World of Warcraft's next major patch will let you drift in a car '4 to 5 times faster' than a normal ground mount, all while learning 'more about goblin culture than ever before'
World of Warcraft'll be getting its next major update—patch 11.1—early next year, as announced during the Warcraft 30 year celebration stream. Dubbed Undermine(d), this update will take you to, well, Undermine—the centre of the goblins' OSHA-violating trade empire, deep underground.
«We'll learn more about goblin culture than ever before … beyond the humour and the explosions,» states Ion Hazzikostas, game director for World of Warcraft. «Though to be clear, there's gonna be a lot of explosions.» Phew.
The city will feature all the major goblin enterprises, with Steamwheedle, Blackwater, Bilgewater, and The Venture Co. all making an appearance. Each will have faction goodies to earn from the company store of your choosing, given they've all been pitted against each other. But who cares about goblin politics (actually, writing that out, maybe I do): World of Warcraft's getting drifting, baby!
An expansion on the dragonriding/skyriding tech developed in Dragonflight, the patch, Undermine(d), will feature a new customisable ground mount. It is a car. One you can tinker with a bunch of paint jobs, as well as actually being able to control its grip, drift, and acceleration characteristics.
Talking to PC Gamer's Tyler Colp, assistant lead quest designer Mark Kelada explains: «It moves at base, I think, roughly four to five times faster than your standard ground mount. So when people hear 'no skyriding', I would say yes, just wait until you get into this car.»
As far as the specifics go, the design team's still playing in the space, but «right now, we're playing with the mechanic of the longer you can hold the drift, the more boost you can get.» Sick. Kelada adds you'll be able to «change the turbo/boost … do you want it to be high efficiency so it uses less metre, do you want it to be high-speed, so you press that button and you're just gone?» He also states there might be an option for an NPC passenger who can lend a hand.
In terms of what you can do with it,
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