Publish 29 Updates and Bug Fixes

UO Team 28 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST

Publish 29, as with most game publishes, contains a number of game updates and bug fixes. This article contains a summary of the game improvements that came about with Publish 29

Publish 29 contains the following changes, fixes, and additions:

General Fixes/Tweaks/Enhancements

• Moved Britain starting location from The Sweet Dream’s Inn to the Wayfarer’s Inn in east Britain
• Damage numbers are now shown for you and any pets or controlled NPCs that are in your range
• NPC job titles, “(Paragon)”, and “(General)” now appear in “allnames”
• Fixed an issue when a member of a faction guild quit made most guild members removed from the faction
• Holiday gifts will no longer be distributed
• Passive detect hidden no longer reveals group mates and allied faction members in Felucca / Siege
• Pet ghosts no longer stay around for days. Pet ghosts will now only exist for 24 hours, after which they will vanish, even if their owner is online
• Pets with high Magery were casting invisible on themselves too often. Pets will now cast heal or greater heal instead of invisibility.
• Added the ability to unfriend pets via the context menu
• Pet hit points will no longer refill when crossing server lines
• Fixed an issue with crossing a server-line having a value of 0 in a stat would refill that stat
• Can no longer create a blank alliance name
• Weight will no longer remain if gold is in 2 piles when tithed
• New characters will now default to having show guild invites turned off
• Fixed the misspelled sign at the Bank of Trinsic
• Also fixed Britannia Provisions misspelled sign
• Setting a blank InvokeVirtue macro will no longer cause the client to crash
• Fixed a crash bug in 3D client involving the name macro field
• Fixed a crash bug in 3D client related to trying to delete 2 skill groups at once
• Fixed a crash bug related to renaming a book’s title
• A warning message was added to the guild invite gump informing players that they are attackable if they accept
• Attempts to recall into west Britain will be redirected to a safe location
• Attempts to open gates into west Britain from outside the area will be redirected to a safe location, Gates opened from inside west Britain can be used normally

Item Fixes/Changes

• Reuse delay for wands is now the equivalent of casting a like spell. Fast-casting will apply to wands.
• Clothing Bless Deeds now work on SE clothes
• Fukiya Darts and Shurikens can no longer be thrown at yellow NPCs
• Dread Pirate Hat has been improved
• Spirit Speak is now a possible skill bonus on magic jewelry
• Gold Bricks can no longer be fed to pet White Wyrms
• Soulstone: Skill absorption animation will no longer play when skill points are flushed
• Hearth of the Homefire no longer turns after exiting house custimization mode
• Bolts now have a chance to spawn in dungeon chests
• Corrected typo when trying to re-deed mistletoe with a non-house owner
• Add-on type items will no longer disappear when a house is demolished
• Players can now uninsure items that were blessed after already being insured
• Big Fish should provide more fish steaks when cut up (now its weight / 5 will determine number of fish steaks (minimum of 4))
• Fixed two issues with Event JP Finnigan Prize Giveout
• Stackable loot is now distributed proportionally between instanced corpses involving two or more party members in the top attackers list

Combat Fixes/Tweaks

• Fixed an issue that could allow archers to fire while on the move
• Players can no longer throw bolas while in Animal Form
• Bola throwing now correctly prevents re-mounting of Hiryu and Lesser Hiryu
• Fixed an issue causing the No-Dachi Riding Swipe, when used to dismount a murderer or criminal, to make the player become a criminal.
• Provoked and controlled creatures should no longer heal aggressors
• Fixed an issue that allowed a player to activate Moving Shot, then before the arrow hit, activate Armor Ignore
• Fixed an issue that allowed special moves to automatically hit when a spell landed
• Fixed an issued allowing Lightning strike to allow a player to ignore disarm timer

Spell Casting Adjustments

• Summoned daemons will now take 4 control slots instead of 5.
• Improved AI and damage for Air and Water Elementals
• Ninja Mirror Images are now affected by multi-target spells
• Fixed an issue causing criminal’s Mirror Images to appear blue
• Fixed an issue with Mana Drain not restoring the target’s mana after 4 seconds in rare cases
• Mage field spells cast on ships no longer cause the ship to stop moving

Creature and Spawning Fixes/Adjustments

• Male Ronin will now give as much loot as female Ronin
• Reduced amount of loot dropped by Fan Dancers
• Lesser Hiryu no longer give quite as good loot
• Doom Guardians will now spawn treasure map of random level (1-3) instead of spawning level 3-4 maps
• Can no longer use Animate Dead to turn Dark Father corpse into bones

Slayer Changes

• Blood Elemental Slayer weapons / instruments will now spawn as common slayer weapons / instruments
• Snow Elemental Slayer effect has been improved to now include Ice Elementals
• Added Sand Vortex and Efreet to Elemental super slayer group
• Repond, Wolf, Reptile, and Daemon Slayer groups have been updated
• Yomotsu and Fan Dancers have been removed from the Repond group
• Fan Dancer has been added to the Demon Slayer group
• All Daemon Slayers will become demon slayers
• Daemon Slayers will no longer spawn

Changes not announced until all shards were published

• House Placement: Locked down items will no longer vanish from house when boat is backed under corner of house
• Can no longer ban a pet while riding it
• Hiryu dismount special move can no longer be used to separate a Chaos Dragoon Elite from his mount
• When attempting to make yourself a friend while in the middle of transferring your pet to another player, you will receive the following message: You cannot friend a pet with a trade pending
• Necromancer familiars and animates can no longer be stabled
• Murderers can no longer use Virtues via a macro
• Fixed an issue with pet slots after logging out while on a Hiryu
• Fukiya Darts and Shurikens no longer give gains in Ninjitsu for non-entitled Samurai Empire accounts
• Fixed an issued allowing Lightning strike to allow a player to ignore disarm timer
• Fixed an issue that allowed special moves to automatically hit when a spell landed
• Can no longer use a Soulstone if character is located on a different sub-server
• Locked-down rune books can no longer be dyed by other players
• Player characters are now able to equip a sword and torch at the same time