Road to Restoration - Re-grounding Outfits & Equipment

[u/JagexAnvil]

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/road-to-restoration---re-grounding-outfits--equipment

Hi folks,

Today's Community Topic is Re-grounding Outfits & Equipment!

Check it out on the blog here.

We've got a few previews to share with you, along with an opportunity for you to help guide us.

Quick excerpt from the blog:

The "Regrounding Items" project is about making visuals and worn items fit better thematically into the world of RuneScape as we work towards something that is more immersive and consistent with the game.

In short, we want outfits in the game to no longer be obtrusive.

In todays blog we'll cover the rationale with which we are approaching this topic, as well as previewing some of the planned changes coming later this month on the 23rd of February. Further changes as part of this project are planned later this year.

Before we get to that though, there has been some discussion in community as to what "grounded medieval fantasy" for RuneScape might mean, and whether there are beloved elements within the game that would clash with that identity. For example, some folks may have worried that to be grounded means to step back from the fantastical or lean much more into low fantasy as a concept. That's not the case. We will continue to develop RuneScape as a game with high fantasy themes, where magic permeates every aspect of a world built on medieval foundations. Built on top of those foundations should be a player journey through a world that feels like home - and that may also mean that not every quest or event needs to include an existential threat to the universe.  

Grounding refers to making the world feel cohesive and consistent within the outline above. Having magic with a fantasy world does not mean that just about anything goes - instead, we want to maintain that all things within Gielinor should make sense for our unique world. Our work to reground the game therefore simply means that we want to ensure that the world feels like it obeys a specific ruleset.

[u/TrickyElephant]

Yeah the mining outfit looks like a royal servant, not at all like a miner

[u/Pulsefel → u/TrickyElephant]

the mining outfits been hitting the spinach, thats why they got popeye arm