Here's my speculation (wrote it months ago) about the expansion, the warships and the naval battles: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...on-Expansion-8
I'd love a PVP where you need to discover where the opponent's fleet is standing and attack it.
Anyone hoping this guy is full of shit is going to be upset. I have heard similar things from a friend who works at the convention center. This leak is legit.
I'm with you. With the limited information we have it's pretty hard to speculate, though. Both the current vehicle and boat/transport tech in WoW isn't that great. Though I assume this will be based on vehicle tech as transports are pretty awful. With that in mind I hope they do some significant UI/UX overhauls to make boats feel good because if we're going to be doing PvP in these... *wintergrasp flashbacks* Also, really looking forward to better water physics/looks.
Of course.
Think of all of those enemies you naturally encounter on the surface of the water.
There's seaweed, buoys, and the psychopathic Azsharan goddamned seagull.
Just hundreds of players frantically rowing to shore as flocks of blood thirsty seagulls rend the flesh from their bones.
My god it'll be beautiful.
Yeah, if this comes to pass, I too expect a Vindicaar/Garrison mashup:
- A ship that moors at fixed locations off shore of each relevant zone.
- Shows a different model of said ship to each player based on their upgrade progress and/or unlocked skins.
- Click on a dinghy to teleport to/from ship. Or fly and phase into personal instance.
- Click on mooring locations on a map to sail there via a loading screen.
- Followers -> Crew
And maybe as a bonus:
- Naval broadside combat reskin of pet battle system.
It just so happens that I do enjoy a good boat now and then.
Sounds.....really boring lol, luckily I don't believe you so it's cool.
let me ask you - what are the chances your "blizzard engineer" is giving you those actual fake news that they are all tasked to give to their contacts, to create this effect of diversion, to distract us from the real thing - whatever it is?
Asking because it's common tactics, which I believe they've employed successfully pre-Legion announcement. Also supported by trolling Twitter chatter-mouths such as Muffinus, Crafticus & Co?
P.S. I'd love this to be true btw, water/boats = something new as opposed to the same old crap.
Never said leaks are confirmed sources to begin with. However certain people who have leaked info previously and were correct are obviously more up to date and more trusted. How are you guys cannot grasp sic a simple concept? No one is telling you that what they say is 100% true.
Exactly!!! Unless you can actually provide the source (ie link, or some other definitive documentation), which would make it confirmed, nothing is ever confirmed just because you say so. Like I could say I have information from a confirmed internal source that says your internal source is the office weirdo who sniffs glue in the office supply closet and doesn't know anything about the new expansion. Who's right? They're both confirmed.
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Actually when someone says they have a confirmed source and then provide information from that source they sort of are trying to pass what they are telling you as 100% true, otherwise it kind of just makes it made up, not from an actual source, and just another garbage leak post.
Well this is the second time someone has mentioned about interactions with the surface of the water, though the other was a brand new account.
This "leak" seems very inconsistent.
You say you have a source, but seem very uncertain as to the scope of this big feature of boats despite having apparently that much information.
Is that due to them not knowing it, which if they could tell you that much seems unlikely as i'd expect such a necessary system to be far better fleshed out.
If they introduce some naval combat that could be fun...