[UO Herald] Additional Content of Publish 73 on Test Center

[G.v.P]

Thanks to Dermott of LS for points solution;

Full plate, "Deep Violet" and "Black and Green"

 

[Shelleybean]

Devs, please give the dyes 10 charges!

 

[Kayne]

We used them to plug all the holes.

brilliant

Full plate, Polished Bronze and Glossy Blue.

Polished bronze really looks great on plate. It looks like the suit has just been made and polished up. Like a new car. The black and green you later posted also looks good. Others...not so much

I'm probably the only person who finds the amount of personal bashing of the devs and artists that you do annoying, and I'm probably breaking a bunch of Stratics rules for calling you out, but I don't care.

No you are not the only one Woodsman!

 

[THP]

Yes devs make em 5-6 shot dyes so we can at least do a ull set of armour at 250k points

or make the dyes a tadge cheaper if they one shot only....=maybe 100k points max for a happy mediumn

 

[elspeth]

i agree, keep AN arena on its own shard, that way we can duel people from other shards..

just copy a char to it like TC and then duel away..

dont make that shard TC tho, that way they cant change skills and such.
gotta use what you brought.

And I agree again! I think this is a great idea. More shard to shard interaction.

1 arena server that all other servers go to for it. Though the process of character copy might be a bit arduous. How long does it take? Would be best if it can be instantaneous. Not to mention you'd want all your macros and setup to be the same by default. Is character copy that good?

 

[Elric_Soban]

*Drools at wall tile art*

Wow

now THOSE look good! Great job, art team! keep it up! Will that update include housing floor tiles or just walls?

 

[Kayne]

And I agree again! I think this is a great idea. More shard to shard interaction.

1 arena server that all other servers go to for it. Though the process of character copy might be a bit arduous. How long does it take? Would be best if it can be instantaneous. Not to mention you'd want all your macros and setup to be the same by default. Is character copy that good?

For the char you copy, go into the files for the account and copy the macro file into the char folder on TC/SotD/Arenas. Easy peasy. (obviously dont have UO open when you do it)

 

[A Thought Elemental]

I wonder if

the texture updates will be applied to the pre-fab housing, such as the walls of keeps.

 

[Zym Dragon]

The process we put them through brings them up to proper height.

-Grimm

Interesting. Can you talk about the process at all? I'm curious to know how it works. I would have thought that you could just make the pieces the right size, clean them up a bit after rendering, and then plug them in the game.

Thanks!

 

[G.v.P]

Polished bronze really looks great on plate. It looks like the suit has just been made and polished up. Like a new car. The black and green you later posted also looks good. Others...not so much

I love the blue . I'll take all the blue during that month ;P.

 

[Kayne]

G.V.P if i had the millions of points some do I would gladly sell it on to you but I don't play chessie or have anywhere near the required points

 

[Zyon Rockler]

I thought the arenas were way to big. The main problem with the arena is the camera view. Your character is in the center of the screen. So, when you walk up to the wall, your view is limited to half of the screen. This was the problem with the Doom arena and even though most of the Test arenas were much smaller, they are still way to big IMO.

If there were a feature added where you could click a spectator camera that would center your view or if a flying camera was made available or even a way to move the screen when your character sits, taking your character to the edge of the screen. It would improve the intense feeling for the spectator, which will be very important for them to have a following.

So, by making the arena smaller, enough to surround it with benches in an oval and being able to view 100%, these small arenas could of held close to 45 spectators along with a comfortable 4 people fighting. So, not only are they to big to me they are inefficient in the number of players that can see the fight.

The arena should also have options to add Fire that shoots from walls, Spikes that are in the floors. The release of certain spawns triggered by the actions of the fighters. Also, creating a void in the arena so that different custom floor tiles could be chosen. For example: A 1 tile cross, 4 squares that are not connected. 1 small square where you are forced to stay within a small perimeter or use tactics to move around, such as Rel Por or Teleporters.

Also, things to get the spectators more involved, such as betting and even owning or promoting fighters.

