Re: Ultima Online... WTH?


BC wrote:
> Okay, I'm NOT enjoying this game at all. I have tried two shards so far -
> the two with the best response time to my area...
>
> The game has crashed half a dozen times already - and when it's not crashing
> the actual game is slow as hell. Also while I had expected dated graphics,
> I didn't expect something THIS dated - it looks worse than Ultima 7 for
> gawd's sake! And for something looking so dated looking I do NOT expect it
> to be THIS slow. And for a version released a month or two back (the Eighth
> Age) I did not expect something this buggy...
>
> And the actual shards... The first one I tried was Oceania - and it seems
> to be bugged. I am unable to exit the first area - you start off in this
> little basement room thingie, with a stairway going up to the next level.
> There are four rooms surrounding these stairs - I can enter two of the
> rooms, but NOT the other two, and I am unable to go up the stairs - which,
> according to the ingame guide, is what you are supposed to do. I tried
> logging out and then back in, which only made it worse - the ingame guide
> keeps telling me the same directions, asking me to kill this certain
> creature - which I have already done... infact, in total I had killed it
> three times, after which it no longer appeared when I leave and log back in,
> which makes it impossible to follow the guide's directions... After trying
> unsuccessfully for a couple of days, I decided to try another shard.
>
> After a few more crashes, I managed to log onto another shard and create
> myself a new char there. Again it was slow as hell. The interface was
> crap, and the NPC speech are hard as hell to read, with the speech text
> bubble thingie's colour pretty much blending into the annoyingly colourful
> background environments, or being hidden behind my paperdoll...
>
> I know there are some UO fans here - so please tell me... Am I missing
> something? Am I REALLY supposed to pay US$12.99 a month for THIS?
LOL, if you bought UO to actually pay for it, then you're really
clueless about MMORPGs.
A few things:
- If you have UO, cancel the subscription and connect to a free
server, there are many out there, just do a google search for free UO
server or something
- For a much better experience, try City of Heroes or World of
Warcraft, you will pay $15/month, but these games are hundreds of light
years ahead of UO

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