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Events / Re: Emps-Competitive: Season 2

« on: April 25, 2020, 02:13:16 pm »

Hosting this in world 1 has so many problems like boosting, dxp and so on.

Should be hosted in world 2 with Bolkoy removed from game.

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Update Notes / Updates September 6th 2018 - Key Bindings, Drop Overhauls and Combat Balancing

« on: September 06, 2018, 05:43:52 am »

Hey guys,

Today's update focuses most on re-balancing the combat triangle and equipment bonuses. We aim at making items more popular for PvP and easing the combat triangle giving you more Defence bonuses against your weaknesses. Special attacks have also been buffed and the early / mid game progress was made faster by improving certain drop tables and combat experience gains.

Key Bindings
As most if you have probably already realized, you are now able to bind your F keys to menu tabs. There's also an option to enable pressing enter before being able to chat. This mode allows you to use wasd for camera movement and qe to zoom in and out. You can also enable the option that pressing ESC closes the current open interface. Moreover, it's now also possible to lock your combat experience. You can still see experience gains when enabling this option though.


Damage Soaking
I'm sorry, but I have to admit that this mechanism was bugged... for really a long time. Damage was never soaked and this patch aims at fixing the issue. Before the update damage soaking was a quadratic formula of your maximum defence bonus, which imo is a really bad way of doing it. Your maximum defence bonus now gives a flat soaking bonus. Due to the release of new equipment and their maximum defence bonuses, I have adjusted the maximum damage soaked a little bit. It's now properly working but less than it originally was meant to be intended.

Starting Zone & Game Progress
We have identified that it may be too difficult to progress in early stages of the game. Thus we want to buff the drops of beginner level monsters to make it easier for new players to make money and to obtain useful items.

• Starter sets have been replaced with real item sets: Iron armour, hide and blue wizard robes.
• Drops for monsters around Barbarian village have been massively buffed: Barbarians, Goblins, Wizards, Archers, Hill giants, Moss giants, Tower Archers, Guards. They now drop items up to rune, more coins and larger quantities of resources.
• Monsters found inside the Barbarian dungeon have had their drops buffed. Quantities were increased and rune / dragon items were made more frequent.
• Dragons now drop dragon items more frequently - the chances were doubled.
• Slayer Tower drop tables overhauled. The Slayer level requirement is now taken into consideration and improves the droptable. Overall you will be getting way more valuable drops from monsters inside the tower.
• Thieving npcs now gives more coins.
• New players now get a randomized look instead of the standard one.
• More starting items are added to inventory after completing the tutorial.

Combat Experience Rates
Let's just say I was wrong - 20xp per hit are way too low. We are changing the combat xp rates back to 80 xp per hit. Progress shouldn't be that slow and frustrating in emps. Afterall most of our content is designed for end-game and that should also be achievable in a fairly normal amount of time. The whole experience gained thing before and after level 99 has also been removed. It's always 80 xp per hit.

Softening Combat Triangle - Weakness Bonuses
I think the current system is a little bit too strict on combat styles that are effective on you. I am increasing the defence bonuses of all items agains their neutral and weak combat style. This doesn't have an impact on any damage soaking, but makes you more resistant against magic attacks when wearing melee armour for instance. The same logic also applies to other combat styles with their weak counter parts: Magic beats Melee, Melee beats Range and Range beats Magic. I've also chosen flat numbers, so that the system looks cleaner:

• Neutral bonus: 75%
• Weak bonus: 50%

What does that mean? If a melee equipment piece gave 100 defence bonus, you'll get +100 range defence bonus, +75 melee defence bonus and +50 magic defence bonus.

Fishing - Catch rates and Experience gained
I've adjusted the fishing timers a little, because the catch rates felt a little bit clunky and the amount of fishes obtained were just way too much on higher levels. I've made the catch rates faster on early levels and let the level have a little less of an impact later on. Catching sharks with 70 fishing for instance doesn't feel like you're getting a fish a minute anymore and you no longer get a fish per 2 ticks when having a very high fishing level. The speed curve of catching fishes is scaling better now. To cope with that change in fish gains all their experience gains have been doubled. You'll have to bank less often and will still gain the same amount of experience in the same amount of time.

