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[Omicron]

Hey guys,

 

Another quick update to improve the raids experience from what we've seen so far. There has definitely been an improvement since the last update, but a few things still needed to be fixed. Mainly, your points weren't affecting your loot rate from the reward chest enough. We've reworked the mechanics so that your points play into your reward a bit more, as well as adding a few new ways to get points. Additionally, it seems that with small teams it is difficult to get through Olm without pots. For this reason, we've made it so that you can go back into the dungeon from the final skilling room(where it would previously block you) and pick up potions and food off the ground if need be! You'll also find that the dungeon is now "scaled" in terms of enemies' hitpoints, and Olm has been slightly weakened.

 

• Hitpoints of enemies now scale as the party size increases, as it is far too easy to clear a raid with 20+ people.
  • Approximately 5% more HP per player
  • With the above update, the default HP of all of the mobs within raids have been reduced to account for the change
    • All default HP reduced by 20% EXCEPT for:
      • Ice demon(no reduction)
      • Baby muttadile(only a 15% reduction)
      • Vasa's crystals(25% reduction)
    • This means that a 1-3 person raid is slightly easier(lower HP)
      • A 4 person raid would have the same exact HP as you have all been used to the past 2 days
      • Anything larger than 4 people will be subject to higher hp than you are used to, at a 5% hp / player rate
• You can now turn back into the dungeon from the final skilling room.
  • This will allow you to go back to loot potions and other useful drops within the dungeon should you need it to fight Olm.
    • For example, if you were almost fully stocked on supplies at the Deathly ranger/mager room, you would miss out on a ton of supplies dropped by them and could not have turned back to loot them if you died at Olm.
• If you died at the exact same instant as Olm, you would be teleported to the start of the dungeon. This has been corrected.
• Fixed ironmen issue -- they could not loot if they did not deal top damage. I apologize for this issue, as it should have been fixed last update but a component was overlooked!
• A bug where Vasa would get stuck at the crystal and be unattackable should no longer occur.
• Olm combat changes:
  • Olm's attack bonus will no longer be as reliant on the team size. There shouldn't be a huge difference in his strength.
    • This is due to the fact that special frequency / # of phases already increase the difficulty tremendously.
  • Lessened prayer drop rate
    • Getting hit by a lightning bolt will now only have a 50% chance to drop your protection prayers rather than 100%
    • Olm's "sphere" attack will now have a 33% chance of dropping protection prayers rather than 50%
  • Olm's main attack (which he shoots from his mouth) will now have a chance to miss players in the room
    • He now has a ~20-25% chance to miss any player in the room rather than 100% success rate. In a solo party, you will simply not see his head do an attack animation. In a team, you may see him only hit 3/4 players (or less) in the party.
    • His main attack is also *very slightly* scaled in damage based on team size, but it is always quite consistent.
• Rewards changes:
  • Loot rates are now much more reliant on the points you have earned. Try not to lose your points!
  • This way, the players who have earned many points will have a far better chance at loot, whereas players with low points will have more trouble getting loot. Nonetheless, it is still possible for players with 0 points to get the rarest items, even the Olmlet!
  • Pure essence will now be given noted, as intended
• Points changes:
  • Keystone crystal now gives 500 points to the player who picks it up.
  • Lighting braziers / filling the trough now gives 50 points each time instead of 30
    • Braziers can now only hold a maximum of 5 + (teamSize) kindling to prevent people from point farming
  • Skilling points: (**Limited to a maximum of 2.5k per player, per session, to avoid farming)
    • Cutting down 1 kindling will earn you 15 points
    • Lighting 1 kindling will earn you 15 points
    • Catching 1 fish will earn you 20 points
    • Cooking 1 fish/bat will earn you 15 points
    • Catching bats will now earn you 30 points each
• Sapling trees now last longer before turning into stumps
  • The previous health of the tree has been doubled so that players in large teams have an easier time gathering kindling.
• Fixed fishing net spawns in Corrupted scavenger room
• You can now type ::shake to disable the camera shaking at the Olm stage. Unfortunately, this is only a temporary toggle that does not save on logout, so make sure to disable it before heading into the boss room!
  • You can type ::shake again to re-enable it.

 

We're getting closer and closer to perfecting it, and I feel that we're nearly there! Enjoy :)

 

Regards,

Omicron

[Valve]

Finally we get points for skilling, great addition!

[Jare]

Very great stuff, as always. Thank you so much!

[Saucy Beaver]

it gets better and better! great addition and tweaks to raids.. good job as always keep it up  

[Diva]

Thanks for the fixes.

[Sux]

Nice to hear. Great job as usual - keep it up! 

[Hoestie]

thanks alot, great fixes ! 

[Medics]

Awesome update, great work Omicron! :)

[Strato]

Much needed fixed indeed, Thanks for your effort!

[Sheep]

Thanks for improving raids, really appreciate it.

I'm lovin it.

[i 074 i]

Love it, big thanks!

[Jace]

Awesome updates!

 

Still no brews, maybe in the future!

[Syntax]

not a fan of the fact you can just stay fishing for points... but yeah

EDIT: just re-read and realized its capped at like 2500 pts, at least there's that

It also kind of incentivizes teams to bring a skiller, especially if they can't find another member for a 7 man and only have 6.

[Chance]

As always great stuff, thanks for the fixes. Keep it up!

 

Those skilling points in raid doh!

[Sour Deez]

The screen is suppossed to shake at olm to make it hard. Why add a command to toggle it that's just dumb, it's an earthquake for a reason 

[Syrinx]

Thanks!

[Step]

Thanks for fixing the shaking, it was really hurting my eyes lol. 

[Sarf]

Great fix! Glad to finally see Ironman getting the update we needed. Although is this an end to speedruns for the same chance of loot as point getitng?

[Omicron]

The screen is suppossed to shake at olm to make it hard. Why add a command to toggle it that's just dumb, it's an earthquake for a reason 

Hey Sour, I completely understand that, but the issue here is that some players are very sensitive to it and feel nauseous while trying to focus on the shaking screen. Olm is definitely a challenge with or without the shaking, and I don't think it will make or break the difficulty of the boss.

 

 

Awesome updates!

 

Still no brews, maybe in the future!

I assume you mean that there are no brew drops in the dungeon? If so, "Xeric's aid" is identical to a brew in function  

 

 

Great fix! Glad to finally see Ironman getting the update we needed. Although is this an end to speedruns for the same chance of loot as point getitng?

 

It all depends on your strategy! A few extra points probably won't make or break it, but you definitely want to find a way to do it as quickly as possible with a fair amount of points :)

[Syntax]

few bugs remain, tekton is glitched where some people can attack him, and others can't. You seemed to of fixed the kindling which wouldn't render when wooductting for the ice boss, but in the final room above olm, the tree still gives no kindling every so often. Supposedly ironman still can't loot the fishing net or tinderbox in the final room, they can only loot dropped items from bosses/trash mobs.

There seems to be a visual bug on olms hands where it displays that it's healing when attacked, but it's not healing at all, you can continue to damage it.

Players are also able to stack free pts on olm head while it regens, it shouldn't do such.