I've been looking over the art style of Reforged, and I must say that I love it. The pauldrons might look a little silly on some models, but nothing that can't be fixed with a few tweaks. However, while browsing the screenshots and videos, I noticed something awful. An error, an oversight, most egregious.
https://i.imgur.com/I32TgMs.jpg
The Trolls have normal human-like heels and only two toes. This is just wrong. There's not even a toe-nail back there.
For those of you who are unaware, Trolls are supposed to have a third toe on the back of their feet. Blizzard sometimes forgets this, which is why we need to remind them now, but more models have the third toe than not.
https://i.imgur.com/dB7B9rC.jpg
It predates Warcraft 3 itself, so it's not just an accident of model design. They're supposed to have three toes. It's even in their concept art.
https://i.imgur.com/aL46Mip.jpg
Trolls have had an extra third toe since they still had five fingers. An anatomical feature not too dissimilar from the X-man Nightcrawler, and likely with a similar purpose. In lore, Trolls are described as master climbers, able to scale cliff and cave walls and traverse through trees as effortlessly as they walk. This feature of their feet likely ties into that.
Warcraft III era concept art shows their feet wrapping around and perching on surfaces. Demonstrating their grasping capability.
It's an anatomical feature that not only looks distinctive, but serves a distinct function and tells us something about how Trolls move through their environments. A very neat bit of flavor.
Also, I get annoyed by mistakes, and I want Reforged to be perfect. So won't you all please help me to see if this can get fixed?
I also posted a thread about it on the official forums.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/save-the-troll-hind-toe/49
Submitted November 07, 2018 at 07:19PM by usterm https://ift.tt/2yXUGFQ
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