or armor pen. I dont mind this on a rare/legendary weapon but for a grey/green.. No.

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

but why? as they explained from the skill tree, the short bow is designed to utilise proc based damage buffs from your very small but rapid hits... doesn't matter how much damage they do, it's about fishing for procs... if you don't want a proc based build then use a long bow... by changing the speed of the short bow, you're watering down the proc based build and then both the weapons become homogenised and worthless because they're too similar. @@vrdynasty3896

Merry Chrismas from Australia. Hope you and your family have a great time. Look forward to following you next year as the jurney towards Alpha 2 continues

keep up the great work. merry christmas!

*Short Bow + Weighted Ammo is going to give Rangers incredible amounts of control in battle.* *And that's before any of the other Traps or Snares are factored in.*

Merry Christmas Narc!

Happy Christmas Narc 🎉 The Ranger is very exciting now , i am really looking forward the the summoner now to choose my class between the 2

I think it looks amazing! We also have to take into account that he is shooting arrows so fast because he fully spec’d into attack speed on the shortbow’s skill tree. It won’t be that fast when we first pick up the shortbow and have no skill points in it.

Let’s go combat information. Noice vid

Ranger is lookin CRISP

I am inlove with the ranger so far and it is still my first pick (2nd if rogue is better). I hope we get our socks rocked off from here on out every month!

POGGIES WOGGIES

Get it my dude. Plus its content

Always end up maining the archer/ranger/hunter class of any MMO... This is exciting!

@silasgs9257

7 ай бұрын

your excitement will dwindle down over the years as this game takes longer and longer to release. Whatever early predictions people have are false and are always false with every mmorpg thats ever released. The date is always longer than we can possibly imagine, your excitement will be nothing but ash and forgotten aspirations to play something by the time real life engulfs you in upcoming 4 years MINIMUM before this game comes out. Assuming you're even still alive or the world isn't ending you will find yourself unable to immerse yourself into this game the way you hope and wish for. Give up now, give it all up and surrender to the tragic reality that any hope you have to play this while you're still "excited" is worthless. This little spark will have fizzled out long before this comes out.

@Shazzam40

7 ай бұрын

Please seek help for the depressium you suffer from.

@swbftor403

7 ай бұрын

@@silasgs9257lmfao it ain’t that serious bro

@silasgs9257

7 ай бұрын

@@swbftor403 oh

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

@@silasgs9257 this comment cracked me up jesus christ 😂the unhinged hate this game gets is hilarious... it ain't that deep brother

Merry Xmas from OZ

I'm wondering what race the ranger was beneath the outfit? I reckon it looked like a tulnar with feline features. The armor was very savage and wild which fits the race well. Apologies in advance if they clarified what race it was in the video.

@ludozico

7 ай бұрын

its a vek

@Sabertooth12

7 ай бұрын

Cool, thanks man. Must've missed in in the original video. @@ludozico

I do think the animations for normal attacks on the short bow are too fast. The character performs one motion and three arrows start flying, it kinda feels off with Ashes of Creation's style, which to me so far has felt a lot more grounded. Not plain realistic, but grounded and believeable. My favorite thing about the showcase was honestly the ammo types applying different status effects.

@slevig415

7 ай бұрын

It is a fantasy world, and the arrows appear more like magic arrows since for one they glow, and also appear in his hands, not being drawn from the quiver. It is grounded and believable, because this is not based on real life lol

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

you want grounded and believable animations when the characters are flying in the sky doing backflips and firing lazer cannons out their bow? yeah... i never understood this mentality. Build Diversity > "grounded and Believable" you don't want to to have a proc based build? then use a long bow, that's exactly what the longbow is... Grounded and Believable... but more importantly, a completely different build.

