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Stop the BS. You experienced chunking like everyone else. Your new computer didn’t make you immune to engine limitations. Keep it real.
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John Smedley hired by Amazon to produce MMOs
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Stop the BS. You experienced chunking like everyone else. Your new computer didn’t make you immune to engine limitations. Keep it real.
pharmakos
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Grim1
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Of course I did, it was very minor for me though. Not even close to game breaking. Why you are getting your panties in a bunch is the real issue here. Your tears are endlessly salty.
It amazes me that you are still crying about a game that came out years and years ago. It really is pathetic.
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Daidraco
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Because the game was so poorly optimized and ran like such utter shit that you had to throw it against a MAC truck just to see the game run "semi" smoothly. Memory leaks were rampant across the game. Even after emptying the memory (which is already a red flag to have a widely known mem dump macro) the game still required far too much memory for what it was.
If the engine was flawless, and thats a big if, then the game would have been a niche game still. The lack of balancing, the lack of content, shitty tutorials on certain class abilities and more would still keep Vanguard from ever reaching the habitable zone for most players. The game surely had some charm, you bet. But at the end of the day, only one or two people were actively talking in the Vanguard threads when there was no new news.
If the engine was flawless, and thats a big if, then the game would have been a niche game still. The lack of balancing, the lack of content, shitty tutorials on certain class abilities and more would still keep Vanguard from ever reaching the habitable zone for most players. The game surely had some charm, you bet. But at the end of the day, only one or two people were actively talking in the Vanguard threads when there was no new news.
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I didn't make it past level 18 or 20. I remember starting out near the halfling town and fighting little pixie people (maybe evil halflings?). There was a grain elevator area that was pretty neat, but the elevator caused all sorts of weird desyncing that made it impossible to group. That was when I knew Vanguard would never be the EQ killer we all wanted it to be.
The solution to the chunking was to install the game on a SSD - But back then they were expensive.
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I ran Vangaurd on a pretty mediocre rig. I did catch lag in dense zones or during team fights but overall the server was the main factor for me when it came to performance.
During morning hours it ran great but the evening or weekend sessions were rough. That game was fun as fuck though sometimes, I ran a dark elf necro and that abomination pet they had was so stupidly OP it was awesome. I used to cc lock a guy then do my pets cool down attack ( I had a legendary item on him that procd extra damage on opening attack) which just one shotted almost every class type.
I quit after they nerfed that amazing little bastard.
During morning hours it ran great but the evening or weekend sessions were rough. That game was fun as fuck though sometimes, I ran a dark elf necro and that abomination pet they had was so stupidly OP it was awesome. I used to cc lock a guy then do my pets cool down attack ( I had a legendary item on him that procd extra damage on opening attack) which just one shotted almost every class type.
I quit after they nerfed that amazing little bastard.
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I am telling you these talentless hack fucks need to make a goddamn VR MMO, give people a reason to buy an Oculus or Vive or whatever.
The port over to a new medium will be enough that people will look past all the flaws these skilless cunts will leave in the game.
The port over to a new medium will be enough that people will look past all the flaws these skilless cunts will leave in the game.
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Bullshit. Had one. Paid a pretty penny. Chunking was still there. Even tried a RAM disk. You guys are denying reality if you think you ran VG with top graphics and no chunking. That mythical rig didn’t exist. Stop it.
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Grim1
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Lol. You really are butthurt about this. All I said is that it was minimal for me, and not even game breaking. Why does that fact make you taste piss in your cheerios? Too funny.
You just can't accept that some people had a great time in Vanguard. Sucks to be you.
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Yeah, I cant believe this type of shit either. I mean what did the dude "lead" that was any good? Most of his ideas on running SOE were pure shit. People say Day-Z, but even that was craptastic pile of shit until it took teams of people to fix it and to this day its janky as fuck.
They had one contender IMO and that was Planetside 2. But even that game, which had tons of promise was driven to the ground.
Even their bread and butter, EQ and EQ2 were both squandered over the years. No fucking vision at all.