“So we like to start a zone just on paper

World of Warcraft lead designer Gary Platner reveals just what went into the new expansion Battle for Azeroth

Alongside new zones and as with every expansion there are new areas to explore. (Image: Blizzard Entertainment)Get daily updates directly to your inboxSubscribeSee our privacy noticeThank you for subscribing!As World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is released across the globe, Principal Exterior Level Designer Gary Platner gives the Mirror an insight at what moncler saldi uomo goes into planning levels for the new expansion and what players can expect.World of Warcraft has been running for 14 years and during that time the game has expanded across six different lands.With each new expansion, the developers have an opportunity to stretch their creative muscles when it comes to designing zones and vast areas of terrain.But according to Platner sometimes all it takes is a simple Google search to help shape a whole new world.”So we like to start a zone just on paper, where we’re just going to sort of 2D it out and here’s how we think the area is going to look like.”We’ll even do a bunch of Google searches first and look for areas that we like and find inspiring.”You can moncler saldi see that a lot in Mists of Pandaria, when we did that it was so fun because we had all of China to look at.”For Battle for Azeroth Platner took inspiration from a Canadian national park for the design of Kul Tiras.”I always like to look outlet moncler at moncler outlet trebaseleghe different parts of the world as inspiration so for the Kul Tiran zone we were looking at this Banff National Park in Canada as sort of a stepping off point,” he said.Everything you need to know about World piumini moncler uomo of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth’s cinematicsNot all ideas make the cut However, the Blizzard developer admitted that as with all art it is common for the final product to look nothing like the initial idea.Early versions moncler outlet online shop of the Kul Tiras and the city of Boralas were very different to the final landscape players will see in the expansion.”When piumini moncler we first started to create their city we wanted it to be like a big walled city and I wanted the rest of the land to be sort of unexplored and piumini moncler saldi wilderness.”My idea was to make the other camps outside of the city be like 1849 kind of mining camps very basic, with a few mining carts and a few tents, because it was all meant to be unexplored.”And our lead dungeon artist Wendy was like you know what that piumini moncler scontatissimi isn’t what Kul Tirans would do.”They would build and overbuild and would have large buildings and they wouldn’t have tents, they wouldn’t have anything moncler outlet serravalle temporary,” Platner revealed.’Don’t worry about Sylvanas, the story is just beginning for moncler bambino outlet World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth’ says moncler outlet serravalle cinematic director Terran GregoryFrustrated but moncler outlet online uomo determined to get it right, Platner went back to the drawing board.”I went from something I didn’t like to something I just fell in love with and really absorbed myself into their culture.”I ended up making just I don’t know piumini moncler outlet one of the best zones I think we’ve ever done.”Another design players won’t be able to see in the new expansion, was a moncler saldi outlet city based around the Kul Tirans’ moncler bambino saldi main fishing economy.”I pitched something where we made an entire city based around like a giant fishing pole that has these huge reels that would lure in big prey and pull it into this bay.”They would have these harpoons and they would all harpoon everything.”Sadly, storylines change but I love trying to figure out their culture and the things that they would do dictate how their buildings would be made if that makes sense,” he said.Islands in moncler donna the stream Upon reaching max level adventurers can team up as a three and explore uncharted islands. These expeditions were moncleroutlet-i created by Platner himself and is something the Blizzard veteran says he’s immensely proud of.”We have a completely new type of AI and the way they interact with you is going to be different every moncler uomo time depending on moncler outlet what type of class the player is.

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