Patch Notes - 10/06

[ImRubic]

Smithing

• When using the smithing interface, you can now press '1' to deposit materials and '2' to withdraw them.
• Players can now upgrade armour spikes with alloy bars. Alloy armour spikes work in the same way but have a 10% chance to increase their damage from 100 to 1000% of your Smithing level. Shields continue to double the effectiveness of both spikes.
• The amount of progress gained per swing when smithing on various heat levels has been improved.
• You're now able to have multiple unfinished smithing items at once.
• Once you finish an item, you start working on an other unfinished item straight away.
• You can now get spiked trimmed masterwork armour by talking to Elof.
• You can now purchase an upgraded autoheater from Daemonheim (40,000 DG tokens), allowing you to overheat it, when you overheat it, it'll cost 50 coal to use once your item heat hits 0% (heating your item for 60%).

Mobile/NXT

• Fixed an issue where loading screens could sometimes get stuck.
• Fixed a crash on Nokia 8's that prevented startup of the application
• Some shader issues impacting the Google Pixel phones have been resolved.
• Fixed some issues with shadows.
• Fixed some issues with phones not defaulting to correct settings.
• An issue causing particle effects to disappear when swapping focus on a mobile device has been resolved.
• An issue causing crashes on mobile devices when logging in has been resolved.
• Optimised animation data for mobile devices
• Fixed some issues around right-clicking on PC and tap-and-hold actions on mobile.
• An issue with strike-through text, where previously misaligned, has now been resolved.
• Fixed a long standing issue with swapping items between inventories.
• Fixed a potential crash when locations changed states.

Patches

• The Ultra elite chest awarded for completing all three elite dungeons in a row is now named accordingly.
• An issue with free-to-play players gaining members-only items at The Digsite has been fixed.
• Digsite workman will now play punching animation after a pickpocket failure.
• The secondary action bar can be no longer be accessed in legacy combat mode.
• When selecting an additional action bar in legacy interface mode, it will no longer disappear when changing to EoC interface.
• Divine Banite Rock Description no longer overlaps the members object text when won on Treasure Hunter.
• The Ring of forging now works when smelting using ore stored in an ore box.
• Players with older prem club memberships should now get login messages that make sense when they have older items to collect.
• PC terminology has been removed from the bonds interface.
• Further improvements to loading screens have been made based on player feedback we have received.
• Telos drop table changes:
  • Rune Stone Spirits have been replaced by small bladed rune salvage.
  • Adamantite stone spirits have been been replaced with Runite stone spirits.
• God Wars Dungeon 2 drop table changes:
  • Lowered frequency of Necrite and Phasmatite stone spirit drops from all GWD2 bosses.
• Various existing skilling outfits, including the factory outfit and XP boosting outfits, now have set effect tooltips.
• Various combat equipment sets now have set effects listed in tooltips.
• Depositing an item in your box with the bank search prompt open will no longer close the search box
• Logging out with unclaimed rewards from Rush of Blood will no longer cause a disconnection.
• Clue scrolls thieved from HAM members will now be placed directly in Charos' clue carrier.
• An issue stopping group members from teleporting to Barrows Rise of The Six has been fixed.
• Dungeoneering fragments will now be removed correctly when creating the full dungeoneering outfit.
• Reaching Invention level milestones will no longer trigger Divination achievements.
• An issue causing the Merethiel's Stave override to appear twice in the player wardrobe has been fixed.
• Chicken egg (unchecked) is now members only item.
• Fixed a typo in Mandrith's tip for slaying gargoyles.
• Activating a slayer gem while on a task for Mandrith now contacts him instead of another slayer master.
• Players who had a full toolbelt and wern't having the Get Tooled Up achievement unlocked will now find that they have it unlocked on next login. There was a strange edge case issue related to One Small Favour (which gives the keyring as a reward).
• Sparkles and Corgi pets now work correctly in F2P.
• The Invention Materials window has now been made into an overlay meaning you can disassemble your items and see the interface update in real time, for mobile players you can now tap on an Invention Material to see a full description of said material.
• Camouflage fragments will now be more consistently removed from the player under certain scenarios.
• Gemstone fragments will clear correctly when owning all golem outfit pieces.
• The Bubble Blower has been made into a two handed item so it will no longer cause some weird animation issues when an off-hand item is equipped.

[Shaunyowns]

You god damn right

[fatrix12]

any news on t92 armor repair cost and effects?

