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you know what's great about that

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reaction is the two splits I can pause

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before the clap because you're like like

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that is C thank you all I am very

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curious I have a very quick question you

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guys worked on EverQuest and I know how

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many people in the room go back that

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foreign mmo's means a lot of us right

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what's it like to see this level of

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advancement and combat in speed and

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visceral experience for you guys as

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designers sometimes we I mean back in

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the day we never thought stuff like this

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is possible like in terms of and this is

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this these are systems that we really

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can't touch because that's not what an

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MMO is and this is not something that we

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can do technologically like it's too

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hard to have this kind of pace so yeah I

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mean it's it's it's I feel like we're

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breaking barriers what we're doing right

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it's great to not have sacred cows right

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I do not tap to just be able to play

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with things and see what feels good and

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go with what feels good good rather than

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have conventions that we need to stick

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with yeah kill just totally nailed it

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and go back even a conversation earlier

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working with Stephen the because of how

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discord at the you know owner executive

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all things level it's so unusual so the

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influence that the audience has with

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Stephen is a fan first and a player it's

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just different so instead of like you

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know kill saying with these white

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elephant Stephen is emotional about you

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know since he's played games as a seven

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years old and the limits he wants to

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push so even just for me seeing the

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fidelity that you're able to do an

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unreal engine and the size of the world

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and the fact that we and without naming

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certain EverQuest products big EverQuest

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the one specifically we never could get

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things like the under realm to work so

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what stands out to it and I see you

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nodding your so what stands out to me is

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we couldn't get him to work at other

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places but they're working now right so

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from a technological standpoint what

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we're able to do in a very short amount

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of time using a really superior engine

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and giving these talented people the

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tools it just changes everything

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also keep in mind like all that stuff

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was live like that was all us playing

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it's recorded game was literally every

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single scene you saw there was recorded

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on Thursday and then it was cut together

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yeah yesterday yesterday into the next

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record speed no in truth and I'll say

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are we done yet Stephens Dropbox I think

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at 2:00 in the morning this morning I

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get your text seriously though as fans

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and I think this is true

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thank you for live gameplay and not some

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crazy cinematic to try to sell us like I

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think we as gamers we know right we're

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not playing in accion oh that looks

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awesome and that's that the visual

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effects are just unbelievable make you

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feel epic right that's the that's the

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new tagline make up make you feel it I

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know there was a lot of a lot of flack

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we got early on about you know unreal

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not a capable MMORPG engine but the

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bottom line is it is and is if you have

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the right engineer absolutely and the

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benefit of unreal not only is epic

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support but also the ability for our

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engineers to get into the source code of

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that and make what needs to work for our

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game work that's why you know talking a

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little bit about phase one oh let's go

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back to the timeline maybe pull that

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timeline back up so we'll give you a

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little details on phase one the first of

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it it's not up here actually the first

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thing should should be the battlegrounds

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so when we would oh we have actually

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another announcement as well we will

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begin testing for phase one starting

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with a select number of alpha

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backers that we will randomly select and

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include this is our stress test phase

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and that will begin this week so I just

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want you guys to know that one if you're

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not an alpha one tester make sure to

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give give some big props to alpha one

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testers because they're going to be

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going through some serious testing and

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that series testing might be sitting at

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the launcher it might be sitting at the

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lobby and waiting for a game for hours

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and put the windmill monster back into

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the windmill monster we should totally

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upgrade yeah that testing we're going to

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start stress testing the server's we're

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going to get matchmaking up and running

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we have some some new UI that you've

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just saw there a little bit and the

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first so we're able to bring this alpha

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1 testing to you guys early a whole

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quarter than what we actually put in our

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roadmap early now I don't know how many

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developments you guys follow from

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MMORPGs perspective but the term early

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is very rarely heard and one thing I

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love about this team and and just the

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absolute speed dedication commitment of

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the veteran knowledge experience that's

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on the team we've been able to pull

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together is what allows us to to bring

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something early and it feels good to

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actually make a commitment and arrive

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earlier than expected and I hope it

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feels good for you guys too

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but so we have three different modes

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that will be present in alpha 1 phase 1

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the first mode is going to be a

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battlegrounds a last-man-standing mode

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and that's going to have a hundred

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players on a map it's going to have

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a lot of high octane energy and activity

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it's going to be very streamable it's

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going to be no NDA there's going to be a

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lot of a lot of different weapons and

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skills that were going to be testing

