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This Weekend, The Vespucci Beach Party kicks off GTA Onlines Social Club Events.

22/11/2013

 
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This weekend, Friday November 22nd through Sunday November 24th, hit the beaches of Vespucci, Chumash and Paleto Bay for the very first Grand Theft Auto Online Social Club Event Weekend.

All weekend long, plunge into a special Social Club Event Playlist of brand new Jobs from the freshly landed Beach Bum Pack, a hand-picked selection of ten of our favorite new Jobs. Drop some sea shells, go for a fuel-injected run on the beach, and take in some of the most spectacular stretches of coastline in the Los Santos Bay area in modes including Sea Race, Parachute, Team Deathmatch and more. The best performers in the Social Club Event Playlist on each platform will score themselves a special vanity license plate reward for bragging rights and to commemorate their achievement.

In Free Roam, look out for an influx of special Event Crate Drops dropping frequently all weekend containing more than double the usual amount of RP plus high-powered weapons, bonus cash and clothing. They'll be unlocked for every player to help you pack more than just sunscreen on the blazing sands.

This inaugural GTA Online Social Club Event also features exclusive sweepstakes giveaways of beach-ready GTAV collectibles, a very special live stream broadcast on Friday and more. We'll be on the lookout for your sun-kissed Snapmatic pics all weekend so be sure to tag them #VespucciBeachParty so that we can find them easily and we might feature them next week here at the Newswire.

Here’s a full rundown of all the action to expect:

Special Event Playlist

Available this weekend only is a special Social Club Event Playlist of new Jobs curated to test your mastery of land, air and sea:

  • View of Vespucci (Parachute)
Show some Vespucci beach bums the true meaning of 'spaced out' with this steep parachute descent from 2980ft. See how many checkpoints you can hit before opening your 'chute.

  • Up the Creek (Bike Race)
Dirt bike point to point going along Cassidy Creek and ending at the Alamo Sea. Shred from gravel and pavement to the beachfront and try to trump the rest for fame and fortune.

  • Water Rings (Sea Race)
A challenging and scenic boat race weaving around the islands North of Paleto Bay. Tip: Look out for a ramp to help you get one over on your competitors.

  • Vespucci Beachfront (Team Deathmatch)
Stop the gentrification of Vespucci Beach dead in its tracks with this Team Deathmatch around and on top of the businesses along the beachfront.

  • Grass Route II (Race)
In this sequel to the original popular Grass Route Race, go off-road in an epic heat starting on the North bank of the Zancudo River through the treacherous wetlands with a triumphant finish on the beach in North Chumash.

  • Sundae Driving (Bike Race)
Sure to be a new fan-favorite motorbike race, menace Vespucci Beach on your two-wheel rocket, taking breakneck corners as you try and best the competition.

  • Procopio Beach (Team Deathmatch)
Home to an infamous truck stop, Procopio Beach has long been known as a place where people come to blow off steam, and this Team Deathmatch along the shoreline at the foot of Mt. Gordo is no exception.

  • Gone Coastal (Sea Race)
Hug the coastline, pull off some breakneck turns and leap over treacherous rocks and islets in this rough race that starts in the LS River and takes you through the Palomino Highlands on the East Coast.

  • Turn the Tide (Race)
In this off road Race along the coast, up to sixteen speed demons leg it out across Procopio Beach and the North coast down through Paleto State Beach to Paleto Cove.

  • The Cove (Parachute)
Enjoy the stunning vistas as you rapidly descend towards Paleto Cove by Mount Chiliad... but not so much that you forget to open your chute. Prepare for a long free fall from 7500ft, weaving and diving between checkpoints and the drop zone.

