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America's Army: District and Canyon become official

By: Nicholas Huber - Published December 07, 2008 at 7:04 PM EST - Writer Archive
Appearing on the official America's Army website comes a new SITREP which indicates that a map pack called "Champlain Map Pack" will be released in the next few days.
Enter: Champlain Map Pack.

Champlain Map Pack is America's Army v2.8.4 newest addition to the current version. The map pack will give players the chance to play District and Canyon on official Honor servers.

The two maps were created by students at Champlain College in Vermont.





The above screenshots show District and Canyon, respectively.

This will be the second time we see college students develop AA maps. In v2.8.1, Southern Methodist University's Guildhall developed four maps for the game, with guidance from the America's Army developers.

There is also an important update concerning the AA Deploy Client located at the bottom of the SITREP.

"We wanted to thank everyone in the America’s Army community for their patience and support for the America’s Army Deploy Client since launching this new download tool with America’s Army v2.8.4. We have been working hard on both client and network improvements over the past two months and plan to continue releasing improvements for this download platform moving forward," Ed "Phoenix" DeGorter's SITREP says.

"One of the main features of the AA Deploy Client is its ability to allow each user to help contribute to the America’s Army community by sharing some of their bandwidth and allowing other users to download some of the game data from their local data storage. This is an important feature in many ways, as it can help extend the life of the game by reducing some of the network overhead, especially when new features are released."

Read the entire SITREP: here

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Yay more maps!

wait...
wh!z.. | IceNine. | http://icenine.us/ | #i9 @ GameSurge
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they look like they have potential

um... Champlain College is in Burlington Vermont not New York
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hopefully they are good enough for competition.
Kevin | -jCp.banana_gun..
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Hey guys,

We did a lot of research to make sure these are going to work in competition. We can only cross our fingers at this point and hope they come out well in your eyes, and pray that our massive play testing payed off. :)

See you when they go live!

Dan


Edit: And yes, B-town is in Vermont. :P

This comment was edited at 12/07/2008 10:18 PM
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If the army is even paying attention to 2.8.4, 3.0 isn't going to be out anytime soon.
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Good job Vermont guys.

Im from South Burlington, WOOT!

South Burlington High say WHAT!!?!?!?!??
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pimp wanna play hangman?
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Go clean your basement.
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Fail, last time I checked a basement is underground and not ground level.
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I think pimp means the place your parents keep you when they have company over.
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#7

I have no idea. Hahaha. :) I've only lived in Burlington for about 3 years, and had only about four friends that hail from SB. We hope you like the maps!
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cod4 district?

Yeah, there is already a competitive map called district, but it isnt official.

And yes, Rainmaker was right. I meant that shithole you call a living space.
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I'm with pimp.
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District is god awful. Its tiny, lags, and ugly.

Canyon is pretty cool but it lags so much, needs some vision reduction like border or something.
id;tmar
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Why is there a big ass random building in the back that has nothing to do with the objectives?

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