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FoF: Happy Halloween!
Posted on Friday, October 30, 2009, 11:56 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com's Five on Friday: FoF: Happy Halloween! Jess Folsom 30 Oct 2009 14:34:08 EST In this week's Five on Friday we cover... When will we see the next big story arc in game? The next story arc will not be of the magnitude of the one which just ended, but we’re planning on starting the next arc right after the Holidays. Magincia is in dire need of love! -Sakkarah -- Will new content ever be added to doom gauntlet? As in new arties. We intend to “refresh” the rewards and incentives in older dungeons, including Doom. There however is no ETA on when this will take place. -Sakkarah -- Is it possible to have the Scout's Armor (Spring Cleaning Turn-in Reward) as a dyeable armor in a future publish? Natural Dyes are great so far! Absolutely! The Sorcerer’s Armor has already been made dyeable. The Scout and Knight were unfortunately overlooked. That will be rectified. -Sakkarah -- Is it possible to have ALL soulstones showing the names of the last character putting/getting skills from/to it? This would be so cool, this way I could give away all my IDOC soulstones to the rightful owner! We can definitely add that feature to all soulstones in an upcoming publish. -Sakkarah -- Now that there is a huge volcano sitting there, are all my Fire Island T-maps trashed? The Volcano shouldn’t affect Treasure maps since it came out of the water not the surrounding land mass. Most messages in a bottle had been addressed, however there does appear to be a small handful that may still be affected and we will be looking into those. -Stephen W. -- Announcements: Remember, there's only one week left to collect your 12th Anniversary gift tickets! If you haven’t collected yours, be sure to log in with your eligible characters (30 days and older) to receive the ticket. Once you have the ticket, there is no time limit for redeeming your ticket for your reward. -- Have a safe and fun Halloween! -- Don't forget to submit your Five on Friday questions here.
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Publish 62.2
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009, 2:35 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Publish 62.2 Jess Folsom 28 Oct 2009 17:09:16 Publish 62.2 will go through during your local shard's maintenance period. The following fixes and changes will be implemented during this publish: Fixed an issue that was causing double NPCs to spawn with the Halloween Quest. Adjusted the Gypsy’s respawn timer. Players can no longer summon the Harbinger in the Abyss. Removed the Naughty Twin's ability to turn players into a Mound of Maggots. Fixed an issue with Veteran clothing becoming unblessed on the Siege Perilous shard.
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Interview with Gamasutra
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009, 2:30 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Interview with Gamasutra Jess Folsom 27 Oct 2009 15:40:14 Tim Cotten, UO's very own lead designer, recently sat down with Gamasutra to discuss the past, present, and future of UO. Check out the full interview HERE!
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Publish 62 All Shards
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009, 2:26 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Publish 62 All Shards Chrissay Zeeman 25 Oct 2009 23:01:33 All shards will be published at their local shard's maintenance period. This will have this years Halloween Content. Halloween 2009 There will be no deaths this year! The Evil Twin is no more (may he rest in peace). But do watch out for his Naughty Twin. Halloween Quest This quest is repeatable. Have fun and make sure you start with visiting Jasper in Yew. Trick or Treating Added 5 new candies Beggar’s Added 2 new rares you can get from Trick or Treating Three New Tricks for our Trick or Treaters Not much fun if we told you what they were, Happy Halloween! Make sure you visit your local pumpkin patches! You just might find unique pumpkins grown by the Devs, GMs and EMs! Bug Fixes Players will now be able to use the bridge in Ilshenar Players will no longer be able to tame the Plague Rats in the Cavern of the Discarded Murderers on Siege Perilous and Mugen can now use the crystal portal to teleport to different facets now Fixed the issue on Siege Perilous with the clothing exchange box, it will now give the player the correct adjusted item. Ghosts will no longer be able to bypass the color maze with sacrifice. Codex of Virtue will now be able to re-deed properly. Ones that are currently placed will not be able to re-deed properly. The quest giver for Medusa’s Blood has been removed. The quest “A Worthy Proposition” has been fixed, it will now accept both directions of bamboo flutes Fixed an issue with runebooks in the Enhanced Client, it will now function normally.
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Origin Pub 62
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009, 2:20 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Origin Pub 62 Chrissay Zeeman 23 Oct 2009 16:34:33 Origin will be brought down in approximately 30 minutes to add this years Halloween Content.
