Good Afternoon everyone,       The UO team wants to wish everyone a Happy Labor Day on Monday, please be safe if you are driving!         We are excited to release an update to TC1 for Vice vs Virtue. In this update we have introduced the following, At the beginning of each battle three altars will spawn within the City. Shortly after the match begins, the action feed will display a message to “Fight for the Altar!” An arrow will direct you towards the location of the altar. The objective is to be the only guild or alliance on the altar […]

Good afternoon everyone,     We will be having an extended maintenance tomorrow on Oceania to preform some required maintenance.  This should only extend the maintenance time by an hour.     We are also looking to start Advisor training on TC1 so please be kind to them when you see them.  We are also looking to publish phase 2 of Vice and Virtue which includes the removal of Factions.  We have fixed the crash issue related to the traders quest.       We are changing the boat decay back to the normal 14 day decay rate,  starting tonight with Japan’s regular maintanence cycle, all other shards will […]

We are publishing to TC1 tonight, please make sure you give us your feedback and check often for the updates to the systems .  We have chosen the first round of advisors (counselors) and emails will be going out next week to notify everyone of the shards you will be assigned to and when I hope to be able to robe you on TC1 so we can get you trained. Thank you with your patience with us and happy hunting! UO Team   Vice vs Virtue – Phase I We are very excited to bring you the first iteration of […]

Greetings Everyone, We are still working hard on getting our publish finished. Next week we will be putting out a Publish and Patch to TC1. Due to an outstanding migration issue you may experience some cliloc errors, these will be fixed before we go world wide. You will be able to check out the following: Completed Systems: Global Loot Clean up Britannia additions Traders Quest Systems still in progress: Vice vs Virtue – Players will see this on TC1 New UI In progress for 86 17th Anniversary Items!! (of course I am going to be evil and not tell you) […]

Greetings Everyone, Since I have not given you guys an update lately I thought I would let everyone know what we are up to and give you some highlights as to what and when you can expect to see new and exciting things in UO! I know we stated that Publish 86 would originally be released in July but we are looking at mid August before we can publish now. Since the shutdown of the Mythic Studio, it has caused us to move the rest of our build machines from that office to the office in Herndon before we were […]

Ultima Online is looking to increase our team again!! As a software engineer at Broadsword, you will build and maintain some of the longest-lived MMO’s still running. You will work on client and server code, networking, databases, and UI/UX among many other tasks. The ideal candidate is a passionate gamer with a C++ background, strong English language communication skills and experience with both Linux and Windows development. If you are interested in applying please send your resume to Careers@broadsword.com.