Talk:Upcoming updates

need for UU shortcut
Does this really need the UU shortcut? 14:50, September 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirects are cheap. Remove the shortcut box from the page if you want, but personally I see no reason in deleting the redirect. 14:55, September 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, removing it is a bit too much, but I think the shortcut's rather unnecessary. 14:58, September 29, 2009 (UTC)

Chaos Elemental
Could we add a section regarding the Chaos Elemental's Suitcase, etc? Theboy1001 18:37, October 5, 2009 (UTC)

Remove of unnecesities
I've removed a few sections from the page that are not quoted and thus don't belong in this article. "Kudos Island Once 150 Kudos are obtained at the Varrock Museum, a person is told that they will be allowed to visit Kudos Island, however; the trip is still being prepared. The area will most likely be and island north-east of Morytania. [source needed] [edit]Eastern Lands Jagex has said that a new continent known as the Eastern lands will be released once the original continent's landspace is finished[source needed]. It is most likely to feature an Oriental theme as notable NPC's of this origin are said to have appeared from this land.[source needed] "

I also removed the video of Runescape Netherlands. Jagex doesn't announce anything in it - there's no evidence they will create Dutch Runescape. --Fbi agen22 23:24, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

True. They also state that :{{cquote2|Dutch is quite a specific case. We have a lot of players from the Netherlands, but research shows that 89% of Dutch speakers also speak English; therefore, Dutch is not likely to be our next language (Localisation's answers)--{{Signatures/Nequillim}} 15:00, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

Other possible updates
I think confirmed updates: -Fairy tale part 3. I do not have any reference, if you do have, please add it to the article.

Uncertain updates (from my point of view):

-Prayer update. About this update, I don't know anything. People in future updates RSOF seem to be sure there will be an update on this half. If you know anything about it, please add it to the article.

-New haircuts: someone noticed a female character with an odd haircut in the knowledge base.

-Some kind of monsters, the 'Bukulla' could be playing a role in 1 of the future quests.

-Dutch and Finnish could be the next language updates

-Andrew Gower should have said they're reducing and eventually eliminating Grand Exchange caps and they're going to double the trade restrictions for long-term friends.

-Regions update: Eastern lands

I also think Jagex' twitter hints should be added to this page every week. And in this discussion page, people can discuss the update. Source: QFC 16-17-671-59680498

No kudos island: "Mod Mark: The so-called Kudos Island has the beginnings of an awesome idea that Mod Maz and I had a few years ago. I have every intention of producing that island...one day. It’s just that our plans right now are quite big and it’s just not the right time to start designing. It is pretty cool, though. Maybe after the Mahjarrat storyline is complete... As for the Soul Altar: when we need more soul runes!"

Please only add any of above updates into the article when you have references. --Fbi agen22 01:43, November 7, 2009 (UTC)


 * Fairytale III been confirmed in the development diary here. 21:35, November 8, 2009 (UTC)


 * New haircuts arrived, and I'll add FT part 3 tomorrow in the article. -- 00:59, November 10, 2009 (UTC)

Removal of tutorial island update
Last night, I added that update, unaware that Jagex actually has already updated it. Therefore, it's been removed --Fbi agen22 11:35, November 7, 2009 (UTC)

Link between updates
I think that there might be a link between the smithing, dragon ore and dragon warhammer update :). Your thoughts? -- Fbi Agen22   14:27, November 7, 2009 (UTC)--

"Unknown underwater location"
Actually it was found several weeks earlier, that is just someone copying and pasting the proof from a tip.it thread. http://forum.tip.it/topic/246045-new-gwd-room-new-quest-area-amazing-find/ 06:35, November 9, 2009 (UTC)

Slayer update/item
Wasn't the "small" slayer item and update Amulet of Ranging and the Aquanite?

