The New BG

[alliancefever]

ok so if a new BG came out with BC will there be a new one in Wotlk? How do you think it should be and or play out,What style of play do you think it will be?CTF ,King of the Hill, Or something NEW. How do you think it will add the new Destructable(typo) buildings into the Gameplay,What factions do you think will be fighting each other,Do you think there will be new PVP Mounts? so many questions!

PS:Do you think that the destroyable buildings Will exist in World PvP

[Cerberus]

I'm hoping for a completely flat BG with two graveyards that people get ported to if they ignore the objectives of any of the other BGs for more than 5 minutes straight. The idea would be to make other BGs than AV worthwhile PuGing as alliance. Horde would get insane queues tho..

On a more serious note. I've heard they are planning a PvP zone in Northrend that will be PvP even on PvE realms. Sounds very interesting and I'm guessing it will become very popular. It's also getting siege engines you can control. Even though I'm a casual PvPer at best I'm very excited to see how it turns out.

Hopefully they will be adding another BG as well and I'm hoping for a big one like AV. I'd like to see another battleground where you actually get to destroy things that remain gone for that instance and has an impact on the game. I'm not a big fan of EotS as it's basically just AB and WSG thrown together at a larger scale. I'd like to see a BG where holding key points that can't be recapped will become a more natural part of the BGs progression.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

ok so if a new BG came out with BC will there be a new one in Wotlk? How do you think it should be and or play out,What style of play do you think it will be?CTF ,King of the Hill, Or something NEW. How do you think it will add the new Destructable(typo) buildings into the Gameplay,What factions do you think will be fighting each other,Do you think there will be new PVP Mounts? so many questions!

I'd figure there would be a new battleground in WotLK.

PS:Do you think that the destroyable buildings Will exist in World PvP

Actually yes, because the main zone that is being toted for destroyable buildings *is* world pvp.

[Dakiter]

I had made a post in the suggestions forums about how I think they should use existing zones for a couple of new BGs. 40vs40 BG in the Barrens where the alliance have to take over and the horde needs to defend and take down certain command centers. Or, the horde has to take down Ironforge etc etc. There are some great possibilities. Plus if they wanted to, they could add the siege weapons and destructible buildings.

[TPMdm]

I had made a post in the suggestions forums about how I think they should use existing zones for a couple of new BGs. 40vs40 BG in the Barrens where the alliance have to take over and the horde needs to defend and take down certain command centers. Or, the horde has to take down Ironforge etc etc. There are some great possibilities. Plus if they wanted to, they could add the siege weapons and destructible buildings.

Or you could roll on a PvP server :wink:

[Your Average WoW Player]

I had made a post in the suggestions forums about how I think they should use existing zones for a couple of new BGs. 40vs40 BG in the Barrens where the alliance have to take over and the horde needs to defend and take down certain command centers. Or, the horde has to take down Ironforge etc etc. There are some great possibilities. Plus if they wanted to, they could add the siege weapons and destructible buildings.

I'm assuming you mean that they make a new BG that is the Barrnes or Dun Morogh, and not, they make the Barrens or Dun Morogh into a World PvP zone.

The latter would be damn near impossible to create, they would have to complelty alter/rewrite baseline code for the areas to make them viable for that, plus it would really screw with early horde leveling, early alliance leveling (dun morogh is the 1-10 zone for Gnomes and Dwarves), and IF is still a decent spot of alliance hub-ub. To screw over either of the factions like that Blizzard would never do.

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

He did say "should use existing zones for a couple of new BGs..." rather than "should use existing zones for a couple of new World PvP zones..."

[Dakiter]

Yeah what Xlorep said.

Make a BG/Instance PvP zone using existing zones.

The statement about rolling on a PvP server is true but by making it a BG you now have a balanced battle. They could even up the number to 50v50. You would not impact players that are using the real barrens and would make for some great battles.

There is a lot they could do with this and using the models from existing zones would make it a lot of fun.

[Shellar]

They don't have to limit their choices to borrowing ideas from FPS games, either - not when their RTS games have so many popular unorthodox offshoots.

Personally, I would love to see a DotA-style battleground (or, for sheer hilarity, a Tower Defense BG).

[Lothaer]

Bornakk: The next question we have is ‘do you have any plans to make more maps for the battlegrounds?' And, what I mean by this is have a new map where you can use the same kind of gameplay as you use in Warsong Gulch.


Tom Chilton: Yeah, we actually do have an idea to be able to do that. I can't say we have absolutely final plans for implementation yet but one of the things we want to move towards – beyond the fact that we're going to be adding a new battleground for the expansion that features siege weapons and destructible buildings – an idea we've had is that we'd like for players to eventually be able to go to the Battlemaster and, for example, they would queue up for a ‘capture the flag' map or they would queue up for a ‘domination' style map or whatever you want to call it. And that would put them in one of a possible variety of different maps that actually feature that gameplay type. The reason being, that way, you can still control the kind of gameplay that you're trying to get into but it allows us to add a whole bunch more maps without spreading players too thin among all the different maps.

One of the problems that we have right now is, that if we continue to add maps, we keep splitting players up between all the different battlegrounds. And, as we split players up more and more between the different battlegrounds, it gets harder to match them up against other, similar opponents, like, for example, pre-mades versus PuGs, or pre-mades with good gear versus pre-mades with very low-end gear. So, it's important to us that, as we add new battlegrounds like this, we really kind of have to re-factor the queue system to make it all work.... (message too short wtf)

[BlackLeaf]

Would be interesting if Azshara Crater finally got released. That BG has at least had some graphics in the game for at least a year if not longer as far as I know. I remember reading about how it was supposed to be a 40 person BG, but who knows what Blizz could change it to.

[elsegundo]

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anyway... king of the hill? is this halo? i love halo!

and i like the idea of invaders vs. defenders. it kind of reminds me of Helm's Deep. with a time limit. sounds fun.

what i want to be able to do though, is to be able to watch the races in shimmering flats and place bets on them.

[thorleader]

hahaha thad be fun

[Xlorep DarkHelm]

Would be interesting if Azshara Crater finally got released. That BG has at least had some graphics in the game for at least a year if not longer as far as I know. I remember reading about how it was supposed to be a 40 person BG, but who knows what Blizz could change it to.

Azshara Crader was designed I think originally to be the 4th BG. However, it was halted as BGs were having problems, and I think eventually scrubbed for new ideas... the direction they were going with it they basically decided wouldn't work.

[BlackLeaf]

Azshara Crader was designed I think originally to be the 4th BG. However, it was halted as BGs were having problems, and I think eventually scrubbed for new ideas... the direction they were going with it they basically decided wouldn't work.

Yeah I recall reading similar things about it. It also had something to do with AV and how they weren't happy with its balance at the time, and thus didn't want to release AC until they were. Well I guess that never happened. Sure would be nice if Blizz would've removed those empty BG camps in the zone. Azshara in general needs some TLC come to think of it.