NOTE: Check description :) I hope you are all enjoying the journey in Ashes of Creation so far! There are so many more videos to come and there simply isn't enough time in the day to edit it all! The future is bright for the Narciverse and I hope you'll come join our adventures on stream: www.twitch.tv/Narciverse
I totally agree on the ore scarcity, and I have a nice cope theory to rationalize it. The riverlands has a ton of lumber, but lacks sufficient ore. When the desert comes online in phase 2 I can't imagine that zone having many trees, but you know what it might have? Tons of ore. This would create natural trading partnerships between riverland and desert nodes. You bring wood to the desert, sell the wood, buy copper with the money, bring copper to the riverlands, repeat.
And as a mostly pvp play I hope this makes a game system where pve players need to group with a pvp Player like me to come in and protect them while they farm
Dearly hope this is the case. It would also introduce the act of people specializing in professions relative to their node. You won't have someone become an expert miner where there is hardly any mining to be had.
Hasn't Steven expressed this exact vision for resource scarcity and trade? I think you are spot on. I would expect ore more from the Mountains but maybe for the alpha it comes from the desert.
Yall gotta take into account that this is still in the alpha. I hope as much remains in the dark about this game as possible. Wikis and Guides ruin MMOs.
Narc I noticed in your video you said we had all apprentice crafts up and running but we still need the hideworks, cookhouse, and laboratory up in order to get the last apprentice skills fully online (tanning, leatherworking, fishing, cooking, Arcane engineering, hunting, & alchemy). But it's only a matter of time!
I was curious what he meant. Vyra server has been working to get a lot of buildings up to and only have a few to go. Cookhouse was nearly impossible because the sanctus bows, was about to ask how they did the cookhouse so fast
The combat looks extremely good for a 25 years old game! The total rework of the combat system is very obvious. I'm glad that they stated that it is the final version and there won't be any more rewamps.
dont worry resna doesn't have a single crafting station as everyone would rather dick measure and lock other guilds out of progression than push the server forward
this is a hard thing to keep at bay - as the focus for most are the clotpole besties getting all the time and attention - these methods will fail in the long run as the required politics and neccesity to actually work together will eventually force progression to occur because otherwise the realm will become a boring stangant pixel grind hole.
I just hope the gameplay loop in the game when it is finally finished, is not very repetitive. Repetitive gameplay loops burn me out and I end up quitting mmos.
Can't wait to play this game. I was tempted to by in the early accsess but I'm so over Early Acsess titles. You play the Early acsess about 50% of the content and than you dont want to pick it up again. Would rather wait till all the content is there before I get into a game, so I can enjoy the full experience
they'll be extremely rare: "Flying mounts are available to Mayors of metropolis nodes and Kings and Queens of Guild castles. Royal mounts can also be dropped from legendary world bosses. Each server realm may have between 10 to 20 royal mounts based on the legendary world boss timers"
actually tend to disagree with the player handholding point. I feel like the comprehensive tutorials sometimes are boring and I just want to enjoy the game at my own pace and kind of discover the mechanics organically if that makes sense.
From the time I've played I think the starting experience needs to be completely redone, players are hanging around Lionshold for to long, node citizenship should be probably available at level 5, and a curated set of quests to get players acquainted with basic systems and headed out to the node of their choice. (I know this is not the focus of the testing so far).
The game is trash and will be whenever it ever releases. This is not going to be casual friendly and is going to be trash. I used basic vocabulary just so we can come back and check it out without detail. Ha!
I really only like the combat. To me, the riverlands feels like a bunch of verticle slices used for monthly showcases cobbled together with randomly generated UE5 terrain. At the very least they need to abandon the dynamic road system so they can handcraft the way the vistas around them to make the world feel more alive. As of right now, traveling on the roads reminds me of playing daggerfall.
I hit level 10 last weekend and got my citizenship in Winstead and now leveling isn't a huge priority for me so this weekend I will be focusing on working on my gathering artisan skills and trying to get my hands on some novice gathering tools, hunting for some quests to test and progressing our node, although I won't have as much time to play this weekend because of some real life commitments I'm sure I'll make some progress.
Node system can work on a small server... But what will happen when 10k or more people will invade a server wanting different thing. Right now you only have people who are paying to play 200 and more $ when free or low paying method happen, crazy will appear.
