The Vanguard Train is pulling into the station once again with all news everyone wants to know. As another month passes by, the hard working teams of Battlefield V, Insurgency Sandstorm, Call of Duty, Fortnite, and DC Universe have all continued their hard work in tier 2. These teams are working day and night to achieve a great amount of success in each of their divisions. As well Vanguard has expanded this month with the addition of Scum, Monster Hunter World, and Ring of Elysium!
If there is a game you would like to see in TAW please complete the VG Interest Form. Feel free to contact the Vanguard staff if you have any questions. We also have the game testing channel under the VG HQ. The games in this channel changes from week to week, but check it out and see if the game your playing in there. We use this channel to help us with identifying what games to bring in next. Hop in and find others playing the same games as you, and it shows your support to Vanguard. Make sure to keep up with the Vanguard blog and forum posts to stay updated on upcoming games!
Mandatory Event Times
EU: Monday and Friday 21:00 CET
NA: Sunday and Monday 21:00-22:00 EST
Optional Event Times
EU: Wednesday 15:00-16:00 EST
NA: Tuesday 21:00-22:00 EST
The Call of Duty team has continued to pursue success, while in tier 2 the team has excelled in improving their ranks and staffing dedicated members. With the upcoming release of Black Ops 4 the team awaits the transition with immense patience. The team will be fully converted on release of the game, and the team will try to keep their success through the year. Similar to last month, the [COD] team is still looking to expand on their recruitment plans so that their team is fully prepared for the release of Black Ops 4 coming very soon!
If anyone is interested in helping this team to be a success in TAW, contact John Lockwood or any of the Vanguard staff.
With the gaming community under spotlight, Fortnite stands tall as one of the most popular games to ever hit the video game market. Streamers, news stations, and other media have dragged huge amounts of attention to this game and almost everyone knows what it is. Zwoggy and his team are currently working on taking a firm grasp on this advantage of player base and establishing effective community events for all to enjoy no matter the region. As well activity has helped the team bring in some new TAW members so stop by if your playing fornite, grab a couple of friends and hop into a game!
If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact Zwoggy or any of the Vanguard staff.
NA: Saturday/Sunday 21:00-22:00 EST
The [DCU] team has announced their recruitment drive last month and has continued the priority of recruitment into this month. Many team members have been working endlessly to recruit in and out of game. SUL, Hemphop, and his team have been holding some popular events and look to continue that success through the upcoming months. Recruitment will be a priority for these upcoming months however with the team in DCU nothing is impossible, they all have super human abilities after all.
If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact Hemphop or any of the Vanguard staff.
The Battlefield V division was a new addition to Vanguard this month and has done excellent so far in adapting to the Vanguard environment. Transitioning from Battlefield 1 to Battlefield V has allowed the team a easier time recruiting with more active players, as well the team started in Tier 2 and have already established lively events, hard working staff, and a rock solid recruitment plan. With the well hyped new game, the team should be able to excel in the Vanguard scene with good numbers and even better activity!
If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact blwoods or any of the Vanguard staff.
The Insurgency Sandstorm division was another new addition to Vanguard this month and has excelled instantly in the Vanguard scene. Coming from the orginal Insurgency, the team has a good experience with running division, allowing for lively events, dedicated staff, and a working recruitment plan. Although Insurgency may not be the biggest game out there but the player base is very dedicated to their favorite game, the [INST] team hopes that the player bases' passion will match ours and create a larger team!
If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact Triskalion or any of the Vanguard staff.
Trove was introduced a couple months ago into TAW and has since hit a few road blocks as well as some successes. The SUL, Amathist, is hard at work creating an active environment for recruits to call home. The road blocks have come in many areas specifically in activity however many of their successes come from recruitment. So the next goal for the team is to establish retention allowing for the team to grow in population and activity at the same time. If the team is able to recruit and keep those members, the team should be headed for some successes in the near future.
If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact any of the Vanguard staff.
The Elite Dangerous crew just began their journey in Vanguard last month and since the team has achieved many improvements coming in very important areas. These areas include, recruitment, establishing staff, and major amounts of activity at events. As the game continues to grow, so does the division, the game has seen an increased of players and all of the [ED] staff plan on using the inclined player base to continue their own growth.
If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact the SUL, Mortwolf or any of the Vanguard staff.
The [SCM] is one of the newest additions into Vanguard. Starting off fresh can be hard for many teams, as they are tasked to build up a team with staff and events will small amounts of members. However the SCUM team has managed to get off on the right food as they advance through tier 4 to tier 3! That definitely deserves a loud HOORAH! SCUM has continuously climbed in popularity as many engage in survival in the most epic proportions! To keep recruiment going a huge goal of the SCUM team is to continue their active events so if your free on Sunday and have SCUM why not stop by and survive together.
If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact the SUL, Omenrash or any of the Vanguard staff.