The 3D art concerns me. I'm very happy with the direction this is going. It gives the game capability and dynamics but I haven't seen anything done with the floor tiles. For example: The 2nd floor of a house. The thickness of the floor tile seems to be paper thin. I think it should be the thickness of a wall tile laying on its side at least. This may help items from poking through from lower floors and might affect scaling.

If you go to The Abbey, I think you can really see the difference.

 

[Gheed]

G.V.P if i had the millions of points some do I would gladly sell it on to you but I don't play chessie or have anywhere near the required points

Ya the dyes are way overpriced. You'd have to be a hard core fashion zealot to give up 2 1/2 bless deeds to dye one item. Not saying that it's bad to do that, but these should have 50 charges for 250k points. Or 5k for 1 charge,

 

[Trebr Drab]

Thanks to Dermott of LS for points solution;

Full plate, "Deep Violet" and "Black and Green"

Damn. Adding more blurry to the Classic Client.

 

[Pinco]

The arenas are located in the Lost Lands (both facets), Haven, and Ocllo.

I wonder why the necromancer's arena near doom has not been used on this system... This building seems to be useless from the beginning...
Probably would be better to take it down and make a big multi-storey car park instead

Another nice idea would be to add the Jhelom dueling pit in the arena system

 

[Trebr Drab]

The arenas are located in the Lost Lands (both facets), Haven, and Ocllo.

I wonder why the necromancer's arena near doom has not been used on this system... This building seems to be useless from the beginning...
Probably would be better to take it down and make a big multi-storey car park instead

Another nice idea would be to add the Jhelom dueling pit in the arena system

The Devs would like to know where that is....

 

[Pinco]

Here it is:

 

[iamSnippa]

I wonder why the necromancer's arena near doom has not been used on this system... This building seems to be useless from the beginning...
Probably would be better to take it down and make a big multi-storey car park instead

Another nice idea would be to add the Jhelom dueling pit in the arena system

My guildmates have also mentioned the necromancer arena for something like this.

 

[Eyes of Origin]

Full plate, Polished Bronze and Glossy Blue.

The glossy blue is nice! The purple is almost too much, but its a nice color for small things I suppose, just not whole suits lol

 

[Cogniac]

Interesting. Can you talk about the process at all? I'm curious to know how it works. I would have thought that you could just make the pieces the right size, clean them up a bit after rendering, and then plug them in the game.

Thanks!

Hey! Zym still exists! I knew somebody had to be keeping Rivendell in existence.

 

[sirion]

I tried the new dyes on my garg cloth armors, and Glassy Blue looks awesome.
Shiny blue wings flipping!

Purple also not bad. Somehow Green/Brown did not look as good as platemails do on paperdoll or avatar. Too dark.

 

[TheGrimmOmen]

Interesting. Can you talk about the process at all? I'm curious to know how it works. I would have thought that you could just make the pieces the right size, clean them up a bit after rendering, and then plug them in the game.

Thanks!

Well, I can't go into too much detail at the moment, but the thing is that isometric projection is easy in 3D getting oblique projection is a little trickier. When I first started coming up with a 3D template for the wall pieces, it was a LOT of trial and error, getting the oblique projection causes a lot of stretching, and we compensate by making the walls shorter.

-Grimm

 

[G.v.P]

Just a general reply, I need to get one more mannequin on Test (port over a character), but three of the four plate suits should be visible on the roof of a currently private (need to change that) 7x7 which is just south of Moonglow moongate. House is called Lyc's or something .

I'm not sure if anyone has posted leather yet, I know EC/SA pics are posted and I posted a little bit of leather thus far, but next time I'm on--and with Dermott's trick--going to maybe see what all the full leathers look like.

Other than for decorative purposes, people will use kilts, half aprons, etc, anyway ;P but I wanted to do plate first in the old tradition of Stratics, from the mining section crossover which had each kind of colored ore--when they all came out--done in plate .

 

[THP]

Hopefully the devs will address the issue with the high points =250k points for a 1 shot dye?? so that would be like 1.5m points to do a 6 piece suit???

