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UO Herald - Contest

20th Anniversary Grandfathered Castle Giveaway!

Posted on by UO Dev Team

We are happy to announce that as part of the 20th Anniversary we will be raffling off a total of 6 grandfathered castles on the shard of your choice!!

Three of these castles will be raffled off live and in person at the 20th Anniversary party in September, and for those of you who cannot attend, three will be raffled off via a raffle stone on Test Center 1 that has been placed today at the New Haven Bank!

In order to enter the raffle you must double click on the stone and enter a valid e-mail address that is associated with an active Ultima Online subscription that can be used to contact you in the event you win!

Only one entry per account will be accepted via the stone.  You can enter on any character on that account, and can update your email address by using the raffle stone again.  The raffle stone will accept entries until September 15th, 2017 at 12:00pm ET.

Trial accounts may not enter the raffle.

All winners will be announced at the 20th Anniversary party on September 22nd, 2017!  Good luck to all those who enter!

Publish 98 Comes to Origin, Izumo, & Baja

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Greetings All,

We are pleased to announce that Publish 98 will be deployed to Origin, Izumo & Baja by 2pm ET August 8, 2017 and we are targeting a World Wide release date of August 15th, 2017.  We are also pushing a client patch for both the Classic and Enhanced Clients to address with stack splitting.  Publish 98 is full of new features, so make sure you patch up your client and head over to TC1 or one of the first release shards to check out the latest update.  Please note that some features will not be available on these shards, check the notes for full release details.

As mentioned in the notes, Publish 98 brings our latest content arc, The Shattered Obelisk.  Check out this page on the Shattered Obelisk for more details!

We are also pleased to announce our Dev Meet & Greets for August:

August 14th, 2pm ET – Drachenfels

August 28th, 4pm ET – Europa

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

Publish 98 Update to TC1

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Greetings Everyone,

We have updated TC1 with the latest build of Publish 98 to include the following,

  • Resolved issue where non-exploited pets were being flagged incorrectly for stat reverts.
  • Increased spawn in Sorcerer’s Dungeon for Treasures of Halloween event.

Players are encouraged to transfer fresh copies of their pets to TC1 to verify the pet fixes, and to once again battle the Pumpkin King to test the new spawn rate.  Please be sure to catch us on TC1 or send in your feedback.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

Publish 98 Comes to TC1

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Greetings All,

We are pleased to announce that Publish 98 will be available for testing on TC1 by 2pm ET July 24, 2017.  Publish 98 is full of new features, so make sure you patch up your client and head over to TC1 to check out the latest update.  Please note that some features will not be available on TC1, check the notes for full release details.

See you in Britannia,

UO Team

UO Herald - Special Announcement

July Developers Meet and Greet Schedule

Posted on by Mesanna

Greetings all,

For the month of July we will be on Napa Valley July 17th at 9 pm ET and on Balhae July 31st at 9 am ET.  Please have all your questions ready and we will see you there!

Don’t forget the Anniversary party is coming up so if you are registered and will not be able to make it please let Mesanna know as soon as possible so we can back fill the slot.  I hope you are getting your costumes ready because we will be having a contest on Friday night!

UO Team

 

 

UO Herald - Hotfix

Pet Training Exploit Fix

Posted on by Mesanna

Greetings Everyone,

We are aware of the exploit to make 5 slot pets more powerful by releasing and re-taming, a fix was published this morning.  The pets that have been affected by this exploit will have their stats reset in the near future.  We will not be touching the skills or the AI’s of the pets.

UO Team

 

UO Herald - Hotfix

Publish 97 Bug Fixes

Posted on by Mesanna

Greetings all,

This morning during the regular maintenance cycle  of the US shard the following bug fixes were published, this evening the rest of the shards will be published.

• Resolved issue which allowed players to mount pets that were polymorphed.
• Adjusted Barracoon AI to no longer turn pets into ratmen.
• Adjusted Medusa pet petrification to no longer change the hue of pets.
• Adjusted the old Phoenix to match the new Phoenix body as well as adjusting the base damage and removed the hue.
• Pet movement speed is now capped at 190 dexterity

• Resolved issue which prevented armor swamp dragons from being mounted (Will be resolved once publish is WW).

• Resolved issue with pet Discordance AI incorrectly casting tribulation and despair.
• Pets can no longer dismount while owners are mounted/hovering.

Thank you once again for all your patience!

UO Team

 

 

UO Herald - Hotfix

Publish 97 Hotfixes

Posted on by UO Dev Team

Greetings,

Beginning this evening with the Japanese shards, the following hotfixes will be deployed with each shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance,

• Resolved issue where player created Mysticism Healing Stone would delete after server maintenance.
• Resolved issue where pet Special Move mana cost is not being consumed at correct cost.
• Creatures no longer aggro without line of sight.
• Resolved issue where Magincia pet vendors improperly displayed stable slots over 24.
• Adjusted Pet AIs Mage Mastery and Necromage to prefer melee combat.
• Resolved issue which prevented Necromancy Death Adder from using poison.
• Resolved issue where animal training used remaining available points when lower than the capped property weight was selected.
• Resolved server crash which occurred over the weekend.
• 16th Anniversary Pony animal lore and animal taming requirements have been increased for pets that have undergone animal training.

Thank You,

UO Team