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Legacy Mode Beta - Now Open

The Legacy Mode Beta is now open, for free players and members alike.

Log into the combat beta and import your live-game save in the lobby.

Note that you can re-import your live-game save from the lobby whenever you wish. However, any game progress made in the beta is not reflected in the live game.

Legacy Mode

Once you're in the game, you'll be offered the opportunity to switch your combat mode to Legacy.

Do so, and you'll activate the following features - aimed at replicating the look and feel of traditional RuneScape combat:

No abilities, with auto-attack damage scaled up.
Pre-RuneScape 3 interfaces - resizeable and fixed.
Old-style minimap icons.
A maximum-possible life point value of 990.
If you wish to switch between modes later, you can do so through the Combat Settings or Game Settings interfaces.

Global Updates

We've also put together a batch of changes to improve combat for everyone - introducing some of your most-requested features, while addressing some long-standing balance issues with EoC.

You can try these out in the beta today:

An updated version of the 138 combat formula, with equal contribution from melee, ranged and magic.
Special attacks on weapons.
Strength bonuses have replaced critical hit chance.
Ability damage has been fine-tuned to address some long-term imbalances. Damage output potential remains the same, but weaker abilities have been improved and overpowered abilities toned down.
More life points come from stats than from armour, and combat triangle penalties and bonuses are slightly relaxed.
More Information

Find out more information on these and other changes in Mod Pips's forum thread.

Read the FAQ for further details of today's combat beta updates.

Your Feedback

While you're playing the beta, please take some time to give us your thoughts over on the forums. Your feedback will be a huge help as we assess the ongoing state of the beta, and make any final adjustments.

Remember, we'd like to get your impressions of the global combat changes, too. Even if you're not interested in Legacy Mode, we're keen to know what you think of special attacks, strength bonuses and the balancing updates.

In the future, we’ll be running a poll on whether you want Legacy Mode added to the live game.

link to the beta: http://www.runescape.com/beta/combat

I wish they used the old fonts, these new ones look too fuzzy.

Edit: Used the drop trick to turn 80m into 560m, then gave it to some guy when I got bored. Unfortunately you can't trade partyhats.

interesting… might get back into the new rs…

I like it. What do you say, should we switch SRL6 over to legacy? It would make things a hell of a lot easier…

Some screenshots:

Interfaces


Bankscreen


Some other changes:

From: The Mayor
I like it. What do you say, should we switch SRL6 over to legacy? It would make things a hell of a lot easier…

There are still skills that are better in EOC. Mining is the main one. Mining without being able to action bar drop would be quite slow compared to with it. Not sure on combat yet, haven't seen xp/h calculations.

So now this beta is pretty much RS2 again with some tweaks?

From: The Mayor
I like it. What do you say, should we switch SRL6 over to legacy? It would make things a hell of a lot easier…

Some screenshots:

Interfaces

http://i.imgur.com/qGQkujf.png

Bankscreen

http://i.imgur.com/l3CVuTu.png

Some other changes:

http://puu.sh/9xaxk/9bbd7e8914.jpg

http://puu.sh/9xaqe/e8632d6c6f.jpg

Those interfaces are ugly.

From: BMWxi
There are still skills that are better in EOC. Mining is the main one. Mining without being able to action bar drop would be quite slow compared to with it. Not sure on combat yet, haven't seen xp/h calculations.

True. The action bar is useful for anything that you drop (ore, logs) and magic spells, but it will be so great to get rid of ClutterScape.

If there was the actionbar i would consider it for srl-6.

From: The Mayor
I like it. What do you say, should we switch SRL6 over to legacy? It would make things a hell of a lot easier…

Some screenshots:

Interfaces


Bankscreen


Some other changes:

That looks like ass. It's just the NIS, recolored.

SRl-6 works perfectly with the NIS anyway, so any change? :P

From: Olly
If there was the actionbar i would consider it for srl-6.

Exactly. If this were the case I might have some interest again in that game, until then I'll stick with OS.

From: KeepBotting
That looks like ass. It's just the NIS, recolored.

