@Band228 As a quick workaround you could use a free VPN like Proton.

So I'm starting to think, if you read it like that, they jump through the lobbies, collect the IPs (logs / Wireshark) of the players and then DDoS them. And so you have a 12 player match destroyed quite quickly.

Players don't change their IPs that often, 24-hour forced disconnection hardly exists anymore, so the IP remains the same for most private connections until the router is restarted.

That's not so far-fetched. There was a time when they went through the lobbies and crashed them with a ?bug? (I don't know if they were the same ones).

@Brutus5000 Couldn't you force all connections to be established via relay (global) and prevent all P2P connections so that the private IPs don't appear anywhere (as with a VPN)? Might be worth a try.

@Purban said in Unable to save the game in offline mode:

To fix this, you need to find "/gamedata/lua.nx2". Create backup for safety and rename the file to "lua.zip", find and extract file "userInit.lua". Inside, find this line (should be near the top) "doscript '/lua/ui/globals/InternalSaveGame.lua'". Delete it or comment out, save the file and put back into lua.zip. Then rename it back to "lua.nx2". After doing this, saving and loading started to work again for me.

This does appear to have fixed the issue. Though it's worth being aware that this undoes the fix that caused the bug in the first place, and risks allowing code execution by exploting an overflow issue in the way the game handles save names.
Make sure you're using trusted mods if using this fix.

Great! You’re welcome!

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/8815/resolved-new-patch-unexpected-issue?_=1739784730612

https://forum.faforever.com/post/65015

Do you not get a popup message about "XACT3DApply" error, after the game crashed? The latest client should auto-detect such things.

All we know about xact-errors and their solutions: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4084/solutions-for-snd-error-xact-invalid-arg-xact3dapply-failed

Full reinstall includes: FAF, Supcom (on steam) and Java

Some months ago, I made a suggestion in the Discord FAF Game Development channel to at least have a notification in the team chat, when someone changes POV (from X to Y). Unfortunately, it got no traction, or it was simply too labor-intensive to make it happen back then.

My gut tells me (well, by watching random replays), the game-mode gets more and more popular and that is why some QOL additions are needed. I like the mode, and it would be amazing if it would be higher on the priority list.

So far, what is needed, IMO:

Notification in team chat when someone changes player POV Union-control should be opt-in, (like in WC3) and automatically enabled when the player dies/disconnects Bonus: Make it possible to see which units are getting controlled with a different unit selection color (like in WC3) and bug fix mentioned from above poster

I would blindly guess, the developers already were thinking of something like that, when they introduced the game-mode, but lack of time, or SC engine itself makes it complicated/impossible to make those features happen.

Yes, you are right. Thanks for the ping.

I still have no idea what 'recent change' causes the freezing/stuttering, nor do I know how to reproduce it. Hopefully, when more people report it, we find a pattern.

Same problem

@Treos thanks, did it with "Create a factory build queue template..." hotkey

@magge Thank you.

@magge
@Jip
it worked perfectly fine, thanks for your help guys !

@LeFleurBang

from now on you can also start the FAF version directly wihtout using the FAF launcher.

Just make an desktop shortcut of the file C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe
(ProgramData is a hidden folder!)

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The effects file highlighted appears to be the issue, and works with low success rate when deleting it, but mostly it just re-populates and throws the error again...

Been troubleshooting for HOURS at this point