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Just because something is designed for a certain target audience, it doesn't mean nobody outside of that target audience can complete the content. In this case, it means we expect to see way more groups than solo players playing the content.

(Still appreciate the joke, nice 1)

Turns out our map editor has the function to export height data, so I suppose you're in luck!

This also made me realise how small Gielinor really is as each pixel represents a game tile that is roughly 1 meter. Therefor the width of the entire map is only 2,752 meters. It's also very messy due to how the maps are assembled out of blocks. You can see the seams between map files quite a bit in some areas but a little bit of blurring should solve that.

Hope this helps!

The poll blog you are referring to with the changelist has a line directly under that changelist in bold that reads "The Siren's Tome will not be released with The Nightmare. You can read more about that here."

I don't doubt people will be able to solo it, it's just designed for groups.

Very meta. Unfortunately, it's not clear who will be on the sofa at the time we put these threads up. Anyone in the team's schedule can suddenly change making them either available or not.

Happy cake day.

I don't see why not.

I flippin love threads like this, like you sometimes lose that feeling of how many people out there are playing this game, as a dev team when you're just stuck in the office each day, bumps of motivation along the way! <3

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In the meantime, leave any questions you have for the team down below and we'll answer as many as we can!

The biggest problem with most OSHD clients was the technology behind it, not the assets. Hell, if it had worked we would have used it. Sadly the OSHD code was not up to scratch for a commercial company and making it so would have meant opening hooks into the code which could've been exploited by bots.

I think the OSHD client mentioned below tripped a whole lot of bot detection systems so would not have been workable either.

This may well be different, will be good to see where it goes.

I know what you mean but unfortunately quests of that size and level are quite expensive to make and tend to take a long time to design and develop from scratch so it's something we have to have the right balance on. However I can assure to you that we care about quests like we care about many other areas of the game, we just can't keep making the same type of content all the time.

Your login will always remain the same, regardless of you changing your dispaly name.

There are a few ways I suppose to avoid the summoning-esque feel to raising the dead to fight for you. Having them as timed persistent followers would certainly be a no due to the prevalence of pets and the potential of making it a meta for most situations. If they acted more as a physical representation of a damage over time effect (equivalent of a magical version of poison) with the cure being a set time (a minute or so) or running out of HP. That might work. Also, tying them to a specific item that needs to stay equipped which could have fairly high negatives to melee/ranged to encourage them to be paired mostly with magic. I recall reading the ideas GT put forward back when the original Spellbook rework was shared. They were great solutions to avoiding the summoning lite features that may not go down well with the more ‘anti-change’ players.

Just spitballing really :P there’s plenty of ways it can be done to be as unobtrusive to the standard combat systems that everyone...

We do care about quests! The quest Sins of the Father will be the next thing we'll be working on after the release of the Nightmare of Ashihama and is due to be released later in the year. You can find out more about it here.

For sure, the balance will be super important and we wouldn’t want a repeat of summoning.