r/gaming • u/DantesPizzaSlice • 1d ago
RuneScape 4 announced - "A new RuneScape age is coming"
https://play.runescape.com/4"An entirely new RuneScape MMORPG, built in Unreal Engine and set in the world of Gielinor. Right now, it’s rocking a working title: RS4. That isn't necessarily the name we’ll eventually settle on, but this is our fourth generation RuneScape project, so RS4 works pretty well for now."
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u/Fine-Needleworker661 1d ago
with world of warcraft having modern, classic, and forever as seperate games and now runescape running osrs, rs3, and rs4 in parallel it looks like mmo companies are learning what beverage companies learned decades ago: there is no one perfect product that everyone will like. make multiple flavors of your product to capture a larger market.
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u/RightRudderr 1d ago
For sure and honestly it makes sense. The amount of times I go into the WoW subreddit and see a popular opinion there that sounds absolutely abysmal to me is very frequent. And likewise the things that I enjoy so much about the game are full fledged reasons why others quit playing. MMOs in general are such massive undertakings that draw interest from a wide variety of people its literally impossible to cater to them all. In many cases its impossible to cater to even a majority.
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u/Able-Swing-6415 1d ago
Meanwhile GGG made a different game just to slowly turn it into a copy
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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 1d ago
Lmao. Chris Wilson sitting back in retirement thinking "I told you guys it wouldn't work"
I applaud them for trying though.
They just didn't commit hard enough to the vision of a different game. I think they got scared when they chose to pivot from a POE1 successor and the apes of the POE1 community went rabid on 0.1.0 EA launch.
1 foot in 1 community, the other in a community of people like me who would have liked to have something more balanced, a little less spreadsheety, with slower more meaningful combat.
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u/Appropriate-Swan3881 21h ago
I think poe 2 did one major mistake which made their slow and deliberate combat fail and that is they kept mobs faster than the player character. Looking at games like Elden ring, you cant have enemies move faster than the player unless you plan to make some enemies overwhelm you (like bears).
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u/perolan 13h ago
I agree, but Jagex sort of started this trend with OSRS way before WoW classic came out. It’s actually one of the big justifications and use cases the community pointed to constantly for years while begging for classic.
Which actually gives me a decent amount of confidence / hope for whatever RS4 is going to be, that Jagex actually properly planned and thought this through and it isn’t just band wagoning on whatever blizzard is doing
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u/GamingTaylor 1d ago
Considering RuneScape dragonwilds was successful I’m betting RuneScape 4 is going to be a world of Warcraft like experience.
Old school RuneScape players are not going to like unreal engine
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u/No-Progress-8597 1d ago
I was just wondering in the middle of dragonwilds on why they didnt just turn this into a new rs game
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u/rowanbladex 1d ago
That's most likely what's actually happening. They said the origin of RS4 was the team working on a dragon wilds expansion that got a little out of control.
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u/Grasle 1d ago
MMOs are risky and expensive. Testing out concepts on a less ambitious project first is a good way to reduce that risk.
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u/astrielx 1d ago
Half the OSRS players freaking out on the OSRS sub, about the guy testing DLSS on Runescape. So yeah they're probably gonna get feral over Unreal lol.
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u/Cool_of_a_Took 1d ago edited 23h ago
Why would they be freaking out about a completely separate game? They don't have to play it.
Edit: I've confused some people. I am very much a part of the OSRS community lol. I was asking why the other commenter would think that because it's definitely not coming from the sub, and it wouldn't even make sense. Go search "rs4" on r/2007scape if you need to. The vast majority are very excited.
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u/nick2k23 1d ago
Because of the history of the games, RuneScape 3 used to be osrs before certain infamous big updates. Osrs only exists because the community voted with their wallets. So naturally they’re scared jagex will fuck things up again.
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u/Limp-Ad-4002 17h ago
The point of playing a game like OSRS though is due to hardware accessibility, at least for many players. I'm playing on a shit £200 laptop with an integrated graphics card that won't even run the HD plugin for OSRS.
