America's Army 3 "Shambles"

jackoire

Downloaded AA3 yesterday which is free on steam or can be downloaded for the AA website. I pre-loaded it waiting for the release time @ 8gmt, download was 4.11gb. The release time was supposed to de at 7, of course the AA site went down. At release time there was a nice suprise of another 2gb+ to download :mad:. I enjoyed waited another 2 and a half hrs or so to download the rest of the game. Some people got the "steam servers are currently busy message". Lucky i restarted steam at the right time.

Finally i got the game which still didnt unlock :mad:. I had to start it from my steam folder thx to steam being retarded.
Anyway i signed up for an AA3 account on there site, which didnt work. I had to make an account in game and was up and running. I started doing the training which crashed on the second mission. This happened a few times, so i decided to try online, that was even worse. Was impossible to get into a server, i did play 1 or 2 round but the server crashed/or i got disconnected. Now i can get into a odd 1 but get stuck in spec mode.

All in all main probs are:
AA servers overloaded
Game not saving completed training missions
Lag online/offline
Cant play online
Unable to login

Currently AA doing maintrnace on there servers so no1 can play at all.

Worst release of a game "EVER".

robby^5

You should ask for a refund... oh wait

In all fairness have a bit of patience, day one of any big multiplayer game can be like this what with everybody trying to sign up and start playing at the same time. Give it a day or two and things will get far more stable. In this case I'd be especially patient because there could be a huge uptake with players since the game is free.

I'll be playing myself, was a big AA plyer for a year or so, but I'll wait until the weekend I think

Kiith

jackoire wrote: »

Worst release of a game "EVER".

You obviously didnt play Darkfall :pac:

Overheal

Jesus H Jebidiah Allah Christ Buddha, its Free. Stop complaining.

A free major release being overloaded on release day? Well **** Tom, I never would've thought!

Ranting and Raving tbh

Be a good soldier take your No-Go Pill and wait a while.

Canis Lupus

"Shambles"... lol.

Go make a sandwich and calm down or something.

Overheal

Which is of course nothing to say of the actual game

Cuddlesworth

Like everybody else above, so what.

Its the release day of a free popular game. Its going to get mailed.

Mr E

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The game is free, stop complaining... Start appretiating the work people put into these games...

Fidelis

So let me get this straight; because something is free, it can't be faulted? Can you complain about free food samples giving you the squits? Of course not! They were free! :rolleyes:

Overheal

He isnt even complaining he got the squits though. He's complaining he hasnt gotten one yet.

Ardscoil Ris

This isn't suppose to be released until tomorrow at 7. How did you get it going?

Maximilian

In fairness, yes it's free but as game releases go, there aren't many to equal the amount of fail this one contains. Just be glad you didn't pay for it.

On the upside what I have managed to see in between crashes looks kind of interesting. I'm looking forward to trying it out when they sort it all out.

I'm curious to learn how much propaganda there is in it.

Spear

Some of the devs have paid the price for it seems. One studio closed and the devs laid off.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59202

Didn't help that Arma2/VBS2 beat them to become the army training sim.

Stev_o

Spear wrote: »

Some of the devs have paid the price for it seems. One studio closed and the devs laid off.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59202

Didn't help that Arma2/VBS2 beat them to become the army training sim.

Twas never about simulation more like a recruitment tool imo.

Fidelis

Can anyone join a team in a server? Whenever I join a server, there's a load of people spectating and nobody on either team.