Vehicle quests in retail are less than in WotLK

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Recently I started playing a little WotLK and I was reminded how engaging the vehicle quests were. You actually had to aim, avoid attacks and use vehicle non damaging functions.

Now the vehicle quests usually consist in: “stay in this vehicle and press this button”, sometimes you might need to aim at something but not often.

Retail is the best version of the WoW engine, but at some point E-Spots won and world stuff got pushed to the side.

I’m pretty sure that vehicle quests is retail can be a lot more fun.

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I’m pretty sure the majority of the player base was down on vehicle mechanics when they first came out.

Not to say they should be removed, but no one really liked them back then.

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I’m not a fan of vehicle quests. I like to do things on my actual character.

What kind of thing did you have in mind?

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Vehicle quests have always been very unpopular. Your class is your interface to the game. You’ve chosen it because you find it fun.

Placing you in a vehicle that has 2-3 abilities, and making you kill 100 mobs while aiming from above becomes super boring, because you basically cannot lose, and you must do the same thing again and again until you reach that golden number and you’ve done the quest.

WotLK started experimenting with vehicles - added 2 BGs with them, a raid boss in Ulduar, but overall the experiment failed. The next expansions still had such quests, but fewer

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Me when I see a vehicle quest:

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Possibly player reaction to the Occulus dungeon. It was hated at the time, this was where players started leaving instances at the start.

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have you seen the new wq in ED ? it’s probably the worst one in the game.

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During WotLK alpha they were even considering mounted combat, which would have been very similar to the vehicles quests, but with flying mounts.

They were big on vehicles back then :smiley:

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Yeah, I didn’t even try to learn the mechanics of it.

When a world quest puts me in a vehicle, I immediately leave it.

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Not a fan of vehicle quests myself, mostly becuase they are always so badly put together, buggy and hard to control. I tend to avoid such quests if possible.

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i kind of liked some vehicle quests, but some were terrible like the occulus dungeon.

Who knows maybe with dragon riding spreading to other mounts maybe the design of vehicle quests will change as well. Vehicle quests would be less disliked if they arent clunky

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The mini game for Kyrian Covenant was the worst thing ever also.

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I find vehicle quests irritating. Most of the time the controls feel clunky and your new hitbox is totally the wrong size for the vehicle you’re using.

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