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Instead of writing a narrative as Arindel suggested I decided to post some screenshots instead. Perhaps I'll form a story with the screenshots at a later time.

...Yes the NDA has been lifted for a LONG time now, so I'm going to post some screenshots...a whole 30 of them...It took a long time to post them all, being as I'm not using my own hosting service, so I didn't have time to write any descrptions for them...hopefully they are self explanatory, but please feel free to ask me questions and I'll tell you what each screenshot is about tomorrow or whenever.

p.s. If for some reason these screenshots are not loading it means that the hosting site is either offline for maintenance or down, so check back here the next day.

I currently own a level 12 Shaman in the orc lands, and a level 14 Warrior in the human lands, so the screenshots you will see will be both in human and horde shots of their homelands....sorry, but I have no night elf or undead screenshots....I haven't been to those places yet..hehe



























































































There I'm all done...50 screenshots....or 40, 45..I can't remember I'm too tired whatever lol....you've been spoiled..

Allright bed itme I gues..night

p.s. All WoW maps are available here (except for the Tauren city, ThunderBluff) if anyone is interested: http://worldofwar.net/cartography/

/drool


Thanks for the screenies!

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

Oh you're welcome.

-Copper/Silver/etc Veins appear on your mini map as little yellow dots when the "Find Minerals" skill is activiated, which lasts 3 minutes. So if you find a yellow dot, you goto it, see the mound, equip a mining pick, and start mining it. After you finish mining, a window pops up, you take out the resources and place it in your backpack, and continue to mine again until the vein is dry.

-Auction Houses were just added to the game, which reminds me alot of the bazaar in SWG.



Check frequently back here: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/ to read up on new stuff coming into the game.

Cow killer!!!

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Liro
"The english language is not a wedding gown, it doesn't get better the more lace you add. It is instead a thong. Less is more." From /.
I need to remind myself of this regularly.

Must not be a Hindu....

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I do love the Hindu though. I have some Hindu in my family, my cousin married an Indian woman from India

Very cool! I lived in New Delhi as a kid (6-8th grade)...was a fascinating experience.

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That's cool.

More screenshots to come soon..

Wow, the bear skin rug has a really horrible, low res texture. Really, really bad. The rest looks pretty great, though.

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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!

Keep in mind that WoW uses a entirely different graphic system than SWG. It's artistry, and hand drawn; it's not some cgi/rendered stuff like galaxies is. It has a bit of a cartoony feel to it; I love the graphics. And also it's beta, so I'm sure everything will get really polished up before release.

wow.. those are some great shots man.

Looks better than what I was expecting I think.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Everything in computer games is CGI/rendered stuff. Its just a different style of texturing modelling and overall graphical feel that goes into WOW than SWG. Of course the graphics engine itself effects that too.

I think what he was meaning is that in SWG they used a tool to create the planets. It did amazing work to bring unique character to many different areas. However in many cases the areas in SWG are impersonal. The SWG way is not a bad way.... it is just computer created. Only the cities and POIs are hand crafted.

The landscapes of WoW were designed almost entirely from concept paper to pixel. Almost every area looks the way it does because it was originally hand drawn. Basically in WoW you as a character see everything, every angle as a predesigned visual. It has a Morrowind feel to is, as everything at one time or another was drawn by hand and placed by hand.

Great screenshots. Looks like fun!

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TheMole
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I should probably post some more screenshots soon of my level 26 Undead Mage on the pvp server; I'll have to do that when I have the time.