Re: Dragonflight - Recently I was having a discussion with Koogrr about horses and motorcycles in games like Fallout 4, etc. Purportedly, horses in Skyrim were very underwhelming, and they took deliberate measures to attempt to "deemphasize" horses to some extent, because of this. Namely, they had to rein back (ha!) how fast horses could go, because otherwise they would mess with the "sandbox" zone-loading mechanics -- i.e., if you went too fast, you'd get into a zone before everything had fully loaded, and this would lead not only to diminishing graphical experience, but logical oddities. So, even more so, they decided against trying to add a Highwayman (car) or motorcycles to Fallout 4. They DID add the option of breezing across the landscape in a vertibird, but that only worked because when the vertibird is airborne, you're only experiencing a very "low-res" version of the world, with critical elements loaded in, and a lot of the game logic (such as detecting player collisions with the environment) can be completely ignored (though this sometimes leads to silliness such as a vertibird clipping through a building at odd points >_<; ).
I think there might have been a similar problem with Warcraft -- with dynamic loading of content in new areas, you might fly faster than the game can keep up with updating your presence in a new zone.
And ... yeah, as frustrating as the dragon-riding is in some respects, I find it a more *fantastical* way of handling flight, rather than treating absolutely everything (mecha, dragon, gryphon, gyrocopter) as if you'd enabled game-cheat levitation in Minecraft. I just wish...
* I could bring in some of my "regular world" flying mounts into the Dragonflight zones, for vanity purposes. I'm fine with it suddenly acting like dragonriding. I've got a few dragons, after all. It would be neat if druid flight form could have dragonflight dynamics.
* I could fly my dragonflight mount in non-dragonflight zones. I'm fine with it suddenly reverting to regular flight mode if that's absolutely necessary.
I guess they've got their reasons.
Anyway, one thing I really grasp from Dragonflight is that it feels like they've done a much better job at making engaging "world events" to take part in. It feels a lot easier to catch some activity going on, and jump in with whoever happens to be there, without having to sign up with a raid, etc., and then feeling awful when I'm a subpar member of the group and I get booted out. >_<; I've just been kind of thrown off by how briefly it seems that each event has its "heyday" before a new patch comes out, new event, etc., and then those activities are virtually impossible to complete anymore because nobody is around. Especially Forbidden Reach -- we were there, I ran around following the crowd to take on all the bosses, and then ... new patch! Everybody's gone to check out the NEW stuff, and hardly anybody comes BACK.
Also, the Time Rift stuff is kind of silly, but I actually had fun with stuff like Azmerloth. XD
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I think there might have been a similar problem with Warcraft -- with dynamic loading of content in new areas, you might fly faster than the game can keep up with updating your presence in a new zone.
And ... yeah, as frustrating as the dragon-riding is in some respects, I find it a more *fantastical* way of handling flight, rather than treating absolutely everything (mecha, dragon, gryphon, gyrocopter) as if you'd enabled game-cheat levitation in Minecraft. I just wish...
* I could bring in some of my "regular world" flying mounts into the Dragonflight zones, for vanity purposes. I'm fine with it suddenly acting like dragonriding. I've got a few dragons, after all. It would be neat if druid flight form could have dragonflight dynamics.
* I could fly my dragonflight mount in non-dragonflight zones. I'm fine with it suddenly reverting to regular flight mode if that's absolutely necessary.
I guess they've got their reasons.
Anyway, one thing I really grasp from Dragonflight is that it feels like they've done a much better job at making engaging "world events" to take part in. It feels a lot easier to catch some activity going on, and jump in with whoever happens to be there, without having to sign up with a raid, etc., and then feeling awful when I'm a subpar member of the group and I get booted out. >_<; I've just been kind of thrown off by how briefly it seems that each event has its "heyday" before a new patch comes out, new event, etc., and then those activities are virtually impossible to complete anymore because nobody is around. Especially Forbidden Reach -- we were there, I ran around following the crowd to take on all the bosses, and then ... new patch! Everybody's gone to check out the NEW stuff, and hardly anybody comes BACK.
Also, the Time Rift stuff is kind of silly, but I actually had fun with stuff like Azmerloth. XD