Makeover Improvements

As we prepare for our next Game Jam, it’s time for a makeover!

We're getting ready for the very first Game Jam of 2023! Due to this, there will be NO GAME UPDATE next week, meaning you can enjoy the Easter Event for a little bit longer!

For those of you that are unfamiliar with Game Jam, it's our new ideation process where team members from across all sectors of the Old School Team join forces to create some killer content pitches!

This will all be shared in the May Edition of the Gielinor Gazette and you can follow along with everything that is happening by keeping an eye on our socials and using the hashtag #OSRSGameJam to see teasers and interact with the devs!

For the last 20 years, Gielinor’s hairdressing industry has been a monopoly overseen by a single ponytailed gentleman and a rat with the most powerful legs in the region. It’s time for some fresh blood, and that’s where Emma and Suzie come in!

These fashionable sisters have opened up a new salon in East Varrock, where you can get fully prepared for your next FashionScape event on World 330!

Emma has introduced some very chic new hairstyles for you to sport about town, so chat to her for a new 'do of your choice. The best part? Her services are absolutely FREE! What a revolution!

As a bonus, hairstyles are no longer dependent on your chosen character model – you can sport whatever lovely locks you like!

We’ve also made changes to the hairstyle changing interface. You’ll find that it’s easier than ever to decide on a new ‘do – and it’s a good job, because we’ve added five new fabulous hair colours for you to try.

For any of you that have built a dresser in your Player-Owned House, we've changed the way these work by removing the option to give you a random haircut and instead, most dressers will now let you choose your hairstyle freely.

So, what are you waiting for? Head to the new salon today, and style yourself silly! Chop chop!

The Beta worlds for Bounty Hunter & Desert Treasure II have now been closed. We'd like to thank everyone for their participation and feedback!

Initially, this section was going to outline a handful of changes to drain rates, show off some new icons for the Ruinous Powers and dive a little into our thoughts following all of your feedback from this first week of beta testing.

However, this week we've made the decision to end the beta for now. We're extremely grateful for all of the feedback you've shared with us so far, but with a Game Jam, external playtests and bank holidays on the horizon as well as polishing up the quest and bosses themselves - we don't feel we're in a position to make significant changes to the rewards in beta, and it's clear that significant changes are needed to get these rewards into a healthier spot.

With everything you've shared so far, we'll be taking some time to iterate and improve behind the scenes, before opening up another beta some time in May actioning many of the changes - using the extra time to put together a better offering that we feel absolutely nails it.

We'll be taking a deeper look at the Ruinous Powers and their level of power, the effects of other rewards like Virtus or the upgraded Ancient sceptres, and considering a large point of feedback that the rewards perhaps feel like a little too much all at once.

As much as we love giving all of you cool things to play with, you and us both want to see Old School thriving even 10 years from now and it's important for us to be respectful of your concerns around powercreep and the health of the game long-term.

As we continue to refine our designs for the new prayers, it’s important to note that, in line with our new polling process, nothing is set in stone at this point. The only polls we’ve run so far are opinion polls to help guide our design work which means we very much don’t consider anything to be off the table at this point. All options are still open to us and indeed, if after further iterations these prayers still don’t feel right for Old School, we don’t need to continue moving forward with them.

Keep an eye out in May for fresh blogs and betas concerning all things Desert Treasure II - The Fallen Empire.

Fresh Start Worlds are now officially over! Thank you to everyone who took part in our experiment. We hope you all enjoyed your time playing in a world with a fresh economy and firsts!

Accounts that were created on a Fresh Start World will now automatically be transferred into the main game, meaning you'll be able to continue enjoying your gains! The only exceptions are accounts that have any active Grand Exchange offers on a Fresh Start World.

These offers will be automatically cancelled – but don’t worry, players are free to log into World 423 (Members) or 565 (F2P) to reclaim the items involved.

• Poll 79: Players can now purchase the Looting Bag from any Slayer Master for 10 Slayer Points, as long as they do not already own one.
• The effects of poison on Penance healers have been restored.
  • This change only applies within the Barbarian Assault minigame.
• Enemy death messages in Barbarian Assault are now colour-coded.
• A red chat message will now appear when using the wrong poison on a Penance healer in Barbarian Assault.
• Fixed a bug which created double the expected number of poison hitsplats. Yowch!
• Activity HiScores have once again been expanded to a minimum Kill Count of 20, up from 25. Players who meet the requirement can expect to see their HiScores added soon. As a reminder, we’re making this change gradually to ease the load on the system, so you can expect to see more small steps like this in the coming weeks.
• Players who completed Monkey Madness without unlocking the Showdown and Suspicious music tracks will now have them unlocked automatically.

Woox has provided us all with another cryptic clue this week. This hint is related to the actions performed by the Mysterious Old Man...

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

• 539 - (US) - PvP World
• 548 - (Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
• 577 - (US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
• 559 - (UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using 'Zerker' loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week.

You can also discuss this update on our official forums, on the 2007Scape subreddit, the Steam forums, or the community-led OSRS Discord in the #gameupdate channel. For more info on the above content, check out the official Old School Wiki.

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