With the recent release to PC, a team is being formed around Monster Hunter World. The spin up meeting is still yet to be held and will be announced on the front page of the website once decided. With the announcement may be their event times or they may be decided at a later time however look out for those as well!
If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact the SUL, Creo or any of the Vanguard staff.
With the recent release to steam, a team is being formed around Ring of Elysium. The spin up meeting is still yet to be held and will be announced on the front page of the website once decided. With the announcement may be their event times or they may be decided at a later time however look out for those as well!
If anyone is interested in helping this team be a success in TAW, contact the SUL, HKone or any of the Vanguard staff.
This is the first Special Vanguard event in what we hope will be a Trend!!
Any game that is suggested between June 23 to September 22 that comes into Vanguard will be eligible for some Vanguard tabs, a unique tab and badges.
This is to promote TAW, Vanguard, and activity within TAW as a whole. We would like to see you in Vanguard being apart of our growth as a community.
Fill out the Vanguard Interest Form between 6/23/18 to 9/22/18.
Speak with a member of Vanguard about any games you would like to be apart of in TAW.
Be apart of the spin up team once it becomes a full spin up, or launches into an Army Corps.
That’s it!! Everyone apart of any team at those critical moments will be awarded.
Looking to get more games in TAW.
Gain new members for our community.
Larger variety of games to play and enjoy with our fellow TAW members.
To try and get new and different types of games like Racing, Fighting, Sports or Console titles.
Here is a short list of games Vanguard is currently looking at.
If you would like to be apart of this special event, fill out the Vanguard Interest Form and lets have a fun Summer in Vanguard.
Vanguard is proud to announce that the [BF] team has progressed to Tier 2 status!
With this, they are now open for internal transfers. If you would like to transfer to the Battlefield V unit or attend events with the team, feel free to join them in their channels in Vanguard or talk to the Division Commander, blwoods, for more information.
Current Event Days and Times:
NA: Sunday 20:30-22:30 EST
EU: Sunday 14:30-16:00 EST
NA/EU: Thursday 14:30-16:00 EST
Ring of Elysium
This game goes early access on September 19th on steam. This game is a lot like Pubg
with a few differences. When you pick up a gun attachment it auto puts it on the gun. It
also auto reloads when you shoot your last shot. Instead of jumping from an airplane at
the start of the game you pick where on the map to spawn, and the biggest difference and
perhaps the most important one is this game is free to play. If you would like to see this
game, or any other in TAW fill out the Future Games Form.
Vanguard is proud to announce that the [INST] team has progressed to Tier 2 status!
With this, they are now open for internal transfers. If you would like to transfer to the Insurgency Sandstorm unit or attend events with the team, feel free to join them in their channels in Vanguard or talk to the SUL, Triskalion, for more information.
NA: Sunday/Tuesday 21:00-22:00 PM EST
EU: Currently Deciding Times
It's time for September's On The Horizon Post, for those of you not aware of what that is. In Vanguard every month we list several games that Vanguard feels would make a great place in TAW, and we publish them in a blog. Most titles are newer but there are some older ones as well that we feel would be good in our community. Also keep in mind that these games may be the future of TAW so if you have any interest in any of these games or any others, fill out the Vanguard Interest Form please.
As well please contact the Vanguard Staff if you have any questions about these games or any not on this list.
Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76, the online prequel where every surviving human is a real person. Work together, or not, to survive. Under the threat of nuclear annihilation, you’ll experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe.
Multiplayer Is On Its Way-
Multiplayer finally comes to the epic open world RPGs of Bethesda Game Studios. Create your character with the S.P.E.C.I.A.L system and forge your own path in a new and untamed wasteland with hundreds of locations. Whether you journey alone or with friends, a new and unique Fallout adventure awaits.
Immersive New Graphics-
All-new graphics, lighting and landscape technology brings to life six distinct West Virginia regions. From the forests of Appalachia to the noxious crimson expanses of the Cranberry Bog, each region offers its own risks and rewards.
The American Dream-
Use the all-new Construction and Assembly Mobile Platform (C.A.M.P.) to build and craft anywhere in the world. Your C.A.M.P. will provide much-needed shelter, supplies, and safety. You can even set up shop to trade goods with other survivors. But beware, not everyone will be quite so neighborly.
The Potential For Death-
Go it alone or with fellow survivors to unlock access to the ultimate weapon – Nuclear Missiles. This destruction also creates a high-level zone with rare and valuable resources. Do you protect or unleash the power of the atom? The choice is yours.
Release Date-
Fallout 76 comes out on November 14th on all platforms however you can play the game a bit early in a BETA version when you pre-order the game!
