NPCs
There will be a mix of different monsters and difficulty levels throughout the world that are tied to the development of nearby nodes. As nodes advance, mobs will present new and increasing dangers that players can participate in.[5]
- In the world naturally there will be locations that are going to have a mix of different levels of monsters and difficulty levels; and then those spawn tables relate to the development of nearby nodes. So as nodes develop they'll be changing the spawn tables around them to reflect their further development in the world, presenting new and more difficult dangers that the players can participate in.[5] – Steven Sharif
- Not all creatures are immediately hostile to players.[6][7] Some creatures may hunt other creatures.[8]
- We've talked about this a little bit in the past when talking about taming and/or certain types of like creature gatherable resources there are herds that exist out there. There are big game that exist out there, where they're not going to aggro and attack you per-se. Also lower level monsters and certain type of like social monsters may not attack you off the bat.[7] – Steven Sharif
- There will be flying mobs, but not in terms of requiring a flying mount to engage them.[9]
- We will have flying monsters but essentially what that means is there's going to be rotations either in the behavior tree that might make them inaccessible to targets, or they might do some like swooping attacks; they might come and land on the ground and fight you. But generally monsters are going to be accessible from on the ground, so we're not creating content for the limited number of individuals who are going to have access to a flying mount.[9] – Steven Sharif
- Certain world bosses and elite monsters will path/roam throughout the world.[10][2] Other mobs will have leashes that will cause the mob to reset if it moves too far from its point of origin.[11]
- Leashes are relevant. There's other gameplay implications that happen when you're able to actually move populations around. We don't want to really give that to the players perspective.[11] – Steven Sharif
- In general, mobs will not leave footprints or cause screen-shake; but larger monsters and bosses may do.[13][14] Screen shake will be customizable in user interface settings.[13][15][16]
- There is something to be had there about those types of screen-shake effects. We want them to be present when we're emphasizing certain things, but we don't want them to be a nuisance, or annoying, or too plentiful; and having screen-shake apply to every step would probably be too abundant. Will players have control over those on-screen type effects? Yeah I think so. I think that's something we want to provision as a customizable option for players to be able to turn off, because it can be somewhat nauseating for certain groups of people and a distraction from what's happening in the world.[13] – Steven Sharif
- Average non-elite mob time-to-kill for a solo player is intended to be around 6 seconds.[17]
- Certain bosses and creatures will have voice lines along with other audio cues.[18]
Reputation
NPCs react differently to players based on their contributions to a node.[19]
NPCs will add a player to their hate list if that player heals, buffs or otherwise assists any player on their hate list.[20]
NPC race
Desenvolvimento de Base
O layout e o estilo de uma Base são determinados por diversos fatores:[25]
- Localização da base.[25]
- Tipo de Base.[25]
- Raça que mais contribuiu para a evolução da Base.[25][26]
- Aparências raciais dos prédios e dos PNJs de uma Base.[27][26]
- Isso se aplica a todas as bases, incluindo bases de castelo.[28]
- O resto é determinado pelo prefeito da base.[25]
Algumas partes são determinadas pela área onde a base está. Outras, pelo tipo da base; certas partes são determinadas pela raça, e o resto é determinado pelo prefeito.[25] – Jeffrey Bard
Todas as bases, sejam elas relacionadas aos castelos ou não, têm influências culturais que são replicadas nas aparências dos prédios e dos PNJs presentes na Base.[28] – Steven Sharif
Existe uma mecânica de atrito que afeta a experiência e influência para impedir que uma única raça domine o mundo inteiro.[29]
Existe um atrito e esse atrito na experiência e influência aumenta de acordo com a performance da raça no mundo. Então se todas as bases forem de Orc, o nível de atrito deles será muito alto para competir com outras raças na hora de estabelecer a cultura de novas bases. Isso acontece pois já são muito influentes e existe uma opinião popular contra eles nas regiões que não influenciam.[29] – Steven Sharif
Quiósques de jogador
Quiosques de jogadores (também chamados de vendas e tendas de aluguel) são áreas locáveis próximas à edificação única em uma base mercantil[32] ou em Mercados (a edificação "construível" que prefeitos podem instalar em qualquer base
[[{{{2}}}]] (estágio 4) ou maior.[33]
Todas as bases tem a habilidade de criar quiosques de jogadores. Se você não é de uma base mercantil e não tem um empório - sua edificação única - então você pode construir um o que eu chamaria de um mercado; e esse mercado virá com um certo número de serviços e um certo número de quiosques. Se bem me lembro, uma base mercantil tem a habilidade de construir uma casa de leilão, que oferece a possibilidade de listar e vender itens, e esse tipo de base também inclui mais espaço para quiosques de jogadores.[33] – Steven Sharif
Alugar um quiosque de jogador permite que os jogadores vendam itens e disponibilizem serviços de reparo e encantamento, mesmo que não estejam online.[34]
- Quiosques de jogadores poderão ser utilizados por um período de tempo, dependendo do preço pago ao alugar o quiosque.[34]
- Um atendente será responsável pelo quiosque.[34]
- Quadros de mensagens que listam os itens disponíveis em quiosques de jogadores podem ser acessados de qualquer lugar na região.[35]
- Eles oferecem a localização do quiosque para que os jogadores possam viajar até lá e comprar os itens.