They should be removed off this article if so.

also, try using over-resolution on the underwater dungeon. Tsunoflare 16:02, November 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow you have dual screen or something? =O 16:43, November 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * What's over-resolution? -- 16:47, November 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * Aquanite's being released in July, the Q&A is published in September. They can't be talking about aquanites, I hope lol -- 00:57, November 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * I just made up the word "over-resolution" actually lol. Anyway i mean a really wide resolution as in the screenshot(HD stretched to 2 monitors while height kept minimum). Tsunoflare 10:31, November 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * I have dual monitor since recent, so I was able to capture the images as you showed Thanks for the tip  07:40, November 25, 2009 (UTC)

I'm actually pretty sure that this was the update released today (Kuradal's dungeon).--WCreary 00:59, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

The plague quest series part 9
Could it be Within the light they're talking about? -- 21:21, November 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * "There will be at least one more elf-related quest before the city is opened, though." - that was said before Within the Light was released. So I think he talked about Within the Light =P It will be a while before Priffindas opens up for us, because there need to be a massive ammount of graphics done for this.. and the graphics team is already quite busy now. More interesting stuff about the series in this interview 21:32, November 10, 2009 (UTC)

Articles for each update
I will be going ahead and creating an article for most, if not all the sections/things listed on the article. This is per RS:NIP Point 1/or the nutshell, and also RS:G to an extent. If there is any opposition to this, please bring it up in a RFC or YG topic, and preferably not a VFD, as a policy change would have to be proposed. Cheers, 10:39, November 20, 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, but I wouldn't create articles that would end up as one-word sentences for things only briefly mentioned. 00:44, December 7, 2009 (UTC)

Dating Citations
Since dates are readily available on all(?) citations, should we add them in? For example:

Apart from inquisitiveness' benefit, dating citations could help determine whether the more ambiguous stipulations have in fact been released.-- 17:02, December 7, 2009 (UTC)

Old revelations
When are people going to realize that the mammoths and lizardmen probably aren't going to be incorporated?
 * You never know. 15:03, December 11, 2009 (UTC)
 * They were mentioned once, in 2004. This should be mentioned. 02:23, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, but things like these haven't been added in years, so there's little chance they will be now. Mage24365 22:03, December 16, 2009 (UTC)
 * Those things that were announced once in 2004 have either already been released under a different name, or cancelled. We should remove them. Also, we should probably add this quote to the article. 11:40, December 18, 2009 (UTC)
 * Those things that were announced once in 2004 have either already been released under a different name, or cancelled. We should remove them. Also, we should probably add this quote to the article. 11:40, December 18, 2009 (UTC)

Removed. troacctid 19:34, January 17, 2010 (UTC)

Elemental Workshop III
I have pics of the area beyond the doors, and they show...(drumroll)...Nothing! Now, the question is whether that's particularly notable or not. I may put the pics in the Hidden Areas section of the Orb/Tips page, but does the fact that there's nothing back there currently say anything about Jagex's release time-table? --Balton 14:21, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

They say they never put unreleased content out accidentally. A few things we can see are meant to be seen. They don't like put the soul altar our...

Need Dates in body of article
It would be nice to have the reference date for each statement in the body of the article, so you can tell how old this statement is. It is kind of a pain to keep having to look at the footnotes to see how old each section is. Sometimes I think the statement has been rendered totally obsolete by an update and someone has just forgotten to remove the "hint" from this page. Jimindc 23:08, March 26, 2010 (UTC)

Runescape Client?
There's a "runescape client" on teh website. It uses IE to directly go to RUnescape gam page, but it does require java. Is this what is mentioend in teh article?


 * No, a new version of the client has been released since then that doesn't require Java to run on the computer, as the client has a Java Runtime environment built within it, however, it must be extracted and hence uses 300MB of space. As such I believe that this can be removed from the Confirmed future updates page.Anonymous184 11:42, June 2, 2010 (UTC)

Interview Mod Mark (Mahjarrat quest + Void Knights)
Hey, there is an interview with Mod Mark up on Gamerzines with a very interesting last question: GZ: Wat lies in the future for Runescape?

MO: Regarding standard game updates, I'm very excited about a three-part quest we're writing on the various Orders of Knights within the game (that will be released with a new minigame), and also the quest that Paul Gower (the originalcreator of the RuneScape back story and the other co-founder) is writing that concludes one of our oldest storylines, called "The Ritual of the Mahjarrat". One of the glorious things about being your own publisher is that we really can look at today's news and forum feedback and say "No! We're not doing it right, let's do this instead" and take a complete 360 turn. So you can never say for sure about what lies ahead... but I know it will rock!

Could someone add it to the future updates page? I'm afraid my English isn't good enough to write something decent about it. :(

Dungeoneering Batch 2
Shouldn't there be a section about what we know about Dungeoneering Batch 2? For example:

- Chaos floors

- Augury for Ranged

- Don't know any more now, but you can find some in the Dungeoneering Q&A thread on the RSOF.

