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| 185s | hello everyone I think we're live hello |
| 188s | uh well thanks to your patience and |
| 190s | welcome a r weekly live stream it's me |
| 192s | muli it's been a while I'm the Le less |
| 195s | charismatic uh CM host uh your usual |
| 198s | Modi is off doing other things uh it's |
| 200s | very lovely to be here with you um but |
| 202s | he'll be back next week to give you all |
| 204s | good things there speaking of |
| 205s | charismatic people they may not be hosts |
| 207s | but they are definitely are charismatic |
| 209s | devs we've got two great gifts with us |
| 211s | today we have the legendary mods too |
| 214s | hello love it to be here and we also |
| 216s | have the legendary I I can't not call |
| 219s | you that as well mod Breezy Breezy hello |
| 222s | everyone |
| 223s | hello as you can see I'm also the |
| 225s | internal hyp man but it it's lovely to |
| 226s | have you with us thanks for being with |
| 228s | us while we sorted some tech issues my |
| 230s | fault on uh some internet problems but |
| 233s | we're here we're ready to talk about 110 |
| 235s | we're cutting and Fletching our second |
| 236s | 110 update really cool to have you here |
| 239s | over the next kind of 45 minutes or so |
| 241s | we're going to talk to you about the |
| 242s | update celebrate it hopefully we having |
| 244s | a lot of fun out there with it talk to |
| 246s | the developers behind it about what |
| 247s | we're into it cover your questions as |
| 250s | they come in live just generally have a |
| 251s | bit of a hangout if you want to join us |
| 253s | Breezy where can they where can they |
| 255s | find us right |
| 257s | now you can join us on world 84 uh right |
| 260s | up North vles Peak where all the lovely |
| 262s | Eternal magic trees are you can see have |
| 263s | big golden Care Pack hanging about as |
| 267s | me okay awesome uh by the way I I stand |
| 271s | I'm under water I'm sorry I replaced my |
| 274s | call center mic as everyone called it |
| 275s | and again apparently I'm still uh not |
| 278s | sounding great so I just need a proper |
| 280s | stream mic is what it sounds like so |
| 283s | anyway off that subject it is lovely to |
| 286s | get into this stuff so this is 110 wood |
| 289s | cutting and Fletching but also kind |
| 291s | of and I know had some questions what |
| 296s | like we've gone to 110 not everyone knew |
| 298s | we were doing that on fire making |
| 300s | why are we not marketing it and kind of |
| 302s | talking about it in the same breath as |
| 304s | was kind reflection you want to go a |
| 305s | little bit into that point first I think |
| 307s | it's probably important |
| 310s | we uh yeah so so with one fire making um |
| 314s | when we started talking about the |
| 316s | project and we started to get into |
| 317s | design um and looking at all how the |
| 321s | different mechanics would work and how |
| 322s | everything would work together obviously |
| 324s | a new log then BS a question of what |
| 326s | happens with that log uh so we've got |
| 328s | fledging as part of it makes sense as |
| 330s | part of the update um that's what we're |
| 332s | taking to 110 but then when we look at |
| 336s | what else there is so logs can be made |
| 338s | into planks or logs can be burned as |
| 340s | well and we look at the um the relative |
| 343s | skills for those uh construction and Fir |
| 345s | making we look at this the discussions |
| 348s | were basically what can we do for those |
| 350s | is it is it is it possible to make those |
| 352s | things work uh do we need to support it |
| 354s | now are they something that we need to |
| 355s | address later on um and Fir making was |
| 358s | one of the weird ones because whereas |
| 359s | construct ction really deserves its own |
| 361s | sort of update for having furniture or |
| 363s | items to be able to create with the |
| 366s | Eternal logs and eternal planks uh fir |
| 368s | making is more of a sort of like the log |
| 370s | can be burnt and that's basically um |
| 374s | which which we fought made sense to do |
| 376s | um you should be able to run the log it |
| 377s | adds a nice another usage to the log for |
| 379s | now rather than just letting logs sit |
| 380s | there only for Fletching um for the |
| 383s | foreseeable so we added in the sport do |
| 386s | that basically um it did come down to a |
| 388s | conversation of like should players be |
| 389s | able to or or should players need to |
| 391s | boost for it or should players just be |
| 393s | able to get up to 110 fire making and we |
| 395s | decided it's better to just do on fire |
| 399s | making don't make you know players boost |
| 402s | for it have to keep on reapplying boost |
| 404s | and so on and so forth and then the |
| 407s | question was okay if if we're doing that |
| 409s | what else do we need to be able to |
| 410s | support for that to happen so it made |
| 412s | sense to do a new pvm Hub uh campfire um |
| 416s | any sort of scaling mechanics with with |
| 419s | things like uh smiing um and yeah things |
| 422s | like that and that's and that's where it |
| 424s | came about now obviously in and of |
| 425s | itself the 11 fir making portion isn't |
| 428s | something to like go crazy about in |
| 430s | market like here's 11 fir making and |
| 433s | here's all this stuff coming with it it |
| 434s | is very much a case of it just works |
| 437s | with fire making and we're bringing that |
| 439s | to 110 as well and allowing you to use |
| 441s | that XP to reach a new goal uh basically |
| 445s | so it wasn't something that we felt was |
| 447s | very deserved to shout about and you |
| 449s | know make can make a big commotion about |
| 452s | because yeah it was it's yeah it's a |
| 455s | very basic sort of um integration so to |
| 458s | speak yeah I mean from a development |
| 460s | perspective uh look look at like well |
| 463s | the amount of effort involved and I |
| 464s | bring you this another skill to 11 while |
| 467s | we've got all the files open and we're |
| 468s | testing all the one 110 elements adding |
| 470s | another one was fairly trivial and then |
| 472s | the amount of effort that we took that |
| 473s | it took to um add additional log and so |
| 476s | forth was about the same as it would |
| 477s | have been to prevent you from being able |
| 478s | to burn those logs at all so might as |
| 479s | well all go in the direction that gives |
| 481s | the players the maximum amount of new |
| 483s | content um but yeah say didn't want to |
| 485s | be disingenuous and like presented us as |
| 487s | being um an update with with three |
| 490s | skills of of of equal um attention and |
| 493s | focus because you know it was was uh |
| 496s | primarily wood cutting and farm making |
| 498s | sorry wood cutting |
| 499s | Fletching majority of our time far was |
| 502s | like we'll spend a day on this one Ed as |
| 504s | well kind of thing so yeah that's what |
| 507s | we do that um the uh sorry there was |
| 511s | just a question that we got that came in |
| 513s | uh sorry cra's been asking it a lot um |
| 515s | so I'm going to go slightly off piece |
| 517s | here and then we'll go back to the main |
| 518s | update um K's asking did you not want to |
| 520s | involve solak somehow in this |
| 524s | update um that's a good question it's |
| 528s | not something that came across the mind |
| 530s | uh to be honest with you when we thought |
| 532s | of where to place things like the wood |
| 534s | spirits uh and the Turnal ones |
| 536s | especially definitely saw that came to |
| 537s | mind the nature the nature beings in |
| 539s | general um but no in terms of anything |
| 542s | else it's no no I mean bit tweaking on |
| 546s | drop table at one point if I remember |
| 548s | rightly did we add them to so yeah we |
| 550s | added we added I believe it's Elder and |
| 552s | eternal ones to it branches what type of |
| 555s | spirit it uses yeah but um yeah I mean |
| 557s | you know it's a pvm update sorry it's a |
| 559s | Skilling update primarily don't know why |
| 560s | I keep in inverting what I'm I'm |
| 562s | focusing on um you know it's it's this |
| 564s | is predominantly something for for |
| 566s | skillers um so yeah uh by way a couple |
| 570s | things on Tech side um yeah branch is |
| 574s | good one uh so couple things we're |
