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Patou
QUOTE(www.runescape.com)
Hello, and welcome to another exciting edition of Behind the Scenes, where we let you know all about the exciting updates we are adding during the upcoming month. Obviously, we are expecting lots of you will be happily sawing and building things, but we doubt you’ll be able to resist the great new releases we have planned!

So, in no particular order...

This month, the Warriors' Guild finally appears just on the outskirts of Burthorpe. It’s taken a while to get the ideas right, but with various different minigames to play, earning you time in a rewarding training room at the top, we are sure it’s worth the wait. Try out the shot putt, animate suits of armour, smash training dummies in a kind of “whack-a-mole” setting, even try beating a drunken guard at a very odd balancing game. Keep a look out for a rather nice new blade too.

We are also adding new rewards to Pest Control. Players will now be able to spend their points on new Void Knight armour and a brand new Guthixian mace with various autocast options. The generous Void Knights will also exchange your points to buy packs of minerals, seeds and herbs. Players keen to save up all their points will also be able to cash in larger stacks of points for more generous XP rewards. We are also updating the interface for Pest Control, showing you more information such as remaining time, the damage taken by the Void Knight and the number of portals closed.

Our quest this month follows on from the Lost Tribe quest, where you will be invited to escort a very friendly member of the Dorgeshuun around the surface world to see the sights! You’ll have to be careful though, no doubt Sigmund and his evil HAM brotherhood will interfere somewhere along the line. A brand new weapon with a rather unique special attack waits for those who take on the job. This fantastic addition to the goblin cave storyline could even force a tear in the most hardy of adventurers, so be prepared.

Anyone ever had any Trouble Brewing? Well, this minigame certainly has, especially when you consider what’s involved with brewing the famous Braindeath “rum”. Get dyed monkeys to fetch nuts from the top of a tree, but hope there isn’t another monkey up there already or it could be the worse for poor ol’ Cuddles. Lure out grubs from insect mounds with fresh meat, boil up your flowers, scrape disease-ridden bark from trees and bung it all in the hoppers before the opposing team sets fire to everything! Of course, if they do, you can always blast them with your steam pumps, or even go and burn their stuff in an act of revenge!

Large teams of players compete to brew the most “rum”, earning pieces of eight to spend on some very fetching pirate gear and a few other things besides. It’s like nothing we have ever tried before, but if you like the madness involved with our current pirate offerings, we are sure you’ll enjoy this. With open invites going out to all and sundry, the pirates are bound to open up gates to Mos Le'Harmless, giving access to the rest of the island. Aside from the new minigame, there are deep caverns to explore and new slayer monsters to fight.

A new random event will also be released this month. One of the Camelot beekeepers has a problem. His old beehives have stood around for a long time and they are starting to fall apart. Help him to reassemble the beehives before you get stung and have to dive into a stream to escape the angry swarm! Bee careful not to get stung...

Finally, we have a brand new FREE TO PLAY release this month. After years of giving security advice to players via our website and our customer relation teams, we have decided to build it into the game via a rather funky training area. Players are invited to hack and slash their way through 4 floors of beasts, all the while answering questions to some pushy doors. Various treasures wait on the different floors, with the top floor giving free players a new piece of armour... and it looks pretty good too! Hopefully you’ll learn a few tips on how to keep your account secure on the way too.

Enjoy smile.gif


Big thanks to Mertuh for letting me know about this update smile.gif.
Psv
Heh looks like a few cool updates are coming again. I really want those pest control thingys.. biggrin.gif
Arianna
Sounds like it's going to be a great update. biggrin.gif But the free to play one looks a bit lame tongue.gif
tush
QUOTE(Danirijeka @ Jun 5 2006, 09:04 PM) *
Sounds like it's going to be a great update. biggrin.gif But the free to play one looks a bit lame tongue.gif


Dani, it's to help the new players. tongue.gif

Anyways, it sounds pretty nifty.
Immortal
Sweet! Even though i'm a member, JaGeX are thinking of f2p again! Great update
lava mage8
wow (even thoguh im a member) I thought free play was suething jagex crupeled up, let the dog go on, burned in the sun, drowned in the ocean, struck by lightning, got hit by a car, and finally let the steel dragon eat.

