World of Warcraft: Shadowlands large pre-expansion event is live on the test servers and it's unleashed an unfathomably big zombie plague on gamers, turning Azeroth's capital cities into undead wastelands. Countless zombies are stalking the streets, devouring any NPC they can find--even including a few that TBC Classic Gold provide quests--and turning them into the undead. Players who get within arm's reach may also be infected, providing them special zom-bilities and letting them attack other players to spread the disease.

To be clear, this is not happening from the live version of the game but on its own public servers. It is here that Blizzard tests upcoming changes to the game, like the coming level cap squish (maximum level players will now only be level 50, with the new level cap being 60 when Shadowlands releases) along with the overhauled new participant experience. But, sometime later this autumn, this event will launch on live servers--and if it's anything like what's happening now, it'll be a bloodbath.

I'm not exactly certain when the event is working as intended. Right now, Stormwind is completely overrun with ghouls that are rampaging through the streets and slaughtering everything that moves. The auction house, sellers, and even the lender are all unusable--that might be frustrating for gamers that, when the event is truly reside, are just trying to go about their day to day business.

Over on the WoW subreddit, players have also found ways to attract the zombie infestation outside capital cities, making whole regions of Azeroth uninhabitable. It is amusing to realize how much this mirrors a true zombie plague, as slain players and NPCs both change to ghouls so their numbers are constantly growing.

Fortunately, WoW sport developer Jeremy Feasel confirmed the zombie invasion part of the event will only be active for a couple of hours throughout the day rather than all the time. I am actually a little disappointed by that, frankly, because I believe it'd be fun to find an all-out, 24/7 invasion which gamers need to try and contain--something akin to World of Warcraft's notorious Corrupted Blood event.

The Scourge Invasion is just 1 portion of Shadowlands' pre-launch event. Players can also venture to the frigid wastes of Northrend to fight bosses and make strong loot, and there is also a new narrative quest to try .

If you are a WoW subscriber, you can check all this out now by following these steps to get the buy WOW Classic TBC Gold public test server. Otherwise, you can wait until the event inevitably launches sometime in the coming months.