America\' S Army

America' S Army is a play of shooting to the first nobody multijouor. The first version, subtitled " Recon ", left on July 4th, 2002 by the army étatsunienne in order to improve the image of the US Army and to encourage people to enlist. It is available free for Windows. A bearing Xbox and Playstation 2 at summer carried out in collaboration with Ubisoft. The bearing of the versions Linux and Mac OS X was abandoned with version 2.6. Since version 2.8 the play integrates an editor of charts based on the Unreal Engine.

Many international competitions proceed on this play, one can quote the TWL (“TeamWarfare League”) and the CALEAGUE (“Cyberathlete Amateur League”) where the levels are very high. At the French-speaking level, one can quote the championship " Road off Glory" (RoG) launched in September 2006. In September 2007, RoG will start its third season.

Principles of play

General information

The player incarnates a soldier of US Army on charts of the attack type. Before being able to play on line, it must achieve a series of basic drives. It can also carry out additional drives which will enable him to play like doctor, marksman, parachutist and special force. The characteristic of this play is that the player always sees himself like a soldier of US Army, and always sees its enemies like a foreign force, that it chooses of going in the team of attack or defense. The player has the choice between charts known as " multijoueurs" or of the charts " coopération". In the first case, two teams of human players clash, while in " coopération" a human team is opposed to IA play.

Strategy

Contrary to good number of FPS where the play consists in sinking and to draw on all that moves, AA encourages the strategy and team work. Thus, in the high level parts, one often sees evolving/moving the soldiers by small groups from 2 to 4. Like, during the same part, the soldiers do not have the same equipment, it is particularly interesting to join in order to form general-purpose bunches. This specificity indisputably influences the way in which the players evolve/move but obviously AA concerned of infiltration like the series Commandos does not transform.

Hierarchy, honor and experiment

Moreover, each player has an account in line which is updated at each official part. As the player progresses, it thus gains points of experiment which enable him to improve its honor (" honor"). Contrary to the roleplays this experiment does not bring of additional capacities to the player. However, it confers a certain prestige to the player who is in a hurry to increase his honor. It is also a means of repression of the disrespectful players: indeed if a soldier wounds or kills out of the members of his team, it loses experiment. The scale of the honor is organized like this:

Honor: necessary experiment to increase the honor of a unité
01-10: 500
11-20: 1,000
21-30: 2,500
31-40: 4,000
41-50: 6,000
51-60: 9,000
61-70: 13,000
71-80: 23,000
81-90: 43,000
91-99: 83,000

One can thus establish the following correspondences:
Honor = experiment correspondante
10 = 5000
15 = 10,000
20 = 15,000
30 = 40,000
40 = 80,000
50 = 140,000
60 = 230,000
70 = 360,000
80 = 590,000
90 = 1,020,000
100 = 1,850,000

Weapons of the play

the American armament

M16A2 Assault Rifle
M4A1 Carbine Special SOPMOD Operations Peculiar Modification
M203 Grenade Launcher
M249 SAW Squad Automatic Weapon
M24 SWS Sniper Weapon System (M24 SWS)
M82 Barrett files Sniper (M82 Barrett files)
SPR Special Purpose (SPR) Rifle
M9 Gun Beretta 92F
M67 Grenade (M67)
Smoke-producing M83 blanc
M84 Grenade aveuglante
AN-M14 TH3 Grenade incendiaire
AGP-DB14 Door Breacher
M136 AT-4 Rocket (AT4)
M141 BDM Bunker Defeat Ammunition (Rocket)
FGM-148 Javelin portable anti-tank missile (FGM-148 Javelin)

Armament known as " opfor" (= ' opposing force') or Terrorist

AK47 Assault Rifle
AKS-74U (AKS-74U)
GP-30 Grenade Launcher (GP-30)
Kalachnikov RPK Rifle mitrailleur
Mosin-Nagant Sniper
SVD Snaiperskaya Vintovka Dragunova or " Rifle of Dragunov" precision;
VSS Vintorez Silenced (VSS)Sniper
RGD-5 Grenade (RGD-5)
RDG-2
Zarya Stun Grenade Grenade aveuglante
RPG " Rocket propelled grenade" or rocket

History

The government of the USA released a budget of $7' 000 ' 000 to develop this play and its development is envisaged over 10 years. The play is based on the graphic engine Unreal Engine 2.5, is developed by Epic and is used in particular for Unreal Tournament 2004. It will pass to Unreal Engine 3 to version 3.0 of the play. The current version of America' S Army is " Special Forces: Coalition".

Playable charts on line

Charts of version 2.8.2

Dusk - SF Dockside - SF Extraction - SF Courtyard - SF Blizzard - SF PCR - SF Water Treatment - Woodland Outpost - Urban Assault - SF Taiga - SF Oasis - SF Village - SF Arctic - SF Sandstorm - SF CSAR - SF Pipeline - SF Recon - SF Hospital - SF Hospital SE (2.8.2) - Mountain Not SE (Second Edition) - Bridge SE - Radio operator Tower - Rummage (2.8.2) - Weapons Hides SE - To rivet Basin - Mountain Pass - JRTC Farm - Weapons Cache - Mountain Ambush - Swamp Raid - FLS Assault - HQ Raid - Collapsed Tunnel - Rise Camp - Pipeline - Crossing Bridge - MUST McKenna - SF Snakeplain (2.7) - Prohibition (2.7) - Steamroller (2.7) - To border - SMU GH River Village (2.8.1) - SMU GH SF refinery (2.8.1) - SMU GH SF old town (2.8.1) - SMU GH SF Flood Spoils (2.8.1)…

Complete listing of the maps: Official site (map part)

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Since version 2.8 the play integrates an editor of charts based on the Unreal Engine.

See too

• Official site

Simple: America' S Army

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