A ton of updates in this version, now installable via the Exult download at https://www.exult.info/download.php or

The game now starts with the original gypsy intro – each virtue question will give you the correct attributes as in the original that will affect your starting stats. Combat and Magic will be determined based on your Dex and Int stats, using the ‘rubber band’ formula used for trainers. The intro beyond that has some tweaks to make it look nicer. You can now train magic points with Thariand of Moonglow, in the lycaeum. Some small graphical tweaks such as a younger looking Iolo paper-doll. Dr Yazman aka Ideal Dragon has been awesome enough to make a new sprite for Leodon in Buccaneers Den and will be providing some stuff for the new Ultima 2 mod we are working on. You can check out his twitch stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/dryazman, he often livestreams his graphic creations and it is pretty interesting!

Fixed a ton of bugs in this version – no more duplicate Humility runes, Nicodemus now sells the Invisibility All spell. Dale in Minoc’s gem selling thread is fixed, and you should be able to sell back items to blacksmiths who also sell those items. Bees now have the proper equipment record (at some point a glitch caused the quality to change to 8). You should be able to sell all items back to blacksmiths that also sell those items themselves. Some tweaks to the Michael / Quenton quest to prevent certain hangups. Note – the raft isn’t meant for ocean travel and will break apart if you venture out too far! It will also only hold a certain amount of people. Don’t park a boat on the docks or anything that will disrupt the cutscene or it will delete / fail to trigger.

Also in this version I have included the usecode source, cleaned up as good as I can get it. If you are planning on making translations for other languages, let me know so I can get it included into future versions, or if you need help with anything! A side note – my Facebook page was deleted, and could not get an appeal. Not sure what happened there, so the U6 Facebook page will probably cease to exist soon. I plan on making a discord for U6 and then the U2 mod which we are currently working on, so people can keep track of the progress and report issues / bugs / suggestions for U6. I will let everyone know when I have those up and there will probably be a website for the Ultima 2 project as well.

– agentorangeguy

Mod version 1.1 is now available here!: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aj8Wo4nZZETJjDTpbrypIDk6tPlu?e=p2lMjO and if you already have a game started, the usecode file fixes most conversation issues as well as adding a “sell” option to blacksmiths where they will buy back items they sell at 1/3rd original cost. Get the standalone usecode file here, just drop it into your patch folder and rewrite the old one: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aj8Wo4nZZETJiCbTOkc_jCRuJHtI?e=GI91C9 See a full list of changes and fixes in the readme file. Also… if you are using Exult v 1.8… don’t! Please use 1.9 latest snapshot because most people’s issues are stemming from using the older version (Sherry not talking and a few others).

Ultima VI remake mod version 1.0 beta.

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The end is near!  I've been working on this project off an on for longer than I'd like to admit but finally it's pretty much ready to get out the door.  Over the past few years I've worked from home so when things have been slow I've been able to do a lot of work on it.  It will never be "truly complete" but at least getting it out there in workable form there is always room to pick it back up and make changes here and there.  Pretty much everything is done.  All npcs have new portraits that I did by hand after writing a java program to help convert the original U6 portraits to an SI style format.  Most npc conversations are in a uniform format that I have made to resemble SI style conversations, albeit a few npcs I have missed.  The plot works, the game can be played through to the end and I have wrapped up a few sidequests.  There will probably be updates to it eventually as I had other plans for sidequests but as is the game works.  So with that said, we are shooting for an end of February beta release!

Obviously some things will need polishing, but I'm ready to reveal a new project we've been working on - Ultima II for Exult! It had been retconned in U6 to take place on Sosaria, so we have been coming up with something to fit within the lore and it should be pretty awesome.  Knowing what I know now, and all the tricks I've learned along the way, and an (almost) minor in game design..  shouldn't take me this long! In fact, I already have the bare bones of the map ready (at least one of the maps that is!).  But more on that later...      

I have uploaded the beginning of a playthrough of the Ultima 6 mod on my youtube channel to hype up the release and to provide a walkthrough of sorts.  I will also do a video on the sidequests and other secrets out there (The ones I can remember!).  Once the mod is released, I am going to probably either release videos of the progress on the Ultima 2 mod, or possibly stream it live as I am working on it since people like that kind of thing!  

You can view the first video here on my youtube channel: 

https://youtu.be/rX3p-C8BsYc

Until next time!

 - AOG

Hey everyone, time for another update! Right now the mod is finally in the later stages where plotwise the game is finished, just needing the fine tuning of every npc and testing. Some non plot essential dungeons need to be finished. Npcs need finished portraits and a few side quests need to be finished (solving the Quenton murder, a sidequest tying up a loose end from U5, and some minor ones.  It’s been a slow process, but we are determined to get it finished!  -AgentOrangeGuy

I apologise for the lack of updates to the main site, however, things have been active behind the scenes.  Yes, that picture is indeed our title screen…the issue has been resolved, thanks to the offered help of Zacros!  The title screen problem had been nagging us so long that I had stopped concentrating on a demo but just fixing other issues with coding that I could resolve.  So now, I’m trying to get something together once more.  At the very least, I’ll put in Britain and maybe another town that I have complete for the most part.  The intro will be included even though it is a “working rough draft” of it and not completely polished yet.  What you will see should give you an idea of how the intro will function.  Until then, take a moment to bask in the awesomeness of the new title screen.

To make up for the lack of major updates on the site, we’ve created a Facebook page so you’ll be able to keep up with some of the “micro updates” and progress before major updates are made.  A lot of the work done on the mod is consistent but not big enough to warrant an site update, but a lot of map work and coding is done in the mean time.   You can find that page here:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ultima-VI-The-False-Prophet-Exult-Remake/373686836142464 so “Like” and “Share” it!

-AOG

Sorry for the long delay in updating! While the title screen situation has held up things a little, we’ve still been doing some work on the project. Crowley has been hard at work with new shapes, with some new shapes for Sentri and Katrina, as well as one for Jaana in the works.  Other graphical upgrades to things we needed such as the gears have been included also. Aside from doing some map work and coding here and there, I have also attempted to work on the U6 Balloon.  Aside from an incredibly clunky last ditch solution, I’ve been working on how to create it as a barge, kind of like the magic carpet in U7.  I actually have one somewhat functional, albiet a few eyesores dealing with wrong looking graphics while turned but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem for one of our new team recruits who has been helping me with new graphics for the balloon itself.  Also, we’ve got someone to help with coding and writing for a subplot that I think hardcore and purist fans of U5 will enjoy.  When I hear from the new recruits I’ll officially add them to the team in a new update.  

So I once again apologize for the lack of updates, as you know real life crap gets in the way but I’ve been working on it here and there so it never has gone stagnant behind the scenes.  Hopefully, the title screen problem will be fixed and we can resume with the demo. 

-agentorangeguy

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