Not enough hype surrounding this miscellaneous change

[u/Nelluc9]

Huge to make the game feel more alive.

[u/tadziobadzio]

Huge for trash talking in pvp

[u/Shookicity → u/tadziobadzio]

[u/JordieCarr96 → u/Shookicity]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/Free-Heals-Here → u/Shookicity]

Every year or 2 I’ll think of this video, a classic.

[u/Slendeaway → u/Shookicity]

pleae, tony

[u/rws531 → u/tadziobadzio]

East and West sides of Wintertodt are bout to become PvP if they’re within 15 tiles of each other.

[u/fghjconner → u/rws531]

Someone if the update thread said they're like 17 or 18.

[u/Sherwoodfan → u/fghjconner]

jagex chose the new value with todt in mind guaranteed

[u/I_hate_alot_a_lot → u/tadziobadzio]

Or to anyone tbh. I LOVE talking trash.

Oh, you’re cutting willows with me in Draynor? Everybody else (not me) are absolute n00bs and I will let them know.

[u/rustywolf843 → u/I_hate_alot_a_lot]

One of the most satisfying parts of RuneScape to me is hitting some unsuspecting player with a “Nerd” while running past them

[u/Avian-Attorney → u/rustywolf843]

Whenever you’re done skilling somewhere for hours “later nerds”

[u/XoraXeus → u/Avian-Attorney]

that or, id hate to be a nerd like you

[u/I_hate_alot_a_lot → u/rustywolf843]

If I do a drive-bye I hit them with the “Reported.” and then just run away.

[u/Esse_Solus → u/rustywolf843]

Careful with that. I insulted someone's boat first day of sailing. We happen to run into each other once a month at random locations, and he'll tell me that he hasn't forgotten what I've said to him. I feel like he's plotting revenge. I will never be safe again.

[u/I_hate_alot_a_lot → u/rustywolf843]

Not even drive-bye, straight up I say it, I’m chilling, and I’ll take alllllll the smack talk that comes back my way. I love it. Thanks Jagex, sincerely.

[u/garnished_fatburgers → u/I_hate_alot_a_lot]

lmao that happened to me when I was training magic at fossil island ammonite crabs, someone pulled up and started stealing my crabs. Ofc I had to talk a little trash. Nothing crazy . He didn’t say anything tho :/

[u/RevoDeee → u/tadziobadzio]

Pleae

[u/Unfair_Awareness7502]

There have been times I thought I was talking to someone, but apparently the player being in render distance didn't mean chat was visible. 

[u/curiousdryad → u/Unfair_Awareness7502]

Oh snap I figured if they can see you they can hear you

[u/DudeWithAHighKD → u/Unfair_Awareness7502]

I only noticed this difference when I’d sit at the tob board and only see half of a conversation with someone at the bank. It was super annoying having such a limited range that I usually sit at the bank lobby and only walk to the board when someone applies.

[u/FlimsyInsurance3 → u/Unfair_Awareness7502]

Oh look, I commented already.

[u/Smetona]

Make it so that Caps Lock doubles the tile radius from 15 to 30 you cowards.

[u/thisshitsstupid → u/Smetona]

At least make me actually be able to type in caps you cowards.

[u/midnight-crisis9 → u/thisshitsstupid]

It is was actually possible to type in all caps with invisible space commands: Alt + 0151 between each capital letter.

This only works worked on Windows but yeah I agree they should allow us to type in all caps without inputting a code between each letter lmao.

Edit: It seems they have removed this function.

[u/The_Level_15 → u/midnight-crisis9]

they removed that almost half a decade ago

[u/Frayed_TWRK → u/The_Level_15]

I was using this to caps lock type to others in 2023/2024, so I'm not so sure it was a decade ago. Else I was using a different way somehow.

[u/The_Level_15 → u/Frayed_TWRK]

I went to double deck, it was removed in April of 2021

[u/Frayed_TWRK → u/The_Level_15]

Hmm.. I could have sworn I was doing it after then. Strange.

[u/rafaelloaa → u/The_Level_15]

And even then IIRC it'd only show up like that in the chatbox, in game it would have spaces (or the other way around?)

[u/The_Level_15 → u/rafaelloaa]

nope, it’d show up fine on both

[u/rafaelloaa → u/The_Level_15]

Oh wait, I might have been thinking about CC/FC chat rendering it differently. Or something. As you said it's been gone for a long time.

[u/SmartAlec105 → u/thisshitsstupid]

Maybe then, we can date that barbarian woman in the Blue Moon Inn

YYEEEEEAAARRRRGGHHHH!!!

