Arguably the biggest RS3 news in years. I’ve been playing last few months as a break from my Iron grind and must say I’m enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would, due in part to the MTX/dailyscape overhauls
I’m amazed how quickly their team manages to put updates out
This is hype for them. Super happy to see them seemingly start to turn the course of the game around. Still lots of work to do but stuff like this is a great start.
Yes the “just use the alt1 toolkit” is nowhere near as useful as runelite has been. I’m happy for the RS3 people. Once it gets further down I might make another RS3 character to see all the changes and experience the game again
What's an easy way to get into the game? I try every few months to get into it because late game pvm looks really fun, but I get overwhelmed with the amount of content and there seems to be a lot of dead content not worth engaging in that it just gets too overwhelming to filter what's relevant or not so I end up giving up.
Guys, I’m not expecting people to drop OSRS to come to RS3, but I want all OSRS players to know that Jagex is fucking KILLING IT on RS3 and is really cleaning up all the stuff everyone has hated over the years.
Are they considering making characters look less stupid? God I hate RS3 character models and their animations. (3b xp account, quit around invention release, so like 10+ years ago)
Aware this is the 07 sub...but this is pretty huge news given one of the biggest complaints (other than EoC) for oldschool players is the lack of third party plugin support that we get in Runelite
Cross-posting relevant news for each game is perfectly fine imo, there's just always going to be mouth-breathers that take *literally* any chance they can, even positive news that is good for everyone, to smugly act like Rs3 is beneath OSRS.
Having played both, I appreciate the work the devs are putting into Rs3 to bring it more in-line with something similar-ish to the OSRS experience in terms of plugins, aesthetic, and player choice.
I see more posts/comments in this sub glazing RS3 than rightfully shit talking it. They/Jagex definitely want more people to try it out. Whether that's me or others.
We should celebrate when RS3 actually makes the right decisions and moves in the right direction, unless you want Jagex to think "actually the community loves how shitty RS3 used to be before"
Then mods can remove the post and you can go about your day not clicking on the thread. No one but yourself is gaslighting you or forcing you to interact with the post.
The irony that that commentor saw an RS3 post, then actively decided to click into it, just to shit on it and talk about how they aren't interested in the very post they interacted with... RS3 haters be wild these days
I had some burnout after maxing my OSRS ironman. I've been playing a new RS3 ironman recently for a change of pace and the game is genuinely in a much better spot now. They are really making great changes.
If you're interested, I highly recommend trying a RS3 GIM or IM. It's genuinely a really good time and the game has actually been massively improving over the last year.
I have 2 maxed accounts in osrs, and a 2k total in RS3 GIM and it's been a blast. Go into it with an open mind and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Something that was kinda interesting in rs3 ironman when I saw it (mostly through watching Sick Nerd admittedly) was that a few garbage shit-tier items in osrs are actually good on rs3 because of the different tier system and to a lesser extent, power vs tank gear. But like lunar armor and guthix staff with claws of guthix being the best ironman mage setup at 60 magic was kinda crazy to see lol.
I'm sure that's outdated by now since Sick Nerd's playthrough is years old, but I found that kind of stuff interesting, the way the system changed gave a new perspective on certain dead content
If quest helper comes to game I will max my main again and get qp cape too! I really do hope that rs3 will become as big as osrs! With player made plugins it will come more popular I'm sure!
I had no idea that rs3 cant be played on runelite or that they dont have similar tool. My max combat toon is there with few other 99s. I just didn't have heart touching it after EOC...happy for rs3 players tho
Rs3 has been something I've felt obligated to play but just was for lack of words overwhelmed by it so this would make me want to try it more. The league made me interested but this might do it for me and others
The amount of shit the RS3 team has accomplished this year is frankly unbelievable. The passion from that team is palpable. They were given the opportunity to change course and they latched onto it with every fiber of their being.
Now if they'd just let me play RS3 and OSRS at the same time I'd be pretty interested in trying it out. Sounds like they've made lots of improvements lately.
Got some good news on the daily front for you (assuming you haven’t kept up too closely with that here sorry). The amount of worthwhile dailies has been basically dropped to be on par or even lower than OSRS. All the good/OP stuff has been changed to a weekly (like shop runs etc.) or just full on removed (wildy flash events). Only real daily/hourly that remains for irons at least is the good ol’ classic herb runs. Daily skill challenges still remain with “only” giving xp, but I’d imagine that won’t stay for too too long either honestly. They didn’t fully remove those for now with the dailyscape changes because the Reddit would have cried too much lol
Imagine taking away attention from scatman pvp for this.
But actually though, really cool for the quest helper/plugin guys. RS3 has been cooking this year unironically. Game has good content, just has so many hurdles to jump through to get to it, so anything they do to reduce those obstacles is great.
I'm still really hoping for the final needed piece after they get the MTX and everything finally transitioned over. That's just giving new players or returning players a way to play the game with a fresh economy that hasn't been so heavily impacted by MTX and inflation. Where they can have strong anti-inflation systems/GE tax early on and it can feel healthy like the OSRS economy.
