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Hello everyone,
Note(January 15): We have pushed a small, quick update to fix a few issues this morning. It is posted below!
Make sure to take advantage of the 1.5x XP, Vote points, PKP and Barrows points event happening right now for the weekend!
Today's update includes the highly anticipated Ultimate ironman mode for those who are craving a more challenging style of gameplay! This mode also includes its respective highscores tab to keep track of the top players.
[Quick fixes (January 15)]
- Miscellaneous:
- Items on ground timer reset to normal for the time being
- Imbued heart was giving 1 extra Magic level, this has been fixed.
- Fixed Mage arena shop, can now sell back as intended
- Superior slayer encounters will no longer attack other players
- Fixed issue with superiors spawning on objects
- Items that an NPC always drops will no longer be announced on the rare drop yell
- Highscores:
- Highscores were still displaying banned members on the skill pages, this has been fixed.
- Highscores search function has also been implemented! (also fixed the black text for the search box)
[Full update (January 14)]
- Thermonuclear smoke devil changes:
- It is now counted as a boss and will show you your killcount after every kill // announce to the world after certain #
- Respawn time decreased by 200%
- You are now able to kill these even if you are assigned a regular "Smoke devil" task
- Bank changes:
- Your bank will now re-open to the last tab you were viewing (while logged in)
- Fixed issue where you could not swap items in your bank if the size of your bank was too large
- Fixed examine text
- Superior Slayer tasks have been added:
- You will now have the chance to face a Superior Slayer encounter while completing your Slayer tasks!
- These superior versions of your task may provide a greater challenge, but will drop 3 times the loot!
- The loot from these superior version is enhanced vs. the normal version
- You also have the chance to receive an imbued heart!
- The chance to face a Superior on a task is 5% for regular players, and these rates for donators:
- (You may not receive two encounters within 3 minutes of each other)
- 9.0% for Legendary
- 7.6% for Extreme
- 6.6% for Super
- 6.0% for Regular
- Superiors available:
- Crushing hand, Chasm crawler, Screaming banshee,
- Screaming twisted banshee, Cockathrice, Flaming pyrelord, Monstrous basilisk,
- Malevolent mage, Insatiable bloodveld, Cave abomination, Abhorrent spectre, Choke devil,
- King kurask, Marble gargoyle, Night beast, Greater abyssal demon
- **Superiors are currently available to all players for free, although within the next week they may have to be unlocked for Slayer points. **
- Fixed many broken npc animations in the process of doing superiors:
- Pyrefiends
- Crawling hands
- Dust devils
- Bloodvelds
- Banshees
- *NOTE: You must be wearing a Slayer helmet or earmuffs when fighting banshees, or you will have your stats reduced.
- Imbued heart:
- A rare, tradable drop from Superior encounters
- Temporarily boosts your Magic level between 2-10, depending on your base level
- This will not work in the Duel arena if the "No potions" rule is on.
- The imbued heart is also available through the web store
- Duel fixes:
- Removing/adding items to the stake interface will now "unaccept" the duel and you'll have to accept again
- It will also send a chatbox message stating that items were removed or added to the duel.
- Clue scroll reward changes:
- Junk is now much more rewarding from higher-end clues, as well as slightly more rewarding from easy clues.
- Broken amulets (emerald, sapphire, etc) from clues have been fixed.
- Miscellaneous:
- Fixed Monkey Madness quest not completing properly
- Fixed Shooting star bug when server restarts
- Friend "smiley faces" will no longer appear in the default clan chats(help/ironman/gamble)
- This is to provide more visibility for ranked members.
- Thermonuclear smoke devil -> Thermo smoke devil in quest tab display to prevent cutting off of text
- Heavy ballista can no longer cut through Slashed webs
- Dismantle warning:
- When dismantling any item, you will now be presented with a confirmation box to make sure that is what you want to do.
- Arrows mechanics changed:
- There is now a random 1/7 chance to lose arrows when shot, they will simply not appear on the ground.
