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

[Worldshaper]

Literally the time area.. idk why this needs to be overanalysed.

Somebody posts an obviously fake AI image: the thread goes nuts for a week, analysing every little detail and bending itself backwards to make it fit.

Blizzard themselves uploads stuff that seems a little suspicious: the thread goes "naah, there's nothing to this and I don't understand why anybody would waste their time on this".

[vintage79]

Indeed the same pillar

there is more portals in this 'room'

maybe in the new (revamped) wow this will be a hub connecting all leveling zones? something like cavern of time / portal room in ESO? (to the old world)

[Sondrelk]

Can someone explain me what makes people consider this one screenshot to be made by an AI?



While this architecture is quite weird, it looks like it has realistic proportions, with rock textures fitting the style of modern expansions, ingame water, and trees and biomes that fit the two zones from the four screenshot leak.

The general consensus is that making a screenshot of a WoW zone is extremely difficult with AI gen, and that images like these are much more likely made with level editors, of which we have had good examples of for years.

Personally I find it hard to believe this image. Not because I couldn't see a zone with this colour palette, and architecture with this style. But because the zone doesn't seem like it would be intuitive to play in this form.
Even with dragonriding likely being carried forwards, there simply doesn't seem to be any roads to get to the places we see here, which suggests to me a lack of cohesive level design.

[Echil46]

Can someone explain me what makes people consider this one screenshot to be made by an AI?

While this architecture is quite weird, it looks like it has realistic proportions, with rock textures fitting the style of modern expansions, ingame water, and trees and biomes that fit the two zones from the four screenshot leak.

I'm not saying its fake, nor its real, but i'm dubious as the logic behind snapping a picture of a background that has ABSOLUTELY nothing special.
If you are exited about something to come, you pick something significant.
Either you worked on the game and you're like "A few more days 'til player see THAT MODEL i made". or "til player get to explore THAT ZONE i worked on".

Or you have intel on the game and you're excited to get into the game, and you use a more significant picture. Like, the capital upclose, or a major building.. or anything more significant.

Not saying its fake, but if its real, the author of that picture is absolutely not original ^^

[milkmustache]

Somebody posts an obviously fake AI image: the thread goes nuts for a week, analysing every little detail and bending itself backwards to make it fit.

Blizzard themselves uploads stuff that seems a little suspicious: the thread goes "naah, there's nothing to this and I don't understand why anybody would waste their time on this".

Yea it is a bit suspicious. 1 for 1, we're looking at an animated version of the Corridor of Time. It's probably just for Blizzcon inclusion fun, but who knows, a hint isn't a stretch! For the #TeamWorldRevamp cult, we can point out that the portal reveals Orgrimmar, which is amongst one of the larger clues about a world revamp via the Thunder Lizard Spirit's dialogue in the Orc Heritage quest.

[Nyel]

Blizzard themselves uploads stuff that seems a little suspicious: the thread goes "naah, there's nothing to this and I don't understand why anybody would waste their time on this".

Because there’s really nothing suspicious about it. There doesn’t need to be a philosophical debate of time future and time past regarding this picture.

[allifeur]

Whoa where did this come from?

From redditor u/spicy_sean_spicer, which seems to be someone's old account with notably bad taste and bad humour ; something I would expect from someone who doesn't care about leaking content early. NSFW content down there so be cautious.

Zoom in. Specifically around the banding and the buildings to the right you can tell it started as painted art, probably ai made, then they added the artifcating to cover up the imperfections. Like it's clearly AI although it is a pretty good I'd like to know what they used to get it to stylize that close to Blizz Art.

It does have this weird feeling where it looks like a minecraft map turned into WoW, but I'm failing to notice those visual artifacts you're refering to.

[Paula Deen]

there is more portals in this 'room'

maybe in the new (revamped) wow this will be a hub connecting all leveling zones? something like cavern of time / portal room in ESO? (to the old world)

We already have a working portal room that was JUST expanded in 10.2 to accommodate future releases.

[Nyel]

Personally I find it hard to believe this image. Not because I couldn't see a zone with this colour palette, and architecture with this style. But because the zone doesn't seem like it would be intuitive to play in this form.
Even with dragonriding likely being carried forwards, there simply doesn't seem to be any roads to get to the places we see here, which suggests to me a lack of cohesive level design.

That zone basically looks like Kul Tiras. There’s nothing special about it.

[Only one player]

Blizzard no longer registers names in countries, many things have already been leaked through documents like this, can anyone find anything? like registering the xpac name in some Asian country

[Baraden]

Used it on another one of the AI generated images from the same batch...



I don't think we should be relying on this site. I even included the Bing watermark in the bottom left corner and it still can't tell it's AI.

Yeah AI detectors are duds

My uni thought about using them for assignments but gave up when they noticed that even dissertations written by doctorate level lecturers would often get flagged as AI written at times

[Alanar]

Somebody posts an obviously fake AI image: the thread goes nuts for a week, analysing every little detail and bending itself backwards to make it fit.

Blizzard themselves uploads stuff that seems a little suspicious: the thread goes "naah, there's nothing to this and I don't understand why anybody would waste their time on this".

But its not suspicious tho.

[Dnusha]

So 3/4 of an expansion?

I don't remember any H vs A stuff in BFA outside of war campaign, one raid and rare warfronts(ok maybe nazjatar). We spent like 314 days with Black Empire farming corruptions and essences for magni, 200 days raiding Azshara, 3 months of killing ghun with crusible of storm opening in less than 3 months after Battle of Dazaralor release.

[Nebron]

Can someone explain me what makes people consider this one screenshot to be made by an AI?



While this architecture is quite weird, it looks like it has realistic proportions, with rock textures fitting the style of modern expansions, ingame water, and trees and biomes that fit the two zones from the four screenshot leak.

To be fair, I really like this one. It seems like a good place to chill, a twilight's athmosphere is what I would embrace in it's entirety - just a little bit more of the pinks and violets and it would be perfect!

[allifeur]

The general consensus is that making a screenshot of a WoW zone is extremely difficult with AI gen, and that images like these are much more likely made with level editors, of which we have had good examples of for years.

Personally I find it hard to believe this image. Not because I couldn't see a zone with this colour palette, and architecture with this style. But because the zone doesn't seem like it would be intuitive to play in this form.
Even with dragonriding likely being carried forwards, there simply doesn't seem to be any roads to get to the places we see here, which suggests to me a lack of cohesive level design.

We already had mountains terrains that had to be accessed through caverns, or even mountainous breach like this vrykul village at Legion.
Moreover, there is a path that can be seen in the mountain, I would expect it to be shaped like this:

[Harbour]

Building constructions on the right doesnt look right. They are too fleshed out in contrast to the absolutely shitty painted rocks.

[allifeur]

Building constructions on the right doesnt look right. They are too fleshed out in contrast to the absolutely shitty painted rocks.

Isn't it also the case with most areas in WoW, though? On contrary I would say they have more details compared to what we generally have.

[Harbour]

Not to that degree.
In leaked screenshot those nearest rocks look offensively painted on. Maybe Blizzard just dropped the ball, and those are real, but i hope not.

[Demonly]

Isn't it also the case with most areas in WoW, though? On contrary I would say they have more details compared to what we generally have.

While I agree, one thing to point out is the sky looks like absolute paint

[Taurelius]

It's like impossible to make some of you folks happy.