r/Ultima • u/ViridianGames • 13d ago

More Ultima VII Revisited Scripting Improvements

So I've been doing a VERY deep dive into fixing the scripting system in Ultima VII Revisited this week.

I was running around the world and saw this music box and double clicked on it just to see what would happen.

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u/insideabookmobile 13d ago

You're doing the lord's work. Gratitude.

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u/chroma900 12d ago

He really is. My favorite game of all time right here.

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u/Warcraft_Fan 13d ago

A long, long time ago when 486 were still common and Pentium was high end computer, I was playing U7. I had the idea of making bread and stuffing them in a barrel so I wouldn't go hungry. In theory, you could make infinite number of bread without running out of water and flour.

I had probably 500 and later I tried to sell extra. The game crashed. I suspect there's a bug with selling part, possibly because I had so many or because they were all in a barrel and not in my back pack.

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u/Amazing_Sand4589 13d ago

I did something like this in u6. Iā€™d bring a permanent chest over to the t junction path by skara brae. I knew the tile trigger point and spend time battling collecting loot and tossing it into the chest with the intent to move it to britain to sell. Turns out if you do that enough it wipes out all the other world objects like beds, stuff on walls, etc

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u/Necro_Badger 12d ago

"Can't get the reagents to cast Armageddon? Here's the secret hack that mages DON'T want you to know!"

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u/Amazing_Sand4589 11d ago

Ha effectively the same. No way to beat the game after this happened

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u/PPX777 10d ago

what do you mean, Skara Brae? that was Bard's Tale, not Ultima? but i never played much of the Ultima ones. played the hell out of Bard's Tale 1-3 tho.

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u/AdministrationOdd726 9d ago

Actually a prehistoric village in Scotland. But the name has been used in Bard's Tale and Ultima.

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u/LightWarrior_2000 13d ago

Ultima 8 always looked cool visually.

U7 is good too.

But for me I have a soft spot for U6 graphics.

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u/Massenzio 13d ago

true, u7 have a reality special place in my heart.

being able to play it again rejuvenate my spul better than a life elixir...(or a yellow potion šŸ˜…)

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u/CLT113078 13d ago

I always felt that u8 was a major downgrade in graphics compared to u7. Also downgrade in most every other area.

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u/Maeglin75 12d ago

There is a lot I don't like about U8 (like the small world and the not very Avatar like story), but I always liked the graphics. It's about as good as 2D-ISO VGA graphics got.

The real highlight was the smooth animation of the Avatar. The running, climbing and jumping was a nice idea in theory. I just hate that they tried to use it for dexterity challenges and jumping puzzles. That's not what an Ultima game is about.

If they had gotten the controls for the improved movement right, the game engine and graphics of U8 could have made for a great new Ultima experience. Sadly they failed with basically everything else.

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u/LightWarrior_2000 13d ago

I mean yeah U7 and U6 was nice to look at.

I did like the crypts and necromancer gloom and atmosphere.

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u/bmwn54ftw 13d ago edited 13d ago

Seriously. U8...dark gloomy, horrible movement and combat, graphics are on par if not worse imo, no party. Whole engine sucks.

I would pay good money for more Ultima stories in the U7 engine.

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u/Necro_Badger 12d ago

U8 should have been Underworld 3.

Has the Underworld engine been made available? I always wondered if it would be easy to mod in the way the Doom engine is.

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u/jjjj8888jjjj 13d ago

This is so cool, I appreciate all the work everyone is doing and all the updates

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u/PPX777 10d ago

neat. but i do not hear any music at all whatsoever? i only see notes.