Originally posted by Asamof

I've been interested in the free trial

Then I saw the topic for the new models

Pass.

What's interesting is the VG community was quite vocal about their dislikes with the new models.  The VG art team really listened and tweaked the models.  The community now enjoys and accepted the new models.  This really took an about-face.  Heartening to see.

Either way...the Trial Isle is Free for those interested in downloading 1G and tasting VG for their own consideration.

Yes, you may find it here.

http://mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/147/view/forums/thread/201119

Is there any way to Sticky this thread.  A Free trial to Vanguard is the first thing people interested in trying out vanguard will like to find.

Thanks

Since you haven't played since April, I highly encourage you to try the Free Isle of Dawn.  GU5 by far was the largest Performance Patch VG has had.  If the performance your getting on the Isle is unacceptable for you then hold off.  The rest of the game is pretty inline with the Performance you get on the Isle.

The quests have gotten a serious bug fix pass and they'll continue it.

As far as what coming next and when....Silius stated new Overland Mobs are targeted to go live within the next 4 weeks.  I expect Fishing, Pantheon(Next major high level group and raid content), Galleons to come with GU7.  GU7 could be 1.5 to 2 months tops is my guess.

Non-Trial quests buggy?  GU6 has over 2,000 bug fixes.  From the OOC chat I haven't heard people complaining about quests as much as I did before GU6.  In short, its much better but room for improvement.

Big Cities Lag fest?  They did a revamp of Khal and imo noticed the biggest hit was char models then focused on them.  The remaining cities are laggy.  NT still bites but it managable.  In short, still laggy.

So for your issues, VG has improved your two issues but still room to improve and they're continuing to improve it.

The Vanguard Free Trial is available now.

This link will describe how to get it.

http://mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/147/view/forums/thread/201119

Great news.

If you do crash in the future, I do highly recommend sending in your vgcrash.mdmp and vgcrashlog.txt directly to vanguardcrash@soe.sony.com.

I did this once and within a week my crashing was gone.

http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/posts/list.m?start=0&topic_id=31373&#369993

Happy hunting.

Crashing is the exception not the norm.  Another fix that may help is deleting your Cache Folder and re-launching.

Second, when you crash does it send your crash log to soe? 

Perhaps the Hotfix this week will help you out.  Glad you fixed one issue.

I had that issue when I got another computer pretty nice set up(spec wise).  I got a DLL error.  I had to reinstall DirectX.

If you want to use an existing account I believe you need to resubscribe.  But if you create a new one, you should be able to try the Isle for free.

Quite welcome

Originally posted by arctarus

And since ive given out all my buddy keys, is there any other way to try it out without subbing again?

Yes, you may read this link http://mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/147/view/forums/thread/201119

Originally posted by crunchyblack

How can i be derogatory about a game ive never played? ......Just seems like a very odd way to go about letting potential customers preview the game.

The Isle of Dawn is shared by both active subs and trial members.  If you have a subscription and you roll a new toon, you now have the option of enjoying the new Isle of Dawn or the starter city for your race.  In short, you still experience the VG community on the Isle of Dawn.

VG has 3.5 spheres of content to fully eexperience.  Its 3 games in one.  You may do Adventuring lvls 1-10 which is common in many MMOs.  You may do Crafting lvls 1-10 which is common but well done in VG.  You may do Diplomacy lvls 1-10 which is unique to VG releasing the rich lore in VG.  Or you may do Harvesting(0.5 sphere) which is enjoyed by many and a major money maker feeding the crafting and adventuring spheres.

The Isle of Dawn allows you to experience all of these.  It really has a lot of content to try for new and old players alike.

Did shutting off the Shadows fix your issue.  There is a hotfix going in early next week to address the new issues due to GU6.

I encourage you to post your info on the SOE Technical Forums.  Your case is unusual.

Nice to hear you liked Isle of Dawn.  The next Game Update is focused on adding in more high level content.  Pantheon of the Ancient is being redone to introduce more challenging group content along the lines of the Flying Mount Griffin quest.

Pantheon has group/quest content to allow you to select a god and follow the quest chain.  Ultimately it unlocks Raid Content. 

Midlevel content is abundant in VG imo.  If you turn off your XP, which you may do, you can see a lot more content before reaching level 50.

High level content needs addressing which they are doing.

If you haven't experienced VG yet, I'd say now is a great time to sub.  If you played VG and did all there is to do and have your flying mount, I'd say wait till GU7(Game Update).

Hope this helps.

1. Performance:  Best thing would be to see how you run on Isle of Dawn.  The rest of VG is negligably close to the Isle of Dawn.  Plus everyone and their uncle are checking out Isle of Dawn.  Many toons running around which challenges your performance much more than the live server does.

2. Population:  Healthy and growing since GU5 which was about 3 months ago.  Here is the order of servers starting with the highest population.

Seradon and Xeth:  Both US Servers PvE. (Very Healthy, even saw Medium population when making a new character.  Haven't seen that since launch).

Halgar: European Server.

Sartok: PvP Server.  This is the most hurting server atm.

Originally posted by Balthaazar1

Why does it say 14 days free trial? Is there a different station launcher vanguard trial Im supposed to be seeing?

Prior to this patch there was only the buddy key to try VG for free.  I do not know if the Isle of Dawn (Free Trial) is only for 14 days.  But hey, its better than paying to try it. 

Originally posted by ShadowFox9R

Where can I download the client and try out this trial island out. Looking for a new mmo and am intrested in this one.

 In the opening post, you download the station launch.  Start  the station launch and click on Vanguard.  It will then scan your harddrive and download the Trial Version.  It will say Trial above SCANNING.

Let me know if this works or doesn't.  Enjoy.

Official VG Trial Isle launched today.  Here is the link... 

http://vanguard.station.sony.com/isleofdawn/

This will give you access to the Free Trial - Isle of Dawn.  It is levels 1-10 and you need to subscribed to leave the island.

Time to set yourself free...Heroes Reborn