It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Some big things are coming soon to Ashes of Creation Apocalypse. Devs revealed both Castle Sieges and six new classes that will be arriving with a future update. A new video highlights trebuchets, ballistae, catapults, siege towers, giant balls of fire, broken castle walls and more that devs believe set Ashes of Creation Apocalypse apart from all the other "online battle games".
Comments
Poor, poor backers. Oh yeah, how's Fornite's Save the World 'PvE' mode been going???? If you forgot that was the game's original intention, you're not alone....
Hello Intrepid Studios, Mark Jacob's called, he wants to know if the lack of player avatars is what sets Ashes of Cremation (sic) apart from CU and others? (Every payload appears to be on fire)
Also he asks, WTF is with this "online battle game" stuff as he thought you folks were making some form of MMO over there.
Finally, his Pro-tip for you, publishing release dates in advance is for suckers.....
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
MMORPG releasing by the end of 2019? I think we can set that notion firmly aside and start looking at late 2020 or beyond.
"Nodes Ashes of Creation is a unique take on the MMO experience. Our world structure is dynamic and built to react to the actions of our players.
Cities will rise and fall, their populations based on the history of the world as the players create it. Quests will unlock as these populations gather, their needs grow, and secrets are unlocked.
As the world’s NPC structure is established in real time, players will have the ability to destroy what they’ve created, paving the way for new development, new populations, and real change.
Political strife and intrigue will play a very real role in the structure of your world. "
https://aocwiki.net/Nodes
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
They can fancy word their marketing anyway they want,he bottom line is that pvp is terrible,it ruins and removes the reason for anything else in the game and becomes ONLY a pvp game.
Like WHO CARES what the npc's are doing or if the structures are changing if all players care about is pvp?
HEY stop hitting me ,i want to stop and look at this changing world,it is amazing !!.
Umm yeah,waste of time doing anymore once you have introduced pvp.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
what's this thing? disapointed
Just hop onto open weekend event and check out what they have done - there are no classes whatsoever and nothing to balance at all. You grab an axe and you are berserker, you grab a bow and suddenly you are a ranger. All this Apocalipse is nothing more than just a way to make a fast cash grab before all this "highly anticipated" (or should we call it "falsely advertised") project will collapse and join a list of crowdfunded projects that have never delivered what they promised
You've summed up the current MMO (western) "business model".
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
I personally have little interest in AoC: Apocalypse, but... I imagine they're looking for a way to bring in more money. So, I'm fine with it.
Would people really rather have them selling kingdoms for RL money? Or a bunch of overpowered ships the rest will spend a year grinding for? *looks at the other Kickstarter MMO's out there*
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
Video gamers really need to stop it with the sunk cost fallacy.
These guys said said they had a $30M budget and anything raised from Crowdfunding was just for extras. So unless they lied, it shouldn’t be a question of selling Kingdoms/Spaceships or a BattleRoyale detour. If what they said was true they should already have enough money to fund the MMORPG. Right? Or am I missing something?
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
Alpha with just a small handful of your core archetypes with a couple of skills each, that's kind of what most games do for early testing. You need to verify the combat style and flow works well before you move on to fleshing out class design.
They screwed up their alpha though by not qualifying it. They presented it as this is what the game will look like merely by omission. You have to know since players are not developers they are going to jump to conclusions unless educated. You can't blame players for what you know they will do even if their conclusions are wrong. That ones on you not them.
They announced the BR as a stand-alone game called Apocalypse... and put in a cash shop just for it.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
As for your question, that's entirely possible. I'd hope not, but... it's a realistic outcome.
I have no money invested in any of the crowdfunding titles, so aside from a disappointment of my tempered expectations... I'm not losing anything either way.
Regardless, it's beyond our control either way.
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
If you don’t have any haters, youre doing something wrong. Keep it up AoC. Their tears are delicious.
It's exactly what it is they even said it was. You can put whatever name you want on it and set the context a bit different, but it's testing the core gameplay and what they have of the combat system so far. It's not like they have a different codebase for this vs the mmo it's all the same for all of the core things that matter.
Unless you really believe they have decided to drop the mmo, which I don't.
And what "core" would it be that they are testing?
There are no node mechanics involved in this testing as this this is very blunt PvP bashground without any other goals appart from ... well... PvP bashing.
This can't even be called as class testing and balancing, as there are no classes in Apocalypse whatsoever - you just grab a weapon and go bashing others with it. Each round you start with the same axes all over and you might find some other weapons or armors in the area, but that's all - no classes, no character development, no skill builds whatsoever.
So where did you see "Alpha with just a small handful of your core archetypes with a couple of skills each, that's kind of what most games do for early testing."? Did you even took time to login into that crap which you call "testing" of what ever you imagine they might be testing?
The only thing I see them testing is how much money they might grab from cash shop :-) They are not testing even a single thing of their advertised MMO though.
Why do none of the fans question this? Or am I mistaken? Pretty sure I remember properly.
@jahlon seems to be a “do what you say you would” kind of guy from his vids. I’d love to see him actually press Stephen on this. I can dig up the old interviews if it would help.
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
In response I think some folks floated stories around about how his mother was the one who really made big money from the MLM business, and he was more of just a lieutenant in the organization.
As always, Steven's stories always slide around the truth, without anyone really being able to validate his claims and unsubstantiated urban legends cropping up as facts in many cases.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon