Ashes of Creation Alpha Two Caravan PvP Update 

My glorious friends, thank you for joining us today as we showcase more of our caravan systems! Please remember as we continue our development towards Alpha Two, art and performance will continue to improve, specifically around character models, vfx and ui. Your feedback is paramount. How did you enjoy the caravan system shown today, the PvP and water transition. Join us in discord or on the forums and leave your thoughts. Much love!❤️

I wish the caravan had one or two free seats to ride on, so if you were on a long trip, a party member or two could afk in the seat if they needed to go the bathroom or something so the whole caravan didn't have to stop or leave someone behind. Maybe they could sit on the top or back or something? The raft looked so fun!

THIS IS HOW YOU START THE YEAR!

Can't wait to see how these systems further develope. Especially loved the water caravan. Was cool to be in this test thanks Intrepid !

Even at its bare bones you can just see this game will be fun. Few questions and suggestions: 1. Water current is a neat thing, but will there be air current? Will that affect sea traversal? How will weather conditions affect water traversal? Will we see giant waves on the open sea? 2. Water shaders were so good for this showcase. Will there be different ones depending on body of water? 3. Ball of Lightning sticks out like a sore thumb in massive pvp. Remove the outer ball part, leave the ball in the centre. 4. Game is still a bit saturated with color and still a bit dark in some areas during the day. Its almost like there is no bouncing lights present in the game. Some spells suffer from this unnatural lighting, like Absorption Field and Ball of Lighting. 5. You fixed some of the ice effects. It doesn't look like crystal meth anymore. Very good. Perhaps unimportant at this current stage, but your armors are too angular ( something mainly reserved for dwarves) and shiny. They needs some grit and more decoration ( embossing, etchings etc.). One other thing that is immersion breaking is armor moving as character breathes and twists its body.

You guys have done a great job at communicating combat weight and not making it feel floaty. The visual and sound effects really seem to make it satisfying when a hit lands. I remember back when you said you would do just this. Well done!

20 years wow player here , cant wait for this game to come out

The amount of details into this, there's currents or streams in the rivers to make you faster, damn.

This is really incredible. HOWEVER! Spell effects are so big and flashy, it was hard to tell which side was casting what spell. Would love to see spell effects in pvp reflect enemy spells vs ally spells.

my favorite showcase thus far!! i love how dynamic this game seems to be. A true MMO where you have to work together to make progress!! this has got me so stoked!

I love what I am seeing! Can't wait to get into alpha 2 and help you create the perfect game we want!

This was so good. Your work gets better with each passing year, Intrepid.

all of these systems are fantastic! complex, engaging, and player driven - love it! the performance seemed a bit lacking. i'm sure you guys will dial in the lag and stuttering! can't wait for A2

Combat albeit a bit too flashy looks fun and hopefully it is also fun to play. "Caravan PvP" is something I miss ever since I quit Silkroad a decade ago. Hopefully Ashes will make Caravans great again!

Always love seeing the development updates. Ashes of Creation keeps getting better and better.

Amazing showcase! Very impressed by the water physics! Hoping to see and/or partake in more PvP in the future!

Great stream and its always cool to see how things improve from stream to stream!

Steven thank you for these showcases! So excited for the next stream.

Holy moly alpha 2 still?!? My son was born on the day the Kickstarter finished so I check from time to time. Now he's pushing 7 and I am excited he might get to play with me when this is finally done. He is aggressively learning to read so he can play more complicated games!

This was fun to watch. You guys are doing a great job. A few observations. I like the height variation you have in this game. It makes it fun for tactical advantages in PvP. Having where, when, and how to engage a target like a caravan makes PvP fun. The Rangers in stealth mode engaging in PvP from a high-ground cliff face was great. The caravan dropping loot all over the place was great. Choosing to grab what you can carry and go or summon another caravan to haul off all the loot was nice. Having options makes the game fun and not static. Being able to convert from a road caravan to a river raft was icing on the cake. Having currents impact speeds is game is immersive. Please have smaller rivers freeze over during winter, especially in the tundra or frozen biomes. Having seasons impact travel and change options is great. I would love to have it where you can risk taking your caravan over a frozen lake in winter to save travel time with the risk of having it break through the ice and sinking. Ice road trucker moment. I would like to see the caravans have visually damaged states when they pass 75%, 50%, 25%, and 10% health. Visual cues to help raiders and defenders know where they are in the battle. If you’re a defender and you see the caravan, you are protecting at 10% and only a few of you are left standing in the fight you might want to brake and run. If you are a PvPer and see the visual cue while fighting that the caravan is at 10% and your team is losing the PvP battle with the defenders, you decided to stay in the fight just long enough to concentrate effort on the caravan so you can loot and run. All in all, this was a good job guys keep up the great work.

