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Hey Scapers' Welcome to Right Click Re-Examine, Group Ironman Mode edition!
In this blog, we'll take a dive into RuneScape's upcoming Group Ironman Mode and answer some of your most pressing questions!
First up the most pressing question, until recently anyway, Group Ironman Mode will be released on October 28th, 2024.
Also for those who missed our initial Right Click Examine, you can find it here, check it out to know more about the original premise and rules.
With that all said let's dive into the questions.
We wanted to limit the sort of items that can be added as little as possible. The following is the in-game description of the Group Storage and Trade Restrictions.
It's worth mentioning that the team is happy to take on feedback post-launch, if there are certain blacklisted items that players would like to be able to share. We'll be paying close attention to player feedback on the Group Storage, and are able to make changes if they are desired by our community.
All accounts with Group Ironman status will have access to all Loyalty Point Shop auras at all tiers. If you downgrade from a Group Ironman to a regular account, you would lose access to those auras and need to purchase them with Loyalty Points.
While we will be making changes to certain harder requirements, we will not be making any exemptions or allowances for content that is technically completable in a smaller competitive group.
As an example, Beastmaster Durzag is mechanically completable in a smaller group, and we will not be making special allowances for competitive groups to be able to play this content with players outside of their group.
With that said, we will be looking at things like the "Yakamaru Puzzle" and the entry requirements for Barbarian Assault, post-launch. We will continue to review and aim to make as much of the game available as possible to GCIM players.
Competitive Group Ironman players will not be able to obtain the Dark Onyx Core.
When considering new game modes it's important that they offer something different. For Competitive Group Ironman, the group-only interaction rules may mean that several items, such as the Dark Onyx Core, are unavailable.
We understand there are rewards you may want to use, and we will continue to monitor feedback well after Group Ironman Mode launches. In certain cases a future game update may change content to allow Competitive Group Ironman to participate, or we may offer different routes to obtain desirable items but these will not be available on launch.
Yes! A variety of new global broadcasts have been added. The list of those broadcasts can be viewed here
World First Broadcasts:
These will be global broadcasts, and will be permanently visible in-game by interacting with a statue on the Iron enclave.
There are also individual broadcasts for each group size, both in competitive and non-competitive modes.
In addition to the new world first broadcasts, the following will remain as general achievement broadcasts:
There will also be non-world first broadcasts, that will appear in the group Ironman chat for
Originally, we planned for this to be the case, viewing competitive mode as the choice for highscores.
Following community feedback, we have added an unranked status. If your Ironman group invites a player who was playing in Ironman mode before the Group Ironman release, you will be warned that your group will be removed from the highscores before choosing to invite them to your group.
An Ironman account created after the Group Ironman release may join an Ironman group without removing the group's highscores.
When joining a new group there is a 14 day cooldown period before you would be able to use the Group Storage, so to leave and rejoin the same group would require a minimum of 28 days.
In addition, founder status will be shown on the hiscores to identify groups who have never had a player leave or join. It's also worth noting that it is not possible to rejoin a Competitive Ironman group, so if you wish to compete against others who never swap groups, Competitive may be the mode for you!
To expand on this, when leaving an existing group you will have the following choices available to you:
If you are a Competitive Group Ironman:
If you are a Regular Group Ironman
Yes, we will be introducing a one-time dialogue box that will allow ironman players to specify if they want to be able to ever convert to a GIM.
It's worth noting that these players will never be able to convert from a GIM to a main account.
Yes, so long as your account remains in the character creation screen you'll be able to select Group Ironman Mode on release day.
You will be able to see the ruleset in game, this is the Group Ironman Rules page currently looks.
If you want to check the current rules you can see them in our previous RCE blog.
In addition, there is a 7 day grace period upon group creation where new members may be invited without losing founder status.
Thank you for reading, we can't wait to share more about group Ironman Mode with you as we lead up to the October 28th Launch Date!
If you have any questions about Group Ironman Mode that weren't answered today we will be hosting an AMA on the RuneScape Subreddit this Friday, keep an eye out on our socials for the specific times!
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