BfA login screen unknown?

[Wishblade]

And... the complete point of the Heart of Azeroth

And once acquired, then what? We gather AP and... /shrug.

Saving Azeroth currently just seems like a side task with little focus since we get our azerite from everywhere. If we already had to use the Heart for something in the world, like a questline with Magni, then by all means, but I haven't heard of any such thing.

I'm all for saving the world from demise but if there's nothing actively in the story telling us the status and/or makes us use the Heart for something, then it doesn't feel like the main focus and thus doesn't seem fitting as the first thing you see as you start up the game.

[Arafal]

blizz will just go the lazy route and slap the gates of lordaeron onto the game as login screen.

[Highwhale]

In before Login Screen was already leaked:

[Hastis]

Undercity During Attack it would be awesome

[Deleted]

Login screen is one thing, but damn, I really want Blizzard to finally implement the rest of the music, login screen music included. I fell in love with what they released in the very first build so I'm still waiting impatiently for the "music build".
My guess for the screen is Teldrassil, Undercity of Sargeras' Sword. Anything else on any island would be probably a faction bias.

[MechaCThun]

They certainly could benefit from having a login screen that isn't the same formula of a gateway/portal deal. It was like that in WotLK and Cataclysm, so why not have it be scenery of an Alliance soldier standing off against a Horde soldier in front of the gates to Undercity?

[micwini]

Cover art of warcraft I, but animated? Something something cool in the background

[Duravian]

3) Night Elf fans get another big "fuck you" from Blizzard for the next 2 years to look at, just to be sure they get the message.

Apparently you already have

/needsmoresalt

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It would be kind of neat to see a couple of Horde and Alliance ships circling each other in some stormy sea, firing cannons every now and again.

[Collected]

The story team said in a Q&A today that they want to do things with this launch that they've never done before.

I wonder if the log in screen is one of those things. Could it be we don't actually get to see it until the launch itself? We all get a small patch and it's there? That would be pretty epic. I wonder if they might be considering holding back some content too and avoiding PTR spoilers by just patching it to live.

[Ophenia]

And once acquired, then what? We gather AP and... /shrug.

Saving Azeroth currently just seems like a side task with little focus since we get our azerite from everywhere. If we already had to use the Heart for something in the world, like a questline with Magni, then by all means, but I haven't heard of any such thing.

I'm all for saving the world from demise but if there's nothing actively in the story telling us the status and/or makes us use the Heart for something, then it doesn't feel like the main focus and thus doesn't seem fitting as the first thing you see as you start up the game.

That's still the red line of the expac, there will probably be a ton of small quests involving the wound itself.
Pretty sure the Wound-stuff will last longer than the HvA-stuff (which will fade after like the first raid probably - omg a new threat, we shall reunite again)

Plus, the login screen of WoD was the Dark Portal, even though you destroyed it after the first introduction to Draenor.
The login screen of MoP was the statues of the Vale of Eternal Blossom, which never served any purposed and got destroyed by 5.3.
Login screens mostly are about the most impressive stuff of the expac. And nothing, until now, is impressive in BfA, so Sargeras' sword or Teldrassil are the only 2 valid options imo. We'll see !

[Wishblade]

That's still the red line of the expac, there will probably be a ton of small quests involving the wound itself.
Pretty sure the Wound-stuff will last longer than the HvA-stuff (which will fade after like the first raid probably - omg a new threat, we shall reunite again)

Plus, the login screen of WoD was the Dark Portal, even though you destroyed it after the first introduction to Draenor.
The login screen of MoP was the statues of the Vale of Eternal Blossom, which never served any purposed and got destroyed by 5.3.
Login screens mostly are about the most impressive stuff of the expac. And nothing, until now, is impressive in BfA, so Sargeras' sword or Teldrassil are the only 2 valid options imo. We'll see !

In the case of Warlords I'd say that's mostly a case of "We can use the portal again!". Then again, how much purpose did the Dark Portal serve in Vanilla anyway... And in TBC it did get us to Outland but other than that it wasn't overly important...

