MMO Beta News
Posted by Stropp on January 6, 2007A couple of announcements were made today regarding current and up-coming betas.
Vanguard: SOH
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes have opened up their Beta 5. Vanguard is a very Everquesty style of game. The developers have attempted to capture the feel of the early EQ days, with the look of a modern MMO. You can access the beta by downloading it from Fileplanet.
While Beta 5 is not quite a public beta, you have to be a resident of the US to participate, it is open and the NDA has been lifted. So we should be seeing a lot more info about this game soon.
Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa has started taking applications for their first beta.
Destination Games and NCsoft are looking for a few good testers – and now is the time to enlist for the early rounds of Tabula Rasa
beta testing. We will be selecting testers based on system
specifications, game experience, location, and date submitted. Please
note that processing your beta application will take some time and we
have a limited number of beta slots available. Closed beta slots are
limited to players over the age of 18 and require acceptance of a
Non-Disclosure legal agreement.
My understanding is that the Tabula Rasa beta should up and running in about a month. At that time I expect that it will be a select few only to test the basic functions. Later beta phases will increase the number of beta testers accepted.
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I really, really want to give Vanguard a try, but my machine surely won’t run it after reading Tobold’s description of the load times and graphics. I have a 2.4 ghz with a 2 yr old Nvidia old-school PCI-slot Gforce. I have graphics on low for WoW as it is.
Yeah, you might have some trouble with the system requirements for Vanguard. I had a similar specced machine when I played EQ2, and that ran with a huge amount of lag. Especially in the Qeynos Harbour area. I expect Vanguard requires a lot more than EQ2 does.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to try the Vanguard beta since I don’t live in the US. I am considering giving it a go when it is released here, but I might wait until I have spent some time in TBC.
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