[Kizd]

Okay, so that title was basically making fun of the mass amount of playing in the forums ranting about hp update. I did like the hp before, but I'm cool with it now too. Though, sometimes when I get hit with a 50 I'm like "Omfg Ima die now!" Then I remember that it was only a 5 in old terms. But I want to know what you think.

This post has been edited by Kizd: 09 March 2010 - 12:32 AM

[Runis Altair]

I hate it. The end.

[Esper]

Kizd, on 08 March 2010 - 04:29 PM, said:

Okay, so that title was basically making fun of the mass amount of playing in the forums ranting about hp update. I did like the hp before, but I'm cool with it now too. Though, sometimes when I get hit with a 50 I'm like "Omfg Ima die now!" Then I remember that it was only a 5 in old terms. But I want to know what you think.

stop insulting me, i was so pissed at this update i was seriously the first 1 ranting


worst update ever, i'm seriously tempted to quit, i also flamed them on both their channels, i led a huge riot in world 100, and i'm all over the forums(99% of them are hidden)

[Mx726]

Could care less but I liked the old way.

[19118219]

I like it better now.

I honestly don't understand the complaints against it. What's wrong? Nothing much has changed, and certainly not for the worse...

[goldn torque]

its even better now.

[Dor Min]

I don't understand how people can hate it. Almost nothing has changed, and what little has changed is near enough insignificant.

It's almost as stupid as people threatening to quit over the HP bars graphical update.

[Tetra Iink]

Someone explain to me what happened? <3

[Dor Min]

Your health (now called life points) is now equal to 10 times your hitpoints level (now called constitution). Food also heals 10 times more, and everyone does 10 times as much damage.

Their reasoning behind the change is this:

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We have often felt that the early levels of RuneScape are quite tough to understand and learn, and have been consistently working on improvements to the initial part of the game for the last two years or so.

One of the things we realised from play-testing our game was that new players hit quite a lot of zeros while training combat, and zeros are boring. We wanted to give more excitement to the early parts of the game without making it easier.

Equally, when a new player was hit by a monster, they only had 10 hitpoints to absorb that hit. The minimum damage we can do to that player is 1, which was 10% of their total hitpoints - a hit too big for someone learning the game.

With this change, we can allow low-level player to take hits more appropriate for their level, and deal small amounts of damage instead of seeing so many zeros.

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We can start to use the skill itself in quests and skill updates. The problem we had with the skill being the same at the total hits a player could take was that we could never really affect the skill itself. This change allows us to add things like Constitution potions, which could increase your maximum life points but not actually heal you, or add a weapon that drains your opponent’s Constitution stat as well as doing damage to them. It really opens up lots of new design opportunities that were previously unavailable. If you have any ideas on how we can use the Constitution stat, please let us know on the Suggestions - Skill forums.

This post has been edited by Dor Min: 09 March 2010 - 06:50 PM

[Jack Sam1]

Although this doesn't effect me, I think this is a smart move on Jagex's part to make the game more appealing to newer players.

I may just make an account myself, to see how much more exciting it is. XD

[Error404]

Basicly what had happened was hitpoints had it's name changed and all hitpoints had a 0 on the end, what is the problem?

[Gamerboyke]

I don't really care right now. Jagex is saying that they have new options for future updates. So when those updates are worth changing this skill then I say good update, else I'm not quite sure..

So they should come with something good else this is a very worse update. How ever, I will not quit or flame anything because of this update since nothing has changed that much I mean.. the game is still the same only all hits are x10? Who cares... oh wait you do

[tomcatgt]

"I like it a bit more now, not so much that I'm going to make a significant post about it..."

[Zlia]

Basically the problem is that most flamers(not all of them, I'd say the nooby and childish people on RS... which are about 80%+) are angry that they are used to something else and are too lazy to get used to the new one. I bet those of them who played another RPG which shows how much damage you take don't mind so much because they are used to taking big hits. They'll get used to it... eventually.

As for me, i haven't tried it yet. It'll probably take a bit of time to get used to it, but after that it'll be awesome hitting 100+ on nearly every hit.
Oh, and I'm definitely not fighting Nomad until i get used to the big hits.

This post has been edited by Zlia: 11 March 2010 - 01:51 PM

[Error404]

all complainers are silly little immature idiots that act that like they are 3 and demand so much from Jagex, GROW UP and LIVE WITH IT, people complain about removal of wildy and how bad it was, well it stopped RWT which means Jagex gains more money which means more updates, people complain about trade limit, again same reason but I can't believe some morons complain about a 0 on the end of hitpoints. Damn right ignorant, people are more attracted to big numbers and I do not see a downside.