Hello all,
Vanguard is currently looking to expand its team by introducing a new member of staff, this would be the Vanguard Server Administrator. The Server Administrator has a wide variety of responsibilities, this can range from the creation of a new Discord server to working closely with SULs to ensure their Discord server is correctly formatted and answering any questions, queries or concerns they may have.
What is the Server Administrator responsible for?
Creating new Vanguard Discord servers for teams entering Horizon using a pre-created template
Assisting SULs in the management of Discord Bots and Webhooks
Working with and assisting SULs on the management of their Discord server
Creating and ensuring Vanguard server related documents are up to date and relevant
Conducting meetings with SULs to ensure they’re up to date with any Discord server related requirements
Troubleshooting issues that may arise with the Vanguard Discord servers or Bots/Webhooks
The Vanguard Server Administrator will be required to have a basic understanding of Discord, this ranges from creating Discord servers, creating new roles, creating new text channels, editing role and channel permissions and assigning roles to members.
An understanding of Bots and Webhooks is preferred but not required. Training will be provided regarding adding/managing Bots and Webhooks on the Vanguard Discord servers.
As this is a new role and Vanguard is a Corps that is always evolving, the role might come to change over time. The main purpose will always stay the same though which is to support the teams in Vanguard in different regards.
If you would be interested in taking on a new challenge and having the opportunity to work alongside new and established teams within Vanguard, get in touch with any of the current Vanguard Staff:
Dreamus, Hemphop, Warlohn, SnapShot, RbMatty
Dive into The Cycle, a free-to-play shooter from YAGER that blends competitive with cooperative gameplay as you compete for resources on a hostile planet.
Each match of The Cycle will see you leap onto Fortuna III and fight with or against other adventurers, seeking to claim as much loot as they can from the planet without being killed in the process.
Choose a faction from the station before dropping onto the planet and then complete its quests to earn more points and crafting materials you can use to improve your gear for the next run.
Form and break alliances on the fly, but watch out for monsters that grow more dangerous as the timer ticks down and a radiation field that’ll fry you like an egg. Survive and escape with your loot and come out on top!
Deadside is a hardcore multiplayer shooter with large open world and wide gameplay possibilities.
Deadside gets you into a realistic game environment full of hopelessness and despair.
It tries to keep balance between the dynamics of the shooter and the hardcoreness of “survival” gameplay.
The world of the game does not imply the existence of fantastic elements like zombies or anomalies, concentrating the player's attention on realistic aspects of life on the ruins of the dead civilization.
This Game Has Just Been Released On Steam
ABOUT THIS GAME
Last Oasis is a Nomadic Survival MMO. Earth has stopped rotating, and the last human survivors need to outrun the scorching Sun in a massive Open World.
Walkers
Traverse the world on your walker: a wooden, wind-powered machine inspired by Theo Jansen’s amazing strandbeests. Walkers are mobile bases that can be adapted for travel, transportation, harvesting, and combat. Personalize your walker to fit your needs with a multitude of structures, attachments, and upgrades!
The Scorching Sun
The sun burns the land in the west, turning it to dust. In order to stay ahead of the obliterating sun, nomads must explore new territories that slowly emerge on the eastern horizon, where the Earth has long been frozen in impenetrable ice.
The Lore
After a cataclysmic event halted the Earth’s rotation, the planet was split into two extreme and deadly environments. Only a narrow region between the burning and freezing halves of the planet can support life. This region moves as the planet orbits around the sun, and all living creatures must migrate with it to survive. In order to keep moving, the remnants of humanity have built nomadic machines, and a walking city called the Flotilla.
Survive and Thrive
Survive by exploiting what’s left of the world: find a source of water, hunt ferocious creatures, fend off pirates, brew mind-bending Vitamins, and uncover hidden walker technologies. Build autonomous machines to harness the power of the wind. Claw your way from a ragged nomadic trader to the heights of a mercenary king, fleet commander, or a legendarily-rich merchant.
Trade in a Player Driven Economy
There are trade networks that stretch between the discovered oases. In this global, player-driven economy, smart and quick traders can take advantage of supply and demand to make huge profits. Other nomads may opt to produce or hunt down rare and highly localized resources. It’s always wise to consider potential competitors first, though. Threaten another clan’s operation, and you may become their next target.
