Data miner Simaia noticed a significant jump in item numbers (IDs) of two entries in the database related to player character customization options in the latest patch to 10.1PTR.
Among them, chrcustomizationchoice db2 jumped directly from 34719 to 45086, skipping 10367 numbers.
ChrcustomizationElement DB2 jumped from 123985 to 128117, skipping 4132 numbers.
This large numbering jump is usually caused by designers adding a lot of undisclosed content to the game.
Each custom option has its own number, and normally each new option is incremented by one relative to the previous one. Such a huge jump in character customization-related entries is likely to add new races or add a lot of customization to existing races.
There have been several numbering jumps in character customization entries throughout history, including artifact appearances/druid forms, human customization options, and demon hunters/mechanical gnomes joining.
The most recent jump was also discovered by Simaia, with an anomalous jump of 3000+ spans in 9.1.5, which is more than enough to add all customization options for a whole new race or replace many cosmetic options of an existing race.
With the update of the game version, this phenomenon reappeared in 9.2, which had 2000+ and 7000+ number jumps, which turned out to be due to the development of 10.0 adding the Dragon Hill race and the dragon trainer mount phantom.
So this leap with a larger span could mean that one or two new races are in development, or that designers are planning to add a lot of customization options to existing races.
In addition, the previously mentioned feature that players can customize character voices has also progressed, and some new code for character voice selection has been added to the game.
Both the addition of code and the addition of strings indicate that players can audition sample voices when selecting a voice in the game options.
About role-selectable voice progression:
On July 15, 2022, when Body Type 1 Body Type 2 appeared, the voice options were most likely separated.
On July 20, 2022, voice was added to the character customization option type in the 10.0A test.
On July 23, 2022, some content made by the 10.0A test development team for voice options was discovered.
On August 3, 2022, a new DB2 file called chrcustomizationvoice appeared, with only two fields, 0 and 1, and it was not sure whether it corresponded to body type 1/body type 2. 10.1 After the PTR went live, there was an additional field under this entry: "5".
On August 25, 2022, several mysterious entries 30083-30090 were added to the chrcustomization (role customization options) database, pay attention to the last column chrcustomizationvoiceID, other options in the role customization options database This column is 0, only these entries have 0/1/2/3 four classifications.
The 30080-30082 added before 30083 is not really a customization option, but is suitable for black silhouettes of characters that appear when previewing using transfiguration or custom character models, and is technically similar in size to the Blood Elf male/human females used for the Dragon Hill Illusion.