Greetings Everyone,

    
   You are going to notice a few client patches this week, these are due to patcher maintenance we are doing to upgrade the patcher.  If you have any issues please let us know.  Thank you in advance.

We hope you have a safe Halloween!!

UO Team
  

Update 10/24 3:03 pm ET

Promotional Code system has been turned back on.  You can redeem codes in game again! 

Thank you for your patience.

UO Team

Update 10/24 1:13 pm ET

Vendor Search has been turned back on but we need an extended amount of time on the Promotional code system.  Until further notice this system will be down.  Please do not try to redeem any promotional coupons.

We will post as soon as the system is back up.

Thank you!

UO Team

Greetings Everyone,

    Vendor Search and the Promotional Code Data Base will be taken off line tomorrow from 11 am to 2 pm ET for maintenance.  Please do not attempt to redeem any promotional codes during this period of time.  If we are able to bring it back earlier we will keep you informed of our progress.

Thank you!

UO Team

Good afternoon,

  We are publishing and patching a client out for Publish 87 to Origin and Izumo today, we look forward to your feedback.  This will go World Wide on the Tuesday 21st.  .

Pub 87 to Origin & Izumo

• Treasures of Doom
  • The NPC at the Research Camp outside of Doom will now resurrect players.
  • The drop rate for artifacts of doom has been increased substantially. Luck and creature difficulty will positively influence the chance at receiving an artifact of doom, being hidden will decrease the chance at receiving an artifact of doom.
  • As a result of the increased drop rate, some turn in reward prices have been adjusted and are still subject to change based on feedback before WW release.
• Ship cargo containers will no longer be locked or trapped.
• Certain items that had missing default names will no longer be improperly placed inside of a trade crate when using “Fill from Backpack.”
• The VvV participant flag will now be removed after 8 hours.

Enhanced Client Bug Fixes

• User Setting “Block War on Guild” has been updated to “Block War on Friendly”
• Save Journal Option is functional once again
• Removed hotbar item disabling on player death, low mana, minimum skill requirements, and paralyzed
• Hotbar context menu options for Polymorph, Spell Trigger, and Enchant Spell are now functional
• Corrected issue where bank boxes do not show full contents in grid view. Known Issue bank boxes do not show grid view option when first opened
• Corrected contents information when displaying weight
• Improved performance of hotbars while they are hidden
• Temporarily disabled heartbeat on low health

Happy Friday Everyone,

   Since we will be out of the office for Columbus Day on Monday we are publishing TC1 today.  We hope you enjoy our little tricks and treats we have for you this year. 

Enjoy!

Halloween – Treasures of Doom

• Visit the Research Camp located outside of the Dungeon Doom in Malas to learn about an archaeological investigation.

• Slaying monsters inside Dungeon Doom gives a chance for an Artifact of Doom to drop in the players backpack. The more monsters a player kills, as well as a player’s luck influence the chance at getting and Artifact of Doom.

• Artifacts of Doom can be turned into the NPC at the research camp in exchange for,

  • [Your Character’s Name]’s Lantern of Light

  • Tincture of Silver – can be applied to weapons, spellbooks, and certain instruments to give a slayer bonus against creatures within Doom, while becoming vulnerable to undead.

  • Antique Documents Kit – crafting ingredient required for the crating of “Prophetic Manuscripts”

  • Reward Title Deeds – Usable deed that will grant the users various titles

    • The Atoned

    • Defender of the Living

    • Preserver of the Faith

  • Crook of Humility – A Shepherd’s Crook

    • Veterinary +10

    • Wolf Slayer

    • Spell Channeling

    • Intelligence + 10

    • Damage Increase -20%

  • Scepter of Pride – Scepter

    • Demon Slayer

    • Undead Slayer

    • Hit Stamina Leech 70%

    • Hit Life Leech 70%

    • Hit Mana Leech 70%

    • Swing Speed Increase 30%

  • Cloak of Light – Cloak

    • Hit Point Regeneration 2

    • Night Sight

    • Hit Chance Increase 5%

  • Boots of Escaping

    • Dexterity Bonus 4

    • Stamina Regeneration 1

  • Sterling Silver Ring

    • Meditation +20

    • Hit Point Regeneration 3

    • Mana Regeneration 5

    • Damage Increase 75%

    • Additional +20 skill bonus applied by double clicking the ring and selecting from the available skills

