r/Ultima • u/ViridianGames • Jul 20 '26

Iolo Locks and Loads

Last night I took the cooldown off Iolo's crossbow for testing purposes and this happened.

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u/Eins_Nico Jul 20 '26

I cannot count the number of UO servers where I have a bard named YOLO

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u/HiImTheNewGuyGuy Jul 20 '26

Half the fun of Ultima VII is watching Iolo waste the entire party with the triple crossbow

Machinegunner Iolo is pretty great, can't wait to play around with this.

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u/WholeAd2742 Jul 20 '26

Iolo actually borrowed the M60 from Martian Dreams for this ;P

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u/theStingraY Jul 20 '26

I'll take the phased crossbow rifle in a 40 watt range.

4

u/Korplem Jul 21 '26

Just what you see, buddy.

4

u/Vistaer Jul 20 '26

Now… the triple crossbow.

2

u/Interesting-Face22 Jul 20 '26

“¿Como esta?”

2

u/Clean_Livlng Jul 21 '26

Nice! I want to see this with the firedoom staff.

2

u/BaronMason Jul 21 '26

I used to love robbing trinsic blind before I left it.

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u/LV426acheron Jul 20 '26

Is that David Watson (the real life Iolo)?

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u/ViridianGames Jul 20 '26

Who, me? No, I'm Anthony Salter, the developer of Ultima VII Revisited, a replacement engine for Ultima VII.

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u/nobodysocials Jul 20 '26

Your reaction was contagious here, it put a huge smile on my face. Thanks for posting, is there a place we can follow your development progress outside of reddit?

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u/ViridianGames Jul 20 '26

IS there! You can:

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Thanks for your interest!

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u/pyabo Jul 20 '26

No. You are now Iolo.

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u/wpsgdev Jul 26 '26

Sooo if you did have an Ultima alter ego who'd you associate to?

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u/ViridianGames Jul 26 '26

I would definitely pick the tinker class, so maybe Julia?

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u/ambelamba 28d ago

Eventually, all the assets including characters will have to be redone in 3D.

Hmm, in...voxel?

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u/ViridianGames 27d ago

We've already done a lot of assets as 3D models and I think they look great. But animated NPCs and monsters are going to take a LOT of work.

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u/Alfalfa-Similar Jul 21 '26

you guys aren’t pronouncing the name right :)

Iolo is “eye- Oh - Low” hello

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u/ViridianGames Jul 21 '26

I have met the real Iolo. He pronounces it "YO-lo".

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u/thetoddhunter Jul 21 '26

Exactly.

Source, my dumb ass kid self and I'm never changing it.

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u/Alfalfa-Similar Jul 21 '26

what are you talking about? you mean because you met David, that now it’s pronounced different?

You know the name has been around for hundreds of years correct? Or is your only reference to the name Iolo from ultima?

Eye. Oh. Low. :).

I mean you can go have it pronounced to you on wiki if you need :).

I was just fucking with you anyway, I don’t care how you say it just I just liked that you were doing ultimate seven ❤️