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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: October 07, 2018, 11:41:21 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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Update Notes / Updates August 2nd 2018 - Wilderness Revival, Ranks, Oldschool News and More!

« on: June 06, 2018, 06:33:13 am »

Hey guys,

I hope you are having a great summer time. It has taken some time, but I have finished a gigantic PvP and balancing update. I aim to find a long-term solution to revive and keep PvP active as well as making it attractive to participate in. I have also overhauled some older systems and fixed a ton of bugs. Last but not least, I have and am still working on an option to turn the current game into oldschool style with only a mouse click!

Wilderness Update - Rewards & ELO

It's been a while since the wilderness has received an update. This time I don't want to add more PvM into the area, but real PvP with new and unique rewards! Every kill gives you blood coins. The amount you get highly depends on the cardinality of your target, meaning that your opponent's ranking and equipment matter. Following ranks with icons (see icon system below) can be achieved:

• Bronze I - III
• Silver I - III
• Gold I - III
• Rune I - III

Each rank has a unique chat badge which can be enabled at any point through the Equipment Screen. What you are probably also (more?) interested in are the rewards for killing each other in the wilderness: Blood coins. You will find a new NPC walking around Edgeville called Emps Pker wearing Vesta armour. You can trade the person to buy rewards with blood coins:

• PvP crates: Food, potions, selected runes, edgeville teleports and PvP armours.
• Rune bag: Can store 3-5 (member benefit) runes and CAN be equipped in Arrow slot.
• Quiver: Can store 2-4 (member benefit) arrows / bolts and HAS TO be equipped in Arrow slot.
• PvP armour pieces: In case you are unlucky and have a lot of blood coins, you can also buy them directly here. Bear in mind that getting the armours through crates is much much cheaper though!

Icon System - Ranks
I have updated the way icons in front of names are managed and set. We also call these icons ranks, because they are achievements. You can change your icon by right-clicking your name on the Equipment Screen. Ranks can be obtained by certain achievements in-game:

• Donator Icons: Unlocked by having obtained a total amount of EC:
  • 1,800EC - Bronze Donator
  • 10,00EC - Silver Donator
  • 25,000EC - Gold Donator
  • 50,000EC - Rune Donator
  • 100,000EC - Dragon Donator
  • 200,000EC - Dark Donator
  • 300,000EC - Light Donator
  • 500,000EC - Demon Donator

Please bear in mind that the higher ranks are aimed at people who are supporting the game through many months and years!

• PvP ranks: see above
• Ironman: By default on every ironman
• Veteran: How many years you've been playing Emps-World. We cannot go back in time and copy the registration dates of the Emps-Scape, so no registrations longer than 4 years ago count.
• Staff Icons: You will find different mod / admin crowns.

Icons also appear when right-clicking players now. They can be changed at any given point to any image leaving us a lot of space for future changes and improvements!

Run Energy, Resting and its role in PvP
I know this change may be annoying, but the overall run energy system in its current state was just completely broken. You could run forever pretty much no matter what you were doing. While this is comfortable, it removes the point of even having a run energy system as well as the Agility skill. With this update I am changing the way run energy regenerates and the maximum is now at 100 and no longer 255. I have copied the regeneration function from OSRS, which can be found here: http://oldschoolrunescape.wikia.com/wiki/Energy

Energy restoring potions (if you knew they even existed!) were also changed:

• Super restore: +5 energy
• Energy potion: +10 energy
• Super energy: +15 energy

The aim of this change is to make running longer distances more complicated. Outrunning somebody in the wilderness is now possible, especially when having a lot of loot in your inventory or wearing heavy armour. Please don't worry though, this isn't going to affect skilling a lot! You get your run energy fully restored by talking to a Healer.

Claiming Voting Points
I've updated the system to support the usage of proxies and also configurations behind firewalls. The old system was doing an IP comparison of your game login and on the homepage. So voting on your smartphone and trying the claim the points in-game wouldn't work. You should be able to claim your points no matter where you vote now. It's based on your user OR ip address. If one of them match, you can claim your voting points.

Game fixes / changes:

• Grand Exchange now correctly displays the correct amount of coins you get for selling items.
• Barrows slayer task amount is now dividable by 6. Meaning you never have a left-over round during a task.
• Rewards potential interface in Barrows now correctly resets when claiming the reward.
• Bolkoy dialogues have been updated.
• Redberry pies can now be eaten.
• Double agents can no longer be attacked by other players.
• Membership description update.
• Cure plants spell now has a timer and only gives experience when you successfully cured plants. You also gain some farming experience when successfully curing plants now.
• Chaos dwarves can no longer be assigned as Slayer task.
• A bug with Spectral equipment was fixed. When dying with a fully charged item (e.g. Zuriel robe top) you wouldn't get any Spectral energy.
• Skull timers have received second precision instead of minute precision. Your skull is now consistently 10 minutes long instead of something between 9 and 10 minutes. Moreover, there's now also an orb that shows your skull timer.
• The timings of Jad's animations have been improved.
• Items lost in the Kalphite Queen boss chamber are now dropped outside, before you use the rope to enter.
• Levelup messages now properly tell you new activities that you are able to do. This is a copy of the skill advancements tables.
• Slayer tasks can now be extended (doubled) for 50% of their Slayer point reward.
• A bug was fixed where resetting skills with xp lamps wasn't possible anymore.
• You can now properly complete puzzle clues on Farming patches.
• The experience reduction for multi hits (range & magic) has been changed to 50% from 20%. The previous experience gain nerf was just too much.
• Spectrals now hit more through protection prayers. They were never intended to be fully blockable.
• Skipping the tutorial now warns you about not being able to become an ironman account and gives you a starter set. The range starter set now also includes 100 bronze arrows that are equipped.
• The charges of coal bags have bee increased from 1,000 to 10,000. This doesn't apply to current bags but new ones!
• Weapon poison (p+) and Weapon poison (p++) can now be made with the Herblore skill.
• Ranging and Magic potion have been added to Herblore.
• A new Slayer master called Turael has been added to the Barbarian dungeon. Turael assigns solely monsters found in the dungeon and is for beginners.
• Void knight elite defence bonuses have been a bit too high. We found out when testing the defence bonuses of the PvP armour sets. I have reduced the defence bonuses of elite void knight top and bottom by 10%. You won't really feel this change, but it's now more balanced and aligned to existing content.
• The rendering distance for players and npcs inside minigames has been increased.
• Fish monger now sells Varrock, Lumbridge and Falador teletabs. It's still worth it to create those through Construction, because they can only be bought in low quantities.
• Snape grass can now be found around the river of Barbarian village.
• Barbarians, Mages and Goblins now drop Guams, Marrentills, Tarromins, Harralanders and Ranarrs. This allows new users to find and create low level potions with all resources found in and around the Barbarian village.
• Stepping stones in Emps-Wars can no longer be clipped by following. That counts for npcs and players.

