cant wait to play this game with my grandkids and remind them the good ol days when i was hyped on the alpha 2 beta test

I'm loving the armors in the game. Not over the top and look like something a sane person might wear. No butt capes. No strobe light shoulder pads as wide as a Buick.

Watching Asmon deal with being a mayor would be content for sure lol.

Star Wars Galaxies did cities in a great way, way back in 2003. It's nice to see cities being attempted again with new ideas. Back in SWG a player would have to pursue the politician profession to become a Mayor, winning elections would generate xp to unlock different abilities for the mayor to use with the city. They'd start a city by buying a City Hall from an Architect and placing it, then you'd have to grant a bunch of players zoning rights to place their own houses, also crafted by architects. Player houses could have vendors in them, and the mayor could charge taxes to generate income for the city to maintain some service buildings like a cloning center (respawn), medcenter, bar, shuttle ports, garages, all the services players would need. As your city grew with more players you could choose better bonuses for that city, like improved crafting rolls or better payouts for missions from that town. That game was so ahead of it's time, and it never got iterated on. That was like first pass mechanics. SWG should be mined by modern MMO devs for base ideas that they could spice up and flesh out for an even better game. AoC cities sound like a really great idea. Now if only someone did crafting/resources the way SWG did...

idgaf what any of you say him walking into that "node" got me hyped as FUCK!

Honestly the cape blowing in the wind is the most impressive thing I've seen from this game.

Realistic economy and the building aspect are all huge appeals to me. I'll definitely give it a try when it comes out. It will be interesting to see if it ever has a chance to be a major player in the MMO space.

I was a bit sceptical back in alpha 1 but holy shit, look at the progress they've made since then. Node system looks very promising and last showcase with the cleric update shown us a combat that actually looks like a playable game. Now I'm kinda excited about Ashes of Creation

It’s so fun, each time Asmon is completly out of control with his ideas 😂😂 it shows that he is inspired by the game, it’s nice

Can’t wait for the “how to manage a military node as a mayor guides” on KZfaq

I had sleep paralysis last night and Asmongold was the sleep paralysis demon suffocating me with a blanket. How could you? ☹️

21:50 They should make it so that the Title a player has equiped is used when being talked too. That creates quite a unique feel.

It looks really good, and that with the option to do what you want in your village with your community sounds great. wonder how it will play out but I am excited

I loved the 15 min rant about human sacrifice and torture 😂 I was confused at first but I think he won me over

1:07:00 It would have to be a catapult or trebuchet, a cannon would just spray chunks of meat out of it.

Damn these developers sound tired tired you can tell they must be working hard.

Can't wait to play this in 2028

When you only watch the gameplay videos you miss a lot of information.

Man the roleplaying in this game will be pretty nice especially if they also continue to make the lifeskilling as good or better than bdo.

So, his last point about homeless people could be really interesting... What would be really cool is if the choices of the node could effectively create Factions or even "good vs evil" allegiances. For example, you could have a Node that aligns itself with the evil world bosses and can help defend them. It would create an amazing and shifting dynamic faction system

Looking forward to seeing the different themes based on races. Im really looking to go wood elf and just have a chill life in the woods farming, crafting and trading/selling to other nodes or traveling players. Living in a moderate sized wood elf town

It looks pretty sweet but I would have loved seeing it actually level up from a stage 2 to the stage 3 node. Also would have been nice if they showed how leveling up spawned new content. Hopefully in the near future they'll show off those features.

I remember playing "Rend" game and this kind of system where you build and defence our own colony was really great. Hyped !

Yaasss, coming through with the uploads 🔥 always got your vids playing before i go to sleep 😆

This really looks like the next big MMO, I was skeptical at first but each update brings more and more amazing features. Ive been so built up and let down by games lately that its hard to fuel up the hopium tanks anymore. Im now having the most fun in a game ive had in years playing wow classic hardcore a damn game from 20 years ago.

Prison Node is a neat idea, I played an MMO a long time ago where pvping flagged you for arrest by town guards. You couldnt leave the prison until your sentence time was carried out, was usually for an hour or so. had a visiting room where free players could come see the incarcerated players, people even found ways to smuggle items into the prison lol. There was also a room full of rocks on one sice and grinders on the other, you had to move the rocks to the grinders and you would be slowed down, each rock you grinded reduced your sentence, and the rocks could be stolen by other players trying to reduce their own sentences... it was actually pretty awesome, there was even a quest you had to go to prison to do.

I am pretty sure they have talked about transmog items. I hope there are cool skins as a boss drop in an area. Or an accessory like wings, horns, tentacles, or spikes

housing system quite similar to Star Wars Galaxies (2003). It had a completely revolutionary housing/town system for the time. With it's whole ecosystem & professions, mayors, voting rights etc. Happy to see this

It seems like this was built for dad gamers, and as a 38 yr old dad I can get behind that 🤣

The donation system to build construction is similar to Warframes - It’s a good system.