- Itens de quiosques também serão listados em casas de leilão.[36]
- Os jogadores poderão colocar os itens que precisam de reparo e também comprar os materiais necessários para o mesmo se o quiosque estiver vendendo.[37]
- Os jogadores não podem ser atacados enquanto ocupam um quiosque.[38]
- Quiosques de jogadores podem ser alugados por cidadãos de uma base.[36]
Quiosques de jogadores são diferentes de lojas pessoais e casas de leilão.[36]
Siege NPCs
Siege NPCs, NPC guards, and mercenary NPCs serve as defense points during sieges and other events.[39][40]
- Only combat NPCs are killable during a siege. Non-combat NPCs, such as merchants, will despawn and will respawn if the siege is unsuccessful.[39][41]
- Upgrades to the node's Barracks may allow a garrison of siege NPCs to be spawned in the event of an attack.[39]
- Mercenary NPCs can be hired in advance.[39] They are intended to be a significant presence but not the main line of defense in a siege.[42]
Siege objectives
Each node has a number of districts, depending on its stage.[43]
- Districts are taken by defeating a "raid boss" guard NPC in that district.[43]
- If attackers take over a district, they gain that district as a respawn location.[43]
- Attackers can kill the quartermasters to increase the respawn times of the defenders while reducing their own respawn times.[44][43]
Defenders can assault the outposts of the attackers to hinder them.[43]
Attackers may not be capable of deleveling a node. Instead they may carry out precision attacks to disable specific service-oriented buildings within the node. These buildings can be targeted with siege weapons and bombs.[46]
As the attackers are sieging a city they have obviously a win condition- a win objective- but additionally there can be casualties from a structural standpoint during that process. So let's say if the... attackers were to not succeed in completely destroying the node they could still affect damage across multiple types of buildings that are present within the node, which disables services for that those citizens and also will require some type of reconstruction effort on behalf of the citizens.[47] – Steven Sharif
Farmhands and NPC assistance
Based on node type and progression, players will be able to hire NPCs to work as farmhands on their freehold farms.[48] Players will be able to command these farmhands in-game as well as potentially offline via an application (mobile app) or web interface.[48][49][50]
Day/night cycle
Transportation of goods
Inventário capacity has quantity (stacking) limits based on the type of item.[53][54] Backpacks offer varying stack sizes and/or spatial inventory shapes that are optimized for carrying different items.[55][56]
- A player's inventory has sections for different types of items.[57] Quest items for example will not fill a player's regular inventory capacity.[58]
- Materials and resource bags have spatial ("Tetris" style) slots for items with different shapes and sizes.[59][52][60][61][62]
- The spatial inventory system is intended to mitigate the potential for players to diminish land management scores by stripping resources from particular zones as well as provide a challenging gameplay layer for players.[59][63]
- Inventory is split into two separate management systems. The first is your non-material, non-gatherable slots. Those are your standard single slot, not-space-constrained system that's a standard inventory: you just have a single slot, and you can pull completed items and/or consumables and quest items or whatever into that slot. And then, when you're talking about materials, specifically processed goods and gatherables: those exist within the Tetris type uh inventory system.[60] – Steven Sharif
- All those materials actually sorted nicely in the appropriate bags based on your stack sizes.[51] – Alex Khudoliy
- There will be a healthy number of slots for gear in a player's inventory.[64]
- Completed item inventory slots are not space constrained (by the tetris system).[60]
- Completed items, such as gear are also not subject to weight limits.[64]
- Gear loadouts can be swapped using a hotkey when out of combat.[64][65][66]
- Inventory capacity will be relatively limited for new characters.[58] Additional capacity may be increased by obtaining higher quality backpacks from crafters.[67][60][53]
- We want to have very unique progression when it comes to the construction of resource bags; and those resource bags will have certain benefits, like increasing stack size count of particular types of resources; or of having a additional delay time necessary to interface with with your corpse, should a player try to take the resources you might have dropped in PvP; or having passive benefits and unique structures of spacing that makes it more a better bag for wood gathering because woods are three-by-one; or a better bag for mining because mining is always two-by-two. The idea is to make your intent as a gatherer when you go out into the wild specific right not just that you're going out into the wild and gathering everything you can because it's there; and that's what we don't have like a labor system that limits it. We have a space constraint system so when you leave your node and you go out into the wild you need to be conscientious of what you're choosing to interact with and take resources for, because you have a limited space constraint to that degree.[60] – Steven Sharif
