So I noticed they updated the water which looks amazing. However, why stop there? why not give us this same classic world but HD like you did with D2 and previous remakes.
Have the original graphics as a toggle on/off option.
If you think, we only got to see the destroyed world HD when cataclysm hit. We never got to see this old world with nice beautiful graphics and spell effects. would be the same game just prettier.
which with all the changes already out i dont see why not invest the time in this.
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why not? you will still have the option of keeping your old school graphics if thats what you prefer.
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Itâs really low on the totem pole of things iâd like them to work on right now.
Maybe in the future, but right now they need to focus on the fundamentals.
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youâre right. but its literally taking art that already exists (retail) and implementing it in classic. im not saying EVERYTHING but, if ur gonna change the water, why not other little things to make it more pretty
Yea! Retail is trash but lets trash classic too! make all the humans look stupid as heck! YEA!
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Yes, please! Give people an option to turn it off / use vanilla textures if they donât like it.
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exactly! it would be a matter of turning it on or off. idk why people are so stubborn to just say âno tyâ. you can keep playing with ur old school graphics. lots of games do this already of having it on/off
Have you seen the new models? The old models ARE the prettier models.
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Because you donât seem to understand what a massive time investment this would be for the devs and artists - at the cost of other content. Your understanding of game development seems to be that you can just throw the game into an âHD converterâ and be done with it.
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Theyâve tried that.
It worked poorly.
I sincerely doubt todayâs dev team could do any better.
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D2âs graphic update is gross.
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The art already exists in classic. The artists didnât create the models in low res, they lowered the res during complication. But I assume they still have the original high res art.
I suspect they havenât really updated the engine⌠So it might be a big project?
Classic looks amazing and much better than Retail. I remember people hating on it 20 years ago, and wanted something more realistic compared to WC3, but damn did it age well.
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We are using stuff from 2018 in SoD already. /Boop and the animation, new graphics would be cool.
Classic looks as it should.
Want something else? Retail. 
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I agree, many people will never play classic because of how it looks.
Yeah it is crazy how much worse retail looks.
Accross the board the design choices they made perhaps need some revisiting. The spells are obnoxious, colors are not earthy âor Azerothyâ at all, characters donât blend with environment, and it too crip but so unrealistic it is styled like a little kid cartoon.
I donât think they should spend any time on classic visuals, the game is perfect as is and they already made it worse with the giant dude demon (make it smaller), warlock tank demon (also make it 30% smaller), mage fire spell is also wayy too big (should not go above knees).
And each time they make changes they introduce bugs not only in SoD but also in era and sometimes hc. No need to mess with things to probably create a worse outcome.
If you want oversaturated silly looking stuff retail is totally available.
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