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A map from Ultima Underworld compared to the map on the screenshot... very cool.
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Teeshy
Guest
Tjalle, make sure you have flash turned on =)
Unfortunately they've made all the links flash links from the main page, so you can't see them if you don't have flash/plugins turned on =)
Once you *get* to one of the pages (art page linked for you) they seem to have images linked I think =)
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DuttyD
Guest
It looks like Stygian Abyss is going to be like a new faucet with tram and fel combined.... That is interesting
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canary
Guest
err.. you mean FACET. I'm not sure faucet would really do it justice unless it was a water expansion.
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Gandie
Guest
Hmm had a bit higher hopes for the screenshots, but i guess it do.
Ah! Thanks a lot.
Blame it on the fact that there are people that want to continue to run UO on computers that should be in a junkyard by now.
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Lord Drakelord
Guest
Happy as I am to see a new exp coming out, if its not on CD at the stores then forget it, as I am not going thru the BS I went last time with KR. The hours to download it on all our PC, even with cable connections, was for the birds, the troubles we had with those first downloads, only to have to dump it and try again to download it, only to remove it completely once we saw this KR world. I also hope they will continue to update the 2d side of this world as many of us perfer it to the new 3d looks of KR. I sure do like 2d more then the KR 3d, and the screen shots that we saw at the link just make us wish to remain in 2d even more.
I wonder how much of the Abyss will look like the Original Ultima Underworld 1: Stygian Abyss.
That's what I was looking forward to the most, exploring the Stygian Abyss from one of my favorite games of all time.
According to this page: http://www.uoherald.com/stygianabyss/gameoverview/terrain/
The "dungeon" (which I am assuming is the Abyss) is only 2 floors, but the original Stygian Abyss was 8 floors.
For those who never played Ultima Underworld 1, a walk through with maps can be found here: http://www.sircabirus.com/uw1walk/pages/index.html
That's what I was looking forward to the most, exploring the Stygian Abyss from one of my favorite games of all time.
According to this page: http://www.uoherald.com/stygianabyss/gameoverview/terrain/
The "dungeon" (which I am assuming is the Abyss) is only 2 floors, but the original Stygian Abyss was 8 floors.
For those who never played Ultima Underworld 1, a walk through with maps can be found here: http://www.sircabirus.com/uw1walk/pages/index.html
The first level of the Abyss on the Britannian side is in homage to the original Ultima Underworld. It was designed from the start to have almost the same layout, but to fill in all the content gaps, and use different puzzles.
Goblins will still be where you expect them, as will the spiders and Navrey. The storyline is different from the UW game, of course, so expect some differences - at least enough to keep people on their toes. (No rune based magic system, but some very cool places to go and things to do)
The rest of the Abyss level design departs from the original game so we can provide a more expansive set of levels, and then Ter-Mur itself, the gargoyle homeland. In this timeline, it's the Abyss that'll serve as the link between Britannia and the Gargoyles, rather than Hythloth and the Underworld.
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OxAO
Guest
Draconi_EA:
Just tell us when we can play it in 2D.
Thanks
Just tell us when we can play it in 2D.
Thanks
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Splup
Guest
Well, with so few players left in this game, and most of dungeons being totally empty nowdays, I was hoping they would have just changed some of the old dungeons to new ones... Making more dungeons just disperses the small community even more.
As soon as it comes out.
They have said, repeatedly, that SA will be available in 2d as well as in the "new" SA client (which I suspect is going to be KR with improvements).
-Galen's player
Things seem surprisingly lively on LS. And actually, even during the game's lowest ebbs, I always remember seeing people in the Dungeons of Sin (the original "legacy" dungeons, officially known as the Anti-Virtue Dungeons).
If nothing else, they are good for acquiring gold on mid-end characters. More casual players seemed to still be there in noticeable numbers. Especially since the Virtue Artifacts came out.
I guess it's shard-dependent.
-Galen's Player
My impression is that it's going to be really long.
And I seriously doubt that there'll be recall within it.
So I think the characters are in for a long and potentially dangerous walk.
-Galen's player
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OxAO
Guest
oh really. I have not been following it that much. I thought it was going to be another Ishanar type expansion.
That is good news i like the 2D version and would rather not see any 3D version.
Running two Clients seems like an awful lot of redundancy.