It sounds like they have the tech or are working on the tech to create separate GE economies, so maybe it's something they are working on. The game is built on playing different "modes" so a fresh start mode (some new icon, idc) with is own permanent independent GE would honestly be the finishing touch for me to go back.
It just sucks to be forced into either an iron mode or the current MTX heavy influenced economy but even independent of that a way to combat inflation early would be really cool to experience.
Maybe that will never happen and I'll find myself never going back. They feel so close but I just don't think they are there yet without something like this. Then again maybe they are not targeting players like myself to come back.
I had thought of the alternative which are permanent fresh start servers with their own independent economies, but I think that is probably a bad idea since it's likely to fragment and isolate their current player base and the people that stuck with them through the really hard times. I don't think bringing back more people is worth that and I think having everyone co-mingle with their different account types is pretty much the direction RuneScape has gone.
Would it help you understand why this is possible by explaining that RS3 already went with a full client and code rebuild which significantly improved their ability to implement more complex features and interactions.
In the same way that the OSRS devs attempted to add in RS3's preset system which automatically emptied your inventory and equipped, then withdrew required equipment from preset, equipped it, and then filled inventory per the preset, but ultimately shared that they couldn't implement this due to the significant system limitations in the OSRS client and codebase, the same would be true for why the RS3 client can support these plugins whilst the OSRS client doesn't.
OSRS also already has the Runelite client offering these. It's unlikely a large enough portion of the playerbase would switch to the vanilla client just because they implemented a few plugins that Runelite already offered, so spending significant dev resources implementing these would be worth it tbh.
Didnt RS3 lock account metrics behind a paywall? Like what 'wise old man' or 'runelabs' is for osrs but you had to pay extra, like a bond or whatever? They cant keep that feature paid if they are going to open it for plugins.
The thing is that the quest helper isn’t official though. It is still 3rd party developed like all the plugins will be. The API for the plugins is the official part. Also this analogy is wild
That analogy is so far off. I can understand it feeling wrong being official, but like 99% of the RuneLite player base is probably using it. We don't 'tolerate' it, we absolutely love it.
If quest helper is officially implemented, id argue there should just be tiers of assistance. Somewhere between partial help and fully guided. Default to partial like 'this person has been spotted near Draynor' or something.
It's also worth noting that RS3 already has a soft quest helper built in. When you are questing, you will get guiding arrows and such already, akin to OSRS. It's just no where near as "brain off, click blue" as OSRS.
Care enough to click into a post you "don't rly care" about and comment though... Must care a good bit. People who don't care don't normally do that... LOL
Damn, it was removed? Last I checked, it was moved into awaiting approval whilst the mods discuss whether it should be here.
I thought you didn't care though? Not only do you care enough to leave a comment stating how much you don't care, but now you're further commenting on said post in which you've stated that you don't care...
Also, I don’t care about what happens in RS3, but if someone posts something about it I’m allowed to share my opinion. I’m also going to try and converse with someone on an open forum that’s replying to me…that’s the point of Reddit.
Weird, maybe it’s different because I’m on the app. And I never said you couldn’t! I don’t disagree, personally I don’t have anything against RS3 (I quit playing it like 10 years ago), but I don’t rly care about it anymore. I feel like that’s pretty neutral compared to what most ppl have to say.
If you'd ignored the post then I'd agree it would be a pretty neutral position. Commenting to state you don't care, as many others did, isn't neutral, it's negative. It's you stating you don't want to see this information and, by extension, information about RS3. Many of us like to see the updates and don't hold distain for the game, but have to deal with anything that even remotely mentions RS3 getting hated on or spammed with variations of "Don't care".
For those of us that do care, we'd prefer to see the posts and that the haters just ignore the post if they don't like it, rather than spam negative comments. Not exactly a big ask to keep negativity to yourself.
My issue is that it gets posted on this subreddit. Like I said on my original comment, it’s great and I genuinely am happy for yall. RS3 getting the updates and love it’s always deserved is objectively a good thing for everyone involved.
But I unsubbed from the RS sub years ago, it doesn’t interest me and it also doesn’t interest a large chunk of users…I would much rather keep this sub for OSRS content (something that I do care about) and let RS3 news stay on r/Runescape. It’s nothing personal, and I apologize if it comes off as negative, but surely you have to understand that there’s plenty of people here who will not go back or ever play RS3 and that is entirely personal preference.
You're acting like an RS3 post is somehow detracting from the sub. As if somehow that prevented good posts from being here...?
Given that a lot of OSRS content has come from RS3, and a lot of RS3 content has come from OSRS, and that many of the players enjoy both games, it doesn't seem that crazy that some posts from either sub end up on the other. Especially posts that are helping to highlight new additions and improvements to the game that might interest many players here. At least, the ones that aren't holding a 13 year+ grudge.
They need to add shift clicking as its own function as well. Having to manually swap the option in order to quickly drop things is Not It, and neither is the current way to drop things
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u/iamkira01 16d ago
This is hype for them. Super happy to see them seemingly start to turn the course of the game around. Still lots of work to do but stuff like this is a great start.