Monthly Archive: November 2011

Scrolls of Resurrection & Zone Map Levels

Scroll of Resurrection

Two really great features are going to be coming with 4.3 that I’m especially excited about. Until now sending scrolls of resurrection has required you log into battle.net, go to your account, and send out a scroll of resurrection from there. In 4.3 however it’s going to be available via a button on your friends list. I think the feature will be much more used in a convenient location than it currently is. It seems like another way for them to keep players who might have ditched the game by allowing their friends to send me a friendly “hey come back and play with us!”

Wow Zone Levels

Another feature being added are zone level ranges on the maps. It’ll allow you to quickly glance at a zone and get an idea of what levels you should be before heading to that zone to quest. Most of you who have been playing for the better half of a decade know already what the respective zone levels are but some zones such as the Plaguelands have had their level ranges changed since Cataclysm and unless you’ve levelled a toon recently, you may not know exactly what level the mobs in the zone are now.

Between that and the new and improved mini-map displaying things like Archaeology dig-site boundaries and questing areas, the game is getting some features that should have been implemented long-ago.

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Grand Theft Auto V Trailer

Rockstar released the trailer today for the upcoming GTAV game. Here it is, enjoy!

Some things we can take away from the trailer:

  • Will be set at least in Los Santos, possibly all of San Andreas (edit: It is San Andreas, you see it on the license plates. And the bug exterminator’s van says “Los Santos” on is, meaning that there’s a very good chance we will get all 3 cities)
  • Dogs/animals are in game
  • A MASSIVE looking mountain
  • Biplanes/jets
  • Jet skis? (name of the Jetski? Speeophile 2000)
  • At least one area of town will be “Little Seoul” (:32)
  • At different points in the trailer there are what looks like different people driving cars. At first I thought it was a sign that the ability to control your whole appearance is back, but when I look closer it almost seems like you would be controlling a different character
  • The main character may wind up being Tommy Vercetti 25 years after the events of Vice City (VO sounds a hell of a lot like Ray Liotta, guy at :40 looks like Tommy)
  • Real Estate possibly? Real Estate agent putting up a sign in a yard
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