Narrative quests
What you find in the Narratives category is where you’ll find most of what you might call traditional quests. Because we’re jettisoning filler, we’ll have the resources to craft a really excellent story, with gameplay that reflects the scope of that story.[1]
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Player driven narrative
The world of Verra will be the same on each server, but Nodi will develop differently. Different servers will have different narratives. Things that happen on one server may not happen on another.[2]
We want as many people as possible to experience the main server Narrative. These will branch at different scales, but largely at the personal level. Where things change is at the Node level – different parts of the story will be unlocked based on where and when Nodes grow. Unlocking a part of the story in a certain way locks out progression of the story in a different way. You’ll see different antagonists, different NPCs, and different calls to action depending on what’s happening with the server at that time.[3]
It kind of redefines what the players will experience in an MMORPG to come into a wilderness that is devoid of really any structure outside of what the community creates themselves; and then what can be created can be changed, if they want to experience a storyline that's been seen on another server, but you know you're fighting a dragon because you're near a mountain and the other server's fighting a Kraken because they're near the coast and you want to fight that Kraken because of its drop table. If you want to meta it or because you just want that under your belt: to be the server first to take out that Kraken and you have yet to develop the node there, you know it's incumbent upon you to manifest that in the game.[4] – Steven Sharif
Story arcs
Story arcs drive one or more quest lines in Ceneri della creazione.[5]
- Personal quest lines.
- Cultural quest lines.
- Regional quest lines.
All of the events are based around storytelling. All of the the narrative quests are based around storytelling. All the organizational quests are based around storytelling. You know the game is built from a story basically, so we want to make sure that there's context and relevancy for all of the actions that you're doing in the game.[6] – Jeffrey Bard
The overarching narrative is that players are the returning children of Verra. They will not be characterized individually as "saviors".[7]
Even player driven mechanics will still have story components. There will be a reason why the player driven mechanic is available or required of the player; so you know every system that's created touches a story.[6] – Steven Sharif
Every stage a node develops it's unlocking narratives, storylines, it's changing the spawn population of the area around it, changing what bosses exist, it's triggering events where you may have legendary dragons attack the city. It's basically writing the story of the server based on the actions and determination of the players. So, you may experience a dungeon one month earlier and have a completely different story that relates to this location the next month, because something has changed either geopolitically or from the node standpoint.[8] – Steven Sharif
Certain story arcs can be unlocked through the bulletin board system. Certain requirements would need to be met in order to access story arc quests.[9]
- Mayors require certain resources.
- Buildings are required within a node.
- Social organization tasks need to be completed.
Storyline quests
Storyline quests can have multiple stages. These quest stages can actually be failed.[10]
- The ability to retry a failed quest depends on Node progression.[10]
- Missioni involving citizens from multiple nodes are unlocked based on the alliances and other relationships between the nodes and their progression.[11]
There will be many different quests that actually have stages of the storyline; and these stages can actually be failed. You can actually fail a storyline; which sucks when you think about it, but at the same time that risk makes your investment that much more important.[10] – Steven Sharif
Epic/legendary quests
Epic and Legendary quests affect the narrative of the game.[12] These quests will unlock gated content.[13]
See also
Riferimenti
- ↑ MMOGames interview, January 2017
- ↑ Livestream, 2017-05-19 (37:03).
- ↑ Interview: Ashes of Creation on Building Their Virtual World, 13 April 2017.
- ↑ Livestream, 2017-05-22 (28:02).
- ↑ Livestream, 2018-01-18 (39:08).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Livestream, 2019-05-30 (1:18:16).
- ↑ Livestream, 2019-12-17 (1:10:30).
- ↑ Video, 2018-04-05 (35:01).
- ↑ Livestream, 2017-10-31 (29:50).
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Interview, 2018-10-20 (2:36:25).
- ↑ Livestream, 2020-07-25 (1:50:20).
- ↑ Livestream, 2017-05-15 (20:58).
- ↑ Livestream, 2017-05-08 (50:32).