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Developers Iteration III of 2023

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    veteranashe @Ctrl-K
    last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 13:07

    @azath0th said in Developers Iteration III of 2023:

    I'm not being hostile. I'm being criticizing. You are giving us an incomplete and uncomfortable to use feature for one that was working. And you also remove it from units because it haven't fit your code vision. Megalith will not be able to reclaim battlefield and czar won't be able to produce support air forces until you decide to complete it.

    Jip has done more for faf that anyone I have personally seen and possibly more than anyone has done, I trust the dude to do it in a timely manner.

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      Ctrl-K @veteranashe
      last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 13:13

      @veteranashe It doesnt mean he is allowed to do whatever he wants without agreement

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        veteranashe
        last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 13:35

        Well that's a very interesting statement because if I recall correctly mobile factories have been talked about quite a bit over the years and recently so I would guess behind the scenes, I don't go on discord, it was planned to do something. If we restrict on what devs do the game would be the same as it was in 2007.

        Someone has to make changes in the game.

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          Ctrl-K
          last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 13:48

          I like the changes @Jip done to this game. I really appreciate his efforts. But this one is raw and must be reiterated imho. It is not user friendly.

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            Paralon
            last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 14:12

            Very important and interesting changes, thank you for the work done. But I would like to clarify what is the need to update the work of mobile factories in parts, while temporarily removing them from the game for czar and mega. If you don't want to break user experience then why not just wait till everything is ready. I guess this is absolutely wrong approach, you can’t do changes like this because of development status, this is completely players experience breaking. You need to prove your point and make some voting among the players

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              FtXCommando @Jip
              last edited by FtXCommando 27 Aug 2023, 14:22

              @jip said in Developers Iteration III of 2023:

              I honestly didn't know that people used the Megalith to reclaim wrecks. I've never seen it happen, but it surely works. To jump into your suggestion, giving the Megalith a reclaim ability is possible and we can add the effects or an animation to make it look more 'believable'. I'm fine either way.

              It specifically got nerfed in BP because it used to reclaim a GC in like 5 seconds. Reclaim fields were nonexistent with megas. This was like a 2017 change, though.

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                veteranashe
                last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 14:39

                Voting among the players would be the worst option

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                  snoog
                  last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 14:50

                  Sometimes I think Jip should just stop posting any news at all bc of all the shitposting he gets in return.

                  People have been asking for years for the mobile factories to be fixed, he's doing it. And two of the them aren't ready yet. What the fuck is the problem with you guys? So much entitlement.

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                    Paralon @veteranashe
                    last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 14:51

                    @veteranashe so it might be a certain group of players

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                      Paralon @snoog
                      last edited by Paralon 27 Aug 2023, 14:52

                      @snaggs did u ever play equilibrium? There was just the same solution but no one wanted to implement it in the game. The problem is that you can't release a product that isn't fully ready imho

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                        Jip @Paralon
                        last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 15:18

                        @paralon said in Developers Iteration III of 2023:

                        Very important and interesting changes, thank you for the work done. But I would like to clarify what is the need to update the work of mobile factories in parts, while temporarily removing them from the game for czar and mega. If you don't want to break user experience then why not just wait till everything is ready. I guess this is absolutely wrong approach, you can’t do changes like this because of development status, this is completely players experience breaking. You need to prove your point and make some voting among the players

                        Have you tried the new implementation? I'd love to see the replay id where you did.

                        Yesterday I did five sessions with five different people. You can find them on the vault:

                        • https://replay.faforever.com/20660898
                        • https://replay.faforever.com/20660351
                        • https://replay.faforever.com/20660146
                        • https://replay.faforever.com/20657299
                        • https://replay.faforever.com/20657084

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                        Of course, people need to get used to the fact that the factory module is now a separate unit. But we can't get around that, it is just how the engine works. Once they realized that it was fine, and it worked the way they expected it to work. To sum it up:

                        • You can (manually) select the factory module by clicking behind the out, outside of the unit. See also the screenshot
                        • You can do what you can do with a normal factory: queue units, issue rally points, pause it, etc
                        • Opponents or observers can not select or target the factory module, to them there is just a Fatboy / Tempest / etc
                        • You can use any existing hotkey that interacts with factories to select / manage the factory modules
                        • Pausing the main unit will also pause the factory module
                        • The progress bar of the main unit is updated as units are built

                        As I mentioned here in response to @magge the solution is of course not perfect yet. I'd love for it to be more complete, but it is not at this time. But calling it 'raw' is far from the truth.