A lot of folks have expressed the same....so keep the bloody flames away for once............

Surely for 250k points we need at least 5 or 6 shots [10 would be ideal and a good balance]...so we can buy one dye and then do a full set of plate in the same colour????

Most folks will find it hard to make sooo many points especailly if the devs are gonna change the 4 colours every month???

a gold sink yes...but this would make the richest guy in UO poor very quick...

I would like to suggest a more happy mediumn.....
250k points for a 8 shot dye or a 10 shot etc etc
or 50k points for a one shot dye....
This would encourage people to try for the higher amount but give peeps the option of a cheaper one shot if they just wanted one for display.

 

[Ezekiel Zane]

I see absolutely NO reason why a one use dye should be worth more than an item bless deed.

 

[Shiznit Bo'Bourbon]

I see no reason why everyone is entitled to get every dye. This isn't AOS where you were wearing a yellow breastplate and blue helmet and looked ridiculous. They clearly want to suck a crapload of points out of the system.

 

[Viper09]

I see no reason why everyone is entitled to get every dye. This isn't AOS where you were wearing a yellow breastplate and blue helmet and looked ridiculous. They clearly want to suck a crapload of points out of the system.

It seems people would rather have their special armor any assortment of colors they can get but heaven forbid they open up to dyeing animals. lol

 

[THP]

Again i feel the hurt for all those people that have no points left....iam kinda guessing these are the folks that want the dyes priced mega high at 250k....just because they have simply spent up the points too soon...rather than wait for the inevitable phase 2...etc etc ....blah blah blah

 

[Ned888]

Here are the promised additions to the Publish Notes of version 73.0:

Arenas Go Live

The arenas located throughout the lands will go live with this publish. The arenas are located in the Lost Lands (both facets), Haven, and Ocllo. The following additions and changes have been made after the public testing done on the arenas test shard:

• Match hosts may now choose to allow or disallow Field Spells
• Match hosts now choose to allow or disallow potions, or to allow only non-healing potions
• A bug that caused some summoned creatures to attack their owner in an arena match has been fixed

Moving forward, we will continue to accept feedback and use it to make further improvements to the arenas. In an future publish, look for the addition of a wagering system.



New High Resolution Terrian Art

As I am sure most of you have noticed the difference in the terrain in the Enhanced Client. Just letting everyone know this is just the first of many more to come. Next publish we will be updating the Wall tile art, I think everyone will really appreciate the new look. Below are a few pictures of what is coming:
We are looking foward to getting your feedback!

Your UO Team
More...

Thanks again! Just two quick questions related to my pet peeves (sorry!):

Why was no arena placed in the capital of Britannia (Britain) or in Trinsic perhaps? I'm certain it's fairly common knowledge that I don't like Haven all that much, but it really doesn't make any sense to enhance the starter area, you should really be trying to move folks out of there and into the larger world.

The new terrain tiles look great and they seem to work well on the TC with the EC IMO, LOL, WTF, ROFLMAO! Sorry got stuck in my acronyms. Anyway, I really look forward to seeing the 'full monty' so to speak. The terrain looks great, soon we will have great looking building textures. I assume that some of the stationary art will be next (i.e. - Furniture/chests/etc.). Is there a timeline for the entire roll out and is everything going to be worked on? I'd really like to see some of the MOBs and NPCs get a workover. I'd also like some information about how the EC is going to be restructured to handle these resources better (reduce skipping; loading player structures, etc.), if that is even in the plans for the future. Sorry if I missed this in previous threads.

Good work on everything so far! Seriously. I recognized that this is very hard work you are doing and I appreciate it.

 

[RavenWinterHawk]

Please keep the dyes to 1 charge and expensive.

Nothing worse that flooding the market so no one wants them.


Consider it your formal plate where for events. Expensive yes but you look dang nice.

 

[Wolfman]

I tried the new dyes on my garg cloth armors, and Glassy Blue looks awesome.
Shiny blue wings flipping!

Purple also not bad. Somehow Green/Brown did not look as good as platemails do on paperdoll or avatar. Too dark.