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