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FoF: ooOOOooooOOOoo
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009, 2:17 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com's Five on Friday: FoF: ooOOOooooOOOoo Chrissay Zeeman 23 Oct 2009 14:58:12 In this week's Five on Friday we cover... Will we ever see the uo.com character search and guild database return? There was a bug with the character export process that was causing issues with MyUO. A fix for this will be going out with the next publish. The next MyUO update after the server publish (which happens every 24 hours) should correct the problem. If the problem persists after the next publish, we will look into it further. -Supreem -- Two questions. After server up, I did trammel champ spawns for about 2 hours. and suddenly went red in trammel Delucia. Any idea how that happened? I did kill on person before the server went down for pub 61. Second question is it illegal to be red in trammel? The person that you killed reported you later while you were in Trammel turning you into a murderer while in Trammel. It is illegal to be a murderer in Trammel so if this does occur it is highly recommended that you go to Felucca immediately whenever this may happen in the future. -Stephen W. -- On stratics it says that bows lose accuracy after approx 300-500 arrows. Is this information correct? Bows do not lose accuracy due to use. -Stephen W. -- The Japanese UO site lists "Soles Of Providence" as a reward from the Font of fortune. Can someone please confirm that this is indeed a reward? Yes, these sandals are a new possible reward from the Font of Fortune. The Soles of Providence are 80 luck sandals. -Misk -- Is the faction system going to be repaired,remolded or replaced? Will the Order/Chaos....Good V evil be returning? Our design team is currently taking a good, hard look at Factions and we are currently making plans for a series of updates culminating in a significantly revamped system. Right now in this early phase, we have a lot of ideas on the table. Amongst those are: A complete overhaul of the scoring and ranking system, with an eye towards rewarding healing, stealth, crafting, and other types of participation in addition to racking up kill counts Possibly reducing the number of factions to 3 Rebuilding the bases to make them more balanced, including removing bases from areas within guard zones Revamping town capture with an eye towards focusing the fighting, creating more intense battles Adding more ways to use Silver, as well as working to fix various economic issues surrounding Factions Adding more benefits to controlling towns, with an eye towards allowing Factions to have greater influence on the game world In addition to the above, we have a list of miscellaneous bugs we want to fix. Please note that we are very early in the design stages on this, and as we delve more deeply into this project our final feature change list will evolve. The above list is the pie in the sky and now we’re seeing how much of it we can (and should) bring down to Earth. We are interested in seeing some more of your Factions-related ideas and requests on the forums. -Phoenix -- Announcements: Make sure to check out TC1 with the new Halloween content. We have changed things up a bit from previous years. If you don't want to be spoiled that's ok it will be on your home shard next week. -- Submit your questions for the Five on Friday just clickhere.
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TC1: Pub 62
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009, 1:57 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com TC1: Pub 62 Chrissay Zeeman 22 Oct 2009 15:44:03 TC1 will be brought down to add this years Halloween Content. Halloween 2009 There will be no deaths this year! The Evil Twin is no more (may he rest in peace). But do watch out for his Naughty Twin. Halloween Quest This quest is repeatable. Have fun and make sure you start with visiting Jasper in Yew. Trick or Treating Added 5 new candies Beggar’s Added 2 new rares you can get from Trick or Treating Three New Tricks for our Trick or Treaters Not much fun if we told you what they were, Happy Halloween! Make sure you visit your local pumpkin patches! You just might find unique pumpkins grown by the Devs, GMs and EMs! Bug Fixes Players will now be able to use the bridge in Ilshenar Players will no longer be able to tame the Plague Rats in the Cavern of the Discarded Murderers on Siege Perilous and Mugen can now use the crystal portal to teleport to different facets now Fixed the issue on Siege Perilous with the clothing exchange box, it will now give the player the correct adjusted item. Ghosts will no longer be able to bypass the color maze with sacrifice. Codex of Virtue will now be able to re-deed properly. Ones that are currently placed will not be able to re-deed properly. The quest giver for Medusa’s Blood has been removed. The quest “A Worthy Proposition” has been fixed, it will now accept both directions of bamboo flutes
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Patch Notes for Enhanced and Classic Clients
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009, 1:49 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Patch Notes for Enhanced and Classic Clients Chrissay Zeeman 22 Oct 2009 15:43:56 Enhanced Client: Keybindings and Mouse Settings will now saved for each character. First load, old keybindings and mouse settings will be reset. Does not affect keybindings assigned to hotbar and macros. When a player logs in for the first time they will now be able to choose between Enhanced or Classic default settings. Fixed several client crashes Fixed a memory leak Classic Client: Added a crash reporting dialog box that appears during client crashes.
