27th May - Dungeon maps and spam filter

[Wizz]

Maybe just make the new HP bar for high def only?

[Wachtwoord]

I like the new 0 splat. :mrgreen:

 

 

 

 

I hate to be nit-picky but doesn't that 0 look slightly off centered? I may be wrong but it looks so to me.

 

 

 

If it is, blame Jagex. The only thing I edited on there is the transparent blue color around the shield.

 

 

 

If Jagex removed red barring, people would rant about it not being there anymore.

 

Since they kept it added, people rant about it being there. #-o

 

Don't listen to complaints the few days after an update. A lot of them is just new stuff people need to get used to. I assumed everybody knew that already.

[Lemeja]

 

D'arvit!!

 

 

 

:lol:

[Lore]

the new hitpoints bar and splats are downright ugly. they look like something out of a cartoon, making the game look even more unrealistic. it reminds me of pokemon...

 

 

 

Meh

 

You can start worrying when you hear continuous warning bells at 25% hp

[MstrMonopoly]

the new hitpoints bar and splats are downright ugly. they look like something out of a cartoon, making the game look even more unrealistic. it reminds me of pokemon...

 

 

 

Meh

 

You can start worrying when you hear continuous warning bells at 25% hp

 

 

 

Jeez I had to turn my sound off when that happened. Plus the level 100 Charizard you owned could take down anything, even at 1 hp.

[Lore]

must. resist.

 

urge to talk pokemon overwhelming

[Marvel Titan]

Not huge updates, but very nice to add to the graphical improvements of the game.

 

 

 

Thankfully the spam filter is optional, as i find some people actually like seeing what they cut/catch etc.

[warlordsagan]

The new ingame dungeon maps are pretty sweet and I like the hitpoint bar. When I now visit Zaff in Varrock click on the door to open and now get spammed with something I don't want to do, ftl.

[WolfieMario]

I actually think these updates were pretty good. I the dungeon maps! I also think the new splats blend really well in HD :thumbup:. I don't think the attack splat is too great, but I love the poison and disease splats. It's just that they're all a little harder to read. The HP bar will definitely take some time to get used to, but it's much better than the MS Paint failure they had before. It just doesn't blend in with the rest of the graphics. The chat filter idea's genius, too! \

 

But there's one problem: the updates scared the hell out of quite a few screenshot fakers :o

 

Why, you ask? Because of the one and only way Jagex will ever get rid of fakers: antialiasing :shock:

 

I had to go through the trouble of recreating the new splats practically from scratch! I haven't done the disease and poison splats yet, but for those who are interested, here's what I did manage to do:

 

 

It's funny how a small update like the splats can cause pandemonium on Sal's faking forum :o. Hopefully that'll hold for a while, but if Jagex decides to change them again... :x

 

Aside from the new complications in screenshot faking, though, I really liked the new updates. Although the minimap flag kinda annoys me <_<

 

 

 

They really should have fixed redbarring, and it wouldn't be too hard, either: just make one pixel of green stay in the bar until the monster's dead, regardless of % calculations. That's easy to do, all they need is an if-then, or they could just round up instead of down.

 

I also agree with the idea of distinguishing blocks and misses.

 

I also think it would be interesting to have a "heal splat", for when you use things that heal you, such as the SGS spec, but not for when you eat food. Previously they used a blue splat for healing, and that was only for the snowmen in Christmas '07. But they can't use a shield for that anymore, of course, so it would be interesting to have a new splat, even if it would only be seen by people using an SGS spec or something else besides food that heals.

 

 

 

kb is already updated for the hitpoints

 

 

 

http://www.runescape.com/kbase/viewarticle.ws?article_id=1945

 

 

 

edit: Also found this amusing:

 

 

Lol, the Chaos Tunnels continue to prove themselves worthy of the name

 

IMHO those HP bars would look a lot better without the dark outline it just stands out way to much.

 

 

They really should get rid of the line - it's a great idea

 

Funny how nobody ever complained about the line around skulls, though:

 

 

They should make it's lines a little brighter, black never blends. But the HP bars really need the lines removed! Actually, a friend of mine suggested they make the HP bars have antialiasing, like the new splats. I guess MS Paint-ers won't be doing combat fakes anymore :o

 

 

 

 

Maybe I should bring my hippie digger next time I visit Birmhaven.

 

Never did I expect the day that I would see something like that in RuneScape. I shall have nightmares for months :shock:

 

the new hitpoints bar and splats are downright ugly. they look like something out of a cartoon, making the game look even more unrealistic. it reminds me of pokemon...

 

 

 

Meh

 

You can start worrying when you hear continuous warning bells at 25% hp

 

That always annoyed the hell out of me. Ironically, in any other game that does it, I'd barely get to hear the sound before I'm already dead :?.

 

Hey, wait a second... Turn your volume up and get very low HP in RS: the heart icon starts flashing, and you hear a continuous heartbeat :o

 

I was trying to get all my combat stats up to 3 on Tutorial Island (you can't die), and I eventually just muted it because I was annoyed by the sound. So they do have a warning for it already. Panic mode = on :o

[Monkeybillio]

Lol at fakes and such. I liked this update. Old hp bar was ancient, and the new one is fine after you get used to it.

 

 

 

I think healing hitsplats would be awesome.

