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Book1worm13

Book1worm13

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I didn't want my title to be something like "My experience so far" but i seem to have painted myself into a corner with my choice. So as sorta promised:

The Good:
I was one of the very first mobile beta testers for rs3. It worked but you really couldn't call it a mobile version. It was essentially the desktop client coded for android and scaled for the phone. The upside was no learning curve but the downside was it was only playable if your phone screen was sensitive enough to discern what you were touching. What we have now is a far more refined product that has been deliberately tailored for a small phone screen.

I like how nearly everything was designed to "pop out" with the press of a button. Though i usually have my inventory open, it is nice to be able to hide the action bars and chat windows. Speaking of the chat windows, it is also nice that you can click on items behind it so that you don't have to close it all the time to click on things.

I keep dismantle on the = position of all my action bars. as such its nice to be able to switch the left and right sides of the bars since the right bar would be hidden when your inventory is out. The feature allowing you to drag things from your inventory into a pop up for high alching and dismantle is also nice.

the Bad:
As some one who does and will continue to use the desktop client i find it very frustrating that some of the setting are linked together. If i modify chat setting from mobile i will have to reset them all going back to the desktop. There really should be a break between mobile and desktop.

Last night i capped at my clan cit and the mini game menu is very small. there is allot of room in the pop out to scale it up so i think that would be a good idea.

Also, when selecting dismantle from the action bar there is no visible indication that it is selected. It won't be a problem unless i accidentally high alch something i needed.

Continued Below.

28-Mar-2019 13:34:02

Book1worm13

Book1worm13

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Continued from above...

The Bad:

I don't like having to go through the chat window and make a selection to display my contact lists. I would much prefer that the selection bar on the right of the screen was a scroll bar for all available actions. If not a free scrolling bar then how about the option to swipe it and switch to the other menus. actually now that i think about it that would be a much better choice for mobile than a free scrolling bar.

Finally, why no quick chat options? if quick chat were meant for anything it was meant for mobile.

The Ugly:
We were warned...this app is a data hog. I am sure i don't need to warn anyone to use it on wifi as much as possible. That being said, this app has proven to be really hard on my battery as well. Draining 5% in no time flat. I am hoping that this effect can be lessened with future improvements.

Bonus Content.
I would really like to see something similar to the discontinued companion app added into this new app. When starting the app you would be given the choice of playing mobile or using the companion. Technically you can do almost anything from the mobile that you could do from the companion however, within the limited realm of the companion app's abilities it excelled to a point that game play will likely never achieve. not to mention it wasn't nearly so hard on data and battery.

28-Mar-2019 13:43:03

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