Razor is a piece of shit, its UOA with UOExtreme features plugged into it.brandonsantacruz wrote:I guess I was playing before UO Assist's heyday, more towards the beginning of T2A. At that point this stuff may have just been coming on the scene. UO Extreme was my 3rd party app, especially since UOA wanted $$(jerks) and collaborated with OSI(boo).
I found the patch notes from UOA:
http://www.tugsoft.com/UOAssist/OldUpdates.asp
How common was it to use UOA from 98-2000? The notes seem to suggest that it came out in summer 1998 or earlier, since it doesn't list versions before 1.5.
Edit: Also, how does Razor's speed and efficiency compare to the 3rd party programs of the time?
UOAssist or another 3rd party program was REQUIRED in order to PvP with a tankmage because arm/disarm didnt exist inside the UO client regular macros options. So any tank mage was using something, thats how common it was. The same goes for about 50% of all the things you can bind inside the UO client alone now. Most of those features arrived years ahead of their time a la 3rd party programs. 3rd party programs gave birth to T2a tank mage fighting.
An for the record UOAssists disarm/arm feature was like budda, you could arm, get a swing an disarm so fast, if you did it right you wouldnt even see the weapon in your hand, you would just see empty hand swing animation. heh
No other program I used could arm/disarm that fast, razors is slow as piss.
And I agree about the auto target features, thats how most people got popped back in the day for cheating. But binding combos with auto targeting is something that originated on these player run shards and would never work on a real T2a shard, because casting was slower, with recast timers, proper, correct spell interruption in place, pre-binding targeting and a whole combo would of gotten you killed faster than anything.
I never used last target macros, ever, and I killed more than my fair share