Adding extra barriers like that will restrict who plays it. Bear in mind back in the day you could literally play RuneScape on your internet explorer browser straight from Miniclip.
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u/Illokonereum 1d ago
OSRS players don’t just inherently hate anything with modern graphics, we just don’t want them to change OUR game for the worse (again).
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u/ColdExample 1d ago
I sincerely hope it goes in the direction of a classic MMO like WoW or FFXIV and not some variation of dragonwilds. Combine that with a monthly plan to ensure quality and no p2w bs like 90% of the freemium mmo slop we've gotten these past few years, and I think they will be on to something. Runescape has a lot of awesome lore, personal branding, and nostalgia to easily capitalize on.
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u/SilentSorcery 1d ago
ngl i didn't even know there were three of them already
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u/kadran2262 1d ago
Classic -> Runescape 2(OSRS) -> RS3(evolution of combat)
Not sure classic has any servers available anymore though
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u/Vuokki20 1d ago
People like to think that EOC update was the day RS2 became RS3 but that's not the case technically, even though de facto it can be seen as the dividing point.
Evolution of combat happened in November of 2012 and RS2 got updated to RS3 in summer of 2013.
Oldschool RS/07 was released early 2013 and it was from the start a separate mode. So OSRS and RS2 existed simultaneously for a while.
Eventually years later RSC servers got shut down too.
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u/FlameStaag 1d ago
Not official ones
EOC wasn't technically the start of 3, it was a graphics overhaul not too long after.
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u/kadran2262 1d ago
There were lots of things that led to it. To me that was just the part where it truly went from RS2 to RS3
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u/Rauskal 1d ago
There is an unofficial RS Classic server kickin' around last I checked.
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u/Wildest12 1d ago
To be pedantic oldschool is just based on a fork of runescape 2 characters from that line of progression are seperate from oldschool.
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u/MonsierGeralt 1d ago
It looks like Dragonwilds was their testing grounds for RS4 and wow if they can make that world into a RuneScape mmo I am so in.
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u/fuzzygreentits 1d ago
So crazy. RS3 seemed like the end after so many years of OSRS support parallel.
I wonder if they'll run OSRS, RS3, and RS4 parallel or they just move on?
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u/MrLugi 1d ago
Think it will depend on RS3 numbers. Seems like the whole recovery thing dindt bring in more players but made it stable. So my bet would be that rs3 dev team will slim down and the main focus will be on rs4
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u/AiBestGirl95 1d ago
They said all of them will run side by side but I think a lot of it depends on numbers, in particular if Reignited boosts RS3 numbers, running 3 memos with 3 separate dev teams concurrently takes a lot of resources and money.
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u/Tarasios 1d ago
Reignited is going to kill RS3 numbers lol. They're making it so all existing characters are divided from any new player who joins the game, with split economies and you can't do group bosses together. So over time old veterans will either quit or have to make a new character to interact with any new players...
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u/Killerx09 1d ago
They're making it so all existing characters are divided from any new player
How is this a bad thing when I don't have to play with the MTX-ridden accounts who progressed ahead just because they could whale on the game for the last decade?
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u/lazymangrove 1d ago
You can max an account in a couple months. Old mains getting lamps does nothing to the new player experience. The only thing that makes being a new player hard is the lack of main accounts in the economy. You cant garuntee you'll be able to find an item on ge right now without paying high prices. Splitting the economy will make it worse but ignite characters won't notice it for awhile because they'll all be buying the same items and collecting them
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u/TheRealandUncutRaz 1d ago
They would have never started the whole recovery thing is RS4 was meant to replace RS3. RS4 was in development before RS3's recovery started. I think the plan is to pull in the people who look at OSRS and think "that looks like shit" and look at RS3 and think "that game's reputation is ruined" as well as action rpg fans and the like. The intent is to have fingers in every pie. Every company has that intent these days. If there's a market share they don't have, they want it.
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u/TheAlphaTitan 1d ago
As is, Jagex's statement is that RS4 will run alongside OSRS, RS3, and Dragonwilds.
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u/Clayskii0981 1d ago
The plan is parallel.
