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Alpha-0 Launcher/login screen.

Pre-alpha PAX 2017 quest (UI iteration 0.2).

Pre-alpha unpolished UI screenshots.

Pre-alpha Arena UI.

The Ashes of Creation user interface (UI) is built with customization in mind.

UI settings

UI settings are able to be saved locally.

Various display elements can be toggled on or off:

• Character names
• Guild names
• Enemy names
• Party names
• Alliance members

Gear slots

Alpha-2 Fighter character sheet UI.

We wanted to create something that would handle a couple of different roles, with obviously your equipment slots for what we call a "paper doll", which is that display of your character. Eventually it won't just be a image of your character, we hope to have the 3D character and be able to rotate around, look at what you're wearing. And then we wanted to support a couple of different features here, with some base stats; the equipment, which will show what equipment you have available to quick swap, so you don't have to have your inventory and the screen open; detailed stats for those people who want to get into all of the details; and then of course gear sets. So this is going to be able to swap to your sets of gear quickly; and being able to save different loadouts. – Colby Marchi

There are multiple gear slots in Ashes of Creation.

• 3 Back slots.
  • 1 Ranged slot.
  • 1 Cloak/cape slot.
  • 1 Backpack slot.

• 3 Belt slots.
  • 1 Mainhand slot equips a player's primary weapon.
  • 1 Offhand slot can equip shields, spell focuses, sigils, and dual weapons.
  • 1 Potion/Pouch/Scroll slot.

• 8 Armatura slots.
  • 1 Helmet slot.
  • 1 Shoulder slot.
  • 1 Chest slot.
  • 1 Wrist slot.
  • 1 Glove slot.
  • 1 Waist slot.
  • 1 Leggings slot.
  • 1 Boot slot.
• 5 Jewelry slots.
  • 2 Accessory slots.
  • 1 Necklace slot.
  • 2 Ring slots.
• 3 Artisan gear slots.
• 1 Artisan tool slot is used to equip gathering tools.
• There may be a specific slot for musical instruments, but this has not been finalized yet.

• Previously it was stated there were 16 gear slots.

• Gear is not subject to inventory weight limits.

Action bar

Alpha-2 Tank action bar (hotbar) user interface.

Players can build their characters with the active skills they want on their action bar (hotbar).

• The maximum number of skills a player can have on their action bar will be around 15-20.
  • Each archetype will have roughly 35-40 skills to choose from on average.
• There will be an option to include multiple action bars (hotbars) on a player's UI. For example: One Fighter will be different from another based on what active skills they have chosen.

Some people like to have a very minimalistic number of hot bars. They don't need necessarily to have three, four, five hot bars that are available; but some people do like that: They want to have all their items listed on their hotbar as well as their abilities, as well as as their mounts, as well as anything that they can essentially interact with as an icon. – Steven Sharif

• Players are not given skills as they level up, they must choose what skills they take.
• There is no spellbook requiring memorization.

There will be multiple hot-bars that you obviously have available, because you're going to have consumables, you're going to have active skills and whatnot. But the number of active skills are not going to overwhelm necessarily the character and be irrelevant especially at certain stages. – Steven Sharif

Control settings

Players will be able to customize their keyboard control scheme.

Controller support

The game is not designed around controller support.

Controller support will likely be something we work on closer to launch. – Steven Sharif

Camera settings

The developers aim to provide a variety of camera options.

• Camera field-of-view (FoV) is customizable.
• Camera mechanics are similar to ArcheAge (hold mouse buttons to move the camera).
• First-person point-of-view may be able to be achieved by zooming the camera, but the game is fundamentally third-person.

Mappa del mondo

Updated Ashes of Creation map.

The new world map in all its 1,200 square kilometer glory. So you're gonna see some names here- a little bit of a reveal of some of these locations in these areas- and you're also of course seeing similar biomes that are present as well. But more importantly what you are seeing is the orientation of these continents and these islands that are facilitating specific types of inter-continental trade gameplay; and they support the relevance of these caravans moving across the land mass to locations that will now incorporate these harbor areas, which aren't identified on the map here... But the important part was providing a lot of coastal naval gameplay between these zones and trade routes between land base. – Steven Sharif

Alpha-2 work-in-progress map UI.

