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Blizzard Previews Drustvar Zone Coming in Battle for Azeroth - World of Warcraft - MMORPG.com
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Blizzard Previews Drustvar Zone Coming in Battle for Azeroth - World of Warcraft - MMORPG.com
World of Warcraft News - The World of Warcraft community site has been updated with a preview of the Drustvar zone that will be coming with the Battle for Azeroth expansion. Drustvar is part of the Alliance starting area on the island of Kul Tiras.
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Well done Blizz.
Blizzard devs are pragmatists, they don't like change and they don't like being criticized. That being said, the devs that made games like WoW and Diablo special are all gone. It's not the same company or devs that we grew attached to 13 years ago. As in life all good things come to an end, and WoW came to an end for me a couple years back.
He's not wrong, the game looks dated as hell and with each new xpac release it's just polishing the turd. With all the $$$ Blizzard/Activation has they could've converted the game over to a new engine a long time ago... the Overwatch game engine was developed in-house so there's no excuse why they couldn't devote time and resources to porting WoW over to the same engine eventually.
Devoting time and resources to change WoW engine , would be a retarded decision. I mean, do you even know what it takes to change the engine to a game as big as WoW? It took them a while to change the character models and such. Now imagine changing .. everything. Did you? Good. Now I hope you understand why is a bad idea.
Also, I like the graphics style , because in combination with WoW awesome art , it actually looks pretty good.
We're talking about the same company that took the time and development resources to work on another MMO for almost 10 years alongside WoW, only to completely shelve it and re-use the assets for Overwatch. They absolutely have the time and resources to move WoW over to another engine... I never said anything about it being easy.
We all know that at some point they will have a WoW 2.0 released on a new engine... they have to milk that franchise for all it's worth because it's the only thing they have after abandoning Diablo and Starcraft in their current states.
Other then that, I would rather see good, and more often updates, then a graphical change.
How did you know he was talking about you? ( rolling eyes )
Ha ha ha ... nice try. If you would even bother to compare videos of 10 years ago and now you would see that it is 100% improved, details, lush, colors, details of mobs and players.... There is NO game in this world that have improved so much. And I'm enjoying leveling alts on my 4th server just for joy untill release of BFA.
There were Titan leaks before even WoW officially launched, so it's more than 10 years. I'm pretty sure that Titan was gonna be released with same WoW graphics, but because it took them that long when the time came they realized that the graphics won't work, so they built a new engine and made OW.
They gave up on Titan altogether probably because of graphics.
Also can anyone name an MMORPG with "great" graphics that isn't shit. All the games that have amazing graphics don't have anything else going for them. It's literally 98% graphics, 2% other type of gameplay that isn't bad and that's about all there is to them.
I prefer good(because WoW graphics are good) graphics and great... well everything else, than amazing graphics and that's it, empty shell.
It's not just that, it's the fact that it's also running like shit (especially when it matters the most, i.e. Mythic raiding), when with these graphics we should see in excess of 100 fps with ease.
Don't get me wrong, you'll see 100 fps, with top of the line PC, when exploring alone. But go in front of some city/populated zone (see Suramar) and the fps plummets to hell.
Inb4 people recommending dropping the settings, especially View Distance and Environment Detail. NO. You don't buy the best PC components to drop settings.
I do not raid so I can't tell from 1st person experience, just 5 man and of course PVE... have all settings to max possible all totally fluid, no lag, no matter how many players around (with very few rare spikes). Optics 100/10, gtx970, computer old 3 years, SSD of course. Same I can say for FF14.
No I'm not thinking of SC Ghost.
Beta testers:
Art style... they give it an A
Classes... they rank it at a C to D-
The problem with the game is not in the graphics or art direction.
Absolutely this.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20764326252
They're removing Icy Touch as a dispel and it's more or less been handed over to Demon Hunters because...reasons.
That is the biggest fail on the part of the WoW team: They never speak to their players about the whys of their decisions. They just make random and often catastrophic decisions for classes and their silence pretty much says, "Like it or leave". I can't imagine why they don't have 12 devs, one for each class, that at least once in a while respond to concerns.
Of course, I don't complain too loudly. It could be worse for DKs. We could be treated like Hunters who've been ignored and butchered for 2 expansions in a row.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As far as this latest expansion im really not a fan of the aesthetics. To many Browns and dull colors. The biggest problem with current WOW for me has been the endgame and the crafting. I love the leveling experience but In both WOD & LEGION the endgame has turned me off and its why i leave.
As far as the simplicity or "fun" of the classes this isn't anything new, I mean we haven't had interesting classes since they butchered rotations and simplified the game, this goes back to Cata no ? Have they simplified things even more in BFA?
Aloha Mr Hand !
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