#Old school runescape release date movie

What do we do about max capes? Nordmark says 'I think the consensus last time was to just say you lose it when you log in until you're maxed again.' And the suggestion we had about, you know, finding a shipwreck was not appealing to you. We want to work with the community on figuring out, okay, you want something to do with mermaids, you want to have – and these are just examples off the top of my head – you might want to farm corals and you want a navigational challenge.

Nordmark: What we're doing by refining with the community is saying that we're not going to just decide on one gameplay loop and telling you this is what Sailing is. Who knows what you're going to find out there?

Something like Sailing gives us the whole ocean that's basically a brand new canvas to do new things with. I think it harkens back to a lot of the nostalgia players had when they first played Runescape, possibly back in 2007, where you don't know what's around the corner. One sure thing seems to be a lot of exploration with finding things and bringing them back with you.Ĭharles: Yeah, people want discovery, the unknown, what you're gonna find out there. It does seem like a lot of the skill is still up in the air. It's not to say we couldn't do a Sailing minigame, a minigame could totally be part of what's going on, it just won't be the whole skill. We're going to avoid that where possible.

Minigames rely heavily on instances, point systems and all this sort of stuff. I think some of it stems from earlier preconceptions of previous Sailing pitches, and discussion that's happened in that community over the years as well. So I think that's one thing that feels very Old School.Ĭharles: We're cognizant of the minigame feedback that's come up. Other players want to solely focus on what they're doing and train the fastest way possible.

#Old school runescape release date movie

They want to watch a movie and put on Old School on the side, or they're on the train and just play on their phone. I want to say variety in activities, the different training methods, is really important. They were: to be a healthy addition to the game, to provide meaningful progression, to appeal to a variety of player types, and to be enjoyable to train.Īssuming lock-in gets going fairly soon, we hope we could deliver our first beta maybe this year. Back in December, we brought up something that we've called the new skill design pillars, and we had essentially four guidelines for, no matter what the new skill is, the things that it needs. How do you make Sailing, this new activity and concept, feel Old School?Įlena Nordmark: I think a lot of it ties back to some of the things we said right at the start of the new skill project. One of the key points has been keeping OSRS Old School and not deviating more into what's become mainline Runescape. We needed more meat on that bone to really capture Taming and address some of the problems people raised with it. I think we already know that from the feedback we've received over the course of the poll, as well as from what we read on social media. But obviously there's bigger changes that would need to be made to get that up to a place where people do have more favorability for it. Taming? It's not to say it's dead forever.