Wiki Updates
I have recently prepared a system that makes it really easy for us to keep stats of items up to date on the wiki. We will be testing the system within the coming weeks and see how well it performs. If this makes overall wiki updates easier I would also like to enroll the system on NPC data: stats, drops, attack speed, etc. So you'll always be able to view the exact in-game stats on the wiki too.

Game fixes / changes:

• The accuracy bonuses of Infinity robes have been buffed and received a little strength bonus.
• Mystic robes received a slight strength bonus.
• The book of balance now gives Ranged strength and accuracy bonuses.
• You no longer lose as much ELO when losing a fight in the wilderness. It currently is too difficult to reach higher ranks, because you only rank up by only killing others. You can now also improve your ranking by just participating in many fights.
• Accuracy bonuses of defenders have been buffed by 25% (dragon defender +20 --> +25 accuracy). Defenders were a little bit weak when compared with a dragonfire shield or other alternatives.
• Overkill damage no longer exists and thus tick eating is now possible. That means eating at the same game tick when lethal damage arrives let's you live through it.
• Multiple incoming hits are no longer stacked as 1 big hit. This is only a visual change, because I have received complaints about people dying in 1 big hit. This was correct, but the large visual hit coming out of nowhere was a little odd.
• God robes now require level 1 Defence to be worn and have had their defence bonuses lowered. God cloaks now have equivalent stats to god capes: +5 magic accuracy and strength. Their level 25 Prayer requirement stays.
• Corrupt PvP items have been moved to level 40 Defence. That doubles their defence and accuracy bonuses, strength bonuses remain untouched.
• Multi combat spells no longer have an experience gain punishment: Barrages and chin chompas.
• Donator blades have had their attack speed increased. They now have the same attack speed as saradomin sword, scimitars and whips.
• Korasi's sword special attack now costs 50% special energy.
• Splitbark robe parts now give additional magic strength bonus.
• Comp ogre bow Range requirement increased to 71 - it can now shoot Barrow arrows.
• The experience boost of brawling gloves has been increased in the wilderness. They give 200% experience in the wilderness and 150% outside of it.
• Zamorak godsword freeze has been increased from 20 seconds to 25.
• Bandos godsword now also reduces the enemy's prayer points by 25% of the hit.
• Overloads can now be noted and traded.
• Dragon and onyx bolts now require level 61 Ranged to be used. That means you can use them with a rune crossbow.
• God bows level requirement has been moved from 80 to 75. To cope with that change I have increased their attack speed by 1 tick meaning they are now level 75 short bows. God bows also received a special attack that triggers a special effect when used with their appropriate arrow type (e.g. saradomin god bow with saradomin arrows):
  • Saradomin: 50% of damage is drained from enemy prayer points. If attacking an npc this reduces their defence level by 50% of the hit instead.
  • Zamorak: 50% of damage is drained from enemy defence level.
  • Guthix (not yet available): 25% of damage is healed.
  The additional passive perk increasing damage of using god arrows with their appropriate bow has been removed. They now have flat bonuses equal to barrow arrows and can also be used as such by other bows.
• Demon saber and halberd now properly break when lost upon death.
• The charges of newly created elemental weapons have been increased from 5,000 to 30,000. This change brings elemental weaponry more in line with Demon weapons.
• Demon longbow has received +12 accuracy and +2 strength bonus. When comparing it to the demon crossbow it looked a little weak.
• Demon orb has received +4 accuracy and +4 strength bonus. It should be more a little useful as offensive stat booster while giving 0 defensive bonuses.
• Removed the strength level requirement for several items: Vesta, Statius, Godswords, Zamorakian spear, Demon saber & Halberd and Saradomin sword.
• Saradomin sword and obsidian claws special attack now hits 1 game tick earlier.
• Spectral energy drop rates doubled. You just need way more energy to charge equipment than there currently is in the game.
• Ancient statuettes from Revenants now have double coin value. We would like to make killing dangerous foes in the wilderness more valuable.
• A bug was fixed where runes from the rune bag would no longer show up after casting a teleport spell.
• Ghostly roves now give magic strength bonus.
• Accuracy of all special attacks has roughly been increased by 25%. Most special attacks have an accuracy boost of 25% while godswords and other high level weapons gain 75% - 100% accuracy boost.
• All bosses (the ones that count for daily tasks!) now have drops for the top 3 damage dealers. That includes all GWD bosses, Dagannoth Kings, Corporeal Beast, Kalphite Queen, King Black Dragon, Chaos Elemental and Smoke demon champion. Group bosses still reward the top 4 damage dealers.
• The Tower key required to access upper parts of the Slayer Tower can now be found in wardrobes inside the Slayer Tower.
• Banshees can now drop a creeping hand pet with a drop chance of 1 in 1000.
• Party hats strength and accuracy bonuses increased.
• Composite bows now have the speed of shortbows.
• Magic longbow, magic composite bow and demon longbow have received a special attack. It costs 35% special attack energy and is guaranteed to hit the enemy.
• Demon halberd now shares the dragon halberd special attack.
• Torags received additional Defence bonus while reducing its accuracy a bit.
• A bug with the dark bow special attack was fixed that would reduce its maxhit.

