 Great Brain Robbery + Music Update, Runescape Update - 6 March 2007 |
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 Mar 6 2007, 12:54 PM | Post #1 |
 
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Better dig out some protective headgear: the zombie pirates are back, and hungrier than ever for grey matter! Robbing innocent monks of their piece(s) of mind, crashing ships into their harmonious island monastery and generally raining on their pious parade - these scurvy dogs have set up a literal 'chop shop' in the once hallowed halls. Are there no depths to which they will not stoop? If you want to help out the cranially-challenged clergy and claim the reward for shifting the sort of headaches that even a willow bark infusion cannot remove, then speak to Brother Tranquility on Mos le'Harmless for details. New rewards - from craftable felines to the most nautical weapon in the game - await those players with the skill and know-how to foil the Great Brain Robbery!
In other news...
In the basement of the Tower of Life, players were finding they could steal other people's frogeels from combat. This has now been fixed.
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We've just finished an enormous update to our music system to make the harps and bells of RuneScape's music all the sweeter.
Firstly, we've changed the underlying technology used to play the music. We've completely rewritten the music player from scratch, so it now uses a bank of instruments built into the game itself rather than using whatever your soundcard happens to have. This has the advantage that the music sounds the same regardless of your computer, rather than varying from machine to machine. This in turn allows us to fine-tune the music exactly, instead of having to try to get something which generally works. Our new music technology should also be more compatible, meaning the music works correctly on more operating systems and soundcards than before!
Secondly, we've gone through every single song in the game, (a huge undertaking: there are nearly 500 songs), and hand-tuned each one to sound optimal with our new instrument set! As a result, many of the songs are sounding better than ever before, and you can finally hear them as we intended them to sound.
You may also notice the shiny new button on the log-in page. This lets you turn off the log-in music to preserve your speakers while you pop off to get a snack or take a break, all without interfering with your music settings in-game.
So, if you've been put off listening to the music for one reason or another, now's the time to turn it on and enjoy the ambient delights!
We're still planning some more tweaks to the system to improve your auditory experience, so keep checking the front page for news.
In other news...
In addition to the big soundbank update today, we've added 'equip sounds' to armour and weapons.
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Discuss!
This post has been edited by Dilbert26: Mar 6 2007, 12:57 PM
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Mar 6 2007, 01:05 PM | Post #2 |
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Mar 6 2007, 08:20 PM | Post #3 |
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Meh, when you kill him he drops his anchor and you can repair it for 50K gp by talking to the Smithy on the docks in Mos 'le Harmless.
Rewards are decent... just a bit of Xp as usual, anchor is pretty decent... a bit slow but it's fun to use. However, when you run around this thing, you look like Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber) desperately trying to find a toilet after having laxatives put in his coffee
I threw my back out doing this one
This post has been edited by Geo1988: Mar 6 2007, 08:26 PM
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Mar 6 2007, 10:51 PM | Post #4 |
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Was an ok quest
Only looked at the anchor for like 4 mins.. Looks better now 
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