Legends of Aria Developer Q&A (Spiritual Successor to Ultima Online)

[@matthewjayne7051]

As always, great content Morrolan. Can't wait for this one! Even though I still have an active UO account. I just can't give up my house spot.

[@MorrolanTV]

glad you enjoyed it!

[@plumppickle4u108]

I remember when UO implemented power hour it really hurt me, I worked so hard for my mage tamer and people attained what took me sometime in a short period of time. I do miss the UO community some of the best people even the fel people that killed me.

[@calliph]

there hasn't been a game like ultima online before or since. when i first started playing uo it was after trammel was introduced and the first time i came through that gate to Yew in felucia i was hoooooooked. watching all the action going on everywhere made me want to be apart of that. i immediately made a thief and had some of the best experiences in any game i've ever played. hands down.

[@giladbaruchian7522]

I played UO for over 10 years and left only in recent years, i am definitely coming back to legends of Aria, thank you and keep up the good work!

[@mokudjinn]

Just discovered the game and, I like your video today, during the waiting of the pre-release, it's just the P.E.R.F.E.C.T timing, thank you man ! :D Would love to know how different it is 1 year after

[@twincann0n]

Absurdly good Q&A, thanks Morro!

[@MorrolanTV]

thanks twincannon :)

[@PromethorYT]

I've played UO almost when It came out and a lot of renaissance. I did not play all the expansions tho. For me it is still one of the best game ever made and I could not understand why UO2 never happened. One thing i'm wondering, how are they going to tackle the macros and bots? There are so many bots and scripts now for UO, will it happen with this game as well? I do like to use some of the scripts, but now a days I feel like its too much. Hopefully we wont see an EasyUO program for Aria or at least not as powerful.

[@aura1311]

I know there are gonna be obvious complaints about this game(idk why though) lol...but honestly this game looks fantastic! I mean I have tried so many MMOs and have been so disappointed in the end...I would always quit within month but seeing this game, is incredible! They are aware of everything that messes up an mmo such as: pay to win, griefing, etc... And they plan on working with that! Its really nice to see them acknowledge the players complaints and requests :) and I can for once in a very long time say I'm excited to invest a lot of my time in this game! Great video by the way :)

[@christopherpratt5221]

Is this my old buddy Morrolan from Pacific? The Dread Lord Du-Sith here! Raaaawwwr!

[@MorrolanTV]

hey man yup it's me, stop by the stream or discord sometime and say hi

[@cainish]

I don't think there is any successor of Ultima Online, even Spiritual one. UO was so much complex game with all skills tree, combinations etc and most new games are mostly more or less slash and kill the game (when 80% game is based on killing something). UO allowed you to play farmer, crafter, miner... you could be rich and famous player not touching weapon (and combat mode) not even once. And most important - in-game world and RPG players were the most crucial part when you could spend hours just "speaking" with others.

[@MorrolanTV]

We touch on all these topics in the video - the devs seem to understand what made UO special, and seem to be on a path of making a game which is at least equally complex, if not more. I think it will just take them time to get there since it's a fairly small team, and many features will have to be added after the Steam launch.

[@cainish]

From one way I would like to see how game become same or even more complex as old UO. From other side I also aware that younger generation are raised by games with easier and simplified gameplay and kinda worry that they won't appreciate it. Hope Dev will find they way. I hope game will leave "just kill" structure and become better version of UO.

[@Erumyr]

Actually ur wrong. Legends of ultima “ which is a private server with prof moderators implementing UO at its Best. Skills, spells, crafting, pvp etc, even trying to build the old UO map. Head over to the Discord legends of ultima and check it out, it Will be the spirituel successor to ultima online

[@JorgeSanchez-pk4oy]

I agree with Njin

[@tylerroberts6734]

The only issue I had with UO combat is if you didn't use explosion pots you didn't stand a chance in PVP.

[@sinistertyrants4412]

If these guys mirror pre-trammel UO to the T ...this game will be wildly successful.

[@sinistertyrants4412]

If not, it will fail wildly.

