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KR Client vers. 2.48.0.3
Jeremy Dalberg
20 Nov 2007 18:13:22 EST
At 3:15PM PST (11:15PM GMT) on Tuesday, November 20, the Kingdom Reborn client will be updated to version 2.48.0.3. Notes after the jump:


New Features:

• Legacy Art Mode - enable this in Options: User Settings: Graphics, then restart the client to enable
• Fully Moddable UI -
• Substantial number of client optimizations - should run much smoother now
• Improved the guild ui
• Added legacy container art - enable this in Options: User Settings: Graphics (no restart needed for this one)
• Fixed a number of windows that weren't updating properly, ncluding party window, pet window, draggable health bars, and more
• The item properties "blessed" "blessed for playername" and "insured for playername" are now colored blue for increased visibility
• "Macros" and "Actions" are two separate items on the main menu
• Improved the layout of the veteran rewards window
• Improved the animal lore window
• Polished spellbook window
• Polished char creation window
• Improved npc vendor window
• Empty slots on the paperdoll now have a tooltip telling you what goes in it
• Removed the "add by ID" option in the friends list (since there's no way to find an ID, it was not usable)
• Improved the art and functionality of the party window
• Added a line to specify what the target is in the tooltip for a hotbar slot

Chat Improvements:

• The default chat config now only has one tab with all chat in it.
• Added a "reset chat to default" option in settings
• Added /r or /reply command to automatically reply to the last person to send you a /tell
• /tell now requires a comma after the player name (it will also handle multi-word names)
• Shift-left clicking on a line of chat will copy it to the clipboard
• Party, guild, alliance and faction messages will not show as overhead text
• The chat context menus now has a color selection option for text color, overhead chat color, and chat window background color

Map Improvements:

• added a settings:interface item to reset map icons to default
• added 40 new icons for waypoints
• waypoint icons on the map will show sextant coordinates when you mouse over them

UI Improvements and Fixes:

• You can now target a player or creature by clicking the name over their head
• Added a user settings option to use the mouse wheel for targeting - can choose target friendly or target enemy
• Added stat hotbar icons - you can drag off icons from the stats window to your hotbar, where it will display the number of your stat. (mouseover the icon for the name of the stat)
• Health, mana, and stamina stat icons will change when their value is under 10 - the weight icon will glow when you approach your weight limit
• Added dual monitor support - the kr window can now be stretched across two monitors
• Static objects (trees, etc) will now display their name when you click on them
• If you have your bandages in your hotbar, a timer will count down when you use them, telling you how long it will be until the bandage is applied
• Fixed a few bugs with tree foliage not fading correctly
• When you drag a stack of items, the number of items will automatically be selected
• skill icons in your hotbar will now show your skill points in their tooltip
• Made toggle UI, screenshot, toggle circle of transparency, reload ui all configurable keybindings
• Turn off hotbar page flipping if legacy chat is enabled (use shift 0-9 to change hotbars in legacy mode)
• Players can now target items on ther hotbars, provided the item is in their backpack or equiped.
• Added a default targeting for spells, different spells now have a different default target instead of defaulting always to current target.
• Many macros can now be interrupted by the ESC key

General Fixes and Improvements:

• Added decoration in many areas, including the doom gauntlet and serpent's hold
• Shortened the hiryu's tail
• Made giant beetle's beak shorter
• Made ostards' tails shorter
• Tweaked and added a number of creature graphics and animations
• The skills available in Character Creation now match 2d
• Items behind other items should be easier to select in freeform view
• Tweaked appearance of trees to make them blend with the background less

Legacy Art is mentioned separately from legacy containers. I wonder what that is? Maybe my house will look good again? (KR has some blurry, ugly, art)

Wow,Cathat HAS been a busy bee,

I just patched it up and set the containers and art to legacy mode. All I can say is WOW!!! My scrolls, reagents, runebooks, even dyes look normal again!

Best patch I've seen yet. Great job.


BTW my new computer runs KR fine, and I can browse the net while playing. Not bad for $400. (I'm using about 1 gig of my 2 gig ram, and not even 50% of my processors.)

~Edit~
Now if they could just fix the map. (still looks like a drunk kindergarten project)

It's a lot better, aye
Movement is a lot speedier, except in busy areas like Luna, but even that's a huge improvement.

My sound stopped working! Both me and a friend of mine have experienced this. It worked fine last night, I patched a few hours ago and I can't hear UO. Any ideas? or anybody experiencing this, too? It's just not the same without sound.

Same here.Worked fine yesterday, then after patch, my sound does'nt work, as well as other game functions like Forming a party...cant do that either. The sound thing is really getting to me though. I tried updating sound drivers, rolling em back to older versions and so on....the sound dont work anymore, please help.

Yea I didn't get either sound, or music
Apparently it's a known problem.

Ran patch on my wife's machine, now KR just gives black screen... If i hit [alt][tab] to see the programs running it shows some kind of Windows Error message named WARNING!, but you can't see the message since the screen is black... when you hit [esc] or [enter], and check the tasks again.. it says WARNING - Shutting Down... Things were fine until the patch.

Anyone have any ideas, i was just about to do the "Lastest video drivers check".

The temporary fix for that, is on UOHerald.com

If your KR client is set to start in full screen, you may see a completely black screen with an error about a software renderer. We're working on the fix for this, but in the meantime, use the following workaround to get into windowed mode:
- Go into "My Documents", "EA Games", "Ultima Online", "User Data" and open the usersettings.xml file in a text editor.

- In the first line under "Graphics", change fullscreen="true" to fullscreen="false", then save the file.

That should get you going until we can patch out a fix. (Also, the no sound issue? That'll get fixed shortly as well!)