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  • 393 Topics
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    Buff brick DPS 295 -> ~304, returning 50% of the DPS it lost after the last nerf (down from 312.5) because: the nerf's goal was to make brick weaker vs Percy, and now Percy is strong vs brick, so there is space to buff the DPS the nerf's goal was to make brick weaker vs othuum/harb, and while in a 1-unit-composition matchup this nerf made it more fair per mass, the brick needs to be more unfair because their lack of shields makes sniper DPS and Ythotha AoE very strong. Their stats also struggle to beat GC/ythotha + harb/othuum compositions a bit too much, which makes getting Megalith too difficult. Monkeylord is not good against GC/Ythotha at all, so mega is required to fight those T4s efficiently without just winning hard in T2 and getting an overpowering army at later T3. Add the Pulsar, which is the unreleased cybran T3 long range anti shield unit. It was wanted by old balance team, then it got delayed and eventually canceled by Rhaelya looking for an alternative solution before adding new units. Since no alternatives have been proposed and I don't see what would work better, I think the unit should finally be added. It solves the shieldless arty's low DPS against snipers and the struggle against mid-late gun coms that OC all your bricks if you try to attack anything while easily tanking with shield upgrades and mobile shields. Make firebeetles jump at enemies. it looks cool and fits the theme makes them hit in the middle of unit clumps more consistently, including on attack move/attack orders. reduces pathfinding needed increases their effective attack range The jump range in my prototype is around 5, which is the current detonation trigger range, and is small compared to any gun (LABs have 14 range). I think after the last nerf beetle is pretty good for gameplay but is a little weak because it dies very easily, especially at T3 stage, if you don't have basically equal unit counts and are in range to tank for the beetles, so that's why I'm interested in trying this new mechanic as a straight buff.
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    CrofisC
    @Deribus 3 years and still no implementation? Keep it up harder then! XD
  • How many Aeon players are there in the balance team?

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    MostLostNoobM
    Just tip the balance to the [image: 1710697877736-faf-random.jpg] faction since that's the best faction already. Problem solved.
  • sim speed

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    Depending on the ammount of AI's and units even the beefiest CPU's are gonna struggle. But the reality is that the game is much, much smoother on new CPU's compared to older ones. Especially if you focus on single core performance over the amount of cores. So high clocked 6 core or something with 3D cache would be amazing for this game. As what it needs is basically 2 cores, with one of them being ultra fast. Having good ram also helps a considerable amount.
  • I can not enter

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    MostLostNoobM
    GLHF!
  • I am in the wrong?

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    waffelzNoobW
    @ftxcommando said in I am in the wrong?: me rushing 1st air fac 6 engies transport from senton beach to drop my air player mexes (this is legal and not throwing) The faster a team secures their mexes, the better. Is there a problem?
  • Game-enders that end games

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    @ftxcommando I didn't want to invent control points
  • Ok, I tried, good luck. I really liked this game

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    @phong Thanks!
  • Matchmaker teamgames notification?

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  • What is going on with FAF?

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    @brutus5000 said in What is going on with FAF?: Please guys. If you want to donate for the cause of FAF that is fine. But don't donate and expect and problems to be resolved in return. This is not something we can guarantee. Absolutely understood. I suppose the better term I should have used is support rather than donate... Support can come in many forms, financial, skill set, or even just positive attitude. All I can do is bring a positive attitude and support the developers by not whining and complaining about the state of FAF every time I log on and I am more than happy to donate financially to a game that I care so much about and spend so much time playing. It's clear from this thread there is no easy fix so I'm not going to expect the few hundred dollars that I donate a year to instantly change that but it might go towards ensuring our tournaments at FAFLive continue to have great turnouts due to respectable prize pools and that the lights stay on so to speak. As great as my skill set is in my own life and career it is completely useless for what is required here at FAF but it brings me joy to be able to support financially.
  • Custom Campaigns borderline impossible solo?

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    MostLostNoobM
    @flankker Those 3 that you mentioned are WIP & are Unreleased. @greenkiller56 was kind enough to edit the list in the #getting-started channel to include the download links to the latest versions of each map that is currently released.
  • Connection failure like no other

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    Brutus5000B
    Well, it's not like there is a company that guarantees to solve our connection issues for 10.000$. If there were, we would take such an offer for sure. But that's like hiring an engineer for 10-15 days. Barely enough time to understand the existing code and finding the root cause, far away from fixing it.
  • UI mod idea: Custom select all

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    Yes you probably want to use smartselect. Here's an example: ['Select mobile land direct fire units on screen'] = { order = 8, action = 'UI_Lua import("/lua/keymap/smartSelection.lua").smartSelect ("+inview +excludeengineers MOBILE LAND DIRECTFIRE OVERLAYDIRECTFIRE -SCOUT")', category = 'All land onscreen' }, Put that in your game.prefs file in the UserKeyActions section (back up before you edit it in case you mess it up). You should then be able to define a key in game. Ideally you don't want identical order values in the same category (I think this might cause issues but I'm not 100% sure). You can also use the 'idle' descriptor and you can also add or eliminate specific units using a portion of their unit name e.g. -ura0401 eliminates the soul ripper from the selection. There is more info in the link Nex provided. In order to make your own you may need to look at this file: https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/master/engine/Core/Categories.lua which lists all the categories, and perhaps extract (unzip) the unit.nx2 file which can be found in C:\ProgramData\FAForever\gamedata (or whatever drive you have FAForever on). You can then find the categories for all units in their blue prints (.bp files). Or use a text editor which can search within files such as Notepad++ or VScode (or a command line utility) to find all the units which match a specific category you are interested in.
  • Winning is Detrimental

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    NoRest4TheWickedN
    @melanol Feel that 100%
  • Is there access to the game API to obtain certain data?

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    ThomasHiattT
    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.
  • Ethereal FAF Client 2.0

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    nine2N
    looks very pretty
  • why so many duel gap lobbies?

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    IndexLibrorumI
    @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.
  • Thank You and Parting Gift to FAF

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    QuantumTyphoonQ
    Never could remember who you are. Thank you.
  • Issues using cheats to practice

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    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!
  • Why is this game so big in Russia/Ukraine?

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    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 [image: 1706864636266-2442c4a4-c90d-42bf-9d3a-aefdebf04b83-image.png] 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 [image: 1706868219353-2586f416-40a0-4c45-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.
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    MostLostNoobM
    @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
  • mods v vanilla

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    ZLOZ
    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