Hero Pass is a brand new part of the core RuneScape experience, designed to make the game even more rewarding whenever - and however - you choose to play.
Hero Pass builds on lessons of the past to bring a new integrated gameplay experience that fits into your regular play, with more unique cosmetic rewards and earnable buffs that add flavour to the gameplay.
Check it out here - https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/hero-pass-a-better-more-rewarding-runescape
External link →Hero Pass is a brand new part of the core RuneScape experience, designed to make the game even more rewarding whenever - and however - you choose to play.
Hero Pass builds on lessons of the past to bring a new integrated gameplay experience that fits into your regular play, with more unique cosmetic rewards and earnable buffs that add flavour to the gameplay.
Check it out here - https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/hero-pass-a-better-more-rewarding-runescape
External link →please someone tell me you wont be able to push zammy enrage with the 20% damage reduction thingy on?
Just like with the Golden Security Buff from the Golden Cape Hunt, any buffs we introduce with Hero Passes that could benefit bossing will disable entries into Kill Times and Leaderboards to keep the integrity of those stats intact.
I'm so sorry mods, its gonna be a long week
4 day working week, though, we did have Monday off!
You must've known... Right? Like the level of detachment from the playerbase cannot be this big in the office?
(referring to the reaction when you called this a core gameplay update)
I had this conversation with Hooli for days on end over this! While I agree that it's certainly a large update, we should have been more transparent - hindsight is 20:20!
However, we also don’t want to drive more ‘Dailyscape’ pressure.
Also Jagex:
Every day that you log in to RuneScape, you'll have a Daily Mission to complete, with three tiers of potential rewards.
EDIT --> So instead of dailies that take a couple minutes to do we get "missions" that take a lot more time? Yay I guess? Just what RS needs is more dailies.
If the design didn't include any Daily Missions, players who play regularly naturally would also be asking us to provide them something. There's always a balance.
The difference here is Daily Missions are designed to be good hits of Hero Pass Points, but not essential every day for progress. You have Weeklies (which stockpile even while you don't play / login), Special Missions and the ability to progress through general play outside of them.
The intent of the team is that you can progress playing on your own terms, but for those players who already like to log in every day, there's still some additional Missions to progress.
The inclusion of Lamps does change that design intent a little, but as we mentioned on stream, the team didn't want to go so far as to remove XP entirely from Dailies without further discussion/feedback from your time hands on with Hero Pass once it's out.
It should never have been displayed or hyped as a Major Content Update. Something as simple as "Yak Track Rework" would have been sufficient, or even "Hero Pass Announcement" So we in the community had sufficient expectations.
ANYTHING that includes MTX should not be slated as "Major". A lot of people in the community had thoughts this was going to be increasing combat skills to 120's, new boss, major rework of something else (skill related) in-game.
I'm sorry for you, Mod Doom for all the negative feedback you're going to get. As a premier member, even I feel back for people. I think F2P or Regular Members should still get something at every level (Like the old Yak Track) but Premier Members / People who pay bonds get a secondary reward too..
Totally valid feedback. Thanks for this.
Hero Pass is a brand new part of the core RuneScape experience, designed to make the game even more rewarding whenever - and however - you choose to play.
So that was a lie? See:
And while the bonus progress skills or objectives required to complete Daily and Weekly Missions are assigned randomly, you can use Vis Wax to re-roll Daily missions into a particular Skill, to optimise your Mission progress in synergy with what you're already doing.
If objectives are assigned at random then you can't look straight into my face and tell me that I can play the game however and whenever I want. I do not want the game to tell me what I need to do. At least yak track got this right with skill & kill task, I can almost play the game however I want, from skilling, killing to clues and even minigames. I also bet the option to reroll them into what you actually want is nothing more than introducing a problem and later selling the solution. Truly disgusting game design, but Jagex is no stranger when it comes down to predatory and disgusting game design, so I'm not surprised.
That refers to specific Mission benefits that just give you double progress.
All Daily and Weekly Basic Missions can be progressed by playing anything in the game - this just allows you to use Vis Wax to re-roll the double progress skill to what you are doing if you really want to. This is purely for optimisation though - the Daily Missions for example are balanced at 40 minutes for all 3 reward Tiers doing whatever.
Only Special Missions and Weekly Content Missions - which you have for the entirety of the Pass, with one added each week for Content Missions - are more specific. They are not compulsory for progress though.
Are we losing the free 3 daily keys from premier? (Not the daily challenge keys)
No those are unchanged.
It may be a large update, but it is in no way shape or form a GAME update. I seriously don't know what level of mental gymnastics you have to go through to even come up with this conclusion? It's actually insulting that Jagex thinks the community is this stupid..
It is an update to the game. From speaking with Hooli, I think we agree that the perception was that it was presented alongside content updates, and so it was seen through that lens. That's something we can definitely take learnings from.
Responding to some questions for clarity as i've seen them crop up, i'll edit this comment as i go:
Daily mission time - i stated around 40 minutes on stream, this is if you aren't doing the skill mentioned on the mission. If you do, this'll be cut down by half and only take around 20 minutes. You can also use the lamp in any skill you'd like so you could do one skill to complete the mission, and use the lamp on a complete different one.
Note on rewards - Not sure if we saw it on stream but there are also a set of Combat ability overrides for a few abilities in addition to the Conjure ability overrides
ED4/Zamorak buff - The buff will not record kill times, enrage increases, or hiscores
How do i obtain charges for content buffs? - Each buff has a limited amount of charges per pass, and will have 3 sets of charges awarded throughout the pass. So using fake numbers, imagine the Bountyhunter giving charges at level 3, 20, and 40 on the pass.
Who is the pass available to? - Everyone can play the pass and obtain the free rewards on the track, premier members will get all available rewards
Can i claim my pass rewards after the current one has ended? - Yes we'll be adding something for players to claim rewards from the most-recent previous pass they had not yet claimed before the pass expired.
Do Ironmen have access to non-cosmetic rewards? No, where players would normally get XP buffs, content buffs, and Hero Satchels - ironmen will instead receive oddments. The remainder, majority, of the pass which is cosmetic rewards will still be available to ironmen.
Do Ironmen have access to buffs? - No, the buff tab will be disabled for Ironmen.
Do the emblems carry over to the next pass? - Emblems, or the general Hero Pass currency, will be themed specifically to the current pass' theme and used for that pass' store rewards specifically. They will expire at the end of their respective pass.
You are right, should have been more transparent. But you are doing a pretty good job regardless of that. Dont let this massive L(which I think removing dailies is horrible) drown out the sea of Ws you are swimming in
Appreciate you, and the feedback.
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