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Return to Britannia
Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:51 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Return to Britannia Chrissay Zeeman 17 Oct 2009 13:41:18 We would like to thank everyone who Returned to Britannia through this limited time event. For those of you who wish to stay in Britannia for a little while longer just update your billing information HERE. If you reactivate your account it will include all of the expansions up to Mondain’s Legacy regardless of what your account was initially registered for. If the Gargyoles of the Stygian Abyss are calling your name, click HERE to purchase the latest expansion.
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FoF: C:/DOS, C:/DOS/RUN, RUN/DOS/RUN
Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:46 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com's Five on Friday: FoF: C:/DOS, C:/DOS/RUN, RUN/DOS/RUN Chrissay Zeeman 16 Oct 2009 16:34:43 In this week's Five on Friday we cover... I heard a rumor that the 1st year aniversary Soulstones will be discontinued. Please say it isn't so!!! I know that there are craftable soulstones now, but it looks like they are character specific. We have no intentions of discontinuing the veteran reward full soulstones. Also note that the craftable soulstones are not character specific. The name displayed on the soulstone is that of the character that put the skill on it. But it simply helps you narrow down at a glance which account the soulstone is bound to. It spares you having to swap between accounts and using the stone, hoping you’re on the right one. -Sakkarah -- Will it ever be possible to return vet rewards and be able to choose somethin else (trade up) Currently, the only veteran rewards we are allowing to be exchanged are the veteran clothings (and only to be exchanged for one of a different type, but of the same color). There are no plans in the foreseeable future to allow players to trade other types of veteran rewards for new ones. -Sakkarah -- You posted about the Ethy mount tool being able to use it on any character. But my 5th year character can’t use it. Why is that? It is currently a bug that only 11th year players are able to use the retouching tool. It is meant to only be claimable by 11th year but usable by everyone. This will be fixed in an upcoming publish. -Sakkarah -- Theres a bug when redeeding the Codex of Vitrue when will this be fixed? Will those who ended destorying there Codex of Vitrue due to this bug gets there back? We plan to have this issue resolved in our next full publish later on this month. -Mesanna -- I have been with the game for over nine yrs now am wondering when the full circle of virtues will be complete, if ever. It is a sad thing to see a new addition to the virtues when, it seems, the virtues have been all but forgotten. This is on our radar of things to come. At this point we are still in the discussion phase of this so it could be a little while. So stay tuned to the Herald for future announcements. -Adida -- Everyone liked the elf hat bug, so can you please put it back? Unfortunately, we are not able to bring back the hat bug. I don’t know about you but when I wear my robe and wizard hat I kind of like to show them off. -Adida -- Announcements: We have launched the new rugs at the UO Gamecode store. Click HERE to see them. -- Do you have a question for the developers? You can submit it here.
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New Small Rugs at UO Gamecodes
Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:38 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com New Small Rugs at UO Gamecodes Chrissay Zeeman 16 Oct 2009 10:51:21 We have added four additional small rugs to our collection. These rugs come in plain red, golden, cinnamon, and blue decorative. You can get them at www.uogamecodes.com. They come as a five piece set for $5.00.
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Soulforges
Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:32 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Soulforges Chrissay Zeeman 14 Oct 2009 11:05:27 These smaller forges are obtained by going to the Primevil Lich champ spawn. They are for decoration only and have NO functionality. There are some merchants that have these for sale at a very high gold value. The item will say “Soulforge” and the seller’s description may say “Portable Soulforge”. We would like to put a buyer beware on this particular item. Below, is an example of this particular issue.
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Origin to be Published 61.1
Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009, 1:22 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Origin to be Published 61.1 Chrissay Zeeman 14 Oct 2009 10:59:52 EST Adjusted the special move attack on the Slasher Veil, he will now ignore invulnerable people. The two (2) new Veteran Reward mounts will no longer take up 4 control slots The issue with the housing teleporters not recognizing characters on the same account as a homeowner as well as issues with grandfathered house have been resolved. You can once again place addons on top of goza mats.
