I loved this DEEP dive into combat mechanics 😏

Man your videos are fantastic. Editing and attention to detail is unmatched. Need more videos! Lol

This creator can be as big as Narc or even bigger! Great video!

Good to see your channel growing man. Absolutely love this channel.

Great video again! Love the implementation of basic physics as well. Also the addition of Jamie in the intro was perfect 😂

Great video as always bro, fantastic topic to cover in regarda to how combat "feels" in a game. It is something I feel is often overlooked but so very important. Anyways keep it up!

Great job on the vid Doc cant wait to play this with you!

Love the hat! And i am especially interested in the weapon talents, this adds so much more customization to your character. I just hope shields have a spec tree, they are a weapon after all.

Loved how you explained this. Great video!

THanks so much for covering this topic

Great video once again :) Whats your take on how far along the augments are? seems like they are still working on the base 8 let alone having a detailed 64 distinct classes when we are 3-6 months away from alpha 2

Really good video! Typically when people start talking about maths and physics i tune out but you made it interesting and digestible.

Excellent video... yet again. Thanks Doc 😁

Well done, amazing video!

Alright, this video is contender for my favorite from you now. Great job, as usual!

at 9:55; I want a sparkler sword option tho. 4th of july toggle?

God damn, you have a great predentation voice and format! Have a sub! Ps. you sound so much like the guy that advertised lucid charts. Thats a compliment.

Just gotta say you nailed this video :)

At 6:00 when you discuss animation and damage it reminds me of ESO (a game I played for about 5 years before switching to ffxiv). I really hated how animation cancelling (i.e. weaving) was considered necessary for endgame content despite it looking really janky and ruining all sense of immersion.

This video is hiiiiighly addictive.... Nicely done my guy! Sorry I haven't been commenting on the squads vids as much. My birthday has given my more copium than I can handle as we go crazy and have ashes watch parties 😅😅

Not being forced to animation cancel to get the most out of your class will be amazing. Not many games out there who have got this right unfortunately.

that warrior skill is awesome

5:10 👏 well said. Great video

Great analysis, tho I get the feeling that movement feels more responsive now than in the first melee attacks showcase. Before you could clearly notice when the character was semi-stuck in position during a swing, now it gives the same feeling, but looks like Steven moves more freely. I think they reduced a lot the slight "animation lock" and compensated by making the animations look heavier. But I'm not sure, it's one of these things that require hands-on testing.

my concern is the range spells in this game are like homing missiles, you always get hit no matter where you move, love the video btw

“These are the people making the new LOTRO”😂

The more I think about it...that first combat showcase where Steven was fighting the rock elementals......I bet that was the rouge archetype...becuause no other archetype we've seen has that quick burst forward or sideways...Steven trying to be sneaky on us. Plus he fought with the daggers as well, and even in the last fighter showcase he only used the one weapon and no quick burst movement was shown.

Very good video! Personally, I think Ashes will have the best Tab Target combat on the market, however I also think that it is a shame that the Action doesnt really serve a purpose, you also dont really need to aim important attacks, so it really takes away from the skill ceiling which is something I really liked about New Worlds combat

Multiple fighters using spears and knockback abilities to keep enemies at at bay could be very cool. Roleplay as Spartans with your friends.

Dr.Burns with a beard is glorious to behold. \o/

Oh snap he's reppin the Vlhadus merch 🔥 Also, the weapon attacks for low lvl in GW2 are completely different from end game, but your point is still valid. Just sticking up for GW2 a little bit, i have a few hours into that one. 😂

I've recently put 150h in BDO just to try their combat system. The quality of animations, the way abilities flow into eachother, animation cancels, the movement capabilities.. It's smooth and snappy. I know it has its fair shake of problems in the backend for PvP, but it feels really good when you start getting the muscle memory. BDOs gameplay loop is not for me tho, but I'd suggest you put some time into it just to feel a good action combat system.

Honestly, this game is looking better and better. IF it ever comes out.

great video as always man! but the copium clininc is getting me addicted... should I worry?

:D Great HAT !.!

Great work.

Curve your brim.

good video - go on

Agreed, they are updating some stuff from previous MMOs. GW2 combat is great, but very floaty for sure. Split body root motion is a big update to that style of combat. Animation locking sucks as well. NW, and a few others had it. Animation locking is the worst thing for me in an MMO. Doesn't matter if it is TAB or Action to me if you get locked into animations. Great video as always!

