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Austin Wood

MMO history has been made after 21 years: all the blank spaces in the Old School RuneScape map have been filled in for the first time, right as the game hits player count highs

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Roughly 5,000 hours of RuneScape have left me with several memories that I hope to hold in my brain until my heart eventually stops beating, and one of the clearest is a fascination with the MMO's otherworldly map, long defined by mysterious black squares signifying unexplored or upcoming content. What could possibly be hiding there, and what could one day fill the gaps? We no longer have to wonder. With the recent release of the final chunk of Varlamore, Old School RuneScape has filled out the entire world map for the first time in, technically, 21 years.

The RuneScape I remember was RuneScape 2, released in March 2004 and eventually resurrected as Old School RuneScape in February 2013, while RuneScape 3 branched off following a radical combat update dubbed Evolution of Combat. So while it's been through the wringer, this map is technically over two decades old.

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