                        A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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                          Paralon @Jip
                          last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 16:07

                          @jip yep this is still very impressive improvement of the game. Perhaps not quite accurately expressed, I meant maybe we can wait with release new features before mega and czar will be ready? My point is this is wrong to remove some game mechanics for a while

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                            Jip
                            last edited by Jip 27 Aug 2023, 17:55

                            @Paralon The balance team happened to have a meeting and I asked their opinion. We've re-instated the Megalith the way it was, it can build but not move at the same time, like the current behavior in the release branch. Also adds in the standard Cybran drone fx for building. See also:

                            • https://github.com/FAForever/fa/pull/5367

                            With regards to the CZAR, the balance team agreed to wait with re-introducing the mobile factory aspect until the implementation is finished. It can still be used as a carrier.

                            I hope this settles it for you too @Ninrai .

                            And I agree with what @BlackYps wrote. Specifically the forums are often toxic towards contributors that do their best to improve the experience as they see fit. I too am here to improve the FAForever experience. I do that for more hours each week then I'd like to admit to. I've been doing that for more than two years now. I'm open to suggestions and discussions. But please, keep it civil and constructive. I'll respond in kind. Assumptions are the death of any discussion.

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                              Paralon
                              last edited by Paralon 27 Aug 2023, 18:54

                              @jip thank you for response, never wanted to devalue your work at all. I would suggest edit those lines, because its kinda confusing:
                              The following units lose their mobile factory capabilities:
                              Megalith (Cybran Megabot)

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                                Jip
                                last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 19:04

                                Adjusted it 👍 , I forgot about it 🙂

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                                  veteranashe
                                  last edited by 27 Aug 2023, 20:18

                                  I believe, at least with the Fatboy, once built you will set a repeat queue of units and leave that part alone, you will just have to move around the rally point.

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                                    Xanoxis @Jip
                                    last edited by Xanoxis 29 Aug 2023, 09:18

                                    @jip When I look at those pictures of new shaders, they look gorgeous, but like with all games that use repeating textures, I wonder if it's possible to improve the look of them on the zoom out? Are there any plans for making textures less visibly repeating, at least mostly for the ground?

                                    Something like those methods - https://blog.unity.com/technology/procedural-stochastic-texturing-in-unity

                                    Implementing some sort of 'noise' for those textures would not be costly, but improve the look of game a lot in the long run.

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                                      Jip @Xanoxis
                                      last edited by 29 Aug 2023, 09:26

                                      Yes, there is an experimental shader written by @BlackYps that explores the possibilities to 'hide' the repetition. It is not production ready, but we hope to start a test trial later this year. I have no screenshots at the moment to show the results so far.

                                      Other possibilities (outside of the shader) is to toy with mip maps and reduce the 'repeating' factors as you load in smaller and smaller mip maps. This is what Supreme Commander does with a lot of the stratum textures that ship with the game.

                                      @xanoxis said in Developers Iteration III of 2023:

                                      Implementing some sort of 'noise' for those textures would not be costly, but improve the look of game a lot in the long run.

                                      We're limited by the old shader model (2.0) that the game uses, including an instruction (256) and texture read (16, I think) limit. That is why working on the shaders can be a struggle, all the modern and limitless shaders are out of our reach.

                                      You sound like you have experience with shaders. Would you like to contribute? We could always use more help

                                      A work of art is never finished, merely abandoned

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                                        Sycube @Jip
                                        last edited by 29 Aug 2023, 17:22

                                        @jip said in Developers Iteration III of 2023:

                                        The following units lose their mobile factory capabilities:

                                        CZAR (Aeon Experimental Carrier)

                                        why to impoverished strategic options?

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                                          clyf @Sycube
                                          last edited by 29 Aug 2023, 20:02

                                          @sycube

                                          It's a temporary measure until it can be implemented.

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