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With pleasure! Let me start by saying that I am a veteran of "our" AA ;-), I also get by technically with computers, which are a hobby of mine (necessary for work more and more often), with different hardware and OS software (win, nux and nix like), BUT I am NOT a developer (apart from some small bash sh ;-)). In any case, I follow various casts of various professionals in the sector to keep myself informed.
As regards the procedure I used and the platform on which I successfully installed 25assist and subsequently AA, it is this, in order (on quite ordinary hardware):

1) downloaded and installed fedora 42 workstation (kde gui)
2) for system optimizations, I followed some very exhaustive threads on github (I don't know if I can link to one in particular, I hope I'm not violating any rules, and it's this one https://github.com/winterofhell/fedora-42-optimizations)
3) installed Steam for Linux (Proton and various runtimes) via rpm (Flatpak is the same but sandboxed so requires some permissions adjustments)
4) downloaded and installed 25assist AA
5) once the installation is complete, after logging in via 25assist, in the relevant control panel, INSTALL, install the Linux libraries.

This procedure, although slightly different in terms of optimizations, as they are already present, and installation of sandboxed packages via Flatpak, allows me to use successfully 25assist and AA also on fedora based platforms but customized and optimized for the game like Bazzite for example (or atomic versions of fedora like Kinoite).

I hope it is useful for other brothers in arms who by necessity have to use nux and want to have the opportunity to enter the world of old style AA ;-)

Oh, and THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for the suggestion! I was so caught up in useless technicalities as solutions, that I didn't see the elephant in the room ;-))

Thanks again teddy

Have a good life and see you soon in AA

Ciao  :-)

Thanks for the high level instructions on what you did to get it working. I'm on Arch (EndeavourOS) and I'd love to be able to play AA without having to boot into Windows. I've tried once before to get it working but ran into too many issues. I should give it another shot.

I don’t have a screenshot. I remembered from looking at old content. If there’s an email associated with the user, I bet I can provide that because my dad made the account when I was like 14. Or other personal info. Don’t want to dox myself but I could PM you.

I remember the original name of the account too. Destructioniscool45.

Unfortunately we don't have any data from before official auth was shut down. Did you have a battletracker.com account? If not, it's likely lost. I don't get any results for the username Destructioniscool45 in our database. Please don't send me any personal info, that's not necessary.

The one thing I will say is that sound is SUPER important in AA. Hell, you can hear people clear across maps sometimes. It's also very much a twitchy shooter. Aim training will help. The rest is just positioning. Like most competitive FPS games knowing where to be given the information you've been given in the round is hugely important. This is really only something you can develop with practice.

I have a macbook m3 and a windows VM for some applications for work so figured would give it a try for ya last night.

Downloaded the 25Assist client, opened it which had me login then started downloading the files.

Once done was able to connect to the first server I double clicked:



Playing in window'd mode on the VM but running latest macos etc, runs super smooth with no issues I could see.

I snagged this laptop last year due to the insane battery life, can go over 15 hours on a full charge which is great for me always being on the go and cannot recommend enough. Rarely use the windows VM aside from a few old applications I use occasionally but overall works great.

That's awesome, thanks for testing it out!
I also have an M3 MBP, but it's a work laptop.

I'm pretty sure there's a massive disclaimer when you're attempting to download the 25Assist client for a Mac. It won't work on any new or newish Mac.

The Mac support AA 2.5 had isn't even compatible with old Intel Macs, it's for even older PowerPC macs. a CPU architecture that has been dead on the desktop since around 2005 when Apple ditched it for Intel and x86.

You use shoutbox as an example, yet the same person I mentioned (bumpy) talks shit in there, and numerous people have previously posted in that shoutbox what he has said in-game. Where's the concern on that one?

I used a recent and controversial ban as an example. Additionally, you both casually omitted the part where the "victim" said joe didn't need to be banned.

Then show us. If we've missed something bad by all means call us out. We can only act on what we actively see and we can't see everything. You should absolutely expect us to do better just as we expect everyone to be better. This isn't some us vs them, we're all AA players and we all want this community to thrive.
On another note, we don't give a fuck if the "victim" says a player should be unbanned. We observe behavior and act accordingly.
It's especially troubling when I received many complaints from the victim and now all of a sudden they want to walk is all back? Nah. We looked at the behavior and decided it was worth a ban. We also discussed a second chance but his antics in the shoutbox made it apparent he hasn't changed.

Just echoing what Hellboy  said, we have no ability to monitor in-game chat. If you see something, please report it. Joe has been posting vile shit in the shoutbox, which we can see. If you have any issues of players harassing others in-game please take a screenshot and report it.

As  much as some of the player base would like to believe otherwise, AA2 is and always was meant to be enjoyed by everyone. Nobody should feel unsafe or harassed for simply playing a game.

Edit: And since joe is such a controversial subject, even without using him as an example the issue of using admin discretion is still present. If you're going to ban for speech, provide a set of rules so there is a clear delineation of what is allowed or restricted.

As Hellboy said (in much more professional terms than I will use here)
 Just don't be a fucking asshole. That's it. Do not harass others, do not use slurs. Is this really needed to be specified? This is basic human decency and if you can't follow it you have much bigger problems than being banned in a 20 year old game.