Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:
Game Development
- Launch is Here!
- The Making of Quel Shardfall
- Heraldry Items (cont.)
- The Wood & Stone Inn (craftable)
- Monthly Livestream: R51 Rewards: Darkstarr Themed!
- Don’t Fear the Reaper: Use the Cowbell!
- Spring 2018 Items (cont.)
News Announcements
- Q2 2018 Schedule Update
- 2-Week Double XP Launch Spree!
- Monthly Livestream: Release 52 – April 6, 2018 (NEW DATE)
- Lot Deed Monthly Raffle Returns!
- R52 QA Testing Incentive Winners
- GDC ’18 Ultima Online 20 Year Postmortem
- NPC Submission Requests: Brittany Wharfs and Northwood
- The Ambassadors Program: How You Can Help
- Free Trial: Choose Any Path!
- Weekend Flash Sale: Emotes!
- Upcoming Events Calendar
Community Updates
- Events: Launch Parties and a Welcome Quest
- Screenshot Contest: Impressions of New Britannia
- The Avatar’s Puzzle Box – A Week of Puzzling Contests
- Community Livestream: Northwood and a Quest
- SOTACON 2018 Convention Announced! Oct. 11-13, 2018
- Recommended Project to Support: The Saga of Lucimia MMORPG
- Resources: Players Helping Players
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues (Episode 1) (aka Release 52) successfully launched, leaving Early Access this past Tuesday, March 27, with thousands of players downloading, patching, and logging in to check out the launch version! There’s lots of new content to explore, including:
- Framerate Improvements
- Scene Rebuilds: South Boundless Forest, Northwood, Blood River Forest, Quel Shardfall
- Companions
- Multiple Characters
- Heraldry
- Offline Spawning Rules
- Story Polish
- More Side Quests
- New Recipes & Patterns
- More Virtue Banners
- Combat Polish (New Skills, Dragon Wing Gust)
- New Decorations (Wood & Stone Inn, Novia Globe, Ornate Planters)
- More Emotes
- Spring 2018 Items
- R50 Telethon Items
- R52 QA Testing Incentive Winners