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  • Personal Trainer Meeting | 16/02/25

    Hey everyone, the Personal Trainer team had another meeting to discuss some important changes that will be coming soon, particularly to the FAF Wiki! Please read them below if you're interested in what those proposed changes are:

    
    Aim:
    
    - make wiki formatting consistent and modernised, including the FAF Home Page
    - Sera suggests 4 big rectangles (1v1 2v2 3v3 and teamgames), helps clarify and make it more clear, hence reformatting the whole page
    - keep getting feedback from people who have no idea about FAF.
    - Video guides will take priority to showcase a more proactive approach to new players, with text guides being written in the background to ensure future proofing.
    - Increased promotions of the wiki
    - Put some ‘alternative’ training resources onto the wiki (Dojo, Strydxr Tournament Discord)
    - Razana suggests a quickstart guide to help new players when they read the wiki, allowing for an easier learning period when they first start FAF, Dwarf Fortress quick start guide for reference, merge with willow’s video idea to create a good written guide and a good video guide, covering both basis)
    - All welcome lobbies are less prevalent, could Trainer utilise this? 
    
    
    
    Proposed Format for the Learning Supcom wiki webpage:
    
    1. Essential Beginner Information (openers, Basic decision-making and APM. Unit Orders. FAF Guide – in depth explanations of basic faf concepts) (Willow suggests making this into a video, probably with chapters to help new players remain attentive and willing to move onto the next categories) 
    2. In-Game Basics (Economy Management, Hotkey Guide, UI Mods Guide)
    3. 1v1 Guides
    4. Trainer Resources | Replay Reviews, Training Chat, The Dojo
    5. Popular Maps | Setons, Dualgap, Astro Crater
    6. Self-Improvement (Integrating reclaim, transport rush, replay self analysis) 
    
    
    
    1v1 Guides (Option One)
    Beginner (0-500) | General 1v1 Guide
    Intermediate (500-1000) | General 1v1 Guide
    
    1v1 Guides (Option Two)
    Beginner Concepts to a new 1v1 player
    Com Micro?
    Map concepts | 5x5, 10x10, 20x20
    Map Breakdowns (Like Petric used to make)
    [19:05]
    Part 2
    
    
    Game Modes (Option 1)
    1v1 (branch off to a 1v1 guide list)
    2v2 (same with 1v1)
    3v3 (same with 1v1)
    4v4 (same with 1v1)
    5v5+ (same with 1v1)
    
    Game Modes (Option 2)
    1v1
    Small Teamgames (2v2 / 3v3)
    Big Teamgames (4v4+)
    
    Attendees:
    Strydxr 
    Seraphim-Noob
    Razana 
    WillowWisppsi
    Judoka
    

    If you have any feedback or suggestions, regardless of player rank or contribution bias, please do post it here. It means a lot to us in the Trainer Team! 🙂

    posted in General Discussion
  • RE: Friends / Foe list location

    The API can return the list, the client just needs to show it.

    posted in Game Issues and Gameplay questions
  • RE: Coop missions intermittent lag

    @Phoenix_NZ What is the spec, both CPU and GPU of the user with issues?

    posted in Game Issues and Gameplay questions
  • RE: Friends / Foe list location

    There is no way to do this now in the client. There is a pending feature request https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/issues/3168

    posted in Game Issues and Gameplay questions
  • RE: Coop missions intermittent lag

    Do you run the campaign with any mods enabled? If so, try turning those off. In other cases, please try and see if you can make a recording of the behavior. Also observe your task manager. Is the resource usage spiking, as an example?

    posted in Game Issues and Gameplay questions
  • RE: Im being DDoSed when FAF Client is running

    I can verify that the person responsible behind the DDoS claimed to target individual player ips to.

    We are working on measures to mitigate this issue, but it will take time.

