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12 Jun

The Sixth Age Filler Arc and Player Heartbreak

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There's a lot of emotional attribution going on here about vendettas and what I do and don't personally like. Let's be absolutely clear about something here: my responsibility is not to write about what personally interests me. It's to write (or more accurately, to strategically plan) what best supports the game.

Look at the various instances of what I'm personally responsible for. The stuff I choose to write when I occasionally get free reign. Mahjarrat Memories. (Most of) Azzanadra's Quest. The Third Age military stuff. It's super deep lore for people who are super invested in the game's ancient world and characters. Leave me with a word document and nothing else important to do and I will write endlessly about dead Mahjarrat, all the gods of the First Age, exactly how magic works, what the relationship is between the ancient elements and anima, how gods work, etc. That's my jam. It's also super niche. The part of the player base that I regularly engage ...

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11 Jun

We don't need skills to be overhauled/reworked. We just need them touched up a bit.

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Originally posted by mistrin

Is it possible that we can see other updates similar to the changes made to div or mini-reworks similar to M&S but not on such a large scale? I honestly don't think you have to rework everything, just adjust some of the inconsistencies from the early years of RS before some of the updates that have occurred. M&S is a great example of fixing those inconsistencies, but you went above and beyond with the finish result.

Artisan skills are (mostly) fine as they are with how we craft/manufacture items, though i do enjoy the changes made for M&S and making the skills more engaging, they aren't necessarily needed to fix some of the other inconsistencies with the skills.

Yes I mean this is more or less what I said on the stream. Obviously I can't commit to any specific design, but my general approach would be a new training method + a new top end reward.

The FSOA doesn't exist in lore/canon?

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Originally posted by ConstantStatistician

What about the explanation that it's a copy created from the Needle?

That's how I see it.

We don't need skills to be overhauled/reworked. We just need them touched up a bit.

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Originally posted by SchizoposterX

I think the M/S rework somehow permanently scarred Mod Jack so now he never wants to go through that again.

No that was comp. M&S was fine, and honestly I'd love to just sit and rework everything. The problem is the cost to other updates and thus the game.


08 Jun

TL;DW 539 - June Developer Q&A

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Originally posted by Adamjrakula

Can we get an FAQ page, im tired of watching these streams just to get the same questions with the same answers, especially if nothing has changed since the last time the question was asked. im looking at you character model rework.

Basically like 90% of the questions we get are "you said this once a month/year/decade ago, could you give us an update".

Either that or they're "I have a suggestion for the game, will you implement it".

TL;DW 539 - June Developer Q&A

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Originally posted by Koshfra

Was anyone else surprised when they said that ironmen make a "small" part of the overall player base? I was under impression that they've called it "significant" before. It'd be great if they could just share those numbers with us.

Small but important.


07 Jun

[Spoilers] TOTG explains a seemingly random thing on the content roadmap.

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Originally posted by Legal_Evil

How did Zamorak know to guard the Sword of Edicts to prevent us from remaking the Edicts?

It's essentially a coincidence - he's there because it's directly above the infernal source.


06 Jun

Future of our plot armor.

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Originally posted by San4311

Canonically you fight Raksha exactly once, back before the BOTM.

As others point out, this could be easily 'solved' or rather clarified in-game by making miniquests needed for bosses to be a requirement for the lore it is a part of.

Should be a simple insertion?

Let me rephrase: Canonically you fight Raksha no more than once.

Future of our plot armor.

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Canonically you fight Raksha exactly once, back before the BOTM.

Does anyone else feel jagex plays a little too "open cards" this year?

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No, not at all. If anything I think there's a strong case to be made that we're still being too cagey with information.


05 Jun

Interesting tease from Mod Jack about Twilight of the Gods.

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Originally posted by TuxedoRidley

So are the world changes actually going to be in the game world "very soon" or is it another one of those things that gets announced for soon, forgotten about for a few months and then randomly confirmed to be shelfed in a reddit comment?

The thing I'm referring to is already dev complete, but it needs to ship with a delay or it would spoil the quest on launch.

Interesting tease from Mod Jack about Twilight of the Gods.

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Originally posted by GamerSylv

So if I have that right we have Twilight > complete ED4 > Epilogue mini-quest?

Yep.

Interesting tease from Mod Jack about Twilight of the Gods.

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Originally posted by ConstantStatistician

This was to avoid the quest being uncompletable until the boss launched.

I don't follow.

Getting the epilogue requires killing the boss (there will be an accessible difficulty level). If it was part of the same quest, you wouldn't actually be able to complete the quest until the boss launched, so the quest would just sit there incomplete. Splitting the same content into a quest and a miniquest avoids this problem.


04 Jun

Every fortunate comp is another thousand eldritch horrors made in the abyss

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Wait until you find out what happened all those times you withdrew runes from a Wicked Hood.


02 Jun

erebus zaros

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Originally posted by SonicSingularity

My assistant, Azzandra, had just brought me a new case file and a cup of coffee. Both would have to wait. This dame had my attention...

Yes this is gold. I want to know more about the assistant.


01 Jun

erebus zaros

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Originally posted by Degrandz

I’m serious - it’s not sarcastic! You have a way with words that I really appreciate. I seriously hope you’ll one day write some lore stories or the like… and maybe even a book!

Thanks!

erebus zaros

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Originally posted by Degrandz

Woah, you can write! I would read books written by you!

I can't tell if this is sarcastic.

If Jagex released World Wakes in present day

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Originally posted by Lord-Ice

Do you happen to remember who voices Mr Mordaut when he has lines, out of curiosity?

Sorry, no I don't.

erebus zaros

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"I knew she was trouble the moment she walked through my office door. The mouths on her neck gulped at me seductively, but it was her legs - all eleven of them - that really got me hot under the collar. She told me she was in deep with the Flachl gang. Like I said, trouble."


31 May

If Jagex released World Wakes in present day

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Originally posted by tygabeast

Oddly, Gorvek is one of the few characters whose VA is on their wiki page.

Greg Jones. His only credit on IMDB is for something other than RS.

He's also Raksha iirc.