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Operation Shrouded Eagle is Fully Mission Capable!
January 03, 2008 / 33 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.

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Tours.ini Update - Mission Capable Missions Ready to Play
April 14, 2007 / 109 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.

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The path to Fully Mission Capable
February 05, 2007 / 86 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.

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Missions upgraded to "Mission Capable"
January 11, 2007 / 47 Comments

We are very pleased to approve the first group of Missions, and promote them to Mission Capable status. This means that you will now be able to download the Mission directly from Mission Depot, and try it out before you "Vote Up" and comment.

We have also updated our Mission status section, and adopted the more familiar "Not Mission Capable", "Mission Capable" and "Fully Mission Capable". Not Mission Capable means the Mission is being reviewed by our Panel of Experts. Mission Capable means the Mission has been reviewed by our Panel of Experts, and is ready for Community Feedback on Authorized Servers. Fully Mission... read more