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Spooky, but certainly not intended! Our initial estimations are a shader compilation failure - could you let us know your hardware specs, and your graphics settings and the team can take a look at this a little more closely? Thanks!

That one's out of my hands as a content developer, alas, as it's an engine bug with how static world map elements are parsed, and new engines release on a relatively infrequent schedule (more monthly than weekly).

Had a poke at our ticketing system to see what's up. Looks to have initially been reported in May, investigated quite extensively (looks like it was quite a tricky issue to isolate) and then a fix developed in September. Given the defect's relative gameplay impact severity, it's flagged as minor priority, so presumably some more critical engine fixes have beaten it to the testing suite a couple times.

Looks like the fix has been QAed and ready to merge since early December. Wasn't included in the most recent (January) client update, so presumably it's waiting for the next full stack (server & client) engine release.

EDIT: Investigated further. It won't be in the next engine (releasing mid Feb), but is scheduled in for the one after that.

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Well, to challenge one point you've made there - the 30% figure was the expected number of players who would finish the pass without ever actually completing a Mission or deviating from their standard gameplay behaviours - the reception was very clear, and we in the Community team forwarded the feedback very directly to the team, but we were also very keen for players to get their hands on it first before we made any changes, because how it looks on paper and how it feels to play with are different, as with any change.

But, of course, that was almost 5 months ago now. Since then, could I ask if you feel that you have been blatantly ignored? Have there been changes that you have wanted to see come through the Community Hitlist or had feedback about the Combat Beta that you wanted to see implemented? Would be interesting to hear if anything has changed, and if not - what tweaks or feedback we can address in the near future!

When you say time and time again, do you mean the few days between us showing it to players and it going into the game? Because that was a very small timeframe compared to the project's entire duration from conception to implementation.

I can tell you one "thing" that was eager to hear feedback, and it was the team! I was here every day speaking to players, getting feedback and trying to negotiate that feedback all the way up the chain to the team so we could make informed decisions on what needed to change with Hero Pass. We were putting together Player Panels for feedback, which were going to be meeting regularly to help us refine proposed changes and improve the systems, and since then we've maintained a lot of that conversational structure with the examples I gave above - our swathe of Surveys including the Community Hitlist, the Combat Beta and coming to the players to ask questions are all part of the same ethos of being "eager to hear feedback" so I hope that helps ...

Sorry to disappoint you, but I submitted a fix to recolour the untextured polys of grizzly/black bears last week. (Slightly too late to go into this week's patch notes.) Enjoy your purple drank bears while you still can!

Also added steel armour to the unicorn stallion familiar, to help distinguish it from other unicorn pets.

This is an announcement confirming that the above comment was, in fact, an announcement of the upcoming announcement about what's coming.

No, it was not the future of the game at all - but it did serve to confirm the thinking that we needed to (and continue to) make major changes to how we approach being "player-driven" and embedding player voice earlier into development. It's a big change to how we work!

The team are super receptive and eager to hear feedback and start conversations (such as the Necromancy ...

FWIW, over a few of 2023's gamejams, I did a big cleanup of various quest requirements, which included removing this Memorial to the Myreque timegate and some other adjacent points of questing friction (eg moved the Archaeology collector prompt on some quest NPCs into their dialogue tree).

That gamejam project completed localisation over Christmas, so it's in the pipe and I'm hopeful it'll release in the coming months.

It's not a rude question at all, but the TL;DR is that Mod Keeper is heavily invested in supporting the team behind the scenes and leaving it to us to be the "front facing" part of the team. That's something I'm very comfortable doing and we have lots of lovely mods who are also ok with being on streams so we have a lot of player-facing JMods. (Lots of them active on our various platforms, too!)

We've had Mod Keeper weighing in on a lot of messages around updates (he was very actively involved and directly communicating with myself and the Community Team throughout) but generally is more focused on the day-to-day operational aspect which means that we see more movement from them internally than externally. That's not to say Mod Keeper isn't always watching though! Regularly, we see Mod Keeper acknowledging posts, tweets, updates from all our platforms and they take a very active interest in things like the weekly and monthly reports that I produce for the team to give them...

I have been asking the team about the Collection Log for a while now, but I will give it another nudge, for sure!

That's good to hear - Mod Keeper and the whole team are keen to make sure we're delivering on our aims for this year so we want to make sure we're doing things right.

Implying that we're making the roadmap in MS Paint is made fun of, asking for an update isn't! You gotta let me have my quirky comments, it's all I have left anymore. In any case, I've already shared this under another comment but hey, what's the harm in posting it here too?

Mod Keeper is aiming to give everyone an update later this week to shed some more light on what's going on and what to expect looking forward. This will be a higher level view of what's to come, and won't take the same format as the Development Updates you saw last year.

We're also working on getting together a livestream (aiming for this Friday) to show you all some of what's on the agenda for February and March with the developers - I'm finalising the list of mods stopping by, so we didn't lock it into the TWIR until the details have all been finalised.

We're all super excited to be speaking to you about what's on the horizon, so we're super...

Mod Keeper is aiming to give an update later this week to shed some more light on what's going on and what to expect looking forward. This won't be in the same format as the Development Updates we shared throughout last year, but we want to respond with more detail and give you info.

We're also working on getting together a livestream very soon to show you all some of what's on the agenda for February and March with the developers - I'm finalising the list of mods stopping by and we're aiming to have a stream this Friday, but we didn't lock it into the TWIR until the details have all been finalised.

We're all super excited to be speaking to you about what's on the horizon, so we're super glad to be getting closer to sharing the details. Happy Monday! Have a great week.

Hey look, everyone gets very easily distracted by holding the spray can button until the circle fills, OK? It's just part of the process.

I'm gonna keep bumping this one for you champ - I love a good jingle.

A new marketplace outfit, the next stage of the combat beta and your personalised end of year review!

https://rs.game/update-290124

Very impressive, that's what we love to see! Congratulations, enjoy the igneous stone!

Hey, from what i can see the following mobs have access to it:

Burthorpe intro trolls (if the farming path is done)
Mogre
Rockslugs
'Farmers' (not on F2P worlds)
Catablepon
Cave crawlers
Rocklobsters
General malpractitioner
Rum Pumped Crabs
Tenacious toucan
Giant ant worker
Reborn warriors (all varieties from the Phoenix cave)
Exiled kalphite soldier/paragon

Happy to confirm that the team are looking into this one and are investigating! Have a great week!