Vanguard’s End of Beta Events

One day remains to use the “your opinion is moot because the game is in beta” as a tactic when engaging in parley about the state of Vanguard. I guess there will always be, Vanguard hasn’t been in development very long! Actually it has, but still how about them events.

With the end of beta upon us we would like to thank everyone for their participation! It has been a long journey, but one very well traveled. We offer this fun filled day of events and tokens of our appreciation to celebrate Vanguard and the future that lies before it. The event starts this evening 1/22/07 After the patch and goes until the end of beta on 1/23/07 at 11:59PM PST

Thank you everyone Vanguard would not be the same without you! We look forward to spending many years with you and sharing many more events like this. Enjoy yourselves, this is your party!

Below is a list of events that are happening around the world

Elrar Da Big – To celebrate Vanguard’s community Elrar Da Big will be popping up all over Telon to share great trinkets and items. These items all have unique effects and are dedicated to the fansites of the Affiliate Fansite Program.

Bumper Boats! - The seas and rivers of Telon will soon fill with thousands of tiny and large vessels alike! The Crimson Fellowship will be ferrying players through the scenic waterways on giant galleons as players explore them in their personal schooners!

Tele-Tag - Ahgram has been transformed into a war zone as players fight to find the griffon vendor. Players will be able to get Tele-Taggers at the entrance to the city, throwing these at another player will cause them to be teleported back outside of the walls!

Update: I logged on and met a flying wyvern attacking the entrance to Hathor Zhi, word spread other points were also under attack and no one was organizing a tactical defense and the graveyards were piling up. I couldn’t inflict any damage since I was low level, I did feed the wyvern some experience; three deaths worth. I figured if I should die repeatedly, it should be up in the air. I spent two hours trying to get a griffon in Ahgram, that doesn’t include the hour it took me to walk there after numerous corpse runs along the way. (Thanks to Raydrix for putting up with the deaths and no pictures because the world doesn’t look so great on the highest performance setting.)

I kept getting ported back outside the city thanks to griefer-tag. Yea, a two hour ping-pong match amongst one hundred participants is a bit much, but flying on a griffon is one of the more enjoyable things about Vanguard and wasn’t a common occurence in the beta. Gebron, a lead programmer experiencing some lunacy from a lack of sleep, was kind enough to put up another griffon vendor in Lomshir - I headed there and once I arrived so many players were flying around on griffons I ended up crashing three times. By the time I was flying around only 30 minutes remained before pulling the plug, I soon crashed again (at least I was up in the air this time!) and as a result called it a night. I didn’t see any parting words or gems from Brad or any lead developers on the beta one server, which is what I was looking forward to the most.

Overall, I didn’t find the end of beta events very enjoyable compared to past Armageddons; however, I know plenty others did at my expense.