Battle for Azeroth will also see Blizzard finding use for older landmasses in the form of the other new type of content, warfronts. Once again, warfronts are a PvE take on what might be seen as a traditionally PvP setup: A group of 20 players team up and work together to establish a base at important strategic points in the world. Players will go up against advanced AI and will need to build up a base, send out troops and even expand a tech tree. It’s basically a miniature version of what old-school gamers might remember from the original Warcraft strategy games.
Beyond simply questing through these regions, players will be working to unlock another new feature of Battle for Azeroth: allied races. Blizzard is finally fulfilling a long-time request from players by giving them the opportunity to play as what the community sometimes describes as “sub-races.” These include dark iron dwarves, highmountain tauren, void elves and several other variations on currently existing World of Warcraft races.
Afrasiabi calls them “absolutely new races, for all intents and purposes.” As such, they will come with their own unique racial abilities as well. For example, void elves will have a short-range teleport, while highmountain tauren will have a charge ability in place of the war stomp that regular tauren use.
ut even if artifact weapons themselves are disappearing, the spirit of that system will carry on in something new: a system Blizzard is calling “the Heart of Azeroth.” Taking the form of a legendary necklace, the Heart of Azeroth will allow players to use a new resource called Azerite to imbue their armor with new powers and traits. It takes the end-game progression that artifact weapons provided but expands it to many pieces of armor rather than just a few dozen weapons.
Hazzikostas is eager to point out one major change upgrade from the artifact weapon system to the Heart of Azeroth: it no longer requires separate progression for different specializations of your one class. All of the upgrading will go through the Heart of Azeroth necklace, so you can share progression across different specs and, in theory, different pieces of gear.
Announce shit expansion the last suckers still playing will buy no matter how shit it is and get everyone else as bored and uninterested as possible :doge
Then announce WoW classic and get everyone who left back :money
Blizzard :rollsafe
They actually announced the classic first. :doge
They phoned it in this year really. No new game and the same stuff they do every year aka new content for their existing games.
so many naysayers in the ERA classic WoW threadI'd prefer TBC WoW, tbh. That and LK were really good, though LK was a bit of a downward slope.
fact remains vanilla WoW is a vastly simpler game and has its own charm even though it has its flaws
hardcore WoW people that play retail don't want to admit blizzard fucked up WoW with so many expansions, it made the game insanely complicated and the ability pruning just made things boring, not simpler
so many naysayers in the ERA classic WoW threadI'd prefer TBC WoW, tbh. That and LK were really good, though LK was a bit of a downward slope.
fact remains vanilla WoW is a vastly simpler game and has its own charm even though it has its flaws
hardcore WoW people that play retail don't want to admit blizzard fucked up WoW with so many expansions, it made the game insanely complicated and the ability pruning just made things boring, not simpler
TBC LK end game was junk.But TK BT and Sunwell were awesome ??? ToC and RS were kinda wack but Uld is probably the best raid Blizz ever made. I really had a ton of fun with ICC on both normal and heroic too.
Vanilla at 60 it didn't get better than that.
I also don't understand why people like Overwatch. I feel that after about two decades of gaming and having experienced UT, Quake and CS etc with all of the mods they had to offer, something like Overwatch is very boring for me.If you haven't but might like to try it and see what the deal is, here's a free demo: http://store.steampowered.com/app/444090/Paladins/
Footage from the Diablo news blowout:It's not even surprising to me anymore, sadly. It would have been better to make a D4 instead of not even bothering to beat the dead D3 horse. The game got fixed and like you said it's a great game in a good place, but I don't see why they should stick with it when they have potential for D4. Think of all the things they could do. More focus on boss fights, boss specific loot, and dare I say it... dungeon raids. Even the D1 style level with the OG (and new) bosses would be so cool. They could (finally) give us better graphics, give us character customization. A lot of the stuff I'm mentioning would be frowned upon by fellow Diablo vets, but it's 2017 so eh. There are bigger sins out there in terms of sequels.
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ActiBlizz's treatment of Diablo is mind boggling to me. Like, ok- yes D3 had serious issues. It's still one of the best selling games ever, tho, (and is in a relatively good place now) and gets treated like a mentally challenged middle chlid the parents kind of wish they'd drowned instead of put effort into keeping alive. They could be making a lot of money selling stash tabs, more necro type character packs, and especially cosmetic micro transactions, but they seem intent on just making it live under the stairs instead. Derp.
I also don't understand why people like Overwatch. I feel that after about two decades of gaming and having experienced UT, Quake and CS etc with all of the mods they had to offer, something like Overwatch is very boring for me.If you haven't but might like to try it and see what the deal is, here's a free demo: http://store.steampowered.com/app/444090/Paladins/
Torchlight devs shit canned
Torchlight devs shit cannedTheir last game, Hob, must have really bombed hard. I didn't even know it existed until the GB quick look. I wonder if they knew they were done and just made it as their swan song.
The first was fun (but boring in the long run), didn't play much of the second since D3 came out and I got burned out on that first. But RIP Runic Games anyway. :'(
All the founders except maybe one had already bailed out of Runic, especially after they sold the company to Perfect World (all the way back in 2010 when they were still considering that Torchlight MMO), the Schaefers (original Diablo guys) and Travis Baldree left in 2014 to join the company working on Rebel Galaxy.Torchlight devs shit cannedTheir last game, Hob, must have really bombed hard. I didn't even know it existed until the GB quick look. I wonder if they knew they were done and just made it as their swan song.
Torchlight devs shit cannedTheir last game, Hob, must have really bombed hard. I didn't even know it existed until the GB quick look. I wonder if they knew they were done and just made it as their swan song.
SCII goes F2P.
MoP is the best expansion.
Panda Land. :rock
Because I was considering resubbing. :doge