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| 0s | This is for you. |
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| 1s | Lovely. I've always wanted to do this. |
| 3s | How do you want me to hold this bad boy? |
| 5s | This is Rellekka Dev Diary, take one! |
| 9s | We've got another area update coming your way |
| 11s | with Rellekka and the Fremennik Province... |
| 12s | Getting a new look from the 7th of May. |
| 15s | This includes the lighthouse, the city of Rellekka itself, |
| 19s | The hunting area to the north of it on the ice platform, |
| 22s | and then the area to the north of that where you can go mine Banite rocks. |
| 26s | Because it's a smaller area we managed to |
| 28s | spend a bit more time on it and go more in depth with the update. |
| 32s | Like the lighthouse got completely remodeled, we plugged in |
| 34s | a bunch of new flowers and foliage... still consistent with the rest of the game, |
| 38s | but more uniquely its own area. |
| 41s | There's no jarring switches of the moment you step across a certain threshold |
| 44s | everything looks a decade older than the place you just were. |
| 48s | We've been speaking to players a lot and getting their feedback around |
| 51s | what the community wants to see updated |
| 53s | and error updates are something that come up time and time again. |
| 56s | We were delighted to hear that the environment team was so on board |
| 59s | with the idea of exploring new areas to give a graphical update to, |
| 62s | and they just couldn't decide which area they wanted. |
| 64s | So we decided, who better to ask than the community? |
| 67s | So we threw out a poll |
| 69s | on all of our different platforms and we let the community decide |
| 72s | which area they thought needed that update the most. |
| 76s | So right out of the gate, when we were thinking about doing Rellekka, |
| 79s | when we first started to get initial feedback from players, Mod Fox, our concept artist, |
| 83s | did an amazing paint over of what Rellekka a could look like with an area update. |
| 87s | This allowed us to quickly iterate and see the direction that we want to go with. |
| 92s | For example, the Rellekka marketplace... |
| 95s | we had some different thoughts of like right, what is the terrain here? |
| 98s | Is this stone, is this mud? |
| 100s | The before doesn't really show it clearly. Like what was there was quite nondescript. |
| 105s | So getting quick paintovers allowed us to show it to players... |
| 108s | and the reception was hugely positive and that really reinforced the decision that we wanted to go in |
| 112s | with the Rellekka update, and the product is what you see now. |
| 116s | One of my favourite areas that got updated as part of this is The Lighthouse. |
| 120s | I didn't just update the environment around it |
| 122s | like the rocks and the terrain and the lighting. |
| 124s | I also remodeled the entire building and tried |
| 128s | to give it a lot more personality |
| 130s | and get away from like the stumpy small lighthouse that was there before. |
| 134s | We are so excited for players to get their hands on this new and updated Rellekka environment. |
| 138s | I'm so excited to see how players use it to take amazing screenshots, |
| 142s | make new art, explore any fashionscapes and just revisit areas |
| 145s | they haven't been to in a little while... |
| 147s | And I'm especially looking forward to seeing all of them sharing their updates |
| 150s | in the official Runescape Discord which you can go and check out right now. |