Difference between revisions of "Publish 39"

Latest revision as of 20:08, 18 July 2007

The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 39 on February 16, 2006.

New Player Improvements

• New Player Guided Tour System: Guided New Player experience added in conjunction with the release of the Japanese “Starter Kit”. Will be available (and skippable) to all new characters upon initial log-in.
• Font Improvements: Two new bold English fonts that make the text easier to read. Also changed the default speech font color to a readable yellow color.
• Default layout: A new default layout that will make it easier for new and returning players navigate the interface. The default gameplay window size has also been set to the larger 800x600 option.
• Spring Décor Collection items: This is a set of house decoration items to be included in the Japanese “Starter Kit” available in February. These items will be available to other territories through uogamecodes.com beginning in March.
• Quest updates and additions: 12 new quests that help the new players get familiar with the game.

Interface and Art Additions/changes

• Added new artwork for Dragon Armor and the Helm of Swiftness.
• Changed the character status screen artwork to make it more streamlined.
• Added new Login screen artwork for the 2D Client.
• Added sticky health bars for all targetables.
• Mouse wheel scrolling support has been added for the 2D client.
• Menu Bar can now be moved in 2D client
• Adjusted the 3D character and creature models to make them fit more inline with the world.
• Object Handles will stick where they appear to make targeting moving objects easier.

Bug Fixes – Exploits

• Players will no longer be able to attack Mirror Images to gain skill or cause harm to other players in Trammel.
• Changed the Mirror Image special ability so that it will no longer cause players to get “guard whacked” when used by other players.
• Travesty will now cause damage when mimicking a player with a non-weapon (Fishing Pole, Candle, etc.).
• Energy field will no longer cause players to be flagged as aggressive in Trammel.
• Players will no longer be able to area of effect rez ghosts through house walls with Noble Sacrifice.
• Players will no longer be able to provoke pets on other players in a guard zone to get them guard killed.
• Now that the snows have begun to melt, and the Winter Solstice has passed into history, a Bag of Sending can no longer be compelled to send white cloth, or any other quest object, through the etheral void.

Other Bug Fixes

• Lethal Dart Quest and Broken Shaft Quest will now work properly.
• Ossian Grimoire can no longer be “blessed” by leaving in a secured bag overnight on Siege.
• Helm of Swiftness can now be repaired.
• Helm of Swiftness obtained from a Peerless minor Paragons can now be worn by Humans and has been assigned the correct resists.
• Changed two areas on Dreadhorn Island so they no longer teleport players out of the dungeon.
• Mondain’s 300th Anniversary Coin is now movable and will no longer become un-locked if in a house nor will they be stackable.
• Damage from all Archery weapons has been adjusted Some underpowered bows have been enhanced and some overpowered bows have had power reductions.
• You can now trade regular blessed items. Personal blessed items still may not be dropped in the trade window.
• Changed the way the Aminia Werewolf Quest spawns creatures.. This should eliminate problems with duplicate spawns.
• Animal Form now has a recovery time of 2.5 seconds. Faster Casting Recovery 6 will reduce this to 1 second.
• Animal form now costs 10 mana to cast.
• “Streakiness” in the random number generator should be improved. As a side effect “8x8” will no longer work.
• Flying creatures (Dragons/Drakes) no longer fall through surfaces when they are killed. This will make it easier to loot their corpses.
• Ancient Wyrms no longer spawn in or walk through stalagmites in Destard.
• Changed message player receives when they are Squelched and try to speak to "You cannot say anything at this time, you have been muted."
• Made game balance changes to the Delucia Passage to make it more challenging to defeat the Dread Spiders.
• House transfers are no longer allowed if the house exceeds the buyer's storage capacity (Non Mondain's Legacy account)

Gender and Name Change

• Warning text and a link to the uo.com information pages were added to Name and Gender Change gumps.
• When changing gender to male, players will now have the ability to select a facial hair style.

Updates

Update 1

On April 25, 2006, the following was published:
"Today, Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 we will be deploying an ERT Publish worldwide as follows:

• April 25 - 3:00PM PDT (10:30PM GMT) - Pacific, Lake Austin, Baja, Napa Valley, Sonoma, Origin
• April 25 - 3:30PM PDT (10:00PM GMT) - Chesapeake, Atlantic, Catskills, Siege Perilous, Legends, Great Lakes, Lake Superior
• April 25 - 4:00PM PDT (11:00PM GMT) - Europa, Drachenfel, Oceania
• April 25 - 5:00PM PDT (April 26 - Midnight GMT) - Arirang, Balhae, Formosa
• April 25 - 5:30PM PDT (April 26 - 12:30AM GMT) - Yamato, Izumo, Wakoku, Hokuto, Mizuho, Mugen, Sakura, Asuka

We are expecting each publish window downtime to last approximately one hour."

See Also

• Publishes
• Publish 39 Design Document on UO.com