• Prophetic Manuscripts

  • Craftable via the Inscription menu under “Other”

  • Requires ancient parchments (10), wood pulp (10), antique documents kit (1), and beeswax (5).

  • Failure will only consume ancient parchments, wood pulp, and beeswax.

  • There are 5 different prophetic manuscript texts, randomly assigned when successfully crafted.

• Treasures of Doom will be available for a limited time during the Halloween season, and recur with various tweaks in successive years.

Halloween – Trick or Treating

• Three new monster skulls have been added to Trick or Treating! Trick or Treating will be available during the remainder of the month of October.

Enhanced Client Bug Fixes

• Switching to legacy containers no longer makes the contents invisible
• Fixed odd visible lines above the targeting window
• Vendor Search Gump now functions properly
• Container auto loot no longer breaks after you use it for awhile
• Disabled icons no longer prevent users from using spells/skills/actions on hotbar
• Advanced health bars are no longer locked by default
• Bug report window once again closes when submitting issues
• Advanced health bar properly changes hue based on health bar state
• Borders can once again be placed on hotbar items
• Buff/Debuff Icons now properly scale with bar
• Buff/Debuff icons no longer display over all UI elements
• Maneuvering the atlas around the world no longer will crash client
• Fixed long pause when opening containers
• Paperdoll window, target window, buff bars, and status bar can no longer go outside of the game window
• Default UI Scale is now set to 1 from 0.85
• Enable auto run is set on by default
• Main menu action is now on the hotbar for newly created user profiles

Bug Fixes

• All players who are currently flagged as Vice vs Virtue participants will have a one time reprieve and the flag will be removed.

• Non Vice vs Virtue players that find themselves in a VvV battle city will have a new option on the warning gump to teleport them to the nearest moongate.

• VvV participation flag for non-VvV players will now be removed after 2 hours, or the participant is killed by a VvV player, whichever comes first.

• The “Unwieldy” (Items with higher than normal weights) will no longer have a chance to spawn in MIB chests.

• The loot in MIB chests will now have a higher base budget for creating magic items.

• Some situations where traps and locks were being applied to containers inside of City & Justice regions will no longer happen. ((existing trapped and locked containers will not be affected until their traps and/or locks have been removed)

• Trade Quest crates will now be able to hold up to 550 stones and have 75% weight reduction.

• Silver points are no longer awarded to VvV players when occupying a city.

• VvV Cannon Turret cost has been reduced from 5000 to 3000 silver points.

• VvV Trap cost has been reduced from 500 to 250 silver points.

• VvV Mana Spike cost has been reduced from 2500 to 1000 points.

• VvV Mana Spike effect duration has been increased from 20 to 60 seconds.

• Trader Quest participants will no longer be able to sacred journey to a ship rune.

• Trade orders should no longer have a chance to include items with duplicate names

• Items inside a trade order crate will no longer be purchased by shop keepers.

• Spellweaving summons no longer cause a player to flag as a criminal when they are attacked by a VvV player

I know some of you are experiencing some issues with getting into your accounts for Return to Britannia.  I wanted to let everyone know that the system is still working to open the massive amount of accounts and should be finished by late tonight or early tomorrow morning.  If you are still unable to open your account by tomorrow afternoon, please put in a ticket to support@ultimaonline.com .  They will look into the issue and help you get the account open.  If your account was banned way back when, and you feel you would like to have it over turned , we will review those on a case by case bases,  if you will email us at dispute@ultimaonline.com . 

Thank you
UO Team