This is why Resna exists, because that's exactly the state of Resna lol. (Minus the people ofc. This game can barely handle 100 people in one place let alone 10k, they still have a lot of work to do) I'm expecting Phase 2 to be a lot less friendly as they introduce Relics and Node Wars become used more and Vassaling introduces more PvP-esque activities. We will see how that goes.
Taxation... is not theft? I don't know how i feel about it, i thought games were supposed to accurately represent lived experience of California people
I partially agree as I'm partially a libertarian. But libertarians would also say that it depends on the scale. People run their households as communists, so it's ok to pay taxes on a community level and in ashes you get to pick your community and corresponding tax level.
I appreciate the hell out of you being the only content creator (to my knowledge) spreading information about the Node system. Dynasty has been holding lectures trying to help people grasp it, but content creators have way more reach, and this information is exactly what needed to be spread, as each Phase of the Alpha is only going to make the game orders of magnitude more complicated. This game is going to be an iceberg. 100% agree that Ashes really needs more explanation about these systems.
This is gonna sound corny lol, but this is the first time in a game that I've had the feeling that I got when watching Sword Art Online. Even in just the alpha, I truly feel like I'm in a living world where everything matters. Your social interractions matter because guess what, you are gonna see a lot of the same people again. Political drama is real in this game. There is a danger to going outside alone. All of those small (yet big) qualities is what I have been searching for in an mmo, and I absolutely love it
They have the lead writer & narrative designer that worked on ESO for story content in that game so hopefully AOC is pretty good story/lore wise. Guy also worked on SWTOR for 3 years so that's a good sign as well.
Thats great to hear. Thanks for sharing. I loved how SWTOR did storytelling and honestly prefer the story delivery of SWTOR over the delivery of FF14’s story.
Hey narc. Not sure if you have already tried but i know in pirate softwares guild discord they have a diplomatic reachout system via tickets. Maybe it would be possible to reach out to him via that for your communications needs.
I had high hopes but the more i see, the more it looks like a wow clone but without the 20 yrs of refining and polishing. I was hoping they'd try to carve out their own identity
@Vsg45 just look at the class design, they just completely ripped off everything from wow , they are carbon copies of the wow classes, just without the talent trees, so they're actually WORSE, cus wow has had 20yrs to dial it in. Im not sayin this in defense of wow, im sick of wow, im just disappointed they thought they'd make a wow clone 20yrs later and expect it to compete. And then they're also catering to the pvp audience which only ruins class uniqueness, cus that crowd is always whinging about balance, everything has to play the same, everyone needs an interupt, a stun, a mobility, a defensive, and a cc. Everything just becomes a cosmetic choice, there cant be any racial advantages, all stats and abilities must be locked to gear. It's boring. Pvp players ruin immersion of mmorps, and the devs will cater to them, just look at how they changed things with the asmongold situation. If you're hyped for it, great have fun, but why not just go play wow? It'll feel way more polished and refined
@thisismychannel607 I play wow... how many great sword priests you see rolling around? Warrior will always be generic in any game, so will ranger/hunter. There are 64 classes and you compare the basic archetype to flushed out 20 yr classes from wow? Atleast do some research
@@infinitely-random literally on the wiki and also math, 8 arch types you a choose a 2nd later in game 8x8 = 64. Tank+cleric= paladin class. That's 1 example
As long as people focus on “gaining levels” (instead of having fun), MMO’s have no chance to innovate. Not even AOC. It is not a problem of the MMO’s, but of the players.
Tbh bro I just hope Ashes is a success, more so for your sake as your whole content creation and youtube channel is completely based around the success of this game. You deserve it in other words.
Looks good so far. Although I am only seeing yours and Pirate Softwares POV so far, and synically I really doubt normal players will have the same experience as streamers. People won't congregate and speak, people won't join discords to squash toxicity when the game is released etc.
I've been looking at as simply testing. to be honest I haven't found the alpha to be especially enjoyable. combat is fun, but there's only so much mindless fighting I can take. there isn't really a reason to engage in combat currently other than just to grind levels, which aren't enjoyable to me. crafting isn't enjoyable at all currently. what's there seems to function well enough, but it's not enjoyable. I admit, I had hoped for more in terms of crafting and expected combat to be lackluster at first in alpha 2.... turns out they did the exact opposite.
