Old School Runescape Dev Tracker

Literally not ignoring the issue as the comment I made and the statement of the blog said we're going to adjust it next week.

If you feel like the changes after we make them are not good enough for the content then you are entitled to provide said feedback like any other player.

If you are still not getting the xp-rates which we are quoting then perhaps the timed benchmarks we provide will indicate any improvements you can maket. This content shouldn't be rewarding to players who are not good at it.

Hey that was me, JMods occasionally hop on in-game to see how things are going, especially right after an update. Since we can turn ourselves into certain NPCs, a lot of people ask us to do that and if we're not too busy at the time we're usually happy to have a laugh and walk around the GE as a boss like Jad :).

No problem! Was actually an easier fix than I thought it would be which is nice :)

Haha no problem, hopefully no more scuffed flames plaguing my dreams now!

Sorry about that, I had to re-write the entire system just to prevent the fact that the animations weren't in sync with what was happening to the player, invisible fires, lagged fires etc. and that meant that the specific timings of the flames had to be slightly changed too.

It messed with me for around 2-3 runs in internal testing before I got used to it but after that it actually felt much nicer and more intuitive to me than before.

Apologies for not getting it right in the first time regardless

No, I'm afraid I don't like the idea of just giving the marks for completing the floors. If you want the rewards it makes sense to raid the coffins inside the encounter, that's the entire thematic.

The section in the blog details that we'd like the xp/hr someone looting and someone not looting gets be closer than it currently is because I agree you feel very over punished in the XP loss for looting, hence the change this week go award 100 additional agility xp per encounter and the exact numbers will be reviewed in the coming weeks

This is why I'm hoping the timed benchmarks we give for balancing next week will help.

This content has a learning curve and it's pretty terrible compared to rooftops before you get past it and it's pretty amazing afterwards. Also it was balanced xp wise around players not looting, hence the quick fix this week so that each treasure encounter gives a bonus 100 agility xp and we'll be looking to review and fine-tune all the xp values over the next week or so with the end result hopefully being that looters aren't so heavily punished in terms of xp

I came up with the idea of the squirrel recolour purely because I wanted people to have something to spend their hallowed marks on if they enjoyed the content and wanted to keep doing it after buying the tools and dark graceful.

I personally like when we can have fitting content have a cosmetic override as opposed to just handing it out for free but I also understand that there are a lot of cool recolours and ideas we just don't have the time to create indepth content for

We never stated that we'd lower them. What I'm actually hoping to do (focusing on floors 3,4 and 5 only)

Is to increase the amount of xp/hr for people who are looting are currently getting while bringing down the xp/hr of people who are not looting and establishing a benchmark as to what we consider the player's skill level we are going to balance it around that's what that statement was trying to say at least.

At the very least I am of the opinion that if you are bad at the sepulchre, failing traps a lot and not learning it then it should be worse than rooftops. This content has a learning curve and once you get over it you definitely see the benefits of taking the time to learn it!

This should be fixed. Let us know if you still run into any issues.

I like the lightning edits around the cursor, but the rolling raccoon was what really won me over.

What a cutie :)

Monkey backpacks are currently being worked on by QA and are likely to come in the coming weeks.

It would be the most valueable floor the player has access to. For example if you have unlocked floor 4 the rates will be balanced around the player looting only floor 4, completing it and doing it again. I am aware that you can get more marks/hr likely by looting floor 3+4 or only doing the prayer/magic encounters because they're quicker but that substantially complicates the issue from a balancing perspective.

I can't really balance it around no loot, only looting 4, only looting 3 and 4, only looting floors 2,3 and 4, looting all floors. I am kind of expecting that if a player is looting more than just the last floor they have access to for the increased marks/hr then they should expect to get lower rates than are quoted by us. That trade off has to exist and the player making choices about how much xp/reward they get is a core part of the minigame.

The goal when balancing is to at least have it so you gain more xp/hr than rooftops looting the last floor you can ...

We'd like to release all the gauntlet changes at once. Some of the changes are still awaiting QA testing and once they've passed we can look at releasing it in a batch as soon as possible.

We are planning to poll the blisterwood xp rates in the near future.

This has now been fixed!

This is so cool!