One video shows how broken this game is

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Whole Blizzcon panel on recreating WoW Vanilla as WoW Classic.

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Omar Gonzales - Senior Software Engineer who has been with Blizzard since prior to the launch of Vanilla to talk about their efforts to locate the backups of vanilla data.

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Going into what the found they had as far as source code; art assets; and data base. Also covers how their development cycle led to lost information on their earliest databases.

Bugs are intended: https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/18/18630556/world-of-warcraft-classic-known-issues-bugs-not-bugs-not-issues-either-lol-n00b

Additional pertaining to traps and target detection:

Q&A Compilation -- WoW Classic Development Team AMA

Earlier today, the WoW Classic Development Team gathered to answer many highly-upvoted questions on /r/classicwow. Here is a compilation of the questions and answers, with links to each. From AltruisWoW, Executive Producer: Q: What exactly are the pop caps for a layer? And extrapolating from that, what are the server pop thresholds roughly indicating (what makes a server low vs medium vs high?) A: We’re not releasing specific numbers, that will likely change dramatically. Based on the respons…

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[Q: Spell bactching seems to be causing problems with aoe abilities such as people being able to run over hunters traps and it not going off or running through mages blizzard spell and not getting hit or slowed by it and many more aoe abilities… are there any thoughts about lowering the spell batching delay or another way to fix these issues?](https://old.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/ct08c7/welcome_to_the_rclassicwow_subreddit_ama_with_the/exi5gfx/?context=3)

A: This is actually not related to spell batching. Traps and AoE abilities check for the presence of targets during a heartbeat update. If the target moves through them between two heartbeat updates they will not notice the target. This is how it was in the original 1.12.

There was something else I recall seeing stating they wanted this to be as authentic as possible so bugs from 2004-6 that didn’t get fixed would be making appearances. I don’t recall ever seeing them state that they wouldn’t eventually fix them in the future though.