As some of you know, Bounty Hunter, the PVP Minigame has been closed down for some tweaking.

As posted on the Runescape forums, the updates include the Bounty Hunter arena changing from the Bounty Hunter volcano, to the entire wilderness itself.

It will be the same idea as the old wilderness PKing, there will be wilderness levels, so you don’t need to worry about high levels killing you. As said by Mod Mark, there will be Bounty Hunter worlds, similar to PVP worlds, but Bounty Hunter worlds will only have PVP in the wilderness.

I’m looking forward to this update because I miss the old Runescape wilderness PKing, back in the old days. This new update will make you feel like you are actually PKing in the wilderness.

Here is the post of Mod Mark on the official Runescape forums.

Quote:

“Hi

A few weeks ago we removed the Bounty Hunter game from the Wilderness, but promised it would be coming back soon. I just wanted to quickly post to say that we’re working hard on the new, improved Bounty Hunter, and to tell you a little about it.

As many of you know, the Bounty Hunter minigame was really a temporary solution to the removal of PvP back in 2008. We really rushed the launch because of all the other projects we were working on at that time, and we therefore made a few design decisions that were not the best choices we have ever made. When we found a permanent solution with PvP worlds, we were determined to re-examine Bounty Hunter and make it the kind of game that we knew it could be. We’re really pleased that some of you like it as much as you do, and we’re keen to get it back to you as soon as we can.

So, here’s a little about one of the changes we’ve made so far. Some of you have complained that the crater sizes are too small, and that the level grouping of players is unfair. The new Bounty Hunter minigame will take place across the entire Wilderness, using the existing Wilderness level bands to restrict how and where fighting takes place. This means that you’ll have lots more room and, if you stick to the lower areas of the Wilderness, you’ll know that your opponents will always be within a few combat levels of your own. If you think you can handle more risk, you will be able to encounter higher-level combatants simply by walking north. We will also be allowing players to use the bank and change equipment in Edgeville, but only Edgeville, and the Wilderness will be accessible from these Bounty Hunter PvP servers.

Obviously, with such a large area we’re rethinking how and when new bounty targets will be assigned; more information on that in the future.

We still can’t talk to you about launch dates because we simply don’t know how long it will take to get it right – and were not going to rush it out again. But we are working on it as we speak, and we will launch it as soon as it’s ready.

EDIT 16/4

A quick word to say that we have just finished the development work for the bounty hunter update. This means that we have implemented all the changes we wanted to make, and that work is now with our testing department for thorough checking, making sure it won’t break when we update. Sadly I still can’t give you a launch date, but we are making significant progress.”

Click here to view the official Runescape forums’ thread.

NOTE: There is NO exact release date for these updates.

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