Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn

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Officially Announced: 24 August 2006
Unofficially Announced: 18 August 2006
Expected Ship Date: 2007
Previous Expansion: UO: Mondain’s Legacy
Preceded By: UO: Eve of a New Age (Anniversary)

Notes:
- Runes at top of Teaser Site: Vision of a Kingdom Reborn
- New 3D-Accelerated Client and graphics engine.
- New artwork (9000 pieces of art being redrawn).
- New race.
- New user interface for the client.
- According to Wilki’s comments, will have a new status bar and/or status bar choices.
- Will (according to the press release) add to or enhance many of the key features of Ultima Online: epic battles versus powerful monsters, deep dangerous dungeons, player-versus-player combat, creative housing design, crafting, and much more.

Developers:
>> Current Ultima Online Development Team

Teaser site -”A Glimpse of UO’s Future

Official Press Release - UO.com

Message from Darkscribe:

Congratulations!

You are one of the very first to get a glimpse of a reborn Ultima Online. We won’t be releasing more details for a bit, but we do want to let you know a few things:

1. We are completely re-building the Ultima Online client with new graphics and a new easier-to-use interface.
2. It is an in-place upgrade. That means you will be able to keep your characters, items, houses and everything else you’ve earned over the past nine years.
3. We are committed to maintaining extremely low system specs. They will be higher than what UO launched with in 1997, but will still be far lower than almost any other MMORPG on the market.
4. The launch will happen in 2007.
5. There are many, many more surprises in store.

The Ultima Online development team has been working hard for the past eight months to make real the vision of a thriving, vibrant Ultima Online. We are proud to finally let you in on our secret. Look for a full announcement soon.

I know you probably have lots of questions. Before this year ends, we will answer just about all of them, so keep watching www.uo.com.

Aaron “Darkscribe” Cohen
Producer - Ultima Online