A brand new RuneScape age is coming
Well, we mentioned there was another factor..and we meant it.
At RuneFest, we gave you the primary glimpse of one thing we’ve been quietly engaged on: a wholly new RuneScape MMORPG, inbuilt Unreal Engine and set within the global community of Gielinor.
Right now, it’s rocking a working title: RS4. That is not essentially the identify we’ll finally decide on, however that is our fourth technology RuneScape undertaking, so RS4 works fairly nicely for now.
We thought lengthy and arduous about revealing this undertaking so early. We may have saved it behind closed doorways for for much longer, particularly on condition that we’re nonetheless proper originally of a vastly formidable undertaking and the sport continues to be a couple of years away.
But in the end, that did not really feel very RuneScape, or very us.
For 25 years, RuneScape has been formed by its gamers. We’ve realized that our video games are at their finest after we construct with you, not only for you. So we wish to try this from the start, and which means bringing you into the event journey sooner than you would possibly anticipate – sharing concepts, testing issues, listening and studying as we go.
We wish to construct on the perfect of the tech growth we have realized on Dragonwilds, and the perfect of the neighborhood co-development we have realized by way of RuneScape and Old School, and apply these ideas to one thing new. And after all, as a RuneScape recreation, integrity and everlasting development might be central to our design ideas.
A New RuneScape to take a seat alongside our video games
Let’s make one factor actually clear. RS4 just isn’t a alternative for any of our video games, be it Old School, RuneScape or Dragonwilds. Those video games have their very own devoted groups, thrilling roadmaps and continued funding. We’ll be designing RS4 to take a seat alongside them as an extra approach to expertise RuneScape and the global community of Gielinor.
In reality, we predict having completely different RuneScape experiences could make the entire household stronger. Players might spend most of their time in a single recreation, transfer between a number of, or uncover Gielinor for the very first time by way of RS4. The ambition is not to interchange the RuneScape video games you’re keen on. It’s to make the RuneScape universe greater.
Where does the journey start?
RS4 might be set in Gielinor, within the Sixth Age. But we’re starting someplace that RuneScape gamers have solely lately began to find – and that’s Ashenfall. An space first explored in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, and a landmass to the north-east of the Gielinor.
RS4 will happen years after the occasions of Dragonwilds and the destruction of the Dragon Queen Kuldra. Time has handed, the global community has moved on, and Ashenfall has modified with it. But Ashenfall is simply the start.
Our ambition is for this journey to develop far past Ashenfall over time, transferring into locations you realize and love, in addition to opening up new locations and tales throughout Gielinor.
This is just the start
We know our unbelievable neighborhood and which means we’re positive you’ve 1,000,000 questions. Which platforms? What accounts? Membership? Progression? Combat? Skills? When are you able to truly play it?
But, the reply proper now’s that it is merely not the precise time, or simply too early, for us to say. This is not the complete reveal – extra a possibility for us to share the start of one thing particular with you.
We’ll let you know way more subsequent yr in regards to the global community, the sport, the crew constructing it and, importantly, how one can begin getting concerned. For now, there are some things we wish you to know:
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Our 4th MMO is now in growth.
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It’s a brand new RuneScape MMORPG, inbuilt Unreal Engine
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It sits alongside RuneScape, Old School RuneScape and Dragonwilds as an unbiased expertise
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It might be true to our ideas of integrity, everlasting development, and neighborhood pushed growth
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It’s set in Gielinor and begins in Ashenfall.
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It’s nonetheless a couple of years away, however we’re telling you now as a result of we wish to construct it with you.
25 years in the past, RuneScape started with a global community, a small crew and a neighborhood that helped flip it into one thing far greater than anybody may have imagined. Now we get to start out one other journey collectively.