The world of Verra features an in-game viewable world map. This map is not randomly generated, and begins covered in a fog of war. Players will not be able to see the world until they have explored it or gathered information about it. The world is also full of imperfect information, which will require the player to act on it for verification.

For example, you may hear a rumor in a tavern that tells you the location of a cave full of weak Kobolds, but this was not accurate as the rumor was started by well-equipped bandits in order to waylay overconfident adventurers.

• Information about the world will be presented directly to players through the world map UI as it is gathered.
  • Node tax rates will be visible on the world map by hovering over a node location on the UI.
  • The map UI will potentially incorporate player created location markers that are visible by other party members.
  • Previously, detailed information about the world was only available through the Library unique node building.

• Not every server will share the same map, as player decisions will vary between servers.

• The map will have geographical choke points caused by non-traversable obstacles (such as Mountains).

Even though we're an open-world that doesn't mean that from a design perspective, especially with the way our economic systems work, that we will want to create Geographic choke points. – Steven Sharif

Alcune delle seguenti informazioni non sono state confermate di recente dagli sviluppatori e potrebbero non essere nell'attuale roadmap di sviluppo.

• Zones in Ashes of Creation will cater to all levels.

Mini map

Alpha-2 minimap and compass UI.

There is an in-game minimap and compass user interface in Ashes of Creation.

• The goal is to allow pings and other forms of communication tools via the mini-map.

Creatore del personaggio

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Discussione del Pre-alpha Creatore del personaggio.

Il character creator (o schermata di modifica del personaggio) permette ai giocatori di definire l'aspetto del loro character in Ashes of Creation.

Avremo una vasta gamma di modifiche già dall'uscita.

Se dovessi fare un'analogia, userei BDO come esempio di quello che cercherà di fare la nostra Creazione Personaggio.

Sarà possibile selezionare la voce del personaggio da opzioni predefinite.

Character appearance

Regolazioni del volto nel creatore del personaggio nell'Alpha-2 (prima versione).

Sarà presente un'ampia possibilità di scelta nella creazione del personaggio, specialmente nel volto. Che si tratti della forma della mandibola, le guance, le orecchie, il naso, le labbra. Sapete che vogliamo offrire molteplici opzioni al giocatore di personalizzare il proprio personaggio. – Steven Sharif

Vogliamo che ci sia molta libertà per permettere alle persone di esprimere la loro identità, per giocare di ruolo come vogliono per quanto riguarda l'aspetto. Ci saranno dei parametri con i quali potrete modificare un personaggio. Vogliamo che la cultura e l'identità delle razze esista in modo da renderle facilmente identificabili rispetto ad altre culture ed altri giocatori. Per questo motivo dobbiamo avere uno spettro sul quale possano esistere. Ci saranno un sacco di pettinature e tatuaggi da provare . Sarete in grado di gestire le proporzioni del viso, delle ossa, dell'altezza, larghezza e percentuale di massa grassa. Potrete aggiungere peli corporei in diverse parti del corpo. Se vorrete avere dei peli sui piedi, potrete farlo. – Steven Sharif

L'aspetto del personaggio può essere modificato nel creatore del personaggio (CC) ed attraverso saloni/barbieri all'interno del gioco.

• I modelli dei personaggi sono realistici.
• Il giocatore vedrà un personaggio generico prima delle modifiche.
• I design dei personaggi avranno influenze di diverse culture, come quelle Europee, Africane e Asiatiche.
• Le "Loli" non saranno presenti nel gioco.
• Gli slider e altri modificatori, come le palette di colori, offriranno flessibilità nella personalizzazione ma ci saranno limiti dettati da razza, genere, e le linee guida artistiche concordate dagli sviluppatori.

