[2023] MHAW & Double XP - This Week In RuneScape

No that's incorrect unfortunately. We're trying to get it updated with the team that owns it - it's the usual Monday end.

/u/JagexDoom can provide an update on the Beta, he's been working closely with that team on it. Might take a bit for a response as he's travelling to the studio for the Necromancy Creator Playtest that kicks off tomorrow.

Max Cash is still currently on track for this month.

Such an extensive system that has a lot of potential impact needs a LOT of testing, which it's currently going through now. So far, we're still on track for a May release.

A lot of that has been engine work, fitted around other engine work that we've been doing, to enable it.

The reason it didn't ship with the Death Cost changes is because it needed more engine work than initially expected. That work is done now, but it's having to go through rigorous tests to make sure everything is working as it should.

What's your feedback on those being together as an issue out of interest?

The reason I ask is Double XP: LIVE was born based on the feedback that Double XP Weekends were too intensive both in terms of the short availability and the incentive to play for too many hours in such a small period of time to make the most of it.

The 10 day Double XP period, pause timer and conversion of unused hours were all introduced as ways to de-intensify the event dramatically and make it a healthier experience.

Doom is working on an update post on this! Hopefully we'll have a big beefy Newspost about it in the next couple weeks or so.

Woodcutter's Grove isn't a May Update - won't be too long, but don't expect to see it this month. Max Cash is the next big release on the horizon (at least in terms of time/effort to deliver a change on that scale).

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Update on the MHAW Power Bundle

Posted this in another thread but just wanted to make sure it's shared here too - and we've also added an alert in the Newspost.

The MHAW Power Bundle description in-game does not match the actual contents of the Bundle due a deployment error - the Newspost remains accurate and reflective of the actual Bundle as it did this morning. We're going to fix the description as soon as we can in-game.

If you've purchased the Power Bundle and are unhappy with what you received due to the in-game description, you can submit a ticket via this link and we'll get back to you as soon as we can (please do allow up to a couple days for this depending on the volume of requests we get).

https://support.runescape.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360001119977-Issue-with-Solomon-s-store-purchase

Once again, our apologies again for the issue here and thank you for wanting to support RAD's fantastic work.

We're going to talk to the team about when we can next expect to see Vic back, we've seen this feedback crop up lately especially.