Dragonwilds Reveals Patch Notes for Next Update

Summary

Jagex has revealed some information about the next update for RuneScape: Dragonwilds.
The patch should fix an issue causing Velgar’s meteors to clip through players’ roofs.
While no release date for the patch has been announced, it should be coming soon.

Jagex is giving players a peek at the content coming in the next RuneScape: Dragonwilds update, which will provide a much-needed fix for Velgar. There is no official release date for Update 0.7.3 of RuneScape: Dragonwilds, but players who have been frustrated by the dragon’s meteors are in for some relief when it goes live sometime within the next few days.

At just a little over two weeks since its early access launch, RuneScape: Dragonwilds has been a success for Jagex. Eschewing the MMORPG format that RuneScape has been associated with for the past 24 years, the open-world survival game that shares the same lore has been drawing in big numbers, with more than 50,000 concurrent players at its all-time peak and frequent updates despite its very recent launch on April 15.

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Surviving attacks from dragons in RuneScape: Dragonwilds is one of the game’s most challenging aspects, and at least until the launch of the Fellhollow region, there’s none more dangerous than Velgar. While the boss dragon is meant to provide a tough encounter, one possibly unintended feature was the ability of its meteor attacks to go straight through the roofs of players’ bases, giving them nowhere to take shelter. A set of preview notes for the next update, posted on the game’s official Steam page, implies that some changes are coming to Velgar’s meteors, stating that they should be “less of a problem now” when players are concealed under their bases’ roofs. Jagex did not specify whether that meant roofs would provide full protection from Velgar’s attacks in the future, but there should be at least some sort of a boon for players coming in the next few days.

This will not have been the first tweak Jagex has made to make encounters with Velgar easier to handle. Patch notes for an earlier RuneScape: Dragonwilds update from about a week ago nerfed the dragon general’s attacks significantly. These changes included reducing the number of meters from five to two, as well as limiting its poison breath attacks to only occur while it is performing strafing runs.

There are a couple of other things coming in the next update, including the addition of cloud saves, which Jagex reports is another highly requested feature based on player feedback. Several other minor changes are also coming, including fixes for stability, immunities, XP balancing, typos in the journal, and a bug that had been interfering with quest completion while players have full inventories. There has been no announcement yet of the rumored addition of a large PvPvE map in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, though Jagex has been gauging players’ opinions on such an area through an official player survey.

RuneScape: Dragonwilds Update 0.7.3 Preview Notes

Cloud Saves

Wowee, how awesome. We know that this is one you’ve been after so we’re very excited to share that this feature is available right now! No more backing up local copies for shenanigans.

Velgar Meteor Fix

When you are in your base and have protection overhead then meteors raining down from the Scaly Scourge should be less of a problem now. Any more of that and we’d have had to end up crafting an umbrella.

And The Rest

Better fix for completing quests with a full inventory.
No more chucking your materials before talking to Zanik!
The Goblin in the Vertentis Kara Vault will be more noticeable
I know that Goblins aren’t famously talkative but Spitfoot is important, so we can’t have you missing them.
AI Status Effect immunities have all been checked & should be working correctly.
Fix for ash log duplication in the Shattered Plains
Whenever you see something like this, a wizard did it.
Fixes to a few areas in the world where players can get stuck.
Improvements to reduce client desync which means that ranged combat in multiplayer worlds should feel extra nice.
Respawned bloodwood sap can now be gathered.
This one’s got us feeling all sappy.
Controller – “LB” works correctly in the crafting menu.
Continued localisation fixes for missing translations and cut-off text.
A couple of typo fixes in quests and journal entries.
Chests you are interacting with when you die are no longer locked forever.
Listen, we know that Death has agreed to overlook your mortality while you’re here, but there’s clearly some things we didn’t iron out with Ol’ Boney first.
XP balancing for Splinter.
We saw some hair-raising numbers coming through from usage on this so we’re tweaking to bring this down to a more reasonable place
Beards no longer clip through helmets.
Turns out our helmets can contain the mightiest beard!
Blood VFX will be in the right place on smaller AI.
Kebbits may seem cute but their teleporting blood was a little offputting.
Your own gravestone VFX should be a different colour to everyone else’s.
More crash fixes.