Hey guys,
I saw the picture of Silithus getting wounded. What I cant figure out is the big green "isle" on the top left. Can't find anything on the World Map that is remotly close?
Any ideas on what it might be?
Hey guys,
I saw the picture of Silithus getting wounded. What I cant figure out is the big green "isle" on the top left. Can't find anything on the World Map that is remotly close?
Any ideas on what it might be?
Its the island outside of Feralas called Isle of Dread? Its always been there lol
RIP SIlithus 2.0, how I missed pre cata Sil but its definitely not coming back now. Oh.. and is it done in this zone because its the isolated red headed step child of traffic? So remote that it wouldn't cause issue with players that much?
Yeah it sank in Cata, the terrain shouldn't be like that.
Unless whatever striked the earth caused the land around Silithus to level above the recommended levels.
It's a PTR map and far from final. For some reason they might still use pre cata satellite maps. Un'Goro looks weird too. Those white parts are supposed to be water if I recall correctly.
Last edited by babyback; 2017-09-21 at 03:50 PM.
Everyone should bear in mind that you are looking at the textured terrain model, not a top down screenshot. The water is not shown as that is procedurally generated in-game. In all likelihood, the Isle is still going to be covered with water in this scenario.
Yeah it's an old island from vanilla which was removed in cata... but that doesn't matter. This is gonna be an instanced version of Silithus, so the surroundings don't matter.
It wasnt removed per se, they just changed the heightmap that defines the terrain mesh so that Isle sat below water level. They didnt even change the textures. That terrain is still green if you swim out there and look at it.
You're just looking at the landscape without the water that's why you can see the sunken island.
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That was the isle of dread or some shit. Had a world boss there and some elite mobs.
It sunk in Cata though.
It's the isle of dread. It sank in the Cataclysm. However, it IS possible that Sargeras' blast reverted that, namely by the tsunami's that were caused by said stab.
Oh, but blizzard already have a freature that could easily (in lore) allow us to visit the old world. Caverns of Time. Just put a little gateway there. Of course, they would need to watch out for quests that direct players to Outland/Northrend and cut those out, remove lots of achievs, etc, but you get the idea.
Isle of Dread, used to be landmass with giant chimeras in vanilla (Recipe: Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops).
Cataclysm sunk the isle.
It doesn't look sunken on the Silithus Wound map because I don't think the water or any lightning/terrain is rendered to show depth, because it also looks pretty flat.
Also AQ structures are completely missing as those aren't simple terrain.
Compare to a 7.3 Kalimdor minimap which does show water/mountains due to lighting:
https://newmaps.marlam.in/Kalimdor/139/6/-93.016/55.844 (map also allows you to see old pre-cata versions where the Island was actually above water)
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Water seems to be completely missing, as is any depth/height shading, so it just looks like flat pure textured terrain.
Even while you see the Oasis looks bright green on the bottom right, remember that actually water changes the look/lighting of the game completely too.
Last edited by Teri; 2017-09-21 at 06:48 PM.