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Ultima V: Lazarus Released

Posted by Zonk on from the break-out-those-dungeon-siege-cds dept.

Vistaer writes "After over five years in development, Team Lazarus has finally released their full remake of the classic 80's RPG "Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny". This remake is built as a total conversion for Dungeon Siege, and not only does it retain the original story, characters, and setting of Ultima V, but also adds many new systems and improvements to the Dungeon Siege engine including branching dialogues, day/night cycles, portraits for every character in the game and much much more. Weighing in at just over 500MB, this game could prove to be a delight to many CRPG fans."

23 comments

  1. Congratulations! by Dan93 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Congratulations to the entire Lazarus team for all their hard work.

  2. Note by BoomerSooner · · Score: 2, Informative

    You need Dungeon Siege 1 or Legends of Aranna to play this. Just FYI. I like the Thief add on stuff for Unreal Tournament. I don't remember where I got it but this site has a lot of Thief info

    1. Re:Note by NBarnes · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Putting "unreal tournament" thief into Google yielded http://www.thieveryut.com/

  3. wow by Xarann · · Score: 1

    This is an Outstanding piece of free development and hard-work The new ultima VII engine, exult, is also amazing, but is still the original game. this is a whole beef-up WHITOUT losing anything from the original Better than origin's own 3d implementation, ultima 9, on ALL LEVELS

  4. torrent by corpsiclex · · Score: 0

    i've set my servers to the task of seeding the torrent through the initial slashdotting, so make use of it. cheers!
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  5. Re:Torrent for dungeon siege? by corpsiclex · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172068&c id=14330409

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  6. Re:Torrent for dungeon siege? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 1

    He wasn't asking for a torrent of the mod, but for the actual game.

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  7. day/night cycles by 6350' · · Score: 1, Informative

    Dungeon Siege 1 already had day/night cycles - this is not a new feature.

    1. Re:day/night cycles by Traiklin · · Score: 1

      they ment it as a new feature for ultima v, since I am guessing the original didn't have that.

    2. Re:day/night cycles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, the original U5 had day and night. Granted, it was't much to see back then. I'm sure this looks a lot more realistic.....

    3. Re:day/night cycles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually, what they meant was that all the *NPCs* have full day/night cycles. A baker will get up in the morning, go work in his shop, grab lunch and dinner at the tavern, and go home to bed at night, for instance. While the original U5 had this feature, Dungeon Siege (and modern RPGs in general) most certainly did not. :)

  8. Re:Torrent for dungeon siege? by Nivoset · · Score: 1

    i need to find my cd's for the original now. wow. i know there somewhere.....

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  9. Re:Torrent for dungeon siege? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    here.

  10. All I can say is... by zr-rifle · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... wow!

    When I first heard about this project, I wouldn't have given them a chance. This news really suprised me: a MOD team that actually keeps their focus through 5 long years and finishes the project successfully.

    Congrats to the entire team!

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  11. Re:Torrent for dungeon siege? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Haven't found an active torrent, but there are ed2k links here.

  12. Re:Torrent for dungeon siege? by a_ghostwheel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Torrent link taken from Team Lazarus site - here

  13. Thank you by WWWWolf · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All I can say to the Lazarus folks is... thank you!

    Even if I don't have Dungeon Siege myself (and no Windows right now to run that one either, hope that's temporary), this is major news: A really slowly developed community mod of really big scope has been actually finished! I hope this will serve as a big motivation to all of the other modding groups who have these big game remake ambitions. If it happened once, hell, it can happen again! Now I just hope Ultima IX: Redemption and Ultima VIII: Exile will get more wind under their wings, they seem to have accomplished so much and if Lazarus got their stuff together, they can, too!

    So thank you, Lazarus, and good luck, the rest of the modders everywhere! Truly, this has been a great year for everyone who's been quietly working on fanstuff in their basements, hope next year is, too! =)

  14. Cheap "Dungeon Siege" for OS X? by Intellectual+Elitist · · Score: 2

    Anyone know where I can find an el cheapo copy of Dungeon Siege for OS X so I can try this out? It doesn't seem to be on sale anymore through the usual channels...

  15. Re:Torrent for dungeon siege? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The main site at http://www.u5lazarus.com/ has torrent links for the Ultima 5 Lazarus setup, as well as plenty of other stuff.

  16. start the game by Nukenbar2 · · Score: 0

    I Guess i'm just missing something right in front of me, but how do I even start the game???

    1. Re:start the game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      1. Install Dungeon Siege 1.

      2. Patch up to Version 1.11 (if you have legends of Aranna you dont need to do this)

      3. Download and install the Lazarus Mod.

      4. Start the game by using the Lazarus shortcut in your Start->Programs->Ultima V Lazarus folder.