Sho_Iwaizumi

AW MVP 2020: @Xwatt Thank you for everything, I feel you set AhoyWorld on a new course and I feel we have benefitted a lot as a community.
AW Most Friendly Admin/Moderator/Spartan 2020: @MidnightRunner picking just one person here is _very_ hard. 
AW Most Helpful Admin/Moderator/Spartan 2020: @Whigital ever vigilant for the new guys on EU1. Followed closely for Chicken_no6.
AW Most Active Staff Member 2020: @Stanhope codes, plays, hangs around. 
AW Strictest Staff Member 2020: We are all strict when needed?  
AW Best Team Player 2020: Cannot specify anyone specific. We all have and see moments of genuinely marvellous team play during the missions. 
AW Most Helpful Member *Non Staff* 2020:  @SiegeSix learnt a lot of the finer details of modded arma. Good banter as well.
AW Most Friendly Member 2020: @JJ Cakes the Cake is not a lie.
AW Tacti-cool member 2020: Anyone spending more than 8 minutes in the Arsenal! 😛
AW Underrated Member 2020: @TheScar a force of nature for sure.
AW Most Incoherent Member 2020: @Toasted_Bread_Slice he often gets there, eventually. 
AW DAAASSS BOOOOT 2020: When ever we boot a script kiddie of EU1. There is only one word; Satisfaction.
AW Best Pilot 2020: Several
AW Worst Pilot 2020: Oh boy several
AW Best Voice 2020: @Murph as Bat Murph
AW Funniest Person on Team Speak 2020: @William the way the jokes are delivered completely stone faced always gets me!
AW Worst Joke 2020: "Hi Back" by @LH5 despite many attempts to unseat the champion of bad jokes.
AW Best Moment 2020 (can be in-game, on Team Speak or Forum): All the game nights. I've also enjoyed getting back to DCS with the guys.
AW Best Forum Post (please put URL in): 
 
 
I've put one in, but in reality I would say the feed back threads are one of the most important tools that keep the game play moving in the right direction. A lot of thought and effort go into the threads from both the people giving the feed back and the people then implementing the result of given feed back.
 
AW Dankest Meme Post In Discord 2020: impossible to pick, but sometimes I feel I need protection going in there.
AW Best Driver 2020: Anyone who gets to point B, with the vehicle and passengers back.
AW Worst Driver 2020: @Xwatt - all aboard the bandwagon
AW Best Fail 2020: Oh so many, I'm kinda glad my memory isn't what it used to be.
AW Best Ban of 2020: @MoonFire getting banned might be one of the more impactful tho. 
AW Team Speak Channel 2020: Setup room - the banter, the anticipation and the debrief.
AW Best Screen Shot 2020: 
 
 
This is very good screenie, getting to the point where it could be passed off as a photo really.
 
AW Best/Worst Call-out 2020: Coms are always a hot topic. Still do not be afraid to make a call out, a bad one is still slightly better than none at all.
AW Candidate for the Hague 2020: @Sho_Iwaizumi records the evidence he then shows at his own trials (cannot argue here)
AW Role Model 2020: There are many people out there with qualities and ways of handling things that I wish I had. I cannot list all of you here so I'm just leaving this one open.

AW MVP 2020: @Stanhope
AW Most Friendly Admin/Moderator/Spartan 2020: @Xwatt
AW Most Helpful Admin/Moderator/Spartan 2020: @Stanhope
AW Most Active Staff Member 2020: Ya'll ever missing out ? though thanks to @Lindifor taking care of Bans
AW Strictest Staff Member 2020: (you all do good job)
AW Best Team Player 2020: -----NO VOTE----- (how am I supposed to tell If I drive Logi or do Solo ? )
AW Most Helpful Member *Non Staff* 2020: -----NO VOTE-----
AW Most Friendly Member 2020: -----UwU-----
AW Tacti-cool member 2020: NONE
AW Underrated Member 2020: @GhostDragon 
AW Most Incoherent Member 2020: my ears are just bad and you all speak good
AW DAAASSS BOOOOT 2020: what dis ?
AW Best Pilot 2020: -----NO VOTE---- (I usually drive or fly myself, I have trust issues regarding transport thanks to EU1)
AW Worst Pilot 2020: EU1
AW Best Voice 2020: @SkullCollector 
AW Funniest Person on Team Speak 2020: Status Bot
AW Worst Joke 2020: Dad jokes (why do they still exist ?)
AW Best Moment 2020 (can be in-game, on Team Speak or Forum): Launch of AWE
AW Best Forum Post (please put URL in): ----not active enough here----
AW Dankest Meme Post In Discord 2020: ----NO VOTE----
AW Best Driver 2020: ----NO VOTE---- (just like best pilot ...)
AW Worst Driver 2020: @Xwatt @LH5
AW Best Fail 2020: 2020 itself
AW Best Ban of 2020: ----NO VOTE----
AW Team Speak Channel 2020: Setup Room
AW Best Screen Shot 2020: ----NO VOTE----
AW Best/Worst Call-out 2020: ----NO VOTE----
AW Candidate for the Hague 2020: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...........soooooo i haven't been in Den Haag for a while ( 4 years to be a bit more precise ) though someone ordered the execution of POWs on Lythium once and it wasn't me (edit: I am also not responsible for taking all the civilian hostage [95% of the time not me] and interrogating them ... i think @RiverWolf started this in Rosche)
AW Role Model 2020: @Xwatt 
 
