The highly anticipated land of Varlamore opens its borders to players in 2024!
CAMBRIDGE, England – Aug. 21, 2023 – Old School RuneScape’s Summer Summit premiered this past weekend, revealing the return of two fan-favorite limited events, the announcement of a lock-in poll for OSRS’ first new skill (Sailing), and a tease for a brand-new, content-rich area: Varlamore!
Catch up on all the OSRS Summer Summit announcements: Summer Summit 2023
Learn more about the Varlamore Expansion here: below
Sailing has been going through the refinement stage of development and has now reached a point where the community will get to share their feedback via a lock-in vote. Provided this vote passes, Sailing will enter full development and progress towards beta.
During the Summer Summit, the OSRS team shared some insights into how the skill is evolving. The Sailing skill update will feature the biggest area expansion in RuneScape history, as the open ocean becomes an explorable environment. Sailing will fulfill players’ seafaring fantasies with customizable ships equipped with a slew of facilities that can be used to train the Sailing skill, allowing players to eventually captain progressively larger ships. The Sailing lock-in poll is open for voting now.
Meanwhile, Deadman Apocalypse sees the return of the highly competitive variant into OSRS. Players start from the beginning of the game and proceed to hunt down other players, monsters, and loot as they compete for exclusive rewards. Deadman Apocalypse features breaches, where any number of powerful bosses can spawn in the world. Although deadly, they are a source of strong equipment, so they’re bound to be hotspots for PvP activity. Deadman Apocalypse is a high-risk, high-reward way of playing OSRS and runs this Friday, August 25, until Saturday, September 16, featuring a $25,000 prize pool.
Another event beloved by the community makes its return as Leagues 4: Trailblazer Reloaded races back onto Old School RuneScape. Leagues is a time-limited event that starts players with no items or XP. They adventure across Gielinor with boosted XP and drop rates, a custom task list, and lots of powerful relics to unlock. Leagues is a great way to test players’ OSRS skill and knowledge in a fun, creative challenge.
Leagues 4: Trailblazer Reloaded introduces new tasks, relics, areas and, of course, all the updates that have come to the game since Trailblazer ended in 2021. In the Desert Area alone, for example, players can now explore Tempoross, Tombs of Amascut and Desert Treasure II, which weren’t available in previous Leagues. This game mode will launch later this year.
Finally, Old School RuneScape’s next big area expansion has been announced as Varlamore. An isolated kingdom opened up for exploration, Varlamore is full of new bosses, skilling activities, quests, and the introduction of the Hunting Guild. Varlamore has so much to offer that content will be released across multiple game updates. The first update will arrive in early 2024 with two new quests that kick off an all-new storyline.
Learn more about all of these Summer Summit updates and community polling on the Old School RuneScape website.
About Old School RuneScape
Old School RuneScape is the industry-leading collaboration between the community and developers. Embracing its nostalgic heritage, hundreds of thousands of active players control the direction of the game with an in-game polling system. Featuring adventures for solo play through to 100-player strong raids, Old School RuneScape caters for every brave adventurer. Old School RuneScape continues to innovate, introducing its first-ever new skill in 2023 to commemorate its 10th anniversary, arriving later this year. Play now at http://oldschool.runescape.com.
About Jagex
A leader in creating deep and engaging live games on PC and mobile, Jagex’s flagship MMORPG, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts to its world and is a $1 billion lifetime revenue franchise. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly active worlds, and our community-focused development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped. Jagex Partners expands our portfolio working with living game developers across the globe, including Gamepires, Snowcastle Games, and Pipeworks Studios. Jagex employs more than 450 people at its Cambridge headquarters.