LOVE THISSS!!! If I may suggest something… Would be super helpful to be able to ping a mark on your map for the rest of your party to see. The part where you get ambushed as a raft on the water, half of your team jumped over to land so they could fend off the attack. In that moment I could ping a place on the map where we are to meet up again, or maybe another person in the party could ping on the map a good place to convert back to a caravan? Would be super helpful in tight situations like that where team communication means everything

either the swim speed is to fast or the raft is too slow... combat still needs alot of work... you guys got the right idea....keep up the good work

I know this is just a first look, but I'd love to see naval combat kind of how Archeage does it. Full physics based ship on ship battles. I think it'd be a lot cooler if the raft for example had momentum, meaning it takes a little time to accelerate, decelerate, turn, etc. Looks very cool as a first pass though! Great job!

This looks actually impressive. The fact that your caravan can switch from ground to water and water to ground opens a lot of possibilities. It would be cool tho if the attackers could kick off the driver or just stop the caravan when attacking.

This is such a feverdream of a journey allready so far. This game has so many cool things going and not for one damn second does it feel like stuff is there by accident. This is beyond cool and im so excited so see how much more you guys can add in the future.

We love you Steven, and the rest of your great team! You are leading a project with insane progress and I am eager to play your game. :)

Long time listener, first time commenter: this is all amazing! Love all the aspects of this game so far!!

Man this made me so excited and this is the reason i backed the game on kickstarter.. Finally some PvP with actual risk vs reward. ive missed it so mutch and cant wait to roam with my buddies trying to find pvp fights in Ashes of creation.

The game is starting to look great, it's very nice to see the systems coming together and interacting. Always love the details you add in the game, like the river currents or when you showed the fishing panel years ago. Those things add a nice level of depth to the world. Looking forward to seeing large scale combat once you've had time to do some passes on raid group dynamics. The effects are definitely still too flashing once everyone starts spamming those huge balls of lightning but I'd say things are moving in the right direction! Would be nice to see the effects sliders in action during a future stream.

There has to be some kind of way to reduce the effect clutter. There HAS to be a way to discern enemy spells from your ally's. A pass should be done to make everything more subtle

Starting the year off strong with this livestream! I can't wait to see how the livestreams are going to develop come Q3.

Great video overall! Loving the raft. Maybe it would be a cool idea if you had to put the lootcrates physically into the raft or something. Also in the end, Steven wants to give everyone participating in the raid their money. Maybe there should be an option for 'give everyone in the raid x amount of gold' so you don't have to trade everyone individually

When back in the day (15 years ago) while we play Silkroad online I always tought that thief-trader job war such a wasted potential. And today while watching this cant help myself to feel the nostalgia in a good way. Cant wait to the release date!

Hell yeah! Glad to have been a part of this!

Looks great all around Intrepid Studios keep up the great work!

Wow, just standing around looks great. I am so excited to play this!!!

I love how this is coming along. It looks amazing. I only hope some of the boxes you all have popping up to do different things ends up being simplified, if possible. Just watching Steven have his hand held and walked through how to use everything going on can be intimidating....let alone, when we have to end up doing it on our own.