Will Edit this till Topic is closed.
EDIT 02. DECEMBER 2020: I am done

I used to play these to get up my pilot skills
 
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=250597165

I&A 3.3.59 Version will be live after the restart on 11/12/2020. The change log is below:
 
- [Added] Enhanced t-140 and t-140k side mission rewards
- [Tweaked] Minimum mission spawn distance
- [Tweaked] Cleanup script (Will not delete backpacks near you)
- [Fixed] Revive action (on arsenal) not working
- [Fixed] Sling loaded cargo desyncing and detaching
- [Fixed] Chem-light action duplicating in certain situations
- [Removed] Some Ao's near Abdera airfield that were too close together

Added to Awards list

AW Candidate for The Hague

AW saddest anime betrayal.

Xwatt

AW Candidate for The Hague

AW Candidate for The Hague

Player most likely to be made of cake.

Don't know if it's too harsh:
 
AW Biggest Meme of the Year

AW Candidate for The Hague

AW Candidate for The Hague

AW Candidate for The Hague

Ahoy,
 
I thought now would be a suitable time for a community update, as the title suggests I have a major announcement to make, and the last community update was in March, so I think the time is right to give the community an update about the current situation at AW.
 
Xwatt Leaves Core Staff
As the title of this community update suggests, I will be stepping down from CS. The main reason for this is that my own personal schedule has been getting increasingly busy and with that, I feel that I cannot the devote the time to AW that it deserves, therefore the sensible decision would be to step down. @Ryko always puts it best, real life comes first and must be given priority. I'd like to thank @Mark T for giving me the opportunity to become a Core Staff member, and I would like to thank the current CS team, and the staff team for the support they have given me over the years. But most importantly, I would like to thank you, the community, for backing me and supporting the decisions I have made in the past few years in an effort to positively move this community forward.
 
On a brighter note, I would like to congratulate @MidnightRunner and @Norris, our new members to the Core Staff team. I have no doubt that these two will be able to make a positive impact to AW for years to come, and they have my full backing for any decision they will make. Midnight will be taking over the role of AWE manager, and Norris will be taking over the role of Public manager. I would like you all the congratulate these two, and I want you to support them wholly as you have supported myself.
 
I&A4
The development of I&A4 is now back into full swing, and masses of progress has been made in priming it for public release. Just under a week ago, we completed a full 100% run of the mission, highlighting the progress in stability and allowing for persistent mission progress over the span of a few days. Please continue to leave your feedback in the dedicated I&A4 feedback thread, it is immense help in aiding Ryko to develop the mission. Feedback can be anything from bugs and missing items, to your feedback in how you think mission should be played. All feedback is welcome, and ultimately will shape the end product for the mission.
 
 
AWE and Gamenights:
AWE has had a ton of progress since the last community update in March, and we will continue to support the growth and development of the server for the foreseeable future. Currently, the server is rotating maps and factions after every one run of Liberation, and this method is aiding in keeping player retention, compared to the two runs that we did in the past. Support has been mostly positive for the switch back to CUP and ACRE, and we will continue to listen to community feedback about how we can better improve the server. Be sure to attend our Liberation Sunday events, in which you can find information for that in the events section of the forum.
 
As for Midnights campaigns, we are currently in a transition period between moving towards a new campaign in both the Tuesday, and Friday operations. For the Tuesday campaign, this will be moving towards a zombie orientated mission, and the Friday campaign will be moving back to the PMC series, and more information about that can be found here:
 
 
Alongside Midnights missions, we have two gamenights from @BenjaminHL planned, keep an eye out on the events section of the forum for the dates of those missions.
 