| 577s | working on the uh background shop um it |
| 581s | looks like it's a an upload bit rate |
| 583s | thing that we're we're looking into |
| 584s | fixing so um bear with us on that the |
| 586s | other thing is do I sound better I'm now |
| 588s | coming through a microphone on the |
| 590s | webcam rather than my headset s c than |
| 594s | yeah |
| 597s | sound I mean okay people say s about |
| 599s | okay so this microphone is just for show |
| 601s | at this point so uh another thing I need |
| 604s | to fix okay great um and hopefully the |
| 606s | background will be better soon as well I |
| 608s | can see I'm now lagging a little bit |
| 610s | which is concerning uh right um so yeah |
| 613s | so you were talking about um the scale |
| 615s | of these updates right I think something |
| 618s | that I really loved seeing coming from |
| 620s | 110 mining smithing was how much of that |
| 622s | fa feedback you took on board um what |
| 626s | were when you were kind of coming into |
| 627s | this like there is a challenge of we |
| 629s | have to keep these you know when we |
| 631s | introduced them we talked about them |
| 633s | being something that we want to deliver |
| 634s | every 3 months roughly that we want to |
| 637s | have this kind of regular release and |
| 638s | doing one are smaller but we have to be |
| 640s | responsible with how we kind of size |
| 641s | them to make sure we deliver these as |
| 643s | regular updates what was the kind of |
| 646s | biggest chy face kind of bringing in |
| 648s | some of this really important player |
| 650s | feedback that we had from R smithing and |
| 652s | balancing that with the need to kind of |
| 653s | keep the schedule of delivery that |
| 654s | people been looking for on one |
| 657s | t okay I so I think Julie you dropped |
| 660s | that a little bit there so I'll just |
| 662s | reiterate some of the question there so |
| 663s | Julie was asking um about uh what what |
| 667s | is it we've taken from onetime Mining |
| 669s | and smithing um and sort of try to |
| 672s | improve on it in a way within the same |
| 674s | sort of uh time frame that we initially |
| 679s | uh started with um |
| 682s | so we looked at so just like the |
| 685s | gameplay elements to begin with um what |
| 688s | is it about the one time ending smithing |
| 690s | update and the way we approach that and |
| 692s | the design of that um versus you know |
| 695s | what what what is it that the players |
| 698s | you are asking for um what what what is |
| 702s | it that you would like out of that what |
| 703s | is it that makes makes something |
| 704s | deserving of being um pulled up to 110 |
| 708s | um what other gameplay elements can we |
| 709s | add to make things interesting um what |
| 712s | we're doing when we expand these uh |
| 715s | skills to 110 is adding in a sort of |
| 718s | Base |
| 720s | uh resource something that fits within |
| 722s | that tier and uh I gives you that new |
| 724s | goal things to use and interact with to |
| 727s | um get to 110 and and and Beyond um so |
| 732s | if that's sort of the Baseline The Next |
| 734s | Step Above That which we which we took |
| 736s | as the approach for this update was what |
| 739s | could make that more interesting what |
| 741s | could make it feel new what's What's um |
| 744s | unique what what feels more novel um are |
| 748s | there cool little things we can add well |
| 750s | I don't want to say little might be cool |
| 752s | big things that we add uh which which |
| 754s | feel nicer to engage with um which feel |
| 757s | nicer to talk about and investigate and |
| 761s | uh you know Brew up some conspiracies on |
| 765s | or anything like that I I think those |
| 766s | are things that make uh RuneScape |
| 769s | updates fun and that's precisely the |
| 772s | approach we took to this sort of stuff |
| 774s | was let's |
| 776s | reimagine um if we're focusing on the |
| 778s | 100 to 110 let's let's sort of |
| 781s | reimagine what would would cutting feel |
| 783s | like in this in this area what could it |
| 785s | feel like in sort of I don't want to say |
| 787s | necessarily modern but just sort of more |
| 789s | interesting mechanics and things just to |
| 791s | make the actual gameplay Loop of your |
| 793s | journey from 100 to 110 or 199 to 110 |
| 796s | where um more interesting um and and fun |
| 800s | and that's where a lot of the mechanics |
| 803s | uh came about really um so you know the |
| 806s | the Lumberjack's intuition having to |
| 807s | move around the tree uh the tree timers |
| 810s | themselves these are sort of additions |
| 812s | to the WID cutting aspect um you still |
| 815s | got the core wi cutting mechanics that |
| 817s | all work you got your you know the |
| 819s | actual just chopping of the tree and |
| 820s | getting logs uh you've got your bird's |
| 822s | nests and things like that so what we |
| 823s | wanted to do was just look at that and |
| 825s | say okay what is there is there things |
| 827s | that we can add on to that tweak with it |
| 829s | and and make that Loop um feel better |
| 832s | overall um and and like I say feel feel |
| 835s | interesting and fun to interact with um |
| 837s | and that's that's that's where a lot of |
| 839s | our |
| 840s | um approach came from obviously our |
| 843s | challenge as a development team was is |
| 845s | is is is to look at how do we manage |
| 847s | that what's the design of that um what |
| 850s | works what doesn't what can we take from |
| 852s | things that we've done in the past what |
| 854s | new things can we try uh and so on and |
| 856s | so forth so yeah a big a big a big part |
| 859s | of our approach was that basically |
| 862s | um yeah hopefully answer the question no |
| 864s | it did very comprehensively Su I was |
| 867s | going to say it was it was a really |
| 869s | great opportunity experiment I was quite |
| 870s | impressed with the design that you know |
| 872s | that you're really pushing beyond the |
| 874s | the limits of what we would identify as |
| 876s | how as uh recognizably Fletching thus |
| 879s | far to trying new upgrading systems um |
| 882s | applying leveling benefits at each level |
| 884s | so that there's always always something |
| 885s | that that you're working towards at the |
| 886s | next level taking all that that feedback |
| 888s | that we got from theand um and smithing |
| 890s | 110 and um sort of setting us up for the |
| 893s | future if if players like this |
| 895s | particular approach to um this tier |
| 897s | potentially we could duplicate it at |
| 899s | lower tier but if we do take advantage |
| 902s | of the fact that we're only doing one |
| 903s | tier so we can do that as an optimal |
| 905s | test case and we can tune that and and |
| 907s | see and refine that before necessarily |
| 909s | doing something much broader so it's a |
| 911s | very pragmatic use bit I think yeah I |
| 914s | think I think that's a really important |
| 915s | part actually that that I miss |
| 917s | completely is that is that um all of our |
| 920s | Endeavor throughout this update is |
| 923s | to think about what 1 to 99 is and um |
| 928s | almost like like you said sort of plan |
| 930s | for the future and plan ahead and look |
| 932s | at like what could this look like if |
| 933s | apply to the rest of the skill in the |
| 935s | future um build it in ways both in a |
| 938s | design sense and in a development sense |
| 939s | build it in ways where where where it |
| 941s | could be you know one day sort of retro |
| 943s | retroactively added to some extent to |
| 946s | the skills maybe that's 1 to 99 maybe |
| 947s | that starts at a certain point level |
| 949s | level 60 or whatever um but basically |
| 953s | make our lives easier in the future and |
| 955s | and you know and and if if we were to |
| 957s | update this and and again not I don't |
| 959s | want to say like a full-on like skill |
| 961s | rework but if if we were do something |
| 963s | like a a version of a rework or maybe |
| 965s | even a full-on rework what could that |
| 967s | look like and how could we make that an |
| 968s | easier process um I kind of like using |
| 971s | it as an example last year with the |
| 973s | Grove update we rered the trees um and |
| 977s | then this year we're doing this sort of |
| 979s | stuff next year the year after whenever |
| 982s | um we'd be able to sort of complete that |
