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Title: Americas Army Post by: Toxic::Joka on July 03, 2003, 12:38:37 am AA should be out within this month... (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~damnr6/yabbse/YaBBImages/banana.gif)
http://www.americasarmy.com/archives/top_story/mac_attack.php Man the servers that host it will be flooded that day. Will *DAMN make a ladder for this game? Would be nice and it is kinda in the spirit of ghr and rs being a tactical shooter game as well... ...anyway just a thought :) Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: l ! l Ross on July 03, 2003, 12:42:42 am I will be downloading that as soon as it is out :-)
Looks like a good game. Been waiting for its release on Mac since it was announced to come to the Mac. It will make a nice stop over till we get Raven Shield. Ross / ViRuS Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Jeb on July 03, 2003, 02:28:14 am i'm sure the download will show up on bittorrent which will allow better download speeds. The servers that hosted the UT2k3 demo were swamped from people downloading only a 200meg file, imagine all these bastards trying to download 1gig+. So i'll post a link the proper .torrent file as soon as the game is released.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: l ! l Ross on July 03, 2003, 02:52:42 am I was looking at the PC versions size. Seems to be only 373mb.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: kos.viper on July 03, 2003, 04:00:09 am This should have been out last month as stated at the beginning of June. >:(
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: *DAMN Elandrion on July 03, 2003, 08:28:44 am i'll try to share a torrent too... or maybe i'll set up a kdx server =)
Elandrion Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: BeefyFigure on July 03, 2003, 10:48:28 am Any chance AA runs on a 400 MHz iMac? Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: 0 Kilz:M: on July 03, 2003, 12:47:47 pm slim to none bf....
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Toxic::Joka on July 03, 2003, 01:09:43 pm Whats a torrent server?? ???
KDX i know but its os9 right? Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Mr. Lothario on July 03, 2003, 01:23:49 pm They're talking about BitTorrent, an interesting filesharing protocol/system. When downloading a file from BitTorrent, your computer downloads chunks of it from many hosts at once, while uploading the chunks you've downloaded to other people who want them. If you're downloading a popular file (like America's Army, for example), BitTorrent is very fast, because there are many hosts to download from. A "torrent" is a URL that BitTorrent follows to begin a download.
KDX is OS X native. I'm not sure, but it might even be OS X only. Using BitTorrent is a better idea, though, since it will be much, much faster than a KDX server. Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: c| Splinter on July 03, 2003, 05:42:00 pm There's something about this game that's just not right. It was designed by the US Army and if you read the FAQ it actually says that it meant to be a recruiting tool. Something is just not right about that. I want my games designed by scrawny pale faced geeks that haven't seen the light of day in 15 years, not by generals. They've probably embedded messages into the audio files to brain wash us all! soon we'll all be playing online thinking, "Yes...Yes, i do want to go down to my local recruiter's office. Yes...Yes, I do want to be all I can be."
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Mr.Mellow on July 03, 2003, 05:49:02 pm lol. Doesn't matter for me. I'd have a hard time getting into the Army because of really bad knee injury I got in 8th grade. So, bring on the propaganda!
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: kos.viper on July 03, 2003, 08:01:12 pm The recruiting side of it was developed for the weak minded in an attempt to make them believe that war is a video game, so join today!
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Jeb on July 04, 2003, 01:02:54 am Quote This month, Mac gamers will be able to join the ranks of over 1.7 million registered players of America's Army. This Mac release of America's Army version 1.7 will be available for download via the Akamai premium download site hyperlink on our downloads page. Keep an eye out for a `Mac attack' on America's Army later this month. http://www.americasarmy.com/archives/top_story/mac_attack.php;D We won't have to worry about bandwidth with akamai handling things Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Toxic::Joka on July 04, 2003, 01:09:49 am "premium download site" sounds conserning... :(
its not like GR premium membership is it? Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Jeb on July 04, 2003, 06:14:37 am i wouldn't think so.
