Runescape - welcome back to 2007 motherfuckers

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Magicat said:
There are private servers. Only one I know of is Ataraxia. It could be shit though. I'd rather keep fond memories of the good days and move on.
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It seems strange. Why doesn't it have the old polygon models like in this screenshot?
Is this called Old-School Runescape?


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i440BX said:
It seems strange. Why doesn't it have the old polygon models like in this screenshot?
Is this called Old-School Runescape?


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Because Ataraxia is based on RS3 which isn't low poly anymore. OSRS is based on 2007 RS2 plus whatever new content they've added over the years without changing the aesthetic.
 
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Uh, no, the Makeover Mage was an NPC that basically had no personality or character and existed to take 2000 gold coins to change your in-game avatar. That's it. The Gower Brothers were not thinking "holy shit u know gender is a spectrum and we need to represent this in the game" because that shit literally did not fucking exist until some pedophile on Tumblr started masturbating and posting at the same time. There is a reason the second "pansexual" NPC was added two DECADES later.

Fucking GOD I hate these FAGGOTS
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On a somewhat related note, do you remember a hack for runescape that would let do some packet editing wizardry that allowed you to create a character with both a beard and breasts? You can usually only do one or the other, but this mod sticks out in my head just for the novelty of it. This was back in the 2d only days.
 
The Repeated Meme said:
On a somewhat related note, do you remember a hack for runescape that would let do some packet editing wizardry that allowed you to create a character with both a beard and breasts? You can usually only do one or the other, but this mod sticks out in my head just for the novelty of it. This was back in the 2d only days.
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If I remember correctly from whatever Mote Plox video I probably heard it in, back in RS1 you could be a woman with a beard or something similar because both character models were pretty much the same. Some RS3 players actually have female models with beards carrying the quirk from Classic (RS1) all the way to RS3 through the account migrations that took place. Due to the autism of the RS community, these accounts are actually worth a pretty decent penny, but nowhere near as much as something like a single letter name account.
 
Magicat said:
This new guy's lore's been heavily criticised, even by some People of Letters in the community. The one responsible for this shitshow is https://runescape.wiki/w/Mod_Jack. It's giving me a headache, else I'd sperg about it for a few pages.
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The sad thing is from my experience of playing RS3 while the post Elder Gods shit (which that line itself was a bit like jumping the shark) has been mediocre, like civil war you aren't even really involved, I've more or less liked what Jack has done. That is, the lore. When he personally works on stuff it's usually good. But as a leader he's bringing in faggots and allowing them to work because "we go'a be a bit progressive wiff our game innit fuck the Gower bruvvas."

ETA: there is from my memory one good faggot in all of rs3 and that's Amradyl. He's a big gay bird god and he's not a flaunting homosexual. He had two husbands, one when he was mortal and they died, the second one because of the war, and now he's just a largely stoic depressed old man bird. They don't shove it in your face and he as a character is the most likeable god. You've got literally faggot werewolves and a tranny elf and then you have the god of justice who just wants to grill.
 
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Sneedfully and Peacefully said:
ETA: there is from my memory one good faggot in all of rs3 and that's Amradyl. He's a big gay bird god and he's not a flaunting homosexual. He had two husbands, one when he was mortal and they died, the second one because of the war, and now he's just a largely stoic depressed old man bird. They don't shove it in your face and he as a character is the most likeable god. You've got literally faggot werewolves and a tranny elf and then you have the god of justice who just wants to grill.
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In the lore established with Archaeology, the ring Solomon wears during the HAM (Humans against monsters) related quests wasn't a Ring of Life but a ring created by Armadyl for one of his partners. Being a god, Armadyl had many enemies and if they couldn't harm Armadyl, then they'd attack those closest to him. The ring was created to teleport his partner from any danger that presents itself and was the basis for the enchantment for Rings of Life. The thought provoking existential loneliness of immortality made Armadyl a genuinely likeable character. He's the only well written homosexual character I feel I can offer praise.

Armadyl reminds me of a line from a Flashgitz video on Destiny towards Awoken Guardians. "I'm homosexual but you guys are definitely gay."
 
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I've done an unspeakable number of hours of pickpocketing trying to get the Rocky raccoon pet, and got him during the league a couple of months ago. I was super happy about it until going through his dialogue options where he says he wants to "steal the heart of a lovely raccoon named Rodney".

They made the pet raccoon a fucking faggot.
 
Update: the RS Xwitter account is back, unfortunately.

