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Fully Mission Capable: Oil Rig!
July 08, 2008 / 41 Comments

From the creative mind of Doug “=EE=Doug” Charlton comes the second community created America’s Army map to be elevated to FMC status. Oil Rig, as you may have guessed, is designed around an offshore oil drilling platform and brings a new twist to America’s Army gameplay.

Doug, who is a fan of well-balanced, fast-paced maps, decided to give the America’s Army Mission Editor a try and create a map borne from his own imagination.

“I like fast small maps,” Doug explained. “So an oil rig seemed a great setting. I thought it would be a different environment from the current maps with slightly different... read more

Operation Shrouded Eagle is Fully Mission Capable!
January 03, 2008 / 50 Comments

The first Fully Mission Capable map created exclusively by the user community of America's Army can now be deployed on Official Honor Servers. Steve Elton of Bethlehem, PA., used the America's Army Mission Editor to create this all-new, action-packed mission, which takes place in the corporate headquarters of a top- secret research company. Mobilize your team to protect vital intel from falling into enemy hands. The mission is available for you in-game via DCDS, if you need information on how to download a map from DCDS, please see http://www.aamissiondepot.com/faq#eight.

"THE NEXT MISSION COULD BE... read more

Tours.ini Update - Mission Capable Missions Ready to Play
April 14, 2007 / 111 Comments

We have updated the tours.ini file to reflect all of the Missions approved as Mission Capable (authorized), and you will now be able to host these new missions.

Fully Mission Capable Missions are... read more

The path to Fully Mission Capable
February 05, 2007 / 88 Comments

Many of you have been asking what criteria is being used to determine if a Mission is Mission Capable, or ultimately Fully Mission Capable. We have asked our Panel of Experts to give us some of the areas where Missions have been found lacking:

1. Most common problems have been that player starts are not properly configured, causing the maps to not start, the client to spawn without a weapon or the client crashing.

2. Second most common issue is that there is no mission brief or objectives.

3. The remaining fall in to a broader category of either being poorly designed or non-functional.

The Panel of Experts... read more