America's Army: Special Forces (Direct Action) v2.5 Update

[RainOfTerror]

The US Army has released a new updated version for America's Army: Special Forces (Direct Action). This upgrade brings their team-based multiplayer game to v2.5 and includes two new missions, a new Shoot House training mission, tournament mode and map rotation enhancement, and the usual tweaks, bug and game crash fixes.

You can grab the AA:SF (Direct Action) v2.5 (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=29065) (903/77mb) over at WorthPlaying.

Mirrors:
3DGamers (http://www.3dgamers.com/games/americasarmy/downloads/)
Filecloud (http://www.filecloud.com/files/file.php?file_id=2248)
Fileshack (http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=78)

[DeadPixel]

Is this game using the same graphics engine as 1.0 or did they rewrite/update the graphics?

[Bushido]

After playing this game I almost wanted to enlist, thank god im Canadian and we dont have an army.

[The Iron Weasel]

Yeah its stull Unreal.

[Chagrinful]

After playing this game I almost wanted to enlist, thank god im Canadian and we dont have an army.

How ignorant of you even though you jest, our army that we have has some of the best trained elite forces in the world JT2 and we're the best peace keepers.

I couldn't get into this game, the honour system is a long steep climb, too steep for my liking, have they adjusted it?

[mpsmith]

You dont even get anything for the honor, really.

[EvilBob46]

I download this every time a new version comes out, play it for a couple of days, and uninstall it. Anyone else feel like this?

[noxa]

I download this every time a new version comes out, play it for a couple of days, and uninstall it. Anyone else feel like this?

This has happened to me with most of the major releases this year. At least this one was free, so all I wasted was the download time :|

[kickmybum]

Same thing. Even though its free, its hard to compare it to some of the other war games out there like BF2. The 2 things I did not like about this game is:

1) Restriction on how many of a certain type of player (IE, Sniper, assault, etc) you can have on each map. And you're also a maggot for a while until you "build up the ranking" to hold a bigger gun.
2) The nades. WTF, every one you throw kills everything and everyone in a 20 mile radius.

[Ludoc]

How ignorant of you even though you jest, our army that we have has some of the best trained elite forces in the world JT2 and we're the best peace keepers.

It's to bad we don't have the strategic lift capacity to move those troops anywhere outsie Canada without begging our allies to lend us planes/ships. Or that we tactical lift equipment is made up entirely of civilian choppers painted green, so even if we could get our troops to the theatre of operations we aren't, air mobile enough to transport personel around that theatre.

An army is what a state uses to defend itself, fight wars and project power abroad. As we can effectively do none of these, for all intents we lack an army.

What we have is an anti-terrorist unit of questionable value and a body of troops who, while being highly professional, motivated and arguably the best peace keepers in the world, are too small and illequiped to be a threat to anyone, anywhere.

An interesting comparison to keep in mind:
Canadian Forces: 60,000 regular force members + 20,000 reserve members = 80,000 personel, (http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/faq/Answers_e.asp#four2) that's everyone Army, Navy and Air Force
New York City Police Department: 39,110 police officers. (http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/misc/pdfaq2.html#41)

[Orphiuchus]

I love how everybody thinks their country has the best special forces in the world. I've heard the same crap from french, Canadian, Swedish, Finnish and Australian people recently. You know what makes a good military? Money. You know who actually spends enough to maintain the best in the world? The USA, China, England, and Russia up until a decade ago.

[The Iron Weasel]

Whatever I'm not ashamed that my country has little military. I couldn't care less actually.

[mpsmith]

AA is a great game. Especially since its free... Its a good thing that there cant be a team of snipers. And you dont need honor to get a weapon slot- you did a LONG time ago but now score is more of a factor. And apparently the grenade blast radius was one of the issues addressed with this patch.

[Bushido]

Still it has to be better than the grenade radius in CT source. I have heroicly jumped on them to spare my allies a cruel death only to find my kevlar and sunglasses saved my life.

[Nameback]

This game is driving me mad. I decided to give it a shot because its free, so I downloaded it, installed, made an account and started training. The obstacle course is the most stupid obsurd thing I've ever done, I'm stuck on one part that I literally think cannot be completed.

[swiller]

Nameback be happy you don't have to do the old paratrooper thingy. Broke my legs god knows how many times. If it was not for the haxxors and cheaters this would probably be one of the best fps games out.

It was not a run and gun game and made you think about what you were going to do or sit ten minutes watching the campers.

[Orphiuchus]

the most stupid obsurd thing


Lets just pause and think about how absurd that statement is.

[mpsmith]

Dude you can't complete the obsticle course? Maybe you shouldn't be playing AA...
And you dont have to do airborne school anymore? That sucks- it was fun. I guess.