The Herald

Endless Journey is Here

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Greetings,

Publish 99 has been deployed World Wide, introducing a host of new features – most notably Endless Journey!

The transition for closed accounts to Endless Journey accounts has begun and will continue until all accounts have been processed.  We appreciate your patience as we work through this process.  You will not be able to login until the account has been processed.

Update 4/7/2018 7:19pm ET: The account transition process is continuing.  As you may imagine there is a very large number of accounts to process.  Thank you for your continued patience while we work through this process.  Keep an eye on UO.com for continued updates.  You can check the status of your account by visiting the account center and checking the “end date” for Endless Journey accounts.  For those accounts that have completed their transition the “end date” will be marked as “N/A”.

Update 4/5/2018 6:00pm ET: The account transition process is continuing.  Based on current processing rates we expect this process to take as long as the next 48 hours to complete.  We will update this post when the process has fully completed.  Thank you for your continued patience while we work through this process.

We look forward to your feedback, and welcome new and returning players back to Britannia!  Be sure to check out the forums for the latest conversation on all things Ultima Online.

The raffle stones for the Human & Gargoyle Abyss houses that have been available on select shards will be removed today.  We will be announcing the winners on Monday!  Good luck!

Please also note that Vendor Search on Origin, Izumo & Baja will not populate properly until vendor owners opt-in/opt-out or those shards go through their next regularly scheduled maintenance.

 

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

New Ultima Store Item: Deluxe Starter Pack

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Looking to jump start your Endless Journey in Britannia?  The Deluxe Starter Pack is the perfect way to get right into the action!  Available from the Ultima Store, the Deluxe Starter pack includes,

  • A Runic Atlas (a high capacity runebook) that comes pre-loaded with recall runes to Britannia’s Vaults, Banks, and Points of Interest
  • A Runic Hunter’s Atlas that allows recalling to a variety of hunting grounds friendly to the training adventurer, complete with location descriptions and tips
  • A full complement of full spellbooks for all magic schools including Bushido, Chivalry, Magery, Mysticism, Necromancy, and Ninjitsu
  • A Token of Skill Alacrity that allows you and your party members to experience an increased rate of skill gain for an entire week.  This token is bound to the character that purchases it.
  • A Deluxe Journeyman’s Armor token that outfits the adventurer in a starter set of human/elf or gargish leather armor providing 70% in all resists, +15 Hit Points, +17 Mana, +17 Stamina, +30 Lower Mana Cost, +6 Hit Point Regeneration, +6 Mana Regeneration, +10 Stamina Regeneration, +5 Strength, +5 Dexterity, +5 Intelligence, and 100% Lower Reagent Cost
  • A Community Collection Point Award token that can be redeemed at the Moonglow Zoo, Vesper Museum, or Britain Library for 500,000 points
  • A Dungeon Point Award Point Token that can be redeemed for 100 Blackthorn Dungeon points, 1000 Dungeon Crystal Points of Despise, and 1000 Covetous Points
  • A direct deposit of 100,000 gold into your currency account
  • All items are account and shard bound.
UO Herald - Special Announcement

Spring Has Sprung! A Special Gift For You!

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Greetings,

To celebrate the dawn of the season of rebirth an “Enchanted Wheelbarrow” can be claimed on all shards after 2pm ET on April 5, 2018 by veteran accounts for the next 5 days by visiting the Britain Commons and using the genie statue.  Enjoy!  The genie statues will be placed manually, so please allow some time for placement before visiting the commons.  Happy Spring!

 

 

UO Herald - Special Announcement

Account Center Downtime

Posted on by Mesanna

Greetings Everyone,

The Account Center will be down Wednesday, April 4, 2018  at 10am ET for updates.  We expect this downtime to last approximately 2 hours.  This is in addition to scheduled downtime on Thursday while we have the shards down publishing Endless Journey.  Please note this does not mean Endless Journey will be activate on Wednesday.  Endless Journey will not be active until Publish 99 is deployed world wide.

I would also like to take this time to warn everyone that we will be actioning accounts that are caught scripting and/or multiboxing.  We are not going to be giving out any warnings for this if you are caught.  We are also going to be posting monthly the number of accounts that were actioned due to illegal program use, macroing, or harassment/disruptive behavior.

Thank you in advance for your patience with us while we get the Account Center and the shards updated tomorrow and Thursday.

Mesanna

Publish 99 Update

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Greetings,

Origin, Izumo & Baja will be brought down by 11:00am ET  on April 3, 2018 for an update to Publish 99.   Please see the publish notes for the latest updates.

We anticipate Publish 99 will be going World Wide on April 5, 2018.  This update will be done manually, and not during regularly scheduled maintenance.  Regularly scheduled maintenance for all shards will be cancelled beginning on April 5th and will resume on April 6th.  Shut messages will commence at 10:00am ET and shards will be brought down at 10:30am ET.  We anticipate the downtime will last approximately 3 hours.  Keep an eye on UO.com for updates on publish status.

Beginning at 10am on April 5, 2018 the Account Center will be brought down in preparation for Publish 99.  The account center will return at the time Publish 99 is released world wide.

Please also note that when Publish 99 goes World Wide the rewards available from the 20th Anniversary Elemental Titan arc will no longer be available to claim.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

UO Herald - Special Announcement

UO Store down for Baja, Origin and Izumo

Posted on by Mesanna

Greetings everyone,

Due to an issue with the UO Store on Baja, Origin and Izumo the store will be down until approx Tuesday April 3rd.  If we are able to get the fix for this issue out earlier we will let you know as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience.

Mesanna

 

Publish 99 Comes to Origin, Izumo & Baja

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Greetings,

We are pleased to announce Publish 99 will be deployed to Origin, Izumo, and Baja occurring after 1:00pm ET March 29, 2018.  We will be manually taking down these shards at approximately 12:30pm ET.  This release only includes the following features,

  • Towncrier update & related quests
  • Global Chat (Please note this feature will require a database update and will not be immediately available when shards are back online)
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

Endless Journey access will not be available until Publish 99 is deployed world wide.

While Origin, Izumo and Baja are being updated Vendor Search, Character Transfer, and Housing will be unavailable on all shards for approximately 2 hours.  Following the release of Publish 99 to Origin, Izumo, and Baja characters will not be able to transfer to or from shards not updated to Publish 99.

The latest client patch will be mandatory, so please be sure to patch up before logging in to any shard.

You can read the full patch notes here, and we look forward to your feedback and discussion on the forums.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

Publish 99 Release 2 Comes to TC1

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Greetings All,

We are pleased to announce the second TC1 release of Publish 99 will be available for testing on TC1 by 3pm ET March 14, 2018.  Publish 99 is full of new features, so make sure you patch up your client and head over to TC1 to check out the latest update which includes Endless Journey restrictions, new Ultima Store Items, and Miscellaneous Updates.  Please note that some features will not be available on TC1, check the notes for full release details.   As always, we look forward to your feedback.

Also, if you haven’t already please signup for the Ultima Online newsletter to get the latest updates!  Look for the signup on the frontpage of UO.com!  You can also view the newsletter archive here.

Please note that the latest client patch is not mandatory, so please be sure to patch your client before accessing TC or you will encounter CliLoc errors!

See you in Britannia,

UO Team