Recently Steven Sharif, Creative Director of Ashes of Creation, dropped the quarterly innovative director’s letter for Ashes of Creation going over a wide range of things about the two or three months in the development of Alpha One in June.
Starting off, this May, Alpha One buy-ins will be returning for those who missed it and those who can spend money and help test the game will get an opportunity to do as such. There are significantly more individuals currently supporting the game particularly since some large decorations the previous summer began discussing it when Steven dropped that 4k footage of the game. Although we don’t know the full details on this yet we are expecting to hear more on this at the end of the month but Steven made clear in the letter, “if you were expecting to get into Alpha One to play a finished game, do not buy in.” They need testers, the game is a long way from complete and is relied upon to have bunches of bugs that needs to be fixed, and only one out of every odd element is carried out and the ones that are, will not be finished. So in case you’re not in it for testing you presumably shouldn’t spend your cash on it. If you have bought an Alpha Two pack, well Steven has said on the Discord that you will have the ability to upgrade this to an Alpha One pack. What other perks come with this if any along with the cost is unknown as of now, but last time Alpha One was up for grabs it was around 500 dollars.
Intrepid is trying their best to include Sieges for Alpha One, it is not set yet, but they have been preparing the code from the apocalypse siege engine and it is possible we might see a basic Siege system and engage in battle with some castles or nodes during the Alpha One testing. winwin4d login | winwin4d | winwin4d daftar But again don’t get your hopes up just yet even if this gets in it won’t be close to the final rendition or even what we’re going to see for Sieges in Alpha Two. With that being said, it’s still nice to experience a large scale battle. Intrepid is also claiming that they will be moving into a new studio by June 15th to hopefully get back to a normal development process.
And lastly in the letter we got three never before seen concept art. First is the dwarven mine, it is unknown to us if this is a raid, or a node, maybe a dungeon or something more. Next photo appears to be an Elvin theme throne room again the context behind this is still unknown. Lastly is what appears to be the entrance to some Dwarven architecture leading into the mountain.
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Creative Director’s Letter: https://ashesofcreation.com/news/2021-04-14-creative-directors-letter