Travel and Explore an MMO-Sized World
The large, open world is made up of many interconnected oases that are over 100km2 each. Potentially thousands of oases exist simultaneously – the number automatically adjusts to accommodate the size of the playerbase. Explore them to reveal new and unique biomes while plundering their limited resources. Some nomads may pitstop to refill their water. Others will settle for some time, but ultimately everyone will pick up and voyage east to escape the encroaching sun.
No Offline Raiding
The Wasteland is a safe, open stretch of desert that sits between the last livable oases on Earth. It can be used to travel to adjacent oases, or as a place to hide your walker and safely log off with all your belongings.
Melee and Walker Combat
Last Oasis features dynamic, skill-based directional melee combat. Nomads can choose their weapon from a wide range of both one and two-handed swords, maces, axes, and quarterstaves. If you prefer ranged combat, you can customize your walker with weapons like ballistas, scattershot guns, repeaters, or even giant slingshots. Specialize in one or become a more versatile fighter by trying to master them all.
Building Bases
Construct portable bases or more permanent fortifications to protect yourself from hostile nomads and wildlife. Stone walls offer superior defense, while lighter wooden structures are able to be packed on large walkers and relocated.
Solo Experience
Individuals and small groups of players have as many opportunities as clans to prosper. Clans might control territories and lead the economy, but cunning traders, skilled mercenaries, agile hunters and pirates will find niches that better suit solo play. While solo play will always be a viable playstyle, social features like voice chat make it easy to meet new friends and team up to kill some of the largest creatures.
Clans and Warfare
Grow your clan into a political and economic power. Control a region and get rewarded with a supply of local resources gathered there by roaming nomads. Make alliances to protect your income, because war is always around the corner. Enemy clans will challenge your control and threaten to take away everything you’ve built.
Grappling Hook
Master the vertical movement. Every Nomad owns a grappling hook; it’s a tool that can be adapted to almost any playstyle. It’s all about your skill: some struggle to climb the smallest rocks, while others swing through forests outspeeding the fastest Walkers.
Sandworm
Dubbed "The Long Ones", these roaming creatures are the biggest threats nomads will face. The worms are ravenous. Once the beast focuses on a walker, it loses sight of everything else. In order to defeat the worm, experienced nomadic hunters must band together. Entering its territory underprepared will mean certain death. If the hunters succeed, they’ll have a reason to tap a few barrels of fermented cacti. They’ve just gotten their hands on some of the rarest and most sought-after resources – enough to make their entire crew rich and powerful.
Black Desert Online is a sandbox PC MMORPG published by Kakao Games. BDO is an MMORPG that features castle sieging, trading, crafting, player housing, parkour, animal husbandry, investment banking, fishing, cooking, carpentry, and loads more.
Players will enjoy jaw-dropping graphics, intuitive skill-based combat, and immersive story encased in an expansive world just waiting to be explored.
Accompanied by a Black Spirit, a companion whose destiny is intertwined with their own, players will discover the secret of the Black Stones and the history of their corrupting effects.
CLASSES: Warrior, Ranger, Sorceress, Berserker, Valkyrie, Wizard / Witch, Musa / Maehwa, Tamer
7 Days To Die
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
This game also has a lot of modded servers.
In Hunt, you play patron to a "Bloodline" of bounty hunters, all seeking their fortune amid the rot of a 19th century Louisiana that has been overrun by demons.
Your task, in the main bounty-hunting mode, is to find the lair of a legendary monster within one of two festering open world maps, using your sorcerous Dark Vision to chase swirling blue sparks to clues that narrow down the search area.
Having slain and exorcised the abomination, you must collect a bounty and head to a map exit to complete the match.
Along the way you'll fight or avoid myriad lesser horrors - from vanilla zombies who can be treated as speed bumps, providing you don't overlook the ones waving cleavers or torches, to chunkier threats such as the Meathead, a one-armed juggernaut that sees by way of a slithering entourage of leeches.
You'll earn both character XP and coin for slaying these minor foes, but every bullet or firebomb wasted on a demon dog (and every bandage applied to your shredded flesh after discovering that the dog has friends) is one less to pit against the boss itself.
There are three of them, right now - you never know which you're up against before starting a match, so it's wise not to specialise too much when equipping guns and consumables.
The Butcher is the soft option, for all its bulk: a porcine bully armed with a flaming hook, easily slaughtered providing you keep your distance.
The knife-wielding Assassin is wilier, dissolving itself into a cloud of flies in order to course through the crevices of barns and windmills; it can even clone itself to distract you, like a lizard discarding its tail.
