America's Army 3.0 to be distributed by Steam


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Sweet, i might pick this game up again. Definetly one of the best free FPS's out there (Y)

Free for you, not for US tax payers.

Does the US government really think kids are going to play this and then want to join the Army?

They should have a game where you stare at a blank screen for 8 hours and call it "US Army: Call of Guard Duty!"

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Free for you, not for US tax payers.

Does the US government really think kids are going to play this and then want to join the Army?

They should have a game where you stare at a blank screen for 8 hours and call it "US Army: Call of Guard Duty!"

Blank screen?

They need to searching through innocent people's luggage in the boot of their car to check for bombs and Avtomat Kalashnikov Model 1947s and all that.

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No, 3.0 is using Unreal Engine 3

Nice, cant wait for it... I'll give it a shot.

Kinda sucks for starting all over again.

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Does the US government really think kids are going to play this and then want to join the Army?

There's no lag or bottlenecks IRL, so yes. And if you're into healing, pressing a button is always much better than using medical tools and skills, with all that blood and dirt around.

The visual and sound components are also augmented. You can really feel like you're in a combat zone.

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For those who haven't seen them. Comparative shots:

americasarmy_comparison_001.jpg

americasarmy_comparison_011.jpg

Rest can be found here:

http://www.aao30.com/?page_id=422

As for the comments on punkbuster. I think it actually does a really good job. It was a mess back in 2.4/2.5 where hackers were running rampant but since then, they've done a really good job through working with the dev team and closing holes.

As nice as it would be to have VAC on the AA servers, I doubt it's a possibility, as steam isn't REQUIRED to play the game, its just another form of getting it.

I played from version 2.1>2.7(2.7 owned a lot of the lower end computers, and thats when a lot of people left the game).

Found that webcast though:

Part 1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5...03955&hl=en

Part 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5...05803&hl=en

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Looks excellent, and it being on steam is so awesome. I only really buy games off steam now, its just nice, organised and very cheap for England.

Speaking about buying, is this going to be free or cost? Assuming it's going to be free like the previous versions.

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Speaking about buying, is this going to be free or cost? Assuming it's going to be free like the previous versions.

Of Course.

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Honestly I can't wait for AA 3 to come out already. I really (for a time) enjoyed playing AA, especially that damn Hospital map! I remember the first time I could play it maxed out on a PC and saw how great it looked (at the time) and then BAM lightning in the background, like awesome!

I hope they keep the little things like that in the game. Maybe throw in some birds flying out of the trees when a flashbang or gun goes off. Glass stained with blood would be a nice touch also, but I don't know if UE3 can do that sort of stuff.

Either way, it'll be a free game like the last and you know it'll be quality like the last. I just don't like the fact that you have to start over with a new account pretty much. I hope the training won't be as, annoying as this current versions is.

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Registration page tells me "Audioboxer" is unavailable

Sorry, the username is not available.

Played AA a long time ago, not under Audioboxer I don't think. However I tried requesting a new password anyway by entering the name "Audioboxer" and it says username not found... :blink:

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As long as the bridge level is back im happy :)

I always wondered how people from their base tower sniped through the fog past the middle tower so accurately on that map.

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I always wondered how people from their base tower sniped through the fog past the middle tower so accurately on that map.

Peripheral vision :p

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Somebody probably already reserved the name :p

If it's reserved though surely it has to exist as a valid login for the main site?

God damnit, one of the reasons I go by Audioboxer is it surely ain't exactly going to be a common choice :p

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Keep trying to register your name. I tried with Sethos and got the exact same 'error', a week later I could register it just fine. Either I was going through a different link or the server was acting up.

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Hopefully, I hate playing with stupid variations of my name like Audioboxer87 and what not.

Really looking forward to getting back into AA, I used to play it a ton in the early days. I remember how unforgiving the training could be! With my PC back up to scratch for gaming it should be good (as it's getting a graphical boost).

Empire Total War is fantastic by the way.

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If it's reserved though surely it has to exist as a valid login for the main site?

God damnit, one of the reasons I go by Audioboxer is it surely ain't exactly going to be a common choice :p

When I regisitered StealMySoda I just got a code/link (iirc) to go to once 3.0 is released.

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Hopefully you get to pick the enemy team this time around, instead of always playing as the Americans and the opposing team is just replaced with OpFor textures :s

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