Americas Army Day

BRAINWASHED
They start you out with this "demo" that you can download. You get hooked, so you eagerly call your local Army recruiter for the full version of the game released on CD.

They now have your phone number and address.

You impatiently wait for the CD to arrive in the mail, and once you have it in your grubby paws, you install it and you are in again. You master the game, gaining skills as time passes. You are more hooked than ever. Weeks later, as your addiction grows to new levels, the Army calls you and asks if you want to "play" in a more high tech virtual realtity "game" that they have at the base. This version of the game requires virtual reality headmounted displays in addition to VR suit that captures your physical movement. Without thinking you make an appointment to "play" the more extensive version of the game at the Army base.

They now have you.

The following day you arrive at the Army base, enter the VR room and they gear you up with the VR headset and suit. You are so hooked on the game that you just want to play. Once you enter this version of the game you see just how much more "high-tech" it truely is. Its nearly like real life. Of course, most of your skills from the home version of the game transfer, but there still is a bit of relearning to do. Within a few hours its all in your grasp. You are owning the other "players".

At the end of the day, the Army recruiter asks if you want to continue to "play". Thinking back to the home version of the game you realize that you could never go back to that primitive version again. The Army's VR version is far more addictive. Again, without thinking you sign the papers.

You are now a soldier in the USA Army. It doesn't take the Army much longer to weed you from the VR simulators into real life combat simulations. Of course you have to put lots of effort towards getting into physical shape, but you don't care anymore. You are hooked more than ever, and because your skills from the VR simulator transfer fairly well into the real life "simulations", you are owning everyone else.

You are the USA's killing machine. It all started with a downloaded demo, which was followed by a full version of the "game". After that you were playing a billion dollar VR "game", and before you knew it, you were splitting skullz of anyone the USA government asked you to "pacify".

I only put I was an expert so people wouldn't reply to my post on the accuracy with "You just suck at shooting" I wanted to see if other expert gamers were doing it too and if I was missing a shooting technique. But my credentials are here:

If you remember ground zero in NY about 2-3 years back. I never attended but I tied the guy who won there for Q3test. And then in Diablo2 I was the first to beat it online on hell difficulty. My charater was 12 levels ahead of the competition (the farthest gap ever in diablo2 ladder) and I sold my character for $710 after about 10 days of "work" And that was on all the major news pages b/c my ebay auction was getting well more than 1hit per second for over a week. I won my own q3 jersey at huge local lan parties. I could go on but I'll just say I stopped keyboarding a while back.

Hey can I get some help shackers..Ive now completed this damn marksmanship training thing like 30 times and everytime score sharpshooter.But in here lies my problem, it wont let me advance? I've talked to there support techs they say keep playing it and sooner or later ill get to advance...WTF? I dont want to freaking play this one mission 800 times...I was also told there was a bug affecting a small amount of people not letting them advance? So I've reinstalled three times downloading from different servers each time and still have the same effect each time,no advancment?????????? plz HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What if you created a new charecter, played a training mission and passed, alt+tabed out and edited that txt file so it shows that you completed everything, including that damn MOUT mission. Get back into the game and send the update? Do you think that might work in skipping the MOUT mission? I tried replaying the old training again, but it doesnt send data out once they are complete.

Damnit, I've beaten MOUT at least four times with 5/7 and no ROE. I still can't play on any of the other maps. :P

When I tried to go to infantry training it kicks me back to the main menu...

Any ideas? Basic Combat Training is all complete

I can't even start the friggin game... when it loads I get the first menu but it's not active, I can see my mouse clicking in the background on the windows desktop. My friend had this at work too (I'm not sure he fixed it)... how do I get around this?

So is the game good or not?

When i decide to buy an uzi and play real army in my neighbourhood after i played this game, are they gonna sue Marlyn Manson and blame DOOM again?

it would've been nice if someone posted the hardware requirements for this game......it runs sluggish and slow - even unreal / ut runs better. ok i do not have a top of the notch pc system but hearing that its "built" on unreal - i thought np, because unreal / ut ran very nicely.

wtf ? i got kicked out of practice shooting because everything was so slow and laggy that the animated figure (sarge??) said he will soon get retired if i go on like that and then i had to start all over again.......

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bah so far ive passed MOUT winning 7/7 rounds with 0 ROE and some good scores from BOTH teams several times, but still i am not qual'd

ok, so what's up with the infantry MOUT training? i try and to the Honor/Loyal thing, and all it does is kick me back to the Start Training screen. is the server just hosed or what?

So I don't get it. You have to qualify to play, or is the qualification the "playing?" I can't get into MOUT yet, but after I pass that, can I play online with other people? I don't get this whole "online training" thing, I guess.

is there a manual connect command i can type into the console? GSA is not very good if you want to quickly try multiple servers... servers that time out wont even show up on the list. every time you refresh you only see like a small fraction of the servers.

Don't know if anyone has posted this yet. I didnt know there was an Xbox version on the way?

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Well to whomever hasn't downloaded Americas Army: Recon, I'm hosting a fast mirror @ http://games.eof.net/ArmyOpsRecon.exe

i won a game of 8vs8 on MOUT without firing a shot, i capped all three objectives it was hilarious.

Actually, Mount is quite good. There is a little tower in the chapel, just climb up, crouch, and enable IR. Perfect camping place ;-)

OK, is this how u graduate from MOUT training,

your team must get 5/7 wins
NO ROE at all?

this game needs voice com

when i try to resume on fileshack it starts over..
this is not good since i am on ze 56k and can't stay connected for 11 hrs + straight.
:(

ok bridge is awesome. Really awesome. And pipeline is damn good. Bridge is my favorite map and pipeline my second favorite. I actually like SHOOTING things not lasering shit. Lasers are for losars

Finally got my MOUT qual. It was a bitch at first because its so dark and the skins are so close. Once I got the hang of it it was a blast though. Cant wait to keep going.

