Exclusive screenshots of Vanguard's new racial mounts

by Michael Zenke Apr 18th 2008 at 12:45PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Events, in-game, Patches, Previews, Vanguard

From Sony Online Entertainment this morning, we have a pair of exclusive images for you. Above is pictured a Dark Elf, astride the brand new racial mount coming to Vanguard: Saga of Heroes in Game Update 5. The newest chunk of content for the game will be arriving on the test server very soon, and these racial mounts are one of the content drop's big selling points. Each race is going to have its own mount, which will be earned through faction questing for the race's capital city. This Dark Elf, for example, would have earned her spider by questing for Hathor Zhi.

The best part is that this earned faction (another new system coming in Update 5) can be achieved by anyone! So even if you don't like your race's faction mount, you can go earn yourself another one. We're told to warn you in advance: earning faction with one city may earn you the ire of others. If you plan to travel extensively, you may want to be wary of becoming overly honored with any one racial city. These mounts are first earned at level 30, but we're assured there will be level 50 mounts available for questing adventurers as well. For a peek at another of these mighty beasts, click on through to our Update 5 gallery to get a good look at the Half-Elven mount: the Dragon Turtle, earnable from the city of Tanvu.

Full details on the mounts, the new faction system, and much more will be appearing on the Vanguard Players site very soon. Stay tuned!

Gallery: Vanguard Game Update 5 Gallery

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

XethPlayer said on 3:20PM 4-18-2008

You have got to be kidding me. The game is fine like it is. Can you please just fix the bugs that are in the game already? It seems like this game is still in a spiral, heading straight south. No I am not some coding genius. However, the way most games usually work (The one's that WORK) you gear your Game Updates towards adding End Game content to keep the "Old Timers" hanging around. Also, adding mounts that are mobs throughout the game that you already see a billion times over is just ludicrous. Come on how about some originality. Why not make it fun instead of continuing the redundancy? I have no doubt in my mind that this game can make it, it is truly a great game, but with the decisions being made in the upper echelons...my god. Please help the people of Telon.