Found some spoiler screen shots over on Vanguard Vault Boards of the new revised Khal(that are currently on the test server) SOE has planned for Vanguard.  We're told by the poster that the new Khal looks better while at the same time dosn't bog down her computer as the old Khal once  did.  This is awesome news for Vanguard!

Yes, I read the same thing.  Those screens do look like an improvement, more warm and rich with some of the glossy-ness knocked off.  If they accomplished that AND acheived a performance increase that would be a huge victory.

Its one of my biggest gripes about VG finally adressed! Khal and any city is still quite a lag-asm for me, and the building textures of VG are still quite plasticy in many areas. Heck even old EQ2 has better textures for buldings, currently! So its good to see they still work on these things. Looks much better as far as I can see.

Very nice improvement, indeed!! VG always had boring textures. Nice to see changes like this happening. Maybe those textures won't flicker on and off anymore either! :)

remake? i heard many say that recently...... does it mean the current vanguard right now is offline?

Originally posted by NewMonster

remake? i heard many say that recently...... does it mean the current vanguard right now is offline?

No...we're still playing it.  SOE is going in and cleaning up and optimizing the graphics so they game runs smoother on lower end gaming rigs.  So far we've seen some good improvements in performance via SOE's tweaking of the graphics.  These pictures are from the test server where they are testing the new textures for the city of Khal.   :)

That looks pretty decent, I think I left my character logged out there when I quit.  It was always my favorite place to look at, unfortunately it was more like a slide show on my computer.  (set on high performance on a solid computer)  Is it still lagged to all hell?

game update 3 brought pretty significant performance increases and fixed alot of memeory leaks that were causing CTDs, my laptop went from 10 fps to 25-35 fps so yeah pretty big for most people

Originally posted by Teala

Originally posted by NewMonster

remake? i heard many say that recently...... does it mean the current vanguard right now is offline?

No...we're still playing it.  SOE is going in and cleaning up and optimizing the graphics so they game runs smoother on lower end gaming rigs.  So far we've seen some good improvements in performance via SOE's tweaking of the graphics.  These pictures are from the test server where they are testing the new textures for the city of Khal.   :)

it dont have any side-effect right???? optimizing making it run smoother will not downgrade the overall graphic right? i hope not!

"Optimising existing assets" sounds like reducing vertex count to me, I don't know. Can anyone confirm how they achieve this optimisation?

Probably By leting the Coders Make Tools that they wernt allowed to make Befor...

That said the game looks better on my PC and Ive turrened up the Bling a little, and runs Way better now.

And most of the Zone Chunks are Gone to Greatly Reduced.

Lets hope SoE continue to do this, I heard SoE fired alot of the VG dev team.  It would be a shame if SoE placed VG on the back burner with all the effort they have put in since taking over from Sigil to get the game in it's playable state as of now. There's a great game trying to get out, lets hope SoE will give it the opportunity it deserves.

My only gripe I have with the graphics is when your character is in doors and it looks like a barbie doll all nice and shiny.

It still looks pretty lifeless, don't get me worng it's a improvement but theres just not very much detail.

It seems keeping the Station Pass active in hopes of Vanguard's improvement is paying off.

I think they just had to do something to 1) improve performance and 2) enhance the world feel.  Vanguard has an awesome world, a truly great platform to do so much with.

I've heard they are going through all the artwork and fixing things so it takes less computations to show the same art.  I hope this is the case because I've seen very little improvement in performance since release.  There arent the horrible bugs like falling through the world anymore but it's still piss poor performance for me.  Herky jerky motion even on the high performance settings and If I move continents a few times I'm guaranteed to get a CTD fairly soon.

To the guy at the end of the 1st page, no. It doesn't downgrade the graphics or anything, it just makes it run faster, and bog up less of your system to do so.

Two pictures showing what the difference are going to be.

Current Khal.

New Khal on testserver.

That is a huge improvement and they manage to make it run smoother too? this makes me think that sigil were either really lazy or really poor at the technical stuff for this game. It's nice to see little details like the trees and the lamposts being put in too. Any rumours on the next area to be worked on?

Originally posted by Orphes

Two pictures showing what the difference are going to be.

 

Current Khal.

 

 

New Khal on testserver.

 

Any info on a) when they will go live and b) how many other places they gonna rework?

That is awesome. If they can apply this to the whole world and it make it run better then I'm definetly going to revisit Telon.