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I guess Frank's Free Chest is going to be a recurring thing for the foreseeable future. I'm not complaining -- free loot is free loot -- but I'm more than a little surprised considering how frosty the reception was the first time.
As for the Raptor stuff; am I correct in thinking that this is permanent new content, not just an event? If so, great; it's been a while since we got new undead to slay. (AFAIK the last time we got new, "proper" undead was ED3, and even that was four years ago now) And I get the feeling that, even if Jagex isn't ready to drop more info on Necromancy, these monsters might be a taste of what we should expect to be part of it...
Also, the Spring Festival again. Meh. Hopefully the new additions will make it a bit more lively compared to the past two years. And I guess we should have expected Jagex to come out with more skill pet cosmetics after the success of the Fresh Start halos; though personally, I can't think of many of them that those ears would look good on.
There's a lot of improvements to Frank's Free Chests based on feedback - we'll be running you through those in the TWIR on Monday.
Please do keep the feedback coming on it. It's a real test for us on finding ways for us to reward your time investment in RuneScape more flexibly, whether you log in every day or only have solid bursts of time a few times a week.
Obviously we also want it to be something worth caring about in and of itself as well still, but it's a real learning experience for us.
Sadly this doesn't fill me with excitement.
- Unwelcome Guests - it's hard to tell from the newspost what this actually is. Permanent content? A temporary event? The Raptor's involvement and the other 'content' listed makes me think this is a temporary thing - probably wrong, but part of why I am not currently excited.
- Frank's chest - We do not need free handouts. Even forgetting how it affected certain items or dangled Tavia's there like bait, while maybe it's useful for Jagex to 'test the waters' on certain non-alchable items for adding to drop tables, we do not need more free stuff being given out to players.
- Recycled Easter event that's afking for 20 minutes for tokens for the new cosmetics then never touch it again - this event just doesn't do it for me. There's no fun or RS charm to it. And realistically, it's just fodder for the parallel TH promo, because of course only MTX gets to actually do anything interesting. The bunny ear pet tokens also just seem like rubbing the Fresh Start World halo tokens in our faces - where is the news on these and inverted skillcape tokens? Not to mention, these are likely another ambiguous "Tradeable rare but maybe we'll rerelease them but maybe not who knows" type item.
It's our next Fort Forinthry Season content - so permanent content and not like the Raptor's Rampage.
We're going to reveal all on Wednesday ahead of it's release, but it will be Slayer focused and include more Fort upgrades. Mod Doom will run you through it on the Livestream and we'll also have a Newspost up right after.
Wonder if they’re saying there’s going to be more graphic updates or if just those tweaks that already released. Weird wording.
There are more graphical updates on the way - some smaller areas next week, and bigger ones (like Karamja) are in the pipeline!
Okay but what about necromancy….
Believe me, we all want to talk about it as much as you want to hear about it!
Development wise, it's just that little bit too early to discuss anything as there's still so much work and playtesting going on.
We're going to look at getting a Fort Forinthry Roadmap out in April so you have a better idea of what's coming over the next few months - as we hear you all on sorely wanting that - as we build to the right moment where we can finally talk about Necromancy.
We know there's a lot of concern about when you'll hear about Necromancy (insert 2024 memes here), so just to reiterate something and add a little bit to what's been said before:
It was officially shelved.
Mod Doom is going to be working on that stream update we've been promising with our Art Team - both to go into detail on why that happened, and also the work that's come out of it.
It's still some weeks away as Doom is still in his early days here, but it's on his hitlist!