HL2RP Vanguard Gaming - A City of War - [ Moved ]

Heads up!
So, before you join you must understand that even though the lore does seem like there will be a lot of action roleplay, this server does also contain A LOT of passive roleplaying as well. So do not expect to hop in, find some rebels, and start a shootout because that will never happen.
Introduction!
So, the basis of this server is all on I guess you could call it an alternate dimension of Half Life 2, where during the uprising things took a turn,
By that meaning, it didn't go so well for the resistance. Although a few cities were captured, the presence of Overwatch was a lot heavier than what anyone would have thought causing most of the people to try and fight, to be killed. Although, no city had taken a harder hit than the capital, city 17.
As the uprising began in City 17, it was taken by surprise. The units were unorganized at the mass amount of resistance members that were taking to the streets and fighting for their freedom from the Universal Union. With the surprise, they had no choice but to keep all the Overwatch with City 17 inside the nexus. Soon enough, half the city was taken before the next fleet of Overwatch even made at the edge of the city. The Striders,APCs, and Civil protection units had all gathered towards the citadel in order to defend it.Quickly as the waves of overwatch entered the City with overwhelming force and numbers the resistance quickly weakened. Those smart enough, retreated while those who refused to live under the combine nay longer, and preferred death. Fought till the last man standing, even when they knew fighting was hopeless they continued to fight for what they believed in, but in the end they never got what they wanted for themselves or anyone else.
The failed uprising, did give courage and encouragement to those who were too afraid to speak up, as they heard what other cities accomplished before Overwatch had arrived to the cities and wiped out he resistance. Stories of how the Union was brought down in multiple cities, giving them hope and allowing them build up the courage and begin to fight. With this, many resistance groups formed, and while the combine had focused on reconstructing the cities and fortifying to ensure another disaster had never happened, the resistance only grew stronger and continues to attack in the times of weakness, but soon realized that even as weak as the combine was. Unless they grew twice, or maybe even three times as large they would never accomplish anything. With that, City 17 seemed to hat it the worst when it came to resistance as it was hit the hardest.
Resistance in City 17 grew to a point where the resistance was fighting their own. Group against group for territory, the smaller groups never even got a chance to prove their worth to the cause. Only the large groups survived, and with that the restricted Districts of City 17 were divided among three main groups, although smaller groups exist, they must remain more hidden than the larger ones to avoid conflict. With chaos such as this, many would wonder what the combine have done, well lets talk about that.
The Union

With the Resistance growing so fast and strong, Overwatch was needed in order to maintain peace, and this continued for two years of reconstruction, not only on the cities but as well as the Units themselves. With these additions, units were trained twice as hard and were required field training in order to rank up. With this, each recruit was required to be hardened and have to had to participate in a successful raid or show outstanding performance in the field with another office. If a recruit had been reported three times, the were de-serviced immediately. Those who passed, were brought into tougher training. Each division given their own expectations and duties, trained specifically to complete them. Although, the training was no the only improvement on the Metropolice. Their armory was upgraded too, providing them with a deadlier arsenal to repel the resistance with. The first thing to be added was Black-tip ammunition also know as armor penatration rounds. With these, the resistance seemed to only wore armor too look cooler as it seemed to be pointless. As the ranks increased, better ammunition was provided such as incendiary rounds. The weapons remained mostly the same, the basic Mp7, Usp Mach, Spaz-12, and for overwatch, the Ar2. The armor was heavily improved, providing with more protection over the torso, light padding in the sleeves and pants to drain the impact of low-caliber weapons.
The Union also made Pts, or Patrol Teams mandatory and without one, you were to receive a consequence. There are few reasons to not have one, and getting caught five times without one could lead to de-servicement.
Any squad leader that was in service at the time of the uprising, was de-serviced due to incompetence, and new SqL's were instated.

