Americas Army 3 - free game - pre-load now on Steam

the game is working far better than it did at launch, make sure you choose a low ping server (lower than other games) and you should be able to play, it is actually pretty fun!
 
New update now being released, currently downloading on steam.

Patch notes are as follows:-
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

* Improved console help
* Added Clan support. Add clan tag in Account Settings. You must change information while in single player mode for now.
* Admin VOIP Improvements
* New "version" console command to see the current version
* Server browser performance improvements
* Fixes joining password protected servers so it no longer selects the server underneath the mouse cursor when clicking on the "Join" button in the password entry dialog.
* Fix for settings menu improperly closing when ESC pressed and leaving the player stuck with no UI and limited control
* Mission generation optimizations
* Fixed issue with logging into game servers that sometimes used another player's soldier profile.
* New TS3 SDK integrated
* Improves how server manages authentication objects
* Fixes issue with players being added to the scoring system not having all of their scoring data written.
* Fixes issue where players not logged into MBS were being logged out if they left the server prior to authenticating
* M320 grenade attaching issue resolved.
* Dedicated server title bar now shows mission and player details
* Fixes the "Waiting for other players" UI so it now appears again.
* Removes some server logging
* Increased communications handling to support when all players use heavy load outs. This may correct many instances where players didn't spawn correctly or get the correct load out.
* Fixes the M320 getting an extra round of ammo
* Fixes the Account Settings password changing not working properly
* Fixes the IRC link not working
* Fixes the displayed mission type (assault/defense/etc.) shown in the battle planner so it displays properly after side-swapping
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I'll try it once it's finished downloading and I'll let you know
 
Been playing for an hour or so. Seems to be pretty stable if you ask me, noticed that a lot of people have been complaining about lag - not sure if that's performance side or what. I'm running it at 1680x1050 all on high and its fine, definately seems to be some sort of net lag though. Server side I'm guessing?
 
I dont know what they did but after this patch my game runs a hell of a lot better.

Much smoother and higher average fps - though i havent checked, it just feels really smooth.

Might actually start to play the game a bit more. ;)
 
Still not quite sure if the hit detection is right or just poor accuracy, but you sure do have to put a lot of lead in 'em to knock them down compared to 2.8.
 
Even with this new patch the game still freezes for me (only in multiplayer). I think one possible cause for the probl em is a memory issue with the game, when i ctrl alt del out after a freeze i notice that the game is basically maxing my RAM, and using a ton of CPU.
 
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Even with this new patch the game still freezes for me (only in multiplayer). I think one possible cause for the probl em is a memory issue with the game, when i ctrl alt del out after a freeze i notice that the game is basically maxing my RAM, and using a ton of CPU.
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Froze for me too the only time I got into it. I made a new username even though I had reserved one; and it did the trick.
 
New patch out... might give this another try now...

America's Army 3


More messaging when unable to connect to server for particular circumstances like full servers, etc

More enhancements to PunkBuster implementation

Adds in switching viewpoints during pb validation and adds in messaging to let player know something is happening

Streamlined the server connect

Adjusted the ftmp cleanup logic so it works properly on the server

New Auth SDK that fixes MBS query issues, several crashes, and memory leaks

Better feedback to players kicked from training due to not being qualified

Fixes to player count in Internet Browser

Fix for hud decrementing frag grenade round display when 320 ammo types are switched

Frag grenade loadout fixes

Cleanup of client stat file on startup so bad stats won't hang players joining training

Removes "player didn't play in round" debugging message from logs

Fixes accessed nones caused by mission lost statistics when player isn't alive at end of round

Adjustments to clan tag support to allow use of a prefix (+ is add it as a suffix, - add as prefix, and anything else uses the "of xxx" format from 3.0.4)

Prevent going prone while tossing a grenade

Report full server to user message and bad/wrong password to user in message box after being kicked from server

Adds in ability to left click on a server in MBS and have its information updated if it hasn't been updated recently (in last 10 minutes)

Adds new message box if the connection times-out so user knows what happens if they step away and the client fails to connect to the server

Added pbsetup and a simple batch wrapper to call necessary commands to setup a system for using PB (Binaries\pbsetup_help.bat)

Added PunkBuster setup steps to installation
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System_ofa_Down said:
I still cant join punkbuster servers :(



How well will this run on my friends 9600GT OC at 1920x1200?
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1. Have you manually updated PB? Download it from evenbalance, add AA3 to it, then update.

2. At 1920x1200 with medium-high settings, I get about 40-50 fps, that's with an 8800 GTS 512MB OC.
 
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