Game Update - Poll 80 Wilderness Changes & More!

I have never made a typo in a post title in my life and I don't know what you're talking about...

(ty for the spot)

Worlds are quiet enough these days but we said that we would so hopefully the implementation suffices! I'd give it a go with my GIM mates but none of them have logged in to do anything but drain me of my potions in the last year :(

Have passed this on as a feedback point already but will raise it again!

I'm not sure re: shard rates, Amethyst/Zalcano alongside other Project Rebalance bits (we're in the process of scheduling everything now and trying to make sure we can deliver betas among other releases and spread blogs out enough for solid feedback because there's a lot on the table), Wilderness Resource Area is somewhat TBD (you'll be able to read more about it in an upcoming blog, but to tldr we'd like to explore a more significant overhaul, similar to he box jonge's recent suggestion, so it might be a 'later in the year' project but it's too early to say at this stage).

There's still potential for things to be further improved, just wanting to lean into the point around not over-correcting too much too soon above all else!

It'll be included in an upcoming blog, everything in this update is in the post!

Should be, screenshots like that come from debug commands that roll (afaik) regular loot only, which are agnostic of unique roles.

So would I! I asked about this really shortly after I joined (which is nearly 2 years ago now) and I think the reason given was that back in the day there we weren't able to discern where a potion had been used and the team at the time of Blighted supplies' arrival didn't want people popping a free stam and then carrying on with whatever they were doing. Since some change or another (around Prif's release) it's possible to tell this info now and wipe the buff if a player leaves the Wilderness, so I'm hopeful that more Blighted offerings could be on the cards - which would be nice to help keep supply costs down, especially for people new to PvP I feel like those costs add up a lot if you're not able to score consistent kills.

Touched on this in another comment here!

Have just added an image into the newspost, I thought I'd added it this morning but must have ctrl + Zed the change :/

Will pass this one on to the team!

Scurrius only spawns in at 1,500 HP if there are 2+ people in the instance. If you're solo in a GIM instance, it's still a 500 HP boss. Glad to see more people have clocked that killing the non-instanced version is better for XP/hr though!

Also very glad that the texture remains, the beans are essential!

It's not yet been fixed but the team are working on a fix for it, hopefully we'll be able to get it sorted ASAP (though I don't know if it's hotfixable or not).

It's on our Player Suggestions sheet, hoping we get through the rest of our 'suggestions backlog' by next Monday (which is when those meets tend to happen!)

Have literally just added a brief update into the post for some of the CA stuff on the blog (was initially due next week but got pulled into this week after I'd written the main body of the newspost).

Will ask the team to take a look and see if they're happy to make a tweak - maybe even having them drop alongside other supply drops might just make them feel better?

I mean yeah, sky's the limit really - would love to see things like brews, stams, stat-boosting pots, explore stuff like thralls, blood spells, god spells etc.

Team says they're hoping to see it release this month, but it's not been fully QAed for Release yet so not able to hard-commit to a date!

I think the content outlined in the 'Wrapping Up Forestry' blog from last year is due to release next week!

Appreciate the comment, this has now been updated and hopefully made a little bit clearer to the status of the game.

Apologies for taking a little while on this one. It's easier for me to respond to questions about content itself because it's the stuff that I'm attached to every single day, topics like this are more difficult to dive in to and give answers without consulting other members within the studio first.

ACT are working on trying to find a consistent and enforceable way to remove these players from the HiScores so that real players are actually able to secure spots - note that this applies to all content in the game, including things like CG. The ACT and Game Engine teams are investigating manual removal from the HiScores for accounts that have already been banned, should be banned or for any other reason should not still be appearing on the HiScores. Note that there are some players who are permanently banned but still appearing on the HiScores who are included in this manual removal.

It's always an arms race dealing with bots, but we don't want legitimate players to miss out on meaningful updates because of those not playing by the rules. There are things we can do to make content harder to bot or make it 'not worthwhile' to bot (e.g. teleport delays, logout delays, skulling for loot, higher minimum fees) but these come at the detriment for regular players (as was made extremely clear by the Rev Caves teleport delay earlier in 2023). It's a delicate balance for us as a content team because we still want content to hit our initial aims (e.g. WBR bosses being worthwhile to fight in groups, rather than being primarily soloed) and deliver updates to serve players from all over the game, needing to be balanced against 'empowering' bots, which needs to be balanced against 'disempowering' actual players.

ACT have assured us that they are continuing to monitor the areas and will take action against those found to be breaking the rules.

I think that was due to be fixed this week, sounds like something might have gone wrong - will share with the team, cheers for raising!

Left a comment on that one here. It's much easier for me to reply ad hoc to questions about content and the game itself because it's what I work on every single day, but I don't work in Player Support or in Anti Cheat and need to consult with people and double-check what I say before responding to make sure it accurately reflects where they're at.