Man, this game is sooo close to being truly awesome. The ballistics are friggin sweet, the animation is really convincing, and the graphics are pretty much jaw-dropping. Net code is quite good, but no Half-life.

Bottom line: this game was rushed.

If they just took an extra week or two to get more servers up and running, to get some better documentation up, and get an in-game browser working, it would be sweet. Luckily, the price is right, so i can't really complain too much. I'll just wait 'till they get some updates out. This game could have some really long legs if they continue to support it. Was counterstrike this good when it came out? I think not.

So what's a good way to get past McKenna without sitting here refreshing Gamespy for two hours and waiting to get in and that you'll actually win a round before excessive lag drops you out of the server? I tried that little trick of putting 1's in place of 0's in the save file, but it doesn't work.

Private server instructions can be found here: http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?s=e35b6f5f2a3ee42fd948207fb242e08e&threadid=138647

Ok, I'm trying to do the mount thing where you join a server and have to get 5/7, but whenever I try to join a server it says I'm not authorized. What the fuck is going on? I did the training, and everything up until that point. what am I doing wrong?

heh I'm out of it :) Dunno then, does the symbol say "Not Available"?

Is it possible to attain expert stat? I keep getting sharpshooter and I'm right @ 36 or so. Is expert == 36 || expert >= 36? Grrr bad RSI! Thanks.

The he grenades in this game, omg, their like nukes. I'm assuming it's pretty realistic too, so I've gained a new respect for that weapon.

Well im gonna give up on this one for the time being, I still cant get past MOUT and I still cant get my sniper rifle(when i finally decided to register and shit I rushed the marksman course just to play and for some reason I cant redo my score).

I like it though!

Alright, all you ppl with good reviews can stuff it, this game is full of shit. I've done all the training, played the MOUT level online for like an hour, even had our team up to 5/7 with me doing most of the work, too bad I STILL CANT PLAY ON ANY OTHER MAPS. Im sick of playing mout, its a shitty boring map. Ive been able to play Tunnel also, thats another boring map. Somehow last night I was able to play on that camp level, but I can't today. This game gets a big fat pile of shit rating for me until it gets fixed.

are you supposed to be able to play the McKenna MOUT training mission? i click next on it and it just kicks me out to the main screen :(

What is with this "Auth Failed" You are not ready for this level

Or something like that. Why can't I play that level?

"Man, this game is sooo close to being truly awesome. The ballistics are friggin sweet, the animation is really convincing, and the graphics are pretty much jaw-dropping. Net code is quite good, but no Half-life.

Bottom line: this game was rushed."


Probably the best critique i've seen yet. I have a few disagreements. First of all I don't want to start a flame war but I will say this. They called this a Demo. Now once you have completed training (First mistake: Second Level of training is online only, which is what i mainly agree with the originator of this post about. See 2nd paragraph.) This game becomes the best demo I have ever played. Now whether I believe this is an actual demo or not. Yet when I compare the raw size of this demo next to that of previous FPS "Demo"s i have gotten i must admit it is sweet. I must admit if the game is alot larger than this demo with as much mission differential as stated by the Army ( feels wierd saying that) I believe this game could very well be stunning. For a demo it is very skill orientated. From breathing on fire to the way the soldier holds his weapon when crawling in prone mode. I must say if your not into realisism with a bit more life than /RS/GR tom clancy games. This is it. Somehow they have combined a bit of realism and a bit of life to make me like it. The most realistic thing in this game is firefights. This seems to be due to the way they coded the guns. Very Very realistic. You can definatly become very skillfull in this game. Just like one can become skillfull with a real weapon. There is no bunnyhop which I love(hehe though a dive feature to jump out of sprays would be nice, doubt its codeable to feel real though:P). Now All I am saying is if the final game actually makes this version look like a 'Demo' heh. Onto what I didn't like.

The ability or should i say the unavailble Mount Mckenna Servers for the second basic training map. The unavailability of many servers at all. Really nixes this demos release. I wan the Army to realize they created somthing which could possibly dominate anything ever seen in gaming FPS's. If what they say their doing is true. Yet, without the servers ...... umm ...... I'm lost how do you play a game when theres 2500 people at all times alone in the room trying to connect to one server the Mount Mckenna server. Oh the injustice. lol.

I will give you this, if they get the lack of servers fixed. MMM this game is going to draw my time away.


"Man, this game is sooo close to being truly awesome. The ballistics are friggin sweet, the animation is really convincing, and the graphics are pretty much jaw-dropping. Net code is quite good, but no Half-life.

Bottom line: this game was rushed."

"If they just took an extra week or two to get more servers up and running, to get some better documentation up, and get an in-game browser working, it would be sweet. Luckily, the price is right, so i can't really complain too much. I'll just wait 'till they get some updates out. This game could have some really long legs if they continue to support it. Was counterstrike this good when it came out? I think not. "

For christ's sake where are the ftp links? I would have no problems downloading this if it was on ftps.

WTF? I can't believe nobody has said "this game looks good but it's no Doom III" yet. You guys are slipping.

As someone who wants to make mods for UT2k3, I'm curious about this one; does the engine seem to be pretty good? Are the graphics pretty good and how are the particle effects for the smoke and stuff?