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

[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.

[Marlamin]

Those look super identical

They're both orb towers, so yeah they'd look pretty similar

[Eeram]

those look super identical

oh god it might be real

[Izalla]

Those look super identical

That was my first thought as well. Unfortunately we saw the Blizz ones first and thus anyone could have copied them.

[Demonly]

They're both orb towers, so yeah they'd look pretty similar

One looks "older" and "weathered" with overgrowth.

[Mecheon]

That was my first thought as well. Unfortunately we saw the Blizz ones first and thus anyone could have copied them.

I'm pretty sure they're based on Sholazzar lamps that appear like that in a few places, so that's an old Wrath era asset to draw from

[Hitei]

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.

It's because it was probably AI generated and then they threw random models on top and added shadows manually. So the models are slightly off in perspective and lighting and the shadows don't look like the match. Gives a similar impression to the character creation screen (those are also flat with 3D models on top).

[Zankai27]

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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.

This happens every time we get "the one"

This one's real for sure, pack it up

[Izalla]

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

Oh I know, but I mean lorewise they better not tell me that this whole other continent is actually just an island like Kul Tiras or the Broken Isles. If we do get Avaloren, it better take up a Kalimdor sized spot on the map.

[Ferlion]

It's because it was probably AI generated and then they threw random models on top and added shadows manually. So the models are slightly off in perspective and lighting and the shadows don't look like the match. Gives a similar impression to the character creation screen (those are also flat with 3D models on top).

Have we seen that big dino in game or a datamined model?



Someone on the SoL discord said the dwarf looks like a drakonid frame. Blizzard does like to reuse things.