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Welcome to the UO Archive
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 3:10 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Welcome to the UO Archive Chrissay Zeeman 13 Oct 2009 17:33:15 EST We have added a new section to the UO Herald called the Archive. We have imported all of the information spread out on UO.com to one central location. This includes all of the BNN articles, past storylines, Player Spotlights, and much much more. To get to this section just click the Archive button to the left or click HERE.
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Anniversary Item Virtue Floor Deed
Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 3:08 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Anniversary Item Virtue Floor Deed Chrissay Zeeman 13 Oct 2009 16:00:19 EST If you have redeemed this item as a 12th anniversary gift please do not use an axe to re-deed this item. Please, keep an eye out on the Herald for when this issue has been resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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FoF: Pub 61 is Out the Door
Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009, 2:36 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com's Five on Friday: FoF: Pub 61 is Out the Door Chrissay Zeeman October 9, 2009 In this week's Five on Friday we cover... The new loyalty system was a great idea; but can we expect to see new loyalty systems for the other lands within the game? Loyalty to Lady Dawn, the Tokuno Empress, and maybe even some of the bad guys would be interesting. We’ve implemented the loyalty system in such a way that allows us to add more factions in the future. We can also make it so gaining loyalty with one faction causes you to lose loyalty with another. This will make it so players would have to choose one side or the other. We currently don’t have any specific plans to add new factions to the loyalty system. However, we definitely want to take advantage of this system with future content. -Supreem -- I have seen many new properties on many of the new SA items. Any hint on what they do? For instance . . . What does soul charge do? Please include a list of all of them. Thank you. Detailed information on these item properties can be found in the master Publish 60 notes that can be found HERE. -Supreem -- Is the damage to durability that weapons and fishing poles are taking from casting magery or necro spells, multiple points if area effect (And well after casting for fields when a creature passes through), intentional? It was originally intended for all hand held weapons to have a chance of taking damage every time a player casts a spell or uses a weapon with an AoE. After further review, we have decided to remove this feature. Weapons will also no longer lose durability due to spellcasting or when doing damage with a hit spell or hit aoe. -Sakkarah -- Ever since SA has come out, weapon and armor durability have been going down at a unusually fast rate, are there any plans to fix this? We have done a first adjustment pass to durability loss on weapons and armor. There was indeed a bug which caused equippables to take far more damage than we intended. You should see a significant difference as of this publish. -Sakkarah -- Are you aware mortal strike still does not work with throwing? Yes. We are currently investigating this issue. -Sakkarah -- Announcements: We will be focusing on Anniversary Items and Veteran Rewards in the next Five on Friday. If you have a question for the developers, you can submit it here.
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Anniversary Items and Veteran Rewards
Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009, 2:27 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Anniversary Items and Veteran Rewards Chrissay Zeeman 09 Oct 2009 17:03:22 EST Within Publish 61 we added new Veteran Rewards and our 12th Anniversary Items. To read the details of each item please click on more. More...
