sigil-games-online posts

Remember Vanguard: Saga of Heroes? Sure you do. It's that fantasy MMO from Sigil Games, formed by some of the folks who helped develop Everquest. Oh well, there was the issue of the game being completely not ready for release when it actually shipped to stores in January 2007. By spring 2007, Sony Online had purchased Sigil Games and Vanguard and took over the game's development.

This week Vanguard is scheduled to get a major update that seems to be designed to bring in new players to the game. The update will add a new starting area for new players (the Isle of Dawn) along with a revamp of the male and female character models and most importantly "thousands of bug fixes". Indeed the patch notes are said to take up 12 pages. Wow.

The fifth update for Vanguard: Saga of Heroes is now available, which adds new features, class updates, and performance fixes to the game.

Chief among the new additions are racial mounts. According to the Vanguard website, the mounts "can be attained at levels 30 and 50 after you have gained the required faction and number of platinum coins." In terms of class updates, the Vanguard website states that "Blood Mages and Psionicists have received a lot of developer attention," with many broken abilities now functioning properly.

Consult the updates section of the Vanguard site for specific Game Update 5 info, and log on to Vanguard to apply the new patch.