How's this compare to OSRS ?

[Kaathe]

Seems like this game has 10x more players on steam right now which is interesting.

Does this game revive the magic of RuneScape in a new game ? Or is it nothing like the original game from this dev ?

[DUCK]

that is one way to put it, combat and exploration.
while unsure if it counts as skills either, skilling or more grinding. if everything becomes the same grind, then how different are the skills from each other. as runescape did provide something that made it feel like you did something different, unsure how you can get that same feeling here.

[Hosenbund]

Trolling?

https://oldschool.runescape.com/

OSRS has 117k players playing right now, OSRS doesnt need to be revived, it is alive

[War Department]

It's really not very similar in many way at all, Especially the combat unfortunately. I tried to suggest some combat changes but i don't think its going to change much which is going to send many back to different versions of RS. imo

[Greb]

Considering it's 3 weeks vs 20 years of updates, it compares pretty well.

[Hosenbund]

Originally posted by War Department:

It's really not very similar in many way at all, Especially the combat unfortunately. I tried to suggest some combat changes but i don't think its going to change much which is going to send many back to different versions of RS. imo

i dont mind the combat in itself too much as for me its a game about skilling.. but there are few skills and they all feel way too similar.
The worst is that you have your own combat level for every episode. the combat being so bad makes it such a bad decision to reset that one over and over again.
The crappy equipment system which also feels randomly generated doesnt help it.

Game has potential, but its very flawed too

[War Department]

Originally posted by Hosenbund:

Originally posted by War Department:

It's really not very similar in many way at all, Especially the combat unfortunately. I tried to suggest some combat changes but i don't think its going to change much which is going to send many back to different versions of RS. imo

i dont mind the combat in itself too much as for me its a game about skilling.. but there are few skills and they all feel way too similar.
The worst is that you have your own combat level for every episode. the combat being so bad makes it such a bad decision to reset that one over and over again.
The crappy equipment system which also feels randomly generated doesnt help it.

Game has potential, but its very flawed too

i feel like i had a pretty good combat solution lol

[Pronoun]

Originally posted by Belt:

OSRS has meaningful progression and an abundance of content, brighter shores has none of that. Brighter shores is a grind to make up for the lack of actual content, it is completely artificial game time. You will be doing the same methods at level 20 as you will at level 480, just a different colour of node. You unlock the entire map in BS just by doing the main story which takes about a day if lucky.

Using the excuse of it being early access doesn't work well when you find out brighter shores has been a decade in the making.

Were you around when RuneScape Classic was first released over two decades ago? There wasn't a lot of content. Now look at the game. Content takes time for MMOs.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by Hosenbund:

Trolling?

https://oldschool.runescape.com/

OSRS has 117k players playing right now, OSRS doesnt need to be revived, it is alive

I wonder how many of those are bots, though. Runescape has a gigantic bot problem.

[DUCK]

Originally posted by Pronoun:

Were you around when RuneScape Classic was first released over two decades ago? There wasn't a lot of content. Now look at the game. Content takes time for MMOs.

content takes time yes, can see this being more "SP" focused to maybe some coop or later PvP/loot stuff. its more if it's the content some people want to see vs what others want to see from the game and the direction it goes. for the most nerdiest excel sheet strats? or a mix, or can do a bit of everything?

Originally posted by Dregora:

Originally posted by Hosenbund:

Trolling?
OSRS has 117k players playing right now, OSRS doesnt need to be revived, it is alive

I wonder how many of those are bots, though. Runescape has a gigantic bot problem.

so long if third party access is enabled, and future GUI automation... there will always be bots, so can assume 20-70% doing some sort of automation or botting, can maybe get more towards 50-80% depending on how accessable this becomes. same for this game, bots/time reducing methods will be around.

[HostileLogOut]

only things in common is the grinding. Every skill in brighter shores has no purpose. they dont really benefit you what so ever and currency also has zero purpose what so ever. and the combat is pretty dam boring and the whole game feels alot more like afk idle game. OSRS is superior in every way. also 10x more than what? OSRS typically has 100k + players

[Run dem Weh]

Originally posted by freaky:

Originally posted by Run dem Weh:

It can not be overstated how well the launch went. Even day 1 had absolutely zero issues to my knowledge. That isn't just rare, it's completely unheard of, especially nowadays.

We're living in a time where not just MMO or competitive games always have launch issues, even singleplayer stuff does, all the time. We expect a rocky launch with frequent dc's and queues at this point, so this was very surprising and refreshing to witness.

TBH i think it's due to the low player count;
I never saw it go past 20k

Other MMOS got over 100k people rushing the servers right away as it launch

That's besides the point, as i also pointed out the same issues happen in even singleplayer games. Plagued by bugs, server problems (if they are connected to a server in some way), other sorts if performance issues, sometimes games not even launching.

[LexCondran]

Originally posted by Kaathe:

Seems like this game has 10x more players on steam right now which is interesting.

Does this game revive the magic of RuneScape in a new game ? Or is it nothing like the original game from this dev ?

just play osrs
this game is incomplete, and hollow at best. combat is its worst feature
you grind mindlessly, to grind new grinds mindlessly, and its all around poorly built

[nowhere man]

Originally posted by Midnight Sparkle:

Osrs allows multiboxing and 3rd party aps that trivializes content so this game is already better despite not being finished.

imagine if it didnt allow anything 3rd party to "speed up" the grinding, bringing it down to a grand total of 20k hours instead of 100k hours?

[J]

Btw I came to comment again because I just realised

Why not just try it? It’s f2p why you need ppls opinions before opening a game to try it yourself??? lol

[Hosenbund]

Originally posted by J:

Btw I came to comment again because I just realised

Why not just try it? It’s f2p why you need ppls opinions before opening a game to try it yourself??? lol

Because he is probably a troll.

Hard to believe these people are serious. saw some of those threads in the past already.. they comment on a f2p game waiting for answers, and no matter if the answers are positive or negative, these people never end up trying the game