Note: I know it's short, I sorta when brain dead on this part. Sorry.
The Resistance

Now, we get onto the resistance. Now, even though there are set groups this does not prevent anyone from creating their own group.Although, it does make it more challenging to do so with the set groups being more powerful and controlling. Not all groups are controlling and "evil". One is more of a bandit like group. One isn't against the citizens, but do not treat them with as much respect, and the last one is all about supporting the citizens and trying to make their life in this world better than it is already. Now, as I explain the motives and general idea of the groups and what the goal is for them, I suggest you think now if you plan on being resistance if you would rather join one, or make your own.
KYOSODAN
This is the group that is full of all the jerks that enjoy to do whatever they want when they want. As bad as that sounds, they usually stay within their own territory, and it is quite easy to slip in and out and you might not even know you were there. Although, the main goal of this group is unknown to the public. It seems they just strive to destroy the life of citizens, making it even worse than it already is.
Rumors pass through the city of what has happened, but nothing was ever confirmed. Some say a man went in, and they chopped off all his fingers, and yanked out all of his teeth just because he stepped on their show. This seems very unlikely, some believe it others don't as a rumor, nobody knows who started it or if it is even true.
This group is armed with your basic resistance weapons. Mostly Usp's and Mp7's, with basic hoodlum resistance armor. You can find a few, armed heavier than others, but the run of the mill member is going to have one of those weapons, and look like a thug,
The Crimson Ark
Although the name is pretty, and the name sounds like something a little could have come up with. These are the people who really take it to the Union. These people fight for freedom, but when it comes to aiding citizens with food. They are more greedy than you'd want them to be, but as they seem to be the only major group fighting against the Uniom. The citizens seem to care less about how they are treated by them because of how much they work to free them.
Their arsenal is a lot heavier than Kyosodan. Consisting of anything from a stunstick to an Ar2. Their armor resembles that of someone who is willing to lay down their lives, wearing a mark on their uniform and armed for war. The Crimson Ark seems to be your militia like group. Fighting for what they believe is freedom, and with a motto of "If you're no with us then you are against us". the Attitude they have towards citizens will always be frown3ed upon, but no matter what you say, they are the only ones fighting for your freedom.
Republic of Forgotten Hope
Yet another name seeming as though no thought was put into it, these guys are all about helping. They are more of pacifists, but do not look at them the wrong way. If they get into a fight, best be warned they will show you a side that even strike fear into and Elite Overwatch. You know, if they we able to fear anything that is. None the less, these men and women feed those who need it and supply citizens with money when loans need to be paid. They ask for nothing in return, but the love of the citizens of City 17, and that they keep living so one day they may be freed from this hell.
The type of weapons you will see these ones carrying are Revolvers,Mp7s, and Shotguns. \
Rarely would you find one with anything lighter or heavier, unless they had just joined the organization. Usually found with your basic resistance armor, although some may be a bit heavier. Even with such weapons and armor, they prefer to care for the citizens rather than fight the Union.
They have left that all for The Crimson Ark to do. They do get into the occasional scuffle with Kyosodan.
Why Us?

Now, you may ask why choose us? Why not go off to just another city server? Well, we cant give you much as to why it's better. The best we can say is join and see what you think of it yourself. We strive to deliver a unique form of roleplay and create a community where people can build a virtual life and choose a path and do so with joy. whether it be joining the Union as a Civil Protection unit and establishing and maintain order within the city or joining the resistance and fighting to bring down the Union and try to restore life as it was. Maybe you prefer to just the life of a peaceful citizen. Whatever it may be, you can do what you want. All we ask if that you give us a try, and see what you think. As stated above, this server is not all about action so do not join thinking so. Although the resistance side to this roleplay is heavily supported, we do not support shootouts every day, nor do we support civil protection units getting mugged every ten minutes. With this said, I hope to see you on the server, and thank you for reading. Below is our Ip and a few addons that we think should be noted.

Diseases - This plugin creates three types of diseases. Cough, fever and colour blindness. All three are curable by having the right items. Cough makes you emit a cough occasionally, and fever makes your head dizzy. In addition to this, there are two poisons added and one antidote for the MPF. A "Green Liquid" and "Fast Green Liquid". The difference between those two is that the antidote only works on the normal Green Liquid. The fast green liquid kills the target faster. Maybe for torture and amputations. Maybe it will be some kind of dark MPF secret?

PACEditor - Gives you the ability to personalize your player model's look by placing objects and effects on yourself. You can go from putting just a hat on your head to creating an entire new player model. PAC can also work on vehicles or props.

Durable Weapons - Adds durability to all weapon items that can be found when a scan is ran on startup. Durability will decrease every time a weapon is used, provided that the weapon fires bullets (this can count for melee weapons too as most melee weapons still fire bullets.) As a weapon loses its durability, it will do less damage and have increased spread.

Affective Wonds - Makes it so that certain wounds affect the player. If hit in the leg, they'll fall over, and if hit in either arm, they'll drop their weapon. The system can be enabled/disabled and widely customized through the config, including the ability to set the base amount of leg & arm shots it takes to have a player fall over or drop their weapon and whether or not the system should affect the MPF/OTA.

