America's Army 3.0 to be distributed by Steam


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STILL can't log in with my pre-register account, lawl - Epic fail game and now it's getting deleted.

Worst game launch in history.

Yeah it sucks that the launch of game this size was so abysmal. It's a good thing it was free because if someone like EA pulled something this I don't think people would have been so calm :p

June 19, 2009 - America's Army 3 Update Released

Updates to America's Army 3 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

America's Army 3

  • Removed apparent lag caused by other players entering or leaving a server
  • Improved start of round spawn issues
  • Resolved problem with training results not saving
  • Improved communication with Authentication server
  • Eliminated freezing up when moving from one training mission to another
  • Cleared up hesitation during training missions
  • Significantly reduce number of authentication transactions between player and Authentication server
  • Solved achievements save and display problems
  • Improved Login communication with Authentication server
  • Improved player statistics tracking for better accuracy
  • Improved overall performance

As of right now.

Sweet, time to get back to training.

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I've been unable to play the game since it unlocked on Steam. I launch it, the main menu and settings menus all work fine but if I try to join a server or begin a training mission the game just locks up and I have to close it using Task Manager. I've been able to play one training level without it freezing but when I tried to proceed to the next section of training it just froze again.

Guess they need to work out a few bugs..

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Well I started to play this again last night at 10:30pm (UK Time) after getting Arma 2 and don't know what I'm doing! I completed all my training and it said it all on my Personal Jacket, Hooah!

Played a multiplayer game on Ranch which was brilliant. I've got to say the only bad point is that it's hard to tell the difference between enemies and friendlies. Is there anyway of putting names above your friendlies or something other than that I've not had it freeze or black screen yet :D

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I agree with you that more maps would be better. I saw 192 servers last compared to Thursday when there was only 12. I think some of the AA2 maps would be good on AA3.

- Weapons Cache

- SF Hospital

- SF SCAR ??? (I think it was SCAR)

- Mountain Pass

- SF Village

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I agree with you that more maps would be better. I saw 192 servers last compared to Thursday when there was only 12. I think some of the AA2 maps would be good on AA3.

- Weapons Cache

- SF Hospital

- SF SCAR ??? (I think it was SCAR)

- Mountain Pass

- SF Village

Really wow :o I keep only seeing only between 0 and 3 severs :(

The auth server is still not working perfectly after the patch. I finished basic training for the fifth time and sat through the entire graduation video and found it that it wasn't saved by the auth server :(

Online gameplay stats still aren't being saved for me either :(

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Well I had a look at my stats yesterday and it had only registered 1 kill on my jacket even though I'd got about 12 in 30mins (Yes im a noob :blush: )

I think more patching needs to be done! Will be a lot better when they sort out the little things. At the end of the day its a free game and a goodish one at that! AA2 was a brilliant game for free.

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Still seems as though training isn't working properly, at least for me. Did the first two, passed them both and moved on to the third but got booted back to the main screen which showed no training unlocked.

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I found if you do a training session and then it won't let you do the next one, the best thing is to close the game and then come back 20mins later.

Uni - Its definatly been a while! I'm mostly reading ;)

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I finally managed to complete the training that allows me to use the M68 (Aimdot), so I'm happy :) Can't stand the default iron sights, limits the view too much.

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since they updated it ill give it a try (again) if it still does the server loop i will go back to playing cod4

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Good news, at least for me anyway. I found out that it takes 10 minutes to update your training so wait a while before redoing it :p

since they updated it ill give it a try (again) if it still does the server loop i will go back to playing cod4

What do you mean by server loop?

The server I mentioned above doesn't use the auth server but still has a lot of issues with it. VoIP chat is global not team based lol, map voting doesn't work. To change map the server has to be restarted on that map. Other than that it's been pretty good after the patch.

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I finally realized I've been using the wrong password. Good thing the AA3 login website is now up, because it never told me this in game.

I also find I can only really load one thing per instance of the game. What I mean is, if I do the obstacle course, the marksmanship won't load (well, I was patient, but gave up). It's really messed up.

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This game is such a joke it's like everything else done by the U.S. government, it's half assed work and overhyped. The excuse of their network taking a hit is bogus they knew how much hype there was for this game and they knew because they took their time in telling us anything about it and didn't say much about it that it was going to get hit hard right away so it seems the government can blow money on stimulus packages that don't work yet they can't even make a video game right. I mean some of the bugs are so widespread too you have to think did they even test this. When a ton of people have issues with it freezing during the same spots of training i would have though that would have been tested and fixed apparently not.

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I have been through some of the training on a P4 3ghz HT 2gb Ram and a Nvidia 6800 Ultra with no problems...

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Well I figured I would attempt to improve my scores last night. And considering this was about 7pm so PEAK times for US users. The training was saving amazingly quickly compared to the 3 or 4 hours it took a few days ago. Saved immediately and I was able to get expert on all my training.

It's getting better slowly. But there is still no way to have AA WITH your HUD on an ATI card :(

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does anybodys game lock up while doing any of the training missions for about 30 seconds when trying to connect to the auth servers ?

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Well I figured I would attempt to improve my scores last night. And considering this was about 7pm so PEAK times for US users. The training was saving amazingly quickly compared to the 3 or 4 hours it took a few days ago. Saved immediately and I was able to get expert on all my training.

It's getting better slowly. But there is still no way to have AA WITH your HUD on an ATI card :(

thats because no one was supposed to be doing them lol

they had made it so all the training was done on everyone's account for a bit(temporarily)

oh not sure if its been posted but if you go to prsion(just shoot someone) and hold back space you can select cheats :)

the only useful one is Ghost though because you can go to the other cells I wont tell you whats in them but it is well worth it to do lol

there are like 30 other cells though

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Americas Army needs more servers tbh.

I think the in game server browser is still having issues because of the auth server. If you go into the AA3 website and look at the list of servers you will see (at least I did) a lot more than the 2 that showed up for me in game. A lot of a full or near full which is good. I've been playing on some US servers with no lag and ping of <100 which is quite a feat actually so at least the devs pulled of one miracle :p

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does anybodys game lock up while doing any of the training missions for about 30 seconds when trying to connect to the auth servers ?

obviously you didn't pay attention. everyone was supposed to hold off on doing training till they get this issue fixed. please thats why you can play on servers right now. they set everyons training to the basic quals so you can play

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obviously you didn't pay attention. everyone was supposed to hold off on doing training till they get this issue fixed. please thats why you can play on servers right now. they set everyons training to the basic quals so you can play

The patch is out so training should be working now for everyone.

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