Deathmatch

This is a safe minigame. If you die, you will not lose any of your items.

Deathmatch
Release date	26 September 2016 (Update)
Members	Yes
Location	Edgeville
Participants	2-30
Skills	Combat
Currency	Deathmatch points
Spotlight	No
HiScores	No
Tutorial	No
Custodians	Mandrith
Music	Bounty, Hunted, I Can See You, Steady, Target, You Will Know Me, Supreme Champions
Developers	John P
Infobox • Talk page

Deathmatch is a safe player versus player minigame that replaced the Crucible. In it, players can fight against up to 29 opponents in an arena, aiming to get as many kills as possible in 10 minutes. Regularly spawning power-ups make the battles more interesting. There are no requirements to participate in this minigame.

The minigame's lobby is an instance shard world and located on a platform above the Crucible arena, accessed through a hatch at the eastern border of Edgeville. Based on one's level (below 81, 81-120, or 121+) and combat mode (EoC or Legacy), one may enter an ongoing battle in the arena below using the board any time, or join the queue if no battle is going on.

Gameplay

The deathmatch waiting area.

The entrance to the Deathmatch lobby

During the Deathmatch, players are teleported to an arena, and after a countdown, may attack other players. When a player dies they respawn in a bank area with a bank, a prayer altar, and supply of bandages, Deathmatch super restore flasks, and Deathmatch supreme overload salves. Players may then re-enter the arena through a crevice, which transports them to a random exit crevice with a short period of immunity. It is also possible to choose which exit the player wishes to use. Crevices may also be used to enter the bank area from which the player may leave the game at any time. No points would be awarded if a player chooses to leave the game early.

One of the banks in the area, also containing a prayer altar and supplies.

At the halftime, if there are more than 20 players in the arena, an essence of death will spawn in the area, informing all players. Being close to the essence fills up a bar visible above players' heads. The first player to fill their bar becomes the Supreme Hunter. When another player next to the essence is killed, the killer receives half of their bar. The Supreme Hunter is indicated with an icon above their head. The Supreme Hunter receives supreme weapons (Annihilation, Decimation, and Obliteration) (food or potions will be banked if the player's inventory is full) with a special attack unique to Deathmatch called Supreme Defenders. This special attack requires 100% adrenaline and summons 10 Rogue's souls to fight alongside the Supreme Hunter. Additionally, the Supreme Hunter receives 10% damage reduction for each soul that they have active. The Rogue's souls ignore the combat immunity period.

Power ups

The arena contains power ups to help players in combat. These can be activated by running over them. If a power up spawns while multiple players are on it, the player on the northwestern corner will get it. Players can't grab power ups if they still have immunity. While a power up is active (besides Armour and Cabbage Time!), grabbing a new one overrides the old one. All power ups are lost when the player dies. Regular power ups spawn at set times at the same locations, have relatively short re-spawn times, and are active from the start of a game. Super power ups are more powerful but have variable and longer respawn times and are not active from the start of the game. Players are notified when a super power up spawns and when a player grabs one.

Name	Type	Effect	Duration	Respawn
Armour	Regular	Reduces damage taken from all attack styles: 0-33% damage reduction for the first 100 armour and 33-100% damage reduction for up to a maximum of 200 armour. The power up degrades based on the amount of damage prevented by it.	50 armour	24 seconds
Gold-Trimmed Armour	Regular	Reduces damage taken from all attack styles: 0-33% damage reduction for the first 100 armour and 33-100% damage reduction for up to a maximum of 200 armour. The power up degrades based on the amount of damage prevented by it.	100 armour	45 seconds
Heal Over Time	Regular	Heals 10% of the player's maximum life points every 3 seconds.	45 seconds	30 seconds
Cabbage Time!	Super	Replaces all food and bandages in other players' inventories into cabbages. Eating cabbages does not use up the player's food, and their food is returned to them after the time is up.	20 seconds	2.5-3.5 minutes
Chicken Army	Super	For every successful hit, a level 198 chicken spawns and attacks the opponent. The chickens ignore the combat immunity period. Up to a maximum of 10 chickens can be spawned.	45 seconds	2.5-3.5 minutes
Overpowered	Super	Causes all the player's attacks to have quadruple damage.	45 seconds	2.5-3.5 minutes

Point system

At the end of the game, players earn Deathmatch points depending on how well they fought. Points are awarded for each occurrence of the following:

Type	Points	Condition
Kill	7	An opponent died with the player dealing at least 60% of their life points.
Assist	2	An opponent died with the player dealing a considerable amount of damage.
Streak	5	The player got 5 consecutive kills without dying or leaving through a crevice.

Rewards

Main article: Deathmatch Reward Shop

Deathmatch

Points can be used to buy mostly untradeable rewards relevant to entry-level player killing.