| 985s | by um putting in the like the mechanics |
| 988s | that we have now for for example and we |
| 990s | don't have any like concrete plans for |
| 992s | that when it happens how it looks what |
| 993s | the design is for that um but we're just |
| 997s | make sure that future stew future Breezy |
| 999s | and future other JS um have a have a |
| 1002s | nicer time when it when it comes to it |
| 1004s | and we've done some of that work ahead |
| 1005s | of it yeah and Building Systems that we |
| 1007s | can use in the future as opposed to only |
| 1009s | things that are short-term solution for |
| 1010s | this this one tier so we've built |
| 1011s | infrastructure that we can apply with |
| 1013s | the tear in the future uh it's also |
| 1015s | something that um it shaped how we |
| 1018s | prioritize things so for um one time |
| 1022s | Ming and smithing um there's a lot of |
| 1024s | emphasis there on the Primal armor and |
| 1026s | and make making that that look um |
| 1029s | authentically similar to the silhouette |
| 1030s | of the original but but remastered and a |
| 1032s | lot of iteration that that um that brzy |
| 1035s | went went went through with with that |
| 1036s | the artist and with the players getting |
| 1037s | that that locked down um in this case |
| 1040s | the was more about building assets that |
| 1041s | we could use across multiple tiers in |
| 1044s | the future so that um so rather than |
| 1046s | very very bespoke for this one tier it's |
| 1048s | say the week we can texture for |
| 1050s | traditional tiers later um so more of a |
| 1052s | a moderate average looking sort of thing |
| 1054s | that we can get more value out of in the |
| 1056s | long term so it's yeah it's a different |
| 1058s | um set of priorities this time |
| 1061s | around so yeah it's like almost I I hate |
| 1064s | to use this word as if you don't do this |
| 1065s | all the time but developing smartly |
| 1067s | right like making sure that we're |
| 1069s | thinking about how it can be leveraged |
| 1071s | again if we had more time like you said |
| 1072s | to go back and revisit and I remember |
| 1074s | Breezy am I right saying that like one |
| 1076s | of the things with these 110s is a |
| 1079s | desire to see if people even like what |
| 1082s | we introduced to the one before |
| 1083s | introducing them backwards if we ever |
| 1085s | did that right is it also to this idea |
| 1087s | of make sure we're not messing with the |
| 1089s | skill by introducing something that |
| 1091s | actually people might go man it's fine |
| 1093s | as a 10 level experience but I wouldn't |
| 1095s | want this going to my 120 or yeah you |
| 1098s | know what have you is that part of the |
| 1099s | intent as well yeah I mean comenting on |
| 1102s | it it's kind of like a byproduct of all |
| 1105s | in a in a sense of like if we did the |
| 1107s | full rework one day just as an example |
| 1109s | example if like um we did a rework like |
| 1111s | with Mining and smithing we did uh we |
| 1113s | did multiple betas um but yeah like if |
| 1116s | if if we just started off with a rework |
| 1118s | project we would just do it release it |
| 1120s | we might have a beta and then release it |
| 1122s | and then that's basically it we'd have |
| 1123s | some sort of P release period where we |
| 1126s | address that feedback the a a byproduct |
| 1129s | advantage of doing it this way um is um |
| 1133s | we put out what we think works we put |
| 1136s | out things that we've discussed with the |
| 1138s | players have been you know I've been |
| 1139s | I've been I've been talking to players |
| 1140s | uh on Discord Reddit Twitter for months |
| 1143s | now on on this sort of stuff we um we |
| 1146s | put it out it works how we want it to |
| 1149s | now give us the feedback and that's all |
| 1151s | all that feedback is stuff that we could |
| 1153s | take into if we did in the future |
| 1156s | reapply it to 1 to 99 in some way we can |
| 1159s | incorporate that feedback then and then |
| 1161s | you've got an even better fine-tuned um |
| 1164s | update out of that than if you just done |
| 1165s | it off the rip um so yeah yeah that's |
| 1169s | definitely |
| 1170s | Advantage great uh Pap asking where do |
| 1173s | we give feedback for the update the |
| 1175s | latest Discord channel is a great space |
| 1176s | you can also jump on Reddit uh reply to |
| 1179s | us on social on one of our posts about |
| 1180s | it we're kind of reading everywhere and |
| 1182s | anywhere we can um so there's not really |
| 1185s | a centralized location we use because we |
| 1187s | don't want to force people to use a |
| 1188s | certain platform I would probably say |
| 1190s | Discord usually best and I know both of |
| 1192s | you have been very uh active on Reddit |
| 1194s | too right um Breezy and Stu so I'm |
| 1197s | guessing those two as preferred is that |
| 1200s | fair from your side yep um you can add |
| 1204s | me I'm pretty sure you can add Ste uh on |
| 1206s | Twitter as well or X as they call it now |
| 1209s | oh yes yeah we're always we're always |
| 1211s | looking at our own personal accounts as |
| 1212s | well I always forget to mention personal |
| 1214s | J1 accounts so yeah that's another one |
| 1216s | too um okay so a question I have uh that |
| 1220s | I know this one was a big one obviously |
| 1223s | we ended up going uh uh into kind of |
| 1225s | early December in terms of our release |
| 1227s | window oh sorry I need to film my |
| 1230s | magical books um what was the most |
| 1232s | difficult part of development what was |
| 1234s | really hard to bring together on this |
| 1237s | one um for me |
| 1242s | uh I think it was |
| 1245s | making the mechanics thematically |
| 1248s | appropriate for what we have um it it |
| 1252s | took quite quite quite a bit of time and |
| 1254s | refinement and feedback all throughout |
| 1255s | the RuneScape team you know there's a |
| 1257s | whole bunch of J mods involved in giving |
| 1258s | feedback I mean I mean we always like |
| 1259s | play test each other's contents and have |
| 1261s | like bi-weekly reviews and stuff but um |
| 1265s | getting that to the stage where it felt |
| 1266s | really nice for wood cutting and |
| 1268s | Fletching and theming it appropriately |
| 1270s | you know for example like the burial |
| 1272s | versus uh the the Marshall process um or |
| 1276s | in this case like we have what players |
| 1279s | have dubbed uh opportunities |
| 1283s | um we have that mechanic uh which which |
| 1286s | which we've called the Lumberjack's |
| 1287s | intuition as as a anyway um making that |
| 1291s | feel good like is it is it just a repeat |
| 1293s | of a opportunity where you just click on |
| 1294s | the tree again um is it is it themed |
| 1297s | more to like how would it feel being a |
| 1299s | lumberjack or in in a in a in a fancy |
| 1302s | world like this like do you you sense |
| 1304s | that there's a better side of the tree |
| 1306s | to walk over to and chop that um how |
| 1308s | does that look how do we communicate |
| 1309s | that to the player how do we tell them |
| 1311s | to go here what sort of visual effects |
| 1314s | do we use and things like that so that |
| 1315s | that was a really like fun challenge to |
| 1317s | be honest um it was it was fun |
| 1319s | challenges but it but that was |
| 1321s | definitely a challenge for |
| 1323s | myself all right you steu what was your |
| 1325s | big one uh I'm going to be honest I was |
| 1328s | answering some questions in chat and got |
| 1329s | distracted what was the question what |
| 1331s | was your what was the most difficult |
| 1332s | part of developing this update for you |
| 1333s | what was the biggest challenge oh |
| 1336s | biggest challenge |
| 1338s | um I guess honestly like maning and |
| 1341s | smithing are in a really good place |
| 1342s | they've had a recent rework |
| 1344s | um these skills haven't largely haven't |
| 1347s | been touched adding a bit of content |
| 1349s | here and here and there over the years |
| 1350s | so things like um adding an upgrading |
| 1352s | system uh the notion of leveling |
| 1354s | benefits to Def Fletching was was |
| 1355s | certainly uh quite challenging um |
| 1358s | fortunately we managed to get mod Ramen |
| 1360s | to uh join us on the on the project |
| 1362s | towards the latter end and he really |
| 1363s | took some of the pressure off took um |
