vG's American Badlands: 2025

American Badlands: 2025

The Lore:

The rising water of the United States' debt at last reached it's boiling point in 2025. Citizens all over the states were out of jobs, out of money, out of food... Out of hope.

Good men and women turned to the streets of crime and pillaging just to survive day-to-day life. Paid murder, theft, rape, forgery, disease, riots, floods, terrorism; it is slowly destroying the States. The President has not been heard of since the collapse, the United States Military is no where to be seen, bandits are running the streets and hurting innocent men, women and children. The United States of America is now a badlands and has no containment. It is slowly collapsing and the government isn't doing anything about it...

As a citizen of the United States of America, it is your sworn duty to simply survive. Live as a survivor and scavenge the leftovers for your home and family, live as a bandit and pillage others for their goods and merchandise. This anarchistic country is now your oyster.

Factions:

Survivor
You were just an average citizen. You try to just get by in this world, taking what you can for your family. Word is maybe the Military will come around and save us all.. But there is no sense in taking chances. In a world like this, only the smartest survive. You normally live by the code of, "A word is cheaper than a bullet", but you won't think twice in a life or death situation.

Military Personnel
You and your squad have been sent here to contain whatever situations may be about. You are to bring two medical units with you and begin to set up a small outpost for any citizen who may need help. Although, you haven't had contact with any commanding officer in awhile.

Bandit
You're bad business. You're trouble. You don't believe the smartest survive, but the strongest do. It's kill or be killed in this kind of situation, and you will not hold back. Mind you, your goal isn't to kill and mug everyone you see, but to simply cause trouble. Molotov cocktails, blowing up buildings, setting things ablaze and exploding cars are your specialty. Who's going to stop you? Some beaten down Military?

Disease Carrier
You are detestably the lowest class in this dire time of need. People often tend to stay away from you? I wonder what you've come down with? Probably one of those new viruses appearing from the chemicals the government has put in the air? Are you sure you?re not crazy? Are you even contagious?

Scientist
Your love for explanations hasn?t left you in this time of survival. You work with whatever faction you choose, whether you?re the bandit?s information guru or doing work with military personnel, you are constantly working in your lab, or what remains of it.

[REDACTED]
They seem to be a very shady type... I'd be careful.

Current state of Countries:

United States of America
Currently a badlands. There is no containment.

People's Republic of Canada (Previously Canada)
With the assistance of the Soviet Union as well as the lack of influence from the United States, it is currently a communist society. There is large amounts of containment.

The Soviet Union (Previously Russian Federation)
The USSR has risen once again. They have taken all the slavic countries with them. There is normal containment.

People's Republic of China
Riots are forming in China. We don't know how long the PLA will hold. There is little containment.

Empire of Japan (Previously Japan)
After taking all of Korea, Taiwan, Manchuria, Thailand, Australia and several other surrounding areas, Japan bloomed into a terrifyingly beautiful flower of intrigue and power. It is a military state currently and has very large amounts of containment.

Islamic Republic of the Middle East (Previously Afghanistan, India, Pakistan) - Without any help from the west, Islamic rebels began to take charge of the lower eastern parts of the world. The IRME is a very dangerous place of the world and is home to several underground trading and black market companies. There is large amounts of containment.

European Worker's Union (Previously Germany, Italy, France)
The National Socialist Workers party has risen in the western european area. It is a military state currently and has very large amounts of containment.

The United Kingdom
Everyone is asking the U.K what the next step is in terms of the United States. They are being very secretive about everything and are not offering much details to the outside world.



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A few important things

So, this basically started out with a friend of mine (Spectral) who decided to start a server with vG (Voltage Gaming). He offered to let me help him. vG is currently owned and bought out by Hellzone (Killslick) so I was able to run vG servers along with HZ servers.

Spectral said to me, "Let's start an outlands server", but then I asked him, "If vG gave us the opportunity to make a server, why limit ourselves to just Half-Life 2?" So I gave him an excerpt from a story I had made and he instantly loved it. Him and I both made modifications to the Original American Badlands which took place originally in 2040, not 2025. There was also a larger military presence in the original text along with a zombification disease which we decided to scrap.

So, obviously we made the concept of American Badlands in Clockwork and it has so far been working quite well. We wanted to let more people outside of Voltage Gaming and Hellzone know about American Badlands: 2025 and we are happy to answer ANY questions you may have!

It is a simple 100% Serious roleplaying server. You have your choice of using /roll or P2L.

You may feel free to add any of us on steam concerning questions for vG's AB:2025 or HZ's HL2RP.
You may also send me a message over the C:16 forums.

