[John/az]

Considering this is a game that utilizes some very good firearms models, I'd like to know how many users here play and what their player-names are, their favorite maps, and how well they think the firearms simulate the real thing.

I'm {M4H}Huckleberry and my favorite map is Radio Tower, and with the release of v1.9, Mountain Pass SE.

[Camel]

I go by Rent-A-Cop. Ill play anything except FLS, Swamp, and HQ. And since Ive not been lucky enough to get my hands on a real M249 I dont know.

Theres a mountain pass SE now? That map was huge already!

[DigitalWarrior]

I always get a "Authentication Server is down" error.

[762x51]

Yep...I'm a fan. I Play under M700Police. Favorite map is Weapons Cache. Can't wait until 2.0 comes out.....special forces and modded M4's. Neato. :cool:

[Bravo11]

[SnM]Bravo11 here. 27 Honor.
Most of my time is in SE Weapons cache but I like River Basin and Pipeline.
I die alot in Insurgent Camp, Bridge is too boring, and Mountain Pass is too big. When is someone going to start the THR clan?:D

[Newt]

[SnM]Sniper Newt is my player name. I'm running with megcatia usually in S/E Weapons Cashe and River Basin. Since I've never actually shot any of the weapons on there, I can't relate them to reality... sorry.

I'm all for getting that THR clan going!!

Newt

[Wanderer]

I was just wondering what would happen if I shot a drill seargent, so I shot the guy at the table where you first get your rifle. His body laid there for days and I was never caught :evil:

[Destructo6]

I use the same name. I typically play for the first few weeks after a new version, because every angle of the new map(s) have not yet been memorized.

I used to love FLS Defense, until they ruined it. I wish they'd fix it and bring it back. Bridge SE and Mountain Pass are probably some of my favorites.

[MAKOwner]

What is the first online game/map you have to play after completing basic training, a Mout Mckenna Miles game right? I can't get into a darn online game to save my life with this 1.9.0, there are barely any servers to choose from anyway.

I used to play this awhile back but lost my account info, and can't remember the info to have them resend it to me so I started over on a new character. I've done all the training, qualified expert and did the advanced rifleman training stuff, but now I can't get in an online game to save my life. About to delete this crap again... What am I doing wrong? The old menu system used to tell you what game type/maps you needed to complete, now there is nothing like that that I can see...

[natedog]

Yeah I played it... Once I qualified for expert marksman but for some reason I couldn't connect to log in my results, so I lost the score :fire:

[John/az]

The whole interface has been revamped. There are no longer maps that you have to "complete". There are training course tabs at the top of the screen. They have introduced a "Medic" class to the game and made "Mountain Pass" MUCH more fun.

There are no Official servers up now because the v1.9 game was leaked early. Most people can not get onto a server for that very reason. They should have the Official AAO servers online fairly soon.

All of the servers that I have played on have been private ones that have posted their IP.

Destructo6, I think I have seen you around.

I'll keep an eye out for you guys! (Through a scope if you are Opfor! :D)

[Glockster35]

I play by the name {THR}Maj_Murder4Hyre, mostly on German servers, but where I get a good ping mostly.

I still haven't downloaded 1.9, but plan to tonight.

[Kharn]

I use Kharn whenever I play AA, I try to get Weapons Cache SE or Pipeline or the one where the OpFor is set up in that big building with the computer in the tower and another in the basement (cant remember the name), but I'll try other stuff. Except Radio Tower. I hate that map, it seems to take 10 minutes walking around to just find the enemy...

[Edit, after looking at the patch size] WHOA! The 1.7.0 to 1.9.0 patch is 322 megs. I'm glad I have a cable modem, now the full download is 602 megs. I feel sorry for you dialup guys.

Kharn

[LawDog]

:evil:

Friend of mine haunts Mountain Pass as badreno1. I take over for him two or three times a week.

Mountain Pass is fun, but it heavily favours defense. A half-baked defense team can clobber a really sharp assault team 9 times out of ten.

Mountain Pass SE has changed that near as I can see. It seems to be evenly balanced between assault and defense, with the quality of your teamwork being the deciding factor. I like that.

