Future Update Discussions

[Binary Mage]

Thought this might deserve its own special post:

 

"Divination will be mid/late August."

 

He later goes on to say "four weeks from now".

 

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[Jon Arcane]

Hah! Probably when I go to Cambridge for the week too!

[Sy_Accursed]

Thought this might deserve its own special post:

 

"Divination will be mid/late August."

 

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Old news is old.

 

Rs3 launch date news post told us it'd be 'about a month' after rs3.

[kamil1210]

Jagex has no plans to increase or decrease the scope of the SoF or Solomon's Store.

- nothing new

 

 

Next big Sixth Age quest is three weeks away--and there will be "lots more" quests before the end of the year.

- cool

 

 

The have two to three years worth of World Event and Sixth Age lore content "penciled in", but so much of it depends on the outcome of World Events that they don't have it set in stone yet.

- impressive

 

 

There is ongoing debate between the Eastern Lands and Prifddinas right now. I imagine this means which one will be developed first, as they both have enormous graphics/programming budgets

- prif plz

 

 

"Remember, we've got a Construction Rework coming later this year"

- yea, cool

 

 

Battle of Lumbridge was intended to be a more focused battle than the usual world event, so a 1v1 made sense. Other gods will have their time in the spotlight.

- "BoL Will be great world event" - "Battle of Lumbridge was intended to be a more focused battle than the usual world event" -- jagex...

 

 

God Emissary choice will play a part in a lot of future content, just not the Battle of Lumbridge for right now.

- ok but this is big let down

 

 

Tablet version of Runescape is under development

- i'm waiting

 

 

Summoning rework is not likely to be this year--more likely next year.

- meh

 

 

They are considering increasing the scale of the game world, but it is very unlikely because it would require a massive amount of work that would be better put towards new content.

- polished content (bigger world) - more content

 

 

There will be a RSOF post about NIS issues coming shortly today. There will be a system update every day or two this week, and every two or three days next week in order to get all of the bugs worked out.

- nice

 

 

Mod Pips regrets that fact that the RS3 delay caused the early Summer to have so few updates--it was not intended.

- i'm sad too :(

 

 

All of the World Events will be "very different in theme, scale and function."

- that is great news

 

 

When asked if there would be a Runescape mobile game (not the mobile version of RS) or other external game set in the Runescape universe (a la Armies of Gielinor), Pips replied a quite interesting "Maybe ;)"

- meh

 

 

"Yup, we already announced Divination was 4 weeks after RS3 release." "Mid/late August"

- waiting...

 

 

The Battle of Lumbridge will evolve over the weeks to come, with new gameplay and rewards.

- very interesting

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[Krampell]

I wonder how the other gods will play their part in all of this.

[J35u5_M4]

Lol at the balance team, c'mon... There are still a few odd things about EoC, specially regarding 2h equipment of the same tier of different style, like how T90 melee 2H shows different dmg than a T90 magic 2H weapon :/

[Kimberly]

Rs3 launch date news post told us it'd be 'about a month' after rs3.

 

Any news older than a month as of late ends up being very risky to accept as truth, what with all the push backs they end up having to do in order to ensure a somewhat stable release.

[Riptide Mage]

• There will be a RSOF post about NIS issues coming shortly today. There will be a system update every day or two this week, and every two or three days next week in order to get all of the bugs worked out.
  

 

Why even have beta tests if they don't actually use them for testing? This should have occured during the beta test, not once the update went live.

[Binary Mage]

• There will be a RSOF post about NIS issues coming shortly today. There will be a system update every day or two this week, and every two or three days next week in order to get all of the bugs worked out.
  

 

Why even have beta tests if they don't actually use them for testing? This should have occured during the beta test, not once the update went live.

 

They do--the issue is that many, many more bugs pop up when you have something being used by the general public. There was a lot of serious bugs that were found and solved during the NIS beta, the number that we are seeing now is tiny compared to that.

 

A countless number of things can go wrong between a beta test and live release, alongside things that were missed by the beta testers. You see this in pretty much any game that has a beta testing environment in some shape or form--it's not a fault on Jagex's part.

 

 

In other news, the Mod Pips AMAA is now over. Feel free to check my post on the previous page for the final listing.

[Sylpheed]

Basically what the above said. A lot of people fail to realise that a Beta is only tested internally by a handful of staff members. When you compare that to the tens of thousands of people that play the same content, it's unrealistic to expect it to run perfectly.

[Binary Mage]

Basically what the above said. A lot of people fail to realise that a Beta is only tested internally by a handful of staff members. When you compare that to the tens of thousands of people that play the same content, it's unrealistic to expect it to run perfectly.

 

I believe he was talking about the NIS beta--which had been in closed beta testing with a few thousand players for months now, with an open beta in the past few weeks. Same idea, and same reason as to why the bugs slipped through, but it has definitely been tested by more people than just Jagex staff :P If it had, many many more severe bugs would probably had made their way to the live release.

 

 

 

 

Lots of news today! There is a big front-page post about the RS3 Launch and future updates to it. Read it for the full details about upcoming tweaks to the Battle of Lumbridge and NIS. They also mention that next week's August BTS will feature the next Sixth Age Quest, Divination, and a reworked Loyalty Rewards Program. :D

[strilmus]

yeah, i have to say that even with the things popping around and going nuts, this is largely more playable than the previous builds

 

that being said they were kinda lazy releasing fixed beta builds because i could clearly make out builds that had the more obvious glitches fixed in a bunch of the bts vids leading up to the release

 

the most frustrating thing about the testing was constantly running into things that shouldn't have made it past alpha though

[Kimberly]

Basically what the above said. A lot of people fail to realise that a Beta is only tested internally by a handful of staff members. When you compare that to the tens of thousands of people that play the same content, it's unrealistic to expect it to run perfectly.

