Chat Changes & Camera Controls

Today sees the release of a myriad of much-requested technical updates that’ll streamline your RuneScape experience.

The RuneScape chat system has served us well, but it’s high time for an overhaul. The old, familiar chat box has been reworked in order to bring you a range of new features:

- All messages, no matter the source, will now automatically wrap if they’re too long.
- This also means that you can type longer messages. The entry line of the chat box will scroll left and right with the cursor.
- Private messages are now entered into the chat box, just like public messages.
- You no longer need to enter multiple forward slashes to denote a message as a friends’ chat message or a clan chat message. It is now possible to move between persistent chat modes by entering one of the following codes and pressing Enter or Space:

/p – Public chat
/f – Friends chat
/c – Clan chat
/g – Guest clan chat

Visit the manual for full details of the newly revamped chat box.

It is now possible to control the camera by holding down your middle mouse button or mouse wheel; rotating through a full 360 degrees of motion and pitching in and out by simply moving the mouse. Traverse and admire Gielinor with seamless ease!

A new button has been added to the “Options” menu entitled “Adventurer’s log settings”. This allows you to select which categories of in-game activity you wish to display on your adventurer’s log and which you would rather keep to yourself.

The Wise Old Man’s no stickler for the obsolete trappings of yesteryear and readily embraces new innovations as he helps players to maintain an uncluttered storage area. His service of scanning banks for unneeded quest items from all free-to-play quests, as well as selected members’ quests, is now performed through a slick, tidy new interface.

RuneScape looks and feels better than ever before, but your feedback is essential in our continued efforts to improve the game. If there’s a new feature you’d like to see implemented, please post it in our suggestions forum.

The RuneScape Team

In other news...

- Rangers should listen out for a complete rework of ranged combat sounds, including samples of real bows and crossbows being drawn and the hefty thwacks of projectiles hitting their targets. There are also all-new sound effects for enchanted bolts and ranged special attacks.

- A number of improvements have been made to Temple Trekking:

Players will now receive 25 Ghastly Attack scrolls instead of 15.
Attacking an enemy that is fighting your companion will now pull threat away from him/her.
"Hard" companions now receive slightly more experience for completing an event.
Ranger and mage companions’ accuracy has been increased.
Trekkers will now eat at below 50% health instead of 25%.

- The tome of frost reward from Dungeoneering now reduces the amount of damage you receive from being dehydrated in the desert.

- Demons in Daemonheim now drop impious, accursed and infernal ashes.

- Anvils across RuneScape have been given a "smith" option, and can now be used by left-clicking on them.

- The completionist cape has been given the following:

The enchanted bonesack teleport.
An option to manually set its colours.
An option to give it the functions of a spirit cape.
A longer particle trail.

Patch notes for this update: (Click to View)

The following small fixes and adjustments have now been made to the game. If you spot any further bugs in-game, please use the Bug Report feature ('Submit a Bug Report' under the 'Help' drop-down menu of the website).

Graphical


The ring of stone now transforms the player into the new style mining rock.
The gnome scarf is now using the old ‘flying back’ look.
There is now an icon on the world map to show where a gravestone store is.
The saxon skirt no longer deforms whilst playing the Head in the Sand emote.
Some flickering issues around the Seers' Village courthouse have been fixed.
The abyssal whip ready animation no longer stutters.
The pickaxe animations for crush and stab have been swapped.



Quests & Tasks


Maria Gadderank's chathead is now used correctly at the end of Branches of Darkmeyer.



Minigames & Distractions


Trying to walk around the sickly people in the ghast Temple Trekking event is now easier.



Miscellaneous


The dialogue on entering the Cooking Guild has been altered to allow a more speedy entry.
Ugthanki dung now fills multiple buckets automatically.
The quick travel option for sailing to Entrana is now a lot quicker.
Dell Monti now has a right-click ‘collect pineapples’ option.
The Kethsi music track is now unlockable.
The Darkness of Hallowvale music track will now unlock correctly.
Smelting Baneore now fills smelting urns.
Upgrading dungeoneering rings now closes the interface to prevent accidental multi-upgrades.
The player-owned house combat ring now works correctly with the Wrath and Retribution prayers.
The Loyalty Programme store has been altered to stop accidental multi-purchases.
Crafting onyx rings now works correctly with the make-x system.
Teleporting after drinking an overload potion no longer cancels some of the damage.
The Dungeoneering rewards interface is no longer partially underneath the minimap when using fixed-screen mode.
The cookers on Lunar Isle are now functional.
Players stop playing the Cooking animation when they hit their resource cap when skilling at a Citadel Cooking skillplot.
The Livid Farm Construction requirements are now listed under the ‘minigame’ category of the advanced skill guide, instead of ‘other’.
Spiritualise Food now works correctly after a familiar has been renewed.
The Make Leather spell now consistently takes one set of runes per leather.
Players will no longer be disconnected under certain circumstances when Skaldrun appears in Daemonheim.
A player can now give back the iron hatchet given when chopping a canoe, instead of the npc accepting arbitrary bronze hatchets.
Some text on the Saradominist coin in the Varrock museum has been altered.
Tune Baneore is now required to wear the completionist cape.

A lot of very minor changes, but some pretty well needed ones. Gonna be weird getting used to typing /c to talk though.

At first I didnt like it at all and thought it was stupid
but at trying it Its better since I usually only talk at clan chat and not at public
so now I can stop using //
The camera thing I cant give an opinion since my mouse wheel is only used to scroll and not to click (old mouse ftl)

A lot of very minor changes, but some pretty well needed ones. Gonna be weird getting used to typing /c to talk though.

If you leave it in /p chat, you can still use // to talk. Im gonna stick with that.

The mouse rotate is kinda cool. Dont know how much ill use it though.

A lot of very minor changes, but some pretty well needed ones. Gonna be weird getting used to typing /c to talk though.

You just do the /c once and then you talk, like it's set to the clan chat only. No need for // anymore and you don't type /c unless you switch modes again. It's a lot like other MMOs, but I don't know if you've played others or not.

Or you can do as Zephyr said, just leave it in /p mode and keep typing //. I am sure quite a few people will still be doing that.

At work right now so I can't test out this update personally, but I'm sure I will like it when I get home and see it. I've always wanted them to do something different with the chat and now it's finally here, so w00t on that! Also curious to see how the Wise Old Man handles quest items now. Will have to pay him a visit later.

Posting this now, but will end up voting later once I've tried things out. ^_^

This is an awesome update!

This is an awesome update!

Care to share why you think so? ^_^

Comp cape updates <33333!!!!

I was really excited about the junk-finding thing with the Wise Old Man but was so disappointed when he told me I didn't have any junk

Also, alog customisation.. <3!!!!!

I like the updates, but it is going to take a little bit to get used to the new chat. Not sure yet if I'll be using the new way or stick with the old.

The camera control is nice because when I'm too lazy to click my arrow keys I can just use my mouse ^_^.

No more slashes spam? I LOVE IT.
New camera thing, comp cape update and so on. Nothing big, but everything is good to me
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