WoW Moviewatch: Starting Zone Struggles
by Michael Gray 
Aug 6th 2010 at 12:00PM
Of course, Wowcrendor's look at this dynamic is even more vivid with Cataclysm crashing down on us like some kind of world-changing event. I suspect that just about everyone will experiment with the fuzzy worgen or green goblins, and we'll all get the chance to cruise starting zones again.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Lumi Aug 6th 2010 12:08PM
Funny vid
Unexpected EOF Aug 6th 2010 12:18PM
Doin' nothin'... gettin' paaaiiid.
Harvoc2 Aug 6th 2010 12:22PM
Best. Job. Ever.
iammurlocftw Aug 6th 2010 12:41PM
That ain't workin, thats the way to do it, get your money for nothin and your chicks for free.
Mahkah Aug 6th 2010 12:19PM
Mankrik's wife: "Scorpion venom guy has it easy..."
Nagheen Aug 6th 2010 12:19PM
Ah the majestic red-robed-orc-warlock.
They can run through hills and sleep in the air, if only my raids had that much coordination.
Funny video btw =)
Armill3 Aug 6th 2010 1:34PM
Yeah... how do they manage to do that in live realms?
Hollow Leviathan Aug 6th 2010 3:40PM
They are hacking the game client. They are hackers.
Drakkenfyre Aug 6th 2010 5:47PM
The game clients uses your information for position. What your game client reports to the servers as your position is what the server thinks your position is. It also uses you as collision detection.
This is how people used to cheat in BG's. They would use a model edit to change the gate at the beginning of a match into a pole, allowing them to run by before it started. Hence, why model editing, of any kind, is now banned. This also led to the deaths of people who had a slow system. If you jumped from a high distance, and fell into water, if the water hadn't loaded before you hit where it would have been, you would die as if you hit land. The game wouldn't report "hit water" since the water didn't exist on your system yet. This has been fixed.
The spammers you see use a program to alter their location. Their client, with help from the hack program, tells the server "I am here", when here is actually 20 feet in the air. It's also how they "swim" thru the air and run faster than normal. Their hack program is telling the servers they are going faster than they really are. The servers have protections against this, now if you go faster than you should normally (via buffs or other means) the server will flag you. But sometimes you can still get around it, which is what they do.
They use a program to tell the servers their character is now 200 feet in the air, then they drop and die, or they simply use the hack program to kill them. Combine that with bot programs to precisely move them around, and that's how you get addresses spelled out.
It used to be, and it still might be, that if the server lost tracking of you, it would simply kill you. If you had real bad lag suddenly, and you seemed to be warping around, sometimes you would just die, for no reason. It was the server. It lost track of your location, so it would simply kill you to prevent you from cheating. Don't know if this still happens or not, tho.
Scrylar Aug 6th 2010 12:31PM
Was the troll near the end named Meatwad?
Tim Aug 6th 2010 12:38PM
That was funny stuff. Wowcrendor hits it out of the park again. Now if he would only "recruit" some friends to help him do some of the voice acting... :)
iammurlocftw Aug 6th 2010 12:43PM
Oxhorn+wowcrendor=Epic win?
New series: Re inventing swear words, the GMs change back the chat filter book and the three (now 4 with crendor) go out to find a way to avoid that the next time.
elstor Aug 6th 2010 12:47PM
Doing his own voices is what makes it so great imo
lolikitty Aug 6th 2010 12:48PM
The apple quest guy's lips don't move when he talks, that scares me. Is he a telepath ? Do you become a telepath is you eat apples all day ?
lolikitty Aug 6th 2010 12:48PM
*if ?
Sharvis Aug 6th 2010 1:11PM
The titles of the videos are giving him away, I got excited when I thought it might be another Wowcrendor movie. :)
A great, short movie. I made sure to "Like" it on Youtube. Poor NPC's, dealing with the "GO GO GO" players. :P
kabshiel Aug 6th 2010 1:22PM
Not his best work, but still pretty funny.
Delloga Aug 6th 2010 1:27PM
"I would move to orgrimmar. If only I had the gold."
"Hey, you say you need gold?"
Lol win.
Dreyja Aug 6th 2010 1:48PM
I never thought about what a cush job being a low level flight master would be... unless it's at the crossroads, or darkshire, or... I retract my statement. XD
Another fun one from Crendor. I also think that his voice acting is part of what makes it funny.
Drakkenfyre Aug 6th 2010 5:51PM
Better job.
http://darklegacycomics.com/126.html