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It needs a lot of reworking as the design is quite dated (and some of the concepts are quite OP) but the plan has always been to pair it with a later Kourend quest. We mentioned briefly at RuneFest a quest called ‘A Kingdom Divided’, which is the quest that will tie the 5 house quests together. The new spells would work quite well as a reward while also giving us a chance to condense the ensouled head spells.

Hopefully soonish, but development is still unlikely to start until later in the year, providing plans don’t change. Hoping for time to rework some of the cities too as there are still major issues with the layout of some areas of Kourend.

Wait, what?!

It's likely due to legal reasons. But I agree, people wouldn't need to speculate if it was more transparent.

Then again, players have been attributing the old gmaul glitch with Reach ever since he went even though Ash has spoken about its cause multiple times. Controlling misinformation is easier said than done unfortunately ):

For sure :) It was also kind of stupid, which is how he was caught which Mat touched upon during his interview. Other rogue team members were far sneakier and certainly acted with malice.

I’m not going to say what he did, but it sounds like it was more desperate than malicious - certainly damaging to the game and an incredible abuse of power. Now, does that make him a bad guy? Of course not, people make mistakes and it’s clear he regretted what he did.

He was before my time, so everything I’ve heard is from others (MatK, JohnC and Ash) and from what I saw of him on the Q&As. Now, his work on the other hand - as many have said - was sloppy, but that’s to be expected from someone without a programming education (And, from what I heard from his trainer, a disregard for learning). As many could tell from the interview and countless Q&As, he certainly loved working on the game and was very passionate which is commendable given how abrasive the community can be at times.

Anyway, like him or hate him, just don’t carelessly spread rumours :P

This design was explicitly asked for and has passed a poll. It’s also part of the lore as to why they’re similar. I’m sorry you’re not a fan of the proposed armour but we can’t expect to please everybody.

Thanks :D glad you like the armour, I’ve been meaning to find a way of it getting into game for a while now.

Ry is working on a new animation for the mace as the basic mace animation is rather lacking in weight and power. That will go a long way in making the weapon feel better to use for sure.

The necromancy Spellbook and the slayer helms will likely be a thing next year, but no promises. Me and Ed had always said that the Spellbook redesign would work well alongside a Kourend quest, but they’ve all been quite low level to warrant a bunch of new spells.

I think the issue is that the tentacles shrink down to nothing when made that small :/ we’re quite busy with work atm but I could experiment in the new year to see what it’s like :)

I had an idea for something similar but as a main hand weapon. Gorgons head or something like that but the connected content design is dead. It’s certainly something I’d be up for making in the future.

As for this update, Mod Ry made the weapons while I made the armours but we’re not in a position to start from scratch with these unfortunately :/

I’ve not looked too far into it, but from what I understand NPCs can’t have inventories as their models are hard coded into the config and can’t change at run time. When an NPC changes it’s generally a completely different NPC.

It could be done at a more basic level, say each character has 3 upgrades available - that could work but the customisation is severely reduced. I’m sure I’ll come back to this at some point 😅

As for fixing TT, it definitely needs some proper balancing. From experience trying to actually kill the mobs before your companion dies seems quite difficult without BiS gear and high stats. Which is ridiculous given what the minigame is.

Thanks! It’s always good to share with the community 😁

Muh karma D:

I’ve recently optimised the slayer helmet so it’s about 100 tris fewer now. That being said, I still felt the need to shave a couple more tris off this new helm to accommodate the new horns.

While doing this helm I added that suggestion for the unique slayer helm designs into the backlog as it’s clearly very popular :D

You can ask the Librarian.

Haha, that is truly hideous! We have cat and unicorn masks so I don't see why we can't have a mammoth mask one day ;P

I must've missed that... Got a link?

Sure.

Mmmhmm - if we're ever doing another TT update... This is going in.

I have a WIP design that took the structure of temple trekking but with character companion customization (and level up). However, instead of the player doing all the fighting and the NPC's being useless... The player could only play as a healer who had to support their group of adventurers and use skilling to clear the path and make food/potions. The idea was to be a Farming/Herblore/Cooking activity.

I stopped work on it though as I'm not convinced we can actually do that level of NPC customization without some heavy engine support (I think). Also, if we are to do anything - as you said - we should probably update Temple Trekking to not be so bad/inconsistent.

It looks a lot more like a tree when it has the correct colours 😳 Unsure why I made them all the same colour tbh...

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