Nob 19 Your Community Features

[Wkw]

Your Community Features

After trawling the forums, fan sites and the great wide internet for requests from the community, we've put together a package of improvements, many of which focus on improving the social side of RuneScape. The updates listed below will help you to interact with your friends, adventure alongside them and show off your accomplishments - your way.

Social Updates

• Beams of light now highlight drops worth 1 million or more, as well as certain rare untradeable drops such as clue scrolls and effigies. The more valuable the drop, the more awe-inspiring the beam looks!
• You'll now find a 'notes' function in your Friends and Ignore lists, helping you to keep track of who's who.
• We've added a new animation for your character, displayed when you log in.
• Many of the older emote animations have been improved.
• Members can now wear Loyalty Programme outfits on free-to-play worlds.
• Max and Completionist capes are no longer unequipped when you log onto a free-to-play world.
• A greater variety of drops and accomplishments are now announced on your Adventurer's Log, and in friends and global announcements.
• There's a new 'broadcast' filter in the main chat tab. This will allow you to see server broadcasts (such as 99 skill announcements) even if your game messaging is filtered or switched off entirely.
• Fireworks are now displayed for every 10 million XP you earn in a skill after reaching level 99.
• There are now 'hide' options for every equipment slot in the Wardrobe interface.
• There's a new 'Trade and Assistance' chat tab.
• You can now enter sinkholes while wearing the ring of kinship or the Daemonheim aura. Note that you can't teleport out of a sinkhole by using these.

We've also included a bumper batch of your most sought-after usability updates:

Usability Updates

• You can now drag and drop items onto each other to use them together, rather than having to right-click, select 'use' and then click the other.
• Food burned while cooking in Daemonheim now stacks.
• It's now possible to toggle off the quick inventory slots.
• Removing all items that you're wearing via the icon in your bank will no longer remove active auras.
• Bonus XP is now shown in the tooltip displayed when you hover over an XP progress circle, and beneath your XP total.
• Key binds (the 1-3 keys) have been added to the conversion interface used while training Divination.
• The text displayed on successful wasteless smithing is now orange.
• Familiar options will be shown in banks, even when they're toggled off.
• You can now right-click the Daemonheim smuggler and click 'collect' to receive runes. Also, if you've bound a potion, you'll get it on entering a dungeon.
• There's a new 'fill' option on the gem bag.

Please note: the Coinshare update mentioned in Mod Mark's most recent Behind the Scenes article is coming next week. We've held it back for technical reasons, to ensure it's ready for release.

Each of the above is something that we've seen requested frequently, and we've delivered them with the aim of making RuneScape the game that you want to play. We'll be releasing more batches like this in the future, and we need to know your thoughts. Do you like these feedback-focused update weeks? If so, what improvements - or kind of improvements - would you like to see in the future? Mod Ryan has made a thread for you to put forward your ideas, so visit the forums now to have your say.

Enjoy!

The RuneScape Team

 

Patch Notes

 

 

Graphical:

• Gaze auras applied via the Customisation interface will now consistently display on the player.
• Making pyre ships now displays the correct woodcutting hatchet, and uses smoother animations.
• A small stretching issue with the female mummy chathead has been corrected.
• Sweeping using a broomstick can now be done whilst walking.
• The envoy of chaos legs no longer show the incorrect skin colour on females.
• Some clipping issues on the ambassador of order robes have been fixed.
• Particle effects have been added to the sheathed drakewing staff.
• The Nature Spirit bridge jump animation will no longer play twice per use.
• An idle floating animation has been added to objects within the player's memory in the Birthright of the Dwarves quest.

 

Skills, D&Ds & Minigames:

• Portents of life no longer work within Clan Wars.
• The Clan Wars caller icon no longer remains on screen when leaving Clan Wars.

 

Quests, Challenges & Achievements:

• The Naragi homeland has been added to the Fairy ring network using code AIS after the player has completed the relevant section of The World Wakes.
• The Nature Spirit quest has received some minor gameplay improvements, including Filliman recognizing items in your inventory, and one time only teleports offered by Drezel.
• The witch in Draynor manor is now named Helda and, by player request, has adopted Lensig's former cat, Maemi.

 

Other:

• Tthe spelling of "bowstring" has been made consistent throughout the game.
• The grammar on the examine text of the celestial catalytic orb has been corrected.
• Players no longer receive a "Nothing interesting happens" message when trying to create a summoning potion by using a spirit weed potion on a cockatrice egg.
• Arhein now prompts players to enter their bank pin before purchasing seaweed.
• Ganodermic creatures no longer display a positive effect when having neem oil sprinkled on them.
• A force walk spot in Lumbridge has now been fixed.
• The term "Tool belt" is now used consistently on the equipped items interface.
• The drop rate of sirenic scales has been significantly improved for all monsters that are capable of dropping them.
• Chaos giants have had their drop tables rebalanced.

 

 

[Urza285]

Someone want to post pics of the Naragi homeworld? Go to AIS and have fun.

[Kimberly]

Locking this since Ambler's topic was posted first. Sorry, Wkw! :(

 

Please direct all discussion on this update to the following topic: http://forum.tip.it/topic/322122-your-community-features-19112013/