If you’ve read and enjoyed the post I made earlier about Runescape’s Official Game Client being improved, then you probably will have a fair amount of interest in this post. I discovered recently that on the Runescape Forums under Recent Updates there is a thread that details the BETA release of Runescape’s Official Gamebar, available for Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer (Excluding BETA versions)
THE toolbar - *heavenly music* (click for full-size image)
I’ve been playing around with this bar in Internet Explorer due to the fact that it doesn’t work with Firefox 4 yet, and I must say it’s been a pleasure to use! Here is a brief rundown on the features this bar has:
- Ability to play Runescape instantly at the click of a button
- Live news updates feed – stay updated on all of Runescape’s news
- Grand Exchange status – check the status of your Grand Exchange offers without logging into the game
- In-game reminders – this bar will remind you when you need to do your distractions & diversions such as Tears of Guthix
- Seeing who is online via the toolbar without logging in
Getting distractions & diversions reminders at your fingertips!
As you can see, these features are quite simply… awesome! I think Jagex have really hit the nail on its head with this update because it actually gives functionality instead of taking it away! I think that the tools for Grand Exchange offers will be very highly regarded by the Runescape community, as with the in-game reminders for distractions and diversions.
User authorisation must be performed on the Runescape website before you can use some of these nice features!
I’ll be sure to post a video on this soon, but I just thought I’d let you all know seeing as Jagex loves to do incognito-style updates lately… *cough* double-xp weekend *cough*
