America’s Army 3 update released
A new update to America’s Army 3 has been released today. Included with the update are a ton of bug fixes, PunkBuster changes, and random improvements. The change log is as follows:
- More messaging when unable to connect to server for particular circumstances like full servers, etc
- More enhancements to PunkBuster implementation
- Adds in switching viewpoints during pb validation and adds in messaging to let player know something is happening
- Streamlined the server connect
- Adjusted the ftmp cleanup logic so it works properly on the server
- New Auth SDK that fixes MBS query issues, several crashes, and memory leaks
- Better feedback to players kicked from training due to not being qualified
- Fixes to player count in Internet Browser
- Fix for hud decrementing frag grenade round display when 320 ammo types are switched
- Frag grenade loadout fixes
- Cleanup of client stat file on startup so bad stats won’t hang players joining training
- Removes “player didn’t play in round” debugging message from logs
- Fixes accessed nones caused by mission lost statistics when player isn’t alive at end of round
- Adjustments to clan tag support to allow use of a prefix (+ is add it as a suffix, – add as prefix, and anything else uses the “of xxx” format from 3.0.4)
- Prevent going prone while tossing a grenade
- Report full server to user message and bad/wrong password to user in message box after being kicked from server
- Adds in ability to left click on a server in MBS and have its information updated if it hasn’t been updated recently (in last 10 minutes)
- Adds new message box if the connection times-out so user knows what happens if they step away and the client fails to connect to the server
- Added pbsetup and a simple batch wrapper to call necessary commands to setup a system for using PB (Binaries\pbsetup_help.bat)
- Added PunkBuster setup steps to installation
The update can be installed by just restarting your Steam client. If you haven’t checked the game out, it’s a free download, so unless you’re afraid of the U.S. Army brainwashing you into enlisting, give it a try.
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