 

 

 

Good job Jagex, now more quests! :thumbup:

[WolfieMario]

Lol at fakes and such. I liked this update. Old hp bar was ancient, and the new one is fine after you get used to it.

 

 

 

I think healing hitsplats would be awesome.

 

 

 

Good job Jagex, now more quests! :thumbup:

 

Thanks, I'm definitely addicted to faking

 

 

 

Most my stats are nooby (thanks to major inactivity), but I am working on getting a 99:

 

 

Still a long way to go, though

 

 

 

What color do you think a heal splat should be? My friend said purple. I think white, or possibly Saradomin blue, would probably be good. I may actually try faking my own version of a healing splat soon

[warlordsagan]

Good job Jagex, now more Quality quests! :thumbup:

[aspeeder]

I'm loving the new hitpoints bar and hitsplats...Great stuff \

 

 

 

No, it looks awful. I mean the old one was basic, but this looks both generic and cheesy. I feel like I'm playing Mortal Kombat on my SNES with this crap.

 

Before it looked like coral was randomly appearing on the characters, at least the blood splat and shield have distinctive looks that tell you what happened, also poison looks freaking sweet : . New world map aint bad either, tbh these are patches but at least they are pretty and distracting patches to distract me till the next quest :? .

[wioneo]

the new hitpoints bar and splats are downright ugly. they look like something out of a cartoon, making the game look even more unrealistic. it reminds me of pokemon...

 

 

 

 

Maybe my knowledge of yellow evrsion is a bit outdated, but I don't rmemeber any health bars in pokeman games...other than the numbered ones thatw ere like black and white and completely dissimilar to the ones we have now...

 

 

 

I have a sneaking suspicion that a large number of runescape players are secretly trying to assimilate the game into pokeman :-k

 

 

 

or maybe not...

[Tidgy]

Deleted.

[brunokiller]

Selling spam filter.

 

 

 

[Lore]

the new hitpoints bar and splats are downright ugly. they look like something out of a cartoon, making the game look even more unrealistic. it reminds me of pokemon...

 

 

 

 

Maybe my knowledge of yellow evrsion is a bit outdated, but I don't rmemeber any health bars in pokeman games...other than the numbered ones thatw ere like black and white and completely dissimilar to the ones we have now...

 

 

 

I have a sneaking suspicion that a large number of runescape players are secretly trying to assimilate the game into pokeman :-k

 

 

 

or maybe not...

 

 

 

bah, why not..

 

a really well done pokemon mmorpg would be epic

 

 

 

Here's the style for comparison

 

 

 

 

mortal kombat

 

[Bauke]

The pokemon bar only looks the same in shape. The RS bar is better coloured and shaded. And now it would be a copy from pokemon only because of the shape? Right...

[joke33]

 

How's that for better shaded? (random google search ftw)

 

 

 

EDIT: Found something Jagex missed on my F2P skiller:

 

 

Yay Summoning is now F2P! \

[seandart301]

I'm loving the new hitpoints bar and hitsplats...Great stuff \

 

 

 

No, it looks awful. I mean the old one was basic, but this looks both generic and cheesy. I feel like I'm playing Mortal Kombat on my SNES with this crap.

 

 

 

what is wrong with you?

 

 

 

i mean seriously do u have a problem with the game actually gettting better? i hate people who have nothing better to do with their time so that when updates come out they bash them no matter what. Generic? How do u get more generic than a green block.... =D>

 

 

 

and the splats change although minor makes it look more polished, like Jagex had taken time with it instead of rushing. The bars are now bigger and more representative of how much hp is left so that helps too.

 

 

 

why would u even compare rs to other games what are u trying to prove? ppl say alot well rs now looks more like WoW hmm okay so Jagex should try to make a crappy game instead of a great looking and fun game like WoW. its a competition after all...

 

 

 

btw the old bars look more like SNES u idiot thats y they are so pixelated and sharp while new bars are smooth and more colorful.

 

 

 

tell u what why dont all u haters start bashing the GE system, the anti-RWT updates and all of the other recent graphical updates just because u hate change and progress, criticizing Jagex for trying to make a better game for YOU. :shame: gf

[The Observer]

I like the new looks of the damage splats and spam filter, and the dungeon maps are certainly something useful, considering I get lost a lot sometimes in dungeons and underground areas.

[Aeon_]

Woops.

[Kyle]

Funny how I was just thinking that the hp bars could use an update. I love it.

 

 

 

 

 

Its funny because I was just thinking how there are about 50,000 other things in rs that could use an update before the hp bar, which nobody seemed to have a problem with before.

[ddaanniiellh]

Funny how I was just thinking that the hp bars could use an update. I love it.

 

 

 

 

 

Its funny because I was just thinking how there are about 50,000 other things in rs that could use an update before the hp bar, which nobody seemed to have a problem with before.

 

Well, sure there is, but I'm sure there are people working on those things too, just that the first thing that was done was the HP bar, so it came out first. There will always be a team to work on graphics, if you removed that, well...then we should all go back to playing text based rpgs.

 

~Dan

[Ravenkana]

I must say that these updates are a bit... light. The spam filter and Hp bar update really were not needed in any way shape or form.

 

 

 

The dungeon maps are useful, particularly for new players, but the fact that some are not up yet slightly mars the update. Furthermore, those garish up and down arrows on my mini-map are driving me nuts.

 

 

 

This was not what I had in mind when I first heard upgrade year.