Engine fixes / changes:

• Certain data holders in the client have been updated to use less memory. This improves overall performance and memory usage, especially on longer Rendering Distances and in crowded areas. For those of you who are interested what changed: A lot of arrays were int[]s, which used 4 byte or 32 bit per entry. That precision wasn't always needed, because a lot of numbers didn't go higher than 10,000 anyway. I have changed those arrays to be short[]s, which require 2 bytes or 16 bit per entry. This costs less RAM and allows your CPUs cache to load more entries per call speeding up iterations over these arrays: animations, loading models, saving colors, etc.
• Smoothness of compass and minimap have been improved. They are now anti-aliased when rotated and will no longer flicker or have white artifacts.
• Rune requirements now properly in the autocast interface.
• Texture atlases now use 4x anisotropic filtering (only if your GPU can do it!!). This effect makes textures appear less blurry and more realistic when viewed at specific camera angles. I have decided to not make this a setting, because the performance cost is non-existing for low resolution textures in emps.

This update mainly consists of balancing and overall improvements for the game. I want to make certain items more useful for PvP and give newer players an easier start for the game. With the amount of PvP ELO data available I'll also soon be able to put Hiscores online where you can lookup ranks.

All the best,
Thomy



Changes September 7th:

• Barrows equipment charges of newly used items increased from 8,000 to 20,000. I'd like to bring this more in line with other equipment charges.
• Revenants droptables overhauled. Statues are worth more and drop more often. Third-age drop rates have also been adjusted. Statues and third-age drops are now also always broadcasted.
• Amulet position now depends on the platebody model. This fixes an issue where amulets would be invisible on certain armours.
• God robes now share monk robe's prayer bonus.
• Dark bow special attack speed increased. The projectiles now fly and hit faster.
• Reset lamps can no longer be used when items are worn.
• Unnoted overload potions can now be traded.
• An issue was fixed where you couldn't hit through protection prayers when your enemy had low hitpoints.
• NPC defence bonuses have been fixed. There was an issue that globally gave them 15-20% higher stats.
• KQ and Corporeal beast now properly drop items for the top 3 damage dealers.
• The charges of newly used spectral equipment have been doubled. Repair costs stay the same. However the amount of dropped spectral energy upon a kill can now be higher due to higher maximum charges.
• Crossbow limbs now have an alch value.

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Suggestions & Ideas / Re: Duellist's tier 6 cap

« on: August 22, 2017, 09:40:35 am »

No hurry about this emote, I just wanted to suggest this idea to add more content to in-game but I see that you guys don't like it and I am getting very negative feedback. So, I don't suggest anymore. I'm sorry 

You should expect to get feedback if you make a suggestion, and feedback doesn't always have to be positive, some people might not agree with your idea and/or the way you present it. That doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't suggest anymore, but you should rather put more effort into your suggestion next time. 

