Update Info

Bugs/Concerns

Around 11 Hotfixes including fixing the Escape ability, Farm Request turn-ins, and the BoB fix.
The ability to make potions from your BoB was a bug, it wasn't a QoL improvement.
- It wasn't intentional and therefore can have unintended consequences and balance concerns.
- We may look into making it an intended feature but there's no guarantee.
Dungeoneering doors scaling to 120 - Coincidental change based on how DG was coded.
- We don't want to make any knee-jerk reactions and immediately "fix it".
- We will be collecting constructive feedback. Should they scale to 120? Tears of Guthix does.

Post Update

Time has been allocated for the team to make post-update improvements/fixes based on feedback.
- More achievements, etc...
- Some things can't be done immediately (i.e. Seed storage, it hasn't been forgotten).
You weren't intended to do everything on launch.
- Farming is a time-gated skill and Herblore isn't, therefore you can train both at the same time.
We won't make knee jerk reactions based on Day 1/2 feedback but instead use data.
We aren't worry about certain things being niche as it has it's places/uses.

Released hopefully by the end of the year. Dev Blog Friday.

The characters won't immediately pivot, there's a smoother feel to the animation.
- No need to change the animation, it's done on the engine side.
It doesn't affect the core-gameplay.
It also applies to NPCs.
Diagonal Surging won't be affected.
We haven't changed the direction you faced.

Debug console has been brought back internally.
We didn't have to to get more data from the server as it's purely client side.
- The difficulty was unpacking movement code as it hasn't been touched in a long time.
Something we can do more efficiently since we no longer need to support the Java client.

Audio Stuff

Baby Dinos noises were made from dogs. Not the barks, but growls and gnarls.
Around 13 dogs from internally through out the studio.
- We had to play with them to make noises.
- Dog Pictures - Not all of them.
- Doggy having an accident
Audio Bits: Rex Noises | Palvasaur Noises | Oculi | Scimitops and Malletops | Venomous Lizard
- There are some layering of different sounds to make a singular one.
- Some effects have been applied to the dogs.
Music Track - Combined Player Owned Farm with Land Out of Time themes.
- The whistling of PoF and the brass of LooT.

Process

Concepts are sent to a 3D artist to make sure the environment fits together.
- There's a back and forth when deciding what works and what doesn't.
Everything needs to be read-able so you can tell what it is at a glance.
Most of what we sure is polished/finished concept art, but we also paint over an image to get a quick idea of what something should look like.
- Takes 30/40 minutes each.
Seeing fan art is pretty cool and makes the work worth it.
We gather reference art before making content. No point in re-inventing stuff.

Specific

We need to pay homage to the old tree graphics while moving on to newer ones.
- Use the same principles/assets but arranged in different ways and different leaves.
- Research goes into the look of the trees but we also need to make sure they are Runescapey.
While creating the Ranch we repurposed our knowledge and experience from Anacronia.
- Using the same assets/environment to create the pens layouts.
Creating the Baby Dinos we made a base mesh so we can re-use animations where we can.
- Then re-skin/re-texture so you can have 3 creatures based on one.
- Part of keeping them cute is the big eyes and the dog sounds.
- The textures are restrictive since they are small, we have to be clever how we work around that.