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Americans Army 2.1 Downrange has now been released for Windows, Mac and Linux.

2.1 gives us:

Maps:
SF Arctic
SF Village

Weapons:
AT4 Rocket Launcher.
The ability to use the Styker's .50 cal Machine gun (SF Arctic only).

Its not on the official website yet but it will not be long. Until then most details can be found here:
http://aaotracker.4players.de/ (http://aaotracker.4players.de/)

You will have trouble finding a place to download the mac version just now but be patient. You will get it.

Ross

(http://www.bragg.army.mil/history/HistoryPage/History%20of%20Fort%20Bragg/mp01hooahsoldier.gif)

oh my god... hehe been looking forward to these new maps etc :D funky monkey!!

 http://aafiles.com/

I just played 2.1, and it sucks...laggier, guns shoot 5 times faster, new maps are laggy as hell, and I have a G4 1 Ghz. Hmm, what else...less grenades on each map...

Some of the new features are cool, you can request to swap guns with a teamate, and there are other tiny new features

All in all I think 2.0.0a is much better than 2.1, and I'm sticking with that

Try not to give up so easy :)

You tried SFCAR? With no nade spamming the gameplay is 100% better.

SFSandstorm is much coolers now with moving Pam trees and I can just stair at them all day there so cool.

Its also much easier to kill people now and I am getting kills a lot more now.

Give it a little more time before giving up.

erm.. Ok it dosent work for me.. . i get this :

(http://www.toxic.lunarpages.com/member/joka/aaprob.jpg)

(http://www.toxic.lunarpages.com/member/joka/aaprob2.jpg)

In that order

I have 2.0a. Since i have sandstorm i must have 2.0a right?

Any help would be much appreciated, I hope theres another way out of this other than "DL the whole game again and reinstall it"  :)

As long as you installed sandstorm properly and didn't just get the files and 'do it yourself' like some folk did... should be able to check what version u have on the splash page..


Ps... its pretty cool. slightly dodgey rag doll phyics though...bt the styker.... oh my the striker. i wub my big gun ;)

Well, I think the fact that you have less nades, or none on each map sucks. I admit thre are cool features (moving palm trees haha), but in total I think 2.0.0a is better, just my opinion. Guns in the new version shoot 30 bullets in 2 seconds, rather then 10.
Also the maps seem to have gotten laggier.

P.S. CSAR with no nades= not worth playign at all lol

For me SFCAR with no nades is much better. I really hated the spam nading and now its down to more skill than throwing nades from the start same with Hospital. Anyone else have an opinion on this?

Maybe you were one of those spam naders SAR :)

The guns do fire much faster. This was to try and help against bunny hoppers. I have no idea if it actually works. But you don't have to fire of as much rounds as you did because people die a lot faster now.

At the moment the game is laggier but its only been out for just over a day. They don't even have servers up running the new maps. You got to let them get them all up to speed and running well. Remember us mac users don't usually see this because we get the patch later so give it a week and see how it is.

As for fps I get higher fps on the old maps and they all run nice and smooth (but not Recon). The new maps I haven't been able to get a nice server to run them on to see the differences. When beta testing I only had the chance to play on west coast servers and there was only 2 or 3 of us at one time. So I am looking forward to playing them on a EU server with a full complement of players to see how they run.

Ross  ;D I don't spam them, I sometimes rush with RPK, and nade enemy houses, stuff like that. I don't see spam in that. I guess now I'll have to flash em.

ok so my graphics are now absolutly screwed even after a complete re-install.(i'll get a ss for your viewing ;) ) and the maps seem to lag for me more than before...

Need to play it more to really see overall what the difference is, but i think less nades is a good move - some of the nade spamming could be so damn annoying!

Yea lets see a screenshot.

Oh wow, I just played AA 2.1 again, even laggier...my game crashed 3 times because of the lag on a non-laggy map (insurgent camp). Hope they fix this...

I have been gettting a comunication error after i play on a server for a few games... But not having much graphics prob (but that might be b/c of the new vid card i just got 256mb w000t).. Have been having alot of prob w/ the sound though...... sound cutting in and out(shoot a gun on full auto and the shots blend togather after a while.. stryker gun shoots 3 or 4 shots then keeps shooting.. but you cant hear it.. then you can hear it again).. throw a flash nade and the ringing does not stop till thhe game ends,, shit like that

Like I said. Give it time.

Authentication was down a few times and I was unable to join. Then it came back up and I got in a sandstorm server that crashed after 2 rounds.

I sat around 20 minutes for that stupid update download and it was a broken link...

The update was messed up for me too, I downloaded the full version.
For the update it said my game was damaged, and I needed a fresh install, I installed twice, and tried 3 different updates, but it didn't work.
Just download the full version..

Joka, I had the same problem on my linux server. So all I did was download the patch from 2.0 to 2.0.a which is only 8mbs btw, then ran the 2.0.a to 2.1 patch and it worked perfectly. I hope that works for ya.

voods

ie: i had sandstorm install and everything, what ever I was missing was fixed by patching that 8mb file.  G.L.

Heheh went to take one and now its bloody fine. damn thing.

its a lot easier to kill guys now isn't it! Seems liek the SF gun is now far far supiror to the RPK which is virtually usless unless for general covering fire.

still wubbing the stryker. they better keep supporting the mac untill we get that next update ;)

Well since I have the update, the game seems laggier... buggier then before  >:(

I had to remap all my keys... Then when I went in a game I couldn't fire my gun, I had to remap my mouse button with a normal key and then turn it back to the mouse button before it started working.
All the keys I mapped for my all the sorts of nades didn't work... Again I had to remap them... :(

I tried the village map for a few rounds, but there was to much lag so I had to leave the server. I will give it another shot this evening to see if there are any improvements...