@Bananenbauer123

7 ай бұрын

​@@Narc To make this clear. I'm completely fine with the skill animations. It's not about there being fantastical elements, it's about the basic attacks being too fancy for what they are - basic attacks. Maybe you can temporarily buff your arrows with lightning and then you shoot lightning arrows. Or, think of the attack-combo system, where they already implemented the option to spec into a longer combo. Just don't have a bow be a machine gun by default is all I'm asking. The combo finishers can be a lot more fancy, make the character pull like three arrows out of their quiver and fire them all at once. I do think it would be pretty dope to have a visual difference between how a higher level ranger auto attacks versus a fresh character, but seeing a new character attack like this is gonna be weird. Hell, make the attack animation change based on if you deal a critical strike... And talking about fantasy elements in general. Fantastical elements work best when built *on top* of more grounded elements. See the towns they showed in the node showcase, it's just.. a town. Or freeholds, which really just look like a farm yard. Very modest and when comparing that to the more intricately designed and unusual buildings, like a sauron tower in the distance, it's THAT contrast that makes the fantastical elements stick out. If you lean too much into pure fantasy, if every character has one flashy move after the next like some anime protagonist, then it all just blurs together and in the end none of it seems all that special anymore. Happy christmas days!

@georgestain2803

7 ай бұрын

It is possible to shoot two or three arrows at once irl.

I just want to know one thing.. is it tab target combat?

There is a date? I thought it was 3rd quarter or 2024?

i just wish for a impactfull meele combat system, some kind of blend between GW2 and BDO, GW2 in the overall type of combat and BDO in the Visual and sound effects, to get a satisfying feeling, and the ability to combo up spells and normal or heavy attacks with each other.

8 Years later and they FINALLY have 1 class done. Extrapolate to each class and only 56 more years before this game is ready!

@slevig415

7 ай бұрын

Not how it works lol

@funb4gss125

7 ай бұрын

​@@slevig415 Its called Sarcasm, Sheldon Cooper.

@slevig415

7 ай бұрын

@@funb4gss125 Dont be weird and act so autistic lil guy lol

@Narc

6 ай бұрын

🤓☝ERM ACKTUALLY THEY HAVE THE CLERIC DONE TOO SO THERE'S ONLY 48 MORE CLASSES LEFT

@funb4gss125

6 ай бұрын

@@Narc lmao I apologize for my Transgressions. I really hope we can see the Summoner soon. I really wanna try to Mix War/Smn just to see how it could work. I would have assume you could summon specteak blades whilst attacking. Hopefully soon 🤞🏼

really hoping they put as much attention into Rogues.

when will it published ? this game started to made around 2000s :d

Sheesh

is there or will there be any class that uses pets or minions as its core gameplay? I liked the hunter in vanilla wow because of how i had to travel around the world to tame a pet i really liked. My first pet as a night elf hunter was a dorutar tiger. I traveled for 1 to 2 hours at level 10 to get to the orc starting zone for the tiger just because i love the simple tiger look (people kept asking me how i got an STV tiger at low level lol). It felt like an adventure, not because the game gave me a quest but because it was a personal quest. Along the way i saw alliance players and horde players and they were all shocked to see a level 10 night elf running around durotar, ashenvale etc. I don't like hunter or ranger archetypes that dont have a pet companion because that is so fundamentally intrinsic to the archetype for me personally. I also like the warlock demons and the fact they are so intricate to the player and knowing how to use each demon to the situation. I also very much like the concept of a class that wins by weakening and deabilitate the opponent with curses and diseases. And ofc, Necromancer archetypes, where you can summon hordes of minions to do your biding.

Realistically speaking how do you mark an animal before you begin a hunt? You should begin a hunt then mark your target ye??

Can anyone play alpha 2 or do i gotta pay like 300$?

I've had a clear discussion on the forums already about the darkness in the game. It has virtually nothing to do with immersion, it's the amount of gameplay variables it adds to be built upon or just utilized with the already existing features. Also, games night scenes don't look nearly as dark when you're playing the game usually, because you're missing out on the finer detail of the scene allowing your mind to build an image of what it can't fully see.

Well the problem is I think they said there wasn't gonna be a crossbow but if the short bow is so fast already why couldn't they just make it a crossbow and just have slow medium and fast... that would be more realistic and feel better to me

If your goal was realism, I would probably change the short bow to a crossbow so that the fast shooting could be explained.

