News Update #10 30/04/09

Today's news update brings use some new things in OSPRO, a bit of Halo and RuneScape.

In OSPRO
The forum has received numerous new threads.
Apply to OSPRO Forger where you can apply to become an OSPRO Forger. These people make maps for OSPRO. Sets for the Machinima series or just maps for having fun on whether its a race map, slayer map, infection map and so on.
OSPRO Forger where the Forgers for OSPRO can chat with each other about the maps they have made and where they can pick up their "job" information. There won't be many of these items but usually it will be for making a map and will run on a rotation.
Tutorials. A topic has been made for any tutorials you may have for either this forum if you choose to use it for your own purposes or anything else.
Please note that its not for RS Guides like God Wars Dungeon. It is for tutorials for how to set up a portal on your forum, or how to set up a capture card and so on.

The Applications board has also seen some openings.
Applying to Ventrilo has been opened. Although we do not have a Ventrilo server as of yet, it doesn't mean we can't let people apply. So please head over there to apply and read the requirements before you apply. They are there for a reason.
Applying to OSPRO Forger has been opened. Only Halo 3 players may apply for this group. Please read the requirements before applying.
Applying to OSPRO RuneScape and/or Halo has been opened for the hopefuls to join the OSPRO community on screen whether its in RuneScape or in Halo as a character or just the voice of one. Get yourself known and you will have a chance.

Also a while ago R4d102 suggested an Events topic, So two Events topics have been made. OSPRO Events is for the events the Events Co-ordinator makes for the members of OSPRO. The same for the Events topic in the General section for Events made for those not part of OSPRO RuneScape and Halo.

Along with these updates, R4d has been made an Events Co-ordinator. He will make events based on RuneScape for the community and a second person will do the same for Halo. For now I will do the honors but I'd like to let someone else have the chance.

Finally for OSPRO and First and last for Halo.
OSPRO Halo has been created on Bungie.net and the OSPRO Halo members should go to the group and join.
http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/291398/Group/GroupHome.aspx#
Ranks will be given when a member joins and they will reflect your rank here for most parts but sometimes you may have a higher rank as it is Halo only.
So please join up there.

Now for RuneScape.
We see a third development diary for the Dwarf quest on it's way and a mention of some more quests to come from your small bearded fellows.

"Good news, everyone! The design brief for the new dwarf quest is complete. This is the core design document of the project that defines all the important details of the new quest. The initial concept document said things like “there's a puzzle here involving such-and-such a thing”; the design brief defines exactly how the puzzles will work.

Creating the design brief involved a lot of back and forth between me, Mod Mark (RuneScape's lead designer) and our balancing expert. We agreed on the bulk of the document pretty quickly, but a few of the details took a bit of haggling to get worked out. This took a while, but it's important to get things right at the design brief stage, rather than trying to balance the project at the last minute.

With the design done, the project now moves into the implementation phase. This means I'll be writing the actual dialogue and code that'll make up the final quest. I'll also be working with the Graphics and Audio teams to begin work on the look and sound of the new quest.

The only major thing to still be decided is the quest's title, because I'm terrible at coming up with titles for things. Hopefully, something will come to me while I'm writing the quest dialogue. I'll keep on calling it ’new dwarf quest’ for now.

Level requirements

Among the things decided at this stage of the project are the exact level requirements of the quest. In the last diary I said that they would probably be in the same range as those of Forgettable Tale..., but Mod Mark has decided that they should be higher than that. I can now exclusively reveal the new quest's level requirements:

* Level 41 Hunter.
* Level 54 Firemaking.
* Level 54 Strength.
* Ability to defeat a level 100 enemy.

What could you have to do in a dwarf quest that involves Hunter, Firemaking and Strength? You may begin your wild speculations now.

We're planning three new dwarf quests in total (this one plus two more), and their level requirements will get progressively harder so that the last one will be Grandmaster level, with requirements of around 70-75. I can't say anything specific about when we will release any of the quests, but we're not planning to leave as long a gap between instalments as there was before this one.

Please note that these level requirements are the ones we're planning now, but it's just possible that we'll need to change them for some reason while the quest is being developed. If we do change them, I'll let you know. Basically, everything I write here should be taken as a prediction rather than a promise.

Dwarf graphical rework

Some people on the forums have asked whether dwarves are going to get a graphical rework. We've discussed this and decided that we will be updating the dwarf NPCs with new graphics. However, this graphical update will be a separate project from the quest; I don't yet know whether it will be released along with the quest or at another time.

To the right is our first piece of concept art - a new look for Commander Veldaban - by Mod GG. Please bear in mind that this is only the initial concept and might change as we all discuss exactly how we want the dwarves to look.


Concept art of Commander Veldaban

Mod John A
RuneScape Content Developer"

Thats all for today. Bye everyone.

~Osborne1992~

hi.
do you need help with questing guides?
because i can make ones.
in depth and detail.
i didn't really know what you meant in that update/ comment/ thing.
but yea reply if you do or do not need help .

xxjoshpl0xxx wrote:hi.
do you need help with questing guides?
because i can make ones.
in depth and detail.
i didn't really know what you meant in that update/ comment/ thing.
but yea reply if you do or do not need help .

ossy would like that i think.
but this isnt just about rs its about halo too

yea.
the thing is i don't own a xbox360. =/ so that like sucks lol

ossy would like that i think.
but this isnt just about rs its about halo too[/quote]

sorry mate. and no u havnt, go on the chat. talk easier