LawDog

[Destructo6]

What did they do to Mountain Pass SE? Did they make more routes and such, like Bridge SE? Bridge SE was awesome for the first few weeks, when Defense guys insisted on playing as though it was the original, and dying lickety split.

I qualified for Medic on AA:O, but haven't been able to use it as yet, because of the aforementioned server issue.

BF 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII demo came out today, so I've been playing that to console myself.

[DragonRider]

DragonRider is my Username, been busy lately and not playing, need to DL the new version,

John

[John/az]

JFYI, the official servers are up and running. But, you must set the minimum honor level to 9 or above to see them in the server browser window.

Kharn,
The map you are refering to is Insurgent Camp.

Mountain Pass SE, is much more balanced, as LawDog said, and if you go to the www.americasarmy.com forums you can read up on practicing with the single player AI's and some of the other weapons that are not yet implemented in the game, like incendiary grenades! :D

See you online!

[Leviathan]

[RuCKuS]BlitzX I don't know the maps yet cause I'm deployed and the MWR connection isn't good enough to play an actual game. I did qualify on everything I could though.

[John/az]

Glockster35,

Is the {THR} indicative of your membership here, or is it an already established clan?

If is the former, I propose that we establish a casual clan under that moniker. If not, then a different delimiter would work.

[THR], instead for our own.

Really, the only thing it would do, for now, would be to tell others here that you are a board member, and indicate some common interests when you see someone else with that tag in front of their name.

There has been some interest in this expressed already. How many others would like to do this?

[Glockster35]

I was mistaken, my username for America's Army is simply Murder4Hyre, for battlefield 1942 it is {THR}Maj_Murder4Hyre. My Mistake.

I wouldn't mind joining a THR clan, but my use of it in Battlefield was indicative of The High Road membership. Also since I am in Germany, my connection to a server in the states would likely suffer, but I do have DSL to try to make up for it.

Anyone have the ability of running or owning a server for the clan?

[John/az]

If I can figure out how to serve a game from my machine, I'll give it a go.

For now, I'm going to change my name to {THR}Huckleberry (because the clan I belong to now, is pretty much dead!), just so that if I run into anyof you in a game, you'll know where I'm from! ;)

Everyone else is invited to join... maybe it will go beyond just a casual identification of commonality.

FWIW

[anapex]

I play as Anapex, I play anything except Bridge, I HATE bridge.

[Bravo11]

John/az,
An informal clan would be good. Right now I'm in [SnM] but that is used only to identify to other members.
I would be willing to change to [THR] to id to other THR members.
Next time I log in I will change my name to [THR]_Bravo11.
See you all at SE Weapons Cache.:D

[OF]

Sign me up for Clan [THR]! I've never felt like jumping into any of the TFL/THR clan proposals before due to how much I loathe Counterstrike and Battlefield 1942...and that's all anyone wants to play.

Now AA (or even Flashpoint) would be a THR experience you could sink your teeth into. It would be especially cool if we had enough people for both Red and Blue [THR] squads that could play each other. That way we could cut down on the amount of pre-pubescent angst we all had to deal with.

I'm sure someone around here could put up a dedicated server...

We'd need someone in charge of Clan [THR] as well as Blue and Red squad leaders...this could be really cool :)

- Gabe

[Daniel T]

I play as TX.45ACP. Weapons Cache has been my favorite map lately, but I haven't played in a couple weeks.

So, for the THR Clan, are we going to use square brackets [], or curly brackets {}?

[Glockster35]

I will volunteer myself to be a squad leader on the Blue team.:p

I can't stand the color red...reminds me of blood and I can't stand the sight of blood!:fire:

hehehehe:neener:

[OF]

I vote the square brackets: [THR]

- Gabe

[Glockster35]

I vote for the {} brackets..they are just palin cool!:what:

[MAKOwner]

I've about decided I hate this game now. I love everything about it except the weapon damage amounts. Am I alone in this? Playing you immediately notice it, you have to blast the crap out of people to kill them. Happened to see it mentioned in their FAQ where they actually listed what it takes to kill, it's takes a solid 3 upper chest/neck hits to kill with the 5.56 weapons. If you hit in the legs and arms it or a combination of chest and extremity hits it can take 4-6+ shots to kill. With the way the accuracy system works (which I like other than the bit below) it can take a lot of rounds fired to score that many hits. Jeez, you might as well be playing CounterStrike. This turns close range encounters into magazine emptying strafe fests that are just plain lame. They do the nades right (damn lethal at pretty good ranges) and then they completely wimpify the firearms.....

