So, can you participate as a test server without subscibing and paying the $15 a month fee?
No..you have to be a subscriber to use the test server. They made it so you can use your main characters in the test server. I reads to me like...if you don't have any main players ( ie..subscription ) then you can't play on the test server.
So, can you participate as a test server without subscibing and paying the $15 a month fee?
No..you have to be a subscriber to use the test server. They made it so you can use your main characters in the test server. I reads to me like...if you don't have any main players ( ie..subscription ) then you can't play on the test server.
ah, so for the priviledge of testing their product, and providing them feedback, I get to pay $15 per month. America, what a country, isn't capitalism great?
"Good afternoon, sir, my name is Mike, I am with Market Surveys of America. We would like to ask you some questions, and get your opinion, and it will only cost you $15 per minute".
- Experience is now lost (or debt is applied) when you release or are resurrected, instead of at the moment of death. - You can now gain skill both on success and on failure, instead of only on success. This should make gaining skill with weapons you haven't used before at higher levels significantly easier.
ADVENTURING NOTES
- Cleric - Auto-attack damage and melee special attack damage has been significantly increased. - Disciple - Auto-attack damage and melee special attack damage has been significantly increased. - Necromancer - Removed some abilities from trainers that were not supposed to be so easy to access. - Shaman - All versions of Spirit Strike are now 2 second casts - Hayatet Totemic abilities that previously cost mana no longer do. - Changed the endurance cost of Firestorm to 40 - Changed the endurance cost of Phoenix Fury to 10 - Changed the endurance cost of Breath of Immolation to 25 - Changed the endurance cost of Ignite to 17 - Acuity is now trainable at level 18. Levels of other version of Acuity have changed so you may need to commune with Hayatet to gain the latest one. - Acuity now buffs intelligence. - A small amount of the regeneration portion of Acuity now stacks with other energy regen buffs. - Burning Mantle has been moved to level 26. The first version has been changed to Smoldering Mantle and is no longer available on vendors and has remained a level 18 spell. If you have this spell you will keep it. If you have yet to earn Burning Mantle you will need to wait until level 26 to gain it. - Fire Claw is now available at level 15. - Changed the endurance cost of Fire Claw to 20. - All Offensive flavored Totemic Gifts should no cost less mana. - Refresh timers for NPC snare, stun, and damage over time spells have been increased
CRAFTING NOTES
- Ammo enhancements should now display their damage type enhancement in the description. - Crafted ammo and thrown items should now display their damage type properly. - Half Elves should now have their racial crafting/harvesting bonus. - Updated crafting gear that has an effect added should now show the effects correctly - Horseshoes - Crafted horseshoes are now all no drop. - Horseshoe recipes will now produce horseshoe packs that cannot be equipped but when right clicked will add the proper horseshoe to the inventory of the clicker. The stats of the horseshoe that will be created should display on the horseshoe pack as well.
- Fixed cloth armor recipes that were allowing invalid types of leather lining to be used. - The Rindol Field Medal is now more powerful. - Some crafting items have had helpful information added to the tooltip of the beneficial spell effect icon. - Varryn Dunes now gives you Kojani faction for work orders completed there. - A new quest for higher level artificers has been added to the Varryn Dunes outpost.
QUEST NOTES
- There are new quests available for players level 44 46 near Rahz Inkur. Find Atihva Dagras at the outpost of Emancipation. - Missives in Southwatch are no longer shareable.
WORLD POPULATION NOTES
- Cragwind Ridge - Nebberzek and Xexxinez now spawn less frequently. - Jadeon will now start dropping loot again.
GUI NOTES
- The parry chance displayed in the tool tip for martial swords is now correct in both cases.
- Added a Diplomacy Container slot to the diplomacy section of the character sheet. Eventually all diplomacy containers will be moved over to this slot.
CODING NOTES
- Fixed a substantial client memory leak. This will greatly minimize any further occurrences.
