RuneScape version

For the most part you can play New School 99 just like you did in 2012. Lodestones can be accessed with 'T'.

You will be asked to pledge to one of the Gods of Gielinor; Saradomin, Zamorak or Armadyl. Pledging to a God gives you new combat abilities for Melee, Ranged and Magic once you have completed the Rites.

Which version of RuneScape is this?

New School 99 is based on RuneScape build 727. Its game content dates from July 2012: it includes Carnillean Rising, released on 3 July 2012, but not Some Like It Cold, released on 7 August 2012.

That's about four months before the Evolution of Combat update in November 2012, so this is the pre-EoC game. The world, skills and quests are the mid-2012 ones. New School 99 adds its own changes on top, like WASD movement and free combat.

If you're coming from Old School RuneScape, which is based on 2007, expect five more years of updates, along with a few things that were changed or taken out in that time.

Quests you might expect but won't find

Changed or removed before 2012

These were quests in the early game, but by 2012 they were gone or no longer counted as quests.

Quest	What happened
Romeo & Juliet	Removed from the game on 21 September 2010 and replaced by Gunnar's Ground.
Sheep Shearer	Turned into a miniquest on 24 June 2010, so it doesn't give a quest point.
Witch's Potion	Turned into a miniquest on 24 June 2010, so it doesn't give a quest point.

Released after July 2012

Quests released after the game's content was taken aren't in New School 99, including:

• Some Like It Cold (August 2012)
• Diamond in the Rough and Stolen Hearts (September 2012)
• What's Mine is Yours (October 2012)
• Rune Memories (November 2012)
• The Brink of Extinction (December 2012)
• The World Wakes (March 2013)
• Bringing Home the Bacon, The Death of Chivalry, Birthright of the Dwarves and Missing, Presumed Death (2013)
• Every quest after those

Release dates are from the RuneScape Wiki.