Rusty's Barracks

Main page

2008-06-21T03:47:00.000-07:00

Hooah, and welcome to my America's Army Game Hints & Tips blog. Here I will place different kinds of tips and other helpfull stuff. Not only for myself as a reminder but also to help other AA fans to enjoy the game even more.

for example:
- keybindings
- drop shots
- use of Crystal's voice in game
- teamspeak
- aaotracker
- great AA background music to get you going
& more

Do let me know if you have any good tips and hints, ... post it here , links all welcome. Feel free and enjoy! Hooah!

Rusty's Cinema Section

2008-06-21T03:02:00.000-07:00

"Smoke'em!"
Some little tips bout tactical smoking. Use it well and wisely and for sure you'll get much further in the game!

Shot in da Bot-hole!
Movie trailer of my movie and movie it self :)

To visit my YouTube page, click here.

Rusty Ryan's Artwork

2008-04-17T07:38:00.000-07:00

Click on Images to Enlarge

Honor count

2008-03-14T10:40:00.000-07:00

So how many peeps you need to shoot or goals to achieve in order to get your next honor point? Well, this is how it works:

Experience points needed for next honor level (point)

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

KeyOps & Keybinding

2008-03-14T10:16:00.000-07:00

KeyOps is a keybinding software.

To Download this file:

http://americasarmy.filefront.com/file/KeyOps_Key_Bind_Utility;29753#Download

For the Keybinding codes and/or more info about console commands visit this link:

http://forum.americasarmy.com/viewtopic.php?t=127

AT&T Crystal

2008-03-14T09:43:00.000-07:00

"Hi, ... my name is Crystal. I'll be reading out your messages during the America's Army game. No more reading, just listening. Hooah!"

Now this is something I love to use while playing AA. Windows has this standard engine pc voice called Sam. Ever thought about it to change this? Well, ... you can and by using this voice while playing has always been a major advantage to me during the game. "No more reading, just listening" of what your team-mates have to say. Meaning full attention to your game play and enemy movements. Crystal is here name and you can download her at most Torrent download site's. Mostly described as AT&T Natural Voices.

To listen to interactive demo's concerning the various ATT voices, click the following link!

http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php#top

To download this voice engine, click here.

How to apply Crystals voice after downloading?
After installing the software, head for your Control Panel and open Speech Settings.

Now select Crystal instead of SAM and here we go! Start America's Army and set the voice settings the way they fit you best.

Enjoy!

Note : Won't work for Vista!

BC Assault to Defence Spawn Shot

2008-03-13T11:14:00.000-07:00

To practise this shot, ... Open console ~ in main menu and type OPEN BRIDGE When map is running, open console (~) again and type CLASS G Now you have the M203 grenade launcher.

You can follow you 203 nade's flying path by opening your console again and type BIND P VIEWCLASS PROJECTILE By shooting your nadelauncher now, and by pressing P after hitting the trigger, the 203 nade will be followed. You can apply any key to this action, I chose P voor Projectile. This will also work with rockets.

First get your ass over to this little weed here.

Then look down and make sure you crouch right on top of it.

See those 2 trees? Well, ... aim right in between them. The Next picture will show you exactly how to aim.

I used to T-shaped HUD for this one. As you can see, you can perfectly line this HUD on top and between both trees. Now hit the trigger 15 second after the round starts. Mostly this will be like 4.45 or 9.45 minutes. Depends on server settings.

Your nade will land and hit exactly in the middle of the defence towers arch and hit anyone heading for the bridge.

BC Upper Stairs Dropshot

2008-03-13T09:34:00.000-07:00

To practise this shot, ... Open console ~ in main menu and type OPEN BRIDGE When map is running, open console (~) again and type CLASS G Now you have the M203 grenade launcher.

First stand against the wooden board and aim directly in the middle of it.

Then turn around and aim next to the tower,... just let your HUD (yellow dot) lay and relax against right side of tower, next to that point. (Also shown in next picture where it's zoomed in).

After laying your HUD against the towers point, move it up as shown on this picture. If you look closely you see me using all 3 points. Indicated with arrows.

After hitting the trigger, this will be your final result. Keep practising!

AA3.0

2007-08-07T00:37:00.000-07:00

Some little things and changes we can expect in the upcoming version of 3.0 It is said to become more realistic than ever before, but yeah,... lets see for ourselves hey!? ;) Here some things to expect, short and briefly...interviews from the Dev Team. For a much better view of what to expect,... click the following link.

http://forum.americasarmy.com/viewtopic.php?t=260588

"The AA3 platform will be an entirely new game, built from the ground up using Epic Game’s Unreal Engine 3. This means we’re creating everything from scratch - all new assets, all new missions, all new sounds, and all new weapons."

"Players will be creating a new player account for AA3; however, we’re pursuing ways to tie in your original AA2 account/character, such as giving special AA3 achievements to veteran AA players with confirmed AA2 accounts."

Honor Count System
"Honor will not be a singular score in 30, it will be an aggregate of several different types of scoring." The old 2.0 Account will be deleted!? So we lose our honors :(

“Yeah, yeah I do think players care about persistent scores and achievements. The phenomenon was well established in the AA community a long time ago; look at how many people are concerned about their AAO tracker stats. Look at the effect that achievements and gamer points have had in the console market, frankly, in my opinion it was the best new feature of all the next gen consoles. The fact that Sony is essentially copying that feature with their “trophies” is proof of it’s success and it’s not just the console market that has changed because of it. Look at what happens with each new release for Team Fortress 2, when Valve releases new achievements for a class go into a server and see how many people are playing the newly augmented class. So maybe you don’t care about it personally, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an interest out there for a persistent score.”

Sound & Effects
"I can tell you in 3.x they are based off of actual recordings. We’ve spent time in the field on several different trips to capture weapon fire, impact sounds, the mechanical sound of weapons being manipulated (magazines being inserted & removed etc….) and even explosions. Luckily we haven’t lost any gear yet but that’s not for lack of trying."

FASCAM, mines
"Like many other things it's not a day 1 feature but very well may show up in the roadmap. It would allow the introduction of an engineer role as an important part of battlefield preparation who would also be able to clear mines deployed by the enemy." (click 4 more info)

Bullet Drops
“That was true in 2.x, it will no longer be true in 3.0. In the next version, the bullet actually originates at the barrel of the weapon. And it has real ballistics, it’s not a “laser beam” shot.”

Melee Attacks
"Melee, on the other hand, is something that could make it in game. The “reload” dance (bunny-hopping) is kind of silly, you’d definitely reach out and touch somebody with the butt of the gun instead of moving around waiting for the reload anim to finish."

Mortar Attacks
"Mortars is something we have talked about. In fact we have a working prototype.
With weapons it all depends on what the Army wants…you could see them in a future release though."

Medics
"Medic functionality in America's Army 3.0 will be completely redesigned. Hence these problems shouldn't be applicable."

No Jumping
"Jumping as you know it in AA2 will not exist anymore. Instead there will be support for vaulting and/or mantleing. Vaulting = jumping over, Mantleing = getting on top of (mounting, climbing). 'Bunny-Hopping will become history, finally!!!"

Former clan Art

2007-07-01T07:15:00.000-07:00

CLICK TO ENLARGE!

Rusty's Chatbox

2001-11-14T02:08:00.000-08:00

2001-07-17T07:45:00.000-07:00