Hey Narc thanks for covering AOC ! I didn't played the Alpha but the part where you say the dungeons feels meaningless you say you would like to see quests. In Mo2 wich is full loot pvp mmo with many default but also greats qualitys the dungeons are places of intreste simply because the bosses you kill here drop extremly valuable ressources. I agree the dungeon in the current state doesn't look good at all but im not sure adding a quest will make them interesting i think the dungeon itself must be compelling and motivate you to come again and again without any quest. A quest will give fake reason to clear the dungeon once then it's over you never come back.
Scarcity of resources is a design decision. There obviously needs to be tweaking done to ensure it strikes a good balance but I don't think it is intended for you to be able to just casually run around and easily obtain everything you would need to power through your artisan skills and likewise node and settlement advancement at the same time. I very much enjoy that fact. Verra is not a land of abundance and there is supposed to be conflict bred from that design.
Pretty sure each biome gonna have atleast 1 rare type of resources (dessert will lack plants for example i would say) unfortuently seems riverlands is rare on ore which normally wouldnt be an issue if we had more than a single biome :p hopefully with phase 2 tropics or dessert will have common ore in them
Tbh I kind of expected Narc to be memeing so hard that playing on his server would be annoying, but him and his guilds have actually been a pretty responsible and chill part of the node political interactions, testing in good faith. Lyneth is the best home.
@@pepelaugh3993Silly question to ask someone with 100 hours on a barebones game. Clearly what's available is fun enough for said player to keep playing after this many hours.
As a solo player I would say the game *CURRENTLY* does not entice to play much after 100 hours. Let me explain: I'm very interested in professions and they lack the most right now. The game GREATLY feels like you can grind mobs for faster & better gear than anything you can craft, and that XP difference between the activities is *INSANITY* . Its known that the crafting system is in absolute infancy and that's ok for now. (I'll certainly go ham once it's more flushed out) I enjoy a good story and that won't be started till phase 2. Quests are the most aggravating thing in this game as it currently stands. The only quests easily done are harvest [X] amounts from commission boards. Personally I have spent a many a hours trying to do quests just to end with nothing accomplished. Even the kill [singular rare mob] quests dont proc completion with one that I've tagged and killed probably 7 times. I have done several open world dungeons but these just feel like group mob grinding. I understand that early bosses should be simple but mechanics as a range dps is non existent. Let's see some ballsy moves from some of em eh? With all of this said I still feel confidant that once 1.0 is released in 3+ years it will certainly be a game high majority of players will want to sink time into.
@@Rasmanit How is that a silly question? Its a genuine question as im not a keyholder myself and just wondering what people are currently doing in the game.
I do not understand how people can spend money on entering this alpha without knowing about the node system. Have they not done any basic research of the game at all and just blindly buys in?
after spending 40 hours in AoC, I can say that it was a huge mistake to play this much... as now, I literally cannot enjoy any other game, I just want to go back to verra, to play with my guild to interract with randoms I met on my travels between POIs, I havent felt this way for a very long time, and I hope that during this development process Intrepid will not mess this up and upon release the game will be even better :)
Narc is it possible to overwhelm the guard in a town? I mean if enough players decided to mass murder all the guards in a random town, could that be accomplished? And if so how FUN would that be!
I was expecting a longer video. I am hesitant to play as a find myself burning out on games that are in alpha/beta phase and then end up missing out on a more complete experience because I spoiled too much of the game for myself. I'm on the fence about supporting the game at this time because of that.
Not only do they need a tutorial, but they should have tutorials that aren't character/realm related. - A "help" UI that is accessible offline, prior to the login menu, AND available while in the game. We shouldn't have to be going to third party sites, watch youtube videos or install addons to get basic information about how the game works. And not everyone learns best by "questing" either.
Ngl game sounds like it's going to get taken over by nannies REALLY quickly >all the guilds band together and squash any toxicity lol ok, can't wait for pvp to be defined as toxicity
vyra is also has a building on every village and a good community working together. I don't know about the EU servers but resna is the only server I heard that is actually suffering
So can we creep on a crafter while he mining or gathering? Then wait until he is full of mats to kill him and loot his dead carcass? Because at the end of the day we only like gather heads…
Played around 10-20 hours on the first weekend. Biggest issue I ran into was constant lag and disconnecting making it hard to grind. Hope this alpha does provide the right testing to get the servers stable.
