r/classicwow • u/Weltenbaum • 13d ago

Forever Beta Feedback Completely stretched helmets in forever

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u/Nyuusankininryou 13d ago

Why did they change anything but textures? Whats the point?

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u/samjoe6969 13d ago

Because they used the same skeletons for SD and HD

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u/stupidqueef 13d ago

why though? what an odd decision

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u/Iosis 13d ago

Apparently it was significantly easier to recreate the classic animations on the retail skeletons than to create new animations for the classic skeletons. They want to be able to create new animations for Forever, so they went with the retail skeletons to make that more doable.

Future-proofing, basically, but with some pretty big drawbacks. When this decision was made they hadn’t yet decided to include the SD models so there wasn’t any trade-off from Blizzard’s perspective. Once they did add the SD models, the downsides of this approach became apparent.

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u/stupidqueef 13d ago

that makes sense. thanks :) I'm sure they can make it work given their track record with the beta so far.

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u/hucklepinch 13d ago

Laziness, greed or both. The game is going to make them so much money and they still can't do things right.