- OSRS is extremely popular. Full development continues.
- RS3 was hard bleeding but they seemed to have fixed a lot of issues and stabilized it. We'll see if it goes maintenance mode.
- RS4 seems to be its own thing. Dragonwilds seems like it was an Unreal test for this. Despite the name, it doesn't look like it'll replace RS3 in any way. I guess they'll see if it pops off or anything.
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u/htoirax 1d ago
The answer to your questions are on the page linked.
"It sits alongside RuneScape, Old School RuneScape and Dragonwilds as an independent experience"
"RS4 will be set in Gielinor, in the Sixth Age. But we're beginning somewhere that RuneScape players have only recently started to discover - and that is Ashenfall. An area first explored in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, and a landmass to the north-east of the Gielinor."
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u/hovsep56 1d ago
it's apperently few years away from release but me personally i'm definitely curious in trying it out.
specially since it's not again a typical asian mmo that will most likely be very p2w and always look the same
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u/Mystrasun 20h ago
This might honestly be "it" for me. All I've ever wanted was an MMO with modern graphics and combat, with RuneScape's skill and quest system. If RS4 is that, then maybe.... After decades of looking, I might have found my MMO
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u/FilthyBarMat 17h ago
I recently canceled a WoW account I've had since the very beginning. Still have the original CDs. The last expansion was the first one where I just didn't care enough to even finish the campaign.
Never played a Runescape game before. Tried Dragonwilds since it was on Gamepass, and am really enjoying it.
Saw the Runescape 4 announcement, looked over at my wife and said "WoW might be cooked".
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u/Monlevad 17h ago
What about WoW Forever?
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u/rufusbot 17h ago
Lol this guy is totally out of the loop. Forever will crush RS4 and I say that with no ill will.
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u/bigmanorm 14h ago
I'm excited for it, but it still has a long road ahead and question marks if they can nail the level 60 experience
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u/PromotionWorldly7419 14h ago
Yeah I'm worried they don't really know how to make an engaging endgame system that isn't just do raid -> get gear upgrade -> repeat until next raid tier
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u/False-Car-1218 14h ago edited 10h ago
Comparing apples to oranges
Rs4 is an action combat sand park MMO while wow is a theme park tab targeting MMO
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u/Much_Ganache_5773 9h ago
thats exactly what i want aswell! im sceptic tho probably gonna overdo it in some capacity. They have the popular formula in osrs i hope they dont stray too much... we'll see i guess
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u/keith2600 1d ago
Hopefully they'll try and keep some immersion at the start and wait a decade before adding in rainbow barf emojis and fortnite skins
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u/Either_Cup4592 1d ago
It appears RS4 is going to be dragonwilds style gameplay??
If so I'm really hoping its on the Geilinor world, thinkthat would be amazing. A new world would be interesting but OG world is preferred.
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u/TheAlphaTitan 1d ago
It's set to take place on the same continent as Dragonwilds, Ashenfall, but after a few years have passed since the end of Dragonwilds' story
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u/omitch1995 1d ago
Yeah it’s set to begin in Ashenfall, but I think they confirmed that it’s not far from Gielinor so I’m sure we’ll see the classic areas we know at some point.
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u/hexbox117 1d ago
I'd love to eventually see all of Gielinor in DW style. I'm sure everyone would though lol.
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u/Astro721 1d ago
The rs4 webpage shows you start in ashenfall but will be going to mainland Gielinor
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u/GabbageGang 1d ago
New world, according to one commenter. Same universe just a different landmass in the future
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u/FreeGoat1776 1d ago
As I'm currently playing dragonwilds wishing it was an mmo and they announce 4 supposedly built off of drangonwilds feedback for it to be an mmo 😁😁😁
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u/FlameStaag 1d ago
I'm kinda torn. I'll have to wait and see what it looks like. But with how they've learned from OSRS and applied it to RS3, I'm fairly optimistic.
I love OSRS but I do hate that most of the challenge is fighting against its ancient jank. It's unique but not really something I can ever apply myself to learning. An actual modern version could be great, though if it has EOC style combat I probably won't touch it. I can't stand EOC.
