Old School RuneScape Dev Explains What Easy And Hard Servers Could Look Like

Old School Runescape developers have been talking back and forth about the idea of easy and hard servers, although right now it appears it's only talk as nothing concrete has been announced. Developer Jagex stated that new difficulty servers were "more likely" than the other modes.

Kieren Charles, associate design director, stated in an interview with NME that if we move forward with [easy and difficult servers] in our future, the difficulty shouldn’t become tedious-it should be an actual increased challenge. "It's easier for people to say that it makes the skill harder to learn, and makes it more expensive. But that's not interesting. This is where the real value lies. Make boss fights more important and more challenging.

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But Charles says that "there's nothing concrete yet" and so these ideas are simply that for now, although Jagex does want to develop and explore new game modes for RuneScape. Charles said, "We want to keep creating these new experiences for Old School-but don't want rushing them all out." "There's no point in us releasing one every single month because that would be overburdening for players and we don't want to distract too much from... that core Old School game."

Difficulty can be difficult to implement-you run the risk of more challenge simply being spongier enemies and the same goes for easier, turning everything into glass. Charles had more specific ideas for modifying difficulty in easy mode servers.

"Little frustrations, like the inventory mode only having 28 slots? Let's expand that, let's give you a lot more spots or access [to] the bank in more places, or whatever else we could come up with to make the game feel quite different," Charles said. runescape servers "I really like the idea. It surprised me that it came up so highly in the survey, amongst other ideas."

Jagex holds polls for every Old School RuneScape update, asking players about the new changes. Jagex will not implement an update if it doesn't receive enough votes. Jagex is also exploring new modes. Perhaps we'll soon see both easy and hard servers.