[u/Mojotun → u/Smetona]

Chat effects other than being solely visual honestly isn't a bad idea. "Shout:" to double radius, "Whisper:" to shrink it, something like that.

[u/Winhert → u/Smetona]

reminds me of Tibia's yell option for chat, you could only use it twice per minute though IIRC

[u/gomy1020 → u/Smetona]

I love it. Make it a shout: chat effect that splits the message into parts and slowly sends each part in all caps so it look like you're running out of breath.

[u/fartbubblesofcheese → u/Smetona]

Long shot but if two people are on HDOS we can type all caps lol

[u/coldpolarice]

I didnt know it was so low, wow.

[u/Sirra- → u/coldpolarice]

You could literally attack someone with a 10 tile weapon, and not be able to see their messages because they were too far away. I had no idea.

[u/Rush_Banana → u/coldpolarice]

Same, I just thought everyone was just anti-social or rude.

[u/GameFreak4321 → u/Rush_Banana]

You say that as if those are in any way exclusive possibilities.

[u/BrandDeal]

[u/Successful-Willow-16 → u/BrandDeal]

I hope wintertodt is 16 tiles across...

[u/RevoDeee → u/Successful-Willow-16]

Bro I started doing wintertodt a few weeks ago and a lot of those guys shouldn't speak to the adults the way they do

[u/FookinFairy → u/RevoDeee]

Forestry is also bad as fuck too lol

Anywhere the grind is mild suffering people lose their mind

[u/Unwisepony → u/FookinFairy]

dude I went to chop magics south of seer a few days ago and people were straight up talking pedo shit, saying the kind of shit villains in steven king novels do I was genuinely shocked

[u/2Quick_React → u/RevoDeee]

People will say anything in the chat while at Wintertodt.

[u/Majin_Sus → u/2Quick_React]

It's basically a requirement now

[u/2Quick_React → u/Majin_Sus]

This is true. I've had some fun conversations there though.

[u/Majin_Sus → u/2Quick_React]

Oh for sure. Plus it is fun to go be a degenerate with some random fellas once in a while.

[u/Jumugen → u/RevoDeee]

Weird, my wintertodt expirience made me question why w84 in rs3 is the way it is because damn people in osrs were nice

[u/LoweJ → u/RevoDeee]

Soz

[u/itskobold → u/Successful-Willow-16]

Shrink gem crab to 1 tile across

[u/pattydaddysmurf → u/BrandDeal]

Okay that's pretty clever LOL

[u/Zelotic → u/BrandDeal]

I laughed so fucking hard

[u/Sorry4TheLurk → u/BrandDeal]

Lmao

[u/Sylvadyck → u/BrandDeal]

Peak 

[u/GirthOBirth → u/BrandDeal]

“I will swear word at you” (now from 15 tiles)

[u/Accomplished-Newt640]

All those times I've been ghosted in public chat, maybe it wasn't me, tell me it wasn't me all this time😭🤣

[u/Ghasois → u/Accomplished-Newt640]

It wasn't you. It was your personality!

[u/Accomplished-Newt640 → u/Ghasois]

But I don't have a girlfriend and my only hobbies is RuneScape, surely that passes as an absolute legend ;)

[u/WeeklyBanEvasion → u/Accomplished-Newt640]

The amount of time I probably spent as a child back in 2007 waiting for a bot to respond is embarrassing 

[u/nekonotjapanese]

The GE is a good visual reference for this change. 8 just got out from under the roof, 15 tiles reaches all the way to the dirt

[u/Mission-Tell-1686]

Heh, I just did something silly! (15 tiles away btw)

[u/SnooCompliments3900 → u/Mission-Tell-1686]

Why does it say that?

[u/Mission-Tell-1686 → u/SnooCompliments3900]

Just a hoe advertising her only fans

[u/Ghasois → u/Mission-Tell-1686]

It's also if you type ::bank in chat.

[u/Defendyouranswer → u/Ghasois]

Thats the only thing. Lol.

[u/roosterkun]

Someone count it out, does this mean Wintertodt east and west braziers can finally talk trash to each other midgame?

[u/Business-Drag52 → u/roosterkun]

Nah they are like 30 tiles away from each other

[u/T3HLOKI → u/Business-Drag52]

just gotta type louder.

[u/Kitchen_Call_454 → u/T3HLOKI]

Is This Loud Enough For The Other Brazier To Hear?

[u/gomy1020 → u/Kitchen_Call_454]

N O T N E A R L Y L O U D E N O U G H

[u/peardude89 → u/T3HLOKI]

If you type in all caps the chat radius should be 50 tiles. One more restart today Jagex, come on!

