America's Army - Operations 1.9 for Linux Released

Primer writes "Icculus has done it again: The Linux port of America's Army: Operations version 1.9 is now available. This latest version features many improvements in the interface, punkbuster, and a new map. The file weighs in at a hefty 504 megs, but luckily there are plenty of mirrors, plus a very well seeded torrent. Get it while it's hot!"

Mirrors, anyone?

[Myself]

If someone wants to insert this into Freenet and post the CHK, all other mirrors will pale in comparison.

Re:Mirrors, anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

That torrent doesn't seem to be bad either; down 900kB/s, up 20 kB/s ...

Canada?

[Lukey Boy]

Anyone know if this works in Canada? I'm guessing yes, but if it doesn't I can save the bandwidth for the download :-)

Re:Canada?

[snoozerdss]

From The Website:
Q: I am not in the United States, can I still play the game?
A: Yes! Although all of the official servers are located in the United States, there is no restriction on who can play Americas Army. We want the whole world to know how great the U.S. Army is.

The wrong crowd?

[HiredMan]

If we remember that this game was essentially designed as a recruitment tool - doesn't porting it to Linux seem an odd choice?

I understand the Army could certainly use more hackers in the ranks but how large is the intersection between your average Linux gamer and some one who might be convinced to enter the military because of a video game experience?

Maybe this just release just amplifies the weirdness (at least to me) of thinking that a video game will convince people to join up when you can see the real thing on TV at night and it's clearly NOT the same thing.

=tkk

Re:The wrong crowd?

[Spoticus]

Even scarier that they think the tinfoil hat crowd would want to isntall something from Ashcroft's America ;-)

Conservatives use Linux too

[jgardn]

You are prejudiced. You assumed that most users of Linux are long-haired Army-hating hippies.

You forget that many people that use Linux, in fact, many people who run Open Source projects are conservative and love the Army. I am glad that the Army took the time to make a game for the Linux platform. I think it is a good idea to target the Linux users. I think the Army needs forward thinking people who are technically inclined and familiar with Linux and the Open Source development model, conservative or lib

Recruiter's that lie.....

[Daniel Wood]

(And I don't want to hear any crap about recruiters that lie. When a recruiter lies, they go to prison, and the person they lied to is allowed to go home. Try joining the Army and telling your sergeant in drill camp that your recruiter never told you it would be this hard. You'll see first hand how seriously they take that.)

Right, that's why no one cares that recruiters lied to you, they just point and laugh. I was there, I've seen it. Most of the rest of us also laughed at the poor dumb bastards who thou

Re:Recruiter's that lie.....

[windowshater13]

Well Private, I don't like to go off topic but it seems like you are busting on the Air Force. The only think I would like to say is that, in AF BMT is 6 weeks long and they cover the same information as it takes you how long? Oh that is it 12 weeks. That aside I think the Army is doing this country a favor. By releasing software cross platform maybe the rest of the government will wake up and smell the penguin. Thank you to the DoD for recuiting geeks. -Windows hater

Re:Conservatives use Linux too

[S. Baldrick]

You are prejudiced. You assumed that most users of Linux are long-haired Army-hating hippies.

No he assumed most Linux users are near-sighted, potato-shaped nerds.

/me enlists in the 3077th Towel Boy Regiment.

Re:Conservatives use Linux too

[butane_bob2003]

Too bad the game is so buggy. I like the game so far, but the bugs in the qualifying stages keep me from getting past the first stages. I qualified for sharpshooter, but every once in a while I get booted down to marksman training and have to qualify all over again. The rifle action is the most realistic I have seen in a game.

Most of my cousins and army friends (who are all 10+ years in the force) warn that recruiters will lie to you left and right. Maybe they did 10 years ago, or maybe this is just a my

Re:The wrong crowd?

[chrismcdirty]

The thing is, though, that the development team isn't taking ANY time at all to port it to Linux (and Mac.. not sure if the Mac version 1.9 is out yet). Just one person (icculus) does the porting, and whether he's being paid or not, it still beats the hell out of paying a whole team of developers to make it. If one person can put this damn fine game out to a few thousand more people, it's well worth the price they're paying him.

Re:The wrong crowd?

[cymen]

Check out his resume [icculus.org]. He is contracted to do the ports.

Re:The wrong crowd?

[HiredMan]

That's true - I'm sure it cost them much less than one primetime ad minute would so compared to that it makes sense.
If you believe in the concept why not go that last little bit to complete it.

=tkk

The wrong sig.

[plover]

Sorry, but your sig, "Remember: The old adage "fight fire with fire" does not apply to non-metaphorical fires." is incorrect. Ever hear of backburning [qld.gov.au]?

It's where you intentionally light a smaller, controlled fire in the path of a wildfire. The idea is to quickly use up the fuel so it won't continue to support the wildfire and by making it wide enough the wildfire hopefully won't be able to jump across it.

It's where the phrase "fight fire with fire" came from!

Reduced framerate

[jensend]

After installing 1.9 (which took up an extra 500 megabytes compared to 1.7! I bet 250 of that is the medic training which nobody will use more than once) my average framerate on my favorite maps dropped to an unplayable 10 (it was about 21 with 1.7 with the resolution at 1024x768 and the options at or near defaults), and turning down all the options and resolution doesn't seem to do anything for it. Furthermore, all the sound is coming across as roughly analog cell phone quality. I'm using a GF4MX and an Audigy. I dual-boot with windows XP, and my 1.9 windows install is no slower than 1.7 was and its sound quality is fine. Anybody else having this or similar problems?

Re:Reduced framerate

[spam_bank]

You can fix it by going to console and typing "flush". Also I found that checking "compressed textures" works as well.