Vanguard launches Game Update 3

[Bateluer]

Big update

I'd like to check out Vanguard again, the game had some qualities I liked and desire to see improved upon. Pay special attention to the Coding fixes, looks like a lot of memory leaks were fixed and several performance optimizations were added.

 

[OCNewbie]

Started playing again tonight. Got a shaman on Seradon server, he's like lvl 9 now, created him earlier today. It's fun, looking forward to going the bear shaman route and seeing how capable that combo is.

 

[Bateluer]

When did you last play and how do you rate the game now?

I wouldn't be opposed to turning on my station access so I could check out VG again, but their patch schedule is a bit slow for my liking, given the state of the game when I left.

 

[defiantsf]

I just started like 3 weeks ago. Played the beta but my ancient P4 Northwood couldn't handle it. Now, it's pretty smooth on Balanced setting on my Q6600. I could run it on higher settings, but I refuse to drop below 30fps even in the cities. The GU3.1 update made CTD, BSOD, or game freezes a lot less often. There are days now when there isn't a single crash.

HD access hitching is still an annoyance, upon loading new objects not in memory. I don't think they can eliminate it totally even with further optimization. There is a ramdisk trick posted on their Performance forum that reduces it. In the end, I think a superfact SSD or hybrid HD would be required to address this inherent I/O problem. I even have a pair of Raptor X in Raid 0. Those 17GB of textures are simply too demanding.

All in all, I am enjoying the game as a necro. I stopped playing all other MMOs presently.

 

[AVP]

This could really turn it around for Vanguard.

 

[KMFJD]

Originally posted by: AVP
This could really turn it around for Vanguard.

Vanguard is the worst programmed MMORPG ever....i hope they can fix it, i liked it a lot but the engine was broken and there wasn't much to do after you hit 50, are they going to have a free trail/return offer ?