For so long I've been waiting for a game like this I've played and enjoyed many mmorpgs but would always leave after 100hrs in since it wouldn't satisfy this itch I've been trying to get ever since I learned about the world of mmorpgs so many false promises, games that failed, or fell through the cracks but not even 3 days ago after learning about AoC that itch is nearly gone. And I haven't even gotten my hands on Alpha 2 yet this game achieved everything I ever wanted to see in a mmorpg even though its STILL in alpha. I plan on getting a Alpha 2 for phase 2 and spend my entire holiday playing it thank you for the amazing video also you deserve way more subs.
Kind of sound like the lack of resources on the map may be intentional. Maybe then it would spur the node vs nodes warfare in the future of the game in just the wanting to build up your city and expand before a neighboring node can block your expansion. If the world were to be a utopic dream land of resources I doubt there would be much conflict. Just like the real world scarcity inherently makes value and time to resources gathered is a is a commodity that loses strength if there is to much supply or no longer a need for said supply. Finding that balance is a tough challenge I'm sure the Intrepid Team are up to it though
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I hope you are all enjoying the journey in Ashes of Creation so far! There are so many more videos to come and there simply isn't enough time in the day to edit it all!
The future is bright for the Narciverse and I hope you'll come join our adventures on stream: www.twitch.tv/Narciverse
100 hour review - shit
You're sounding less crazy lately
100 hour review - shite
-The future is bright for the Narciverse- | You confused *"Ashes of Creation"* with your Twitch Channel, Narc. 😛
From all of the Talons, Thank you for all the fun copium fueled shenanigans and great RP moments, DISPITE the alarming amount of -1 caravans
I totally agree on the ore scarcity, and I have a nice cope theory to rationalize it. The riverlands has a ton of lumber, but lacks sufficient ore. When the desert comes online in phase 2 I can't imagine that zone having many trees, but you know what it might have? Tons of ore. This would create natural trading partnerships between riverland and desert nodes. You bring wood to the desert, sell the wood, buy copper with the money, bring copper to the riverlands, repeat.
And as a mostly pvp play I hope this makes a game system where pve players need to group with a pvp Player like me to come in and protect them while they farm
Dearly hope this is the case. It would also introduce the act of people specializing in professions relative to their node. You won't have someone become an expert miner where there is hardly any mining to be had.
Hasn't Steven expressed this exact vision for resource scarcity and trade? I think you are spot on. I would expect ore more from the Mountains but maybe for the alpha it comes from the desert.
I am bit confused by narcs take on this. He does know this also right?
Dessert and ore? Mountains and ore i would say.
True politician... Mayor Narc wanting high taxes so he can give you government run services.... Down with the taxes! Down with the government!
Narc the Tyrant !! (lol) 😆
Taxation is theft!
Taxation is Theft
actually we like services, players have been dumping their gold into the node by doing pointless animal crafts
@@GS-el8ll I think they're subtly referencing actual people hating taxes because they're too dumb to know what services they get from them.
Yall gotta take into account that this is still in the alpha. I hope as much remains in the dark about this game as possible. Wikis and Guides ruin MMOs.
Alpha they were charging 100$ for
Your wish to turn this unique mmo to another wow quest Based bs infuriating me.
I love that you offer advice about how you would solve present issues. Very cool and not bald at all!
Narc I noticed in your video you said we had all apprentice crafts up and running but we still need the hideworks, cookhouse, and laboratory up in order to get the last apprentice skills fully online (tanning, leatherworking, fishing, cooking, Arcane engineering, hunting, & alchemy). But it's only a matter of time!
I was curious what he meant. Vyra server has been working to get a lot of buildings up to and only have a few to go. Cookhouse was nearly impossible because the sanctus bows, was about to ask how they did the cookhouse so fast
The combat looks extremely good for a 25 years old game! The total rework of the combat system is very obvious. I'm glad that they stated that it is the final version and there won't be any more rewamps.
That was a fun fight :)
dont worry resna doesn't have a single crafting station as everyone would rather dick measure and lock other guilds out of progression than push the server forward
🤣
this is a hard thing to keep at bay - as the focus for most are the clotpole besties getting all the time and attention - these methods will fail in the long run as the required politics and neccesity to actually work together will eventually force progression to occur because otherwise the realm will become a boring stangant pixel grind hole.
