Title: Warcraft After Cataclysm – The New Landscape of Azeroth
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The third Warcraft expansion Cataclysm was announced lat year, and we have now seen most of new features listed, and had time to take in what this means. Let’s have a look at the transformation of the landscape of Azeroth.
Ashenvale will become a very apt name for the valley full of ash it seems destined to become, whereas Desolace will go the other way and confuse tourists by not being in the least bit desolate at all. Expect the purples and greens of night elf habitat to be everywhere. Stranglethorn will remain a jungle peninsula, with the added benefit of a live volcano in the middle.
But it’s not just the changes that we need be wary of. It is the requirements on your PC. Looking at the videos for the new zones it is clear that they are much more detailed than the existing Azeroth. A good thing. However, for those of you scraping by on an old PC, this expansion might signal the need for a change.
If you multi box this might be an even bigger problem for you. Lowering detail levels and frame rates for the slave clients is of course an option, but the game needs to be playable. If you use specialist key mapping software, then these often come with the tools you need to alter some of the more hardware intensive aspects.
The videos on Youtube, and on Blizzards own teaser sites show a lot more detail than we are used to. Movement and animation is everywhere. Water effects are vastly improved, flags flutter, clouds drift, and volcanoes belch smoke. Then factor in the great new detailed player models and textures and you have a lot for a low end PC to cope with.
To be fair, Warcraft has never been a particularly resource intensive game, but because of that many still play the game on mid to low end PC’s. This is where the problems may arise. It might just be a case of lowering the detail to get by. But then, the new graphics are that good – wouldn’t you rather see them in all their glory?
Cataclysm for Warcraft may be a long way off yet, but my advice would be to take the time between now and its release to save up for a few improvements to your PC – especially if it is currently a few years old.
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