As far as I now, Jagex didn't mention the new prayer will be obtainable by purchaning it with dunge tokens. As for the floors... I heared two different states:

They will add Occult and Warped floors (http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Dungeoneering says it was said on Twitter) OR Warped and Chaotic floors (somewhere on RS forums). So.. probably no chaotic floor. But.. adding some info about it would be good.

There was a leaked image apparently showing two new floors; warped and chaotic. This was on this website http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Leaks Not a certainty though, it may be false.

Occult floors have been confirmed by Jagex as of 2nd of August 2010. http://services.runescape.com/m=news/newsitem.ws?id=3285

Keyboard Control
Just noticed that in this article there is still something about them wanting to look at controlling the player with the keyboard, I later read a Mod say that they tried this and it wasn't possible (due to the camera) can anybody confirm me whilst I look for this source? --Anti bones 21:52, August 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Just found it (Keyboard control)


 * From Q+A from forums:


 * "WASD movements: will it ever be added to RuneScape?

2High 2PIay

Unfortunately, WASD key controls (which means that you use the W, A, S and D keys to control your character), did not work well in RuneScape when we researched it. The main reason was the path finding, which is done on the server. Due to the frequency of packets and the possibility of missing packets or lag, the player could suddenly move position. Mod Nick"


 * Can we now delete the keyboard controls part from possible future updates? Anti bones 21:58, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps they'll impliment shortcut keys for prayers, summoning and spells, etc. I wouldn't take it out just yet, or put a section called something like, 'Discarded Updates'. Ergori 00:06, August 15, 2010 (UTC)

Runefest Hints?
I heard a lot of future update info was revealed at Runefest. Could someone put it all down here?Krayfish 19:21, August 31, 2010 (UTC)

Veterans Cape

 * "Commented By Mod Paul at Runefest 2010 "There is a plan to make a skill cape for our maxed players, now we have finished working on the new skill dungeoneering. Not going to give to much information out right away but it is almost definitely going to be called "veteran cape"."


 * I watched a recording of this question/answer from Mod Paul, and I was under the distinct impression that he was referring to two capes, one for maxed out players, and one for veterans. Did I completely mishear/misunderstand him, or is this quote incorrect? Iplayrs 07:13, September 1, 2010 (UTC)

OK, the comment I had in mind was made by Mod Mark, the lead designer, during the Runefest Insider Session titled "The Big Questions". I do not know if Mod Paul commented on this at all, or if the person who added that was mistaken about the mods identity and was referring to the same comment that I am. I certainly have no source for a comment made on the matter by Mod Paul.

I listened quite carefully to the question and answer at that RuneFest panel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHuF1Vv8aJw#t=06m41s), and transcribed it verbatim. The result of that is below:


 * Session Moderator: "...and the next question is on capes, and it's for Mark, and the question is, will Free-To-Play players or Veterans ever get their own Capes?"


 * Mod Mark: "Right, umm, settle this once and for all. Free-To-Play will not get skillcapes, we're not intending to give the free play the skillcapes, we consider skillcapes to be members content. And we will be releasing a maxed cape, we will be releasing a veterans cape,  Umm, believe me, it's something...  ...Believe me, it's something that [Head of Runescape] Cristoph asks me about every other week. He has a few topics that he choo-changes around every once in a while just to ge-upset me, umm, and I said a long time ago that I wasn't going to release a veteran cape until we'd finished working on the skill, obviously the skill was Dungeoneering, and obviously we were working on Dungeoneering for about eighteen months, so, now that it's out, now that we've got players quite high up in the Dungeoneering skill, we're going to start thinking about the veteran cape, so all I can really say is watch this space."


 * Session Moderator: "Thank you Mark, ok, the next question is on..."

So, it isn't apparent if "veterans cape" and the "maxed cape" are one and the same. He says "...we will be releasing a maxed cape, we will be releasing a veterans cape", but he doesn't make it clear whether or not those are two different capes or if he is referring to the same cape twice. Based on the rest of his answer, and the fact that they were waiting to finish working on a large skill to release the "veterans cape", I would guess that he was referring to one cape, which would likely be called a veterans cape, and would be for maxed players (merely being a veteran player by any other definition, such as having played for a long time, wouldn't qualify you.) That, however, is just my best guess. What we can definitively conclude based on Mod Mark's comments, though, is that they are going to be working on cape(s) for maxed players and/or veterans. So, I am going to edit the article to reflect this, until/unless someone provides a reference for another source that suggests otherwise. Iplayrs 22:18, September 6, 2010 (UTC)

