04-Oct-2011

Daggo · « **on:** October 04, 2011, 15:38:25 »

Today sees the release of a myriad of much-requested technical updates that’ll streamline your RuneScape experience.

The RuneScape chat system has served us well, but it’s high time for an overhaul. The old, familiar chat box has been reworked in order to bring you a range of new features:

- All messages, no matter the source, will now automatically wrap if they’re too long.
- This also means that you can type longer messages. The entry line of the chat box will scroll left and right with the cursor.
- Private messages are now entered into the chat box, just like public messages.
- You no longer need to enter multiple forward slashes to denote a message as a friends’ chat message or a clan chat message. It is now possible to move between persistent chat modes by entering one of the following codes and pressing Enter or Space:

/p – Public chat
/f – Friends chat
/c – Clan chat
/g – Guest clan chat

Visit the manual for full details of the newly revamped chat box.

It is now possible to control the camera by holding down your middle mouse button or mouse wheel; rotating through a full 360 degrees of motion and pitching in and out by simply moving the mouse. Traverse and admire Gielinor with seamless ease!

A new button has been added to the “Options” menu entitled “Adventurer’s log settings”. This allows you to select which categories of in-game activity you wish to display on your adventurer’s log and which you would rather keep to yourself.

The Wise Old Man’s no stickler for the obsolete trappings of yesteryear and readily embraces new innovations as he helps players to maintain an uncluttered storage area. His service of scanning banks for unneeded quest items from all free-to-play quests, as well as selected members’ quests, is now performed through a slick, tidy new interface.

RuneScape looks and feels better than ever before, but your feedback is essential in our continued efforts to improve the game. If there’s a new feature you’d like to see implemented, please post it in our suggestions forum.

The RuneScape Team

In other news...

- Rangers should listen out for a complete rework of ranged combat sounds, including samples of real bows and crossbows being drawn and the hefty thwacks of projectiles hitting their targets. There are also all-new sound effects for enchanted bolts and ranged special attacks.

- A number of improvements have been made to Temple Trekking:

Players will now receive 25 Ghastly Attack scrolls instead of 15.
Attacking an enemy that is fighting your companion will now pull threat away from him/her.
"Hard" companions now receive slightly more experience for completing an event.
Ranger and mage companions’ accuracy has been increased.
Trekkers will now eat at below 50% health instead of 25%.

- The tome of frost reward from Dungeoneering now reduces the amount of damage you receive from being dehydrated in the desert.

- Demons in Daemonheim now drop impious, accursed and infernal ashes.

- Anvils across RuneScape have been given a "smith" option, and can now be used by left-clicking on them.

- The completionist cape has been given the following:

The enchanted bonesack teleport.
An option to manually set its colours.
An option to give it the functions of a spirit cape.
A longer particle trail.

Source.

Rune · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2011, 15:38:39 »

I think it's a rather good chat update, I specially like "All messages, no matter the source, will now automatically wrap if they’re too long."

Minz · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2011, 15:40:40 »

Oh look, finally got the WoW chat system in RS.

Camera sounds fun though.

Redtunnel · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2011, 16:52:37 »

I'm not too fond of the chat changes, yet. I guess it takes some time to get used to, but right now I'm too used to switching back to public by clicking the "all" tab. I kind of fish sending private messages was still as graphically clear too

Redtunnel · « **Reply #4 on:** October 04, 2011, 16:54:08 »

Also, yesterday's hidden update may interest some:

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Yesterday we made a small but necessary update to the high alchemy value of nature runes. The price of the nature runes was at a level where it was possible to buy them and alch them for a profit. This obviously had an impact on other items you would commonly alch for a profit and meant that as soon as you reached level 55 in Magic you could buy a few nature runes, alch them and then use the profits to buy more.

Effectively this meant that you could level all the way up to 200 million XP in magic for no cost (in fact for a profit) which is not how the skill is intended to work.

To maintain the value of having level 99 magic and the value of commonly alched items (such as Yew longbows or Mithril platebodies) we felt this quick solution was necessary.

Thanks,

Mat

Joel · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2011, 18:09:04 »

I thought you couldn't alch runes? :S

Inzainiac · « **Reply #6 on:** October 05, 2011, 13:47:43 »

I like the updates. I'm still in the process of getting used to the new camera control, but I still think I'll use the arrow keys for the fact that I'm just too used to them.

The new chats look pretty sleek in my opinion; I like how I now have the option to see Public Chat while my text will go elsewhere. I also like how I can see Public Chat while talking to somebody with Private.

Lie · « **Reply #7 on:** October 05, 2011, 17:53:34 »

I still use the normal //'s for clan chat, just because that's what I'm used to.

I like the camera angle thing, it's pretty handy.

Cam · « **Reply #8 on:** October 05, 2011, 18:34:50 »

Quote from: Lie on October 05, 2011, 17:53:34

I still use the normal //'s for clan chat, just because that's what I'm used to.

Same lol

I'll think I'll stick to arrow keys too, since I'm so used to them. Besides, using the scrolling wheel in the middle makes it difficult to left click normally for me. D:

Minz · « **Reply #9 on:** October 05, 2011, 18:37:05 »

Only difference for me is I keep sending the wrong people the wrong private messages

Scarlett · « **Reply #10 on:** October 06, 2011, 01:58:28 »

Not so fond of the wrapping because we can only have three words be wrapped automatically. Guess it's better than nothing since wrapping too many words automatically would make it easier for spammers.

Zaros · « **Reply #11 on:** October 08, 2011, 20:40:22 »

Yay i can now have a seizure via mouse wheel.

!!

04-Oct-2011 - Chat Changes & Camera Controls

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