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  • Announcements regarding our community

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    FichomF
    If you've played co-op missions Operation Blockade, Tha Atha Aez, Golden Crystals, or Overlord Surth Velsok recently, you've probably run into it. You saw patches of ground replaced by a red-and-black stripe pattern, where the mission's terrain should be. It wasn't a graphics setting or a broken install. Every player loading those four missions saw exactly the same thing. These four missions bring their own custom terrain textures, and the path to those textures had gone out of date, so the game couldn't find them anymore. Instead of showing the intended ground, it had nothing to draw there, so it fell back to the glaring placeholder pattern players have been reporting for a while. That's now fixed. The deployment chain has been corrected so it always points to the right path for each mission's own textures, and the fix has been checked thoroughly. It was checked against versions the community had already patched manually, and by loading the missions in-game, with several players confirming the terrain renders correctly and nothing else broke in the process. If these missions put you off before, now's the time to give them another shot. Load one up and see the difference for yourself. Have fun out there! Thanks to Seraphim-Noob and Brutus5000 for fixing this Bug! Full technical details are documented in the pull request. [image: 1787772060434-786a385e-70f1-4848-a4d0-0676f603b4fe-image-resized.png]

  • The real competition starts here.

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    hybrid_H
    This is the official post for the second and final of the qualifiers for the 2026 Legend Of The Stars Championship. You can find the main post here: General Information Date: 14th of November 14 UTC Bracket: https://tournaments.faforever.com/t/df343f8644 Chat: via Discord or the tournament website Live Coverage: https://www.twitch.tv/faflive Tournament Director: TBA Format The open qualifier will be a double elimination bracket. The upper bracket will be BO3. However, depending on the amount of signups, the number of BO1s vs BO3s in the upper bracket may be adjusted to ensure a timely tournament. The losers bracket will be BO1. The seeding will be based on your ladder rating. So for example, the highest rated player will play the lowest rated player in the first round. Once the top 4 is decided in the bracket, the tournament will not continue. Top 4 will qualify to the Legend of the Stars Swiss Stage. The players that are closest to qualifying (5th+) will be substitutes for the Legend of the Stars Swiss Stage. Mappool TBA two weeks before qualifier start. There will be no veto's for the qualifier. Prizes The top 4 players will advance to the Swiss stage. The players that are closest to qualifying (5th+) will be substitutes for the Prelims/Swiss Stage. Rules The official FAF Tournament Rules apply. Some of the most important of these rules are: Disconnects within 5 minutes may result in a rehost. The Tournament Director has the last say afterwards. Players will replay the same map if they draw. If the incorrect map is hosted, the correct map will be hosted and the incorrect map will not count towards the score Players who do not appear without valid reasoning will be given a warning that may result in being temporarily suspended from tournaments. If a player does not show up in Round 1, they may be replaced. For all subsequent rounds, it will be treated as a forfeit and they will be eliminated and not replaced. All participants will be allowed a 15-minute wait at the start of a tournament to show up however after this 15 minute wait the Tournament Direct has the right to disqualify you from the tournament. In the case where you will be late but do intend to arrive you need to message the Tournament Director preferably via Discord to inform them you will be late but will show up. When doing this please provide an approximate time delay until you arrive, it will then be the Tournament Directors decision whether than delay is too long or acceptable. The Tournament Director's decision is final. You can read the rest here: https://forum.faforever.com/assets/uploads/files/1685891393985-official-faf-tournament-rules.pdf Please make sure all lobbies are passworded and inform your opponents the password and casters if applicable. Signup If you would like to participate, go to the website below, login with your FAF credentials and sign up! https://tournaments.faforever.com/t/df343f8644 Signing up to multiple qualifiers is permitted. Signups will close at 14th November 13 UTC.

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    BlackYpsB
    We still need logs to investigate this

  • A place to talk about whatever you want

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    T
    I made this tool that might make it faster to copy/paste. If you share the Lua code that is. Thanks! https://forum.faforever.com/topic/10444/template-workshop-tool

  • Got a question? Ask away!

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    Brutus5000B
    We had rented a global 3rd party TURN relay service. It got maliciously abused and we had to disable. The costs went from 100$ to 600$ per month.

  • For people who want to add more stuff to FAF

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    M
    Hi, thank you for working on this You may have seen my answer on HN. I tried this on Linux, it seems to be working fairly well. I haven't launched it for long. This is a quick list of the issues I found, I have to go to bed, so I can't test more thoroughly right now: "Exit to windows" is not appropriate in the menu when not running on windows Multi-monitor works well (even detected my monitors on Wayland), but: Why not allow windowed mode on the secondary display? Is it really necessary to restart the game when changing video options? It was not clear to me what the other options did. To simplify usage, would it be possible to add a button to open a new window? This would open a floating window (PiP), with controls to detach it from the game window, pin, resize it, tile, etc. It may be interesting to have a different unit selection per-screen, with the HUD interface, etc: one screen focused on your base, the other on the battlefield You could have a look at the following script to locate the SC:FA folder, it worked well for me (flatpak Steam, library in a secondary disk). It also puts faf data in $HOME/.faforever (xdg dirs would be better) One of my friends (on windows) had an empty window after clicking "Multiplayer LAN" I am on sway (Wayland), the join code was not copied to the clipboard. Pasting works fine. I had a crash when joining another game, it should at least be an in-game message if the map is missing (ideally transmit it, of course): 2026-10-24T23:06:42.394883Z ERROR rts_core_engine: engine start failed: runtime error: scenario /maps/sentina iii.v0001/sentina iii_scenario.lua is not in the VFS: pass a VFS path like /maps/<folder>/<name>_scenario.lua (vault maps need --vault <dir>) No stats for unit-related data such as units built, etc. production numbers kept blinking when changing quickly, which is annoyingly attentions grabbing it seems to me that the window content (ground textures, etc) was being stretched when I full screened the window (using a DE shortcut). I didn't double check, but it looked like the window aspect ratio affected the textures' aspect ratio. status bar info (ticks/s mostly I think) keeps shifting the pause button left/right, I think some values could use fixed-width printing (padding left with spaces) We'll try to run an actual multiplayer game soon to check this out. Looking forward to the source code release

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