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RuneScape Ahead Reveals New Quests, Bosses, Updates and More Coming to RuneScape in 2024 and 2025
Look, there... on the roadmap... a big, big chest full of new material.
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August 16, 2024
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[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]
Jagex :
Watch RuneScape Ahead here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHIt1uWehh8
Thursday, 15 August 2024, Cambridge, UK. Jagex is thrilled to reveal a roadmap of new content coming to RuneScape throughout 2024 and 2025, providing players with a variety of story, skilling, boss content and more, all revealed for the first time in the latest ‘RuneScape Ahead’ video.
Following on from the roadmap reveal earlier this year, RuneScape Ahead delves deeper into what is planned for the iconic MMORPG for the rest of the year and even lifts the lid on plans for the first half of 2025. Players can expect to see 110 skilling updates, new combat bosses, new storylines as well as the first reveal of the highly requested new area expansion.
RuneScape Ahead 2024-25 - Key Highlights:
Group Ironman – This highly-requested mode comes to RuneScape later this year, allowing up to five friends to start a new RuneScape adventure without XP bonuses or the ability to benefit from players outside your group. With communal features like Group Storage, and additional cosmetics, including new Milestone Capes that upgrade as your group progresses, Group Ironman is a punishing new mode that will put players’ RuneScape skills to the test.
New Skilling Boss: The Gate of Elidinis – Coming this autumn, face the latest Skilling Boss solo or as a group as you venture to the top of the Sanctum of Rebirth to discover a mysterious new shrine dedicated to the absent goddess Elidinis. Uncover the entrance to her shrine as part of this thrilling next story quest, with a range of active mechanics to master alongside some powerful new skilling rewards.
New Story Quests – Embark on even more adventures across Gielinor with additional Story Quests coming to RuneScape throughout 2024 and 2025, starting with a new story quest this winter that sees the return of classic storylines. Due to popular demand, players will be returning to the Desert for some unfinished business with Amascut as some familiar faces await you in the sweltering heat.
New Boss Encounter – Once players have resolved their unfinished business in the Desert Finale quests, players will be going toe-to-toe with Amascut, the Devourer, in a brand-new end-game boss encounter.
110 Skilling Updates – Take your skills to the next level with the 110 Woodcutting & Fletching update later this year, featuring a new skill tree and new weapons to unlock, followed by 110 RuneCrafting and 110 Crafting in 2025.
Seasonal Events – Seasonal Events return later this year with ‘Harvest Hollow’ to celebrate the spooky season, complete with a brand-new quest, seasonal activities and bone-chilling rewards, followed by the ‘Christmas Village’ making its return at the end of the year. As the festivities begin, the Christmas Village will be expanding with a new quest, seasonal activities, and a bunch of Christmas rewards to get your hands on.
New Area Expansion – The world of Gielinor is expanding, with a new area expansion on the horizon for late 2025. The team are keeping all the details under wraps for now, but players can expect more information on this as plans progress.
And More – In between the main content updates, look out for brand new player-requested features including a series of new combat achievements, a fourth Necromancy conjure ability, plus a new Slayer Monster.
In addition to the RuneScape Ahead video, players can get further details on all the planned updates, including a very special sneak peek at the new Area Expansion in a special livestream taking place later today, August 16th at 16:00 BST on the RuneScape Twitch channel or by joining in on the conversation on the RuneScape Discord.
RuneScape is available now on PC, Steam, iOS, and Android, complete with cross-platform progression and play on PC and mobile.
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Notes to Editors
About RuneScape
Celebrating more than twenty years of adventures and acclaimed by PC Gamer as “one of the most endearing and unique MMOs available”, RuneScape is an ever-expanding, community-driven game that’s bursting with activity and life. Today RuneScape is one of the world’s longest-running online games, with over 300 million player accounts.
Set in a medieval fantasy land, players embark on epic journeys through a vast sandbox world that’s full of gods, warring races, unexplored dungeons, and glittering riches. Propelled by the game’s narrative, choose your own path through enthralling quests, and progress through 29 diverse skills to shape a single character in a classless world. RuneScape is available across PC, iOS and Android devices.
Become the hero you were born to be at www.runescape.com.
About Jagex
A leader in creating deep and engaging forever games that empower our communities across PC, mobile and consoles. Jagex’s flagship MMORPG, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts to its world and is a $1billion + lifetime revenue franchise. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond live operations; our titles are forever games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
In 2022, Jagex expanded with the acquisitions of PipeWorks and Gamepires, bringing its expertise in building forever games to SCUM, a multi-million selling open-world survival title in Steam Early Access & other unannounced titles. Jagex employs more than 600 people globally, and is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
More information can be found at www.jagex.com
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