Hey, I was wondering why the colors/lighting changed so much once I chose for my character to go over to Burning Crusade.
Suddenly everything is so much brighter than it was in normal Classic. Did they change the color scheme for TBC, and so decided to bring this to TBC Classic aswell? Or might there be some other reason?
And is there anything one can do to change it? Thanks 
It’s a huge downgrade and I hope it’s just a bug, why would a newer version look worse than Vanilla Classic which was near perfect? Vanilla Classic still looks even better than retail imo.
While the lighting color is slightly different (maybe still using the bad retail version?) it completely lacks any proper “dynamic lighting” or depth, especially the units/characters which all look “flat” and fully lighted or washed out no matter where you are. I took some screens and compared it, it’s pretty obvious:
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Yep. Flat is a good word. As well as a lack of color dynamic. They did a good job with vanilla classic, so it’s strange that TBC would be such a downgrade visually. I’m hoping it’s a bug too.
agreed ,i thought this soon as i logged on ,it looks way worse than vanilla and as you say looks washed out and colorless,cant see how it can be worse graphics wise but it does look bad,i have everything maxed out as i have a very good system,will check further.
Its a known bug.
Care to elaborate a bit Offspring? Known how, and what to do about it (if anything yet)?
Does anyone know if the night time is broken? It doesn’t seem to be getting dark. Did they remove the night like retail? It looks like day time despite the fact it’s clearly meant to be the night. It’s as if they’ve applied the retail lighting (24/7 daytime) which completely destroys the night time I sincerely hope they revert this.
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Blizzard
Greetings and welcome to Burning Crusade Classic Patch 2.5.1
Below is a list of known issues for Burning Crusade Classic patch 2.5.1. Please note that this list is not comprehensive and is not a complete depiction of what we’re aware of, but a sampling of issues we believe players may encounter with some regularity. We hope to have fixes to these issues in place soon, but we cannot promise when or if any individual bug will be fixed.
Also please note that this list pertains to issues that are present and visible during the Burning Crusade pre-patch period for patch 2.5.1. We will update this thread again with new issues as needed after Burning Crusade Classic has fully launched.
General:
Graphics and Visual Effects:
SSAO (Ambient Occlusion) is not currently changing the appearance of shadows in the game.
There are flickering textures present in some areas of the Horde base in Warsong Gulch
Some Reflective surfaces may appear too bright and shiny.
Arathi Basin flags that are under attack or have been captured are too bright.
Combat, Spells, and Abilities:
Casting the Mage spell while facing a nearby wall may occasionally cause the spell to Fizzle and result in your character remaining in place.
Energy Regen ticks can sometimes provide slightly more or slightly less than 20 energy.
Damage taken while drowning is currently slightly different from the original Burning Crusade.
Stealth animations for [![]Druid] and [![] Rogue]differ slightly on some races compared to the original Burning Crusade.
Warrior]s that are slowed while changing stances may occasionally play a very slow “running” animation rather than the appropriate walking animation.
Including /stopcasting in a spell macro can cause animation hitching or delays in some situations.
Items:
User Interface:
The reset button for auction house filters is currently not present.
The GetManaRegen() command does not always display the correct values in the chat log.
Opening the Map inside dungeons in Azeroth areas displays the Azeroth world map instead of the zone map.
The Flight Masters between Silvermoon and Tranquillien have incorrect dialogue for Blood Elf characters.
Low-level quests are missing the dimmed font and “low level” text that is normally appended to the dialogue option when accepting the quest.
When the scoreboard is open in Battlegrounds the zone map cannot be opened.
Dispellable Magic debuffs are not highlighted as dispellable in the UI for Warlocks and Priests.
The “To” field auto-complete may attempt to auto-fill character names of characters on your account on other realms.
The recipe search bar is currently missing from the profession UI.
The “Have Materials” checkbox is currently missing from the professions UI.
There is no option under display options to Show Free Bag Space.
Sound:
Aha, I see. Should be fixed sometime in the not too distant future then I suppose. Ps. I looked for patch notes unrelated to this yesterday, but at that the time the only one that popped up was from last patch. So I totally missed this. Thanks.
Yeah I was also looking for some official notes and found nothing. Good to know. Hopefully TBC will look exactly like Vanilla Classic for release, it’s just the perfect mix of old models with modern lighting and depth effects.
Bumping this up as well, as the lighting looked miles better in classic than it does now in pre-patch tbc. I really hope this will be fixed to look the same way it did before!
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