- Inventory capacity is subject to quantity rather than weight limits.[53]
- In my opinion, and this is of course subjective, but weight management is not a compelling mechanic for players to have to deal with in an MMO setting.[53] – Steven Sharif
- Players will have the ability to search for items they have stored in various locations (such as personal storage and node warehouses).[68]
- We want you to know where the things are; and then the meaningful aspect of that thing is traveling to those locations to access some of those things, particularly as it relates to materials and raw gatherables.[68] – Steven Sharif
- Inventories will be able to be sorted.[52]
- Q: Why did you go for a spatial inventory system for resources?
- A: There's a number of different methods that we can use in an effort to mitigate, or again throttle, the amount of success that players can have in any one trip out in the world. Now, we're using a combination of three things: We are using progression gating through your profession level; so you need to have a certain level to access certain resources. We are utilizing the spatial inventory space as a limitation on how much things you can gather before you need to go back to town. And then lastly we have a tool predicate where you need to have a tool that is relevant for the resource you're gathering; and those tools have a decay value after each use. Weight is obviously an approach that we could take if we wanted to limit. However, the spatial system works in concert with a number of other types of systems. For example, we want to have itemization drop on death specifically as it relates to material items; and we want there to be an additional layer above just weight that introduces complexity; and where there is complexity there is choice and there is strategy and there is planning required on behalf of the player in order to set themselves up for the best possible success in certain situations.[59] – Steven Sharif
- Mulas can carry roughly 10 times more than backpacks. Caravans can carry roughly 10 times more than mules.[69]
- Inventário expansion and weight management training certificates are available in the Galleria at Cidade stage economic nodes.[58][70]
Artificial intelligence
Ashes of Creation utilizes an adaptive artificial intelligence (AI), meaning different encounters with similar mobs and bosses will yield different player experiences.[72][73]
- Some NPC AI behaviors may be randomly selected at the time of initial engagement causing them to make decisions dynamically during an encounter.[72][74][75][76]
- Higher frequency of AoE attacks depending on how many players are participating.[74]
- Unlock rage, recovery effects and buffs.[77][74]
- Supporting other monster types or classes nearby.[77]
- Additional adds and add classes.[74]
- Some NPCs may attempt to seek cover behind obstacles during encounters.[78]
- NPCs performing "idle actions" to make the world seem more alive has been discussed by the developers but is not confirmed.[79]
- Part of the NPC encounter design is not always going to be the same behavior tree. There will be purposefully behaviors that exist for the boss that are rolled at the time of the initial engagement; and so that is in an effort to keep things emergent, to keep things different, to try to not keep a static monotonous engagement idea.[72] – Steven Sharif
There are AI systems that don't relate to controlling NPCs.[80]
- There are some additional AI parameters that are set that don't relate necessarily to controlling NPCs. There are AIs with regards to the development of the borders for nodes in the direction and also the decisions that are made of which lower nodes to enslave as vassal states. There's AI that relates to a little bit of the stock market that's going to be present in the economy. There's some AI systems that are going to be announced also that are pretty innovative I think with regards to the MMORPG genre and that's going to make the triggered event system very interesting I think; and that's with regards to how nodes develop and the environment reacts to that development by spawning these triggered events of a horde of zombies attacking a city or a legendary raid boss coming out of the mountain. I think there's a lot of opportunity for some of the innovations that's been in the AI sector of game development too to come out in Ashes.[80] – Steven Sharif
Arte
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Referências
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