'Succession' Quest & Winter Trials Yak Track! - This Week In RuneScape

General

• Players will receive a one-off Daily Challenge Reward Box the first time they log in. More details here.
• Plant Power configuration now works with the Trollheim herb patch.
• Damage and accuracy tooltips on objects now use numerical separators.
• The Healer role at Barbarian Assault will once again be rewarded the correct type of points.
• Fixed an issue that prevented completion of the ‘Staff on Stryke’ achievement.
• The Tome of XP awarded for completing the Branches of Darkmeyer quest no longer halves the amount of Invention XP received.
• Players will now approach the cliff side on the Wilderness Agility Course in a sensible manner.
• Fixed an issue that allowed player to bypass building a whirligig flower basket.
• Removed force-walk tiles next to the Grand Exchange.
• Fixed an issue which caused the Spirit Tree’s Grand Exchange teleport to place the player inside Christmas presents. You’re a gift, but not like that…
• The clipping and animation issues for Crux Eqal robes have been fixed.
• Updated login and lobby to support the Jagex Launcher.
• Moved a couple of gargoyles near the furnace in the ruins east of the Wilderness crater who had a tendency to disrupt smelting.
• Kolodion, master of the Mage Arena, now has a spine capable of bending.
• The Persistent Rage relic now generates adrenaline when outside of combat, as the infernal puzzle box prevents adrenaline drain when outside of combat.
• When your adrenaline is full, an activated adrenaline urn now stores adrenaline generated by the Persistent Rage relic.
• The Escape and Surge abilities now require 30 Agility instead of 30 Ranged and Magic respectively, so that movement abilities do not require combat skills.

Graphical Updates

• Winter is coming and Mod Blkwitch has been up to snow good in the frozen north of the deep wilderness. She's also updated the Mage Arena inside and out.
• Mahjarrat ritual markers have been graphically updated.
• The soul altar and Magister's boss arena maps have had a lighting improvement pass.

Achievements

• Added an I've Got a Little List (of Miniquests) meta achievement in the Lore category, which requires all miniquests in the Quest List.
• Completionist cape and master quest cape now require this miniquest achievement, instead of each listing individual miniquest achievements. This is to ensure comp and MQC consistently require all quests and miniquests.
• Consequently removed these miniquests from the trimmed completionist cape, since it requires the completionist cape which requires this miniquest meta achievement which requires these miniquests: Desert Slayer Dungeon, Sheep Shearer, Tales of Nomad, Tales of the God Wars, Witch's Potion.
• As there's already a meta achievement for Fremennik Sagas (Bridge over Fremmy Waters), also moved it into the Lore category.
• The Chef's Assistant quest is now listed alphabetically in the Quest Cape requirements. Also removed "A", "The" prefixes from various miniquest achievement names so that they're unambiguously alphabetised.
• Renamed the miniquest achievement Benedict's World Tour, Part 2 to Benedict's World Tour (miniquest) to match all the other miniquests listed in I've Got a Little List (of Miniquests).
• The Twilight of the Gods achievement now uses the Twilight of the Gods quest icon, rather than the City of Senntisten quest icon.

Quest Season

• Created a Legacy of Zamorak season in the Quest Series sort.
• Since they require Extinction, added Twilight of the Gods and the Aftermath miniquest to the end of the Elder God Wars quest series.

Quest List

• We've removed the Difficulty field from the quest overview screen and quest sort. Quest lists sorted by difficulty on login should change to the Timeline sort.
• Dev note : When developing quests, we place them in a difficulty bracket solely due to their skill requirements (eg our definition of a Grandmaster is that it has 80+ skill requirements). But difficulty is subjective; each player has a unique definition of what makes a quest Grandmaster, Intermediate, etc (length, combat difficulty, required quests, story relevance, position in a questline or season, rewards, etc). We've since added various methods to sort your quest list, including Timeline (which incorporates these difficulty brackets), Length, Combat Difficulty, etc, allowing you to make an informed decision of what matters most to you in deciding a quest's relative difficulty.
• Added a Wilderness category to the Starting Area quest sort, and moved these (mini)quests to it:
• Enter the Abyss
• Spirit of Summer
• Summer's End
• Civil War II
• Civil War III
• Removed a double space from quest reward text of choose-a-skill XP lamps that display the lamp's XP in parentheses.

Engine Patch Notes

• Optimised performance on Intel HD 2000/3000 series and ATI 4000 series
• Fixed app restarting when logging in or minimising the app on Android 12
• Fix for various AMD issues:
• Volumetric lighting now works on AMD GPUs with MSAA, which was broken in driver version 22.7.1
• Client no longer crashes on shutdown on AMD GPUs, which started to occur on driver version 22.7.1
• Known AMD issues:
• Anisotropic filtering still causes visual artefacts. Players can fix this by turning it off in graphics options and turning it on via the AMD driver software
• Various refraction effects are broken when using uncompressed textures with the latest AMD drivers. Switching back to compressed textures will fix the issue
• Known Issue:
• ‘Play’ button text is truncated partially on some Android and iOS devices, this will be resolved with Mondays content update. Monday’s update will also add player display name text to the Play button.
• Various fixes to support Android SDK update
• Fixed an issue with shadows being incorrect for some models
• Fixed some terrains not casting shadows
• Improved point light shadows on high and ultra quality
• Corrected lighting in several area