Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Das Thora]

Why the fuck would a reptilian humanoid have breasts?

Someone has never played Elder Scrolls or gone to rule 34 sites.

[ro9ue]

Because humans who like breasts buy digital reptilian humanoids with big ol' lizard tits

There it is, the true answer.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

I think this pretty much completly destroys this as being legit.

Drakonid & Full Dragon Form hype came back on full sails.

My sister is pretty convinced that the brown scales are not, in fact, from the turtle—she says they're more square and even on the Drakthyr unevenly-shaped on the turtle. I personally think it's just the size and shape of the legs distorting them, though. I'm not sure if I'm artistically-perspicacious enough to comment on this one, though—my observations have all been on obvious technical oddities, whereas this is a little too design-centric for me, who is not too good at that sort of thing. It may be resolution, though. We may have to lift the turtle texture to be sure.

[ro9ue]

Ok, so i stop.

No keep going.

[Eunomii]

Ok, so i stop.

no :< but why is it all in pp quality

[s1ns]

Ok, so i stop.

If I draw you a picture of a dragon, will you continue?

[Archmage Xaxxas]

Ok, so i stop.

honestly it's helped wash the palette considering the other 'leaks' today.. So real or not, whatever, thanks. At least it doesn't make me sad, keep it up.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

I am 100% pulling from my ass here in the form of hope but what if housing

My ass pull hope is that they're justifying a graphical (and hopefully questline) revamp with these workers around capitals.

And that the Stockades is becoming a proper barracks.

[wowrefugee]

I am 100% pulling from my ass here in the form of hope but what if housing

That actually makes a lot of sense. The new area they've prepared in Stormwind (where the cooking stuff used to be) could easily be for the lumber jack/carpenter professions for player housing

[Emet-Selch]

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Gonna be honest, but I think some of these (particularly 5 and a little bit of 8) look like they're watermarks that were blurred out or someone attempted to draw over, like some sort of ID that would identify the person or company that received these images. Saw similar things from the Elden Ring leaks. As for the rest, I suspect some of the inconsistencies to be artifacting, or it could be a version of the model that was early in development. Particularly the not-nipples, it looks like the wings are just not fully aligned. I wouldn't say that's enough to debunk this when we don't know what stage of development these screenshots could be from.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Real or not, Blizzard has made worse models in recent years.

But it's not the quality, it's the style and the obvious, serious errors in the modeling. Even these models lack any kind of serious, crippling error. Even other alpha models we've seen lack serious, obvious mesh problems.

[Kohtra]

Holy shit guys I found this leaked pic from a private discord

[Deventh]

My sister is pretty convinced that the brown scales are not, in fact, from the turtle—she says they're more square and even on the Drakthyr unevenly-shaped on the turtle. I personally think it's just the size and shape of the legs distorting them, though. I'm not sure if I'm artistically-perspicacious enough to comment on this one, though—my observations have all been on obvious technical oddities, whereas this is a little too design-centric for me, who is not too good at that sort of thing. It may be resolution, though. We may have to lift the turtle texture to be sure.

Unfortunately... the scales alone does not make it 100% fake. Blizzard are already reusing a skeleton so they could easily reuse a texture asset, too. I can see it happen...

[Das Thora]

One thing that has me suspicious about the race is it's a lot of effort to put into a fake (the UI thing might be easy but the two race pictures surely took some time) JUST to put it out less than 24 hours before announcement where it'd be proven false.

[Stricks]

Holy shit guys I found this leaked pic from a private discord

I really hope they don't go this direction.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Gonna be honest, but I think some of these (particularly 5 and a little bit of 8) look like they're watermarks that were blurred out or someone attempted to draw over, like some sort of ID that would identify the person or company that received these images. Saw similar things from the Elden Ring leaks. As for the rest, I suspect some of the inconsistencies to be artifacting, or it could be a version of the model that was early in development. Particularly the not-nipples, it looks like the wings are just not fully aligned. I wouldn't say that's enough to debunk this when we don't know what stage of development these screenshots could be from.

I don't know. It seems pretty damning to me, especially the mesh issues provided that I think I know the exact reusable clothing mesh that is being applied there.

[Deventh]

Holy shit guys I found this leaked pic from a private discord

wtf?! Nagas confirmed after all. I knew it. Oh, what is that at the top right? Dark Rangers! F*CK YEAH.

[plz delete account]

Hey now, the incubus is freaking awesome.

Yes, but the diaper gnome is not

[Das Thora]

I am 100% pulling from my ass here in the form of hope but what if housing

I don't know how they'd fit housing between the Stocks and the Mage District.

[m4Zzo928]

I really hope they don't go this direction.

Ugh man I KNEW IT! Why does Blizz always have to go this direction. I'm never playing again!