Many many pretty fixes in store for people!

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KR Client Patch 2.45.3.3
Jeremy Dalberg
15 Jun 2007 18:39:03 EST
Patch 2.45.3.3 to the Kingdom Reborn Beta Client will be deployed at 2:30 PDT (9:30 GMT) on Friday, June 15th . This patch contains the following changes:

Changes:

- If your system does not have a video card capable of hardware Transform and Lighting, you will get a popup asking if you would like to run that feature via software. This will allow you to run KR, though with significantly reduced performance.
- improved player pathing (walking around objects)
- mana and skill requirements now show up on spell icon tooltips
- Character Profiles are now available as a tab on the paperdoll
- Added “sitting” animation (Known Issues: there are still some clipping issues with sitting - we're on it.)
- Chat windows are now resizable
- Added a chat help button
- Improved performance on some lower-end video cards
- Added a “legacy keybinding” button to the user preferences – you can now reset your keybindings to either KR default or 2D default
- Health, mana and stamina now show numerically on the player stat mini-bar. There is a setting in the options menu to change whether the numbers always display or only on mouseover
- “Stones” is back!
- Added a number of particle effects to various actions and objects
- The macro icon window should now close automatically when the macro window closes
- At the end of the tutorial when the player character reaches the New Haven town entrance,Gwen will add a radar waypoint to the appropriate guildmaster for the player character. If the character is a custom/advanced character, Sir Helper will be highlighted instead.
- NPC vendor gump displays the player’s available gold at the bottom of the gump
- Mob health bars should be larger and easier to manipulate
- Added 4 new macro actions
- Cursor Target Self (when you have a target cursor and you use this action, it will select yourself)
- Cursor Target Last (when you have a target cursor and you use this action, it will select the last thing you selected with a target cursor)
- Cursor Target Current (when you have a target cursor and you use this action, it will select the current target)
- Use Targeted Object (uses the object)


Bug Fixes:

- removed the visible outline around creature’s shadows
- fixed several issues with terrain not displaying correctly
- Fixed several issues with the customized housing tool
- Fixed issue with shadows when teleporting
- When teleporting to new areas, the player should no longer rubberband through doors.
- Macros should save correctly
- Fixed a bug that sometimes made it impossible to move items
- Fixed a bug where canceling a keybinding change would cause in to revert to default
- Players should not be able to set identical keybindings for multiple actions
- Fixed a bug that would allow players to appear to drag hair, beards, and faces off of paperdolls.
- Fixed issues with several gumps
- Fixed bug preventing equipped items from being dragged to the backpack via the backpack icon on the paperdoll
- Added HP, mana, and stamina to the character sheet
- The Stabled Pets gump should display pets correctly
- Buff/Debuff icons and their tooltips should display correctly
- Polished many housing tiles
- The horizontal scrollbar in the macro creation window should scroll properly as you add items to the macro
- The Skills description window in character creation should no longer get cut off at the bottom
- Dungeons will now appear correctly on the radar map
- Cloaks should fit better on female characters
- Polished the guild tools gumps
- Tweaked and polished many monsters
- Improved definition of knives, forks and spoons
- The color picker on character creation should not obscure the character and is now movable
- Polished character creation windows
- Norse helm and bascinets should display correctly (they had been swapped)
- Fixed bug that could potentially break an Equip Item macro
- Race Selection buttons are now correctly disabled if the player does not have Mondain’s Legacy
- Polished the Faction Stone gumps
- The Lava Serpent is no longer teeny
- Tweaked nightsight brightness
- Elven hair should display properly
- The sun has risen! The world should appear brighter in KR
- The “Two Tails” hairstyle should display correctly
- Holes in ship masts for the largest ships should now be resolved
- Fixed several issues with Help Menu choices not working properly – also removed the duplicate Bug Report option


Crash Bugs Fixed:

- Fixed a crash in the credits
- Fixed a crash when retrieving pets from the stable
- Fixed a bug that caused graphics corruption/crashes under certain circumstances
- Fixed memory leaks
- Heating stands should display correctly and should no longer cause a crash
- Fixed a crash that happened when Mirror Image wears off while mounted.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when using moongates
- Fixed a crash related to opening new hotbars
- Fixed a crash related to teleporting while opening a container

I tried it tonight... the graphics look *much* sharper, kudos to the developers for fixing that. It really is a thousand times better, if anything its too bright.

Unfortunately, I cannot play it. I got 4 crashes in about 5 minutes of play. Something is wrong here (I was able to play the last version for maybe an hour or so until I got crashes). Bummer.

I'm redownloading the KR client to give it another shot....

Im patching quite slowly, as we speak!

Patch is about 147Mb from what I can tell...

I tried it tonight and all my ground is gone. I see the buildings but all ground covering is simply black screen. (It doesn't look brighter to me )

*posting some problems reported and some responses from Jeremy.*

well after all that mine STILL crashes after everything loads.. i get no popup asking anything about using another program to run it.



