Feeble demonstration of draw distance (56k beware)

Nul1

I'm going to try to demonstrate a bit of the game known as Vanguard.

First, know this. My notebook computer isn't THAT strong:

1.8ghz Core Duo, 3GB of RAM, nVidia Geforce Go 7900GS, and Hitachi Travelstar 7k200.

These pictures are of Qalia. I dislike the look of this continent, but it was where I was at the time, so I just decided to take advantage of the open area. I was going to get this picture with a Wyvern mount, but it just wore out as I found this spot.  www.picoodle.com/view.php

This picture is pretty much just turning the angle of the picture, but also shows a red ring (mid far right area) of one of the later picture's position. First to show the port city of Khal.  www.picoodle.com/view.php

Another picture of the same spot, different angle, and this time a green circle around a later picture's position.  www.picoodle.com/view.php

This is in position of the previous picture's green circle. I enabled my UI for others to see, to see the yellow circle (mid left area) of the first 3 pictures' positon, as well as to show my FPS of 44!  www.picoodle.com/view.php

The last picture, I decided to enable my cloak. It's taken adjacent from Khal, and shows the postion of my previous locations. I lost some FPS because of being nearby a city, as well as the night. (I guess it's wierd for me to lose 5~ fps during the night but I do.)  www.picoodle.com/view.php

All the pictures are downscaled to 70% of original resolution of 1440x900, due to file size restrictions. Game settings are not set to high, in order to demonstrate what I run at. Medium low textures, low shadows, medium low trees, medium grass density, and 3 light sources at 10% (both low).

Edit: The post isn't shown right in Opera web browser. I suggest you set the web page to "Fit to width". Images will be downscaled more, but it will show the whole thing at least.

piquet

Great screenshots, almost makes me want to give the game a third chance. I loved how big the world was, but hated how I sometimes fell through the world when climbing hills and how the game froze and sometimes crashed when I entered a new zone.

swede2

Originally posted by harg


Nice screens, ahsame that SoE have begun the destruction of the game. The game mechanics were fine and SoE promised, Smedly himself said in an interview that the direction or mechanics would not be changed and they would focus on fixing performance. Well he lied through his teeth, all the things that made VG better than other level/loot based games are being taken away replaced with things copy/pasted from WoW.

Not quite Harg , lol its no where near as lame as WOW

DailyBuzz

Nice SS.

 

You a CoC fan by chance?

http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/--2164681

If not, thanks anyway for reminding me of a great song I hadn't heard in many moons. Sorry for going off-topic.

Nul1

Never heard of CoC. I got the name from a Cosmonaut demo song.

http://www.myspace.com/cosmonautmusic



Qalia is still very ugly. The arabian setting is just horrendous. Everyone should start out in Thestra... =P

Thillian

Originally posted by Nul1

Never heard of CoC. I got the name from a Cosmonaut demo song.

http://www.myspace.com/cosmonautmusic



Qalia is still very ugly. The arabian setting is just horrendous. Everyone should start out in Thestra... =P

Ugly? I think qalia is lovely. It's a desolated land with a few oasis, with lots of canyons and withered wasteland.

Torak

Originally posted by harg


Nice screens, ahsame that SoE have begun the destruction of the game. The game mechanics were fine and SoE promised, Smedly himself said in an interview that the direction or mechanics would not be changed and they would focus on fixing performance. Well he lied through his teeth, all the things that made VG better than other level/loot based games are being taken away replaced with things copy/pasted from WoW.

Not to be adversarial but can you be more specific?

What exactly is being done that is carbon copy of WoW?

What mechanics are changing with copy/paste from WoW?

ethion

Originally posted by Thillian

Originally posted by Nul1

Never heard of CoC. I got the name from a Cosmonaut demo song.

http://www.myspace.com/cosmonautmusic



Qalia is still very ugly. The arabian setting is just horrendous. Everyone should start out in Thestra... =P

Ugly? I think qalia is lovely. It's a desolated land with a few oasis, with lots of canyons and withered wasteland.

I think the river valley is one of the prettiest zones in the game and thats in qalia.

Deathstrike2

Originally posted by harg


Not yet, but SoE are bringing it closer and closer to being more lame than WoW. It really pisses me off to se every fuckin mmo developer these days using that piece of shit economy with bind on equip, bind on pick-up, bind on picking your nose, bind on this and bind on that. What the fuck happened to free trade, what i loved about Vanguard at launch was that there weren't items that were bound to me if i didn't want to bind them, i could keep from binding items so that i could give them to guildies or sell them when i no longer needed them.
Sigil also had big plans for PvP, mounted combat ect ect. SoE said that they would not make any drastic changes to game mechanics ect ect and focus on performace and have they? no they haven't. They are doing just what they did with SWG ignore bugs and start messing with mechanics that don't need messed with. They have decided to well and truly fuck PvP off and go for the raider market. Now i'm not anti PvE, i like a mix of PvE and PvP but focusing on raiding ruins PvE aswell. SoE are just a piece of shit company and i hope every one of their staff burn in hell.
/end of rant

I disagree.  I'm not happy about the BoP changes, but to say that the game is moving closer to being more lame than WoW is just misleading.  You obviously have a personal issue with SOE and you're wildly exaggerating about Vanguard.  How you can say they haven't focused on performance is beyond me.  The game has made major improvements in this area, not to mention the number of bug fixes that go into each update.  

People see what they want to see.  You obviously have your "I hate SOE" blinders on.