I am really looking forward to this client. This is what is going to bring me back to UO after logging off back in October the last time. I have been keeping my acct open, so I can come back with my house and everything. I am only worried about 1 thing, and that is the movement arrow. It appears that you are dragging your character with an arrow, and I wonder if the reaction time, like turning on a dime will be slowed down. I dont know how to express it in words, but it just appears that you are dragging him around. Anyone else notice this?

Hmmmm, Ill have to go take another look at the vids Bo. It looked to me that it was the same way as it is now, but I wasnt paying all that much attention to it...

More like half that time, 3 months.

Yes, Kingdom Reborn is receiving a lot of praise on Stratics and here, but elsewhere it is getting a rather *meh* reaction and someone said on Stratics that the Japanese community is not happy. EA also committed a huge PR blunder by releasing Alpha game play videos which are really choppy to the press. You should see the comments on gametrailors.com videos.

Until we can actually experience it first hand I can't see how any assumptions can be made ...
it's like someone saying ... *ewww ... pizza is gross ... and yet they never ate a pizza in their life

*true example - my dad thought pizza was gross, and at the age of 52 he had his first bite of one - and loved it


I hope to have a chance to experience the 'beta' process in all this ...

Ditto, Mum - I super hope I get to play the beta!!! I wonder how they choose those people?

For ML it was first some first serve for the "Open Beta." Closed Beta people are *I think* chosen first by how many bug reports they have sent in...

I was realy suprised by the fact that UO would get another upgrade! and to me it looks beautiful. How many uo users are there?? ther has to be some, since they still keep updating the content, and does a major upgrade of the client like this.!

I agree with you totally Adam, I've tried 3D it's not for me ever.

Right now I prefer the 2d look. I'm willing to give KR a shot tho. Can't know if I like it or not unless I try it!

historically, the beta players have been a nod in the direction of QA. Only major game play issues were ever addressed .( I was Uo Third dawn beta tester, and trust me, we ALL noted the problems that exist even now). All other observations are filed under "future fix' and wind up in the gaping QA "Black Hole".

Beta is awesome, because the loot rate is often really high. I was getting 10 super slayers a day in Ilsh when we first started playing.

Of course, that does not take into account the "drowning" probelm, where you would fall through the floor, or the stuck in place problem. Often, you had to log back in on the 2d client, which automagically booted you out of Ilsh, back to a moongate. However, this process (suggested by QA) , resulted in a "help I'm Stuck" count on your account. I was once turned down for a rescue by a GM when I was TRULY stuck because o the amount of these I had to do in the Beta.

Since this is a beta for the new client, and does not include a discrete server area that grants access control ( like moongate menu for Ilsh), I am guessing that closed beta will be via direct connect to an internal server, then open beta will be on a special Test Center publish. No beta testing on production shards for this one.