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

[Izalla]

I am really curious about what is sticking out of the back of the mountain dwarfs back. This could potentially be AI generated with some photoshop work added in, but this is still impressive if that's the case.

Sticking out where? I just see him raising a hammer in the air.


Man these are the best kinds of things during leak season. Well done stuff we can really look at and dig into and argue over.

[PotHockets]

In the third picture on the right in the background is that same Algarin or whatever the hell it was from the website leak. So if this is legit and it kinda looks like it is then that website is also legit but I could have sworn someone admitted to faking it.

[Mecheon]

Man these are the best kinds of things during leak season. Well done stuff we can really look at and dig into and argue over.

Absolutely. Up there with 'ghost fleet invading Stormwind'

[Teriz]

The trees look reused, but that's it.

The trees, the rocks, and the mist effects. Only difference is the ground has more colors.

Also the 4th pic looks like the more wooded areas of Ohn'ahran plains....

[Leowyld]

If they are real, I'm guessing the second one is Khaz Algar, or the same zone as it. And maybe the last one is either where Eonar tried to plant her tree or that one dragon flew through the storms and landed (or maybe the two are one and the same)

[Demonly]

Can someone with access to the game right now check the bird statues in Ohn'ahran Plains to see if they match the one in the second screenshot?

kinda?

[Hitei]

We're at the phase where people are giving completely design-illiterate takes in response to something that may or may not be real and that is impossible to parse at a low resolution.

The good news is, that means it's a good time to start anticipating a real smoking gun soon if this isn't it. (Blue-Eyes White Bolvar is totally a photoshop, those Dracthyr are from Second Life, etc.)

The bad news is, almost every single take just keeps tanking how I feel about the human race.

Look, you're gonna be hard pressed to convince me this shit isn't photoshopped:



Look at those blurs.

[Biomega]

Never going to believe anything low-res.

Not in this day and age.

That's just done to make it harder to detect fakes.

[PotHockets]

Never going to believe anything low-res.

Not in this day and age.

That's just done to make it harder to detect fakes.

Dracthyr were low res at first

[Woke it Up]

If this is claiming to be from the announce cinematic as per the top screenshot, then shouldn't the other three have the names too?

[Woggmer]

Hmmm that kind of looks legit. AI would not be able to fake the WoW Art style this perfect. However, the issue is that I do not see anything underground related which is giving me the read flag.

I don't think Blizz ever hinted at Underground stuff... but they certainly hinted at the whole West of Kalimdor stuff.

...Unless, this is some Bronze Dragon Time-Travel Shenanigans...

[Mecheon]

And maybe the last one is either where Eonar tried to plant her tree

There's a pretty big chance the tree site is Un'goro

[Marlamin]

They're super similar to other zone reveals like the Shadowlands zone reveal screenshots, even those look like they've had some post-processing/shopping done.

[Hitei]

If this is claiming to be from the announce cinematic as per the top screenshot, then shouldn't the other three have the names too?

No, the claim is that the first one is the feature appearing on screen and the other three are subsequent shots.

[Vakir]

Welcome to the deepfake/ AI ease-of-access fake world. Don’t believe your lyin eyes

This is one of the takes I'm talking about, though, lol.

Both affirmative and denying of this, it's all absurd.

It's so fucking tiny and compressed, but even if it wasn't, WoW is a game that has iterative qualities of existing biome styles even when it doesnt reuse shit, making all of the "this looks like X" zones absolutely ridiculous, because they're always going to be some flavor.

People who are absolutely on board either like what they see and want an affirmation of it, or are skeptical and worried for the upcoming product and don't.
People who are calling fake are the same people who would call fake on literally anything that is flawed looking within WoW's cartoony style and homogenized biomes when based off something semi-real.

Case and point, people are so certain to say any given image is from any range of 3-4 zones from 2-3 different expansions.

It's not that people shouldn't be allowed to speculate, it's just that the confidence of it is hysterical when this community has 15 years of being bamboozled. It's a 360 by 810 image. Shit like "that cat looks flat" is impossible - it is literally too compressed and tiny to tell.

Look, you're gonna be hard pressed to convince me this shit isn't photoshopped

I'm not trying to convince you of anything.

It's a fool's errand to make any conclusion at all.

[Leowyld]

If this is claiming to be from the announce cinematic as per the top screenshot, then shouldn't the other three have the names too?

Do they do zone names in feature trailers? I think they've generally just done continent/area names. For instance, I think the BfA one just said Kul Tiras and Zandalar.

[matijwow]

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 Imgur upload: 2:18:34 AM GMT https://imgur.com/GtPQwkl
The MMO-Champ post (from a burner account): 2:45 AM GMT https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...2#post54269962
The reddit post (from a burner account): 2:49:55 AM GMT https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...i/is_this_110/

Could just be one guy posting over the course of a half hour, pretending he's not the source.

[Ferlion]

people nitpicked like this about both SL and DF leaks

People also thought the picture of ghosts invading Stormwind was too close to WoW to be fake.

[Hitei]

They're super similar to other zone reveals like the Shadowlands zone reveal screenshots, even those look like they've had some post-processing/shopping done.

But those are press kit secondary images, not trailer photos.

[Throren]

wait remember that stone-ogre looking race from that other past leak?