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each of the weapons and armor that you

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can find in the world are going to have

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unique spells and skills associated with

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them that interact with the terrain from

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a defensive standpoint from a utility

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standpoint from an offensive standpoint

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it's going to be able for you to build

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buildings complete structures

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watchtowers and defensive pillboxes type

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structures arcane structures you're

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going to have a lot of fun activity

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there the second mode we will be

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implementing which is there a timeline

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on this one yeah there we go

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the testing for the castle siege mode

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will begin near the end of December the

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castle siege mode is going to start with

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a 100 versus 100 player map you're going

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to be defenders versus the attackers

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you're going to have a large

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destructible castle you're going to have

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siege weaponry that's deployable can be

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piloted by the players there will be a

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guild mode where you can queue into the

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matchmaking process with twenty total

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players so you will have guilt systems

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in place account management systems is

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completely revamped and will be launched

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this is the plan the plan currently for

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our new account management system you're

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going to see the ability to make friends

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to create guilds there you're going to

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have objective based components to the

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castle siege system defenders will have

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key strategic objectives to maintain and

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attackers will have destroyed key

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strategic objectives to to swing the

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battle in their favor

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class kits this is where we will

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introduce class kits into the

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matchmaking system so you're going to

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have the traditional

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Trinity type class kits that are going

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to be present representing different

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skills that will be present eventually

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in the MMORPG and then the other thing

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the last mode that will be available and

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you saw actually in this video for the

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first time I think since we first even

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showed the monster coin system back over

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a year ago before Kickstarter you saw

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players playing as monsters in the Horde

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mode you will be able to play on the

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Horde side as monsters as well as

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defending a city with 50 cooperative

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players in the center of a city or

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castle against different waves of

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monsters and then eventually bosses

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where you'll begin to test boss

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mechanics you'll have additional

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features that are going to be present

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co-op objectives waves being more

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difficult than the previous you're going

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to have the boss mechanics and legendary

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creatures available and merchant systems

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where you're going to collect the loot

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and goods from the waves that you

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destroy and then purchase an upgrade

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items and gear and whatnot for your

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character so you know this phase was as

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we said added as a separate phase to

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alpha one as a complementary bonus phase

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to alpha one and the reason for that is

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because we had the ability to test

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systems that exist separate from the

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traditional persistent MMORPG server

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that has progression and levels and

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whatnot because we really wanted to nail

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down the action side of things and we

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could do so with testing or castle siege

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mechanics testing our monster coin

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system testing account live account

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operations it's basically just getting

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all the players into one spot so we can

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just iterate over and over and over

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again all these matches are gonna be

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generating lots of data for us and we

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can use that data to really refine what

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we're doing when we get to alpha -

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absolutely I also want to say we've been

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playing it every day in the office for

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like basically three months and it's a

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lot of fun right like we but you have

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people yelling across them this at each

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other we all know who the best players

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are and we will develop or wait do we

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all know who is Eric Ryan I was the best

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player

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top five what's great and I have to

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iterate cuz we talked about this right

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before the panels so most people out

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there on the show floor are gonna be

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like let's go create a game and make a

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battle royale game because there happens

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to be some popular ones right now maybe

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right you guys said let's take this mode

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let's test it and let's make it part of

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our MMO but let's give it to our fans

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early so that they can actually use this

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and we can use the data but they can

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have a good time where will building out

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our full scope world and and you say

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like a hundred last-man-standing

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total win fantastic design 100 verse 100

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castle siege a min that goes back to my

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old school Dark Age of Camelot days I

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want to be part of that fight right and

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then you go horde mode and go wait I can

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play a monster and defend this crazy

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place it gets a bunch of players and

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make their lives miserable

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awesome I'm in on that and I can do one

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of those any night I want like it's not

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but but the beauty of your product and

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this is where I think really intrepid is

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going to really truly break the ground

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is that that's all going to be one game

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as an MMO and I think that's the part

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that we all love is MMO players well I

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mean there's there's more actually

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though so the more side of that thing is

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so each of these modes in alpha 1 phase

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1 right oh did we bring up the phase 2

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I'm sorry before we get into the phase 1

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different aspects let's bring up the

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timeline the next one there should be

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one more ok so alpha 1 phase 2 so phase

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2 begins in the beginning of second

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quarter of next year and phase 2 is the

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more traditional alpha that everyone

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signed up for alpha 1 that is going to

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be where we integrate action combat into

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the tab targeted systems you'll have