What happens when you have 3 of the biggest PVP guilds in the same server lol.
Yeah this is the exact AoC Community.
It's an alpha, and it's a video game. Try not to take yourself so seriously.
Basics should be explained sure, but half the fun of an mmo is figuring out how everything works.
nice clickbait paid video.....on your streams your always saying the game is dogwater and suddenly you changed your opinion drastically. paid actor
We are not supposed to be having fun!!!!!! We need to get it working!!!! The beatings will continue until morale improves!
I just hope the gameplay loop in the game when it is finally finished, is not very repetitive. Repetitive gameplay loops burn me out and I end up quitting mmos.
Can't wait to play this game. I was tempted to by in the early accsess but I'm so over Early Acsess titles. You play the Early acsess about 50% of the content and than you dont want to pick it up again. Would rather wait till all the content is there before I get into a game, so I can enjoy the full experience
I honestly wish the game didn't have flying i feel like flying ruins an MMOs emersion and if it does make flying limited or have a cd.
Only like 10 people on the server can fly. Other people have mounts for floating though I believe
they'll be extremely rare: "Flying mounts are available to Mayors of metropolis nodes and Kings and Queens of Guild castles. Royal mounts can also be dropped from legendary world bosses. Each server realm may have between 10 to 20 royal mounts based on the legendary world boss timers"
actually tend to disagree with the player handholding point. I feel like the comprehensive tutorials sometimes are boring and I just want to enjoy the game at my own pace and kind of discover the mechanics organically if that makes sense.
narc is a carebear sissy boy is what i've learned from this video. i'll never watch his content again.
do you know if you get to keep progress through alpha beta and to full release or do they wipe?
From the time I've played I think the starting experience needs to be completely redone, players are hanging around Lionshold for to long, node citizenship should be probably available at level 5, and a curated set of quests to get players acquainted with basic systems and headed out to the node of their choice. (I know this is not the focus of the testing so far).
100% I felt totally aimless until guildies came and picked me up.
what starting experience? There is no starting experience developed yet
The game is trash and will be whenever it ever releases. This is not going to be casual friendly and is going to be trash. I used basic vocabulary just so we can come back and check it out without detail. Ha!
How to attack a player that is citizen to same node as you so they have a light blue name? is it possible?
The node banding together to gather poop has been the most fun part of the game for me so far
I really only like the combat. To me, the riverlands feels like a bunch of verticle slices used for monthly showcases cobbled together with randomly generated UE5 terrain. At the very least they need to abandon the dynamic road system so they can handcraft the way the vistas around them to make the world feel more alive. As of right now, traveling on the roads reminds me of playing daggerfall.
I hit level 10 last weekend and got my citizenship in Winstead and now leveling isn't a huge priority for me so this weekend I will be focusing on working on my gathering artisan skills and trying to get my hands on some novice gathering tools, hunting for some quests to test and progressing our node, although I won't have as much time to play this weekend because of some real life commitments I'm sure I'll make some progress.
Node system can work on a small server... But what will happen when 10k or more people will invade a server wanting different thing. Right now you only have people who are paying to play 200 and more $ when free or low paying method happen, crazy will appear.
This is why Resna exists, because that's exactly the state of Resna lol. (Minus the people ofc. This game can barely handle 100 people in one place let alone 10k, they still have a lot of work to do)
I'm expecting Phase 2 to be a lot less friendly as they introduce Relics and Node Wars become used more and Vassaling introduces more PvP-esque activities. We will see how that goes.
RAIN RAIN GO AWAY! COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY
The combat gameplay looks like every other MMO so I'm worried that I'd probably play for a month and bounce off.
You're literally the worst type of MMO player.
because that combat takes 5 seconds to make, lazy developer who just wants money. the game is junk.
Games looking good so far. Bit worried on the open pvp system for myself, but going to wait till phase 2 to jump in and test the waters.
Seems to me if the population of this game ever dwindles it will just die if social stuff is so ingrained with every part of it.
Taxation... is not theft? I don't know how i feel about it, i thought games were supposed to accurately represent lived experience of California people
I partially agree as I'm partially a libertarian. But libertarians would also say that it depends on the scale. People run their households as communists, so it's ok to pay taxes on a community level and in ashes you get to pick your community and corresponding tax level.
