Dev's are looking for a competition map design to work on, it's looking like it's definitely going to be based around a docked ship/carrier.

Thread: Competition Map: Ship

Above is the layout one of the devs likes, but he insists that the end product will be up to the select competition players actively contributing on the forum.

I think it's good they're recognizing competition as part of the community, but i'd still like the game to be fixed first... although they did say there's plenty of time, I suppose they're just trying to keep the community busy while they attempt to fix things up.

Thread: New map democracy

Have your say in the new map democracy thread, and maybe your ideas will be featured down the track

With contributions like:
"Hospital was the most popular"

... I can't see this going well

lol, devs shutdown anybody who asked for map ports

AA2 Had allot of Good Maps, why cant they have at least one person trying to develope them for AA3?? Its it because Pipeline is such a flop on AA3?

Hmm pipeline was one of the less popular "popular maps" by the death of 2x (if that makes sense) and i guess the more modern players who probably stuck with AA3 compared to older origional players wouldn't appriciate the map.

Anyways looks promising though i wish they would make a patch for 2x All it needs is updated SSE optimisation for newer processors/servers and some work on the netcode just to make it somewhat smooth again and that'd be it. Maybe a re-release on steam wouldnt go astray get it some fresh blood.

Quick question for you aa boys have you had any issues running 2.85 on win 7 64bit? Dropped my fps from 80 odd down to 20-40 kinda annoying. Any ideas?

Running GTS250 latest drivers.
Athlon 4400+ x2 @ 2.8ghz oc
4gb Ram
Res only @ 1024x768.

Everything on as low as possible (what i was use to from before)

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