I also noticed like most of you that the guns are more accurate then before. I shot a guy in his leg 2 times and he died :( I find it a bit strange, I'll need to get used to that and a lot of the new features.

But I guess an update can never be bad, it'll all turn out well in the end.

This is all part of the new damage engine. The bullet may have entered his leg but it probably hit the bone and ended up taking a new path to hit his body or head therefor killing him. Just like a bullet can in real life.

I guess you don't mean accurate but more damaging. This is not true the damage made by the guns are the same but rather the code is setup to inflict the highest damage "bone".
For example if you shot a guy in the hand in 2.0 and bullet continued through and hit him in the head then he would only take the damage of the hand injury, where in 2.1 he will die. This is why if you pumped 5 or 10 rounds full into the chest of an enemy in 2.0 as he was facing you he probably would not die as you are actually hitting his hands most of the time.

So an M4 vs an RPK has changed. Because the RPK is less accurate you had more chance to hit the head or just spread the body with rounds in 2.0 but in 2.1 the M4 is now faster firing and as accurate as ever so one quick bust kills the RPK user and the RPKer will only get of a few rounds before he is dead and most of the rounds will miss.

One other weird thing....

I can't disconnect from a server without AA crashing... ???

all seems fine on my end...

Arctic....9 - 60 fps
village...25 - 70 fps

Whoah.

My turn:

Arctic....3-6 fps (no exaggeration whatsoever)
Village...6-15 fps (usually closer to 6; hits 15 when inside)



Sandstorm... what happened to you... you were so perfect...

The one decent map FPS wise for me, and now...

Damn. I'm pissed off right now. This better get a lot less laggy fast, or I'm going to ask for a full refund.

Um.. yah.

Been playing SFCAR and so much fun :)

I was playing with an RPG and was firing it into the Assault side through the hole in the wall and once I seen a guy fly up into the air. It was so beautiful.

SCAR is so much better now thats very true :D

.... SF Hospital 6-11 FPS at the bad points

Good news, don't know about you, but my game has been crashing less. They still did not get the run bug fixed, where you can run without preparing your gun. Although they fixed the gun duplication bug.

So far in village I'm Averaging 45-75 fps

Have sen it shoot up to 90 a few times in vilage

The EU servers are running great. There not crashing much now. Still no new maps up yet.

Authorization is up and down like a yoyo. I have only had about 20 points that have actually been recorded out of over 2000 (enough to get me to 42 honor). But today its up and its recording me score again.

I downloaded 2.1 as soon as I got home from NC on Thursday and played a few games on Arctic and Village and I must say I really like the update a lot.  I havn't tried playing on any of the old maps at all yet.  I didn't experience any of the problems while playing, but maybe that is just because I didn't download it until after they fixed a few bugs in the servers.  I think I will set my BTs AA Server (69.25.17.56) to either Village or Arctic today.

Peace.

-GhostSniper Out.

Got hit by an RPG ;D

(http://homepage.mac.com/rossrankin/Images/rpg.jpg)

Wow, that's funny.

Man, Village is so much fun!!! Played 30 minutes today and got a 2.5 fragrate.

lol ross it looks like you were hanged by your feet afterwords =D

Yes, I strung him up like "Preditor".  muhahahahahaaa  :-X

Yea I was like that. Just hanging there by my foot. Happen again too.

Wish there was some EU servers running Village seems people are liking that map.

Ross you finding suddenly that the list of servers has shrunken? Im only finding aprox 8 Euro servers at the moment... i could have sworn there were rather more before.... :(

There is still plenty servers but Gamespy sucks these days they don't give you all the data your supposed to get.

If you refresh the servers you will get different amounts every time.

I downloaded the "Full" file. This is my first attempt at using this game. I get: The following disk images failed to mount, armyops210_mac no mountable file systems. I downloaded it a second time and got the same thing.

Maybe I should try downloading the old version and upgrading it? I have a Dual 864 G4, with 512.

Sounds like a corrupted disk image... try downloading it from fileplanet or equivelant, and make sure that it is fully downloaded and that the file sizes match!

EU servers are now running Arctic and Village. For the first time I have seen empty SF-Hospital servers.

Awsome :) Im gonna have to go play damn it !

ps... would be nice to get a chance to play SF-Hospital . they seem to have been full 24-7 for... well ever ;)

hey BFG.. if you ever wanted to play Hosp. and I was online All you had to do is ask.. I would have put the BTs server on it and joined you.. b/c i lub playing hosp.

Awh if only i had known! :( tis a pretty minty map aint it, only problem is my 4/6fps on it ;)    ty though!

I love village!

First time I played it I was getting lost all the time but now I really love it. Great map.

Except for the fact that it looks just like Sandstorm and CSAR

It has a different gameplay from both of those maps. Its great!

I have the same Problem like Lupus. But: no other Server seems to have such an high Speed for Downloads for free!

I don?t have a Fileplanet Subscriber account, so i can only download these 743MB with 20-40kb/s!!  :( Also I have to wait for my download about 60min.

Are threre other possiblities for downloading this for FREE with an high connection speed (www.americasarmy.com doesn?t seem to have it, they only link to other sites, with very low bandwith :( )

With many greetings from Germany
26thmeusoc

I used Happy puppy for one(2.0.0a) and file planet for the other (2.1).....I got 300+kb/s on both.. and i'm not a subcriber to either.

Thanks!
But I got another Problem now:
I?m trying now to play on an Server with Punkbuster for an online game, but I am everytime thrown out, because it maybe thinks, I am cheating(I tried it on non PB Servers, and I could play).
Ok, Punkbuster is telling me, that he can?t authenticate with the PB Server. So I tried to update it manually, but don?t work anyway. :(

What can I do, to run this program, for an online play on PB servers?
Greetings
26thmeusoc