Greetings Fellow Avatars! Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:
Game Development
News Announcements
- Taming Livestream Today
- Release 58 Livestream: Dragon Theme
- Q4 2018 Schedule Update
- Signed Boxed Edition (limited time)
- UO 20th Anniversary GDC Postmortem (video)
- Player Made Books Livestream (YouTube)
- Shroud of the Avatar Rewards Program
- Weekend Flash Sale: Weapons
- Upcoming Events Calendar
Community Updates
- Community Event: Release 58 Dance Party
- Community Event: The Serpent’s Watch Race Challenge!
- Community Event: Dance Along the River
- Meretz: Win a Gothic Village Inn
- Meretz: Win a Pair of SOTACON 2018 Tickets!
- Project to Support: Through the Moongate
- Project to Support: King’s Dinner at SOTACON
- Resources: Players Helping Players
Play Release 58 Now!
Release 58 successfully launched yesterday, September 27, with thousands of backers downloading, patching, and logging in to check out the changes! There’s lots of new content to explore, including:
- Wyverns!
- Player Made Dungeons
- 30+ More Dyeable Decorations
- Performance Improvements
- Tons of Bug Fixes
- Linux In-Game Map Fix
- Loot Improvements
- New Weapons
- Combat Balance
- User Interface Polish
- R54 Livestream Item: Leaf Backpack
- R55 Livestream Items: Silver Serpent Wand
- R56 Livestream Items
- R58 QA Testing Incentive Winners
- R57 Lot Deed Raffle Winners
- …and much more!