Battle for Azeroth New Races - Vulpera Preview

[Deleted]

Dude, that got me hyped as fuck.

Well it's just speculation on my part. But it would be a nice way to shut up naysayers, who don't want another cutesy race. And I doubt My little foxy friendship is magic would be popular on a snake filled desert in zandalar. It would make more sense for them to be violent and use their appearance for deception. Pplus their ears and size suggest they would be Goblin allied races. And the goblins aren't really nice people.

[Oneirophobia]

Tauren, male Pandaren, and Worgen (in Worgen form) would like to have a word with you.

...?

Literally all of those have at least several human hair styles to choose from. Most of them braids.

[Katsutomai]

Might be Blizzard's April Fool joke. They normally start a little before the date, to make it "beliveble"

That's a fuckton of work for an April Fool's joke. They literally have more customization than most races in the game at the moment and a ton of unique animations.

[The Stormbringer]

...?

Literally all of those have at least several human hair styles to choose from. Most of them braids.

Animals can have braided hair too. Doesn't make it a 'human hair style'.

I can't wait for Blizzard to listen to the "WAAAH FURRIES" QQ and change the Vulperas to a hastily slapped-together model with a dopey snarl and bugged-out eyes that look like a bad Halloween mask.

Seriously, this is exactly like the Worgen alpha model release. Stop crying or we may end up with something even worse.

Who says they don't want this? Anything to ruin someone else's idea of a good time and satisfy themselves that they 'sabotaged' something 'bad'.

[Deleted]

I hope they won't shove this garbage down our alliance throats...

[RangerDaz]

Furry cuteness? I can't wait till it turns out that the Vulpera are violent sociopaths that make Sylvanas blush. Like in FFXIV where all the cute little midgets are corrupt politicians, greedy merchant or evil mages.

Well, don't vulpera use the goblin skeleton? Maybe they have more in common than we know of

[Fumu]

Yeah anyone crying fake news or April Fools underestimates how much dev time/expense even a mockup like this would take.
Either these are a new Allied race or they are going to be NPCs with a LOT of exposure. Even then, I can't imagine a dozen ear and snout options just for NPCs.

[The Stormbringer]

Furry cuteness? I can't wait till it turns out that the Vulpera are violent sociopaths that make Sylvanas blush. Like in FFXIV where all the cute little midgets are corrupt politicians, greedy merchant or evil mages.

Yeah, those little potatoes are nuts. On the outside they look all adorable and ridiculous, but on the inside their hearts are black as the most goth glamour.

[Xofa]

The 3 games you listed come from AMERICAN COMPANIES. Not Korean. Go figure.

So? so fucking what? The target audience is Korea / Chinese?
Jesus man....

Are people here on this site plain stupid AF or wtf is going on? Please for the love of god.. THINK before you speak.........

[Lollis]

So many tasty salty tears with people saying they will quit over a race; hilarity. If you would quit the game over a race that you don't have to play then the game is better off without you.

People acting like wow should be a totally serious mmo with pandas, cow people, gnomes, quests where you help people in toilets and quests where you pick up pieces of shit.

I'm not going to touch Vulpera but if I had a choice between toxic assholes, who have shown their prejudices already, and a group of Vulpera players who sit in goldshire inn and yiff all day long, I'd pick the Vulpera.

[Deleted]

Race preview on mmo-champion front page news? Allied race confirmed, new beta build soon confirmed.

[Fahrenheit]

So with the alliance getting fox furries (the worst kind) what will the horde get in its place?

Other way around. Horde questing has them saving them and befriending them in game. If they were to become an player race, they'd almost certainly be Horde. The highly speculative thought has been Sethrak as a potential ally to the Alliance and foil to the Vulpera.

[Vargur]

Dark Iron dwarves? Mag'har orcs? Kul Tiras Humans? Heres a suggestion, how about some variety instead, something you clearly lack.

I dunno, zandalari ?

I meant for Alliance. How are dwarves badass? wtf

[Yirman]

I don't see how these would be able to live along the Worgen race. Horde for sure!

[Arrashi]

I meant for Alliance. How are dwarves badass? wtf

You get humans with high probability of heart disease. That's pretty badass.

[elvor0]

So? so fucking what? The target audience is Korea / Chinese?
Jesus man....

Are people here on this site plain stupid AF or wtf is going on? Please for the love of god.. THINK before you speak.........