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Suggestions & Ideas / Re: Duellist's tier 6 cap

« on: August 21, 2017, 09:02:50 am »

These suggestions are so fucking stupid. If you're going to suggest an emote to get added into the game, AT LEAST SUGGEST WHAT GODDAMN EMOTE IT WOULD BE OR WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE.

O-T, I actually had to google the emote my self as well since I don't play runescape
Its kinda good emote you know, I actually liked it
but won't that kind of emotes takes a lot of time to code atm ? since thomy is currently working on The OSES and this server as well ( nex update or something )

BTW, Adding a gif / pic of how the emote looks like is a good idea.

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Screenshots / Re: Milestone cape wrong information.

« on: August 20, 2017, 09:57:33 pm »

Fixed it. Next time, post it here: https://emps-world.net/forum/index.php?topic=1418.210

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Update Notes / Updates August 24th 2017 - Balancing, Nex, Oldschool, NPC Weaknesses and More!

« on: August 12, 2017, 07:45:13 am »

Hello everybody!

I've got quite a few and big changes ready today. I think this is the largest patch notes I've ever written! Please take your time and read through them. With this update I aim to improve PvM by a lot! Please let me know what you think about the changes.

World 2
Since there's hardly ever more than 5-10 people playing on world 2, I'll be closing it. If the need arises for another world or if our population becomes a lot larger again, I will re-open it. In the future world 2 will be an oldschool world. More details below in the topic!

Combat Rebalancing
I'm trying to balance the damage output of Melee, Range and Magic. I want to make sure that every combat style is able to do about the same damage output and won't be superior to any other. My aim is to let the combat situation decide which combat style is optimal. I've identified quite a few issues with the damage output and am trying to fix them with this update.

1) Magic
The overall performance of magic was just better than anything else. Every staff is a 1h weapon, spell-casting is with the speed of a whip/scimitar and ancient spells have overall really good additional perks (poison, reduce attack, lifesteal and freeze). On top of these spells, there's other staves that hit much harder and have their own spell (ivandis + zuriel). I'm fine with that situation, but we have to re-balance some of these spells in order to make every form of magic viable and not overperform compared to melee or range. I'm not changing any accuracy, attack speed or spell effects, but I'm reducing the overall max hit and base damage in order to balance things out with other combat styles:

• All: The amount of strength bonus each spell gives has been nerfed.
• Zuriel base damage: 35 --> 30 (equal to fire wave and ice barrage
• Ivandis base damage: 35 --> 30 (equal to fire wave and ice barrage)

Zuriel and Ivandis especially were able to hit 60+ with the right potion and new armour setup. That outperformed every other combat style and was simply said just overpowered. These staves also didn't require any runes, so they were just the best weapons you could get in almost every situation. I've continued my tests with lower level armour and found the same difference. Magic was just hitting higher overall than other combat styles and needed to be adjusted.

2) Range
I've identified a similar issue with Range, it was a lot weaker than Magic or Melee and needed to be a little bit stronger in order to compete with Magic and Melee. Following bonuses have been buffed:

• Arrow strength bonus: Increased by 12.5% (1-2 maxhits). No worries, most of your additional damage still comes from equipment.
• Bolt strength bonus: Increased by 5% (1 maxhit).

Bows were in general too weak and needed some adjustments in order to be as strong as whips or staves.

New Boss - Nex
Has it been a while since you've been beaten up in emps? Well, here's Nex! And she's absolutely ready to destroy teams attempting to kill her. It's a new and unique combat challenge with great rewards. I won't be explaining Nex's mechanics, because I want you to develop your own tactic to kill her. Some information about Nex:

• 6 Phases: Water, Smoke, Shadow, Blood, Ice and Zaros.
• Multi attacks: every group member is hit by her spells.
• Unique special attacks that are deadly if not dodged.
• Drops for every participant! (Up to a maximum of 4)
• New power armour: Torva (melee), Pernix (range) and Virtus (mage). The drop chance is 0.3% to get one random piece of the armour. This is PER participant, so up to a maximum of 1.2% for a group.
• Guaranteed elite clue scroll drop.

