Americas Army 3 coming to Steam

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » June 18th, 2009, 11:21

The offline is working perfectly for moi. Had a dry run through all the available training missions and all is hunky-dorey. Auth servers are still down though, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 18th, 2009, 11:25

Mine attempted to unlock and spazzed. So I left it alone figuring any free game on steam takes a beating on the servers.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » June 18th, 2009, 12:44

I was going to install it, but apparently my HDD is full. oops.
So right now I'm placing my entire steam folder on my new mostly empty HDD.

Post by **deject** » June 19th, 2009, 2:48

I guess perfection isn't good enough for the U.S. Army...

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 19th, 2009, 2:57

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 19th, 2009, 11:29

I completed up to the start of that with an expert badge for the assault course and an expert bar for my rifle with 39/40 targets. Then it started to load the range again for the three tasks (That I've only just completed in the beta) and then the game ctd'd. Hopefully my scores are recorded because I spazzd the course in 1:01 which is a damn good time.

Post by **deject** » June 19th, 2009, 16:04

I haven't learned the controls well enough for a good time on the course. I have to remember how to do that damn roll. When I'm trying to hurry I spaz out and forget.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » June 19th, 2009, 16:30

I can't download it, steam stops responding when I try

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 19th, 2009, 18:47

deject wrote:I haven't learned the controls well enough for a good time on the course. I have to remember how to do that damn roll. When I'm trying to hurry I spaz out and forget.

I re-mapped all mine to the ones I like to use in all fps'.

I found a good way of gaining time on the roll under the log is sprint off the top of the metal beam tower, then as you land a double tap on sprint then hit 'x' for the combat dive thingy so you land under the log. This lands you on the floor at a position where the automatic stand up is blocked so you can then roll and go. If you do it fast enough you can use the auto stand up part on the other side of the log as it tries a couple of times to get you out of prone. Apparently 56/57 seconds is the fastest so I'll be looking to shave a few more seconds off.

editz - I tried the combat dive to roll thing, I think the dude who wrote this way

meant to put press 'x' whilst sprinting instead of 'c' because that's a forward dive and takes a good couple of seconds off unless you do it too close, then you clip on the board that blocks you and it spazzes.

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 19th, 2009, 19:04

I seem to have been playing this game for quite some time.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » June 19th, 2009, 19:12

Not only that some cockbadger took Baliame as a username, the auth servers are constantly down.

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 19th, 2009, 19:15

Was it you? It usually is.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » June 19th, 2009, 19:50

I finally got it to auth my character. I was very pleased with the name it suggested, though. Say hello to Private CrabThumbs.
It seems to sit flipping though pictures for cocking ages though.

edit: I've successfully completed the first section of training twice now, can I move on plzkthx.

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 19th, 2009, 20:56

No you can't.

I've found that exiting and leaving it a few minutes then re-trying tends to make a score stick.

Trying a way to get my 3 expert at weapons to register so I can do the medic and mout courses. I've got 100% on all of them, but every time I finish one it tells me I failed the other two utterly. Then it crashed.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » June 19th, 2009, 22:35

Dog Pants wrote:Was it you? It usually is.

There's an offchance of someone else inventing the name, which should be about 10^-26%, otherwise I'm not old and senile like that just yet, I'd remember if I had registered it.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » June 19th, 2009, 22:54

Counting, American Army style:
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click for bigger</a>

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 19th, 2009, 22:59

Pffft.

Yet more fail.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » June 19th, 2009, 23:06

Yeah, I've had that a couple of times, just trying the ol' "log out and wait for 5 mins" to hopefully get the basic marksman to stick.

Don't fancy doing for a 3rd time really.

EDIT: As I posted that:

Valve wrote: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

Bingo for training results

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 20th, 2009, 0:00

Shame it's still fucked.

Attempt #5 apres patch, 3 perfect scores and only the tube launcher score has actually fucking worked properly.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » June 20th, 2009, 0:31

When I first tried that it said I failed the m249 bit even though I aced it, so I retried the entire thing (did all three of them again, starting with the grenade one for no reason in particular) and they all registered fine. Was annoying having to do them all again, but it got it to work. I also didn't re-qualify any of them on my second attempt, since I thought maybe that was what screwed it up