Barbs are overpowered, exhibit B

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Originally Posted by Signatus

/me inserts *named game* on google search... I'm a multiclassing addicted...

This game is long dead, my friend, or I wouldn't be playing Regnum. The bastards, they killed UO! It still runs but it has few things in common with the awesome and original game, which is simply the best multiplayer game ever made. It's crazy that being the first famous MMORPG and inspiration of all the first-gen MMOs, it is still unequaled, but it was awesome.

I know that 95% of those who played UO from beta (Shattered Legacy) to UO:Renaissance (2000) agree with me... if you search a bit on the net there are still tons of nostalgia threads on the pure awesomeness of UO before renaissance. You see, dev teams change, patches are made, games are ruined, (online) lives are broken . I will forever resent Electronic Arts for ruining Origin Systems and UO.

There are a few "private shards", ie amateur UO servers, aiming to recreate the best eras of UO, the original (the shard is called UO: Demise) and the best era imho, the second age (the shard is called UO: Divinity). Those shards are mostly PvP oriented, however the problem is that they lack the original numbers and community of UO (200k active accounts at the good times, and no kids, mostly mature players). Ahhhhh how I loved this game. It's like having played Chrono Trigger or FF6 and all the game copies get destroyed, and you know you will never be able to play them again... UO was that good, or maybe even better, and shared with thousands of players at any given time.

[Froste]

Originally Posted by magnet

It's crazy that being the first famous MMORPG and inspiration of all the first-gen MMOs, it is still unequaled, but it was awesome.

Couldn't agree more, you know they even had a linux client, at least under Origin, of course when EA invaded and replaced all the origin staff with EA-drones, the linux client was quickly discontinued. Fuck EA.

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Originally Posted by Froste

Couldn't agree more, you know they even had a linux client, at least under Origin, of course when EA invaded and replaced all the origin staff with EA-drones, the linux client was quickly discontinued. Fuck EA.

Yeah I remember that, but at the time I was a Windows 98-running drone (still, I had RH on dual boot to program websites in PHP2-FI lol). Anyway, the current client runs perfectly under Wine, the only problem is that most 3rd party programs that make the game more enjoyable don't.

These few years I have made two hops back to Europa, my home server.

First was in january 2003 I think, three years after leaving. The game had been disfigured and was an incredible mess. I played for three months then OSI decided to increase the monthly fee to $15 (while it had been $9.90 since ever!). Not only I wasn't satisfied with what the game had become or where it was going, but they increased the price! That's what I put in the "reason to leave" form after clicking the "close account" button.

The second time was in 2005 or 2006 using the "Return to Britannia" operation, which gives you 7 free days back into your account. Actually I had two accounts and used another coupon from a friend (it worked on active accounts, lol), so I played there 3 weeks... or more like, I had my account active for three weeks. I actually could only play a few days because I was completely lost in the ocean of flashy fluorescent colors (now available to players as teinture), new über items (as if they hadn't ruined the game enough by creating a non-PvP copy of the map) and *incredibly shitty community*.

That was the worst part:

In 99 you'd go out with your guild, kill mobs in dungeons. I have never been a PvE guy but it was more a social convention and in UO, everyone had to pay for supplies (reagents for mages, arrows for archers, repairs, new player-made stuff, etc) so we killed mobs for money... and for the unpredictable adrenaline rush when those Player Killers would show up. Oh we were waiting for them, ready to give our best and own their asses. Sometimes, a player I'd meet wouldn't say "hello", and being offended as Pai Mei crossing path with Shaolin monks, I would kill him for his lack of politeness.

But in this new UO, people wouldn't speak together anymore. The French community, which was awesome in the old times, was now filled with insufferable 15 years old (the age I had when I played UO and I don't remember being such childish and writing in sms-speech). The only fun I had was some roleplay nights in dungeons with Aussies and American players. Those guys were awesome but hardly enough for me to remain in a game now so tainted.

Ha. So many anecdotes. So many wonderful people from every place, from every style. A wonderful and unequaled game system. A huge, huge world filed with towns, dungeons. No limit to what we could do -- whether it was cut some branches from a tree, light a fire, and cook some steak from a cow you just killed, then eat it, or steal from other players, hide and stalk people, decorate or build your house (later you could even make your own house plans), or kill your neighbors, a city guard -- WHATEVER. The PvP was awesome. But most of all: what would happen to you in Britannia was unpredictable.

[Znurre]

Ever heard of Iris2? A 3D OU client built upon the Ogre3D engine.

This project is very promising, I have tried the client and it works great even if it currently lacks features.
It works on Linux, Windows and MacOS

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Originally Posted by Znurre

Ever heard of Iris2? A 3D OU client built upon the Ogre3D engine.

This project is very promising, I have tried the client and it works great even if it currently lacks features.
It works on Linux, Windows and MacOS

I just saw what it is; there have been many attempts at no-OSI controlled UO clients so far. I must admit I'm a shameless fan of the original "UOGold" 2D client, back when the opening gump was a chest opening into the virtual world and jewels as buttons

[Froste]

Meh, I've been waiting for iris since its first inception, it does proceed but not very fast. I never played the old OSI servers, I only played freeshards (Elysium, New Elysium, Nemesis, DraygonFyre), but it was great, and I miss it. If you want you can check out a bunch of my old screenshots here (:

[Miraculix]

Originally Posted by Froste

Meh, I've been waiting for iris since its first inception, it does proceed but not very fast. I never played the old OSI servers, I only played freeshards (Elysium, New Elysium, Nemesis, DraygonFyre), but it was great, and I miss it. If you want you can check out a bunch of my old screenshots here (:

http://www.fagotten.org/grifter/uo/o...x/cybersex.jpg

LAAAME

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Originally Posted by Froste

Meh, I've been waiting for iris since its first inception, it does proceed but not very fast. I never played the old OSI servers, I only played freeshards (Elysium, New Elysium, Nemesis, DraygonFyre), but it was great, and I miss it. If you want you can check out a bunch of my old screenshots here (:

Whose are the screenshots from Atlantic, Pacific and Europa then? I knew malic on one of those screenshots .

And btw the house scam was fun; but really you had to be quite stupid to get scammed.

[Ironfoot]

off topic a bit, ha?

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shhh if it goes off topic then the developers wont take the people seriously. then the barbs will be saved and wont be nerferd again...