Final week, after two decades of waiting, Blizzard lastly added participant housing to its common MMORPG World of Warcraft. And fairly rapidly after it was added, gamers found out how one can make homes float within the air. As a substitute of patching out this unintended function, Blizzard is making it official, however with some warnings.
On Wednesday, World of Warcraft community manager Randy Jordan aka Kaivax explained in a post that shortly after WoW update 11.2.7 went dwell on December 2, artful gamers found unlisted hotkeys that allowed them to maneuver their properties up into the air. The community is still debating whether this was a bug or not, however regardless, levitating homes weren’t an supposed function. Nonetheless, Blizzard isn’t patching out the hotkeys and grounding participant creativity. As a substitute, it’s making the function official and including UI components to permit everybody to simply transfer their properties into the sky.
Kaivax did embody two warnings for these trying to dwell within the clouds: “The underside of houses isn’t modeled or textured. Players who lift their houses may decide to hide that part behind other things,” defined the group supervisor. And in addition, “If you lift your house up, clicking on the door could become difficult. You might want to consider building a ramp or a jumping puzzle, or a mount landing spot, etc.”
It’s cool to see Blizzard acknowledge that individuals are having enjoyable with floating homes–crafting all types of stuff like flying ships and magical hovering towers–and deciding to not solely go away the function in, however make it an official a part of the sport that anybody can use.
And to assist folks beautify these flying properties extra elaborately, Blizzard has additionally upped the variety of objects gamers can place on the outside of their domicile from 200 to 250. These adjustments at the moment are dwell in World of Warcraft following a scheduled little bit of upkeep.