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u/ReynardVulpini 1d ago
It is not going to be an alternate to OSRS and RS3. It's going to be an MMO Dragonwilds I believe they said.
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u/Officer_Hotpants 1d ago
For YEARS I've been wanting an MMO with action combat. I love the grind and player economy of OSRS, I love the combat of Souls games, and I was a big Destiny raider back in the day, and nothing has really scratched that itch either but I know OSRS raid mechanics are pretty cool.
If they get some good, tight combat mechanics and intricate, action-oriented raid mechanics for small groups, this is the only game I'll ever play for the rest of time.
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u/Katoptrix 1d ago
Did you play New World? What did you like or dislike about it in terms of what you'd want in a game like this. I feel like it spoiled me for any other mmo combat wise, like yeah it wasn't perfect but I can't go back to non action combat mmos.
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u/Officer_Hotpants 1d ago
I played it a bit in release but it felt weird and clunky to me. Closer to Skyrim combat but without the world building of an Elder Scrolls game. And Skyrim isn't exactly renowned for combat mechanics.
I dropped it pretty soon after release tbh
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u/Xagal 1d ago
So if Bdo was a good game. God what I would do for a Bdo osrs wow mutant creation
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u/bigmanorm 14h ago
there's quite a few asian MMOs that would be great if they weren't asian MMOs, i'm hoping Riot MMO is Lost Ark without the cancer
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u/TheDutchman88 1d ago
Companies need to stop announcing games years ahead of showing anything substantial. What's the point. The game just becomes a meme at some point and can never live up any hype people build in their heads. Just quietly work on the game and just shadow drop early access.
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u/scribe-kiddie 1d ago
Reading the article would have clear that up. It's for early player feedback, as they've done with big updates in OSRS (and maybe RS3 idk).
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u/EnvironmentalGur881 1d ago
I knew dragonwilds was gonna be the start of another mmo for jagex. From day 1.
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u/yboy403 1d ago
If it wasn't for Reignited I'd actually be hyped about this. I think a new game only makes sense in their ecosystem if RS3 accounts stream into the new game, but nobody's trusting those accounts to be worth a cup of dogwater in a few years' time.
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u/m0bw0w 1d ago edited 1d ago
Only makes sense if RS3 accounts stream into it? Complete opposite. It only makes sense as a new game. Why would there be any cross-progression in an entirely different format? Why would you even want that? You're skipping the entire core of the game in a new format which is the whole point.
Edit: Not the mention the economy of the game, which RS3's is famously shit.
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u/Fine-Needleworker661 1d ago
yeah i know i wouldnt try it if there would be maxed rs3 players with bils of gold on day 1
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u/DarkflowNZ 1d ago
Personally I couldn't really care less about my rs3 account right now and I'd very much prefer a fresh start, even if it was a 1:1 remake of the game in a new engine with (ideally) less spaghetti.
I don't see those accounts as an investment like some do. I had fun playing and when the fun stopped I stopped playing. It's the probably the reason I don't vibe with old school as much
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u/Wildest12 1d ago
Its going to be a fully new world. Same universe but in the future and different land mass.
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u/natedagr8333 1d ago
I’m still grieving new world.
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u/Wildest12 1d ago
I got really into it on release. Was near the top of my server, in all the first wars etc. Shame they got greedy and tried to speedrun microtransactions.
Jagex seems to currently understand what they do to mmos long term health so i am optimistic. I do still play osrs though so obvious bias.
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u/HolidayNick 1d ago
I would be so pissed if they merged rs3 and existing accounts into a new world. RS4 will be largely molded by dragonwilds which has an entirely different system. It would make no sense and probably kill RS4 before it even released if they sent rs3 account up into rs4.
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u/Rhysing 1d ago
You're confused on what it is. It is not an evolution of RS3.
It is a new version of Runescape altogether. Of course everyone will have fresh accounts on the game that is brand new.
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u/ArielSoto 1d ago
Counter-point: Ironman accounts already exist and they don't add anything to the economy, but I don't see people crying about it.
