World of Warcraft: Classic

Gee · 21 May 2019 at 18:43

No1newts said:
If OcUK are guilding and I buy I would be tempted, would prefer horde but I'm not too fussed.

Out of interest, I would imagine they are using the new character models and not reverting those back to classic?

Nope, original facial models.

DampCat · 21 May 2019 at 18:57

No1newts said:
If OcUK are guilding and I buy I would be tempted, would prefer horde but I'm not too fussed.

Out of interest, I would imagine they are using the new character models and not reverting those back to classic?

Original models and environments. Movements are a little smoother than they used to be. Some of the changes are very subtle. Cloth doesn't drop off wendigos in dun morogh now, for example.

No1newts · 21 May 2019 at 19:30

Weird change going back to uglier models when a nicer looking model won't effect any of the experience.

Jokester · 21 May 2019 at 19:32

No1newts said:
Weird change going back to uglier models when a nicer looking model won't effect any of the experience.

Aye, but most of the Blizzard / player interaction is being driven by the exceptionally anal no-changes brigrade.

DampCat · 21 May 2019 at 19:49

I prefer it. It wouldn't feel like vanilla if we were just using current models. The whole point of this is the nostalgia, there's literally no other reason.

No1newts · 21 May 2019 at 19:51

DampCat said:
I prefer it. It wouldn't feel like vanilla if we were just using current models. The whole point of this is the nostalgia, there's literally no other reason.

It's the content and how you have to play the content (team work) I think appeals to more than outdated graphic models.

Not a huge bugbear, just a little strange.

And they've proved willing to do changes already (AV in a later patch easy mode run as an example) so they are more than willing to implement changes.

Jokester · 21 May 2019 at 19:57

No1newts said:
And they've proved willing to do changes already (AV in a later patch easy mode run as an example) so they are more than willing to implement changes.

It's the 1.12 version, same with server battlegroups being in game, so the patch level everything will be (give of take), though I would have preferred the earlier version.

No1newts · 21 May 2019 at 20:00

Jokester said:
It's the 1.12 version, same with server battlegroups being in game, so the patch level everything will be (give of take), though I would have preferred the earlier version.

Same and it shows they will do some changes, anyhow, not worth lingering on just an observation.

adam cool dude · 21 May 2019 at 20:35

No1newts said:
Weird change going back to uglier models when a nicer looking model won't effect any of the experience.

More than likely because it takes a lot of work to implement it. How many people are still working at blizzard after 15 years? I doubt it is a simple case of switching hd models on in a debugger.

Jokester · 21 May 2019 at 20:50

adam cool dude said:
More than likely because it takes a lot of work to implement it. How many people are still working at blizzard after 15 years? I doubt it is a simple case of switching hd models on in a debugger.

Given the engine is the 8.xx version, they presumably had to do more work to implement old models in it, rather than just keep current models!

Drollic · 21 May 2019 at 21:26

I just couldn't face endless ubrs runs before molten core again personally. That and grinding the gold for the epic mount. Raiding was a part time job as well. World pvp could be good again though.

Gee · 21 May 2019 at 22:54

I got in!

Edit: apparently this is only an invite to the stress test, which is at midnight til 3am iirc. Plus, it doesn't guarantee you a spot in the main beta test.

DampCat · 21 May 2019 at 23:48

You just wanted to show us your 34mbs

Sasahara · 22 May 2019 at 01:13

No1newts said:
Urgh couldn't do that anymore so respect to you for keeping it up.

Even back in vanilla in a number one guild it was next to impossible to get 40 "good" raiders, always found we carried about 5 no matter what we did and those last five spots seemed to rotate a lot. Not sure how you found that back in the day?

Now, with what WoW is, couldn't imagine getting 40 people together though I guess you can just portal there. I remember getting on 30mins pre raid just to make sure people got on the flight path to Naxx that and we had a PvP friend guild who would go to the raid entrance about an hour before start to clear and hold it for the alliance side literally 30-50 people just to make sure you could get in a raid unharassed and making life hell for the horde guilds the realm specific forum drama over outside raid PvP was a beautiful read

I'm guessing you were on a low population server?

Now we had that problem with maybe 5 spots being unstable, but I was in top 15 guilds on Ravencrest the top 10 guilds were pretty stable.
The 6,000+ queue to get on to the server some days on the other hand was a pain.

I remember logging on at work at 3pm and leaving the game running. So I could log in when I got home.

agnes · 22 May 2019 at 02:00

It seems a huge amount got in then, I also am in.

However, I had a thought... How will they handle WoW tokens??? Will you be able to sell them for gold? If so, it will royally **** up the economy I think.

No1newts · 22 May 2019 at 07:56

Sasahara said:
I'm guessing you were on a low population server?

Now we had that problem with maybe 5 spots being unstable, but I was in top 15 guilds on Ravencrest the top 10 guilds were pretty stable.
The 6,000+ queue to get on to the server some days on the other hand was a pain. I remember logging on at work at 3pm and leaving the game running. So I could log in when I got home.

Nah it was a high pop server though I would guess to the lower end of high as I rarely dealt with queues above 1k at worst.

Droolinggimp · 22 May 2019 at 08:03

agnes said:
It seems a huge amount got in then, I also am in.

However, I had a thought... How will they handle WoW tokens??? Will you be able to sell them for gold? If so, it will royally **** up the economy I think.

I would assume WoW tokens won't affect the Classic economy. If you have retail and use gold from that to buy game time then the gold will stay in retail. Classic is a seperate game but still playable with active sub or Token time.

Ske · 22 May 2019 at 09:02

agnes said:
However, I had a thought... How will they handle WoW tokens??? Will you be able to sell them for gold? If so, it will royally **** up the economy I think.

They said in a recent interview with StaySafe andddd another streamer/youtuber that Classic will not have WoW tokens.

DampCat · 22 May 2019 at 14:40

You can tell this beta is being played by peopl ethat didnt play vanilla. The number of two tap ore veins ive come across

Glanza · 22 May 2019 at 16:02

DampCat said:
You can tell this beta is being played by peopl ethat didnt play vanilla. The number of two tap ore veins ive come across

Surprised at that seems if you aren't a twitch streamer you don't get in this beta.