Worst of all, though, is the Spider, a viciously nimble wall-crawler that always seems to be behind or above you, its rattling feet setting your hairs on end. Many hours after first killing one, I still feel the urge to stand on a chair while fighting it.
VOID Interactive's Ready Or Not is an intense, tactical, first person shooter that depicts a modern day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.
VOID interactive have consulted with police teams globally in order to create rules of engagement and a scoring system that are both challenging and realistic. In order to push the bar further with realism, Ready Or Not models ballistic penetration, ricochet, kevlar and plate dynamics, as well as projectile expansion and momentum.
Explore a deep and involved weapon handling and player maneuvering system, geared towards providing officers with an unprecedented level of control over their situational effectiveness. Ready Or Not utilizes a simple and organic control scheme which won’t have players fumbling around, forgetting dozens of keybinds.
Organize an approach and strategize through floor plans and mission briefs, then execute the mission in real time. Officers can decide to deploy with items such as ballistic shields, door rams, tactical ladders, and much more. Swat units can also choose to enlist personnel to assist with the situation, including sniper teams and negotiators.
Team leaders will command a smartly-designed team of ai officers in singleplayer with either an onscreen command interface, or through speech with a robust and finely-tuned speech recognition system. This speech recognition system can also be used to yell for compliance at suspects and civilians.
Bring order to chaos online with friends through a tactical cooperative experience, lead a crack team of ai-driven swat members in a solo, story-rich campaign, or battle a rogue organization in a fierce and competitive multiplayer environment.
With access to over 60 unique items, players are given the tools to tackle any situation. The right combination of weapon optics, muzzle modifications, magazine types and foregrip variations gives an officer the edge in combat. Alternatively, load up with plates and heavy armor to prevent a quick end, at the expense of agility. Officers can also personalize their unit with team-specific patches and uniforms.
If you want to see any of the games listed here in TAW please fill out the interest form INTEREST FORM.
Regards,
RbMatty
VG PIA
Hey Everyone!
Tomorrow is the day, We begin our 24-hour livestream to raise funds for TAW at 21:00 CEST // 15:00 EST.
We have a donation goal to hit! OJS [OW 2] has said that if we hit 200$ by the last time slot then he'll shave his head! So everyone make sure you visit the stream and donate what you can with the link provided below the stream. If you donate on the stream you will still received a TAB related to the amount you donated as a thanks.
Some streamers will have individual donation goals during their time slot, so make sure you leave a message in your donation and it'll be read on stream.
Below is the schedule of the stream, so you can tune in for your favorite game! www.twitch.tv/tawtv/
Welcome to the first post of the Valorant Spin-up! I'd like to just go through a few quick things.
Firstly I recently made a forum post on how to change your Valorant in game name and tag. It would be great if everyone could change their tag in game to TAW, to help spread our name in the games community, even if you're not in the division, you'd be helping us out massively! Changing your tag will not effect your usual callsign, so don't worry about that. Here's a link to the forum post mentioned: http://taw.net/forums/t/27173.aspx
Secondly, for those who aren't aware of Valorant, it's currently in closed beta, but there is an easy way to gain access to this beta, but it can be a little frustrating if you're unlucky. It involves watching 2 hours of twitch streams about the game. More info in this forum post: http://taw.net/forums/t/27167.aspx
Finally, We currently have a great team, but we are lacking on NA members. So below is a message about that from our XO Yoshii:
As many of you know recently the Valorant division recently entered into Vanguard. We have pretty high hopes that this division will do well in the future. We already have a good amount of EU players that are playing almost all day. NA on the other hand will need a little boost since as of now it's just me. We are trying to get the ball rolling for recruitment on the NA side. We are looking to make our NA side more active by having members coming in to play some games with one another and bringing in any people they know who are maybe interested in joining the community.
Last Oasis
This had a bad release however the devs took down the servers for a week and now the game is working great. If you would like to see this game in taw fill out future game forms .
If you would like to see this game or any other in TAW please fill out the future games suggestion form.
Valorant is an upcoming free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Riot Games.
It is the first game Riot Games has developed in the genre.The game was first announced with the codename Project A in October 2019.
It is set to be released for Microsoft Windows in the summer of 2020
Gameplay Two teams of five play against each other, players assume the role of "agents" with unique abilities and use an economy system to purchase their abilities and weapons.
