So, before Jagex officially launched RS2, they gave us a beta version. In it you could train and so on, but those levels gained wouldn't end up to the "final" RS2. Same was with items. That game was pretty different to our current RS2 and also had few interesting bugs. Here's some picture materials.


The combat system was a bit different. Lovely purple hits there <3


As the items and levels there were only temporary. People were just giving away phats and so on. Here's a legendary merchant Duke Freedom pulling a cracker on some random hippie. Notice the old phats!


In this picture the damage is already shown red, but mods still don't have their fancy crowns.


There was a little bug which let you dupe items really easily. Because this was a beta and the items would be removed, no1 got banned for this and *none* of those duped items are now in game. However it was pretty fun as many people got phats, dragon items and so on.


Again the old combat system. Also notice the weird font in chat.


An army of kittens. Little bug allowed you to have multiple cats and armies like this weren't impossible.


Masks could look now like this...


And phats like this...


At first they were planning to have multiple specials on all weapons. In the end only dragons and dark items got specials and only 1 different spec per items.


I am definately going to marry a gnome cheerleader <3

My God, it's so... noobish. *time travels*

Lmao irl at the Kitten Army.

Hah, really funny to look at them pics, wish i played back then :/

Wow this is all priceless stuff to see!!!! What a charming little booklet of information you have provided for us.


NEVER leave us!!! keep posting interesting facts.

I remember every bit of that, it was really funny

Wow that looked like fun Now we all must earn our stuff, darn

beta are the best part of a new feature woot love the glitches

Hehe, beta was fun. I duped my mask set a crap load of times then went pking with them.

Speaking of pking... Mage was really stupid on the beta.... The distance that you could hit someone from was incredible.. You could hit someone that wasn't even on the mini-map. (eg. You attack someone, they run away, you keep shooting, even after they are far enough away so they are no longer on the mini-map.)

I pk'd several mask sets, lol.


I remember the cat bug too. I'm sure I have pics of it somewhere on my computer or backed up on CD. Maybe I'll look for it later.


I remember when the beta first came out you didn't have any items at all. (Couldn't transfer from RS -> RS2 BETA yet) so everyone was mining/smithing again. Like the game was fresh but everyone already had skills. It was a lot of fun.



Ah good times.

Wow, I always think it's fun to look back on things like this to reflect on how good we really have it today. WoW "ain't" got nothing on RS! We have years of.. experience :)

thanks for them

Nice, thanks for this! Lmao @ the 'kitten army'!

i never did try the beta version, probably why it took me awhile to adjust, i kept going back to rsc instead because i didnt like the change

Hah, I remember playing the Beta version. It was fun to go around and see what all the new and different things there were to see.

I was so excited when Beta came out. Was fun times. I loved doing mage and seeing how cool the spells looked

LMAO @ the army of kittens, and whats with the P hats after the kitty picture?

Wow thats cool

Soooo mannnyyy rarrrrrrres...
It's like I can almost feel them! lololol

wow, look at all the phats and dragon meds!

Lol at every one with all thoes Party Hats.

One Day I Have All That Gold But That Likely 99% That Not Going To Happen

wow looks lame