In Ashes, Video Editing should be an artisan skill, you should be able to put a green screen in your freehold and to continually be able to upgrade your microphone to give boost to your KZread video crafting skills.

long time BDO player here, and I gotta be honest I am not seeing anything here that rivals BDOs combat. It looks like guild wars 2 combat more than BDO with the tab targeting and the slow combat.

Yeah cause lock targeting is a real life fuction; what the 'actual' fk is this... my husband just showed me this video, I wasn't aware that this game was going to have a target locking function, I was looking forward to it NOT... and it does. Wow.. uh... nope, gl anyone who's okay with that type of game play, enjoy being treated like babies. Have fun playing a game that's a mixture of wow/guildwars2 with better graphics.

imagine making a tab target mmo in 2023 that wont be finished till 2035

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

name 1 successful action combat MMO in 2023 BDO? it's a single player game New World? It's dead af Lost Ark? It's a casino full of bots Action combat MMOs suck and always have done

@Mischowski

7 ай бұрын

Lost Ark is trash BDO is just flashy and New World died because the devs made a lot of bad choices regarding design remember New World was supposed to be an Open World Sandbox PvP mmo that got changed mid development to be a themepark mmo Then they changed what made New World unique as an MMO the combat system before release because MMO Player were to stupid to learn on their own and the Devs to stupid to explain the combat system for people that never played fighting games or Souls titles Balancing issues , butched release , repetetive Quest system , not alot of mob variety because what made them unique got thrown over bord with the change of the combat system bad design choices regarding the Factions and how PvP wokrs (Opt in pvp ) no open war between the factions so the game died because the devs suck as at game design

Now the PvP'ers are PRE-praising the combat system of ""a game that quite literally doesn't exist yet.""

Would be nice if you would have to pull an arrow at least

i like fast combat.

When I first saw the class list I was like no way I'm playing ranger....buuuttttt it's looking pretty damn good. Those fast machine gun shots ❤. Now where is Bard, Summoner, and Rogue?!?!

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

after seeing the ranger, I am now SUPER excited to see the melee revamps

@jonathanhaven1690

7 ай бұрын

I’m excited to see them too, but we are yet to see the Summoner or Bard in any capacity right?@@Narc

@Narc

6 ай бұрын

the last we heard about these classes are that the Bard is 100% guarenteed to be in the Launch of Alpha 2 and Now just recently this month, Steven said there's even a chance that summoner may make it too :) So good news all around x Hopefully a showcase within the next few months? @@jonathanhaven1690

@jonathanhaven1690

6 ай бұрын

@Narc That's awesome! And super exciting. The game will feel much more complete once all the classes are running around out there.

nailed? I guess thats one way to put it. You could probably predict more than half his kit in a few guesses. Its the usual. Ammo imbue most unique thing he has.

No crossbow, no gun. How the fuck am i supposed to play a dwarf.

The Ranger seems like it is from a different game it so different from tank and claric

7:35 Never Pre-order. Never submit to FOMO tactics. Anything in the game should be EARNED in the game.

Wait a second... did you just say next months live stream is the mage again? Where are the Summoner and Bard?!?!?!

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

not focused on the mage, just featuring them in a large Raid PVP fight :)

do we know how long alpha 2 will last ? will it be payable 24/7 ?

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

we don't know the length no (i predict multiple years) And it will be playable 24/7 with some downtime for patches and itteration (maybe weeks worth of downtime)

Leave the game development to Intrepid please.

@Wholesome_Fries

7 ай бұрын

If we do that they just gonna copy New World

Thank you, “game play needs to feel fun” yeah exactly who cares if the short bow isn’t realistic we need to get away from that crazy talk. It’s a fantasy MMO hence fantasy cool things characters can do

i always felt like osrs has the best ranger combat. mostly because of how simple it is and how complex you can make it with different arrows, bows and arrow combo with gear switching and weapon changing to get a variety of combat

it's as if gw2 doesnt exist lol

you have to remember this game heavily revolves around pvp. imagine youre setting up a raid on an enemy party and you plan to strike at night. low visibility=fun gameplay mechanic. its not about realism its about instinct. night is scarier because its more dangerous, maybe better or unique loot drops at night. maybe more dangerous mobs spawn. that coupled with low visibility makes for interesting gameplay imo.

