Sneak Peek III

Here is another Sneak Peek, as promised in the Producer’s letter: If all goes well we will have UO.com up and running by the end of September. ‘Return to Britannia’ starts tomorrow at 9am EDT, sorry for the confusion on this date.  It will run from September 5th to October 5th. After tomorrow morning’s maintenance: Despise healing mobs healing Andros or Adrian will be fixed. You and your pet should no longer be teleported to a location that you cannot get out of. Gargoyle Faction armor will no longer immediately disappear when fighting a monster in Trammel. And we have two […]



Publish 78.1 Despise Fixes

We have made the following fixes and changes that will be seen after maintenance tomorrow. We have made the following changes to the game mechanics of Dungeon Despise (Trammel)   When a player damages any orb-controlled creature, that player will receive retaliatory damage Players now do less damage to orb-controlled creatures Orb-controlled creatures now receive a damage bonus against players   Fixed issue resulting in Despise artifact distribution not rewarding players involved in killing the Despise boss. Fixed issue resulting in looting rights not being given to players involved in killing the Despise boss.  



Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar Announced

Today BioWare Mythic announced Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar, a new product that is going to be part of the Ultima franchise.  Ultima Forever offers a completely new chance to explore the world of Brintannia with action RPG gameplay and enthralling storytelling. It will be available on both PC and iPad, to let you choose across platforms where to play, either solo or with friends. For more information and the opportunity to sign up for beta, visit www.ultimaforever.com. The Ultima franchise is a fantastic legacy and has always been very important to us. Ultima Online celebrates the 15th anniversary […]


Publish 77.0 Comes to All Shards 07/11

We are staging the publish to all shards now. European shards will receive the patch today during their normal maintenance cycle.  Here are the publish notes for your reading pleasure: Publish 77.0.0 City Loyalty In addition to assisting to quell the still ongoing unrest throughout Britannia three new ways to gain City Loyalty have been added: Participating in Champ Spawns will award City Loyalty to the City you have chosen to declare citizenship to.  The more difficult the level of the champ spawn, the more love you will receive. Turning in BoDs in a Loyalty City will award love to […]


The Awakening – Act VI

Written by the EM Team     The grass beneath his tread was soft, and covered in the morning dew from a sun that was rising in the east. Each step was taken without any specific destination, and there was no greater purpose in these steps beyond wandering; the land was unfamiliar and strange, and there were no clear landmarks to guide the way, and no signs of any sort…so he wandered. His robe dragged along the ground, fraying its edges as he went…but he paid it no heed. Finally at the end of his energy for the moment, he dropped […]


Publish 75.0 Comes to All Shards – 03/27

Greetings, We will push Publish 75.0 to all shards during the next maintenance cycle, in the early morning of March 27. Here are the complete notes for your reading pleasure, enjoy and see you in the game! Publish 75.0.0   Global Arc Acts 3 and 4 for the awakening have been completed.  Please keep an eye on your Town Criers for upcoming news.  Continue on with this quest and you too can have your own heirlooms.  As always watch the herald for future fiction. Clean up Britannia – 4 new dyes Glossy Fuchsia Deep Blue Vibrant Seagreen Murky Amber Faction […]


Pub 75.0 Comes to Origin

Greetings, Publish 75.0 comes to Origin tonight. These are the changes to the Publish 75.0 Notes: Faction Score System All faction scores will be scaled down instead of wiped. All faction members’ rankings will be updated to reflect the new scaled points. Faction score now decays at a rate of 1% (rounded down) of score per day. Scores of 99 or below will have a scaling chance to decay 1 point per day. The closer the score is to 0 the smaller the chance is of having point decay. Players with 0 Faction score will always be assigned Rank 1 […]


THE YEW TIMES – A Newspaper for Sosaria

Written by members of the UO community Issue 2 – Edition 3 WORLD NEWS Alchemist Labors for Naught It was 12 years ago, that the great intellect and alchemist, Vig Parthus the Accomplished addressed the public before barring the door to his lab. He bid that no one disturb his work, for when he finally emerged from his bailiwick, he would present to the people that which mankind had been searching for since the beginning of time. After a decade of respecting the mages request, a concerned citizen determined that something was amiss, since no one had been bringing food […]