Each poll question needs a majority of 70 percent “yes” to pass. Thankfully, most of the questions in Poll 78 did pass.

Jagex opened Poll 78 on January 23rd and invited the members to vote on a range of topics concerning quality-of-life upgrades and changes that could influence your OSRS GP income or slightly modify the XP per hour for specific activities. The Poll was open until January 30th, and with it, Jagex also asked the community about introducing a new skill, which could represent a whole new way to earn or sink OSRS gold.

Changes to the Ardougne Diary

While the first five questions of the poll were in regards only to the new skill, the rest 24 referred to a variety of game aspects, from cosmetic upgrades to different tiers of the Ardougne diary that will allow you to carry more coin pouches in your OSRS accounts for sale. Even though this change is related to OSRS gold, it is a quality-of-life upgrade because it will let you focus more on thieving before opening the coin pouches to get the OSRS GP from them. This will slightly increase your XP per hour. Over 94 percent of the players who voted answered “yes” to both questions.

Farming

Regarding the Farming skill, Jagex proposed that the Magic secateurs worked from the inventory without needing to equip it. This great change aimed at newer and older players will ensure you remember to equip the item. It will also allow you to wield a weapon of choice while on your farm run. This could come in handy if you plan, for example, on a quick Hespori boss kill or doing a quick herb run between your Slayer tasks or other activities. Almost 90 percent of the player base agreed with this change.

Rune Pouch

Another quality of life change from Poll 78 is related to one of the most popular items in Old School RuneScape, the Rune Pouch. This item will save you 2 (or three if upgraded) inventory slots. This is because it will allow you to store up to 16k of up to 3 or 4 rune types, and it only occupies one inventory slot.

There’s a toggle for if you want the runes you pick from the ground to be added or not directly in your Rune Pouch instead of your inventory, provided that you already have that type of rune in the Rune Pouch. However, this toggle did not extend to the runes you get while Runecrafting. With poll 78, Jagex asked just that; it passed with a majority of over 96 percent. You can see this change starting on February 15th, when you can enjoy another quality-of-life improvement that will help you train and earn easier with the Runecraft skill.

Motherload Mine

The Motherload Mine’s lower level has also seen some love with Poll 78, with three questions dedicated to it. In short, there will be more ore veins at the lower level, including veins closer to the bank and hopper, and they will respawn faster. This makes one of the most loved mining activities even better, especially for lower-level players.

Smaller Changes

Some more minor changes also passed. These include re-selling the Giants’ Foundry uniques back to Kovac for 80 percent of the paid value, adding the Ring of recoil to the Magpie implings drop table, enabling the special attack orb in the Wilderness and other PvP-enabled environments, a Prayer filter, spell icons size increase when using a filter, decreasing the special attack cost of the Abyssal dagger to 25 percent, and creating a stackable but untradable version of the cave nightshade. Another change that has a negligible impact is that the treasure chest in your player-owned house can hold more OSRS gold.

More Profit

When thinking about profitability, there are also a few changes that come with Poll 78. First, over 94 percent of the respondents agreed that Jagex should add another recipe for the Extended Super Antifire Potion. Therefore, you can now obtain this handy potion by adding Lava scale shards to Super Antifire Potions or Crushed Superior Dragon Bones to the Extended Antifire Potion. This latter recipe will bring you significant profits of above 3k OSRS GP per potion, but you’ll need a Herblore level of 98 for either recipe. You will also be able to use a greater variety of seeds in the birdhouse traps and profit slightly more by paying a bit less for each seed. This will result in less bad wine and more OSRS gold for your bank.

More of the RE crew are joining up with Chris and Jill.

Series favorites Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield are reportedly coming to Fortnite soon. Two reliable leakers have corroborated this info, so this is likely true. Fortnite accounts can have these skins along with the confirmed Attack on Titan Eren Jaeger skin in Chapter 4, Season 2. Though the latter will be available in the Battle Pass, Leon and Jill will be in the Fortnite Item Shop.

A Brief History of Resident Evil

Resident Evil is a long-lasting horror-survival franchise spanning 8 main games and several spin-offs. The games center around the experiments of the Umbrella Corporation, which understandably go out of control. This results in an epidemic of horrific mutations in the name of science. Usually, the series features a different protagonist in each game. However, there have been some continuations of their stories in later entries.

One example is Leon Kennedy, who first appeared in Resident Evil 2. He was such a popular character that he became mentioned in spin-offs and a playable character in two more mainline games: RE4 and RE6. He also appears in various RE movies and related media (series, comics). Even people who haven’t played a single game in the franchise would likely recognize him or know his name.

In the recent releases, Ethan Winters stars in two consecutive games: RE7 and Resident Evil Village. His story is more self-contained, but all the games exist in the same universe. This is exemplified by the existence of the Blue Umbrella Corporation, which Chris started to ‘redeem’ the organization to do good.

Speaking of Chris Redfield, he becomes playable in an RE7 DLC campaign and one story section of REV aside from being the first game’s protagonist. He’s also a character on the level of Leon, being a central part of the story of Resident Evil. He has appeared or been mentioned in several other games and spin-offs.

Claire is Chris’s sister, but she plays a more minor role. However, she shares the title of the most popular female RE protagonist with Jill Valentine. Ada may also be a contender, but she acts more like an anti-hero most of the time and has yet to appear as much as the other two in the main games.