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progression to level 20 you will nodes

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will be fully featured and progressed to

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stage 3 stage 3 is when most of the

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systems come online for node development

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that's where you can declare citizenship

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that's where player government happens

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that's where building of housing and 3

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holds become a thing we have 4 out of

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our nine races will be available all

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eight base class Ark types will be

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available we will have a character

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creation sweet that will be implemented

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actually the character creation sweet

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we're hoping to implement in phase one

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of alpha one 25% of the total world

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space will be implemented and playable

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so that's roughly 120 square kilometers

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that is a significant size of the world

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and then we will have two to three

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servers that are available we have just

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under 10,000 testers for alpha 1 and

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then alpha 2 testing will begin in the

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beginning of third quarter of next year

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alpha 2 is will have more details on

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that but it's going to be a much closer

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to complete situation for the MMO now

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here's the exciting news for alpha 1

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phase 1 because this was a bonus phase

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what we're going to be doing is with

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these three modes of gameplay in alpha 1

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phase 1 there will be roughly a little

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bit of a over a month testing period

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where alpha 1 testers will test each

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mode and then we will open up the phase

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1 to every registered account on ashes

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of creation we hope to see over

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so our alpha one testers are going to be

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testing each of these phase though

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they'll have roughly about four months

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worth of pre testing time where it's

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just alpha one testers and then we want

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to hit those servers as hard as we can

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with as many possible people as we can

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because we know that ashes of creation

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as an MMORPG is going to be one of the

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largest mm RPGs that is ever going to be

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launched we have a lot of pre signed up

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people more so when you compare to other

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products that have launched in the past

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the sheer support for a

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subscription-based non pay2win MMORPG is

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huge and we are really excited about

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that because this is the direction we

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feel that the genre should be moving in

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and I think we've turned some heads for

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some notable companies some large

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publishers towards this direction away

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from a free-to-play pay2win cash grab

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model and that was our objective ever

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from the beginning was to really show

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that the community has been shrinking

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because we've had these types of games

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rammed down our throats and that's not

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what people want it's not that MMOs are

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dying it's that the the monetization

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scheme is dying so so so we're excited

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about that now here's the cool thing we

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will be implementing in alpha 1 a phase

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1 character creation suite and housing

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suite as well where you'll be able to

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earn in the phase 1 the matchmaking

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system you'll be able to earn cosmetics

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you'll be able to share everything you

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earned there in the MMORPG when it

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launches and the arena system will

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persist post-launch as well so this will

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be an all-action based arena that exist

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side by side with ashes of creation as a

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mode that players would get to plan and

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earn unique cosmetics in and they'll be

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able to build a home starting in phase 1

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as well that'll probably come in the the

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horde mode stage near the end of the

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horde mode the housing and the crew and

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the character creation suite you'll be

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able to build a character you'll be able

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to save that character and use that

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character for the MMORPG and you'll be

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able to set your furniture and housing

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condition

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phase 1 yep you guys get all that you

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realize wherever there's a lot of weight

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a lot of words yeah that was really good

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Steven by the way so I mean at the end

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of the day the action combat video just

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some eise's what we're all hoping for

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you're adding in a great mode in the

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arena mode that's going to allow all of

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us to have a great time and then and

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then we're building out an amazing world

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that we're all gonna be able to share

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and and thank you for being a fan first

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and a designer later no offense to the

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designers in the room Hey but but it's

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true and it did to kind of cut touch on

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you made a point earlier when you're a

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kid and you see something playing any

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game or watching a movie you want to

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beat that and you're like why do I have

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to be this why can't I be Darth Maul

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right why can't I be Darth Vader why do

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I have to be Luke Skywalker and I think

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that's but that's the part of it how you

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put these things into games is that

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funny I'm sorry I'm a Star Trek got a

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Halloween he came with a lightsaber and

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I gave him a combat but it's true you

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wanna see you see these amazing

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creations and you want to play them and

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I think you're you're I think that's the

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best part of ashes is that you're

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building a game with that philosophy at

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its core so GZ got a lot this is this is

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my dream come true and and my endeavour

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is to make sure that it's your guys's

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dreams come true as well

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do we even have time for questions we

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really don't we have like three minutes

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do we yeah we could maybe take just

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maybe two questions few questions if

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somebody there's a microphone we have

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Bernie if it works super pressing

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questions first to the mic go ahead go

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ahead

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hey Steven hello friend I think you know

