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How will phones handle Yogg-Saron?

I'm interested as to how Blizzard might tackle the challenge of allowing so many spells to be cast in such a short timeframe, given that the player would most certainly lose their turn if all spell animations were performed.

How do you think Blizzard will tackle this design issue for players with inferior hardware, and with limited battery power to boot?

  • Mike Donais
    Posted 9 years, 8 months ago (Source)

    Is there any hard limit to the amount of spells he can cast? Or can we load up hundreds through explorer's hat and other repeatable spells?

    I believe 40 is the hard cap, doubled if Bran is in play.

  • Mike Donais
    Posted 9 years, 8 months ago (Source)

    We spent some time working on how Yogg-Saron, Hope's End is shown visually and how his timing works. Each card pops up on the screen for a second when it is cast. After all of them are done you can mouse over Yogg-Saron in the history bar and it shows a list of every spell he cast in order. We then worked to make sure the opponent's turn is still a full 75 seconds. We tested this with and without Nozdormu and it seems to work great.

    I think you guys will really enjoy the visuals and how it is presented, the engineers and artists did a great job on Yogg.

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