/v/ - Video Games

>SWTOR goes free to play

>/v/ criticizes it

>UO goes free to play

>/v/ loves it

>>14615137

>/v/ loves it

You came to this conclusion based on only OP and 1 post from the thread.

I don't even think you did that because the first post isn't even praising it.

>>14615136

I actually resubbed a month ago prior to the Free to Play. The community seems pretty supportive, conflict is generally between guilds and certain pvpers.

I've mainly been doing Champion Spawns and Shadowguard (High end PvE content) which comes from the latest expansion (Time of Legends) which is based off Ultima Savage Empires, cave people and dinosaurs everywhere, the dungeon itself is related to a time travelling evil sorceress.

>>14615182

How does combat even work in a game like this? Are there even attack animations?

>>14615200

Yeah sure there are animations, theres a new Enhanced Client which is much better now, though those used to the Classic can still use it.

Mouse movement, hotkeys to activate abilities or cast spells, target via clicking or tab targeting.

>>14615270

Its an old game, so that's all content not graphics.

Lemme know what server you'll be going to, happy to make a character to run around with ya.

>>14615368

It's ok, most already ran away and invaded Oceanic.

I've always, ALWAYS wanted to play this but I missed it's prime. Do I dare lose my life to this? I'd be going in alone, I don't even have online friends and am so autistic I don't think I can can even make online friends.

>>14615137

SWTOR is a shitty WoW/EQ Clone.

UO was innovative and is still different to 99% to all other MMOs today.

>>14615148

Haven't seen any BRs yet, yet….

>>14615120

>No Classes: Make your own character

>No Levels: Your skills go up via usage and your stats go up by relevant skill usage. E.g. STR goes up with mining.

>Crafting: Combat items, furniture for housing, consumables.

>Theft: Steal Items from peoples back packs or their pack animals. Steal decorations from dungeons.

>Treasure Hunting:Treasure hunting system to locate and dig up treasure boxes.

>High Seas: Sail, fight or pirates for bounty system, fight orc navy, sea monsters, deep sea fishing for treasures.

>Housing: Non-instanced housing. Some people play the sims with this. Some people create huge department stores to sell their crafts and loots. A few players have created public Rune Librarys (Teleportation locations around the whole world).

This sounds more advanced than current mmos today despite being released in the 90s, what the hell happened to them? Why on earth did they take a huge step backwards?

>>14615436

3D graphics.

>>14615406

This game isn't like your typical MMO where you login and have a daily list of tasks to do. You can spend as much or as little time as you want.

Solo vs Group.

Most of this game is soloable. The only thing you may need a group for is certain Champion Spawns and Big Bosses, and even then those are still soloable depending on build and/or gear you have. All other activities are solo-able

As free to play you only have 2 Character slots and no house. I'd advise against playing a crafter as you'll need to hoard resources. Archery is a great starting point for a complete noob with no resources.

There are 3 build types that can solo the vast majority of content in this game.

Firstly is the Samurai Vampire. Not recommended due to being so gear dependant.

Skills: Weapon/Tactics/Parrying/Bushido/Necromancy/Chivalry/Spell Resist or Anatomy/

The build is a warrior type build, but with no healing as you'll be using Vampire Form from learning Necromancy to leech life.

This is heavily gear dependent though. You'll need gear for fast attack speed, mana leech, stamina leech along with the other typically sought after melee stats, hit chance increse, damage increase, defense chance increase etc.

Secondly is the Tamer. I don't recommend this unless you're very patient. This skill takes a long time to train.

Skills: Animal Taming/Animal Lore/Veterinary/

There is plenty of free skill points to do whatever else you want. Most people will either hybrid Bard or Mage, some will be archers or warriors to fight with their pets. You can tame and train any beast in the game. Animal Training actually has more customization than players due to the lack of gear for the animals.

Thirdly is the ABC Archer. Though not the very best of the best, it can still solo most content and doesn't require gear to get started.

Skills: Archery/Bushido/Chivalry/Tactics/Anatomy/Healing

Spare skill points to do whatever you want.

Fourth is Mages, you can get started as long as you have 100% lower reagent cost on your gear.