100 hours is nothing rofl
I have 1500hours on pantheon and still not even killed the first big boss
Congrats on breaking 60k subs!
I appreciate the hell out of you being the only content creator (to my knowledge) spreading information about the Node system. Dynasty has been holding lectures trying to help people grasp it, but content creators have way more reach, and this information is exactly what needed to be spread, as each Phase of the Alpha is only going to make the game orders of magnitude more complicated.
This game is going to be an iceberg.
100% agree that Ashes really needs more explanation about these systems.
did he just say he achieved lvl 20 in 30 hours ?? what how lmfao
His simo Army helps ifc
This is gonna sound corny lol, but this is the first time in a game that I've had the feeling that I got when watching Sword Art Online. Even in just the alpha, I truly feel like I'm in a living world where everything matters. Your social interractions matter because guess what, you are gonna see a lot of the same people again. Political drama is real in this game. There is a danger to going outside alone. All of those small (yet big) qualities is what I have been searching for in an mmo, and I absolutely love it
high taxes are nice but Goodluck keeping players in that node for long.
clearly underesttimating a cult mentality
They have the lead writer & narrative designer that worked on ESO for story content in that game so hopefully AOC is pretty good story/lore wise. Guy also worked on SWTOR for 3 years so that's a good sign as well.
Thats great to hear. Thanks for sharing. I loved how SWTOR did storytelling and honestly prefer the story delivery of SWTOR over the delivery of FF14’s story.
what year is it? 2015?
Hey narc. Not sure if you have already tried but i know in pirate softwares guild discord they have a diplomatic reachout system via tickets. Maybe it would be possible to reach out to him via that for your communications needs.
he clearly stated - someone that watches should reach out. That says it all about Narc's persona
I had high hopes but the more i see, the more it looks like a wow clone but without the 20 yrs of refining and polishing. I was hoping they'd try to carve out their own identity
Pls by all means explain how this game looks like a wow clone
@Vsg45 just look at the class design, they just completely ripped off everything from wow , they are carbon copies of the wow classes, just without the talent trees, so they're actually WORSE, cus wow has had 20yrs to dial it in. Im not sayin this in defense of wow, im sick of wow, im just disappointed they thought they'd make a wow clone 20yrs later and expect it to compete.
And then they're also catering to the pvp audience which only ruins class uniqueness, cus that crowd is always whinging about balance, everything has to play the same, everyone needs an interupt, a stun, a mobility, a defensive, and a cc. Everything just becomes a cosmetic choice, there cant be any racial advantages, all stats and abilities must be locked to gear. It's boring. Pvp players ruin immersion of mmorps, and the devs will cater to them, just look at how they changed things with the asmongold situation.
If you're hyped for it, great have fun, but why not just go play wow? It'll feel way more polished and refined
@thisismychannel607 I play wow... how many great sword priests you see rolling around? Warrior will always be generic in any game, so will ranger/hunter. There are 64 classes and you compare the basic archetype to flushed out 20 yr classes from wow? Atleast do some research
64 classes xD and where on the official AoC website do you see this? xD
@@infinitely-random literally on the wiki and also math, 8 arch types you a choose a 2nd later in game 8x8 = 64. Tank+cleric= paladin class. That's 1 example
No time to slow down, must beat everyone in alpha testing, no excuses, must be better than everyone else
As long as people focus on “gaining levels” (instead of having fun), MMO’s have no chance to innovate. Not even AOC. It is not a problem of the MMO’s, but of the players.
Grats on 60K subs Narc!
I'm still looking for Mankrick's wife
"Quest HUBs" pls no, quest board is more than enough
When will we get this game
"Haych-Pee" *vomits*
Tbh bro I just hope Ashes is a success, more so for your sake as your whole content creation and youtube channel is completely based around the success of this game.
You deserve it in other words.
The funny thing, it's beta, and it's already fun to play. Who's gonna tell those games not even fun in the end...
What server are they on?
Lynyth the Streamer Server
Looks good so far. Although I am only seeing yours and Pirate Softwares POV so far, and synically I really doubt normal players will have the same experience as streamers. People won't congregate and speak, people won't join discords to squash toxicity when the game is released etc.
