E3 Reports

[Korelin]

A ton of good info:
http://www.vanguardsoh.com/forums/s...?threadid=14093

I especially like the Safehouse reports... rather long, but chalk full of detail.

[Pirotess]

The Silky Venom reports are very well done as well and have some really exciting information like this little tidbit.

Originally Posted by Silky Venom

Remember the good old days of lending something to a pal and then they forget to bring it back? Or that item in the news not so long ago where one player assaulted another player IRL for selling a sword that had been loaned to him? Thing of the past with Vanguard. You will be able to put aside gear for apprentices, sidekicks, friends, guildees. They can use it but not sell or trade the item, and it remains yours to take back at any time.

Little pieces like that give me hope, not to mention the combat system which sounds intensely demanding.

[Korelin]

You will be able to put aside gear for apprentices, sidekicks, friends, guildees. They can use it but not sell or trade the item, and it remains yours to take back at any time.

Wow, I really like that...

[Korelin]

Personally I've always loved in-depth combat, not just your usual hack fest. It looks like this is the direction that Vanguard is going:
http://www.thesafehouse.org/viewtopic.php?t=20087

All in all, combat was very hard for me to follow. There is just so much information being thrown at me that it was hard for me to see when reactions were actually taking place. But again I was reminded that these characters were already 25 (in what my brain was already referring to as mid level), and they were chaulk full of abilities and many reaction opportunities available. Another thing to note is that I mostly watched what was going on in the viewing area as opposed to what was being said in the chat window. The game uses a more descriptive form of the EQ attack lines, so perhaps those line describe the reactions taking place. There were no super exotic animations or over the top spell effects to indicate the player had done a reaction. Damage values were also hard to follow, as the players were already doing in the hundreds of points in the demo.

I get the sense that this game is made for adults, rather then the last few mmorpg's that have to come to the market... takes a bit of time to pickup, but the reward at the end is worth it (or so I'm hoping).

[Aazenius]

I really hope that the complexity of this game scares off the kiddies... but is easy for us adults to pick up on at the same time.

[Pirotess]

Yeah I think Vanguard will prove to be a much more in depth game that will force us to relearn how to game all over again instead of relying on our skills built to date.

[Aazenius]

The link way up top doesn't work anymore. Here is the new link
http://www.vanguardsoh.com/news.php