If you submit the windows crash report the developers will be able to pinpoint what is causing it. Someone else will have to write up the process, I don't remember the details.

Adia, what kind of system specs do you have?


E. Jeremy Dalberg
UO Community Coordinator
EA Mythic

my system is kinda old but here goes:

Windows XP - Svs Pack 2 (all updates done)
Pentium 4CPU 2Ghz
2.00 GHZ, 768MB Ram
SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
Video is Intel Integrated 2D-3D supported, and the latest version of Direct X which I think is 9 or 10

Edit: Heres mys Display ... Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller


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My machine still crashes too upon log in... I have to use my OWN software to get KR to work. No pop up from you guys anywhere.

Interesting, the crashes never started until a week before open beta for me, and I could use KR FINE before that patch.

Also... cloaks on females are now MESSED UP. It layers over their bodies.

Uhm, thanks? lol

In addition the world went from being DARK to BRIGHT. BRIGHT BRIGHT. Care to just find that 'happy medium'? It is like you went from one way alllll the way to the other.

A bad, bad, bad, bad patch so far.

Seriously and honestly, do you pass this stuff through QA?

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Agreed.. the "brighter world" sucks. Change it back. Made everything go from looking bearable to looking whited out and ugly.

And my lag problems are, for the record, completely unchanged.

Also, because the world is so damn bright, the weather effects are almost invisible.

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Ummm... the numbers on the health bar (hp/mana/stam graphics bar tool tip) are all the same "114/11". Must be the new Britannian counting system.

Oh, and it's really really... bright. Polar bear, ow ow ow.

I noticed some moving light thing near my house on the ground, almost like sun through a tree... is that happening or is it just a glitch?


Oy, forgot to put in the known issue about health bar numbers - namely, that if they're in the triple digits, weird things happen.

Send in bug reports that the T&L fix appears not to have worked. It did what it was supposed to for us... but, well, that's why we're in beta.

Brightness explanation forthcoming, and floaty lights... i have no idea. They're pretty, aren't they?


.........................Just a reminder, please keep sending in feedback on this stuff! We track it weekly so we can easily see which patch gets which reaction, and it's very handy having this stuff in that format.



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Before this patch, it was about 50% shot my ground floor floortiles would appear, now it's 0%.

Singing Crystal Balls do not have a tooltip when moused over (like other items)

Fire Beetles have lost ALL definition as the gamma setting is so high that it all blends into one bright yellow blob.

LastObject does not seem to want to work


My Obsidian Pillar is on FIRE?!?!?


where do we go to report the bug for the T&L popup not working? I dont remember the email address.


Edit: Also where do we send the windows error report?


[url= ]uobeta@ea.com is the email addy for all things KR and buggy, if you can't get to the in-game tool.

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More like 1/4th of the way between then and now, though I found the original to be perfect.

For those of you wondering what we're talking about, here's a pic:


It is literally impossible to adjust your monitor to that.. if I tried to I wouldn't be able to make out any other windows applications.



Eep, Crysta, that's definitely on the far side of the scale

(Short version: we know it will be way bright for some people, we're still workin on it)

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I have some questions about the weather system in UO:KR, does the rain and things like snow have sound effects to go along with them? Yeah its cool that it rains and snows but where is the howling wind and the sound of rain hitting the ground and the sound of snow?

Also, is the weather system a regional thing (meaning on the server side or on the client side)? Reason I ask is because when it rains for me I hope it is raining for everyone else as well.

Another thing, I love how "Stones" has been added back into the game for the Introduction theme however I would like it to sound a bit more classic like it sounded in the old days. Much thanks and keep up the great job!



Rowan, sound stuff is mostly coming. And I believe the weather systems are server-side as well as client-side.

And Flutter, if you read the posts I've made on the matter, you will understand that just because it looked fine to you, does not mean that it looked fine to everyone else - it actually displays differently, to a fairly startling degree, on different monitors. Which is why we're tweaking it - and why this change is not the final one.


. and why there should be a slider rather than specific tweaks by the devs. KR client obviously can't be set properly to please everyone, so let us decide what it should be on our own.



That's what we realized mid-this-tweak, actually - well, we realized that we couldn't make a chance that looked consistent, so we are actually fixing that problem hopefully next week. (We do need a degree of internal control over brightness in order to do neat things with lighting that actually look neat, and not either suicide-inducing or eye-searing)


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Im having some problems with the lighting as well but im sure its fixable

I'm getting the floaty lights that one person mentioned. I figured it was supposed to be like from the sun, or a cloud or some such.

Since the patch, my female elf always appears half naked too. :/

The zoom function is most pleasing, atlast I can use more than 800x600
yes, the "here comes the sun" makes _everything_ look so much better, however a little tone darker perhaps on some things perhaps.