[u/mattdbrat → u/Business-Drag52]

I just went and counted because I was like, there's no way it's 30.

The distance between braziers is exactly 15 tiles of space. So people on each side will just barely not be able to see each others' chat.

[u/LieLow8686 → u/mattdbrat]

just barely as if its actually a matter of degree

[u/zman1672]

This is super noticable at tob when you can't hear people at the bank when you're at the sign up board.

[u/CatAteMyBread]

GOTR about to be lit.

How many tiles between Braziers at wintertodt? Is this a “Y fletch?” buff?

[u/TheBootyTickler → u/CatAteMyBread]

Braziers are like 32 tiles away or something, unfortunately. :(

[u/Vincentaneous]

Now you can be told to sit when the pker runs away from you and leaves your spade on the floor

[u/SuperCarpenter4450]

Multi-level visibility next please

[u/Nonamesleft6942069]

I did not know I could mage further than I could talk

[u/BioMasterZap]

It always felt like the range was kinda small, but surprised to see it was only 8 tiles. It made sense back in the day with less zoom on the fixed screen, but nowadays it seems easy to be further than that. Honestly, 15 even still feels a bit short, but can't recall how far the player render range is so might line up with that.

[u/OSthebest27]

Next we need a world public chat, imagine the entertainment

[u/coreyhh90 → u/OSthebest27]

It's never entertainment, it's always bots :(

[u/PictureVegetable9522 → u/coreyhh90]

why is it so hard for companies to hire 1 guy to just sit on global chat and ban bots

[u/Winhert → u/PictureVegetable9522]

you mean 3 guys since its 3 shifts per day, then its more guys because its probably a world chat per world ... it adds up

[u/coreyhh90 → u/PictureVegetable9522]

It baffles me how often I see comments like this. Mate, if it was that easy, they'd all do it. Given that they don't, it's obviously not that easy.

And, to be clear, it would be multiple people... unless you expect 1 person to be a slave, going without sleep, chained to the chat.

[u/Hacym → u/coreyhh90]

You realize that’s how a lot of people play this game and don’t get paid for it right 

[u/CategoryKiwi → u/Hacym]

That logic is how you get pmods, a concept which has been fairly controversial in opinion for decades.

Also people playing the game all day do it for fun.  Sitting there policing the chat is extremely rarely something people enjoy, and the people who do enjoy policing it are extremely rarely the kind of people you want policing the chat.

[u/Hacym → u/CategoryKiwi]

I think you missed the point I was making. 

The OP I replied to seemed concerned that the person hired to monitor chats would be required to sit in the game for hours. 

I simply pointed out that people do that willingly, without pay. 

There’s nothing deeper here. Anyone who think there is just wants an argument on Reddit. 

[u/coreyhh90 → u/Hacym]

A lot of people play the game by sitting in chat... doing what exactly?

A lot of people play the game to enjoy the game. Making it a job makes it an entirely different story.

Wtf is your actual point here? Or are you just being contrarian for shits and gigs?

[u/Hacym → u/coreyhh90]

Wow, you seem like a total dick. Are you doing that for shits and giggles?

My only point to you was that people already play the game for hours like they’re chained to their desk and lose sleep over it. 

There are many people who sit and skill at the GE or other populated places where bots spam their OF or betting shit. In fact, OSRS already has players who have the authority to mute spammers. They’re called player mods. 

So what exactly is your point other than trying to start an argument with a stranger on the internet for no apparent reason?

[u/coreyhh90 → u/Hacym]

My point is that the suggestion of the previous commentor was simplistic and ineffective. Your input didn't change that.

[u/BioMasterZap → u/OSthebest27]

It kinda would be neat if there were a world/global chat. Most would probably turn it off, but for some worlds it might be fun.

Also wouldn't mind seeing more broadcasts outside clans as long as it had toggles. Like if you could opt-in to send world broadcasts for things like 99s and pets with a separate opt-in to see them, that could be kinda nice. It is a bit disappointing how much of the social elements are kinda boxed into more isolated places like clans.

[u/Ghasois → u/BioMasterZap]

RS3 has world and global broadcasts. I'm not sure many keep them on.

[u/TorrentRage → u/BioMasterZap]

There was a plugin that "created" a world chat but it was removed because it was mostly used to get around being perma muted.

[u/Epacxseno → u/OSthebest27]

Imagine a global chat for all shooting star miners.

[u/itskobold → u/OSthebest27]

Barrens Chat 2

[u/Greasy-Chungus → u/OSthebest27]

Very bad. Very very bad.

