Boss Pet Overrides, GWD2, NXT Updates

May 2016

Jagex has been listening to players wishes, resulting in the recent announcement concerning a couple of features, plus a welcome batch of NXT improvements. All of that will be covered below, read on to find out more.

The first feature to be discussed is the upcoming boss pet override function. While it is a purely cosmetic feature, it is cool nevertheless. In essence, once you kill a boss and earn its pet drop, you will be able to override your current familiar with the skin of the boss. New animations for actions that the familiar can perform will be included. While not game-changing by any means, it’s still a nifty little feature. Any update to the way the game looks normally is welcome in our book.

The second big news is the improvement of God Wars Dungeon 2. While it was enjoyable before, it should be even more so from now on with the quality of life improvements that were made. First of all, each boss will now have kill timers added. You will be able to renew instance time by using the kill count interface, which is certainly convenient. You will also be able to look at drop tables for the monsters inside the dungeon. Bosses’ clickzones will be improved.

If that weren’t enough, your faction insignia will have an option to prevent friendly fire to the NPCs of the faction that matches yours. While there, you will also be able to toggle the function that gives you the ability to collect ingression fragments automatically. Using the kill count interface, you will be able to check which bounty has been assigned to you by Feng the Bounty Master, it will show a tooltip for your current reputation points, and you will be able to make it smaller. Finally, if you have The Aftershock Invention perk, you will be able to proc it more frequently.

Concerning the numerous NXT improvements, we think that it’s better to just list them for your convenience. Fixes:

• Fixed occasions where players or NPCs facing another player/NPC weren’t facing them correctly;
• Fixed Invisible animation pre-loads cutting into the scenery;
• Fixed players sometimes appearing on the wrong map square;
• Fixed clan QFC not displaying correctly;
• Fixed mini menu crash;
• Fixed inventory slots disappearing;
• Fixed remove roof in player owned houses being incorrect;
• Fixed launcher config window title not being translated correctly;
• Fixed dragon slayer magic door not transitioning correctly;
• Fixed various undefined GL behaviour due to incorrect vertex formats;
• Fixed being unable to start Firemakers Curse quest;
• Fixed position of MiniMenu entries to be same as Java and detection of mouse within menu entries to work properly;
• Fixed Wonky AABBs that were causing GUI model renders to flip out;
• Fixed wilderness agility course stepping stone animation issue.

Other improvements:

• Disabled GL VAOs for Intel GPUs who’s driver predate the year 2015;
• Re-prioritized attack op on Vyrewatch;
• Use the template IOPS for shard items instead of their base IOPS.

With the changes covered, we sign off, hoping to see you in Gielinor. After all, while reading about RuneScape is fun, playing the game is even more fun.