ITEM NOTES
- The Cloak of Vindication is now soulbound. - All adventuring Martial Staffs now correctly use the Two-Handed Blunt weapon overskill - All adventuring Bladed Staffs now correctly use the Two-Handed Pierce weapon overskill - Starspark Melded Chestguard has had its statistics adjusted
~The Vanguard Team
Patch notes from Test as of yesterday. Make of them what you will. These are not all the notes, either, theres a set from 3/1 and 2/28 as well. Say what you will about the game, but the devs are really busting their asses to get the game where it needs to be.
So, can you participate as a test server without subscibing and paying the $15 a month fee?
No..you have to be a subscriber to use the test server. They made it so you can use your main characters in the test server. I reads to me like...if you don't have any main players ( ie..subscription ) then you can't play on the test server.
ah, so for the priviledge of testing their product, and providing them feedback, I get to pay $15 per month. America, what a country, isn't capitalism great?
"Good afternoon, sir, my name is Mike, I am with Market Surveys of America. We would like to ask you some questions, and get your opinion, and it will only cost you $15 per minute".
Come on, you are behaving stupid now. The test servers are basically the same servers as the live game, only that the next unreleased patch is applied. If the test servers would be free everyone would play the game for free, and noone would play the live game and pay for it.
So, can you participate as a test server without subscibing and paying the $15 a month fee?
No..you have to be a subscriber to use the test server. They made it so you can use your main characters in the test server. I reads to me like...if you don't have any main players ( ie..subscription ) then you can't play on the test server.
ah, so for the priviledge of testing their product, and providing them feedback, I get to pay $15 per month. America, what a country, isn't capitalism great?
"Good afternoon, sir, my name is Mike, I am with Market Surveys of America. We would like to ask you some questions, and get your opinion, and it will only cost you $15 per minute".
Come on, you are behaving stupid now. The test servers are basically the same servers as the live game, only that the next unreleased patch is applied. If the test servers would be free everyone would play the game for free, and noone would play the live game and pay for it.
Yup, I'll conceed that I am having fun with this. I do think that Sigil should set up test servers by selecting people to actually test the game, and not charge those people, as in, Sigil selects the testers, not everyone can be a tester. Also, if you are selected as a tester, there should be a mandatory feedback survey you must fill out periodically to rate the material in order to remain on the test server, as well as a weekly minimum that you must play the test server content. And no, I would not allow regular server characters to be used on the test server. The test server is business, product developement and market testing, it is not supposed to be enjoyment.
Testing a game is not a free ride to play, and the devlopers have to exercise more control over the players they select. It is perfectly acceptable for Sigil to tell these testers, "We have added this, this, and this. When you log in you will be provide an appropriate level character named Beta9000, go out and test the hell out of the new content and complete this survey".
So, can you participate as a test server without subscibing and paying the $15 a month fee?
No..you have to be a subscriber to use the test server. They made it so you can use your main characters in the test server. I reads to me like...if you don't have any main players ( ie..subscription ) then you can't play on the test server.
ah, so for the priviledge of testing their product, and providing them feedback, I get to pay $15 per month. America, what a country, isn't capitalism great?
"Good afternoon, sir, my name is Mike, I am with Market Surveys of America. We would like to ask you some questions, and get your opinion, and it will only cost you $15 per minute".
Welcome in the MMO world my friend. All mmos that have test servers will require a subscription to the game. If you want to test content for a RELEASED game, yes, you pay.
Or you get a job in the QA dept. Good luck with that one, though. Every wannabe game dev and their mother apps for that job, as it's a good foot in the door, and from what I hear the pay is pretty lousy to boot.
EVERYONE knows there are bugs in this game. EVERYONE has FPS issues. EVERYONE is patiently waiting for them to identify these issues and correct them. YET their efforts are concentrated on "dungeon lighting", can I say a big resounding WHAT THE FUCK??? Are they on a self destruction mission.
Granted Sigil are not a part of SoE, but this is somewhat firmiliar to the attitude that SoE have had will all their rush release games. Pretend everythings OK and feed people some bait to get them to pay another $10...