    Until then tell your ISP that they need to protect you from DDoS not the other way round. It's 2025 and every bad actor can pull this off as soon as they get your ip...

    posted in Game Issues and Gameplay questions
  • u1100 1v1 Tournament III

    Tournament: u1100 1v1 Tournament III
    Tournament Dates: 14/3 at 15:00UTC
    Tournament Director: Strydxr

    Challonge: https://challonge.com/a6n105xq
    IRC: #u1100
    Coverage: TBA

    Rewards:
    eaf29f58-7b58-403f-8b73-b8888ea7d13d-image.png which will be held by the winner until the next u1100 tournament.

    Tournament Format:
    Following the trend of u1100 tournaments, this will be a Single Elimination Best of 3 style tournament.

    Rules:
    Disconnects may result in a rehost <5 mins, but afterwards the Tournment Director has the last say.
    Players will replay the same map if they draw.
    If the incorrect map is host, the correct map will be hosted and the incorrect map will not count towards score
    Players who no show without valid reasoning may be temporarily suspended from tournaments.
    If a player doesn't show up in R1 they may be replaced, Otherwise after R1 it will be treated as a forfeit and they will be eliminated and not replaced.
    The Tournament Director's decison is final.

    Map Pool:
    tbd

    Players Signed up:
    PatientOwl
    Ktosiek
    Nyx
    Aeternis
    ZYKLON

    posted in Tournaments
  • RE: FAF Tournament Team Update 2025

    Yooo, this guy is ripping off the Trainer Team!!

    posted in Tournaments
  • FAF Tournament Team Update 2025

    Hey everyone, as you might have noticed there's been some recent changes to the Tournament Team, which includes Tournament Directors, Senior TD's and the Team Lead. This post is here to give everyone an idea what's been going on behind the scenes.

    As you may know, NOC stepped down from the Team Lead role after the LOTS 2024 tournament and I was elected as the new Team Lead. I'll take this chance to introduce myself to those that don’t know me; I started playing FAF when I was 11 after seeing some Gyle casts. Very quickly into my FAF experience, I started participating in tournaments and joined the GB clan in 2014 where I made a lot of my early FAF memories. As the years went by, I saw myself joining plenty of tournaments, albeit not with a lot of success. Regardless, I very much enjoyed participating in the competitive circuit. As time went on, I improved quite a bit and even ended up competing in some of the bigger tournaments with players I never imagined I could compete with. At some point, I joined the tournament team, hosting various blitz tournaments, including my favourite kind: 2v2s! After a few years of inactivity I came back and re-joined the team near the end of 2024.

    The first thing I did as lead was to go on a recruiting spree. I looked for people that I knew had the best intentions and wanted FAF to thrive. Those people are: Nuggets, Strydxr, Vindex, Sainse and Paradox_Of_War - what about other people on the team?. All of them had various different experiences with FAF, which I firmly believe are important for the community. Recently I announced my senior TD’s - Rhaelya and Strydxr, who also happen to be Team Leads on their own (Balance and Trainer).

    We've had multiple very productive team meetings, with the goal of improving tournaments and the competitive circuit that, we feel, were not up to par in recent times.

    In our first meeting, we definitely had a lot to discuss. The topics covered were;

    • The reviewing of the current ruleset
    • Outlining the budget for the year
    • Tournament ban and warning system
    • Re-organising the forum
    • Reflection on tournaments so far
    • Substitute prize rights
    • Planned tournaments for the year

    After a long-winded meeting, we discussed the path going forward, and so the second meeting looked like;

    • Discussing transparency of the team
    • Avatars and custom avatars
    • Collaboration with the other teams
    • What makes a tournament a FAF official tournament
    • A mid-year LOTS equivalent importance 2v2 tournament (Potentially a trophy included)
    • 1v1 circuit and Invitationals
    • Other future tournament plans
    • The creation of tournament guides
    • Standardising and rewriting important tournament forum information

    For the past 3 months the Tournament Team had been working hard to give back to the community that we love. We have made a lot of progress and hope to continue to do so in the future.

    Before I became Team Lead, I had always dreamt of hosting a prominent annual tournament in FAF. I’m pleased to inform you all that there will be a big 2v2 tournament coming at the end of May and start of June. I’m planning on having a large prize pool and even including some sort of physical trophy. Hope to see you all there!

    posted in Tournaments