I've been looking at as simply testing. to be honest I haven't found the alpha to be especially enjoyable. combat is fun, but there's only so much mindless fighting I can take. there isn't really a reason to engage in combat currently other than just to grind levels, which aren't enjoyable to me. crafting isn't enjoyable at all currently. what's there seems to function well enough, but it's not enjoyable. I admit, I had hoped for more in terms of crafting and expected combat to be lackluster at first in alpha 2.... turns out they did the exact opposite.
I don't see how this game will survive on casual servers. PvP and nodes will be unfun for sure
Viva la resistance! Overthrow Narcs tyranny!!
If they nail the combat / raiding too... Could be promising
Hey Narc thanks for covering AOC ! I didn't played the Alpha but the part where you say the dungeons feels meaningless you say you would like to see quests. In Mo2 wich is full loot pvp mmo with many default but also greats qualitys the dungeons are places of intreste simply because the bosses you kill here drop extremly valuable ressources. I agree the dungeon in the current state doesn't look good at all but im not sure adding a quest will make them interesting i think the dungeon itself must be compelling and motivate you to come again and again without any quest. A quest will give fake reason to clear the dungeon once then it's over you never come back.
I mean it seems like a super elite game that will only let in whales willing to spend over $500 on a game
I'm not a whale or an elite player and I'm enjoying it a lot so far.
its not fun, you are just bored.
Scarcity of resources is a design decision. There obviously needs to be tweaking done to ensure it strikes a good balance but I don't think it is intended for you to be able to just casually run around and easily obtain everything you would need to power through your artisan skills and likewise node and settlement advancement at the same time. I very much enjoy that fact. Verra is not a land of abundance and there is supposed to be conflict bred from that design.
Pretty sure each biome gonna have atleast 1 rare type of resources (dessert will lack plants for example i would say) unfortuently seems riverlands is rare on ore which normally wouldnt be an issue if we had more than a single biome :p hopefully with phase 2 tropics or dessert will have common ore in them
Tbh I kind of expected Narc to be memeing so hard that playing on his server would be annoying, but him and his guilds have actually been a pretty responsible and chill part of the node political interactions, testing in good faith. Lyneth is the best home.
the premise of this discussion is stupid. its alpha 2 with less than 10% of of the total game content planned for launch.
your IQ is too high for this youtube area, what are you doing here?
You can't say something like that. This content is not existing, that's all what they got
It is more 5% on an empty map
Simple answer as someone who has clocked in roughly 100 hours. Yes
What is there to do tho?
You guys only have 100 hours?
@@pepelaugh3993Silly question to ask someone with 100 hours on a barebones game. Clearly what's available is fun enough for said player to keep playing after this many hours.
As a solo player I would say the game *CURRENTLY* does not entice to play much after 100 hours. Let me explain:
I'm very interested in professions and they lack the most right now. The game GREATLY feels like you can grind mobs for faster & better gear than anything you can craft, and that XP difference between the activities is *INSANITY* . Its known that the crafting system is in absolute infancy and that's ok for now. (I'll certainly go ham once it's more flushed out)
I enjoy a good story and that won't be started till phase 2.
Quests are the most aggravating thing in this game as it currently stands. The only quests easily done are harvest [X] amounts from commission boards. Personally I have spent a many a hours trying to do quests just to end with nothing accomplished. Even the kill [singular rare mob] quests dont proc completion with one that I've tagged and killed probably 7 times.
I have done several open world dungeons but these just feel like group mob grinding. I understand that early bosses should be simple but mechanics as a range dps is non existent. Let's see some ballsy moves from some of em eh?
With all of this said I still feel confidant that once 1.0 is released in 3+ years it will certainly be a game high majority of players will want to sink time into.
@@Rasmanit How is that a silly question? Its a genuine question as im not a keyholder myself and just wondering what people are currently doing in the game.
I do not understand how people can spend money on entering this alpha without knowing about the node system. Have they not done any basic research of the game at all and just blindly buys in?
Flying mount physics look kind wack
only 0.001% of players get to use a flying mount, aka streamers and guild leaders. amazing design right.
@ big oof
what is the max guild size so far narc?
Wtf is "Haych p" ?
