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Topic: UO beta sign-ups open (Read 67547 times)
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Oban
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« Last Edit: August 27, 2007, 10:43:17 AM by Oban »
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Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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Murgos
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Why do I feel that there should be "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here" engraved above this post? Maybe a "May god have mercy on your soul." pop-up if you click the link? Trippy seems to have fun embedding javascript into peoples links I'm sure he could stick an little alert box action into it.
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"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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Oban
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I assumed that, by now, any post I made would automatically be flagged as such.
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Palin 2012 : Let's go out with a bang!
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shiznitz
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the plural of mangina
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The trailer wouldn't load.
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I have never played WoW.
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Slayerik
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They should just throw up a feluccia only server already if they want some new subs. ;)
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"I have more qualifications than Jesus and earn more than this whole board put together. My ego is huge and my modesty non-existant." -Ironwood
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Rasix
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I am the harbinger of your doom!
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If anyone falls for that bait... 
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cmlancas
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I read 4737 once a month. My sig says so. :)
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f13 Street Cred of the week: I can't promise anything other than trauma and tragedy. -- schild
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WindupAtheist
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I've been playing with the new client. It's been getting much better with each patch, and it's most of the way there. Hopefully it'll be all the way there before they go ahead with the expansion. Right now it needs a few graphical bugs fixed (some weapons seem attached to my elbow rather than my hand) and some easy stuff they just haven't gotten around to yet. Speech text fonts, the warning popup when you're about to be auto-logged for being idle too long, etc.
It's coming along. I actually like how my character looks in it, unlike the old UO3D.
(They're doing this weird thing where it's supposedly out of beta and "gone gold" but they're delaying the expansion until they finish cleaning it up with huge patches and whatnot. So it's not beta, they're just testing and fixing and polishing before going to retail with it. Right.)
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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sinij
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If anyone falls for that bait...  I think its time for 4738... also with sticky in the den it will be convenient, since we can copy-paste most of the material.
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Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
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Slayerik
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I've been playing with the new client. It's been getting much better with each patch, and it's most of the way there. Hopefully it'll be all the way there before they go ahead with the expansion. Right now it needs a few graphical bugs fixed (some weapons seem attached to my elbow rather than my hand) and some easy stuff they just haven't gotten around to yet. Speech text fonts, the warning popup when you're about to be auto-logged for being idle too long, etc.
It's coming along. I actually like how my character looks in it, unlike the old UO3D.
(They're doing this weird thing where it's supposedly out of beta and "gone gold" but they're delaying the expansion until they finish cleaning it up with huge patches and whatnot. So it's not beta, they're just testing and fixing and polishing before going to retail with it. Right.)
By polish you mean adding different Neon variations to Thigh boots and pitchforks?
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"I have more qualifications than Jesus and earn more than this whole board put together. My ego is huge and my modesty non-existant." -Ironwood
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Cheddar
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Noob Sauce
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By polish you mean adding different Neon variations to Thigh boots and pitchforks?
Good point; actually, where is the direction going with items in game? I am extremely tempted to get this. I am not too happy about itemization, though. Beyond neon.
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No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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Amaron
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By polish you mean adding different Neon variations to Thigh boots and pitchforks?
I haven't really been following the new client but when I originally read some about it I remember at least something saying they would be cutting out the neon on the new client. That was fairly early on though and the neon-lovers might of successfully derailed such a thing by now.
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WindupAtheist
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The crazy colors exist, but in a more muted and less "omfg my eyes" sort of way. Frankly they could really stand to tone down the crazy oranges and blues some more. I'm not sure if it's an oversight or not. Everything looks tasteful in your inventory, but some of the stuff is still too neon when you look at your character.
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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Complaining about neon in UO is like complaining that deadly tree frogs are too brightly colored.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Slayerik
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Complaining about neon in UO is like complaining that deadly tree frogs are too brightly colored.
Hey, cut me a break. Its all I'm allowed to bitch about anymore. ;)
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"I have more qualifications than Jesus and earn more than this whole board put together. My ego is huge and my modesty non-existant." -Ironwood
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WindupAtheist
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I got this off LTM via the wayback machine. I'll toss it in here just for flavor. i log on to the uo and stuff this weekend and im all ok lets go to deceit and whatnot so i kill some liches in deceit and get a moonstone thingy and i use it.boom.im in new land and such.i see guy fighting lich lord in hallway and im all woo going up behind him cause hes gonna die and such and i block him.he walk right through me.im like wtf.so i see he got like 12 health left so i figure ah what the heck and cast flamstrike on him and i get this error message saying i could not cast on this target.wtf wtf wtf.then i get mad and leave and see gray guy in skara so im like corp por biznatchio and i get that error message again.im like wtf again.osi the game is broken fix this stuff asap and whatnot.
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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Nyght
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Channeling the Capt?
I thought blocking was active on the original, not a mirror side.
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"Do you know who is in charge here?" -- "Yep."
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Slayerik
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Channeling the Capt?
I thought blocking was active on the original, not a mirror side.