| 1365s | did the upera system did the uh |
| 1368s | intuitions mechanic on on the trees and |
| 1369s | so forth um really um productive work on |
| 1373s | his part and um uh really good iteration |
| 1376s | so yeah that was great shot in the the |
| 1377s | arm for the project but um |
| 1379s | yeah we did did um quite a lot of uh |
| 1381s | review of the code ahead of time um |
| 1383s | during pre-production to to get an |
| 1385s | assessment of um where the plugin point |
| 1387s | would be watch things are going to wind |
| 1388s | up taking longer than others so we were |
| 1390s | well prepared for for that that sort of |
| 1392s | thing but um yeah there's subtle things |
| 1395s | behind the scenes you need to be mindful |
| 1398s | of like for example there's um the |
| 1401s | hatchets that you can store in your tool |
| 1403s | belt when they were originally were |
| 1404s | added they didn't anticipate would have |
| 1406s | as many hatchets as we do so the |
| 1407s | variable um space was allocated for that |
| 1410s | um I think allowed maybe seven hatchets |
| 1413s | or something like that because they |
| 1414s | thought oh you're never going to go |
| 1415s | beyond ruin it'll be fine um and uh so |
| 1419s | yeah had to create another variable that |
| 1421s | this lot for that to do a login check |
| 1423s | and um Shuffle the IDS so that we |
| 1426s | preserve the items on on your tool belt |
| 1428s | and have room for uh the future so yeah |
| 1432s | well I'm also glad you let me take my en |
| 1433s | camoo Hatchet out of my tool belt |
| 1435s | because that would have it was bad |
| 1437s | enough I had to go grind 4,000 harmonic |
| 1439s | dust again like that would have also |
| 1441s | killed me getting the pieces from the uh |
| 1443s | bird nest again would have been harsh |
| 1445s | yeah I'm really glad we're able to work |
| 1447s | little things like that and where they |
| 1448s | don't actually take much development |
| 1449s | time but they they really do add a big |
| 1451s | impact to the |
| 1453s | project yeah those those were oh sorry |
| 1456s | no good those were two two two really |
| 1458s | big uh requests like when we when we |
| 1460s | originally asked uh the players months |
| 1463s | ago now I put a tweet and St asking |
| 1465s | players what we what we what what what |
| 1468s | what they would like sorry from from the |
| 1469s | update um the smial hatchets and |
| 1472s | removing hatchets from Tool belts were |
| 1475s | the highest so to be able to get them in |
| 1476s | was really nice um yeah it's good no I |
| 1480s | love little touches of that though I am |
| 1481s | surprised both you gave such like real |
| 1484s | answers about development I was |
| 1486s | expecting one of you to be like the |
| 1487s | worst bit was having to come up with a |
| 1489s | name that you thought people would love |
| 1491s | and just and and for the hatchets the |
| 1494s | pressure on those |
| 1497s | hatchets well we did go through several |
| 1499s | iterations of the names I'll be I'll be |
| 1501s | honest I think I think we got up to like |
| 1502s | version three or four by the time we |
| 1503s | released um so I I I came back to the |
| 1507s | project off the game jam and I I was |
| 1508s | like two generations backward in my own |
| 1510s | mind is what we were calling them and I |
| 1512s | I started like um doing some |
| 1514s | documentation and referred to them as a |
| 1515s | previous version of of the name and so |
| 1517s | forth because I forgot the project in in |
| 1519s | those two weeks yeah it it's it it's |
| 1521s | funny it's like there I know obviously |
| 1524s | we're a game that's always been work |
| 1526s | like very close to the community and |
| 1527s | stuff it it does make me laugh that like |
| 1531s | you know our players are that present |
| 1533s | this sounds like I'm I'm trying to to |
| 1536s | amp up the shudio reputation here I'm |
| 1537s | not it's just like I just find it really |
| 1539s | amusing that we're like so into what our |
| 1541s | players say that like the pressure on |
| 1543s | that name was like Skyhigh after the |
| 1545s | feedback on M&S it was like so funny to |
| 1548s | see that there was just so much like |
| 1550s | should it be this is this cool is that |
| 1552s | good so four iterations can you give me |
| 1555s | one that was on The Cutting Room floor |
| 1557s | uh nature and spirit we had for a brief |
| 1559s | period of time and I know there's a |
| 1560s | couple of players out there who really |
| 1561s | wanted that one um growth in Decay I |
| 1564s | also know was a very popular choice |
| 1565s | growth in Decay is very cool as well |
| 1566s | yeah but I think so we did have that in |
| 1568s | for a while but I think the blue and in |
| 1570s | BL is is an improvement on it I agree I |
| 1572s | agree um just for people in chat uh I am |
| 1576s | shame me I don't have mine augmented but |
| 1578s | uh I have it at least and also uh if I I |
| 1582s | meant to I just totally didn't look over |
| 1584s | this I apologize for the shorts in |
| 1585s | Winter I was going for the very uh |
| 1588s | British thing if you've ever been to |
| 1589s | England in Winter there's always someone |
| 1591s | running around in |
| 1592s | shorts even when it's like minus five so |
| 1595s | I thought I'd pay homage to that in the |
| 1596s | look today I don't actually know if |
| 1598s | you've got have you got a christmy your |
| 1600s | JM account got a uh Christmasy look on |
| 1603s | right now Breezy no my group Iron Man |
| 1606s | does he's in he's he's in his Christmas |
| 1608s | Jammies |
| 1612s | but I'm still wearing the the thing I |
| 1614s | had to wear for for Halloween in order |
| 1615s | to get to do the quest got Chang ever |
| 1618s | since it's like |
| 1620s | a female character for um I'm blanking I |
| 1624s | should know the name of this Quest the |
| 1625s | quest you know the quest I |
| 1627s | mean back in the day and bothering to do |
| 1630s | back then again um I've had quite a few |
| 1632s | questions in the um in the chat about |
| 1635s | where in the world is this and I'd |
| 1637s | actually like to add to uh your answer |
| 1640s | to that why here why did you pick this |
| 1644s | area um so we originally wanted to have |
| 1646s | well I wanted to have it in multiple |
| 1648s | areas |
| 1649s | um I don't know about the rest of the |
| 1651s | team but when we put it out uh to the to |
| 1654s | the Wilder RuneScape team um we we |
| 1658s | started to talk about like sort of |
| 1659s | creating hubs of players you know it's |
| 1661s | nice to see people around um it's nice |
| 1663s | to have it to one area um and then from |
| 1667s | those sorts of conversations it led on |
| 1669s | to okay if if it's in one area where is |
| 1670s | it um and the RuneScape world is |
| 1673s | honestly quite packed by there's a lot |
| 1675s | on the surface World um and it can be |
| 1678s | very hard to pick a spot where you know |
| 1680s | not even a few tals away there's |
| 1681s | something completely different going on |
| 1684s | um so the spot up here felt nice given |
| 1688s | that the whole sort of Eagles Peak |
| 1690s | piscatorius area and the bit beyond it |
| 1693s | for the needle skips Quest is all very |
| 1696s | you know it's it's all Forest it's all |
| 1697s | Greenery it's used for Hunter and things |
| 1700s | like that um so that all felt really |
| 1702s | nice um there's a few rare trees here |
| 1705s | you can see the elder tree um this felt |
| 1708s | like a really nice spot to put it in |
| 1709s | there was nothing too crazy going on um |
| 1712s | I mean of course you know just just a |
| 1713s | few tiles away you've got uh the |
| 1715s | memorial to CICS and all that going on |
| 1717s | but at least where it is we felt it was |
| 1720s | a a good spot uh to have it and then |
| 1723s | have a few other trees uh as well like |
| 1726s | when we when we |
| 1728s | designed when I was putting forth the |
| 1730s | sort of idea for the trees towards the |
| 1732s | artists and we were communicating know |
| 1735s | what what what is it we want the trees |
| 1736s | to look like or the area to feel like |
| 1738s | wanted the area to to feel like you've |
| 1740s | stepped into a different uh spot from |
| 1743s | where you are um elsewhere we wanted the |
| 1746s | like for example the grass and the |