@Focken Kiwi H.A.M are based. Prejudice against (((tunnel goblins))) and deviants.
Kiwi-H.A.M style theme for the month of June? @ null
 
The Repeated Meme said:
On a somewhat related note, do you remember a hack for runescape that would let do some packet editing wizardry that allowed you to create a character with both a beard and breasts?
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Yes. And in regular old RS1 platebodies were called plate mail and you had to go to Thrander in Varrock to change them between men’s and women’s style. A female character could wear men’s style but male characters couldn’t wear the booba female version. But if you wore the female plate mail body and went to makeover mage you could have booba armor on your male character.
 
Rs keeps getting gayer, my rng still shit. Guess I'll cut off my dick.
 
Lone Star said:
Man, I kept considering getting back into this, but after seeing how bad shit has gotten since I last played a few years back, what's the point? Is there any super cringe woke dialogue in modern quests and stuff too?
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I made a semi-snowflake account, and it got hacked when I didn't play for a few months and de-ironed. I do feel like the biggest barrier is it takes ages to get to the potentially fun part of an ironman.
 
Focken Kiwi said:
My ironman is maxed. The end game is soul sucking if your luck is bad like mine. The climb is far more fun than the plateau.
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Are you still doing dailies at endgame? I know you'd need to stay on top of vis wax, rune shop runs, god arrows.. which is a chore
 
Magicat said:
Are you still doing dailies at endgame? I know you'd need to stay on top of vis wax, rune shop runs, god arrows.. which is a chore
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No actually. I avoided dailies like a plague. I'm the worst ironman in the world about those. I've done Vis Wax and Rune shop runs as needed but I've had bad luck with Rax drops and never wound up getting a Nox bow so no god arrows. I did get Ascensions after the Wilderness PvP was made opt in so I do Bakriminel Bolt runs fairly often. Well that was before Hero's Pass. I haven't really played since the release of and hitting 99 Necromancy.
 
Big combat changes today. I expect some more tweaking over the next couple of weeks. It looks decent on paper. Some nerfs to stat boosts and crit effect on average damage. Some buffs to most abilities, damage cap increase and new crit system. I'll need to consult a couple of autistic nerds on whether or not the new Eruptive (formerly Equilibrium) perk is worth it.
If Eruptive's cracked, I predict as4p2 + e4r3 will be meta, or nothing changes.

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I logged in to test a thing or two. Magic feels the same - still swimming in adren. I've not got the new Ranged gear, but I've heard from clanmates that it's cracked. Melee's apparently better than Magic thanks to the revamped Leng specs/passives. Necro had a slight nerf.

Overall combat feels better. There's a gold tint over keybinds as you hit them which should be helpful for people trying to learn strats from vids. I haven't looked into ability changes and damage rates in depth, and I'm still uncertain about Eruptive's play. Most poeple I spoke to about it were still using p6r1 + as4e2. The news post made Eruptive sound decent, so I dunno. We'll see in a week or two.

Edit: forgot to mention hit potential change is huge for offstyle abilities. Dracolich has an anti-switchscape timer attached to it, but now that wand/orb will 100% land a Smoke Cloud/Tsunami, it's viable and easy to pull off.
 
Magicat said:
I logged in to test a thing or two. Magic feels the same - still swimming in adren. I've not got the new Ranged gear, but I've heard from clanmates that it's cracked. Melee's apparently better than Magic thanks to the revamped Leng specs/passives. Necro had a slight nerf.

Overall combat feels better. There's a gold tint over keybinds as you hit them which should be helpful for people trying to learn strats from vids. I haven't looked into ability changes and damage rates in depth, and I'm still uncertain about Eruptive's play. Most poeple I spoke to about it were still using p6r1 + as4e2. The news post made Eruptive sound decent, so I dunno. We'll see in a week or two.

Edit: forgot to mention hit potential change is huge for offstyle abilities. Dracolich has an anti-switchscape timer attached to it, but now that wand/orb will 100% land a Smoke Cloud/Tsunami, it's viable and easy to pull off.
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I imagine Berserker Rings and Hearts of the Berserker are probably going up in price a little bit too. They were going up for a time with Necromancy since the Reaver's Ring was the only piece of jewelry that had a larger benefit for Necromancy baring stats. 5% bonus critical hit chance isn't bad when your critical hits are doing 1.5x damage and now every combat style can benefit from it making it a good generalist choice when paired with a Kal'gerion Demon.
 
I had another look. Some small perk changes for melee bleeds, but otherwise largely unchanged. According to the wiki, spear perks are e4p3 + l4as1. It's probably not worth the extra 2 ranks of eruptive for ranged poison builds.

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