Bolded for emphesis.

The American made Elder Scrolls, D&D inspired, very Western Style RPG's target audience with Kajit is China and Korea?

You are aware of the Elder Scrolls series, yes? That it isn't just Elder Scrolls online?
Arena(1994), Daggerfall (1996), Morrowind(2002), Oblivion (2006) and Skyrim (2011).

Kajit and Argonians have been in that series since Arena. I'm pretty sure Bethesda weren't gunning for the Asian market with a extremely Western RPG in 1994 when Square ruled the market. I'm not sure you could've even obtained copies of Arena and Daggerfall in Korea and China in the 90s, if you even had a PC to begin with, even Morrowind would've likely been dicey sales wise in China in 2002.

But no, everyone's calling you out on your crap, and instead of taking it on the chin, "Everyone is stoopid!"

Jesus dude, I don't even like the Vulpera, I think they look daft (and that's coming from someone who likes the Pandaren, sorry peeps, I'm willing to admit that's a bit hypocritical but that doesn't mean I have to like the fox people. Maybe if they were more savage) but you are just talking out of your arse.

[Katsutomai]

So? so fucking what? The target audience is Korea / Chinese?
Jesus man....

Are people here on this site plain stupid AF or wtf is going on? Please for the love of god.. THINK before you speak.........

You're kidding, right? Give me reasons instead of opinion. So far that is all you've been spouting. And opinions aren't worth anything here.

[Malico]

It is so awesome model!

[Grocalis]

As someone that works very heavily with the models behind the scenes in Machinema, there are a few notes on Vulpera that make it up in the air whether they will be playable or not.

You see, there are two types of main models you will find in the files. "Character" and "Creature". Character models are the ones that are built to work with the games gearing system, allowing customized gear options and such. Creature models don't have any link to those systems, and are instead "stand alone" in their designs, though they too can have some private customization, like the Nightborne creature models used in Legion have a lot of Nightborne only armor sets under their own unique "geosets". Character is where all the playable and some common NPCs are situated, while creature is where all the monsters, most bosses, and even lore characters are located including Anduin, Baine, Sylvanas, etc.

Why Vulpera might be playable...

There are a few NPC models located in the character folder, like Vrykul, Tuskarr, Skeletons, Ice Trolls, etc... However, all of these models, as they are not used by players, have some very noticeable limitations in customization. For instance, pretty much all of them don't have female variants (even Vrykul, as the Vrykul female is located under the creature area mentioned earlier, and thus less customizable.), have no extra face textures, or even have missing armor geosets (the vast majority of them don't have cape geosets). Vuplera, on the other hand, does not have these limitations. They have full facial customization, both genders, and all armor geosets, including the capes. They are well above and beyond the average NPC race when it comes to these factors.

Why Vulpera might not be playable.

Limited bone structure. One thing of note on the latest version of the models, is that all of them have a pretty consistent rig map. For instance, the brow has 9 main bones. Two for the forehead, three on each main brow, and one for the center of the brow. Lips use 12, 6 on the top and bottom, 3 each side starting from the middle to the outer. While some get extra bones, like the orcs have a bone located between the lips and nose to help deform them better, it's very rare to have a playable with less bones. The Vulpera though, have much more limited facial bones, like the brow only have 5, while the lips have 6. That is a very large reduction in what expressions they can use and is closer to the NPC models in the folder, like the Vrykul only has around 6 facial bones, period.

It that a killer to them being playable? Not really, as I mentioned, it's very rare that playables have less bones, but not without merit, as the night elf female has no eye bones (making her a big oddity when it comes to the newer models), and they still have way more then the other NPCs located in the folder.

My guess is that Vulpera will be added as playable down the line around the same time we finally get the goblin and worgen updates. The Vulpera are actually using a skeleton that I can already tell is going to be used on the newest goblin models for the most part, so it makes sense they are getting a lot of attention. However, I don't think they will be faction specific. Blizzard seems to be focusing on each faction having a racial connection for each Allied Race. (Void Elves are the only real oddity in that design), and it makes sense to me that the Vulpera may be in the end connected to the Pandaren as a sort of neutral allied race. It seems like the best fit as we already have 1:1 parity on the other allied races, now that Kul Tirans are pretty much confirmed to be the counterpoint to Mag'har Orcs.

[Speaknoevil]

There are way too many races in wow.