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Source: http://www.dev-heaven.net/news/521 ____________________________________________________________ "AAS-Advance and Secure" Operation Arrowhead Missionpack V1.14 Release V1.14 can be found here "AAS-Advance and Secure" Operation Arrowhead Missionpack V1.13 Release V1.13 can be found here "AAS-Advance and Secure" Operation Arrowhead Missionpack V1.12 Two days late already but now it´s time for the initial Release of "Advance and Secure for the Armed Assault II standalone expansion Operation Arrowhead". The initial package contains 24 templates to build own AAS-Missions on the new terrains "Takistan", "Zargabad" and the "Desert" and six brandnew missions ready to play! Only Hosts need to download the package or players that like to explore the Missions alone or want to fight the AI. One known feature from previous versions unfortunately isn´t working anymore within Operation Arrowhead: The Medic-Revive System is obsolete because the dead bodies disappear almost immediately. Given the fact that the Medic never was popular in AAS Public Gaming this won´t hurt most players and can be hopefully fixed in the near future. The release is fully compatible with "Operation Arrowhead" standalone, ArmA2 is not required to play it (only for all earlier AAS-Releases!)! You can download the AAS-OA-Package here. I´d like to thank CoolBox for starting this AAS-Project two years ago in ArmA1 already and kju for his awesome work and support during the last eight months, especially during the last few days porting this to Arrowhead. Of course also thanks to quattro who designed 50% of all initial OA release-missions and qwertz for giving AAS a face with the Logos. Thank you all guys! Aj8AgR2zjoc FSFuP6qCwbY _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Release-History: "AAS-Advance and Secure" Complete Mission Pack V1.11 As promised one week ago the separate pure AAS-Missions-Release featuring different Rulesets for Hosts with and without enabled AI is today. There´s also a new feature for Mission-Designers that allows to place Flags at different elevations now. It fully supports/requires the earlier Addon-Package Installer V1.1 Release (read below!) We also made a Ruleset-Cleanup, this release Features a new "Default Ruleset" and two popular Community-Rulesets (Armacalypse and ArmA2.ru ). I´m also thankful for the following new missions made by Armacalypse-Community-Members that we are allowed to add as well. These missions are new/updated in this release: •Armcalypse Now (Duala) •Battle for Zappado (Panthera) •Broken River (Panthera) •Coastal Roads (Panthera) •Dunes Reloaded (Panthera) •Jalovisko Disko (Namalsk) •Lake Ukane (Panthera) •Saint Pierre (Everon) •SnowEPass (Namalsk) •Strike@Lesce (Panthera) •Tara Bridge Sweep (Namalsk) •Town Rush (Panthera) •Village Run (Panthera) Get more than 100 AAS-Missions now! (For Hosts/Mission-Designers, Clients get the Missions automatically while joining a game) R9GPCo820sY ______________________________________________________________________________________________ "AAS-Advance and Secure" Addon-Package V1.1 Today I´m a little bit proud to say that using certain Addons for ArmA2 especially in combination with the Advance and Secure game-mode has never been easier as with this release of version 1.1. Of course the Community has to agree yet and I´m looking forward to the feedback we´ll hopefully receive. The AAS-Advance and Secure Addon-Package V1.1 contains for the first time all Missions, Addons and Keys that are needed to play/host AAS today in one simple to use Installation package supporting numerous languages: Contents: - LittleBirds 2.2 by Cyborg11 - Panthera 2.61 by IceBreakr - Isla Duala 1.6 by IceBreakr - Community Base Addons 0.4.0 by Sickboy, Dr_Eyeball, killswitch - Namalsk 1.02 by Sumrak - Quesh Kibrul 2.0 by floosy - Everon 2.9b by SgtAce - More than 100 Missions Other Changes: - New Feature using 3rd Person-View on vehicles only - New Feature makes it possible to use Aircraft-Carrier as Base or Objective - New AI-Features (Aircraft Collision Avoidance System and AI Throwing Smoke by Victor Farbau) - New Missions (more than 20) utilizing the Worlds Quesh Kibrul, Namalsk and Everon - New AAS-Server-Key will change in every new version to ensure consistency in MP-Environments - Several Bugfixes Download Mirrors: Mirror #1 AAS-Addon-Package 1.1 Installer (855MB) - advanceandsecure.com Mirror #2 AAS-Addon-Package 1.1 Installer (855MB) - basecamp-allstars.de Mirror #3 AAS-Addon-Package 1.1 Installer (855MB) - arma-creations.com Mirror #4 AAS-Addon-Package 1.1 Installer (855MB) - slingfile.com Step-by-Step Installation Guide Let us know what you´re thinking! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Original 1.0 Release-Post What is AAS? AAS is a Team vs Team Multiplayer-Mode coming from Novalogics game "Joint Operations" brought to ArmA2 by CoolBox-SBS. In case you´re new to AAS here´s an overview with additional links how it works, explaining the HUD, general Tactics and specific key-controls. It´s not complete and not nice yet, I know, I´ll come to that later. AAS comes as a bunch of scripts that are part of a mission-layout but it is a bit more than just that. That´s why I hope this thread is right here, because this is about the AAS-Project as a whole, not just one mission and there are so many people involved. Translated from the german Wikipedia: AAS (Advance and Secure): Despite both X-Ray Homebases of each team, there are several objectives that need to be conquered in order. A Teams wins if it captures all Objectives or owns more than the opponent at the end of a given amount of time. Unlike it is done in the Battlefield-Series you´re not fighting for all objectives at the same time, instead they need to be taken in a certain order which keeps the action very focussed and dense and the usage of tactical skills, teamwork and logistics is more vital than single player actions. Also you don´t have to stand 2m beside a flag to decamp an objective, you´ve to outnumber the enemy inside a bigger perimeter around the flag, at that point the enemy is not able to spawn anymore in that objective and he needs to reinforce from other objectives/bases further back. Only if the flag is down (decamped), one player needs to get close to take control of that objective. You´ve to decamp, overtake and upcamp an objective until it is fully functional and you can spawn your troops there. Classes Indepedent from the standard ArmA2-Classes you can pick in the Lobby of an AAS-Server, the real Class-Change/Choice in "AAS für ArmA2" happens only and directly in the game at the Armory: Rifleman: Standard-Class - Nothing Spectacular, carrying an assault rifle an some grenades Grenadier: Only this Class has access to grenade launchers (M203/GP25) Engineer: Most Important unit for Anti-Tank/Anti-Air Medic: Medics can heal wounded and revive dead teammembers at the cost of firepower Gunner: The Machinegun-Guy Sniper: The Sharpshooter Recon: Carries silenced weapons only and satchels for operations behind enemy lines/nighttimes. All 73 AAS Missions in V1.0 contain the complete Game-Mechanics. Only for the "Non-Chernarus-Missions" you need (Panthera/LittleBird/Sahrani) on Servers and Clients. This means that all 49 Chernarus-Missions require nothing else than vanilla ArmA2 and work direct "out-of-the-box" on every Server while Clients Download the mission automatically if they join a server. So no need to install anything, just put the desired Mission in your ArmA2 "mpmissions"-folder and give it a go! Where to play AAS? Arma2 Russia Public Gameplay on a daily base (Russia/Eastern Europe) Armacalypse Public Gameplay on a daily base (U.S. East Coast) Armed Global Warfare Tournament. Registration required. Sign in now for up to 100-player matches with maximum organized Teamplay (Somewhere in the U.S. and Canada) Basecamp Allstars This server always runs the latest AAS-Alpha-Releases / Public Gameplay every Thursday starting at 8pm CET (Germany, Central Europe) PvPScene-AAS? PvPScene-AAS is a Spinoff-Project developed by kju aiming at lower player numbers (up to 20) for League´s based on the AAS-Core. Click here for a list of PvPScene-AAS Teams and Servers. The Future of AAS After the upcoming 1.0 release we want to focus on AAS-Gameplay and the Community itself to improve and develop gameplay. Therefore we´d like to start a small Community-Page that brings all the AAS-Interested People like those already mentioned in this Thread closer together for Events and Information. Of course we plan to bring AAS to Operation Arrowhead as soon as it hits the shelves as well. All this will be announced in this Thread soon. Of course your questions and Feedback are/is welcome here as well. Click the Spoiler-Button to read what to expect from "AAS 1.0 Final": Click the Spoiler-Button for Credits (If you think you´re missing on this list please PM me!) : Screens The official AAS-Release-Trailer: Stream from Vimeo Download 720p HQ-Version, WMV f5Pkm_w-I-Q More Videos PvPScene AAS-Videos Complete AAS-Mission Tactical-Overview (Screens) Click here Click the Spoiler-Button for License Terms and Download:

81.88.208.166:2310 is ArmA2.ru mentioned by PvPScene but as they are unfortunately somewhat stuck in the past with running pure ArmA2 that's why you keep getting the error while you try to connect there with Arrowhead running. Start with ArmA2 alone and you should be able to connect or check our the AGW-Tournament for the latest AAS-Stuff including Arrowhead and Custom-Mods like "Lingor and Panthera by IceBreakr".

Unfortunately not. A rough overview for about 70 Missions can be found here -> http://forums.advanceandsecure.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4 , combined with the list made by kju you're refering too and the search-function of you browser you can at least find some screens. Another overwiew can be found here -> http://forums.advanceandsecure.com/viewforum.php?f=15 but it only covers AAS-Missions made by BCA and Friends but that's up-to-date covering Missions made for the great Custom-Islands by IceBreakr "Panthera and Lingor" as well.

Multiplayer PvP (AAS), nothing else which is only possible because of the massive and great editing/scripting capabilities that allow making a game-mode that isn't natively supported by the game itself.

Nice job! AI-Video feels quite intense!

Source and Download: http://www.dev-heaven.net/news/521

Thanks Man, but that's a Signature, not the necessary bikey for Servers but no problem, I already deleted all given signatures and re-signed everything with another key I especially generated for Tournament use with all the required Addons for Lingor in one Package, also Panthera. Looks like Lingor and Panthera will be used in Campaign 5 of the Armed Global Warfare Tournament (playing AAS). Thanks so much for these masterpieces!

Is there a server-key for "Berghoff's African Foliage 1.20" somewhere, looks like I'd don't get Lingor running with Sig-Checks now on my dedicated server?

Just one word: Beautiful!

Don't know what's happening and where players are going to. People were asking for AAS for CO so long and now the server is empty. :confused:

Just hopped on the server once to check out what is going and I was somewhat shocked that an AAS-Mission based on V0.4 r224 loaded up. :) Hopefully not all missions were that old (wondering that they are still working.) We are at V1.15 r672 today -> http://dev-heaven.net/projects/coolbox-aas/files

Basecamp Allstars are there, playing public AAS almost every day and at the AGW-Tournament as well. Sent you an Email btw Taxman on Sep. 14th, unfortunately got no answer ;-). Still looking for some help with our Army there.

OK, reason for all the massive performance drops and server-restarts afterwards is an "ammo spilling bug" caused by users of the Beta-Patch 73311 that are JIP on our Server. So please be advised to move asap to the latest Beta 73478 or don´t use any Beta at all. This will help to get the server stable again so we´ll finally move and stay on "AAS for Combined Operations V1.15" from now on. Release will be delayed another week from now to ensure that it will be in a good shape. Thanks for your patience!

Well, it´s possible but not done in half an hour, especially not without a coder. Changing Spawn-Timers is easy but I like them as they are. It´s an Ruleset-Option, so other Hosts can easily change them if they want it. As long as the server keeps crashing several times a day a solution for that has the highest priority.

Unfortunately with my zero experience with any previous game by BIS and almost no coding-skills and still no dedicated coder for AAS at all I can't make any major/deep changes. The only person on the planet that helps me to keep this project alive code-wise is kju. But let me add the we were running in a couple of other and a lot bigger problems during the last CO-Event-Weekend we are currently working on and which need to be fixed first in terms of (server-)stability, millions of ammo-packs popping up, ammo-crates flooding and so on. So for now we´ll stay on AAS for OA for a couple of more days and continue our work on AAS for CO.

