MAG (PS3)

[Shojin]

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Official Site: www.mag.com

The Shadow War:

The game begins in 2025. As time passes in our modern world, maintaining a full scale military becomes a burden. In a fully globalized world, the only security threat is from small scale rogue organizations against whom large forces are useless, and the fuel needed to supply increasingly mechanized armies becomes more costly. As a result, most nations armies decrease to the size necessary to defend against a "national emergency". Furthermore, under the "Millennium Accord", no nation's military is permitted to leave its own borders, officially creating world peace. In their place rise PMCs (Private Military Corporations). They have two advantages: first, they compete, lowering their cost, and second, they are allowed to work for anyone, anywhere. In an unregulated global economy, the companies soon compete by less than honest means. After enough mergers, bargains and buy-outs, however, the remaining PMCs decided to put their weapons to full use. The original attacks followed a simple plan: shoot a competitor's soldiers, lowering supply to cause them to charge more and, ultimately, go out of business. The shadow war, as it was called, grew in secret until the conflict moved into full swing, with the PMCs securing their own interests and violently fighting for contracts.


The Factions:

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Seryi Volk Executive Response/S.V.E.R.: (pronounced "Sever"), a ragtag military force with personnel drawn from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Russia


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Raven Industries: A faction with high-tech weapons and armor, comprising of West European soldiers.


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Valor Company: Soldiers are equipped with more standard-styled gear. They comprise of seasoned veterans from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Mexico.


Leadership/Chain of Command:

Once a player reaches level 15 they gain the ability to lead their teammates in battle. After opting in for leadership, your skill in guiding your teammates is tracked by “leadership points” which are accumulated by calling in successful strikes, winning battles and players following your orders. Once you’ve gathered enough “leadership points” you’ll be able to opt in for Platoon Leader, and Officer in Charge positions.

Each leadership level carries unique strikes and Leadership Auras. Some of these strikes include Gas Bombardments, Strafing Runs, UAVs and Cluster Bombs to help turn the tide of battle. But it doesn’t just stop there; you also get powerful abilities that affect your whole squad: “Leadership Auras”. When your teammates are within a certain radius of you they get further enhancements to their combat readiness. Faster reloads, movement, increased stealth, regenerating health, are some of the very-powerful perks at your disposal.


Overview:

- 64, 128, and 256 player team based FPS battles.
- Persistent battles where contracts are awarded to the best performing PMCs granting them additional perks and buffs.
- Character leveling and progression trees.
- Leadership roles for eligible players, granting perks to your teammates as well as special abilities.
- 15 maps available at launch ranging from 256 square meters to 1 square kilometer in size.
- 5 game modes available: Training, Suppression, Domination, Sabotage and Acquisition.
- Each PMC has their own unique customizable look, weaponry, vehicles, environments, user interface and music.
- Clan support along with party system available for you and your friends.
- Comprehensive stat tracking.
- Voice chat and in game messaging.
- Online only, requires PSN ID and broadband internet service.
- Trophy support, in-game medals and ribbons.


Helpful Sites:

http://www.maggametools.com/skills - A good website to help you plan your skill tree path.
http://www.maggametools.com/weapons - Same site, but has comparative stats of weapons for each faction.


In-game Screens:

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Pulled together some info from various websites as there is no proper thread for this yet.

[Shojin]

Gonna use this space for list of BG members on each faction. Post what faction you are on and PSN ID if you want to be listed here.

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S.V.E.R.

Shojin (PSN: TheManick)
recuperi (PSN: recuperi)
Patb (PSN: Patbtennis)
Kwijiboe (PSN: Kwijiboe)
Arew (PSN: Arew64)
Trojin (PSN: JonnyF88)
ArchDizzle (PSN: Archeron69)
The Finesse (PSN: Mick_Finesse)
dejet (PSN: Dejey)
Hushigoshi (PSN: EddieWinslow22)
zoobernut (PSN: Zoobernut)
Kaotic (PSN: Kaotic_07)
Krazy (PSN: Impaired_Medic)
Hiryo (PSN: Ealdnarche)
Slynkee (PSN: Slynkee)
Arrmani (PSN: JPittenger)
Flattus (PSN: FlattusMaximus)
Ddboner (PSN: Ddbone)
Logain (PSN: Logain_Pointe)
Dylon (PSN: SupaStupidHIGH)
Insanecyclone (PSN: Insanecyclone)
Dmitry (PSN: AzzPirateBritt)
DrRuler (PSN: DrRuler)
Zeb (PSN: foadgfy)


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Raven

takeDat (PSN: takeDatFool)
Asuza (PSN: wilsonXcore)
StrangeLove (PSN: KeepOutOfReach)


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Valor

Biddinger (PSN: Spectrum-eight)
Korietsu (PSN: LIKE_ANNE_FRANK)
Ziero (PSN: Ziero01)
Mellema (PSN: J_Don_S)
Eggroll (PSN: rofl_waffle)

[recuperi]

SVER, and my PSN id is the same as my name here (recuperi)

[Biddinger]

Valor - Spectrum-eight

[Shojin]

Valor - Spectrum-eight

Added.

