Project Info Updates October 2009
Features and Changes to Ultima IX:
- Massive Upgrade of the existing worldmap by adding many more details to it, providing lush landscapes full of hidden treasures
- Adding of the “Old Cove Map” as “Great Wilderness”
- Less monsters on Britannia Overworld
- Removement of monster generators (no respawning of monsters)
- Movement of quest related items and other important treasures to new locations
- More hidden treasures to explore
- …more features and changes to come, as soon as they are available and well tested…
Details:
BEAUTIFUL BRITANNIA is the first step on the way to FORGOTTEN WORLD.
It gives us the possibility to test both the render capacity and stability of the game engine by adding many more objects to the worldmap. The result will be a much more detailed overworld, filled up with flora and fauna of all types (that the game provides).
BEAUTIFUL BRITANNIA will be created using Firstknights self-developed ingame-creation methodics, combined with hex editor coding and the usage of an self-written tool for automated code changes.
The “Old Cove map”, also known as the unused Map5, is even in its original form a nice looker. It will get an upgrade to the same detail level as the Britannia Worldmap, and will after that filled up with treasures of any kind, and some stronger monsters to protect them. The map will be made accessible via teleporters from Britan.
The removement of the monster generators (a nessecity in this type of building process) will give the player the possiblilty make the overworld completely free of enemies. Also it makes the game something for adventurers, there will be less monsters waiting on the overworld, so there will be less money (or other treasure) to get from them. But on the other side there will be some good hidden treasures to find for those, who a willing to search for them. Also some of the quest related items as well as other important treasures (for example the fire sword from the castle maze) will be on a new location to find.
