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

[ro9ue]

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.



I'm not trying to convince you of anything.

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

You realize people are doing this for fun right? That's all these threads are. There are no stakes on being right or wrong.

Besides, it's not like it's a matter of 100% confidence. People can assign probabilities. There are certain ones that have absolutely weight at all, versus ones that are basically a cinematic Bolvar which is nearing 95%+ confidence with the dark horse chance some legitimate artist spent a lot of time to troll.

[Imotbh]

No I mean, whoever got their hands on the screenshots to post them. Who would have access to the features trailer to be able to take screenshots? Only a Blizz dev right? That's really damn risky to do with your work computer I would think. Telling a friend a secret is one thing but screenshotting your work, saving it, and then moving it off your work computer seems like a bad idea.

If there's a leak, it's from the press, not a Blizz employee IMO.

[Izalla]

Press embargoes with the big guys exist and there's also partners that would have early access. Hell, maybe it's some silly exploit that allows one to view some thumbnails from private YouTube videos like that one that happened a few years ago. Theoretically could have been any of that, provided it is real.

Spicy spicy.

[Marlamin]

If this ends up being fake I'm going to need a detailed breakdown by the artist on how it was made, just like I still want a breakdown by the person who made the Stormwind Harbor ghosts and the Tel'Abim banana crate cutscene screenshots from previous leak seasons.

You're so cute.

You're pretty cool, too!

[Izalla]

If there's a leak, it's from the press, not a Blizz employee IMO.

That's what gave me pause, but Marlamin gave me a list of people who would be given the features trailer besides the devs so it's a non-issue after all.

[Nibelheimy]

I remember people saying the dwarves hands looked like AI because AI can't do hands. I'm going to LOL so hard if this is real and people dismissed it because the dwarves have weird hands. (The blue Dwarf in the lower picture)

Who had that picture of the weird trogg dwarves from the cataclysm collectors edition?

[Demonly]

It's a laptop, the screen is angled back.

I still stand by that one being 95%+ fake, because every expansion's website is uniquely designed and this is just a direct copy of the existing dragonflight where someone went through and changed everything slightly ("Oh, diamond scroll entry indicators instead of circles!", etc.)

I want to agree, but do we think they went through the trouble of making another and putting the character front center screen in this new leak?

[Izalla]

If this ends up being fake I'm going to need a detailed breakdown by the artist on how it was made, just like I still want a breakdown by the person who made the Stormwind Harbor ghosts and the Tel'Abim banana crate cutscene screenshots from previous leak seasons.



You're pretty cool, too!

Maybe they're all by the same person.

[Pinksocking]

Someone just made a thread about potential 11.0 zones

When you Google search aerie peak the eagle from the 2nd pic appears


In the very exact orientation

Thoughts?

[justwatching]

I remember people saying the dwarves hands looked like AI because AI can't do hands. I'm going to LOL so hard if this is real and people dismissed it because the dwarves have weird hands.

Who had that picture of the weird trogg dwarves from the cataclysm collectors edition?

Still remember when people dismissed Dracthyr...and here we are.

[Demonly]

When you Google search aerie peak the eagle from the third pic appears https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wo...20061124145530


In the very exact orientation

Thoughts?

CRAZY. That is indeed near exact proportions & angle. If this is a fake this is extremely well done.

[justwatching]

CRAZY. That is indeed near exact proportions & angle. If this is a fake this is extremely well done.

Could be that they pulled it from there and reused it.

[Izalla]

If this is fake, it's either made by the same person who made that website image leak, or they are piggy backing off that one. The zone order in the screenshots matches the zone order in the website (Khaz Algar then the desert area, with another zone after the desert)

[Vakir]

You realize people are doing this for fun right? That's all these threads are. There are no stakes on being right or wrong.

There's making armchair judgments, and then there's people who literally take the ancient meme of "It's a shoop, I can tell by the pixels and having seen many shoops in my time" and deliver it with no irony or self-awareness.

It's just really amusing when nobody learns anything. Those probabilities are arbitrary regardless, just as it is people staking their POV on something likely designed to obfuscate if it is fake.

There's a big difference between "hey, that looks legit/fake" and the visual reading equivalent of saying "I'm a pretty good poker player - I have full confidence that I can win with 20% of the deck in play while going against a table full of walruses."

The former is fandom, beyond the latter lies madness.

[Nibelheimy]

I mean considering the Khaz'Algarians are supposed to have set up a similar dwarven society would it not be expected to have similar architecture? I wouldn't use it as a reason for the leak being faked in this specific circumstance.

[Viridiel]

If this ends up being fake I'm going to need a detailed breakdown by the artist on how it was made, just like I still want a breakdown by the person who made the Stormwind Harbor ghosts and the Tel'Abim banana crate cutscene screenshots from previous leak seasons.

Same, and I'd like to see more art from the person who made the Stormbreaker logo.

[Marlamin]

I'm not sure asset reuse is a pro/con towards it being real or not, they've very clearly been updating and reusing existing kits throughout Dragonflight. They also added like ~200 unique tree models so trees from Dragonflight showing up in 11.0 wouldn't be something I'd think is weird either.

[Ferlion]

Def the eagle.

[Izalla]

When you Google search aerie peak the eagle from the 2nd pic appears


In the very exact orientation

Thoughts?

Aha, it was the Aerie Peak one I was thinking of then, not Ohn'ahran Plains

[matijwow]

If this is real, it means that back to back, we discover a lost island continent to explore which has 4 zones, some with similar biomes.

I'd be disappointed, but I wouldn't be surprised.