December Update: Digital Release Updates, MFG Proofs Wrapping up, Happy Holidays too all!
11 months ago – Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 06:10:49 AM

We at Team Rex Games wish all you wonderful mercs all over the world happy holidays! Wherever you find yourselves we wish you peace, joy, and happiness.

Digital Release Updates

We’ve been at work incorporating all of the great feedback we have received from our backer community to make the game and rules clearer and better. There has been a ton of discussion on our Discord [Join Here] about rules and wording. We are closing in on our timeline to get feedback before going to print. So if you have comments, notes, critiques, feedback, or any edits you have seen we would appreciate getting them before midnight (MST) on Thursday the 21st. If you get your comments to us before then we can work to get them incorporated into the print copy. Any later and they will still make it into future digital updates but not the physical print versions. It’s our intent to continue to update the digital release version into the future so that there will always be a current and correct version available online.

To submit any questions or edits please see our Questions and errata channel on the discord server (linked above). When posting list the page # along with your question or edit. Thanks to everyone who has already submitted feedback!

To our late backers on Backerkit, expect to get your digital rewards soon after we take this time to finalize the files. In addition, a fresh update will go out as well to everyone else so you’ll also be able to download the most recent copy for your games.

MFG Proofs

We are super pleased with the updates our manufacturer has provided to the physical game materials they have sampled for us! Ohh this World Shaper Screen is super cool! So, we are moving ahead with the process to get this game made! We will be finalizing the all of the files this weekend and getting everything in order with the manufacturer to get production started. We have been loving using these tools, tokens, and cards for our games of Vault.

This next step gets us dramatically closer to fulfilling your rewards and we’ll be keeping you up to date with any news along the way!

Some pictures of the updated World Shaper Screen:

Thanks for tuning in to our update mercs, catch you in the new year!

Digital rewards are live! The Vault November Update
about 1 year ago – Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 09:36:15 PM

Hello Mercs! Another month has flown past and it's almost Thanksgiving time here in the US. We are giving massive news tonight bigger than any River Entertainment broadcast. 

DIGITAL REWARDS HAVE BEEN SENT!!!!!

You heard that right! All pledges eligible for digital rewards have been sent a download link via an email from Itch.io where we are hosting the Digital Edition's files. You should be getting an email like this one,

Follow the downloads link at the bottom of the email to this page,

No need to make an Itch account, just hit that download button and you are in biz! As always holler if you have issues getting your copies!

More to come soon as we add some helpful files and sample characters to the downloads page on our website. But that's enough info for now, there is plenty of reading in your futures. Enjoy Mercs!

October Update, Distribution, Sample Characters, & More
about 1 year ago – Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 08:03:14 PM

Hello Again, wonderful backers! We are sending out our October Update to keep you all in the loop on the happenings with Vault. 

Revising our Sample

We are requesting a second physical sample copy of the World Shaper Box set from our manufacturer. We had a handful of issues with our first copy (unboxing video here), and while we believe they have been addressed we want to ensure our physical release is superb. We are getting some refinements and improving the graphics of the assets for legibility and ease of use. We are looking forward to this but it may result in delaying the final product. 

Digital Release Update

Once again we apologize for not being ready to release our digital rewards on time. Our final editing pass revealed too many issues to let it go out to you all.

Now we are finally catching up and our fixes are nearly complete. We are rolling out our issue fixes to our card systems and revising our boss boards to match too. We are now on track to release in an additional week or two.

We will be releasing through Itch.io so look out for messages from them and for updates here. Our Digital rewards are full of high fidelity versions of all the assets you'd need to play Vault and it amounts to almost 2GB of content. We are very close now, and we mean it this time!

Sample Characters Update

Between our cast of mercs for the Kill B0B demo mission (Find it for free here) and our amazing T-Rex backers characters we are preparing to drop the sample characters here in the near future.  We'll be announcing their release here soon and they will be available to download for free through the Team Rex Games site shortly there after. 

A Bonus Vault Mission for Free!

Okay, if you have gotten this far thanks! We are more than a little bummed that our Digital roll out has been less than ideal. So we are going to be crafting a sample mission for a World Shaper to take a team of beginner mercs through and release it to all of our digital rewards tier and higher backers for free. No firm date on this project yet as we want to focus on completing said digital release and getting everyone their other rewards. This mission will be more in-depth than Kill B0B and be a great way to kick off a campaign or have a fun one-shot experience. 

Happy Halloween Mercs! Thanks for your patience and support!

Jumped the Gun
about 1 year ago – Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:53:08 PM

Hello Backers, 

We are unfortunately reaching out so soon to let you all know we'll need a little more time with our digital release. We are running into a couple of complications that are causing the delay.  

Firstly, we are waiting to hear back from our various distributor options to release the game to you all. We want to make it easy and uncomplicated to get all of your rewards and may need to investigate more options for delivery. 

Second, after reviewing with our editor and doing a final rules check for accuracy and clarity we found a couple of gaps in our ruleset. If you have been following these updates, we have tried to make it clear that quality and day one playability are our topmost goals so we don't want to disappoint there. We're doing a little more writing and adjusting and that will just take a little more time than we anticipated. 

We thank you all for your patience and we apologize for jumping the gun. We'll have it out soon and know that all this checking and amending will help Vault be the healthiest ruleset we can make. 

-The fervently working Team Rex Games.

September Update: Digital Release this Saturday, Live Unboxing Video, and more!
about 1 year ago – Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 04:39:51 PM

Ok today is a huge update for all you wonderful folks out there. We are stoked to announce so many things, so we'll get right to them!

Digital Release drops this Saturday!

You heard that right. After some delays and tricky timing we are ready to start sending out your Digital Rewards. We are currently planning on utilizing the easy to use itch.io platform to host the rewards but stay tuned here and watch that inbox for more specifics as we gear up to send out these sweet digital rewards. 

We have endeavored to make our release as flawless as possible but in a project so large there is always a chance some small things gets missed. To fight this, we are always welcoming your feedback and plan to keep our digital products up to date should there need to be rules changes or updates based on that feedback. Thank you all for your awesome support so far and we can't wait to have you all see the results of the hard work we've been putting in.

The Vault Sample Unboxing video!

 Another huge update! In our (very homemade) unboxing video you'll get our first impressions of the sample that was sent by our manufacturer. We cracked it and went through all the goodies piece by piece. Give it a watch and let us know what you think here or on YouTube! 

Since the filming we've have had a meeting with the MFG to review what we had concerns over and it was excellent. They have solved all of the concerns we have had so far. We are so excited about how things are coming together for the physical rewards and how the components are shaping up.

As you will see if you watch through our unboxing video we also have another big update! A new Team Rex Games member has joined! Please welcome our newest TRG member too! Best wishes to Shoshanah and Richard on their growing family.

The Final Character Art

Here are the final commissioned art pieces that are getting added to the book from our artist Olie (check him out). He's been awesome to work with and we are super happy with all our our lovely mercs art! There is even more of Olie's art in the book so keep your eyes peeled while reading through.

That's all for our broadcast today Mercs. If you haven't already delved into the world of Vault there is a great batch of refresher info to be found on the Team Rex Games site. Expect more details for our digital release here and get ready to start "Making a Killing" soon!