Smithing

The Mining & Smithing beta is here and we have full coverage and suggestions on tweaks going forward. Also, revolutionary patch notes for puzzle boxes and special Slayer assignments. And a discussion on rule breaking and bans.

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Hosts: Shane, Tanis, and Tyco Elf
Duration: 2:35:09

• Mining & Smithing Beta
• Mining & Smithing Beta Q&A
• Our concrete feedback on the Mining & Smithing Beta
• Zodiac Festival and Amare outfit
• Tweaks and Fixes (Patch Notes)
• The Weekly Byte 6
• Listener Questions and Discussion
• Petition calling for Snapchat to rollback redesign hits 1M signatories; company declines
• Under the hood: How Chrome’s ad filtering works
• Apple to Fix Telugu Character Bug Causing Devices to Crash in Minor iOS Update
• Achievements of the Week
• Tyco’s Pick: WhereYouGo
• What have we been doing?

Two more skills for Invention: Firemaking and Smithing. Valentines, expanding the RuneScape IP, and should EOC be re-balanced being 5 years old?

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• Invention: Hammer & Tinderbox | 15-Year Veteran Cape
• 15 Year Veteran cape
• Tweaks and Fixes (Release Notes)
• Valentine’s Event 2017
• Double XP Weekend Expanded
• One Piercing Note on Alexa | Win an Amazon Echo!
• Move XP into Skill Pets
• Shadow Gorilla available until February 28
• Listener Questions
• CrossCheck: Partnering with First Draft and newsrooms in the leadup to French elections
• Facebook is closing hundreds of its Oculus VR pop-ups in Best Buys after some stores went days without a single demo
• Cowen downgrades Twitter to underperform after revenue miss, advises clients to stay away
• February SkotM Update
• Achievements of the Week
• Cireon’s Pick: What we left behind
• What have we been doing?

Bounty Hunter returns, and we discuss is this what has been needed all along to revive pvp and the wilderness? Plus Bounty Hunter mechanics, tactics, and the return of pures?!?

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Hosts: Shane and Mr. Bistro
Duration: 2:08:57

• Bounty Hunter Returns
• What’s The Bounty — Mr Bistro’s Informer Article
• Elite Skilling Outfits
• Tweaks and Fixes (Release Notes)
• RuneScape Dev Diaries ep. 3 – Mining & Smithing: Profit
• Listener Questions
• Now anyone use Skype right away
• Progress on addressing online abuse
• Spotify is writing massive amounts of junk data to storage drives
• November SkotM Update
• We are gathering 2016 Clips!
• Shane’s Pick: Daystrom Institute
• What have we been doing?

We get a glimpse into what the new Mining and Smithing rework is starting to look like. Also, Patch Notes and what we would do if we were CEO at Jagex.

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Hosts: Shane and Mr. Bistro
Duration: 1:40:17

• Patch Week | Ironman outfits | Halloween Short-Story Competition
• Tweaks and Fixes (Release Notes)
• Errata of The Arc
• RuneScape Dev Diaries – Mining & Smithing: Reasons to 99
• Treasure Hunter | Attack of the Zombie Sprouts
• Making Available Elite Skilling Outfits
• Listener Questions
• Historic Achievement: Microsoft researches reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
• Nintendo Switch Release Trailer
• Samsung made YouTube remove video of GTA mod that turns Note 7 into a bomb
• October SkotM Update
• Achievements of The Week
• Mr. Bistro’s Pick: Westworld On HBO
• What have we been doing?