[@AmericanMartyr720]

This game looks legit, a true open world sandbox mmorpg. From what I've heard and seen, I'm excited, however, if this company takes monetization too far, I know they mentioned being able to buy characters with skills, they will fuck the game up for their core audience; those who want a true, difficult sandbox mmorpg. I'm excited to check this game out, the market hasn't given us a proper buy to play mmorpg in awhile, but so many of us will be dissappoiinted immensely if they take a cash shop out of control. If the devs are watching: Keep these things out of your cash shop please: Pay to win, pay to level, in game items, pay for money, pay for community damaging conveniences. In my view, you will stick to your core bases wishes if you leave the cash shop as cosmetic, you can make plenty off money from that, especially if you include home related cosmetics.

[@buddahkillah]

BLUUD FUR DE BLUUD GOD WOOT WOOT Shadowclan will defiantly be making an appearance, and hopefully a new home here.

[@jeremylowe7029]

Are there any plans to beef up the visuals/animations? Right now original UO looks better.

[@Draftbrew]

Check out Legends of Ultima for that nostalgic UO itch! - legendsofultima.online/ Community ran server based of Legends of Aria that aims to replicate the T2A era of UO!

[@RedOrcDestroyer]

Similar, hmm. Well you took out the Rogue skills. That was a big part of UO. What you have now is pseudo trammel which you still can play..

[@Ruben-sg5ho]

Is anyone assigned to the server, almost like they are in charge of the server? How are you managing that? What state are you all based at? Thanks.

[@dwsonye]

New to game and want to play a mage, got any insight on how to lvl ? Seems like I do no dmg and fizzled all the time. Thanks!

[@thomaswalton9089]

Change the bag to more uo ish well change everything to more uo ish lol.. one thing in uo I and many others loved was housing pls focus on houses,lock downs etc

[@mysticalx84]

I see very slow battle and movement in Aria..., UO is a much faster game!

[@stumpgrindingdirect]

Agree seems to slow.

[@Syeal7]

You can throw things on the ground, and they will stay there and not be "destroyed" like in Tibia (or UO as they always refer to)? Omg... I might be sold. Haha. Never played UO, but there is a lot of the same core concepts as in Tibia. Perhaps those two games were very similar to each-others speaking of old mmorpg's from the late 90's.

[@Gorguruga]

no runebooks? :(

[@thalastboss5390]

For teleporting across the map plz insist to them if you have contact that they do it like in UO which u have to mark a rune and you can cast recall on that rune. it made it important to have posession of those runes. seems like they arent making UO but something else. stick to the roots where it matters. just fix up the combat a bit. keep the weapons and everything else the same. like the change name spell and fixing others armors in town and being able to steal it and stuff

[@Erumyr]

ThaLast Boss play on the legends of ultima” urll have mark and recall and everything from UO

[@thalastboss5390]

Kool. Ty

[@MrSki-tyvm]

No mule, pve, multiple character support strategy, hybrid adventure like tamer treasure Hunter. UO is the only game that isn't time ridiculous like Ark Survivior. Ark requires to much up keep and lack of community and rare loot. UO allowed a person to play different play styles on any given day. Open world with open character options!

[@billyblenx]

I don't understand why all these new games have to be so cartoonish, Diablo 3, Torchlight, Fortnite... You can have quality graphics without being so cartoonish. Grim Dawn is the best example, a new game with grim (yeah I know) and dark graphics and at the same time beautiful and updated. Other example is Age of Empires I Definitive Edition, look what they did with the game, completely refreshed the graphics and a little tweaks from gameplay without compromise the feudal medieval style theme. All of that IMO of course.

[@fcssbdk]

Yep, it seems so freaking lazy. Everyone doing this either blizzard esque cartoonish thing in terms of style/colouring or freaking anime. Keep it dark and more real pls.

[@XTrooperL]

Cause it's cheaper

[@aidanhodgemusic9270]

I don't really feel that at least when I get to the black forest. When I'm crawling through there it feels rather grim and old-school uo.

[@criticalmass3993]

Its cheap, faster to do and it ages well so i guess those are the reasons why so many game uses that kind of visuals.

[@drowningin]

Wait this is cartoon looking to you ?

[@Ziabatsu]

Middle loading stats /wrists. Sweet, now me and 99% of everyone else running around will have the exact same stat builds. Firs thing I've seen that's utterly disappointing.

