World of Warcraft has released creepy images. This is how horrifying your characters look when something goes wrong…
Minor and major graphic errors in World of Warcraft have always existed. Incorrectly loaded or completely missing textures can appear from time to time. But it gets really creepy when the wrong textures are applied to the wrong model.
Where do the images come from? Blizzard published the images in a rather long post about creating new characters. After all, the interface was drastically revised with Shadowlands. The whole post is quite interesting and shows how much work and thought went into the design of the new character creation.
For example, newcomers see entirely different details and “simpler” characters, while veterans are presented with more elaborate characters. Newcomers always see an Orc or Human without additions that cover the face (like tattoos).
However, the graphic errors that could occur with the system are really interesting – because they are the stuff nightmares are made of.
Creepy errors deform characters: Particularly entertaining are the images showing what went wrong. In the new character creation, there were sometimes medium graphic problems where textures and models went crazy. This, in turn, causes otherwise cute heroes to suddenly look like they have sprung from a C’thulhu nightmare, as these images here show:
A female Worgen that is using male textures – however, the male textures of the human form over the Worgen body.
When a Lightforged Draenei runs against the glass door, it looks like this, by the way.
A Kul Tiran who has apparently mutated into a cyborg. His entire lower body is just a white skeleton, while he clearly hovers elevated and seems to have some skin problems on his face.
And finally, an Orc who has apparently draped the fur of a Vulpera over himself. Understandable with the approach of winter months, but you still don’t want to encounter him in the dark.
Despite all these tests by the developers and all the work that went into the new character creation, there were still a number of problems at launch. Especially the ability to change a character’s gender led to extremely curious effects in the first weeks. Some characters suddenly looked like drag queens after the gender switch.
By now, most of these errors have been fixed, and such mishaps occur only rarely.
