America's Army - Patch v2.5.0 auf v2.6.0

4P|BOT2 · Beitrag von **4P|BOT2** » 10.02.2006 11:20

Patch für America's Army: Special Forces v2.5.0 auf v2.6.0 für Windows.
The U.S. Army invites all America's Army players to 'link up' with gamers around the world with the new America's Army: Special Forces. Multiplayer gaming in America's Army has been greatly enhanced with the implementation of the new AA Browser (Match-Making System), allowing players to easily find other players and get into the action. When fully deployed the AA Browser (Match-Making System) will offer players the ultimate America's Army gaming solution with features ranging from match-making to dynamic content delivery to detailed gaming stats to communications tools such as buddy lists. America's Army: Special Forces (Link-Up) also contains two new multiplayer missions -- Dusk and Border.
New Multiplayer Missions
America's Army's Ranger and Infantry action hits a new high with the introduction of two new missions - Dusk and Border.
- DUSK : (75th Ranger Regiment)
In this active and challenging mission, enemy forces have ambushed a convoy that was transporting a friendly Resistance leader carrying highly sensitive intelligence reports. Radio contact confirms that the Resistance leader is located in an abandoned building. A squad from the 75th Ranger Regiment must locate the Resistance leader and escort him safely to an extraction point for exfiltration. The construction of the new Dusk mission is another of a popular genre of America's Army missions - the VIP rescue mission, and maximizes the use of America's Army's unique use of random spawns and objectives to greatly vary the experience.
- BORDER : (172nd Sep. Infantry BDE)
In the explosive action of the Border mission, America's Army players must infiltrate the base of operations of a small known terrorist cell. Intelligence reports confirm that the terrorists are planning synchronized bombing strikes at several different civilian landmarks and that high-level sensitive information (Precious Cargo) pertaining to these lethal strikes is being kept at this operations base. A squad from the 172nd Sep. Infantry BDE must secure the precious cargo located in this border village and then proceed safely to the extraction point.
New AA Browser (Match-Making System)
This version of America's Army debuts the new AA Browser (Match-Making System) powered by Pragmatic Solutions, Inc. The AA Browser enhances the game experience by providing advanced server filtering options and stats displays, including:
Filter by Average Honor (players on server)
Filter by Geographical Location
Filter by AA Tour (Ranger, SF, etc.)
Search by Server Name
Search by Player Name
Version 2.6 unveils the first phase of functions now possible with Pragmatic's technology. Additional AA Browser features will be integrated in future releases.
While the community becomes familiar with the AA Browser, GameSpy service is still available in-game. This dual browser option allows for a smooth transition to the new AA Browser System. Players can switch between the 2 server browsers by using the pull-down box on the Deployment>Internet user interface tab.
Any match-making system provides a "close to" real-world representation of game servers and their players. Due to the nature of the internet and available technology there may be differences in server lists and attributes between AA Browser and Gamespy.
Updated Game Ports
With the addition of the new AA Browser - there is an additional internet port that is required to be open for the new browser to function properly on AA game servers:
TCP Port 20047 (default value)
This port can be manually configured to any port you would like to use by changing the following line in your server ini file:

[Andromeda.AndromedaMBS]
QueryPort=20047
Thus, the internet ports currently required to be open for America's Army v2.6 are listed below:
UDP - 1716, 1717, 1718, 8777, 27900
TCP - 20045, 20046, 20047
UDP ports
- 1716 for the game
- 1717 for the gamequery
- 1718 for the master server query
- 8777 for the standard UT query
- 27900 for GameSpy
 TCP ports
- 20045, 20046 for the Auth server
- 20047 for the new AA Browser (MBS). 

Competitive Gaming Support
Due to concerns from the competitive gaming community about players exploiting the character shadows to gain an advantage (particularly with modified video card drivers), we have added a new server setting for server admins which allows them to disable shadows on all clients connected to that server. This will be particularly useful to tournament & league admins to ensure fair and balanced play during competitive events.
NOTE: This only a server OPTION, it is up to the server admin whether or not their game server will have shadows enabled or disabled. We expect this will be primarily for competitive gaming matches, and not so much on public servers.
This new server setting has been added to the Command Post to allow real-time enabling or disabling of this setting. We have also added the status of player shadow flag to tournament results file. This was added as a new field in the tournament results file ("PlayerShadowsAllowed=True/False") to indicate whether or not the tournament allowed player's to enable shadows during match play. This setting state was also added to the display in the TM Server Info page to show whether or not shadows are allowed. Leagues who mandate the use of this option now have a method to verify it was used.
New PB Updating Utility
Included with v2.6.0 will be an all new way to update your PunkBuster files manually. We have included EvenBalances brand new PB updater in this version of Americas Army which should provide a much faster way to manually update your PB files. This provides an alternative way to update these critical anti-cheating files in case the PunkBuster auto-updater is not functioning on your system. This new utility is named pbsetup.exe and will be located in its own pbsetup folder located in the Americas Army System directory. More information about this new tool can be found here: America's Army - Patch v2.5.0 auf v2.6.0