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u/chins4tw 1d ago
The issue with reignited is that no new players are going to pick the "regular" server over the "reignited" so as time goes on the regular server and economy will start dying off in favor of the reignited server.
This exact same thing happened in Maplestory when they made "reboot" servers which they renamed to "heroic", the result is that the regular servers are dead and people only play the heroic rebooted servers now.
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u/yboy403 1d ago
Not denying that nobody knows what will be, most of the concern seems to be speculative and divided between "this will devalue existing accounts over time" and "this shows that Jagex doesn't care about long-time players." FSW flopped the first time, and you're right that Ironman mode has probably strengthened the game rather than hurting it.
But if ironman accounts on release had been the default at account creation, otherwise identical to older accounts (i.e. no trading restrictions between irons), and streamed into dedicated servers with existing accounts confined to "veteran" servers, I think they would have had a negative impact. They were able to exist in parallel because of the trading restrictions making them a fundamentally different game type.
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u/maxlaav 1d ago
kinda crazy that mmos are making a comeback and all of a sudden theres a bunch of projects to look forward to that isnt your next asian grindfest p2w slop
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u/Myrkana 1d ago
There wont be that much of a comeback. Every few years mmo's make a comeback and most of them fail and fade. There arent enough players who have the time for a mmo to fill the player counts for all of them.
Also theyve said its years out, so bet at least 2 years before any solid gameplay footage, 3-5 before any beta testing or anything.
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u/AussieITE 1d ago
Guild Wars 3 is where my interest lies the most, by a decent margin. It was a meme for a decade+. Never expected it to happen.
GW1 & GW2 are already quite different, but beloved now for their own reasons.
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u/Deeep_V_Diver 1d ago
From what I gathered watching it live, this project stems from the success of dragonwilds. Players wanted to have bigger communities to interact with so I think they are taking that design and making it an MMO.
Also I see a lot of confusion on RuneScape 1,2, & 3. Rs1 is classic, rs2 is what most people probably remember runescape as from 2004-2013, and 3 is 2013-now with the evolution of combat
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u/NesNobnaz 1d ago
It makes sense to do at this point. Everyone in both RS3 and OSRS knows RS3 is too tainted of a name that even if they are doing 90% of the right things, it's still a dying game. The removal of MTX was just too late and while it needed to happen, it should have happened when they were still in a pretty good spot in 2018. The overhauls this year have been fantastic, but the UI, reworked EoC, inconsistent artstyle and content bloat is really too much. I'll miss my 2003 account, but a complete reboot of a modern Runescape is 100% needed, cause if RS3 goes away, OSRS is fucked.
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u/followmarko 22h ago
Honestly I bet this game is going to be awesome because RS in general is awesome
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u/oliveberry4now 1d ago
So i assume RuneScape 4 will be a combination of the best of OSRS and R3 in one game
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u/TransylvanianHunger1 1d ago
There's a 2 and 3?
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u/The_Crazy_Cat_Guy 1d ago
Rs1 is classic - no longer playable but it has 2.5d graphics. Can find community lead archive projects where you can play this
Rs2 is from like 2004 to 2012 where the game was Java based 3d graphics
Rs3 is after an update called evolution of combat and a move away from Java based graphics to C++ based graphics on the nxt client. This is 2012-2013 to current
Osrs came out in 2013 after the eoc update was incredibly unpopular and basically killed the playerbase within a week. It starts from. 2007 copy of rs2 but has taken a unique path in terms of lore, updates and gameplay. It’s basically what wow forever is. In fact I reckon it’s what inspired wow forever and wow classic because osrs is by far the more popular game today.
Dragonwilds is a survival crafting game set in the same universe. It borrows many aspects from traditional RuneScape (both osrs and rs3) but it’s a survival crafting game - not an mmo. So it’s a different genre entirely.
Rs4 is what was announced during runefest which is currently happening (like blizzcon). It’s an mmo built on the same platform as dragon wilds. Basically they’re taking the survival crafting game and saying what if this was an mmo. It’s still in development and we’ll see what it means for the future of RuneScape. Many people dislike the tile based tick based structure of RuneScape so this might be a way to introduce that along with the rs we know and love.