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yes Ziqi my guilty's want to know let's

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see how will rating be balanced around

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both action combat and tap target

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without making one superior to the other

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oh good question a good question it's a

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great question and you know to preface

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that before I hand it off to Jeff and a

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kill is is that balance I mean us as

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gamers we know that that balance is

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probably the most difficult design

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aspect right I mean especially for an

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MMO because it's so big right because

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there's so many players there's so many

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different permeations of class

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combinations that can be present

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especially when you're involving you

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know a skill tree that players can spec

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into individually and make combos that

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try to break the system or whatever this

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deal may be but the to answer I mean the

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short answer your question is testing

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the short answer is testing we have a

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lot of testing phases the reason why

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phase one will be moved into a from

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alpha one testers to opening up to

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everyone that's registered right now is

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because we want to see every possible

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combination of skill from an action

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standpoint and then the reason why we

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have now over 40,000 people who are

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signed up for alphas and betas is

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because we want that testing phase to

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give us a lot of data and with that data

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is what we use to balance right I mean

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we set the stage first but the even

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shorter answer it'll perfectly it'll be

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perfectly balanced first time out

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yeah what no what we hope is to build

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lots of knobs into the system right like

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lots of places where we can tune and

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balance it and figure out kind of

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whether I think is because obviously

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that's a hard thing right is to make

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sure that someone who can Dodge has it

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has doesn't have too much an advantage

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over someone who can't AB target them

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right and and it is not something that

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we think is going to be easy but we need

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to we need to have people in there we

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need to have people testing it and and

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we need to get it wrong right and then

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we'll find out how to get it right so we

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don't have a great answer because we

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don't we haven't found that answer yet

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the way we approach it is it's basically

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two different philosophies one is like a

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slower tactical way of fighting and the

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other one is kind of like a more

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frenetic strategic way of writing right

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and so we're trying to give like roles

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to both in order to make that make more

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sense right where you might bring

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somebody who is purely tab targeting and

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somebody who is purely action based and

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they fill a role with that so that's

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kind of how we're approaching it

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philosophically but of course like when

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the rubber hits the road everything's

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going to change and explode so that's

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what we're prepared for and that's what

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we're planning for yeah are you ready

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I'm going to switch from a warp drive

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question go ahead real time how in-depth

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do you plan on having the character

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creator in terms of like temp character

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templates like just phases or you're

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gonna be able to fully mold the face

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like it's clear so there's a few things

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one well actually Matt why don't you

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grab that this is character creation on

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how I mean I'll be real quick but

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basically from you know facial feature

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customization hair color design facial

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hair right because we have dwarfs orcs

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tone our and a lot coming so we have to

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go from you know pedestrian to be steel

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all of it it's gonna be very in-depth I

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mean yeah we'll probably have presets

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for everybody just to make it easy to

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get in the game but you'll have all the

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knobs and dials it yeah probably expect

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and then some I mean it's just if you

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look at the number of modular pieces on

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the character like we're talking about

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earlier at the number of pieces that are

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built that lends itself to hair region

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of the face super complex super complex

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yeah

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I think that's in yeah you want to be

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around for though we're gonna be around

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after it by the way OB Hank sorry yet

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tonight everybody oh we have a so many

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things with we have a party tonight at

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the Hilton it's at the top of the Hilton

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starting at 7 o'clock there's gonna be

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drinks and appetizers you can come we're

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all going to be there we can ask as many

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questions as you want we also have a

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gift to everybody who attended our panel

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today you will all be getting the PAX

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package cosmetics so that's a mount

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that's a cloak and it's a statue for pax

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and then the last thing I want to do is

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thank everybody honestly not just here

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at this panel but also everybody

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watching from the stream everybody who's

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been a part of our community for the

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past year who has been following

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development who's been giving us

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feedback who's been on discord on our

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forums who has been supporting this

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project you know I know that the the

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community out there for new MMORPGs can

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be a dangerous one with as many lasting

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as long as they have in development and

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and we recognize that which is why we

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want to be as in touch with you as

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possible which is why we want to be here

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at these events we want to talk to you

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on disk or we want to get your feedback

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and we appreciate you guys supporting us

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because this is why we're doing it not

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just a love of the genre but a love of

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the people in the genre we all share a

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common passion for gaming for for

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building communities for conflict for

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cooperation for things that make this

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such an awesome and unique genre and we

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couldn't do this without you we thank

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you guys all of you thanks everybody