That sentence made no sense. I’m not even going to try to decipher it.
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I mean look at the pasted on 2d sprite images on our characters man. This is an ancient engine from Warcraft 3 that is just a more zoomed in RTS world. They’ve tried to hide it with giant shoulders, buckles, and padded legs but it’s very noticeable how ancient it is (like 1999 to 2002 tech basically which is why it runs so well on older systems).
The engine literally pulls images from a 2d sprite and draws them onto our characters clothing. Now it has been modified and improved on over time, but I’m sure there is only so much they can do.
Not sure if they improved the Warcraft RTS engine at all on the backend with Reforged and could carry over those improvements somehow.
What? 
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Yeah,it’s noticeable when turning,especially in fights.
You don’t need to you already made you’re mind up. 
We got a new race this expansion. Might as well claim that worgen are based on draenei if you think that all digitigrade models are the same.
If they’re moving away from the faction divide, it makes little sense to do the whole “these are Alliance, and those are Horde” thing…
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Zandalari trolls and kul titans have a unique model.
Dracthyr have a unique model.
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Not faction specific. Read it again.
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Differently do I. If I were to make a character it is to enjoy it which I did make a Dracthyr think I would but to my regret it turn out to be another mage ,so I did the toon wrong by falling off the tower 67 times .I was furious about this.
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Yeah it has been but it’s still ancient as hell by modern standards. For a cartoony game I guess the animations look alright and so do the spells, but I have no doubts they could be better. They’re just very very good at hiding how out of date it is.
I honestly think they need to up the system requirements quite a bit and/or start to rebuild the engine from the ground up. Minimum ram these days is like 32 gb for most big games, 8 to 12 gb of Vram, 8+ cores hyperthreaded to 16 or more, and a modern SSD.
Not particularly worried. Example: They made Seth’rak, which have an unique rig.
We GOT vulpera because uwufoxes. This is an issue with devs dedicating resources to answer mass appeal, not a system limitation.
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That means years of building and peoples PC may not take the programing . I remember playing EQ on a up to date computer and how much trouble i had with it.I could imagine what that would do to people requirements.
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Yeah but NPCs require less than players, no? They can make rigs. They don’t seem to be able to make playable rigs.
That said, if the design team wants to keep making things like Vulpera, im very worried. Not everyone likes this weird stuff and we need a few races - e.g. Aarrokoa - that appeal to a different crowd.
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I’m not saying it needs to be built for a $5k+ rig tho just in order to future proof if they started with War Within with considerably higher requirements for recommended they’d give themselves much more room to do more for the rest of the Saga. That hopefully would translate to better scenes, level design, dungeons, animations, and more over time.
Basically a much bigger bump than usual in requirements, and hopefully needed updates to the tools they use on their end wherever needed.
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I’m willing to bet that we will see dracthyr visage forms expand in time.
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I think we’re heading there ,ever know what the future holds and Blizzard has been surprising us along the way every chance they get.
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That’s be awesome! I’m sure a lot of us would love to be able to chose any race we want.
Odeargodinheaven this is so freaking arbitrary. 
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I might be wrong, but with Seth’rak specifically, there’s videos and datamined resources showing plenty of animations, to the tune of, they could easily be playable. It’s not like with the corrupted Arakkoa where they (arakkoa) have tons of animations missing.
Arakkoa have a fun dance though. And yeah, I do share your concern.
You didn’t say faction specific. Read it again. You said
Both factions got Dracthyr. Each faction got a new race.
Dracthyr has a unique skeleton
Dracthyr has their own starting zone too.
Like it or not, Dracthyr met all 3 of your points.
Dracthyr aren’t an allied race, and allegiance is irrelevant.
The term “allied race” refers to the races unlocked via achievement. Mag’har Orcs, Ligjtforged Draenei, Nightborne, Void Elves, Vulpera etc.
Dracthyr were unlocked on df release, and are not an allied race.
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