Five on Friday - September 26, 2008
"So fire-colored cacti are cool but... is that *all* the Naturalist quest gives anymore?"
This is something we're investigating. As an update to last week's post about colored new plants, this may be a bug that the fixing of which would eliminate those colors in the new plants. We'll keep you posted, but I wanted to make sure y'all were aware of the possibility that they will go away, since it's contrary to what we posted last week.
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More Publish 56 updates
The big stuff is still making its way to QA, but here are some more bugs that are looking pretty solidly fixed right now:
- Making the "weapon switch" macro work with spellbooks
- Fixing an issue where axing spinning wheels while they're spinning can break them
- The ability to disarm a shield with the Disarm special move should go away
- Fixing some issues with the hiryu dismount move
- You'll be able to find a healer on Nu'Jelm!
- Fixing some issues with commanding your pet to attack or kill and the pet not responding consistently
- Fixed a bug where the Inquisitor's Resolution sometimes spawns in an unreachable area
- A number of minor display bugs - tooltips not showing the correct information, that sort of thing
We've got more coming in all the time, plus the live event, prep work for Halloween (you didn't think we'd forget about Halloween, did you?) and more! It's gonna be a monster publish.
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What's To Come:
Publish 56 schedule update - at this point we're looking to get it on Test Center in two weeks (the week of the 13th) in order to give QA a fair shot at it. It'll sit on TC for a week or so, then Origin, then live - the usual pattern. We know this is an unusually long wait for this event, but it's complex and involves quite a few systems, so we're spending as much time as it takes to make it work.
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Upcoming House of Commons Chat
We've got a UO Stratics House of Commons chat scheduled for next week - Wednesday, October 1, at 7PM EDT. We'd love to have you come on out and ask us questions! To find out how to join, check out the Stratics announcement here!
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Fansite News:
- [Lake Superior]
- Lake Superior Community's weekly event Schedule
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- Community Meet'n Greet
- Date: Monday, September 29th
- Time: 7:30PM Central
- Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank
- Hosts: Airmid / Sabina Nikolai
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- Vesper Museum Exhibit tours
- Date: Tuesday, September 30th
- Time: 8:00PM Central
- Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank
- Host: Taeara Mi'Aken
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- Peerless hunt (Mondain's Legacy Required)
- Date: Wednesday, October 1st
- Time: 8:00PM Central
- Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank
- Host: Taeara Mi'Aken
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- Dungeon hunt Training Camp
- Date: Wednesday, October 1st
- Time: 8:00PM Central
- Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank
- Host: Dyllon
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- Terathan Keep dungeon crawl
- Date: Thursday, October 2nd
- Time: 8:00PM Central
- Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank
- Host: Taeara Mi'aken
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- Ilshenar Champion Spawn hunt
- Date: Friday, October 3rd
- Time: 9:00PM Central
- Starting Location: Skara Brae Community Center - located next to the bank
- Host: Taeara Mi'Aken
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- Enjoy the experience of playing UO while listening to these live broadcasts from Whispering Rose Radio (http://www.wrrad.com) ...
- Saturday - Sept. 27th - Its time for the ever popular Brush LimpPaw show starting at 2pm PT, 5pm ET on WRR where listeners hear his Universal Outlook on current events as only he can deliver it.
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- Saturday - Sept. 27th - Deal or No Deal ~ 'UO Style' is on the LAKE SUPERIOR shard this week starting at 3pm PST, 6pm ET. Participants will be playing for 10 Million this week and of course there will be 5 - 250k door prize drawings *remember, you must be there to win*. For a map of the WRR DoND location on LAKE SUPERIOR ... CLICK HERE.
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- Saturday - Sept. 27th - LOOT!! LOOT!! LOOT!! If you enjoy the excitement of looting then join the mayhem immediately following the Deal or No Deal show on LAKE SUPERIOR. Catch a gate to the secret LOOT HOUSE hosted by Whispering Rose Radio and tune into WRR to hear the fun. Everyone is eligible to participate in the mayhem, so make a character on LAKE SUPERIOR and join the fun of this free far all LOOTING!!
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- Sunday - Sept. 28th - Its time for the weekly auction with the Pacific Auction House (located just East of the Luna Moongate). Serving the community for over 4 years, the PAH continues to bring players fantastic AUCTION deals. Get there early for best seating. Auction starts at 12pm PT, 3pm ET and is broadcasted live on WRRadio.
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- Thursday - Oct. 2nd - Tune into the Tazz and Keg's Underground show for unique listening fun and excitement airing from 7pm PT - 10pm ET with the WINNER of a $25.00 gift certificate to Gamestop in their special CONTEST for the 'FUNNIEST VIDEOGAME STORY' in 80 words or less being announced!
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- Have a fantastic week with UO & Whispering Rose Radio (www.wrrad.com) ~ see you all on the flip side
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Have a great weekend, everyone, and raise a mug of ale (or an explo pot, if you're a PvPer) to UO's 11th birthday!
- Jeremy