Warframe has a similar system to this. Every guild gets a home base where members contribute to the building of new things in the base. It worked pretty well for my guild because the guild master would give pretty good rewards for the people who donated the most.

Dang that looks really good for an MMO, got me excited about Ashes of Creation again!

As if a game where less than 1% of the players can be mayor of a village and regulate taxes would ever take off. Also this city is obviously handcrafted as a showpiece. Player run towns will look like crap and be an assortment of houses and crafting stations, without all the additional cosmetics that have been plopped down in that Potemkin village.

i love when he starts cooking up player interactions

the visual identity will be recognizable when you play the game. That's how it is for every game.

devs, you can add a evil type of node now, lots of ideas that Asmon talked there

Part of the part of the point is you area will updste and the oldest houses will update and grow. But there only so many cities so. For another place to update they haft to attack its neibors

You could also make the sacrifice as a sort of vote system but make it a reward instead of punishment, like players of that node select a player to sacrifice, permanently deleting that players character but that player is reincarnated at lvl 1 with a permanent stat boost. give sacrifice slots per capita of that node.

As a Winstead, I will own that node.

this is insane, can't wait to play this masterpiece

It's really great seeing these updates, It also makes me very impatient haha.

In the shard i used to play Ultima Online, there used to be a prison, so the world had a faith system and priests had an imprisonment spell, the order of Law (so the real players cops of the server) could then imprison you if you were a criminal (robed people, killed people, etc). While in prison you would remain in a cell for time calculated according to your wrongdoings, i seen player with over 1 year jail time (one real time year). You could be broken out though, you could get a band of people together and break into the prison, that would be in the bottom of the Wrong dungeon and bust you out. It was such a fun system....

Asmongold is very biased in the stylized vs realistic graphics argument he puts up. I and many others think it’s great that they are not trying to be yet another anime or wow lookalike The gameplay and systems matter far more than graphics anyways

The guy explaining things in the softest whisper next to Asmon screaming is hard to deal with lol.

This game looks very beautiful and smooth to play, cant wait to try it once it fully releases.

holy shit your sacrifice rant made me giddy. also in regards to the cannon, you would want them alive and conscious which prolly not easy to get someone conscious into a cannon, so you should put them into giant sacks i think would be good.

I think node currency is a good idea because it offers an incentive for the people of the node to thrive in their specialized area i.e. warriors node/science node/mercantilism node as to increase the long-term value of that node's currency. I do think that long-term value is a worry for the node currency, but at the end of the day, the threat of that currency becoming non-valuable over time is looming and should exist so that the people of the node push to make their node popular for one reason or another. Interestingly, this model makes sense in real life, on a international scale, and existed on a local scale 1000 or so years ago. Gives the game the medieval feeling. Then again, having your node's currency be less valuable may not be a problem that persists so long as the people of the node push to have their node become more and more popular. It certainly adds a unique aspect to the game economically and is DEFINITELY better than Albion Online's economic system as that system collapsed early in the game due to the ability to buy in-game currency with real money. Obviously, that is not an issue for Ashes and should add depth to the game. When I look at early warframe, this system of node currency reminds me of the guild-owned planets and how the materials fluctuated in value based on the taxes on said materials from the specific guild-owned planets. That game was insanely fun in that way as it introduced the idea that mercenaries would fight for guilds and try to take over the other planets and reduce the tax in order to re-align the value of the materials. I am excited for this aspect in that same way.

really happy with the way the gear isn't too over the top

One big server completely misses one of the main points of nodes. Each server is supposed to evolve differently based on how nodes progress. Meaning you can go to one server and experience a different world.

Fyi the node currency is generic. So whatever node currency you earn at node #1 will also be usable at another node. There can be reputation requirements in order to use that currency at any given node, though

i am so excited about asmons gaming outfit when listening to this brainstorming!

I like the idea of a one greater world server with time zones and such breaking it up into smaller ones.

Extremely sceptical about constructing and running things. Like the man said - the sooner it gets tested the better.

On this visual identity thing, it's going to be hard for them to nail it down when the entire point is that all the different races and choices in node XP are going to influence the outcome of the aesthetics of the towns/cities.

starting playing skyrim again for fun, and as soon as he walked through the gate of the town i thought “man, that’s what whiterun should look like” when you walk in. just more cobble stone

I don't see any MMO taking off in the west any time soon. Especially one more akin to SWG than a WOW themepark. I just don't think the gaming community at large has the attention span any longer for things like that. I'm not really seeing anything here that would broaden the MMO appeal to this new audience.

should add positive boon from bless of higher power or no boon maybe in negative in other way around...for any towns.

This was not a node livestream. It was more of a mayorial systems overview.

the windy affect on the cape needs to be dialed back a little when not moving and walking

The problem with megaserver is that one of the games sellingpoints is that servers will be different, depending on what nodes are unlocked etc.

cant wait to build a whole new pc just to play this game on max graphics. The world is beautiful.

