Novus Opiate

Novus Opiate

Two worlds, one name

Novus began as an Ultima Online shard. The players and the stories outlasted the server, and today the name carries two worlds: the shard, rebuilt by its original creators, and AC: Novus, a new Asheron’s Call fan project.

A painterly vision of adventurers approaching Britain beneath a blood moon

Ultima Online · The original shard

NOS Redux, led by original creators Probe and Kho’saf, rebuilds Novus from its surviving source and history. Danger, freedom and the old roads of Britain.

Enter UO: Novus
Two allegiances clash at the gate of a stone town at dusk: crimson-banner fighters and war mages on one side, blue-and-silver defenders on the walls, and a glowing blue lifestone in the square beyond the gate.

AC: Novus · Asheron’s Call fan project

Darktide was one of the best PvP MMOs ever made. AC: Novus is recreating that fight for the modern era, on a new Unreal Engine client and a new server.

Enter AC: Novus

One name, carried forward

  1. 1999

    A shard

    Novus opened as an Ultima Online shard: a dangerous, unpredictable world its players remembered long after it went quiet.

  2. Now

    The shard, rebuilt

    NOS Redux rebuilds Novus from its surviving source and history, and records which parts are original and which are new work.

  3. Next

    A new war

    AC: Novus carries the name into Asheron’s Call, recreating the PvP of Darktide’s golden era on its own Unreal Engine client and server, running in internal builds.