Our third Project Rebalance blog focuses on item adjustments and other combat changes. Project Rebalance: Combat and Item ChangesAnxiously eyeballing your Bank? Wondering what changes Project Rebalance will bring to your favourite bits of gear? Well, wonder no longer, because here’s the blog you’ve been waiting for! Today we’re talking buffs, debuffs, and other changes to various bits of combat gear – and just to round things out, we’ve also got some more combat changes for you. Before we move on, just like the last Project Rebalance blog, this one coincides with an Open Beta that ..read more

It’s time to see what’s next for Varlamore! With the launch of Varlamore Part One, you’re finally able to hop on your quetzal and explore the Shining Kingdom… well. One third of it, anyway. There are still two parts left in our biggest area expansion ever, and today we want to give you your first look at Varlamore Part Two. Before we get into it, we want to thank each and every one of you for taking the time to explore Varlamore! We’ve really enjoyed collaborating with you to bring the Shining Kingdom to life, and we can’t wait to do the same with Parts Two and Three. Please note we will ..read more

Those much-anticipated drop rates for Perilous Moons and the Colosseum are here! Along with more Varlamore tweaks and a peek at next week’s update. Perilous Moons & Colosseum Drop RatesPerilous Moons With every boss encounter comes the burning question: ‘What are the drop rates for the rewards?’ Well, the wait is over. We’re revealing the much-anticipated drop rates for the Perilous Moons bosses! Here’s what you need to know:   Defeating a Moons of Peril boss grants you a 1/56 chance to secure a random item from their exclusive drop table.   Blood Moon of Peril – 1/56 chance af ..read more

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13 March 2024 Welcome to the first of several bumper blogs about Project Rebalance! In December last year, we announced Project Rebalance, a massive Game Jam project which will flesh out progression for both skills and gear throughout your Old School adventure. Since this is such a huge project, you can look forward to several blogs on this topic – including all the details about NPC Defence adjustments, gear changes, and more. We plan to release further blogs in April to coincide with the hands-on Betas. Today though, we’re looking at some smaller, simpler tweaks to skillin ..read more

Today, we’re discussing God Alignments, the Rites of Balance & more… Later this year, we’ll bring back one of the most iconic RuneScape quests ever – While Guthix Sleeps! We’ll be adding plenty of Old School flair and flavour, while keeping all the best bits. Today, we want to start the conversation around one of the biggest new additions: God Alignment Prayers. Inspired by NinjaPig’s popular suggestion, these new Prayer sets will bestow special effects themed around their aligned deity. The first set, The Rites of Balance, will be your reward for completing the Old School version o ..read more

Dear ‘Scapers, It’s really happening… we’re absolutely ecstatic to share the first details of RuneFest 2024! Today we’ll be talking location, what to expect at the show, how and when to get tickets, and more. This news is hot off the press from our RuneFest First Details Livestream, so if you’d prefer, you can get the rundown from our past selves by clicking here for a link to the VOD. Otherwise – keep reading! What is RuneFest? RuneFest is a real-life celebration of all things RuneScape! It’s the ultimate IRL Gielinor-themed gathering, where thousands of players come tog ..read more

Things are getting extra wild in the Wilderness! Read on to find out more… In last month’s Winter Summit Greenlight poll, you said “Y’ARR!” to a new Wilderness hotspot at the Chaos Temple, featuring undead pirates, chaos druids, and a whole lot of PvP. Before we dive in to the Rewards side of things, here’s a tiny sneak peek from one of our test worlds. Shown below is a Pure making use of a Dwarven Multicannon to deliver swift justice to these pesky pirates. You’ll also notice that we’re looking to see how things play out with a southern land-bridge away from the Chaos Temple, allo ..read more

Over the past few days we’ve noticed a number of videos and screenshots purporting to show sneak peeks or previews of upcoming Varlamore gameplay. This isn’t true (mostly).Part of our playtesting efforts saw unreleased assets added to a version of the game cache. These included idle models, text descriptions, music tracks, and the world map. The videos and screenshots you saw were essentially comprised of the aforementioned assets from the game cache cobbled together for the purposes of market manipulation, namely for the Spectral Spirit Shield. The encounters you may have seen are nowhere ne ..read more

Following recent improvements to various pieces of Wilderness content, the discussion around bots and how we’re handling them has become an increasingly prevalent conversation. We know this topic is much bigger than Wilderness content, but with Undead Pirates on the horizon, we’d like to share information on what we’re doing to tackle these issues, as well as offer some insight into general improvements we’re making to provide some reassurance ahead of us talking about the update in more detail. Let us get straight into it with a hot topic – “why are we updating content for bot/gold farmers ..read more