Akamai is a giant media/file distributer that apple uses hosting trailers, and i believe that most of MSN is hosted by them (at least the search). I wouldn't see any reason for it to be a pay to download thing since they host files on a massive scale without problems already. If i wanted to take a guess i'd say the game will come out tomorrow (july 4th), the game was originaly released on that date last year, and it was slated to come out last month. I think it would be fitting for them to release the mac version on independence day just like they released the PC version. I thought i remembered hearing that the game was in late beta/RC last month. The game is downloadible as well as mailing in for a cd, so the cd dublication shouldn't add any time onto the release date if they want to get this thing out on the 4th... Just my thoughts, but i'll probly be wrong since those bastard mac porting houses love to take their time... Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: 0 Kilz:M: on July 04, 2003, 02:39:35 pm My only problem with AA is the fact that it won't be for Mac users specifically on GR. We will have to join the thousands of PC players, and that to me is just to huge. I wanna play with the ppl I know and have fun, not with a billion anonymous pc users who like to hack. I tried to make the switch over to Socom online only to be way to overwhelmed with all the players and numerous cheaters. There is just no sense of being part of a community when it is that huge. If on the other hand Evill could somehow make it a GR playable experience, that would be cool.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Cow on July 04, 2003, 03:27:22 pm i played AA (Enemy Territory came out, another great free FPS) and the PC people are bad and there are actually numerous amounts of clans and what not, i dunno how they find each other though =/
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: |MP|Buccaneer on July 05, 2003, 12:20:48 am It all depends on how you connect and find servers. I've been in PC clans, and we just communicated which servers we'd be on.
I haven't played AA, so I don't know what search features it has, etc, but with games like SOF2, you can even search for players to find what server they are on. All it means is a little communication will have to happen outside the game (using forums, or GR). It shouldn't be too hard to start a chat room with the server address that your clan is playing on, etc. Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: kos.viper on July 05, 2003, 04:42:11 am IRC built into the games helps a lot. I wish more games would do this.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Saberian 3000 on July 05, 2003, 09:01:36 am i just cant wait myself for AA to come out. It sounds like a kewl game. Although i wonder if they are gonna make it so that it can be played on GR. I am not sure how it works, but no matter the case, I will still love any game that is free and kicks ass with graphics. ;D so cheers to the bloody recruiters. I dont care what weak minded idiots they get, as long as it's a good game ;D
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: *DAMN Hazard on July 05, 2003, 11:38:58 pm I dled it when I had my PC. It was nothing special. The gameplay was weird.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: l ! l Ross on July 06, 2003, 04:24:53 am I just watch the Americans Army: Special Forces trailers:
http://www.americasarmy.com/movies/SF_Trailer_Fast.mpg http://www.americasarmy.com/movies/SF_Trailer_Slow.mpg This version of Americans Army will be out for PC sometime after the summer. Also Americans Army version 1.9 looks very cool as well. With some cool looking improvements (e.g. Blood loss after getting shot) It looks like a very good game. But we will just have to wait and see. I also applied to be a beta tester of the Mac Port of AA but i don't think I will get chosen. But there is no point in not trying. Ross / ViRuS Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: 515O on July 08, 2003, 12:31:21 am Maybe we should make one huge MAC clan!
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Narauko on July 08, 2003, 12:33:26 am lol
With the size of our comunity we would be a small army ;D "BACK IN LINE PVT!" Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Jackal.aHa! on July 08, 2003, 01:21:39 am jesus, did you watch that AA SF trailer...it says they COMBAT THOSE WHO OPRESS.
BULL SHIT! This is such propaganda for what we are doing in Iraq now, are we gonna run around picking fights with France because theres a law about jay-walking. "THEY CANT DO THAT, FREEDOM MUST RAIN!!!!!!!! ATTTTACKKK!" I will try and play it and will probably enjoy it, but im worried about what message will it send to the youth, like 10 and 8 year olds. Who might think the army is a fun "game" where we kill evil and just click "restart" if something goes wrong...damn... jackal Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Cow on July 08, 2003, 02:18:19 am They should change the face of the enemies lol! So if we goto war with North Korea they should wear funny cone hats. HAHA i love America and if we arent fighting a war then we should be killing.........um um um gang bangers!