Boss Instancing
There's now the option to fight every GWD boss as instance. You can create an instance by right-clicking on the Big door before each boss room. The instance name is a unique identifier, which allows other players to join your instance. If you don't want any others to join, enter something random and keep it a secret for the duration of your fight. Each instance automatically deletes itself if no player is no longer in it.

Abyssal whip (bow and staff) Economy
The market has been overflown with abyssal whips. Their staff and bow equal variant will have the same destiny if these items cannot be consumed in some way. With this update I'm introducing abyssal dyes; special thanks to Junkz (https://emps-world.net/forum/index.php?topic=19916.0). These dyes can be used on an abyssal whip, bow or staff to change its color. With this change we're limiting the amount of abyssal weapons that are brought into the game and create a continuous demand for them to be consumed when coloring. It'll also create a market for dyes and make it easier for people to sell donator items. In my opinion this is a win-win situation and thus has been implemented. Colored abyssal items can still be found in mystery boxes!

NPC Configuration System
I've completely reworked the way monsters are configured. Most of their combat actions are now read from a single file and can be changed at any time. We could in theory modify a monster completely without even having to restart the game. With this system, I'm also introducing a bonus system for npcs. This system has always existed, but was invisible and based on the monster's level entirely. I've also updated monster bonuses the same way I've updated equipment bonuses with last patch. Reducing bonuses up to 70% if a weak combat style is used (see https://emps-world.net/forum/index.php?topic=19760.0). This is an overall nerf to the defence and accuracy system of monsters!

In case somebody's interested in it, here's the config of Commander Zilyana (don't worry, these configs were automatically generated, I didn't write down every single npc ):

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"6247": {
    "size": 2,
    "name": "commander zilyana",
    "health": 380,
    "combat": {
        "attackType": 0,
        "attackAnim": [
            6967,
            6964
        ],
        "combatClass": 1,
        "blockAnim": 6966,
        "aggression": 1,
        "deathAnim": 6965,
        "bonuses": [
            350,
            350,
            350,
            182,
            182,
            182
        ],
        "levels": [
            350,
            160,
            240,
            0,
            0
        ],
        "attackTimer": [
            14,
            6
        ]
    },
    "combatLevel": 596,
    "walkAnim": 6962,
    "standAnim": 6963
}She has level 350 attack, 160 defence, 240 strength, 0 range and 0 magic. She also has 350 melee, range and magic accuracy bonus, 182 melee, range and magic defence bonus. Since she is a boss, she has neutral defensive bonuses. Starlight has a weakness to magical attacks, because it's a melee npc.

Engine Updates:

• Texture filtering for intel chips has been improved. Mipmapping has been adjusted and textures are now smoother.
• Brightness of textures adjusted to give them a more natural look compared to other objects in the game.
• Updater improved. New players will now have less loading interruptions. The assumption here is a decent internet connection, else it's just going to take a while. A bug has been fixed that could crash the updater and leave people without the ability to download new files (invisible objects).
• Pick Mode option added: By default the internal pick mode is selected. This performs mouse hover actions on the CPU rather than on the GPU. It's proven to me that this yields better performance, because certain GPUs have really bad and slow implementations of reading specific pixel values. If you experience bugs with it,  you may disable it to get back the old mode. However, I recommend to keep it enabled for better performance! Everyone also has it enabled by default.

Drop table updates:
I've adjusted the droptables of certain monsters. Special thanks to Wg (https://emps-world.net/forum/index.php?topic=19900.0) and Charr (https://emps-world.net/forum/index.php?topic=19891.0) for the feedback topics!

