RuneScape version
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.