Music System Improvements & Deadman Tweaks | February 11th

This week we've got music system improvements and Deadman: Annihilation tweaks, alongside some under-the-hood improvements!

Changelog - February 11th

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Music System Improvements

• Audio Slider: The volume sliders in the settings menu will now actually slide whenever you want to adjust the volume.

• Area Mode: We’ve now expanded the modern music Area Mode across the entire game, using natural scenery like walls and cliffs for smoother instead of perfectly square areas, resulting in more natural and atmospheric music transitions between locations.

• Custom music playlists: You can now make up to three custom playlists of your own. Just pick any music tracks you’ve unlocked in-game, right-click them, and add them to a playlist.

• The random music mode is updated to a true shuffle.

• Added a host of new settings to help refine your music experience. You can now:

• • Enable remembering the last music mode on login rather than always reverting to Area Mode

  • Choose a default track to play when entering an area in Area Mode

  • Automatically update music when switching between playlists

  • Pick which music mode is used when manually selecting tracks

  • Hide locked or unlocked tracks in playlists

  • Change the colours of locked and unlocked tracks in playlists

Deadman: Annihilation Changes

• The Trinket of Fortuity's teleport timer can no longer be bypassed if you place it in your looting bag.

• Only the 7-second teleport timer will apply if you have a Trinket of Fortuity active on you, meaning you no longer have to also wait for the out-of-combat timer too.

• The Emblem Trader will now roam in the multi-area of the Revenant Caves without any issues, so you can hand in your Emblems without needing to high alch them.

Permanent Deadman Changes

• Your autocast settings will now be remembered in Permanent Deadman, just as they are in Deadman: Annihilation. This means that if you haven’t attacked a player for 20 seconds, your staff’s autocast setting will remain even after switching to another weapon and back again.

• The bank chest found inside the Chambers of Xeric raid can no longer be used in Permanent Deadman.

Behind-the-Scenes Improvements to Combat Infrastructure

• We've focused on strengthening and future-proofing the combat infrastructure for upcoming major releases like Leagues VI, The Blood Moon Rises and The Fractured Archive. This will help ensure these combat-heavy updates integrate well with the engine, and are implemented smoothly for launch. If you come across any bugs or unusual behaviours, please let us know - we'll be keeping an eye of your feedback!

Other Changes

• If you’re on a boss-specifi c Slayer task, you can now enter the lair of that specific Wilderness boss without meeting the diary requirements. Note that this won’t work for generic Slayer tasks, it has to be for that specific boss.

PvP Rota

The PvP rota has moved to Period A:

• Cosmetic539/(US) - PvP World
• Cosmetic318/(UK) - Bounty Hunter World
• Cosmetic548/(Germany) - High-Risk PvP World
• Cosmetic577/(US) - Free-to-Play PvP World
• Cosmetic559/(UK) - LMS Competitive

World 390 (AUS) for LMS Competitive has been activated with this rota.

World 569 (AUS) for Bounty Hunter has been activated with this rota.

The PvP Arena is using'1 Def Pure'loadouts in Ranked Duels and Tournaments this week. [/expand]

Will It Slide?

If you caught our Game Jam VII blog (link), you already know that some music system improvements are landing with this update. OSRS grinds in Gielinor just aren’t the same without the soundtrack