It’s no wonder Leon and Claire would be the following featured skins in Fortnite from the franchise after Chris and Jill.

The Fortnite Skins

As mentioned, these two would appear in the Item Shop instead of the Battle Pass. They’re both priced at 1,500 V-Bucks and come with Back Blings. Leon gets an Attache Case accessory, while Claire has the RPD. Key. Also, Leon’s Combat Knife and The Umbrella Parasol Pickaxe will be available at 500 V-Bucks each.

Leon’s skin could have style options, such as his jacket from 4 or RPD Uniform. However, take it with a grain of salt. People have been speculating that Chris and Jill would be returning to the shop along with these two above. While it is very likely, this has not been confirmed yet.

Celebrate Resident Evil

While the skins’ availability starts in April, it is still close enough to the release of the RE4 remake on March 24, 2023. It’s almost as if Fortnite is banking on getting more players through the new wave of interest the remake will generate.

And it would work both ways. Fortnite players would become interested in Resident Evil, and RE players would play Fortnite. Also, with the expansive media presence of the franchise, even those who only read/watched about it could become interested.

Resident Evil has a dedicated fandom that’s growing even more with the new re-releases. Though they keep the same mechanics and storyline, it adds more to the experience. Sooner or later, there might even be Fortnite skins for Mr. X/Nemesis and/or Lady Alcina Dimitrescu!

As for Fortnite, it just keeps on getting wackier and wackier with the collaborations. Who’s ever heard of having a mega-crossover of people personalities, gaming protagonists, TV show characters, and movie heroes in one game? Fortnite also has its own cast of characters to join the chaos. The battle royale is just a crazy gathering of famous characters at this rate.

Anyway, that’s what makes Fortnite unique. Where else would you be able to play as John Wick fighting against the Predator? Or Spider-Man teaming up with Batman? Besides that, the building mechanics also shake things up, as it is something that not many other games have. This Battle Royale game really provides a unique experience to its players.

Have fun, and look forward to seeing Leon and Claire in your Fortnite account!

The mode for quick games is a permanent addition to Valorant.

Valorant is a challenging team shooter game, but full-fledged games can take a long time to finish. Valorant account holders who are short of free time usually can’t play more than two or three games. Then again, game durations can also be quick, depending on how good your team (or the other) is.

The Swiftplay mode solves most of those problems, but it won’t increase your rank. Still, it’s still an excellent way to get a couple rounds of practice.

What is Swiftplay Mode?

It’s a Best of 9 unranked game mode players can jump into in 15 minutes. The mode is the same Plant/Disarm, but you can buy from the shop from the third round on. Swiftplay can be used to practice for a more serious game.

Although it works the same as an Unrated game, adjustments were made to account for the shorter durations.

• All players have 2 points for their ultimate each half.
• No credit bonuses for a losing streak
• Credits earned based on round results have been adjusted and are the same for both teams, except for round two, which has a bonus for the winning team last round.

True to its name, Swiftplay delivers on its promises of a quick game. Each round is lightning fast, and the action swift. A Sudden Death round will be implemented if the teams get four points each.

History of Swiftplay

The game mode was announced during the 5.12 patch and will be beta tested until January 10, 2023. It was described as above, keeping the core gameplay loop which modes that deathmatch modes change slightly.

The beta testing period got extended, and in version 6.03, it became a permanent addition to the game.

Player Impressions

Though this is only a best-of-9 game, it can still stretch on a bit if the map is a vast area; however, the opposite is also true. A smaller map means teams can quickly meet and fight each other. Still, it’s not that different from regular games.

There might be more pressure to win rounds because there are fewer chances to turn it around. After all, the game could end once a team gets to 5 wins. However, that’s also why the fast-paced Swiftplay is more exciting than the usual games.

In the normal modes, the defending team has a slight disadvantage. They must split up to cover all the stake-planting sites while the attacking side can go together. It’s easier to pick off players when they’re alone, so unless the team has good communication, it’s slightly more challenging to win as defenders. Not impossible, mind. They need some good aim and a little bit of luck to win.

Once the roles switch, the first defending team can turn things around. Now that they’re attackers, they can get more wins. It is a best-of-24 game. In Swiftplay, It’s entirely possible to keep getting sudden death rounds. It might be easier to get 5 points than 13, but that also applies to the other team.

Also, even if the players don’t always feel it, long games cause much fatigue for them. Some need a bit of a break before starting a new game, or else their aim or concentration would be shot. Swiftplay is short enough to not trigger it (experience may vary). You can catch a break faster than if they played Unranked or Competitive.

Conclusions

All in all, it’s an excellent addition to the game. Some players only have enough time to play one game, but this mode allows them to play two for about the same amount of time as one. You also earn the same amount of XP in them as Unrated, 100XP per round + 200XP for every win. Though in total, you’d get less by playing in Swiftplay (theoretically 25 matches vs. 18 when doing two games of the latter).

Still, that doesn’t change the fact that it allows players to play and earn experience quickly. Otherwise, they might have to go AFK or disconnect in the middle of a match. The mode doesn’t make those things go away completely, but it reduces the chances of a teammate quitting mid-gunfight. It’s also an excellent stage to show off any Valorant skins you have since more people see them in the same amount of time.

It could be a chill game mode or a more exciting one depending on your view of it. Whichever it is, you can’t deny that Swiftplay is a much-needed feature for those on the go. Enjoy Valorant and the Swiftplay mode!