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Update Notes / Updates December 5th - Winter Special, New Wings, Gulega and Fixes!

« on: December 05, 2018, 08:43:31 am »

Hey guys,

This update contains a collection of changes and fixes as well as re-enabling present deliveries for Christmas. There's also 5 new wings in the donator store and a new high level Slayer monster has appeared in the mage arena (level 50+ wilderness) dropping the Zaryte bow.

Winter Weekends
Some of you may have already heard or read about our winter weekend special. We'll be having double xp, double minigame token, free member and event weekends through December. You can read more details and obtain the full schedule here: https://emps-world.net/forum/news-announcements/emps-world-winter-weekends/?~21532

New Wilderness Slayer Monster - Gulega
A new and dangerous foe has appeared inside the Mage arena (wilderness). Their best drop is the Zaryte bow (1 in 250) introducing a new tier 82 shortbow. It has infinite ammo and needs to be repaired after 20,000. Gulegas require level 89 Slayer to be killed.

Its droptable will soon appear on the wiki. Due to the recent demand in vials I've given it a common 80-120 noted vials of water drop. That's not completely solving the problem of obtaining vials, but it will definitely ease the process on higher accounts.

General Wings
All bosses from the God Wars Dungeon have received a special wing type. These resemble the actual general's look rather than their god:

• Kree'arra wings
• Nex wings
• Graardor wings
• Zilyana wings
• Tsutsaroth wings

Christmas Event
I've enabled the Christmas event(s) from the past years. I'm still looking into the creation of new items and rewards, but you're already able to complete or ruin parcel deliveries. The Christmas tree along with snow drifts have also been re-added into the game!

I've also slightly edited the floor and created a snowing effect through the particle system.

Helping out the Chef, Taxidermist and Big Fish Exchange
Special thanks to JP for creating a new miniquest, the Taxidermist and Big Fish Exchange through emps-script. You can start the miniquest called Helping out the Chef north-east of Barbarian village. The Taxidermist can be found in Canifis buying unused slayer head drops for good money. Harry in Catherby exchanges big fishes (bass, swordfish, shark) for 100 noted small equivalents. If you're also interested in adding content to the game through the scripting language, contact us on Discord!

Game fixes / changes:

• NPCs will no longer be aggressive while being inside the tutorial of Thomy showing you the game.
• You can no longer equip all items from the bank interface.
• Kal'Ger now correctly resets his attack phases when getting out of combat.
• A bug within the Construction code was fixed, which allowed you to stay registered inside a house although already having left it.
• Items that can no longer be equipped will now automatically be unequipped.
• Teleports now make you invincible when being casted instead of when being applied. That means that the moment you start teleporting it's impossible to die during that animation.
• Several items have had their options fixed: coal bag, enchanted gem, yo-yo and pouches.
• The attack interface of crossbows has been reworked. It now shows an image of a crossbow instead of a bow.
• Cyclopses now share the drop table of Hill giants. Defender drop rates remain untouched.
• Resetting skilling actions now also properly resets your current animation. Meaning that turning away from mining a rock or an event occurring forcing you to stop doesn't only cancel your action but also the mining animation in this example.
• Following monsters have had their drop tables improved: Bloodvelds, Warped terror birds, Cave horrors, Aberrant spectres, Smoke and Dust devils, Goraks, Nechryaels, Dark beasts and Mutant tarns. These drop tables were quite old and outdated and needed additional refinement. Slayer monsters should be profitable kills, especially the ones having a high requirement to be killed. Please allow us some time in order for the changes to appear on the wiki too!
• Mutant tarns combat behavior improved. The npc now has a size of 2x2 instead of 3x3, attacks faster and received additional attacking distance. This change was done in order to reflect the buffed drop rates.
• Brutal green and Mithril dragons no longer drop 2 dragon bones. Green brutal dragons now drop 1-4 (was 1) green noted dragon hides and mithril dragons 4-12 (was 6) noted mithril bars.
• An issue with sending emails to walla emails has been fixed. The provider would not render e-mails if they contained the @ symbol.
• Halloween event has officially ended. You can still complete the quest and buy rewards, but Skull drops have been disabled.
• Several items can now properly be equipped again. Special thanks to the following topic and reporting the items: https://emps-world.net/forum/bug-reports/unequippable-items-list/?~21478
• Plank Make spell now completes a full inventory (28) instead of 13 logs in the same amount of time.
• Items lost upon death inside the Barrows minigame are now dropped at the graveyard entrance.
• Alching valuable or untradeable items now shows a warning. The price trigger to show the warning is currently set at 300k. That means if an item alch value or GE value is above 300k you'll get a warning if you really want to alch the item.
• The block animation of demons has been updated.
• Easter ring can be equipped again.
• Demon wand and orb now correctly degrade upon death.
• A bug with degrading barrow equipment was fixed. It will no longer be unequipped when processing from 50 to 25 but instead when going from 25 to 0.