Links and IPs

My steam:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/northkoreanweaboo

Spec's steam:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/spectral7

vG's Teamspeak IP:
192.99.21.107

HZ's Teamspeak IP:
ts.hellzoneclanrp.com

American Badlands: 2025 IP:
192.99.21.107:27016

Workshop Pack for AB:2025
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=279180955
(just hit, "Subscribe to all" )

If you wish to apply for different whitelists, please speak to Spec. Thank you!


The Lore is still changing around a bit so nothing is quite official.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

Words, words, words. Please format this more than you already have, create sub-headings and what not please.

Edit - Looks much nicer than it did before.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

Images would be cool, but it looks nice as of now, I kind of like the design of it to be honest. Nice work.

But add Images.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

Shut the fuck up already, it's not like your shit thread was much better because you had a few lazily ragdolled poses toward the end.

As for OP, it looks good, but needs improvement. Your ideas seem rather underdeveloped and quite frankly rather bland. You make the whole thing sound to be a basic survivor class which does nothing, then the administration/friends of administration in the faction circlejerks above. Keep workin' on it.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

Thank you for the feedback!

Spec and I both plan to make [REDACTED] well known in a few coming events. We feel that it would be a lot more interesting to introduce them to the players in actual RP rather than OOCly.

On the subject of pictures, I SUCK at gmod posing but I have here a few authentic screenshots of the server in-game.

Three special forces discussing their next plan of action.


A Bandit Mugging. "WHAT IS THAT YOU'RE WEARING?!"


Relaxing after a large fight. A special forces unit simply enjoying what little free time he has.



Military Outpost. Two special forces with a Survivor in the background, partaking of the ammo and food.


A few Special Forces messing around for a moment while their Comrade isn't watching.



As for Circlejerking, we do out VERY BEST to always have factions interact with each other. We HATED that in most HL2RP, the rebels of CPs would be very elitist and not talk with others. Here in AB:2017, we do our best to enforce passive RP among the different factions with specialized events.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

This sounds pretty interesting. and probably a foretelling of future america
The thread itself could do with a look over, as their are some errors here and there. Though besides those errors, the plot itself seems to be intriguing - but would be even nicer if it had some more details added in. That's all I really have to say at the current moment, but I might review this again later.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

Thank you for the feedback!

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

I'll check it out in a bit, give me like 1-2 Hours, It looks pretty fun.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

I'm actually interested. Will check this out sometime in the next day or so.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

-Snip-
I'm stupid.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

Looks good, but as a Non-American I probably won't understand shit.

Also your content pack is blown so far out of proportion to a normal server, there's tonnes of stuff you could junk that isn't needed there. It basically acts as a giant wall against newcomers, if they don't have that content they will be waiting forever on that loading screen, and unless you're sv_loadingurl for the server is an hour of porn noone would ever wait through THAT much content.

I mean, you have 2 maps in your server content pack, Why would you need 2 maps if you're using 1? What is the point?

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

Spec continues to argue that its stuff we 'need', haha.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

Looks great, my only problem is you use M9K, which is just... eugh.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

Here's a list of the content I believe should be scrapped. Green means I can easily see why it's needed and you should keep it, yellow isn't doing any harm but is a bit unusual to be there, and red is something you should get rid of.

Spoiler: To save page space.

Additional notes:

• You have 2 maps in your content pack, this is just outright ridiculous.
• You should only ever need 1 car pack, the HL2 Drivable Vehicles fits the bill well enough.
• WAC is useless with how low the skybox is in City Ruins (Not that it'd make any sense in RP anyways)
• Playermodels are NOT what clockwork uses to skin players, it uses NPC models. This makes the Sci-Fi Citizen Playermodels 100% Prime Cut Useless.

So there, your entire content pack debuttled. I really wish you'd fix it up, it really gets on my nerves that someone thinks it's a good idea to just chuck as much content in as possible without thinking about new players that won't have the content.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

Dude, on the board, this looks like something I'd want to try out -right- away. Unfortunately, my timezone doesn't allow me currently, but expect me to drop by in a few days!

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

I tried going to the IP and it took me to...



Wasn't this badlands on cityruins_2? Not HL2:RP on City 45?

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

OMG
IM SO SORRY
I put the wrong port for the IP in the thread!!

The REAL IP is 192.99.21.107:27016

Once again, VERY VERY sorry!
Thank you all for the feedback!

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

When I connected with the new IP it was making me download stuff like Industrial 17 and the City Administrator Pack, this is really weird.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

For some reason Maze, (vG's leader and FADM) put HL2RP content on the FastDL...

I'm sad to say that vG is not the most coordinated clan.

 

Re: vG's American Badlands: 2017

This is why I just generally have server downloads off so I don't have to download any stupid things that aren't from the content pack.