Three Ways to Join

  • Look out for the button prompt in the initial GTAV loading screen (visible to Social Club members only)
  • Follow instructions on the loading screen when transitioning into GTA Online from Story Mode (also only visible to Social Club members)
  • Select Online > Playlists > Rockstar Playlists > Vespucci Beach Party on the GTA Online Start Menu
In-Game Vanity License Plate Awards

We’ve reserved 20 special and unique vanity license plates to award top performers in the Event Playlist Leaderboard for each Job across both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. By the end of day Monday November 25th, we’ll award the following plates to the 20 people who achieve the below (plates will be added to your collection in your iFruit app).

  • VESPUCCI (360), AMPED UP (PS3)
    View of Vespucci - player with the max score who made the quickest descent
  • SURFS UP (360), UP CREEK (PS3)
    Up the Creek – player with the best overall time
  • SEAMAN (360), POINTBRK (PS3)
    Water Rings – player with the best single lap time
  • HANGFIVE (360), HANGTEN (PS3)
    Vespucci Beachfront – player with the most kills
  • SUP BRO (360), SUP BRA (PS3)
    Grass Route II – player with the best overall time
  • SUNDAED (360), CRUISING (PS3)
    Sundae Driving – player with the best single lap time
  • WIPEOUT (360), SURFSUP (PS3)
    Procopio Beach – player with the best KDR
  • BIGSURF (360),GOCOASTL (PS3)
    Gone Coastal – player with the best overall time
  • SURFINLS (360), TURNTIDE (PS3)
    Turn the Tide – player with the best overall time
  • THECOVE (360), LSSURFER (PS3)
    The Cove – player with the max score who made the quickest descent
Note that in the case of two players getting precisely the same stat, we will decide on a tie-breaker stat at our discretion.
Sweepstakes Grand Prize: GTAV Logo Beach Towel and Los Santos Lifeguard Tee
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Five lucky Social Club member will score a Grand Prize of surf-ready Grand Theft Auto V gear including the rare GTAV Logo Beach Towel and Los Santos Lifeguard Tee as seen below. 
Ten Social Club members will also score Grand Theft Auto V Prize Packs consisting of official GTAV tees, stickers and more. Enter to win all weekend from Friday November 22nd through Sunday November 24th at http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/events. See Official Rules.