The accuracy system's way of handling accuracy when wounded and using the iron sights is bothering me too. You have a cone of fire that your shots fall into, being wounded especially drives this cone up to a ridiculous amount. So you are sitting there using the iron sights, perfectly on target and you fire yet your guy misses by 10+ feet at 50 meters. That is pissing me off bigtime, needs to just have some built in movement to the sight like the breathing, that being wounded increases by a large amount (Ie you have to fight to keep the sights on target, but if you fire off a round while the sights are on target you still score a hit, not like this random BS they use now...)

Wish I could find a killer game that does most stuff right. I guess I should just breakdown and buy Raven Shield, it's fairly close with most of this stuff...

[Newt]

Next time I log in I'll change my username to [THR]Sniper Newt.

Newt

[Camel]

I agree with you on the accuracy system MAKOwner. But I think you're wrong on the damage system. Take a few shots at some dummies and see. Its 1-Face/Neck/Head (About 1.5 if its a glancing headshot) 2-Torso 3-Arms/Legs and 4-feet/hands

And what most people dont realize is that while they're strafing around like a goon blowing thier CEM all to hell I make 1 aimed headshot an drop them. Thats when I get called a cheater. :D

[Bravo11]

OK, I'm now [THR]_Bravo11.
I'll see you all in SE Weapons Cache or River Basin.

[OF]

Anyone have a server :)

- Gabe

[mattd]

I would change my name but im a expert marksmen, both sniper rifles and a medic. Inless I can just change my name.

[Kharn]

I believe you can have multiple screen names using the same dossier, you just have to go to www.americasarmy.com, then hit 'Register' and then 'Manage Account' to add extras ones. I know for sure that you can change your screen name outright using the same procedure.

Kharn

[OF]

Yes, you can change your name as many times as you want - only restriction is you can't change more often than once a day.

We need a server! :)

- Gabe

[mattd]

I'll find a good server later and we can just hi jack it.

[mattd]

http://www.americasarmy.com/faq_linux.php?p=3&t=5#faq10

IP: 69.25.16.88
Port if you need it :1716

Its a leased server and I don't know how often they change maps.

[John/az]

My word! :what:

I thought this thread had died, because it was only today that I recieved notice about new posts!

If I wasn't going to work in about 15 minutes, I'd join you there. Tonight though, I'll jump on that IP and see who's there. In the mean time, I'll read up on setting up a server.

[OF]

Does anyone know what's going on with the 'advanced' servers? I haven't played this game in months and months but when I last played there were a bunch of servers that were 15 or 20 honor or higher...weeded out alot of the 'angry pre-teen' factor. I can't seem to find any of them up now.

I would imagine that us old fart THR'erers would prefer to keep the games a bit more, ahem, mature? :)

- Gabe

PS: I'll be out most of tonight, but I'll hop on that IP as soon as I get a free minute...

[Bravo11]

Went to that IP but no THR's there at that time.

[Daniel T]

[THR]TX.45ACP it is then.

Hope to see y'all on. :)

[Bravo11]

9/2/03 will be at Se weapons cache 105 E all day

[mattd]

I was there getting my *** kicked , I hate bridge crossing se. I'll be on there in 30-mins to a hour.

[OF]

Don't you people have jobs?! :)

- Gabe

[lycanthrope]

{THR} Lycanthrope reporting.

32 honor.

Give me the 203.......

[John/az]

Sheesh! Forgot about school... Looks like tomorrow that I'll be at that IP. :(

{THR}Huckleberry

[Bravo11]

I'd like to join in but I'm not a bridge fan.
See you all in one of the SE Weapons Caches, I'll be the one with a SAW.