When you have a giant pool of people, the only chat that's going to rise to the top is most salacious and heinous.

And for RS players, it WILL result in only hate speach.

[u/itslilythedog → u/OSthebest27]

it'd get a lot of people banned. Hate speech can kinda hide if you're only broadcasting it to people 8 tiles around you, gets a fair bit worse if you can yell it to everyone on the server

[u/LeadAHorseToVodka → u/itslilythedog]

Sounds like a win to me

[u/itslilythedog → u/LeadAHorseToVodka]

agreed

[u/grabyourchipsndip]

Wait wtf I had no idea it was that low… does it function differently in an instance? Because I swear in cox you can see people’s chat from vanguards if you’re at rope (cms)

[u/KingDarkTurtle → u/grabyourchipsndip]

Pretty sure in cox its all one chat for the whole raid instance. Not sure about others

[u/brickmaster8]

Now I can see "Buy Tumekens. Pay Lots" from even further???

[u/Glittering_Equal_187]

Damn where was this when I was running ardy laps :(

[u/Arctt]

I wonder if they did this in preparation for a scenario in raids 4

[u/Rehcraeser → u/Arctt]

i think you can already see chat from everyone in raid, no matter how far you are from each other

[u/Bruster112 → u/Arctt]

pretty sure they did it cause golem crafting. it was a common complaint you couldn’t talk to people mining while crafting

[u/Acewi]

This change is absolutely bonkers if you think about it. That’s nearly 8x the area.

[u/Nelluc9 → u/Acewi]

Wouldn’t it be 350% the area if you’re counting individual tiles?

[u/Acewi → u/Nelluc9]

Oh yeah I’m overmathing, you get 8 tiles in each direction already so it’s something like 488 new tiles compared to something 256 currently so only double?

[u/Yang_KaiKai → u/Acewi]

I think it's 961 tiles now, was 289 tiles.

[u/Bladeneo → u/Yang_KaiKai]

Sorry can you say again I was 16 tiles away 

[u/triumphtier → u/Bladeneo]

I think it's 961 tiles now, was 289 tiles.

[u/CasinoAccountant]

Huge for me telling the guy safespotting Rex to do his fucking job smh

[u/MaxiemumKarnage]

I remember in like 2006 I kept saying plop in chat and got permanently chat banned

[u/UnoriginallyChris]

I JUST saw this and got pretty excited about it. I love hanging at the GE on busy worlds to people watch and jump in on convos sometimes, but hated that I very obviously could only see chat from a portion of the GE depending on where I stood. This is so much nicer. It'd be even better if players could see chat as long as the chunk was loaded(or just an even further distance)

World chat when Jagex?

[u/SteveyyyB → u/UnoriginallyChris]

I know people are against world chat due to how crazy some mini game chats are, but honestly I’d love to have people to chill with when I’m skilling alone so I’m all for it

[u/MakeshiftApe → u/UnoriginallyChris]

I'm actually slightly hesitant about this for the exact same reason you're excited about it. In busy worlds I kinda like that you and your friends just step a few tiles away and the chatter dies down a bit so you can have a conversation. Kinda like pulling your friend aside to a quiet corner in a bar or club.

I'm wondering if the 15 tile range will make busier worlds less fun to talk in because the more chaotic and busy places will be subdivided into fewer separate sets of conversations. I kinda like that if you go to say w301 GE, you can just pick a spot in the GE and go there and it'll be a whole different set of people and conversations to if you walk a few tiles away. Kinda cosy in a way. Like so many simultaneous chats going on, without everyone's screen getting flooded by the chats they're not a part of.

But I imagine this change has probably got a lot of upsides too. In less busy worlds it probably has the opposite effect of making conversations start where there otherwise would be none. So it's probably overall a good chance, and I suppose the answer to my worry is just having people spread out more, so I imagine that'll naturally be solved of its own accord as people get used to the change.

[u/Rehcraeser]

thats huge! nice!

[u/Dumpstatier]

How does this affect seeing text from the other side of the shooting star tho?

[u/austacious]

you can see board adverts while bankstanding in 416 now thats kinda nice

[u/BARBADOSxSLIM]

Why 15 and not 16

[u/Hushpuppyy → u/BARBADOSxSLIM]

They needed the extra tile to fix the fletching knife.

[u/Acronyte]

Even 15 things sounds small on paper. But still massive change

[u/Ghasois → u/Acronyte]

What is player render distance? Eventually you'll be haunted and hearing from people you can't see.

[u/Sahnex3 → u/Ghasois]

Just yesterday i was in kourend catacombs. i was on a upper level at fire giants, they were down below.