New hitsplats
I was just watching some of the videos on the runescape youtube channel and found the |Dungeoneering Developers' blog which shows the mods being attacked and the hitsplats showing what style of attack they are being attacked by (magic, range or melee) and the hitsplats fading away instead of just disapeering like they do now. there is also another video |RuneScape Developer Blog: Void Knights Series with the same hitsplats and the characters have eyes in the video which was before the facial features update came out for players which could mean these unique hitsplats are also going to be added to the game, i cant see why jagex mods would keep something like that exclusive to them. I thought id add this to the talk page before adding it to the article i know how picky rs wiki is for refrences 01:54, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

ge improvement
i know this is pointless now but i think it would be way better if the ge had unlimited cash and items this would be alot better and it would reduce spam

Wilderness and free trade
Will any holiday items be tradable? For example wooly hats and scarves...
 * Untradeable will remain untradeable, Jagex has been explicit on this point.--Degenret01 05:25, December 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * Positive that they won't be. Jagex made a show of never having another tradable holiday drop. That goes just as well for making previous drops tradable. 23:36, January 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * Do u think dat Jagex will make untradeable holiday items be dropped on the respective holiday while being still untradeable?

So called motherland leak?
The image near the penguin upcoming update does not really seem related... The image on the screen could be anything, and frankly, I haven't the foggiest what it is. Does anyone have any prove that it is related to the penguin quests at all, because it shouldn't be there otherwise. 22:43, February 11, 2011 (UTC)
 * Removed it, there's not confirmation that that IS the motherland. 22:47, February 11, 2011 (UTC)

Smithing Update
In Mod Mark's response to why gold-smelting does not give experience for smelting urns, he says "...with a new smithing update coming out soon, we didn’t want to complicate how that is balanced against the existing smithing further."

http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/forums.ws?15,16,673,62475341

16:08, February 28, 2011 (UTC)

Remove Ivandis Flail section
Should we? The only likely things it reffers to are the Completionist Cape req of killing 500 vyrewatch, and the Myreque Part 5 quest which already has a section.
 * Is it confirmed that those are the only uses it will have? I admit, it is very very likely that they are referring to the Myreque series but still, it is not what it says, and we have to avoid all speculation. 21:00, July 3, 2011 (UTC)

Game update FAQ 5/7/11
"Why did the Sea Slug series end at such a low level?"

Mod Osborne: If all quests ended at Grandmaster level, low and mid-level players would never experience a sense of closure with any storylines. Also, large difficulty gaps between quests would mean that a player would need to level up for days, weeks or months before they could continue a storyline; by that time, they may have forgotten what happened, or have lost a little enthusiasm for playing the next quest. I think that ending on an Intermediate level is suitable for the sea slugs – we’ll leave it to the Myreque, elf and Mahjarrat quests to really test your mettle at Grandmaster level.

confirmed that there will be grandmaster finales in these storylines

please add it to the list188.133.35.51 11:26, July 9, 2011 (UTC)

Deamonheim task & Task legs - merge?
At the Tasks set and more Equipment slots Tasks set and more Equipment slots section it says:

"Additionally, a Developer's Blog was posted announcing there would eventually be another diary giving out the legwear for the task set, but it is not due anytime soon and no location has been announced."

Later, in the article it says at the Deamonheim Tasks:

"After a leak in game that showed Daemonheim in the task set, Mod Mark confirmed that Daemonheim tasks are in the works". 20:36, July 27, 2011 (UTC)


 * It's confirmed that there will be legwear and it's confirmed that there will be Daemonheim tasks, but not that those are related. Although I guess they both got to do with Tasks, so a section about tasks with two subsections one about confirmed items and one about confirmed areas could work. 22:56, July 27, 2011 (UTC)

(skill boosting) Auras
Should be deleted/modified - it's already implemented.There will be more and different ones (higher tiers of the current ones, etc). Should be updated/modified. 20:36, July 27, 2011 (UTC)

New on f2p
Is thers New Items coming for free players on runescape.....?

