you had to qualify CLS

because that game had smelling salts

and fuckin TQs and shit

yeah

qualify to use thermal grenades

America's Army was where I learned to love CLS classes tbh

in video games

you had to take classes to get a foregrip remember?

yep

and a fuckin good mission it was

yeah that shit was the worst

I always tried that

and always died

because people just run to the other side and chuck nades

and you have nowhere to go

yeah

because they're on the side of the bridge's tower

on the staircase

http://www.imfdb.org/images/6/6b/Gs36.jpg

damn all these years later

I'm realizing the OPFOR gun for AA3 is basically just a full RIS galil ACE

yeah the ADS in that game took a ton of time too

like

to pull up

http://www.imfdb.org/images/5/5b/AAM4bipod2.jpg

dude another butthole puckering map

like

2-3 story urban shitholes with open windows

AAV

America's Army Five

lmao

Announced in 2018 with a 3 year development cycle apparently

I think that's the bus one yeah

yeah

AA3 is when they made up the fake nation

because

"they didn't want you to ever have the potential to kill an american soldier"

before that it was kinda unexplained why both sides were american

but when you killed them they dropped AKs that were significantly different than what they were shooting lol

yeah

AA3 is when everyone got Comp M4s

1 and 2 were basically the same game

then SF was a expansion

then 3 was basically just 2 with a graphical upgrade and no more AKs because they got those weird Galil guns

America's Army definitely kept me interested in military stuff when I was younger

you probably just played 1-3 because it's all practically the same thing

3 is when they added zip cuffs

and you could capture dudes for intel

before then it was just shooting people to death

dude remember if you got votekicked they sent you to Leavenworth?

yep

NO

HONOR

honor was 3

America's Army

it was p. much project reality before project reality came out

that's wild

I mean I'd believe it

the top level CLS course was fucking long

and was rendered in a hospital

that's where I learned the really outdated information about how you only use TQs in the last possible scenario

because that was back before people realized TQs should be a go-to option

general idea back then was that TQs restricted bloodflow and that EMSs wouldn't get people to care rooms fast enough to prevent limb loss

yeah

yep

yeah

tbh the big thing I imagine is that TQs just restrict bloodflow rather than cutting it off completely

might not get as much blood as you need to have regular function but likely can last for a long time because some veins are still pumping thru

biofoam already exists tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkh842bxW54

I hear this shit causes tons of issues tho

but it's been tested for a bit now

XSTAT

could be just like TQs tbh

was basically told that it leaves people "picking out bits of foam from a wound"

XSTAT is basically that?

it's literally a syringe of foam that expands on contact with blood inside the wound

bruh

are you asking for something to becoming solid when it comes in contact with other liquids?

because that's like

not really gonna happen

why would they do that though

that would be stupid

the thing is

if it's liquid

it'll be carried away into the blood stream

kinda like really early powder wound sealants

can't remember the name of it now

just remember it used to be loose

and would burn veins closed

@5W can you remember the name?

quikclot

there we go

OG quikclot was just a powder that caused a lot of deaths

that's why it's impregnated into bandages now

I have some OG quikclot if anyone ever wants to die

yeah

doesn't it still?

I thought the whole point was that it cauterizes the wound chemically

ah