Blizzard talks flying in WoW
Developer considered aerial fun for Lick King
Apparently, Blizzard opted to cut the ability to fly from the most recent World of Warcraft expansion pack, after the function was deemed not polished enough by the game's developers.
The Wrath of the Lich King was apparently originally going to include flying, with the beta offering planes fitted with bombs, not to mention anti-aircraft vehicles playable in the PvP zone.
"If you look at a lot of games that have done flight simulation, there is a lot of care that goes into giving you that sensation of flying by having the world tilt and stuff like that so it feels a little less mechanical, feels a little bit more alive or more natural," explained Tom Chilton.
"So one of the things that we have kind of tasked ourselves with doing is figuring out how to polish that, how to improve on our vehicle physics, there's still a lot of vehicle physics tech that we want to get in that didn't make it into the first pass of Lich King."
The feature remains on the 'to do' list, we're assured.
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