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62.3 Bug Fixes - 11/20/2009
Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009, 7:17 AM EST by AirmidCecht (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com 62.3 Bug Fixes - 11/20/2009 Andy Belford 19 Nov 2009 17:59:54 EST Greetings! We have the following Bug Fixes for you this morning: Bug Fixes Added guard ignore to the Giant Turkeys Fixed the barding difficulty on the Giant Turkeys Bards will be added to the lawful attackers list for discording and provocation of the Giant Turkeys Turkeys AI was adjusted to keep it from teleporting so often. Harvest Wine and Cider will no longer lose their TID’s at maintenance. Age was removed from using the Retouching Tool
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Player Advisory: Imbued Ecru Rings
Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2009, 2:00 PM EST by AirmidCecht (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Player Advisory: Imbued Ecru Rings James Nichols 19 Nov 2009 15:48:07 Greetings, At this time we are advising players to avoid purchasing Imbued Ecru Rings. There is an issue with imbuing that can cause these rings to be more powerful than intended, due to this they will be reverted with a future publish. Thank you!
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62.3 Now Live on All Shards!
Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2009, 1:49 PM EST by AirmidCecht (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com 62.3 Now Live on All Shards! Andy Belford 18 Nov 2009 10:02:37 EST Greetings! Publish 62.3: Client 7.0.3.0 is now live on all Shards! Please note that this client is 336 MB in size. While this is a larger than normal patch for legacy clients, we have modified the system so that future patches involving animation data can be smaller. We apologize for this temporary inconvenience. For the full notes, please continue on! Happy Thanksgiving There will be a mini event for Thanksgiving please visit your local Town Crier for details. Bug Fixes Increased Navery’s hitpoints Fixed an issue in Despise at the champ spawn where creatures were spawning under the water Fixed an issue with the 2nd year Anniversary bag, wrong TID was being applied Fixed an issue with a few of the T2A Pumpkin Patches Retouched the Retouching Tool Fixed an issue with the Rotworm stew not being consumed when used Removed a sinkhole on Fire Island which was blocking access to players’ houses Retouched the Art on the 12th Anniv cake Fixed an issue that would not allow players to summon ethereal Reptalons or Hiryus in a house Fixed the missing floor piece from Tomas O’Neerlan’s toyshop Fixed an issue with Unraveling which allowed relic fragments from certain items Fixed an issue with the color maze that allowed players to bypass the maze Players can now use Mortal Strike Attack with a Soul Glaive Fixed an issue with several cave entrances that were blocking movement Fixed an issue with players being able to drop items into the backpack of their mirror images Removed a debug message when watering plants Players are no longer able to destroy Skull Totems in players houses Reinstated the web attack with Navrey, webs will now decay properly. Fixed an issue with the death animation with the black cow in the enhanced client Promotional race tokens will now be blessed Fixed an issue with certain hued snakes having the “Oak” tag in their names Prism of light tickets will no longer be destroyed if placed inside a sub container Fixed an issue with the line of sight on the Ogre Lord Bridge in Despise Fixed several wearable layering issues The pillars in Navrey's lair can now be activated when their switch is clicked in the correct order. But beware of falling rocks Enhanced Client Shard Selection ‘Help me pick a shard!’ option added to assist users in recommending a shard based on location Updated the Latency column to show a graphical display and mouse-over values Added a Population column The in-game Atlas is now resizable using the dragable handle located on the lower-right hand corner Fixed issues with patches of terrain not loading correctly during travel Fixed several client crashes
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62.3 Now Live on Origin
Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2009, 1:41 PM EST by AirmidCecht (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com 62.3 Now Live on Origin Andy Belford 17 Nov 2009 11:38:29 EST Greetings! Publish 62.3: Client 7.0.3.0 is now live on Origin. Please note that this client is 336 MB in size. While this is a larger than normal patch for legacy clients, we have modified the system so that future patches involving animation data can be smaller. We apologize for this temporary inconvenience. For the full notes, please continue on! Happy Thanksgiving There will be a mini event for Thanksgiving please visit your local Town Crier for details. Bug Fixes Increased Navery’s hitpoints Fixed an issue in Despise at the champ spawn where creatures were spawning under the water Fixed an issue with the 2nd year Anniversary bag, wrong TID was being applied Fixed an issue with a few of the T2A Pumpkin Patches Retouched the Retouching Tool Fixed an issue with the Rotworm stew not being consumed when used Removed a sinkhole on Fire Island which was blocking access to players’ houses Retouched the Art on the 12th Anniv cake Fixed an issue that would not allow players to summon ethereal Reptalons or Hiryus in a house Fixed the missing floor piece from Tomas O’Neerlan’s toyshop Fixed an issue with Unraveling which allowed relic fragments from certain items Fixed an issue with the color maze that allowed players to bypass the maze Players can now use Mortal Strike Attack with a Soul Glaive Fixed an issue with several cave entrances that were blocking movement Fixed an issue with players being able to drop items into the backpack of their mirror images Removed a debug message when watering plants Players are no longer able to destroy Skull Totems in players houses Reinstated the web attack with Navrey, webs will now decay properly. Fixed an issue with the death animation with the black cow in the enhanced client Promotional race tokens will now be blessed Fixed an issue with certain hued snakes having the “Oak” tag in their names Prism of light tickets will no longer be destroyed if placed inside a sub container Fixed an issue with the line of sight on the Ogre Lord Bridge in Despise Fixed several wearable layering issues The pillars in Navrey's lair can now be activated when their switch is clicked in the correct order. But beware of falling rocks Enhanced Client Shard Selection ‘Help me pick a shard!’ option added to assist users in recommending a shard based on location Updated the Latency column to show a graphical display and mouse-over values Added a Population column The in-game Atlas is now resizable using the dragable handle located on the lower-right hand corner Fixed issues with patches of terrain not loading correctly during travel Fixed several client crashes
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Calvin Crowner - UO Producer's Letter
Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2009, 1:29 PM EST by AirmidCecht (GeneralNews)
Posted to uoherald.com Calvin Crowner - UO Producer's Letter Calvin Crowner 12 Nov 2009 20:14:08 EST “This is your captain speaking … we’ll be climbing to an altitude of 36,000 feet. Expect some turbulence on ascent. Once we reach cruising altitude, I’ll turn off the seat belt sign, and you’ll be permitted to move about the cabin … Due to FAA regulations smoking is not permitted … unless you’re sharing the good stuff with the rest of the crew. Thank you for flying Britannia Airlines” Twelve years and a Guinness Book record mention later, we are still here! We’ve recently successfully launched UO’s 8th Expansion, bringing back programs that independent boards said would never occur … Oh, and I’m not certain if you noticed, but there are more people playing Ultima Online again every day. I know. I have our subscriber numbers on refresh. It makes me smile. I heard you really liked Halloween. Yes, Sakkarah and the rest of the folks supporting her on live got rid of “Death or Treat” this year. She’s got a few nice things lined up for the holidays. Expect to see more on the holiday publish in the next week. More importantly, something I know you have been waiting for – engineering has been working on speedhacking and 3rd party program detection. We’re closer each day to a solution, but are not publishing it until it’s solid. Finally, as a former Air Force Officer and graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, I hope everyone found time to show their appreciation for those currently serving in our Armed Forces as we celebrated Veteran’s Day earlier this week. We here at Mythic make games. We don’t defend against all enemies foreign and domestic. We make a worlds where it’s possible to be the conquerors and almost king. Here we have a different battle for good and evil. As we’ve seen, life is all too real sometimes. Thanks for making us the place you care to escape.
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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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