Posted this on QCDN. Figured I'd post it here, also.
Friend got into the beta, says it's sick nasty. This is an MMORPG
Can own your own ships and become and pirate and raid other players ships while they are sailing across the ocean to other continents(aka. PIRATE LOLS). Can have your own house, build a city with guildmates, have a 'debate war' with NPCs and have the NPCs send an army and wipe out a player-made city.(O LAWD DRAMA HERE IT CUMZ LOLS) Has a bajillion races, and four continents, the game map is HUEG LIKE XBOX. You get a horse at level 8. To sail from continent to continent takes approx. 53 minutes real time, but on the way you can do other stuff like PIRATEING ARG GIMME A COOKIE. or fishing and stuff. I dunno.
Races
Thestra(A European type continent with mountains, wetlands, and forests.)
* Thestrans (Human sub race)
* High Elves (Elf sub race)
* Dwarves
* Lesser Giants
* Varanjar (Barbarian sub race)
* Halflings
* Vulmane
Qalia(Middle-eastern type continent with mountains and deserts.)
* Qaliathari (Human sub race)
* Mordebi (Human sub race)
* Dark Elves (Elf sub race)
* Gnomes
* Kurashasa
* Varathari (Barbarian sub race)
Kojan(An Asian themed continent with jungles.)
* Kojani (Human sub race)
* Half-Elves (Elf sub race)
* Wood Elves (Elf sub race)
* Raki
* Goblins
* Orc
(ripped from wiki)
Four tanking classes
Warrior
Paladin
Dread Knight
Inquisitor
Five DDing classes
Ranger
Rouge
Bard
Monk
Berserker
Four Healing classes
Cleric
Shaman
Disciple
Blood Mage
Four Mage type classes.
Sorcerer
Druid
Psionicist
Necromancer
Made by the original developers of Everquest.
The game overall is beautiful, the classes are very detailed.
Crafting
The second ‘sphere’ of Vanguard, crafting will be significantly more extensive and involved, and less repetitive, than in any MMOG to date. Crafting recipes are each made up of a different set of actions you have to perform in a particular order. Each of these actions cost and take from a pool that is known as the action pool. The maximum amount of action points available vary with each recipe. While you are crafting and performing these actions you will have problems arise that can affect many aspects of the process. You can have up to three of these on you at a time and which ones will occur is based on the crafting station you are using, its quality, the recipe and the material you are using. Through experimentation, players will be able to discover new recipes and formulas.
As a sphere, crafting will have its own set of classes and levels. Your character will level up and advance within the crafting sphere independent of the other spheres.
When levelling up a crafting class, players will gain experience from crafting items, as well as some NPC quests. Players will be able to talk to NPCs in the game and get quests to craft items the NPC needs to produce goods. The NPC will give the player the necessary items to complete the quest and the player needs only craft the item. This means a player will not be making a few hundred suits of leather armor to level up and thereby ruin the item market. When a player completes a job for an NPC it stocks up the NPC in items or supplies for services.(ripped off from wiki)
Anyway, I'm off on a caviar hunt. Toodooloo
[size=+2:d8ba9]More info:[/size:d8ba9]
http://www.vanguardsoh.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_(computer_game)
http://wiki.silkyvenom.com/index.php/Main_Page <- Race screenshots and stuff. raah