| 1748s | flowers around it to have changed based |
| 1750s | on you know like the trees are so |
| 1752s | powerful and and it like they're |
| 1753s | affecting the things around it um and |
| 1755s | and for that to have really worked we we |
| 1758s | wanted to have quite a few trees in the |
| 1759s | area not just one not just two um so |
| 1762s | again this the sort of place felt like |
| 1764s | an appropriate spot for it no I for me |
| 1767s | just emotionally I remember back in the |
| 1769s | day the point where I could cut magic |
| 1771s | trees just felt so special like it was |
| 1773s | like I can cut Magics and they'd be a |
| 1776s | nightmare to you know take a million it |
| 1778s | felt like a million minutes to get one |
| 1780s | log out of it at the time and then |
| 1782s | obviously the tree would disappear and |
| 1783s | back then obviously the tree timers were |
| 1785s | like I think it was like 10 minutes five |
| 1787s | minutes 10 minutes it was a long time I |
| 1788s | remember um what I love about this is it |
| 1791s | feels like that oh my God I'm cutting |
| 1794s | these trees like feeling again right it |
| 1796s | just feels very RuneScape very kind of |
| 1799s | like okay this is a special tree I'm |
| 1800s | cutting I know that sounds weird but |
| 1802s | there is an importance I think in that |
| 1803s | in skills right it's that emotional kind |
| 1805s | of wow this is kind of cool what I'm |
| 1807s | doing yeah I to that's actually a really |
| 1810s | good point too because a lot of the |
| 1811s | things that we're trying to do with the |
| 1812s | 110s is that the like in in the world |
| 1816s | the player is you know like a master of |
| 1819s | these skills not not many other folk in |
| 1821s | the world in the in the in the RuneScape |
| 1824s | World on gillor for example are masters |
| 1826s | of skills apart from like the people who |
| 1828s | can hand out like the quest capes sorry |
| 1830s | not the quest capes the skill capes um |
| 1834s | the the idea is that you as the player |
| 1836s | are the Pioneer you are the person who |
| 1838s | knows how to use these resources and |
| 1841s | chop them and find them and so on and so |
| 1843s | forth so having them being a unique |
| 1845s | Place one place only uh for the for the |
| 1848s | time being anyway feels like you say it |
| 1850s | feels special it feels unique um there's |
| 1853s | there's there's this one spot to get |
| 1854s | them they're rare they're not everywhere |
| 1857s | um so on and so forth now I that's not |
| 1858s | to say that we that we won't or we can't |
| 1860s | add them to anywhere else I'm sure in |
| 1862s | time we will uh but but for the time |
| 1864s | being this yeah this is a good spot for |
| 1867s | it was there ever a tree either of you |
| 1870s | considered or like was on is in the |
| 1872s | early drafts of this where it wasn't |
| 1874s | going to be a very like a a magic base |
| 1877s | tree for example any other crazy ideas |
| 1880s | left on The Cutting Room floor I don't |
| 1882s | know if you want to share them more in |
| 1883s | case they end up in a potential 120 in |
| 1885s | the future but conting feels like a last |
| 1888s | time ago but yeah now that you mentioned |
| 1889s | it we did have a a concert border we |
| 1891s | through lots of different trees at the |
| 1893s | wall um I know the lot of the Lord disc |
| 1894s | School of RI and was trying to work |
| 1896s | Witchwood into there um which is why I |
| 1898s | have a bit of a concession to that with |
| 1899s | the um hatch creation process uh there |
| 1903s | was oh nice that's |
| 1905s | why I can't remember half of them now |
| 1910s | uh I mean we had things like yeah |
| 1913s | Witchwood Witchwood was definitely up |
| 1914s | there we also looked at any other sorts |
| 1916s | of trees from |
| 1918s | Runescape or RuneScape low any real |
| 1922s | world trees that were you know |
| 1923s | particularly strong or unique um uh |
| 1928s | things like that and I mean I think |
| 1931s | bloodweed was at one point up there as |
| 1933s | well I think we had conversations of |
| 1936s | like do we bring bloodweed |
| 1938s | into uh this skill as more of a core |
| 1941s | sort of resource and make it a 110 and |
| 1943s | then how do we deal with that and so on |
| 1944s | and so forth um before we SED on what |
| 1948s | what what we have now um I don't know if |
| 1951s | we can do it in this live stream or |
| 1952s | maybe in in in a future one but I can |
| 1953s | show off some of the concepts for what |
| 1955s | the Eternal Magic Tree stuff looked like |
| 1957s | originally in in in concept at least of |
| 1959s | the different |
| 1960s | variations uh yeah we can we can |
| 1962s | definitely do that in a future one we uh |
| 1964s | so for everyone who uh doesn't know you |
| 1967s | may notice that for a long time our |
| 1968s | remote streams didn't have uh remote |
| 1969s | gameplay we've been setting up a new |
| 1972s | remote system uh to do this sort of |
| 1974s | stuff uh from the comfort of our own |
| 1976s | home that we can do that production |
| 1978s | whether someone's in the studio or not |
| 1979s | ironically we have two people in the |
| 1981s | studio today some people were saying |
| 1983s | that Stu looks like uh mod Stu looks |
| 1986s | like he's at a land no that's the GX |
| 1988s | studio right behind so the magic |
| 1991s | happens um etal mag yeah there you go |
| 1995s | always got the lines hum is but we'll |
| 1998s | definitely have to make sure we can |
| 2000s | level up our Productions through that |
| 2001s | very soon thanks being with us on this |
| 2003s | um both ourselves and our us are |
| 2006s | figuring out this new system so give us |
| 2007s | a little bit time |
| 2009s | um on that note I want to you mentioned |
| 2011s | about the bloom and blight Journey um |
| 2014s | this is a personal question I haven't |
| 2015s | seen anyone in the community ask it I |
| 2017s | apologize self-indulgent but like one of |
| 2019s | my favorite things about these updates |
| 2020s | is going chasing the new best Hatchet or |
| 2023s | the best pickaxe whatever and go through |
| 2026s | that process um how do you approach |
| 2028s | designing that is there like a I know |
| 2030s | there's a similar kind of DNA in terms |
| 2032s | of the approach overall but like how |
| 2034s | where do you even start and going okay |
| 2036s | these are the things we think people |
| 2037s | should do to bring it all together and |
| 2039s | to to make it so that someone can uh |
| 2041s | make the best Hatchet in the |
| 2043s | game so it started way back on the |
| 2046s | pickax with with one time Mining and |
| 2048s | smithing um the way that so the approach |
| 2052s | is we we we start by first looking at |
| 2055s | how how the tools work in RuneScape |
| 2056s | right we have an established uh |
| 2059s | precedent for for tools you've got your |
| 2060s | M candle Crystal um Earth and song or |
| 2063s | like time and space um how are those |
| 2066s | made what type of things are they gained |
| 2067s | from um how do they look you know Bas |
| 2070s | based off of what type of thing they are |
| 2072s | um and then we said okay cool if it's a |
| 2074s | tier 100 uh item level 100 item now what |
| 2079s | is deserving of the creation process you |
| 2081s | know how how complex how lengthy should |
| 2084s | it be um what does it look like what |
| 2086s | does it involve um if like for example |
| 2090s | proof proof came along with like various |
| 2091s | Crystal items I know I know there were a |
| 2093s | few Crystal items before PRI PRI came uh |
| 2095s | along for a few Crystal items uh the |
| 2098s | stuff is specific to um uh the dwarves |
| 2101s | and you have to go at least for the |
| 2103s | dwarf and pick the the the mandle |
| 2105s | pickaxe you have to go and find uh |
| 2108s | pieces of the pickaxe um from the is it |
| 2112s | the lava flow mine I think it's called |
| 2115s | um and things like that so so we look at |
| 2117s | formatics we look at like what is it |
| 2119s | that the player's making what makes |
| 2121s | fmatic sense um and then we looked at |
| 2125s | what do we want now right so we want a |
| 2127s | powerful to |
| 2129s | what makes sense with our sort of recent |
| 2131s | content recent RuneScape lure where the |
| 2133s | game is at um how do we incorporate |
