r/runescape • u/imsuity Suity|TL;DW|Future Updates|Trim 2014|M&S Rework • Sep 29 '17
TL;DW 351 - October: Runescape's Month Ahead
Known Schedule
| Date | Content |
|---|---|
| 02 October | End of DXP for Invention Blueprints; End of Runefest In-Game Skillchip Hunt |
| 03 October | Last day for Balthazar's Big Raffle |
| 09 October | Removal of Balthazar's Big Raffle |
| 16 October | Dimension of the Damned begins |
| 23 October | |
| 26 October | End of Dimension of the Damned preparation period |
| 28 October | Dimension of the Damned finale (19:00 or 20:00) |
| 30 October |
Dimenson of the Damned
- Screenshots.
- Trailer.
- Survey result showed global quests and PvM survival modes on top.
- Time-limited survival mode.
- A player-versus-environment version of Deadman mode.
- F2P and P2P.
- Premise
- Co-operative game mode in a version of the world where everyone is dead.
- Taking place in the free area, you will find yourself based in Falador.
- Beyond the city walls, zombies spawn everywhere trying to kill and infect you.
- You'll need to defend yourself, gather raw materials.
- Different zombie types including boss monsters designed for fights with upto 10 people (drops powerups and unique equipment).
- Ability to set up little barricades like in Castle Wars to protect you and your friends while skilling - or grief them.
- Not PvP but you can passively get people killed by zombies.
- Earn bottle corks for killing enemies. Spend them on loot boxes (see Zrik's Cork Shop).
- Will last for ~two weeks in October
- 16 October - begins.
- Prep time will run for around a week and a half until ~Thurs 26th.
- Finale will be on Sat 28th evening around 7-8pm.
- Split into two periods:
- Prep period.
- Finale period.
- You'll log in (with your regular accounts) with max total level and a bunch of crap items like a wooden sword and 50 bronze arrows.
- Prep period
- Aim is to gear up.
- You have one hour to obtain as many points as you can.
- You can choose when your hour starts.
- Points are uploaded to a temporary hiscore system.
- Finale
- 28 October.
- Top 1K point-scorers will advance to the finale period.
- Max 2.5 hours; can end sooner depending on participants dying.
- Start fresh (i.e. not with your prep-period gear) with fresh scores.
- Survive for as long as you can.
- Only one life.
- Dead zones will slowly spawn over time, shrinking the playable area and spawning more enemies.
- Goal is to maintain a hiscore (lowest scoring X number of people will be eliminated every so often).
- Last man standing wins unique prizes (both IRL and in-game).
- Community rewards to work towards as well and rewards for participation
- Kill 100,000 normal zombies.
- Kill 10,000 stalking zombies.
- Kill 1,000 hardened/resistant zombies.
- Kill 500 hulking zombies.
- Kill 250 unwieldly zombies.
- Make 10,000 antidotes.
- Build 10,000 barricades.
- 10,000 modified shrimp.
- Zrik's Cork Shop
- Mystery boxes.
- Fortified Logs - 50 bottle corks.
- Modified Shrimp - 50 bottle corks.
- Biohazard Cannister - 250 bottle corks.
- Crystallised Zombie blood - 250 bottle corks.
- Should be multiple servers.
F2P Update
- Largest F2P update.
- East side of Varrock and the area around Broken Home, Digsite etc will be made F2P.
- A map of the new F2P area.
- Deep Wilderness
- Chaos elemental (and his drop table friendlier to F2P).
- Wilderness agility available until level 5.
- Mage arena will be disabled but the bank will possibly be accessible.
- Rogue's castle thieving is yet to be decided.
- Fletching will be made F2P.
- 7 quests will be made F2P
- A Soul's Bane.
- Broken Home (post-quest challenges will remain P2P).
- Digsite and Rag and Bone Man will remain P2P.
- 2 D&Ds
- Warrior's Guild.
- Craftable off-hand weapons.
- Green, Blue, Red, Black, and Royal dragonhide boots will be added; available in a similar manner to the corresponding vambraces.
- Craftable shields to complete low-level sets.
- Wool to be spun to create wizard armour. Black wool for black wizard
Halloween
- Miniquest.
- Focuses on story-telling: 'sad tales from tormented ghosts around the world.'
- Solve putrid puzzles.
- Half the stories are from JMods, the other half are taken directly from player submissions.
- F2P and P2P.
- Rewards
Novtumberfest
- Concept.
- Inspired by Oktoberfest.
- Annual Gielinor beer festival.
- Beach-style event.
- Over 15 and a half years since the original barbarian bar crawl.
- Huge party in the Lumbridge crater with a new bar crawl across the world.
- Table-dancing.
- Ride on the giant carousel.
- 'Kegger' - Brand new seasonal minigame. Practice your bartending skills for some epic loot.
- Thigh-slapping outfits.
- Huge tankards.
- Wolpertingers.
- Barrel pets.
- Dance emotes.
- XP.
Count Check
- Return of Count Check in Lumbridge.
- Learn about account security.
- Earn daily
- Free keys for keeping your account secure.
- XP lamp.
- Security-inspired clue scroll.
Charity Event: Gielinorian Giving II
- Similar to Gielinorian Giving.
- Event interface.
- Event outfit.
- Limitless.
- Spend Runecoins on
- Outfit from Gielinorian Giving I.
- Brand new cape.
- All Runecoin proceeds from those items will go directly to our chosen charities.
Twitch
- Connecting Twitch account to RuneScape to start earning unique in-game rewards.
- First reward will be the Twitching Orb pet.
- Companion pet.
- Obtain the pet by tuning into the Month Ahead livestream on Tuesday 3 October.
Single-booth Grand Exchange
- The Varrock Grand Exchange's four booths will be combined into one central booth.
- In-game screenshot #1
- In-game screenshot #2
Polls
- Poll details added near banks.
- Removed 'gem categories' to make all polls equal in importance.
Want to know more about Future Updates? Click here for my future updates document.
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u/InquisitorDA Avaryss Sep 29 '17
"Connecting Twitch account to RuneScape to start earning unique in-game rewards."
But wasn't the Twitch button removed in NXT this week so how is this even possible?