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Frühe Alpha-2 Vorschau der Story Arc UI.[1]

Handlungsstränge sind wie eine vorgefertigte Tabletop-Kampagne. Sie enthalten alle NPCs, Quests und Monster – alles, was Sie für eine coole Fantasy-Geschichte benötigen. Sie werden nicht prozedural generiert ... Wir schreiben alle Dialoge und wir konstruieren alle Erzählimpulse und alles in der Art, aber sie werden dynamisch in die Welt gelangen, je nachdem, in welchem ​​Zustand sich die Welt gerade befindet; wie Spieler bestimmte Knotenpunkte aufgebaut haben, welche Rassen verschiedene Knotenpunkte kontrollieren. Wir planen, darüber hinaus viele verschiedene Dinge einzubauen, aber wir haben in diesem Spiel keine Quest-Hubs oder ähnliches, da die Spieler alle Städte aufbauen. Deshalb mussten wir ein System entwickeln, das beobachtet, was die Spieler tun, und Inhalte in die Welt einbringen kann, die für das, was sie tun, sinnvoll sind.[2]Skott B

The Blood Still Due Der Story Arc wird im The Tower of Carphin freigeschaltet.[3]

Wenn Handlungsstränge online gehen, verändern sie die Umgebung stark. Sie aktualisieren, welche Monster es auf der Welt gibt. Sie erstellen Quest-NPCs ... und dann können sich neue Wege durch die Umgebung eröffnen.[4]Skott B

Handlungsstränge werden durch verschiedene Arten von Spieleraktivitäten auf jedem Server freigeschaltet.[5][3][2][6]

In jeder Phase, in der sich eine Node entwickelt, werden Erzählungen und Handlungsstränge freigeschaltet, die Spawn-Population in der Umgebung wird verändert, welche Bosse existieren, es werden Ereignisse ausgelöst, bei denen legendäre Drachen die Stadt angreifen können. Es geht im Grunde darum, die Geschichte des Servers basierend auf den Aktionen und der Entschlossenheit der Spieler zu schreiben. Es kann also sein, dass ihr einen Monat zuvor einen Dungeon erleben werdet und im nächsten Monat eine völlig andere Geschichte mit Bezug zu diesem Ort habt, weil sich entweder geopolitisch oder vom Standpunkt der Node aus etwas geändert hat.[6]Steven Sharif
Sogar spielergesteuerte Mechaniken werden weiterhin Story-Komponenten haben. Es wird einen Grund geben, warum der vom Spieler gesteuerte Mechaniker verfügbar ist oder vom Spieler benötigt wird; Jedes System, das geschaffen wird, berührt also eine Geschichte.[14]Steven Sharif
  • Wenn zu viele andere große Handlungsstränge gleichzeitig in derselben Zone stattfinden, muss ein Handlungsstrang möglicherweise warten, bis er an der Reihe ist, selbst wenn die Bedingungen für die Freischaltung stimmen. [5]
  • Handlungsstränge steuern eine oder mehrere Storyquests im Spiel.[16][17][18][19][9]
    • Handlungsstränge können sich in verschiedene Geschichten mit mehreren möglichen Enden verzweigen, abhängig von den Questzielen, die die Spieler in jedem Kapitel erfüllen.[16][17]
    • ie Entwickler werden versuchen sicherzustellen, dass die Handlungsstränge in zukünftigen Erweiterungen nabhängig von den unterschiedlichen möglichen Ergebnissen auf bestehenden Handlungssträngen aufbauen. [16]
  • Es wird eine Vielzahl verschiedener Arten von Handlungsbogeninhalten in unterschiedlichen Maßstäben und mit unterschiedlichen Abklingzeiten geben, um den unterschiedlichen Spielertypen im Spiel gerecht zu werden. [21]
Wir müssen so viele Inhalte in unterschiedlichen Maßstäben bereitstellen, dass es weder lohnenswert noch wirtschaftlich ist, jeden einzelnen Handlungsstrang auf der Welt zu kontrollieren. Einige davon werden in Größe und Produktionswert kleiner sein und sich daher schneller bewegen und kürzere Abklingzeiten haben, bevor sie wieder eingeführt werden.[21]Skott B
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Bestimmte Story Arcs können über das Bulletin Board System freigeschaltet werden. Für den Zugriff auf Storyquests müssen bestimmte Anforderungen erfüllt sein. [25]

