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Server Migration for the Week of January 13th, 2025

Posted on January 13, 2025January 16, 2025 by Bleak

Greetings, As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance server performance and reliability, we will be migrating shards to new hardware with our cloud service provider. Please find the schedule for this week below: Migration Details: Start Time: 8:00 AM EST Expected Downtime: At least 4 hours Tuesday, January 14th, 2025: Update 10:25 AM ET 01/14/2025 – Completed. Baja Lake Austin Napa Valley Wednesday, January 15th, 2025: Update 12:36 PM ET 01/15/2025 – Completed. Pacific Sonoma Siege Perilous Atlantic Catskills Chesapeake Thursday, January 16th, 2025: Update 10:38 AM ET 01/16/2025 – Completed. Great Lakes Lake Superior Legends We will provide updates […]

Izumo Server Migration

Posted on January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 by Bleak

01/09/2025 Greetings, Over the next several months we will be migrating all shards to newer hardware with our cloud service provider. The process will continue today, January 9, 2025, with Izumo during maintenance. We expect downtime to last at least 3 hours and will update this post once the migration is complete. Update 07:50 PM ET 01/09/2025 – The Izumo migration is complete. See you in Britannia, UO Team

New Legacy Beta Test Weekend #4

Posted on August 16, 2024 by Bleak

8/16/2024 Greetings, We want to thank everyone who participated in Beta Testing Weekend #3! We appreciate all the feedback everyone has shared. We invite you to come along on this journey by reading our dev diaries which will chronicle updates throughout the beta testing process. We are pleased to announce the Ultima Online: New Legacy Beta Testing Weekend #4 will commence today, August 16th at 9 AM ET and conclude Monday, August 19th at 9 AM ET. In anticipation of this release, a new patch is available for both the Classic (7.0.104.13) & Enhanced Clients (4.0.104.13). We invite you to […]

Meet & Greet Monday TC1

Posted on August 21, 2023August 21, 2023 by Bleak

08/21/2023 Greetings, Join us for a Meet & Greet on TC1 at King Blackthorn’s Castle, Monday, August 21, 2023, at 7 pm ET. See you in Britannia, UO Team

Ultima Store & Account Center Maintenance

Posted on July 28, 2022July 28, 2022 by Bleak

7/28/2022 Update 3:40 pm ET – The issue impacting these services has been resolved and both should now be back online. Greetings, We have identified an issue with the Ultima Store & Account Center. We appreciate your patience while we work through the issue and will update you as we make progress to restore these services. Thank you, UO Team

Vendor Search Database Maintenance

Posted on April 20, 2022April 21, 2022 by Bleak

04/20/2022 – 04/21/2022 Update: Database maintenance is complete. Vendor Search is back online. Greetings, We will be taking Vendor Search offline to perform database maintenance this evening. Once Vendor Search is brought back online, the vendor database will repopulate over a 24-hour period. During this time, you will experience intermittent search failures. Vendor owners may opt out and re-opt-in their vendors to accelerate the process, but this is not required. We appreciate your patience. See you in Britannia, UO Team

Publish 112 Worldwide

Posted on February 7, 2022February 7, 2022 by Bleak

02/07/2022 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that Publish 112 will be released Worldwide starting this evening with the European shards then the rest during normal maintenance on February 8th, 2022. If you haven’t already, make sure to check out the release notes. Please note that vendor search will be unavailable beginning February 7th, 2022 @ 4 pm ET. Vendor Search will return once all shards have been published, approximately February 8th, 2022 at 1 pm ET. See you in Britannia, UO Team

Publish 110 Test Center Release 1

Posted on March 3, 2021 by Bleak

03/03/2021 Greetings, We are pleased to announce we have updated Test Center 1 with the latest release of Publish 110. Please head over to the wiki and check out the full publish notes. This release includes a mandatory client patch so please make sure you fully patch up your client before accessing TC1 or any production shard. We look forward to your feedback on the UO forums. See you in Britannia, UO Team

The Black Gate

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Bleak

10/19/2020 We are pleased to present, The Black Gate By EM Malachi The Black Gate The sky was a swirl of colors, as raw mana poured in from the other worlds in orbit around Sosaria’s sun. Eight columns focused the magic toward a massive slab of blackrock etched on the border with runes: the Black Gate. The Fellowship forces fought with zeal and desperation. The Black Gate was everything Brother Batlin had promised, and failure meant death or imprisonment. The cult was not alone. Humanity had other enemies, brought here by the Fellowship’s influence. Britannia’s forces were much smaller. The […]

Combat Update to Test Center

Posted on December 13, 2016December 13, 2016 by Bleak

Greetings All, We have updated TC1 based on the latest player feedback as of today 12/13/2016. These changes are currently active on TC1. These will not be deployed World Wide for quite some time and are subject to change. We wanted to give everyone interested a time to provide feedback, so head on over to TC1 and check them out! Here are a few of the updates: Increased the SDI cap for non-focus spec templates. Focus Spec rework. Splintering weapon proc no longer triggers when performing Disarm. Supernova potions now activate after a one second delay at the use location. You […]