GoG was running a sale for some games over the weekend so I ended up buying UU1+2 and System Shock Enhanced Edition. I’ve done some quick googling and found the Ultima Unity project which seems to be getting high praise and introduces some QoL features to the base game.
However, seeing as I have no experience with vanilla version I’m curious what is the “best” way to approach the series in this day and age.
Be warned that by default, UU1 doesn’t have mouselook. You can get a mod just for that, but I assume this Unity project includes stuff like that as well.
Ultima Online had a complex virtual ecology system, with herbivores and predators that killed each other and kept things in balance, but this was broken immediately upon release because the players just mindlessly murdered literally everything on the surface of the world.