Blizzard announced "Classic" World of Warcraft

[Manjuice Nutella]

The only reward some people need is the fun of it. I know, it's shocking that people sometimes do things for fun in a video game, but it's true.

No, people in WoW need rewards which are rendered completely obsolete by the time next expansion rolls in.

 

[MajorMace]

I suspect that past a few days, maybe weeks - a lot of people will wonder what tf they were expecting.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-classic-realm-names-and-types-europe/67930

Only two English PVP servers for Europe. It's gonna be two hour queues every fucking evening...

I wanna know where the Spanish and Italian players go so I can dodge them. Pls post here if you find out.

 

[Lacrymas]

Aren't they using something that splits the servers so this entire thing with the waiting doesn't happen?

 

[bloodlover]

Just like I said, it doesn't have quantifiable rewards. And believing people will do something consistently just for the fun of it in an MMO that is expected to last for years is naive and perhaps out-of-touch with human nature.

Won't the content be released in stages? So end game content will be released over time, keeping people busy at least a year I'd say; not to mention that not many people will see Naxx in the first place or run around in full epics asap. And I'd argue that vanilla has quantifiable rewards much more than BfA since things are much harder to come by.

 

[Lacrymas]

Quantifiable rewards for world PvP. Check what the conversation is about :p

 

[J1M]

Stress test is still up. Might be a good time to get your keybindings and graphics settings figured out.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Stress test is still up. Might be a good time to get your keybindings and graphics settings figured out.

Thanks, I'll go do just that. Why is it still up?

 

[Wilian]

Stress test is still up. Might be a good time to get your keybindings and graphics settings figured out.

Thanks, I'll go do just that. Why is it still up?

They said they will extend it til Monday, no reason given other than popularity.

 

[Metro]

Graphics settings? Uh... everything maxed?

 

[Lacrymas]

I think they said they've added a bunch of options that weren't there in the original vanilla, like extra foliage, something to do with shadows, the new trees, etc.

 

[J1M]

If you want to turn off the retarded bloom effect, here is the console command:

/console set ffxGlow "0"

Congrats, now it doesn't look like you smeared Vaseline on your monitor.

 

[shihonage]

If you want to turn off the retarded bloom effect, here is the console command:

/console set ffxGlow "0"

Congrats, now it doesn't look like you smeared Vaseline on your monitor.

Did they remove that from the actual options? Because it exists in 1.12 as "Full-screen glow effect".

 

[J1M]

If you want to turn off the retarded bloom effect, here is the console command:

/console set ffxGlow "0"

Congrats, now it doesn't look like you smeared Vaseline on your monitor.

Did they remove that from the actual options? Because it exists in 1.12 as "Full-screen glow effect".

As far as I can tell, yes. Remember, Classic is the modern client with old data values and some effort put into recreating the old UI panels/combat formulas.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

If you want to turn off the retarded bloom effect, here is the console command:

/console set ffxGlow "0"

Congrats, now it doesn't look like you smeared Vaseline on your monitor.

Wrong, it looks very different from vanilla if you turn it off, the colors become different. There was a comparison on reddit. You don't want to do that.

 

[J1M]

If you want to turn off the retarded bloom effect, here is the console command:

/console set ffxGlow "0"

Congrats, now it doesn't look like you smeared Vaseline on your monitor.

Wrong, it looks very different from vanilla if you turn it off, the colors become different. There was a comparison on reddit. You don't want to do that.

Disagree. I turned it off back then too because it made the game look like shit. As bloom does in every game that uses it.

Edit: "reddit experts agree", lol

 

[shihonage]

WoW is the only game where bloom actually helped, because all models were made of 15 polygons and it smoothed out the edges and partially obscured the low resolution of textures.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Disagree. I turned it off back then too because it made the game look like shit. As bloom does in every game that uses it.

Edit: "reddit experts agree", lol

I feel like I'm talking in fucking tongues. How did you not understand a word of what I said?

Here's an infographic then.

Do you see?
ffxglow 1 gives you correct gamma and colors of vanilla, while turning it off gives you bland shit:

 

[J1M]

Did I stutter? All games look better without bloom.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

I agree. But this is not bloom. Bloom in games is a form of semi-transparent Gaussian blur of the image on top of the image itself in post processing. This looks like different gamma settings.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Was setting up addons today. This doc is a good starting guide, but it doesn't have everything: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18d_8vS9peVHuled8gx9PGksROcw6vwQx/view
The rest is here https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/cat160.html

Ended up installing 27 addons.

Spoiler

EZJunk
FasterLooting
TomTom
Questie
EZCoordinates
ClassicAuraDuration
OmniCC
Details!
RealMobHealth
dashingDismount
What's Training?
!MoncaiCompare
AtlasLoot
FriendsInfo
ClassicCastbars
Autostand
DominosClassic
oGlow
SimpleMap -- /smfade off
TitanPanel
Z-Perl
Modern QuestWatch
DBM
QuestLogEx
HideRaidManager
QuestFrameFixer

 

[Xor]

God dammit I'm actually seriously thinking about playing this fucking game again even after telling myself I wasn't going to. I really need to hide this thread.


See you assholes in-game, someone pick a US server or something.

 

[System]

Same old same old.

 

[Havoc]

It looked like a giant lag, since his pals were in a different position, fighting already something else.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

The Nordic community has decided to go to Shazzrah. I'll be joining them, cause at least these guys speak English, unlike arabs, italians, etc.

Any EU players here?

Name reservation is tonight, don't miss it. 00:01 CEST.