Gli slider avranno dei limiti, questa era una delle grandi domande una volta iniziato il lavoro sul creatore del personaggio: quanta possibilità vuoi dare nel permettere, per esempio, di spingere il labbro in basso fino a farlo deformare, oppure spostare una guancia in modo da rendere il volto asimmetrico. Non ci sarà la possibilità di creare quel tipo di personaggio. Nonostante questo si avrà la possibilità di muovere, cambiare, ingrandire, diminuire tutte queste parti, mantenendole più ragionevoli e considerate, nello stesso senso per cui non si avrà la possibilità di cambiare l'aspetto di un nano, né del Dünir né nel Niküan, per creare qualcosa che, in mia opinione, verrebbe considerato un personaggio Loli. – Steven Sharif

Corpo

Vaelune, Dünir e Empyrean nei primi render 3D dei modelli dei personaggi dell'Alpha-1 .

Tante opzioni in arrivo. Il nostro team dei personaggio continua a rifinire le nostre opzioni di personalizzazione! – Steven Sharif

• Corpi preimpostati.
  • Massa corporea: sovrappeso, magro, muscoloso.
  • Percentuale di massa grassa.
  • Struttura ossea.

• Tipi di corpo.
  • Altezza.
  • Peso.
  • Petto (modificatore del seno).
    • La misura non sarà spropositata.
  • Modificatore dell'inguine (sporgenza).
  • Modificatore del posteriore (sedere).

• Pelle.
  • Rughe (età).
  • Colore base della pelle.
    • Tinta.
    • Pigmentazione.

Testa

Personalizzazione di capelli e barba nel creatore del personaggio dell'Alpha-2 (prima versione).

Ogni colore dei capelli usa accenti e base diversamente, ma solitamente la base è il colore delle radici e l'accento quello sulle punte. – Zachary Mallet

Il preset Vek nel creatore del personaggio dell'Alpha-2 (prima versione).

Le teste saranno proporzionate alla dimensione del corpo, con poche limitatate variazioni.

• Teste preimpostate.
• Capelli.
  • Capelli preimpostati.
    • Lunghezza.
    • Contrasto.
    • Gradiente.
  • Colore base.
  • Colore di accento.
  • Tutto (colore).

• Barba.
  • Mento.
    • Dimensione del mento.
  • Guance.
    • Grandezza delle guance.
  • Labbra.
    • Dimensione delle labbra.
    • Contrasto.
    • Gradiente.
  • Colore base.
  • Colore di accento.
  • Tutto (colore).
  • Le barbe delle donne Naniche non saranno le stesse degli uomini. Saranno opzioni con più trecce e meno volume.

Volto

• Occhi.
  • Iride.
  • Colore dell'occhio.

• Tratti del volto.
  • Fronti preimpostate.
  • Sopracciglia preimpostate.
  • Occhi preimpostati.
  • Orecchie preimpostate.
  • Guance preimpostate.
  • Bocche preimpostate.

Dettagli

• Unghie.
  • Colore delle unghie.
    • intensità.

• Tatuaggi, cicatrici, e pittura del corpo.
  • Stampo.
    • Angolo.
    • Intensità.
    • Dimensione.
    • Decolorazione.
  • Colore.

Potrebbe essere applicato un "aspetto base" del personaggio durante gli assedi o altri contenuti di larga scala per favorire le prestazioni dei giocatori.

Character naming

Characters will have a first-name and an optional surname (last name).

• Character names are unique per server.
  • Character name changes will be possible during server merges.

• There is a minimum length of three for a character name.
• Special characters, including apostrophes and hyphens, are currently not allowed in character names.

Currently we don't allow special characters in character names (including apostrophes and/or hyphens). It's possible this changes in the future. – Ry Schueller

Character names will appear on the character sheet and optionally on the character website page.

• In-game a character's name is displayed above their head. This can be the first or last name.

Accessibility settings

There will be settings to aid colorblind players.

Maturity level

Dead bodies in a Pre-alpha raid encounter.

There may be an option to turn off blood and gore in the game.

There probably won't be swearing in quests.

The antagonists in this game are definitely dark... We're not going grimdark at all, but there are parts of it that get that way. – Jeffrey Bard

Addons/mods

Addons will not be allowed, in general.

