Vanguard Beta tweaks paying off - Looking GREAT!

Posted by Draedus in Vanguard News

It looks like Vanguard beta findings are starting to pay off - the game is more stable now than I’ve ever seen it. We played for about 3.5 hours last night with little or no performance issues. We had a group of 4 from Sinister Guild - 2 casters & 2 melee - we experienced minimal animation lags from time to time, a few segment load jitters, and a few bugs, but nothing that slowed down our game play.

There was one are in Qalia (near the outpost/tower at the base of the first long road down toward Khal) where our group kept auto-dispersing (bug reported) other than that things went pretty smoothly.

Playable for hours between any crashes or restarts
Many bugs fixed, few remaining
Better performance at higher quality settings

The last, although not a focus for many MMORPG fans, is of the utmost importance to some players. I am particularly interested in getting the best visual quality and smoothest game play performance I can and I’ve noticed a remarkable improvement in the games quality/performance over the last few days of patches.

Where previously I was forced to play at the lowest quality settings (Highest Performance) at 1024 x 768 resolution for 15-25 FPS, I can now play in the next quality settings level (High Performance) at 1280 x 1024 resolution for 12-18 FPS. I know that’s not great FPS, but its playable and makes a dramatic difference in visual quality. (see below)