General Discussion

Yes the Vanguard NDA is officially lifted. I have been in beta for months biting my tongue not able to fire back at all the trolls and haters and let me say now you were WRONG!!!!

The graphics and artwork are so stunning as to be quite unbelievable. Combat is ball bustingly awesome and quests up the ying yang. Such a huge world and so much to do you will never be bored. The UI looks like WoW and the graphics are out of this world good. You can solo all you want but for some quests and dungeons you will really need a group. You can afford a horse at like level 8 (12 silver) and you can recall to your bind point once an hour.

Lots of good drops and upgrades all the time, uber ones are less frequent, but as you level up you will keep getting drops that are upgrades. The armors and weapons are soooo kewl looking and so are the spell effects.

Having an up to date rig will be a blessing, but there are several tweak threads on the beta performance forum that will help tremendously.

My system:

2 gigs 333 ram

Radeon X800 pro 256mb card

AMD athlon 1.93 ghz CPU

With this system and with "Morts game tweaks" thread, I can play Vanguard on highest quality!!!! It looks freaking amazing and I get about 30 fps in the wilderness and 15 fps in town. I cannot express how beautiful the world of telon is, you really have to see it for yourself!!!!

Good luck all, see you in game!

Saw the forums and its 5.0 so i guess they have :S Weird when the devs said it wasnt going open beta today or tomoz.

Originally posted by End_of_a_era

It cant run on that  system on highest quality :P Also when did they say the NDA was lifted? Earlyer on the Dev said there would be no open beta today and the NDA wont be lifted.

Why are they giving mixed messages?

 

The website is being gay

Umm, that's MY system and I run it on HIGHEST QUALITY. Visit Morts Game Tweaks thread under the performance section for the tweaks. They are basic Unreal engine tweaks and yes, I play on highest quality and it looks sooooo sweeeeeeet.

Weird i have:

1100mhz ddr2 corsair ram
x1950xtx 512mb
core 2 duo 6700

I can run on highest quality but its very stuttery and only about 40-50FPS and person on vanguard forums said he had a 8800gtx and got 30

I too was in beta, I uninstalled the game after a few days because the frame rate was unacceptable, seriously. I can play anything out there without problems, I ran EQ2 with a decent FPS and had the graphics settings up pretty high. Aside from that, here are my thoughts:

- Graphics: For the resources it takes up I'm really disappointed in this regard, it doesn't look that good, and it's artistically uninspired IMO... the world looks generic most of the time.

- Gameplay: Nothing new, been there, done that a hundred times before... only it was more fun in those other games.I really don't need to say anything else. Obviously I didn't get to experience the high end content but if they can't even make the first few levels interesting I wouldn't have high hopes for "end game" content.

PvP: Laughable. A few weeks back they plopped up a PvP beta server and Vanguard PvP was born. It's mindless ganking with absolutely no point to it at all, so if you like PvP with even less purpose than WOW then this is your game.

The one thing I did like is how bards can "compose"(well kinda) their own songs.

Just thought I'd throw in my experiences with performance.  

I tried the beta out a while back when I had my old PC (amd 2400xp, 1gig ram, geforce 6800GT OC).  I despised the game, and the way it ran, even on the lowest settings.  Granted the PC was old, it could still run the latest games, even Oblivion, well enough to play and have them look great.  The way the game ran, completely turned me off.   Or so I thought.....

Recently I built a new PC.  Core 2 Duo 6600 oc'd to 2.9ghz, 2gig ram, geforce 7950gx2, and a fatal1ty x-fi sound card.  I am now able to run Vanguard with MAX settings, and get an average of 50fps outdoors, and 25-35 in cities (Khal being the only one I've been to yet). 

As far as I understand it, the game is STILL being optomized to run on lower systems.  The fixes should go a long way to make it playable on older PC's, but I would recommend that you expect the performance your system is rated for.  If you have a 3 year old PC, and you're trying to play the latest games, then you're just asking for problems. 

I also just wanted to add....the game looks INCREDIBLE!  It's on par with EQ2 for graphics.  You can actually get a sense of vertigo when looking over some cliffs.  I haven't played enough of the game yet to give an opinion of gameplay, but as far as graphics and performance are concerned, I'm completely satisfied.  Now, character models......that's an entirely different story lol. 

*edit* ---  I did not do any of the Mort's tweaks with my new system, and haven't touched the .ini file.

Originally posted by numberonehit
anarchy is it possible you could link me to that thread?
thanks!

The official forums seem to be down at the moment. However, I pasted the thread and sent it to a few people the other day, so when I get home, I will post Morts Game Tweaks in full in the Vanguard section of this site!

Check there in a couple of hourse and it will be there, I promise.

Awesome.

I've been in closed beta for a while, and my specs are:

• AMD 64 3200+ (2.1 Ghz)
• 3GB RAM
• GeForce 6600 GT
• 10mb connection

... and it's happily running on a 'balanced' setting, which looks absolutely amazing. The only times I encounter lag is in populated towns, which right now is the Vulmane town. I've also been told that many diagnostic processes are run whilst playing in beta, which is a big contributing factor to in-game performance.

I'll be playing it for sure. :)