Lmao. That is the reason I had to give up on my love of spears lol

Great video! The ESO comment about light attack weaving requiring the player to just "get good" misses a slight point, imo. ESO's combat suffers from light and heavy attack weaving being required because it would cause abilities to cancel their animations. Having light attacks be required to cancel skill animations was a BAD design decision, imo, especially because it was not initially planned for by the devs. So it became a FEATURE of the combat not because of GOOD game design, but because of a bug that the dev's never fixed (that's my understanding). I'm hopeful that Ashes doesn't have "animation cancelling" or light attack weaving unless it's designed for and not a side effect of a bug or bad game design. I'm all for skill expression in a game, but if the combat looks all janky with animations being cancelled and requiring spamming clicks, the combat won't "feel" good (that's been my experience with ESO's combat, and I still enjoyed the game despite the janky combat). Also, I'm hopeful that Ashes' combat (especially the skill and weapon trees) will give the player enough agency to CHOOSE whether they want to use highly active, timing based, spammy combos or a slower, more methodical, TACTICAL combat style. My arthritic hands couldn't keep playing ESO because the animation cancelling light attack weaving is SUPER demanding on my hands! I definitely don't want to be unable to play Ashes because there's only one "RIGHT" way of optimizing combat rotations.

Let's praise it after (if) it releases 🤣

*Jamies augmented voice makes me feel funny.*

Great video!I agree Ashes Combat Is better then your MMO, "but I digress" 🤣 Nice portrayal of Jamie's Establishment.

@Dr.Burns Bro, your Gaming-Content always on Point hope you know that! But just to let you know that I maybe (we) your Community would be also interested in or/ did you thought about making a new Channel or Side-Content with Conent on your Lifeviews or how to live more healthy more happy etc. You seem like a balanced, happy, kind and smart person would love to learn some good habbits or basic lessons to improve in life. Much Love keep going!

Rocking that cool hat.

2:14 You take that tradeoff to increase the skill cieling and give a more movement oriented gameplay to the player. If you push too much towards the weight in combat then it becomes like new world. Gw2 has the best combat in any mmo, and just pressing wasd in the game and seeing how smooth the animations blend into each other blows every mmo even ashes out of the park. The feet look like they are actually moving the character in each direction and the character steps for changing directions or jump attacking etc. If ashes can improve player character movement animations and make them smoother and blend into each other better then it could be the best. But I doubt any game put that much polish in the player character controller especially in western studio. In fact some eastern games has very high quality of player controller in comparison.

I'll probably just wait until the game is released to make sweeping statements about it lol.

Do you even digress?

I hope AoC devs see this video

People are complaining about the hitstop now, when the most popular Eastern action combat games in the world all have some form of hitstop. Calling it "stuttering" or "lag every time you hit someone" is so weird, its like they've never seen an action movie or played an action combat games. People wanted mob/player flinch, and now the hitstop is added to sync with the flinch and make attacks feel like different than swinging in mid-air and people are saying that it doesn't look right? Especially considering no one not under an NDA can even say how it feels, asking for them to remove it is insane. Once A2 comes out, you'll either have thousands of people complaining about it, or the 50 people who were crying will forget they even cried about it.

I like that hat.

Does the unreal 5 water stuff even matter? We'll be on unreal 9 when Ashes finally releases. When I say "releases" I do just mean beta.

always the diviserty even in meme videos... sheeeee

Is that voice actor jamie? Lol

This is what I always mean when I explain "floaty" combat, the animation and the weight of the weapon is just wrong, your brain can tell it's wrong and it just feels like you're swinging a rubber weapon. The Fighter combat is solving the problem of weightless combat without making the game feel like a slog. This is the baseline every archetype in the game should have for correct movement and "feel" there has to be impact to combat.

Anything with tab target isn't going to set the standard for anything. Nor is having a hot bar with tons of conditional attacks.

Stop smoking copium

I think players don't want realism like huge armor and physical moves possible because it is limited and ugly, Hollywood has already improved the fights to be more aesthetic "Trojan Achilles x Hector", I also don't think that heavy characters running in a ridiculous way while holding the sword close to the face is pleasurable for the player's brain people want the IDEAL not REAL.

Also New World has the best Combat from all the MMOs. .thats what make people still playing that shit show of a game... you may should have spend more then 5 levels testing it buddy

I genuinely don't think this game is being developed fast enough to be ready before it's engine becomes obsolete again.

Yeah true, New World feels like utter shit. The best part about that game was the sound, 10/10 sound quality.

yeah, no. Even with Blizzard's networking topguns, even the slightest wiff of lag, and this combat system will be absolutely terrable.

It's incredible how a 2001 mmorpg (daoc) has still better combat system and feeling than this shit, I want a game where tunnel vision into 1 target and cycle abilities while WASD is NOT the way to play, where I have to be in constant awarness of what happens in combat to my mates/enemies (talking about pvp obv) and decision making and skill matter much more. Strong CC, hard interrupts (the clip where the mage cast while moving is cringe) and are needed. casters can only cast if they are not moving. But I understand companies wont make such a game because of how much difficult is to play. This is where all the industry is going, easy games for bad players