Engine fixes / changes:

• The worldmap viewer now caches more images. It should thus be less laggy and buggy once fully loaded. The mouse moving speed was also reduced to make sure the area you scroll to can mostly be seen. If you are having performance issues I recommend not zooming out too far and to wait for it to be initially loaded once!
• Item stacks are now properly rendered on the floor. Prior to the change you couldn't distinguish a 2 arrow drop from a 5 arrow one.
• Internal color or icon codes can no longer be used in chat rooms. You can still type them in your chat box, but they won't appear to anyone else.
• Smooth animations have been revamped. They're now properly interpolated and some flickering issues have been fixed. I've also added an option to turn off animation smoothing completely in case you prefer a more older and classic style.
• Flickering issues have been fixed when npcs are transformed. This fixes a problem where KQ or Kal'Ger turn invisible for a short amount of time.
• The way non-map objects are loaded into the game has been reworked. Prior to this update mining a rock or cutting down a tree could cause a short flicker effect before the replaced object (rock or tree) appeared. There will be no more flickering issues when new objects are spawned onto the map.
• The particle system has been extended to allow static spawns through out the world map. The first example of this new particle system is shown at the Grand Exchange - snowing effect.
• The position transition of head icons has been smoothed. The will flicker a lot less.

I hope you're all having a great time

All the best,
Thomy



Fixes of 6th:

• Gulegas and Aquanites have received sounds.
• PC portals are clickable again.
• Present Deliveries have properly been enabled.
• NPC death animations no longer suddenly stop and flicker.
• Rest in Pieces quest can now be continued.
• Repair option in houses now correctly shows the item name.
• Entities no longer randomly face north after walking diagonally.

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: December 03, 2018, 06:10:46 pm »

why is this platform dying

No Charr to make memes of.

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Screenshots / 1,000 Nex Kills

« on: November 18, 2018, 10:56:57 pm »

Loot from 1,000 Nex kills.

(count started at 3 kills)

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Goals & Achievements / 95,6%

« on: November 09, 2018, 05:10:09 pm »

 

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Goals & Achievements / Goodbye revenants

« on: October 12, 2018, 06:36:28 am »

Finished all 3rd age sets with vambs being my last drop

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: October 07, 2018, 11:41:21 am »

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: October 06, 2018, 02:55:39 pm »

https://i.imgur.com/NogbUGv.png

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: October 05, 2018, 03:57:29 am »

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Update Notes / Updates October 3rd - Vyrewatch, Weakness System and Engine Improvements

« on: October 03, 2018, 07:45:16 am »

Hey guys,

I'm very happy with how the past 2 updates turned out and improved our overall activity; wilderness especially. I'd like to continue improving the wilderness because I think it's a place that ensures the overall game economy stays healthy by creating demand for equipment and resources. I'm also introducing weaknesses to make PvMing more interesting and to give elemental weapons places where they out-scale demon weapons. The aim is trying to create a system where every high level weapon can be useful at some point. As always there's also a ton of bugfixes and balancing updates. Many thanks for your reporting and feedback!

Vyrewatch - New Necklace
Vampires or also called Vyrewatch have been added to the Wilderness. They range levels between 110 to 140 and are all weak to fire attacks. The strong versions (130 & 140) can be found at the Bone Yard whereas the weaker versions can be found at the Graveyard of Shadows. In general Vyrewatch are not aggressive except for them seeing an opportunity to kill you. I recommend not getting too low health else you may trigger their blood rush and find yourself out numbered in seconds. You are able to collect Vampire blood from every kill which can be used to upgrade the Vyrewatch necklace. The new necklace can also be received as a rare drop from Vyrewatch. The upgraded version degrades after inflicting 15,000 hits and requires 1,000 Vampire blood to be upgraded. Their flying form is also immune against melee attacks. They can be reached with spears and halberds though. The upgraded Vyrewatch necklace has bonuses equal to the best range, magic and melee amulet combined. It also has a passive effect allowing you to deal 5% more damage while also taking 5% more damage.


Weakness System
I've wanted to implement this for quite a while already and am now doing it in a very basic way. Certain monsters now heave weaknesses:

• Fire: Ice wyrm, Glacor, Vyrewatch
• Water: WildyWyrm

Your weapons and spells now have a damage type which is shown in the equipment interface. When hitting an npc with its weak damage type your damage is increased by 25%, accuracy however remains the same. This additional bonus doesn't affect experience gains but let's you kill opponents quicker. Not many monsters have a weakness yet, because I'd like to see the system in action first and gather feedback. If you guys like it I'll continue developing the weakness system. So please let me know!