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: 515O on July 08, 2003, 07:28:19 am I really think it would be cool to have a .mac after your name. We could get a few hundred people.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: |MP|Buccaneer on July 08, 2003, 10:41:57 am This is such propaganda Where have you been? They admit it's propaganda. It is paid for by the Army (or Department of Defense) because they expect it to help recruiting. Read the web site. Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: The Golden Shark on July 09, 2003, 01:02:18 am dood!! hell yeah thats the first thing im putting next to my name... ".mac" that would be fat.
*Agent* .:|Mr.T|:.mac has a nice ring to it eh? well not really but the idea is hellla mutha fuckin cool! Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: tasty on July 09, 2003, 01:38:35 am Looks like a fun game, but I will probably feel dirty playing it. Maybe someone should make Zapatista skins so I can at least feel like I'm fighting for something good.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: BeefyFigure on July 09, 2003, 01:45:52 pm Any chance AA runs on a 400 MHz iMac? Would it be smart even to try? Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Toxic::Joka on July 09, 2003, 02:07:57 pm Well its a free game so you have nothing to loose, but even if it would (wich i doubt) it would run really crappy probably.
I have a sudden urge to be all I can be.... ;D Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Toxic::Joka on July 10, 2003, 09:15:46 pm I wonder who will be selected for beta tester's... ;D
Damn, i sure wish i would have applied for it Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Brain on July 10, 2003, 11:45:21 pm that's a good question, has anyone been selected yet? if so please reply
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Ace on July 10, 2003, 11:57:52 pm Bucc and WillieTell got in. I haven't heard anything yet so I'm assuming I got the shaft. That's all I know of so far.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Brain on July 11, 2003, 01:45:36 am according to mauti's message on the front page, you're right ace (which means that i'm out in the cold on this as well)
just one question: HOW THE HELL did willie get accepted? Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Mr. Lothario on July 11, 2003, 03:23:17 am They needed a low-end tester. : D
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: TRIBE_Horda on July 11, 2003, 01:25:16 pm 5$ to dl it from amakai thing
cool thing is that u have gangs of admins arround doing cops anti cheats Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Toxic::Joka on July 11, 2003, 02:28:08 pm If you TK alot, you get thrown in a virtual jail cell :o :o
TK alittle and you get thrown back to boot camp Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Night Hawk on July 11, 2003, 03:29:39 pm Yea my bro got AA a long time ago for pc because he is getting recruited, and no it was not because of the game because we dont have a pc. But anyway, it looked cool, I like the way that giant machine gun looks, i can only see part of it, but mmmmm. I just cant wait for raven shield, it will be RS all over again. =D america's army should be good till then, but once this comes out, RS is gone.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: 0 Kilz:M: on July 12, 2003, 04:53:00 am I just wonder how many noobs will try and get to see the virtual brig...lmao..it would be cool to see, but definately not worth it..someone do it and take a ss so we can all see it...;)
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: |MP|Buccaneer on July 12, 2003, 06:09:01 am If you download the instructions (and I suggest you do before playing it) you can see a picture of the cell.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: iGnome on July 13, 2003, 10:37:23 pm The funny thing is that alot of the ghost recon noobs will take 2-3 months just trying to get on because you need to pass basic training/target shooting yeah it will fill the gap till Rvs comes to mac but the downside is that we will have to play with pc users
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: 0 Kilz:M: on July 14, 2003, 05:50:03 am There should be no gap, RS is still smexy...stfu about not wanting to boot in 9..it takes ONE MINUTE!
