Vanguard - I don't give a fuck if it's dead, It's still brown as fuck (Download link in 1st post)

ismaris

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Yes it would have. That increase really sucked. Then they made it worse by artificially fucked with the exp range of the mobs so you could only farm that one island for exp. It wasn’t fun grinding to 55 but AEing older content was at least fun sometimes. I fucking hated that entire decision from Silius. That island and KDQ sucked.
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Absolutely true. I need to check this emu out. My guild, Xanit K'Ven, was server first for kotasoth in Ancient Port Warehouse on the pvp server, and I think I enjoyed the raid/pvp scene on Sartok around like 2007/2008 more than any other MMO experience. So much fun racing against Havoc for all the server firsts, and pvping to defend different areas, etc..
 
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Lunis

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Went to Stiirhad, the massive mountain with dark elves and dragons that was never finished. The dungeon is huge, real huge, Nusibe Necropolis huge... I got lost a number of times. It's a dark elf city with molten caverns in the center with a giant dragon at the end.

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Never saw that place, that’s pretty badass. I logged in the other day looking for city of brass but couldn’t find it. Not sure if it’s not in or I was just looking in the wrong spots. The game is so fucking huge it’s hard to tell.
 
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The areas you need to teleport to that require a questline like City of Brass or Cave of Wonders can't be reached yet unless you're a dev. I asked on their discord and he said they might add npc's that have teleports to those zones at some point.
 
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Some bonus screens of the mountain. There's a caldera at the very top, no entrance to another dungeon.. probably a world raid mob was designed to be put there if I had to guess.
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Too see all that work, all those assets, and know it never got even remotely used is sad. Game feels like a museum or something.
 
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Was Garuzamat The World Eater ever implemented? Always wanted to know what he did. I was still playing when the populated that area with the four towers and the big chains. I think we killed bosses up there cause I remember raiding in that area but we didn’t spawn that guy, if he’s able to be spawned and not just the apparition form he’s in. Clearing the bridge before him was so tedious and boring. And those fucking sharks in the water that basically one shot you if you fell in.
 
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Lunis said:
Some bonus screens of the mountain. There's a caldera at the very top, no entrance to another dungeon.. probably a world raid mob was designed to be put there if I had to guess.View attachment 396730View attachment 396731View attachment 396732View attachment 396733View attachment 396734View attachment 396735View attachment 396736View attachment 396737View attachment 396738View attachment 396739
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That's fucking epic. New World with all modern assets missed the mark completely, despite having a chance to do it real big on an overland game of that type.

The sweep and scale, the overall vision of the world, is something unique to Vanguard that these games just completely missed.
 
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Daidraco said:
Too see all that work, all those assets, and know it never got even remotely used is sad. Game feels like a museum or something.
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What's even sadder is it hasn't been done ever again. Massive overland adventure.

It exposes how degraded and smoothbrain world design is now. "Just make a few tents and put a flat surface" I.E. Albion online

Pantheon I guess has that going for it-- although I doubt it will ever get funding or sold to a real studio.
 
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I'm curious what the plan is for the first non-test server Xinux? Are you going to do a soft launch once all the lvl 1-20 or 1-30 is complete? Or only when 1-50 is complete?
 
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Lunis said:
I'm curious what the plan is for the first non-test server Xinux? Are you going to do a soft launch once all the lvl 1-20 or 1-30 is complete? Or only when 1-50 is complete?
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You can do 1-25ish without to much trouble I personally would like to have enough content for someone to go from 1 - 50 but we will see. Had 3 groups doing APW tonight for fun (Not tuned or cleaned up) saw a few things I needed to fix when it came to raids.
 
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TairyGreene said:
looks better than Pantheon. The bar has been set, VR!
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I would have preferred they just raised money to buy vanguard, fixed it up some with the large team, added some content, and rereleased it.
 
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Rael

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How far are the quest lines developed into the original (non Isle) newbie zones? Is it possible to level a noob on Kojan currently or would you run out of finished quests?
 
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Rael said:
How far are the quest lines developed into the original (non Isle) newbie zones? Is it possible to level a noob on Kojan currently or would you run out of finished quests?
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I was questing without issue into early 20s. I did kojan into teens til I got bored and went to thestra.
 
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Vanguard really had the scale, size of the world down. The screens of those dungeons are really badass. How remote and large some of those dungeons are just gives them a really dangerous feel. It's really a shame about the game.

Awesome work on the emu so far. How are the classes currently looking combat wise?
 
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