All the updates look really goo this month i just cant w8!!
zero tol
hope this f2p thing gives you a good useful peice of armour, and that there is some nice experience gaiend from doing it,
mooncatcher
Jagex DO after all think about us f2p biggrin.gif
I haven't expected any "real" updates after the rather big POH release, and look what we get: well, at least we get something laugh.gif
(I'll wait for the day when new random events stop coming)
Thomas
A lot of minigame updates...Jagex aren't usually too good at them. Still, we'll see. cute.png
SRVFan
I don't care how much it sucks I'm going to be at the f2p tower thing when it comes out.
FireStint
wow f2p update. i m so exicted!! tongue.gif
runescape2
im so excited about the new update!new minigames for f2p?????awsomness X 20000000000.new armour????nice.hopefully jagex wont make it like the skeleton staffs,lousy and the popularity dies offf soon=)
tha priest1
woooohaa finally an update for F2P dam..il be owning these dam floors only i need my att and str up a bit biggrin.gif

but if it is to help newbies the monster won't be to great and maybe the treasure also but DAM i'l still be owning them tongue.gif

hopfully it a mini-game were you dont loose your stuff
Chris
Interesting, something new to f2p that was not originaly given to members. tongue.gif

I wonder how strong the enemies are. huh.gif
oh bum
f2p update will be a waster of time, i can almost sure of this.
still, can always hope.
and to those who think there will be new armour or something like that, there will not be. It will basically be a floor of monsters, where you somehow learn about how to protect your account or something.
ah well.
jsdavis82
hooray for f2p update! I agree it will probably blow, but i'll check it out anyway. I wonder what "new" armor they'll give.

I'm glad to see jagex is showing that they don't just care about getting the mems' money and leaving us f2p's to wither up and die...
Anorectic
The f2p update sounds sweet! New armor...w00tb33r!
Sage
Maybe the f2p thing will be alright. (I hope)

Anyway, sounds like alot of updates are comming. I smell a lot of lag cute.png
Talien8
pirate2.gif pirate2.gif YES!!! A f2p update!! It looks like a good one. pirate2.gif pirate2.gif

Alot of interesting stuff they're doing for p2p too (a particularly interesting minigame dry.gif )
Sentinel
Great...A f2p update. Let's hope it doesn't provoke anything in suggestions. slanty.gif
Micael Fatia
Looks like a great update!
Morte
of course jagex has f2p updates. they have to have these things 1-5 times a year. otherwise, f2pers (potential members/customer/payers) might stop playing, and never pay money to become members. evil.gif
maxell_555
i like the f2p game to come out asap...i wanna try it!
leechxi_is_back
WOOOOOOOT F2P updates!nah not really,its starting to get not worth it being members but who cares.hope new item is like sumthing similar to rune,minigames often give crappy rewards like castle wars(yeh i know barrows thats 1 of the GOOD minigames but finish your cash as fast as water running on a stream when your low lvled[like me])hopefully u dont lose anything wen u die.go jagex!and if the f2p update is a crappy one,50% of f2ps might quit
Zest is da Best
totally gr8 i'll check it out and im glad jagex our thining about f2p's anyway the new random event dont sound that good does it............
Lizzard
F2P UPDATE!
HA!we'll have new armour smile.gif im so happy
although i wont be playing the whole summer and wont be able to see it when it comes out(well if they make it before 17th June ill see it...)
Thebenster
Oh no... not another random event! closedeyes.gif

Although the other updates sound good, particularly the Pest Control ones! happy.gif
Neo Avatars
The Warriors Guild sounds like a strange combat update. Hopefully the requirements will be high so that it isn't as busy. Maybe different requiremants for the different games? This is somethign that I can't wait for.

Next is an update that I have been waiting for for quite a while now. biggrin.gif After getting 250 Void Knight Points within 5 days of being able to, I hope the rewards are good and the time was worth spending. Having higher xp rewards for more points is also a good update because if you spend more time getting something, you want a better reward. This also sounds like a redeem-x thing.

The sequel to the Lost Tribe Quest will probably be just another Quest where you have to defeat a high level monster or two. Many of the newer quests seem to have the same sort of story line to them with characters and items changed, so I probably won't be doing it in a hurry unless it unlocks good new areas.

The Trouble Brewing Minigame doesn't sound like it will be much use to me because I haven't completed any of the recent quests in the Morytania area. If comments from people who can play it are positive, then it will inspire me to do a number of quests and will be a good update in the end.

The random event seems like you could even die when doing it. ohmy.gif If this is the case then it won't be popular with most people, but with the huge number of new randoms being added to the game at the moment it'll just be another update that the occasional person will like, and other won't. Maybe new clothes to wear?

