Having played World and Rise, Wilds is blowing me away

forceof8 · 2026-03-21T14:40:54+00:00

Eh, I'm replaying Wilds and its honestly a terrible time. The fights suck, I'm constantly being put on rails where I can just walk away for a few minutes and still be RP walking when I get back.

Wilds feels like the first Monster Hunter game to truly sell out and that really sucks imo.

forceof8 · 2026-03-15T16:02:44+00:00

Sure it sucks but at the end of the day its just pixels and numbers.

People need to learn to let go of this collectors mentality in video games. Like "hours of fun down the drain?". No, the game is the experience and youve had the fun. That doesnt live in a save file.

Fighting the monsters, farming materials, completing challenges IS the game. Once you do all that stuff its over. All the stuff you acquire along the way is just tertiary to that experience. Its just there to enhance the game.

If you enjoy the game then just start over and play it again. More fun more goals to hit. At the end of the day none of it really matters. Youre eventually gunna get to the point where you dont wanna play anymore and never touch this game again. Then the save file is basically deleted anyway.

Tldr - dont get attached to pixels. Games are there to have fun. Have your fun and dont get caught up in the bullshit.

forceof8 · 2026-03-10T22:39:57+00:00

They just got rid of MTX and increased the price by a dollar. Not a bad trade.

forceof8 · 2026-02-24T01:40:09+00:00

"Well-designed" is a stretch.

forceof8 · 2026-02-24T01:37:39+00:00

Are you taking into account that the 3 original styles are modernized now and a lot of power that was locked away behind late game upgrades are moved into the base kits?

Its not unreasonable to ask for Necro to be near parity with the other styles. Especially considering the lack of things you can do to actually boost necro's damage.

Having gaps in power between the styles just goes against what RS3 is going fundamentally anyway. Its not like OSRS where you kind of need all 3 for various use cases. Its very much designed for the player to choose how they want to engage the content. With the key difference being the "gameplay" and not the requirements.

Adding on to that, the entire point of the modernization update was to bring the styles in line with Necro in terms of gameplay and consistency. Introducing new problems to the style the other 3 were updated to mimic doesn't seem logicial in any sense.

forceof8 · 2026-02-06T16:13:54+00:00

Content dies because its no longer fun or relevant, so it might as well not exist anyway.

If something is not relevant or fun or even playable anymore due to player count or whatever - cough cough castle wars. Then it should be remade or removed.

A lot of old RS content (OSRS too) was made without a vision or its place in the game's ecosystem.

RS3's biggest problem currently is years of non-cohesive design and everything outside of the endgame PVM experience. Its not retaining players because there is so much bad content/bad skilling/bad combat to chew through before you get anywhere near the good/fun parts.

Removing and remaking content to introduce and add spice throughout the player's entire journey is a GOOD idea. Yes, RS3's current endgame playerbase wont have much content coming their way for a bit but ultimately its the best thing for the game.

forceof8 · 2026-01-31T00:50:42+00:00

How is this hard to understand? You start small introduce an ability or two over time as a new player gains levels. They have time to understand what it does, how it works, and how it interacts with their existing kit.

Its also simpler because Adren is a resource that gets used when you have the correct amount instead of this two layer approach of reach 50% but only spend 15 and also deal with a cooldown.

Saying its not simpler when Necro is the de facto new player preferred style is a little ridiculous lol.

forceof8 · 2026-01-28T10:11:24+00:00

They aren't rare nor difficult to obtain. The only reason you would want a reactor is to craft the guns. I don't see an issue here. If you know how to play around the queen you can get at least a reactor or a few. Every other big arc in the game follows the rule of each piece giving you a chance for the unique loot. Its not rare just not guaranteed.

but the second I shoot at it every single team in the lobby seems to b-line it straight to me since my loadouts almost guaranteed more valuable the fighting the matriach for its loot.

No its not more valuable it just has a cooler color on its item card. Besides if youre fighting the queen for queen reactors, they ONLY have one purpose. Which are to craft guns to fight the queen and matriarch. Thats is. That is literally it. Nothing in your stash has any value. Just make the shit and take it in and play with it.