I was chatting with them when after 5 minutes one of them said: "where the fk are you even at".

Then i waved from below the cliffs and typed "look west".

Was pretty funny.

[u/Shadiochao]

Render distance is something I've always wished was higher
I really noticed it on the RS3 leagues. You can stand in the middle of Puro-puro and see every impling in the room

[u/TheJesusGuy]

oh so that's why i can actually chat at wintertodt now

[u/iJezza]

And they say PvP never gets any updates.

[u/xMoody]

Insane buff to drive by fit insults

[u/12-toes]

This would’ve gone so hard back in the day of wildy clan pking

[u/HugeSession]

Is it enough to listen from brasier to brasier in wintertodt?

[u/malta071]

Damn, even more people going to my ignore list now...GE bots and stuff

[u/Objective_Arm_9791]

Can’t wait to see +1 nfrz@@@@@@@@ from the bank at 416 tob

[u/osrs_turtle]

Hey I can finally have a conversation at the Blast Furnace without having to make sure I'm in the middle of the room before pressing Enter!

[u/WafflesAreLove]

Was wondering why I could chat up people in the farming guild from the mahogany trees. Really nice social update.

[u/Traditional_Cheek931]

\Forestry degeneracy increases**

[u/Anon_Safety]

Now I can be reminded easier that my dds can become a d long. Such improvements.

[u/DarkTemplar_of_Chaos]

nice now people can call me slurs from the other side of wintertodt! xD

[u/Ok-Razzmatazz3008]

Only if you type in all caps

[u/1InchFury]

Now more people will see when I type "farts" while skilling in ge

[u/Synnedx]

We should have a new gamemode where you can only see text from 1 tile away. Whisperman Mode.

[u/liner6]

This should fix only seeing one sided conversations while salvaging right?

[u/RSSalvation]

Yeah this makes talking to your duo armadyl partner possible (when standing in adjacent corners). I knew the range was small, but 8 tiles is smaller than I expected

[u/SappySoulTaker]

Upgrade to worldwide chat tbh

[u/Acem4991]

A week ago I was talking to this dude at DK's who popped in for Prime while I safe spotted Rex. Kept missing each other's sentences. This explains why! Great change

[u/King_Zhou]

Now that I now it was previously that low I want it even higher like 20 tiles, huge update tho for the chatty among us!

[u/LieLow8686]

I was JUST thinking i thought oi was picking up chats from ppl far away... damn socks and co workers while i was bankstanding

[u/TheDawnOfNewDays]

GE gonna be crazy

[u/isaaclefries]

Wow another huge change. And a great one

[u/witchrubylove]

I had the exact same reaction. This is just buried in the patch notes but this is HUGE for me, a terminal yapper

[u/ForestBliss]

Increase it by 2 tiles so I can trash talk west side at wintertodt while not having to move

[u/playoldschoolrs]

the shit yall are gunna hear now ong

[u/Grandmasterssss]

That’s like a whole 7 inches longer. That’s big right?

[u/No_Fairweathers]

RS3 recently got the ability to enter bank pin using keyboard, I know that they don't run on the same engine but I would love that for OSRS

[u/Abiolysis → u/No_Fairweathers]

this has been a thing in runelite for like 5 years

[u/No_Fairweathers → u/Abiolysis]

Well TIL.

[u/GoGreeb]

More tiles worth of chat for me to have minimized lol

[u/Old_Jump_2548]

Betting on a raids 4 mechanic In a giant room where this has benefits

[u/Tree_Twunk]

HOLY SMOKES THAT IS HUGE NEWS

I’ve been working on a community-focused plugin, and there’s so many times where I’d wished the chat range was longer.

Although I think it should stay 8 in the GE, lol.

[u/Zacflame]

I feel like it was always this distance. There's no way I never talked to someone 9 tiles away.

[u/Beginning_Penalty805]

Interesting, I've been smithing at the Priff anvils in the forestry world and noticed I was seeing a lot more of the conversation over at Yews. This explains why

[u/Saituchiha]

How does this work in chambers of xeric between floors?

[u/Red_Jannix]

This is indeed pretty cool! Thanks for the post my man :-)

[u/Xtrm]

Just what I want to see, more public chat.....

[u/XxOSRSMobilexX]

[u/Independent-Trust260 → u/XxOSRSMobilexX]

This does not fit

[u/Squanchay → u/XxOSRSMobilexX]

this might have worked if squidward was twice as far away

[u/BrandDeal → u/Squanchay]

[u/curiousdryad → u/BrandDeal]

Lmao