2 weeks Ago By [email protected] (Lewis White)
The latest update to Blizzard’s World of Warcraft has landed, and it might be the buggiest release in the game’s lengthy history. The game’s latest patch 11.1.
5 has not only delayed a tonne of planned features, but those that are added to the game feel held together by pritt sticks and string.Since the patch launched two days ago, the latest content update for the long-running MMO is riddled with issues in a way that WoW hasn’t seen in years. Alongside new additions like the Cooldown Manager launching without any customisable abilities, new quests, features and more just straight-up don’t work.
World of Warcraft Patch 11.1.5 is borkedVia PCGamer, the sheer level of brokenness in the latest World of Warcraft update is almost unparallel for long-time players.
One of the headline features, the new Flame’s Radiance faction, is so broken that activities still aren’t finishing at the time of writing.Patch 11.1.
5 has also broken Mug'Zee, the Liberation of Undermine raid’s penultimate boss. Players are not having issues getting credit for killing the boss, but every other element of the raid has also been broken with title awards being bugged, and skips bring removed. Some players with lower reputation are also being rewarded with huge reputation just for finishing the raid one time.
For other bugs introduced with the patch, players have lost a large number of th e game’s Undercoin currency after Blizzard reverted a cross-character bug, the Great Vault is now giving players repeated items, video settings are being randomly changed, talents are broken, and a litany of other issues are cropping up as soon as others get rapidly patched out.Alongside the bugged content, World of Warcraft Patch 11.1.
5 is also just a weird release. A large amount of content that was supposed to drop in the update is annoyingly time-gated away from players.Horrific Visions, returning scenarios from Battle for Azeroth, are time-locked until May 20.
.. almost a full month away.
Dastardly Duos, a new group challenge where you fight two bosses at a time, also won’t release until June 3, despite being a major draw of the update.The majority of the content added in the update isn't actually available yet, and the stuff that is doesn't really work.At the end of the day, the latest World of Warcraft update is an absolute mess.
While I sadly haven’t had the time to jump back in—sorry, guys, I’m all in on the Oblivion hype right now—I’m happy I haven’t. Across the game’s now 21-year-history, I can’t recall a content update dropping this badly. It’s rough, really rough, and hopefully Blizzard can find a way to improve its production pipeline to make sure future updates are less destructive.
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