That seems about the same rate of success custom games have lol. I swear it's 1 re for every 3 attempts but we are all FAF crackheads who aren't overly bothered by it 😉

I haven't been huge into ladder over the years but in the last few weeks I played a lot before I left country for work and I felt that ladder had been connecting fairly reliably.

I recommend keeping your spirits up and just sticking with it. A few times when a ladder game didn't reconnect I immediately rejoined que and seemed to get matched with the same group and had some great games.

AI uses TML very well to pick off valuable targets, so you really don't want them to set up. It's going to take proactive scouting to find where they are and some quick bomber or gunship strikes to take them out.

Defensively, the upside is that T2 TMD is relatively cheap and can be spammed, but if you're playing for map control you clearly can't defend everything, so going on the offensive is better.

Alternate option: Play cybran and get T3 loyalist bots ASAP and watch those missiles bounce back to the launchers that sent them. lol

Update: This post helped nab a great player who has been a hoot to have with us, so I figure it's worth a bump a month later to try again.

We also have a couple new players that we've gotten into the game, so there's some fresh meat mixed in as they learn to GIT GUD.

But averaging 5-8 players on Friday nights and we'd love to bump that up to 6-10, so if you're a fun person who loves the game win or lose, and who enjoys pivoting to some novelty modes like PhantomX and King of the Hill when we have odd numbers, give me a reply or a PM.

Friendly reminder from last night to wait until battleships pass overhead before firing your Billy Backpack from underwater. lol

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Good to hear that it's working now!

looking forward to the guides!

hello, second account here to prove i am nuggets

@kdrafa91 You can just compress the Notifications mod folder and send only the mod. The mod folder for Notifications is called "reminder".

@RakeAnomander Mantis lost its bot icon shape for the tank icon shape a while back, but aside from that I don't think there are many such things because most types of units ("what they are") correctly corresponds to what it's good against. UEF destroyer is just an outlier because it has really weak torpedoes due to the existence of the cooper. In theory it can be confusing but people never faction mix coopers + other faction destros.

An icon change we can draw parallels to was Brick/Percy getting the "x" symbol instead of the directfire "+" symbol to differentiate from Loyalist/Titan (12 years ago). Nobody would disagree with this change, and having separate cooper/valiant icons is a similar case.

100$k dollars is not even gonna cut it. If remember correctly Visionik was willing to offer much more for the rights to the game and he still heard no.
There's also no reason for Linus to buy the IP or anything. If anything I think he would be more inclined with simply helping FAF do it's thing as a non-profit community project rather than try wrestling with Square enix for the rights to the IP and shit.

@IndexLibrorum i must have been mistaken then, was sure i got blocked from unpausing a few times. That's one problem less ig.

Before making a somewhat lenghty explanation as to what i think the problem is, i'd like to make sure i'm not starting from a wrong assumption: in ladder (and even custom unless people decide to change the setting) everyone has 3 pauses, right? If not, what's the current system like?

i have not watched either, but it is not just sera transports, it is just bigger transports may not drop in smaller areas

@Sturmgewehr said in Current connection problems (Preferred Coturns for ICE):

Are they all self-hosted except for GLOBAL? So the servers at Hetzner like Germany 1 or Finland?

Yes. All coturn servers except global are self hosted. Global can be either Xirsys or Cloudflare depending on our configuration right now.

@Sturmgewehr said in Current connection problems (Preferred Coturns for ICE):

During a test (as host -> lobby) I once tried to block all coturn server connections locally (firewall), so that players can only connect directly to me, to roughly understand how much delay / lag / connection problems coturn servers generate.
Couldn't do this though, as once I blocked all coturn servers, I couldn't create a lobby or join other lobbies (tried this several times and with very few players in them to exclude any existing coturn server connections).
I wonder if this is a bug in the software and it is never assumed here that there are simply no coturn servers?

Yes, blocking all coturns for FAF is not a smart move 😛
The ICE protocol requires coturn. If you block all coturns the ICE adapter can only gather your local ip addresses. Since everybody uses a router in between, this will never reveal your public ip to others. And even if it could, it would still be required for hole-punching (you send data out on the port, so your firewall accepts incoming traffic on that port).

Btw: No match worked yesterday. But since the coturn servers Finland is no longer in the list (off?), it works quite well.

Coincidence.

I cannot recommend Hetzner for DDoS protection.

Yes I am quite pissed at Hetzner right now. It's not just their lack of DDoS handlng, is also there basically useless hardware firewall setup from the 90s. You can setup exactly 10 rules and each rule only takes on ip-range. That is not even sufficient to whitelist all cloudflare ip addresses.

I have personally had the best experience with OVH.

FAF used to run on OVH at the very beginning. It was very unreliable. Also we are talking about the one company that had a whole datacenter burn down so far.

Hetzner has incredible good pricing for dedicated machines. But the rest slowly goes to shit.

@TheWeakie I uh, genuinely didn't know you could do this, fair enough.

I think i got this too today, 2 players from enemy team just went quiet at the same time, we won by dc. Tho it happened only once, all the other games were fine.

@fires123 Half an year ago