Hello all ,this will probably be the last article I will write on this site.

Since few months i totally gave up on this game, remaining latency problems make it a real pain in the ass to even continue playing it, loading full clips into nmes not even moving and seeing them running away is not an option for any FPS game, despites the bugs and exploits still remaining in this game or even the lower resolution textures introduced in 3.1 making the game looking like a soup of colors ( playing in highest possible settings in 3.1 was rendering the GFX as if i was playing with a mix of low / medium settings ... ) , but the latency was one of the worst things that killed it for me and pushed my interest away from this game to other games.

I started to play my first online games with AA 2.8.4 back in 2008 if i remember correctly, then moved to AA3 when released and almost always had at least one server running and streaming to ACI and AON, spent a lot of my free time in this game and had a lot of fun despites the problems encountered, then was invited to join the Beta Testing team for the US Army in February 2010, i stayed one year more or less in the Beta program before resigning in March 2011, I met a lot of good people there, Beta testers, Dev's or Captain, i will never be enough grateful for this opportunity that was given to me, it was a real pleasure in reporting bugs and helping testing to try to make this game better, i learned a lot of things , and even practiced and progressed a lot with my English ( despites my crappy French accent and all the errors and mistakes you will find in this article and others present on this site :P )

Finally some other things made in the latest patch really pushed me to just stop, i wasn't playing much since mid-2011 already but when the 3.2 came out with those things, it just pushed me out :

The new Punkbuster GUID's for all players since the Auth servers were shut down when they moved to Steam for download and stats tracking of the game version 3.2.

I was really disappointed by this move, for people like me who put a lot of effort hunting and fighting against cheaters ( like all the work i put into Anticheatinc.net with all the PBSS I submited there and the numerous guys i caught or later by being a PBSS Staff there and very active ) , trying to maintain my servers clean with big personal banlists on the top of all various banlists provided by all AC organizations, this was a real frustration, all the work done during all those years to catch all those dirty players suddenly became obsolete and now all those guys can come and play like nothing never happened, looking clean again with new Punkbuster GUID's, seriously !?

And apparently since a couple of weeks those new GUID's changed again o_O ,  the third time now, so again all those cowards without balls that have been caught since the 3.2 release become clean again and can ruin the fun for other clean and fair players ...

On the top of this, another thing that really pissed me off is to see all my stats gone o_O , i played this game a lot since day one, was Beta tester for the US Army during one year and deeply involved in the past into the AC organizations fighting actively against all those cowards dirty cheaters to try to clean up a bit this game and make it a fun and fair as possible, i spent numerous hours in the game or with activities in close relation with it.

With the 3.2 patch all Authentication servers went down and everything was moved to steam, so no more Deploy Client and those like me who used to have the Deploy Client for the game or those who had the Steam version and were launching the game directly from a shortcut to the AA3Game.exe to avoid having a third part program eating resources on PC have now totally screwed stats or no stats at all.

Instead of transferring all stats stored in the Auth servers, they just kept the stats of people who played with Steam open and game launched from it when the Steam leaderborads were introduced in the version 3.1 . This means that if you played with the Deploy Client version of the game and now moved to Steam to keep playing you will have no stats at all, if you played with the Steam version but launching the game trough the AA3Game.exe and not running steam same story, no stats.

In fine, players who started to play with Steam after version 3.1 will have all them stats tracked, but you who played since the start of the game will look like a newbie according to your stats, so what's the point here, those actual leaderboards means nothing and are 100% inaccurate, so why we keep them as they are now ?

Why not reset everybody stats with the 3.2 version as they mean absolutely nothing now ? Why not import directly the real stats from the Auth system to keep the only real stats of every player instead of having stats totally fubar and inaccurate depending if you used one or other version of the game ?

Steam stats only cover the time played since version 3.1 released in June 2011, keep in mind that America's Army 3 was released in June 2009, so even for the "veterans" who were playing since the first version and therefore playing since the version 3.1 using Steam, them stats only take care of what they done since June 2011 ...

For the record this is my real stats before the Auth servers went down with the 3.2 version :

And this is what i had once i loaded the soldier into the new Steam launcher in 3.2 :

Seriously, from one of the most active players in this game to this ...

And this is the AA2 stats and jacket for the souvenir :

So to end up this probable final article on this site, i would like to thank you America's Army Game for all the good times you gave me, for all the people / players from all around the world i met in this game, a special thanks to all the guys and girls we had on the various teams we made ,  LDT , =}S.M.S{= Sneaking Mercenaries Squad , and The Mercenary's Stash , i really had my best online moments with this game and the teams we built, damn i feel old now remembering all those fellow team members and the funny times we had on our servers, thanks for making me a Beta tester and learning a lot of things with the help of other Beta testers, Beta Captains and Dev's.

I never played other games online despites AA2 and AA3 for years until i started to give up on AA3, then i moved onto other FPS games.

I may try this game again later but i lost almost all my interest in it, i hope next updates will bring back the joy it gave me and fix the remaining problems and the latency problem, but for now i will make the website lighter by removing all the modules associated ( like the ones showing the last banned players or latest official news etc ) , I also closed and deleted the forum associated to the site, no need for it anymore, anyways it was already dead, i will probably not update this site anymore and leave it as it is now to just keep the articles made, who knows maybe something here might help somebody one day :P .

Again a BIG Thanks for all the good moments America's Army Game gave me and my final word will be HOOOAH !