Talk:2020-09-30 Video - 4K Footage of Aquatic Mounts

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[Music] hello everyone welcome to another 4k video in the development update of Ashes of Creation just wanted to take a moment to kind of talk about the progress and development of the uh preview for the alpha one that's coming at the end of this year i am joined by our amazing lead game designer jeffrey barda resident bard hi everybody hope everybody's doing really well we're excited to show you some cool things today yay and then we also have luperza our community marketing lead margaret crone hi it's gonna be a lot of fun i'm really excited about turtles so you know i like your little staff it's like a little tiny baby no it matches your outfit though dwarf stuff it's like a dwarf stuff yeah we also have violet light our uh social marketing or social media manager i'm so sorry social media manager danielle milo light hello everybody you are playing an elf today and else i'm always known today i was like always oh that's true that's true i don't think about that and our senior community manager lieutenant toast or in this case just toast just a toast no tiny toast today no tiny toast no no prefix no suffering i know that's so sad sometimes it's really delicious though toast this is true so guys out there we guys and gals we have been testing a lot uh over the past gosh last time when was the last time we did that 4k video it was like in july i think right as well yeah middle of july or something june i don't know um but we have been testing a lot we have made a lot of progress uh kind of getting things ready um for testers just this last weekend we had a little over 440 testers uh helping us on saturday and sunday and actually today tuesday we had a lot of a lot of people in squashing bugs finding bugs performance testing pretty much getting as much as possible ready uh and tested and we're going to continue to keep testing and getting the alpha one ready for all of you guys to those of you who are participating in everyone for those of you to get in and help us find things to iterate upon and test all the great things uh for alpha we're pretty excited about that aren't we jeff i can't explain exactly how excited i am um it's one of those things where you know stuff goes live and and kind of everything kind of breaks loose and it's fun and exciting and it's like riding ours it's great i think for me it's been really exciting to actually get to play with groups because i hopped in and i played with a couple of different groups and we had a lot of fun so oh yeah it's nice to hang out with our community we have such awesome people and super super nice yeah we do have been so patient with us an amazing community every time you know i have an opportunity to interact with with you guys out there in the community i i'm reminded yet again why we are doing this and really what our motivation is is to bring you guys an awesome game something that you guys can be proud of and we can be proud of too so we appreciate your support we appreciate your guys tuning in to our monthly live streams and you know jumping on our social media and interacting with our amazing community team danielle sarah and margaret you know i i it's it's a great pleasure to see you guys involved in the conversation and the discussion giving your input giving your experiences it means a lot to our team as we as we um go through that stuff but what i'd love to do today is talk a little bit about mounts yay is this where i get to finally ride my turtles oh should we ride turtles so okay well before we get into some turtles uh this is fun let me let us discuss a little bit actually let me turn my ui on uh by the way our standard um disclaimer ui is placeholder a lot of things need polish so keep that in mind there's really been no polish and and the ui is placeholder um and you might see bugs so yes but uh much but getting a little bit into into mounts um so just to kind of inform you guys who are unaware we have a few types of mounts we have flying mounts that are kind of restricted to royalty status individuals those are mares and kings and queens of castles and legendary rare drops from legendary bosses those are the mounts that are capable of flying you know you may only ever see 10 to 20 or so on a server at any given time and then we also have our land mounts and land mounts come in three specific um uh tiers and each tier kind of has additional benefits those mounts have abilities and they have uh skills that kind of get leveled up with the mount um and uh they can potentially glide uh they can do cool roll effects they can just kind of do a whole interesting um amount of things and that's that's really tied to our animal husbandry system uh so players will have an opportunity to kind of um uh breed specific types of mounts and stats and skills and all that kind of stuff you have a really unique twist on on what's available out there but additionally outside of the land mounts we and the flying mounts we also have water mounts and i love water mounts don't you guys i really do um it's really yeah if they're done right i think we're doing them right i think we are too because sometimes there can be weird like mechanics for them that makes it hard to like swim but i like cars absolutely so why don't we do a little demonstration of some tide snappers we gotta give ourselves some space hide snapper exactly what is a type oh there we go we got a tight snapper oh my gosh we have multiple side snappers i'm just going to kind of walk next to you guys so as you can see the tide snappers yeah the tide snappers are relatively slow unless they are fully submerged within water and as you can see they're not really in the water quite yet oh there's a little spurt of water oh another little spurt of water and i'm kind of in some weird water all right let me jump on a tight snapper as well here we go so as you can see it's super slow on land but once you get into the water submerged on an aquatic mount you actually pick up some speed wait for oh i'm walking i'm still walking i was like why am i not going fast there we go yay and you can go under the water oh we're under the water this is amazing i feel like a stupid turtle or a mermaid or something i'm into it i'm definitely not your brother i know i know yeah don't drown we've done a few takes yes you got to show them that the barrel