Controversy has risen in the AA Community once again after Fileplanet announced that its subscribers will get to try AA3 Beta "soon". If this is actually true, AA has disrespect many players that have been supporting the game for years.  Requiring people to pay money to another organization just to be able to play the Beta game before everyone else. This is unconfirmed if fileplanet subscribers will actually get early beta but if you really want to, an account their is $7/month or $39/year. $7 no one wants to donate to play a FREE game.

I'm proud to announce the beta for one of the Free to Play First-Person shooters is happening soon; Subscribers get the honored position of playing America's Army 3 first! Interested in what's new in the upcoming v3.0? This video covers unlocks, ballistics, Army Values and more:

The third edition of military simulation game, now rebuilt upon the next-generation Unreal Engine 3 system for unprecedented realism. In America's Army, players can explore and dominate challenges ranging from basic training to Special Forces Assessment and Selection to Special Forces Qualification Course. Keys will be very limited, so my suggestion would be to subscribe now if you haven't, and stay vigilant on our site for further intelligence.

Source: www.fileplanet.com

A new version of AA 2.x has just been announced and it promises to add ES2 features to another four maps. Also, If you check the bug fixes at the bottom of the SITREP you will note that dead views through the ground will apparently be fixed.

This release includes ES2 updates to three maps, SF Courtyard, SF Hospital, Urban Assault. The maps have been updated with additional ES2 objects to discover and report. ES2 Bridge is a revised version of the classic Bridge Crossing map with new elements added such as ES2 objects with a new types of intelligence functionality. The new functionality includes unlocking access to a new path under the bridge, and supplying intelligence on enemy positions. SF Courtyard "Intelligence reports that an illegal arms dealer is planning to transfer stolen top secret material to an agent of a known terrorist organization. Location of sensitive material is only known to be located in vicinity C94M98A04. Reports confirm that there are willing informants who know the exact whereabouts of the sensitive material." SF Hospital "Following an ambush by enemy forces, a wounded Resistance leader escaped to a neutral hospital for treatment of his wounds. The leader is a critical member of the Resistance government within Unconventional Warfare Area of Operations (UWAO) JAZZ." Urban Assault "A coalition convoy was raided and the cargo was stolen. It has been confirmed that the insurgents and the cargo are based in a residential area of the city. Due to the dense urban nature of the area it will be necessary to do a house by house assault on foot." ES2 Bridge "Enemy forces masquerading as refugees have ambushed the US forces defending bridge at grid WS663429. Your force returning from patrol is now on the hostile side of bridge, and must link up with your company headquarters to pass along time-sensitive information."

The little team that could, Final Destination took the title last season (TWL:O) and they've done it again in the big leagues.  Stepping up their game to TWL Inters, the American based team climbed their way to the top once again.  They are also moving up the Western Top Teams list sitting at 3rd, playoffs should play a big part in how they go from there. One of Final Destination's top players, fd.tactics, talks about the team's journey to the top. The detailed response gives us a great look at the team's hard work that was put into this season's victory.

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"honestly I knew we'd surprise teams and that was basically the goal"

Continue on to read the interview

TWL has picked up in activity this last month, with Winter'09 Inters and Open leagues coming to an end and the CSAR tournament reaching its final matches.  New development has risen, TWL announced yesterday that they will be offering a new Ladder to the 7 other NA Ladders. The new 4v4 Objective CBQ Ladder allows teams to have the opportunity to pick the maps they want play similar to the league playoff structure.  There will be two maps played, each consisting of 8 rounds.  The winner will be decided by totaling up both matches.  Teams will get the chance to pick which map they want to play out of a selection of 13 most popular maps in AA.

TWL Tournaments
For the past few weeks teams have been fighting hard for the TWL 4v4 CSAR Tournament. The Final match is to be played this sunday between United Gamers and Fight Club, best of luck to both teams!  With the finals around the corner, the TWL team has begun planning for the next Tournament that will be played on Urban Assault. The start date is uncertain, but it could be the 10th or 17th of May. So get geared up and sign up now!

TWL Leagues
League action is coming to an end, Final Destination took the TWL Intermediate side while Euro Trip and eXtreme Fidelity will duke it out for the Open League. TWL has already announced a Spring 2009 league, a map list and start date will be posted up shortly.  How ever you can still sign your team up.

Finally the TWL 2009 Winter Intermediate League has come to an end. After a long faught season, Final Destination came out on top, finishing with a 6-1-1 to make a total of 21 points. The runner up was United Gamers' AA Division with 5-2-1 and 19 points. For 3rd place it was a close one, both teams went 5-2-0 with 17 points but iceNine had a higher round win percentage (64%) and overRated had (58%).  So we feel iceNine should receive 3rd.

Over all it was a good season with some unexpected changes. Last week we released the "You Predict" feature that gives you the chance to guess the who will win each match, 26 people guessed UG would win and 18 people thought fd would win...better luck next time community lol. We would like to thank all the teams for comming out and putting a good effort in and we hope to see you in the next season!