Runescape Dev Tracker

big spoon make big sugar

big sugar make brain happy

Thank you all so much for the feedback over the weekend - been reading it every morning.

Glad to see most feel this is the right direction, though I do recognize there's a few reservations from some of you. Let's see how this goes, and I'd be keen for feedback (especially from those not for this direction) so we can keep tweaking the balance.

number go up

make brain happy

Hey ‘Scapers,

Sanctum of Rebirth releases later this month – but how we do our usual full reveal of the content will be a little different than usual.

Given we've been in such a week-before-tell-all reveal rhythm for a while, I wanted to make sure we let you know our plans and run you through why we’re doing things this way.

So here it is – while we'll be confirming the release date for Sanctum of Rebirth this Monday, we’re planning to provide a less detailed look at the content before release than you might be used to.

Why?

Over the past few years, we’ve really been packing our content reveals with as much information as possible. While that’s awesome for theory crafting and getting prepped, there’s a feeling we might be stripping the magic of ‘day one’ a little out of the releases.

When we think back, some of our most memorable releases have involved a mix of enough upfront information wit...

Yeah pretty soon! u/JagexAzanna/ is working with the team to get one out - probably a week or so away.

We're not holding GiM back for anything RuneFest related! Still on the Roadmap for later in 2024.

Yup! We're still targeting late Autumn / Fall like we shared here: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/a=97/2024-roadmap-group-ironman-skilling-boss-combat-content--more

No more specific ETA to share yet, but we'll be talking about GiM plenty in advance as we've been doing with all our bigger content projects lately.

Yeah absolutely, we'll be sharing the sort of news you'd have gotten at RuneFest at some point this year.

Ideally it'll be a similar-ish timing to RuneFest's original date, but we're just beginning to cook up alternative plans now - so still a bit early to give a more specific timeframe.

Absolutely. We have the Community Hitlist from our last survey and it's still referenced regularly within the studio!

Our goal at the moment is that every week has a few patch notes or tweaks/fixes you'd usually find in a Hitlist rather than finding room for 'drops' all at once.

We're running behind on that goal right now due to putting the focus on monthly content as the priority, but it's one of the next things we're trying to establish in our normal ops going forward.

Yuey is already doing the weekly bug report stuff in our weekly Newspost thread on Reddit, and we're working with Production/QA on how we can effectively prioritise improvements/tweaks/fixes at the moment. Give us a while as there's a lot of change right now, but things are moving forward :)

If we change them for GIM, we'd change them for normal irons too while we're there I imagine.
Again can't promise anything as GIM will be the priority but will aim to address both as much as we can.

Doing the Lord's work.

(The Lord is Zaros.)

We plan to review all minigames and content as part of GIM - can't promise everything for launch but we plan to prioritise the content that impacts the most. I've noted down Barbarian Assault and the others mentioned here though so we have a record.

It's not really my call on whether we do polls, and I think they are useful for select stuff, but they definitely have issues (a lot of which can be mitigated, but that takes extra time to get us to that place) e.g. you get a lot of fake votes or first glance votes (players that haven't played with anything you're trying out before making their decision and/or there's no limits for polls on players with ALTs getting X amount extra votes - which isn't really ideal)

can always rely on akritia to do the math - TY!