[Newt]

Went to that server, but I'm not much of a bridge fan either. No other THR'ers there except for me and megcatia. BTW, I've changed my name to [THR]Sniper_Newt. See ya at SE Weapons Cache.

Newt

[John/az]

Alright, what server can we find you on for Weapons Cache SE?

For Mountain Pass SE I'm usually on Army Official W 073.

For Radio Tower I can be found on Army Official W 103.

I like to snipe, and play in the evening (Arizona time... which this time of the year is PST) :D

[mattd]

Happen to know the ips of those servers?

W 073 is 64.74.136.106

[John/az]

Radio Tower: W 103 IP address 64.74.136.147:1716

[Newt]

John / AZ,

You should join megcatia and myself in SE Weapons Cache. We play usually during the day and we're Central Time. PM me and we'll hook up a time to meet there.

Newt

[OF]

What's the IP of the WCSE server?

- Gabe

[mattd]

Should just post the times here so we all know.

[Bravo11]

Its 4:00 central time and we are going to SE WC - 138 west.
See you there.

[Bravo11]

We'll post again tommorrow with the afternoon map name around 4:00 central time.

[lycanthrope]

How about a set date every week so we can get together in force.

I vote Tues nights.

Download Teamsound and we can all voice chat.

{THR} FRAGFEST!

[John/az]

Tuesdays sound good to me. May I propose 8:30PM PST?

Also post your favorite maps... I guess I should have included a poll with this thread. ;)

My favorite maps are Mountain Pass SE and Radio Tower.


Newt,

Post the IP of the Weapons Cache SE server you guys usually play on. I'm not all that good at WC SE, but I'm sporting enough to try!

Also, unless it's a Saturday, I most likely won't be on in the afternoon. :(

{THR}Huckleberry

[Glockster35]

Unfortunately my schedule changes from week to week, but I will try to make it.

{THR}Maj_Murder4Hyre

[mattd]

So we got {THR} and [THR] members now...

[bowhnter]

I'm late to the party !!!!
You can find me as [THR]Bowhnter
*IF* I can ever log on without an auth error.

[Bravo11]

Weekdays are about the only time I can make it.
I usually get in whatever SE Weapons Cache server has a few people in it with a low ping. I'm all for setting up a time.

[lycanthrope]

So.......Tomorrow (Tues) at 8:30 PST? Is that 11:30 for w Eastern folk?

Now.....who is gonna post a server at that time?

[Camel]

I go by Rent-A-Cop let me know where and when and Ill send you a .50 BMG courtesy of my M82 :D

[mattd]

is that am or pm

[lycanthrope]

PM.

[John/az]

Blast! :banghead: I'm in school Tuesday nights...

If there are any other nights at that time, I'd be happy to join onwhatever map you guys decide to play on... I'm just an AAO junkie! :D

[mattd]

We can have more than 1 a week, you know. So pick a time and a server and see if anyone joins.

[John/az]

Bowhuntr,

AAO has a patch out for people who have trouble logging in.

Check out these links:

http://www.americasarmy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic=88132&forum=15&16

http://www.americasarmy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic=88179&forum=15&4

HTH

[bowhnter]

Cool ! Thanks

[Gunhead]

I play under the [hun]gunhead handle.

The favourite map is Radio Tower.

[Bravo11]

We need to set up a couple of times during the day for getting in.
Also, if anyone wants to PM us I will give out our instant message ID's
so we can all get together on this.

[Newt]

If anyone is wondering, the "WE" in megcatia's post includes me. It's official for me; I'm [THR]Sniper_Newt. Try Official Server 150 W at 4:00 PM CST. Alternate just in case 150 isn't up and running is 138 W same time.

On MSN Instant Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger, we have aquired a screen name for both now. The screen name for both is SIGTIKKA, and our email is sigtikka@hotmail.com.

Thanks,
Newt & megcatia

[lycanthrope]

US ARMY OFFICIAL E83

Radio Tower

{THR} Lycanthrope

11:20 EST

[Newt]

Server 150 W I.P. is 64.74.136.224

Newt

[Glockster35]

I am still trying to get mine running!

[cbsbyte]

Now tell me was it worth it to bring back a three year old thread.