Hello everyone,
before I start with the newest Development Report for the Unit Pack of this Project.
I want to Inform you about the Situation to upload the recent Version 2.0.2 of the Commander Survival Kit on the FAF Modvault.

As you know I have contact @Brutus5000 a few Weeks ago related to my Upload Problem of the Mod.
I have get this following answer from him:

"Hi there, I am sorry to tell you that we are under a 100mb upload limit since we had to hide all web service behind cloudflare to protect ourselves from DDoS - even in the pro version we are paying for. There is no affordable way to raise this limit. And since the DDoS is still running on other services, we have no time to come up with alternative solutions."

In other Words the recent Version 2.0.2 and any following Versions of the Commander Survival Kit can not be uploaded on the FAF Modvault until the upload llmit is increased by the FAF Team in the future. So the only way to get the newest Version of the Mod is to download it from its official Moddb Page: https://www.moddb.com/mods/commander-survival-kit-csk/downloads. As soon as the upload limit is increased by the FAF Team in the future, I will of course upload the mod to the FAF Modvault. 😉

Development Report for the Unit Pack of this Project

These following new Units are now available in Early Access on Github.
They are included in the Unit Pack/Mod: Commander Survival Kit Units

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'CROWS Humwee Mark II' - Tech 2 Armored Assault Scout

The most recent Version of the UEF Humwee Military Vehicle Series.
This Unit is armed with an Gatling Turret and comes with an new Toggleable Ability:

Anti Tactical Missile System

Once activated the Gatling Turret of this Vehicle is able to shot down incoming Tactical Missiles.
However the Turret will no longer be able to fire on Ground Targets anymore.
So this Ability should be used wisly. Design and Model is created by strutman

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'Terminator Mark III Version A' - Tech 3 Assault Tank Bot
One of the most modern Tank Bot Designs of the Cybrans.
It armed with 4 Laser Cannons

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'Exterminator Mark I-B Version N' - Tech 3 Anti Naval Tank Bot

A armored Tank Bot, which is armed with these following Weapons:

8x Torpedo Launchers 2x Rapid Fire Secondary Laser Cannon Turrets

The Torpedo Launchers are able to fire Land-based Torpedos on Land.
Make sure to move them close to the coast.
Additionally this Unit is an amphibious Unit and can move on Seabed.
The Torpedo Launchers will automatically switch to Underwater Torpedos once the Unit is under the Water Surface.

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"Hunter Killer Mark IV" - Elite Super Heavy Tank Bot
A large armored slow moving Tank Bot which is basically an movable Fortress.
Can currently only used on Land but if wished he can be changed to an amphibious Unit.
It is armed with these following Weapons:

2x Heavy Laser Cannon Turrets (2 Cannons per each Turret) for Long Distances 2x Medium Laser Cannon Turrets (Single Cannon) for Medium Distances 4x Light Rapid Fire Laser Cannons Turrets (Single Cannon) for close combat.

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'R-1 Terrorizer' - Tech 3 Ambush Tank Bot
A Prototype of an new Tank Bot Series, which is designed to operate behind Enemy lines.
The Tank bot is armed with 2 Rapid Fire Laser Cannons with an good Damage Output bit with an small Range.
It comes with an build in Cloaking Device which can be used to Hide the Tank Bot against enemy units.
However once the Cloaking Device has been activated the Tank bot will not be able to use its Turrets.
So you will need to disable the Cloaking Device again to let him fire on enemy Units.

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'Exterminator Mark II Version A' - Advanced Gatling Tank Bot
An improved and larger Version of the Exterminator Mark I Tank Bot Series
It is armed with two Laser Gatling Cannons and two Medium Laser Cannons

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'Lokinator' - Tech 3 Heavy Mobile Stealth Field Generator
A large Tank with comes with an mounted Stealth Field Generator
Additionally this Vehicle has access to an Secondary Laser Turret for self Defense purposes
The Unit is also an amphibious Tank.

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Note:
The Tank Bot Designs are based on several Tank Bot Designs from the Terminator Franchise.

Of course more new Units are coming
So stay tuned for Updates
Best regards
CDRMV

In steam FA you can ctrl + right click to issue a formation order instantly but FAF removed that with an engine patch, and now you only have the option of holding right click to begin issuing a formation move order. You can also formation attack move by holding alt alongside right click.

Formation move is useful if you don't have the apm to keep your army in formation while moving across the map (this is not that often) but you need to because you have different speed units or need shields (snipers). You can also use formation move in place to quickly get your units into formation with a desired orientation. Some sandboxing shows it can be better than normal move orders when attacking because while it does make your units move slower, it guarantees way less bumping, so overall more units get into range faster and stay in range.

Try to change your default browser and try to log in again. If still does not work: check if security is blocking anything.

Thanks Nomander! It is working now.

Update 21.Apr.2025 (v26)

Added Annotations (MrRowey) Speed up functions (MrRowey) Fixed CreateProjectileAtMuzzle hooks by returning the projectile to parent function Unit bea0402 (Experimental Aerial Fortress) now has a dummy weapon to attack enemies directly below. Unit bea0402 (Experimental Aerial Fortress) changed UISelection from tank to air unit

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/8658/нужна-помощь-не-могу-зайти-в-фаф-код-ошибки-в-тексте It might help

@magge OK so....after a lot of testing I think I have narrowed the issue down to 2 mods. "Rings For All" and "UI mod tools"

The random freezing while zooming in and out would almost happen many times during an average game (even if it didnt completely freeze and crash) and that effect is nowhere present when those two mods are disabled and zero crashes now or anything for many dozens of games.

For my part I have no skills to investigate this further but it does seem like there are a lot of people complaining about mid game crashing so maybe this is related.

I am able to use my favorite icon packs again with zero issue, the only bummer for me is not having Rings For All active because that is an amazing mod but build range preview has been working fine so everything is back to normal in FAF world for me.

Thanks for steering me in the right direction.

If anyone else is crashing mid game and you have either of these 2 mods enabled try disabling them and reassessing.

Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException

Your security software is blocking access, or you do not have permission to access certain files, so FAF can not update properly.

I see nothing related to AI that could cause an error. Please enable the debugger in FAF settings, reproduce the issue and post the new log.

However, I see:

warning: SND: XACT3DApply failed.

which will cause issues. Possible fixes: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/4084/solutions-for-snd-error-xact-invalid-arg-xact3dapply-failed/1?_=1701727567076

but does not work with Supreme Score board 2 😞

I've identified the issue, there will be a fix.

What is the development team doing?!

Server has been having issues all day. This is not caused by anything on your side.

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.

That is correct. In order to figure out that information you’d have to run the replay through the actual game simulation (I.e. watch the replay). You could probably create some sort of mod that would dump that info out while the replay is running, but I’m not very familiar with that side of things. A mod like that might even exist already.

I guess game doesn't like your username. Consider making a user with name made of only ASCII characters.

looking forward to the guides!

@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?