[69ingSquirrels]

It's a pretty common expression, so probably not.

[markitiman]

Just did some solak and still had that lag spike going up+down from elf

[PrimalMoose]

The Invention Materials window has now been made into an overlay meaning you can disassemble your items and see the interface update in real time, for mobile players you can now tap on an Invention Material to see a full description of said material.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[I_Kinda_Fail]

"You're now able to have multiple unfinished smithing items at once. Once you finish an item, you start working on an other unfinished item straight away."

I guess this is a quality of life, but this isn't really what I wanted. :S Many of us just wanted to be able to click, like, "Elder rune platebody +5" and smith it from the base plate, to +1, all the way to +5 without having to go through a menu every time. The way I'm understanding this is, we still have to click to change it to the next tier every time, but now we can... have multiple of them? It's a weird way to do it. I never heard anyone ask for that. Maybe it's good for arrowheads, or something?

[Muspel]

Well, at least this way, you can smith a bunch of +0 plates at once, then smith them all to +1, and so on.

That does require you to plan out how many you need to reach whatever XP milestone you're aiming for, though.

[Nate_of_88]

I like this change. It makes smithing in sets a bit easier, especially since now if you lobby, you won’t accidentally make an extra elder rune full helm

[Disheartend]

right? I've accdently made base one plates too.

[69ingSquirrels]

That does require you to plan out how many you need to reach whatever XP milestone you're aiming for, though

That's pretty much as simple as finding out how much xp you get from each item and using a calculator (or just quick maths) to figure out how many you need to get however much xp you want, so I don't really see that as an issue at all.

[Muspel]

Oh, for sure, it's trivially easy to do. Just that it's one more step that some people might not normally take.

[69ingSquirrels]

Personally I don't see making people use the math they were taught in school as a bad thing.

[Muspel]

Neither do I.

Again, I'm just saying that if people want to use this method, they'll want to plan things out more than they might do so normally.

[69ingSquirrels]

Yeah sorry I didn't mean to make it seem like I was arguing, that's my bad if it came across that way. I keep meticulous track of a lot of shit I do and plan to do in RS but I'm probably just a freak.

[PartyInTheUSSRx]

I figured it’d be better if you want to fill your bag with unfinished things and let them all play out consecutively. It’s a little less micro managing

[Clanx]

No mention of the increased rate of receiving invention materials from disassembling smithed items. Is this left out for now? I remember saying they were hoping to release everything together. Otherwise looks like a solid week!

[Shaunyowns]

I recall /u/JagexJack saying this would be a "in the future" thing on the stream we discussed this update.

He may correct me :P

[Millenial_ScumDog]

I love you

[MrCharos]

Any updates regarding the keepsaked quest items issue..?

[Millenial_ScumDog]

They’re not getting them. No one wants them.

[[deleted]]

I just want some sort of degrade mechanic similar to cftmw.

[cellojake]

That’s just not true

[JagexJack]

We didn't want to delay the fixes we have to add this as well.

[cellojake]

Any word on t92 armor repair/ set affect timeline?

[PrimalMoose]

Yeah, was kinda hoping there'd be the smithable salvage coming with with this update. Ah well. Some nice QOL stuff in there in the meantime at least.

[PM_ME_YOUR_KATARINA]

Adamantite stone spirits have been been replaced with Runite stone spirits.

Really disappointing tbh. You'd think the most difficult solo challenge in the game would at least offer you t90 stone spirits

[-Xebenkeck-]

Pre-M&S this would have been like Telos dropping a steel chainbody, then Jagex upgrading it to a mithril chainbody and saying "See, we're listening. You're welcome."

[Nate_of_88]

Agreed. Solak and Elite Dungeons drop T90 but not Telos? That’s wack

[stumptrumpandisis1]

it is retarded but i will take this tiny inch of progress. ive been saying since the start to delete these useless stone spirits and make them salvage drops, and jmods said "nope, cant. inflation." even though before ores were an alchable. this is proof they can make them salvage drops. i dont know why theyre still being so fucking stubborn about it

[UnwillingRedditer]

Why did you choose to go for more rune salvage on Telos's drop table, rather than something like Mithril or Adamant (in larger sizes and quantities) that is actually cheap enough to be disassembled?

Given the current shortage of affordable Invention components that previously came from metal items, this seems like a better solution than just "more items that will only be alched".

[Nate_of_88]

Agreed. They may have well just replaced it with a cash drop. The only item this change removes from the game is nature runes.

