World of Warcraft's Night Elf Gets a Face-lift For Warlords of Dreanor
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Qizx said:
The NE's weren't already as well? That's surprising. But then again, the possible explanation I already supposed could work here as well though. They're quite an effective marketing tool.anthony87 said:
I, for one, am more looking forward to my Undead looking even more ghastly and my Dwarf looking even more gruff.
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ha! But too be fair, they're, you know, purple. Even if their lips weren't purple, can you blame them for wearing that lipstick color? xPRJ 17 said:This I know, and there's nothing wrong with that. But considering this image (which is what I was going off of), I'd say there's no real way to implement such a subtle detail so that it'd be noticeable without being too noticeable, if you know what I mean.Vegosiux said:Well, technically, sharp canines have been with the night elves since their inception back in Warcraft 3 (official Blizzard art):RJ 17 said:
It's subtle, but it's there. And they've not been too vampiric so far, have they ^^
The purple lipstick certainly doesn't help her not look like a vampire, for that matter. =3
As others said, Blizzard has been doing a very slow and gradual reveal, starting with the two (orcs, dwarves) at blizzcon and several others over time afterwards on their main website (human female, tauren male, draenei female, orc female, dwarf female, etc etc)Cowabungaa said:
Since when did Nelfs have fangs? I have never heard or seen this before.Ferisar said:So, I did a look-see at the original post on the WoW site, and just realized that half the playerbase is losing their shit over the lack of fangs. I figure it's relevant enough to this comment. But yeah, they're still getting them. So, if scarier elves is what we want...Smilomaniac said:
guess that's what we're getting
You've gotten me really curious now.Cowabungaa said:
Anyways, hopefully this reveal will go smoothly but i highly doubt it will. People on all sides tend lend too much scrutiny to things like this Hell, we already have someone saying that the added muscle tone might be a problem because it means people will go prancing their Nelf about in nothing but their small clothes. You just can't win.
Damn She looks great.
I always kinda hated the stick-figure rubbish. I think they got a good balance here
I always kinda hated the stick-figure rubbish. I think they got a good balance here
Since always, actually. They were more "pronounced canines" rather than straight-up vampire fangs, but there it is. It was never that pronounced though, and not very easy to see unless you are zoomed pretty closely. There's a fan theory that they're the left-overs from tusks as it's very much hinted that Night Elves are the descendants of Trolls who evolved due to their proximity to the original Well of Eternity.SacremPyrobolum said:
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I think I know too much WoW lore.
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Also explains why the Blood Elves don't have them, since their migration away from the Well and a complete switch from nocturnal existence further removes most of their original traits outside of looking totes fab and having the elongated ears.
But really, why care about losing some fangs when you have the best hair ever, right?
With the model comes new animations, and I assume the option to hide your helmet and cloak will remain in the game. Plus it's a bonus for Roleplayers who usually take more care in the appearance of their character.BigTuk said:
OT: It looks nice, and the face being blank is just the default so I look forward to the updated versions of them.
Every expansion they overhaul the engine. It is definitely not even close to the original engine. There was a slight improvement in the Burning Crusade. They added more lighting effects and the phase technology in Wrath. The biggest overhaul was in Cataclysm when the completely overhauled the graphics and lighting systems, beefed up the amount of polys and the resolution and included more maps to the graphics. Which the biggest change was the water rendering.Aeshi said:
Cataclysm may have worse in the gameplay and story sections, however it was a greatly improved engine. They kept pushing the engine throughout Cataclysm, with the last improvements to the sky boxes, as seen in Dragon Soul dungeons and Raid. A lot of vanilla was remodeled and re-textured for Cataclysm
Most of the improvements in Mists of Pandaria and Warlords revolve around their terrain creation tools. Most of the problems with WoW is because most of the models are outdated, not just the character models, but even the terrain and objects were built for the older engines. It would be to much work to remodel everything at once. I believe Warlords was originally planned to revamp Outlands, just like Cataclysm did with vanilla. However after the mistakes of Cataclysm, I think they choose to start from scratch, hence going back in time.