Experience the ultimate futuristic fight for survival in EA's announced MMO RPG, Anthem. For all of those who don't know what Anthem is, it is a story based RPG with multiplayer cohesion so no matter if your with a group or by your self you will always have the optimal game play according to your play style. Take upon an unfinished world, humanity struggles to survive in a savage environment full of diverse threats. Equipped with incredible Javelin exosuits, a faction known as the Freelancers seeks to tip the balance in mankind's favor.
You Are Your Best Weapon-
Equip yourself with your own kind of weapon. Deal damage from afar, be a tank and get close, dodge attacks and deal massive amounts of damage, or do a mixture of all of those. Javelin's aren't just your suit of armor they are also your most powerful weapon and your life line. Play the way you would with your own personal Javelin with your own customization and rationalization.
Adventure Together Or Alone-
Take on the fight for humanities survival alone or with friends. Take down your enemies using a cooperative team play or use your own strategy to wipe your opponents clear off the planet. All that matters is that you win!`
Release Date:
Anthem is set to release on February 22, 2019 on all platforms however if you sign up on their newsletter (scroll to the bottom to sign up) you have a chance to play in the pre-release demo!
Space Engineers is a sandbox game about engineering, construction, exploration and survival in space and on planets. Players build space ships, space stations, planetary outposts of various sizes and uses (civil and military), pilot ships and travel through space to explore planets and gather resources to survive. Featuring both creative and survival modes, there is no limit to what can be built, utilized and explored. Space Engineers features a realistic, volumetric-based physics engine: everything in the game can be assembled, disassembled, damaged and destroyed. The game can be played either in single or multiplayer modes. Space Engineers concentrates on construction and exploration aspects, but can be played as a survival shooter as well. Expect players to avoid engaging in direct man-to-man combat and instead use their creativity and engineering skills to build war machines and fortifications to survive in space and on planets. Space Engineers shouldn’t be about troops; it should be about the machinery you build.
Game Modes-
Space Engineers offers unique game play in multiple modes to appeal to as many players as possible. Whether you are testing your creative engineering skills by your self or joined by your friends to try and test your war machine/creations against others. Also engage in whatever kinds of fun in the creative game mode with unlimited resources let your creativity take hold. Or join in on the survival mode trying to use your skills to take out enemies or create amazing machines in pressured situations.
Dedicated Servers-
Servers with direct connections allow the player and all of their friends to join a server with minimal lag and give everyone a more fluent game play experience.
Ships and Vehicles-
Build them, pilot them, destroy them! Use various resources from planets all around to create your ideal ship to praise and/or destroy you enemies with.
Building Ships-
With various parts ranging from oxygen tanks, air locks, turrets, rotors, jump drives, and more create a ship custom to your play style. Be careful though when starting these parts and ship building may be a bit complex but no worries skills come with experience.
Scenario Editor-
Players can create missions and game modes which can be played by other players. Capture the flag, death match, racing or campaign driven missions - all can be done by using the scenario editor, with your own rules and designs. Get your friends together and see who can destroy who with your own rules
All of the following games are currently in the Vanguard Team Speak testing channels-
Ironsight is an innovative, online military free to play, first-person, multiplayer shooter. Set in dystopia 2025, where the warring factions, the North Atlantic Forces (NAF) and the Energy Development Enterprise Network (EDEN) are engaged in futuristic warfare in the final battle for supremacy over the last natural resources on earth. Ironsight’s realistic first-person, game play catapults the player into intensive combat zones as the battle between these two forces takes place across a multitude of global landmarks, with varying terrain and weather conditions too.The first of its kind, Ironsight combines realistic FPS game play with an arsenal of combat arms which includes innovative and technologically advanced artillery and combat skills.
Iron Engine Custom Built to the Game-
Enjoy innovative technologically advanced game play. Although surrounded by gun fire and a detailed environment the game is playable by those even with a slower computer! So join in on the fun by yourself or with your friends no matter what type of computer you have.
Personalized High-Tech Artillery-
Shoot your way! Over 100 customization options for your Weapons. Arm yourself with technologically advanced weaponry, Sniper Rifles, Shotguns, Assault Rifles, SMGs and more with all different types of scopes and attachments
Dynamic Combat Zones-
Over 14 unique combat zones. Discover universally diverse terrain, with interactive elements, destructible routes and zones with varying climate conditions and effects.
Lock and Load, Your Way!
Unlock customization for your weapons and character skins and play the way YOU want to play.
Strategic Drone Operation
Choose from a wide selection of futuristic unique drones to assist you in your tactical strategies with powers and abilities like you have never seen.
With this fifth installment into the Grand Theft Auto series dive into the life of a criminal as you slowly gain more and more money. Expand your riches by doing heists, robbing stores, and completing other missions. Use the money to spend money, buy cars, houses, garages, airplanes, and guns. Grand Theft Auto is famous for it's ever expanding environment and this game is no exception to this theme, with tons of things to do, a major city and huge mountains explore it all!
