JagexAyiza

JagexAyiza



08 Dec

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I replied on Twitter about this but as some of you might not see it, I'll share my reply here too:

Some fair points raised here. I personally would love to see "quick fix" suggestions that don't just revolve around enticing non-PvP minded players into the Wilderness. I get the whole risk vs reward and it being a choice, but I don't think its the best way to try fix PvP.

I'd also love to see something like Bounty Hunter come back. PvP in general has always been a passion of mine even though I don't partake in it. I do want to try and get it sorted next year, truly.

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Originally posted by AdamMReddit

Have you thought about locking it behind something? It kind of devalues camulet and especially the hard desert diary which gives you the ability to teleport outside the cave.

Do you think it devalues it that much given you'd need to get to Al Kharid first and take a boat from there first? I believe the rowboats will be near the bank.

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Originally posted by Justinian2

I really think the damage buff % should be 50 and not 20...even with 50% the water spells will hit less than fire, sadly don't think the Tome will be used anywhere on normal spellbook

The Tome of Water isn't intended to make Water spells better than the damage of Fire spells. Fire spells are much higher level than Water spells so wouldn't it be kind of wrong for them to suddenly be higher damage even when the Tome of Fire is equipped?

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Originally posted by swagged_by_mom

i think challenge mode should be an unlock after a certain amount of kills, where you get an untradeable item you can show to someone and then they let you fight the boss solo in an instance with better drop chances on uniques and more fish. as for how to actually make it harder, i think the easiest way to do so is by making things actually deal damage to you

We've had some really interesting ideas sent our way and Mod Squid has started his own design too. Definite potential for it!

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Originally posted by AdamMReddit

Ayiza what is the transport sign on the port?

It's for ferrying to and from the rowboats in Al Kharid :)

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Originally posted by imabigcave

Link doesn't work :(

Edit: works now. Not sure why it wasn't directing me properly earlier. Thank you for the help :)

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See the changelog for the recent edits that have been made. Hopefully that covers much of what was raised since the first blog was released :)

I know there was a lot of support for a quest to introduce Tempoross but we're not in a position to include this with the poll (we'd need to design it!) so if anyone was wondering, we're definitely in favour of it, but don't want to delay the potential dev time we could spend on Tempoross should it pass!


07 Dec

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Wow, can't believe he has time for OSRS. Didn't expect him to be so involved with a clan either!

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Originally posted by Sergeant_Squirrel

Excited for the Wilderness boss rework! I really hope the project is given the time and effort it deserves

SAME!

I think it'll be a project I try and fight the other CM's to take lead on :)

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Originally posted by smorc_3000

It might be "just a beta" but it still feels very bad from a player perspective that i have to pay to a different subscription to be able to play on a beta world.

I completely get why players might be annoyed at this. The Gazette does touch on how we're just experimenting with different partnership opportunities and we want to make sure you're happy with what we're doing. If it doesn't work out, I doubt we'd do it again!

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Originally posted by Anthroider

Bruh. You have got to understand by now how this looks to us. All of these points have been "worked on" for literal years now, and they are the worst they have ever been

Oh believe me when I say I understand. I see the same issues and experience the same problems as a player of the game too. There seems to be more of a focus on OSRS within Jagex than there has ever been before, so I'm hopeful we'll see more positive change.

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Originally posted by tomw2308

u/jagexayiza regarding soul wars island, will it be located in a similar place to rs3? I recently received the map desk mat and it reminded me that soul wars would be coming

The actual island is going to be located just west of the Feldip Hills :)

Hope you like the desk mat!

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Originally posted by Designer_B

Ah gotcha, missed that.

We could have done things a lot better with the event as a whole, one of those being how we communicated things. That's probably why you missed it!

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Originally posted by KyleStanley3

Combat achievements are coming a lot quicker than I expected, thats great to see.

So I know in the past we've had biannual large updates, typically around January and July. Is the clan update going to be the big update for January or are you kind of restructuring how you're doing things?

Loving the transparency by the way

In the Gazette it shows a snippet of our roadmap. You can see Clans listed there nice and early in the year but that's showing the continued development of it. We'll hopefully have more to share about a potential release date early next year!

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Originally posted by Designer_B

Wait how did lms event work well? Didn't it not even happen?

We had to re-run it due to some issues on our end with getting the invites out, but the re-run went very well (technically)

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Originally posted by ThroatSores

Yeah

From Tuesday December 15th until Tuesday January 5th you'll be able to try out Soul Wars in its current state. You'll need to claim with Prime Gaming, and it'll be on special Prime Gaming worlds.

f**k that.

We pay probably more than any other players out there for any other subscription based game. OSRS is NOT a cheap game and now I need to pay another company just to play shit in OSRS?

I understand your frustration, but just to confirm that it's only the "beta" period which is a Prime Gaming-exclusive, and it happens on no-save worlds so doesn't actually provide any in-game benefit. The full release in January will be open to all members.

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Originally posted by KreaHS

After reading over some of the big updates and ideas that the team has shared, I feel this needs to be said.

Regardless of whether these updates pass a poll or not, I really appreciate the team's ability to think outside of the box and propose groundbreaking game updates that I didn't even think were within the technical scope of this game.

This Gazette made me feel a way that I haven't in a long time. I remember as a kid in middle school, I would rush home after getting off the bus and check the Runescape home page to check for any game updates. That huge rush of excitement that washed over me when there was a surprise game update, that's what I felt today reading this blog.

With the poll system, we already know everything that's coming or that's in the works, so that feeling is more or less gone these days. But reading this Gazette really blew me away. It's like that blog that was pitched for a Boss Slayer task master. Even though that didn't pass, I rea...

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Messages like this make my day. Thank you for taking the time to say what you did, it means a lot to us all <3

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Originally posted by Lazypole

Well I’m a little sad to see Soul Wars is prime only. If this is an alternative to the free membership offer though I’ll take the bitter pill, if it’s in addition to, as a paying customer not having access to this as well as watching the economy be ravaged by prime, I’d be quite annoyed

That's completely understandable. Ultimately we're experimenting with different partnership opportunities and we want to make sure you're happy with what we're doing. I hope the Gazette goes into that enough to get the point across!

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Originally posted by TehChid

How can those of us that get the email know it's legit?

The newspost announcing the beta does cover this particular topic, but just to reiterate:

The email from us will contain your RuneScape name, a Steam key, it'll contain links to our FAQ, and most importantly - it won't ask you to enter your RuneScape login information anywhere!