I have a lot of alts, pretty much no main. On one character, I have completed the campaign storyline, and on various others I have clicked “I’ve heard this story before” when talking to Thrall / Jaina (and getting another opportunity to see the “how did we get here” cinematic). But for all I can tell on all my characters the intro cinematic wants to play every time I log on to them. “From the moment the Dark Titan Sargeras plunged his colossal blade into our world, crucial events were set in motion…”
What do I need to do / achieve / complete in order to make the game stop trying to tell me the history every time I log onto a level 70+ character? It’s not a big deal to press ESC, and it’s not that it’s a bad storyline, but if there’s a way to streamline this it would be a QOL improvement!
I have encountered the same problem but somehow it was solved. It may be related to following conditions:
(1) Completed The War Within campaign.
(2) Watched the cinematic once full length without skipping.
(3) Have 3 characters at level 80.
I don’t know which one is the deciding factor but when I happened to finish all these things, the second time the cinematic showed up, I clicked skip. Then the cinematic never played again!
Yeah, I do/did the same. That didn’t make a difference. Not only did I watch it all the way through the first time, I’ve tried it several times, since.
I still get the cutscene every time I log in with a character that is at a level eligible for TWW.
This was happening to me for quite a while then stopped when I upgraded my PC and started on a fresh drive. It had been an old wow install that was around for a while so you might try a full uninstall and deletion of folders then reinstall it.
From what I gathered from chatter online, eventually it goes away / possibly when you’ve completed enough of the campaign. So download the addon and after a month or two turn it off, see if your issue has resolved itself.
Looking at the addon Curseforge page, there’s an option to use a modifier key to disable it temporarily. Maybe try using that instead of disabling the whole addon .
There’s also a command to look through the addon options, maybe scroll through that.
This happens to me too, but not on my main account. I’m a multi-boxer and I have a lot of extra accounts. On a couple of the extra accounts, I noticed this happening because I don’t have any level 80s on some yet. I also tried watching it all the way through, that didn’t stop it. I even did like some of the quests in the campaign, that didn’t stop it. It’s really annoying. I just know to have my finger on the escape button to end the cut scene torture asap when I login to those accounts!
There are two different API functions for skipping cinematics, separated by a distinction of whether or not the cinematic is pre-rendered or an in-engine one. Sounds like this addon just has both calls. There’s source out on Reddit to make a small addon yourself. The API call that targets pre-rendered cinematics passes an argument that gets populated with the cinematic ID (1024 for the TWW cinematic). It’s just a simple case of creating a UI element, binding the “PLAY_MOVIE” event, looking for a movie played with ID 1024 and invoking a couple functions to make it go away:
local function OnEvent(frame, event, arg1)
local movieID = arg1;
if event == "PLAY_MOVIE" then
DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Cinematic with ID " .. arg1 .. " played.", 1, 1, 0);
if movieID == 1024 then
local userCanceled = true;
CinematicFinished(Enum.CinematicType.GameMovie, userCanceled);
MovieFrame:Hide();
DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Sargeras cinematic cancelled", 1, 1, 0);
end
end
end
local frame = CreateFrame("Frame");
frame:SetScript("OnEvent", OnEvent);
frame:RegisterEvent("PLAY_MOVIE");
frame:RegisterEvent("CINEMATIC_START");
Source not mine. Can’t find original now. I did edit it to include in-game cinematics during the Warlords TW. Those cinematics were excessive and overused.
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