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Jul 11 2019 03:15pm

Last Man Standing Beta and Splashing Restrictions

This week sees the release of a beta for the Last Man Standing revamp!

Last Man Standing: Beta

Last month we changed casual games of Last Man Standing to begin with a minimum of 4 players rather than 24. We also reduced the competitive and high stakes modes from 48 to 24.

In our State of PvP blog in May, we discussed a number of changes that could be made to dramatically improve LMS. Now that games are easier to start with a few friends or large groups, it's time to test those changes designed and implemented by Mod Roq and Mod Maz.

We're opening five beta worlds that offer Last Man Standing with the new changes. The beta will take place on a Tournament/Unrestricted world. Remember - this means you won't have your regular save profiles, meaning anything done during the beta won't affect your main account in any way. For convenience, the player attack option will be set as "always left-click" by default. Bear in mind that this also means you will need to set your F Key options each time you log into the beta. Additionally, any wins in competitive mode during the beta will not affect your rank.

The following worlds will go live to host the LMS beta: 401, 405, 407, 409 and 412.

Because the existing version of LMS cannot be live at the same time as the beta version, the following LMS worlds will become normal worlds for the duration of the beta: 425, 317, 326, and 393.

Click or tap each section by the drop down menu to read about that aspect of the LMS beta:

Starting Stats and Equipment

Upon login into the beta, you will receive a random set of stats. When you start a game of LMS, these will be boosted to 99 except for Defence which will be changed to 75. This is to test that the automatic stat changes when you enter LMS work correctly.

Players will no longer start with just a beginner weapon. Instead, each player starts with a full tribrid setup. At the beginning of each game, all players will have the following items equipped:
Helm of neitiznot
Imbued god cape
Amulet of glory
Adamant diamond bolts (e)
Abyssal whip
Mystic robe top
Dragon defender
Rune platelegs
Barrows gloves
Climbing boots
Berserker ring (i)
In their inventory, each player will find these items at the start of each game:
Black d'hide top
Mystic bottoms
Spirit shield
Ancient staff
Rune crossbow
Dragon dagger
Ava's accumalator
1x Saradomin brew (4)
1x Super restore (4)
1x Sanfew serum (4)
1x Ranging potion (4)
1x Super combat (4)
1x Stamina potion (4)
12x Shark
2x Karambwan
Rune pouch - a unique version allowing infinite casts of blood and ice barrage and blitz
Looting system

Looting System

Players will no longer receive loot from locations such as drawers and cupboards - only chests. These chests will now require a bloody key to be opened, which are still dropped when you kill an opponent. When looting a chest this way, your loot rolls once on an offensive loot table and once on a defensive loot table:

Offensive:
Dragon claws
Armadyl godsword
Armadyl crossbow
Staff of the dead
Granite maul
Dark bow with Dragon arrows
Infernal cape
Dragon warhammer
Seers ring (i)
Elder maul
Kodai wand
Ghrazi rapier
Heavy ballista with Dragon javelins
Defensive:
Ahrim's robetop
Ahrim's robeskirt
Karil's leathertop
Dharok's platelegs
Torag's platelegs
Verac's plateskirt
Dharok's helm
Guthan's helm
Torags' helm
Verac's helm
Amulet of fury
Blessed spirit shield
Eternal boots
Bandos tassets
If a player is in the final five survivors, they'll start to receive bloodier keys as a drop. These roll on the same defensive loot table as the standard bloody keys, but also roll on an upgraded version of the Offensive loot table which contains the following:
Zuriel's staff
Morrigan's javelins
Vesta's longsword
Statius' warhammer
Loot crates will still appear on the map as before, but now roll on the upgraded offensive loot table.

Rules

Rules

The entry fee and reward systems for each mode will be as follows:

High Stakes
Costs 1,000,000 GP to play
Players who finish 3rd - 5th win a free entry token
Players also earn points for the rewards shop
Will continue to reward GP
Competitive (requires 24 players to begin and affects your rank)
Players earn points for the rewards shop
No entry fee
No free entry tokens awarded
No coins awarded
Casual (requires 4 players to begin)
No entry fee
No free entry tokens awarded
No points awarded
No coins awarded
In High Stakes and Competitive games, players will receive 5 points for taking part, 10 points per kill and an additional 30, 20, or 10 points for placing first, second and third.
Rewards

Rewards

Let's talk rewards. Currently, LMS doesn't offer any rewards outside of the GP prize awarded to winners of high stakes games. This is unusual for a mini-game given that they typically offer rewards that are also useful elsewhere. Below is a list of proposed rewards, most of which have been suggested by the community. Let us know what you think and if you have any ideas of your own, feel free to send them our way!

