Also, if we were living in a fantasy setting IRL, getting jumped by a different group of adventurers while fighting a dungeon boss will only be expected. This is how human beings work. I get to defeat an already weakened dungeon boss AND eliminate another competitor group ? Yeah I'll take up on this.

Great Video ! So keen for A2

Somthing i tought about seeing footage of the game... I realy realy realy desperatly want mmorpg running fysics to be more realistic, why is it always so static, i mean... We have the technology. Why can they do it in single player games AC for example but not in online games?

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.

I am ecstatic about the depth and thought intrepid puts into their systems. Another great video

I've watched this video like 5 times already! As someone who wants to focus on both PvP and professions, this content is right up my alley. Can't wait to hear more about your thoughts on crafting and how it ties into the larger economy. Keep up the great work, and looking forward to more insights!

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Nice video! Lots of good little key details thrown in too 🤙🏻 subbed

vet of Wow and Everquest and loving what im hearing about this MMO. You can tell they have played MMOs and know how to make a next gen one. my only complaints so far: 1. graphically would of liked more for a next gen MMO, especially one running on Unreal Engine 5 that can does virutal geometry for poloygon counts and can handle more technically than any other engine. But i guess that may be a result of them starting on the game with Unreal Engine 4. 2. I think next gen MMOs should get away from levels. eventually overtime you segment the playerbase where all the players are off to new lands and the orignal lands or empty. its not bad to introduce new lands, but how about keeping relevant content in the lands you already created. but that gets hard when you have to starter levels, and level 50 area and etc. If mobs everywhere iare equally a threat than you introduce excitement to the old content regardless. 3. the combat is still to late gen. i think Dark Souls/ Elden Ring showed a combat system that scales very well with MMO technical limitations. the combat is a huge factor for MMOs and sadly its not next gen.

The biggest mistake ashes made was making new character models. Look at that vid you show with the female mage from like 2019. She still looks better and moves better than any new model.

I didnt want the video to end! great job bro!

The dungeons sound like straight out of Solo Leveling.

Honesty and leadership.

"cynicism masks as intellect" was such a good point. A well deserved sub earned with this video!

How muxh time did it take to find the compilation of them saying "data" damn. You put a lot of work into these videos 🙌🏻

This was so interesting! Also that clip of Margaret 😂

You missed “Dark Age Of Camelot” PVP dungeons that were gated by PVP map control. People complained but they played the game. The problem they had plages current games. The PVP goals become zerg fest. Games need to balance wvw with quick instanced spvp both impacting pvp dungeons that would drop pvp and pve items.

Lumberyard is just CRYENGINE. Same with Azoth

It's a lot like Albion online's dungeons. A party can enter, murder, and steal the dungeon

This will be the only mmo ill be playing when released

Dark Age of Camelot had open dungeons. As you worked your way into the dungeon, mobs would respawn behind you. Anyone coming in behind you would have to fight the repawned mobs. You could hear them fighting and react accordingly.

I’m excited. You get me really excited

So is AoC going to be a PvP focused game, where I can get ganked and plundered whilst I'm fighting a dungeon boss? Not followed the game for a while but always assumed it'd be a more standard PvE style affair.

This was great Burns! Well done Doc!

The current LOTRO (Lord of the Rings Online) will be tough to beat. It’s old and graphics aren’t modern but it is great. It is pretty faithful to the lore. Amazon will mess this up.

I love how this is so fun and unique. There's actually a game that's implementing this greatly : Albion online, they have static open world dungeons, bosses and content, and although there are some instanced content, it's not nearly as lucrative as the open world one, always weighting the greater rewards to the greater risks. And although lots of people complain about the game (mainly the pve only people that get annoyed when they get pvped in PVP zones) the game is still retaining and growing its playerbase over the years. One thing that worries me about AoC though, (I've watched lots of your videos, and idk if you or someone tackled this aspect) is power imbalance between the 0.1% guilds and the rest, hoarding this kinda content and gatekeeping the dungeons to themselves and driving out the other players, moreso when the rewards are finite and exclusive, and the first organized guild / players that have access to these will gain lots of power making it harder for the other players to fight them / access those resources. What do you think about this ? Has it been addressed by Steven ? Might be a good idea for a video or feedback to Intrepid (although I know it's a huge paradoxal issue as if less gueared or weaker players can contest and fight those players that have access to these higher more exclusive rewards, they will lose their value and be meaningless) I'm interested to see how Intrepid will tackle this issue

Imagine a server where nobody can do a raid or dungeon, and then some random guy with a talent for video games comes by and completes the dungeon. He would become a legend