Things I liked: A lot. The combat wasn't too noisy as I thought it would be. *cough cough overwatch* The attacks were beautiful and powerful looking but didn't overpower my ability to actually see what was going on. I love all these visual affects. I love the idea of having to wait. I would have been really dissapointed if a caravan just appeared to pick up the goods. or the raft was built in mere moments. On that point beng able to trasnition to a raft is great and was my favorite part of this. If the current lag is how it is now I'm excited to see how will be when it comes out cause it ain't that bad with that many people attacking all at once and moving around. Things that I'd like to see: I don't know maybe this is already a thing or will be I know I said I like the visuals buuut, an option perhaps to lower the opacity of teamate visual affects to more easily tell what is friend or foe with so many things happening. This isn't a dealbreaker but would be nice to see personally. If buff mages could buff caravans. and vis versa wind mages could influence the raft version. Should be mana intensive but would add more of a dynamic for what classes you bring with you to protect your caravan. A way to better craft your caravan. Like balistas on the top as an upgrade. and/or mini carts with similar defensive capabilites. I'd just really love to see the caravan system being able to be built upon as you play. Your clan or whatever can put lots of wealth towards making deliveries easier. Perhaps these upgrades make it take longer to turn from cart to raft.

Looking foward to Alpha 2. The caravan water mechanic looked slick! 👍

The progress in development has been amazing. Im really looking forward to seeing what AoC looks like in the coming months.

18:45 I hope the movement of the raft gets better. It looks good, but I think the raft should have some momentum and not go forward only if you hold "W"

Amazing job Hal and whoever else worked on caravans. Amazing. The entire team creative is inspiring. Keep it up, Intrepid! You guys are awesome.

That battle looked amazing. It would be cool if the caravan could have progressive visual damage based on remaining hp

Ooh shit.. An new MMORPG with swimming? Havent seen those in a while :D.

Great stream! Looking forward to A2

Im getting more and more hyped for Alpha 2 and as always a great video. One thing im kinda anxious about is the bow balancing in PvP. Because in 04:56 the enemy just gets blasted with no real counterplay. If Steven and the others kept spamming this Arrow Ability there would also be no counterplay again. Of course they are 6 or 7 people shooting all at once but thats not the highest number of people Ashes Of Creation is gonna bring together. So I guess I hope that these point and click spells cannot be abused in PvP. Keep up the good work! :)

Looks amazing!! I still think some animations need toning down a bit. Keep up the good work 👏

Was great stream like normal. Thanks for showcasing the pvp event and the bard prototype goofy vid

I'm a sucker for the color of copper and MAN that armor looks nice! The water conversion looks really cool, and I love the vulnerability while you convert. The new system of stolen goods vs swapping to your caravan is nice, stolen is a smash and grab(with penalties for taking the loot now), while moving it to your caravan gives the originator a chance to get it back, makes you defend your own caravan, but gives more rewards if you succeed, which is as it should be. LOVE this system, and it looks so fun. I rarely find watching people play MMOs fun, as it's way too often just the same old grind, but this is different, and the possibilities are fluid. Even knowing this was scripted with a specific outcome was still fun to watch. The water currents is a nice touch, and I can see lots of benefits and detriments to the player, which is a nice balance. I hope there are caravan damage options for going through rapids. Y'all are doing such a great job with this game, can't wait to get into it and explore.

Pvp with an actual purpose, great stuff!

love the fact that you show quite large scale and realistic ingame pvp with all effects on and still manage to have fine fps. i really hope this game will be great, with good engame content and hold up for a dacade or more

This blew my mind. Amazing!

Incredible, really impressed by the developments you did !! 😍😍

I never got to experience ArcheAge, but I've seen footages of their version of the caravan system and it looked amazing to me! I'm so excited about all the possibilities, PvP, and other player interactions (whether it is becoming a mercenary, or hiring mercenaries myself) keep up the great work Intrepid!

Looks fantastic! Keep up the great work!

Open world pvp is so vital in mmo’s for me! Super happy to see the importance Ashes puts on it!

As a PvP non-enjoyer, this is definitely the system I'm looking forward to the least, but I'm happy it's looking nice for those that want it. My cynical side just sees this system never working in favor of the merchants and always defaulting to bandits until the system itself dries up and merchants transport goods by hand, but we'll have to see. On a lighter note, things are looking good! The currents in the river are very neat and I'm excited to see some of the rougher waters.

great caravan machanics, pvp looks fun, I worry for too many effects being confusing, and melee is always at a huge disadvantage in large scale pvp, I'm sure you're aware of this, look forward to A2

The ocean content is gonna be insane, we got good water physics by the looks of things.

