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BEHIND THE SCENES The Month Ahead: February
Well, January's as good as done and so it's only right that Mod Mark should be here to tell us what's coming up in February. Over to you Mark.
Firstly, I'd like to talk about our first quest of the year, called "One of a Kind".
It's looking fantastic and, on popular demand, it's a grandmaster quest! With requirements ranging from 74 summoning to 67 dungeoneering,
you'll investigate the appearance of a journal stating that one of the Dragon Riders, a race previously thought extinct,
might be alive, trapped in stone inside Robert the Strong's secret library!
This is a story about being alone, being the last of your kind. Do you fight or do you accept what fate has decreed?
We've listened to feedback, adding more lore and globetrotting than some of our more recent quests, and included plenty of quest pre-requisites.
Can you find the hidden library and investigate theů you know what?
There's some really fantastic scenes and choices in the quest, one of which I think you'll find particularly uplifting,
but I won't ruin those for you now. I will tell you about the rewards, which include a Dragon Rider amulet,
the rest of the Dragon Rider armour set and a brand new dungeon full of the Prismatic dragons you voted for in the polls.
Another poll launched in January asked you to select a creature type that's ripe for a reworked drop table.
The demons won, and so we have been working away on removing the "junk" and adding more relevant and valuable drops to Imps, Lessers, Greaters and Abyssal Demons.
We actually managed to do even more than stated in the polls,
also adding black demons (a personal favourite training target back from the days of classic) and tormented demons.
Perhaps most excitingly, we've also added some unique drops to the abyssal demons, helping to justify that epic level 85 slayer requirement.
So keep an eye out for abyssal wands and orbs in the GE.
My personal favourite update of the month is a brand new minigame that we've called "Heist".
Players will take on the roles of robbers or guards, trying to steal or protect the treasures from a variety of different game maps.
As a robber, you'll disguise yourself as a local, imitating their movements and using all your cunning and deception to dodge the guards and leg it with the cash.
As a guard, you'll need to keep a beady eye on your surroundings and use the latest RS gadgets,
like surveillance orbs, or just simple old fashioned "unfounded, baseless accusations" to catch your targets.
It's really a lot of fun and we have had weeks of playtesting in the office, fully utilising the ability to disguise yourself as a camel.
There's rooftop chases, digging tunnels out of jail, and loads of special bits of gameplay unique to each map,
one of which includes Canafis after you voted for it in the poll.
Rewards include plenty of unlocks for the minigame, and lots of hunter and thieving XP to earn.
There's lots of other stuff out this month too, like some new animations for low level combat abilities,
a rework to Burthorpe's "Daily Challenge" environment, circus teleports and a new "wicked pouch" item in the store,
new seasonal high scores about the slayer tower and healing, even some ingame rewards for the Golden Gnome winners from RuneFest 2013.
Well, I hope that's made you all happy and warm inside, and ready for Valentine's Day!
Wooters out.
And we'll be getting stuck into February's content from next week on Behind the Scenes.