• The developers don't want addons/mods to be necessary to experience the game.
• The developers believe that parsers (DPS meters) can have negative effects.
  • There will be leader boards.
• The design of the game API is still under consideration.

In-game chat

Alpha-1 work-in-progress chat interface.

We are working on a new chat log! The new log includes tabs for general, party, siege, guild, and more!

In-game text chat channels.

Channel	Command
Local chat.	/say.
Shout.	/yell.
Party.	/party.
Raid.
Guild.
Private message (PM).	/tell (playername).
Tavern.
Node citizen chat.
Global (Enabled for Alpha-1 testing).	/global.

Alcune delle seguenti informazioni non sono state confermate di recente dagli sviluppatori e potrebbero non essere nell'attuale roadmap di sviluppo.

• Trade chat.
• Alliance chat.
• Social organization chat.
• Religion chat.
• Chat initiated with people on a player's friend list.
• User created chat channels.

Importing images

No image import functionality is planned for sails, shields and cloaks.

• Emblems and symbols will be able to be designed in-game.

Logging out

There will be a logout delay to prevent players from immediately logging out of combat.

Multi-boxing

Multi-boxing/multi client polices haven't been finalized. In general, if a user has a legitimate account and is not botting then multi-boxing will be permitted.

Mobile/web application

Farmhands and NPC assistance

Based on node type and progression, players will be able to hire NPCs to work as farmhands on their freehold farms. Players will be able to command these farmhands in-game as well as potentially offline via an application (mobile app) or web interface.

• Crop rotation management.
• Plant or harvest specific crops.

City hall

Winstead Village (fase 3) node town hall in Alpha-2.

We want the City Hall to be the place where big decisions are made for each Node. It should be where the “ruling class” comes together and decides what to do (these decisions can quickly make them the “old ruling class” too).

Town hall (also called City hall) is a default service building that comes pre-built with nodes.

• Players can interact with the node board to get a list of its citizens. Clicking on a citizen will reveal information about their guild, society, religion, and property ownership.

Alcune delle seguenti informazioni non sono state confermate di recente dagli sviluppatori e potrebbero non essere nell'attuale roadmap di sviluppo.

• Mayors and node governments use city hall to visualize and control activities within their node. These capabilities will also be available via mobile/web interface.

• Status of the node's economy.
• Status of upcoming elections.
• Status of trade agreements.
• Status of caravans.

Character page

There is no planned in-game functionality to leave personal notes regarding player characters.

We don't plan to have in-game tools to provide that tracking. Instead you will be expected to track that yourselves. – Steven Sharif

Alcune delle seguenti informazioni non sono state confermate di recente dagli sviluppatori e potrebbero non essere nell'attuale roadmap di sviluppo.

A character sheet will be available closer to live launch that shows the following:

• What a character looks like.
• Successi and server firsts.
• Info on a player's class.
• Character's back story via journal entries (that are shared publicly by the player).
• Traits can be applied that describe a character's history.

You will have a unique homepage for each character and that homepage will be able to be customized by the user to display unique information. It will have a small out-of-game RPG component where you can construct background and traits and stuff like that. – Steven Sharif

The character page will be accessible in game by opening a browser through the UI.

That's part of the character sheet desire for us which hopefully will be accessible in game as well by opening a browser through our UI where you can get back history of a character that that character has input themselves into journal entries that they may choose to share with others... For role play perspective we want people to be in depth with their characters. – Steven Sharif

The player can manage what info is shown on the character page.

Item rendering

Items that are dragged out of a player's inventory are destroyed.

• Allowing player-dropped items (such as Gear and Currency) to exist in the world is likely not going to be allowed.

User interface commands

Questa sezione contiene informazioni dai test Alpha-1. Verrà aggiornato quando saranno rese disponibili nuove informazioni.

Command	Function
/say	Chat command.
/party	Chat command.
/yell	Chat command.
/global	Chat command.
/tell (playername)	Chat command.
/roll	Simulates a dice roll.
/e, /emote, /me	Textual emote. Example: /me chuckles
	Invite a character to join your guild.
	Add a character to your friends list.

See also

• Creatore del personaggio
• Ashes of Creation