Vanguard Content Update 1

Posted by Stropp on March 3, 2007

Some news today that Sigil are about to release their update #1 to Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. This update promises dozens of new weapon models, six brand new NPC races to battle, two new mid to high level adventuring areas, and nine dungeons with revamped art and/or lighting. Here’s a link to the announcement. It offers quite a few screenshots and accompanying descriptions for some of the creatures, weapons, and locations in question.

While new content is always welcome in a MMORPG, it does seem a little soon to be releasing all of this new content, especially considering Vanguard: Saga of Heroes was released in such a poor state just a month ago. Of course content doesn’t just spring from the imagination of the developers. Every sword, NPC, and dungeon takes time to design and develop. This new content would have been in development for several months before the game was released, and it’s now ready for primetime.

I do wonder if they’ve fixed up the problems that the game already has. I decided a few weeks ago, after only a few hours play, to put Vanguard on the backburner until it was playable for me. When I get a bit of time I might fire it up and see if some of the more heinous bugs have been fixed. If they haven’t, and Sigil are going the route of adding content without fixing bugs…

That’s the route SOE took with Star Wars Galaxies, and look how that turned out.

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