New 7.3 PTR map: Argus Rift

[spoutnik]

Hello there !

7.3 PTR went up last night, and it contains Argus, and a few other maps: Argusraid, Argusdungeon, and the one that is most interesting is Argus_rifts.

Here's how it looks: http://marlamin.com/minimaps/maps/7....rgus_rifts.png

It looks like a dev map, doesn't it ? Or at least a very early version of something related to Argus.
I've tried to load this map on the current live server, but it has proven to be quite a bitch to explore (lots of streaming errors for example).

Here's what I was able to see:


The floor is lava!




Some Draenor-like land


A building from... Uldum ?




And the most intriguing thing I found (yet):

It does look like a building from the Halls of Origination, doesn't it ?

Oh, and, have some trees:




I'll post more if I manage to make the map work correctly.

[Nyarly]

Very nice, it indeeds looks like a dev map, or parts of it !
Eagerly waiting for king to update his sandbox ^^
Thanks for the screenshots

[Corri]

This looks like the instance map for the 20man invasion rift scenarios. All the different regions are on the same instance/map. Nice find

[akspa420]

Might as well post my exploration screenshots from downporting these maps to 3.3.5, using Noggit's rendering engine. 7.3.0-on-3.3.5 - Album on Imgur
I didn't bother converting the models or WMO's yet. This was the state of the maps in the very first 7.3.0 ptr build, not the current build.