New Title Update to Address GTA Online Game Progress Loss and Other Issues

10/10/2013

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A whole host of fixes have been added in the new GTAV update available now on both consoles.
Hopefully at the rate the fixes are coming we should be able to organise a Gamenight in the next few weeks, so get your thinking caps on and dip is any events you would like to see added.
You can find all the fuss fixes listed below add well as the rest of the Rockstar release.
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 A new title update to address the reported issues of game progress loss in GTA Online as well as other technical fixes, tweaks and enhancements is now available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
This title update will resolve the cause of players losing their gameplay progress except for some specific instances where players purchase a vehicle and the save does not occur due to a cloud save failure. A fix for that particular issue is being worked on and we will provide an update as soon as we know when this will be resolved.  Fixes in this title update include: 
Fixes multiple issues causing character deletion or other loss of progress
Fixes issues causing infinite loading, infinite sky cams, and missing interface options between jobs
Fixes an issue causing the "replay" option to be locked out on certain jobs
Fixes an issue where a player would become stuck in the mod garage when respraying a Sanchez motor bike
Fixes an issue where the Player became stuck inside Los Santos Customs during Online tutorial flow.Fixes an issue causing the loss of guns and ammo
Fixes issues causing GTA races ending early because of players spawning too far ahead
Fixes issues in Last Team Standing where sessions would not progress past the lobby
Fixes issues with network errors when joining Last Team Standing using Quick Job
Added clarifications around when a player is using a temporary character in GTA Online during Rockstar Cloud server outages
Adjusts the monetary penalty for being killed in a One on One match We apologize for the problems some players have been experiencing with lost characters or game progress due to this issue – please stay tuned for updates as we continue to investigate this. In the meantime, please always remember to save your game before leaving GTA Online, otherwise you may lose any progress since your last save – this can be done by exiting back to Single Player through the pause menu. Until downloading the title update above and in order to minimize the chances of any further data loss, if at any point you receive the message “Rockstar Cloud Servers are unavailable”, please do not either select the "Retry" option or create a temporary Character to play GTA Online. Instead, you should exit to GTAV Story Mode and try entering GTA Online again through the menu in Story Mode. Please also stay tuned or subscribe to the GTA Online Status Updates articleat the Rockstar Support site for the latest word on common known technical issues and fixes.
 A new title update to address the reported issues of game progress loss in GTA Online as well as other technical fixes, tweaks and enhancements is now available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
This title update will resolve the cause of players losing their gameplay progress except for some specific instances where players purchase a vehicle and the save does not occur due to a cloud save failure. A fix for that particular issue is being worked on and we will provide an update as soon as we know when this will be resolved.  Fixes in this title update include: 
Fixes multiple issues causing character deletion or other loss of progress
Fixes issues causing infinite loading, infinite sky cams, and missing interface options between jobs
Fixes an issue causing the "replay" option to be locked out on certain jobs
Fixes an issue where a player would become stuck in the mod garage when respraying a Sanchez motor bike
Fixes an issue where the Player became stuck inside Los Santos Customs during Online tutorial flow.Fixes an issue causing the loss of guns and ammo
Fixes issues causing GTA races ending early because of players spawning too far ahead
Fixes issues in Last Team Standing where sessions would not progress past the lobby
Fixes issues with network errors when joining Last Team Standing using Quick Job
Added clarifications around when a player is using a temporary character in GTA Online during Rockstar Cloud server outages
Adjusts the monetary penalty for being killed in a One on One match We apologize for the problems some players have been experiencing with lost characters or game progress due to this issue – please stay tuned for updates as we continue to investigate this. In the meantime, please always remember to save your game before leaving GTA Online, otherwise you may lose any progress since your last save – this can be done by exiting back to Single Player through the pause menu. Until downloading the title update above and in order to minimize the chances of any further data loss, if at any point you receive the message “Rockstar Cloud Servers are unavailable”, please do not either select the "Retry" option or create a temporary Character to play GTA Online. Instead, you should exit to GTAV Story Mode and try entering GTA Online again through the menu in Story Mode. Please also stay tuned or subscribe to the GTA Online Status Updates articleat the Rockstar Support site for the latest word on common known technical issues and fixes.
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8pm Tonight Backwards Compatible's Battlefield 3 Community Night featuring the #AKchallenge.

17/8/2013

 
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Just a Quick Remider of tonights Community Night.
The Time - 8PM BST (British Summer Time) till the stupid hours of the morning.
The Place - Battlefield 3, PS3, Backwards Compatible Server
What you need - Just the basic maps, No DLC and Mostly importantly your A game and a Knife.

For a reminder of our the #AKchallenge then follow the link.

A word of advice for all those hoping to get to the top of the leaderboard "Guns for Show, Knives for a Pro".

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BC Community Night Reports; Battlefield 3 03/08/13

7/8/2013

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First of all a big thank you to everyone who participated and made the second night an even bigger success than we expected. With a full server for the night until the wee small hours the games were tough and competitive (thanks to some balancing from AK).

The vanilla maps seem to be giving those who are premium members a chance to go back to basics while allowing the newcomers access to some great levels of play. The Ranking up that was in evidence was great to see and with all those unlocks newer players were becoming more competitive by the minute.

In the AK challenge we have a new top three all from the @bandofbroz. All their details will be added to our new scoreboard to be released later this week once we have all their Raptr cards in. 

We would like to give a special mention and say a big thanks to @Darkshinobi and @GunnyGoon who have both generously said if they win the AK challenge to donate the prize to the Extra Life Charity. Its things like this that show the best side of the gaming community.

Anyway we will see you on the 17th of August at 8pm until then keep PTFOing like the best of them.

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Last of Us Multiplayer; The Last Stand Highlights

31/7/2013

 
Highlights from the OPC official TLOU night. We caught the end of the sesison. Three matches with specific rules. First was Melee only, followed by Sniper Loadout only, and finally 9mm pistols only. Highlights from Jon's POV, watch him die. Frequently.

