The Ultima 6 Remake team have been remarkably busy over the last couple of weeks! Not content with implementing a working brawl in Jhelom, they also saw fit to rework some of the portraits of the characters involved…thanks to the handiwork of a new team member:

…we have a new member, Odkin, who is touching up all the portraits to match the quality of those in Serpents Isle. Hopefully we can convince him to help out with the intro and end game graphics too. Check out some of his work so far. Absolutely stunning.

And indeed, they are quite an improvement:

They have also added new screenshots, which you should all be sure not to miss. The map of Britannia, small though it is, is particularly worth a look.

Additionally, AgentOrangeGuy has been tweaking and improving the aforementioned brawl engine, while Zygon Dragon has been busy beta testing a side quest to wrap up the story of Quenton in Skara Brae. AgentOrangeGuy has also been working on a few changes to the map to tie up various loose ends from Ultima 5.

And most recently, the team began working on Serpent’s Hold. And that’s not all:

Things are certainly moving along quiet nicely with AgentOrangeGuy’s latest update, which mainly consisted of Serpents Hold. He’s finished Loubet’s training area and the keep. Still no NPC’s but looking very good. He also did some general map work, tweaking dialogues and eggs for the Quenton Side quest.

Odkin has finished the Yew portraits, screenshots to follow very soon.

We have a new member Crowley who is is tackling new shapes, old shapes and other stuff. He has been working on a new shape for Gwenno.

If you asked me to define “momentum”, I’d argue that adding the mechanics for two towns — and adding two new team members — to an Ultima 6 remake in the span of two weeks would be a perfectly fine example of it.