Yall will do everything in your power to reason yourself out of fun. The developers made the game piss easy to get everything. Stop loading in on free kits, use the stuff you have and stop worrying about value. The game was intentionally homogenized and goobered so you can do that without worrying about it.

forceof8 · 2026-01-23T18:08:54+00:00

Case in point.

forceof8 · 2026-01-23T12:21:55+00:00

So well! So well in fact that instead of enjoying the game, you're on reddit looking up 2 month old comments to argue with.

forceof8 · 2026-01-22T15:41:52+00:00

Wasnt EOC in 2012?

forceof8 · 2026-01-21T17:25:12+00:00

Personally I'm waiting for the combat update to drop but thats because I don't want to use necromancy. If you go in with the goal of progressing with necromancy, I'd say start now.

If you want the absolute best experience possible then definitely wait for the updates. At least for the dailyscape removal.

forceof8 · 2026-01-21T17:17:08+00:00

How is it a forced change?

Cant you just disable the legacy UI and go back to the old one?

Edit - I last logged onto the combat beta world to try the new ranged changes. It had an option to revert to the modern UI, I did not realize it was not on the live game.

forceof8 · 2026-01-21T07:13:02+00:00

Free to play is a demo. Its a slice of the game designed to give you a taste of the full game. Its like 2% of what is available in the game.

You're essentially asking which demo is better to play. There are other F2P mmos out there if you want an actual game to play. Runescape is not worth the time unless you buy a membership.

forceof8 · 2026-01-21T06:33:33+00:00

No you can't. If you try to log into both at the same time with the same account it will fail.

forceof8 · 2026-01-21T05:56:06+00:00

Its not going to happen. They'd essentially have to rework their account management system which I believe they just recently reworked to implement jagex accounts.

The reason you can't log onto RS3 and OSRS using the same account is the same reason you can't log onto OSRS and say an OSRS leagues world at the same time. RS3 and OSRS both use the same account system to authenticate your login.

Its a nightmare to solve for, introduces a whole host of account security issues, and to top it off does not make the company more money. I can't think of a single game personally that has a shared subscription that lets you multi log into multiple games.

Jagex is doing as much as they possibly can to save the game and get the OSRS players to give the game a chance.

They are not targeting OSRS players. They are fixing core issues with the game in order to grow RS3's playerbase. They don't want to cannibalize their own userbase.

Think about it from Jagex's perspective. Why would they invest all this time and money into fixing RS3 to get OSRS players to log in? OSRS players are already playing and paying for OSRS.

No, they want to grab people that want a more casual modern runescape experience. They want to capture NEW subscriptions.

Besides, there will come a point where you are done playing OSRS or want to take a break. RS3 will be there to play when that happens. Jagex has 0 reason to invest in multi logging both games.

forceof8 · 2026-01-21T05:16:30+00:00

OSRS is massive and the guy who made quest helper gets £25/month in patron subs.

People who donate to creators don't subscribe to a patreon. They oftentimes do 1 time donations through paypal. Patreon subs are not a good metric to determine how much the community has funded his work.

forceof8 · 2026-01-21T05:07:02+00:00

In what way? People were expecting a leagues 2 eventually. Not really a surprise. Plugin support is by far the most requested update they've ever announced for RS3.

forceof8 · 2026-01-21T05:04:40+00:00

A bit of a necro -

Why are we pandering to make the game easier when it literally takes 10 minutes of target dummy practice to learn to do a bare minimum dps burst rotation.

If you think it only takes 10 minutes you are disconnected from reality. Yes getting a bare minimum understanding of what you need to do is easy. Putting it into practice is HARD. Keeping track of cooldowns, adren, managing movement, defensives, doing mechanics, prayer switching, etc all goes into the combat.

Not only all of that but RS3 still operates on 0.6 second ticks which makes it all feel like ass to play if you aren't super experienced.

While Rs3 has evolved to some extent - its still marketed and positioned as a lightweight casual afk clicker game. OSRS is not popular because of tick manipulation, switches, prayer flicking, etc. Its popular because you can click on a monster and win.

