This is an announcement to all America's Army 3 Players...

The Server Administrators for America's Army 3.x are looking to turn Punkbuster on for the servers to get the protection and control they need for the servers to keep the gameplay the way it is suppose to be.

For the Server Administrators to turn PB on, all players must manually update Punkbuster on their PC otherwise when you join the server you get stuck on the Team Selection and will not be able to play, then a little bit later you are kicked back to the browser.

Please follow the instructions below immediately to avoid having such issues when Punkbuster is finally enabled on the servers. Yes, you do need to do this as very soon most servers will have Punkbuster enabled and you will run out of places to play otherwise.


First download and install PBSetup from the following location: http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

Once you have downloaded pbsetup just run it from any location and click "Add a Game".




Depending on delivery method and operating system it will be 1 of 4 paths. When you click "Add a Game" the path found is incorrect so you must browse to locate the "Binaries" folder, DO NOT SELECT "pb" folder as it is created or overwritten.

Paths are as follows
Deploy Client:
x86 (32bit) Windows

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C:\Program Files\USArmy\America's Army 3\Binaries

64bit Windows

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C:\Program Files (x86)\USArmy\America's Army 3\Binaries

Steam Download
x86 (32bit) Windows

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C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\america's army 3\Binaries

64bit Windows

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\america's army 3\Binaries

[color="yellow"]Again, make sure you have selected the Binaries folder and NOT the pb folder.[/color]




After adding the game, click on "Check for Updates".




When in-game, users will also need to click "Enable Punkbuster" on the MBS page America's Army 3.





Further support for admins and player can be found at www.airdaleops.com

Please spread it around anywhere you can.

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Originally posted by MetalHead427

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Originally posted by yapple2
Please spread it around anywhere you can.

Oh gosh, can't wait to see how crappy AON bans people for bugs in this game.

Yep, we should really rethink our policies for banning for all these types of things...

*edited by FuriousUKLF* You should know the rules yapple2! Please stick to them.

Now, for all those that disagree with the above banned player, please get your PB up to date

He claimed we ban for bugs, just disproving his accusation.

I would disagree with the new game new start personally but my personal opinion is not relevant.

The fact is we need PB running, and AC's do good for the game. Only the hacks disagree.

The auto update is failing, if you watch the client logs you will see that at least most cases the there is an error creating the update file.

As for the pb folder, the pbsetup.exe is treated as an updater/installer so basically it creates or overwrites the pb folder. So, since AA3 looks in the Binaries folder for the pb directory you want Punkbuster to be installed in the Binaries folder which will install the pb folder in the Binaries directory creating that structure.