I can't believe some people are just so dumb that argue against patches. Just because the patch next week is an art patch does not mean there are not bug fixes in it. You people will just not be happy no matter what. They could put out a patch tomorrow that fixes every single issue you guys complain about and you will still complain about something even if it has to be made up as a complete lie. These forums are just a disaster troll infested waste of time, if you someone is reading this that is looking for well thought out information about vg do not come here, this is not the place. It seems since mmorpg.com is a dedicated mmo site it brings out all the trash that most don't even want in our mmo experience anyways. So if you are looking for real info about vg go to one of the affiliated sites such as vanguard.tentonhammer.com or silkyvenom.com the downright plain bashing of the game is not so bad over there(still exists though) and you can get more info that actually pertains to the game instead of just a whinefest by some thats only tried for 10 minutes and said omg this sucks, my low lvl spells don't hit for 1k and this mob actually hits back. Most of the major bugs with vg is fixed, atleast for me anyways. Most of the remaining bugs are minor annoyances that can and will be fixed and are not gamebreaking at all. I've never experience a crash during release, never had a memory leak, never found a broken quest, never have trouble with dissappearing mobs(as all you have to do is take a few steps and they'd reappear anyways, besides this is fixed now, haven't seen it since the last patch that was supposed to fix it), I do not have any kind of performance issue(I am usually around 80 to 100 fps in the wilde and 35 to 55 fps in towns) performance in vg is 75 percent your own system, 25 percent coding. anyways well my rant and whinefest about the whiners is over. This is my last post on mmorpg forums. /bye
Woot ! Preach it brother !
The VG haters are getting desparate now ! They are starting to see all that bashing and all that slamming is not having any effect. Most of them will be playing Vanguard within the next six months begging me to make them that Uber Sword of Kill Everything !
EVERYONE knows there are bugs in this game. EVERYONE has FPS issues. EVERYONE is patiently waiting for them to identify these issues and correct them. YET their efforts are concentrated on "dungeon lighting", can I say a big resounding WHAT THE FUCK??? Are they on a self destruction mission. Granted Sigil are not a part of SoE, but this is somewhat firmiliar to the attitude that SoE have had will all their rush release games. Pretend everythings OK and feed people some bait to get them to pay another $10... Patch Prioritys Order: 1. BUGS
2. FPS.
3. NEW CONTENT
Get your act together Sigil...
The last couple of patches were by and large aimed at bugs...
Don't confuse the die-hard whiners with facts, Acephalia. And use terms like "lame ass game", "sucks", "horrible", and other meaningless (and to other people, pointless) phrases like that.
Coming up with relevant argumentation will only get you to be targeted by their (granted, sad and misguided) wrath.
I look forward to the post with real, useful and negative content about Vanguard. Sort of like: I do not like Vanguard since the Race and Class selection is too narrow, in game X there was more Classes and they were more different. In Vanguard Class X and Class Y only becomes different past level Z which is too late for me since I'm an Altoholic. Since I like to make new Characters all the time, the whole three spheres is not for me either.
That would be meaningful to other people who like to create a lot of different Characters. Instead we get pointless posts about performance issues with THEIR system (which is then not propably detailed so again, they fail at providing substance) or the ever-popular "this game will fail".
There should be posting guidelines on this website concerning valid argumentation, how to differentiate issues only concerning yourself, bland generalisation being the ammunition of the blind, and similar standard techniques used in written communication.
Nah it's more fun to mess with them. It makes them angrier when you show proof that they are wrong or when you make their game look less then perfect.
So who appointed you that role? No one is angry about it and certainly no one that plays it would say the game is perfect. It's just better than the others.
There is to much destructive criticism going on by people who don't know what they're talking about. You haven't shown proof of anything.......other than proof of the type of person you are.
You do realise you are replying to a post made two years ago, don't you?
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to be all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone." Robin Williams
heh, I was confused to see a post a couple of days into march already, but since the link showed the new haircuts, I thought it was about the interns that have made them what is two years anyway ... I haven't found any new mmos since Vanguard, and I cannot stand to play it
EVERYONE knows there are bugs in this game. EVERYONE has FPS issues. EVERYONE is patiently waiting for them to identify these issues and correct them. YET their efforts are concentrated on "dungeon lighting", can I say a big resounding WHAT THE FUCK??? Are they on a self destruction mission.
Granted Sigil are not a part of SoE, but this is somewhat firmiliar to the attitude that SoE have had will all their rush release games. Pretend everythings OK and feed people some bait to get them to pay another $10...
