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Emps-World => Update Notes => Topic started by: Thomy on March 15, 2024, 12:26:06 pm
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Hello everybody!
Happy Easter! We're celebrating the festivities with a new quest this year. The Easter Event can be started by talking to the Easter Bunny south of the Grand Exchange. We also adjusted mechanics of group bosses to ensure a certain difficulty. On top of that we modernized parts of the homepage to simplify the process for newcomers to sign up.
Easter Event
Starting today you can participate in our Easter Event. The easter bunny can be found south of the Grand Exchange asking for help to find her little son Justin. He loves running away. Finding the little boy is rewarded with very special Easter eggs that can be eaten to receive loot. Strange, isn't it? Among the rewards you can find a Chocatrice pet and cape, sweets, playful marionettes and rares from the super rare item pool. This activity can be completed multiple times similar to the Christmas Event. On average you'll be asked to help the Easter Bunny once every 30-45 minutes of playtime. The event will be active starting today throughout Easter and ending April 15th. There will also be double drop chance enabled during the Easter weekend.
(https://emps-world.net/img/updates/easter-2024.22478.jpg)
Group Boss Balancing
Certain group boss mechanics can just be bypassed by having a certain amount of dps. That goes directly against the intention of boss fight mechanics. Thus various bosses have had their unique fight mechanics buffed but their defence reduced: - Har'Lakk: Defence reduced by 10%. Minions now enrage after a certain amount of time. When enraged, minions will deal increased damage and reduce prayer points. Minion defence level has been reduced and HP scales with group size.
- Kal'Ger: Defence reduced by 10%. Meteors now have a single hit application and apply a burn (bleed) effect when damaged. The area in which they fall down was also increased and their spawn density was reduced. The maximum amount of damage dealt by a meteor was reduced from 60 to 40 (plus 40 bleed). That increases the damage you take when hit but makes dodging easier. The HP of Kal'Ger has been increased from 2400 to 3000 to bring him towards similar difficulty of other demon bosses that spawn minions. That is an additional 100 HP per phase.
- Yk'Lagor: Defence reduced by 10%. The Necroarcher's darkbow and poison arrow special attack have been made stronger. Lethal thunder attack now strikes in a 3x3 area and deals a maximum of 100 damage instead of 120. The amount of minions spawned depend on the group size. For groups of 4 players the total amount of minions spawned remain the same. Minion defence has been lowered and their special attack occurs every 5 attacks instead of every 4.
- Nex: Defence reduced by 10%. Shadow, Blood and Ice area of effect special attacks are now neutral damage which cannot be protected. Continuing phases is no longer possible without minion kills. The melee attack range of Nex has been increased by 1 tile. Damage and HP of minions has been lowered and scale with the group size. As long as minions are active the normal attack of Nex's phase deals additional damage.
- Vanstrom Klause: Blood siphon mechanic can no longer be dodged by standing near a wall or by being too far away. Attack animations no longer lack behind when vampires are moving.
- Rot Caves: The rot attack from Lucien now scales harder with rot concentration. Additional loot can now be received by killing more monsters before facing Lucien.
With these changes we don't want to make fights more difficult but keep them future-proof. It shouldn't be possible to skip unique boss mechanics by having one item or high dps.
Homepage & Advertisements
The frontpage of our website now supports up-scaling. This change was made to have more space for the video and image gallery. I have also added an additional video to the slideshow. All account pages have been modernized with simplified templates for login, account creation, recovery, etc.
I was able to purchase an ad banner for 2 months on a popular RSPS list site called Runelocus. You can observe how well it works here: https://emps-world.net/stat#statplot,90
Page visit is counted for every click on the advertisment. Conversion means that a page visit also resulted in a login to the game.
List of changes:- Poison heal, deflect and purge auras no longer use a single charge when their effect is applied. Charges lost now depend on the amount of poison damage negated. The poison purge aura is now correctly classified as a tier 1 aura and has 1000 charges instead of 2000.
- Teleblock is now correctly calculated on players.
- The client's login logo is scaled up on bigger screens.
- Animation calculations have received performance improvements. The game no longer renders animations for entities or objects that are not visible on your screen.
- Rod of ivandis now has an aura model.
- Various rivers have received water flow control mechanisms. Water will be flowing towards a given direction.
- The mime event has been reworked to support multiple players at the same time. You'll also get a random amount of emotes (4-8) instead of a fixed amount of 8 now.
- The drunken dwarf event has been re-enabled. He'll start hitting you if you fail to talk to him in time.
- Aura lights have been adjusted to have their center on your right glove.
- Lights in darker areas automatically gain intensity. This is a preparation patch for areas that are too dark to explore without proper light sources.
- Iironman, moderator and wiki editor chat icons have been upscaled and sharpened with AI.
- Lumberjack set effect now counts towards Firemaking daily task completion.
- Defeating evil trees now yields additional rewards: Pile of evil leaves. These can be exchanged by Evil Dave for Lumberjack items. Moreover, the amount of logs you can receive from an evil tree has been capped at 1000.
Various parts of Karamja including Shilo Village have been configured. There will be new activities and dungeons for you to explore in the jungle in a future update. I'll keep you guys updated on the progress. :)
All the best,
Thomy