Jumping in straight away to say hello! I was off last week but you guys left some pretty clear feedback about various aspects of the first iteration of this blog - hopefully we've addressed most of them!
If you have any further thoughts at all please get sharing and let us know what you think. Will be aiming to respond to as many constructive comments as possible.
Side-note, this is my first week as a 'no longer in probation' CM, it's been a wild 6 months so far, here's to many more!
I’ve given it a good read over and the rewards are actually quite refreshing lol the animations look amazing I must say. Fair enough, I’ll get my clannies to give it a read and see what they think. I appreciate the PvP community are also customers who want to enjoy the game like the rest of us but unfortunately for them they are and will always be vastly outnumbered at the polls. I know voting “No” without good reason is not what was intended for the polling system but that’s the way people do it when it comes to PvP I can tell you that for free.
Appreciate you taking the time to give it a look and for sharing your thoughts about it!
Hope you're having a solid week so far!
can we modify it and make it an agility shortcut?
Level 95 Agility: Can use the double-backflip shortcut inside the Clan Hall. It's useless, but your clannies will think you look sick.
"Heroes' Quest has been fixed for players stuck in a broken state. Apparently, somebody managed to start the quest as a Phoenix Gang member, even though they're actually in the Black Arm Gang. What an experience that must have been!"
What is this referencing lol?
As far as I know, a single player (potentially for the first time since the quest's release) managed to wind up in a quest state we've never seen before, where the game thought they were a Phoenix Gang member (despite being a Black Arm Gang member) and therefore wasn't able to complete Heroes' Quest. We have no idea how they wound up in this state and whether or not it's happened before, but hopefully it shouldn't happen again...
The music track from the clan hall is the only thing I need to unlock to get the music cape. As a player who prefers to play mostly solo, is there any chance there will ever be an option to visit/tour the clan hall just to unlock the music track? I know you can visit as a guest, but joining a clan/chat just to unlock one track is kinda annoying
You shouldn't have to join a clan chat to visit somebody's Clan Hall as a guest! Just need to know which world and which clan. Feels a good bit easier than some of the other requirements for the Music Cape.
In an earlier update we'd said that we'd buffed the Shadow inside of TOA from a 3x to a 4x multiplier on Accuracy + Damage. Only the Damage got applied, and Accuracy was still sitting at 3x - it's now been increased to 4x in line with what players expected!
Read moreThe reality is it's not 2014 anymore. The PVP community created a bad reputation for itself and subsequently died out. What are the current percentages for players who actively PK? Seriously what's the number?
The 'us vs them' mentality comes from PVMers waiting 4 years for a new PVM experience that isnt reskinned existing content or rs3 port. All the while watching every PVP update and DMM crash, burn, and get exploited for hundreds of bills which ruins the game's economy. Voting against PVP updates actually benefits PVMers in a tangible way; and Jagex created this dynamic.
I'm obviously not blaming you individually and I appreciate your response. However; trying to force PVP on a community that is and will always be supermajority PVMers is the definition of beating a dead horse. I think I speak for the majority of PVMers when I say that there is literally nothing Jagex can do to get me interested in PVP; and if upcoming PVM updates are f...
Appreciate your response!
I'm not sure I'm able to share the current %s, but I'd wager it's propbably higher than you'd expect.
I'm not particularly interested in 'trying to force PvP' on anybody, and think some of the changes like alternative sources for the D Pick go some way to 'decoupling' risky content with a potential for PvP from what many feel to be core progression. I'm more interested in trying to provide content for those who would and do choose to PvP or engage in risky content that's worth their time, which many feel is a mark that's been missed for quite a while now.
I never used to be interested in PvP at all either, Bounty Hunter got me pretty good though and I enjoyed playing the same game I know and love in a totally different way. I think ultimately the goal is to remove the word 'forced' from any of these discussions and have PvP or PvP-adjacent content feel like a choice worth making for players who are so-inclined, and add to the ...
