keep trying, its sony. sometimes it doesn't display all the stats either.

well, Shiny and I are probably pretty thoroughly addicted now. Played it most of the weekend...I'm up to level 12 and she's at 11. My cleric kicks serious ass. I can tank like a mofo and I do very decent damage...shiny just does mad damage but can't take hits at all. I tend to rez her alot. It's nice to be able to rez, though. and I just unlocked a blade barrier type spell, which is quite nice.

My page is here:
http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/blog. ... 7244665620

not all my /blogs appear to be showing up, but whatever...the cool one with the weird glowing crystal thing works. Shiny and I just moved from our starting town (Leth Narae) to some dwarven outpost so we could get more missions...the rock above is near it.

Anyway, it's buggy as HELL, but very fun and very pretty. And very heavy on teh system. Regular reboots are a must as the game leaks memory bad. Shiny had to deal everything down to minimal graphics settings to play. :p

Sad thing is I am on minimal graphic and all and my graphic card (although was not top of the line) was just bought a month ago.

I am actually a lvl 12 bloodmage now /cheer so now I do even more damage

I have found some really nice people in the game already - although some jerks spawn camping someone I needed for 2 hours too..

Now I just have to figure out how to get good sleep and still play the game.

Thanks to a certain evil someone who shall remain unnamed I'm actually playing the game as well, for now. Got a week or so to go (I think), so what servers are you guys on? Might make a char on that one just for fun.

My main character on the other server (Targonor) is a Dwarven warrior named Rinox Terriblis (can't use The Terrible ). I would have chosen a dreadknight if it weren't for the fact that dwarves can't choose that class. Ah well.

I'm lvl 7 so far and having fun. The game looks great but I agree, there are a lot of bugs and it's darn heavy on the ole' pc. Last night I had it happen that I was "already looting a body" and couldn't loot anything anymore. Only logging out changed it. Another thing is that there's no message about the rules for dying changing at lvl 7, so I was running around panicking about losing my gear.

And I stopped playing for last night when the game crashed as I opened a door. But overall: great stuff!

What races are you guys btw? I know your classes are cleric and blood mage but I don't know about the races.

Satis's list of vanguard tricks:

1. Ignore the maps. Other than just general direction, they're useless. Turn off the minimap, it sucks.
2. Vanguard leaks memory bad. Increase your window pagefile size and maybe get more RAM. Then be prepared to exit the game every hour or two. Maybe even reboot your computer. Sorry, it sucks.
3. If you get slowdowns, jerkiness, and especially any kind of graphical errors like cooldown timers not playing, map not opening or is distorted, etc, type this on the command line: /flush It dumps all your textures and everything else and reloads. Takes a few seconds, so don't be doing it in combat.
4. Corpse runs are great....don't die! :p If you soul-bind something, it'll respawn with you when you die...so if you die alot and don't know a rezzer, soul bind some of your armor and your weapon. You can get soul-binding crystals at general vendors, typically. Alternately, team with a rezer. My cleric and shiny's blood mage gained a rez ability at level 10.
5. If you get stuck looting (you're already looting a corpse!) there's a / command to end looting. I think it's /endloot or something. You can get command lists by first doing /help commandlist and get the categories. Then do /commandlist [category] to get the actual commands. eg; /commandlist emote gives you a list of all emotes.
6. If you try to join a group (or invite someone else) and it says you/they are already in a group and you aren't, you probably quit the game while in a group. It's a bug. Just type /groupleave and /groupdisband (I think that's the right command do disband a group), then try again.
7. To trade, highlight a person and do /trade
8. To mess with chat settings, right-click on the chat tab you want to mess with. Tons of options, including what channels to listen to.
9. Want more room on the default UI for skills? Go into your settings..there's an interface tab with check boxes to enable more skill bars. Alot more. You can also check an interface button toward the top that lets you move EVERYTHING around, kind of like the customize option in guild wars. Or you can reset defaults if you screwed something up real bad.
10. There's a profanity filter. It's in the settings.
11. There are trainers for everything. There's a harvesting trainer...at least in the elf area he gives a quest where you chop down trees...you have to complete the quest line in order to start harvesting. After you chop down so many trees, you get to choose what kind of stuff you want to harvest...I chose skinning and reaping.
12. When you hit ~100 in your harvest skill, you have to "train" it by reading a book. The harvest guy sells the book. The one to read at a 100 skill is the amateur book.
13. You can't get a horse until level 10. You can then get a free one by becoming level 10 in diplomacy (I believe) or you can buy one from the horse mechant. The first horse is 12 silver for elves, so save your money.
14. Crafting is complicated. So is diplomacy. Don't expect to learn it in 2 minutes.
15. The crafting and diplomacy trainers are in the major cities. The harvesting trainer for high elves was on the road just outside the main city.
16. KOS...some races don't like each other and their NPCs will KOS (kill on site) anyone of a disliked race. IE, dwarves hate half-giants. If you want to socialize, you have to hang around the boundaries and gain faction (500 I believe)....once you do that, they'll stop KOSing you. The interactions are complex.
17. The horse vendor is in the city.
18. The horse vendor doesn't sell saddle bags. There's a saddle bag vendor.
19. There IS an auction house. it's called the broker (exchange broker).
20. To make bags, you have to be a level 8 outfitter. Sorry, I'm only level 3.

Ok, enough for now.