| 2136s | resources so so like um if we have a new |
| 2139s | resources it's the Primal rocks or the |
| 2143s | Eternal tree and so on and so forth how |
| 2146s | do we how do we incorporate that um for |
| 2150s | the tier 100 tools I wanted to design a |
| 2153s | process which felt I don't want to say |
| 2156s | like a mini Quest I don't want to say |
| 2157s | like a like a quest I don't want to say |
| 2159s | Masterwork CU Masterwork is the wrong |
| 2161s | term for it but we wanted to look at |
| 2163s | what is this involved you know thing |
| 2165s | that you have to go go out on almost |
| 2167s | like a quest um um and and start |
| 2171s | building things yourself and really like |
| 2172s | work towards having that that powerful |
| 2174s | tool and that's where we start to break |
| 2176s | it down for Okay cool so like in the |
| 2178s | case of the pickaxe um we wanted you to |
| 2182s | uh have uh necromancy involvement um so |
| 2186s | okay you install a Moonstone who do you |
| 2189s | speak to what do you have to do um and |
| 2191s | then the other parts are like let's look |
| 2193s | at what are some powerful things you |
| 2195s | have to get um what are some things that |
| 2197s | are related to mining so like the |
| 2199s | shooting star um |
| 2201s | and in the first part oh yeah the black |
| 2203s | SW lab um yeah that's that's the do |
| 2206s | there too so we we we looked at those |
| 2208s | sorts of thematics and like gameplay |
| 2210s | elements and how does that all fit and |
| 2213s | then when it came to the hatchet so so |
| 2216s | when we were designing the pickaxe we |
| 2217s | were already counting for the hatchet |
| 2219s | later on when it when it came to the |
| 2220s | hatchet it's like okay cool if if all |
| 2222s | tools are made in a similar way where |
| 2224s | you need a specific thing and a specific |
| 2226s | thing to make a thing that looks like an |
| 2229s | M candle thing um what does that look |
| 2232s | like for in in this format um and in |
| 2236s | that case that's that's that's that's |
| 2238s | that's where we took like a lot of the |
| 2239s | sort of black and blue and gold and |
| 2241s | things like that were were meant to give |
| 2243s | off that that feeling of power of you |
| 2246s | know like a sort of I think we've lost |
| 2249s | jul again um keep |
| 2251s | talking that um yeah what what what |
| 2254s | feels powerful what could give it that |
| 2256s | magic what could give it that power um |
| 2259s | and and how does that look for for a set |
| 2261s | of tools at at this uh |
| 2266s | stage uh while we're waiting for uh hul |
| 2270s | to come back I saw one question chat I |
| 2271s | don't if you have an answer for this one |
| 2273s | uh was from thak RS what is the purpose |
| 2275s | of Fletching stamina if it's only |
| 2277s | relevant for mark five plus |
| 2280s | items so I'm not actually sure that |
| 2282s | question I saw the same thing in the |
| 2284s | chat and I wasn't really sure what |
| 2285s | specifically that was yeah because I |
| 2287s | know that the St was more impactful um |
| 2290s | in an earlier balancing iteration um and |
| 2292s | then with how things have adjusted now |
| 2293s | it becomes more more prominent um at a |
| 2295s | later stage with the current balancing I |
| 2296s | guess it's something that could tune a |
| 2298s | bit but well you may be thinking that |
| 2300s | yeah Stam becomes more more something |
| 2301s | that becomes an impactful element later |
| 2304s | in the Journey of that item or yeah it |
| 2306s | it may just be a balancing thing to be |
| 2308s | honest in that uh yeah in the in the |
| 2311s | case of stamina it might just be a |
| 2312s | bouncing thing where I think I think |
| 2314s | where the question is getting at is that |
| 2316s | you don't necessarily feel the need for |
| 2317s | it because you can do so much within a |
| 2320s | single action before you're done um |
| 2322s | versus like smithing it has different |
| 2324s | rewards that plug into it you can |
| 2326s | activate your your super hit form |
| 2328s | prayers and so on and so forth there's |
| 2330s | leveling benefits where you start at a |
| 2331s | higher or just start with full heat and |
| 2334s | things like that um so yeah it's |
| 2336s | something to like review for sure sure |
| 2338s | uh we can review the numbers and then |
| 2340s | like when it comes to it in the future |
| 2342s | we can also just review the actual |
| 2344s | physical mechanics themselves and see |
| 2346s | what can make that more interesting more |
| 2348s | interactable and so on yeah yeah on the |
| 2350s | other hand it being FK particularly at |
| 2352s | the lower levels I think is quite quite |
| 2353s | advantageous because um fling is is a |
| 2355s | very active s sort of skill so um I |
| 2358s | quite like the way that youve balance it |
| 2359s | out personally at the moment so it's |
| 2361s | it's pretty low intensity until you get |
| 2362s | to that final |
| 2364s | burst uh what else questions can you |
| 2368s | hear me by the way yeah my back hello I |
| 2371s | was gonna ask yeah chat any questions |
| 2373s | any questions you've got uh C just got |
| 2376s | about eight minutes or so left I'd love |
| 2379s | to get any questions you have can we get |
| 2380s | a chat box message for Eternal Magic |
| 2382s | Tree hotspots I think we were talking |
| 2383s | about that earlier weren |
| 2385s | we H yeah if that's if that's a message |
| 2387s | for when uh the VFX appears yeah we did |
| 2391s | discuss that earlier um I think it was a |
| 2394s | no based on the fact that uh like things |
| 2396s | like rocket unities and time Sprites |
| 2398s | don't have that but we have been talking |
| 2400s | about the visuals and the ux of it all |
| 2403s | um you know there's a there's been a lot |
| 2405s | of feedback of like for example you need |
| 2406s | to turn your camera around to see it um |
| 2409s | then you need to click on the floor to |
| 2411s | go around to that side and then you need |
| 2413s | to click it again able to interact um so |
| 2416s | we've seen a lot of feedback we've been |
| 2417s | sort of collecting um things all about |
| 2420s | that um part of it is in the actual |
| 2422s | visuals itself part of it is in the |
| 2423s | mechanics and the actual physical um |
| 2426s | interactions itself so there's a few |
| 2428s | things that we have to tweak there uh |
| 2430s | but there's definitely things that we're |
| 2431s | taking on um and and to be honest a lot |
| 2433s | of this we also did discuss in |
| 2435s | development um early on like again when |
| 2438s | it we can show off in the future but we |
| 2440s | but we tried that a few things like we |
| 2442s | did multiply the amount of um visuals |
| 2445s | that appear so we made it the full free |
| 2446s | tiles for example we didn't like how |
| 2448s | that looked to begin with but I'm more |
| 2450s | than happy to put that out to players at |
| 2451s | some point and see like if we like that |
| 2454s | we can we can absolutely try and get |
| 2455s | something like that in we can add more |
| 2457s | leaves make things brighter and so on |
| 2459s | and so forth but so yeah we've we've got |
| 2461s | we've got like feedback to discuss there |
| 2463s | yeah yeah it's quite a challenge that |
| 2464s | you have this like uh prominent cylinder |
| 2467s | kind of obscuring your view of of the |
| 2469s | other sides from wherever you are so |
| 2470s | yeah I think we may have to go a bit |
| 2472s | more um Broad and the VIS visibility of |
| 2476s | something like that I've got a question |
| 2477s | I can answer um Cosmic Panda can you |
| 2479s | make it so perfect Eternal magic |
| 2481s | branches stack in the bank so I'm going |
| 2483s | to give you a boring technical answer to |
| 2484s | this one um so the primary function of |
| 2487s | the internal magic branches was to be |
| 2489s | used in the Masterwork bow creation |
| 2490s | process and the um the branches uh store |
| 2495s | how much progress you've made made |
| 2496s | toward towards that um I forget what the |
| 2499s | process was sharpening strengthening |
| 2501s | yeah anyway doing that death thing it St |
| 2503s | your progress so that if if you click |
| 2505s | away from it you can come come back and |
| 2506s | do it gradually um that object variable |
