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Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
[NA | Vyra] Koga | PVP | Military Organization | Consistent | Active
Jazia
Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
Leader: Jazia
Size: Small
Time zone: Primary EST, Secondary MST/PST
Discord: https://discord.gg/D7PXTKh7Qy
Website: koga.gg
About
For 20 years until 2023, we were a PVP first clan, where everything we did was in support of our goal of being the best elite fighting force on our server for our small size.
Now, as an Autistic Black Lesbian Trans Woman, I wanted a safe space for my gamer friends and I to not have to deal with the rampant Transphobia, Misogyny, and Racism that is pervasive in online gaming today. While maintaining our focus on pvp excellence, we have systems in place to ensure our skills sharpen effectively. We are also a very territorial group. Think of us as a den of large cats - If you're an ally, you are welcome and at piece, but if you are not, then you are an outsider with resources/experience our den needs to grow stronger.
While leveling, we tend to stick together and work together than play solo. Even if you are solo for the exp, we tend to sick close to others for when (not if) PVP happens.
We don’t go after lowbies or weak enemies, except in the event that said person(s) are griefers. However we have a healthy kill or be killed mentality, so unless you pass the vibe check with our leader, you may likely be killed.
We run drills and run through tactics live, getting our timing from a strategic battlefield perspective is key to our play style in pvp due to our focus on gorilla warfare as a primary source of content. Our Squad and Platoon leaders hold drills periodically focusing a good amount on timing of everything from kiting to flanking with 2-3 different groups working together.
We Offer
An LGBTQIA+ gaming family. Tactical PvP combat. Group PvP Training. A multi-generational community. A Clan, not a Guild. Small to Medium Size clan with a strict no zerg policy. The Military Branch of an Alliance.
You are a Player Who
Loves the challenge of killing other players over killing NPCs.Take playing their characters well very seriously, and continue to push their skills to continue to improve. Enjoys military style organization in fights with a chosen family vibe out of combat. Respects the chain of command. Is not afraid of dying a lot. Doesn't trash talk. shows up to a fight, kills or dies, with no more than a "gf" at the end.
History
- 2003 - Koga was originally known as Yakuza Vanu on the Johari server in the original Planetside. Reaching a rank of 4th on the server for outfit points with the smallest outfit in the top 15 outfits with only 80 on roster (60 actual players, 30-40 on during primetime), the outfit leader (Jubei) was the second Command Rank 5 on the server.
- 2004 - The leader of Yakuza Vanu and a few members left the original Planetside when the Johari merged with Markov and a few other changes came to the game that they weren't a big fan of, in conjunction with the release of Lineage 2, an FFA pvp focused MMORPG. Koga Clan was formed on Gustin in Lineage 2 where the clan recruited up to exactly 2 groups that was maintained and never having more than that. The clan was hired on a regular basis to take castles for other clans and were at war with all major alliances on the server about 80% of the time. Koga Clan was considered the deadliest mercenary clan on the server for three years. Koga Clan also never (yes never) lost a single war. Those who remained in Planetside formed HAYABUSA and continued the tactical ops tradition the outfit so strongly believes in.
- 2007 - The Lineage 2 group reemerged in WoW. The guild's purpose was to develop skilled PvP players so that we could dominate in Open world PvP. Unfortunately WoW was not very well designed or suited for consistent open world PvP. However WoW was the fallback game for many Koga members to this day.
- 2008 - When WAR:Online came out, the group played there for some time with both Koga and HAYABUSA players.
- 2008 - Had a recursion of players from HAYABUSA as free time from SOE came up and members were willing to come back spurred on by rumors of a Planetside sequel. Fun times were had as outfitmates who haven't seen each other in a long time reminisced about the good ol days while killing Terrans and NCs.
- 2010 - Koga Clan joined up with HAYABUSA in Global Agenda. It was during this time that the group saw its greatest successes since Lineage 2 for Koga and Planetside 1 for HAYABUSA. With the help and drive of a new skilled player base HAYABUSA managed to level all opposition and globally colonize the entire Alliance vs Alliance map Sovereign in season 1. This took months of dedication and after the final triumph the outfit needed a break…
- 2011 - The group has once again reformed into a small group (10-15) casually PvPing in Star War: The Old Republic.
- 2012 - HAYABUSA reformed in Planetside 2 reuniting everyone, ready for action looking for those who want something more than individual play or zergfits.
- 2017 - Koga Clan reformed in Lineage 2 Revolution (Mobile) and continued the tradition of being a strong pvp group and had some solid successes being the smallest clan to take a Fortress, and had some of the top pvp ranked players on the server.
- 2020 - Some members of both HAYABUSA and Koga played a bit of Albion Online, but it didn't stick for most.
- 2021 - Koga got together to play New World. However many quit due to the many game breaking bugs that were introduced in the first 6 months. Those who remained continued to play for about a year and half before most of the rest quit and went to other games.