Ya he was saying after he went through the moonstone he couldnt block some noob to cause em to die, or FS em. You know, the Trammie way.
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"I have more qualifications than Jesus and earn more than this whole board put together. My ego is huge and my modesty non-existant." -Ironwood
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Nyght
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Channeling the Capt?
I thought blocking was active on the original, not a mirror side.
Ya he was saying after he went through the moonstone he couldnt block some noob to cause em to die, or FS em. You know, the Trammie way. Well, its always good to know which side you are on, no?
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"Do you know who is in charge here?" -- "Yep."
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Slayerik
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Hey, I was just clearing that up for him
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"I have more qualifications than Jesus and earn more than this whole board put together. My ego is huge and my modesty non-existant." -Ironwood
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Rasix
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They want my credit card information. I'm not comfortable with the possibility of accidentally giving EA more money for UO.
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WindupAtheist
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Made a character on Atlantic since I'm missing Europa's afternoon primetime a lot lately. By the time I get on a lot of nights, it's 3am local time and all the Euros I know are in bed. So yeah, I make a newbie warrior and get dropped off in New Haven with some gold, some NPC grade gear, and 30 in the expected skills. I collect a bunch of the newbie quests.
Nothing terribly exciting. There are trainers for all the major skills, all of whom want you to go to the ruins of Old Haven and kill the undead that infest it. When you hit 50 in whatever skill they train, they reward you with a blessed item related to that skill. Do the quest to hit 50 swordsmanship, and you get a named sword with some minor mods. Do the quest for parrying, and you get a shield. You can do as many of these quests as you have skills to raise, and thus outfit yourself with some equipment better than what you started with.
Oh, and as long as you're on at least one newbie quest and are within the bounds of Old Haven, you gain skill faster than normal. And some of the monsters drop enough regs that a beginner mage won't put himself out of business. So it's not too bad. Between this and the veteran who was throwing GM leather armor at anyone looking newbish, I'm doing okay for a character who's like 60 or 90 minutes old.
What's fun are the people who don't know what UO:R was, or what UO3D was, or how tamers got nerfed in Publish 16, or how once upon a time all you needed was a skinning knife and three black pearl to take over the world, because it's 2007 and they just started playing Ultima Online like... today. "You know, Newbert, I don't really know how to mine for fish on this client. If you figure it out, let me know." Although obviously I can tell them stuff like how to buy cloth and make their own bandages.
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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sinij
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Take off your rose colored glasses. UO isn't getting new players, client upgrade or not.
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Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
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WindupAtheist
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I'm watching some guy tell a newb how to feed his horse at Haven bank on Atlantic. There have always been newbies coming in. That's why the game still exists.
Hell, given churn and the amount of time that's passed, half the playerbase is made of up veterans of years standing who don't even remember all the shit you miss. Not only did the game survive without it, it's become a historical trivia tidbit known only to the really really old-school. "There used to only be Felucca!" is right up there with "You couldn't bring ostards out of T2A back in the day!" in terms of weird old shit most players don't remember.
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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Der Helm
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There have always been newbies coming in. That's why the game still exists.
That is quite possibly true. Because if my rather difficult financial situation at the moment, I went back to playing Shadowbane. There are new players all over the place. (God, I have been looking for a thread where I could come out of the closet (regarding me playing SB, mind you) for weeks now)
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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sinij
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(God, I have been looking for a thread where I could come out of the closet (regarding me playing SB, mind you) for weeks now)
Here, here. You are PvPsexual. It doesn't matter, you still can love.
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Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
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WindupAtheist
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Heh, apparently Space Admiral British (or whatever he is now) took a couple hours off from fighting aliens to show up at a UO "town hall" meeting and collect a plaque from some guy almost as crazy as he is.
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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Tmon
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Tried it out last night, it was not very compelling so I canceled the trial. I played for 2 years or so after launch, resubbed again when 3d came out and lasted a month, this time I made it 32 minutes, based on welcome and cancel confirmation e-mail headers. I guess you really can't go back.
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WindupAtheist
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Yeah, I'm giving them until the expansion release until I pass official judgement, but so far they're cruising dangerously towards UO3D Part Deux territory.
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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sinij
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Who are you kidding WUA? You will buy and play with it even if they shit in the box and ship it out that way. As a matter of fact they did it many times in the past.
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Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
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WindupAtheist
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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schild
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You are both dumb motherfuckers. Let it go. Christ.
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cmlancas
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I'm responding to this only because I want my sig on this page because I think it is relevant.
Do people other than WUA actually still play UO?
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f13 Street Cred of the week: I can't promise anything other than trauma and tragedy. -- schild
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sinij
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Do people other than WUA actually still play UO?
I imagine Peaches still plays. Perhaps WUA is Peaches alter ego?
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Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
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WindupAtheist
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You are both dumb motherfuckers. Let it go. Christ. If you're going to let the retarded kid shoot spitballs, that's fine, but quit bitching about the noise everytime I turn around and throw something at him.
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild "Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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