8.3 PTR - Dark Iron & Lightforge Death Knight Eyes Unfinished/Lazy

[MrLachyG]

so wait, you're saying that the yellow and red tinge around their eyes should have disappeared when they were raised into undeath? if they had that tinge there when they were alive why would it suddenly disappear when raised into undeath. it's the skin around their eyes, not their eyes themselves. on an additional note, who cares? the only way that you would even notice such a thing is if you xmogged the helm away and zoomed in to check.

[Mirishka]

Everything about the new DKs is lazy as fuck.

No DK customization options like decaying skin etc.
No DK voice reverb. (could be a bug)
No intro quest of any kind. Not even a short one. Just a 1 minute cutscene.

But please pre-order! It's a bonus!

My mechagnome DK has voice reverb so this is either something on your end or a bug with the race you're playing.

Otherwise I largely agree. When they said an updated DK intro for the allied races, I thought we would get something along the lines of the old one but with a less 'BE MY WEAPON OF TERROR' slant.

[Archmage Xaxxas]

so wait, you're saying that the yellow and red tinge around their eyes should have disappeared when they were raised into undeath? if they had that tinge there when they were alive why would it suddenly disappear when raised into undeath. it's the skin around their eyes, not their eyes themselves. on an additional note, who cares? the only way that you would even notice such a thing is if you xmogged the helm away and zoomed in to check.

Lol no no..

Okay so, for VISUAL effect only, so that it looks natural, the Lightforge Draenei and Dark Iron Dwarves have what would be a Layer of faded Yellow or Red paint AROUND the eyesocket.

It SHOULD be blue now. It's not in the skin, it's representation of Light refracting off of the skin from the eyes.

[Plehnard]

Lol no no..

Okay so, for VISUAL effect only, so that it looks natural, the Lightforge Draenei and Dark Iron Dwarves have what would be a Layer of faded Yellow or Red paint AROUND the eyesocket.

It SHOULD be blue now. It's not in the skin, it's representation of Light refracting off of the skin from the eyes.

Night elves have a similar problem. The diffuse Texture around the eyes is darker to counter the old glow but they did not change that with the new so now they are extremely dark around there which gives them an almost skullish look.

All in all a terribly half arsed implementation of an unfinished technique that nobody asked for.

[DemonDays]

My mechagnome DK has voice reverb so this is either something on your end or a bug with the race you're playing.

Otherwise I largely agree. When they said an updated DK intro for the allied races, I thought we would get something along the lines of the old one but with a less 'BE MY WEAPON OF TERROR' slant.

Hopefully its a bug then. But it probably won't get fixed as they've pulled all resources onto Shadowlands.

[Archmage Xaxxas]

Hopefully its a bug then. But it probably won't get fixed as they've pulled all resources onto Shadowlands.

The new DK/Race combos are pretty much a Shadowlands feature though, funnily enough.

[DemonDays]

The new DK/Race combos are pretty much a Shadowlands feature though, funnily enough.

I wish people would stop saying this shit.

If it's released in this expansion. It's a feature of this expansion.

[Archmage Xaxxas]

I wish people would stop saying this shit.

If it's released in this expansion. It's a feature of this expansion.

Log into a base Battle For Azeroth copy of the game, and try to make Pandaren or Allied Race Death Knights. Can you? Nnnnope.

Gotta buy World of Warcraft: Shadowlands before you get Early access to that feature, which is then being dispersed among all players come 9.0.

Sounds like a Shadowlands feature.

[Mirishka]

Hopefully its a bug then. But it probably won't get fixed as they've pulled all resources onto Shadowlands.

Yeah that's not how game development works. They don't go 'eh fuck BFA there's no turning back' - not only is BFA still the current expansion, but they hotfix bugs from prior expansions all the time, literally all the time.

For instance December 20th, 2019:

Karazhan Chess Event
Players once again are always rewarded with loot after defeating this encounter. The encounter no longer sometimes incorrectly resets after players defeat it.

They hotfixed an 11 year-old raid. So spare us the 'all resources are on Shadowlands' nonsense.

Some of y'all need to stop pretending like you have this intimate and thorough understanding of Blizzard game development, because you don't.

[Archmage Xaxxas]

So this is how the Dark Irons look ingame right now:



this is how it should look..




Easy peasy. All it needs is a Color Selective adjustment on the base texture. It's not "New DK skins for Allied Races" it's adjusting the "light" effect that shouldn't be the colour it still is.