| 2509s | is using the data that would normally be |
| 2511s | used for the stack in the bank how many |
| 2513s | of those items that are in a single |
| 2514s | stack so essentially we can choose |
| 2516s | either one or the other we can e either |
| 2517s | use the object variable for soring St |
| 2518s | like progress or for stacking so |
| 2521s | unfortunately mechanically speaking no |
| 2523s | and uh due to how that works um can't |
| 2527s | stacked them in the bank but why are you |
| 2528s | stacking them though you know go hand |
| 2530s | them in for XP I mean why uh what's the |
| 2534s | use case there I'm I'm quite quite |
| 2535s | curious as to why you want to save them |
| 2536s | up when you could just have immediate |
| 2538s | gratification um Mr Skeletor is asking |
| 2541s | will there be more areas where the |
| 2542s | Eternal magic trees can be placed iul |
| 2545s | has just gone for good oh you kind kind |
| 2549s | floating thoughts you have as to things |
| 2551s | you might want to talk about or mention |
| 2553s | I can still uh I can still hear Julie oh |
| 2557s | okay right great so that's fun um the |
| 2561s | question that Julie asked was are there |
| 2562s | any more places we can add these uh |
| 2564s | Trees Too same same same sort of |
| 2567s | conversation that we were just having |
| 2568s | earlier uh absolutely in the future yeah |
| 2570s | there's there's like things we can look |
| 2572s | at placing these in different places |
| 2575s | maybe anonia maybe somewhere else um by |
| 2577s | all means for now they are where they |
| 2579s | are and that's that's that's where |
| 2581s | they're staying and it's it's going to |
| 2583s | be this single spot but we can we can |
| 2585s | definitely look at them elsewhere um I |
| 2587s | saw another comment on the tree sounds |
| 2590s | so we we know about a bug right now |
| 2593s | where you can hear other players um |
| 2595s | sounds of the of the opportunities the |
| 2597s | Lumberjack's intuition um so that's |
| 2599s | something that we're we've got on our |
| 2601s | list um I've got one here about what's |
| 2604s | up with the B limit on the eternals um |
| 2606s | that was something we tweet with the |
| 2608s | cold fix wasn't it the B limit got |
| 2609s | adjusted so that should hopefully be |
| 2610s | resolved |
| 2611s | now yeah we did the cold fix earlier |
| 2614s | today uh good few hours ago um which |
| 2617s | should have resolved being able to sell |
| 2619s | more than one uh Eternal magic log on |
| 2621s | the G |
| 2624s | MH I wondered it was so funny I forgot |
| 2627s | about that and then I tried to buy six |
| 2630s | for the wood box um because I was just |
| 2632s | running around trying to get is the |
| 2633s | horrifying voice in your head giving you |
| 2634s | any questions to ODS |
| 2638s | yeah I'm just an imaginary person now to |
| 2641s | Breezy just imagining me as a host um |
| 2644s | there was a question |
| 2647s | um thought I was trying to ask before I |
| 2650s | froze um give me a |
| 2654s | second um are there any plans to add new |
| 2658s | augmentable tools for other skills like |
| 2660s | would you ever consider a knife for |
| 2663s | ranged a chisel for crafting Etc so |
| 2665s | essentially expanding the kind of |
| 2667s | concept of that tool that you can aent |
| 2669s | and that ultimate version to other |
| 2671s | skills when we think about the future |
| 2675s | one you want to answer first to you got |
| 2677s | any ideas um I can't hear his question |
| 2681s | unfortun strange schizophrenic scenario |
| 2683s | going |
| 2684s | on is just imagining me now it's |
| 2687s | probably better okay so |
| 2690s | so this is going to be so funny if chat |
| 2692s | can't even hear me hully was asking uh |
| 2695s | would we like to add any other |
| 2696s | augmentable tools such as knives or |
| 2698s | anything else uh with any future 110s or |
| 2702s | or Beyond do you have any ideas on that |
| 2704s | yeah I've seen um some some things there |
| 2706s | uh people are very key on having an |
| 2708s | augment uh augmentable Crystal knife and |
| 2711s | so forth |
| 2712s | um I guess the honest answer is like |
| 2715s | these tools aren't really necessarily |
| 2717s | within the confines of what the one ts |
| 2720s | are supposed to be in terms of the core |
| 2721s | identity you know we're adding an um |
| 2725s | additional Hatcher to higher tiers but |
| 2726s | like if there was it wasn't really a |
| 2727s | progression of of nerves going upwards |
| 2730s | that's not there's not really that |
| 2731s | precedent that we're sort of building on |
| 2732s | for the the 110 thing structure so I |
| 2735s | kind I kind of see that one as being |
| 2737s | outside a scope um but you know |
| 2740s | depending on how the design goes we |
| 2742s | certainly could move in that more of a |
| 2743s | direction I imagine as we get into some |
| 2745s | of the thornier skills we're probably |
| 2746s | going to have to start building some of |
| 2747s | that infrastructure as as we go along to |
| 2750s | support the the ideal |
| 2752s | things I think yeah oh sorry S I think |
| 2757s | um |
| 2758s | I think the answer is is is is is that |
| 2761s | it's always possible I uh I think it's |
| 2763s | quite cool I um much much like Su said I |
| 2766s | think it's it's good to follow president |
| 2768s | first and see what uh is it is involved |
| 2772s | with the skill first look at where this |
| 2773s | skill is um I'd be cautious about adding |
| 2776s | tools to like every skill and just |
| 2778s | making everything like there's a crystal |
| 2779s | everything for every skill um I'd be |
| 2782s | cautious of doing that sort of thing um |
| 2784s | but I think like augmentable items I say |
| 2786s | augmentable items like sort of items |
| 2787s | that give an effect or let you do |
| 2789s | something faster or in a different way |
| 2791s | and so on so forth like these are these |
| 2792s | are these are interesting gameplay |
| 2793s | mechanics which we should never you know |
| 2795s | like um shout for any reason um yeah |
| 2799s | it's a case- by case basis I think I'd |
| 2800s | say they're cool absolutely we just need |
| 2803s | to be like does it make sense for what |
| 2805s | we're doing now um and how can we |
| 2807s | introduce it yeah I think we often kind |
| 2810s | of need design levers within the core of |
| 2812s | the skill for those modifiers to um then |
| 2815s | adapt so like in the case of um mining |
| 2817s | for example you know you have that that |
| 2819s | stamina mechanic that that you can then |
| 2821s | have things that alter your your stamina |
| 2823s | you have that versus your your your drop |
| 2825s | chance you have um the acquisition of um |
| 2830s | geodes and so forth so when these |
| 2832s | mechanics exist exist in the skill then |
| 2834s | we can have the tools associated with |
| 2836s | those modify those features but you know |
| 2838s | if if the the core game play as you |
| 2841s | click a thing it rolls a Rand a random |
| 2843s | thing you can increase the success |
| 2845s | chance there's not an awful lot of um |
| 2848s | different variables to play with there |
| 2850s | so in some cases it means would mean |
| 2852s | taking the skill and kind of changing |
| 2853s | fundamentally how some of these things |
| 2854s | are to support having that kind of |
| 2856s | reward space so yeah it's a tricky |
| 2859s | one uh a conscious of time um what do |
| 2863s | you say Breezy given our weird situation |
| 2867s | we indulge chat in uh you answer a |
| 2869s | question and Ste asked to guess what the |
| 2871s | question that was |
| 2873s | asked okay so so so what hully just said |
| 2876s | right now was uh let's play a game of I |
| 2878s | answer a question and you try and guess |
| 2880s | what that question is okay yeah sure so |
| 2883s | so chat I need a question that like Ste |
| 2886s | has a f so if I was hulie let's do do |
| 2889s | some Ro play so I have a terrible mic I |
| 2891s | sound like I'm under |
| 2892s | waterer I laugh at wee wax too easily oh |
| 2895s | you can't hear me what would what would |
| 2896s | hulie say what would hulie |
| 2900s | do uh I've got to make it something |
| 2903s | related to this okay when we we get to |
| 2905s | see par between uh I'm trying to see do |
| 2908s | you if you see a chat question Breezy |
