Vanguard Videos by the Ton!
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Oh,
we've got videos...and lots of
them! Brad McQuaid, CEO of Sigil Games Online and executive producer of
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, has launched a series of videos taken by
Sigil dev Jerrith and Brad himself. These videos by Brad McQuaid
include his notes.
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Brads Beta 3 Mini-Videos
In addition to the Mini-Videos taken by Jerrith (a Sigil programmer and
long time MMOG player) and made available by yours truly and our
awesome affiliate sites, I've also been working on several in-game
videos. These are .avi files using DIVX for compression, otherwise the
files would be HUGE please make use of the variety of codecs out
there that will enable you to view the videos and/or take the advice of
those who post where to find these codecs on this thread and elsewhere.
A few differences, however:
1. These are taken at Very High settings with *everything* turned on
that can be right now (world lighting, tone mapping, all available
settings to maximum, HDR, and more). I am using a very high end system
(dual 3.8ghz, ATI x1900xt, Xfi card, XP 64, etc.) Why? To show Very
High, as opposed to Jerrith's Mediums, and also to compensate some for
the significant hit FRAPs slaps you with. Youll still see some
roughness with our animations as they are not fully optimized, as well
as some hitching as my system loads different areas again, please
keep in mind that the game is still in beta, has many optimizations
coming, and I simply show off different areas of the game regardless of
how polished or finished they are (although all areas are live on beta
with people playing in them -- the exception would be the video that
shows the Qalian capitol city Aghram, which is not yet open to beta
players and while one of the largest, if not the largest cities ever
created in an MMOG, its neither done nor accessible on beta (though it
will be soon)).
*** by no means should you assume that
you will require such a system
to play Vanguard when it is commercially released, even at High
Settings****
2. The videos are longer (and the files bigger) than Jerrith's and so
are in lower resolution and less clear. I am also less experienced with
Premiere, so my noobness there will show. But I do cut between
different sets of FRAPs videos as opposed to his, which are one
'encounter'. The lower resolution means you don't feel as in-game, but
the upside is you get more variety and longer videos.
3. In the videos I either use my play character with GM powers or
Aradune, my GM character, with GM powers (I usually don't play my
regular character with GM powers, but did so in the videos to expedite
things). In some of the videos you basically see Aradune follow a group
of players as they adventure -- I'm pretty much tagging along. I do
however, sometimes, intervene, and when I do, given that Aradune is
invulnerable and level 50, mobs die pretty quickly, so please take note
of that when I take down a mob in one or two swings. The regions with
combat that I do show are for areas under level 20.
4. I do also include some still shots showing some of the game
publications Vanguard has appeared in (shameless plug on my part what
can I say?) as well as some general art and some concept art for the
game as well. Hopefully you find them interesting and informative,
despite their commercial nature.
Again, just like Jerrith's videos, these are videos taken for MMOG
gamers, either fans of Vanguard or just fans of MMOGs in general. They
by no means take the place of the more professionally put together
videos that are being put together for more high profile sites and
publications that we are working with SOE on -- essentially, they have
a different target audience, message, and purpose and therefore
compliment each other.
I've made four so far, and until I get some tips on how to use Premiere
better, I'll stick to these four. I will either provide the link and/or
give the link to our affiliate sites to put up. You are welcome to
mirror the videos -- in fact, you are encouraged to do so in order to
help with bandwidth -- thanks
Like Jerrith's videos, these are taken live from Beta 3 and anyone who
happens to appear on them are under NDA so please don't bother them
with questions as they will not be able to answer them or even
acknowledge that was them. I will try to answer any questions you might
have on various message boards, be it our official boards or elsewhere.
Again, these are rough and meant to satisfy people interested in
Vanguard or are experienced with MMOGs in general. They also therefore
include flaws, especially as some of the areas depicted are new and
unfinished. Accordingly, please take them for what they are.
All of the videos are taken from Qalia, although future videos will
undoubtedly include Thestra if these turn out to be popular and
interesting to those viewing them.
-Brad
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