Keeping an eye on: Vanguard - Saga of Heroes

The blood mage sounds very interesting to me. The bard being able to "Compose" original songs is pretty cool too.

Did we fill out the clan beta registration? http://www.vanguardsoh.com/news.php?type=article&id=93

 

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Well the write of of sea being filled and island and such to stop any camping type thing has me interested for sure. Ill prob try this one as ive heard a few good things . Donkey post was the only Neg ive heard about this at all so i hope his source is wrong or just not MMORPG familar enuff to know.

 

Huh?

 

On boats youll be attacked by pirates and sea monsters it says even, plus youll find island all over everytime your out there new it looks like.

 

And so begins a new chapter in Sentrosi's life... His obsession with the Werefrog.

I assure you... this is only the first chapter.

 

I am definitely going to make a halfling druid.

 

I checked one of my many email accounts today to notice I got beta invite last week. Will get it DL'd tonight and see whats up with this one.

 

Grats!! Let us know how it is!

 

What was the subject of the Beta invite so we can all check our spam filters?

 

i am thinking arg needs to turn off his spam filter!!

 

Suzanne Owen Welcome to Vanguard Beta!

The client has been a real pain to get downloaded. You download the game loader and then it downloads the game. Its big and slow. Plus my splitter for my cable decided to go bad in the middle of things for some reason so its cut out twice. Ran all night last night, started it again this morning and its re-scanning all the files again. So hopefully when I get home today it'll be done with whatever it has to do and will be ready to play.

 

Finnally got it running last night around 1am, so had time to make a Monk and kill some newb bugs to get a level.

Game is defintely not focused on graphics, but I haven't seen much of the game yet. Movement\physics appeared to be pretty solid. Frame rates were ok, but not great. Was still configured for medium quality/avg settings and with my system it should kill this game for the graphics I've seen so far.

 

Finnally got a little bit of play time, only up to around level 4 but made a few different characters. 2nd impression is defintely better than the first. You start getting abilities quickly and combat becomes much more interresting.

Overall I really thought the game would be further along though. Its defintely still early beta. Lag spikes and video optimization is pretty bad. The graphics still remind my alot of the original EQ and load just as slow as it did back then. One nice thing though is the people seem pretty cool. Much fewer 1337 babies and probably more old school EQ/DaoC players, so has a shot at actually being a good RPG to.