Update November 8, 2014 - ML Weapon Specials, Doom Guardians

[Eos]

The following changes will be in effect after server wars tonight:

• Added missing ML weapon abilities.
  
  Note: some of these abilities have changed during Stygian Abyss on OSI, and may therefore not resemble the mechanics described on UOGuide.
  
  The weapon abilities are:
  
  • Bladeweave
    The warrior becomes one with their weapon, allowing it to guide their hand. The effects of this attack are unpredictable, but effective.
    
  • Force Arrow
    The archer focuses their will into an arrow of pure force, dazing their enemy. Dazed enemies are temporarily easier to hit, and sometimes forget who they are attacking.
    
  • Lightning Arrow
    A charged arrow that arcs lightning into its target's allies.
    
  • Psychic Attack
    Temporarily enchants the attacker's weapon with deadly psychic energy, allowing it to damage the defender's mind and their ability to inflict damage with magic.
    
  • Serpent Arrow
    Fires a snake at the target, poisoning them in addition to normal damage with a successful hit. The archer must be skilled in poisoning and nimble of hand to achieve success.
    
  • Force of Nature
    Enfuses the attacker with Nature's Fury, granting them unparalleled strength. This dangerous channeling causes leafy vines to violently erupt from beneath the attacker's skin, dealing substantial physical and poison damage to them.
    
• Newer clients will now have their weapon ability requests converted from the overhauled OSI system to the Demise values. This fixes abilities on: Sai, Tessen, Nunchaku, Club, Gnarled Staff, Skinning Knife.
  
• The Maul and War Mace weapon abilities have been reverted to their ML values.
  
  
• Added the Doom guardian room.
  
  
• Fixed character statue deeds' "Restore" feature to retain equipment.
• Character statues will no longer delete themselves if the sculpter is deleted, or if they're in a house being customized.
  
  
• Orc Choppers no longer spawn stacks of 0 items.
  
  
• Exorcism no longer uses virtual subserver boundaries for finding corpses. If you have a corpse, anywhere in the world, a champion spawn will not kick your ghost.
  
  
• Added support for the EquipLastWeapon client macro, for faster switching between weapons. (Code submitted by @Reximus, thank you!)

In addition to these changes, we identified and fixed a memory leak issue last week, which was causing latency further into the week. This should no longer cause any problems.

Any comments or questions are welcome below. If you experience any bugs, please report them here!

 

[Sgt.Slaughter]

thank you very much for the work EoS!!

 

[Necrodog]

Awesome work, EoS. Keep the goodness coming

 

[Two Wolves]

Who can explain changes to Skinning Knife to me, thank you.

 

[Eos]

Who can explain changes to Skinning Knife to me, thank you.

If you're running a publish 81+ client, the skinning knife's Disarm move has been replaced by Bleed Attack. Before, you would not be able to use either abilities, because of the mismatch with the server. Now, you will be able to do the Disarm move on both old and new clients.

 

[mantorras]

In addition to these changes, we identified and fixed a memory leak issue last week, which was causing latency further into the week. This should no longer cause any problems.

I did experience some latency last week, enough to sometimes stopping me from playing. But I thought it was due to Halloween town. Now it's better but I am still having an extra 200ms lag spike every now and then.

 

[Hagnok]

t y

 

[Craudiator]

Great!

 

[Grezz GreenWood]

Pretty awesome, great job on the specials! Thank you!

 

[Kayne89]

I'll miss the old Gnarled Staff specials.. kind of funny how using it in UOS used the old ability even with the new artwork.

Thanks for the work I'm most excited for EquipLastWep

 

[Bama]

Added support for the EquipLastWeapon client macro, for faster switching between weapons. (Code submitted by @Reximus, thank you!)

This is nothing but


WIN!!!!!!

 

[Slugworth]

This is nothing but
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WIN!!!!!!

This server tends to be getting more and more automated every week.

 

[hickman48]

This server tends to be getting more and more automated every week.

This is the in game weapon swap afaik lets you ignore item delay move to switch to your last weapon with a hotkey built right into uo.

 

[Slugworth]

This is the in game weapon swap afaik lets you ignore item delay move to switch to your last weapon with a hotkey built right into uo.

So it's better than having a requip hotkey?

 

[hickman48]

So it's better than having a requip hotkey?

In a way it lets you swap to your last weapon so only super great if you run two weapons you ignore item delay so lets you do other things with that delay.

 

[Slugworth]

In a way it lets you swap to your last weapon so only super great if you run two weapons you ignore item delay so lets you do other things with that delay.

Gotcha, just makes it super easy to keep swapping between two weps.

 

[hotmunks]

grats

 

[Americana]

Awesome updates. Serpent arrow, while not crazy effective, is super duper cool!