Hello everyone, this is Warcraft Weekly.
[Warcraft Weekly] is mainly composed of three parts: "Warcraft Events", "Warcraft Competitive Product Dynamics" and "Warcraft Game Update".
Let's take a look at the recent Warcraft news that is not unhappy!
【Warcraft Event】
Blizzard fired a 25-year-old employee and author of multiple Warcraft novels
At the end of April, Kristi Gordon, the creator of Blizzard's IP backstory, announced on Twitter that she had received a letter of dismissal from Blizzard as early as January 26 and would not be working on Blizzard's IP series of novels in the future.
It is reported that as the author of many official best-selling Warcraft novels such as "The Rise of the Lich King", "Heaven Falling Apart", "Brick and Stone", Christy Gordon has been writing related novels, scripts, and story settings for Blizzard for more than 25 years, and also won the first novel award for "Overwatch", and became a full-time employee of the Warcraft story development team in 2017.
But considering the poor plot shaping of Warcraft 9.0, and Christy Gordon's main business before being cut, writing worldview novels related to the "Codename: Odyssey" project, with so many debuffs, it seems understandable that Microsoft cut her.
In this regard, Christy Gordon also tweeted that she would love to work with Blizzard again in some form, but some other projects have found her, and she is happy to start a new adventure.
Blizzard updates the Warcraft national server special edition
At the beginning of May, World of Warcraft 11.0 "Battle for the Center of the Earth" U.S. test server underwent a wave of large-scale updates, in addition to adding some plot animations, some data mining gods found that a new description of the special version of the national server was added to the global string of the client. This means that Blizzard has indeed produced a special version of the A-test for the national server, which can be used by NetEase for review.
In other words, the progress of the opening of the national server of the Warcraft 11.0 version has now entered the review stage.
As for this special version, it is actually what we call the harmonious version, some bleeding effects, skeleton icons, and demonic creatures all need to be remodeled and rendered in order to pass the review.
At the same time, the Warcraft test server has also officially updated the LOGO of the simplified Chinese version, and it can be seen that Blizzard is very concerned about promoting the 11.0 version of "global synchronization", and the national server will be opened in August at the latest.
The next one is really 3A!Blizzard's new work urgently recruits a chief software engineer
Following last month's recruitment of a new project's creative director, narrative director, and senior art director, Blizzard has recently released a slew of job openings related to the mysterious 3A new title.
Among them, it includes positions such as Chief Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer for Combat AI, and "experience in 3D action multiplayer game production, PC, Xbox, and PlayStation development" as a plus, hoping to recruit a group of engineers with experience in action game development.
Overall, the new project seems to be built on the ruins of the Odyssey again, and the gameplay is very similar to the various settings of the Odyssey revealed by the Uncle Party before.
【Warcraft Competitive Product News】
Can Warcraft do it? Uncle Party revealed that "Baldur's Gate 3" will be coming to iOS
According to Dame Tech, a well-known uncle on the Internet, about next year, players will be able to play "Baldur's Gate 3" on iPad Pro and iPhone 15 Pro to meet the needs of everyone who wants to play lying down.
Given that Apple has launched new models in September in the past, this could also mean that Baldur's Gate 3 will be the star of the iPhone 16 Pro launch event to showcase the new phone's more powerful gaming capabilities
In addition, given that "Sword Network 3" next door is also developing an unbounded version of the mobile game synchronization, we just want to ask, when will Warcraft be on the phone?
It was revealed that Nexon is developing a game adaptation of "Game of Thrones": a large-scale MMORPG
According to Redanian Intelligence, a subsidiary of NEXON is working on a new Game of Thrones MMORPG. It is reported that the game is set in the northern border, close to the Great Wall and Winterfell, and players can freely customize their characters and witness many famous scenes from the original series.
But surprisingly, NEXON seems to have only bought the rights to the series, and did not buy the adaptation rights of the original novel "A Song of Ice and Fire", so the main plot of the game is likely to be between the fourth and fifth seasons of the series, and then expand to other parts of the Westeros world according to market feedback.
Anyway, it looks like a relatively average Korean game adaptation now, and it is likely that it was used by NEXON for its new studio.
The 15th anniversary party of the national costume of "Aion", the atmosphere was very hot
From May 1st to May 4th, the "Firefly Animation and Game Carnival" was held in Guangzhou Poly World Trade Center Expo, attracting the attention of many animation and game lovers. As an important exhibitor of this event, "Aion" also put the 15th anniversary of the national server at the exhibition, and prepared a series of colorful birthday celebrations for players.
Players can not only get the Firefly Anniversary Party Collector's Pack, the new fashion felt bag, exquisite mouse pad, colorful Pokémon figure souvenirs, but also participate in the on-site interaction to win surprise gifts such as Emma electric car, TGIF co-branded gaming chair, Evnia monitor and so on.
According to the feedback sent by the participating players, the offline birthday celebration of the 15th anniversary of "Aion" was quite impressive, inviting a large number of COSers to interact with players and giving away a large number of prizes.
Key points: The 10th anniversary celebration of the national server of "Guild Wars 2" was launched lively
Starting April 29th, Guild Wars 2 officially kicks off its 10th anniversary celebrations, and throughout May, players will be immersed in events and rewards.
Among them, the rewards include daily growth acceleration, 30 minutes online to receive anniversary pet skins, collection of collar skins, anniversary birthday chests, DLC expansion packs and other valuable rewards.
In addition, Guild Wars 2 will also launch an offline meet-and-greet event in Shanghai in May, and interested players can sign up to attend the event on-site.
【Warcraft Game Update】
The Cataclysm Nostalgia Service Team test has begun, and Blizzard has greatly reduced the difficulty of the boss
The World of Warcraft Cataclysm Nostalgia Beta Beta has recently opened the first round of group tests, including the three T11 team books of Blackwing Blood Ring, Twilight Fortress, Aeolus Throne, and the No. 1 boss of Tol Barad Prison.
According to the results of the player's actual test, the BOSS blood volume of the Cataclysm Nostalgia Service Group is most likely to have been slashed by Blizzard, the Black Wing Blood Ring No. 4 BOSS Sonic Dragon, the test server 25H difficulty BOSS HP is 103 million, and the Paragon Guild's world's first kill version of the BOSS HP is 154 million.
Therefore, a few hours after the opening of the first round of the team test, a skilled team has already won the first kill of the Twilight Fortress Heroes difficulty hidden boss Sinisterra server.
It's just that after this first kill appeared so quickly, Blizzard seemed to realize that something was wrong and urgently stopped the service for maintenance. According to the analysis of veteran players back then, it is likely that the designer made a mistake in the game version and put the 4.2 weakened team difficulty in the Cataclysm P1 stage.
Of course, it is not ruled out that this is an intentional act by Blizzard, after all, judging from the feedback from the players of the previous WLK nostalgic service, everyone is generally unwilling to go to jail for the group, so this group's slash can be regarded as famous.
Most players are reluctant to renew their monthly cards
Nearly a month after NetEase and Blizzard reunited, many Asian players gave up their foreign server accounts and began to prepare for the return of the national server.
According to the results of the player's actual experience, the two major servers of the Asian server Ivus and Arathi Basin during the May Day period have less than 100 online users in prime time, which is basically cool.
In addition, the time badge of the Asian server is still maintained to the mark of 290,000 gold coins under the continuous shipment of the studio, which makes you unable to play without buying gold.