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David Pakman

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Zooming in and out of the world map would be more convenient with the possibility of zooming with two fingers, as if you're zooming in and out of an image on your phone. The buttons work as intended though.

12-May-2018 17:25:35

Jan

2023

Zezergz

Posts: 1 Bronze Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Thank you for the invite to the mobile beta test. I've been playing for the pest few days and have some feedback so far.

1. Hover Over Text

I believe that the hover text appearing after the action defeats its purpose.

I think it may become an issue for new players starting on the mobile platform to:
-determine if clicking an item in the inventory will consume, equip or select it
-determine what an item or spell is being used on
-determine if clicking on an NPC will attack or talk
-differentiate between items, interactable elements, information boards and decoration

The hover over text is, in my opinion, a crucial part of learning about the game mechanics.

Suggested Improvement:
Have a dedicated information button that can be toggled so objects can be hovered over without activating them to provide information to the player

Banking

Again as many others have said before, the banking experience can be improved.

Scrolling is difficult with the current scroll bar as it becomes smaller with longer pages.

The scroll arrows do not function very well as pressing and holding brings up the right click context menu and stops scrolling.

Suggested Improvement:
Swipe to scroll. Tap to withdraw. Long press to bring up context menu. Moving item functionality should be a toggle button.

13-May-2018 05:17:52

HellooNewman

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Hey guys!
2 things i would like to mention.
First one is only a minor issue, when checking experience in the stats tab, the current box appears underneath your finger, and can be quite difficult to see. (Perhaps this could be moved to above rather than below)

Other issue is that I am currently playing mobile on a Samsung S8+ and having issues with being disconnected while tabbing out of the app, as soon as another app is opened i am logged out.
can be quite frustrating in the event of taking a call or even checking the Wiki for something

Unsure if there is a setting that can be changed to allow the app to continue running in the background, although I checked to make sure that "background app refresh" was in fact allowed for this app.

Thanks again for inviting me to test the mobile app

13-May-2018 05:42:28

AxeTheIron

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I havent been able to play rs in a while as real life gets in the way but now thanks to mobile i can play again so firstly thank you for the invite.

I have downloaded osrs mobile on my Samsung galaxy s7 and my samsung galaxy tab s runs perfectly fine on both though the devices do get a little hot after a while battery usuage is excellent both devices use around 14% battery per hour the s7 takes a little more about 20% when I use mobile data to play.

The biggest shock I got was how little mobile data the game takes if you have visted areas before on say wifi the data the game takes is tiny 2mb per hour aprox.

Done all my normal rs things on mobile thought it would only be viable to do afk skills but have easily done click intensive skills like thieving done many slayer tasks and have killed superiors like marble gargoyle easily (i am an ironman so my gear is basically welfare) I have gone many places but have had no lagg or dcs or anything I can really call a bug one issue when I go upstairs in shilo village to get another task from duradel I lagg for a sec might be because of my internet or device not sure but just putting it out there.

Lastly from what I have seen the game seems ready for everyone its far better than i could have ever imagined (mobile rs)

Again thank you for an invite to the mobile beta

13-May-2018 07:58:24

Cuddlypanda

Posts: 4 Bronze Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Hello, Thanks for inviting me to access the 'Android Always Open' Beta for Old School RuneScape! This is my results after using it for one whole hour from 100% Battery.

Phone: Samsung Galaxy S8 (International Version G950F)
OS: Samsung Experience 9.0 (Android 8.0.0)
RAM: 4GB
Battery Used: 22%
Data Usage over Wi-Fi: 50.3MB

What I basically did for the one hour was just walk around Lumbridge, Draynor and Varrock. I also did some skilling by Draynor cutting Willow Trees, followed by Firemaking at Varrock West-Bank. Checked out the world map to see how to operates on mobile. The performance was beyond my expectations! My Phone did not overheat at one point, My device actually remained cool the entire time.

There's only one bug I have noticed so far. When I open the World Map by the icon on the top-left, trying to type in the World-Map wouldn't show any text. That needs to be fixed but anywho I don't really use the World Map so it's not much of a concern for me.

Suggestions to consider:

- Please make the tabs that close the Chat Bar slightly bigger OR resizable. My fingers sometimes miss and end up with my character running to the tapped location.
- When I am trying to view how much experience I have left to level up in a certain skill, It is hard to read the total exp or remaining exp unless I move my finger slightly up OR tilt my device downwards. Maybe should either move the readable exp to the left of where it is tapped OR double tap the skill to show the total exp and remaining exp to level up.
- Please let us be able to scroll through our bank with the swipe gesture, I do not like having to use the tiny scroll bar. I sometimes miss it due to fat fingers

Thanks for reading this.