30 hours to hit level 20 is steep? What?
after spending 40 hours in AoC, I can say that it was a huge mistake to play this much... as now, I literally cannot enjoy any other game, I just want to go back to verra, to play with my guild to interract with randoms I met on my travels between POIs, I havent felt this way for a very long time, and I hope that during this development process Intrepid will not mess this up and upon release the game will be even better :)
You're absolutely coping. Most of the content is still on the internal branches. Saying this shit just makes you look unhinged.
40 hours
Honeymoon noob
I can read this kind of comment in every Mmorpgs reviews
Burnout when I get 12 hours a week to play? I just want the 5 days a week phase 2
Gz finally breaking 60k
Bu-but Steven simps and cultists said in reddit that AoC content is already better and more fun than any other MMO out there!
I absolutely dislike the character animation and how the characters look like 20 years ago
as a citizen. i dont like yo high taxes
get that hache P brother
Narc is it possible to overwhelm the guard in a town? I mean if enough players decided to mass murder all the guards in a random town, could that be accomplished? And if so how FUN would that be!
GRIEF GRIEF GRIEF GUILDS are coming to a node near you upon release!
Then I suggest that you get better than the gank guild to farm them for content.
I'm glad to see aoc using server meshing. As a coping star citizen backer it gives me hope our server problems will eventually be fixed... Maybe lol.
You're high on ...
The graphics are both great and trash at the same time
Pirate software role plays a pirate, they don’t usually play nice with others
they roleplay as a zerg guild RN
A game that will never release? What is that about?
I was expecting a longer video. I am hesitant to play as a find myself burning out on games that are in alpha/beta phase and then end up missing out on a more complete experience because I spoiled too much of the game for myself. I'm on the fence about supporting the game at this time because of that.
Literally star citizen made server meshing wym
Gloria victis was peak
Not only do they need a tutorial, but they should have tutorials that aren't character/realm related.
- A "help" UI that is accessible offline, prior to the login menu, AND available while in the game.
We shouldn't have to be going to third party sites, watch youtube videos or install addons to get basic information about how the game works. And not everyone learns best by "questing" either.
Go go Narc grats 🎉 for 60k!!!!
Lol sounds like asmongold should have played on your server
Happy 60k 🎉 :3
Resource bosses will be cool as well to kill and mine
A variation of Golems to kill and mine, could be a good idea!
So you're going to play a ranger named Narcher, right?
Ngl game sounds like it's going to get taken over by nannies REALLY quickly
>all the guilds band together and squash any toxicity
lol ok, can't wait for pvp to be defined as toxicity
vyra is also has a building on every village and a good community working together. I don't know about the EU servers but resna is the only server I heard that is actually suffering
So can we creep on a crafter while he mining or gathering? Then wait until he is full of mats to kill him and loot his dead carcass? Because at the end of the day we only like gather heads…
Ashes of Citizen
It drives me crazy that they don't have a in game friends list yet.
PvP , no thanks. I wanted this game so bad. Oh well, sucks to be me I guess.
You can avoid PvP pretty Well Just dont fuck around
Played around 10-20 hours on the first weekend. Biggest issue I ran into was constant lag and disconnecting making it hard to grind. Hope this alpha does provide the right testing to get the servers stable.
For so long I've been waiting for a game like this I've played and enjoyed many mmorpgs but would always leave after 100hrs in since it wouldn't satisfy this itch I've been trying to get ever since I learned about the world of mmorpgs so many false promises, games that failed, or fell through the cracks but not even 3 days ago after learning about AoC that itch is nearly gone. And I haven't even gotten my hands on Alpha 2 yet this game achieved everything I ever wanted to see in a mmorpg even though its STILL in alpha. I plan on getting a Alpha 2 for phase 2 and spend my entire holiday playing it thank you for the amazing video also you deserve way more subs.
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Narc do the guild or clans have rank naming implemented yet? And can you rewrite them as you see fit?
Kind of sound like the lack of resources on the map may be intentional.
Maybe then it would spur the node vs nodes warfare in the future of the game in just the wanting to build up your city and expand before a neighboring node can block your expansion.
If the world were to be a utopic dream land of resources I doubt there would be much conflict.
Just like the real world scarcity inherently makes value and time to resources gathered is a is a commodity that loses strength if there is to much supply or no longer a need for said supply.
Finding that balance is a tough challenge I'm sure the Intrepid Team are up to it though