New videos released and beta invites update

[Joejccva]

<img style="margin:8px 8px 8px 8px;" src="http://www.vanguardspheres.com/gallery/files/1/1/7/new-VGnews-icon.jpg" border="0" alt="" align="left" width="100px" />Alas! Videos, videos, and more videos!

Brad McQuaid and Jerrith at Sigil Games Online have released two new mini-videos for your viewing pleasure. The first video is a combat sequence at the Temple of Dailuk that really shows off what combat is like, and how the animations are progressing. The second video shows the rich landscape, and the sky city areas.

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Temple of Dailuk Video #3 (65mb DivX AVI)

Aradune's Beta 3 Video #2 (43mb DivX AVI)

Attention CGMers!
We have some good news for you! If you were one of the many that bought the June 2006 issue of Computer Gaming Magazine (CGM) and you received confirmation of your beta key registration that placed you into the beta queue, then this could be your lucky week! It's looking like Brad and Sigil are planning on sending the CGMers those beta 3 invites by the end of this week.

This is a quote from Brad McQuaid:

Originally posted by Aradune Mithara on 8-31-06:
When do CGM People get into beta?

No promises, but after doing some calcs, all CGM people should have been sent an invite by mid-end of next week. Not going to go into more details, debate what's fair and what's not, etc. Sorry.

[Greymain]

I have my mail box permanently open, even I think I have become obsessed.

[Asylodus]

I got tired of refreshing my inbox, so I got google chat and it makes a noise and popup when i get a new message =P.

[Greymain]

Ah but I have duel screens

[Cobalt Katze]

Do they shoot lasers?

[Asylodus]

Originally Posted by Cobalt Katze

Do they shoot lasers?

You win my "lol" of the day

[Greymain]

screensavers at twenty paces

[Grimson SH]

Little update with the CGM beta news:

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Some server issues and optimizations came up and are taking longer to address than we'd hoped (we'd hoped therefore that there wouldn't be a delay).

Unfortunately, there may be a delay and we might be looking at next week.

I will get you an update as soon as I have one. Bringing in so many people into the game was to find these problems -- the bummer part is when they occur, we can't bring any new people in (CGM or otherwise).

Fixing these bugs is higher priority than *anything* else we are doing, but at the same time, uncovering them is one of the key reasons to bring up the population in beta.

So I apologize for the delay and promise to keep you posted.
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Brad McQuaid
CEO, Sigil Games Online, Inc.
Exec. Producer, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

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Found in this topic on the official forums.

[Joejccva]

Yea I just got home and read it as well.

Thanks. Tough break for the CGMers.