



As always, we consolidated your answers to a few key takeaways, so here they are: In November, we asked you to share what your favorite and least favorite biomes are. This spurred a ton of internal discussions as well, most interestingly a conversation regarding deserts! As Intrepid Studios is based in beautiful San Diego, deserts are well-known to us - we chatted about features that can make deserts interesting landscapes, and how we could better incorporate such things in Ashes of Creation in order to make people fall in love with them (rather than dislike them).As always, we consolidated your answers to a few, so here they are: Many agreed that they preferred more complex and mysterious biomes like forests, caverns, and mountains, compared to more visually uninteresting and bleak landscapes like plains and deserts.

Others expressed appreciation for a beautiful snowy biome, as long as there was enough visual interest.

Overall, the variety of answers provided showed an appreciation for a diversity of biomes, in order to keep exploration interesting and exciting.

Several shared that they would prefer to see a more natural and steady transition between biomes of different environments, instead of sharp contrasting lines.