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World of Warcraft |OT9| People still play this? Isn't it from 2004
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Wew lads that was awesome!
cartographer
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Wouldn't the way it scales make a 10 today about a 12 yesterday?
Edit: nope, I was mathing incorrectly.
That new cutscene, good lord. Nice surprise.
The music in 7.3 is great too. I wish 7.2 had this kind of content quality behind it.
Also, I'll still be forever salty about Arthas' voice actor from WC3 never returning.
I thought it might have been the same actor in Wrath of the Lich King for some scenes, like his 'death' scene, but it seems it wasn't? There's yet another new actor now when you play as Arthas in Hearthstone. Doesn't sound right at all.
The music in 7.3 is great too. I wish 7.2 had this kind of content quality behind it.
Also, I'll still be forever salty about Arthas' voice actor from WC3 never returning.
I thought it might have been the same actor in Wrath of the Lich King for some scenes, like his 'death' scene, but it seems it wasn't? There's yet another new actor now when you play as Arthas in Hearthstone. Doesn't sound right at all. Dog Problems
Banned
Well stealth and tank specs are back to being very useful again now that we're grounded. Haven't needed either since I started flying.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Got damn that cutscene.
Yeah, marginally, but Grom's voice was really a joke in WC2, as coola s it was I wasn't surprised that he sounded completely different since ACTUAL dialogue from his OG voice would've been unbearable and insane sounding.
But Turalyon always sounded totally fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5JVJq5UlU
Burning Crusade had nothing either. Fitting for Legion to follow suit.
Jag
Member
New travel system. Teleportation. Spaceships. New planet?
Legion added all that at the start, which is probably the way it should be. World quests, level scaling, Mythic+
Dog Problems
Banned
According to [URL="https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/6wslaz/undocumented_changes_73/[/URL]this undocumented changes[/URL] thread on Reddit, only 50 sentinax marks are needed for that part of the quest chain. And one of those "kill 100 demons" parts has been reduced to 50 as well, and eight world quests instead of twelve.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
LOL:
Had this one. Trying for the pets ;_;
Maybe I'll get more mounts this week though. If only you could sell mounts like this.
Had this one. Trying for the pets ;_;
Maybe I'll get more mounts this week though. If only you could sell mounts like this.
lol, this game. I'm dropping to like, 13 fps on the Vindicaar. I decided to try dropping Graphics Settings to 1 (one) and disable all addons. Still only 27 fps. Crazy. I do a solid 60fps in most places in the game (except Suramar, haha).
Man.
Anyone else getting poor performance? I'm running a pretty great rig here.
i5-6500 @3.2GHz
16GB RAM
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
I should SMOKE this game, no?
Man.
Anyone else getting poor performance? I'm running a pretty great rig here.
i5-6500 @3.2GHz
16GB RAM
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
I should SMOKE this game, no?
X'era does what Illidon't.
I think like cd said they just frontloaded it a bit more. Mythic+ and world quests are pretty big.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I run a 6700 and a 1080 and I would hardly say it smokes the game normally. I mean, I get like 90 FPS in largely empty zones but it's a pretty blatantly overpowered rig, so I would have thought it would be higher.
CarbonatedFalcon
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I haven't gone to the new areas yet, so I can't fully compare. However from what I understand WoW has always been more CPU bound. You're only running an i5. Maybe an i7 or just a higher clock would improve performance? Not sure how old that processor is.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Elf who thought he'd lost all chill loses last additional bit of chill he didnt even know he still had
Yeah, I've never run the game at well as I would think just going by my specs on my last few rigs.
cartographer
Member
Crashed in the Exodar entrance. All addons disabled, can't seem to load it.
That's disheartening... the common wisdom anywhere you look (including my boyfriend, who lives/breathes hardware and tech, largely due to his job) was that an i5 vs an i7 wasn't going to make much of a difference at all, and that the GPU was the big component to care about. Alas.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
In general that holds true, just with WoW being an older game (programming practices are somewhat different now as hardware has evolved), and an MMO at that, it's not nearly as optimized as many modern games on newer engines would be.
At least as far as my understanding goes.