Deadman Armour

In the currently retired Deadman mode, there was a set of armour that players could purchase for blood money. Unfortunately because the armour wasn't very good and blood money could be farmed, the armour was not widely used. So our first reward idea is to remove the stats from the pieces (top, bottoms, and cape), making the set cosmetic only, and add them to the LMS store.

Trouver Parchment

While in the Wilderness (under level 20), some untradeable items will break on death instead of being lost. Players can take these broken items to Perdu who will repair them for a fee. In order to encourage use of these items in deeper Wilderness, we propose a consumable scroll that can be handed into Perdu. He would then use it to enchant one of these items.

An item enchanted this way would not be lost on death above level 20 Wilderness. Instead, the item will lose its enchantment and be kept in its broken form as if the player had died in under level 20 Wilderness. This will also occur for PvM deaths. In a PvP situation, 75% of the repair fee of the item will be dropped to the floor for the killer as coins.

This is expected to widen the range of items used in the rest of the Wilderness. Because players will no longer have to go get these items again and possibly endure the grind again (defender, void etc), you're more likely to see them appear.

The cost of the scrolls is subject to balancing and testing.

Halos

For Many years Castle Wars have offered the 3 God Halos as rewards. But what about the other gods? Armadyl, Bandos, Seren, Zaros, and Brassica have been underrepresented in the headwear department. As a result, we would like to offer 5 brand new Halos as rewards. These will have the same stats as the existing halos, but will allow you to support the god of your choosing.

XP Rewards

For the top 5 players in any competitive game of Last Man Standing, we would like to offer an XP reward, through a tome or token that can be redeemed in a combat skill of their choice. The XP awarded will be 35 x skill level.

This number is subject to balancing through testing and the beta phase.

Games Played/Won Cosmetics

These would be similar to the capes awarded for Chambers of Xeric or Theatre of Blood completion milestones. We would like to add two separate versions: one to show games played and another to show games won.

3 Speed One-handed weapon

For a long time now OldSchool has had the Event RPG and more recently received the Ham Joint as quick weapons to help train certain pure builds. We would like to offer another weapon to add to this list but one that is a bit more thematic with the regular weapons of Old School.

This weapon will attack once every 3 ticks and be one handed.

Guthixian Icon/Staff of Balance

In early 2018, players gained the ability to add a Saradomin's Light to a Staff of the Dead. This added some variety as a high level magic weapon that could cast Saradomin Strike. But what about Guthix?

With this reward, players would be able to take the Guthixian Icon to Juna. She would then infuse it into a Staff of the Dead, creating the Staff of Balance,

The staff of balance would have the same stats as both the Staff of Light and Staff of the Dead, and be able to cast/autocast Claws of Guthix.

Bolas

The bolas is a thrown ranged weapon that would require 70 ranged to wield. When a bolas is thrown as an auto-attack, it binds the player for around 10 seconds. It is possible to miss the bind as with other attacks from a weapon. Thrown bolas cannot be retrieved from the ground or by any Ava's device.

The bolas will carry the same offensive stats as a rune knife but with an attack speed of 6. The attack range of the bolas is 7.

Staff of Paralysis

The Staff of paralysis is a one-handed staff which requires 70 magic to wield. The staff would hold up to 1,000 charges and require 3 Nature, 4 Earth, and 4 Water runes per charge.

On each cast, the staff of paralysis would have a 1/10 chance of turning off your opponent's run. The staff would have a maximum damage of 10 and has an attack rate of 5.

In LMS only cosmetics

When we're good at something, we like to show it off. With this in mind, we want to offer the ability to unlock cosmetic changes to the starting equipment described earlier. For example, you could change your mystic robes to light/dark/dusk, your ranged equipment to gilded, and your rune equipment to any of the god and gilded variants.

We have heard your suggestions on some other items, such as moving imbues, Korasi etc. However, with other discussions taking place, we have decided that these may be better suited for other upcoming content.

Negative XP Lamps

One suggestion we've had had been to add negative XP reward lamps as an LMS reward. Since they were last polled, there has been continued demand for and discussion around the topic. These would allow players to remove a small amount of experience (~500xp) from a combat stat below level 50. Doing so means players could 'fix' their accounts by removing unwanted experience.

These lamps could potentially be used to remove XP awarded from quests, increasing range of account builds possible for PKing. This would open up a range of exciting possibilities to shake up PvP.

However, there is also a technical issue to overcome. Currently, XP removal has very strict restrictions built into the game engine to minimise the risk of accidental XP loss, which could be very serious for a player's account. Now that players would be able to trigger it arbitrarily, we would need the engine changed to ease these restrictions while still providing the necessary safety checks.

Let us know what you think of the idea. If the suggestion is taken forward, negative XP lamps would be polled again before being added into game.

All other rewards above and any that are added will also be polled. Before then, let us know your thoughts and suggestions!
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