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Publish 61 notes
Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009, 2:22 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Publish 61 notes Chrissay Zeeman 09 Oct 2009 16:36:00 EST 12th year Anniversary items – Players will have till November 8th to log into the game to receive their gift ticket. 1st year Veteran Reward To be listed in detail later 11th and 12th year Veteran Rewards To be listed in detail later All years Veteran Reward Clothing Added a box in the Lycaeum (Felucca and Trammel) which allows players to trade their veteran reward clothing for one of a different type but of the same color. Bug Fixes: Fixed an issue that allowed gloves to show properly on the paperdoll Fixed an issue with Hair Restyling deeds showing Gargoyle Horns in the gump Fixed an issue with Animal form and Bola’s, players would instantly resurrect and have a death shroud and hue. Fixed the issue with Hitching Posts causing the players backpacks to become bugged. Bola’s will now give a criminal action query when used. Reduced Suteks roaming range World Building fixes to lava areas Fixed the issue where horns were dropping as loot The small square basket now requires SA Entitlement Retextured the death shroud Fixed an issue to allow Faction players from triggering a trapped chest to deny giving faction scores and stat loss•Fixed an issue with impassable cave tiles and walls Exploit – Players will no longer be able to use the Bag of Sending on the puzzle boards. Plant clippers will now cut any plant that has the word Decorative in it Crafting Items will no longer bark “I’m in the hack!!!” Players can no longer unravel items after they have been traded Gruesome standards should now be 10 stones Snake Skin Boots and all masks (bear, deer and tribal) are now dyable with staining dyes Gem’s color rotation now has a chance of being blaze. Players can no longer build gargoyle dressers on gargoyle couches Snake charmer flute recipe now requires 3 luminescent fungi instead of 2 blights to craft Players will be able to meditate while wearing Gargoyle Jewelry without imbuing mage armor into it. Fixed an issue with Personal Attendant dupes Special leather bonuses should no longer apply to cloth armor Both facings of glass swords can now be used as ingredients for crushed glass Spinning Wheels should no longer get stuck in use. Players should be able to deed them without any issues. Fixed an issue with Scroll Binders, Alchemy scrolls will no longer be shown as Anatomy scrolls when bound. Removed Trap scrolls placed in binders having a TID error Fixed an issue with players having SA entitled pets in their stables without the entitlement on their accounts Clothing bless deeds can now be used on Gargish Robes Added Gargoyle furniture to the dyable list for furniture dye tubs Players can no longer tame the temporary summoned Raptors Fixed an issue with Vet Reward Statues coming to live when attacked Fixed an issue with Medusa petrifying your pets and the pet losing their original hues. Slasher will no longer use the fear effect on ghosts Giger no longer hates Neville, therefore he can talk by without taking cannon damage. Candle of Love will no longer stack. New gargoyle books have been updated to be included with the inscription skill Fixed an issue with seams in Ruin Walls Mud Puppies and Red Herring deeds should redeed correctly now. Fixed an issue with Navrey spawning in locations players can not reach Gargish furniture will actually be two lock downs. Players will be able to put items on each side. You will only have to lock down/secure one side for both sides to lock/secure Fixed an issue with Guilds dropping their guild leaders. The guild system will now appoint a new leader if the original one is dropped. Niporailem will now switch targets properly if the original target is unavailable Faction guilds can no longer be in an alliance with non faction guilds. Fixed an issue with SA cave entrances blocking caves in legacy. Fixed an exploit where players were getting multiple puzzle boxes. Puzzle boxes will now delete themselves when placed on the floor and someone tries to pick it up. The treasure/sand will no longer be blessed, it will fall to the players corpse Fixed an issue with the wizard hat twitching while sitting Fixed an issue with Fishing poles being destroyed Fixed an issue with players being teleported into the ground at the Primevil Lich champ spawn Fixed an issue with players not being able to buy from Gargoyle Vendors Players will no longer get the “no container” message when trying to get the pet food they do not want. Tasty Treats will no longer stack Fixed an issue with Treasure sand being statics when dropped. Iron Beetle no longer requires taming to control (still needs SA entitlement) Gargoyle Race change tokens are now blessed Fixed an issue with the Experimental Gem in the Puzzle room Fixed an issue with the Abyssal Infernal’s special condemnation attack causing players to become stuck Fixed an issue with the Despise bridge causing Line of Sight issues Casting while holding a weapon will no longer damage the weapon. Damage rate of weapons have been adjusted. Players who log out in the lamp room or trap maze puzzle room, will be teleported to a different location at log in. The 3.0 SoT reward from the trap maze puzzle has temporarily been replaced by a Lucky Coin.
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Gagish Dressers
Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009, 2:08 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Gagish Dressers Chrissay Zeeman 07 Oct 2009 14:12:12 EST There is a current issue with Gargish Dressers that will be addressed in the next publish. We anticipate putting out this publish by the end of the week. We ask that players do not place items in these containers until after the publish. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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Database Maintenance
Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009, 2:06 AM EDT by Avenhar (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com UO Herald Updates and Changes Chrissay Zeeman 05 Oct 2009 16:34:25 EST We will have a small maintenance on our warehouse server. Players may see a short interruption with the following services: Housing Character Transfers Promotional Codes Veteran Rewards The maintenance period will be between 5:00PM EST to 5:30PM EST. UPDATE 5:24 PM EST: Everything is back up and running we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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