(Source: Jagex)
We are thrilled to announce that RuneScape 3 has an official launch date: Monday 22nd July. We can also finally reveal the centrepiece content for RuneScape 3: the Battle of Lumbridge. This will be a world event of epic scale where your decisions and actions will forever shape the story of Gielinor. The future of RuneScape is in your hands. This is a brave new age for RuneScape in technology, story and gameplay. Technology:
-HTML5 game client: The next generation of browser technology. It brings a big step up in visual quality with improved lighting, draw distance and colour, loading into your browser in moments, without the need for plug-ins or Java.
-New audio engine: High-fidelity audio and music, featuring full orchestral pieces written by BAFTA Award winner James Hannigan and played by the Slovak Symphony Orchestra.
-Seasonal high scores: Compete against your friends and the rest of the RuneScape community to rank on weekly and monthly leaderboards. Story:
-Dawn of the Sixth Age: The gods of RuneScape are returning. Entrusted as World Guardians, players have the power to decide which gods will win and lose in their struggles for supremacy.
-The Battle of Lumbridge: An epic-scale world event which will shake the foundations of Gielinor, and one which is driven entirely by your actions. Week by week, your choices will shape the flow of battle and the fate of characters, locations and stories, and the ultimate outcome will set the course for RuneScape’s future. Gameplay:
New Interface System: Designed for ease of use and massive depth of customisation, the NIS lets you quickly change RuneScape’s UI according to your play style at any given moment. It also includes feature upgrades such as key binding and a resizable minimap to put even more choice at your fingertips.
Upgraded camera: Overhauled and updated, a new in-game camera gives you the freedom to view Gielinor like never before New community website: Customise your community experience to your specifications, with a new easy-to-navigate website focused on your needs. Divination: Prepare to unlock divine powers from your surroundings with a new skill for RuneScape 3, arriving a few weeks after launch. Remember that RuneScape 3 is a continuation of the current game, so you’ll use your existing character, and don’t need to create a new account. You can also continue to play using the Java client if you wish – you’ll get all of the benefits of RuneScape 3, just without the visual upgrades. In the meantime, these three steps will get you ready for launch: Prepare your Computer Install Google Chrome and make sure your graphics drivers are up to date. Catch Up on the Story Play The World Wakes and complete the God Emissaries jobs, and watch the
motion comic to see the epic chain of events that led to this point. Preview New Gameplay Get involved in our beta programme and try HTML5 and the New Interface System before RuneScape 3 arrives. The NIS Beta is open to everyone now, and the full HTML5 Open Beta is coming soon. Keep an eye out for more information! Take a look at our latest Behind the Scenes video for a full RuneScape 3 reveal:
Any further questions? Take a look at our FAQ. RuneScape leaps into a new age on Monday 22nd July. The future is in your hands. The RuneScape Team
Original post found here (although its the exact same as what I just converted to BBCode and posted above...)
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Let's have a little chat about some of the new features in this game.
Overall:
See what I did there? Facepalm + Jagex being money hungry..yh
Anyway
Here we go:
Upgraded Technology includes a new HTML5 game client (oh fuck yes, so much better than Java...)
New audio engine and NEW FUCKING MUSIC UWENJGKFDNHMKFG,GXKMDGKDFLL no one gives a shit
Seasonal High Scores - alright that's a pretty cool idea, gotta admit, but how the fuck is that new technology? It's a feature...
I dont even feel the need to criticize the story. The gods of RuneScape are returni- no no one gives a fuck. Just let us pk and shit. But it sounds like they're trying to force us to follow certain gods in this new exciting RS3! Get ready for seggregation and one race > another race. Yay
and the fucking BATTLE OF LUMBRIDGE OH SHIT...
I'm gonna stop here and ask if anyone of us actually calls this world 'Gielinor'??? Maybe it's just me but I don't really give a fuck about the weird RPG side to this game...
One thing I'm looking forward to is the new Gameplay features however, not because I'm excited for them but I want to compare them to what Jagex says they're going to be. New interface System is designed for ease of use and massive depth of customisation. First of all, those two contradict eachother. Unless it's fully tabbed out and organized on what you can customize and shit like that ( i highly doubt it knowing Jagex - logged in to EOC [by accident] and didn't even know what the fuck was going on) then it's probably not easy to use and contains a lot of customization. But some of the new features like the resizable minimap does sound interesting.
Upgraded camera "..." They don't even give any explanation as to what this new camera does, they just say it's a new in-game camera to give you the freedom to view Gielinor like never before. It's almost as if they are just forcing more information on there to make their post bigger l0l
New Community Website - wow good job Jagex, a new community where you can customise your experience to your specifications with a new (probably not) easy-to-navigate website focused on our needs...it's 2013 I think we've needed that for about...16 years?
Divination - This is something that sounds quite interesting. Kind of. Not really. A little bit I guess. It's description is hard to tell what it consists of though. "Unlocking divine powers" makes me think of dungeoneering or magic to be honest. And the best part is - this skill isn't going to be implemented until a few weeks after launch L0L what kind of fucking joke is that though...why release a game with that featured planned if you're not even going to add it when the games released. I really think they need more money for something and want to get this game out before its ready = buggy = exploits
Also = RuneScape 3 is a continuation of the current game, but your account/stats etc are not transfered over I'm pretty sure for those of you wondering. Oh and we also can still use the old, better Java client if we want but we wont get the 'slick HTML5 visual upgrades' >_>
Oh and to prepare for this guys make sure to catch up on the story and download google chrome...lol
Discuss, interested to hear what you guys have to say about 'RuneScape 3'