Patch 135 - UO Tutorial Server, Swing Advance/Movement, more

Some of these changes have been live for a little while, but these are all the changes since Patch 134

Changes prior to this morning:

• Hue for stat loss message set to blue when not in stat, was previously grey when not eligible for stat loss.
• Lumberjacking trees will always yield ten logs if successful.
• Fixed typo in "Arr! Do that again and I'll throw ye overboard!" message: Thanks Atraxi
• You can no longer Recall from copies of boat keys. [Thanks Darkwing]
• Stat and Skill correction for Blade Spirts and Energy Vortexes [Thanks Generic Player and others]
• Some changes to overall monster loot, but especially a correction to elementals. [Thanks Faust and others]
• Added Test Center to server list

Changes effective this morning:

• Added UO Tutorial Shard to server list:
  
  • This is the culmination of many many months of work, and hundreds of man-hours; primarily by Batlin who single handedly has unlocked many of OSI's darkest secrets.
    The man wears a wizard hat in real life; and it's been my honor to have been able to work with him.
  • The tutorial may be up and down for a couple days while we work out some bugs.
  • This OSI Demo based tutorial is a tribute the the original OSI T2A demo.
    The quest itself is mechanically accurate to the Demo included on the T2A retail cd.
  • The shard that it runs on is separate from UOSA, yet the shard mechanics are the same as UOSA. As such, many of the actual shard mechanics do not reflect the original T2A Demo timeframe.
  • With the exception of Ocllo bank, the decoration of Ocllo is identical to the UO Demo.
  • The Tutorial Server launches each new player in his own world to explore.
    There is not at this time any way to interact with other players.
  • This Tutorial server will not likely be staffed. If you need help with the quest, just say "help" to the wisp.
  • If you wish to explore without completing the quest, you can say "dismiss"
  • If you want to start over, you can just delete the "Avatar" from the character selection screen to reset the world.
• You can remove the name on a runebook by setting it to "none" (like guild titles): Thanks Sandro
• Removed movement restriction on weapon swing advance.
  
  • While we know that weapon swings did not advance on movement at some point during T2A or UO:R due to the explicit UO:R era patch note indicating the removal of this constraint, we do not know when this mechanic was introduced. We do know that it did not exist in Pre-T2A. We have therefore removed the mechanic from UOSA, pending any other information on the subject.
• Vendors now respond to "shopkeep", or "shopkeeper": Thanks "a wisp".
• Tracking now cancels when tracker dies.
• Fatigue on Movement now applies to all mobiles; Not just Players
• Cobblers no longer sell colored sandals: This was confirmed via OSI information. Thanks Mens Rea.
• Thieves will no longer reveal themselves as perma-grey if they attack themselves.
• Time between shard restart warnings increased to 4.9 mins from 4.0 mins.
• Font and text hue change for save message. [Thanks Sinatra]

Additions on Sept 6:

• A problem with the core timer, introduced long ago was corrected. This was causing time to pass about 12% slower than it should have in game, and was effecting everything including but not limited to: spell cast times, weapon swings, bandaging, criminal timers, house decay, stamina loss, etc.
• Disguise kits will no longer wear off while the player is logged out, or when the shard restarts.
• Walruses can now swim.
• Any creatures which cannot move, including corpsers and reapers will show (frozen) in their name.

Statistics: Posted by Derrick — Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:15 pm — Replies 17 — Views 638

---