[@MorrolanTV]

in UO everyone did actually have identical stats, and that's what they are working against here - I think you should ask some Aria PvPers about this before jumping to conclusions

[@Ziabatsu]

In UO everyone did not have identical stats, not that I brought UO stats up.(( www.uoguide.com/Stats )) (( www.uoforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=Templates )) There's two different sources for you. Not sure exactly what wrong conclusions I've jumped to? You guys explained how it works right here in your video. Instead of a mage going into Intellect, everyone will put points into everything, because you need all numbers at 5-5-5-5-5, not 10-10-5-0-0, etc. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@MorrolanTV]

I meant everyone chose the same stats (the problem that you're suggesting Aria will have). Depending on the era of UO, every mage was 100str/100int/25 dex and every warrior was 100/25/100. In later eras it shifted to 90/100/35 but there was still barely any variance (MAYBE someone would do 90/90/45). The conclusion you've jumped to is that landing right in the middle of every stat (so 25 across the board, stats are 1 to 50) will be optimal for every character. This is not the case. Think of 15 to 35 as a "typical" range with 1 and 50 being extremes that players can choose if they desire. This opens up WAY more build variety than what we saw in UO in terms of stats. Adjustments of 5 to 10 points have meaningful impacts on your damage, mana pool, CC resistance, etc. even in the "middle" range, but will fall off as you approach 50, which decreases the incentive for extreme specialization but still gives players the option to choose it if they want to. So you could make a glass cannon 50/1/50/50/1/1 type character but you'd rely heavily on group members to protect you. But even if you make a balanced character with 25 in everything, someone who spread their stats out like 35/15/25/30/20/25 would have a noticeably different character than yours, even though the stats look kinda the same. It's a bit hard to explain when looking at just the numbers, but in game you can certainly feel the difference.

[@kyledavis5646]

Morralan is right. In the original UO everyone built their stats the same way depending on if you played mage/dps/warrior/hybrid, etc

[@jonc2914]

UO still looks better

[@jonc2914]

same overhead view shit, its 2018 come on..... cant be a successor if its still stuck i the same era. looks like a rip off of UO

[@koningwillyalex9807]

Game looks like shit

[@blhtml]

UO almost shut down when Felucca was the only shard, UO only survive because of Trammel! Link Realm try 1 shard for all and they did die out pretty fast for all the work they did for their game any game need the blue players. If the game is for the red player the game is not going to survive! Blue player don't exist for the Red players enjoyment The one with the best Ping have a big advantage, if you had 400 to 500 ping in UO you don't have a chance PvP in UO

[@kendarsin]

UO didnt almost shut down when Felucca was the only shard. There was no space for housing. They needed trammel to take care of all the subscribers.

[@blhtml]

If that so then the could add another PvP shard UO become success because of Trammel PvP people need Trammel player but Trammel player don't exist to the amusement of PvP players Without Trammel player it going end up like LinkRealm I think even Albion is not going to be a success because they ignore the Trammel players

[@chrisjdgrady]

Not true at all

[@rizaljose8531]

I agree strongly blhtml

[@rizaljose8531]

If this is anything like UO, it's going to be dead in the water before it even starts lol. There are too many games now that are way better. So many games you can play without getting killed in a dungeon by other players. The old uo died because you couldn't even walk out of the city without being killed. In uo you go buy something from a vendor outside and you get killed, the nerds have no honor, they pk you with 10-20 players even if you have no gold. You can't even go mine for ores without being jumped lol. If this game is anything like the old uo it will be dead because of nerd players who have no honor, no morals they kill the fun of the games for average players who just want to enjoy a game without being killed by some nerd who can't do shit in real life lol. If they designate like a small area only for pkers out somewhere in an island like maybe like alkatraz prison where they all belong anyway then maybe the real average players can actually pour money into the game. Let's face it the average players are the ones who populate the games, nerds make up only 1% of the gamers. That is something to think about for the developers. If this is just going to be an exact copy of uo my friends and I, will be buying other games instead. Good luck devs hope you think about this hard, if you want to make money and have thriving game go pve, if you want nerds playing this game then go all pvp but it will not be populated hehe.

[@golanoski1]

Everything you're crying about is what made that game excellent the value-added because of the risk of loss felt like things really were at stake just because you were terrible and couldn't PVP and cry when things are a little difficult doesn't by any means midnight game was dead out of water meet and hundreds of other gildy's paid monthly subscriptions for well over 10 years happily uo before it started getting nerfed to appease cry babies like you is to this day still the greatest game ever made