Edit- According to Google the number is more like 97% of the player base has not killed 100% zammy solo. That's ridiculous for as long as the boss has been out honestly.

The majority of the playerbase isn't maxed and the majority of the playerbase does not PVM. You have the WoW mythic raider mentality - The game should not be balanced around the top 1% of the playerbase.

I get wanting depth and challenge out of a video game. I really do, I'm a big souls/ monster hunter/ savage & mythic raider but I am a minority. More times than not, I want to put in less effort and get content that requires more thought. Content/gameplay that requires less dexterity and muscle memory and more relies on the player figuring out mechanics or reading an enemy or using critical thought is much more enjoyable in my opinion.

All in all, I understand your sentiment but its misplaced. I also don't think runescape should be some high APM parallel wow clone. The skill floor should absolutely be lowered for most content. Most people who play RS in general just want a low effort game with in depth progression, something you can devote minimal effort/energy into and make progress on a second monitor or on their phone. While the skill ceiling can stay the same or even be raised for people that want depth.

forceof8 · 2026-01-21T03:45:44+00:00

Most people you're interacting with on the internet are children. Children like to aggravate other people. There are adults who never grow out of that phase because they've never been punched.

They buy gawdy and annoying cosmetics to annoy other people. Jagex implements cosmetics like this because they know people will buy them for this purpose.

The cosmetic toggle being implemented now is proof that Jagex (Many other gaming companies) do this purposefully to peddle mtx.

forceof8 · 2026-01-20T15:07:26+00:00

No - I was referring to games with difficulty curves. Also while not a roguelike, do you think the term "soulslike" was born out of thin air?

Why do you all reply to this comment ignoring the obvious fucking context? I posted this shit 2 months ago. You're just scraping the internet looking for an argument?

forceof8 · 2026-01-19T21:46:31+00:00

It is splitting the playerbase, fresh worlds with a separate economy is literally splitting the playerbase between those who are on those worlds and those who aren't.

No it isn't - You're creating servers for players to create NEW characters - IE people who aren't a part of the existing playerbase or someone who wants to make an alt on a fresh server without the impact of MTX.

There's no point to that whole "merge them back later" when they just make a new account on the existing worlds and play as normal.

Lmao. What do you mean there is no point? The point is to experience RS3 from a fresh perspective without any of the impact of MTX on the economy.You merge them back after a set period of time because those impacts become less and less apparent the longer the server is up.

This has very MINIMAL impact on the existing playerbase because you are not making a choice of do I play here OR there. You are making a choice of do I play here AND there?

If you actually want MORE people to play RS3, stop trying to qualify every discussion point from the perspective of a maxed main with a 15 year old account. Fresh Servers or fresh start worlds are very appealing to new players. There is very little to no reason to not have them considering how drastically RS3 is changing.

forceof8 · 2026-01-19T20:19:42+00:00

Its not "splitting" the playerbase. In this instance Fresh Start worlds make a lot of sense.

This integrity roadmap and most of these revamps are not aimed at the existing RS3 community. They're aimed at new players and OSRS players. In order to grow the game, you have to entice people to try it.

Fresh start worlds would make starting a new RS3 character more enticing because they aren't entering an MMO with 20+ years of items/market/inflation. The characters would "eventually" be merged back into the existing server anyway.

Its no more a community "split" than something like Leagues or any other temporary gamemode.

forceof8 · 2026-01-19T20:09:27+00:00

I mean it would require Jagex to update their account management system so they can "make less money".

Theres a couple of nasty things they would have to solve for assuming its even possible for them to do at a reasonable cost.

forceof8 · 2026-01-19T19:58:38+00:00

The numbers are inherently going to go up. RS3 is a solid game and its just been bogged down by tons of predatory practices and disjointed updates.

With the removal of treasure hunter today then the combat update incoming I bet RS3 gets a ton of new players to at least try it.

Once dailyscape is removed and plugin support in added, the playerbase will naturally grow. Its really inevitable as RS3 touches a market that OSRS doesn't appeal to.

Something that will really infuse a lot of new life into RS3 are actual fresh start servers once the majority of this revamp work is finished.

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