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Game Update #5
Racial Mounts
Class Updates
Anti-Hitching
New Particles
1. RACIAL MOUNTS
We have added a unique racial mount for each race in Vanguard! The mounts can be attained through a series of faction based quests that can be started in each race's home town. If you happen to like another race's mount better than your own though, worry not! With the appropriate faction, players will be able to complete any of the quests.
Can't wait until the weekend's over to get a peek at the new racial mounts? Select fansites have exclusive shots of these awesome mounts! Be sure to be on the lookout if you want to catch an early glimpse!
Citizen Favor
The citizens of Telon are seeking adventurers to help spread their influence across the land. By seeking out a faction registrar you can don the banner of a city, gaining favor with its citizens while you battle their enemies. Each creature that is slain will offer a chance to receive tokens bearing the symbol of their registered city. These tokens can be returned to the city in exchange for citizen faction. Be warned that while many factions are friendly with each other, all factions have those that oppose them. Raising your faction with one city may reduce your faction with another. While you can switch factions at any time, those who are worried about becoming outlaws in certain cities should heed this warning.
Gaining faction will allow you to purchase factional rewards with the use of platinum tokens. These tokens can only be retrieved from the vilest of beings and only when you are wearing the banner of your chosen city. Those powerful enough to defeat raid NPCs will receive ancient coins which can be converted into a platinum token of any type you desire.
Racial Mounts
With the release of the citizen favor system comes the first factional rewards -- racial land mounts! All races have been granted a unique looking mount with improved speed over other mounts in their tier. These mounts can be attained at levels 30 and 50 after you have gained the required faction and number of platinum coins. Players will be able to get any of these mounts as long as they do the work involved for their attached cities. Below is a list of the mounts for each race:
2. CLASS UPDATES
This update we have given significant attention to three more classes. Blood Mages, Psionicists and Sorcerers have all received a lot of developer attention. Abilities that may have been broken before have been fixed, spells have been tweaked and upgraded or updated and all three classes should be more in line with their intended vision in terms of power and utility. Specific tweaks and updates will be listed in the patch notes.
3. ANTI-HITCHING
As always, increasing performance remains a high priority for our development team. To that end, with this update we will be introducing new anti-hitching code that should have an immediate and noticeable effect.
4. NEW PARTICLES
Sometimes, things just need to look cooler. That was the case for many adventuring class spells and/or abilities. Blood Mages, Disciples, Dread Knights, Druids, Necromancers and Sorcerers all received new an improved particle effects. The complete list is as follows:
Blood Mage
Blood Gift
Bursting Cyst
Despoil
Flesh Mender's Ritual
Grim harvest
Entwining Vein
Disciple
Celestial Tiger
Immortal Jade Dragon
Clarity
Lao'Jin Flare
Falling Petal / White Lotus Strike
Soul Cutter
Blessed Wind
Dread Knight
Abyssal Chains
Hex of Impending Doom / Hex of Ill Omen
Hatred Incarnate
Incantation of Hate
Torture
Druid
Call Lightning
Deadly Swarm
Starfall
Nature's Wrath
Necromancer
Crippling Blight
Dark Rebuke
Death Incarnate
Plague of Infestation
Poison Burst
Soul Blight
Bone Spike
Sorcerer
Flame Spear
Chromatic Halo
Seradon's Falling Star
Tja, nix mit neuen Charmodellen, weder Körper noch Kopf anscheinend.
Und diese "rassenabhängigen" Mounts sind nur Tiere die als Mobs schon lange im Spiel vorhanden sind und als "Mount" deklariert wurden. Nun darf man auf Käfern, Spinnen und sonstigem Müll reiten. Ich glaub langsam an Vanguard arbeiten wirklich nur noch 2 Leute.