13-May-2018 08:31:28 - Last edited on 13-May-2018 08:33:44 by Cuddlypanda

Dredd

Posts: 323 Silver Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Quick thoughts on new mobile update:

Much better. Keyboard button is best addition. Automatic pull-up of Android keyboard when interface requires input is good, too (example: logging in).

Improvements to be made:

* Allow usage of the Android keyboard/keyboard button when using in-game interfaces. For example, I was making a teletab today, and I had to click a really small area to make a Trollheim teletab. If I mis-pressed, I would've mistakenly made a different teletab. I couldn't bring up the keyboard button or Android keyboard, as it cancelled out of the teletab creation interface. Would be a nice change.

* Scrolling down in the bank could be made a bit easier, especially if you have a large bank.

* Just like in one of the recent PC OSRS updates, you should have the option to see experience drops even while your experience bar is hidden. You don't have the ability to do that in the current version of mobile OSRS. That experience bar takes up valuable touching real estate. I can imagine it would be an even worse problem with smaller phones.

* World map keyboard input still doesn't work.

13-May-2018 10:37:28

Feb

2020

Guthrixpries

Posts: 127 Iron Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

I'm not a fan of the bank. I like having the 1, 10, X, All buttons available, but that's about it. The two main issues I'm having is

1) Scrolling. I can either tap and hold the bar itself and scroll, but due to sizing, it goes too fast for me to scan for items. I can tap and hold the scroll arrows but then the right click menu on the arrow (which had a single option: cancel) shows up and scrolling pauses.

2) Search. Between my keyboard and the text box to enter the search phrase, I can't even see my bank window. I have to hit the back button on my phone a few times to remove the keyboard. I liked how the log in screen rearranged itself when the keyboard was brought up. Can the bank interface do the same?

13-May-2018 13:44:06

G Nizzle

Posts: 77 Iron Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

please allow one interface open on the right and one open on the left, rather than the right interface closing when one on the left is clicked aka zulrah, it would be useful to have the prayer book open at the same time as the inventory at the sacrifice of some screen space, currently its far too distracting and disorienting with interfaces opening and closing so wrong presses are easy to do

14-May-2018 09:57:57

Jun

2023

River Glau

Posts: 661 Steel Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Thank you for including me in the beta.
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S8 Active and a generic AT&T tablet

Overall I've had no major issues on either device. I've used the phone on Data as well as Wifi. I haven't evaluated the data consumption as of yet. I'll be performing that test today. There have been no issues with overheating or battery consumption on either device. I haven't done extensive testing on the tablet at this time though.

My general concerns in game

Switching to different applications logs me out of the game. Attempting to log back in sometimes shows that I am still logged in from my previous session.

Fishing can be frustrating because you either have to mouse over every spot (especially for harpooning) or just click until you get the correct one (lobster)

The skills interface can be improved by having an option to mouse over without keeping your finger on each skill. It's not difficult to work around seeing your remaining xp but it's inconvenient at this time.

Overall I am satisfied with the mobile beta. It's smooth and easy to use for what I've been doing.

I'm looking forward to the full release. River

14-May-2018 12:41:03

Nov

2023

Fuq Opticomm

Posts: 11 Bronze Posts by user Forum Profile RuneMetrics Profile

Hi Team

I have been playing quite regularly since I was given access to the beta and have tried quite a few different things mainly skill oriented I have some issues and feedback for you my device is the S8
- I seem to have an issue whenever I get a FB notification or Snapchat the click the touch zone seems to be just a bit above where it should be makes banking a nightmare (the fix os to just restart the ap*)
- On the client i find the most annoying thing is that whenever I close the chat window something always seems to bring it back then I accidentally tap it having a small screen this happens a lot and thus making the keyboard pop which is quite annoying I am aware it must be there but is there anyway to down size it and make it so the make options pop in the middle of the screen.
- Overall I am pretty happy with apart from the Battery consumption and the temperature of my device I realise it could be my device I am looking to upgrade soon to hopefully fix some of those issues.
- Also trying to look at my xp on skills is abit annoying its so random where the pop up comes up so I have to try and look around my thumb may making it bigger would help?
- I cant seem to find my loot filter either got to used to OSBuddy showing drops now I have to look again which is just laziness so no major issue there but an idea!

For the most part I am really enjoying the beta and thank you for the opportunity to test this I am from australia and find the connection is a lot better on my mobile which is nice. There are a few skills i dont think id ever train on this again but for the most part i think when i get my tablet in a few days alot of my screen size issues should be fixed up

Anymore feedback I have I will be sure to post
Regards
Dammooo

14-May-2018 16:24:55

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