パブリッシュ40がついに日本シャードにも適用されました。物議を醸していた武器の振り速度がどうなっているのかが気になるところです。
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内容は、魔道士モンデインを異世界の戦士が倒した際に砕けた“不死の宝珠”の欠片（＝シャード）ひとつひとつの中にソーサリアの世界がある、というUltima Onlineの世界背景に関する記述のようです。
オープニングムービーでも語られていることとほぼ同じ内容ですが、それが宮廷魔術師ニスタルの視点から書かれています。
さて、気になる武器速度の方ですが…。
プロパティ表示では、速度表記が秒数表示に変わってわかりやすくなっていますね。
戦ってみた感触では、これまでまったく変わりがありませんでした。
UO職人の部屋さんの速度計算ツールで調べてみると、実際まったく同じ。
速くなり過ぎないように抑える一方、遅すぎたところは底上げが行われ、中央は変わらず、という感じなのでしょうか？
ともあれ、ほっとしました。
※The Shatteringの内容。
Long has the shattering of the Gem of Immortality weighed upon my thoughts. A lifetime I have spent studying the mystic arts, and yet it is only lately that I have begun to uncover even the least of the Gem's secrets.
Two things have become clear to me. Both warrant futher investigation, though it seems I shall leave this place soon, and it is not clear to me who will carry on with my dicoveries in this notebook in the hope that it will be of use to my successors, after I depart this world.
First, I have uncovered proof that no hand but that of the Stranger, who defeated Mondaiin, could have shattered the Gem. A stranger not only to our people, but to our entire reality, the laws and harmonies binding him were somehow different than those that act upon us. It was this differing set of qualities that allowed the Stranger to interact with the Gem on a plane closer to its own abstract reality, ultimately shattering it.
That those of differing planes can have influence and effect upon our world brings to mind a most disturbing line of thought, best left for another day- yet I feel I must note it now. There was once a mandam who attempted to cast a most terrible spell, one which would bring about the cessation of all life upon our world. He and his followers failed, thankfully. But as though the spell itself was designed by those not of our world.
I leave this, then, for another day, and will concentrate upon my second realization.
Within each shard of the Gem of Immortality lies a perfect likeness of the world as it was at the very moment the Gem was shattered. My liege has confessed many things to me, many disturbing things, about the influence the Gem's power still holds upon these worlds.
It is possible that within each of these shards lie copies of the shattered remains of the Gem of Immortality. I had thought this impossible, that the Gem transcended our reality and was no longer a part of the world. Yet I gaze upon the shining fancets of a shard, looking at the world slowly spinning within, and it seems obvious I was wrong.
The stone's sinister power was not destroyed when the Starnger shattered the stone, but instead spread thoughtout the shards themselves.
Thus the question begs: does this recursion go on forever? Are there worlds within worlds, scattered like dandelions on the wind, lying in my trembling hand? And what influence does the Gem yet have Upon them?
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