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u/xs0apy 1d ago
RuneScape is one of those games I REALLY wish I could understand and enjoy. I have never been able to get it, but I DO get that many people love it so clearly I am missing something here that I wish I could understand :(
The closest I got to understanding it was watching my coworker leveling up on a fourth monitor. Apparently it’s a great game to play while doing other stuff?
Either way, RS4 has my interest. I want to finally enjoy RuneScape!!
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u/Angel_Bmth 1d ago edited 9h ago
It’s basically virtual dopamine. It’s REALLY fun. Don’t play it
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u/Longbenhall 1d ago
Genuinely curious, as opposed to what? That vague description goes for all MMOs lol.
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u/secret_aardvark_420 1d ago
Yeah but OSRS in particular is very, very good at little, constant dopamine drips that build up to big ones.
Also It’s like vaping: the accessibility—being able to play at home, at Work, on mobile, is incredibly addictive because you can always be making progress.
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u/ZombieRichardNixonx 1d ago
In addition to what the others said, Runescape, especially OSRS, is unusually good at permanence. Very little content in OSRS ever becomes truly obsolete, so even if you left for five years, when you get back, your character is as good as it was when you left. This makes progression incredibly rewarding, because your character is basically a long-term project that can never be taken away from you through obsolescence.
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u/Longbenhall 1d ago
Isn't that just horizontal progression? Same can be said for gw2 no?
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u/No-Progress-8597 1d ago
Number go up, everything you do makes some kind of number increase. The gameplay apart from end game content is ancient and not really that fun, but its satisfying
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u/Longbenhall 1d ago
Very apt description and I do agree. Had a convo with my friend recently about it. As someone who's spent at least a few hundreds of hours on my account atm. Its funny to me how hooked me and other people are on the game when I actually think about it, during my daily gameplay, how much FUN am I actually having? And honestly, not a lot lol. I can't really describe any of my grinds to be very FUN. Most slayer tasks I get are tedious and boring as hell, fishing is extremely boring, agility is the worst skill in any video game i've played, mining is boring as hell.
LIke majority part of the game you do quite boring gameplay.. Yet we still love it.. Its interesting how much dopamine of leveling up can carry a game.
Obviously im not saying the game doesnt have good things, questing, music, world vibe/setting etc. But overall, the actual gameplay of runescape is extremely boring, but I love it anyway.
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u/SpartansATTACK 1d ago
I was just trying to explain that to one of my friends recently when I was on a specific grind. He asked what I was doing and I told him I was playing OSRS, he asked if I was having fun and I was like "honestly, not really, it's more like a mild addiction" lol
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u/RobinIArgh 1d ago
God I hate the tick, tile, point to click system. Loving RSDW and can't wait for Rs4
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u/The_Crazy_Cat_Guy 16h ago
I hated it until i understood it in osrs. Now I think it’s part of the charm. Seriously when you learn inferno/colosseum it opens the game up so much. You start to understand this game is just so unique. The only game that’s close to osrs is rs3. And there are no games out there that are similar to either at all.
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u/ImportantTravel5651 1d ago
RS1 was the era of classic between 2001 and 2004
RS2 is the update that is currently OSRS that originally arrived in 2004
RS3 is the modern version of the game that existed since 2001
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u/HorsNoises 1d ago
Old School is Runescape 2 (well technically it has kinda moved beyond it, but still was based off it) and the "main" version is Runescape 3.
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u/Noximilien01 1d ago
Runescape classic was R1 osrs is a save from r2 they updated and r3 is the modern game.
You can basically think of them of 1.0. 2.0 and 3.0
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u/infinitay_ 1d ago
Gonna be interesting to see what RS4 entails. I assume it'll be like a WoW-style game with dedicated classes and that open-world 1st/3rd person feeling rather than a top-up vibe if that makes sense. Nevertheless, I feel like their recent Dragonwild's game kind of fits that niche.
