Many Old School Runescape players have become increasingly accustomed with using things like Runelite in order to make Old School Runescape more modern and organized. Other players have regularly turned to third party software to define invisible hitboxes on enemies, or to track gold and experience earned. These players will find themselves enjoying the newest set of client features Jagex is currently rolling out to the player public.
For those unfamiliar, Old School Runescape is the 2007 version of it's newer version, Runescape 3. Despite being the older version, many fans have found this version to be even better than the newest, with Old School Runescape surpassing the newer version in player count. Due to the traction of this older version, Jagex, the developers of Runescape, has continually updated the older version with additional content such as Old School Runescape Combat Achievements. Ironically, players have used additionally 3rd party programs to enhance their experience with this older version of the game.
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The new client features introduced by Jagex hold a lot in store that players had previously relied on Runelite or third parties for. Among the most popular Old School Runescape content creators, agility course hitbox markers are used with almost zero exception, as knowing the exact hitbox for agility courses makes these click intensive grinds much more player-friendly. Also extremely important for some membership Iron-Man mode players, are customizable tile markers. Useful for completing mazes and solving puzzles, these colored tiles are no longer exclusive to third party programs as Jagex is now assisting more hardcore players with using the base client instead.
These additions could not have come soon enough according to the player community. With Old School Runescape breaking concurrent player counts, much of the community is looking to take their favorite old game and update it with many modern additions. Jagex is doing exactly that by adding many modern concepts such as a Buff Bar which Old School Runescape has never seen the likes of in its gameplay career. Allowing players to see their current buffs such as potions, their poison debuffs, and their ammo counter for arrows, all at a glance has always been something players had to seek in additional programs to run alongside the base game. These quality of life changes are moving from additional software straight into the game thanks to Jagex.
With many of Runescape's new players joining the community through Twitch or Amazon Prime Runescape Memberships, beginner players have been continually looking to improve their gameplay quality to that of Runescape content creators while still simply using the base client for the game. Fortunately for these players, Jagex is listening to their pleas.
Both versions of Runescape are available now on PC and mobile with a free version available.
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