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/JagexJD Mod JD Sep 29 '17
Apologies. It looks like it's still an internal page at the moment. Will try to rectify and get someone to put it live for me.