Cooking Skill
With recent changes to Fishing the experience gains for Cooking are just wrong right now. I've tripled the experience rates and changed the code that decides when to burn food. By default you now require a 25% higher level of the food's requirement to no longer burn it at all. That means if Sharks require level 70 Cooking you need level 88 (87.5) Cooking to stop burning them. Cooking gauntlets reduce 10% of that requirement. With the shark example it'd mean that you need a Cooking level of 79 (78.75) to no longer burn Sharks when wearing Cooking gauntlets. There's one exception: You can't burn anything at level 99 Cooking. Burning food now also gives 25% of the original experience.

GWD Changes
I am really happy with how the drops for top 3 damage dealers turned out, but I think it backfired a little bit in the God Wars Dungeon. I've halved the drop rates of rare and unique items from bosses. Don't worry, the drop rates are still better than before the top 3 damage dealer update if you go in with 2 friends! I've also done some changes to boss combat:

• Commander Zilyana: Attacks faster and harder with melee attacks.
• Kree'arra: Ranged attack is now a Mage attack. It can hit a maximum of 30 unprotected.
• K'ril Tsutsaroth: Melee damage of 2 fast hits increased. All melee attacks are now multi attacks hitting an area of 3x3.
• General Graardor: Melee attacks are now multi attacks hitting an area of 3x3.

The changes listed above are to ensure that bosses are still fun and somewhat difficult if fought in groups and not impossible to kill for people with the best equipment.

Game fixes / changes:

• Ice shield freeze reduction timer fixed - it was 2.5s instead of 5s.
• A bug with spell casting has been fixed that sometimes caused you to attack with your staff. It also makes casting spells manually smoother and less delayed in PvP situations.
• It's no longer possible to click objects when frozen. That means that using stairs or dungeon entrances is now impossible when frozen. The logic behind this change is that being frozen means being unable to move and using objects is actually moving your character.
• The wilderness teleport lever in Edgeville is now working.
• Horvik can now make Dragonfire shields and Godsword blades for 1,000k each. You don't require level 90 Smithing when doing so.
• Killing opponents in the wilderness now gives more ELO. The rules for farming kills and killing the same opponent(s) have been made stricter as well.
• The combat power of Spectrals in the wilderness has been reduced. They now have 242 HP and their defensive bonuses have been reduced by 20. They are already in a dangerous area and thus don't need to be that strong.
• Teleporting now clear freeze timers.
• Projectiles now properly hit flying monsters in the air: Armadyl GWD monsters, flying vampires and KQ 2nd form.
• Weapon poison (p++) can now be noted.
• The equipment screen now shows damage types.
• Autocast button now shows the spell you will be casting.
• An issue with beards on the slayer helm has been fixed.
• A bug with the 2 set piece bonus not activating on Vanguard, Templar and Trickster has been fixed.
• The Demon halberd special attack no longer deals 25% additional damage. You still have 2 hits on larger enemies though. This nerf is necessary, because the halberd just hits way too much in PvP.
• Special attack with dark bow using a quiver has been fixed. The special attack damage wouldn't increase.
• Magic shortbow and Seercull special attack buffed. The first hit now also deals 100% of the damage.
• The Karil set effect has been changed. Your attack speed is now decreased by 0.5 when successfully inflicting damage. It's also no longer possible to fire bolt racks with other crossbows.
• Hit effects (vengeance, recoil, spirit shields, etc.) are now always applied. Also when applying a lethal hit!
• Gilded chaotics can now be bought from the Slayer reward shop. They cost 200,000 Slayer points each.
• A rounding issue for weapon repairs has been fixed. Chaotics should no longer cost an additional 10k to be repaired.
• The barrow rewards chest now has a 1 in 1000 chance to give you one of the 6 new Barrow pets. They are miniature versions of the actual Barrow npc models.
• Monsters that cannot be reached by melee attacks can now be attacked with spears or halberds. In general weapons that increase your attack distance.
• Some Grenwall spawns have been added to the wilderness. The green area south-west of Red Dragon Isle.

Engine fixes / changes:

• The internal way of how animations are pre-loaded and cached was updated. You should find newly loaded animations flicker less in crowded areas.
• The kill logs interface has been overhauled. It should cause less performance issues and no longer flicker. You now also have a button at the equipment tab to open the interface. The ::killlogs command was removed as well.
• Spell icons now appear when viewing spell names in menus.
• On-demand fetcher has been updated. The timeouts of requesting model files have been increased. Every download is now also initially enforced through the custom protocol before trying a http request. Overall this will reduce initial loading and downloading times.
• Searching for items in the bank or for npcs in the kill logs now resets scroll position.
• Worldmap viewer has been optimized. It's now loading the map faster on multi-core systems.
• Destroy option can now be navigated by clicking keys 1 or 2.