Multiplayer Monday staring The Last of Us; Tonight from 8PM GMT

29/7/2013

 
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Join the team for an impromptu community night of 4 on 4 action. The host will be Aaron (you can see his contact details here) and he will be on from 8pm GMT.

The rest of the team will be joining at various points through the night. Please feel free to drop any of us a line If you fancy joining in. 
If your a newbie or a seasoned Hunter/Firefly all are welcome.

AK's @Battlefield 3 Community challenge

27/7/2013

 
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The Tags that matter.
Roll up Roll up, gather round!!

So as you guys may be aware I am hosting BF3 community nights every other Saturday. We all get on and PTFO! I will flicker between teams and play with both sides. Getting involved and playing the good game.

Some of you may have heard on twitter and the BandofBrotherz website that there is a little competition running also. How cool is that? you lucky so and so’s !

The competition.

There are 6 Community nights between our first official one on the 3rd of August and  the release of Battlefield 4.
Every other Saturday I will be playing on our Backwards Compatible server. If on that night you manage to take my tags then you must tweet me and Backwards compatible with your PSN. This will then be verified by myself and IF you have tweeted me and Backwards compatible your name will go onto a leader board, you must fight to be number one and being number one means you must have the most of my tags, 1 tag taken = 1 point. At the end if you are the player with the most points will receive a PSN voucher to the value of £50.

Rules!

-          The tags you can claim are ONLY  siCK_AK  psn dogtags, not Paul’s or Jon’s. (as 1000 JPRE tags are too easy)
-          You must tweet me and Backwards compatible with your PSN. If this does not happen then it is invalid!
-          No disrespect or generally being a tool. Treat others with respect at ALL times.
-          Play the Objective! Opportunities to take my tags arise quite often you guys just have to stop shooting me instead

So what I expect from you guys.
-          Play with respect, we are a community.
-          Have fun!

What you can expect from me?
-          Regular players will get their tags taken
-          You’re bound to improve some way or another!

So guys get on, get involved and make sure you have fun. Make sure you watch our social network feeds Twitter, Facebook &  G+ as well as the News section for dates but you may as well mark every other Saturday from the 3rd of August as a Backwards Compatible BF3 Community night!!

Backwards Compatible Community Gamernight #2

27/7/2013

 
After the success of our first night, we are going to continue the Gamernights every fortnight on the PS3. Look for our server, 'Backwards Compatible'. We will be doing these until the release of Battlefield 4 and hope to continue on the new game too. Additionally we will be creating a site leaderboard of those players who manage to take dog tags off Aaron's cold dead body in-game. If you are interested in playing any of the DLC packs, please comment below, it would be great to see demand for these as we are currently sticking to the original maps to allow anyone to play. Keep an eye on the site for more community content, but also to see how the leaderboard progresses. See you on the battlefield. Ho-ah.

BF3 Gamernight Update

15/7/2013

 
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The specifics of the gamernight are now set in stone. (Well perhaps with a little wiggle room)
  • PS3
  • 20th July 2013
  • Starting at 8.p.m. to at least 1.a.m. GMT
  • Server will be called Backwards Compatible
  • No DLC needed 

BF3 Gamernight on Saturday the 20th of July from 8.pm. GMT till very late. On the PS3.

13/7/2013

 
Come join the Backwards Compatible crew as we Go Forth on to the Battlefield. 
All are welcome; whether you are a Commander or a grunt, the emphasis will be on enjoying yourself as well as picking up some tips and squad mates along the way.
The team will be around for the whole night although maybe not all at the same time.
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If you're interested let us know through the vast array of social media, all of which can be found in the footer of this page, or just send us an email with your PSN name so we can add you into the party.

We will be posting and social messaging the server name and details on the night as welll.
We hope you to see you on the Battlefield.
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