Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[ercarp]

Blizz added two new CDN endpoints overnight for future encrypted products. My gut feeling says they might be closer than usual to public testing than they usually are when making announcements.

https://twitter.com/MrGMYT/status/1515234872339611651

I saw some people speculating that there could be a playtest of some kind after the livestream. Could this point towards something like that? Maybe a short trial where we get to try out the new class or explore one of the new zones briefly. BlizzCon had one, but this is completely remote so I don't know what to expect.

[Marlamin]

What is a CDN endpoint? Why wow3 and wow4? Is WoW1 PTR and WoW2 Classic PTR?

The "v" in wowv3/wowv4 stands for vendor. We don't know for sure what these are, but Overwatch's vendor products are used for testing at vendors like AMD/Nvidia/localization partners, so these likely have a similar goal.

For WoWs other vendor products, they usually push things like PTR and Beta builds to these products closely to them being released to the public. For example, vendor 2 is currently a few builds ahead of PTR.

I saw some people speculating that there could be a playtest of some kind after the livestream. Could this point towards something like that? Maybe a short trial where we get to try out the new class or explore one of the new zones briefly. BlizzCon had one, but this is completely remote so I don't know what to expect.

Playtests wouldn't happen on the vendor products as these builds aren't meant for public consumption and releasing one vendor build to the public means all vendor builds ever become public (encryption key becoming available).

However, if they were to update/reuse one of the old demo/event products and push a public build to that, that is definitely an indication of something public being on the way (or well, out). They could hold off until they literally announce something like a public playtest before doing that, though.

[Fahrad Wagner]

Here's mine!

[Luck4]

I think the best way they could do a full world revamp is by making zone revamps into patch content. Imagine if they revamped like 2-3 old zones with every patch and added max-level content in addition to overhauling the leveling quests.

I think it's better than nothing for sure, but I doubt as content patches Blizzard would do more than 10% of all zones of Kalimdor/Eastern Kingdoms, and that's because patches feel so light in content these days. For instance, in BFA we got a full revamp of Arathi on the expansion release but Darkshore was barely touched in a later patch.

[ercarp]

Here's mine!

Ah, a fellow Loreth'Aran believer. It would be so cool if it turned out Ysera had somehow safeguarded their city and teleported it to the Dragon Isles before it was fully destroyed.

Duck mount!? Yes please.

[Dioporco]

No rendorei? They are literally in game.

[Darkarath]

The "v" in wowv3/wowv4 stands for vendor. We don't know for sure what these are, but Overwatch's vendor products are used for testing at vendors like AMD/Nvidia/localization partners, so these likely have a similar goal.

For WoWs other vendor products, they usually push things like PTR and Beta builds to these products closely to them being released to the public. For example, vendor 2 is currently a few builds ahead of PTR.



Playtests wouldn't happen on the vendor products as these builds aren't meant for public consumption and releasing one vendor build to the public means all vendor builds ever become public (encryption key becoming available).

However, if they were to update/reuse one of the old demo/event products and push a public build to that, that is definitely an indication of something public being on the way (or well, out). They could hold off until they literally announce something like a public playtest before doing that, though.

I see, thank you. Guess then that they are something for 10.0 and WotLK Classic. Makes sense.

If they were to make something for consoles, we would not get a wowv5? It will have to be something that appeared only in consoles, right?

[Fahrad Wagner]

Ah, a fellow Loreth'Aran believer. It would be so cool if it turned out Ysera had somehow safeguarded their city and teleported it to the Dragon Isles before it was fully destroyed.

Duck mount!? Yes please.

To be fair, those talks of Loreth'aran, NE dragon riders and dragon elves is the thing that got me the MOST hyped! I'm here for it! Maybe the Dragon isles were part of the ancient pan-continent and were risen to the skies during the Sundering!

And the Duck Mount is... inevitable

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No rendorei? They are literally in game.

As in no ren'dorei lore/involvement.

[Lady Atia]

No rendorei? They are literally in game.

Oh no, you are opening the box of pandora with this.

[Fahrad Wagner]

Oh no, you are opening the box of pandora with this.

I might have been teasing the beast a little with my bingo card hehehe

[Luck4]

Here's mine!

World Revamp!

Finally!!!

[huth]

[IMG]


sure buddy

Denathrius is not a Venthyr. He's their creator. Besides, he doesn't really fit your "vampire elf" standard, either.

[Fahrad Wagner]

World Revamp!

Finally!!!

YESSSSS! The dream lives on!!!

[Marlamin]

I see, thank you. Guess then that they are something for 10.0 and WotLK Classic. Makes sense.

If they were to make something for consoles, we would not get a wowv5? It will have to be something that appeared only in consoles, right?

Console specific versions for other products haven't been on the CDN historically speaking since they all have their own development/testing/release platforms. The only exception that comes close to that is Hearthstone having Android/iOS store versions on the CDN for an unknown reason, but I don't expect that to be the standard for other products.

[Darkarath]

Console specific versions for other products haven't been on the CDN historically speaking since they all have their own development/testing/release platforms. The only exception that comes close to that is Hearthstone having Android/iOS store versions on the CDN for an unknown reason, but I don't expect that to be the standard for other products.

I see, thanks. There is still hope, then.

[Wangming]

Certainly they will have to change many things to make it work. Main among them, the interface and the need for addons. I wish that they do not were necessary.

For the first time I am playing beyond FFXIV's ARR base storyline and, well, I am having so much fun with the raids, with random people and with a looking for group queue system! And people do not leave the group after the first wipe. Such a different experience that I wish WoW devs encouraged.

Glad you are enoying yourself FFXIV is far from a perfect game, but it does a lot of things right. And the latest patch made many thing a lot better.

[LemonDemonGirl]

venthyr are fugly as fuck, we could have vampire elves instead of whatever are those "mickey rourke full botox + wrong hormone usage" npc

Yeah, I thought 'Vampires' were supposed to beautiful/attractive. Y'know, so they can lure in prey?

[Fahrad Wagner]

Glad you are enoying yourself FFXIV is far from a perfect game, but it does a lot of things right. And the latest patch made many thing a lot better.

I really want to give it a serious try soon

[Hitei]

[Deventh]

Here's mine!

I'd say Shadowlands allied races have higher chance than a new neutral race imho.
Also don't think we will see much more character customization outside the new class specific things we might get (like DK has unique customization).
Replace Duck Mount with some random dragon-mount or dragon-transformation mount. Replace loreth'aran with Chromatus.
World Revamp replaced with tiny World Revamp of a few zones that never got updated (like the Blood Elves and Draenei).
That's the bingo I'd go with.