Probably a memory leak then of some sort, and/or just needed to be refreshed. I know I had huge problems with Chrome on my computer gradually sucking up more and more memory last year until one release or another fixed it. Before then, I had to restart at least every 2-3 days.
Man, level 910 for Relinquished stuff. My alts will be in love. And 910 should be pretty sufficient for us 'decent' players to finally get those artifact challenge appearances I hope! I want that Were-bear form bad, and the Paladin one.
I'm guessing it would be a monumental task to re-program/re-build the game with new, optimized practices in mind to take advantage of modern hardware in smarter ways? And one that wouldn't necessarily yield tons of goodwill/ROI?
I'm guessing it would be a monumental task to re-program/re-build the game with new, optimized practices in mind to take advantage of modern hardware in smarter ways? And one that wouldn't necessarily yield tons of goodwill/ROI?
915 according to Wowhead from a weeks ago.
Ah nice. Between that and the new token gear the artifact challenges will be cake.
Right before the cutscene Alleria
just casually mentions Xera locked her in a fucking cell.
It would be pretty great if the next expac the primary antagonist is
the Army of Light. Turalyon final boss.
Jag
Member
It was working awhile back. I guess it's completely shut down. I installed Twitch and it worked.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Yeah the ROI isn't there. If it works well enough now, why spend thousands of man hours trying to fix what isn't broken (and likely break at least some things in the process)? It'd be much easier to start from the ground up with a blank slate.
I mean look at the backpack example. Supposedly they've tried to expand it before, but it's so tied up in spaghetti code that touching it causes numerous other things to break. Rather than re-engineer all that, its simpler and much more efficient to just keep giving players bigger other bags.
Major software development on a project like WoW which likely has millions of lines of code isn't easy. Especially since it's a "live" product. MMO programming might easily be some of the most difficult out there.
There's some other great examples of this principle in other games as well. EVE Online for instance, had the notorious POS (player-owned star base) code. Instead of trying to fix it directly, the development team has simply inserted a new methodology of coding structures that's more adaptable and able to be built upon. Eventually POS will be removed completely as the other structures they develop and put into the game match the capability of POS. But it's something that has to be transitioned and rolled out slowly, so both players have time to adapt, and developers have time to spot problems. Straight ripping out a feature and replacing it with a new one that doesn't match or exceed what the old one could do is also a sure way to gain ill-will from your audience.
Azzurri
Member
She deserved it
Btw, Turalyon is pretty bad ass and his model looks so good.
Another thing I really hate navigating with out flying
RandomSeed
Member
All that work to get flying, and then back on the ground, dragging half the map of enemies behind you.
If you think that's even a possibility of where things are going, then you haven't been paying attention
Yeah.
It's a good way to lead into the next expac. I hope the 8.0 pre-patch
Anyway I'm super happy with 7.3 so far and can't wait to see how it progresses over the next couple months. Only complaint is Argus is a pain to navigate with no flying and mobs everywhere.
Xe'ra dying and the Legion being taken care of are both just opening the door for N'zoth to emerge with two of the strongest opposing forces out of the picture and the players canonically away from Azeroth too.
is about us returning to Azeroth to find N'zoth & Azshara invading with their forces, and possibly already taken over some areas considering how long we'll have been away for by then.
Anyway I'm super happy with 7.3 so far and can't wait to see how it progresses over the next couple months. Only complaint is Argus is a pain to navigate with no flying and mobs everywhere.
neurosisxeno
Member
I'm sure the next expansion will focus heavily on either
the return of the Lich King or the rise of Azshara. We're overdue for Azshara, and I dislike the canonical inconsistency about how powerful she is/was. I was pretty certain we were going to dive into Azshara with Legion since we're literally on her doorstep, but apparently not.
RandomSeed
Member
Pretty odd that you get your cache, and now you can (and I have twice) get account bound 880 gear for classes you don't even have (at 110), rather than getting something useful for the class that needs it.
MetroidPrimeRib
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yep the view of azeroth might be the most beautiful thing in the game
If you think that's even a possibility of where things are going, then you haven't been paying attention
It would be way cooler than what I've heard of the new expac, that's for sure.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Blizz continues to shit on Mage tier gear
WTF is that?
WTF is that?
cartographer
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So that Light's Judgment ability is not needed on PvP servers.