Safe Haven Cinematic Discussion

Argent Dawn
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I knew deep in my heart it was invisibility and I’m glad that’s proven, at least. That said if people want to RP stealth more realistically (like sticking to shadows etc) I don’t see why that’d ever be a problem.

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In 7.3.5 cinematic it was clearly hinted that Mathias Shaw was invisible due to how he slithered through the crowd, that specific sound when he “came out of the invisibility” and only Genn could “sniff” him out.

But it is good to see the whole picture in CGI

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Because Thrall only got brought back because Metzen asked them to at Blizzcon after they initially said they had no plans around him coming back or getting the old warchief back.

So now Sylvanas has decided to assassin him because he has to come back now and needs a good reason to side with Saurfang.

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I dont get why people say it doesnt make sense tbf. Thrall would be -the- person who could rally the Horde against Sylvanas. She’d never let him live.

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I doubt a single non-Forsaken would even have caught wiff on the idea of an assassination of the Horde’s greatest Warchief. Only die-hard Sylvanas loyalists would have been aware. There’s no doubt in my mind that if Blizzard were smart, they’d have Saurfang just flat out lie and pretend that they were after Thrall instead of him.

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A cinematic like this cant just be put together since Blizzcon. These things take a long time to make, and serious rescources and rendering time.

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No matter how many cinematics/videos/mounts you churn out your Story is still garbage Blizzard.

You sold this expansion to me as Horde vs Alliance. Not Horde vs Horde vs Alliance.

I was promised a cool pro-faction story from the point of view of the Warchief and his closest assets. Instead, I follow the story of a senile old-man who doesn’t know what honor means (And occasionally Elsa who can’t decide whether she’s pro war or not).

You’re right. This is not a repeat of MoP though. Because MoP’s storyline was at least interesting, nuanced, good and original.

I could write a better story on a napkin during a lunch break.

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Do it, send it in and wait to be hired.

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You and me both

I like how he’s been designed to look more like his father Durotan now with the hairstyle and all.

I think now I’m quite fortunate that Mists of Pandaria was the only expansion I pretty much skipped as a whole and never roleplayed the canon events related to it, so the current story arc doesn’t grind my nerves too badly in the manner of “here we go again”.

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I’ll just sit here, patiently waiting for my Alliance cinematic. (Can’t involve Saurfang, Anduin, or dungeons)

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Therefore…kill him instead of getting him on board? Or just leave him on the OTHER PLANET ENTIRELY THAT HE IS CURRENTLY ON.

And send only two assassins?

Who attack during the middle of the day?

Who Saurfang was supposedly tracking, but then failed to mention at all?

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Once again proving the Scarlet Crusade right along

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I just got to say i love the cinematic :ok_hand:t4:
Nagrand :heart:
About the story line i am glad to see Thrall again althought i can’t help myself wonder in all why there is a big piece of the puzzle that is missing out but i suppose we will find out.

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oUr stOrY tEaM cOnSiStS oF tAlEnTeD pRoFeSsIoNaLs WhO aRE vErY pAsSiOnAtE aBoUt tHe gAmE

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Making a fully CGI movie like that takes months, maybe a year if its all new assets. This was a cinematic in a new enviroment, new models, and new assets. Its not something like Old Soldier that mostly used clever camera tricks, and models/assets from the big cinematic.

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It’s not all new assets.

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Indeed. There’s a reason we only got a 5 minute cinematic per expansion in the past.

Making a full feature film length movie would be horrendously expensive and time-consuming.

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By the way it’s important to make a disctinction between Blizzard’s teams.

The cinematography & art Blizzard churns out is still A+++ good.

It’s just everything else (including storywriting) that’s garbage.

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Not all, yes. But certainly more than Old Soldier. Nagrand alone must have cost a pretty penny and a lot of time to bring to life like that.

Then there’s a new thrall model, two forsaken, all the props around the house.

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Also, did anyone pick up on the wheat easily evaporating into thin air in Nagrand? This seems to imply that even Nagrand isn’t safe from eventual destruction once the Nether has decided it’s done hauling Outland around.