What to look forward to in the next few months
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:30 am
With our newest trial developer Thoby having added the Lizardman Shamans to the test server (check our latest devblog topic), it's once again time to look toward the future of PkHonor.
We are without a doubt the oldest RuneScape Private Server around (among the bigger ones anyway), and even though we pride ourselves on a stable economy, great customer support, regular updates, a large amount of features, the guarantee of no economy resets no matter what and the fact that our server will still be online years from now, we still have to do better if we want to remain of any significance in the future.
Sure, there are still bugs and annoyances that need to be taken care of, both in PvM and PvP. We hear the complaints and we don't want to ignore them. But above all else, players want new content. They want the things they like about OSRS. And many of these new features, we are still lacking. I'm glad we managed to bring UIM, Cerberus, Abyssal Sire and Lizardman Shamans in a relatively short amount of time, but we're lagging far too much behind the features that OSRS has to offer. Everything we added recently, OSRS already had in 2016. That changes now.
I am proud to inform you that after the release of the Lizardman Shamans next week, we'll be doing a major cache update in order to bring our maps, NPC's and items up to date with the latest version of OSRS, so that we can add everything they have added until now. The last (and only) time we did this sort of major update dates back from 30 December 2016, but there's been a great deal of new features OSRS added since. Features that our players, and a whole lot of potential new players, want to see in PkHonor.
As we speak, I already managed to download the very latest OSRS cache, containing all the new maps, NPC's and items we need. I also managed to get my hands on tools that allow me to easily update our cache whenever OSRS brings out new major features, so that we can add them to our own server within a short time and we can finally stop lagging behind feature-wise.
There's still some work to do before we can start adding all the features I am about to present. I still need to dump the maps and verify that all NPC, item and object ID's have remained the same (and convert ID's where needed). However, unlike the 30 December 2016 update, it's not going to take me 5 months this time. Back then, I made some major changes to our code so that we can easily update our server to include the latest OSRS maps, NPC's and items, so I am hoping it will take me no longer than a few weeks before I can release the new cache on PkHonor.
Once this process is over, the first thing we will be adding is Skotizo! Thoby has already added almost all of the functionality of Skotizo, but the map of the area we have was broken, so we decided to postpone its release until the new cache update which contains the correct map:
What we'll add after Skotizo, we're not sure yet at this point. There are a whole lot of options in front of us. However, the Theatre of Blood sounds like a good candidate!
As well as Vorkath:
Inferno:
And of course, the Chambers of Xeric:
Last but not least, we'll finally have all of OSRS their skilling pets at our disposal, which we are all too eager to add to the game!
In other words, more than enough content to keep us busy for a while. And to keep current and new players excited for a long time to come.
We are without a doubt the oldest RuneScape Private Server around (among the bigger ones anyway), and even though we pride ourselves on a stable economy, great customer support, regular updates, a large amount of features, the guarantee of no economy resets no matter what and the fact that our server will still be online years from now, we still have to do better if we want to remain of any significance in the future.
Sure, there are still bugs and annoyances that need to be taken care of, both in PvM and PvP. We hear the complaints and we don't want to ignore them. But above all else, players want new content. They want the things they like about OSRS. And many of these new features, we are still lacking. I'm glad we managed to bring UIM, Cerberus, Abyssal Sire and Lizardman Shamans in a relatively short amount of time, but we're lagging far too much behind the features that OSRS has to offer. Everything we added recently, OSRS already had in 2016. That changes now.
I am proud to inform you that after the release of the Lizardman Shamans next week, we'll be doing a major cache update in order to bring our maps, NPC's and items up to date with the latest version of OSRS, so that we can add everything they have added until now. The last (and only) time we did this sort of major update dates back from 30 December 2016, but there's been a great deal of new features OSRS added since. Features that our players, and a whole lot of potential new players, want to see in PkHonor.
As we speak, I already managed to download the very latest OSRS cache, containing all the new maps, NPC's and items we need. I also managed to get my hands on tools that allow me to easily update our cache whenever OSRS brings out new major features, so that we can add them to our own server within a short time and we can finally stop lagging behind feature-wise.
There's still some work to do before we can start adding all the features I am about to present. I still need to dump the maps and verify that all NPC, item and object ID's have remained the same (and convert ID's where needed). However, unlike the 30 December 2016 update, it's not going to take me 5 months this time. Back then, I made some major changes to our code so that we can easily update our server to include the latest OSRS maps, NPC's and items, so I am hoping it will take me no longer than a few weeks before I can release the new cache on PkHonor.
Once this process is over, the first thing we will be adding is Skotizo! Thoby has already added almost all of the functionality of Skotizo, but the map of the area we have was broken, so we decided to postpone its release until the new cache update which contains the correct map:
What we'll add after Skotizo, we're not sure yet at this point. There are a whole lot of options in front of us. However, the Theatre of Blood sounds like a good candidate!
As well as Vorkath:
Inferno:
And of course, the Chambers of Xeric:
Last but not least, we'll finally have all of OSRS their skilling pets at our disposal, which we are all too eager to add to the game!
In other words, more than enough content to keep us busy for a while. And to keep current and new players excited for a long time to come.