Final Note:
As always I want to thank the community for helping us to move forward in a positive direction. I want to thank the donators for their continued support in keeping AW financially stable, even during a pandemic where peoples income may be reduced. Being a community powered by your donations is a portrayal of the support you have for our community, and we will continue to make the suggestions and needs of our community the focal point before any major decisions are made.
 
On a more personal note, I would like to thank all of you for the support you have given me as Core Staff for the past few years. I have absolutely loved it, and it is with regret that I have to step down, but I am in no doubt that this community will continue to live on and prosper, as it has done since it has been founded. I would like to give my personal congratulations to @MidnightRunner and @Norris, both of you have my full backing, and I am excited to see the progression of AW a few years down the line from now.
 
Thank you all,
Xwatt & The CoreStaff Team.
 

Nooooooo silly stuff is also good. It gives some variety xD

Never played Rush with AW so I want to try

A bit late for a follow up but:  seeing how it's 7-8 against Rush (Fabs voted before knowing what he was voting on and after finding out what he was voting on wanted to change his vote) we're not going to spend a lot of time fixing up Rush.  That being said, I will, once I find some time, port Rush over to the current modset (this should only take me an hour at most) so we have it available to play every once in a while maybe, for example if a gamenight gets cancelled last minute.  It never hurts to have options available. 

1.     Name the MOD or MAP
Advanced Sling Loading
 
2.     Describe what it does, or how you see it working
Advanced Sling Loading is like the Advanced Towing, but for aircrafts. It keeps the vanilla automatic sling loading, but also adds a manual sling loading feature.
This feature includes the ability to sling load up to THREE different objects. The user or the pilot can then adjust rope length, drop individual cargo, carry vehicles which the vanilla system can't sling and more. Weight is also a factor in this mod, so the bigger the bird, the bigger the cargo it can lift.
 
 
3.     Provide a Steam-link or Bi-Thread to the request (if available or applicable)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=615007497
 
4.     Concisely tell us why you think it will improve the server, or player experience, by implementing it
As of the current iteration of Liberation (BAF VS idk), the Merlin is not able to sling load an infantry vehicle like a Jackal, this should create a workaround. It also allows the ability for a pilot to grab up to three supply boxes at a time across the map, which is a boring drive for logi.
A major improvement is the ability for vortex to pick up captured vehicles and all the pilot needs to do is drop the ropes and let the soldiers hook up the vehicles.
 
Here's a Pro & Con:
Pro: Sling vehicles that can't be slung with the vanilla system, carry more than 1 object at a time, saves time transporting objects back and fourth, can use the features inside and outside of the aircraft.
Con: It's a manual feature like the towing mod

The only Sci-Fi stuff that comes into my mind are Warhammer 40k and Star Wars

AW Liberation 2.0 release
 
This Sunday we'll be release AW Liberation 2.0, the changelog can be found in the changelog topic and the modset can be found here. From now on we'll change maps, enemy factions and friendly faction whenever a map is completed. 
 
Mission Summary
 
This Sunday, we turn a regular bout of Liberation around to show off what we can do when we put our minds to it. Expect a solid experience with high emphasis on teamwork and structure, with an established Chain of Command.  These are the days when we push for harder objectives or complex operations in combined arms, or try things we normally would not.
 
Modset Required
 
The modset can be found here:
 
Mission Runtime
 
Roughly 2 hours with a chance to carry on open-ended
 
Area of operations
 
Chernarus
 
Friendly Forces
 
Randomly picked at mission start
 
Opposing Forces
 
Randomly picked at mission start
 
Mission
 
Clear the region of insurgent forces. Capture strategic objectives. Establish favourable relations with the local populace.
Objective
 
TBD by Acting Command on Sunday
 

 

With the squad server now up for a while and the new Liberation modset out and the new Liberation mission file made we'd like to know if there are still people who are interested in playing rush.  It'd be with the same modset as Liberation for easier management back-end.  This means a lot of the maps unsuitable for Liberation (zargabad for example) can be used for rush.  We'd also have a lot more options available for factions (All of BAF, all of RHS, all of project opfor).  But before we spend a lot of time making rush playable on these maps and making those factions we'd obviously like to know if there's still interest in Rush. 
 

Nooooooo silly stuff is also good. It gives some variety xD