So the game is being created on a legion 7.3 infrastructure and being cut down to classic terms and the game is going on 1.12. Does that mean the addons will have to be 1.12 or 7.3 when installing them into the folder?
I really can’t see them returning to a 1.12 add-on API.
I’d say that Blizzard should just do a few tweaks to the Legion one that the client uses to break certain add-ons that go too much against the spirit of Vanilla(such as a group finder tool).
Fairly certain we’re going to need entirely classic specific addons, as none of the pserver 1.12 addons should work on a modern client… and none of the modern addons will likely work with 1.12 data.
This, more than anything, is why I think a beta would be helpful… I really don’t want to go into classic without any addons at all… Stock Blizz UI has always sucked.
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If you’re an ElvUI user, they’re definitely planning on making Elv for Classic.
Classic WoW is a remaster and runs on the modern client. Old add-ons won’t work. It’s possible retail add-ons will work but most likely they’ll need to be flagged as “Classic” add-ons but little will need to be changed other than that.
Of course, that’s all speculation but it’s logical given what we know.
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I don’t have much experience in the creation of addons but seems to me like it would be reasonable to assume that if any current addons are going to work it would be the 7.3 addons. I would think the majority wont work because of the modifications they have made to create a 1.12 environment but who can say. Worst case modders will just have to port their mods to the new client.
Modern addons should work to an extent but will have to be adjusted based on any data issues that may come up.
Why you guys keep saying that blizz will use the 7.3.5 client for classic?
Retail and classic will have the same backend. Stop spreading misinformation.
People think that, because the blizzcon version used that client, that all future versions will also use it even though they said otherwise.
The timestamp on that video doesn’t say anything about the client being updated. Especially considering the client isn’t the backend part of the game, and it doesn’t have to be identical to the BfA client to get data from the server/database.
I also can’t find anything from Blizzard saying that they’ll keep the client updated to the BfA and future expansion client.
That seems like a lot of work that doesn’t need to be done when they could just use the 7.3.5 one they were working on from the Blizzcon demo and just make sure it gets any security updates.
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No man, he sayd that will use the same backend of retail. Before time in video the first software engineer take a entire hour saying how they put 1.12 working on modern backend for don’t need to update two backends at same time.
99.9% sure all addons will need to be remade to work with Classic.
How much the addons will need to be reworked is the question.
Which is great and all except for the part where the client is not the backend of the game.
They can have two different clients that connect to the same backend server/database.
Yea but they’re gonna use the same client. I know because my uncle works at Nintendo
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Ok, we are talking about two different things.
The backend that will be used in classic is the same of retail.
The mix of (actual) 8.1 + 1.12 database they will call It 1.13. But the wow classic client don’t are the 7.3.5, the classic client will be a other version of BFA client that is this 1.12 data + BFA client.
They will do this for BFA backend updates work on classic client so they don’t need 2 different works in two different backend.
Dunno if you meant to be funny, but this was pretty funny.
I can’t find anything from Blizzard saying that Classic WoW wont continue to be a modified 7.3.5 client like the demo was.
and repeating “They said the backend will be the same” is irrelevant because as I keep telling you: The client is NOT part of the backend, and they can have two different clients that connect to the same backend.
There wont be a need to update the Classic WoW client every time they do something to BfA unless it’s something drastic like restructuring their entire database.
Unless Blizzard has said that they would keep the Classic WoW client updated to retail’s client, then saying it is just speculation.
True, but it goes back to them not wanting to maintain 2 MMOs. Personally, I think it’ll use the same client. But that doesn’t mean it’ll look and feel like the new client
Keeping the same client means needing to put in extra work to constantly update the Classic client with features it will never be using in the first place.
There isn’t a reason why you’d need to update Classic WoW with the BfA client when all you did was patch a LFR UI element or something(in the case of future small patches)
The only thing the Classic WoW client needs are A. fixes for authenticity in how it handles the 1.12 data, and B. security updates.
Do people think Blizzard is using 1 backend to run both Classic and BfA?
Even when Blizzard has said they are using the modern code as a base.
They will have 2 backends running. Not 1.