- Ultimate Ironman mode:
- Ultimate Ironman mode is now playable!
- You must create a new account to play in UIM mode.
- This will set your forum rank to Ultimate ironman as well.
- UIM players are similar to normal Ironman, but they cannot:
- Use banks
- Any functions that adds items to bank(eg. Dying with cannon) will instead drop items on ground.
- Deposit items in to banks by using item -> bank deposit box
- They may:
- Use items on a bank booth to note them
- Obtain Ultimate ironman equipment from Paul at home
- Ultimate Ironman highscores are available on the website!
- *Looting bags will be released within the next week.
- Ultimate Ironman mode is now playable!
- Fixed lever distance
- Previously, you could use a lever from a far distance
- Fixed doors issue
- Some of you may have noticed a bug when two players open a door at the same time causing the shop room wall to beinvisible and walkable. This has been fixed.
- Autocast issue:
- Removing your weapon while autocasting will now reset your autocast as intended.
- Fixed broken Blowpipe bonuses
- The dart bonus would be applied to numerous stats rather than simply Ranged attack/strength
- Youtuber icon / yell tag added
- Players who have the youtuber rank will now have the icon and rank title in their yells.
- Youtubers can also use the yell channel without having to be a donator.
- Starter pack now given to all players
- Even if the player skips the tutorial, they will still receive the starter pack.
- The starter pack will now be placed in the inventory rather than the bank to avoid confusion.
- Ground items now last 10 times longer:
- Similar to OSRS, items dropped on the ground will now remain there 10 times longer. This does NOT affect the "show"
- delay. They will go public after the intended time(typically 2 minutes).
- Slayer changes:
- Killing these NPCs will count towards their equivalent tasks:
- Demonic gorillas -> Black demons
- Brutal (red/black/green) dragons -> (Red/black/green) dragons
- Clan wars changes:
- Bug that would place player in opponent's room has been fixed.
- Ironman webshop added:
- Many ironmen have donated simply for the rank, and then have had to either transfer tokens or let them sit on their account due to not having an alt to transfer them to. This update will solve that, by providing a few items that ironmen can donate for. There items are mostly cosmetic.
- The items are:
- Golden apron
- Golden chef's hat
- Ring of Wealth (i)
- Gnome scarf
- Gnome goggles
- Gnome child hat
- Ring of wealth (i) changes:
- ROW(i) now affects Barrows loot at a higher rate than the regular Ring of wealth
- Mage arena exchange changes:
- You can now sell back items to the Mage Arena exchange shop(eg. Apprentice wands) for 45% of the buy price.
- Many items(eg. Apprentice wand) are essentially useless otherwise, and will now have some value as a drop.
- De-iron feature:
- Due to requests, you are now able to de-iron your account and play as a normal player.
- This is not free however, you will have to cough up 10M gp to do this and it cannot be reversed.
- If you have less than 1 hour of playtime, you don't have to pay this fee!
- This will reset your game mode and forum rank permanently. Choose wisely if you wish to do this, as it cannot be reversed,even by staff members.
- This is not free however, you will have to cough up 10M gp to do this and it cannot be reversed.
- Speak to Paul at home to de-iron your ironman.
- NOTE: It will be announced to everyone online that you have de-ironed
- Due to requests, you are now able to de-iron your account and play as a normal player.
- Highscores changes:
- Banned players will no longer appear on the highscores.
- Ultimate ironman highscores
Enjoy!
Omicron
[Quick fixes (January 15)]
- Miscellaneous:
- Items on ground timer reset to normal for the time being
- Imbued heart was giving 1 extra Magic level, this has been fixed.
- Fixed Mage arena shop, can now sell back as intended
- Superior slayer encounters will no longer attack other players
- Fixed issue with superiors spawning on objects
- Items that an NPC always drops will no longer be announced on the rare drop yell
- Highscores:
- Highscores were still displaying banned members on the skill pages, this has been fixed.
- Highscores search function has also been implemented! (also fixed the black text for the search box)