144.131.16.70 06:05, August 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * Nothing that has been confirmed it seems. 17:47, August 17, 2011 (UTC)

"Save 15% on the price of membership" update
The new "Save 15% on the price of membership" update mentions a new Slayer Dungeon and the Dominion Tower. Can someone add these, because I can't. Thanks. 72.49.24.45 23:26, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sneaky how the slip that info in an unrelated newspost. I'll see if I can edit some of that info in. 22:08, August 26, 2011 (UTC)

Ivandis Flail
Should we remove the section about more uses for the Ivandis flail now that branches of darkmeyer has been released? 21:12, September 10, 2011 (UTC)

"Last Slayer Master"
This is only sourced from one friends chat. Additionally, "last" may refer to highest-level, not necassarilly the final Slayer Master of all (there could be one especially for a specific area, for example.) Zigzagzigal 19:34, November 9, 2011 (UTC)

The Firemaker's Curse: Master or Grandmaster?
There is a small revert war over the number of grandmaster quests written in this article. It stems from a controversy that should be discussed first on Talk:The Firemaker's Curse. 02:39, January 13, 2012 (UTC)

Dragon Crossbow
I've lost track of the quote, but I remember in one of the update FAQs (around the time of tz-haar update & quest) one of the mods suggested that they would not release a dragon crossbow, as they were considering the chaotic as the dragon crossbow.216.232.197.24 19:29, March 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Would seem very odd to me since there is both a chaotic and a dragon longsword. Furthermore chaotic degrades whereas dragon does not. And finally, the difference in strength between the chaotic crossbow and the rune crossbow is far more than that of the rune and adamant ones. Then again the level requirements for crossbows relatively don't suggest something in between. It's just a wait and see moment I guess. 02:22, March 23, 2012 (UTC)


 * It has been verified that Jagex will release a dragon crossbow. It's supposed to have its own special attack!   02:24, March 23, 2012 (UTC)

Future update leaked - FAKE said Mod Timbo
http://i.imgur.com/jdn0L.png


 * Okay, and where did you find this? 01:46, April 5, 2012
 * No... Please god let it not be true.. Fusaka 13:24, April 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * Timbo said it is fake at

http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/c=jUfZt0HN4P4/forums.ws?15,16,443,63668909

http://i.imgur.com/b0HFy.jpg


 * Several fakes MT Shop pictures were posted in a general discussion topic on the fan site Tip.it as a means of pun and mockery at the new update. The picture was taken from there.

Future microtransactions by Official Jagex Sources
Please add this to the article as it has been announced by the Jagex executive and none other than him. should be counted as Official Jagex Sources, yes?

http://www.develop-online.net/news/40387/Runescape-begins-first-microtransaction-experiment

basicaly he's saying SOF is just the first step. and that they are waiting for people to calm down, get used to it, get addicted to buying things with $, before going further into this.

Also add this to the SOF page, saying SOF is only the first step and that there are many more microtransactions to come.
 * Just read it, it says nothing of the sort. -- 15:10, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * That news doesn't, but the news linked in the article does

This Just in: Real World Trading Rule of Runescape has been changed to make room for Micro transactions.

Before: http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/619/8b80871726e3471fb10b87e.png After : http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3134/3065d34d555744738200d7f.png

Source: http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/Real-world_trading

Basically it says that if they are buying gold, items or accounts from anyone besides Jagex, it is Real World Trading. Which implies that if Jagex is selling those things, then its not Real World Trading ... its Microtransaction.

Also it implies that nobody has the permission of Jagex to sell Runescape related virtual in-game item ....except Jagex themselves.

They have also REMOVED the statement saying that buying success is unfair and someone's real status should not be a factor of their success in Runescape, implying that they are about to sell success in Runescape.

Metal's Opinion on Jagex-style RWT
If you ask me, RWT and micro-transaction go hand in hand. The latter is a sugar-coated way of Jagex denying its own hypocrisy. Jagex abolished dice, and it's a severe crime to engage in third-party RWT or micro-transactions, yet Jagex allows players to purchase SOF spins, which is gambling and RWT combined.

11:08, April 14, 2012 (UTC)

Troll Warzone Cenematic Trailer: Unknown Dungeon
So today Jagex released a cenematic trailer for Troll Warzone. In it, Ozan is nearly killed by a troll and sees his life flash before his eyes. Everything in these flashbacks (except for some of Ozan's clothes) are real items and places in game. Two frames of these flashbacks show Ozan exploring an unknown dungeon. Does anyone know what this might be?

Selthor 20:52, April 5, 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks dragonkinish. 04:48, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * RE Unknown Dungeon: I feel like this is the entryway To Brimhaven Dungeon. It will be wonderful to see it
 * when it recieves it's update.
 * Kooper215 23:48, April 6, 2012 (UTC)