A fourth entry within the RuneScape sequence of MMOs has been introduced by builders Jagex at this yr’s RuneFest. It is going by the apparent placeholder identify of RuneScape 4 for now, is being developed utilizing the Unreal Engine, and remains to be a good means off.
“Nonetheless early in improvement, the as-yet-unnamed title will convey the world of Gielinor to life in Unreal Engine,” Jagex wrote of the subsequent RuneScape. “Combining the depth, freedom and community-led spirit which have outlined RuneScape for 25 years with the know-how and sport design prospects of right now.”
Jagex’s vice chairman of studios and next-gen improvement Jesse America revealed in a prebrief attended by MMORPG.com that this new MMO grew out of a deliberate 2027 enlargement for survival spin-off RuneScape: Dragonwilds. The pitch has developed into taking the worldstate or setting established by Dragonwilds and filling it with typical MMO options like persistent servers and commerce hubs to type a recent mainline entry.
“RS4 might be set in Gielinor, within the Sixth Age,” Jagex confirmed in a post introducing the game. “However we’re starting someplace that RuneScape gamers have solely not too long ago began to find – and that’s Ashenfall. An space first explored in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, and a landmass to the north-east of the Gielinor.
“RS4 will happen years after the occasions of Dragonwilds and the destruction of the Dragon Queen Kuldra. Time has handed, the world has moved on, and Ashenfall has modified with it. However Ashenfall is simply the start. Our ambition is for this journey to develop far past Ashenfall over time, shifting into locations you understand and love, in addition to opening up new locations and tales throughout Gielinor.”
They added that this new MMO is “not a substitute” for any of their present RuneScape video games and forks, as an alternative being designed to “sit alongside them as an extra solution to expertise RuneScape and the world of Gielinor”. The hope’s to “construct on one of the best of the tech improvement [the studio] realized on Dragonwilds, and one of the best of the group co-development [they’ve] realized by RuneScape and Previous College”.
RuneFest additionally noticed Jagex announce that RuneScape Reignited, a “new everlasting character kind” providing an opportunity to start out recent and see the sport’s world by a revamped lens, will debut on December 2nd.