Graphics, Weapons, Dragon weapons, And More

Downloads Games Traffic?
Great website that converts, great Ppc sales 75% for you! By Platinumpartner.com.

Author: zorg

Graphics

The latest version of RuneScape is rendered in complete 3D.

A lot of emphasis has been placed on allowing players to customize their character. Players are given a wide choice in creating character models, from hairstyle to facial features and gender. Additionally, appearance can be further optimised by wearing/holding different items, with each different weapon having a unique image. Once the game has started, players can change their character's appearance in total at a variety of places in the land of RuneScape.

There are also many different animations in the game for the variety of things one can do from combat, to magic, to the various quests. The game can be run on high or low detail level. While high detail gives different things more texture or design (and has sound), low detail gives everything a cleaner cut look (without sound), and reduces in-game latency.

From February 2005 onward, Jagex has put a massive effort forward to update the RuneScape free world cities. They began with Lumbridge and Thurgo's Peninsula, and on September 2005 they announced that the cities of Port Sarim and Rimmington have been graphically updated. They plan to eventually improve the graphics of the whole free world (and maybe members areas too) without causing more lag for people using dial-up internet connections.

However, as RuneScape is Java-based, its graphics engine will always be limited in capability compared to a lot of modern games.

Fashion

A lot of emphasis goes on fashion in the world of RuneScape as members and non-members are willing to pay large sums of money for items such as rare berets or trimmed/gold trimmed armour which can only be obtained by members in treasure trail (mini quests) but can be worn by non-members as well (The trimming of the armor bears no effect on the armour other than it changes its appearance slightly). Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this article santa hats, halloween masks and various coloured party hats are among the most expensive items in the game. These items get more expensive as time passes because some of the items were holiday drops and thus could only be obtained on that day.

Random Events

Main article: RuneScape Random Events

A variety of random events can take place in the game, positive and negative, which are said by Jagex to prevent the use of "macros" (automated scripts which play RuneScape with very little human interaction). Random events can also add variety to some of the more repetitive activities in the game.

Players must respond to most of these in the correct manner or will receive a negative effect such as being teleported across the map, or even death. For example, if a random event requires a player to talk to the Mysterious Old Man, that player should respond, or they may receive such a negative effect. Another example of a random event is a mime, where a player is teleported to a stage and must mimic the actions of a non-playable character. After completing the challenge the player then receives a reward.

Weapons

Main article: RuneScape weapons

Weapon Types

The main weapons available in RuneScape in order of rate of attack from fastest to slowest are:

• Claws (2 handed) (members only)
• Daggers
• Short Swords
• Scimitars
• Maces
• LongSwords
• Hatchets
• Pickaxes
• Spears (2 handed) (members only)
• Battle Axes
• Warhammers
• Two Handed Swords (2 handed)
• Halberds (2 handed) (members only)

The weapon type which deals the most damage is the Two Handed Sword. Halberds are the only melee weapons which have a range of 2 unit squares and may be used over some objects.

Materials

They are all available in the following materials, in order from weakest to strongest:

• Khazard (members only, fight arena quest)
• Bronze
• Iron
• Steel
• Black
• Initiate (members only, reward from recruitment drive quest)
• White (members only, achieved by gaining ranks in the white knight ranks after doing Wanted!)
• Mithril
• Adamantite
• Runite
• Granite (members only)
• Obsidian (members only) (Only obtainable in Tzhaar)
• Dragon (members only)
• Barrows (members only, decays after 15 hours of solid combat, is repairable)
• Crystal (members only, decays after 2500 shots/hits, is repairable)

Certain ranged weapons such as throwing knives and darts are also available in all materials, except for Dragon.

There are also many other weapons that do not go into the basic weapons such as Silverlight from the Demon Slayer Quest, Darklight, Excalibur, Mjolnirs from the "Making History" quest, Blurite Sword from the Knight's Sword Quest, and the Abyssal Whip, the one of the most valuable weapons (after the dragon hatchet and Guthan's warspear). It is considered to be the most effective weapon available in RuneScape, dealing more damage per unit time (though not necessarily the highest damage per hit) than any other weapon available.

Dragon Weapons

The only weapons that have Dragon versions are:

• Daggers - poisoned, extra-strongly poisoned, super poisoned
• Hatchets
• Scimitars
• LongSwords
• Battle Axes
• Halberds
• Spears - poisoned, extra-strongly poisoned, super poisoned, karambwan poisoned
• Maces.

Poison

Weapon poison can also be applied to certain weapons, like daggers, spears and arrows. There is a normal poison (p), extra strong poison (+) and a super strong poison (s). these different types are suffixed onto the weapon name as single letters (e.g. Dragon dagger (p) or Dragon spear (s) ). When a player or monster is hit with a poisoned weapon, there is a chance they will become poisoned, meaning they will lose additional health to the basic hits (indicated by a green splash number on the character). The poison effect will be reduce and wear off in time, or can be cured with antipoison or superantipoison manually.