RuneScape: Dragonwilds

like this comment please, this game is worth it trust

I'm beginning to believe that UE5 is the problem, not cheap labor that doesn't know how to work the engine. The game is unplayable without frame generation in high population areas. Even then there are horrendous frame drops occasionally. Gameplay itself is alright.

After just under 150 hours and almost two level 99 skills achieved, figure I'd put up my review of Runescape Dragonwilds. It's not often I get this hooked on games as I pretty much exclusively play Old School Runescape and Monster Hunter titles, but my experience with this has been incredible so far, my only dig is that I wish I'd signed up to play the beta as well for the cape xD I'm not normally a massive fan of survival games where you have to eat and drink and such, but they did such a good job of masking that side of things amongst the rest of the game that I don't mind it. It can be overwhelming early on, but once you get a good farm established you end up having plenty more than you'll ever need to worry about it. At this point in the game if anything I've got too much food and drink to spare xD Majority of my eating and drinking was for healing or xp purposes not long after getting my base established. The art style is beautiful, reminds me of a mixture of Dauntless and Fable. The environments are vast and colourful, with insane attention to detail, and just feels really cosy. The combat side of things is reasonable, not rage inducing but not too easy either. If you're someone like me who's got a lot of experience with other rpgs or even Souls like games, where parrying and dodge windows exist, there's a decent amount of challenge but not many instances where you get too overwhelmed except for the warband raids on your base early on, after a while they just become annoying rather than an actual problem. The only real spike I found was after getting to the Umbral Sands, and even then it's only really the KotHaar-Kals. Even geared to the teeth I still hate those jumpy spammy bastards with a passion xD Based on other reviews I have seen a few people dislike the game due to bugs and lack of npc interaction. I agree, some extra life to the game would be nice, but because the story revolves around a set selection of Runescape characters who have travelled to this desolate, war torn world I understand why there aren't many thriving towns or existing population. You don't really see any thriving life outside of animals and creatures until the sands, but even giving some of the generic citizen Garou some walking paths to make it feel like there's more going on inside those camps would be a nice extra touch. In terms of bugs I've had the same problem that I tend to encounter with most of the AAA games I play, which is I don't get many of them xD The only bug I really encountered was during the Beast in the Sand section of the Umbral Sands main quest, where inside the pyramid vault I couldn't see the safe circle when my friend was holding the sceptre on his world, but it didn't cause tons of problems. I'm currently just grinding out some of the other skills to 99, whilst also still farming the rest of my trophy fish, and red dragons for the glory drop as they've been really playing hard to get with it xD but I am very much looking forward to the full release, getting Rune and maybe even dragon gear, defeating Kuldra, the prayer skill in December, and hopefully lots more decorating possibilities for my manor. Absolutely amazing job as always though Jagex, 10/10.

Trash game, Not worth my time or money

you need a friend to play with you together.

Great game, but fast travel needs some work I've played around 31 hours of RuneScape: Dragonwilds so far and I'm really enjoying it. The combination of survival, exploration, RuneScape skills and progression works surprisingly well, and there's a lot to do. The world also feels genuinely huge, which makes exploration exciting. However, the size of the map becomes a bit of a problem because fast travel is so dependent on Law Runes. For new characters, Law Runes are locked behind level 50 Runecrafting, while teleportation becomes useful much earlier in the game. I'm currently around level 36 after 26 hours, so level 50 still feels quite far away. You can find Law Runes from vents and other sources, but they are still difficult to keep stocked when you're constantly travelling around such a massive map. I understand that the developers don't want teleportation to completely remove the importance of exploration, but I think there should be a better middle ground. Either make Law Runes more accessible earlier, reduce the teleport cost even further, or introduce some additional fast-travel options. The map is huge, and that's one of the game's strengths, but at the same time it can turn travelling between areas into a lot of running back and forth. Especially when you have to return to your base, get resources, go back to where you were, and repeat the process. I'd also like to see more ways of making long-distance travel convenient without completely removing the survival/exploration aspect. Overall though, I'm having a great time with the game. The world, progression and gameplay loop are really good, and I'm definitely going to keep playing. I just think the fast-travel system could be improved significantly, especially for players who haven't reached 50 Runecrafting yet. 8/10 so far. Great game with a few progression/travel decisions that I think could be improved.

You can not play on your local server if you have no internet. Because to do so, you need to click play -> online (which is disabled when you are offline) -> direct -> enter ip You are forced to login online to play local. Your "Recent" servers under online is always empty. Direct IP server does not get listed there wtf? Not even the last direct IP connect gets saved. Have fun type the IP EVERY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ TIME! WTF? You can not disable Motion Blur. Quest are still buggy and the want release in 2 weeks LOL Runs like a POS. Upscaling is absolut requiered because they are incapable of optimizing it. Using UE5 is not an optimization techniqe. Reparing is annoying AF not because it exist, but because the UI is bad. Instead of selecting the next item, it does not. So if you want to repair 10 items you can not just click 10x repair button .. no you have to select each item individually. This Game is a QoL lacking nightmare. What a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.