But once RvS hits the mac...oh man...it will get intense up in GR..I can't wait for all the cb's and the pwnage of non-rs vets. Wooty woot woot ;D Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: l ! l Ross on July 14, 2003, 01:34:36 pm .....we will have to play with pc users..... Actually AA will have Gameranger support. So we can play Mac only. Ross Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Toxic::Joka on July 14, 2003, 04:29:06 pm WoooOoOoOoOoOOT
Great news ross (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~damnr6/yabbse/YaBBImages/banana.gif) Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: bronto on July 14, 2003, 04:40:40 pm .....we will have to play with pc users..... Actually AA will have Gameranger support. So we can play Mac only. Ross But won't any of the games hosted through gameranger also show up for pcers in the game's list of server? I just thought of a good idea, if this is the case with it. Do the .mac thing at the ends of your names and just boot anyone that comes in without it :-D Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Supernatural Pie on July 14, 2003, 05:01:01 pm Actually AA will have Gameranger support. So we can play Mac only. That's really good to hear. Did Evill tell you that directly? If it is true, will that mean that there won't be any jail cells for us? mmmm.. flashbanging team.. mmmm Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: l ! l Ross on July 14, 2003, 05:49:53 pm That's really good to hear. Did Evill tell you that directly? If it is true, will that mean that there won't be any jail cells for us? mmmm.. flashbanging team.. mmmm I found that out cos I am a beta tester. Technically I shouldn't have told you. Its already implemented in he beta but evil will just have to add the plug-in to an update when AA is released. And yea the not going to jail thing. That is a downside but we can always boot your ass. I don't know about the PC joiners in GR games it maybe like GhR when it makes up a random password or we could just add a pass to it. Ross Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Supernatural Pie on July 14, 2003, 06:21:53 pm That all sounds like good news.
Also, with the no jail thing, I think that is good, because now we will still be able to screw around some times, and keep the game fun, without worrying about consequences. C'mon.. A little FLASHBANG never hurt anyone! Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: BeefyFigure on July 14, 2003, 08:36:54 pm C'mon.. A little FLASHBANG never hurt anyone! Not exactly: (http://www.biomodel.com/sohi/duane.jpg) Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: l ! l Ross on July 14, 2003, 10:37:28 pm ouch!!
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: kos.viper on July 15, 2003, 06:11:06 am Ross, what are your mac's specs?
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Supernatural Pie on July 15, 2003, 06:55:27 am A flashbang isn't as bad as the car accident that guy got in...
I hope... Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: BeefyFigure on July 15, 2003, 02:39:42 pm That wasn't a car accident.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: bronto on July 15, 2003, 04:53:42 pm I like the way he has a little sideburn coming out of his dent ;).
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: l ! l Ross on July 15, 2003, 04:55:20 pm It will be out today.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Toxic::Joka on July 15, 2003, 05:29:20 pm WOOOOOOOooOOoOoOOOOooOoOoOooOOooOoOoOOT
You like the view airborne! Only one way down now airborne! *starts making room on HD* Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Supernatural Pie on July 15, 2003, 06:42:39 pm It will be out today. [size=40]OMGOMGOMG[/size] Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Excited on July 15, 2003, 08:39:18 pm if it's gonna be out today, tell us your computer Specs Ross! That way we can compare our systems to your system and guesstimate how it will run in our computers!
Also, is it OSX only? Will it run on 9? How much RAM did you have? How big is the DL? Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: BeefyFigure on July 15, 2003, 08:47:41 pm From IMG:
?The game plays great on a Dual 867MHz G4, though if you're able to play Unreal Tournament 2003, you shouldn't have much trouble with America's Army: Operations either. As with that title, a number of settings are available to tweak performance depending on the power of your hardware.? Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Brain on July 15, 2003, 09:58:42 pm ross, when today?
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: l ! l Ross on July 15, 2003, 10:21:06 pm This is what I know:
Its finished and final is done. The development guy said this "ArmyOps 1.7.0 for the Mac is gold. It should be available later today." So the game is done I guess were just waiting on the army now. I looks like we might even be testing v1.9 soon. And my computer specs are: iMac G4 700Mhz G4 512 RAM 32mb GeForce 2MX iBook 800Mhz G3 32mb Graphics 256 RAM It works good on both. Title: Allright! When will the DL be available!? Post by: AK_Rap1d on July 15, 2003, 10:52:49 pm Well, as soon as it's out, make sure and start a new thread about it announcing it! ;D This outa be fun! I love the fact that n00bs will actually have to learn how to use their guns, before stepping into battle with the big boys! 8) Should make for some good close competition hopefully! PC'ers gonna have their hands full when the MAC community swarms in! WOOOT! 8) Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: guest on July 15, 2003, 10:57:47 pm but will it run on os9?
