• Welcome to the Vanguard Community

    These forums date back to the game's origins as the Crysis mod Traction Wars. Over the years the game and internet habits have evolved and discord.gg/vanguardww2 is now the principle home of the community.

    The team continue to read and reply to posts here, but we can be contacted more quickly on Discord.

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  1. General Naga

    Dev Blog #18: Digging into the Detail (Part 1/3)

    Hello everyone, I’m [TWDEV] Mars and I’m a Level Designer on the Traction Wars team. Welcome to the first section of our three-part level design blog. [TWDEV] Maniche, [TWDEV] RvtL and myself are Level Designers for Traction Wars and as part of this blog we will be focusing on how we have...
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    Dev Blog #17: Traction Wars in Motion

    Hello there my fellow Traction Warriors. [TWDEV] Hannibaldinski here - welcome to another Traction Wars development blog. In previous updates we have shown some of our “Work in Progress” first person weapon animations, but today I want to talk about the third person, full-body animations such as...
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    News Update #48: Water You Looking At!

    Stepping away from our recent trend of less common weapons in last update's reveal of the Lee Enfield No.1 SMLE we stay with the British Army and present the Vickers Machine Gun by the newest member of the team [TWDEV] Chillydog12345. The Vickers Machine Gun is one of the most iconic machine...
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    News Update #47: SMLE Everyone!

    Continuing our current theme of slightly less common weapons to see in Normandy, such as the Lebel M1886 two weeks ago, we present an old favourite of many of us, the Lee Enfield No.1 SMLE. The Short Magazine Lee Enfield No1 Mk III* is one of the most famous and popular firearms ever to be...
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    News Update #46: A Relic of Another Time

    Beutewaffen of the Wehrmacht: Part Two Following our last update "A French Gem" we continue our exploration of some of the lesser known weapons which will be seeing action in the game. As discussed in the previous update, the German Army in France was made up of a minority of well equipped and...
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    News Update #45: Operation Tonga (D-Day Part 3/3)

    To finalise our updates on this historic day we would like to share something we've long hinted and which took place 70 years ago today. Operation Tonga: Merville Battery. "Of the many airborne actions that took place in the British Sector of Normandy on June 6th, 1944, few were as hard...
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    News Update #44: Events Unfold (D-Day Part 2/3)

    Today, on the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, we at Traction Wars choose to honour the memory of those who fell to help liberate Europe and the lesser known contingents of the D-day Landings who were no less important to history. The Royal Australian Army had left the European theatre of operations...
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    News Update #43: Letter to the Troops (D-Day Part 1/3)

    Seventy years ago at this time the first wheels left the ground of the largest airborne operation of the time and the second largest in history. A few days earlier the soldiers who were now sat in the cramped and deafening fuselage received the following letter... Be one of the first to read...
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    Dev Blog #16: Barracks Refresh

    A few months ago one of the community suggested we tweak the design of our forum to make it easier to read for people with visual impairments. One thing leads to another and the result has been a quite far reaching re-styling of the site, which will be rolling out in the coming days Gone is the...
  10. General Naga

    Steam In-Home Streaming

    Perhaps I'm slow on the uptake or this is actually new but I've just tried out LAN streaming of games using Steam using "In-Home Streaming" and I must say I'm impressed. My laptop getting on for 5 years old and only has integrated graphics but I was able to play Bioshock Infinite pretty...
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    News Update #42: A French Gem

    Beutewaffen of the Wehrmacht: Part One It has been a while since we published a "proper" News Update. We are currently focused on refining the current build, not as exciting as fresh development but a necessary and important part of the process. We look forward to returning to a regular update...
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    Game Trailers

    I'm not the best at keeping up-to-date with the latest game trailers so I thought it might be fun for everyone to have a single thread where we can all share trailers as and when we come across them. Could be for one of the big up-coming games (like below) or one of the larger DLCs. Let's try...
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    Article: New Musical Style (April Fool 2014)

    After much careful thought and countless discussions, we have decided it is for the best to revise the musical style of Traction Wars to something more appropriate. Sure, orchestral soundtracks are fantastic, but in the long term we feel that our new style will better reflect the tone of the...
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    Community Questions #3

    Always happy to please. More questions are always welcome :)
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    Community Questions #2

    Continuing on from the success of first in the new series of Community Questions we have picked some more questions from the community. Can we create our own maps & will there be an auto-downloader? (sHaKeNbakE & Comrade Roe)Yes. The map editor used to create Traction Wars levels is freely...
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    New Year 2014: Messages from the Team

    In the final part of our holiday series we have a few messages from the team for the community. Sadly we weren't able to get messages from everyone at this busy time of year but we hope enjoy and are looking forward to an exciting year with Traction Wars. Interested in joining the team? The...
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    Christmas Part 2: A 2013 Retrospective

    Following on from Part 1 of our Christmas series we present Part 2: A 2013 Retrospective. Interested in joining the team? The team is currently looking for level designers and particle artists who have experience in CRYENGINE. If you have the experience and are interested in being part of...
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    Left4Dead2 Available FREE (for now)

    Left4Dead 2 is currently free on Steam. Grab it if you haven't got it already :) http://store.steampowered.com/app/550///
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    Christmas Part 1: A Hard Earned Beer

    http://www.tractionwars.com/images/media/2013.12-2/2013.12-2_01.jpg From all of us on the Traction Wars Team we wish you a very Merry Christmas.
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    Community Questions #1

    Last week as a change from our recent updates we invited our community to submit questions to the team to form part of this week's update. Thank you to everyone who participated. We couldn't possibly fit them all in so we've picked some of the more unusual as well as a couple of the most...
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