barrel roll yeah oh don't look at that all right don't do a bare roll ready hey hey that was good so i mean um you know some of the great things about the aquatic mounts is there's a lot of sea content planned in Ashes of Creation and that sea content will include ships of different classes it'll include raid bosses and treasures and underwater dungeons and all of these things will be made much more accessible if you are atop an aquatic mount like this amazing tide snapper what are some oh so go ahead i know a lot of people have questions like will aquatic mounts be able to go as far as like big ships can go and things like that so yes aquatic mounts will be able to fully traverse the uh naval areas in the water areas in ashes so an intrepid explorer could choose to traverse on his tide snapper alone correct as a matter of fact they're going to be cool and fun things that you can do out solo in the uh waters as a adventurer atop an aquatic mount i feel like on land the tide snapper should like dig a hole and then bury an egg that'd be kind of cool now this guy doesn't really like water as much no as a matter of fact but he's a turtle he is a turtle but he's actually a tortoise a lamp turtle versus tortoises yeah he's a galactic tortoise um so he likes space honestly as you can see inside of his shell there is some some spacial areas and as you kind of move him around that space changes a little bit it's kind of cool but if you get him close to water he really doesn't like that so he kind of escapes into a shell and you're like where are your friend he's like all right i guess it's safe that's gotta be one of my favorites it's so cute danny and i said the same thing yeah i like him oh i like the swift claw too yeah we've really got to give props to our animators because all of our mounts are so full of character oh absolutely and and to demonstrate kind of the difference so you see as a land mount he's relatively fast on land but if you take him into the water he slows down and he's like but i must swim i don't want to swim he slows down but he still looks cool yeah he does look cool it's my fact if you take him underwater there we go so many it sounds like he can't breathe though no he hasn't wrapped her back there violently look at the look at the raptor oh but look at this swimming it's so cute it does look pretty awesome i like that let me jump on a wrap run out of breath what are some of the games you guys have played that have had uh awesome mounts and aquatic mounts uh for me not so much the mounts but uh when i'm playing wow and i'm playing my druid i really love my seal form um just just being able to run at full speed jump in that water and also move it full speed it's just great yeah it's a good feeling it's just cool to change form yourself too it's really neat without stopping like that's my favorite part of it yeah like it automatically does it it's sweet how about you guys for me it's less like it's lots of mounts and stuff but i don't know if you guys have played cfcs but i really like their like water combat and the way that their ships work and stuff like that the ocean definitely feels like a terrifying place in that game there's some danger that comes along with that yeah i think they've done a great job sort of modeling that like real authentic ocean experience yeah my experience at mmo's with underwater combat and things of that sort have not been the greatest agreed underwater combat is is never great it feels like um i think there's a couple games that have done it okay um but i still think it's one of those things you've got to really pay attention to and nail and spend a lot of time with um because otherwise if you just phone it in it just feels bad man yeah i agree there's been a lot of in my opinion attempts at water combat and or water content that hasn't felt very good uh traditionally in mmorpgs but i will give credit where credit is due archeage i felt did have a really fun um naval content both from a raid boss perspective as well as the interaction of those ships yeah those ships were a lot of fun yeah the ships were a lot of fun for sure uh let me show let me see i think i have another oh i wonder what the bear looks like in the water the brew bear sea water in his barrels i'm on one of these little islands over here um like i think we're all together but we're not with you yeah oh yeah without you where did you go i was dancing around thinking oh i think i see him over here you guys over this way i just caught a fish i'm guessing it's going to be a red snapper we'll see like a fetus i could feed it to a tortoise that's approaching yes my tortoise is hungry um do i have a bear you can get a bear let's try the daystrider first so this is a mule mules have some some cargo capacity um first of all the mule is very excited the day strider is very oh look it's eyelashes oh my gosh yeah holy smokes hey girl what kind of mascara using yeah but she's super excited to get in the water yay oh my gosh i just see now what you're seeing like at a certain angle those eyelashes are massive yeah those eyelashes are huge let's keep all the bugs out you know oh questions i know that someone had asked this before um which was will different mods have different speeds uh yes like because this is like a pack mule will it have a different speed and be slower so mounts traditionally will have stat groups and or speeds associated with their first baseline stat and then augmented based on their rarity from a drop status or from the profession of animal husbandry that players have available to them what kind of things will they be able to control in regards to um animal husbandry and creating those mounts so outside of the the visual differences that are going to be available um they will also have an impact on the health the types of skills the speed that's available the damage mitigation they'll have influence over um i think that's primarily the main stat groups i guess oh from a combat perspective also have influence over the traditional stat group so like their combat effectiveness accuracies uh the type of the level of damage that the skills can do that kind of stuff let me see if i can find the bear hold on don't worry i'll just be here fishing you should have a bear poke do i have a bear poke i think i have a barrel hold on i have tortoise i have tide snappers oh blueberry got him got him let's take him out oh and he's