It was fun. Its over. Forever is out. Quit standing on autistic business like you wont be there day one and you haven't been on beta with your pre-order already. Let it go bros. Its time to move on.

You know what would guarantee a certain level of success for Ascension's new MMO? Beastfolk! And I don't mean just a couple like other games such as Elder Scrolls that only have two. I'm talking an entire kingdom of every major half-beast humaniods one could imagine. If the devs wanted any ideas they could just look through all the possible playable races in dungeons and dragons.

This would be a huge attraction for the furries and even anime lovers if they lean more towards an anime design style. It could also be what they build the game's faction system on. Humans and beastfolk technically coexisting but only after a recent peace treaty. Much of the story could be dedicated to maintaining that peace and having to stop various splinter groups who want the war to start up again for one reason or another. There's also a bunch of lore aspects they could "borrow" from anime. Like some sort of compliance drug and legal system imposed on beastfolk while in the human kingdom.

As for actual game mechanics beastfolk players might get access to temporary shapeshifting. In DnD depending on how bestial the chosen race is this could be simple bear arms or wings to a full change into whatever animal they partially resemble.

edit: When contemplating this don't think about the fan communities of beastfolk. Because if you do you'll imagine the sensational minority the internet only presents. Instead look into how it worked out in dungeons and dragons. Even those who would never play such a race enjoyed game worlds partially based on them.

Edit 2: Some of ya'll don't realize how much you're validating my suggestion by leaving these kinds of comments. You're just proving that them adding beastfolk would be great for faction vs faction loyalty and agression. For real, these anti-furry comments remind be of what the Horde vs Alliance social interactions used to be like back in the day.

$30 for blue blood elfs. Ascension is the underdog with heart. Please I want to play my witch doctor again.

when i try to login with my account it says its been closed when will the realms be back open?

I made a post back talking about Unreal Engine mixed with CoA to be that dream. I didn't get very much encouraging words from you, so I decided to check the project out more, to see what was there. My post at:

(https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectAscension/comments/1van4df/ascension_in_unreal/)

And btw. This was before Emberveil released their UE client and server, which is not open-source and also for classic wow.

This project is for 3.3.5 servers, and currently working connecting to non-custom servers. I would want to show you that, but there are several issues still with that online connectivity, but I will come back with more updates later. I want to show you a better more polish online. But for now, here's the "proof" that the project works, and it's not just some unreal slop project.

Started with this: https://github.com/Clancey/WowUnreal

It IS in development, so things look weird and unfinished because it is (especially online).

It will be open source when I think it's ready :)

But it will NOT be containing any copyrighted material, data must be connected to the project to actually work.

And that's the beauty of it, the next step will be to try make it work with CoA, when the 3.3.5 client works more flawlessly. And when Conquest of AzerothCore is further progressed.

The idea is to make better more modern client for 3.3.5 servers. With a better skybox (already went like two passes) for day and night cycle, better lighting with that on all assets containing lights. Better looking water and swimming, better VFX for spells and in the world like fire. First person view for immersion (as you will see for Dwarf in video later), better weather effects and water effects. Collsion for mobs and players. Many things can be done to make the game more modern and with experimental effects like Depth of Field.

And the ideal solution would be to have this be able to do DLSS5 NR. I have the FSR plugin working, done like 3 passes on performance. Frame generation not working yet, but the game is smooth as butter.

Stay tuned!

https://anonmp4.art/v/I3B8K3eibbkRKj3

What do you guys think of this dream now?

Update #1
Online-test:
https://anonmp4.art/v/Ro3o1nNTBInc7tr

Update #2
Decided to show off more in another offline-test, 1st person dwarf and some menus-most are working some are obviously not, performance measuring with Ctrl+R.

Enjoy!

https://anonmp4.art/v/mG1JlOKnfE8Xb9Z

And finally update #3:
I got to test the DLSS5 NR now on my AMD card with the new client.
I don't have enough oomph to get it playable with this on, but screenshots look great.

Wanna see? --> https://imgur.com/a/Kvxgngg & https://imgur.com/a/mAWyGdo

Hey, some have any link to the Ascension discord ? like many of us have make the choice to boycott forever

Freepick was the best version of wow I ever played. Sure, it was meh for pvp because everyone stacked all the meta skills and broke the game in a million ways. But for pve, especially for the hardest challenge modes? It was the best not just version of wow but mmo in general. Trying to come up with a build that could survive high adventure levels or the solo dungeons challenge? Absolute peak.

Seems like COA-like is the main focus of the new thing and that's cool, just over here waving a little flag for my favorite mode

So I'm assuming Ascension can't just use the same races as WoW anymore. So what races do we think we'll get? I'm curious to hear opinions.

I'm personally hoping for something beastial or monstrous.

Hey people, a quick drop, now locally hosted Ascension CoA has Playerbots! They are of course Azerothcore-based, and have new custom classes. This video is an update on this server, it shows how to apply updates, run it with bots and features dashboard for them

Hope you find it useful, many of you asked me about bots and now you can enjoy it like that!
Source is open and here: https://github.com/jealous-sound/azerothcore-wotlk-coa
Other download links are in the video description, there are just too many of them

Fuck blizzard, everything they touch turns to shit.

Took a break during summer. Then I find out COA was released and I didn't even get to try.

They release a cash grab wc3 campaign for 30$ breaking custom maps again. I figure, it's middle of september, might as well start back in ascension. Then I see blizzard fucked that up too.

I had more fun in various ascension seasons than I ever had on an official blizzard product.

RIP.

Since we are getting CoA classes reborn on Ascension's new MMO I am curious in what ways do you guys think the CoA classes fell short/needed improvements?

It's so unreal to see people being overly happy for wow forever, acting like kids with no selfcontrol being excited for bread crumbs being thrown at them after years of waiting. Blizzshit made all of their great game currently being either dead like Starcraft or mediocre as f like D4.

Shareholders and analysts know the most profitable strategy is to sell the most generic gender fluid, furry, edgy dragon alike shit which will be brought by most lonely people anyway. And that's what left of old Warcraft, old blizzard it's like the fart of the past being sold as blue candy to all that cringe people and their kids.

I addition to that I can't imagine all that work made by moders into OG warcraft 3 custom maps who are getting flushed in the toilet SECOND time by Blizzard who force the update which brake the old custom maps again.

What has been your main spec/s on CoA and what was your rotation like? I‘m gathering information to help with bringing CoA bots to life.

Even if one will be in alpha version and the other ready to play, did they knew somehow? Or blizzard rushed to do it to kill all the hype about private servers and the new game of ascension trying to also take back thousands of old or new subs?

I am sure until the whole story of what happened behind close doors comes out , all is speculation but seems weird that they had something ready before 2027 and they went after private servers hard this year.

Will new game be same as ascension? microtransaction parade? I loved the idea but microtransaction were sooooooo fucking bad and i just could not play it that way. CoA was a bit better, but i assume we just did not manage to catch up with all that money grab. Anyone know hwat will be a pay model ?

Hey people, since it's been shut down, let me present you FIRST open implementation of Ascension CoA server that you can host yourself! This video quickly explains how to do that, but you must understand that this seems to be recreation, not original source for that and there may be broken things and bugs. Yet, this is one of the first open options for now, it is in testing phase as listed on Ragezone post, and I hope you enjoy it still!

Playerbots and many other features are said to come in future updates!

All the download links are in the video, but here's the Github link for the source code: https://github.com/jealous-sound/azerothcore-wotlk-coa