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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > The MMO HMO > Ultima Online: UOAC 2
 
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Tomed2000
Jun 24, 2002

 :siren: UOAC2 launches today, Jan 17 :siren:



This is the second iteration of UOAC and pretty much a complete remake. The old shard launched with a lot of the IPY codebase which was buggy, and many of those features were poorly designed or incomplete. There are a ton of new features but this is basically what you're getting into:
  • T2A (1999) based combat.
  • 225stat / 700skill cap
  • Felucca only.
  • No mounts.
  • 3 accounts per person.
Played UOAC last time? Here's some important changes:
  • You can recall to/from Ice and Fire islands now.
  • You can recall in/out of dungeons (except deceit/hythloth and the lowest level of the every other dungeon).
  • Those permanent moongates inside dungeons are gone.
  • Boats will probably be a lot more important (sea bosses, significant fishing buffs, rares)
  • All runebooks are now blessed
  • Large groups of mages are a lot less powerful in PvP thanks to spell tolerance which makes dexxers slightly more viable
  • Dexxers are a lot more powerful in PvM thanks to special weapon hits, improved slayer armor, 2-hand parry, and the arms lore damage buff.
  • More stuff to do in PvM including new boss encounters, mini-champs, league of heroes, and completely new dungeon spawns
Other new stuff in detail:


There's probably more poo poo I missed but go ahead and ask if wanna know something. I've been beta testing for a little while so I'm up on most things. Also I'll make sure the thread is bumped shortly before the actual launch.

Tomed2000 fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Jan 17, 2015

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Tomed2000
Jun 24, 2002

jabro posted:

Is there a betting pool for when this one implodes?

the first month or two is the only fun time during a private shard anyway

Twisc posted:

HOLY poo poo!

ANOTHER NEW UO SHARD? SIGN ME UP

(4 days later)
LOL I KNEW I STILL HATED UO, IT'S SO BAD

e: hi tomed long time no see
hi but i dont recognize your name

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Tomed2000
Jun 24, 2002

 The shard launches today at 3pm EST. Download the latest patcher for mul updates and what not.

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Tomed2000
Jun 24, 2002

Gildiss posted:

I haven't played since Rebirth like 5 years ago. We just give the address and port in Razor and our account gets made when we first login right?

Yep just type username/password and it auto-creates. It will allow you to create and play up to 3 accounts at a time (based on IP address).

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Tomed2000
Jun 24, 2002

 There's a few of us playing but no coordinated goon guild. Not sure what UOF's population is but you can see the UOAC population on uoportal. Either way I'm having fun so far!
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Jun 24, 2002

 Poker was just added last night :dance:
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