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u/remakeprox 1d ago
No way in hell they're ditching what Runescape makes Runescape, namely being class-less and everyone can skill everything
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u/althoradeem 1d ago
If rs4 isnt anything but tickless runescape they can keep it
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u/Thegreenpander 1d ago
I think this is what most of us want. Just a modernized runescape. Like actually modernized and no click to move. Not the “modernized” rs3.
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u/AustinTheMoonBear 1d ago
New World without all the issues but in runescape is basically what I want.
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u/HarryBolsac 1d ago
Tbh i want it to be click to move, just not with that 600ms tickrate.
What made me love runescape is the semi afk aspect of it, playing it on a second monitor while I do something else, it tickled a specific part of my brain.
if that is lost I legit have no interest in the game. Glad they won’t abandon osrs or rs3 tho.
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u/NoDoxxingYouFreak 1d ago
I'm 99 percent positive that it won't have classes. By all accounts it should be like Dragonwilds but MMO.
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u/ModernDayWeeaboo 23h ago
Probably a mix between New World and Dragonwilds. Frankly, I can't wait.
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u/unibrowcowmeow 16h ago
This is my exact hope. Combine the new gen combat of NW/Dragonwilds with the classic skilling/progression of Runescape and jagex will be printing money. New World already felt so inspired by RS, my optimism is high.
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u/Crackedbwo 9h ago
1000% it’s gonna be built like Dragonwilds + the mmo portion like actual rs. They did Dragonwilds amazing so I can only assume this is going to be done well and with love.
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u/GrayJinjo 1d ago
That doesn’t make much sense to me. It wouldn’t be RuneScape at all anymore.
Not to mention with WoW releasing Forever in a month it would be really stupid to try and compete against that with a WoW clone.
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u/FlyChigga 1d ago
I think it’s gonna be much more of an mmo dragonwilds sandbox type game than WoW. Completely different type of game
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u/MustardDoctor495 1d ago
Don't know if they'll go the class route like WoW, but if the teaser is an indication...I'd welcome mounts in the world especially if they are expanding the scale with this new iteration.
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u/ReynardVulpini 1d ago
I believe that this game is more forking off of Dragonwilds than off of OSRS and RS3. I wonder if the game will not be a bit more FF14 than WoW
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u/Astro721 1d ago
It is just going to be the MMO version of dragonwilds so I highly doubt it will have classes.
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u/BlueGoliath 1d ago
built in Unreal Engine
For fucks sake.
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u/MJC561 1d ago
Why does everyone Ree when they see Unreal Engine? I am genuinely curious.
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u/ShiftAltRight 1d ago
You've got a lot of UE5 games that aren't optimized well, and people assume that means that the engine is inherently flawed + they must have the same 'Unreal' aesthetic.
Split Fiction, The First Descendant, Expedition 33 etc. were all made on UE5 and run great and also prove that the art direction is entirely up to the studio. The reality is that UE5 is simply more accessible so you get a ton of games made with the engine.
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u/ChrisFromIT 1d ago
Because a lot of games in the early days of Unreal Engine 5 were fairly unoptimized and just ran horribly because a lot of developers thought that just relying on the features of Unreal Engine 5 was all the optimizations they needed.
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u/m0bw0w 1d ago
Because people lack critical thinking. UE5 gives devs a lot of options and streamlines making games. Because of this, there's been a lot of slop from devs who use UE5 as a crutch, and so people blame the engine itself as a poor engine.
It's a tool like anything else, and Jagex has shown us they can use it quite well.
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u/Mizahri 1d ago
Cause most devs don't put in the time to optimize so a lot of UE games run like shit
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u/Wildest12 1d ago
Dragonwilds is basicaly a tech demo for this game though so they will have a head start on optimization.
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u/ChrimsonRed 1d ago
They expect the company to spend 200m making an engine like microslop w/ slipspace only to shelve it a couple years later. They don’t realize how difficult it is to make a modern gaming engine.
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u/gamewastotallyrigged 1d ago
The comments are just people not knowing that RS has 2 and 3, including me