DonzaRS

Hoping for a clarification, when you say exclusive to this event does that mean to any future FSW as well or only to this specific FSW and there won't be any way in the future to obtain new halo of returning making it discontinued?

Hi, our (as in the team that designed the specifics of FSW) plan was to make those exclusive to this specific run of FSW.

Things is, you can take my word for it, but I ultimately don't have the power to 100% guarantee that this will definitely be the case, as I'm not in a leadership position.

Tkf530

Please don't just tease us with aura pausing! Release it.

It's all dev'd and QA'd, so should be releasable soon :)

DonzaRS

So to be able to get the inverted cape tokens for capes you just need to get the 99/120 you want before the end of the entire FSW time before it ends and merges, and not just by the competitive period? Ik the halos etc are for the competitve period but just to find out if capes are for obtaining in the full duration?

And thanks for replying to comments

Everything except for the competitive halo can be obtained throughout the entire event duration :)

paddytallywhacker92

Do these tokens has any sort of restriction? Like, if you were to trade a 120 cape token to a new account, you need to have at least one skill at Level 120?

You will be able to use the tokens on any account, but won't get any use out of them until you reach the respective level in the respective skill. You'll be able to buy inverted capes from skillcape vendors if you have the specific cape unlocked, but of course you'll need the requirements to be able to buy the cape.

rsLourens

I couldn't find the answer anywhere - will the inverted cape tokens be transferable to ironmen?

Yep :) Via direct trading!

XyntakLP

If you honestly say that adding certain boosts to the normal game that are also on FSW would "give no reason to play FSW", that sounds like FSW just isn't good content and it's pre-existing boosts carrying the whole event.

I know that you as an individual and also basically all the devs didn't get a say or at least much of one in this strictly business decision but is feels weird when a game mod indirectly tells just the new content and game mode aren't actually that good.

That's at least how it seems to me. I truly hope that FSW is good and does as well as it deserves, however good or bad it ends up being.

Yeah that probably wasn't the best way to say "Boosts are exclusive to FSW."...Of course there are still other reasons to join FSW, such as rewards, and I personally am most interested in the new economy and what will come out of that.

I just meant to say that, as a new player or someone who wants to build up a new account, if both main game and FSW had the same boosts, there would be much less of a point to join FSW.

XyntakLP

Aren't there a ton of other boosts beyond a free death week that also last much longer than a week? It just seems weird to me that a single free death week and only a single free death week sometime during the whole FSW event would be even remotely comparable to all of the boosts FSW worlds are getting.

I appreciate the reply, thank you.

I'm not saying that the main game shouldn't get a free death week in the time of FSW. I wouldn't have an issue with that at all ^^

IAmLordOwen

Will the inverted skillcapes (once unlocked) be sold by the regular skillcape vendor, or will a new NPC be added for this?

Existing skillcape vendors will sell them once you've unlocked the ability to buy inverted capes! :)

BrotherRooster

Will we be able to trade the halos to our Ironman account? I noticed I’m not able to put an offer in on the GE, unlike the platinum nex tokens, etc.

It will be possible to trade FSW rewards to your ironman via direct player-to-player trading. :)

MarcGregSputnik

Ah neat. I’m gonna try and learn so many bosses! Have my eyes on raksha, ed3 and glacor! Should be fun. I am a noob as you can tell!

Just to clarify, there won't be free deaths right from the start of FSW, but they'll come in some weeks into the event :)

RS3_ImBack

Only on FSW or when FSW starts? Cuz if it's only of FSW then that's a big FU to the playerbase who don't want to participate

All gameplay boosts that appear on FSW are exclusive to FSW. If we added all of those to the main game, there would be a lot less of a reason for new players and lapsed players who want to build up a new account to actually join FSW.

Ashendant

If I want to get Luma or the Halo of Returning on my current account is there a way to get it?

EDIT: Looks like the Halo will be Tradeable but not Luma?

Yeah, that's right!

Ashendant

So Luma is completely impossible to obtain on my main account and will never be obtainable in any shape or form?

Yes, it is intended as an indicator of "This account was definitely here for FSW.", as most other rewards can be traded to players who weren't actually involved.

There will be free deaths on Fresh Start Worlds that start next Monday ^^'

narnode762

Thank you for the response. I appreciate that you will discuss arch with the team, as if precision or focus is not doubled (or whatever the modifier is at the time in fsw mode), arch will pretty much be normal speed which is different from any other skill. The only way that's not true is if restoration and excavation xp are doubled/multiplied, which is not how I thought they'd do it but I guess that works too. Just really hope it's not neither.

Just had a check and restoration and excavation XP are multiplied, just like every other skill :)

WateronRocks

Hey, could you clarify if the champions halo is exclusive as well, or just the halo of returning?

I could see the champions halo coming back every time, and the halo of returning being swapped for a new reward later on.

Ah sorry, forgot to mention that! Afaik, that's the plan, yes!

narnode762

Can you please give us an idea on how exactly you plan to do this? We have never received a concrete answer, and when it could be literally anything between "fsw every year" and "eventually release them as the 200m variant," it creates a lot of uncertainty regarding whether some goals are worth trying to go for this fsw event for those of us who play mains and are after cosmetics.

Also, I would like to ask you to make sure that the xp modifier applies to archaeology properly. On dxp in the live game, archaeology precision (faster artefacts) is doubled but focus (material speed) is not. On the main game this makes sense because you can buy materials and it's a worthwhile tradeoff. But on fsw, the focus should also be doubled so accounts don't end up having to ironman 2-4x materials for their sped up artefacts. This would make archaeology significantly worse than other skills relative to the normal XP rate. Another way to do it is to allow the modifier to apply to restoration and excavation xp only and not focus/precision. However you decide to do it, I really hope it is addressed. Thank you.

Hey! Since I'm not a product manager or the like, I unfortunately can't tell you how exactly the plans for future FSW events or re-releases of FSW rewards currently look like. I'd imagine that this would partly be informed by the performance of this FSW event. Either way, that decision is above me.

In regards to arch, I'll discuss this with the team! I believe, there is currently no doubled precision or focus (I might be wrong though), but there will be a chance for doubled material gathering later in the event that will hopefully help with gathering materials. Either way, I'll discuss this with the others!

DA_Knuppel

So I don't actually have to take part in FWS to obtain the inverted capes, since they will be released later on?

I thought this was going to be some special kind of event where we could unlock those cosmetics for them never to be released again, just like the highscore events back in the day. It's not even special if we can get the capes through normal gameplay later on...

The plan is to bring the capes and skilling pets back in some form in the future, as many players were upset at the thought of them being exclusive. Whether that is going to be through normal gameplay or future events, I don't know yet. However, the Luma legendary pet and the halo of returning are going to be exclusive to this event.

Visual bug, currently fixing that :)

FSW_RS

Will the inverted cape unlock token provide both the untrimmed and trimmed versions independent of how many 99s you have, or will it require the account using the token to not have obtained more than one 99 in order to get the untrimmed version?

Also, will the FSW account retain the ability to have the inverted version of the cape even if the token is traded away? Thank you for your help.

Once you use the token, the account you used it on will forever be able to buy inverted capes of that type, so you'll be able to buy trimmed versions once you've gotten your second 99.

And yeah, the FSW account will retain the ability to buy inverted capes :) So you get inverted cape buying abilities on 2 accounts (unless you trade your tokens away of course ^^)