Spells in this game cost various reagents depending on the spell. To save money and bag space you'll need to wait until you acquire 100% lower reagent cost which isn't too hard just takes some time/luck or you can try and ask other players, people just give this shit away. There are a few schools of magic and the difference is drastic, it's not like most MMOs where the difference between magic is just the colour. Some people try to be generalist mages picking up al the schools of magic, some focus on 1 or 2 and have all their supporting skills attached. Some people will pick 1 school of magic for utility purposes and none of their supporting skills for example the sampire build first listed has only necromancy for vampiric form and not its supporting skill spirit speak.

I played UO from the beta to the first expansion. Using Herding to lead someone's horse out of town, wait for it to go wild and then tame it for sale. Taming all the creatures around a town, getting them all into the inn and creating a macro that told them all to talk… people would log in, be unable to move, get frustrated, attacking a tamed creature and get killed by guards. Getting onto boats, taking control and spinning them around and around while the owner was unable to move. I hope you can still have fun in UO.

>>14615506

You can do this on the Siege Perilous or Mugen server. You can still do this on regular servers but only in the Felucca Facet. Felucca facet has better resources harvesting and loot to attract people to it. Felucca is also the only way to get powerscrolls so theres always mischief and pvp there.

I used to play a thief/poisoner. I'd go buy some meat from a butcher, poison them all and then go and suicide at popular hunting areas. The monsters would loot my corpse, including the meat. After contaminating the monsters loot with poisoned food I'd stealth nearby and wait for people to eat the poisoned food. The areas I targeted were normally mid skilled player so they'd die from the deadly poison eventually. Then I'd just go up to their corpse and take whatever they farmed.

>>14615528

>>14615506

I liked to sit near britain bank with my bags filled with containers that were explosive traped. It was funny watching those bad thieves kill themselves from trying to steal from me.

>>14615137

>(1) and done generalization based off of absolutely nothing of substance

The kikes are getting uppity with these derail attempts.

What server you fucks are at?

>>14615768

I play on Oceania coz I am an Aussie. But I'm happy to make a new character to tag along with tou guys.

>>14615788

Oceania it is then.

>>14615793

Alrighty I'll get a character over to the starter town of New Haven.

>>14615799

Select New haven.

>>14615797

>>14615802

Oh shit. New heaven it is then.

Name's Nobunaga. It's amazing how game let me use something like that.

I'll be figuring out controls in the starting area.

>>14615813

>>14615813

I'm the pale person on horse

>>14615136

Yes but the only sensible way to play is on a freeshard not on the official servers. Modern UO is a mess.

Well this game kinda feels like ragnarok online but more fluid.

>>14616064

apparnetly you can rent storage, im a subscriber so I don't know. I had to make a new account to figure out the buying for some other anons that were playing with me.

>>14616064

Well you can zoom in and out.

There is a 3D version of this game?

>>14616064

Classic Client still available. There is a newer 3D client which people actually use. Unlike the other shitty ones that no-one used the split for this new client is about 60% Enhanced 40% Classic.

The enhanced client comes with modern ui and many improvements. Including grid bag, list bag, many features that came from razor, uoassist and uomap built in. The biggest update is slight pathing, so it's easier to go around random objects like trees or around corner of buildings.

>>14616253

No-one plays UO Classic client without a thirdparty assist program.

For whatever reason alot of players pay for one called uoassist.

There is a free one that I think is actually better called razor.

https://www.uorazor.com/

It has similar functionality to the Enhanced client and more. Macros are superior using this tool too. You can use boolean logic.

>>14616253

Being an Aussie I play on Oceanic, but if you're on another shard I am happy to make a character to tag along with you. Just lemme know where you end up.

>>14616278

Are you naked woman on a horse? Because I think we already played today a bit. Otherwise you could be our 3rd.

I'm just appalled how better classic one looks compared to supposedly updated one.

>>14616293

Yes

>>14616126

>grid bag

>list bag

Fucking casuals.

>>14615120

>Wanting to play cancerous EA servers

No thanks, shards that run older UO versions are popular for a reason - EA's nuUO a shit

>>14615120

>cant have bank

>cant gather rare resources

>cant use mailbox

They should make the game free and sell cosmetics and extra character slots and bank vaults… Playing as 2nd class scum doesn't sound appealing.