Story arc chapters

Quest journal showing story arc chapters.[26]

Within the context of these story arcs, there are specific points that they can pivot to tell a different story. That different story can be based on predicates that are in the world: from a player decision standpoint, from a cultural representation standpoint, from situational to which node gets developed. There's a lot of different components that interact with the way the dialogue and narratives play out on a particular server; and what that means is- and I've said this from the beginning many sandbox MMORPGS, they do not create as much curated content as theme-park MMORPGS; and their excuse for doing that is because they incorporate player-driven mechanics. But that's a bit of a cop-out and it's the opposite approach that we've taken with Ashes of Creation; and the reason for that is, if you give the player a door and there's nothing behind that door then opening the door is meaningless. So what we have to do is we have to create a very functional story arc system that provides content in many different ways, but is behind a door of world progress or world development that is then executed by the player population. And that's how we construct our narrative systems.[8]Steven Sharif

Each chapter (phase) in a story arc can cause changes across the entire server, such as environments, monsters, NPCs, Aufträge, and pathways.[18][4][7][8][9]

  • Players can progress a chapter by completing story arc quests within the timeframe that each chapter is active.[18]
    • Phase timers are shown (in the quest UI) to indicate how much real-world time is available to complete the quests in each phase.[17]
    • If the player completes all quests in a particular chapter, they will need to wait until the next chapter to obtain further quests.[27]
    • Story arcs can branch into different stories with multiple possible endings depending on the quest objectives that players complete during each chapter.[16][17]
It's not just a matter of completing the laundry list of things that the NPC has you do, but you pick from a whole bunch of objectives, many of them optional. Some of them, if not most of them, hidden when you first undertake the quest. So go dig up a guide, or blaze your own trail, or whatever; but depending on which objectives you complete, those are the things that help the server aggregate what is going to happen in later phases of the story arc. And that's across all of the players participating during that time frame: what objectives they decide to complete.[17]Skott B
  • Story arcs can last for days, which reduces pressure to log in daily to remain competitive.[28]
Story arcs normally progress according to the passage of real-time, which is clearly indicated in your quest journals. Even if a zerg guild throws all their resources at a story arc, they can't lock anyone out of participating by doing all the participation on their own. You'll have the time indicated in your quest journal to finish the content available in that chapter.[21]Skott B
  • Most story arcs will repeat with a cooldown, but major story arcs will only occur one-time: These can be replayed, but in a non-interactive way where any choices made do not impact the world.[28][29]
The cooldowns between arcs repeating will also be quite long- proportional to the length of the chapters, but we're still in pursuit of the right numbers there. You can't do the individual quests again until the entire arc restarts.[27]Skott B
  • Some events will only be available while story arcs are in certain chapters.[27]

Story arc quests

Story arc quests (Storyline quests/Narrative quests) contain objectives for each chapter of a story arc.[16][17][18][19][9][30]

  • Players can progress each chapter by completing story arc quests within the timeframe that each chapter is active.[18]
    • Phase timers are shown (in the quest UI) to indicate how much real-world time is available to complete the quests in each phase.[17]
    • If the player completes all quests in a particular chapter, they will need to wait until the next chapter to obtain further quests.[27]
  • Story arcs can branch into different stories with multiple possible endings depending on the quest objectives that players complete during each chapter.[16][17][19]
You can't really farm the quests in any meaningful way, because once you've done the quests in a chapter, that's it until the next chapter. Whether 1000 people participate or 10, the chapters will stay active for the same length of time, and as long as you participate in the clearly-marked time frame in your quest journal, you're good. The only thing that a concentrated effort can help with is influencing the narrative paths through the arcs.[27]Skott B
  • These quests stages can be failed. The ability to retry a failed quest depends on Node-Entwicklung.[19]
There will be many different quests that actually have stages of the storyline; and these stages can actually be failed. You can actually fail a storyline; which sucks when you think about it, but at the same time that risk makes your investment that much more important.[19]Steven Sharif