Read moreHey goblin, off topic from this thread, but I listened to your podcast with Sae Bae and got to know you better, you’re a hell of a dude and I just wanted you to know I noticed that. Loved hearing your takes on stuff genuinely
Appreciate you sitting through 3 hours of me waffling lmao, and thanks for the kind words!
If it’s anything to do with the wilderness I don’t even read it if I am being completely honest. I just vote no because I’d rather save developer time for actually useful content. Even if I liked what I saw and voted yes 1000 others would vote no because that’s how it is. We don’t pay for PvP updates we pay for what we enjoy most and that’s like everyone I know. It will always fail.
Think it's worth pointing out that most of the rewards polled are PvM rewards (i.e. Revenant weapon upgrades). Appreciate you responding, I worked pretty hard writing up the Design Blog and it would be neat if you found the time to have a read over it at some point!
A good chunk of people do pay for PvP updates (since it's what they enjoy most) and it'd be helpful to have feedback from people inclined to voting no so that we're able to find grounds to properly support multiple types of players, rather than homogenising content.
Its not. At this point you should thank your lucky stars there's a huge pvm community to vote no on all your updates. There would be no osrs without pvmers, the same cannot be said for pvp. There are like 74 pkers left in the game
There would be no osrs without pvmers
On this point specifically, I think it's worth the historical context of the PvP community actually being pretty instrumental in OSRS coming to fruition in the first place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqYjIjDAdM8. Pretty sure if you look back at data streams from 2013/2014 the numbers of players actively PvPing on the daily were in regions north of 30-40%.
For sure times change and so do player attitudes, but also think it's important to remember that there was a time Ironman didn't exist, and a time where PvM as an endgame was pretty limited - a whole bunch of areas of the game got some love and now absolutely flourish.
I'm not much of a PvPer myself, I dabble but in all honesty I suck pretty hard. I do t...
Read moreI wasn't able to fight my friend in the combat ring, no attack options and when I tried to cast a magic spell it said I wasn't in a combat ring, despite both of us being in a combat ring
https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/clan-hall-upgrades--more-?oldschool=1
If you check the table at the top, you'll see we found a pretty significant bug last-minute and had to disable combat inside the ring for a short time. Keen to avoid another Falador Massacre if possible!
I mean let’s see, I believe there’s a poll coming up for Wilderness Boss Rework. You can talk all you like but we both know it’s about to big fail lmao I can’t wait to spam the “No” button. That should be more fun than clicking trees for sure.
Out of interest, do you have any specific issues with the rewards you're planning to vote 'No' to? Always keen for feedback!
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Cheers for raising this, should be fixed ASAP. Note: ASAP might not mean today, this one might not be hotfixable. Keep an eye on the blog post itself for any specific updates.
Possible that skippy will make an appearance during FSW launch?
Currently no plans to add Skippy as far as I'm aware, since FSW are specifically aimed at new/returning players.
We seeing the Wildy updates any time soon? Keen for them, but they've been "in the works" (actually sidelined) for so long.
Keep an eye out for Poll Blog v2 (handful of small tweaks and some responses to community feedback) later today, then polling. We should be seeing them soon-ish, just keen to have them in as good a spot as possible before the rework goes live!
Sweating bullets imagining Zerk fights with a 15s Veng CD
Beautiful! Love the smooth gradient contrasted with pixel art, reflections are gorgeous too. Love this!
VM is GOATed, far more AFK than people realise, just needs 2 friends and then like 60s of brain activity every 10 mins.
Blast Mine is also hella slept on as a pretty quick method that can pump out some profit at higher mining levels. Wiki patterns are pretty good, Sae Bae's video on Blast Mine is also super solid if you're looking for something to do with all that dynamite taking up space post-CoX!
Think I hated Mining up until pretty recently, but between 3t4g, 4t gems, BM, VM - there's a whole bunch of diversity there to suit your moods!
The community will be on fire if you don’t perm ban those people everyone will be abusing any bugs from now on, the damage is done anyway, know multiple people who have alrdy rwted multiple bills cause of it
Feel free to pass on RSNs if you know people who abused the bug!
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