- eShep
- Dec 3, 2003
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Yes, this is my foot. You are looking at my foot.
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Ultima Online, you say? Isn’t that game like 24 years old? Do people even still play that???
Why yes, yes they do - and you should too!
Outlands is a thoroughly refreshed and revamped take on one of the first-ever large-scale persistent-world online games. The basic premise and mechanics of the game are intact, but Outlands includes:
- A totally new handcrafted map that’s way better than the original
- A wide variety of new monsters, combat mechanics, and special events
- Dozens of reworked and enhanced skills - nearly all are viable in a character build
- A modernized client (ClassicUO) with Razor assistant for hotkeys, scripting, and other QoL improvements
- Robust player community and active development
- Extensive seafaring content, mount breeding, upgradeable pets, and vastly extended endgame progression
- Recently released expansion, doubling the available housing space
In short, Outlands has turned Ultima Online into a sequel of itself.
This is the map:
For you UO nerds who want to know specifics about the ruleset:
- Felucca-only: murder, loot, and steal to your heart’s content - just don’t get caught
- No statloss
- Insta-hit, precasting
- Plenty of organized pvp events for players at all skill levels
- No hideous custom housing, but many aesthetically-pleasing options to choose from
- 3 simultaneous clients per IP, 5 characters per account
- 700 skill points expandable to 720, 225 stats
- AFK macroing is allowed except for resource-harvesting, thievery, and a few other things
If you want to take the plunge, download the launcher from the Outlands website: http://uooutlands.com/
There’s also a comprehensive wiki, including guides for new players and overviews of the Outlands-specific systems: https://uooutlands.com/wiki/Main_Page
The GOON guild had been inactive for a while after a bunch of us quit/went on hiatus, but now things are starting to get rolling again. We have a new guildhouse, and a steadily growing group of active players adventuring, crafting, harvesting, taming, and generally gooning around.
Join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/uaC2wDw
Getting Started
There’s a few viable options on how to get yourself established. Introduce yourself in the Discord and one of us can get you set up with some basic supplies and entrance to the guild. This will give you access to the guildhouse along with our communal stash of tools and supplies.
Here are a few ideas for early characters:
- Wood chopper and/or miner. Logs currently sell for ~10gp each, while iron ingots are nearly 15gp. It’s tedious but fast money.
- Ye olde classic peace dexer. Pick the combat weapon of your choice (pro tip: mace) and use peacemaking to lull hapless monsters into a stupor, then murder them.
- Summoner mage. Start with a pack of summoned creatures, and then switch to elementals once you’ve got enough magery skillz. This also works well with peacemaking, but you can also use herding to increase your damage-dealing
- Tamer. “Are you crazy??” you might be asking. Well, yes, but also it’s not actually so bad. It’s possible to hit GM taming in a few days, mostly AFK using my whiz-bang taming guide and script: https://tinyurl.com/56y3u47a
Speaking of scripts, the Discord server has a scripts channel with all sorts of ways to automate and enhance your gameplay. Have a gander, or ask someone in the main chat if you need any help with such things, or really anything else.
See you in the game!
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