Aa3

[Dcode]

Is it still the same old camp fest?

What i hated about AA 2.x was you would spawn, get nailed then spend 5 minutes watching other players camp their asses off.

Re-enforcements would have made me happy. I hate round based gameplay. Probably unfair of me to judge the game but whatever.

The training missions was sweet thought, some of them very memorable. Especially the special forces training. Along with some cool maps.

 

[Reddog]

acogs are for pussies. Real men use cold iron.

+1 :d

 

[JoshuaC]

<3 me some irons.

 

[smokeythebear]

preloading on steam now, I wonder how large it is...

 

[illinifan]

quite possibly the worst launch of any game ive ever seen

"servers are too busy" my *** they should expect huge amounts of people soley for the fact that its a free game with a reasonably large fanbase

 

[EvilHobo]

The Steam servers have been too busy to handle my request for the past two and a half hours.

I'll just wait until tomorrow at this point.

 

[Capt.Marion]

The Steam servers have been too busy to handle my request for the past two and a half hours.

I'll just wait until tomorrow at this point.

Same here. I had to mess around for 30 mins to get it to even say that it was unlocked...

sure ain't a surprise, though

 

[HobbStweedle]

So I finally got it decrypted after having the steam servers be too busy for about an hour. And lucky me, what do I find? An update that needs to be downloaded. Oh joy.

Seems it's a rather large update too.

 

[Capt.Marion]

I think the final total size is 4.5 GB

 

[Dcode]

Its frustrating that your pre load, only to have to download more content right at the time the rest of the world does.

Its having issues at the moment as you can not log into the game due to maintenance.

Tomorrow is looking likely for me.

 

[BlackLabel]

gimme one GOOD reason why i should care for this game ? Does it has "smoke the ****ing hadjis" insults ?

 

[illinifan]

gimme one GOOD reason why i should care for this game ? Does it has "smoke the ****ing hadjis" insults ?

for me, its just a filler until ArmA2 goes for under $50 on steam

 

[Bluehawk]

Does smoking hajjis get you high?

 

[Dcode]

It managed to sort itself out and i am in but the game has some serious issues. I am online with a friend who has the game and we both concur the following:

Loading times are insanely long. Loading screens just sit there without any hard drive thrashing. Something is bugged.

Random freezing during training.

Menu's sometimes break. For example clicking the arrow to scroll down the list of resolutions caused the menu to close. Then the list of resolutions became jumbled up.

I am having frame rate issues.

The game is very buggy and it desperately needs a patch. Hopefully a hotfix will sort out the loading times.

 

[HobbStweedle]

Horrible buggy mess.

I've completed the marksmanship training about 4 times now and it doesnt save afterwards. Once I complete it, I hit 'continue' then it puts me at the main menu screen and doenst say that I've completed the training. WTF!!

Same thing happened when I did the 'Fit to Win' training too, though it actually saved after the 2nd time.

Not worth it, IMO. I'll wait till they get some sort of patch out that will at least let me do the training.

 

[PUTZ]

HI've completed the marksmanship training about 4 times now and it doesnt save afterwards. Once I complete it, I hit 'continue' then it puts me at the main menu screen and doenst say that I've completed the training. WTF!!

it's because their auth servers are down (ie, it cant record your completion; thus dumps you right back at the beginning). ive had this same problem...so has everyone else.

it is a buggy piece of crap, as ramm predicted.

 

[Capt.Marion]

it is a buggy piece of crap, as ramm predicted.

Lives up to the ARMY tradition

 

[Capt.Marion]

Well, in the infinite words of Anakin Skywalker:

"IT'S WORKING!!!"

until it finishes decrypting and needs to download another umpty-gagillion gigabyte update.

 

[arramus]

What a BUGfest it is in there.

After the umpteenth time getting through the rifle range the next session is still locked. I'm sick of the sight of those targets.

The assault course was very comical. On one run the animations locked up trying to get over a wall and the player went into a forwards/backwards rocking motion. Splinters is all I'll say about that.

When I reached the roll over area I could get into prone but the roll locked up half way. Stick a swimming hat on the player's head and it would have been a synchronised swimming Gold.

The disappointing thing is that multiple issues raised in the Beta still remain.

This page clearly demonstrates today's mission objectives...
http://www.americasarmy.com/intel/aa3media.php

 

[HobbStweedle]

So the authentication servers are working pretty well now.
But the game is bugged beyond playablility. Any time I try and do the weapon familiarization training or join a multiplayer game it freezes.

Hope they have an update coming, and quick.