| 2910s | that you think would |
| 2912s | work okay and make sure in your answer |
| 2915s | you don't uh you don't give it away too |
| 2918s | directly I was about to answer one and I |
| 2920s | thought the the first word I'm going to |
| 2921s | say is going to give it away yeah um |
| 2925s | okay so the there's a question here um |
| 2928s | and okay I'm going to answer it |
| 2931s | uh how do I answer that without without |
| 2934s | addressing it straight away um so the |
| 2937s | player the player makes it that at this |
| 2940s | point the player is a master of the |
| 2943s | skill um and they |
| 2946s | are you know they know everything got |
| 2948s | the highest skill level they can do |
| 2950s | everything so to speak um so the things |
| 2952s | that they make are are done by them like |
| 2956s | if if if we imagine your player |
| 2957s | character it's it's done by you it's not |
| 2960s | like this hasn't been made by a goblin |
| 2962s | by a Dragon Kin by an ilanin and that |
| 2966s | like how it looks and how it how it |
| 2967s | works in feels doesn't come from them it |
| 2970s | comes from the player so uh the |
| 2973s | background without using the word the |
| 2976s | background comes from that basically |
| 2978s | which is the approach we took to um the |
| 2981s | new weapon I think that might give too |
| 2982s | much away but the new weapon um and and |
| 2986s | anything that we've done in the past |
| 2987s | with that in mind too M can you guess |
| 2990s | what the question was to uh it was is |
| 2992s | there any underlying law to master workk |
| 2993s | items yes yes yes yes I saw a question |
| 2996s | about |
| 2997s | like well what's the law you're just |
| 2999s | making it yourself you know not |
| 3001s | everything necessarily is that deep but |
| 3004s | hey look we made you some ATT Tech issue |
| 3006s | thanks chat great idea um it's |
| 3008s | definitely a hard one not to to do so um |
| 3011s | on that note thank you very much joining |
| 3013s | us hope you've enjoyed just hanging out |
| 3015s | um we just wanted to make sure we |
| 3016s | celebrated this update we hope you're |
| 3018s | loving it uh I certainly am um I I guess |
| 3022s | Breezy if you want to let steers or |
| 3024s | anything I'm not saying things that are |
| 3026s | going to be interrupting I can't hear |
| 3028s | it's so good this is such a good Tech |
| 3030s | issue I love this uh but do you want to |
| 3033s | ask if |
| 3034s | Ste it's like we're not talking like Stu |
| 3037s | and I have had an argument and you're in |
| 3039s | the |
| 3039s | middle but do ask if steu wants to say |
| 3042s | anything about the update before we |
| 3043s | close out yeah so so Julie says to uh do |
| 3046s | you want to say anything about the |
| 3048s | update before we close |
| 3049s | out uh what do we want to |
| 3053s | say um I'm critically proud of what we |
| 3056s | we've produced honestly was a very very |
| 3058s | hetic project uh a lot of stuff come |
| 3060s | came came in U at the last minute uh we |
| 3064s | were a lot more ambitious this time time |
| 3065s | around um dealing with uh skills that |
| 3070s | need a lot more love a lot more rering |
| 3072s | at lower levels uh but despite that we |
| 3076s | we experimented with with some uh fancy |
| 3079s | new ideal ways of doing things got those |
| 3082s | infrastructural elements in place um |
| 3085s | included a lot of um small player |
| 3087s | requests like um some tweaks to uh |
| 3089s | free-to-play situ situation for example |
| 3091s | there were lift overs from the uh wood |
| 3093s | cutters Grove um so things I think on a |
| 3096s | much healthier Place we've got some |
| 3098s | really wonderful engagement people seem |
| 3099s | to be really enjoying it um we're making |
| 3101s | some uh tweaks and adjustments to |
| 3104s | feedback we've got uh this this week and |
| 3106s | some of that's already gone out in Hot |
| 3107s | fixes and the cold fix um and yeah I've |
| 3112s | really enjoyed working on this project |
| 3113s | and enjoy working Breezy and I hope to |
| 3115s | do more of it |
| 3119s | yeah I think I'll repeat what basically |
| 3122s | all of all of what St said um this has |
| 3124s | been a really uh challenging but fun |
| 3127s | project to work on or update um I think |
| 3131s | we've we've learned a lot I'm I'm I'm |
| 3133s | really happy with like what we were able |
| 3134s | to take from the feedback from one time |
| 3137s | Mining and smithing and how we were able |
| 3138s | to build on that here um it was really |
| 3141s | nice working with the players on Discord |
| 3143s | like just being able to just talk about |
| 3144s | ideas you know for the Masterwork bow |
| 3146s | for the Mechanics for for for everything |
| 3149s | just being able to ask what do you want |
| 3150s | to see in Enchanted buest what do you |
| 3153s | want to see here where should the um uh |
| 3156s | where should like wood spirits drop from |
| 3157s | Etc so on and so forth that's all been |
| 3159s | really fun um yeah I think I think just |
| 3163s | taking on the learnings uh the the |
| 3164s | approach we took um seeing all the all |
| 3167s | the like the fruits of our labor really |
| 3169s | um and I think the question that I'd put |
| 3171s | out on the end of that |
| 3173s | is to you as players how how how do you |
| 3177s | see it all and would you like us to take |
| 3178s | the same approach with with future 110 |
| 3181s | like with with um with ring crafting and |
| 3184s | like whatever comes Beyond it is this is |
| 3185s | this the type of thing that you'd like |
| 3187s | to see beyond or and and also is are |
| 3190s | there things that we can improve on um |
| 3193s | yeah let us know I think I think but |
| 3196s | like overall I am also proud of the team |
| 3199s | pulled through an amazing amount we we |
| 3201s | were able to serve on like the quality |
| 3203s | of life bits the the hatchets the things |
| 3205s | for free to playay and things like that |
| 3206s | so yeah I'm really happy with her |
| 3209s | then lovely lovely stuff and I I just |
| 3212s | want to also say as well to well um |
| 3215s | unless you're hearing anything else from |
| 3216s | The Voice your head I think we can |
| 3218s | probably close out there hully is |
| 3219s | talking right now |
| 3221s | ah so he is uh no it's uh I just want |
| 3225s | say um as well to all of you out there |
| 3227s | if you do want to be involved in these |
| 3229s | updates keep an eye out for rce um as |
| 3232s | breezy mentioned we're not just looking |
| 3234s | and talking to you on Discord we're also |
| 3235s | reading if you're talking to a song on |
| 3237s | Reddit on X whatever platform we live on |
| 3240s | we're reading those comments and the |
| 3241s | team we've done an amazing job really |
| 3243s | taking it seriously and and bring your |
| 3245s | feedback into production I know a lot of |
| 3247s | things that have already been talked |
| 3248s | about regarding R crafting 110s are |
| 3250s | active topics that go going on right now |
| 3253s | so you know even when we put this stuff |
| 3255s | out there we're looking for your |
| 3257s | feedback and your reaction so thank you |
| 3258s | to everyone who takes the time to do |
| 3260s | that um and hopefully you know we'll |
| 3263s | keep working really closely with you on |
| 3264s | these uh awesome updates uh a big thank |
| 3267s | you to Breezy and Stu for joining us |
| 3269s | today thank you all for spending some |
| 3271s | time with us I hope you had fun uh we |
| 3273s | just wanted to hang out and celebrate |
| 3274s | and I hope um you're having fun both in |
| 3276s | game and with us today and we'll be back |
| 3279s | uh I I can't remember if we're back next |
| 3280s | week actually I'll have to check in with |
| 3282s | the team I probably should have checked |
| 3283s | that one but um thank you very much for |
| 3284s | joining us either way big thanks RS guy |
| 3286s | for working out our remote Tech up set |
| 3289s | up today and uh we'll see you again soon |
| 3291s | and I hope I won't be too long so I see |
| 3292s | you on a stream preferably where Stu can |
| 3295s | hear me and uh my internet is dropping |
| 3297s | every five minutes goodbye Everybody |
| 3299s | Take Care stly said goodbye to everyone |
| 3302s | with with |
| 3305s | goodbye goodbye everyone |
| 3310s | [Music] |