People's Army of Sonoma

For those who don't frequent stratics.

- UOKR releases spring, UOSA releases summer
- UOKR is free
- UOKR is only a client/graphic upgrade... no new content
- UOAssist will NOT work with UOKR
- Legacy clients retired when adoption of UOKR is "around 95%"
- Will have an updated New Player experience
- Beta will be "pretty open" and lots of people should get in
- Some shard-specific GM placed objects may not make the UOKR transfer
- You can zoom waaay out, but this may not make it into the game
- You can also zoom waaay in, but they are going to lock it before the graphics start to look too pixelated
- Character sheet will display ALL relevent character data (HCI, LRC, etc)
- Backpack is now a window, with items and names listed in rows
- You can still drag to and from backpack
- They may institute double-clicking items to loot them
- Mentioned a Loot All button and people immediately jumped on them...
- Classic interface is a maybe
- Hotbars are not movable right now, but may be
- Planning for 5 total hotbars, maybe more if needed
- No more random icons on the screen
- Potion in a hotbar will link to the next like potion when used
- Paperdoll has a seperate Clothes and Armor tab to make management easier. This does NOT affect the current system or the layering system.
- UI Skinning a possibility, but not at release of UOKR
- 512MB memory recommended, some success with 256MB
- 3D Effects will all have sliders to turn up or down
- Targeting is a whirly 3D effect
- New spells all looked reminiscent of their former selves... not a disco upgrade
- Earth Elementals are HUGE... they throw bolders now?
- They are referencing the original design docs of critters as they upgrade
- They hope to stick with a Teen rating with new graphics

- UO Stygian Abyss is going to be a full content expansion
- Gargoyles will be the new race
- Gargoyle females will be explained
- Gargoyles will do "cool stuff" in the game
- Hints that crafters will appreciate this expansion

- If anything, the Dev team walked away knowing that people want anything that could possibly be stackable, stackable

- Some PvP redirect...

- Legacy client and UOKR client seem like they will be protected by the same anti-cheat method on release. Darkscribe wouldn't talk much about it, but impressed that the legacy client wouldn't continue to be a scripter/duper's haven.

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Great information ... thanks for posting it for us!

So, will Kingdom Reborn DL as a patch or is there going to be a site to DL it?

It will have to be a site download or a cd for it. It's a whole new client.

I don't like how the new game looks. I am going to stick with the 2d client as long as I can.

Doesn' use UO Assist, WTF!!

Yes yes Rex, you don't like any client but the 2d client blah blah blah

yeah rex I was freaking out, I hate the new backpack, I hate the idea of hotbars....

I just wanna know if I can still macro cast any spell I want too, or am I limited to 8 or 10 at a time?

The only saving grace is a "classic" interface.

I swear, they break my Arm/Disarm ability, my casting ability, and so on?

I'd be really really pissed.

Really pissed.

I hope they don't.

I like the idea that they are going to make more things stackable and I hope the crafter stuff is cool.

I have to agree with rex on the backpack part because I like being able to look in my backpack and see what is there instead of list. I don't play this game to read everything. I've worked to hard learning certain aspects to have to learn them all over again.

I also don't like the idea that UOassist isn't going to work. Glad I didn't buy it for all accounts now but I was just getting ready to buy for Haplo and Dhrall. Well this information is great because you just saved me at least $30.

They put the video of the town hall up.....you can check the first one out here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxfdnH0F ... er&search= Once that one is done check the tab of all vids by the user and the rest should appear

Hope this is not gonna mess with my mining too much...

UOassist will not work with 3D client, but it will still work with the 2D client correct? Cause if it won't work on the 2D client I'm gonna be pissed, cause I just paid the $15 fee.

Sir William wrote:UOassist will not work with 3D client, but it will still work with the 2D client correct? Cause if it won't work on the 2D client I'm gonna be pissed, cause I just paid the $15 fee.

According to one of the minions on the stratics forums they have heard from tuggsoft and tugg plans on reworking UOAssist to work with the KR client. In any case they are not planning on getting rid of the 2d and 3d clients untill the new client has about 95% adoption rate. Not worried about that happening anytime soon........

I just wanna see the new client in action on my machine......looks nice so far...