The Queue: All hail the mighty Cube

It’s been a little while since I wrote about Fortnite in one of these intros, but it’s about time to do so again. Why? Because a few weeks back, the mysterious crack in the sky disappeared — but it left behind a gift! That gift was the mysterious Cube, which spawned after lightning struck the same area several times over the course of a day or so. When the Cube finally appeared, players noticed it would bounce them away if they touched it, as well as lash out at anyone nearby if attacked.

Then, it started moving.

It’s moved pretty far at this point, and it’s already left behind two runes surrounded areas of low-gravity. Oh, and at one point during the Summer Skirmish, it made everyone float — literally no one had seen that before or expected it (not everyone found it as funny as I did). All in all, the mystery of the Cube and where it’s going is yet another example of Fortnite keeping players intrigued through seemingly small changes that are clearly building toward something big.

Anyhow, I suppose it’s time we talk Blizzard, huh? This is The Queue.

It’s hard to say for certain, because I’ve had enough time to adjust and get the idea of how to play as best as I can, and in that regard, it’s not terrible. That said, it’s still clunky. I’ve adjusted to the clunkiness to the point where I notice it less than when I was playing Legion and the BFA beta at the same time, but not enough to where I’m not still hoping 8.1 changes things soon. There are just so many things about Shadow in BFA that boggle me in terms of what Blizzard was thinking when making the spec.

I don’t want to spend the whole Queue ranting about Shadow, but the short version is that I’ve adjusted but I still don’t love it.

A single-player game’s story is almost always going to allow for more opportunities for nuance and decision-making. I mean, when you think about it, what aspects of WoW’s storytelling are done better because of the game’s status as an MMO? One could argue dungeons and raids, which do offer story beats, couldn’t be offered in a single-player game — but that’s not entirely true. They wouldn’t be the same mechanically, but you could always experience the story by playing through the dungeons/raids in a world where they’re designed for a single player.

I don’t mean any of this to imply I’d prefer WoW as a single-player game, mind you. But I genuinely am not sure how a game’s story presentation would benefit more from being an MMO than a single-player game. As far as BFA is concerned, it definitely has a lot of moments where it would be cool to pick between two paths rather than follow one — but it’s not the first expansion to have that, and it won’t be the last.

Wowhead has a solid rundown of the minutiae, but the roll system is similar to what we’ve had in the past. However, you can only get two per week and up to a maximum of five, while the cost for each has also been upped*. They’re sold near the transmog people in your faction’s BFA capital.

*The rate you acquire certain resources has changed, so it’s not directly comparable. Also, there’s always a chance things have changed since beta.

As cool as that would be, I think we’ll get something more out of left field than that. I don’t know what (hence, left field), but a Nagaloc feels predictable. Again, it also sounds cool and I really hope we still get one at some point, but I’m not sure about BlizzCon being that point.

Nope! Not sad at all. We all have our reasons for buying what we buy, and if you have the cash for a Virtual Ticket and buying it won’t adversely affect anyone/anything, then why would it be sad?

Now, if you can choose between feeding your hungry child and buying the Virtual Ticket, that’s a different story. You should be slowly reducing the child’s overall food during the course of the next few weeks so it’s used to a smaller amount by November and, thus, won’t be hungry. This eliminates any questions of guilt. Thank me later.

If you’re running with your guild, I would hope they understand that Feral isn’t in a perfect place right now but still be willing to run with you if that’s what you want to play. I’m of the opinion that you should play whatever class/spec you want to play, so long as you’re actually enjoying what you’re doing. Granted, if you’re getting others killed in runs because of Feral, you need to git gud figure out how to avoid doing that first.

Yes, this is intended. However, Blizzard realizes that it’s not great and is looking to improve it in the future. If you have ideas for how to make that happen, submit ’em!

I think that the Trial of Style doesn’t warrant that much frustration. Yeah, it can suck when someone wins because they don’t follow the theme and instead go with something sUp3r wh@ck3y ANd wEiRd, but it’s still not super hard to get all the rewards after a little bit of time. And, y’know, the rewards are also entirely cosmetic.

It’s a fun thing with fun rewards and I think people should just have fun with it and not get upset. Now, if Blizzard were to give it the revamp it totally deserves and make it feel more meaningful… Well, I still don’t think tier sets are cheating. If the community collectively decides using tier sets is unoriginal, then the majority of the voting will reflect that. Ideally, anyhow.

That’s today’s Queue(b)! Leave questions for Liz that totally aren’t about what to call this majestic Cube. So far, the community seems to be calling it “Kevin”… but I think we can do better.