Story arc rewards

Story arc rewards are designed to provide an engaging and balanced way to experience the player-driven story of Ashes of Creation.[21]

  • Rewards will be balanced over multiple story arc branches to avoid a "meta", where certain branches provide universally better loot than others.[21]
We, as much as humanly possible, want to have balanced rewards whenever there are branches and avoid having one branch in a story arc have rewards that are universally better than the other rewards in other branches. Like quests in most other MMOs, story arcs will never provide best-in-slot loot, as that is the purview of other game systems (look to crafters, raids, etc for that). I'd consider the system functioning well if players are more concerned with the state of the world or PoI they're working around than the explicit loot rewards.[21]Skott B
These systems are story- and lore-first. They interface with other systems for sure, but they aren't the best way to gain experience, gold or character power. If we accidentally lock something extremely valuable behind a single branch of a single storyline, then that'll be a mistake on our part. The cursed spiritbloom that we talked about in the livestream is available throughout the duration of the story arc regardless of the branches players take, for example.[21]Skott B

List of story arcs

Geschichte

Narratives (Meta-stories) that play out on a particular server are driven by various story arcs.[33][7][8][9]

There is of course a meta-story. That meta-story gets informed by regional stories and regional outcomes; and depending on how players progress within their personal stories, that could be either racially based or could be their class-based. They could be a per-node basis. All of those things support a grand structure of the meta-narrative.[7]Steven Sharif
Q: What is your vision for the overall player story when comparing the more emergent personal stories versus the more curated story arcs?
A: The narrative keeps in mind what the meta narrative is of the server; and that's something we have generally kept relatively close to the chest. It's something that we don't want to spoil leading up to our testers participating in Alpha-2 and Beta and eventually launch. It is however true that there is a meta narrative that exist within Ashes. There is a purpose why you are on Verra again; and the supporting narrative structures are there to reinforce what that meta narrative is. So, players will have insight into that as they travel and adventure within the world.[33]Steven Sharif

Spielergetriebene Erzählung

One of the major goals I feel like we have is to allow player decisions to have consequences and to have meaningful results from the decisions that they make, so it seems like people can really create their own stories.[34]Aimi Watanabe

The world of Verra will be the same on each server, but Nodes will develop differently. Different servers will have different narratives. Things that happen on one server may not happen on another.[35]

We want as many people as possible to experience the main server Narrative. These will branch at different scales, but largely at the personal level. Where things change is at the Node level – different parts of the story will be unlocked based on where and when Nodes grow. Unlocking a part of the story in a certain way locks out progression of the story in a different way. You’ll see different antagonists, different NPCs, and different calls to action depending on what’s happening with the server at that time.[37]

It redefines what the players will experience in an MMORPG to come into a wilderness that is devoid of really any structure outside of what the community creates themselves; and then what can be created can be changed, if they want to experience a storyline that's been seen on another server, but you're fighting a dragon because you're near a mountain and the other server's fighting a Kraken because they're near the coast and you want to fight that Kraken because of its drop table. If you want to meta it or because you just want that under your belt: to be the server first to take out that Kraken and you have yet to develop the node there, it's incumbent upon you to manifest that in the game.[38]Steven Sharif

Narrative events

Narrative Events help shape the story of Verra based on the choices that players make during key questlines. While narrative story arcs take time to develop across a server, Narrative Events will show players that their choices play a bigger part in shaping the world around them through individual actions.[39]Peter Bisulca

