Ashes of Creation
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Leibowitz
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Steven will be in VC on discord in about 40 minutes from NOW discussing the stream. discord link Join the Ashes of Creation Discord Server!
Tearofsoul
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jayrebb
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I think part of the reason the aesthetic and scaling of art reminds me of Vanguard is possibly because of the same engine being used.
Albeit with intent, because Ashes was at one point interested in doing an EverQuest overlay if they could acquire the IP. An older MMO aesthetic jives with what the devs wanted to do here. And it looks like they accomplished that.
Ashes has old glory day MMO vibes to its art direction. It will definitely trigger nostalgia that Asian games like Final Fantasy and BDO can't provide.
Albeit with intent, because Ashes was at one point interested in doing an EverQuest overlay if they could acquire the IP. An older MMO aesthetic jives with what the devs wanted to do here. And it looks like they accomplished that.
Ashes has old glory day MMO vibes to its art direction. It will definitely trigger nostalgia that Asian games like Final Fantasy and BDO can't provide.
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jayrebb
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Crowfall surprisingly has a very very active community. I checked some streams last night and there is FPS drops and chunking while doing normal pvp?
Can anyone in the alpha/beta attest to that? Maybe it was a re-stream problem, but it looked grisly and dehyped me.
I can deal with low-res animations and low-res graphics in a game that touts mass open world PvP and mechanics, but I can't deal with low-res AND FPS chunking. That would be a performance issue and a deal-breaker.
You're not wrong though. The games you want to be signed up for right now are Ashes of Creation, New World, and Crowfall (provided performance and mechanics pull through).
Tearofsoul
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jayrebb
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My only concern is FPS chunking, hitching, and dropping frames.
The performance looked ghastly and unplayable despite using low-res animations and low-res textures.
Ashes on the other hand, looks great despite using a similarly dated engine.
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A1 testing due to start in May..Direct quote from todays directors letter :Finally, I am happy to announce that limited Alpha One testing will begin in May of 2020 starting with our highest level Alpha One backers from Kickstarter. This testing will include our Phoenix Initiative backers and above at first. As the game client becomes more stable during this limited testing, we will begin to introduce our Braver-of-World and above backers, and eventually our Intrepid pre-order pack holders. Our goal is to have the Alpha One game client ready for full testing in Fall of 2020.
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Tearofsoul
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Ukerric
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They kept harping on how good that spell effect engineer was. Of course they went overboard with it.
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Yep. If you've got the goods, why wouldn't you show them off? Game looks fantastic, mainly in that it looks very playable which is a far cry from it's competition right now. It does look a lot like previous WoW type games and I'm sure it will have it's share of problems but with COVID and the dearth of quality MMO games on the horizon, this has the chance to explode. I'm looking forward to trying it out.