I played a good amount last night seeing a lot of the new maps and playing with a number of new toys.

As usual vanilla AAS does not work with more than 24 (2 squads each side) players. It just creates too much of a log jam. I know PR is trying to go for a more realistic battlefield and eliminate the deathmatch feel that conquest brings but unless AAS becomes more dynamic (multiple paths, ability to cut off the flag chain to prevent forward spawn) you will get what we had last night on muttrah city. I dot like the idea of AAS as it does give you a progression towards an objective and it uses the entire map, but it needs some work.

The details in .4 are great.

They have placed some of the flags underground to eliminate the focus on the flag and place it on holding a position instead.

At least on Al Basrah, the insurgents have mobile spawn points (pickup trucks) in addition to spawning at the flags. The city is already setup like a death trap for the USMC rolling through, but giving the insurgents the ability to spawn wherever they want will make it really tough for the USMC as it should be.

The sounds. With the new sounds you can really tell if someone is shooting at you or someone else. I was up on a hill overlooking the gas station on muttrah with one of my squad members to my left. I heard the whistles of the bullets going by but not the smack so I knew the guys firing were aiming at my SM. When the SM went down, the whistles turned to smacks as I became the new target, pretty sweet.

Headshot (with any weapon) = killed = no chance at revival. Pretty serious penalty for sticking your head in the wrong place.

Sam Hoy and I got to test it out for a couple of maps before the bug kicked in but the kit requests seem to work. There were only 4-6 of us playing at the time so the demand wasnt there to really limit the kits nor was the system put through any stress tests.

PR still has artillery in place. Didnt really see it used last night so I dont know if they have nerfed it at all.

Portable AA is always fun.

RPGs are nasty. They will take down a helo in one shot and are seriously fast.

Field dressings are a great detail. I know I used them a bunch of times to give myself some time to find a medic.

Overall, this is an extremely well done and mod and they didnt even inlcude all of the changes/bug fixes in this release. We had a couple of good runs in TG squads though I think we really could've used the extra fire power from the requested kits. The new maps are very well done and quite different from previous maps. I highly recommend giving PR a download.

I did have a problem loading Mashtuur Nights, resulting in a CTD.
EDIT: When I load the map I receive the message: mods/xpack/shaders/terrainshader.fx not found