America's Army: Proving Grounds Server Hosting

Can you still play America's Army: Proving Grounds online?

Yes, through private servers. The official AA:PG servers and developer support were shut down on May 5, 2022, but the team's final patch notes stated that private servers on Steam would remain accessible. In practice, every online match today runs on a server that someone in the community hosts and pays for.

The last PC patch before the shutdown was aimed squarely at those owners. It unlocked all My Soldier content for everyone, raised the team size hard cap on FLO maps from 12 to 64, added new server settings and bundled a pack of 50 community maps. No further official patches are expected.

That stability works in a server owner's favor. You are not chasing weekly updates: you set your rotation, rules and message of the day once, back them up, and your clan or community has a permanent home for the game.

What can you change on an AA:PG private server?

Most of the useful switches live in the server's AAGame.ini settings, which you edit through the panel file manager or over SFTP. sDefaultServerMOTD sets the message players see when they join; it stays on screen for about 15 seconds and can run to three lines, which makes it the natural spot for your Discord link and house rules. MaxTeamSizeFLO controls how many players each side can field on FLO maps, up to the new cap of 64. DefaultRoleCountMultiplier scales role availability: each map defines its own role counts, and this value multiplies them.

The final patch also changed match flow in ways that matter when you plan a server. The map vote moves over to FLO maps once enough players have joined, the scoreboard shows the top 12 players per team (scroll to see the rest), and the admin player list now copes with larger lobbies. Stop the server before editing, change one value at a time, and restart to check the result in the console.

Adding the curated UMM maps to your rotation

User Made Maps (UMMs) give a private server far more variety than the stock list. The final patch included a Beta Team curated pack of 50 UMMs, among them FLO_Pipeline_AC, FLO_Dockside_TH and FLO_SmugglersHarbour_VIP. On the server they live under AAGame/CookedPCServer, and the maps you want in rotation go into PCServer-AAGame.ini under the IncludedUMMMapList entry.

There is one trap. If players are still subscribed to older Workshop copies of the same maps, they get version mismatch errors when your server loads them. Ask your community to unsubscribe from those Workshop items; the patched versions already ship with the game client in AAGame/Content/Maps/UMMs.

Take a backup from the panel before you rework a rotation, so a map that refuses to load is a one-step rollback. Players can also tour every UMM offline from the User Made Training menu, which makes it easy to let your community vote on which maps earn a slot.

How much RAM does an AA:PG server need?

A standard AA:PG private server runs comfortably on our Bronze 4GB plan. The game is built on Unreal Engine 3 and its dedicated server is light by modern standards: memory use follows the loaded map and the player count, since there is no persistent world or mod stack to hold in RAM.

Load rises once you use the new team size cap. A 12v12 FLO match is easy work, while pushing MaxTeamSizeFLO toward 64 per side multiplies the players the server tracks and updates, and it also means turning VOIP off because built-in voice stops at 32 players. For those big-lobby events, Silver 6GB or Gold 8GB leaves comfortable headroom.

The plans above Gold, up to Xtreme 32GB, are more than a single AA:PG server will use. We list them because the same hardware line serves many games, not because this one needs them. Clock speed matters more than memory here, and every plan runs on Ryzen 9 9950X cores with DDR5 6000 MHz RAM and NVMe storage, so map loads and round changes stay quick.

How do players join your AA:PG server?

Players join from the in-game server browser by searching for the name you set, then entering the password if you use one. With official matchmaking gone, the browser is the main way people find a game, so a clear, searchable name that includes your region and style (TR, FLO or UMM rotation, for example) really helps.

Everyone needs the game in their Steam library; since the final patch the launcher only uses a Steam login. Official servers no longer track progression, so players who care about their numbers should know that opening the MySoldier menu prints their personal stats to the game's client.log file.

Settle voice early. Up to 32 players, the built-in VOIP works; above that, set the VOIP port to zero and run comms on Discord. With the server in İstanbul, players in Türkiye have a short route to your matches, and players across Europe and the Middle East generally connect well too.