General Discussion

MMORPG.com Vanguard Correspondent Jei Anderson writes this general overview of what he feels that players of Vanguard should experience in levels 10 through 30.

So you just got the wrapper off of your new $20 Collector's Edition of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes and you are ready to play. You spend 30 mins. to an hour, making your new character…choosing your class and your race, and going through all of the customization options, making sure your nose is the right width, etc. And then you log on for the first time and enter into a vast, realistic, beautiful, world. The game leads you through the first few levels with quests that do a pretty good job of acclimating you to all three spheres (adventuring, crafting, and diplomacy) as well as harvesting, if you do them all. However, at some point, you will probably feel a little overwhelmed if you do not have a veteran friend leading you through the game, due to the sheer enormity of the explorable land. So we here at MMORPG.com decided to give you a few hints and tips on some great places to go to get your character from level 10-25. Some of these zones may even be foreign to your veteran friends if they haven't broadened their horizons when it comes to race or zone-level progression. Unlike in most MMOs, there are quite a few zones to quest in at any level in Vanguard, so if one gets used to going to a particular place or set of places, and only goes to them with every new character, then they will miss out on a lot of content. So hopefully the information provided in this guide will help out players new and old.

Check out the guide.

Honestly?  How does Vanguard get headlines on mmorpg.com still?  Sony must have some serious pull to have a game that only has 10k people subscribed in total to be headlining.  This is a good site and I think that it should be used to review and talk about the games that people play and care about.  This is blatant advertising for a game and a company that is dying because of their faulty care of games.  This is not be be negative, but rather to be contructive critisism because I feel mmorpg.com is a great resourse and I don't like to see their strings being pulled that throws power behind games and are no where on the charts of the ACTUAL gaming world.  Well there is the one comment for this article since it kinda supports what I am saying.  Before my comment there wasn't even a single comment on this.   Don't worry Vanguard, you weren't a bad game, but there is no ressurection for you

Thanks for your opinion.  I disagree completely.  That's about all I'm going to say on the subject.

Originally posted by konrad16660

Honestly?  How does Vanguard get headlines on mmorpg.com still?  Sony must have some serious pull to have a game that only has 10k people subscribed in total to be headlining.  This is a good site and I think that it should be used to review and talk about the games that people play and care about.  This is blatant advertising for a game and a company that is dying because of their faulty care of games.  This is not be be negative, but rather to be contructive critisism because I feel mmorpg.com is a great resourse and I don't like to see their strings being pulled that throws power behind games and are no where on the charts of the ACTUAL gaming world.  Well there is the one comment for this article since it kinda supports what I am saying.  Before my comment there wasn't even a single comment on this.   Don't worry Vanguard, you weren't a bad game, but there is no ressurection for you

Conspiracy theory much?

People do play and care about Vanguard.

Well, the game is unfinished and with the staff they have supporting it, it will probably never be finished.  It is an ok game that will probably not get better.  I guess the point  is,  why invest time into a game that is strictly in maintenance mode with a small playerbase?

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Well, the game is unfinished and with the staff they have supporting it, it will probably never be finished.  It is an ok game that will probably not get better.  I guess the point  is,  why invest time into a game that is strictly in maintenance mode with a small playerbase?

 

Where do people come up with this misinformation?  Unfinished?  What exactly is unfinished about VG?  The game plays well and has more content than most other MMOs out right now.  I can play multiple characters and have completely different experiences and quests if I want. 

As to "maintenance mode" and "will probably not get better" -- the game has improved and continues to improve with every update.  Improvements include NEW content as well as bug fixes (IOD anyone, faction mounts and armor, faction system, character customization, massive optimizations, in game events, etc off the top of my head).  As to the small player base, I have zero problems finding a group when I want one and I see other people on all the time.  It's not WoW, but it's a long way from being a lonely dead place too.

Please try to do a little research before you just slam the game with wrong information. 

Vanguard might not be the biggest MMO on the market, but in my opinion, it's one of the best out right now, and it deserves just as much space on these boards as any other. 

Originally posted by Deathstrike2

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Well, the game is unfinished and with the staff they have supporting it, it will probably never be finished.  It is an ok game that will probably not get better.  I guess the point  is,  why invest time into a game that is strictly in maintenance mode with a small playerbase?

 

 

Where do people come up with this misinformation?  Unfinished?  What exactly is unfinished about VG?  The game plays well and has more content than most other MMOs out right now.  I can play multiple characters and have completely different experiences and quests if I want. 

As to "maintenance mode" and "will probably not get better" -- the game has improved and continues to improve with every update.  Improvements include NEW content as well as bug fixes (IOD anyone, faction mounts and armor, faction system, character customization, massive optimizations, in game events, etc off the top of my head).  As to the small player base, I have zero problems finding a group when I want one and I see other people on all the time.  It's not WoW, but it's a long way from being a lonely dead place too.

Please try to do a little research before you just slam the game with wrong information. 

Vanguard might not be the biggest MMO on the market, but in my opinion, it's one of the best out right now, and it deserves just as much space on these boards as any other. 

AMEN! Vanguard is the most fun PvE game on the market. I wish Vanguard got more face time but I guess the real estate is better used for the kiddies' WoW stuff because after 4 years and one expansion I guess people are still discovering new things to talk about in WoW???

At the stage where the game is now it should be front page news, its epic scope and enormous game play value needs to be heard about, it's not the game it was at launch, it is a totally different beast.  As for the technical aspect of the game I have no issues with it, no CTD and no glitches, though it stands as a demanding game when you are running it with graphics on full blast! In that case you will need a powerful PC if you want all the eye candy.

A great deal of work has been done to it and without a doubt it is the best PvE game on the market at the moment. The team working on it might not be the biggest in numbers, but they have showed great dedication to what they believe is one of the greatest MMOs out there. So yes, it does deserve to be front page news.

i started playing this game in open beta and quit after about a month or so and started playing lord of the rings. that was about 2 years ago and i started playing again. this game has more content and places to explore and see than any other mmo ive ever played. this game is huge. theres more classes and races than any other mmo ive played and makes it exciting to play every time. the people that are bashing this game are probably the same people that quit about the same time i did and didnt come back to check it out. the new trial island for newbs is awesome. i dont know what else to say. im still hanging around waiting for darkfall and whatever mmo bioware is going to announce on the 21st.