Map hacks existed back in the GPGnet era. Somehow, I have never seen or heard of them again in my entire time on FAF. Surely some people somewhere must know of them though.

looks very pretty

@its_time_to_duel That's not been my experience. Whenever I play (afternoon/evening EU time) there's consistently 2-3 lobbies up with random gen maps.

Sure, there's plenty of people playing gap/astro etc, but you don't have to join those lobbies.

Never could remember who you are. Thank you.

That actually solved my problem!!!!! Thanks much...who would have guessed that NVIDIA would do such a dastardly thing to us poor unsuspecting FAF players. I can finally do something I have been trying to do for years!

Youtuber 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9a5jQfdK7E
2nd channel for supcom only https://www.youtube.com/@professionalsupreme
youtuber 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aNeiZsk3x0
3 https://www.youtube.com/@lenkin
4 https://www.youtube.com/@BassetH/search?query=Supreme commander
5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj_ubAd4j1Q

Then there is Sid, FAF_Putin, Robogear, Arthas, Finisterre, Paralon, Wifi, Blinchik, Bravo
also me 😄

Sid made a discord server for russians and groups in VK social network
there was some other group before that that had 4000+ subscribers despite being dead and admin gone

There were at least two websites about supreme commander in Russian

Thoreyed mentioned at #2 not just made few youtube videos, he was explaining how to get started, made VK groups and discord server and many people joined there.

this is kinda from 2021 but not super accurate
i manually searched for youtube channels that have featured supcom at least once
as you can see many of them are Russian
sorted by subscriber count
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as you can see few are bigger than Gyle and if you see subscriber counts now, Gyle didn't really grow afaik, while for example Lenkin is 130k or something

i don't exactly know why Russians like it, but they do and it had kickstarted a chain of events when Yuri The Professional was making supcom vids and people (especially me) were helping and encouraging to make more.
Eventually his tetris video got millions of views and people started clicking to see the channel and they found supcom videos

Edit:
i have surely forgot some people like Espiranto, Banani, Kite, SMT5015, demonstreamer and more
There is just to many of those small Russian youtube channels 2586f416-40a0-4c45-bab8-7638798c881c-image.png

Edit2: I might be wrong but the part of the answer why there are so many Russians is that randomly some famous Russian state propaganda guy reposted Yuri Ivanov video about tetris and his youtube channel blew up in popularity and before that tetris video he was making quite a few SupCom videos.

@threeballedalien In the FAF client, go to the top left menu > Settings:

General > Write ICE Log File > check, Forged Alliance Forever > Use FAF Debugger when starting Forged Alliance > check > click "Get the latest version of the debugger", Allow the ICE adapter to use IPv6 > unchecked, Preferred Coturns for ICE > select only Global,

Next, quit the client (check Task Manager). Once it's completely closed, open the client again & play.

The next time you join a game & have connection issues, click the Reply button at the bottom between the 👁 (View) icon & the "Mark unread" button. Next, please go to client > top left menu > Show logs folder > logs > sort by Date Modified, then drag/drop these files into the Reply message window so those that can help (not me) have that data to look at:

client.log file (the Text Document file without the date), ice-adapter.log & advanced-ice-adapter.log (both in a separate folder) the most recent game_21xxxxxx.log file

additional customisation of interface can give advantage.
additional options for hotkeys as well.

but for that you usually need to invest time to spend it in settings or get used to new hotkeys and interface.
some mods give advantage without any drawback.. like "no shake"
with ACU highligt you will never confuse sacu for ACU
i don't use to many of them to give more examples

But it is kinda more important that they make game easyer to play and more enjoyable.
While advantage from UI mods is not big and most UI mods are available for everyone.
just like you can go to settings and adjust stuff for yourself, you can go to mod vault and setup UI mods for yourself

@defiant said in Checkout Derp's Latest MEME CAST:

Checkout Derp's Latest MEME CAST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXLIt75ZpaQ getting over it

So funny 😂

Mac users don't play games on their Macs

So it's a waste of time to make games for them

Most game devs don't bother. It's so much extra work to increase sales by less than 1%

@derpfaf said in Play of the Year:

Hello,

I'm putting together a video with the top 5 plays from the ~200 or so replays i've watched this year.

These plays outright win the game, or hold off an otherwise game ending attack, or turn the tables on an opponent. These include a great defensive nuke, a teleporting UEF billy, a hilarious TML base, and some last minute all ins from an otherwise lost game.

I'll introduce them with some nice graphics, highlight some of the cool stuff that can happen in the game, and then set up a poll so people can vote for a winner.

What can i win: If this is popular or anyone cares, i'll fund a prize for the winner. Probably some digital art of the winner looking like a badass, or a FAF user ribbon if those are still a thing?

Why am i asking this?!
Inevitably the moment i post the video, 63 different people will appear with another game that and moment that could have been top 3, so this is your chance to post them here, or email me. Please Leave your replay, timestamp, and a couple of words to describe it.

Additional rule 1: Replay should be from 2023
Additional rule 2: No normal Telemazor snipes please.

ENTRIES CLOSE 25th JANUARY.

Thanks! ^^ play of the year titles.JPG tunnel rush forged alliance overwatch.JPG

Where is the registration?

I hope that there's some amount of attention paid to them, but I also understand that messing with them could demolish how the game currently plays.

@magge said in Kindergartener wording and design of the main page:

for whatever reason, the conversation veered off track into negativity

Yes, FAFers are quite the argumentative type lol

@funkoff said in Co-op improvement suggestions:

In my experience making missions, difficulty/challenge is a very hard thing to implement. Because FAF's economy is exponential, it's basically impossible to keep a consistent level of challenge without harshly punishing success. That is to say, it would be easy to simply nuke the player's base if they achieved more than 50 mass/sec income, and this would retain the challenge.... but it's also such a bastard, asshole move to do

If that is the biggest problem one could just disable SACUs and mass fabs on mission level.

https://github.com/FAForever/website/pull/540

Cos it's comfortable like an old shoe I guess, not very dynamic game play and no annoying (exciting) raiding. Never played it myself though so I'm projecting

No, it is not.

It requires the unit to stop moving. Using a separate unit for this (like we did with the mobile factories) does not work either because the landing procedure of the game does not take into account the idea that the landing platform can be moving. It will land where the platform was when the dock command was issued and then suddenly warp to where the landing platform actually is.

But having repair too good is bad anyway, since it'll only be worth it to repair buildings since you probably won't have the amount of engies in place to repair your front line units and they can't do anything useful while being repaired.

So repair is mostly a defensive tool and promoting turtling too much is bad if you want something to happen in your game instead of two sim city games next to each other.

Vet is bascially like repair, but promotes aggression and sudden vets also lead to more interesting moments.

"--num-to-generate X" to generate X map

An another must have option is "--terrain-symmetry" with X, Z or XZ if you like when the same rating plays directly against each over

--biome DESERT --num-to-generate 3 --terrain-symmetry Z --spawn-count 10 --map-size 640