Stormwind City Guards and Civilians Receive Updated Diverse Appearances in Shadowlands

Pubblicato 10/09/2020 alle 00:38 da perculia

ShadowlandsShadowlandsShadowlandsInitial Announcement on Diverse AppearancesRedShirtGuy for BlizzplanetQ: One of the things I’m really excited about in the new customization features is how its sort of allowed sub-races of a sort to get in, like Sandfury trolls and Wildhammer dwarves. And then those purple trolls who may be dark trolls or Shatterspear trolls; it’s not clear. But I wondered: it reminded me, in the pre-patch to Cataclysm they added little questlines explaining some of the new race/class combinations. Would there possibly be something similar about, like, Sandfury trolls or high elves in the Shadowlands pre-patch?

A: There are no specific plans along those lines in Shadowlands. Though I think we are planning on just broadly incorporating the range of character customization options for NPCs as well as players just across the world.

I think, in some ways we’re frankly viewing this as a bit of a retcon. Like, we’re not going to change existing named, established characters and make them look different. But, walking around Stormwind, walking around other parts of the world, you will see guards and random civilians that have these looks as if they’ve been there all along. Because frankly I think we see this as correcting an oversight on our part over the years, as well as just trying to improve representation more broadly. We are custodians of a fantasy universe and a world that we built, and we don’t want to not do the right thing because we feel shackled to a decision that was made creatively in a different era that was fifteen-plus years ago.

Now, as for details of troll clans and dwarven clans and the rest, I think as we have opportunities to do things like racial heritage lines or other race focused questlines, that’s a fun opportunity to explore those areas. But we don’t have any specific thoughts for Shadowlands right now.interview with Art Director Ely Cannon
With all the diversity now possible in player customization options, we’re curious if the new customization options will also be reflected on Shadowlands NPC appearances? And will existing NPCs around Azeroth (like Stormwind NPCs from Cataclysm) receive new appearances reflecting the new diverse customization options?

As with any tool we have available with us, designers will make use of it for current or future content. That may include going back to the old world, when new vendors are added, and customizing and updating some of the old NPCs in the world. But it depends on the time involved and what our bandwidth is. Our focus is always on the next expansion and the content coming up to provide the best possible game, but certainly having those available gives our designers a lot more to work with, and I would expect to see more of that diversity and customization represented in the world going forward for sure.

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Commento di MorderocRemovedCommento di AlicePrimeI don't care about random NPC turning brown or asian.

I care about WHERE these Brown or Asian people came from period. I want to see these unique cultures formed from groups of unique and diverse humans. Like the wastewanderers.

You can't expect brown and asian people to just sprout out of the ground in the middle of a quasi-European setting, it makes no sense.Commento di kaleestrazaRedoing guards and basic NPCs is cool, and giving named NPCs better options according to their race is especially cool (it has always been weird that the black men in Stranglethorn have such unfitting hair). If I'm not mistaken, no female NPCs have ever used the black skin, so it's great to finally see them represented.

But I really dislike arbitrarily changing features on longstanding class trainers such as giving the Night Elves different tattoos. IIRC those tattoos are part of their rite of passage and have great cultural meaning; they should not be changed. These are actual characters we have been visiting since Vanilla and should remain recognizable. It makes sense to add necklaces and stuff, but not basic things like this.

Perhaps we could just add more NPCs?

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