• Skeletal wyvern
• Hellhound
• Gargoyle
• Bloodveld
• Chaos druid
• Chaos dwarf
• Jelly
• Troll
• Poison & Red spider
• Obsidian dragon
• Chaos elemental
• Kolodion
• King black dragon (onyx drop removed)
• Kalphite queen (onyx drop removed)
• Chronozon (onyx drop removed)

In-game changes:

• Guthans lifesteal bonus has been increased to 20% from 15%.
• Barrow set descriptions updated.
• Healing bug fixed.
• Saradomin katana lifesteal bonus buffed from 3% to 5%.
• Regen bracelet lifesteal bonus buffed from 2% to 4%.
• You no longer face south-west when super heating.
• Ring update scrolls no longer delete their entire stack when used.
• Degraded crystal shields are no longer tradeable.
• Gertrude is selling pets again.
• Colored ranger boots names fixed.
• All spears and halberds now correctly have an attack range of 2 tiles.
• Smelting jewellry will no longer bug other actions (teleporting to Ancient Caves).
• Clicking items now flushes the current action trigger. You could use certain items during dialogues to trigger other dialogues.
• Onyx tokkul value has been doubled.
• Regen bracelet can now be repaired with onyxes.
• Iban staff now auto-casts the Iban spell.
• New teletabs can be crafted in your house: Trollheim, Rimmington, Taverly, Pollnivneach, Rellekka, Karamja and Yanille.
• I've found the correct dart throwing animation and changed the current one.
• Small adjustments have been made to the dharok animations. The axe position sometimes was a little bit off.
• Emps-Wars boss HP fixes. I can't really verify what caused the bug, but I couldn't reproduce it on my local test world anymore. I've also reduced the amount of tickets you gain by killing the boss from 10 to 7. Compared to other ways of gaining tickets (killing players and capturing flags) it just wasn't worth it to even bother doing that.
• People can now talk at tutorial island.
• Saradomin sword can now be used to repair 10,000 charges of the Saradomin katana.
• Deaths in the GWD are now less punishing. Your items spawn outside the boss room, right at the place before you enter it. A bug with a height problem on death has also been fixed, which wouldn't let you pick up your lost items.
• Experience drops for 250m stats fixed.

Oldschool Emps-World
Some of you may have already seen this on the forum, but I'm now officially announcing the project. I'll be creating an oldschool version of Emps-World. This game will co-exist with Emps-World and your account name will be shared. However, no items and levels can be transferred between the 2 realms. You will start from 0 in oldschool Emps-World! You will be able to talk to friends and join clan chats though. I cannot talk too much about this project yet, because a lot of things are yet unknown or yet to be decided! I've set myself following milestones in the next months (weeks, days?):

• Load oldschool data and create an updater for it
• Map current game to oldschool: I aim to get an alpha up as soon as possible, where you can walk around and enjoy the oldschool feeling. This version will contain bugs and will be reset once it's fully released. I just want to know how people react to it before spending months on finishing the full project.
• Discuss combat system: This counts for Emps-World and oldschool Emps-World. Imho the current weakness changes have done their bits to improve the situation, but we can also copy osrs' system completely with all bonuses and worry about their balancing issues instead of ours.
• Oldschool items: Serpentine helm, toxic blowpipe, tentacle whip, abyssal dagger, abyssal bludgeon, etc.
• Oldschool monsters: Zulrah, Abyssal sire, Kraken, Cerberus, etc.
• Zeah: I would have the maps
• Get a million players.

All the best,
Thomy



Fixes of 25th:

• Nex improvements. No longer bugs when not killing her minions.
• Torva, Pernix and Virtus now have level requirements are are in the level tables.
• Your HP / Prayer is no longer randomly restored / reset.
• Void knight has received his defence level back.
• Certain objects that were unclickable can be clicked again (Slayer dungeon, GWD)
• Slayer tasks for bosses no longer give 10+ to kill.
• You can no longer only hit 0 on level 1 Magic, Range or Strength.
• Rod of ivandis can now be repaired again.

Thanks for all the bug reports!