Wintertodt Changes - Open Beta

That's in the works too!

It's not a weekly update, those happen on Wednesday, this is entirely separate. That said, this week is a 'no update' week because we need to get a bunch ready for Varlamore: The Rising Darkness next week!

Interruptions have been toned down considerably, but the team are already aware of use-cases for Redemption/Heal Other etc. and are open to implementing them if players still feel that it's necessary

Escape Crystals have been plugged in to the Warmth system, and the usual triggers like inactivity time should function as normal!

Interruptions while fletching have had an internal cooldown added, so should feel far less oppressive than before if you're getting them chained-together.

Can absolutely speak to the team about finding some clearer way of showing the value of warm clothing!

You should be able to make potions in between rounds yeah, with the changes to Rewards Crates you can effectively extend a trip indefinitely until getting nerd-logged! It looks as though you can't pick the herbs between rounds at the moment, but we'll be hotfixing that since it should be the case that you can make pots between rounds!

As long as the food heals more than 3HP when consumed normally, it'll always restore 35% Warmth, so there's no benefit to bringing something like Lobsters over Cakes, for example.

We actually went into some detail about interruptions and our reasoning behind retaining some interruption in the 'Blog Updates' section of this post.

It's something we're aware of the demand for but given the size of Wintertodt, making it instanceable isn't trivial at all (it's actually a massive deal of work). It's something the team are open to doing down the line, but doing it alongside these changes would likely have resulted in significant delays to the other Poll 82 Minigame changes.

The points shouldn't have been changed, other than actually claiming the rewards, reward behaviour should be the same. Effectively, it should remain capped at 13,500 points per game, just distributed differently - not looking to drastically change up the meta or encourage even longer kills etc.

They do not, but the team are open to implementing them if people want them - which I imagine will be the case!

All good, they really gotta add a way to check what day it is, would be huge QOL.

I don't know the specific timing off-hand but you should always be guaranteed 2-3 Fletch actions before being able to be interrupted again. Ultimately should reduce those scenarios where you feel like you've not been able to fletch a single thing for loads of consecutive interruptions, should feel a lot better!

Escape Crystals, Ring of Life, Phoenix Necklace and the Defence Cape should be working - but it's worth making sure that the Warmth bar effectively assumes that you're at 10HP, so it's not as reliable an option as if you're at 99HP and it's not easy to reliably dip below 10%. There is some variance in the mix though, so it's definitely possible to fish for procs on items like that!

Which ones in particular are you asking for here?

They're on the back-burner for the time-being, but I imagine we'll be talking about them in the relatively near future. We're in no rush to get them out in a state that's not in line with player expectations and we'll absolutely be revisiting them, I'm just not able to provide a clear timeframe of when.

Perhaps, but that doesn't really help people doing Todt to get 99 Firemaking, which is the overwhelming majority of players engaging with the content in the first place!

Making it smaller would likely mean remaking the area in some vicinity, which is bigger in scope than just instancing what's there. On top of that, introducing actual meaningful differences in the environment for Solo players might create some imbalance that we'd rather avoid!

I actually think this would be feasible with our new rewards system and is something I'll chat to the team about!

Worth noting that we can't really do anything retroactively (i.e. if you've done 100 kills at 20 loots per kill then we couldn't retrofit that to say 2,000 searches) but we could convert existing kc to searches at a 1:1 and then use the new system going forward for Clog entries in particular, though we might be a little hesitant to change the HiScores for killcount.

Ah 35% will be the correct number if that's what's written - just getting numbers muddled because of juggling a few things at once, will adjust my initial reply!

I think the team are still keen to run a beta for them because so many of the changes interconnect with each other and it's difficult to get a proper feel for how they'll add up to be 'more than the sum of their parts' so to speak. For example, if the ability to just charge barriers without them needing to have taken damage turns into significantly more XP/hr than we'd reasonably have expected, or players find some creative way of exploiting it that our QA team wouldn't - we can't reasonably ship those changes.

Attempting to find a solution to the issue preventing beta testing on mobile. When it became clear that the fix would take longer than we were ready to wait, we went with the workaround. Nothing was really changed with Wintertodt during those two weeks.