Publish 40 5th May

Publish 40 5th May

<h1>Publish 40 Additions, Changes, and Fixes</h1> UO Team 05 May 2006 00:00:00 EST Publish 40 contains a number of game updates and bug fixes. This article contains an updated summary of the game improvements that will come about with Publish 40. <b>Features:</b> <ul> <li>Buff/debuff (Server-side support to enable feature)</li> <li>Targeting (Target Hostile cycle macro support)</li> <li>Humility Cloak Quest</li> <li>New Buddy Reward selections</li> <li>Added a book "The Shattering" into bank boxes</li> </ul> <b>PVP:</b> <ul> <li>It is no longer possible to cast explosion or use an explosion scroll if another explosion spell or scroll is already in progress</li> <li>Fixed an exploit that allowed players to temporarily be over the skill cap</li> <li>Balanced weapon speeds. Weapon speed is now displayed in seconds.</li> <li>Backstab, Focus Attack, Ki Attack, and Momentum Attack now do less damage against players</li> <li>The bonus to damage from Evil Omen has been reduced against players</li> <li>Damage bonus from Perfection and Honor will no longer affect players</li> <li>Honorable Execution no longer works against players</li> <li>Poison Strike. Casting time has been increased slightly from 6 to 7, and the minimum base damage has been decreased from 36 to 32</li> <li>Death Strike now clears its stalking bonus correctly. This fix also effects Backstab and Surprise Attack</li> <li>Capped Stalking Bonus based on stalker's Tracking Skill. Stalking bonus is now capped at 10 + 1/10 skill</li> <li>Players who use a wand to cast a spell are now frozen for a few seconds while the targeting cursor comes up</li> <li>Changed the way wands work so players cannot use them while casting other spells</li> <li>Ki attack no longer works with archery</li> <li>Dog and cat animal forms now regain hit points at a faster rate</li> <li>Mana vampire and paralyze now flag as criminal</li> <li>Fixed a flagging issue that involved attacking another player while in animal form</li> <li>Damage from blood oath and damage reflect armor will no longer stack</li> <li>Fixed an issue where auto-defend would override a player's current target</li> <li>Actively attacking a target while in peace mode will now put you into war mode</li> <li>Hit-area weapon effects now check for line of sight</li> <li>Re-applying a stat altering spell now resets the duration of the spell correctly</li> <li>Improved the behavior when two stat altering spells that affect the same stat in the opposite direction are applied to a player.</li> <li>Fixed an issue with the PVM damage cap not working correctly in certain cases involving slayer weapons</li> </ul> <b>Misc:</b> <ul> <li>Lowered the amount of points it takes to increase tiers at the Zoo Community Collection</li> <li>Lowered the number of points for a buckler in the Library Collection from 16 down to 9</li> <li>Placing an Arcane focus stone into a Sacrificial Altar will now destroy it immediately</li> <li>Fixed an issue where the True Harrower did not appear sometimes after the Harrower was killed</li> <li>Summoned bonded pets (for example Paroxysmus Swamp Dragon) can no longer be dispelled by creatures such as Dull Copper Elementals</li> <li>Added a fix for some pets (ferrets/squirrels) to prevent them from having their hit points lowered under certain conditions</li> <li>It is no longer possible to engrave pets</li> <li>Creatures with spellcasting with a range of 9 tiles will now be able to reach 10 tiles</li> <li>Players who have over 200 points of skill who try to use an Advanced Character Token now get a message telling them why their action failed</li> <li>Fixed an issue where some books were appearing as "A Buggy Book"</li> <li>Repair deeds no longer decay quickly when left on the ground</li> <li>Gypsy bankers no longer give the appearance that they can train skills</li> <li>Parrots can now mimic Japanese text</li> <li>Fixed the width of the "yes" and "no" text fields on the murder reporting gump, so they wouldn't be truncated in Japanese</li> <li>Moved the exit in the Blighted Grove peerless encounter area</li> <li>Bloodwood Talisman now gives a bonus to necromancy as intended</li> </ul>