In the main game mode, the attacking team has a bomb, called the Spike, that they need to plant on a site.
If the attacking team successfully protects the bomb and it detonates, they get a point. If the defending team successfully defuses the bomb, or the 100-second round timer expires, the defending team gets a point.
Eliminating all opposing team members also earns a round win.
The first team to win the best of 25 rounds wins the match.
There are currently ten known agents in Valorant. Agents each have special abilities, that are either bought before rounds or earned throughout elimination in the game.
Check this game out, and if it is something you would like to see in TAW fill out the INTEREST FORM.
Greetings,
Welcome to the launch party for Season 3 of the Call of Duty Modern Warfare & Warzone franchise!
It has been a wild ride at the Call of Duty Division with the launch of Warzone. Many aspects of the game have changed, bringing back many old players and introducing new players into the franchise. Today the Call of Duty Modern Warfare series sits at over thirty million players worldwide engaging some of the largest streamers youtubers, and other content creators. As we venture further into the series and endure all the exciting changes happening, we here at the COD Division would like to extend a hand to the TAW community in joining us on the Battlefield!
This cross-platform battle royale adventure is just the thing to keep your morale high while enduring these difficult times, come join our Call of Duty team for a few matches and find out, for yourself, the enjoyment that chaos on the battlefield can bring you.
I look forward to playing with you all soon!
Official Season 3 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laxOfJLBpm4
AustinMartin
COD NA Executive Officer
Vanguard is proud to announce that the Star Wars The Old Republic [SW] team has progressed to Tier 2 status!
With this, they are now open for internal transfers. If you would like to transfer to the Star Wars The Old Republic Unit or attend events
with the team, feel free to join them in their channels in Vanguard or talk to the SUL, Trmnx for more information.
Mandatory Times are as Follows:
NA = Tuesday's @ 8pm EST
Optional Times are as Follows:
NA = Wednesday's @ 8pm ET - Datacron Hunts
NA = Thursday's @ 8pm ET - Ops Night
NA = Saturday's @ 3pm ET
Fortnite
Fortnite is the biggest game in the world and I would love to see it back in Taw. When it was in Taw, the only problem was the leadership. Lots of in fighting between the officers, but other than that, recruiting was fine, and it had good attendance at events. With a good solid team, this could easily become one of the strongest teams in Taw. If you like to see this game or any other in Taw please fill out the Future games form.
Chapter 2
The big change in Chapter 2 is the destruction of the old island and the replacement of an entirely new landscape. You'll notice a few familiar landmarks and some names that seem very similar, but this is basically an entirely new experience. Now you're not just fighting for the thrill of the hunt - virtually every action that you take earns you experience points. The game now very much prioritize doing things rather than hiding, making it a much more frantic experience than before.
It should be noted that 'Save The World' version of the game still exists in roughly the same state as when the game was launched. There was no dramatic overhaul of the players vs. Husk defense game, though there has been a roadmap that plans out where this version of the game is going. Save the World is still a pay-to-play game for the foreseeable future, and its still one that uses many of the same building and shooting skills that have made the spinoff so much fun.
Gameplay
A fair bit of what makes Chapter 2 so special isn't necessarily the gameplay elements that have been added, but rather what's been taken away. Yes, this new version does introduce fun gimmicks like being able to pick up fallen players and the ever-useful fishing pole, but what's more surprising is that it got rid of a lot of what's been added over the course of the last several years. Amazingly, Chapter 2 really seems to be much better for all the trimming that it's done.
Chapter 2 is very much a battle royale shooter at its best. You're still going to drop out of the familiar party bus, but once you're on the ground you'll absolutely find yourself in a world that's just a little more competitive than what you once found. There are no more vehicles, no more mechs, and for better or worse there are no fun little additions that help you zoom around the map or take out players from a position of relative safety. There's you, the cover you can find, and the cover you can make. It adds a real sense of tension that the game has been lacking for some time, especially if you've not yet memorized the new map.
I do not play Fornite myself so all the above info has been taking from another source and not my own writing. If you want to read the whole article here is the link.
We will be having the Spin-up Meeting for Valorant [VA] on Saturday 25/04/2020 @ 1800 GMT+1. Feel free to drop in the Spin-Up meeting channel under Vanguard Command. We will be having a general overview of the game and discussing in house events such as mandatory events. If you have any questions regarding this meeting or Valorant feel free to contact Valorant staff.
Hope to see you there!