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Americas Army Releases Special Forces 2.1 Update
Phil John writes "As announced on the America's Army site, version 2.1 of America's Army: Special Forces is now available for free download, either as a full install or an update from 2.0.0a. There's a BitTorrent version of the update patch and a full standalone Windows version available from 3D Gamers to ease the load on the download mirrors. New goodies available: 2 new maps, brand new physics engine, new weapons and even an armoured vehicle with 50mm gun turret. Go forth, download and continue fighting the 'global war on terrorism'."
installing 2.1 over your previous 2.0.0a resets all your settings--including graphics, audio, and most importantly binds. so back up your binds if you've got anything of note to save.
unfortunately i updated at midnight last night and haven't had time to try it out, other than discovering that everything had been reset...
At least there will be a couple days where we can play with little or no people with crappy pings.
I have played this game for nearly 2 years, and it's getting even better. I find it to be the most realistic games out there. You can check out my clan's website at www.combatlifesavers.us. Try this game out and see how you like it
The post says
.50 cal turret usable by the player.
even an armoured vehicle with 50mm gun turret
which leaves out an important point mentioned in the article
New Stryker Armored Vehicle:
This version of America's Army introduces the Army's new Interim Armored Vehicle, a.k.a. the Stryker. The Stryker vehicle is currently implemented as a stationary vehicle with a fully functioning
Two-facedness?
Could you show me a press release from the US Army that stated that America's Army is *not* a recruitment tool? Uh, hello! Of course it is, otherwise why would they make it? The Army has never said otherwise.
Two-facedness my ass.
Look, if you don't want to play the game, you can play Tribes 2 or Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, both also free. I'm sure there are good free games I'm missing as well.
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Not if you've already got 2.0.0a, it's simply a 178 MB (IIRC) upgrade file, which I downloaded in a little over 15 minutes on my connection here.
If you are in the states however you can pick up a copy at most army recruitment centres (or so I have been led to believe, I'm a brit myself so wouldn't be able to check that out.)
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Parent was the very first comment posted, and it's moderated redundant. Heh.
If you get nervous, just remember that there are a few billion other people who don't really give a damn.
Notice that this is not the first America's Army story. People post that garbage every single time there is a story on it, and it eventually gets seriously REDUNDANT. The Army specifically states that it is a recruitment tool, we don't need some idiot pointing it out to us every time there's a story posted on it. Hope that clears things up for you. Heh.
I was pissed when my setting were overwritten. Also frame rates dropped slighty with this new patch.
That's 'Sadaam's Army'. Read a book or two.
Yeah, but here's the catch...
You have to play the game a quarter million (250,000) times, and then you get to take pictures of naked Iraqis six times. That pretty much puts the 6 or so assholes in perspective out of the 250,000 men and women serving overseas. (flamebait asshole...)
Nerds (the future) should be reading this EULA. This is by far the biggest game production to be freely copyable. This is a beer, not speech "free", so it's not all the way there. But information, for once, is truly FREE. Yes, we're mostly libertarian, but even if government is behind it the liberation of information is a great thing. In the future, information will be free!
-I am an elective eunuch.
like Tillman?
(Who I totally admire by the way, it is people like him who make American formidiable, not the Bomb)
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
I think they've been quite honest about the whole thing. In an interview with some of the officers behind AA, they said nobody expects someone to play the game and then go join the army, this game opens up communication channels with a group that they may have had untaped(of course parphrased). They also said that it helps show the world(with the strong european AA community there is) how great the US Army is. SO they openly admit it's part propaganda and part recruitment tool.
You make it sound like the entire problem is just a few assholes. Guess again. The problem is systemic and goes all the way to the top (or at least near the top).
Serve Gonk.
A Mac version would be cool, anyone know if there are any plans?
Insightful? Please. Flamebait, more like. Methinks you need to read a little more and stop believing everything your lying, cheating, murdering, raping government tells you. Use your common sense, if you have any.
The ultimate end is to host consciousness on a computer, and thus have control over its inputs and outputs.
-I am an elective eunuch.
They don't want to hear it.
America had a brief glimpse of the way they are seen by the rest of the world. Everything will now be made right by crucifying a few disposables, and the curtain will fall again.
Then back to pretending they're Luke Skywalker rather than the stormtroopers (after all, Grampa was a hero 60 years ago, so everything is alright).
...oh shit that's a teammate...
TAKE COVER!
(game pauses, then I get yet another glimpse at a Leavenworth cell.)
Yeah, tell it like it is wise one. Show us photos from the last time *you* were in Iraq. Let me get this straight - the government lies - but never anyone in the media - 'because they are better people'? You remind me of the people praising Stalin in the '30s.
I have played Americas Army since the first public release came out over a year ago. This has to be one of the most unique games in existence. Its realism is unparallel to any other game. Each patch that the Army has produced for this game has made the game better and more enjoyable to play. If you have not tried out this game, you really should. I warn you though that it does require some patience and the game has a learning curve (learning the maps is extremly important and takes some time). There is also an honor system in place which rewards the veteran players. The more you play, the more likely you are to select your weapon of choice. This helps with reducing TKing and just overall gameplay. Now stop reading this and go download the game if your bored of the same old FPS. Americas Army is defitnely a nice change.
I couldn't think of anything witty to say, so...you're stuck with this.
Unless, of course, it's a news organization that has a different politcal slant than yours. Then they're lying through their teeth...
Without stopping all interrogations (which would logically end all prison 'abuses') what other methods are there that you can expect to work on a terrorist? For crying out loud we have murders in jail who spend over 50 years rotting away in a prison cell and still refuse to admit they commited the crime. Hell just watch the TV show 'Cops' and you see drunk people denying that they're drunk when you can't even understand their speech. Do you really expect a trained, battle-hardened, fanatical, 'kill-me-now-for-my-god' terrorist to say, "X guy is planning to blow up Y building in Baghdad on June 21, can I go now?"
I gave up getting the updates around about v1.5 . I'm all for updates but not when you have to download a couple of hundred meg every couple of weeks just to be able to play the game.
Right. Because every person they detained and tortured was a confirmed terrorist. Read a real newspaper you numpty.
What? You mean not every Arab is a terrorist? Surely you jest.
No you haven't, and no it doesn't. The stryker has wheels, since is based on the LAV platform.
See here.
Try to avoid talking out of your ass.
and how again is a 178MB "upgrade" gonna help us poor dialup bastards?!?!?
i'll be the long hair at the recruiting centre this afternoon.
It'll only take you 4 days instead of 12 to ddwnload.
Because after all, we have to torture all the innocent people in case any of them are really guilty.
Get the full Linux from a torrent here
Foo: You have to play the game a quarter million (250,000) times, and then you get to take pictures of naked Iraqis six times. That pretty much puts the 6 or so assholes in perspective out of the 250,000 men and women serving overseas.
Bar: You make it sound like the entire problem is just a few assholes. Guess again. The problem is systemic and goes all the way to the top (or at least near the top).
Oh, I get it now.
After you play a quarter-million times, a systems admin comes in and takes pictures of naked Iraqis. Your player just holds the leash.
Easy enough mistake to make.
(Not to minimise the actual issues. I'm damned proud of my cousin who just came back from Tikrit, and I'm fighting mad at his Commander in Thief for sending him in the first place.)
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.