@augustlewen2149

7 ай бұрын

Not sure if I agree when it comes to an mmo. I get that in other multiplayer games this would be an interesting feature, like a fps game. But the combat in an rpg game relies on clarity. If you don't see what the oother people are doing you can react to it. Also it's not like the fun in combat is finding the enemy and pressing them to target them, so not sure that hiding in the shadows is an element that is needed in an mmorpg. You can't always take a fun idea from one game and just slap it on top of another game. It has to translate well to the games core features, which I feel like it really doesn't in an mmo.

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

or just turn up the gamma :) problem solved... oh wait that is the problem.

I got very worried about DPS being given much more power and cool factor than the other archetypes. If they continue with this direction for game we will get yet another MMO where 90% players pick DPS because they are more fun, and simply better at most situations when playing solo. Seems to me they got a little too exited and forgot one of their core ideas for the game, the holy trinity, rock,paper,scissors class balance. Tanks were suppose to counter DPS, Supports counter tanks, and DPS to counter supports. But what we see here is a range DPS demolishing a tank in seconds from range. No one will choose to play a tank in a PVX game if you can be nuked from range in a matter of seconds, completely ruins the class fantasy of the tank.

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

try not to judge alpha pre-balanced gameplay :) i know it's hard

@danny3120

7 ай бұрын

@@Narc Sure, but as it stands right now the Ranger showcase blew the Tank showcase out of the water. Hope they pump up the Tank cool factor.

@Narc

6 ай бұрын

interestingly: The Tanks spell bars were as fleshed out as the current ranger ones during the Node showcase, In addition, the tank also has a resource bar that wasn't present before :)@@danny3120

people literally haven't seen archers do quick shooting before thats how you know how little people know about archery. go watch trick shooters and quick shooters and you'll have a totally new perspective on archery and you'll realize just how badass they can be.

Why are there so many little lasers and shit showing where you aim. You can make those skill shots have some skill involved.

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

what like new world does? the game that can barely sustain 20k players 'cause aiming shots in an MMORPG is a laughable joke?

@Architectofawesome

7 ай бұрын

@@Narc :3. But no I don't play bad games. That's why I'm waiting for Ashes of Creation.

At 4:15 I think the real problem is the short bow = fast and the long bow = slow it's stupid and requiring me to use my suspension of disbelief when is not necessary. Just do heavy bows slower and light bow faster.

Honestly I am equally tired of the "Games arent supposed to be realistic, they are supposed to be FUN!". Well have you ever heard that fun is subjective? Some people like hardcore mmos, some like pvp, some like pve, etc etc. When you watch an anime where they enter an MMO guess what? They are just living in a fantasy world. That is what I want. A simulated fantasy world. That to me is what an MMO always was. World of Warcraft has gamified every inch of the game to the point everything is just a grindy progress bar and LFG tool menu that teleports you to dungeons and you never talk to anyone or feel immersed. Would everyone be fine if Ashes was you playing as squares riding around on circle mounts living in towns made out of triangles? No. You want characters to mimic living species, living in normal villages, riding normal mounts. Working normal professions. Opening normal taverns. All this mimics reality because it gets us immersed. So of course people want night time to feel like night time. You may have to bring a torch. So what.

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

orcs = normal living species i guess? BRUH

@Ponzini77

7 ай бұрын

@@Narc Yes actually its believable within the fantasy world context. If one of the species was a modern day human wearing a tee and jeans I would lose immersion. Everyone knows that would be dogshit. "Realistic" within the bounds of a fantasy world.

You unbanned me lol, you gonna have to earn me back.

I wonder if they made night time darker to make the moon and stars come into play more.

Am I the only one that thinks it's weird that the ranger can turn in the air? Let me know if I'm nitpicking but that looks really clunky to me. I would much rather see characters that are airborne follow the laws of physics I have become accustomed to in real life, or possibly more importantly, world of warcraft (don't @ me).

