[2023] Trimmed Cape Changes & Necromancy Release Date Trailer - This Week in RuneScape

EDIT: The Golden Cape Hunt will return for this weekend only. More details to be confirmed in the coming days. See this post for more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/14jd2kn/comment/jpl8cz0/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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In case anyone was hoping to see something about a Golden Cape Hunt re-activation, we wanted to let you know these discussions are happening right now, but we haven't been able to confirm any plans in time for this Newspost.

We are currently investigating the possibility of enabling the Golden Cape Hunt again this weekend and hope to confirm whether or not we can do this as soon as possible. The team are very much eager to make this happen in response to your feedback, but with so much going on at the studio - especially in the buildup to Necromancy - we need to verify if we can fit in the development and QA time to do this unplanned work. Unlike the Hotfix, any reactivation or extension has a lot more potential for things to go wrong that we need to check.

There is a chance it may not happen, but we wanted to let you know the team are pursuing it. We'll let you know either way once we have confirmation from the team.

Team is looking into it currently.

We look at it differently here, which is more about people's availability and how an issue disrupted people's precious time that may have been one of their only opportunities of the week to finish it.

The timing of the issue meant some folks who only had Saturday evening in the US to finish the hunt were not able to do it. If we can, we want to give that opportunity back to those players who might not be able to play during the week - and had consciously planned to use the time they did have on the weekend to complete it.

Even beyond that, there were players who chose to spend their Saturday evening in RuneScape chasing these Shards that unfortunately would never drop for them due to the bug - which is not the experience we should be delivering.

It's a different situation than folks just not being able to complete it in time, purely due to the issue that could be why they didn't.

I believe Ramen is playing around with Master Cape particles for Gamejam which is next week so there is work being done on it but no ETA or timeline on when this would be.

You can reclaim them from the Wise Old Man at the GE entrance if we reactivate it. That was already a feature of the event thankfully!

HOTFIX: We will be re-enabling Death Costs after fixing a bug with Death Cost valuations at 14:30 Game Time (in approx one hour).

All players should be conscious of Death Costs if engaging in dangerous activities.

We will continue to deploy in-game broadcasts at 15 minute intervals up to the deployment of the Hotfix.

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/hotfix-alert-re-enabling-death-costs

We're delighted to confirm that we are go for bringing the Golden Cape Hunt back over this weekend, beginning on Friday and ending on Sunday. This will be the one and only extra chance to participate in the event - no further extensions.

All your progress from the event will carry over to this weekend. If you destroyed Shards, you can reclaim them at The Wise Old Man as you could during the event.

This will require a Coldfix to implement. We haven't nailed down timings on Friday - but once we do, we'll be sharing this news more broadly with the rest of the community so you know when to expect it.

For now, we just wanted to let you know we are able to make this happen and we'll have more to share firmer news on it in the near future once everything's finalised.

UPDATE: As of 14:30 Game Time today, Death Costs are now reactivated.

We have a confirmed time!

We'll be deploying the Coldfix around 10:15 Game Time on Friday, and the event will run until Sunday at 23:59 Game Time.