You can afk in your own house, freeholds are limited in the open world and i think it should be fair that people can come and fight you off for it. Also, i've been playing albion online ever since release, the full-loot combat that scares people is only at the beginning, once you start realizing the risk-vs-rewards attached to it it becomes addicting. That being said, AoC will have only partial full loot unless ur corrupted, you will only drop resources from your inventory so i dont think it will be that bad as people claim it to be. New world used to be full loot then they did a 360 on it and removed everything about the rewards from pvp, that turned the game into a stale mmo very quickly, the economy was ruined very fast and overall from the startin 1m concurrent player we have what? 10k? tops. Full loot/ganking and risk-vs rewards is what drive mmos to last longer, they offer more ways to play the game and it gives longevity cause every open pvp encounter is always different. that's my 2 cents anyway

Some of my best memories are from open world dungeons and raids. Cant wait to experience Intepids take on them. I do feel the modern mmo enjoyer will find this style off putting. Well some of them at least.

Great video man! Really enjoyed it. Subbed and looking forward to more and Ashes alpha 2 release content

I really hope they change those dungeon names because damn are they bad.

the combat just looks so bad

Here's what I imagine endgame looking like for many people. You're essentially spending time building up, in various ways. Building up money, building reputation, acquiring friends and contacts, better equipment, and building trust within guilds and nodes. At some point, we will expend our savings. Maybe buy a house or freehold, citizenship in a node, create a spy network among your friends, build up groups of interested parties to take on the same PVE content that maybe your own guild isn't interested in, form a new guild amongst all your friends, or maybe you expend all of these, and eventually overthrow a node and take it over for yourselves. Or, attempt to, anyway. Then you'll be in a maintenance phase, to keep what you've gained. Eventually, you'll lose it, and you'll be back into a building phase. Maybe you'll do the same thing again, or build towards some other goal this time.

As always I brought my beer and popcorn as soon as I could, to enjoy your latest video. And as always. You deliver! Great video, and I’ve noticed his use of words regarding dungeon vs instanced! Well illustrated! 👏😁

Another well planned, well articulated and well produced video, continue punching above your weight! Till the next visit to the Clinic

Another "banger" my man! 🎉 Really well made, clear and effective. 😊

All they need now is to copy Pax Dei's building system for player housing and I'll never put this game down

I think they scrapped the utility skills. The balance was atrocious and would have led to people gatekeeping who could join their raid groups.

A raid boss that scales up to zergs, expands capabilities, and has better targeting, such as targeting healers over tanks. Awesome. A raid that rewards smaller raid teams specializing in teamwork. Now how do we handle the tryhards who make raiding an unpaid intern job?

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A nice bit of nostalgia with those old clips, another banger as always

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Insane video, thanks for the infos.

Steven is a Lineage 2 fan so ) in lineage are(was) no instances and free pvp everywhere, and its most exiting game ever ) wow endies never will understand that )

Hey, great video as always. What are your thoughts on the correct balance for feeling rewarded for your time & effort vs RNG loot tables along the risk-reward spectrum? In the video, you gave an example of a non-instanced boss dropping a shard that could be used as crafting materials in elite gear. Do you know if this is the direction AoC is going? I hope this is the case since that would be something everyone could roll on. I don't think everyone should be given a participation trophy, but RNG loot tables for a specific BiS set armor piece can get tedious on the other extreme. I'm aware AoC plans to place emphasis on crafting, but you know way more about the game than me.

Great content. Keep up the good work mf

Loot thing becomes an issue especially dealing with streamers and their harems if it’s open world.

Despite it's major flaws over the years, Aion did this right. There were plenty of PvE instances, but there were also open world bosses and instances in which opposing factions could go at it at the same time. Also, some of the best instances, which offered pvp items, had entrances in contested pvp zones which could be camped. It was both good and bad.

I don't think it's exactly scarcity that is required for prestige. It's about rewards truly reflecting the players' achievements. In WoW, a noob and an absolute gigachad will both have a near-identical gearset, with a different color. The rare mythic raiding mount doesn't even stand out among a sea of store mounts, free promotional event mounts, etc. Everyone gets everything all the time. So I know what you mean about scarcity... but it's not so much that players need to feel a lack of rewards. There can be an abundance rewards of all kinds... ~available to those who earn them~. It's about the integrity of the reward structure -- one that actually reflects the player's achievements and no more or less.

Great catch on the phrasing around instancing. I always assumed entire instanced or open world dungeons. Instead, room locks as he said in the AMA might be much more prevalent than I thought. Great video as always!