Icecrown for Wrath made sense, for one being our end goal and the cinematic did leave us there as well with Sindragosa being brought back.

Cata fit into the cinematic once more and showed off the big bad. Mists were probably just kind of a call back to the Dark Portal and its statues. And Legion is just a random portal on what looks mostly like a random bit of rock in the Nether, or that one place most classes go during their campaign, of which the name escapes me.

So I guess Battle could just as well be a random shot of a battlefield, be it Tirisfal, Darkshore, Arathi, or wherever. Either way, I hope to see it soon. ^_^

[KaNNis]

Since I don't intend on finishing this one I might as well post it here.

But this is what I had in mind originally, keep in mind this is nowhere near done



I intended on putting around more detail and more effects/better sky/moving flags/more fire but this was the overall until I realised it's more than likely going to be based on Teldrassil instead of Undercity, which is what I might start doing next instead of this one.

[styil]

I kinda wish they would allow us to pick our log in screen.

Don't give them more Blizzard Store ideas.

[iamthedevil]

I want it to be a moving shot the shows a slow aerial pan of zulduzar and then flys over real quick and does a slow aerial pan of Kul'tiras. Repeat.

OR

Actually support the whole Horde v Alliance thing and have two seperate logins and let the player choose.

Ever since the blizzard launcher, i never see the thing anyways.

[TheFirstOnes]

/10fuckingchars

This got Bjor banned?!

Some Mod seemed to have had a Bjor ban fatigue, it seems...

[Hezron]

It will be cool to see whatever they come up with, the music is here though.

[Deleted]

And BFA probably will end up like W3 with all factions uniting against common enemy.

no, it wont it will end with all out war and a dead dog

[Kathranis]

I think it actually may be something similar to the Warcraft III main title screen. Not that loading screen that was posted earlier in the thread, this:



They've never really put character models on the login screen, closest we've had is stuff like Sindragosa and the two Fel Lords. So I wouldn't expect two armies showing down.

I think it'll be a shot of the ruins of the Undercity, possibly with tattered Alliance and Horde battle standards and broken weapons and bodies strewn about the battlefield. The ruins have a very similar color temperature and overall vibe to the WC3 title screen, anyway.



Another possibility would be two different login screens that alternate, one of Teldrasill burning in the distance with a Horde banner in the foreground, the other Lordaerons ruins in the distance with the Alliance banner in front of it.

[Ielenia]

So from what I read here in forums, BfA Beta still has Legion login screen and nobody know anything about how will new login screen look like?

Any ideas?

My idea? I'm pretty sure it'll be like opening music video posted in the front page. I mean, this is the first time in the history of the game where the two factions go through completely separate leveling experience and zones (Zandalar and Kul'Tiras) so it kind of makes sense that the login screen will switch back and forth between a shot of Kul'Tiras and a shot of Zandalar, like in the video.

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Sooo we had

Brown/orange in Vanilla
Fel Green in TBC
Bright Blue in WotLK
Red/brown in Cata
Yellow/gray in MoP
Red in WoD
Gray/Fel Green in Legion

We also had a lot of vibrant red and purple in BC. Remember all three Tempest Keep dungeons and its raid instance?

[Shinrael]

My idea? I'm pretty sure it'll be like opening music video posted in the front page. I mean, this is the first time in the history of the game where the two factions go through completely separate leveling experience and zones (Zandalar and Kul'Tiras) so it kind of makes sense that the login screen will switch back and forth between a shot of Kul'Tiras and a shot of Zandalar, like in the video.

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We also had a lot of vibrant red and purple in BC. Remember all three Tempest Keep dungeons and its raid instance?

We are talking specifically about login screens? Nothing to do with the in-game world or the expansion theme.

Don't misunderstand my post for whining. I've loved and enjoyed every single version of the game since Vanilla and I am merely trying to fight back against the massive wave of negativeness and whining on the forums. (like the guy I was quoting in my previous post)