SRl-6 works perfectly with the NIS anyway, so any change? :P

I agree about srl6 working so why change. They didn't even revert to the old fonts, and the fuzzyfonts look worse on the brown than they do on the dark blue imo.

Let's keep in mind though, this is a beta so it might change. Although I think the addition of the actionbar is very unlikely.

Might actually be able to play rs3 again

Would like to see them put some effort into minimap also.

From: Olly
Would like to see them put some effort into minimap also.

A working minimap is good enough for me.

From: Wetish
A working minimap is good enough for me.

If your talking about the opengl/dx glitches I doubt that's fixed in legacy. :p

From: Olly
If your talking about the opengl/dx glitches I doubt that's fixed in legacy. :p

It's working for me :D

I have no idea why it is though.

From: Olly
If your talking about the opengl/dx glitches I doubt that's fixed in legacy. :p

wetish doesnt care as long as he can pick his potatoes.

He really should have a custom title called "The Potato Picker"

Thank god I am still a pure! 99 str/hp/range 92 str with over 500m <3 HEEHAWWW

From: Wetish
It's working for me :D

I have no idea why it is though.

Confirmed.. I can see an SRL debate now between Safemode, OpenGL and DirectX.

I was testing something on both the beta and the current RS..

OpenGL with battery saving on Windows was 7 FPS on my laptop.
DirectX with battery saving on Windows was 30 FPS on my laptop.

OpenGL with balanced battery mode on Windows was 25-30 FPS on the same laptop.
DirectX with balanced battery mode on Winodws was 50-52 FPS on the same laptop.

I have no idea why this is.. At all. -_- Big difference between the two graphics modes and battery modes.


But yeah the Minimap is fixed somehow :S Same with that zoom in glitch.. Betting it won't be fixed in the live version lol..

From: Brandon
Confirmed.. I can see an SRL debate now between Safemode, OpenGL and DirectX.

I was testing something on both the beta and the current RS..

OpenGL with battery saving on Windows was 7 FPS on my laptop.
DirectX with battery saving on Windows was 30 FPS on my laptop.

OpenGL with balanced battery mode on Windows was 25-30 FPS on the same laptop.
DirectX with balanced battery mode on Winodws was 50-52 FPS on the same laptop.

I have no idea why this is.. At all. -_- Big difference between the two graphics modes and battery modes.


But yeah the Minimap is fixed somehow :S Same with that zoom in glitch.. Betting it won't be fixed in the live version lol..

Also notice a different graphics version of OGL? it's like OpenGLX or something.

Sadly it lags a lot for me and most of the weapons are totally different to what they were like pre-eoc :(

From: arm2
Sadly it lags a lot for me and most of the weapons are totally different to what they were like pre-eoc :(

Same here and yeah how lame… The gameplay is so confusing and crappy.

From: P1nky
Same here and yeah how lame… The gameplay is so confusing and crappy.

I just wish OSRS was based between 2009-2011. Those were when I had my best pking memory's when I smited peoples chaotics :sasmokin:

From: P1nky
Same here and yeah how lame… The gameplay is so confusing and crappy.

Fixed mode lags. Resizeable does not. For me at least. Hopefully for you too?

From: BMWxi
I wish they used the old fonts, these new ones look too fuzzy.

Edit: Used the drop trick to turn 80m into 560m, then gave it to some guy when I got bored. Unfortunately you can't trade partyhats.

Whats this drop trick you speak of?

From: SoulShare
Whats this drop trick you speak of?

Press import save. Log into beta. Drop coins/runes/ect. Log out to lobby. Import save. Login to beta. Pick up items. You now have the stuff you dropped plus the imported items. This can be repeated as much as you want and each time you'll gain whatever you can import of the dropped item. The items have no value on the beta, and you can't bring them to the live game, but still fun to play around with I guess.

They've updated legacy beta http://services.runescape.com/m=news/legacy-mode-beta---update-27th-june?jptg=ia&jptv=community_news

So far so good, would be nice to change the frame to be slightly more "EOC" though, and just have the Legacy combat/hitsplats.