SRL Archive - RuneScape News and General

Patch Notes 22/07/2013


Soviet Union

2013-07-28 09:31:13

The following fixes and tweaks have now been implemented. If you believe a change has not been documented, either in the patch notes or the news posts for this week’s update, please detail the change so that it may be added.

As always, be sure to submit a bug report should you encounter a gameplay bug or graphical glitch in-game.

Graphical:

  • Jadinkos no longer spawn on water.


Skills & Minigames:

  • Lava grilles in the Fight Cauldron now take longer to heat up and burn for a shorter duration.
  • Obsidian armour absorbs damage from Fight Cauldron lava again.
  • Players are warned if they have a customisation override active when joining the Great Orb Project.


Dominion Tower:

  • All bosses in Dominion Tower have had their stats assessed and rebalanced.
  • The Climber interface no longer closes if a player is using the action bar when it appears.
  • Protection prayers in Dominion Tower will no longer offer full protection against any of the bosses.
  • The Delrith fight has been updated to use the same mechanics as in the reworked Demon Slayer quest.
  • The Pest Queen's special attack can only be interrupted whilst wielding Korasi's sword.
  • General Khazard will now grow in power and life points when he grows in size.
  • Damis will now gain more power when he states he's gaining more power.
  • The Flambeed, Dessourt and Agrith-Na-Na fight has been heavily rebalanced.
  • A typo that made Flambeed have a melee strength 10x too high has been corrected.
  • Players will no longer miss so much during the Golem fight, but will have their damage reduced if they use the wrong attack style.
  • The Dagannoth sentinels heal each other less often but for slightly more.
  • The first piece of dialogue in the Arrav fight can now be clicked out of to continue the fight, and will appear earlier instead of when he's almost dead.
  • Protection prayers will now reduce damage against Elvarg's dragon breath by half, as in the quest.
  • The Gelatinoth Mother's melee phase no longer has such a high defence against melee.
  • The Balance Elemental's health bar is no longer in his feet.
  • Nezichened and the Culinaromancer now have death animations when the ‘skip victory cutscenes’ option is enabled.
  • Cyrisus now plays an animation when firing his bow.
  • The correct floor is now consistently displayed on the Climber and Endurance mode interfaces.
  • It is no longer possible to reach floors higher than 250.
  • The Dominion Tower weapons can now be placed in a Dragon Keepsake box.
  • Koschei throws out more insults.
  • The giant scarab’s earth attacks cause magic, not ranged damage.
  • General Khazard now plays his "grow" animation smoothly.


Other:

  • Players can no longer begin the Troll Warzone tutorial whilst using the Ancient or Lunar spellbooks.
  • Several monsters in Ghorrok now give the correct amount of experience.
  • A glitch where players could return to the Spirit Realm's blocked cave entrance has been fixed.
  • Teleporting out of an area that does not allow worn customisations will no longer revert to the default colours.
  • Main hand and off-hand black knives now have the correct accuracy.
  • You will complete Rampage MK XIV when you kill the Queen Black Dragon.
  • Invisible brewing vats will return to normal when using the valve.


**Updated July 23rd**

Bug fixes & Changes

  • Black screen issues
  • Clan citadel teleport bug
  • Increased World Event spawn rates
  • Fixed e-mail validation issue
  • Issue crossing Polypore bridge
  • Equipping/unequipping items bringing up log out interface
  • Action bar not initialized on login
  • Inability to cross bridge to Barrows or Burgh de Rott
  • Inability to set custom price @ GE
  • World Event enemies not scaling correctly to player level
  • Lootshare enabled on all worlds
  • Transmog'ing items causing the action bar to disappear
  • Player's screens continuously shaking
  • Auto-unlock music tracks not unlocking
  • Momentum and single-way wilderness not working in F2P worlds
  • Players who have not announced their allegiance receiving an error when they go to deposit tears

22nd July 2013

  • Blocking has been removed from several bridges.
  • An issue that was preventing players with no display name from logging in has been fixed.
  • Several interfaces have been prevented from bringing up the logout interface.
  • Some causes of players receiving a black screen on logging in have been fixed.
  • The Battle for Lumbridge has been stopped from using instance shard worlds.
  • An issue that was stopping players from using the "custom price" function of the Grand Exchange has been fixed.
  • An issue with the game not rendering fog after watching certain cutscenes has been fixed.


23rd July 2013

  • Camera shakes will no longer continuously play.
  • Some black screen issues have now been fixed.
  • Defence abilities used from the ability book now function correctly.
  • Another fix has been made to stop the actionbar from disappearing.
  • Disabled lootshare on non-lootshare worlds.
  • Some spells that incorrectly required a target have been corrected.
  • Stopped quick inventory slots from activating whilst typing.
  • Some fixes were made to how email validation works with accounts with no display name.
  • The automatic unlock music code has been added back into login.


24th July 2013


  • Several cutscenes now work in the HTML5 client.
  • Cutscenes now work correctly in the World Wakes quest.
  • A cutscene in Ritual of the Mahjarrat no longer crashes the Java client.
  • The Conquest tutorial can now be completed.
  • The "Nowt Tool Look At" and "Building Up Strength" Lumbridge achievements can once again be completed.
  • Several changes have been made to make the account creation process work better with accounts with no display name.
  • Several tweaks have been made to hopefully solve the mystery of the missing keybinds.
  • The money pouch will no longer display as empty when there are coins inside.
  • The Sinkholes daily reset has been replaced - this will take effect on the next daily reset.
  • Players can now exit out of the Orb of Occulus interface.
  • "Search" prompt windows will now appear on top of other interfaces.
  • The Clan chat window's separator will now remember it's position over log-in sessions.
  • The rejoining Friends / Clan chat functionality works once again.
  • Setting the friends chat filter to "Friends only" now works as intended.
  • Temporarily increased the drop rates slightly of the keystones in the Order of Ascension dungeon.


29th July 2013

  • Players can once again progress past Wizard Traiborn's quizzes in Recipe for Disaster.
  • Completing the Player Owned Ports introduction cutscene now generates the port area correctly.
  • Corrected an issue that was showing too many points had been gained by certain players in the Battle for Lumbridge.
  • Players can once again descend the stairs in Juliet's house near Varrock.
  • The ladder in Lumbridge church is once again scalable.
  • Players being attacked in Stealing Creation no longer gain a lot more points than the attacker.
  • Players who have not completed Bringing Home The Bacon no longer receive daily challenges far below their skill level.
  • An issue that was causing a loss of keybinds after using a bank search function has been fixed.
  • An issue that was causing disconnections when using a Battle for Lumbridge rewards trader has been fixed.
  • The emotes tab will no longer delete itself upon logging in if a player separates the Clan chat tab from the parent chat interface.
  • The "Really rotten potato", "Off-white party hat" and "Garish pink party hat" have been removed from the list of Quick Chat items.
  • The quick-inventory buttons are no longer bound to any keys as default when logging in for the first time into RS3.
  • The bank interface is no longer affected by the transparency setting.
  • Discontinued weapon poisons are now untradeable, and Warped Tortoises & Terrorbirds no longer drop them.
  • It is once again possible to juggle in the Circus.
  • Players can no longer walk into the air on Ape Atoll.
  • Corrected several camera issues with the Vorago fight.
  • Added some more blocking into certain locations around Lumbridge.



Link: http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/forums.ws?15,16,196,65082699

Sorry its late been away :p

Ian

2013-07-28 12:54:19

Thanks for this,
Black screen issues

were really bothering me :p