- Present - After 20 years of waiting for a great MMORPG, is Ashes of Creation (AoC) it? It sure looks like it so far! We are currently in Alpha Two testing with a small core of our members who were able to get into Alpha One and Two. Our plan is to continue testing and playing the game, building out knowledge and relationships so we are ready to hit the ground running at launch.
Videos
New World
https://youtu.be/xVZwWjhqn7A
https://youtu.be/nyZcppuWpQkLineage 2: Revolution
https://youtu.be/xQ80S-wKHgM
https://youtu.be/47g8Rvc7pa4
https://youtu.be/f411P3mvRP4
https://youtu.be/Q1RPbAVuMDYWorld of Warcraft
https://youtu.be/mJsI44Ro26M
https://youtu.be/fNYnnIpntGU
https://youtu.be/Qv7jOStge4YGlobalAgenda
https://youtu.be/G387pGDC_so
https://youtu.be/zt1y3JMsj9oWarhammer Online
https://youtu.be/5IgMbWS2nHsLineage 2
https://youtu.be/bHAkUduxgQY
https://youtu.be/-XlDd13rl5U
https://youtu.be/2RH543QPeAo 
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Comments
(On L2 Gustin, clan Weelittlepeople) 2004 - 2010)
ahh G4briel, leader of SoS and someone we loved to kill for all the trash talk he spewed...
Some Koga names for ya, Gunmetal, Gza, Zoet, Capelle, Darkgoat, Mindspam, Vent, Jubair, J4MM, Spydr, Shinron, LighthouseOD, Nickodeamus, KillaKB, Neela, Wolfkrieg, Solomar, Sil3ntSniper
Planetside we were called Yakuza Vanu and then later HAYABUSA.
Omniscient sounds familiar... but not sure, what server in L2?
I wasn't on the L2 team at the time in Omniscient. I'll ask and see if anyone remembers the name. Our tag has always been [Omni] if that helps ring any bells.
I was just curious if I had perhaps ran into any of you before in Planetside or if you guys had come across some of my old clan mates in Omni from the old L2 days. Yakuza Vanu sounds familiar, but it has been too long and too many games since Planetside for me. Sadly, many of my clanmates are focusing on Star Citizen for the foreseeable future, but I am more excited for Ashes.
Thanks for indulging my curiosity!
I see me at the 1min 55sec mark! Thanks
Yakuza Vanu in Planetside was a very long time ago indeed! I barely remember any other outfit's names
Curious, what was your name server and faction in Planetside?
ha! those videos bring back memories for sure... you should drop in and say hi sometime! The crew and I would love to catch up! https://discord.gg/u8ZgHZDw2A
I primarily played on Emerald, we were also Vanu (which is I think why your clan name was ringing a bell). At the time I went by Leonhardt, still do, but somebody took the name for Ashes. Omniscient played Planetside often back in the day, but usually more for fun, we were competitive in Battlefield at the time. Found it was best to blow off steam in other FPS games so the skills stayed sharp. I live on the east coast, but a number of my clanmates primarily played on Johari because they were on the west side of US/Canada. You may have ran into Nept, Heartsong, Filt3r, Cup-, Zwei, Fire, RedVan, or Cha0s. They all played on Johari pretty often. Tag would have been [Omni].
Always a pleasant surprise to run into some old Planetside players, those were some fun times. Feels like they just don't make shooters like they used to. I am not a big ran of battle royals and everything else is a bit too much like what I have played for far too long. So, here I am hoping that Ashes turns out as good as it sounds. lol
Sadly I don't remember those names
I played a bit of PS2. Though the engine was nice, I didn't really like what they did with the skill/role system... Being mostly tactical (the only actual shooting I ever really did was flying my mosquito - which to be fair I was pretty good at. I basically was an infil with advanced hack and medic. drove an AMS, a thresher, and flew a Mosquito. God I loved that thresher though lol... nothing like taking out a 5-6 vanguard column with really good gunner - and surviving. You could hear the exact distance, and source of the shot without looking, and it was so accurate, so if you could calculate that stuff live and track multiple shot sources, those slow shooting Vanguards didn't stand a chance lol (short of catching you in completely flat area with no cover, and I would avoid driving my thresher on those conts lol)
But yea... I really do hope Ashes brings back the excitement I used to enjoy in Lineage 2. The politics and pvp was by far some of the best I've seen honestly...
Me too! I also hope that the action combat makes sure that reaction and accuracy based skills help to create a healthy skill ceiling in Ashes. Not sure how that will work with server tick rates, number of players, and such. However, I am optimistic since there are a number of Planet Side developers on the Ashes team.
I don't even remember how the raid went... the next thing I remember, I'm a member of Koga. And the rest is history
And that was just the first time 😂
If you consider yourself an underdog and prefer a small, tight-knit community, then you should consider Koga for AOC.
AoC is definitely giving off them L2 vibes (without the insane grind and de-leveling plus a bunch of other cool features), I so hope I get to see you running around in the world with us! don't worry, no 1 shot crits from me, I'm playing a Bard lol