America's Army: Special Forces Overmatch v2.8.3.1 Patch

This patch enables Global Forceclassing, no longer permits spaces in user accounts, and more.

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America's Army: Special Forces (Overmatch)
Release Notes - Version 2.8.3.1


What's New
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This patch was created to address a few minor issues prior to the next release

of America?s Army.

FORCE CLASS
We have enabled Global Forceclassing (FC) on honor bearing servers. Individual

FC can still be used but not on honor servers. Using a Global FC on everyone
levels the playing field for all. When using Global FC, honor is accrued at
less than normal rates due to the fact that old maps were created with specific

weapon loadouts in mind. Forceclassed Servers will show up in MBS with an (FC)

preceding their name for easy identification.


USERNAMES
Spaces in user account names are no longer permitted. If you have an old
account with a space it has been replaced with an underscore character (_) or
in the case of conflicts a number. You should have received an email to your
address of record indicating the change. All of your other account information

was retained.


BAN SYSTEM
Ban system again supports banning by IP, MAC, or Name/PBGUID (for PB servers
banning by NAME will result in a PBGUID ban instead of a name ban). Ban system

now supports console commands to list ban lists in sets of 20 (or so) to allow

"scrolling" through the list to locate banned players. The Admin Command Post

only supports showing the first 100 ban entries but now has a wider list to
show
all the ban details. The Banning system was rewritten and includes the
preliminary ability to download a ban list from a web server on game server
startup.

The following INI section can be added to support this:

[Engine.BanManagement]
BanListMasterServer=www.somedomain.com
BanListWebPath=/AA2831BanList

This will cause the game server to try to retrieve the "BanList.status" file
from the web server using the URL:
www.somedomain.com/AA2831BanList/BanList.status (using the example above)
which will be compared to the local version to see if the ban list file
version matches.

The BanList.status file contains the following lines:

AABanListMasterServer
Version=
MD5=

If the version does not match (regardless as to whether it's newer or older)
the remote BanList.txt file is downloaded from the web server. It is not
recommended to use this for large ban lists. It is anticipated this ban list
management system will be expanded in future versions of America's Army.


PLAYER ADMINS
Player Admin support has been rewritten to require player administrators to
have passwords. The new AASM provides support for creating the appropriate
format PlayerAdmin entries. For those wishing to manually edit their INI file

the PlayerAdmin setting is now in the format "PlayerAdmin=,
" (e.g. "PlayerAdmin=Bob,mysecretpassword"). Player Admins
wanting to join the server must join the server using either the MBS browser
and right-clicking on the server name (with it selected) and choosing "Join As

Player Admin" or by joining via the console using this format
"open ?PAPassword="
(e.g. "open 192.168.0.1?PAPassword=mysecretpassword").
You must have logged into your account in order to use this functionality on
any official or authorized server.



System Requirements
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The General System Requirements for America's Army are:

* Video card supporting Pixel Shader 2.0 or later with at least 128MB RAM.
* Any modern Intel or AMD processor.
This can include Intel Core2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 or Intel Pentium 4***
* English version of these Operating Systems:
Microsoft Windows(r) 2000 SP4
Microsoft Windows(r) XP SP2
Microsoft Windows(r) Vista SP1
* 512Gb RAM or more.
* 3.5Gb of uncompressed hard disk space for game files
* DVD-ROM (not required for downloaded installations)
* Mouse and keyboard
* DirectX(r)9.0c or later
* 100% Compatible DirectX 9.0 soundcard
* Internet connection

*** - Please note that the Clock Frequency required to player America?s Army
has been omitted due to performance differences between processor vendors and
their processor families. Systems running Intel Core2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64
require lower CPU clock frequencies to run America?s Army efficiently. Systems

using Intel Pentium 4 may require higher clock frequencies due to the nature
of the products design - as a guideline generally the higher the core frequency

the better the expected performance.



Technical Notes
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Important Note for Server Hosts/Admins
The cooperative missions will take significantly more CPU resources to run
during normal gameplay due to the additional AI processing load (shared between

the server

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