2024-03-19 14:00:00
“World of Warcraft” announced today (19th) in the form of a raid that in version 10.2.6, which will be updated this week, a new limited-time event, the battle royale mode “Strike Storm” will be launched. This will be one of the first surprises for World of Warcraft’s 20th anniversary.
At the same time, Taiwanese media also interviewed Orlando Salvatore, the chief software engineer of “World of Warcraft”, and Ray Bartons, the chief producer of online operations, and asked them to talk regarding the concept of “Strike Storm”.
This time Strike Storm was released in a completely surprise way. The production team said: “Previously, before launching the revision, it would go to the PTR (public test server) first. This would give everyone an idea of what changes will be made later, but this time This is the first time that this rule has been broken, which will be a surprise for players. We hope that players will suddenly discover this content following the update.”
“When we were thinking regarding when to launch it, we thought it should be before the launch of “Battle for the Center of the Earth”. Just like the previous “Exploration Season”, there was not much notice.” However, the official said that this mode has gone through a lot of Only launched for internal testing.
Back to “Strike Storm”, this is a pirate-themed battle royale mode. To play Strike Storm, you need to install the Rise of the Dragon program. As long as you have the remaining time in Warcraft, you can play it, whether it is the classic version or the modern version.
In the story, players play the role of pirates under Captain Bronze Legs. They will use Brew Bay as their hall and the Arathi Highlands as their battle venue.
There are 60 players in each game, and a game lasts regarding 10 to 15 minutes. You can play in a single row or in a double row, and the double row supports random team formation. Players must escape a huge storm on the Arathi Highlands and obtain loot. The person who survives to the end wins.
There is no special emphasis on the Alliance or the Horde in this mode. Everyone is a crew member, so the Alliance or the Horde can attack each other. There is no distinction between professions and races, but only half-dragons cannot use it. The gameplay is simply determined by different skills.
After landing, players collect skills and spells, fight monsters to upgrade, and obtain trophies at the same time. The trophies can also be obtained through treasure chests or even directly on the ground. Players can rise to level 10 to see if they can be the last person standing.
In the past, the traditional “World of Warcraft” basically had 12 skills, but this mode only has 7. Among the 7 skills, there will be a normal attack, 4 skills and 2 consumables. Picking up the same skills can be upgraded, up to to level 4. There are brand-new skills that have never been seen before, and there are also some skills that have been inherited. Players will have a completely different feeling when playing. Therefore, how to use spells will be quite different from traditional “World of Warcraft”.
You can gain reputation by playing this mode, which can be used to unlock different rewards. You can accumulate up to level 40, and you can get new parrot mounts and pirate skin pets (available to both versions of players), as well as shaping equipment. In addition, you can get the first level in a single game. One, you can get a blindfold and a robe.
Compared with the traditional World of Warcraft, this mode has several features as follows:
- It will not hurt if you fall from a height.
- All spells can be cast while moving.
- You can double jump.
- No helper programs or plug-ins are allowed.
- Exclusive hotkey configuration for this mode can be customized.
- HP cannot be restored outside of combat.
- All skills must be done manually, including basic attacks, and there are no automatic attacks.
- There is no equipment in Strike Storm.
Ray Bartons said: “We spent a lot of effort on this mode, so when designing Strike Storm, we thought regarding what is fun. Our main focus when designing was feedback from players. We hope players can quickly It’s fun to get started and our team is very excited and looking forward to what kind of feedback players will give.”
Asked how it is different from ordinary battle royale games? The production team stated that everyone in the team has different preferences. For example, some members like real-time strategy, so there will be many different monster colonies, so players will destroy enemies and obtain loot to upgrade.
In addition, some members of the development team like MOBA games, so they put more emphasis on action elements in this mode, so there are some pointing skills. There are also members who like fighting games, so they also add some features of fighting games into the game, and finally integrate it into This is a battle royale-like attack storm.
Speaking of spells, in addition to melee or long-range spells, there are also many action-assisted spells that are also very useful. For example, “earthquake jump” can be used to quickly enter combat or escape.
There is also a prop “barrel” that I like very much. It is the wooden barrel on the skill table. At this time, the player will jump into the barrel and roll quickly in one direction. This can be said to be a pirate-themed sprint, which can quickly enter. Or off the battlefield, the action alone is quite funny.
There is also a skill called “Poisonous Mackerel”. When used, the player will take out a very smelly fish and use its smell to cause an attack effect on everything in the cone in front of it. Just seeing the character hit someone with this skill is terrifying. very funny. But everything is based on the world view of Warcraft. We will all think regarding whether it conforms to the world view of Warcraft, and use this to think regarding what would be fun.
Orlando added: “In the past, the skills in “World of Warcraft” were all designated skills, and it became like just choosing an attack target. This time we wanted to have a sense of action, instead of having to calculate buffs and debuffs. So there are more It’s a pointing skill, which also means you can dodge other people’s attacks.”
Orlando revealed that the focus of “Strike Storm” is not to figure out how to reach the highest level, or to maximize the skill value, but how to make good use of the resources you get. This will be the most interesting and interesting part of the game. As for the balance part, we will also absorb feedback from players at any time, which is also our top priority.
“Strike Storm” Taiwan will be online following maintenance and update this Thursday.
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