Indeed I wonder how people set up their ingame browser that obviously mostly russians were showing up yesterday and almost nobody else except a few. Seems they didn´t see the server at all. I reverted the Beta-Patch then today in the morning and hopefully the situation will improve. -50% players just because of an yellow questionmark that´s basically not blocking anything or anyone, that´s impressive. There were also some major performance issues on some missions, maybe related with the Beta-Patch as well, seems it´s running a lot smoother today back on the original OA-Release-Version.

For sure! Server switched over to brandnew "AAS for CO" now running the latest OA-Beta-Patch as well to improve stability and performance as we he had some issues with the OA-Final-Server. So if you see the server with a yellow questionmark in your browser it´s because he is running on the latest Beta and you´re not but you can still connect and play without a problem! Have fun and if you encounter any issues please report them here, on dev-heaven or advancandsecure.com. Cat Toaster

Was ? / What ? An BCA Gaming-Nights wird regelmäßig Advance and Secure (AAS) gespielt. Einfach kommen und nach Möglichkeit Spaß haben. Kein Passwort, keine zwingende Anmeldung, keine TS-Pflicht. On BCA Gaming-Nights we play Advance and Secure (AAS) on a regular basis. You´re invited to join us and to have fun, Sign In is not a must, no password or Teamspeak-Usage required. Wann ? / When ? Donnerstags / Thursdays -> ab 2000 MEZ / 0800 pm CET Wo ? / Where ? Benötigte Addons / Required Addons Download AAS-Advance and Secure Addon-Package V1.1 Wie installiere ich ein Addon? / How do I install an Addon ? Das Installationsprogramm ist mehrsprachig und selbsterklärend / The Installer supports multiple languages and is self-explaining Erlaubte Addons / Allowed Addons: Click Regeln und Server-Einstellungen / Rules and Server-Settings Click What is AAS, how does it work, how do I play it, which Hot-keys are needed? Click Free AAS-Community Murmur/Mumble-Server (optional) 87.118.122.205:64750 // Download Mumble Anmeldung / Sign In Click (Optional!) Leave Feedback here or at: PvPScene Forum German Games Club Forum Armed-Assault.de Forum Bohemia Interactive Forum 4Players Forum

Russian and US Reinforcements arrive at Takistan on Friday, September 17th 2010 on an exclusive Preview-Event on the Basecamp-Server. What you are about to see is AAS V1.15 for Combined Operations so we´ll play some Missions back on Chernarus with some OA-Stuff and some pimped Takistan Missions with T-90, BMP-3, Ka-52, BTR-90 facing M1A2, M2A3 und LAV25. Public Release if no new major issues pops up is planned on Sunday, September 19th. 31 pimped Arrowhead-Missions meet more than 100 ArmA2-Missions: Advance and Secure for Combined Operations with up to 80 Players! No Addons required, just Combined Operations (A2+OA). No registration required. Don´t miss it.

That will be Don´t miss it!

Thanks qwertz, looking forward to Armacalypse contributions as always! Garmarud Sanction is my favorite so far :bounce3: Besides that: Biggest AAS-Tournament around is about to start Campaign 4 soon as AAS-Blog-Readers already now but just want to say it again -> Armed Global Warfare (AGW) Enlistments are now open!.

Out Now: "AAS-Advance and Secure" Operation Arrowhead Missionpack V1.14 Release V1.14 can be found here

Some might think this ticket useful in this context -> http://dev-heaven.net/issues/13257

Thanks zwobot and for your Committment to AAS as I see it on your signature. :459: FLIR-Remove for Blue vehicles now finally works (thanks so much kju!). Revive finally works again (dead bodies don´t disappear instantly anymore) and everyone is shooting at each other with the same recoil-behaviour again. Also I like the new server-browser and the integration of BAF-Lite into the Patch to not split up the community, great job BIS! Already made a new AAS-Mission on "Shapur" that will premier today on the Basecamp-Server! And the best is: We really had a large amount of players over a long period of time (60/80+ over more than four hours) yesterday and everything was running stable and flawless, the Patch works great! Altogether it´s

Let´s see what the next OA-Patch brings and if AAS still works afterwards. ;-) CO will come!