Title: Re:Allright! When will the DL be available!? Post by: BeefyFigure on July 15, 2003, 11:04:19 pm PC'ers gonna have their hands full when the MAC community swarms in! WOOOT! 8) That's for sure. We gon' kick some ass! Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Toxic::Joka on July 15, 2003, 11:07:08 pm Nope :( osX only
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: BeefyFigure on July 15, 2003, 11:14:39 pm Well, you've had two years to update now, and if you still haven't, I suggest you do. If you can manage it financially, Mac OS X Jaguar is around 130 dollars knowing, that prices are expected to decrease further. Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Brain on July 15, 2003, 11:47:27 pm i'd just like to remind you guys that these PC people have 2 years of experience on us
we're gonna have to fight hard if we want to still be the big fish in the pond Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: BeefyFigure on July 16, 2003, 12:15:10 am i'd just like to remind you guys that these PC people have 2 years of experience on us we're gonna have to fight hard if we want to still be the big fish in the pond Good point. Considering the fact we are with less and that we have two years' delay on them, they'll force hard times on us, which makes it more difficult to catch up on them. But, no worries: I have a feeling we'll manage through alright. Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Supernatural Pie on July 16, 2003, 12:44:46 am I don't get it.
So far there's nothing on www.Americasarmy.com (http://www.Americasarmy.com) or www.insidemacgames.com (http://www.insidemacgames.com). Hmm. So where is it? I'm anxious. Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: The Golden Shark on July 16, 2003, 01:02:50 am ohhh man im having a joy-gasim!!! wWOWOOWWWWOOOOTTTTTT~!!!! man now i really can't wait
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: bronto on July 16, 2003, 01:35:09 am I'm a full fledged sniper...what what what.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: kos.viper on July 16, 2003, 03:24:30 am Oh they'll probably release it tomorrow after the mac community strangles Steve Jobs for not updating the PowerBook line. This way the release of AA will even out with the non updated PowerBook line.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: The Golden Shark on July 16, 2003, 04:18:59 am DOODDSSS!! WTF NOOO!!! look at this!! -->>http://ecommerce.americasarmy.com/product.asp?0=207&1=208&3=10
you have to BUY the patch, maybe im missing something, but there goes the "free" part. Title: Re:Allright! When will the DL be available!? Post by: Typhy on July 16, 2003, 07:14:54 am This outa be fun! Except for people like you, who don't have OSX. . . Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: |MP|Buccaneer on July 16, 2003, 09:16:47 am maybe im missing something, but there goes the "free" part. You are missing something. Typhy, add to that list people that still have ATI Rage 128 video cards too. They are also SOL. Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Typhy on July 16, 2003, 09:38:38 am Interestingly enough, Rapid falls into both of those: ATI Rage 128 and no OSX. Ah well, when you've got that low of system specs, you likely plan to update relativly soon.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: BeefyFigure on July 16, 2003, 01:05:19 pm Interestingly enough, Rapid falls into both of those: ATI Rage 128 and no OSX. Have you ever come to think not everyone is as loaded as you are? Give us a break, man. Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Supernatural Pie on July 16, 2003, 04:24:37 pm Go check out the making of America's Army video over at apple.
http://www.apple.com/games/trailers/americasarmy/ (http://www.apple.com/games/trailers/americasarmy/) Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: bronto on July 16, 2003, 04:32:15 pm Typhys lucky the government pays people to live in such a desolate place as alaska :D.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Cow on July 16, 2003, 06:18:57 pm you dont have to pay for it thats only for a special DL server that offers gaurnteed DLs or something. its all free i have it on PC
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Typhy on July 16, 2003, 10:20:31 pm ITS HERE!
http://www.americasarmy.com/ Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Monoman on July 16, 2003, 10:35:55 pm It looks like at least for now that you have to pay to download.
Title: Re:Americas Army Post by: Maniac on July 20, 2003, 08:50:10 pm I got AA not too long ago and it seems like a pretty good game. I hope GR will support it.
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