Buddy list for AA3

[Goodness]

I'm back ;D.

Now which members CAN play AA3 ? .
please if you play AA3 post it here wanna update my buddy list .

always more fun playing togheter


in order to find your buddy list go to the login site of AA3 : login.aa3.americasarmy.com/
on menu to the left click on "My AA3", or simply click on this link while logged in: login.aa3.americasarmy.com/myaa3 ;; you'll see favorite teams, servers, and fellow users there

[Sands]

Well, I don't really know you, or you me, but I play AA3. Not too much though, waitin' for all the bug fixes and lag issues to go away.

My soldier's name is Cpt.Sands

[Peace-=Of-God=-]

I can play, but haven't chosen to do so much yet ... from what I've played of it, AA3 is vastly inferior to AA2 ... maybe when AA3 gets some AI/co-op missions, it'll be worth playing .

[Goodness]

So from what i hear -=Of-God=- not going to release a server on AA3 ?

I have to say i played Ranch for a while now , and i have to say ,i like it.
Game play is different but for me it works more team play ,graphics are good ,game play i like .

Of course there are bugs, but i have to say overall i like AA3 ,even more and more then AA2.

with 5 maps you find easy a server where you can play ,yea hud can't be change weapon modification don't work ,reload bug etc....

co-ops missions read somewhere they are working on those .

But why you don't like the game AA3 ? graphic ? game play ? or what ? please give me some feedback ?

And yea you need a good PC but whats new about that i play AA for awhile now ,it's free (taxes USA) ,but you need a good graphic card and some Ram .

anyway FAtAL_McNoob thats my account for now ,for those playing find me on Ranch (free kill ;D)

Greets Danny

[Jedi-=Of-God=- (Michael)]

Well how about the "simple things" you mentioned, hud broken, reload bug, weapon loadout broken key areas of the game that are broken make AA3-fail. Plus just load up the lastest version of AA2 and then the lastest of AA3 and just compare all of the great things AA2 has to the nothing that AA3 has. Oh and even better why should I have to go to a website (Even the official one) to see who of my buddies are on when in AA2 I can do that in-game?

[Goodness]

But it's the future my padawan .
Graphics are better , i played a few hours yesterday without problems .

Anyway at first ,i didn't like it too ,but playing it more and more ,i liked the game play.
But that's my view .

[Jedi-=Of-God=- (Michael)]

Aug 7, 2009 9:04:30 GMT -5 Goodness said:

But it's the future my padawan .
Graphics are better , i played a few hours yesterday without problems .

Anyway at first ,i didn't like it too ,but playing it more and more ,i liked the game play.
But that's my view .

Ok lets take this point by point (lol I like the game as well but I am looking at the good with the bad)

First off it is a free to play game- and that being the case (I think the army is taking full control back- well will have to see where that goes) it only gets a certain amount of money from the army budget, so only certain things will get done in a certain order. Since that is unfortunately true (good and bad) some things that we would like to see might not get put into the game or delayed for a while.

Second this game primarily relies on word of mouth advertising. I have not seen one commercial for AA (any of them) not on TV, or any gamer sites, (only the launch stuff they do for popular games (AA2 was/is and kinda is now popular). So since it relies so much on word of mouth advertising and there not being any (there may be I am just observing) ads on tv/radio/internet for the game (and I know it is a recruiting tool but how do you use this to recruit people if they have not heard about it) any bad press can really hurt the game in the short and long term.

Third, Launch. This is BIG and CRITICAL (lol) if a game cannot pull off a relatively smooth and bug free launch it either fails or takes a while to come back which in some cases already dooms the game since they investors lose money and are unwilling to fund the game more (which we dont have that problem but if the army is taking control back well we the taxpayers are paying for the game out of the budget anyways). How this helps/hurts AA3 is quite big. First (and I saw this when watching some beta videos just thought that they would have fixed this before launch) when you have a free (free to play as well) game that is a recruiting tool that has massive bugs, lag issues, people cannot log in, training issues etc... at the launch of the game it does a few things. One, it makes the army look really bad that a main recruiting tool is not working and that they army is a part of making the game. Two it hurts the game as people who cannot get the game downloaded through steam or the deploy client or have problems with those two programs launching correctly and cannot get the game launched and it is not their problem, well they naturally tell their friends not to get try the game. Third once in the game if people's systems who could handle running AA2.8.5 whatever just fine at full graphics/whatever, new systems and old and it appears that AA3 will be just fine and they load in and they find out that the game crashes, they lag out in training, they cannot complete training, etc..... well they are turned off from the game as well.

Additionally the bugs that are and were in the game at launch and alot that are still in now are quite ridiculous and make the game developers look really bad. For example, when in game you click on esc to get to the menus well guess what you cant get any control back of the game!! I mean they had to have had some tester do that and see that bug. That is huge, that is not some npc not having the correct uniform patch or whatever, that is a game-breaking bug. Things like that make many people loss faith with the developers of AA3 (whoever they are).

