Interface for Classic is from retail

Not that it matters too much, just caught my attention so wanted to write here. The interface (not just in-game interface) they’re using for Classic is the same one as in retail. You can understand it from small details.

For example, in the login screen, you can see the ‘‘Cinematics’’(plural) button, whereas there is only 1 cinematic in vanilla. The macro coding system is the one from retail; it didn’t work this way in vanilla. Keybindings, in-game interface settings etc. those are obvious ones. In vanilla you couldn’t move character portraits, in Classic you can. In vanilla, in order to use the /r command, the person you’re whispering had to whisper you back as well, otherwise using /r to whisper to that person again who hasn’t replied to you yet wouldn’t activate the command; not the case in Classic. In vanilla, in the chat, when you clicked a certain [General] or [Trade] chat text, it wouldn’t activate that chat command for you, you had to / type it yourself. Now this one I still need to verify: In retail when you got out of a teleported instance (for example arenas), your character’s direction would be the opposite as the one you had before entering the instance (like if you were facing +x , after instance you would be facing -x). In Classic I think they put that as well although I can’t remember if this was also in vanilla. Will update if I remember more.

Oh also, please fix the bug when I login to the game in a new session, the macros have the ‘’?’’ icon on them. Thanks.

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Quality of life improvements…

Classic is using the legion client not the 15 years_old_not_optimized_no_64bit_easy_to_hack_client

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What is the purpose of this topic?

You just figured it out? After so much time?:smile:

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Why would you assume I’ve been playing for “so much time” ?

What’s annoying is the macro part yea, upon logging in they all turn their icon to the “undefined” one (red question mark icon). I hope they fix it.

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As far as i know classic was built on the new engine/client, they dont use the old one and that is why the interface is new.

It’s no secret that Classic is running on the Legion engine, Blizzard even told us this before release.

And this matters…why exactly?
The old WoW client was terribad, of course they’re going to use the more up to date client.

#nochanges and all that

I think they should change the cinematics button aswell, but that’s it.

I dunno what you mean by the last one.

I hope you play on your 15yo PC you had while playing original Vanilla and very very bad internet connection. Because otherwise you are not living #nochanges dream man.

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