Map & Tile System Rewritten
I've completely rewritten the client's internal management of tiles. This goes hand in hand with the map loader and its underlying system managing the area you see. This improves the memory management of the map and loading times. It also sets the first step for supporting gigantic rendering distances without the map being cut off at some point. I've been messing around with rendering distances of 200 and got good 50-60 fps without any optimizations yet! In the end this should also completely remove small loading times and never show map edges anymore. However this is the final version and I'm still pretty far way from that, but the changes in the tile system now allow me to do that. For those of you who are interested in the technical changes: The map has been represented in a 3d array consisting of 4 104x104 arrays representing a plane each. When loading a new map this would have to be fully reloaded with new objects. The new system now consists of a hash table of tiles allowing to add and delete tiles easily.


All the best,
Thomy

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Guides / In-game icons

« on: October 02, 2018, 04:24:42 pm »

You can choose your icon in-game by going to equipment tab and click the "show equipment stats button". It's highlighted with a red box.
Once you've opened your equipment stats interface; right click your name and you can choose from the icons that are available for you.



For full list of icons that are available in the game you talk to Emps Pker at Edgeville.
If you want to know your account age you should visit player center. You can also get to this page by typing ::pc or ::account in-game.
Player center page will also display your lifetime amount of Emps-Credits on your account. You can unlock donator items based on that.

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Showcase / Re: IRL pictures thread

« on: September 28, 2018, 04:43:13 pm »

Marry me please

Thought you were a man

You don't get publicly beaten for being gay in most other countries of the world, just saying

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: September 21, 2018, 04:50:30 pm »

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Screenshots / Re: Happy Anniversary Emps-World!

« on: September 18, 2018, 04:58:15 pm »

Celebration time

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Screenshots / Happy Anniversary Emps-World!

« on: September 18, 2018, 04:12:21 pm »

Thomy, we love you and appreciate all the hard work you put into this server, happy anniversary!

- Emps-World Community

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Update Notes / Updates September 18th - Bug Fixing, PvP Highscores and New Game Loader

« on: September 18, 2018, 05:27:43 am »

Hey guys,

Today's update mainly focuses on fixing a few problems and introduces PvP Highscores.

PvP Hiscores
It's been a while since the PvP ranking update was applied and we've now also collected enough data to properly display rankings on the homepage. You can have a look at PvP ranks here: https://emps-world.net/hiscores#skill,Wilderness,0 With this update I've also overhauled and modernized the Hiscores page.


Game Loader
I've updated the Game Loader. It's now able to update itself properly, news images no longer flicker and have a fading effect when new ones appear. There's now also a Repair Game option from within the settings. The new loader can be downloaded here: https://emps-world.net/play
You don't need to download the new loader, the old one will still do fine.

Game fixes / changes:

• The overload refresh effect has been changed, because it was a problem in PvP and also completely negated any stat reduction effects from any monster. Don't worry, overloads still restore your stats and they can still be used with brews, but the effect has changed a little bit. Overloads now restore up to 6 levels every 4 seconds instead of a full stat restore every 5 seconds. Nothing changes if you take 1-2 zips of your brews, because your stats will be restored immediately. In fact it's even faster than before if you only take 1 zip. So unless you drink your whole brew at once this is a buff. However taking damage of a bgs special attack or drinking 2 entire brews in a row won't be recovered that quickly. My point here is that I don't want to completely counter stat reduction effects by just having the overload effect active.
• A bug with void equipment bonus not showing has been fixed.
• Overkill in PvP scenarios has been re-enabled. It shouldn't be possible to tick eat and avoid all incoming damage. I've made a mistake here and am sorry.
• Blessed dragonhide vambraces and chaps now require level 1 Defence and have had their defensive bonuses adjusted.
• Tyras Guard at the Grand Exchange now has a teleport option to Fight Caves.
• The experience gain for spellbook teleports has been increased.
• Berserker necklace now boosts obsidian claws damage.
• Mithril dragon and green brutal dragon Defence levels have been reduced.
• Broken virtus body is no longer untradeable.
• The kill counters which determine who gets a drop in a PvP fight are now reset when leaving PvP combat and no longer when leaving combat at all. That means that whenever a fight between 2 players ends the kill counters are reset and the next fight will determine who gets the drop.
• Ghost captain can now be found west of Barbarian village offering a teleport to Canifis.
• Falador teleport has been re-added to the quest tab interface.
• Double death trigger is no longer possible when healing after already being declared dead.
• The cooldowns for fighting the same opponent in wildy to gain ELO have been increased.
• Multi spells are now correctly hitting again in PvP.
• A bug with the quiver has been fixed that allowed you to create arrows.

Engine fixes / changes:

• Messages can no longer start or end with spaces. That should fix an issue where a space in front of a clan chat message or command won't let you type it.
• Water that is no longer in camera space is also no longer rendered: frustum culling for water.

I'll now start working on several new wilderness activities. We have a new amulet planned as well as a new boss that drops new equipment. So stay tuned!

All the best,
Thomy