Yes we have been testing this for about 2-3 hours now. 100-200 clicks per minute in all different angels, around objects and npcs and buildings as well as diagonal spamming. We did it, the walkbacks are gone the hogging is gone!

These tests are not from our local computers (which means that the result are final).

Hopefully we could put a beta test for a few hours later today so you can test this.

Nice. Good job, guys! Definetely helpful.

This update will probably attract  pkers!  Where is the server going to be USA or Sweden?

Sorry I probably wasn't clear enough; we didn't create new path finding, we merely corrected the walking server-side which was done wrong years ago by Reines(?). So walking should be just as you remember it being on RS Classic.

What differences will there be? Will we be able to tell a difference between what the walking used to be like?

On a side note, if you made the pathing where your character would walk directly to a npc or player that you click on without your character walking in the path that the npc or player previously had taken; That would be a breakthrough update. This would be the correct way of fixing walkbacks

It is a lot smoother, as in it dodges objects/walls without having to re-click and walk long distances without failing.
Before it used to stop at objects and walls randomly and had trouble walking longer distances.

It would be rather easy to make it accurately walk to players/npcs, by simply ignoring the walk packet client sends and setting the player to follow but I believe this would change the experience radically and the it would make catching in wilderness extremely easy.

I see now what you mean, yeah it could make it easier to catch in the wilderness, but it is rather annoying when I want my character to walk to the person I just clicked on. Not take his same path that he just walked before reaching him. This is even more annoying when trying to train on npcs that move about.

It would be rather easy to make it accurately walk to players/npcs, by simply ignoring the walk packet client sends and setting the player to follow but I believe this would change the experience radically and the it would make catching in wilderness extremely easy.

Truth! Good call brother. And nice fix

Edit: What about making it ignore the walk packet and set to follow on NPCs only? You've gotta admit, even on RSC, following NPCs around all day trying to attack them was a bitch.