The wind blowing isn't in sinc with the cloak and the grass I've noticed, they need to work on that

What no one has mentioned so far is each node is not permanent. They can be attacked and destroyed removed and relocated. New ones constructed old ones destroyed.

27:40 sounds familiar. Almost like real life.

I'm excited to be a player NPC giving out fishing quests to other players in exchange for rewards

this will be a nieche MMO with 20-30k players, no casual will play this.

"You have 5479 years to build this building."

this got me excited for AoC again. However sudden realization that I probably will play this in retirement home, un-hype's me.

The one guy who stands the most likely to have all the control over something insists it won't happen.

The thing about having cheaters and the like serve their sentence in-game is that I don't think any company or dev will tolerate some breaking their ToS (especially cheating) still play their game, and I don't think they would risk allowing a cheater to access the game and probably cheat again or cause further harm.

Some of the systems that Frostpunk had would be interesting in Ashes of Creation

you know its a good sign from the developers wen one busts out a palpatine

31:24 I'ma be honest. Kinda wild to me that Steven didn't think to try right-clicking to buy something from a vendor.

The fact that this is just a low level node is insane

I feel like all of these things they're discussing about Node currencies, taxes, building and Node resources are things that don't matter at all. There will be SO FEW people who are actually even able to interact with these systems that I just don't even give a sh*t from the start. I won't ever matter to any Node and no Node will ever matter to me.

Only way to control the tax system. Is that the mayor CANNOT use that money for him or his clan. It stays in the town coffers to be used on the town.

that caravan place looks exactly like the monster inn/village from dq8

I like how thhe cannon comes full circle back to the clerics 😂😂

This is close to the type of game i dreamt all my life

You see groups controlling areas quite a lot in MMO's. OSRS for example.

When is this game going to come out man I get hype everytime i see an update but there's always like 6 months of silence between each update and the hype kinda dies

With killing of non-combat pets i can see horse head in mayor bed when peoples will be angry,that is so god damn cool.

long distance economy options either means u cant teleport or u cant teleport with resources other wise the being local to ur region with resources wouldnt be a factor or they could do it like archeage which the game is inspired by and u can only craft trade packs in certain areas then u have to transport them trade packs which takes hours lol

People are forgetting that the game has Elections where ANYONE can sign up to run for votes, it's not just one guy running it forever, you can also lay siege to a City and take it by force.

Giving me SWG vibes, MadSeason is gonna love this

They should make it for RP purposes that you can actually add like.. having your character always walk/run like an old man, or add a limp to your walk which you cannot get rid of for x-hours of playing time.

Caravanserai - like a fortified trading post. Cool hearing this as a history nerd... I think its Middle-Eastern in origin, it'd be like a safe place at a crossroads on like the Silk or Jade road/trading routes where people could safely trade goods without fear of getting attacked/robbed. Fantasy games do better when they look at real history!

I have been waiting for this game since pre-covid. I never once doubted the team. I am an optimistic person, I assume all things will work out unless there are signs that prove otherwise. All I have learned about Ashes over the years is that I cannot wait for it to come out and it only gets better. Truly an inspiring team of artists, they're not just devs.

i like how the wind interact with the grass trees and the cape. really nice

this game reminds me of everything that Chronicles of Elyria was supposed to be

I think an option to be anti grief is a few starter or protected NPC nodes. They can't be as specialized or have the most growth but could be a baseline to function. Its a very much wait and see sort of thing cause peopel are going to collude no matter what restrictions they put in place. Just look at eve online. And I think the reverse might happen graphical fidelity may go down due to increase numbers of players if he wants the mega servers this games needs for these systems. I imagine you will eventually need about 2.5-3k active players at a time to cover all the nodes with a decent density of people. Maybe things will scale with world and node population activity. It is exciting though. I remain optomistic foe when this finally comes out. I just want to have a house and make swords or some shit.

If this game turns out really nice and asmon actually plays this a lot i can already see the City of Asmongold which would slowly expand into a country because it attacks all neighbouring villages 🤣

if it showed like, who contributes to the node, as far as players bringing money in, that would be great.

Looks good i hope they can get much better icons and ui

'Opt in' roleplay, to be at the mercy of the NPCs whims ? Takes AI and dev story telling to a whole new level. Hell yes. Kind of do that with the attack on site corruption system, which is not 'opt-in' anyway. So its not a question of 'if', but more a question of letting players 'draw the boundaries', on what 'optional systems' they will partake of.

so this is the chronicles of elyria without aging...

3:01 no, but you can have a weapons factory, start a war between your node and another node and then sell weapons to both parties PROFIT

Age of Conan let you do that but it was a PvP thing... Wildstar was gonna let you kinda do that (by allowing player plots to link together) but NCsoft pulled the plug.

I think like 5 servers would be better then 1. Not too many but 5 so people can have good pings ect. Game looks great

Asmongolds ideas remind me of south park episodes 😂😂 they really would make great game content tho lmao