Originally Posted by major liability

Yeah, I read a couple days ago that the AA3 developers were sacked. But they say that it's not their fault, their funds are going to administrators. Wouldn't be surprised.

They weren't sacked exactly, they were on contracts and they just didn't get their contracts renewed. So they knew it was coming. It wasn't really their fault either, It was the people running the Authorization Servers, a totally independent company.

Anyway despite the major bugs at the beginning with training and no connection, The problems seem to be ironed out slightly, I'm able to get into servers and play now. The game is great, Graphics are nice, not as good as Crysis or CoD4 but still visually decent compared to AA2. Snipers/SDM have it bad though seeing as their only one spot available and usually only opens up when it's a full house and even then no guarantee you'll get the spot. For those who haven't played it, It's a lot more team based, meaning, you have a better chance of making it through the round if you stick together, this also makes for better game play.

They promote this by giving points for tasks other than shooting, such as, being in proximity of someone completing an objective, healing or reviving someone, completing an objective yourself, confirming an enemy*, and of course taking an enemy down.

*When you shoot someone there's a chance you could incapacitate them instead of killing them, which means the're down and can't move until someone on their team revives them or you get to them first and secure them which at that point they're out of the round.

Yeah it's definitely got some very interesting elements in it.

Sounds a lot like what they had planned for Insurgency, with the points based on the Marine command structure and such. It didn't work on pubs.

Originally Posted by ari

Anyway despite the major bugs at the beginning with training and no connection, The problems seem to be ironed out slightly, I'm able to get into servers and play now.......

That's good to know, I dl'd AA, installed it all, but could never seem to pick up a connexion and ultimately got frustrated and left it be......

If you're up and playing, maybe I'll give it another shot...

Yeah it's not bad actually.

Buggy as hell.