Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

Haya everyone. i was a beta tester in vanguard, but left duo to all the lies sigil left us.. but SOE has it, and i hear its bin alot better, so i have a few questions i hope you guys and girls can answer me..

1. Are there any ship combat in the game yet?

2. does it still look bad when you swim? i jumped alot in the water

3. how are the porpulation in the game?

4. are the animations still very bad made? if it is, will they chnage it?

5.i remember the crafting was hell and nerver understood it.. the crafting has changed? if so.. to the better?

6. the trial isle.. is it like the 1 in EQ2? I really liked the 1 in EQ2

7. what els can u say thats bin better in the game?

hope u all can answer  these :-)

cheers

Great Questions OP as I would like to find this stuff out as well...........

Saw one pic on another Thread today and I must say that the Toons look much better then those "marionnettes" floppy animations that they were at one time..........I just may take up the 30 free days to try it out again just for the heck of it?

1. Are there any ship combat in the game yet?

nope... even if devs are working on galeons and ship content it seem, still no idea if it will mean even some ship combat

2. does it still look bad when you swim? i jumped alot in the water

swimming is ok :)

3. how are the porpulation in the game?

population is ok, sure there are not lots of people who play VG but also the server are few so there is no "ghost town", is not difficult to find groups for the major dungeons or questline and there is a lot of chit chatting on the regional ooc channel too :P. also i think that in past months the population grew so thats a good sign :)

4. are the animations still very bad made? if it is, will they chnage it?

well... some animations are good, but i agree that some are quite bad, it seem that they are going to work on them for around xmass (think i read a post about that) so... crossing fingers :p

5.i remember the crafting was hell and nerver understood it.. the crafting has changed? if so.. to the better?

is the same, but i think the complexity is a good thing here, imo you cant have a good crafting system with a simplified crafting model... just look at SWG pre and post NGE. first time i tried it, was a bit clueless too but is just matter of practice and to get used to it :)

6. the trial isle.. is it like the 1 in EQ2? I really liked the 1 in EQ2

yep, is pretty similar in concept, you start in this isle and there are some storylines that introduce you to the game, while on the isle you are capped at lv10

7. what els can u say thats bin better in the game?

if you played the beta... well is way more stable now and got lot of polish and new content added, expecially for higher level and raid, maybe give it a try with the trial isle so you can judge by yourself the improvements and if now is more fitting to your taste :)

Allow me to attempt to answer your underlying question...what has changed since beta.

FPS and stability are by far the number #1 improvement.  Content has been added.  Classes have had a hard pass.  High level Raid and group content have been added.  Character models were redone to reduce the performance hit and tweak the asthetics.  Crafting is polished. Diplomacy is starting to get polished.  IoD has polished diplomacy. 

The community has voiced lack of challenging content which was responded by the devs with challenging griffin quests and challenging Raid content.

The community at one point was quite bitter and venomous.  When AoC came out, they left and a mature friendly community remains and has grown at quite a surprising rate.

All PvE servers are now reading Medium Population levels.  This is a major milestone and one that will continue to grow.

The Free Trial is now available and with it, many new subscribers.

What's lacking now you ask?  More high level content.  The next Game Updates will contain just that.  If your new or returning, now is a great time to come.  If you have a max player on VG and left, wait till the next Game Update which is due in October.

Originally posted by Kazzer 

1. Are there any ship combat in the game yet?

 

No. No gameplay purpose for boats yet. DEV's holding back the galeons until there is a purpose. But we have the Rooyal Yachting Club on Halgar :D

 

2. does it still look bad when you swim? i jumped alot in the water

 

Its better, but not perfect

 

3. how are the porpulation in the game?

 

Ok. Could be better. But ok. Seardon in US is probably the server with the

highest population.

 

4. are the animations still very bad made? if it is, will they chnage it?

 

Some lack, some are better. Sicne performance imporved all is a bit smoother. The DEVs make no secret out of it. They said in public that there is no animator right now. But they agree that some animations need a rework.

 

5.i remember the crafting was hell and nerver understood it.. the crafting has changed? if so.. to the better?

 

Its the same crafting but with some tweaks. First some dusts drop when harvesting. Basic dusts can be bought now form NPC merchands. The progression is a bit easier and faster now. The recipes are tweaked to be a bit easier. The precious upgrade recipes can be bough with sigils. The sigils drop when doing workorders. That way its much more fair and everyone gets his fair share. How unlucky you are, you will definetely have at least your main upgrade at 50. (most probably a few more). BUT  looted/rewarded items are roughly > crafted now. Crafted is still quite cool but not the best in most cases.

The faction grind was lowered to a sane amount. The outpost system was tweaked. Kojans are now able to do workorders till 50 in Tanwar Galen. No need to emigrate. 

Base faction is now that you are nowhere KOS. Much easier to do the crafter tier quests. You still can become KOS if you do faction quests later on.

 

Mobs drop randonly yellow items with no purpose but to deconstruct them.

 

Sources have now all the same name and rares/ultrarares drop random out of them. No cherrypicking. Much more fair.

 

If you enjoy to craft very good customized gear, then carfting now is good.

 

6. the trial isle.. is it like the 1 in EQ2? I really liked the 1 in EQ2

 

Bigger then EQ2 isle. Includes a full into in all 4 spheres.  The isle is quite fun. Those who do all quests get an item that is powerful and grows with you. Created some havoc on the official forums ;)

 

7. what els can u say thats bin better in the game?

 

Performance. Perfomance and performance. Traveling is much better now. You can still use the old slow routes, but the rifts are new and better now. I am playing since release and a lot of bugs and hitches vanished. Broker was tweaked and is now one big market all over Telon. The 3 bankslots are still there though. Soloers are easily able to reach 40-45 only by quests. Money is not as rare as after release.

thank you everyone for the nice answers, and i do like them :-)

I see some of u say its easy to quest.. i remember i always had "group quests" and was very hard to quest on my own or just with a friend, has it changed? i mean so u can quest alot now so,o or just with a group of 2? I sur hope so, but that was a major letdown

what server should i join for a nice porpulated server?

actually many soloable quests where introduced from release

ab example is URT that is a nice and fun line :) with many quests and good rewards for "lowbies" also some midlevel and highlevel areas where introduces and have lot of quests for soloers

well... personally i will still suggest to go for group content (i hate solo :P) but you should be able to level no prob doing solo quests

for server... if you are euro and play in eu time then go with halgar (the eu server) if not probably seradon have a bit higher population

See you on Xeth.

Originally posted by Kazzer

thank you everyone for the nice answers, and i do like them :-)

I see some of u say its easy to quest.. i remember i always had "group quests" and was very hard to quest on my own or just with a friend, has it changed? i mean so u can quest alot now so,o or just with a group of 2? I sur hope so, but that was a major letdown

what server should i join for a nice porpulated server?

There are a lot of group quests. Just if you dont want to group or cant find a group you can solo a lot. Only very few c