Originally posted by Kyleran

 

Originally posted by Jquik

Agreed. I've always said Lineage2 wins when it comes to looks of armor

 

Yes, but as is true of most games, at upper levels you sure see a bunch of folks wearing the same armor as yourself.  (at least that was true a few years ago)  Not sure if there is more variety today.

 

Agreed. I've always said Lineage2 wins when it comes to looks of armor

http://pc.ign.com/objects/736/736193.html

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic looks to be A LOT like it. I haven't played it however so I can't guarantee you.

Just look at the screenshots and read a bit about it though.

Originally posted by eugam

 

Originally posted by Torak

Its hard to say with EQII as no one is ever  playing on my server (crushbone, which my toons where rolled over into after the last server consolidation) so its hard to say.

Vanguard performance > EQ2 perfromance. Since one or two GU's there is a latency meter that also displays fps. I am up to 45 fps lower in EQ2 then in Vanguard. Qeynos harbor is still a lag fest, Sebilis is a slideshow when a raid is forming, Kanor Castel is a slideshow when a raid is forming.

 

But that because the engine doesnt use more then one core and the graphics libs are still build for nvidia3 cards. So the single CPU has to do all the work. But EQ2 is still a playable game performance wise ;)

VG's graphics aren't even in EQ2's league IMO. If you turned both game's setting's to maximum then obviously EQ2 is going to get less FPS due to better graphics/animations/lighting effects etc.

I didn't lag in Qeynos harbor but you know why you did? More people play the game and thats the most populated zone in the game. I rarely saw anyone when playing VG.

Got the perfect medicine for you.

Play Lineage II private servers, you can choose how long you want to take to level lol.

want 5000x exp, 5x exp etc. You can get to max lvl in 1 day if you really want. and Yes F2P. Have at it.

I, like many others started playing VG at release, (or was it beta?) same thing.

So when I finally created my character and joined the game the first thing I noticed as a Lvl 1 Bard is that I did not have a weapon. What? A bard without a weapon or an instrument? For my first quest I was to gather some type of plant stalk.  Shouldn't be too hard to gather without a weapon right? Wrong. 90% of the time the plant turns into a mob you must fight off with your fists. let's just say with luck on your side you can only take the mob to about 40% hp before you die. So after a wasted 15-20 minutes of running the plants that turned into mobs into the guards I finally gathered my 7th Kiyo Stalk.

Before turning in the quest i realized I can't see this quest NPC's name. However I can if i look away with him. I later fixed this problem but had to change settings on my graphics card. Anti-aliasing was causing a huge invisible box to be placed in the middle of the screen. It looked as if 2 player names cant be seen next to another. Your name above your players head will cover any next that would be in front of it even if you check the "hide your player name box". In the case of hiding your name the area on the screen is just blacked out instead of actually hiding it. Does not seem like much effort was put into the options and especially the UI.

After messing with the option I realized how bad the graphics were and decided to turn the graphics on Ultra High along with anisotropic filtering to x16 (Running a Quadcore 2.4/ 4GB Ram/ 8600 GTS/ XP). The graphics still looked horrible for what I expected on Ultra High, not to mention my computer was having sudden 1 second lags every time I looked in a different direction. Rain seemed to be the biggest factor in this.

Once I was actually ready to give the combat a try I noticed the main thing I disliked at release was untouched. The combat animations are so kiddie-like. No effort was put into making the animations smooth nor in timing your hit with the animation. Your damage will pop up a second after your sword strikes. The archer animations were even worse.

Now I've played every atleast semi-popular MMORPG on the market right now and I can compare this best with EQ2. It seems that everything is the same in these 2 games except for the fact that EQ2 does it much, much better. The Ultra High graphics actually looked amazing.  I was even able to run the game on Ultra high excluding a few lighting and shadow effects here and there.

So to sum it up, as I expected, not much changed in Vanguard, atleast in the areas that matter (Gameplay/Combat animations/Graphics/Bugs).

If anything I'd consider it Lineage III

Except diff storyline and no click to move.

However I'm hoping it will be even better.

I have one worry about this.

If anyone has 2boxed/dual boxed whatever you want to call it, I've noticed that the majority of the time the character is standing in a different spot on one computer than another. Especially when you auto follow it will look as the one following is trailing a bit but on his computer hes so close he's touching you.

When the servers get more populated do you think it become nearly impossible to use first person aiming?