Ultima Online Five on Friday Q&A

EA’s Jeremy Dalberg has posted another one of his “Five on Friday” Q&A features on the official Ultima Online website.

“Monster’s Curse spell seems to have become more powerful – what happened?”

This was one of those wonky side-effects of working with ten-year-old code – what seemed to be a simple change to make the “Curse” buff icon show up seems to have altered the actual effect of the Curse spell when cast by NPCs. (It now reduces your resists as well as your stats.) We’re investigating, and hope to have the situation resolved in one of the next few publishes.