Patch Prioritys Order:
1. BUGS
2. FPS.
3. NEW CONTENT
Get your act together Sigil...
The last couple of patches were by and large aimed at bugs...
I corrected some of the stuff you forgot to add in this piece of shit, boring game.
The developers will never get it right, they still think people wanna live under the whip of playing a boring game entitled "carrot on a stick" Vanguard's legacy. This game will never take off with the direction its going. This stuff should have been put in 4 patches ago when the sliders where put back in.
EVERYONE knows there are bugs in this game. EVERYONE has FPS issues. EVERYONE is patiently waiting for them to identify these issues and correct them. YET their efforts are concentrated on "dungeon lighting", can I say a big resounding WHAT THE FUCK??? Are they on a self destruction mission.
Granted Sigil are not a part of SoE, but this is somewhat firmiliar to the attitude that SoE have had will all their rush release games. Pretend everythings OK and feed people some bait to get them to pay another $10...
Patch Prioritys Order:
1. BUGS
2. FPS.
3. NEW CONTENT
Get your act together Sigil...
The last couple of patches were by and large aimed at bugs...
I corrected some of the stuff you forgot to add in this piece of shit, boring game.
The developers will never get it right, they still think people wanna live under the whip of playing a boring game entitled "carrot on a stick" Vanguard's legacy. This game will never take off with the direction its going. This stuff should have been put in 4 patches ago when the sliders where put back in.
You mean interesting, involving and exciting game.
I usually find that people who find things boring are usually boring themselves.
Problem is... this is most of the stuff you are going to see right now.
As a bunch of interms is almost all that is left in the Vanguard Team.
The game is great, but the bugs, glitches and annoyances are just too rampant still ruining it for many.
Silius has just no grip on the team and lacks any clear direction with the game. It's just a bunch of solo pet projects here and there being patched into the game in a buggy state and then they don't even bother to fix it. As ofcourse... fixing isn't fun.
The Smed can't be arsed with Vanguard. That is pretty much clear... hence he is now busy running his only profitable game into the ground right now (EQ2).
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ah, so for the priviledge of testing their product, and providing them feedback, I get to pay $15 per month. America, what a country, isn't capitalism great?
"Good afternoon, sir, my name is Mike, I am with Market Surveys of America. We would like to ask you some questions, and get your opinion, and it will only cost you $15 per minute".
Patch notes from Test as of yesterday. Make of them what you will. These are not all the notes, either, theres a set from 3/1 and 2/28 as well. Say what you will about the game, but the devs are really busting their asses to get the game where it needs to be.
ah, so for the priviledge of testing their product, and providing them feedback, I get to pay $15 per month. America, what a country, isn't capitalism great?
"Good afternoon, sir, my name is Mike, I am with Market Surveys of America. We would like to ask you some questions, and get your opinion, and it will only cost you $15 per minute".
Come on, you are behaving stupid now. The test servers are basically the same servers as the live game, only that the next unreleased patch is applied. If the test servers would be free everyone would play the game for free, and noone would play the live game and pay for it.ah, so for the priviledge of testing their product, and providing them feedback, I get to pay $15 per month. America, what a country, isn't capitalism great?
"Good afternoon, sir, my name is Mike, I am with Market Surveys of America. We would like to ask you some questions, and get your opinion, and it will only cost you $15 per minute".
Come on, you are behaving stupid now. The test servers are basically the same servers as the live game, only that the next unreleased patch is applied. If the test servers would be free everyone would play the game for free, and noone would play the live game and pay for it.Yup, I'll conceed that I am having fun with this. I do think that Sigil should set up test servers by selecting people to actually test the game, and not charge those people, as in, Sigil selects the testers, not everyone can be a tester. Also, if you are selected as a tester, there should be a mandatory feedback survey you must fill out periodically to rate the material in order to remain on the test server, as well as a weekly minimum that you must play the test server content. And no, I would not allow regular server characters to be used on the test server. The test server is business, product developement and market testing, it is not supposed to be enjoyment.
