What's the history of FAF?
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In the last few months i kept wondering about how FAF came to be the way it is now, i have pieces of the story, some names from old posts and discord chats. It's like having pieces of information while trying to reconstruct the puzzled lore of a soul-like game
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Figured that the best way would be to ask you guys.I know that after supcom came out, it was fairly popular, then the expansion forged alliance came, then gpg flopped with supcom 2 and stopped supporting the games (maybe this was around when the company failed? Watched an interview with chris taylor and read a few articles about it).
I've seen that in the old days supcom had some nice competitive scene, maybe not too big (none had at the time i think), but it looked similar to what CoD lans, with the old headphones and pcs in a dark room XD.
What i'm missing is:
When did FAF start? After the company failed? Before? Did it continue to support the game or it resurrected it from the grave?
Why/How did it start? Was it initially kind of like a group of friends who wanted to do something or the purpose was to keep the game alive as a community?
Who created it? Who are the initial members? Where are they now?
How did you guys manage to do this from scratch?Bonus point: what are the future projects?
I hear people talking about how the community is struggling here and there, what's the "official" state of things and how is it going to be in the future?
It's your time to shine guys!
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Here is a potential starting place on the old forums https://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8569
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And this is the proper link to Lu_Xun's post https://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5566&start=20
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Wow i had forgotten the old client's ui, good memories unlocked
