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Bottom line - wait or get into it now?
ninjaswede
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Just looking for general "buy it" or "wait on it" opinions from people.
MMO wise I spent a looong time on EQ1, a little over a year on WoW and currently I'm loving the heck out of the LoTR online beta.
From everything I've read about Vanguard the crafting and questing is good, which I like..but with no way to try it before I buy it (and having been burned on so many MMO's) I'm a bit hesitant.
MMO wise I spent a looong time on EQ1, a little over a year on WoW and currently I'm loving the heck out of the LoTR online beta.
From everything I've read about Vanguard the crafting and questing is good, which I like..but with no way to try it before I buy it (and having been burned on so many MMO's) I'm a bit hesitant.
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I enjoyed my time in Beta even with the glitches so I got the digital download. Im enjoying the game now even with the release hickups. I am not using a high end computer but a mid range one and with the game set at balanced I'm finding it playable.
I remember when SWG launched I had to upgrade my Vid card. I remember when I bought WoW when it came out I had to by more memory and then eventually bought a new Vid card. When it comes down to it ask yourself "Do I really want to play now or can I fill my time with something else until I think the game is ready for me to play."
3 of my friends who I gave trial keys to have already bought a copy of the game in anticipation for their trial running out, heh.
Best suggestion is to try and find a buddy key and try the game.
"Because it's easier to nitpick something than to be constructive." -roach5000
Id say find out how your rig will run it beofre buying it. Even high-end pcs are having bad performance. Now unless you're totally rich and dont care about money id say go for it, if not, get a buddy key or wait for a trial first.
I didn't really have a problem with bugs, just the performance in town with lots of people around was terrible even on the lowest possible settings and people around with my with high-end rigs said the same thing
I've got a low-end PC and have been playing for a few days and the game just keeps getting more enjoyable as i go on, but im on the trial so i think i'll wait a while because the performance in town is just so bad. Out in the open in the lovely wilderness it runs fine and thats why im still playing, just in town its woeful.
Despite the performance though, its great, really relight my passion for mmos, maybe its only short-term, but its more than any other mmo ive tried over the last 6 months has given me.
Now she wants to buy the game before her 10 days run out...
She is far from the hardcore crowd, but if she isn't whining about the minor bugs/glitches and overall enjoying the game, I'm sure you could do the same.
I say get it now.
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If you can afford it without it hurting you financially, I say get it now. It's the most ambitious video game I have ever played, period. If you really can't afford to get it without making some sacrifices AND have at least a mid range computer, wait till they polish it up a bit more. It's still a tad rough around the edges, but it's remarkable for me, an EQ and UO nostalgicist.
People keep saying it's like WoW and EQ mixed, which is a fairly accurate description. Personally I would call it EQ10. It's just huge in scale and epic in proportion. I find it extremely fun, others find it painful and tedious. It's old school and difficult, the art style is oil painting not cartoon, and I like it more with every passing day. Going to go play now, hope this helped.
Combat= broken
Crafting = frustrating AND broken in many cases.
Diplomacy was the only thing I was enjoying but it leads to WAY to many dead end quests, after about skill lvl 50 diplomacy is just plain NOT INPLEMENTED
Numerous game "features" not in game yet such as caravans and fellowships.
WAY too mANY ppl posting that they have lost all thier items, lose exp, lose lvls, lose money even. Also if you go to the vangaurd site the tech forums are LOADED with screaming ppl that cant even get into the game whilst thier 30 day "free" trial burns away.
Maybe a playable game some day but right now you might as well just hit your self in the head with a hammer, it might be just as fun.
Cal
I never look at buying MMO's as a waste. In other words, when I bought vanguard I went in expecting to play the first month and parking it and playing something else. I constantly cancel and resub to different games.
I guess my point is, if you buy it now and dont like it.. unless you're one of these jaded and bitter gamers then you'll probably come back to it a few months down the road. you havnt wasted the money on the client
so you can try it now and spend however much it is, or wait 6 months.. the price will probably drop and you'll save 20 bux or so. you might find Vanguard to have a lot more things to do in a much bigger world that the LoTR beta
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
Make no mistake though, Vanguard isn't polished or optimized and that's fact.
However Vanguard is ambitious, vast & sprawling. Remember the feeling of a huge world EQ1 gave you? yep VG's got it in spades. My biggest gripe with WOW & EQII was the feeling of being hurded to the next pasture.
You'll find none of that here, you travel, adventure and when you die it's retrieve you're corpse time. VG's a bit harsh but at the same time refreshing. There's allot less hand holding in VG but then were all vets here right?
While I can't recommend you buy VG in it's current state it's well worth the 10 day trial.
In six months or so it'll be marevelous but right now it's only good.
ZV.
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From what I can tell processor plays into the performance but not nearly as much as the memory and video. I expect once they optimize it for 2 plus cores on your processor it will matter more.
I've run into 2 bugged quest so far and i've got stuck a few times but I haven't had nearly as much trouble as others have. If you do buy it make sure you download the directx 9.0 that was released in Oct. and the latest graphics driver or you will see problems. Hope that helps.
Peace
1. Should be a free trial by then.
2. Lots of the bugs should be fixed by then.
3. It will be more polished by then.
4. The Nerf Wars should have quited down by then
5. i'll have a good idea how often and how Sigil plans on updating the game.
--
Delanor
I'm going to wait a year and then check it out, ofcorse unless i'm busy with WAR or dead.
The game was just tooo underpolished for me
Just my opinion, I say it depends on what kind of computer system you have. If you have a duo core processor with lots of ram on the mother board with the newest video card , maybe even a dual video card using the new pc express socket, then I would try and play it now. If you dont have the current top of the line computer. I would wait 6 months to a year.
Personally I would say give it 2-3 months or more before purchasing the game. Take a look at the changes and updates that have gone in and what players are saying then.
there is a softcopy manual, not sure how I could post it for you here.
but better yet, silky venom has a wiki that has more information then you probably would even want. This is a lot more current and detailed then any manual
http://wiki.silkyvenom.com/index.php/Main_Page
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
ya, posts like this make you wonder if these are just folks posting on their beta 4 or 5 experiences or not. Ive seen some folks go so far as to say theres no diplomacy in Kojan yet
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
I miss DAoC
The game is packed full of content and feature rich as it is. Only a handful of features didn't make the release, and it needs a bit of polish, but otherwise the game is all there and it's fun as of right now.
Bugs and performance issues are overhyped, or at least have been squashed as serious problems since the game went retail. I've encountered few bugs, and only one meant anything (I couldn't complete a specific quest, but moved on). Performance has improved even more drastically since the official release, and I would no longer consider it anything but a minor problem.
I'm a level 75 Kojani Diplomat, and Kojan was packed full of great diplomacy quests.
This is why you have to be careful taking advice on this forum, because you're dealing with a lot of people who have no experience beyond beta and have no clue just how many issues were radically addressed in a matter of weeks.