Testing a game is not a free ride to play, and the devlopers have to exercise more control over the players they select. It is perfectly acceptable for Sigil to tell these testers, "We have added this, this, and this. When you log in you will be provide an appropriate level character named Beta9000, go out and test the hell out of the new content and complete this survey".
ah, so for the priviledge of testing their product, and providing them feedback, I get to pay $15 per month. America, what a country, isn't capitalism great?
"Good afternoon, sir, my name is Mike, I am with Market Surveys of America. We would like to ask you some questions, and get your opinion, and it will only cost you $15 per minute".
Welcome in the MMO world my friend. All mmos that have test servers will require a subscription to the game. If you want to test content for a RELEASED game, yes, you pay.eqnext.wikia.com
Or you get a job in the QA dept. Good luck with that one, though. Every wannabe game dev and their mother apps for that job, as it's a good foot in the door, and from what I hear the pay is pretty lousy to boot.
Woot ! Preach it brother !
The VG haters are getting desparate now ! They are starting to see all that bashing and all that slamming is not having any effect. Most of them will be playing Vanguard within the next six months begging me to make them that Uber Sword of Kill Everything !
The last couple of patches were by and large aimed at bugs...
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Don't confuse the die-hard whiners with facts, Acephalia. And use terms like "lame ass game", "sucks", "horrible", and other meaningless (and to other people, pointless) phrases like that.
Coming up with relevant argumentation will only get you to be targeted by their (granted, sad and misguided) wrath.
I look forward to the post with real, useful and negative content about Vanguard. Sort of like: I do not like Vanguard since the Race and Class selection is too narrow, in game X there was more Classes and they were more different. In Vanguard Class X and Class Y only becomes different past level Z which is too late for me since I'm an Altoholic. Since I like to make new Characters all the time, the whole three spheres is not for me either.
That would be meaningful to other people who like to create a lot of different Characters. Instead we get pointless posts about performance issues with THEIR system (which is then not propably detailed so again, they fail at providing substance) or the ever-popular "this game will fail".
There should be posting guidelines on this website concerning valid argumentation, how to differentiate issues only concerning yourself, bland generalisation being the ammunition of the blind, and similar standard techniques used in written communication.
Nah it's more fun to mess with them. It makes them angrier when you show proof that they are wrong or when you make their game look less then perfect.
So who appointed you that role? No one is angry about it and certainly no one that plays it would say the game is perfect. It's just better than the others.
There is to much destructive criticism going on by people who don't know what they're talking about. You haven't shown proof of anything.......other than proof of the type of person you are.
You do realise you are replying to a post made two years ago, don't you?
LOL!
No I didn't, I got a notification from the thread and responded. I didn't check the date.
Funny and yet really sad......;-)
heh, I was confused to see a post a couple of days into march already, but since the link showed the new haircuts, I thought it was about the interns that have made them
what is two years anyway ... I haven't found any new mmos since Vanguard, and I cannot stand to play it 
The last couple of patches were by and large aimed at bugs...
I corrected some of the stuff you forgot to add in this piece of shit, boring game.
The developers will never get it right, they still think people wanna live under the whip of playing a boring game entitled "carrot on a stick" Vanguard's legacy. This game will never take off with the direction its going. This stuff should have been put in 4 patches ago when the sliders where put back in.
The last couple of patches were by and large aimed at bugs...
I corrected some of the stuff you forgot to add in this piece of shit, boring game.
The developers will never get it right, they still think people wanna live under the whip of playing a boring game entitled "carrot on a stick" Vanguard's legacy. This game will never take off with the direction its going. This stuff should have been put in 4 patches ago when the sliders where put back in.
You mean interesting, involving and exciting game.
I usually find that people who find things boring are usually boring themselves.
Problem is... this is most of the stuff you are going to see right now.
As a bunch of interms is almost all that is left in the Vanguard Team.
The game is great, but the bugs, glitches and annoyances are just too rampant still ruining it for many.
Silius has just no grip on the team and lacks any clear direction with the game. It's just a bunch of solo pet projects here and there being patched into the game in a buggy state and then they don't even bother to fix it. As ofcourse... fixing isn't fun.
The Smed can't be arsed with Vanguard. That is pretty much clear... hence he is now busy running his only profitable game into the ground right now (EQ2).