A Mad World- The largest map ever created by the rock star team and this time features a major city, Los Santos, which exaggerates the crazy life of a city as well as featuring the contrasting desert North side of the map filled with mountains and small towns
Vehicles, Guns, and Madness- With the constant goal of gaining more money, there are more than enough to spend it on! Whether it be a new Ferrari, a new sniper skin, or a boat you will always have more to buy
Multiplayer Madness- With the story comes one of the best multiplayer's of a open world game! With the developers from Rockstar releasing more and more online content giving players more than enough to do no matter online or solo
Welcome to a new world! Take on the role of a hunter and slay ferocious monsters in a living, breathing ecosystem where you can use the landscape and its diverse inhabitants to get the upper hand. Hunt alone or in co-op with up to three other players, and use materials collected from fallen foes to craft new gear and take on even bigger, badder beasts!
Overview-
Battle gigantic monsters in epic locales. As a hunter, you'll take on quests to hunt monsters in a variety of habitats. Take down these monsters and receive materials that you can use to create stronger weapons and armor in order to hunt even more dangerous monsters. In Monster Hunter: World, the latest installment in the series, you can enjoy the ultimate hunting experience, using everything at your disposal to hunt monsters in a new world teeming with surprises and excitement.
Setting-
Once every decade, elder dragons trek across the sea to travel to the land known as the New World in a migration referred to as the Elder Crossing. To get to the bottom of this mysterious phenomenon, the Guild has formed the Research Commission, dispatching them in large fleets to the New World. As the Commission sends its Fifth Fleet in pursuit of the colossal elder dragon known as Zorah Magdaros, one hunter is about to embark on a journey grander than anything they could have ever imagined.
Ecosystem-
A world that breathes life! There are various locations teeming with wildlife. Expeditions into these locales are bound to turn up interesting discoveries. There are 5 ecosystems in Monster Hunter World for your friends to explore each one festering with tons of unique monsters. These ecosystems include, Ancient Forest, Wildspire Waste, Coral Highlands, Rotten Vale, and one that is currently unknown so find out for yourself!
Hunting-
A diverse arsenal and an inseparable partner! Your equipment will give you the power to need to carve out a place for yourself in the New World. Use your monster hunting skills to turn your beginner sword into a skull crushing hammer and learn every combo possible to win against all odds. Monsters may look super tough and impossible to beat but with your tools, weapons, skills, combos, and the rest of your hunter arsenal you can overcome any odds!
Monster Hunter World just released hurry and get it today! Monster Hunter World on Steam
Currently Vanguard is interested in bringing in Battlefield V into TAW. So please feel free to stop by the Vanguard game testing channel in Teamspeak to play with your fellow TAW members!
Battlefield V is currently set to release on October 19th, for all platforms however the open beta begins Today, September 4th! Although the game has not yet released, here is what you can expect...
Summary-
Enter mankind’s greatest conflict with Battlefield™ V as the series goes back to its roots with a never-before-seen portrayal of World War 2. Lead your squad to victory in all-new multiplayer experiences like the multi-map Grand Operations. Fight across the globe in the single-player War Stories campaign. Assemble your Company of customized soldiers, weapons, and vehicles – then take them on an expanding journey through Tides of War. This is the most intense, immersive, and innovative Battlefield yet. You will never be the same.
Single Player? No Worries-
Experience the definition of immersion as you carry out missions in multiple countries each with more action and less downtime. Many have requested that the single player campaign has just been to dry and filled with down time and EA claims that they have listened. Have fun sitting at the edge of your seat with every second of game play!
Multiplayer Like Never Before-
Being the main focus on Battlefield V, the multiplayer hasn't just been edited things have been added. Huge things! Such as a new battle royal mode that offers a unique view on the classic Battlefield V multiplayer. However if you are a fan of those chaotic long matches do not worry because Battlefield V also stays true to their roots by specifically designing multiple maps to create the most interactive and fun multiplayer experience.
Stacked Armory-
Experience the true weapons of destruction, as you see the true soldiers of the war. Fight like never before with true brutality, true violence, and true destruction. Whether it be a rifle with a 6x scope camped on a hill, or a aggressive shot gunner, or maybe it is the one that uses those ultimate explosive shells on the tanks. With Battlefield V there are vehicles never seen before, with destructive tanks and mobile plans keep your eyes peeled you never know whats around that corner.
The Scum [SCM] team has announced their Spin Up meeting for September 8th, 2018 at 14:00-15:00 PM EST
This will be broken down into three parts. The 1st part is an overview of Vanguard, the 2nd part is an overview of the game, Scum, and lastly a concluding Q&A section for the Vanguard staff and/or the [SCM] Team. As of now no mandatory have been set up by the team however around the time of the spin up meeting the team should have some events scheduled.
If you have any questions, please contact any of the Vanguard Staff!