Runetek 5 Game Engine released

[AdambotLive]

"This week sees the release of a massive upgrade to several elements of the RuneScape game engine. These include the RuneTek 5 graphics upgrade described in last week?s developer blog as well as key parts of the game server and RuneScript systems.

The graphics engine update brings with it a complete revamp of the Standard Detail option, bringing resizable window (for everyone) and fullscreen (members only) modes, as well as optional new features that include:

Distance fogging and sky colour.
Ground blending and path smoothing.
Underwater visibility.
We've also improved High Detail mode with shadowing across all world levels (if your computer can support it) and an improved minimap in both versions. You'll also be pleased to know this upgrade has allowed us to fix several long-standing bugs, including:

Mis-clicking in heavy load areas (such as the Grand Exchange) causing unwanted actions.
Progress bars on Grand Exchange interfaces not working on several graphics cards."

Sounds amazing. RuneScape has done a lot for its graphics in the past year, what do you guys think?

Sauce: http://news.runescape.com/newsitem.ws?id=2171

 

[AdambotLive]

bump for justice.

 

[D_987]

For a game in Java (even though it's not coded in Java), particularly an MMO it looks damn impressive but there's no really no point to this thread as the majority hate the game, besides what are we to discuss?

 

[WrongSprite]

bump for justice.

To be honest mate, I don't think anyone cares about Runescape any more.

 

[JRCB]

Interesting. I never play, but I'm sure that some people I know will be happy about this.

 

[Flour]

bump for justice.

To be honest mate, I don't think anyone cares about Runescape any more.

I did

Well, when I made an account to check how it looked.(still as horrible as I remember from 4~ years ago)
That said, for a browser-based game it runs worse than some of the more recent games I've played on this computer so I stopped caring a few seconds after character creation.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Can I get some pics of how beautiful this game supposedly is?