RELEASE the Krakens!!!

[rouss]

if we add krakens here, they should be as tough as they were:

At home in the water, the kraken can be found in all levels of Dungeon Shame except Level 1, and in the heart of Wind park where two happy krakens spawn at a time. Wary fishermen can also call this fearsome beast to the top of the sea by use of a special fishing net.

However, the krakens of the sea and the krakens in the depths of the dungeons are two different entities. The net krakens have a strange "firebreath" attack. The krakens of the dungeon don't have this feature. Net krakens can also give loot such as MIBs, in addition to thir gold loot (averaging 300), ropes, and level 4 treasure maps.

For a long time, krakens were one of my least favorite creatures. They have dex like mad, and hit as hard as a rabid ogre lord. But when I started to play my baby bard character, I found out they can be quite fun if handled just right (and if you don't get too close!) I was curious to see which would be the victor...a poison elemental or a kraken. One day, the chance to discover the answer presented itself to me in Shame. The two monsters clashed in a battle royale, but the kraken easily defeated the poison elemental, along with numerous water eles, earth eles, and mage lords, before succumbing. The kraken can be a good "pet", but like the pets of all bards, he eventually died.

[Sandro]

the kraken w/ firebreath ability is called a leviathan, and it was not the same creature as a kraken

[Generic Player]

Krakens were always listed on stratics as "extinct" because they had been listed in the T2A manual and in the client files, but didn't actually spawn. I remember when T2A first came out some people were trying to claim they spawned on the snow covered areas in T2A, not realizing what krakens are supposed to be. The fishing council of Britannia site confirms krakens didn't exist until august 2000 when nets were added http://web.archive.org/web/200103300803 ... aming.net/ (check the august 4th news).

[Vilenarios]

I definitely remember a Kraken spawning on the second level of Shame. Not sure if it was during UOR though. It was great to watch it totally fuck up noobs as it ran around like mad, 2 shotting people.

[rouss]

the kraken w/ firebreath ability is called a leviathan, and it was not the same creature as a kraken

iirc, leviathan in t2a looked like giant slime and post uor it looked like white new graphics kraken, so i think there's no mistake there.

[Sandro]

leviathan wasn't even released into the game until after AoS.. it was a mini-boss creature you got the ancient SOS from

http://uo.stratics.com/database/view.ph ... rs&id=1396

[MatronDeWinter]

Anyone remember that crazy blob thing that T2A had the art/anim data for but never used (as far as I know)?

[Batlin]

Anyone remember that crazy blob thing that T2A had the art/anim data for but never used (as far as I know)?

I'm not sure what you mean Matron, but I'm guessing you are refering to these blobs?

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For the record: these screenshots are not era-accurate at all, they are from Novus Opiate and date september/october 2000.

[MatronDeWinter]

Yeah, that's the one. The animation is of some strange thing coming out of a puddle.

[rouss]

Anyone remember that crazy blob thing that T2A had the art/anim data for but never used (as far as I know)?

I'm not sure what you mean Matron, but I'm guessing you are refering to these blobs?

kraken 5.JPG

kraken 3.JPG

kraken 4.JPG

kraken 1.jpg

For the record: these screenshots are not era-accurate at all, they are from Novus Opiate and date september/october 2000.

aw man, good ol' novus

isnt this thing was called leviathan on osi?

[MatronDeWinter]

Seems like that was it's name in "InsideUO". Did they ever eventually use that animation? I don't recall it ever being used up until I quit.

[Derrick]

I've been brainstorming for a use for it since I first discovered it myself. Era accuracy is such a crutch

[Rammar]

Krakens were always listed on stratics as "extinct" because they had been listed in the T2A manual and in the client files, but didn't actually spawn. I remember when T2A first came out some people were trying to claim they spawned on the snow covered areas in T2A, not realizing what krakens are supposed to be. The fishing council of Britannia site confirms krakens didn't exist until august 2000 when nets were added http://web.archive.org/web/200103300803 ... aming.net/ (check the august 4th news).

Stratics' Hunter's Guide, lists them as "a snow dwelling subterranean worm-type-thing", and that "nothing is known about this creature as of yet, but it is known to exist under the snow of the Ice Lands [Lost Lands]." Sounds experimental, and not very spawning at all.
http://web.archive.org/web/200003031640 ... acreat.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/200001190616 ... raken.html

They showed up on the water with the introduction of special fishing nets around Aug2000. They didn't show up in dungeons until Sept2000 (Wind park, Shame 2-4). Though, I'm pretty sure only krakens which spawned via nets had firebreath (or dropped MIBs).
http://web.archive.org/web/200010171902 ... aken.shtml

[Derrick]

Damn, nice find, but that 2000 Hunters guide enty had an image which is borken in the archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://uo. ... kraken.jpg

I'm currently getting "Data Retrieval Error" tyring to load it, I'll keep trying.

[Sandro]

Do our Ice Fiends radiate cold damage?