The War Within 11.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Marlamin]

First screenshot has the living world birds and the last one has the living world butterflies, which is a pretty detailed touch. Hmm!

[Demonly]

AI-generated or not, it does look WoWish, gotta give them that.

Why do those dwarfs look so familiar? Didn't we have a leak about something that looks similar? Can't find it off first glance through ercarps list.

[Jolly Roger]

i say again

gather up all of the crew
its time to ship out maiden's brew
Thrall will be "sail with me"
heroes by our side
Gallywix shall rise again
reunite with our old friends
wait for the storm to finally end

[ro9ue]

Unfortunately because the screenshots are so small, its easy to hide overpaint/editing. So hard to tell for sure.

[Woggmer]

Someone just made a thread about potential 11.0 zones

This is it. Especially that Direhorn at the bottom is a creature that isn't in the game yet, but we have a Battle Pet version of it from the Time Rifts.

Pack it up everyone, we found it.

[Izalla]

Now the big question would be, how did someone get these screencaps? And booooo if the entire other side of Azeroth is just a four zone island instead of a proper continent.

[Ferlion]

The third picture is off. The background looks like a painting, concept art, and the harpy has a weird thing coming from her wing.

Also look at the gryphon in the second picture. It's wings are off. Weird shape

[Mecheon]

Screenshot 4 has the pet from the Time Rifts that you get from the Titan vendor.

https://www.wowhead.com/ptr-2/item=2...horn-hatchling

Not the same model (please do not ask how long I have looked at the direhorn rig that I can identify animations on sight, I wanted to backport it into WC3), even though its very imspired by it

But I dunno. Something's a bit off with those front legs on that. Could just be the resolution blending everything together, however

[ro9ue]

Reminds me of:
1. Grizzly Hills
2. Storm Peaks
3. Vol'dun
4. Zuldazar with some Ungoro/Sholazar Titan stuff sprinkled in. The battle pet came from an "Ulderoth" vendor.

[Izalla]

The third picture is off. The background looks like a painting, concept art, and the harpy has a weird thing coming from her wing.

If it is real, these are caps taken from the announcement/features trailer. Anything could be in motion and "look weird". People were pointing out the shot of the gryphon from the Warcraft movie and calling it an obvious piece of AI art because it was a screencap from something in motion.

[Teriz]

Looks just like the Dragon Isles.....

[Anneria]

Screenshot 4 got kinda matching pillars they posted on preparation photos on twitter.

[Demonly]

Screenshot 4 has the pet from the Time Rifts that you get from the Titan vendor.

https://www.wowhead.com/ptr-2/item=2...horn-hatchling

That's dead on. Very impressed if fake, but I have to say that looks extremely legit.

[Ashapls]

Not the same model (please do not ask how long I have looked at the direhorn rig that I can identify animations on sight, I wanted to backport it into WC3), even though its very imspired by it

But I dunno. Something's a bit off with those front legs on that. Could just be the resolution blending everything together, however

The right horn also looks to be anatomically off, if it was painted on it looks like a screw up.

The terrain and backgrounds are really selling it for me, but I don’t know how good AI would be at giving someone a foundation if they prompt “red desert game landscape world of warcraft art style”


EDIT: The closer I look at the creature models parts of them look like something Tomkek could make. It’s very well done.

[Ferlion]

If it is real, these are caps taken from the announcement/features trailer. Anything could be in motion and "look weird". People were pointing out the shot of the gryphon from the Warcraft movie and calling it an obvious piece of AI art because it was a screencap from something in motion.

There is a lot of stuff that looks off the more you look at it. It's all very flat, even for a screenshot. Take a look at the second picture to the right. There is a cat of some sort that is way to flat.

[Leowyld]

If fake, those are pretty good. The word Avaloren even has some glow on it, like the graphic effect of the word appearing during a trailer.

[Imotbh]

Now the big question would be, how did someone get these screencaps? And booooo if the entire other side of Azeroth is just a four zone island instead of a proper continent.

The Dragon Isles had 4 zones at the start of the expansion too and they were (still are) massive. There was Forbidden Reach too but it wasn't available at the beginning

[Demonly]

As fake as it is...

This is wrong. Play Dragonflight again.

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Lmao no it doesn't.

Those look super identical

[Hitei]

Gonna call this composite PS with AI generated objects and existing assets..

The godrays in the last screenshot are visibly fake on top of the picture and the two pillars don't look to be in actual perspective, just copy pasted in. Dinosaur thing is oddly low detail compared to modern creature models, fake dwarf thing has AI fingers, toes and knees (just weird nonsense blended together). The nonsensical structures seen in in the third picture are classic AI, it can't differentiate between "boulder balanced on other rocks" and a single cohesive rock so it makes weird rock plumes (see: the doomhammer pic from yesterday).

The gryphon's wings also look like they might be AI mangled. All the zones have the same really bog standard cloud skyboxes even though Blizzard has been going all outwith skyboxes lately, the rock textures in especially the second image but the third as well are very AI random swirl texture-y.

AI also loves to generate lots of pointy things. and not particularly thought out textures.

[Izalla]

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Because it's just a repurposed Vol'dun lol


I ain't believing shit, not til I've seen it officially.

The pillars in the back do match Vol'dun pillars. I'd be more inclined to believe someone faked these than that someone had access to the video to screenshot it, would actually screenshot it... but it's the best looking fake we've gotten in a long time if so.