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Update history 2016-2023

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Update history 2016-2023

Update history 2016-2023
Type Update
Videos 1 (first 2023-07-30, latest 2023-07-30)
Main source A Plea To Jagex (OSRS)

Update history 2016-2023 is an update topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2023-07-30. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey concludes that 2017 and 2018 were two great years when the mods found their footing, and that quality dropped off after that.1
  • Gnomonkey calls 2017 the best year OSRS has ever had, the golden year, with Chambers of Xeric, the Inferno, Fossil Island, Grotesque Guardians, the Chaos Altar and Revenants.2
  • Gnomonkey says 2020 is when things started going downhill, with Hallowed Sepulchre (which he calls the best skilling update of all time) and Nightmare of Ashihama (lukewarm at best), and Trailblazer as the only other notable update.3
  • Gnomonkey says 2021 had attempts at hard content that fell flat: Theatre of Blood hard mode, the Jad challenges, Combat Achievements, Phosani's Nightmare, Soul Wars, Group Ironman and A Kingdom Divided.4

Events

  • Gnomonkey went through the update list on the OSRS Wiki (he says Jagex's website is much worse to parse) and gathered every major update since 2016, excluding quality-of-life changes such as shift-click drop.5
  • 2016 was somewhat weak, with the Catacombs of Kourend and Skotizo as the biggest additions and no high-level content.6
  • 2018 saw the release of Theatre of Blood, Challenge Mode Chambers of Xeric, Dragon Slayer 2 and Vorkath, which Gnomonkey calls an amazing year for content.7
  • 2019 had no major high-level content but added the Kebos Lowlands (including Konar, Hydra and the Farming Guild) and Song of the Elves with the Gauntlet and Elf Agility.8
  • The major PvM releases of 2022 were Nex and Tombs of Amascut; Gnomonkey also mentions quest speedrunning and the PvP arena as updates that are completely dead, saying he saw 11 people in quest speedrunning worlds while writing the script.9
  • Up to July 2023 (six and a half months), 2023 had added the Wilderness boss rework (which Gnomonkey calls a bot-ridden mess), Forestry and "Muzzbow" (as transcribed), which he cites as everything the game had received that year.10

Revision history

Date Video Change
2023-07-30 A Plea To Jagex (OSRS) Page created: 10 statements (event, opinion)
## References

  1. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 3:14 ↩

  2. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 3:44 ↩

  3. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 6:03 ↩

  4. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 6:30 ↩

  5. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 3:03 ↩

  6. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 3:32 ↩

  7. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 4:34 ↩

  8. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 5:36 ↩

  9. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 7:33 ↩

  10. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 8:39 ↩

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