What the fuck, Bid? I thought you were cool.

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JOIN SVER

[Patb]

SVER Patbtennis

[Kwijiboe]

Sver Kwijiboe Lv21 sniping right now.. shouldnt have respec'd

[Biddinger]

Added.

What the fuck, Bid? I thought you were cool.

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JOIN SVER

<3...I didn't have anyone to play with so I just picked one randomly...I'll switch over to sver once I hit 60

[Korietsu]

Valor: LIKE_ANNE_FRANK

[Zeb]

Valor: LIKE_ANNE_FRANK

Deafblind?

[dejet]

SVER: Dejey

and thanks for making the thread ~_~ no clue why but the beta thing was just getting to me. Thanks again.

[Hushigoshi]

S.V.E.R. - EddieWinslow22

[dejet]

Thing that I love, is that you can't tell how good someone is by just kills and deaths. A person might rock at blowing shit up, or maybe getting past a line of defence and can help the group out a tun, the game really shines where to be good is not getting the most kills. some games I can have 300+ points off 5 kills and 10 deaths.

[ArchDizzle]

Haven't had much time to play this week but will be getting on this weekend. Hope we can get some BG groups going.

[Ziero]

PMC: Valor PSN: Ziero01

Also, if you're still wondering which PMC to join or even just want some more background on your army of choice, I found each PMC's official "Corporate" Website. Though there's not much actual game related information, they're great at explaining the stories and histories behind each company. They also give you faces and names to those voices telling you the mission objectives at the mode select screen and loading lobbies.


Valor

Raven

S.V.E.R. (SERYI VOLK EXECUTIVE RESPONSE)

Thing that I love, is that you can't tell how good someone is by just kills and deaths. A person might rock at blowing shit up, or maybe getting past a line of defence and can help the group out a tun, the game really shines where to be good is not getting the most kills. some games I can have 300+ points off 5 kills and 10 deaths.

This is honestly why I love this game so much. I generally suck at FPS and shooters, sometimes I'll have a great round or two and get some minor streaks. But in MAG, I'm far more useful then just being another guy with a gun, and the game reflects and rewards that. There have been times I had that kick ass "streak" music come on after only killing 1 or 2 guys, because I was able to do so many other things before hand, like healing, raising, planting bombs and all that stuff. For me, it's all about the win so I always try to focus on the objective, and I like that the game rewards people for doing that.

[Arew]

This is honestly why I love this game so much. I generally suck at FPS and shooters, sometimes I'll have a great round or two and get some minor streaks. But in MAG, I'm far more useful then just being another guy with a gun, and the game reflects and rewards that. There have been times I had that kick ass "streak" music come on after only killing 1 or 2 guys, because I was able to do so many other things before hand, like healing, raising, planting bombs and all that stuff. For me, it's all about the win so I always try to focus on the objective, and I like that the game rewards people for doing that.

I'm the same way, I think I'm at a .64 Kill : Death ratio, but I'm almost always in the top three in my squad in the way of points.

[jmc]

i'm looking to pick this game up next week..... do you get different things by picking from the various factions? Seems the BG'ers stacked to one faction >.>

[dejet]

i'm looking to pick this game up next week..... do you get different things by picking from the various factions? Seems the BG'ers stacked to one faction >.>

Mostly it is your guns that differ. Some stronger others have higher acc. Not much other then that. Tho after hitting a point (60)? You can make a new one. also how you attack and defend depends on who you pick.

The main reason is you have to have communications to do well. So stick with people and the outcome will be better

[zoobernut]

SVER Zoobernut

Just spent all my points, my character is medic/rapid assault.

Really loving this game so much variety in each level.

Edit: thanks for making a post-release thread for general MAG info and such.

[Kaotic]

Really good game. I'm SVER (PSN: Kaotic_07). Graphics aren't the best, but the gameplay is really smooth and relatively no lag that I've seen so far.