The Gazette is back and better than ever! Hello, and welcome back to the Gielinor Gazette! We’ve been on hiatus for a few months, as we were busy behind the scenes working on a new format for this ~iconic~ monthly newsletter. Don’t worry, we’re still packed to the brim with all the content updates, developer insights, and general silliness you know and love – in a new format! As of today, we’ll be cycling between the Gielinor Gazette and the Community Showcase each month, instead of piling on all that info at once. We want the Gazettes to feel impactful and bring you all the news you want to ..read more

Anyone looking to participate and chill during Deadman Armageddon can join the Official Deadman Discord https://discord.gg/deadman ..read more

Automatic quest unlocks Finally, players will automatically unlock certain quests as they move through the combat brackets, which are listed below. Starting with the second bracket, players will also be given the choice between two smaller lists of quests upon entering a new bracket, of which they can unlock one. It is not required to have picked the partial set of quests from a storyline in order to choose the complete storyline later on. On entering a new bracket, players can pick which storyline they would like to unlock at a time of their own choosing. No experience is received in the ..read more

Combat Bracket Worlds Separating worlds based on Combat levels has been somewhat divisive in the past. On the one hand, it gives players more reasons to try out Limited builds like Pures or Zerks, and gives more casual players a little more breathing room. On the other, some players argue that it spreads players too thin or that people ‘hide’ in lower brackets until the very end of the event, where they’ll quickly level up to the highest bracket to avoid competition.   To combat this issue, we designed Deadman: Apocalypse’s brackets so that higher Combat level worlds had higher drop rate ..read more

Pre-weekend Beta Update – Friday, June 28th This is just a quick note to say that we’ve made two hotfixes to the ongoing Open Beta worlds. The first of these hotfixes means that Stamina Potions are now working as-intended on these worlds, where they weren’t properly reducing the ‘weight-dependent’ component of Energy drain on the initial launch of the beta. The second hotfix significantly reduces the Drain Rate at higher Weights, for the purposes of further testing over the weekend! Jump in and let us know if you can notice the difference and how it compares to the live game Note that this is ..read more

Arachnophobes beware… our latest boss has eight legs and a whole lot of scares to share! Araxxor, the Araxyte If you can’t see the video, click here. If that title sounds familiar, you’ve either been around a really long while, or you happen to play RuneScape, too. The arachnoid antagonist arrived in our sister game almost a decade ago, where he resides in the aptly-named Araxyte Hive beneath the Haunted Woods. That’s where the similarities end, we’re afraid: this is not a backport of the RuneScape boss. We’ve given the ol’ cobbler’s nightmare an all-new, Old School ..read more

Deadman Maingame Cosmetic RewardsEver since we made cosmetic rewards available through Leagues, you’ve been clamouring to see them in Deadman Mode, too.   This year, we’re looking to make this a reality by offering up a variety of cosmetics to appeal to PvP veterans and novices alike.   Incidentally, we already have a handful of items with unique appearances in the form of the Corrupted Weaponry – obtainable variants of powerhouses like the Dragon Claws, Voidwaker, and even the Twisted Bow. We’d like to allow players to purchase tradeable main game kits using Points accumul ..read more

https://discord.gg/deadman ???? Save the date! Deadman: Armageddon begins July 19th! Old School's most brutal game mode will make a return, building on the success of Deadman: Apocalypse. ???? We'll be sharing more info about the main event soon. In the mean time: good luck getting those days off work! pic.twitter.com/qdFTni0XLL — Old School RuneScape (@OldSchoolRS) May 17, 2024 https://discord.gg/deadman The post Save the date – Deadman Armageddon begins July 19th – OSRS appeared first on Old School Runescape Guides ..read more

Table of Contents Sailing Development Structure Navigation (Milestone 1) Sailing and Islands   Ahoy there! We’re thrilled to be sharing a much-awaited progress update on Sailing, Old School RuneScape’s first new skill. The team have been busy implementing navigation, making player boats move seamlessly through Gielinor’s open ocean. Admittedly, this part of the project has taken longer than we initially expected. We’ve encountered various technical obstacles that had to be overcome. While we waited, we used our time to get ahead of our later milestones, including rewards and islands. Th ..read more

We’re back from our fifth annual Game Jam with a BIG Project Rebalance update! If you’d like to learn more about what we worked on during our Game Jam, you can check out this Wiki page or take a look at #OSRSGameJam on X. Project Rebalance: Skilling Changes  As you may have gathered from the massive list of patch notes above, this week’s update marks the first set of Project Rebalance updates.   We shan’t repeat the massive list of patch notes or our previous blogs on the topic, which can be found here and here.   We would, however, like to make it cle ..read more