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  • Announcements regarding our community

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    FichomF

    Today is a very special day. After more than a decade of waiting, countless memes, and enough "soon" jokes to power a Quantum Gateway, Galactic War is finally returning to Forged Alliance Forever!

    For the uninitiated, Galactic War is a meta MMO game for Forged Alliance, where players join a faction and remain loyal until the Infinite War ends. Each player controls an avatar that gains XP and ranks up through victories, but if their commander dies in battle, the avatar is lost, and they must start over from the lowest rank. Battles are resolved through FAF matches using a custom game mod that allows players to call in reinforcements or flee the battlefield to save themselves when the situation turns dire.

    Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks, but don't hold your breath. The only thing more uncertain than a Cybran loyalty matrix is the FAF dev’s release schedule. But rest assured — Galactic War is coming (soon).

    Oh... and this one... it ain't a joke 😉

  • The real competition starts here.

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    All avatars has been granted. Winners PayPal account addresses has been collected and transferred to the FAF treasurer.

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    waffelzNoobW

    huge dub

  • A place to talk about whatever you want

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    One thing I think gets lost in all this, and I don't even know if it can be considered and addressed but nonetheless I'll mention it.

    There is the scientific approach which couples in with common sense but then there's the practical reality of what actually occurs which amounts to very little scientific thought and practically no common sense.

    Probably true that it is incredibly inefficient to spam novax but my goodness every time you see one novax coming it seems like there are 3+ not long after. People don't seem to care about the numbers they just know the effect it has on the match. It's often not even the Eco type player that is building them so there's always that positions weaponry that you'll have to deal with as well which is usually your t3 arty spam and or game ender.

    It may be a huge reason why there are so many 1300 to 1600 rated players who just don't rank up after thousands of games (myself included) We get into these habits that seem effective to us and give us the false illusion that we're actually good. We blatantly ignore such inefficiencies as Novax spam and no doubt we are ignoring a lot of other things... (Probably not even ignoring them because we don't even know they exist to be able to ignore)

    I wonder what the novax usage is in 1.8k+ matches compared to the more typical standard custom match which is a 1.2k+ situation.

    If any of this is true then it's kind of a conundrum because we have a weapon that fits fine within the pro-level realm but is out of place anywhere else because of its power and the user's inability to understand or care when they should be deploying it.

    What would novax spam people build if they didn't have the novax?

  • Got a question? Ask away!

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    Ctrl-KC

    I guess game doesn't like your username. Consider making a user with name made of only ASCII characters.

  • For people who want to add more stuff to FAF

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    AskaholicA

    That is correct. In order to figure out that information you’d have to run the replay through the actual game simulation (I.e. watch the replay). You could probably create some sort of mod that would dump that info out while the replay is running, but I’m not very familiar with that side of things. A mod like that might even exist already.

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