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

[Ansi]

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Thanks for putting that into context

[ChairmanKaga]

This is moving so fast I can't keep up.

[Fahrad Wagner]

This is moving so fast I can't keep up.

Welcome to the hype train kiddo

[Chickat]

I cant read all that you mad lads. Catch me up on the last 10 hours please.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

Welcome to the hype train kiddo

At this point the admins should just give you a special flair like Hype Train God or something. You've been doing this for years.

[Pinksocking]

This is moving so fast I can't keep up.

Chat moving so fast nobody will know how much I want tinkers in the expac

[Sentynel]

This one passes the gut check for me. We'll see.

The only thing that stands out as sus here is the ground mount system. Whats the point of that when Dragonriding/flying exists?

To reintroduce Pathfinder?

You start on ground, but actually faster, and later you unlock dragonriding and fly.

[kavikor]

The Havi image is definitely something thats very well made if its fake, except the horns its just a CGI model of the NPC, even has the boney bits and pieces on the armor that the NPC ingame has, tattoos are also perfectly accurate, so a very good job.

I don't want to go and point to everything as AI, but I did just want to say that it's very easy to reproduce these CGI looking characters with a lot of AI programs.

Bing and DALL-E do this especially well, if you type in "Runic Tattoos, Nordic Shaman/Witch/Warlock in CGI Style" maybe throw in some references to God of War to give it an idea.

For example, if you try to ask either of those AI generators create an Orc from World of Warcraft it creates pretty spot on, 1 to 1 images of full CG Warcraft movie/Saurfang level cinematic orcs. Its pretty impressive.

Not saying it's 100% fake, I just have a hard time trusting any 'CGI' looking leaks due to this.

[Vakir]

How would it play in WoW though?

Flight locked areas with large chasms to jump over.

Slopes you can shortcut through riding something that can roll.

Climbable walls.

The hard part would be the challenges surrounding all the assets needed to have that kind of theoretical diversity. They can't put it all on one type of mount e.g. dragons.

[kavikor]

To reintroduce Pathfinder?

You start on ground, but actually faster, and later you unlock dragonriding and fly.

Or perhaps for underground zones? We get mounts that can jump across chasms, or climb across rock walls, or can crash through rock barriers

[Chickat]

Titanforged is so ugly as an expac name :s

People said the same thing about most other expansions.

[Edlarel]

ground mounts get a new system like flying did in dragonflight

I could see this functioning like the riding WQs in Legion where you had to go straight to build speed and lost it when you turned. I didn't care for those all that much, but if they iterated on it, could have potential

[Stonecloak]

I don't want to go and point to everything as AI, but I did just want to say that it's very easy to reproduce these CGI looking characters with a lot of AI programs.

Bing and DALL-E do this especially well, if you type in "Runic Tattoos, Nordic Shaman/Witch/Warlock in CGI Style" maybe throw in some references to God of War to give it an idea.

For example, if you try to ask either of those AI generators create an Orc from World of Warcraft it creates pretty spot on, 1 to 1 images of full CG Warcraft movie/Saurfang level cinematic orcs. Its pretty impressive.

Not saying it's 100% fake, I just have a hard time trusting any 'CGI' looking leaks due to this.

It's kind of a toss-up then. To me, it doesn't have an Ai look to it. There are subtle differences between real art, and Ai art.

[Baedril]

No, but we're still mourning Ocho

Taken from us too soon.

[Sentynel]

Or perhaps for underground zones? We get mounts that can jump across chasms, or climb across rock walls, or can crash through rock barriers

Yea or that. Ground mounts kinda need the same revamp that flying received in DF. It's just boring.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

I could see this functioning like the riding WQs in Legion where you had to go straight to build speed and lost it when you turned. I didn't care for those all that much, but if they iterated on it, could have potential

Imagine something like how GW2 does ground mounts - very fast, visceral, and with the physics and animation to make it feel natural...

Shit, I want that now.

[justwatching]

To reintroduce Pathfinder?

You start on ground, but actually faster, and later you unlock dragonriding and fly.

Maybe but can they sell that after Dragonriding from Day 1 ?

[Mrpms]

I could see this functioning like the riding WQs in Legion where you had to go straight to build speed and lost it when you turned. I didn't care for those all that much, but if they iterated on it, could have potential

New dynamic mount type: Hype Train - there are no breaks

[taishar68]

Chat moving so fast nobody will know how much I want tinkers in the expac

Oh we’re aware.

*cue the black helicopters*

[Edlarel]

Imagine something like how GW2 does ground mounts - very fast, visceral, and with the physics and animation to make it feel natural...

Shit, I want that now.

Never played GW2, but Dragonriding is a direct version of their flying, so I could 100% see them doing whatever was done there for ground mounts. Off to check videos to see how it'd work.