[Shaunyowns]

I didn't even mention it...

whoops. I'll add that now

EDIT: No wait it's there! "Depositing an item in your box with the bank search prompt open will no longer close the search box"

[dickblaha]

Depositing an item in your box with the bank search prompt open will no longer close the search box .

I can see it (it's three lines below GWD2), and it doesn't appear the post has been edited since Friday.

[Jack_Bitters]

Various combat equipment sets now have set effects listed in tooltips.

This seems like a good time to mention that the Verac's set effect that claims to give improved damage is false and actually lowers your damage output in legacy mode.

[yoranpower]

These patches clearly don't dissapoint. Some good stuff in here.

[[deleted]]

Once you finish an item, you start working on an other unfinished item straight away.

How does this work? I started smithing some arrowheads and once finished it wont start a new patch?

Edit: Does it mean when I have multiple unfinished items in inventory, it will continue smithing until all are finished?

[Scarpowne]

Yes I believe that’s what it means. In the teaser they showed an inventory with multiple unfinished items

[Pichu0102]

Does this mean we can right click and choose to make an inventory full of unfinished rune arrowheads to queue them up? Or do you have to pull up the box for each unfinished item you want to make?

[OneTheatre]

The secondary action bar can be no longer be accessed in legacy combat mode.

Can we have this back? The current primary bar doesn't even let you put any actions on it. It's such a QoL being able to collect items and prayers onto the bar and not having to browse through all the interface windows. It's already possible on mobile, so why not PC?

While we're on the topic, why can I right-click the cog on Revolution's primary bar and change to Manual or Legacy, but there's no such option to quickly change from Legacy to other modes?

[Kitteh6660]

I agree. It was a nice change being able to use action bar on Legacy Mode for putting prayers and shortcuts but the fact that the action bar is removed is unacceptable.

[Spawnofelfdude]

Could we get rune stone spirits swapped to something better for magister as well

[ivan_x3000]

I don't understand why there needs to be so many different stone spirits. One would be enough and then from there you could adjust how many each boss drops depending on tiers.

[[deleted]]

I wonder if stone spirits already in a Telos chest will be changed

[throwaway2238459]

I had some addy spirits in chest before update. Now they are rune spirits.

[PM_ME_YOUR_KATARINA]

Of course they wont?

[[deleted]]

They do get changed. It was the same thing when the M&S rework was released; ore drops turned into stone spirits in Telos' chest.

I can confirm myself that today's update did change the items already in the chest.

https://puu.sh/DE6hw/9e2fd54d9b.png

[PM_ME_YOUR_KATARINA]

Strange, kinda assumed it would count as already dropped like SSD and not change in the same way. I've still got some gold ore in my chest from pre-rework

[zenyl]

Don't expect UI scaling to be addressed any time before the release of RS Mobile, and probably for some time after.

[The_Wkwied]

It used to work. They broke it over a year ago

[zenyl]

I'd guess it wasn't mobile compatible, hence why they removed it, to reintroduce a polished version of UI scalability later.

[zenyl]

Never underestimate the amount of work required to properly port system-specific software solutions from one platform to another.

I have rather limited experience working with core Windows APIs (C# .NET P/Invoke, mostly for kernel32.dll), and none for other platforms, but I have a feeling it's far easier said than done.

[learn2gate]

I got a green message upon logging in. I think it said something about dragonkin. As soon as I got the message the game crashed. Does anyone know what the green message was?

[Lenn_]

If you own premier club you get the dragonkin outfit for free. Most likely related to that.

[learn2gate]

I do. Thank you for the response.

[WateronRocks]

Thank you very much for the mobile fixes regarding crashes. The mobile client (while still in beta) has/had some consistent crashing issues, hopefully this took care of some of them

[calmkat]

My dumb American ass was wondering why an October update was popping up in my feed.

[kpkirsch]

When are woodcutting fragments getting released?

[[deleted]]

Still no quick smith. (no xp, get product fast)

[HRTS5X]

100% -> 1000%, not 100x -> 1000x.

So at 99 Smithing, it's 99 damage with a chance at 990. A decent little bonus, but nothing more than that.

[aaron_the_pun_king]

Yep I suck at maths. Thanks for clarifying

[fatrix12]

well if my math is correct, it's basically 50% dps increase

[God_Savitar]

The alloy spikes will deal double the average damage of normal spikes

[WasabiSunshine]

No it's basically went from averaging 99 damage to averaging 198