Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
This game is pretty good
Yamota
Member UncommonPosts: 6,593
After playing the game for maybe 3 weeks I must say that Im quite surprised how good it is. Not because it is super good but rather because I had so low expectations on it considering all the bad things I heard about it.
But the game is pretty good so I guess it helps not to have played this game at launch. The gfx are nice, could be much better if the animations and spell effects were top notch, the sound is nice, the music is particulary good. The classes are quite different with a varied skill set and unique abilities such as the Druids phenomena points.
The only thing I really miss is the lack of any purpose to the FFA PvP server. Would be much more interesting if there was something to fight over, nothing aritifcially mind you like Capture the Flag or some nonsense like that, but more like forts with worldwide bonuses and access to special raid zones. Hope they add something like that in the future.
Anyway, if you are a curious player like I was then give me a PM and I will toss a buddy key your way.
Comments
I agree with you.
I played for the first time a couple months after release, I had followed the game througout it's production and was quite disappointed. I just downloaded the client last night, and actually got to play it this morning. So far, I have not found anything that has stopped me from doing what I want. The combat is just as interesting as any other MMO, though I don't when/how you get to some of my abilities(I don't know when exactly the finishing attack can be used). The animations seems a bit stiff too, but it really doesn't bother me too much. I run the rendering on balanced and textures on high performance, the armor still has shine and looks pretty neat. The quests are actually well put together, it's still "random task = xp" but you're not just killing lady bugs and picking berries. For example, in one of my quests(I'm a Vulmane Warrior) they tell a story about a tortured soul, I am required to pour blood on a tribe's totem pole then all of a sudden the spirit wolf appeared and such. I've only achieved level 7 but i'm having fun, though I hope I run into more people so I could get a group.(I'm on the PvP server, so I am assuming the population is still pretty low)
Also, before I logged off I bumped all the settings to high and realized that for a lvl 7 I look like a badass already.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6915/41367545ld5.png
Nice.
Does grass and other ground texture still 'grow' up through solid rock and pavement ?
Does opening a door still cause the system to halt for a short period of time?
Are certain armor pieces still not shown?
Does crossing zone (excuse me 'Chunk') boundries still lag and/or crash?
Just Wondering
Well, I just got shoulder pads as a quest reward, and after they were equipped my look did not change...If that's what you're asking.
Shoulder Pads, Helms, Belts(?).
Doors still lag but no where near as bad and once you click on them you can run thru them
More armor pieces are showing but not all
Yes there is still a chunk where you seem to drop a little after lagging but I didn't have any crashes
I noticed invisible hills above some rock so that you float over them.
Also, you still porpoise when you swim with your head above water.
Over all my experience coming back the last few days of my free return trial were much better then when I played before. I leveled to 10 bought a mount and actually enjoyed the game. There is a certain challenge to V:SoH and I dont mean from the lag and such. I didn't get into crafting but will if or when I reactivate my account.
""But Coyote, you could learn! You only prefer keyboard and mouse because that's all you've ever known!" You might say right before you hug a rainforest and walk in sandals to your drum circle where you're trying to raise group consciousness of ladybugs or whatever it is you dirty goddamn hippies do when you're not busy smoking pot and smelling bad."
Coyote's Howling: Death of the Computer
LOL. Your trolling attempt fails miserably. Next time try to find more serious arguments. Oh, and play the game more than 14 seconds, before forming an opinion.
Well, I dont care that much about the latest graphics. Vanguard has quite beautiful graphics, nevertheless, the main advantage being the extremely far distances you can still see.
Other advantages of Vanguard are the complex classes and the really wellmade fighting system.
I have played this game since launch and of course I would gladly play a better one than this, but its quite simple: there is none. I dont really want to play the compareably simple classes of other games when I can have Vanguards.
my trial time expired on the 20th and tonight will purchase a month. I have a 22 cleric and also find the game a nice reprise from real life.
-I will subtlety invade your psyche-
Let's just say this game has come a loooooooong way since launch. It's actually good now (surprise!).
Well, one clicks on the Character name, then replaces the "/tell" in front of the name with "/report".
But they really could make it easier, because I've been told this has no effect if one also does a "/petition", and if thats true, I really dont want to open a "/petition" every day because I get like 3, 4 spammers per day.
The difference between /report and /petition is that /report goes into a log file that gets looked at maybe once a day where /petition goes to a live person in real time. And for spammers they are looking for these petitions and should be able to take care of them quickly. So report does help but just not as quick and with a spammer you want it to be immediate not the next day.
---
Ethion
Can anyone give me information on reactivating my station pass? I played over the summer with it but can't find a place where I can reactivate it.
""But Coyote, you could learn! You only prefer keyboard and mouse because that's all you've ever known!" You might say right before you hug a rainforest and walk in sandals to your drum circle where you're trying to raise group consciousness of ladybugs or whatever it is you dirty goddamn hippies do when you're not busy smoking pot and smelling bad."
Coyote's Howling: Death of the Computer
Good to hear that some people are still enjoying it
I'm updating as we speak, just arrived in the post.. Haven't played since beta, but lack of a better game made me and a friend order VG again
_________________
SWQ - Retired
DDO - Retired
VG - Retired
WAR - Retired
AoC - Retired
WoW - Retired
Aion - Retired
Waiting on... Who knows?
I felt the same way, but knowing the lack of future content and dev support sent me packing.
They've just added the chat filter to regional chat today so goldseller crap should go to the spam tab just like tells.
The good news the spam filter in regional chat is working, been playing for the last few hours and haven't seen one gold spammer post in regional chat. Nice one SoE.
I would like to give vangard a try if you want to throw me a key. Quit wow a few months ago been bored. thanks )
The good news the spam filter in regional chat is working, been playing for the last few hours and haven't seen one gold spammer post in regional chat. Nice one SoE.
Works awesome to never seen one gold seller spam in regional chat all day and thats a first in any of the mmo's ive played