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Barbarian Assault
This page, and all subpages of it, are intended to document the mechanics of Barbarian Assault. The minigame itself is not yet implemented in the game.
Barbarian Assault is a 2009scape minigame, located at the Barbarian Outpost. It involves waves, where players in a team of 5 enter a Barbarian Assault cave to fight creatures called penance. The goal is to kill all the penance in a wave without any player on the team dying. There are 10 waves, of increasing difficulty and increasing rewards, but they must be completed in order. Players each have a role.
Penance and Roles
There are 4 types of penance, and 4 roles for players. Additionally, penance drop eggs. The correspondence between penance/eggs and roles is in the following table.
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| Penance | Role |
|---|---|
| Fighterplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigPenance Fighter Penance Fighters are a combat enemy faced in the Barbarian Assault minigame. They are stacked. They have 1 eye and a 6-pack. Their very muscly torso inspires the famous Fighter Torso.Penance Fighters are melee creatures. They attack exclusively with melee. Waves Penance Fighters gain strength each wave. Fighters in wave 1 are relatively weak; fighters in wave 9 are notoriously strong. | Attacker |
| Rangerplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigPenance Ranger Penance Rangers are a combat enemy faced in the Barbarian Assault minigame. They are not ugly, they just have a face that only a mother could love.Penance Rangers are ranged creatures. They attack exclusively with ranged. Waves Penance Rangers gain strength each wave. Rangers in wave 1 are relatively weak; rangers in wave 9 are notoriously strong. | Attacker |
| Runnerplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigPenance Runner Penance Runners are a noncombat enemy faced in the Barbarian Assault minigame. They are a curious creature. Their mechanics are notoriously complicated.Penance Runners are passive creatures. They do not interact with players at all, other than standard NPC blocking rules. Only the defender role can interact with runners, and must do so indirectly via dropping bait for them. | Defender |
| Healerplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigPenance Healer Penance Healers are a noncombat enemy faced in the Barbarian Assault minigame. They are somewhat nightmarish in appearance.Penance Healers do not attack players, but they can poison players. The damage dealt by healer poison is very small, usually negligible. | Healer |
| Eggplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigPenance Egg Penance eggs are dropped by penance in the Barbarian Assault minigame.There are 4 types of eggs, each with a different color. Each type of egg has a different nature and purpose. Eggs are used by firing them out of a cannon, as one does.Only the collector role can pick up eggs. | Collector |
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Waves and Caves
Barbarian Assault has 10 wavesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigBarbarian Assault Wave
The Barbarian Assault minigame occurs in instanced waves.There are 10 waves, officially called Wave 1 through Wave 10. The waves are highly standardized. ----------
Cycle Barbarian Assault waves occur in cycles of 10 ticks. The cycle is the time unit of the game; everything is scheduled according to these cycles..
Each wave takes place in a cave. There are 2 such caves: the standard caveplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigBarbarian Assault Cave
The Barbarian Assault minigame occurs in instanced caves. The cave is the spatial setting for the Barbarian Assault minigame. All Barbarian Assault gameplay occurs inside a Barbarian Assault cave.There are 2 caves, which will be referred to here as the and the boss caveplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigBarbarian Assault Cave
The Barbarian Assault minigame occurs in instanced caves. The cave is the spatial setting for the Barbarian Assault minigame. All Barbarian Assault gameplay occurs inside a Barbarian Assault cave.There are 2 caves, which will be referred to here as the.