People have begged and begged for more thigns for f2p and here it is. What is a better update for f2p than telling them about account security? There are too many people who don't read the rules and have their accounts stolen. Hopefully this will be something that lodges rules and other things into peoples' minds enough that it doesn't fall out again. The longer it is, the more questions players will have to answer to get their rewards and the better the rewards will hopefully be. For me, this will be the best update of the month as long as fansites don't bother with guides for it. If guides come along then I feel that it is just a waste of time.
zero tol
QUOTE(oh bum @ Jun 5 2006, 01:41 PM) *
f2p update will be a waster of time, i can almost sure of this.
still, can always hope.
and to those who think there will be new armour or something like that, there will not be. It will basically be a floor of monsters, where you somehow learn about how to protect your account or something.
ah well.


umm... if you read there will be a new armour for a prize closedeyes.gif
Dissentor
Goodie, now the next person to complain about how freeplay never gets updates is going to be liberally abused in a verbal manner by me. smile.gif

The Warrior Guild thing sounds like it'll be fun as well as the quests. Always love a good quest. happy.gif
Mole
Wow, sounds cool, although we dont need any more random events.

Very unexpected, I cant believe they are updating F2P!

~Mole
Kingme
Cool I can't wait. I wonder if they'll release something new today because they usually do.
Sgt.Pepper
Thats the first update for those freeplayeres for a while.
WillaimC
Well, lot's of free players have a smile on their face, and over used the 'jump for joy' emotion.
eberk
QUOTE(leechxi_is_back @ Jun 5 2006, 04:06 PM) *
...and if the f2p update is a crappy one,50% of f2ps might quit

why would f2pers quit just cause they add a crappy game to rs??
we could just pretend its not there..
Fireknigh190
I'm happy about the new sequal to The Lost Tribe quest also about the void knights and the warriors guild. I'm also excited for the new f2p training area.
Big Fishyman
Where is the new f2p training area?
Meen
Mos Le'Harmless? Reference to the entry of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy about Earth? huh.gif


Pretty biring update laugh.gif
Rene
QUOTE(Dissentor @ Jun 5 2006, 10:05 AM) *
Goodie, now the next person to complain about how freeplay never gets updates is going to be liberally abused in a verbal manner by me. smile.gif

The Warrior Guild thing sounds like it'll be fun as well as the quests. Always love a good quest. happy.gif



f2p never get updates :'(

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jking lol

as said in another topic f2p update won't affect me alot

proly will be low level monsters which i can easely kill =/

being 93 combat smells :'(
Me-Bomb
finally an f2p update after 100 years of no f2p updates
Sinderberger
congrats f2p on update day ill check it out unless its f2p only JK i was hoping for a member quest this week with no you have to do this before you cant start the quest junk o well ill wait untill july
Solidsilver
Sounds like another great month of updates!
And finally! A new f2p area! Even if it isn't that good it sounds fun tongue.gif
Me-Bomb
but now for the problem... where is it?
Fatal Aid
QUOTE(SRVFan @ Jun 5 2006, 02:53 PM) *
I don't care how much it sucks I'm going to be at the f2p tower thing when it comes out.


haha count me 2 lol
Sir Sibannac
Gosh, the f2p update wis the most astonishing of all.. smile.gif

Although it will probably be a crap one, like the zombie dungeon in Draynor. tongue.gif
Ftpftw!
QUOTE
A brand new weapon with a rather unique special attack waits for those who take on the job. This fantastic addition to the goblin cave storyline could even force a tear in the most hardy of adventurers, so be prepared.


I predict that the reward for this quest will be the much-awaited Dragon Pickaxe. But that's just me speculating...
Morte
QUOTE(Nauticashades @ Jun 5 2006, 02:53 PM) *
I predict that the reward for this quest will be the much-awaited Dragon Pickaxe. But that's just me speculating...

good point, since the dorgeshun are miners. but a dragon pick as a reward? it must be a monster or something in a area unlocked once the quest is done.
roheirum67
this is th efirst time in like a year since they gave f2p a update

i am pretty sure the past updat efor them was the green d hide and maple bows
Tigerstar
I look forward to the pest control updates.....................The F2P update makes me mad though. I pay to play and I feel like they should too if they want any updates king.gif
Blingking502
QUOTE(RS Update)
Finally, we have a brand new FREE TO PLAY release this month. After years of giving security advice to players via our website and our customer relation teams, we have decided to build it into the game via a rather funky training area. Players are invited to hack and slash their way through 4 floors of beasts, all the while answering questions to some pushy doors. Various treasures wait on the different floors, with the top floor giving free players a new piece of armour... and it looks pretty good too! Hopefully you’ll learn a few tips on how to keep your account secure on the way too.

They remeber us! But i bet they will be like lvl 7 monsters and junk. rolleyes.gif Hopefully like a 100+ monster but i doubt it.
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