Open Beta Weekend for Ashes of Creation Apocalypse

January 10, 2019

This weekend’s Ashes of Creation Apocalypse Open Beta test will be live from Friday, January 11, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. PT/5:00 p.m. UTC until Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 10:00 p.m. PT/6:00 a.m. UTC.

You can join the standalone unique last-man-standing action game by __**registering for the open beta**__ and __**downloading the latest patch**__.

During this weekend’s test, we’ll be gathering data on the following:

Login registration flow
Download flow
Connection to matches
Performance of the servers
Combat balance
And testing our Solo and Squad Battle Royale Game Modes

In order to make it easy for you to send us feedback on bugs and other issues you encounter, we have made a new form. __**Please follow the directions, and utilize this form**__ as it will help our Quality Assurance and Development Team fix the issues much faster.

We’ll also be giving away Alpha 1 Keys for the upcoming epic MMORPG, Ashes of Creation, during our hour long livestream this Friday, January 11, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. PT/11:00 p.m. UTC on __*https://www.twitch.tv/ashesofcreation**__! During this livestream, we’ll be providing you a sneak peak into the design of our Siege Mode, Siege Classes and their mechanics! If you can’t make the live broadcast, don’t worry, we’ll have it up on our __**YouTube channel**__.

We hope you have fun, and thank you so much for helping us continue to create the world of Ashes of Creation!

Known Issues

Names over player characters in parties are currently not displaying
VOIP is currently off due to some issues we are working to resolve.
Duos is displaying as an option, but please use Solos or Squads.

Patch Notes

Gameplay

Fixed an issue causing players to receive no experience
Fixed warning bug on death
Updated fall velocity to 1400 from 2300
Updated fall damage multiplies to .1 from .25 (Since our fall damage velocity is 1400 now)
Players will no longer animate incorrectly when double jumping
Fixed a staff ability issue causing it to fire more than once
Fixed attack interrupt with abilities
Fixing jitters in root motion on client that were allowing uninterrupted gap closers to have some forward momentum.
Updated one-handed staff attack combo
Made updates to healing & repairing armor.
Increased the range on mana drop so that we won't overlap to auto pickup.
Added stacks of items to be splittable
Items can now be tossed into the world from inventory and or hotbar.
Fixed longbow reload
Fix for frigid tracks not spawning sometimes

User Interface

Added support for a Broadcast Message, displaying for players in the lobby and in-game. Message displays across the screen for 5 seconds when triggered.
The mute button now remains present when a player opens the settings menu.
Several lobby buttons now remain active while connecting to a match.
Incorporated a fix for the compendium purchase.
Resolved region select issue causing players to not properly assign their correct region.
Regions will now be selected by default
The escape window now scales better with wide screen
Settings menu in ultra wide resolution should now line up properly.
Settings Menu options should now align properly with widescreen resolution.
Credits should now scale properly for wide screen.
Fixed a bug where if you were in the lobby and opened the credits you could open the settings as well, causing issues.
Calculation for team experience bonus has been moved to the correct place
Removed adding all shop items to player wardrobe while in the editor
Added kill feed text overlay.
Removed debugging markers
Fixed an issue where survival time tracking was not properly working
Damage stats no longer include overkill and damage done to downed players
Fixing purchasing items and seeing them instantly
Created a loading screen that shows up before the lobby is loaded and isn't dismissed until the lobby is "ready" (stormancer is connected, stores, armory, player avatar showing, etc).
Fixed an issue where clicking the 'View' button after earning a level took you to a blank area.
Added fixes for the armory panel
Fixed notification bug
De-buff icons should now align properly in the user interface.
Added player names to lobby
Removed '-' from acceptable characters for display names
Fixing double alive players decrementing and client score updating in spectator mode when it shouldn't
Barber pole for armor repair
Removing complete adventures from adventure list

Content

Scepter quest should now work properly.
Fixed daily objectives
Fixed quest objectives
Fixed incorrect quest descriptions
Added short description to quest item renderers
Fix for compendium being corrupted in game session until restart.
Bonus experience capturing completed quests on client stats

Art

Removed a tree with no collision. It’s still a happy little tree. Don’t worry.
Updated visual FX for storm (improved clouds, improved wall, and logic for controlling the bulge of the sky clouds).
Crossbow focus hand position has been adjusted.
Fix an issue causing flying mount barding to not load
Updated animations and items to support weapon fire delay
Reverting scepter back to not use delay logic.
Fixed the issue with the effect not disappearing with scepter
Bug fix causing characters to float
Fixed the issue with characters penetrating the ground in lobby
Updated crouch pose and all upper body blends per weapon to work with new pose.
Updated idle crouch foot position
Updated crouch pose for crouch attacks
Crouch idle pose completed for all weapons attacks
Adding reload to Longbow
Weapon trails have been added again.
Lowered the global Z plane in world settings below the landscape further, this was at water level previously. Ocean water landscape is being adjusted so players can land in water and not die immediately. Not dying is nice. =)
Added water volume for ocean. This will change player footsteps when entering water.
Adjusted color of the ocean water material to look more realistic.
Adjusting landscape at ocean level to be around players knee height.
Adjusted water material foam tiling
Fixed issue with broken storm BP. It should no longer crash the game due to missing asset. Yay, for crash bug fix!
Modular roof intersections are now built with better user interface for rooflines
Perimeter wall sublevels have been added
Added castle column collision
Texture LOD optimization
Removed empty destructible actors
Added all armor sets skin weights, and fixed some mesh that had clipping issues
Base feature set complete on modular blueprint system.
LakeMarket Bridge Fix
Lakeside Market fix
Crouch Slot attacks for Staff.
Updated root motion to switch modes to flying to fix up the hill issue we were experiencing, forced the duration of root motion to be at least 400ms as suggested by the EPIC (fixes simulation lag).