Ultima Online

Ultima Online
Developers: Origin Systems (1997-2004), Electronic Arts (2004-06), Mythic Entertainment (2006-14), Broadsword (2014-present) Publisher: Electronic Arts Platform: Windows Released internationally: September 24, 1997 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article

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Ultima Online is one of the longest-running MMORPGs to date, to the point of outliving the original RPG series that inspired it. It continues to survive throughout the decades, having gone through client changes, multiple changes in developers, and even an unexpected assassination of Lord British.

To do: Revisional differences, which will very likely need a subpage given the whole "this game's been around for 25 years" thing.

Sub-Pages

Prototype Info

Unused Mobs

Sea Horse

Mob Number: 144
Although it has a proper 3D model, its 2D sprite is that of a horse (the equus ferus caballus) with a blue palette. Present since the Third Dawn expansion. The developers intended for the player to ride one, but numerous technical and gameplay balancing issues prevented it from being included.

Komodo Dragon

Mob Number: 134
Its appearance is similar to the Lava Lizards, but grey. Present since the Third Dawn expansion.

Paladin

Mob Number: 141
Using the 2D client, this mob uses a default male sprite. The 3D model has a proper set of armor.

"Multi Colored Hoarde Daemon"

Mob Number: 999
Hidden at the end of the list of mobs is a multi-colored version of the Horde Daemon (itself not seen in its large form). Although its art has been present in the game since Lord Blackthorn's Revenge and it has a full set of animations, it has never been encountered in the game.

Unused Graphics

Gump Number: 0
An old title screen for the game, which gets replaced by a newer title screen when booting the game.

Gump Number: 8
A very old character status menu, dating back to the alpha period.

Gump Number: 1010
Leftover main menu screen from the Second Age expansion.

Gump Number: 1040
Leftover log-in screen from the Second Age expansion.

Placeholder Text

Present at 0x2A7DF4 in client.exe.

This is the title
20 byte input field
Wee Dee
Pee Wee
To buy a chicken-head.
I went to the market
Title

Lemme tell ya a story about signs.  
Once a sign existed, and it had stuff written on it.  
See, signs aren't very exciting.

Version String

Present at 0x2B8C70.

Play uV/uV2 Version 1.45, Martin Griffiths, Electronic Arts UK 1997

Unused Config Options

The following options are recognized as options by the game still, but for one reason or another aren't set by any current clients:

• Cdkey
• FrameCounter
• InternalServer
• RuntimeDebugMsg

Revisional Differences

• The Third Dawn expansion introduced a 3D client.
• The game originally used MIDI files for its soundtrack. However, since versions dating back at least to the Lord Blackthorn's Revenge expansion, these have been replaced with MP3 of varying bitrates (64 to 160 kbps).

Oddities

Uomax.cfg contains a single reference to "Multima" in its CD-ROM data path name. This was an early codename for the game.