Can't really play RS3 anymore.
Fair warning, I'm mostly a OSRS player.
However, I was enjoying playing RS3 for a while. I just used the legacy combat mode and interface and basically set it up to be comfy for me. I'm not really into combat so much so I was fine being kind of locked out of some of that stuff.
However, now the legacy interface is gone. The closest thing left is this weird mode where resources are in a center bar instead of the minimap orbs, but there are still other minimap orbs? I don't get it.
It also does this weird thing where you can have two UI panes open - inventory and then one other. It feels really unintuitive and I don't like it despite trying to get used to it. I wish this could be toggled to just have one pane like how it was in the legacy mode.
Now I logged in today and my always-on chat mode is gone? I have to press enter every time i want to talk so now I'm just not bothering with talking. Apparently the feature was removed. Uh... why?
I have seen a lot of players complaining about how much things are changing to appeal to OSRS players. As one of said OSRS players, it was all fine how it was. Ironically, the changes they have made have made RS3 less appealing than it was before.
Not all of it is bad. Getting toggles for other players' cosmetics and whatnot has made being near other players far more tolerable. I like that Lumbridge has been repaired. I like the removal of p2w elements (minus bonds).
But the current path leads to me dropping RS3 again and going back to OSRS full time.
I know some people are going to be like "it shouldn't need to appeal to OSRS players at all" and others will be like "you just don't like change" and maybe those are true. Still just putting my feedback here anyway, it is what it is.
Posted Feb 7, 2026, 6:08 AM UTC