New UO Expansion coming - focused on ELVES(!)
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 2:00 am
I'm listening to a live radio broadcast from uoradio.com, which broadcasts a speech from the Ultima Online Town Hall meeting in Washington D.C. and apparently the focus of the next UO expansion is... Elves, and "nature". Dryads, druid-spells(?) etc.
Some keywords I'm noting down as I listen:
-New race; Elves!
And humans can become elves since they might have elf-blood in their veins Or something, by doing some quests.
-Racial abilities for elves & humans
-9 new dungeons with entrances from both felucca and trammel (one copy of each dungeon for each facet?)
-New ridables ... a dog/Wolf? and something else
-New wearable clothes/armour/weapons
-New hairstyles
-Hundreds of quests
-Lots of new creatures (For instance squirrels, ferrets, parrots - all tameable btw, tainted unicorns, minotaurs, hydras, changelings, nasty sluglike horrible disgusting thing, )
-Corrosive acid on the ground in some dungeon
-Parrots as house-addons (caged?) which learn more and more speech as they grow older. They eat crackers, make noises, etc.
-Aquariums - You can gather live fish with a special fishing net and add them to your aquarium, and you need to keep the aquarium "fresh" or the fish will die. Watch the quality of the water etc. You can get rare fish by having stuff (?) hatch in your aquarium. hm.
-Some monsters with "disease"-like abilities
-New craftable artifact-quality weapons
-New equipment slot for "talisman items". Different talismans, randomly generated ones, special ones you can earn through your fighting that are high quality artifacts with different properties, like some allow you to summon bandages, summon a pet, debuff an opponent, etc.
-Spellweaving (group spell casting?)
-Collectable NPC ears
-New kinds of harvestable wood
-Recipe-scrolls for crafting, necessary for crafting some things. You can get them from doing quests for craftsmen. Some scrolls are very rare.
-New tinkering-craftable jewlery (through quests)
-Container labelling - "You'll be able to label just about anything". (in your house, I assume)
-A monster that looks like Jabba the hut.
Also, a drunk dood in the audience complained about not having enough skillpoints to create the characters he wanted, and included the word "fucking" in his complaint, which apparently was bad
More to come
Some keywords I'm noting down as I listen:
-New race; Elves!
And humans can become elves since they might have elf-blood in their veins Or something, by doing some quests.-Racial abilities for elves & humans
-9 new dungeons with entrances from both felucca and trammel (one copy of each dungeon for each facet?)
-New ridables ... a dog/Wolf? and something else
-New wearable clothes/armour/weapons
-New hairstyles
-Hundreds of quests
-Lots of new creatures (For instance squirrels, ferrets, parrots - all tameable btw, tainted unicorns, minotaurs, hydras, changelings, nasty sluglike horrible disgusting thing, )
-Corrosive acid on the ground in some dungeon
-Parrots as house-addons (caged?) which learn more and more speech as they grow older. They eat crackers, make noises, etc.
-Aquariums - You can gather live fish with a special fishing net and add them to your aquarium, and you need to keep the aquarium "fresh" or the fish will die. Watch the quality of the water etc. You can get rare fish by having stuff (?) hatch in your aquarium. hm.
-Some monsters with "disease"-like abilities
-New craftable artifact-quality weapons
-New equipment slot for "talisman items". Different talismans, randomly generated ones, special ones you can earn through your fighting that are high quality artifacts with different properties, like some allow you to summon bandages, summon a pet, debuff an opponent, etc.
-Spellweaving (group spell casting?)
-Collectable NPC ears
-New kinds of harvestable wood
-Recipe-scrolls for crafting, necessary for crafting some things. You can get them from doing quests for craftsmen. Some scrolls are very rare.
-New tinkering-craftable jewlery (through quests)
-Container labelling - "You'll be able to label just about anything". (in your house, I assume)
-A monster that looks like Jabba the hut.
Also, a drunk dood in the audience complained about not having enough skillpoints to create the characters he wanted, and included the word "fucking" in his complaint, which apparently was bad
More to come
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