2025 ue6 is coming with support for the new nvidia mcm architecture and an rtx redesign, so I guess they have to re-do the whole game and spend another 2-3 yrs in development, but hey, it's all fine since the game is going to be the ultimate mmo. I won't probably live long enough to play it but maybe my children will... I will leave them my key in my will...

first

Ranger looks cool! But there's too many skills that lock you down for me, being a pvper. It seems like more of a PvE class at the moment.

alright enough showing us ranger, show us melee. dont care about the tab target

@Narc Aren’t you overly optimistic? You are sounding like a fanboi almost like CohhCarnage was with Parthenon Rise of the Foolin.

Look if your going to make a game that LOOKS real then you have to implement more realism I LOVE WOWS art style. but i hate how nothing you can do as far as crafting really matters when all the best gear drops from time gates. i cannot stand using a bow and now having a scabard holding the arrows. thats one of the coolest parts of the look. is having gear thats not just fancy paint on but actually equipable tools. swords need scabards and axes should be carried and able to lean on them and shit like that. same with staffs. im sick of seeing staffs be treated as fancy long wands. use a staff like a staff walk with it. bloack desert currently wins the staff play of any mmo out.,

Game still not exist😂 Archeage 2 it's one and only one king. Merry Christmas 🎅 I would sell my own organs faster than bought key for any not existing game now and then and whatever also ashes can be a scam like star citizen for 20 years game not finished and people pay and this bulshit about rich Steven he literally want our money fir not existing product so yeah big NO.

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

archeage 2 is now a single player console story game mate... sorry to burst your bubble

Wait & see. In 2023 old mmos are still the best while the so called new game changer mmos collapsed, failed or turned out scams. Hope this one will be able to replace WoW, Lotro wich are my favorite ones.

dont think the combat is even close to BDO, I would say ranger is the closest class to BDO combat but it is also very early days would say ranger is the only class that looks like action combat, and yea it's still hard to see how action combat it is bc again! and I so called it! Steven Tab target andy ;( I really want to see this ranger class again without Tab targeting the mobs and see it flow like bdo does. that's all an action combat game should be a flow from skill to skill and always move from point a to b and that's why bdo has nailed it in terms of flowy action combat.

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

ok but that has nothing to do with tab targetting or action combat... that's called: moment to moment gameplay

Looks very Mediocre to me and those damage numbers are D4 Druid range. Combat in this game isn't looking very promising.

Wow, looks so boring.

Non-immersive, deritivate, standard korean archer combat. Not impressed at all!

the fact that you think the combat will surpase Black Desert is EXTREME Copium....

Oh my lord all it's doing is spamming attacks with little to no cooldown. FFXI got Ranger right this is NOT good at all or at least keep the spammy mutli attack to once every minute or two not every few seconds it looks like an Assault Rifle firing. I cannot beleive any self respecting gamer woudl say that looks good so my assumption is that this is a sponsored video . I know from 2-3 years ago when I was really following Ashes one of their insider guys was told what he could and could not show or say with his video and was declined to show it so the guy told Steven or whomever was i ncharge of that stuff NO I am not going to post any video if it has to be on your terms. Oh and flipping through the air that is as stupid as seeing games with somersaults so now we have games going all in on gymnastics it turns me right off.When I see goofy stuff liek that a game could be 10/10 and I would rate it down to a 1/10 would not play no matter what I don't like devs with goofy ideas because it tells me there will be lot's more dumb ideas incoming.

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

you sound mentally ill mate. seek help

throne and liberty looks way better, but I guess you shouldn't compare a kickstarter game to a tripple a one.

@Narc

7 ай бұрын

funny joke 😂

@chiefsosa8450

7 ай бұрын

I know you're career depends on it but AOC looks at best not disappointing. You can od on copium all you want but I really don't think any of what they have shown is that impressive, and it still could all be forgiven (by lack of competition) if the combat didn't look so dogshit. @@Narc

@Narc

6 ай бұрын

and you sit there and say throne and liberty's combat is good? my brother in christ, your standards are messed up @@chiefsosa8450

Looks like an anime mmo, action combat is lame and cringe. Tab targeting is king. No action mmo as good pvp as world of kekcraft

POGGIES WOGGIES