Produced by: Grandor Dragon, Novum Dragon
Releases:
* Combined Patch
* Monster/Economy Patch Only

Ultima 9 left a lot of disgruntled fans in its wake. Some of those who weren’t repulsed from the Ultima series as a whole by it decided to make it better for themselves and others, and these two patches are the fruits of their efforts!

The Combined Patch offers three patches: the Dialogue Patches, the Monster Patch, and the Economy Patch. The Monster and Economy patches respectively tweak the monster stats and the economic system in Ultima 9, making it a little more realistic and true to how Ultima typically works.

The Dialogue patch puts you in a whole new version of Ascension. While it robs you of voiced dialogue (because so much of the game dialogue is changed in the patch), it re-works much of the game’s plot and dialogue to better take past Ultimas into consideration…and removes some of the inconsistencies as well.

If you don’t want the Dialogue patch, there is also a standalone Monster/Economy combination patch.

Releases:
* 1.19f Patch

This patch, rumoured to have been written by one of the developers of Ascension in an act of frustration, offers further improvements to the D3D support that the 1.18f patch touched on. It also adjusts the spell damages a little bit, removes the “too many items” bug, and removes the SafeDisc protection on the game.

Note: this patch requires the 1.18f patch to be installed, so get that one first.

Produced by: Origin Systems Inc. (defunct)
Website: Origin Systems (redirects to UO site)
Releases:
* 1.18f Patch

This was the last of the patches Origin released for Ultima 9, and it really is the only patch worth using. It corrects a lot of the bugs that plagued the game, removed many plot-stopping errors, and offered marginal improvement to the D3D graphics performance of the game.

It is highly recommended that you install this patch if you plan to play Ascension.