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(Patch notes for Ultima Online Client Patch 1.25.12 (October 16th, 1997)) |
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Revision as of 14:49, 15 January 2009
This patch was for the 2D client.
Date
October 16th, 1997
Patch Notes
The Latest Patch:
- Notoriety:
- We're slowing the rate of notoriety drops from attacks.
- We're adjusting the intervals in the title scale, so you'll see that your notoriety title may well change; this is only a change in the title, and not to your actual notoriety value.
- The problems with notoriety not being affected by spellcasting are fixed.
- We tweaked the notoriety curve somewhat to adjust some of the loss rates.
- A bug in notoriety advancement that made it go up many times faster than it was supposed to will be fixed.
- A bug with notoriety not falling under some circumstances will be fixed.
- Items:
- The weapon or armor moving into inventory for no visible reason has been fixed.
- Objects in houses will not decay as quickly.
- Armor ratings for magic armor should be correct now.
- The double axe will become two-handed.
- Changes strength requirements and armor values for female armor.
- Several sorts of knives and cleavers have had their swing rate slowed.
- Female platemail now has the same dexterity penalties that male plate does.
- Communication crystals will not use a whole stack of gems to recharge, but just the one.
- Cloth will say how many yards of cloth are left.
- The problem with all of your mandrake root being consumed at once will be corrected.
- Items in player-made chests and other containers won't be vanishing anymore.
- Economy:
- Jewelers purchasing from players.
- Prices on magic items in shops should be correct.
- Hair dye will be cheaper.
- We think we've fixed another set of strange shop stocking (specifically reagents) and pricing (particularly stackables) issues.
- Purchasing large items will check your backpack for the gold before automatically withdrawing from the bank.
- Reagent supply in shops will be increased.
- Ecology:
- Dragon and drake AI has been tweaked.
- Iron maidens won't kill you outright, and they will have some warning to them.
- Forest birds and jungle birds have been weakened.
- The regrow rate on ore and lumber will be faster.
- NPCs, Guards, Pets and Hirelings:
- The missing shopkeepers should be back.
- Hireling stats have been revised; the upper end isn't as nice, the stats vary a lot more depending on which one you hire, and a good knowledge of anatomy in picking one to hire will help a lot.
- Miner guildmasters will be more common.
- Some cleanup code to get rid of the oldstyle guards still hanging around in the forest was done.
- The pet "transfer" command will cause the pet to stop following.
- The "transfer" command on pets will turn off their previous guarding and following orders.
- Zoo creatures aren't tamable anymore.
- Miscellaneous:
- Ships will no longer dump players back on land after a server restart (unless another player on the ship moves the ship before the other passengers log in).
- Ghosts will be able to use the planks and give orders to the tillerman while manifested.
- The problem some had with resurrecting immediately sometimes not working will be fixed.
- You will get a message in the lower left corner of your screen when you cross into and out of justice regions.
- We've now got sanity checking on the various ways of coloring items; this means that those who had found ways to get interesting skin shades and clothing hues won't be able to anymore.
- Begging should be largely fixed.
- The "infinite newbies" exploit is fixed.
- Problems with weight involving horses will be fixed.
- The area west of Trinsic that has no bridges over the river will gain them.
- Client Patch:
- Items you can move will highlight under your regular cursor (not just ones in your backpack, but also items on the ground!)
- Lag issues with light sources will be improved.
- Target highlighting will turn the creature, player, or NPC under your cursor while in war mode red, so you can more clearly determine whether you are targeting the right thing.
- The first stages of weather! At first it will be localized and purely cosmetic, and over time we'll have weather fronts and other effects.
- Counselor paperdoll problems will be fixed.
- Some special notes:
- Existing mandrake won't be fixed, only new mandrake. It won't stack and if you use it to cast, it will all count as one mandrake.
- It will take some time for the shopkeepers to stock up to normal on the reagents. We'll keep an eye out to see if this is still having problems.
- We've heard reports of "timewarp" still occurring, so we are not listing it as fixed yet.