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Just to toss it out there, I've (painstakenly) gotten the old mAAp forums running again. I know there was a lot of good ideas on there, not just for maps. It should be setup as read-only so don't try to go and register and post, it's not meant as an active forum, just a data archive.

So, here it is:
http://maap.natescomp.com

I did this because I know I sent a letter out to Pragmatic and I believe to some devs or public relations people at America's Army. Maybe it's possible to get in touch with the right people and rebuild the old game with the right tools. Worth a shot.


Perhaps a starting point with THE guy that ported 2.5 to linux and mac...
https://bugzilla.icculus.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=America's%20Army
http://twitter.com/icculus

Thank you for taking back the mAAp forum, i'm pretty interested about custom map making and since AAmissionDepot went down (they stopped paying that domain months way before shutting down the auth/honour services!) a lot of custom related content has gone.

I took a look at Gordon's work and i was impressed. This guy ported many of the most important titles that can be played on Linux.

p.s. a guy from our clan got some kind of a response from AA official developers (from Phoenix), still it honestly isn't that much:

We're quickly working to put together solid information that will assist the AA2 community. Please let us know of any resources that you find helpful. Hopefully we'll have this sorted out very soon.

Koden, it's totally not because you have an AMD CPU. They're just as capable as Intel Some Northbridge overclocking would help over-all system speed. I would bet it's your 9600GT though.

Yeah i'm not that cpu racist yet to underestimate my little 620. Still i was expecting RO to run a little better. Anyway, i've tried to bump speeds a little and on medium it is fairly decent in smaller maps. The 9600 struggles but keeps rocking - i'm trying several graphics settings to see what fits best. Oh, and i've overclocked here both Cpu and northbridge, i set the Athlon to run between 3.3 @ 1.375 (for a daily use - kept a setting like this for some months in the past, it's stable and works just fine - on the stock cooler). I don't overclock the poor 9600 because she's already short on memory (at least one memory chip seems to have at least a small kind of damage). To my defence i gotta say that i've bought it used at 35 euros it was a decent bargain back then. And it works pretty much fine when not overclocked.

About the game, i've started learning something, coming from games that are short-ranged action based it feels wierd but after you get that there's a truly different pace it makes some sense. I agree about the need for communicating because in a team where there's no coordinating having a tactic is going to be pretty hard - unless you have a smaller map where you're going to be able to cover a good part of it by your own (e.g. something like Hospital, the Bridge or even Pipeline from AA2). Something i miss in fact is recognizing key ways/places that are important to control for both tactics and mission completing.


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Old good Win 98. I had a Celeron 466 running Win98 up to december 2009 (and my brother actually kept thinking of doing something heavy on it), with firefox 2 that simply used to *stare* at youtube - haha.

Tons of useful services in Win8 too as usual i guess? As for the usual Fax, mixed comm services plus some more...i would love to have on windows on that kind of software center that's made in Ubuntu. Like, gimme a cleaner OS, i'll surely be able to mess it up myself later. 

Another feature I like is that there is a simplistic Malware scanning program upon startup/cut

At startup? Hmm did they really learned something over the years...

So, lately i was looking at closely at RO2 both because of personal interest and for AA2 issues (late ones), and then yesterday GetGames dropped the price -> therefore pushing me to buy it - Steam Syndrome i know.

Did someone bought buy the game/played the beta? I'm just giving a try on this game, as i like the more "realistic" approach (you know, less CallofDutish).

On one hand the game looks very interesting, with vehicle support, squad roles attribution, faithful weapons reproduction and such, while on the other hand if you take a look at the official forums there's a bug report section populated with a good amount of reports (yet the average forum chatting is very respectful - not something you see everywhere).



p.s. sorry if my english sounds a little wierd sometimes - I'm italian actually.

Most of the maps in the mAAp Pack are from the guys at aa-maps.net, just refinished, updated and a few bugs fixed:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/mAApPackFiles/Screenshots.png

I can spot the Yeti watching the tv in one of those pics lolz.

Btw, if you let 2.8.5 players know that there's a chance to track and get tracked on 2.5, some might come back. My own opinion anyway is that many server admins kept hosting the same maps for a wee bit too long (many wonderful maps haven't been hosted in ages) but it's just imho as far as for the way so many people used to play 2.8.5 before the services shutdown, i think it wouldn't be an issue for em to play 2.5 (i am actually a coop aficionado but there are really few of us coop lovers at this time).

Oh, and there's a clan called Fair Dinkum Gamers playing from Australia, they also host a couple custom servers i think. 

Have you seen/heard of mAAp?

You reminded me about aa-maps.net (the website doesn't exist no more but a little cache does http://web.archive.org/web/20080309115831/http://www.aa-maps.net/, back in maybe 4 or 5 years ago there was a community that used to make maps and some pretty cool thing like this (by vvaffenpazzer):



And maps like this one (by Spetsnaz, which is still active but on other games).



I've been lurking the thread a little yesterday ^^' i'm not a programmer, i just model some things, but i'd love to see AA2 back and operative aswell.