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Azeroth Round Table BlizzCon Interview with Jeremy Feasel and Paul Watkins on Island Expeditions

criado 07/11/2018 em 12:13 por perculia

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Blizzard learned some lessons from Islands at launch and is applying them in Patch 8.1. There is a new vendor selling some items for Dubloons. There are fewer Azerite events at the start, so you can see things like other invasions instead, as well as new events like Azerite Seams. There is also a new type of wave event, where you take a point and have groups of creatures attack you that are more and more powerful.

They talked a bit about the challenges of creating the AI bots. The AI bots will get a new location to shine in a future patch, with the Arathi Basin Brawl. One difficult and funny part of the AI bot creation was adding in jumping mechanics--the characters didn't feel realistic without jumping, then they jumped too much. Another challenge was figuring out the bots and line of sight. Blizzard ended up building a bot that only wanted to see, and let it loose in Dalaran, to fine-tune this behavior. There are also challenges in making the bots realistic--which means they don't always play perfectly.

The Islands reward system is a little too obfuscated. Ideally, you should be cool winning and want to focus on that, instead of playing a different way for rewards. Blizzard wants to encourage players to win and is thinking about ways for players to target rewards on islands.

All Island Battle Pets can be caged and traded in Patch 8.1.

Content like Islands and Heroic Warfronts is designed to provide players with a variety at content across group sizes outside of the traditional dungeon or mythic raid sizes.

The team is thinking about island content that could have special perks or bonuses for professions, similar to the mechanics in Court of Stars.

There are two brand-new AI teams coming for the Horde and Alliance in Patch 8.1. More teams will be coming in Rise of Azshara.

Blizzard is looking at ways to change up Island gameplay. For example, in Rise of Azshara, perhaps they could play around with the ruleset. Wouldn't it be cool if some Islands had no enemies, and the goals were exploration-based?

Islands may be related to the story of Magni and healing the world in the Rise of Azshara patch. The quest drops relate to larger story threads, some of which can be developed in BFA, and interesting drops will be added related to other storylines.

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Comentado por VaellirI'd love if some islands had certain story, rather than being just pure randomness, so they'd be somehow similar to scenarios from MoP.Comentado por SmiteypantzAll island pets cagable!Comentado por DrorithAwesome! ;DComentado por Soeroah"Blizzard wants to encourage players to win and is thinking about ways for players to target rewards on islands."

Yeeeeeeesssssss, finallyComentado por WishbladeMore story bits to islands would be awesome, and cool if it didn't always involve killing everything in sight and instead you could hunt for treasure and only fight the other faction for it.Comentado por AelielThe Islands reward system is a little too obfuscated.Ideally, you should be cool winning and want to focus on that, instead of playing a different way for rewards. selling pointscourseWouldn't it be cool if some Islands had no enemies, and the goals were exploration-based?aren'tComentado por ChilelaAll Island Battle Pets can be caged and traded in Patch 8.1.Comentado por KarnegBeing able to target specific rewards is a great change. Finally...
I still have no mounts from expeditions, so I'm looking forward to this.Comentado por omedon666Honestly my biggest complaints with islands are

a) The tug of war between "get it done, win and get out" and "but I want this mount/pet/transmog"

and b) As happy as I am that these are viable leveling content... as a non-source of gear they're really not ideal until heirlooms. Your gear remains static, but the scaling marches on.

Fix these and islands are appealing again beyond the rep grind!Comentado por RuskiIsland expeditions piqued my interest prior to BfA launch because it seemed there was new territory to explore. Once BfA launched, while I still somewhat enjoy these expeditions, it became clear rather quickly that the goal isn't to explore - instead it's to rush through and aoe mobs as quickly as possible, before your opponents can do the same.

In my mind - and it sounds like maybe Blizzard is moving in that direction - these shouldn't be resource races; these should be heroes exploring new lands and finding resource/enemies/loot/etc. to somehow help with the greater BfA conflict.Comentado por omedon666Island expeditions piqued my interest prior to BfA launch because it seemed there was new territory to explore. Once BfA launched, while I still somewhat enjoy these expeditions, it became clear rather quickly that the goal isn't to explore - instead it's to rush through and aoe mobs as quickly as possible, before your opponents can do the same.

In my mind - and it sounds like maybe Blizzard is moving in that direction - these shouldn't be resource races; these should be heroes exploring new lands and finding resource/enemies/loot/etc. to somehow help with the greater BfA conflict.Comentado por DrakvulIsland expeditions piqued my interest prior to BfA launch because it seemed there was new territory to explore. Once BfA launched, while I still somewhat enjoy these expeditions, it became clear rather quickly that the goal isn't to explore - instead it's to rush through and aoe mobs as quickly as possible, before your opponents can do the same.

In my mind - and it sounds like maybe Blizzard is moving in that direction - these shouldn't be resource races; these should be heroes exploring new lands and finding resource/enemies/loot/etc. to somehow help with the greater BfA conflict.Comentado por tmptfateBlizzard wants to encourage players to win and is thinking about ways for players to target rewards on islands.Comentado por jodmosThis means absolutely nothing. Pets boe, great. Mounts aren't (and even if they were BOE, they drop so rarely they would be priced out of the average player's range anyway) so it makes no difference as you're going to have to run the islands and deal with ridiculous levels of RNG which is only going to get worse as the keep adding to the drops, invasion types, mobs types, islands etc.

A way to target rewards. hmm, difficult one. Maybe a vendor of some type that uses a currency from the expeditions?Comentado por MaXiiczekI would like if Islands were more about exploration and less about mass pulls, there are just too many enemies, you often can't even go some route to a point you want to target, having less and more focused enemy camps would be nice :)Comentado por Tygravesar86Good, I will have a reason to do IEs again.I just have not wanted to since I rep capped with Honorbound weeks ago. Felt like that was the only "reward" out of it.Comentado por ViewofshadowThey can simply add new currency that drops from expeditions while trigering invasions. And then add the npc which goods change once a week with the new theme each time. Just like it was with coins in Legion.Comentado por 1900098This post was from a user who has deleted their account.Comentado por Fenril7Just an FYI if you all are looking for an Alliance and Horde communities JUST FOR Island Expeditions, we run all kinds from premade for Mythic and PvP to leveling up toons 110+.

I have posted the link in WoWHead message board, at the moment since Communities are capped out at 1,000 people we have two for the alliance at 1,000 and 940ish with a third community only days away from opening. Total members from the three around 2,200 people!

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/invite/amYdNVWi54b?region=US&faction=Alliance
Alliance Code: YeBzeRlskWm

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/invite/bLx0DLGfzDX?region=US&faction=Horde
Horde Code: bLx0DLGfzDXComentado por BarlowTheSeekerThe thing I hate about it most is it feels like there is a lot of fun stuff to be done, but players have made it unenjoyable. I want to do those little quests, but everyone is running around killing rares. And I get it, I want rewards too. They designed these sort of poorly if you ask me. I think they'd be way more fun as solo scenarios.

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