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FAQ to Kindom Reborn:
http://www.uo.com/uokr/UOKR/uokr_faq.shtml







What you think about?

The Engine is a 2D Engine with 3D acceleration. -> No rotation cam.

Old 2D and 3D Clients are playable and supported. But in future they want to support only one client (understandable .

New content is added (Dungeons, Items etc.)

Heh, nice graphics. Wish they would finally make a really 3D uo though.

Looks cool but im still quite surprised that they still have the old fashion "move in tiles" only... that thing needs to go.

Most interesting part is the ground textures, they look damn good if they are just plain old tiles without any "blending" or such.

they have done a great job

this game is available already?

Its not out yet, only thing ive read is that there will be more information coming in January, whatever that means. Possible release date or something, who knows.

Videos from Town Hall Meeting. You see the new Client running.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=JeninSC

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http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsart ... chid=14255

Extract:


Ok. They use 2D Billboards displaying a rendered Animation Image. Good to know.

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Some new Videos from UO:KR:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=turfmower

New Screenshots with GUI.

http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=41591&mode=thread&order=0

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3D Client Update:
We have a specific date when the legacy 3D client will be going away (as always, all dates are subject to change.) The 3D client will no longer be usable on the live servers as of the client patch that is projected to go live on April 2nd. After that patch, the only clients that you will be able to log in with are the 2D client and, if you're a beta tester, the KR client on certain servers.

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"Will KR be able to support custom music files.. IE will they be in MP3 format??"
While KR's music files will be in MP3 format, they most likely won't be accessible for players to edit at launch. We have fond dreams of an easy-to-use custom music system, but, however cool it may be, it has to take a back seat to some other things - like getting crafting, targeting, custom houses, etc to work right. I'm sure y'all understand.

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"Is Kingdom Reborn an in-house engine? What is the engine's name?"
An interesting bit of trivia - the engine we are using for KR is Gamebryo.

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"3D games give me motion sickness. I'm worried that Kingdom Reborn will make me sick - will it?"
Kingdom Reborn has the same fixed, top-down perspective as the current clients - you can zoom in and out, but you can't rotate the camera. If the current client doesn't cause motion sickness, it is very unlikely that KR will cause it - I tend to get motion-sick myself in certain kinds of games, and KR doesn't bother me at all.

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Currently, the Kingdom Reborn client is running smoothly with 512mb of RAM memory. Darkscribe stated that it is the intention of the design team to reduce the RAM requirements to 256mb. “We want the client to be able to be used on as many machines as possible.” The team did state that a 3-D accelerator card would be required to run the client, as it is in three dimensions. Sliding bars are intended at this time to be included in the new client, in order for those with lower system specifications to still be able to enjoy Ultima Online. Specifics of the slider bars were not yet available. The Kingdom Reborn client will send and receive the exact amount and size of packets across the internet as the Mondain’s Legacy client. It was made clear that performance concerning connection would not change, however machines that were more than 5 -6 years old may experience system-requirement related issues.

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new pictures:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.jon ... photos.htm

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New Screenshots from the Beta Phase
http://uob.zarum.de/news/berichte/uokr/addon08.php

Some new Particle Effects:
http://uob.zarum.de/news/berichte/uokr/addon06.php

It looks relly nice. There will be 3D version availible?

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This is the UO:KR 3D Client. They faked us the same way as with the old 3D Client. But here is the World in fake 3D but the Creatures in 2D. (old was vice versa)

No real 3D. They just use a 3D-Engine, but you still have Iso-View.