Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[AwkwardSquirtle]

Lol since Wrath at least? probably TBC.

Yeah, TBC. It was the only realistic way to get out of the Belf starter area. Otherwise you'd end in in Eastern Plaguelands which was a 60 zone.

[huth]

After diaper gnomes I can absolutely believe the dragon race is legit, just in pre-alpha state where it's Functional but not Done.

Well, they're ugly in concept. The execution is good. Unlike the dragonthings, which are poorly executed.

[Chickat]

It'll be really sad if an ancient game like Everquest can come up with a better concept for a dragon-esq race.

That is not better IMO.

[Shadochi]

What sources?

A friend connected to ABK, but im unsure if a troll since I know they sometimes lurk around fansites

[Emet-Selch]

How and why would Scaleface get access to a presumably-ancient proof of concept days before a reveal of something that would have to be adequate to show to the public? Why would his co-conspirator wait 'til now to reveal this if it did exist for so long?

Uhhh, for clout?

People would also be far less likely to believe this is legit if it was posted say, mid 9.1 or something. But again, we have no idea when this was from - 10.0 could be a year+ away and the screenshots could be from a week ago.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Well, they're ugly in concept. The execution is good. Unlike the dragonthings, which are poorly executed.

It's a matter of consistency and technical errors for me, not aesthetic. I could believe Blizzard would make an ugly race—I don't believe they'd make a race that looks this suspicious, then reveal it with so many mind-numbing errors. Would they seriously not get the mesh that looks like nipples before they reveal it, at least?

[Beefhammer]

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

While some may think those look worse aesthetically, they are all polished and look good technically compared to that dragon model, which looks amateurish in comparison.

[ercarp]

Oops, it's 4 AM all of a sudden and I need to wake up in 5 hours.

That means I'm gonna retire for the night. Knowing my luck, the One True Leak will probably drop as I'm sleeping.

[Biruteka]

I didn't think he was being serious with that post, but I would be interested if he is willing to confirm. My take is he is getting frustrated due to posts like the one below the post I'm quoting.

Its really funny how american people cant understand sarcasm

[Emet-Selch]

It's a matter of consistency and technical errors for me, not aesthetic. I could believe Blizzard would make an ugly race—I don't believe they'd make a race that looks this suspicious, then reveal it with so many mind-numbing errors. Would they seriously not get the mesh that looks like nipples before they reveal it, at least?

It doesn't have nipples. Y'all are seeing artifacting, the image is so pixelated. Not to mention if this was from a private server why wouldn't they, uh, yknow, give it the ken doll treatment?

[Deventh]

Yeah, TBC. It was the only realistic way to get out of the Belf starter area. Otherwise you'd end in in Eastern Plaguelands which was a 60 zone.

It was literally the only way because there were gates that were blocking the way to Quel'Thalas. No flying either pre-Cata.

[Das Thora]

holy shit.

Every word of this is fake.

player housing confirmed then

[Gxth]

IF those are real, it wouldn't surprise me if the Incubus was just a scrapped VERSION of this human/dragon hybrid shit.

I genuinely won't put anything past the scaley-losers at Blizz anymore if this is real. The game is going entirely 'woke'... ahem..
and those girly-boys are right up the alley of the new kids in town. They can't even make masculinity sexy they're so far into it.

I can't imagine you ever being single.

[rainhard]

Yeah ive been flying around Azsuna for 15 mins and I cant find that spot. Could be Any zone bordering Azsuna looking into it, or it could be Stormsong Valley. I suppose it MAYBE could be WoD Nagrand too?

Try nazjatar has some similar spots.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Uhhh, for clout?

People would also be far less likely to believe this is legit if it was posted say, mid 9.1 or something. But again, we have no idea when this was from - 10.0 could be a year+ away and the screenshots could be from a week ago.

This all seems like you're stretching logic. Why would someone post earlier, shittier versions of these models "for clout" and then argue endlessly and mock people who think they're fake after they were shown obviously-suspect models?

Furthermore, wouldn't there be less in the way of flaws to point out if this were posted earlier? If someone said "hey, this is a super-duper-omega early version of the new race!!!!" and it had all these mistakes, I'd be more likely to forgive them. Plus, again, how would they procure an early proof-of-concept in the first place? The only reason why leaks come out so close to an expansion release is because they're immediately available to a large number of people, some of whom are not associated with Blizzard (like, presumably, the guy who was apparently working at a printing company to produce Dragonflight posters).

[Archmage Xaxxas]

Oops, it's 4 AM all of a sudden and I need to wake up in 5 hours.

That means I'm gonna retire for the night. Knowing my luck, the One True Leak will probably drop as I'm sleeping.

Rest well. Fingers crossed for all our hopes to come true and the fears just shoo.

[Shadochi]

Oops, it's 4 AM all of a sudden and I need to wake up in 5 hours.

That means I'm gonna retire for the night. Knowing my luck, the One True Leak will probably drop as I'm sleeping.

yes I went to bed over an hour ago but then my phone notifs started going off xD

[Chickat]

To be honest based on the stone textures I dont think it looks like azsuna, the stone texture style reminds me more of BfA or later era

Yeah my first thought was Stormsong Valley anyways.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

It doesn't have nipples. Y'all are seeing artifacting, the image is so pixelated. Not to mention if this was from a private server why wouldn't they, uh, yknow, give it the ken doll treatment?

1. I pointed out repeatedly it isn't nipples, but it also isn't artifcating. That isn't what artifacting looks like. I was speaking facetiously. One of the first points of my analysis was that the "nipples" were clipping wings, which proved the model to be too shabby to be real.

2. I don't think this was on a real private server. I think this was on someone's actual, personal private server for a model they made. When I said "server" before, I meant a Discord server, likely for and by Scalies.

[Deventh]

player housing confirmed then

*Puts 1 real thing in there and everything else fake*