 

Except Riptide was referencing the NIS, which was in a very long beta testing period.

 

That isn't to say I really agree with him. NIS alpha & beta actually fixed a lot of game-breaking glitches, such as the time you could equip multiple armor pieces or something along those lines. There were a lot of small to medium sized updates released on a regular basis.

 

What I have a slightly more difficult time understanding is why they didn't start out with known issues from the get-go. I'm sure there's some reason for it, but in all honesty it's not a big deal so long as the remaining little things (hi, "hide" global chat, clickthrough chatboxes, etc) are addressed soon.

 

Edit:

Lots of news today! There is a big front-page post about the RS3 Launch and future updates to it.

 

Well that explains the above question, heh!

[Riptide Mage]

Basically what the above said. A lot of people fail to realise that a Beta is only tested internally by a handful of staff members. When you compare that to the tens of thousands of people that play the same content, it's unrealistic to expect it to run perfectly.

 

Except Riptide was referencing the NIS, which was in a very long beta testing period.

 

That isn't to say I really agree with him. NIS alpha & beta actually fixed a lot of game-breaking glitches, such as the time you could equip multiple armor pieces or something along those lines. There were a lot of small to medium sized updates released on a regular basis.

 

 

The "final" build that went live with RS3 was never tested by players, and I don't think there were any updates to the NIS beta the entire month of July.

[Wkw]

YES! THANK GOD!

 

I'm glad they are addressing smaller screen sizes.. Because I hope that by doing that, they change fixed to something that was the same size as it was before, minus those stupid buttons at the top

[Tansuo]

They will be overhauling the Quest Log, Bank, and GE interfaces to fit the NIS in the coming months.

 

MFW.

[Binary Mage]

They will be overhauling the Quest Log, Bank, and GE interfaces to fit the NIS in the coming months.

 

MFW.

 

I think we will be seeing some changes sooner than you'd expect--the main thing is that it will be a constant improvement.

 

Maybe I should've used "over the coming months" in that context. Hmm..

[Kimberly]

Maybe I should've used "over the coming months" in that context. Hmm..

 

I think it wouldn't matter how it was phrased. Put the word months in there, and people become terrified, especially since waiting for updates is not big a stretch of the imagination. :P

 

I'm not too worried though. This battle of lumbridge stuff has me so preoccupied I barely have any time to go do anything else with how slow the collection rate of tears and fragments are...

[Sylpheed]

Basically what the above said. A lot of people fail to realise that a Beta is only tested internally by a handful of staff members. When you compare that to the tens of thousands of people that play the same content, it's unrealistic to expect it to run perfectly.

 

Except Riptide was referencing the NIS, which was in a very long beta testing period.

 

That isn't to say I really agree with him. NIS alpha & beta actually fixed a lot of game-breaking glitches, such as the time you could equip multiple armor pieces or something along those lines. There were a lot of small to medium sized updates released on a regular basis.

 

What I have a slightly more difficult time understanding is why they didn't start out with known issues from the get-go. I'm sure there's some reason for it, but in all honesty it's not a big deal so long as the remaining little things (hi, "hide" global chat, clickthrough chatboxes, etc) are addressed soon.

 

Edit:

Lots of news today! There is a big front-page post about the RS3 Launch and future updates to it.

 

Well that explains the above question, heh!

 

Even so, the amount of players that actually log into a Beta and actually play it for prolonged periods of time is minute in comparison to the live game.

 

It's the reason why EoC was released so prematurely - people simply weren't logging into the Beta in high enough numbers, and even when they were, it was for irrelevant purposes.

[Sy_Accursed]

Best party of the AMAA for me was the all-but confirmation that con rework later this year includes the street/village concept mentioned a while back to do with clans/friends combining forces.

 

I'm curious to see how it will be fully implemented imo to be truly awesome it kinda needs 3 core features to be true:

1) More skill related rooms available to player homes BUT you cannot build them all in one house (or atleast there is some sort of 'theme' bonus whereby if you only have rooms from a certain theme they get a boost)

2) Friends/clanmates on your street/village houses are open to you at all times\

3) Extra plots between the houses where you can build 'community projects' (that cannot be built solo) and maintain them to have some shops or a chapel or a bank or w/e

 

All 3 would actively encourage working together for actual benefit.

[Urza285]

Ideally because players want villages I would suspect some kind of citadel like mechanic were upkeeps might need to be met for commutative rewards such as larger farming plots, etc.

[Platinum_Myr]

Ideally because players want villages I would suspect some kind of citadel like mechanic were upkeeps might need to be met for commutative rewards such as larger farming plots, etc.

 

As long as it's not as poorly implemented as citadel.. (I *hate* how the locking system makes it easy for ignorant people to screw up on accident and it's confusing enough to explain to people who don't care that much)

 

It has a lot of promise though.

[Urza285]

Ideally because players want villages I would suspect some kind of citadel like mechanic were upkeeps might need to be met for commutative rewards such as larger farming plots, etc.

 

As long as it's not as poorly implemented as citadel.. (I *hate* how the locking system makes it easy for ignorant people to screw up on accident and it's confusing enough to explain to people who don't care that much)

 

It has a lot of promise though.

Every concept jagex brings up does... They just seem to water it down enough to ruin it or at least ding it up enough for players to say "wth?"

[Binary Mage]

Jagex has released the Divination Skillcape Poll!

 

Our first glimpse of the Divination logo, too! It's an atom-ish shape! This is very exciting. I personally like the fourth one in, but that's just me :P

[Jon Arcane]

I agree with the 4th one. Can't wait for this skill, I think it's meant to have a connection with the anima mundi, can't remember properly, but it would be cool to see how that will be incorporated with ongoing and new quests and also the world events.