A tribute to the old guard

in GEMS3 years ago

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Classic is a recreation of World of Warcraft patch 1.12, one of the first to be implemented. That it is a reconstruction and not the original is due to a series of problems during the development phase, such as incompatibilities with current login and anti-cheat systems and with modern graphics cards. So the development team decided to remake Vanilla using the current game engine, the same one used in Battle for Azeroth.

No changes have been made to the original game so the graphics, mission texts and even bugs are the same as remembered. At a time when so much importance is given to the graphic section, it may be a bit risky to relaunch such an archaic version in that sense, but World of Warcraft fans asked for the game unaltered, without any modification, Blizzard has delivered, and for the At the moment it seems to be quite popular, in the absence of seeing if it is maintained over time.

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Playing Classic is realizing how much the game has changed with each new expansion. We do not have the possibility to fly, or to use mounts to go faster, the achievement system is not even present, but the public to whom this version of World of Warcraft is oriented knows that none of that is what makes the game so special. experience. The information about the game in 2004 was minimal compared to what we have now, and not very easy to access, so it was necessary to ask in the game chats to get answers about which way we had to follow to get to such a dungeon. or where an enemy was.

The interaction between players, the obligation to socialize to advance was what most defined that era and that has been lost little by little with each expansion in order to increase the level of comfort and convenience of the players. It is no longer necessary to spend hours in the kingdom chat looking for a group to carry out a dungeon or an assault as before, we can use the Gang Finder, sign up and the system will automatically find a group for us without having to cross a single word with anyone , a relief for the more introverted.

This social aspect has also returned with Classic and is the center of its charm. There is always life in the kingdom chat, whether it is to form groups, recruit members for guilds or simply to hang out while waiting at the entrance of the dungeon, in a very lively atmosphere remembering old times in the game. It's also not uncommon to run into other players and exchange buff spells as greetings while on our way to another city.

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That a game in which there is so much competition for existing resources has a friendly face is due, in part, to the fact that the Classic players are largely the same children who played in 2004 and who have now become adults with responsibilities and very little time to invest. Enemies only give experience and loot to the player who made the first hit and this is a problem if the enemy is unique, is part of a mission and has a respawn time of several minutes; so an order has been established within the chaos and it is not uncommon to see queues of players to take down a monster and get its head.

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Much is said about the difficulty of the early years of World of Warcraft. If it is true that the enemies hit harder and it is very difficult to fight against more than one at the same time since the mana is exhausted very easily, forcing us to use the melee weapons that we have available to finish the fight, and that if we don't run out of life before Facing a monster that is two or more levels above our character, something that does not involve any effort in the current version, can be very difficult if we are alone and is not recommended.

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Classic is not a finished project, but is still in development. To keep players interested, Blizzard has devised an expansion plan divided into phases that will gradually roll out to complete the Vanilla experience. It is mainly about the opening of such remembered instances as Zul'Gurub, Blackwing Lair and The Massacre, but we can also take part in events as interesting as the effort to open the doors of Ahn'Qiraj (and thus be able to unlock the assault) and the invasion of the Plague of the Lich King.

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