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teddy's right, if you have say 1 hour on SF Blizzard and 40 kills/0 kia and then end with 2 hours with 40 kills/40 kia, then your rank on this map would go low. Hence your overall rank would lower too.

You can explain why some people are general with 100kills/1kia 2 hours session on maps like Arctic and shit as FR has a lot to do with ranks.

I will install win8 and get me some hack for winter league :nerd:

AA was at its highest activity peak from 2006 to 2007 (pub and competition), then went slowly dying in the next years ; so that was 6 years ago... The main problem (if you want it to be one) is that people grew ^^ kinda like an era that ends in one's life. I'm not trying to be dramatic or something, but it's true : sometimes you go through something and when it dies for any reason, you don't wanna get back to it as it's over, your time is done with that thing. I see that as one of the reason to not play AA25.

In the 20 years old range, six years can involve loads of changes. Some players were about 16 when they started playing AA, I assume some of them went other places, discovered new things and shit.
Some other players (especially competitive ones) probably don't see any reason to play AA25 again since they won shitloads of trophies in it. I'm pretty sure some players right now want to achieve something in AA, competition wise. I'm not saying everyone plays for title, but when you've won many titles, it's hard to maintain the will of winning.

So within those "nostalgic players", there will only be the ones that love AA/don't like any other game than AA/still have time for AA/want to win competitions.

My guess is, the only chance of having AA25 popular is with a massive campaign to get new players - and certainly not focus on bringing back "old" players because that will be a natural process, friends will bring friends.

I first started playing AA in 2003 because I typed "Free multiplayer game" in a search engine.
There's NO game like AA, plus nowadays, most of FPS are like CoD, which AA is not at all. So that makes one main difference which is a strong point. There's a pretty good chance that if you don't like CoD or CS-like games, you can like AA. And it's totally free !

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Honestly, been there done that. Tweaking settings on your card doesn't do too much. Just makes things slightly more defined depending on your eyes. Unless you remove fog (hack) you have no unfair advantage.

No...

dapand, you might have some legitimate points but even if you're right, there's nothing Assist can do about a third party control panel that manages drivers.

Thought so - would have been nice though, to even things up some more.

@ ekcomm It used to exist, why would it not anymore ? If you could explain to me how it's not doable anymore then I would believe you ^^
No fog as in you don't see opponents from 20000 miles, rather they just pop up within the game limits - much more easier to spot enemies before them.

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Great initiative.

Can't remember exactly but there was a bug regarding leaves : when there was smoke, you could negate the smoke by looking through a leaf - maybe on Blizzard/Woodland I'm sorry I can't recall where...