swimming oh he swims funny he's like stretching he's like what do i do let's take him underwater [Music] oh that's great i like his little swims wow that's so [Laughter] oh it's kind of prancy i like it uh let's try one more i think i have um i think there's a let me see here do you have our our little otterboy which one tide breaker yeah the tide breaker the tiebreaker i just i was on the tie breaker i thought as a tight sniper yeah ted snapper ted breaker is the like otter one i don't have the tiebreaker yeah i don't know if it's in this building i might be um i can try to give myself a tie breaker hold on i feel nervous now it's going to be like some monstrosity that's have we tested this before oh i don't know if we have that's a very good question yeah eyes are around the corner oh yeah go go around the corner just gonna hide if we see like a giant tide snapper from behind the cliff all right i'm going to i'm going to attempt to try to make my dragon swim does it swim oh my gosh it does swim the dragon does oh yes swim with it swim the wings are a little weird i don't think they're done yet but no dude yeah that's pretty good our animation team's probably like oh my gosh they're showing i know but in regards to mounts and flying mounts um will are you expecting them to be able to swim at the same pace as like other creatures in the water so no so aquatic creatures in the water will have the absolute best speed and performance and water specific skills i see jeff's over here yeah we're creeping on him it's like you're it's like he's he's gotta go pee so he's like hiding behind the rock i have a tied snapper and i have um tied snapper i tried to give myself the tied breaker and that did not happen that's okay yeah so that's not available but there's a lot i mean just to give you yeah go for fish there's just i mean guys just to give you again an idea you know ashes has a lot of obviously complex systems but they're all intended to provide the players um interaction points uh basic basically agency over you know how your world exists around you and that includes the types of animals that you can have as pets and or mounts um through the profession of animal husbandry and the acquisition of these things and and they're diverse they're not just you know monolithic mounts there are specific mounts for specific areas like the aquatic mounts or the land mounts or the flying and gliding mounts um these are all obviously very important oh my god did you just dive into the water with a griffin i think she did i did oh hey toast have you seen any like other questions about miles specifically that you think maybe uh steven could answer hmm i'll have to think about that one i think the one you asked earlier about the different speeds was a big one yeah i've definitely seen that asked a few times and then of course people want more details on the abilities and how they can modify them through animal husbandry yeah but i don't know if we're ready to go into all the details on that yeah there's a lot of stuff that needs to be kind of developed on that side before we can give like super great answers on that and test it absolutely oh um what about mounts that can have multiple people on them uh the group mounts absolutely so that was a part of our i think a part of our kickstarter stretch goals was the group mount and the cool thing about the group mounts is they're going to have specific functionality that relates to multiple people obviously and they're also going to provide some pretty cool benefits i think that will make them stand out from traditional single-player mounts and kind of functions that the writers have available to them while they're writing based off of certain skills so like normal amount single player amounts will have specific skills that you level up that pertain to you as the writer whereas the group mounts will have specific skills that can only be utilized by characters who are currently in the seat of a passenger position so the unique passenger positions that have correlating skills let me see if i can dive ooh there we go yeah i'm swimming on this guy too he's just like i want some fish feed me now i want to like create a serpent like a big serpent creature like a water surface yeah like a big water serpent a leviathan yeah yeah so i think it's pretty cool you guys have anything else you want to chat about with the mounts and whatnot um i guess we do get a lot of questions in regards to like cosmetics and how people can apply those to different mounts and like which ones apply to which yeah absolutely so as you guys know we do absolutely zero pay to win whatsoever and we'll never have pay to win a national creation however with that being said when you have a cosmetic uh skin that applies to certain mounts you must achieve that base mount first in the game so we're not actually you know selling power anything like that or you're not achieving um you know essentially these cosmetics to replace the in-game achievement now the cosmetics themselves will be applied to specific types of mounts remember there's three tiers of land mounts there's aquatic mounts um and cosmetics will apply uh based off of those tiers so if it's a flying base kind of um cosmetic that's capable of being on a gliding mount um you can apply that flying skin to that tier two mount um if it's kind of a horse related one here let's see if i have another horse one oh here we go so we have this horse um this could be applied to tier one mounts uh which you can get pretty early on uh in the game now let me see if i have a i think i have a midnight mirror i hope so i do there we go ooh pretty yeah oh toast has one too i do the person where's your i didn't buy one unbelievable not buying every amount in the shop rookie well what more do i need other than my turtle you need every mount come on be a true collector but yeah so we just wanted to jump in guys give you another little uh development update showcase some of the aquatic mounts and the mounts in general um and let you know that we are hard at work in continuing development towards alpha one and we're excited to get you guys in so with that being said we will see you back on the stream and hope you guys are having an awesome end of your september oh we're fine by the way it's the fall end of september already i know yeah it's nuts all right guys have an awesome day we'll see you soon bye everybody [Music]