Around Azeroth: Around the universe
by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Jul 17th 2008 at 10:00AM
Because I am a Bad Person, I visited the Caverns of Time long before the Burning Crusade ever came out. In fact, I even brought a friendly warlock and offered to summon guildmates for guided tours. One of our tourists, a well-geared mage, decided it would be a great idea to jump off over the side into the endless void. We didn't hear much from him about the scenery, aside from "OMG SUMMON ME QUICK", but I suspect his character's last sight before death was something like this. (And if you think sneaking into the Caverns is unethical, you do not even want to know what I did with the BC alpha ...)
Sikran from <Renaissance> of Sha'tar-EU got a nice, unimpeded view of the scenery when his game made the unilateral decision to remove the caverns and the characters, leaving only the sky. Was it a glitch, or yet another incidence of your video card on drugs?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dabronx Jul 17th 2008 10:22AM
*(And if you think sneaking into the Caverns is unethical, you do not even want to know what I did with the BC alpha ...)*
Badger Jul 17th 2008 10:44AM
"Dude, you probably shouldn't be talking about that, out loud. I mean, if - "
[ whistling sound ]
"What's that noise? Is that ... OH GOD! IT'S THE BANHAMMER! RUUUUUUUUNNN!"
Keirin Jul 17th 2008 10:33AM
Now.. Where is the TARDIS? ;)
Roxton Jul 17th 2008 5:43PM
Talking of sneaking into closed zones, how about old Ironforge (the Hall of Thanes), the Wetlands Farm and the Dun Morogh Airfield? I have beautiful screenshots of all of those.
sephirah Jul 17th 2008 10:42AM
(And if you think sneaking into the Caverns is unethical, you do not even want to know what I did with the BC alpha ...)
Tell us, tell us...
Cap Jul 17th 2008 10:59AM
I also snuck in to the Caverns pre-BC, but I did it on the test realms. My reasoning was, the test realm exists to find problems/bugs/exploits before the patch goes live, so I was doing them a service by getting in there. I was slightly disappointed, however, when the Caverns actually went live, because it appears that the nether scenes (like the one in this picture) are lower res in the live version than they were in pre-BC days. When I first went in there on the test realm, I was stunned by the beauty; the scenes in there now are pixely and very underwhelming.
Badger Jul 17th 2008 11:37AM
"I was slightly disappointed, however, when the Caverns actually went live, because it appears that the nether scenes (like the one in this picture) are lower res in the live version than they were in pre-BC days."
If it's any consolation, they probably downsized the resolution and quality to make it friendlier to a broader variety of video cards - thus ensuring more people would actually get to *see* the Caverns of Time.
Doma Jul 17th 2008 4:32PM
sounds like someone snuck onto GM island...
also, not to flame or anything, but you can easily get this unimpeded view from wow modelviewer, and not have to wait for an epic glitch.
Nathaniel Jul 18th 2008 12:07AM
But turning your settings up to max should fix it then, and it doesn't :(
But, I bet CoT:Old Stratholme will be awesome.
Jason Jul 17th 2008 12:44PM
All I ever did was sneak into the airport by Ironforge.(are they ever going to use that?)
Everyone's done that though.
Has anyone snuck into the Azshara Battleground? I haven't found a way in yet, I think they may have fixed that.
Slaign Jul 17th 2008 3:45PM
The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3720 to 1!