And many more!


Ip: 66.151.138.56
Click Here----> Content!: <---- Click here
Or here ---->http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=368252375 <--- or here!​

Keep in mind this is a heavy WIP and is most likely to change. Whether it does or it doesn't you must be aware that what you are reading at the moment may change and you should read over one last time when the server had been released on if you think you would enjoy it. Thank you for taking the time to read this and we hope to see you on the release of vanguard Gaming.​

 

Launched! Ip: 66.151.138.56
Come check us out!

 

content?

 

Just taking a small skim through this thread, I found some things that should be brought to your attention to give more of an appealing feel to the thread. (If you are willing to change a few things, of course.)

To start off, this thread is lacking detail. There's not much I can expand on for this, though, I think a lot of your paragraphs lack depth in the subject. You do get your point across, though very briefly. Lore interests a lot of people, it's how your server is ran in some aspects, and people need to know a lot about it. I recommend redoing your paragraphs, finding all you can add to make it look creative and in-depth.

Visually, the thread's format is very unappealing and unorganized in my view. Without warning, you jump into the lore. What I mean by 'without warning', is that you should title a lot of things you talk about, like with what you did before explaining factions. That would be an example of organization, now for the appealing part. This thread looks very dull in a few aspects. It's like everything is just.. there. (I've included a link towards the bottom of the post to give you an example of what appealing looks like to me.)

Now, the originality in your text. Just skipping to your summary of the Resistance faction, I found a lot of 'Now,' and 'Although'. Most of them being too close together.
https://gyazo.com/94b9cab4dc991446a9731627a021f790
https://gyazo.com/2c720e63393e877bc4b6fb7cf844e70d
In my opinion, I think you should change your wording a little to not have so many words being multiplied. Think of different words that hold the same meaning. (If you need help, you can always google '<word> synonyms', or head over to http://www.thesaurus.com/ and search.)
Though this is just me being picky, as it's pretty displeasing for me to read the same word so often.
To add a little to this, you have a bunch of grammatical errors in this thread, even your community name in the red text. You typed 'vanguard Gaming' instead of 'Vanguard Gaming', for example.

Finally, a short IMO on originality of pictures you add in your thread. Usually, custom banners and pictures you take/create show commitment, originality and in some cases, trust. If you create your own content, it can show readers that you're trying to look nice, and like I said, in some cases they can trust that you want this to work out. You wouldn't want to create something for something you don't really care for, would you? Grabbing pictures from Google Images/HL2 site doesn't show originality and that you worked to look nice.

A thread to probably look up to for help would be this: http://forums.cloudsixteen.com/threads/eve-gaming-dissolution-roleplay.15864/, even though it doesn't revolve around HL2RP, you can see how @Sixx did a lot of things that this thread is generally lacking.

Good luck.

 

I get what you are saying, and I do plan on adding more to it although the main problem is I have things such as work to do. With this said, I do work on it every now and then and I will post what I have updated later when I finish up the Combine section.

 

I cannot post links, but upon joining you may ask for the content in OOC and someone will link you to it.

 

what
why cant you post links

 

Because there's a link restriction to new users.

 

First, I would like to add that I did edit the content into the post so you can now find it there.

Secondly, I updated it a bit for now and I will probably do more as I was a bit busy at the time and rush a bit so there may be a few mistakes. They will be taken care of by tomorrow.

 

oh
i forgot about that

 

A quick update, In-character apps for Metropolice and Civil Workers Union are now open.

 

Updated plugins today, will update the post after my PT tomorrow.

 

So, is this Uprising RP or am I just ignorant?

 

Well it's mostly basic City Rp, but with more rebel action. You're not gonna walk into the streets and see OTA chasing down resistance with Ar2's or anything like that. Although, in places such as the sewers there would be a lot heavier rebel presence then you might find elsewhere.

 

Can you please stop writing with that font?, It's a bit of an eyesore reading whatever you're typing due to that font.

You don't have to, I'm just saying I'd appreciate it more if you did

 

So basically weeb RP, okay.
Stop with that shitty pink text and font, please.

 

I joined the server today, and honestly it isn't my thing. But I think that if the server had a larger population I'd consider sticking around for a while. Best of luck.

 

"Weeb rp", please tell me where this thread references Japan you fucking idiot.

 

I generally am an asshole, that is correct. Thank you for noticing.