America's Army

[Python14]

I don't know if there has already been a thread on this, but I am addicted to this game. It's so much fun to play with people who actually can at least act like they know what they are doing.

For those of you that play, which servers/maps do you usually play on?

[taylor492]

Oh man i wanna play this game so bad. My brothers friend flew into town for my bro's wedding and hes a marine. He told me about this game and we tried to download it but it didnt work.

Gotta link for me?

[Python14]

go to Goarmy.com

[Major Jam]

You have to go through a bunch of training missions and get your honor level up to join the good servers. I didn't have the patience. I uninstalled it. It is a great game for being free.

Battlefield Vietnam is what I'm playing now. And Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942.

[TransMan]

Hmm I've heard about that for a while i just cant make my sellf stop playin cs long enough to go dl it.... ill get around to it one of these days.....

[spazzed]

I haven't played it in quite awhile, but it's tons of fun, love that game

[temps]

played it long time ago when it was first realeased.. now i'm playing starcraft.. practiceing for the local wcg qualfiers..

[MadChild]

AA is an awesome game! it wont upzip on my computer so i cant play it yet but my dad burnt me a copy of it and hes sending it to me. if you wanna download the game go to www.americasarmy.com there are a bunch of places they have where you can download the game so if one doesnt work or something try a different one. i cant remember which one was the fastest though. you only have to complete basic training to play most of the levels, which is easy. Special Forces training is hard though. there are only like 3 or 4 new special forces levels. when i play i play at Pipeline most of the time. i love that level lol i have like 8 different stealthy ways to go (when im on assult) lol. bridge is fun too. my screen name is madchild50. look for me in a week or so. python, whats your screen name?

[BeaverEater]

I love AA and have been playing it for a while. I either play one pipleline or SF pipeline. I had problems with it downloading too and all you have to do is right-click first and hit extract all, that SHOULD work. SF training isn't too hard as long as you take your time on e&e.

[MrWallen]

The honor reqs are only for the Special Forces missions, and only if you want to play as the Special Forces guys. All the other training is relatively easy, and it keeps most of the uber l337 h@x0rz out of the servers. The medical and SF trainings are the only difficult ones, and mostly because they just take time (you have to sit in a virtual classroom and listen to a virtual lecture and then you take a written test, there's no way to skip the lecture and just take the test either).
I remember it being really funny, when the parachute patch was released, all the people who just got lucky in the training went into the mission and died almost immediately from the fall because they didn't know how to do it right. Kinda a pain to lose three-fourths of your team in the first ten seconds of the mission though.

[Python14]

lol, yea...The first time I jumped, I was sitting in the red, bleeding. And our medic was dead. Needless to say, I went back and took the class again.

[ubooze]

I guess its just me, but I HATE this game. Not enough shooting and its hard as hell to play. I mean, the levels can be sooooo big that you get shot before you know it. If not that, you get grenaded to hell. Everytime I played all it was was grenade after grenade. I can never manage to get on the terrorist team, and sometimes it is just sitting around and waiting. Not eneough action on many of the maps and you need to know how to play damn well.

But there is one map I like a lot, Mout Kenna(sp?). That place is fun as hell to play. Its one of the fews maps where the terrorists rarely win. Every other one it is terrorist after terrorist win. But its a small and fast game.

I still think Desert Combat beats all other games. I can't wait till Battlefield 2 comes out. *cheers*

[MrWallen]

Just so you know, you NEVER play as the terrorist. No matter what side you play, it always shows you as US on your screen, with your opponents as Terrorists. Some kind of propaganda thing or something. Also, if you kill someone from the opposing team and pick up their weapon, it will be a better version of the same kind of gun on your team.
You really just need to learn the maps, where choke points are, how long it takes both sides to reach certain points, etc.
My favorite map is mountain pass, I love being assault and going down the valley, no one goes down the valley because they consider it suicide, so it never gets covered by the other team.
IMO, because it's free, it's definately the best value you can get for any game, period. I love that the players actually work together and communicate (usually), and the realism makes it all the more fun (ie, rapid fire or full auto too much with the M16 and it jams, which you have to fix).
Plus, if you DO make it to Special Forces, the ability to customize your own weapon is just fricken COOL.

[MadChild]

I had problems with it downloading too and all you have to do is right-click first and hit extract all, that SHOULD work. SF training isn't too hard as long as you take your time on e&e.

what do i right click on cuz when i right click on the file after its downloaded my options are: Open, Run as..., E-mail with Yahoo!, Pin to Start menu, Send To >, Cut, Copy, Create Shortcut, Delete, Rename, Properties. let me know. thanx

[ubooze]

Just so you know, you NEVER play as the terrorist. No matter what side you play, it always shows you as US on your screen, with your opponents as Terrorists. Some kind of propaganda thing or something. Also, if you kill someone from the opposing team and pick up their weapon, it will be a better version of the same kind of gun on your team.

Are you serious!? Thats crazy.

Still, I think it is still too nade-happy.

But a good value for the dollar indeed.