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2t infernal shale method for anyone looking to get the oathplate task in leagues, can mine 2 on the same tick using both the rag and traditional tick manip in tandem :) (2 rolls every 4 ticks) Until maybe they change endless harvest to work here

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@Georges_dM @superrcinq @nealagarwal lol

@superrcinq @nealagarwal I'm stuck at 42, how did you do !

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :)

@minusGN yoink

ladies and gentlemen 10 years ago when tag4 was unranked i lost 374 profile pp. today i got 418 back (after 10 years thats an interest rate of 1.12%) thats what we call an investment babyyy

@JagexAsh Ah :( Are all of the Venator bow's bounce functions done by the engine team? Me and some others are currently trying to nail down the mechanics, we've found some discrepancies between how even and odd number tiled NPCs are handled, not sure yet on how it works

@Mafham0 Tbh, a lot of the game engine's 'pick a random tile/entity' functions have always seemed biased towards the west, though I can't see exactly what the engine's doing under the hood :(

@JagexAsh Do you know why this happens with the Venator bow? The arrow will bounce in one direction, but not the other. It seems to check for if centre tile distance to SW tile <= 2, but the Venator bow blog stated that the bow should only ever check centre to centre

@PugginRS @MutsOSRS I think as long as Hydra is in that exact position it works, but sometimes on entry kill Hydra paths weirdly to you there and doesn't stand in the same spot

@Mafham0 @MutsOSRS It doesn't work like that on entry all the time, last phase does work in another spot

Officially 1 task away from completing the Grandmaster Combat Achievements on my HCIM. Thank you all for the support on the streams and hanging out with me during all these tasks, it's been amazing. Date of the DH hydra task: Sunday may 28th (around 8 PM CET)

@JagexAsh Ah I see, presumably to keep the load on the server to a minimum? Thanks for the responses and insight Ash ♥️

@Mafham0 Similar code to now, but with a slower tick rate for the calculations, so it'd be longer before it could do any draining.

@JagexAsh Could you explain what the culprit behind prayer-flicking not draining any prayer is?

@JagexAsh Ah ☹️Do you remember how prayer was coded back in 06? I watched some old footage, there are some differences I can see, like melee + reflxes in 06 drained 1 or 2 pp in one tick every 5 ticks, whereas today it drains 1 prayer point every 2 or 3 ticks, same drain different interval

@Mafham0 The original dev who worked on combat left years ago, though, so we're left to guess; my own guess would be that it was an oversight. And, yes, these days it's being kept for the reasons we've discussed.

@JagexAsh Interesting 😮I'm a big advocate of the emergent gameplay mechanics it has created, I'm just curious if the dev who coded it did it purposely as such, foreseeing the potential perhaps, or if it was a bug or coding consequence that was kept as a feature due to it being popular😅

@Mafham0 It used to wait longer than 1 tick. Around 2006-7 a dev shortened it to 1 to make the ticking harder; he'd have known he wasn't preventing it totally. Though we'd be cautious about changing it regardless of decade-old intentions, given the impact on existing players.

@JagexAsh Do you know if the reason it doesn't was intentional or not though, when the prayer mechanic was first written? Is it a consequence of the way it's coded, or was it intentionally designed by the dev to not drain on the first tick?

@Mafham0 It could. However, as it didn't back in the 2007 era, rather a lot of tactics have grown up around it, and so far we've opted not to do that.

@JagexAsh @ZenKris21 What's the reason it can't drain the same tick it was activated? Is there some initialization that needs to occur first?

@ZenKris21 It's like it's turned off again before the drain kicks in.

@JagexAsh Yeah I think that one ought to be fixed 😄

@Mafham0 Well, the one where it used a coordinate outside the dog's 5x5 box was still wrong, but we can tweak that :)

@JagexAsh Why does Cerberus seem to change where its projectile is fired from depending on where you are stood relative to it? Can make for some very strange projectile delay

@JagexAsh Ahh, so it's meant to be her right head is the one firing mage, and her left head is the one firing range? That makes sense, thanks for the explanation Ash 😅 With that in mind, it does make thematic sense for the delays to be as it is, since her heads are offset from each other

@Mafham0 ... and yes, we could change the projectile durations if that'd be useful too. (2/2)

@JagexAsh (part 2) just change the base delay of the ranged projectile to be 3 ticks slower than the mage? I made another infographic showing the entire room and under her tiles this time, it's definitely split into 8ths. I just wonder why they were designed to offset in such a way

@JagexAsh Yeah it seems to look at Cerb's SW tile, then split the room into 8ths, and change the projectile delay depending on which 8th you're in. I thought maybe it was to make her triple attack all land at the same time, but I think if that, it would make more sense to (cont.)

@JagexAsh There seems to be some odd behaviour though where Cerb's projectiles fire from somewhere far away from where you are stood. I've made an infographic here - take the mage proj locations, standing on red makes it fire from the nearby red circle, but on yellow it's very far away?

@Mafham0 She's a large dog, and the tile grid may not line up very well with the precise point in the dog that'd look right as the starting point.

@Plumato @A2Rhombus @AbyssionQC What, that's not true at all

@A2Rhombus @AbyssionQC U don't remember? He had made a new yt account and claimed to do FCs, but all the vids were faked 💀

The way people act about Ian's return is pathetic. They welcome him back without question because he "redeemed his faked FC" and said he would explain himself later. They think that Ian's break was to think things through like no his break was just him grinding stuff he faked 1/2