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IGN Reports Divination As RuneScape’s New Skill

Ever since Jagex released RuneScape 2 in 2004, the developer has looked at making its skills more varied in use than simple gathering from nodes and production using those items. Skills like farming require patience and timing, construction is directly related to player owned housing, summoning brought in familiars, and dungeoneering opened a whole new area of the game’s lore. While skills normally release around two to three years apart, Jagex unveiled two new skills coming in 2013, without giving a whole lot of information surrounding them.

IGN has unveiled that the first skill will apparently be Divination.

Two new skills will also be added to the game; while one hasn’t been revealed, the other, divination, will apparently play a key role in the latter stages of RuneScape 3’s story.

Jagex recently shook up the RuneScape world by ushering it into the Sixth Age of the timeline. The god Guthix has been killed and with his death the edicts preventing the other deities from meddling in the world are gone as well. In the months and years to come, players will decide which god prevails.

(Source: IGN)

RuneScape Coming To Tablets This Year

RuneScape has some pretty massive updates coming this year, from two skills to an overhauled interface, the move to HTML5 as well as Jagex’s continued pledge to weekly content additions. In the past, Jagex has talked about the trouble of bringing RuneScape to consoles, particularly that Sony and Microsoft refuse to allow players to be on the same servers with their cross-console counterparts. Since then, Jagex has shifted focus mainly toward getting RuneScape on mobile platforms, and in a statement from Mark Gerhard, we will be seeing that sooner than we thought:

“We’re working insanely hard to make sure it’s ready for Q4 this year on tablets,” says Gerhard. “I think that’s a risk in that there’s a lot of unknowns, there’s a lot of R&D going on, and there’s still some tech questions, but right now the team is laser-focused on RuneScape 3.”

You can read the rest of Gerhard’s comments at the link below.

(Source: Gamasutra)

RuneScape Introduces Instanced Boss Battles

RuneScape’s economy runs partially on the idea that high level item drops from bosses don’t just require a good amount of time in order to obtain, but that the bosses are almost entirely open world, requiring players to compete with each other for the kill, and thus the loot. While most MMOs have moved over to a system where bosses are instanced and can be fought by players without the fear of being interrupted by others, developers like Jagex have held off from making the transition, generally citing either in-game economy or a desire for competition.

In an update released today, RuneScape will see the inclusion of instanced boss battles at the God Wars Dungeon. Players will have the option when entering a boss creature’s room to choose between the non-instanced, publicly accessible monster, or to enter their own instanced version complete with the ability to invite friends or clan members. That said, freedom isn’t free, and neither is your own private boss dungeon. If you want to kill a demon general without worrying about a clan crashing your game, you’re going to have to pony up some gold coins. Costs vary between bosses, and are paid on a per hour basis.

It will be interesting to see how the cost of using the instanced dungeons will balance the likelihood that more God Wars equipment will likely be entering market circulation. Instanced vs open world bosses is a big discussion in the MMO genre, with both sides fiercely defending their preferences.

Screenshots of RuneScape Interface Alpha

Jagex has launched the RuneScape New Interface alpha, and I’ve decided to dump a few screenshots I took to show just how customizable the interface is. Players will be happy to know that interfaces like the inventory and prayer tabs no longer need to be connected, but they can be if you prefer it that way. Just about every interface can be ripped from its base, moved around, conjoined, and resized. There are more interfaces that aren’t yet available, but we will have screenshots of them when they are. Also remember that this is a work in progress and subject to changes before the official release.

Click on each image to expand it.

RuneScape Now Translated Into Latin American Spanish

I’ll try not to embarrass myself too much on this post. Buenas dias, RuneScape players! Jagex has announced that RuneScape has been fully translated into Latin American Spanish, and that players can check out all that RuneScape has to offer in their native language. This marks the fifth official language translation that Jagex has added into the game, following German, French, and Brazilian Portuguese. Players are reminded that they are on the live version of RuneScape and any quests already completed cannot be rerun under the new language server.

(Source: RuneScape)

MMOrning Shots: HTML5 Demands

RuneScape’s HTML5 beta is well under way, and considering how different the game looks from its current implementation, I keep getting these nagging feelings that the screenshots I’m seeing are fake, even though I’m the one who took them!

OldScape’s Second Content Poll

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When Jagex announced the old school servers for RuneScape, they did so under a very clear promise: That the servers would be maintained with minor updates on a regular basis, depending on what the community voted for. Since then the plan has been unveiled for how the polls will work: Players are presented with a laundry list of update proposals based on forum feedback, and vote on each update individually. A poll must receive 75% approval otherwise it will be rejected.

The second content poll has ended and if you aren’t a member of the old school servers, odds are you have no idea what was in it. Players voted in approval to bring a free to play ruleset server, which is a little more complicated than it sounds. Old school RuneScape will still require a base RuneScape membership to play, but the server will act as a free to play server restricting members weapons/items. Many players prefer fighting with free to play rules because the combat is more simple and less varied. Players also voted in approval of an update to improve the game’s pathfinding code, allowing multiple players to use the same agility obstacles, official themed worlds, trade chat, and spell queueing.

Interestingly enough, players voted against an update that would allow them to rotate the camera while holding down the middle mouse button (63%), allowing players to queue for a world if it is full (70%), and allowing players to complete the Monkey Madness quest without gaining defense experience (61%).

Finally, wasting no time, Jagex has uploaded the third content poll for Old School RuneScape. The first question asks if players would like rare items to return in some form (currently at 85% approval) while the second asks whether or not the tradeable rares should remain tradeable (currently at 75%). The second content poll runs until April 17th.

OldScape's Second Content Poll

Reminder: School Shooting Threats Are Illegal

There is a special level of stupid that describes a person who thinks that it’s funny to make public threats to shoot/bomb a school, whether they make them in offhand comments on online games or actually contact the school via phone/online/mail to make the threat. Eventually you have to ask yourself how many people need to be arrested and charged with making a threat before the other idiots get the clue and keep their unique sense of humor private.

I don’t know when that will happen, but I do know that 18-year old Thomas Frongillo of North Oxford has likely ruined his chances at a decent career. According to Telegram, Frongillo was arrested after he allegedly made the comment “I’m shooting up my school tomorrow” on the online game RuneScape. The incident was reported to Jagex by players, who presumably used Frongillo’s account information to identify him, and the evidence was sent to Oxford police, who in turn alerted the campus police. The transcript also included anti-Semitic comments and Frongillo drawing a swastika in-game.

Frongillo has been arrested and charged with threatening to commit a crime and threatening a bombing or hijacking. The kicker in this story? Frongillo is in the police academy studying criminal justice. According to Frongillo’s defense attorney, the comment was “a harmless jest,” and was not meant to be taken seriously.

What is it about RuneScape and real world violence?

(Source: Telegram)

Jagex Unveils RuneScape 3

We’ve known about a next generation RuneScape for quite a while now. What we know so far is that RuneScape 3 will be a continuation of RuneScape 2, where the current game will cease to exist and players (and their characters) will be fully transferred to the new system. RuneScape 3 will also bring with it better graphics, powered by HTML5 and a fully orchestrated soundtrack.

We will have more details about RuneScape 3 as Jagex hands them out.

(spoiler alert)

With the recent release of The World Wakes, Jagex released a quest to set up where the future of RuneScape will head. Guthix is dead and his edicts banishing the gods from Gielinor have been destroyed. Followers of all of the gods are making preparations for the return of their deity, and undoubtedly Jagex’s MMO is about to plunge into a planet-shattering war.

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