Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

Not the best of starts.  Heard nothing but bad things about this game but the features seem so cool and I need a timesink to last me until Age of Conan comes out.

Bought the game last night from Gamestop.  Loaded it on my computer.  Activation Key seems to be missing.  Only key I found was the buddy key.

Have not purchased V:SOH, but Sony has been putting the Keys on a small, white sticker inside the plastic disk case.  Sometimes behind where the CD/DVD are placed.

Have a look inside the case.

Good Luck

Thats bad luck. i kno when i buy a game i get very impatient if something goes wrong and stops me from playing it right away. hopefully its wehre the above poster said it was lol. good luck

for standard edition:

It should be on the backside of the manual.

For collectors edition:

There should be a playing card that says "Eila the Crafter", "???? the Adventurer" or "???? the Diplomat".  The account key is on the bottom of that card and that card decides what reward cloak you get (like a crafting cloak with extra utility storage).

Originally posted by morpin

for standard edition:

It should be on the backside of the manual.

For collectors edition:

There should be a playing card that says "Eila the Crafter", "???? the Adventurer" or "???? the Diplomat".  The account key is on the bottom of that card and that card decides what reward cloak you get (like a crafting cloak with extra utility storage).

OP, you may need to look around a bit.

What happend? Did you get your Code and logged on? How is the state of the game?

Originally posted by roamie

What happend? Did you get your Code and logged on? How is the state of the game?

Logged in 2 days ago. I have not played for months. Just logged in once in a while. 20 minutes patching.

Performance is actully ok. Still some stuttering when the client is loading NPC or environmental things like carts, walls and such.

Real news is, that shaman are able to change their pet. Actually you dont have any pet after logging in. You have to see a trainer. Its possible to swap patron multiple times. I had no idea and asked in general chat on Kojan. There are people in game ;) and i got a fast answer.

They fixed some animations. Swim animation is fixed.

I took a flying mount and it was ok. Soft take off and a save landing ;) The chunkborder didnt cause a crash landing ;) It was smooth enough to enjoy the view.

The model revamp is not good. My vulmane looked like he always did, but my woodelf and my kojan human female look butchered if you zoom in. They removed polygons. The eyes of humanoids look weird. I am aware they are operation on the smallest dev team possible, but the faces of the humanoids are somewhat disfigured.

Another thing was (on my PC) that spikes growed out of the hands of many NPC. Its a glitch.

I havested one node and it droped a dust. I think thats a good thing that dusts are more common and available. Not enough players for a hardcore decon economy i guess. The prizes on the broker are also lower compared to my last visit.

I probably wanted to explore a bit more of Telon but the eyes of my woodelf and the "dead" face of my kojan human haunted me a bit.

Thanks for the replies.  Actually, I took the game back to Gamestop yesterday and they couldn't find the key either.  Unfortunately, that was the only one available at that store so they had to refund me and send the game back 'defective'.  I'd have bought it through Sony but Gamestop sells it for 20 bucks while Sony sells it for 40 bucks.  I may stop by another store.  Even if the game is dead and I can expect to occasionally lock up based on posts on this website, I still think the features are unique enough to give it a try.

Originally posted by Sineath

Thanks for the replies.  Actually, I took the game back to Gamestop yesterday and they couldn't find the key either.  Unfortunately, that was the only one available at that store so they had to refund me and send the game back 'defective'.  I'd have bought it through Sony but Gamestop sells it for 20 bucks while Sony sells it for 40 bucks.  I may stop by another store.  Even if the game is dead and I can expect to occasionally lock up based on posts on this website, I still think the features are unique enough to give it a try.

Why don't you just go on ebay ? You can pick up the 100 dollar collectors edition for 10 bucks now. It has all the goodies and a bunch of buddy keys. If you are interested in this game you would be crazy to pass that up. Even if you did the free 30 days and didn't like it, you are out, what, 10 bucks???

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