Furthermore when you release a new version of a game you really REALLY need to make sure that you do not get less that what you had before. For example, the battle buddy system. Why in AA2.8.5 I have an ingame battlebuddy friends list while in AA3 I have to go to the official website, log in, go to my page, then see if anyone is on? That is stupid!!!! Plus the server tab is horrible compared to AA2. All of the advanced graphics do not mean a thing if you have nothing to go with it. Plus the weapon loadout bug when choosing a weapon the mods would not work or would go on the wrong gun etc.....

Now there are somethings I like about AA3, the map feature is nice, you can tell a squad to move to a objective, or cover a zone much easier and smoother, but guess what that doesn't make a game. Also the (sort of) career path thing is nice but it does not work as well as it should. It should be something that is unlocked after the MOUT and you stay in that but you get more things for you guy, faster reload, bigger mags, better sight, whatever. Also why with those MOSs were not the whole MOS filled in?

Future is great but by the time AA3 gets there there will be many other games farrrrr superior to it that will make it look really really lame.

I am glad that you like the game and that it works fine for you, I am saying what I think about the game and if others agree with me fine, lol if not fine as well.

[Peace-=Of-God=-]

Aug 7, 2009 14:47:21 GMT -5 Jedi-=Of-God=- (Michael) said:

For example, when in game you click on esc to get to the menus well guess what you cant get any control back of the game!! I mean they had to have had some tester do that and see that bug. That is huge, that is not some npc not having the correct uniform patch or whatever, that is a game-breaking bug. Things like that make many people loss faith with the developers of AA3 (whoever they are).

  Actually, that one has been fixed ... and so has the bug that kept me from being able to do the Tier I Grenadier training (all I got in there before was a black screen with a HUD, couldn't see anything ... now that one's fixed, and I'm an M320 Expert ).

  I did play some AA3 this afternoon, a couple of hours on Ranch on a couple of different servers. Personally, I'm still leaning toward AA2 as being the better overall game. Maybe once AA3 has had as many updates and patches and fixes as AA2 has received, it might be worth playing ... but as it is, it's just not nearly as good or as fun as AA2.

  Anyone up for some Interdiction on #2 House-=Of-God=-?

[Jedi-=Of-God=- (Michael)]

Aug 7, 2009 16:29:30 GMT -5 Peace-=Of-God=- said:

Aug 7, 2009 14:47:21 GMT -5 Jedi-=Of-God=- (Michael) said:

For example, when in game you click on esc to get to the menus well guess what you cant get any control back of the game!! I mean they had to have had some tester do that and see that bug. That is huge, that is not some npc not having the correct uniform patch or whatever, that is a game-breaking bug. Things like that make many people loss faith with the developers of AA3 (whoever they are).

  Actually, that one has been fixed ... and so has the bug that kept me from being able to do the Tier I Grenadier training (all I got in there before was a black screen with a HUD, couldn't see anything ... now that one's fixed, and I'm an M320 Expert ).

  I did play some AA3 this afternoon, a couple of hours on Ranch on a couple of different servers. Personally, I'm still leaning toward AA2 as being the better overall game. Maybe once AA3 has had as many updates and patches and fixes as AA2 has received, it might be worth playing ... but as it is, it's just not nearly as good or as fun as AA2.

  Anyone up for some Interdiction on #2 House-=Of-God=-?

Ah finally, great to hear. Now for the other bugs. Still I think by the time AA3 getting the amount of content AA2 has, the game will still be blown away by other games.

[Goodness]

Michael ,serious i know your right ,there are bugs in it ,and probably the game will blown away by other games .
their will be always better games out there.
AA2, i remember had allot of bugs .

but thats not why i post it here.

If i look at the forum and look at the banner what you SEE ?

His Work Through Our Play

we all know young people want to play the newest game (maybe even old people ;D).

the banner says it all ,i think AA3 needs a change to help those players in need .


Of course it 's not my call ,but I've been here for awhile now and i feel free to talk about my concurs ,and want to share it with my buddies .


greets Danny

[Jedi-=Of-God=- (Michael)]

Aug 8, 2009 6:10:13 GMT -5 Goodness said:

Michael ,serious i know your right ,there are bugs in it ,and probably the game will blown away by other games .
their will be always better games out there.
AA2, i remember had allot of bugs .

but thats not why i post it here.

If i look at the forum and look at the banner what you SEE ?

His Work Through Our Play

we all know young people want to play the newest game (maybe even old people ;D).

the banner says it all ,i think AA3 needs a change to help those players in need .


Of course it 's not my call ,but I've been here for awhile now and i feel free to talk about my concurs ,and want to share it with my buddies .


greets Danny

Hey man no problem, I was not trying to agrue with you, up a few post you were wanting to know why the -=Of-God=- was not doing AA3 servers and I posted my opinion on the game. I just think that due to the reasons I listed above AA3 will not be that playable for many for a while.

[^Hoot^]

Aug 7, 2009 9:04:30 GMT -5 Goodness said:

But it's the future my padawan .
Graphics are better , i played a few hours yesterday without problems .

Anyway at first ,i didn't like it too ,but playing it more and more ,i liked the game play.
But that's my view .

I agree at first didn't really care for it. But now I love it, only play bridge for now.

[Goodness]

Any one playing Impact ? ,that's a fast map similar to Mout .

[Goodness]

You guy's have a different forum somewhere ?

Anyway, thanks Wakerat for shooting me in Impact ;D.
allot fun ;D