Thank you for not trying to reinvent the wheel with helms this time!!! The one that Steven wore reminds me of Norman kalota!!!!!

I'm excited to see that trade runs wont ever be solo runs usually. I'm SO GLAD to see the huge promo of constant group PvP , makes me feel super needed as a healer - also that bard discord preview might make me swap to cleric+bard or bard+cleric if its anything like songcraft for AA

OMG totally mind blowing. It gives me so much archeage vibes but better. Congratz Intrepid, you did it. We will have the MMO we deserve

Absolutely beautiful!

It was a Banger of a stream.

I love seeing the progress every month this is going to be an amazing game.

Looks phenomenal Steven. ❤

Nice , just like archage when we used to steal value packs in the open and you'll need to summon your own galleon or vehicules to transport them which makes the risk of losing them even harder if the guild you attacked comes back or you meet other enemy guilds , very nice job Ashes of Creation team , looking forward to the sea content and how pirates have a place inside the game

This looks insane! good job

Envenusyoki running the wand and shield. Love to see it!

Looking at this amazing fight, the thought creeps in how difficult it will be for melee soldiers in such battles.

Keep grinding and crushing it! Can’t wait to see bandits asking for a tax to cross a self made check point.

That looked fun! I hope you can balance things though so that theres enough value in defending the caravan too rather than everyone just attacking to steal everyone elses stuff.

It's beautiful. It's like Silkroad Online's caravan system.

17:47 this scene gives me goosebumps. How those two mages charges there attacks. This looks so cool

the game is looking fantastic guys

I never was into PvP, but this looks really fun, I'll certainly try it !!

I can’t wait for this game

Looks way better than a lot released mmo !! Very good job ! It feels like I will fell the old DAoC rvr feeling 🤘

best vid on AoC so far! So excited

Very cool stuff, keep up the good work! :)

Glorious!

This game should have mounted combat, just imagine you are beign attacked by overwhelming bandits, and suddenly you look up to a cliff and there are the Rohirrim from a close node coming to help, would be really cool.

Youre giving us MMORPG people hope. i love you guys. it looks so good!

That was great!

Its great! Waiting for OBT. Thank you!

I love how he cursed and back petaled so genuinely. such a gamer thing during an event

You've done it again! Looks smooth as hell! Only feedback I could provide is that the blue balls from the mage are too big. No one wants big blue balls, lol. Though, I believe it was mentioned in another stream mage skill effects were changing a little.

I"m at peak excitement for ashes right now. The team is delivering on what was pitched. CAN"T WAIT FOR A2

As always looks great and my group is just waiting for this to be our next "everyDay" game. That being said, im curious if it wouldnt look nicer without the spell effects. There's an amount of visual clutter typical of mmo's. Will there be options to turn them off/turn them down - rather than bright pink or blue energy explosions, could we just have dust particles being kicked up instead?

My god this looks amazing

I can't tell you how excited it makes me to hear y'all talk about building a spy/information network in game. That was something that made games like UO fun, being a spy in another guild and actively working to sabotage them and instigate wars. Makes me happy to hear y'all bring that concept up

Since the Lighting balls/Orbs are the only constant ability that has no signature of being friendly or foe, maybe they should be color coded? Or be able to damage your own teammates?

this looks intense!

With the sails on the raft and such will wind also be a factor in navigating the water ways etc.?

Finally pvp systems

Lets goooo more info

Amazing showcase, so proud to be AoC supporter

I can't wait to be in this world!

Okay, this is the first video that's absolutely sold me on the potential of the game.

🌟Hey AOC 🌟 One problem that old MMO's face is where the player's eyes are focused. I can explain: In games such as wow, if you're a healer, your eyes are focused on the top left corner of your screen. If you are a DPS, most of the time your eyes are focused on the bottom center of your screen... Infact the only class where the player focuses on what's infront of them in the game is the tank because they only need to use certain spells to avoid something incoming from the monster or reposition (Also the reason why I always main tanks)...The player is missing most of the game by just being hyper focused. Are there any plans to have the player's eyes focused on the target they are attacking, rather than at the health bars on the top left or the spells in the bottom... Or do you plan on sticking to the current formula? Thanks =)