Patch notes/Aug 19 2024

Update from Aug 19 2024

This update implements necessary combat rebalancing including weapon strength adjustments, Corp buffs, and blood spell nerfs, while also introducing exciting new features such as the Say Your Prayers event, four new talents, and numerous cosmetic additions. The update also relocates the World Boss Arena to an instanced area for improved performance and anti-alt measures.

Necessary rebalancing

• Corp's core hits harder and is immune to porcupine damage
• Corp and the core have had a bit of a stat boost and so will have higher attack and defence stats
• Draining strikes has a 3 tick cooldown
• Treasure goblins will no longer drop $25 and $50 bonds, as these were coming into the game far more frequently than intended
• Gem shields were too strong with their strength stats. They've had the strength lowered, and the defences buffed to compensate
• Blood spells have been knocked down to 5% of damage, bringing focus more back to upgrading gear and talents (don't forget the food eating talents), instead of heal-tanking everything with blood spells
• The vote boss was set to spawn every 100 votes expecting 200 players online. Now it's 200 votes
• Sages axe max hit has a 2t cooldown so long death animations can't be abused for massive XP drops

Rebalancing of strength stats

The way that attack speed affects strength stats for tiered gear has changed to be linear.

For example:

• 4 tick weapons have the base strength stat unchanged
• 2 tick weapons have the strength stat halved
• 8 tick weapons have the strength stat doubled

Previously this was tuned such that the faster your weapon was, the better it was going to be for DPS, flat out. This meant that a lot of weapon choices just weren't really viable. This should even out the playing field a bit.

On top of this, the accuracy + strength of the blowpipe and wands have been reduced slightly to bring them more in line with competing equivalent weapons.

World Boss Arena

This has been moved to a world instance, which means:

• Drops will auto go to the bank
• You won't be able to take alts into the instance
• It should be more performant than having it out in the world for a few internal engine reasons

Say Your Prayers event

We've added a new event where it's a survival of the fittest with pray flicking jad attacks.

NOTE: there's some issues with rendering the ranged jad projectile, but you can see the stomp animation which should be the warning you need to pray ranged.

There are a few details about how this event works, but I'll get more in depth into the details in the future. For now, we're adding it into the game to be able to run some initial testing with it.

New talents

Armature Prodigy: T2 Utility

Equip armour at a lower level requirement. NOTE: This affects head, cape, chest, offhand, legs, and feet slots.

Charged Preservation: T3 Utility

Chance to not consume a charge when using items that require charges.

Bonfires: T4 Skilling

Gain the ability to be able to add logs to an existing fire.

Firebender: T4 PVM

Chance to Burn your target in combat, dealing damage immediately, scaling with your firemaking level.

New cosmetics

The Cosmetic Mystery Box has been added into the vote and donator cosmetic stores.

Also, the samurai outfit, and infinite money bag has been added into the vote store.

Chat Broadcasting

This isn't a full filtering system, but I've removed the level up broadcasts and prestige broadcasts completely, apart from when a player reaches the max prestige rank for their game mode.

Bug fixes

• Splashing, a mechanic which makes sense in a game where accuracy rolls exist, no longer gives you XP
• Leaving the Gmaul spec on while you have no spec energy will no longer keep you attacking every tick
• Platinum tokens value has been set to 1mil instead of being the OSRS 1k value