Reward			Description
Miscellaneous
	Wilderness slayer xp enhancer	100	Increases Slayer experience for your current Slayer task in the Wilderness (2x xp) and the Chaos Tunnels (1.2x xp).
	Ogre flask (empty)	100	Holds 6 doses of one of the Oo'glog pools. Destroyed after use.
	Preserved meat × 20	100	Meat that heals up to 2,200 life points.
	Revenant drop enhancer	200	Increases the drop rate of rare drops likes Ancient Warriors' equipment from the revenants in the Forinthry Dungeon.
	Fremennik equipment patch	200	Can be used to upgrade spined, rockshell, and skeletal armour pieces from level 50 to level 65.
	Deathmatch taunt scroll	200	A scroll to unlock an audio death taunt from Deathmatch. Can choose and useable everywhere. There are a total of 10 taunts.
	Unlock Ancient Teleport Tablets	300	Unlock the ability to make Ancient teleport tablets in the POH.
	Deathmatch title scroll	600	A scroll to unlock a title from Deathmatch. Can choose and useable everywhere. There are a total of 20 titles.
Gear
	Supreme hunter's helm	1,500	Cosmetic helmet (requires you to have been the Supreme Hunter at least once to buy).
	Corrupt rogue gloves	300	An untradeable pair of tier 60 power-hybrid gloves that provide a life point boost of 50, tier 40 armour, and tier 45 power armour strength. All existing rogue gloves (Crucible) can be converted to these on release.
	Nasty rogue gloves	300	Must have bought corrupt rogue gloves at least once. An untradeable pair of tier 65 power-hybrid gloves that provide a life point boost of 100, tier 45 armour, and tier 50 power armour strength.
	Malicious rogue gloves	300	Must have bought nasty rogue gloves at least once. An untradeable pair of tier 70 power-hybrid gloves that provide a life point boost of 150, tier 50 armour, and tier 55 power armour strength.
	Loathsome rogue gloves	300	Must have bought malicious rogue gloves at least once. An untradeable pair of tier 75 power-hybrid gloves that provide a life point boost of 200, tier 55 armour, and tier 60 power armour strength.
	Atrocious rogue gloves	600	Must have bought loathsome rogue gloves at least once. An untradeable pair of tier 80 power-hybrid gloves that provide a life point boost of 250, tier 60 armour, and tier 65 power armour strength.

Music unlocked

• Bounty
• Hunted
• I Can See You
• Steady
• Supreme Champions
• Target
• You Will Know Me

Gallery

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  A fissure where a player may chose to spawn.

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  The sign-up board.

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  The altar

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  The supply table

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• patch 18 February 2019 (Update):
  • There is now a confirmation option when entering a deathmatch lobby via the Edgeville PvP hatch.

• patch 8 May 2017 (Update):.
  • Players will no longer be awarded points repeatedly by killing players in Deathmatch after a game has ended.

• patch 27 March 2017 (Update):
  • Deathmatch taunts 6 to 10 can be set up correctly once again.

• patch 6 February 2017 (Update):
  • Deathmatch reward armour can now be reclaimed from Death or the gravestone upon death.

• hotfix 24 January 2017 (Update):
  • An issue which was causing the Deathmatch lobby to occasionally allow PvP combat has been fixed.

• patch 16 January 2017 (Update):
  • World hopping within the Deathmatch minigame will now clear any overload buffs gained.

• patch 9 January 2017 (Update):
  • Unlock hints for some music tracks have been changed to reference the Deathmatch arena, rather than the Crucible.

• patch 10 October 2016 (Update):
  • Replaced several mentions of "The Crucible" with "Deathmatch".

• patch 3 October 2016 (Update):
  • It is now possible to view Deathmatch rewards from the sign-up board in the lobby.
  • The supply table in Deathmatch now also offers Deathmatch overload salves and Deathmatch super restores.
  • Deathmatch no longer takes summoning level into consideration.
  • The multiway zone in Deathmatch has been made smaller and indicators have been added to the arena.
  • Prayers are now deactivated when leaving games of Deathmatch.
  • An option to disable your taunt has been added to the death taunt menu.
  • The chicken power-up in Deathmatch will now spawn more chickens again correctly if the game had ended before the previous buff had worn off.
  • The Deathmatch scoreboard interface will now display the close button more reliably.
  • Deathmatch titles will now use the grey colour as shown when unlocking the title instead of orange when activated.

• hotfix 3 October 2016 (Update):
  • An issue that was stopping a Deathmatch game from ending correctly has been fixed.
  • Fixed another issue that was stopping a Deathmatch game from ending correctly.
  • A means to kick players out of a stalled finished Deathmatch game has been added.
  • The end-of-game behaviour in Deathmatch has been altered to ensure safe death still runs once the game is over.
  • Fixed an occasional disconnect when killing a player in Deathmatch.
  • Bandages from the Deathmatch lobby can no longer be dismantled.
  • Another issue that was stopping Deathmatch games from starting has been fixed.

• update 26 September 2016 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• If a player attempts to enter the Deathmatch lobby area with a pet or familiar, the follower is dismissed and the following message appears: "Your familiar is forced to leave as it cannot remain here." After this happens, a pet can be reclaimed from a pet shop owner.
• When a player becomes the supreme hunter for the first time, it is recorded in their Adventurer's Log. Despite removal of the Crucible and its' subsequent return as Deathmatch, Adventurer's Log still references the previous iteration of the minigame:
  Became a Supreme Champion.
  I climbed the ranks in the Crucible and was named the Supreme Champion.
• If a player scores more than 50 kills in a game, the game will automatically end. It is unclear whether this is a bug. However, if the player manages to kill multiple opponents simultaneously as the game ends, it is possible to exceed a score of 50 kills.