Narrative events allow players to shape the story arcs that unfold on their server through the choices they make in key questlines.[39]

Server Geschichte

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Der Verlauf jedes Server wird verfolgt und für Spieler in der Bibliozhrk einer Node sichtbar. [41][44]

  • Dieses Design hat sich möglicherweise geändert.[45]
Wir werden die Geschichte der Welt im Auge behalten, damit wir den Menschen die Geschichte bis zum heutigen Tag erzählen können. Ein ganz neuer Spieler, der nach sechs Monaten bei uns einsteigt, kann einen Blick auf jeden Server werfen, was jeder Server gemacht hat und wie jeder Server die Handlung angegangen ist; und sie können selbst entscheiden, welcher Gemeinschaft sie beitreten möchten; An welcher Version der Welt wollen sie teilnehmen?[44]Jeffrey Bard
  • Schreiber können möglicherweise Informationen über die Ereignisse in der Welt sammeln und aufzeichnen, so ihr sie aus eurer Sicht betrachtet.[46]

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Siehe auch

Einzelnachweise

  1. Video, 2023-03-31 (14:14).
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Video, 2023-03-31 (3:32).
  3. 3.0 3.1 Video, 2023-03-31 (1:22).
  4. 4.0 4.1 Video, 2023-03-31 (6:30).
  5. 5.0 5.1 skotty-story-arc-2.png
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Video, 2018-04-05 (35:01).
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Liveübertragung, 2022-04-29 (1:05:37).
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Liveübertragung, 2022-03-31 (1:15:29).
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Liveübertragung, 2018-01-18 (39:08).
  10. Liveübertragung, 2023-04-07 (55:22).
  11. Liveübertragung, 2023-03-31 (1:00:16).
  12. Liveübertragung, 2022-10-28 (32:52).
  13. Liveübertragung, 2017-06-01 (37:39).
  14. 14.0 14.1 Liveübertragung, 2019-05-30 (1:18:16).
  15. Liveübertragung, 2017-05-26 (15:37).
  16. 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 Liveübertragung, 2023-04-07 (58:39).
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 Video, 2023-03-31 (14:20).
  18. 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 Video, 2023-03-31 (12:47).
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 Interview, 2018-10-20 (2:36:25).
  20. Video, 2023-09-29 (2:59).
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 21.6 21.7 21.8 21.9 skotty-story-arc-1.png
  22. Interview, 2023-07-09 (47:05).
  23. Liveübertragung, 2023-03-31 (59:10).
  24. Video, 2023-03-31 (16:42).
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Liveübertragung, 2017-10-31 (29:50).
  26. Video, 2023-01-27 (9:43).
  27. 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 27.4 skotty-story-arc-3.png
  28. 28.0 28.1 Liveübertragung, 2023-03-31 (49:32).
  29. Video, 2023-03-31 (25:20).
  30. MMOGames interview, January 2017
  31. Liveübertragung, 2021-03-26 (1:12:51).
  32. Liveübertragung, 2020-07-25 (1:50:20).
  33. 33.0 33.1 Liveübertragung, 2024-02-29 (1:23:07).
  34. Video, 2023-03-31 (28:11).
  35. Liveübertragung, 2017-05-19 (37:03).
  36. Liveübertragung, 2019-12-17 (1:10:30).
  37. Interview: Ashes of Creation on Building Their Virtual World, 2017-04-13.
  38. Liveübertragung, 2017-05-22 (28:02).
  39. 39.0 39.1 Types of Events on Verra.
  40. Interview, 2023-07-09 (59:31).
  41. 41.0 41.1 Blog: Know Your Nodes - Scientific Node Type
  42. Liveübertragung, 2017-05-26 (15:37).
  43. Kickstarter packages.
  44. 44.0 44.1 Interview, 2018-04-20 (9:20).
  45. Liveübertragung, 2023-09-29 (1:14:29).
  46. Liveübertragung, 2017-05-26 (51:37).