Ultima The Ultima Underworld I & II Thread

[Butter]

I always assumed it was like Tybalt.

 

[Inec0rn]

Sorry guy TIB-ALL for me too..

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I'm a Non-English native speaker, so I went with TIE-BALL until I heard otherwise.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Tibble like nibble and bibble seems Black Adder comedic.

 

[Kweepa]

Yeah, kind of takes away from the menace of the guy to call him Tibble. I might push it towards TEA-BOLL, although that reminds me of the Monty Python deodorant sketch.
One other one: cah-BEER-uus (as I have heard on a few playthroughs) or CAH-beh-riss (my preference)?

 

[octavius]

Hmm...aren't there already voiceovers? I remember the guard at least; terrible.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Hmm...aren't there already voiceovers? I remember the guard at least; terrible.

The guard (Corwin) is actually voiced by chiptune legend Martin Galway.

One other one: cah-BEER-uus (as I have heard on a few playthroughs) or CAH-beh-riss (my preference)?

I use the former. The latter makes him sound Canadian.

 

[Kweepa]

There are voiceovers for the intro cutscene, but not the dreams, the Tyball cutscene, the Arial cutscene, or the ending cutscenes.
I got in touch with Brian Martin (the narrator) and he said it was cool if I cloned his voice for some other voice lines.
I was hoping to get in touch with Martin Galway, to replace Stygeean with Stygian, but no luck yet.
Almric has a couple of lines at the end, and I'm not sure what to do about that.

 

[chukimomosra]

There are 2 pronounciations of Stygian right in the intro. If you listen closely in the intro the guard sounds like he says Star-gee-an while King says something closer to Sty-gee-an. The pronounciation should be Stee-gean both in UK and US English so I am not sure where both accents come from. Regarding Tyball I would guess the guard would probably say Tar-ball like Star-gee-an while the King might say Ty-ball like Sty-gee-an (i.e. tie-ball).

 

[Kweepa]

Interesting, I never heard Star-gee-an from the guard. It always sounded like Sty-gee-an. I can hear it now that you've said it, but I don't think that's what he was going for. If it helps I'm from Northern Ireland like Martin Galway.
As for cah-BEER-uus, yeah, that's probably right, since it's clearly Latin-inspired. Sigh.

 

[Kweepa]

Anyone know if you can find or get this little guy in Underworld 1?

I presume it's a golem? But defeating the golem on level 6 doesn't award you with it.

 

[Cael]

Anyone know if you can find or get this little guy in Underworld 1?

I presume it's a golem? But defeating the golem on level 6 doesn't award you with it.

Lizardmen?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I don't recall an inventory item like that.

But it looks like one of those 'spell-in-effect' icons.

Maybe it's some far-fetched coding method of implementing that in-game?

 

[Cael]

Try Vas Sanct. Or was it In Vas Sanct or Vas In Sanct?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

In Sanct is just 'Create Protection'.

In Bet Sanct (mentioned early on a scroll) is 'Create Small Protection', so with that logic applied it should be In Vas Sanct, 'Create Great Protection'.

IIRC the icons for these games (in UUW1) is a shield, with the shield's size showing the spell's size.

Could be one of the protection spells of the game, the runic system certainly allows for them.

 

[octavius]

There are 2 pronounciations of Stygian right in the intro. If you listen closely in the intro the guard sounds like he says Star-gee-an while King says something closer to Sty-gee-an. The pronounciation should be Stee-gean both in UK and US English so I am not sure where both accents come from.

Stygian means "Styxian" (it actually took me decades to realize this), so logically it should be pronounced Stee-gean.

 

[Fearlessjay]

Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 were amongst the first PC games I ever got after the Amiga and Speccy 48K. Doom 2 was the reason I upgraded but they and Ultima 7 ended up been all time favourites. Such a amazing time. Elder Scrolls Arena, Sam and Max, Tie Fighter, so many classic games. Underworld was a totally new world though. The ability to go anywhere and it was the first immersive sim. I'm a Dub so I totally mispronounce everything anyway.

 

[chukimomosra]

Underworld Unity has been shelved in favor of using Godot. However, the dev hasn't uploaded a commit in four months. It's still in pre-alpha though.

Hi. I noticed he started to add commits again. In fact the last commit was yesterday. https://github.com/hankmorgan/UnderworldGodot/commits/main/

 

[Kweepa]

Good call on it looking like a spell icon. The spell icons are stored elsewhere (in spells.gr) as shown above. This figurine is a game object.

 

[chukimomosra]

I can find out right now if is a game object or spell. Let me check. Is an object in Ultima Underworld 1.
a_figurine, "Figurine", texture/id 282, 4.0 mass (as heavy as Battle Axe), quality type is 15 (which means no quality), class is 4 (a misc item like skull, bones etc)
I looked in all the maps and is not pre-placed anywhere.
I looked into all the decompiled dialogues and I cannot find figurine or item with id 282.
I looked in the decompiled executable and I found only one occurence of 0x11A decimal 282 in an NPC dialogue condition but I cannot be sure is correct. Is quite difficult to work with IDA. Also I think I am looking for 282 which is the texture number not the id of the actual item. I am not sure if the texture and the object have the same id.

 

[Kweepa]

Thanks! Nice bit of research! The texture number and the item id are the same.
What is a dialog condition? One of the dialog function callbacks perhaps? Is it possible to determine which dialog (whoami)?

 

[Cael]

In Sanct is just 'Create Protection'.

In Bet Sanct (mentioned early on a scroll) is 'Create Small Protection', so with that logic applied it should be In Vas Sanct, 'Create Great Protection'.

IIRC the icons for these games (in UUW1) is a shield, with the shield's size showing the spell's size.

Could be one of the protection spells of the game, the runic system certainly allows for them.

I thought it was a guy covered in armour. Opps! Shows how much I use magic in UUW.

 

[Deadyawn]

what do you mean I need the recipe to craft the worm stew?!?!?!?! I threw that shit right after memorizing the ingredients, god knows where.