Engine fixes / changes:

• A bug was fixed where certain tops would make your arms disappear when wearing dragonhide bodies.
• Sky is now reflected in water and the underwater color depends on the surrounding terrain. There's now also a depth calculation that determines the transparency of water. Basically giving you a better immersion of how low underwater terrain is.
• Items shown in the chatbox (skill advancements) are now more centered and larger.
• Images are now loaded on demand and no longer need to be downloaded before starting the game. This improves initial loading speeds by roughly a minute. It's annoying when joining the game for the very first time to wait for long downloads.
• Underwater terrain is now properly refracted. That means that underwater objects are now also having a ripple effect.
• Upgraded abyssal weapons have received animated textures. They were originally supposed to have such kind of a glow, but due to engine limitations it wasn't possible.
• Camera system has completely been overhauled. It felt very outdated compared to other games. Camera movements no longer have a delay / fade-out effect but is a direct representation of your mouse movements. To make sure nobody is displeased with the change you are now also able to select 5 different camera sensitivities.
• Scaled images now look smoother.
• You can now select fullscreen mode from the game settings.
• Skill interfaces no longer have empty buttons.

Oldschool Emps-World
I've cancelled this project a while ago and also won't revitalize it. However I have been and am currently working on an optional oldschool option, which will give the game an OSRS feeling. This replaces (wherever possible) player and npc data with their oldschool variants. This overwrites their look and animations. It's impossible to replace the map with OSRS data, because their positions differ. I can add new maps though, including Zeah, Zulrah, etc. I'm also able to use all oldschool items, such as the blowpipe, elder maul, twisted bow, etc. I want to finish the graphics option first though before adding such content!


I've attached a screenshot to show how it looks like. You can use all the HD graphic options and combine them oldschool models. I'm not quite sure when this will be finished, because I'm still fighting with serious graphical glitches that absolutely can't be in the release version. Biggest issue currently being boots that have no oldschool replacement model. Maybe I need to manually find some here? Idk... Will keep you updated with media whenever I have more to show! You can also directly follow the progress here: https://trello.com/c/K2rC6upc/60-oldschool-graphics-option

All the best,
Thomy

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Screenshots / Re: Emps-World Meme Center

« on: April 20, 2018, 05:04:17 pm »

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Introductions & Farewells / Re: See you guys later, was a good fight.

« on: April 16, 2018, 10:47:16 am »

laterz mate!
i hope to see ya once in a while
and gif itamz
<3

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Suggestions & Ideas / Re: Increasing Loot Chance

« on: April 14, 2018, 04:02:04 pm »

besides him getting virtus mask at 24th kc.
i've seen this a lot, it just want to make you quit the game because the effort you put in isn't rewarding at all. this game is alright for first 1-2 months while you're getting maxed later it's just a waste of time.

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Off-Topic / Re: Lets count to 10,000

« on: April 11, 2018, 05:48:35 pm »

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Suggestions & Ideas / Re: Increasing Loot Chance

« on: April 10, 2018, 04:53:30 pm »

The thing is there's nothing left to fight for anymore at this game. It's too easy and players get bored way faster.
newcomers receive loots much earlier than actual drop rate suggests while grinders reach x4 the kill counts of actual drop rate and still don't receive anything.
beginners should have a little bit more struggle and the big boys should be more rewarded.

I've seen this before: Guy plays 1-2 months, starts nexing, 2 weeks later he has pretty much everything he wants, but guess what... he quits because game is now boring..

Alugis has a point there. Unless there is something more besides getting maxed in experience, all ing items, maxed Ironman or at least main there is nothing else to go for. Thomy focuses on HD quality of water... Like any pixel on that water gives a shit about newcomers. This doesn't mean whatsoever that Thomy isn't doing amazing job keeping server alive but eventually person who has scheduled and planned everything precisely (almost) perfect - he has nothing to do ing unless updates bring yet another new boring boss along with some harder mechanics than most of GWD Bosses.

I suppose I apologize since I went a lot off-topic here and it should have been discussed long time ago...

Either way, for suggestion - I agree but seeing as Thomy is solo developer to implement it I don't expect it to be very soon(even if it gets added at all)

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Off-Topic / Re: Lets count to 10,000

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