Just a quick reminder, UO: 9th Anniversary Collection should start shipping today, and start turning up in people’s hands later this week. It’s listed at Amazon and some of the other online stores as being available on the 3rd.
International orders can refer to this UO.com page for more information.
According to UO.com, there will be an update to Publish 43 (tonight Origin, everybody else tomorrow, October 31, 2006).
The update includes:
On Monday, October 30, 2006 at approximately 6:00PM PST (October 31 - 2:00AM GMT), we will be deploying a Publish 43 update to the Origin shard. All other shards will receive this update during their next scheduled daily maintenance period.
The update will contain the following changes:
* An issue where your evil twin would get you guardwhacked has been fixed
* Evil twin will now disappear if it fails to reveal its victim
* Once the Grim Reaper kills a target or if his target is dead, he will go back to his graveyard
* If the victim or the Grim Reaper enters a house he will go back to his graveyard
* The Grim Reaper will now give a random top attacker an artifact, not just the player who does the most damage
* Added a 50/50 chance of either spawning a black statuette or an orange statuette
* 9th anniversary beverages will no longer lose their names, and existing ones will have been fixed as well
* An issue that caused Halloween invasions to be too easy has been fixed
* Added dead trees into the selection of the heritage itemsWe expect the Origin shard to remain offline for approximately one hour. We do not expect any additional downtime for all other shards.
From UO.com comes word that there are now houses open that use the new tilesets from the upcoming UO: 9th Anniversary Collection:
Tour the ultimate den of darkness and a glass house where its perfectly fine to throw stones. To celebrate next week’s launch of the Ultima Online: 9th Anniversary Collection, we’ve opened two new homes that show off the Crystal and Shadow housing tiles, along with the furniture that comes with them. They are just west of Britannia in the farmer’s fields on Origin shard. And don’t forget to peruse the Heritage house for another look at all the items that will be available. Click here for a map to the houses. (see below)
Finally tonight, again, from the update center at UO.com, Client 5.0.5c:
On Thursday, October 26, 2006 at approximately 7:00PM PDT ( October 26 - 2:00AM GMT), we will deploy client patch 5.0.5c.
Details for the patch are as follows:
* Added Crystal and Shadow stairs for 9th to the 9th Anniversary housing tile sets
* Modified Shadow arches so that they can now be passed through
* Crystal/Shadow housing tiles now display their name when clicked on
* Fixed Heritage trees that had an issue with their foliage disappearing
* The Heritage wall torch can now be raised and lowered with the house deco tool
* Updated text and localization
* Bump version to “5.0.5câ€If patched correctly, your current version will display 5.0.5c for both clients. If you have any difficulty receiving this patch, please check the following:
Check the “Patch” directory within your Ultima Online directory (the default location is C:\Program Files\EA Games\Ultima Online\Patch). This directory should be empty. Any files in this directory should be deleted.
Run a virus scan on your computer. Undetected viruses may cause conflicts with patching Ultima Online. For information on up-to-date virus detection software, please visit http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/vso/default.asp.
If after trying the above, you are still experiencing difficulty patching the Ultima Online client, please visit this web page
From the Update/FYI Center at UO.com, all shards will be getting the Publish 43 update. For many, this will be friday morning.
World Wide Publish Schedule - Publish 43 Oct 27 2006 1:58AM GMT (PST +08:00)
During the evening of Thursday, October 26, 2006 PDT we will begin deploying Publish 43 to all shards during their next respective maintenance times.For the Publish 43 change list, please click here.
We expect no additional downtime due to this publish.
According to UO.com:
Australia Celebrates Nine Years of Ultima Online
Fans in the Land Down Under will be able to buy the Ultima Online: 9th Anniversary Collection at Electronics Boutique and Games Wizard. The package will be available November 9. Sorry, no online ordering if you live in Oz - you’ll have to head to the store to get it.
So, for those of you paying attention, here’s who can order right now:
USA (Maybe Canada)
Japan
United Kingdom (and soon Germany)
and of course Australia. There maybe others available as well already.
The FYI/Update page at UO.comhas posted this information about the new Client Patch (Version 5.0.5b)
Client Patch 5.0.5b Oct 19 2006 1:10AM GMT (PST +08:00)
On Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at approximately 6:30PM PDT ( October 19 - 1:30AM GMT), we will deploy client patch 5.0.5b.Details for the patch are as follows:
* Updated look of the Shadow roof tiles
* Crystal and Shadow roof tiles now show up on the radar map
* Added new art to allow the Heritage curtains to open and close
* The Heritage wall torch now animates
* The Heritage wall torches now give off light
* The Heritage trees are no longer bare in Felucca using the 3D client
* The Shadow Banner is now partially hued to allow it to be dyed
* Added new cauldron art for Heritage selection gump
* Fixed a piece of the Crystal Altar that wasn’t added correctly before
* Fixed a Crystal and Shadow door that players couldn’t walk through
* Fixed bug with Shadow arches that was not allowing them to be committed if they stood alone
* Updated text and localization
* Bump version to “5.0.5b”If patched correctly, your current version will display 5.0.5b for both clients. If you have any difficulty receiving this patch, please check the following:
Check the “Patch” directory within your Ultima Online directory (the default location is C:\Program Files\EA Games\Ultima Online\Patch). This directory should be empty. Any files in this directory should be deleted.
Run a virus scan on your computer. Undetected viruses may cause conflicts with patching Ultima Online. For information on up-to-date virus detection software, please visit http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/vso/default.asp.
If after trying the above, you are still experiencing difficulty patching the Ultima Online client, please visit this web page.
Official Publish 43 information has been released today.
To read the full list of changes, please see this page.
If you’d like to see our previous page of information we gathered about Publish 43, leading up until now, please see this page.
As expected, it contains the information/changes for the 9th Anniversary Collection, as well as the +5 stat cap bump for accounts older than six months, quite a few PvP/PvM/Combat changes, and changes affecting hiding/stealth.
This is available for testing on Test Center, or as of now, Origin.
From UO.com:
Amazon UK now pre-ordering!
If you live in the UK, you can pre-order the 9th Anniversary Collection at www.amazon.co.uk.
Ordering info for Germany and Australia to come soon. Keep watching www.uo.com for updates!
Over the weekend, a lot of information came out about Publish 43 (which is now up on the Test Center by the way). Putting aside the additions for the 9th Anniversary Collection that will ship later this month or early next month, quite a bit has been done that affects the following: PvPers, PvMers, Siege/Mugen players, people who like to transfer characters on shards, people who like EM-run events, etc., etc. (i.e, there is something for everybody).
For full details, you can read our Publish 43 Page
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