The tourney has been posted here for 21 days before it takes place with the specific time zone and time it took place on. no one brings it up as an issue until a day before the event. I cannot change my schedule tomorrow and for all the people who already made time in their schedule it would be unfair to change it last minute.

(I'm an idiot and misread the prompt, so going to completely change my post. and leave the original at the bottom marked out.)

Allow the harbinger to use the sacrafice ability that all the engineers can do, with the cost of the harbinger it would make it a real strategy when you have large armies of harbs to use half of them to get a gc out quickly.

Give the Aurora a 50HP shield. I know it'll never happen but I love the idea of it the more I think of it. give it the ability to survive t1 bombers and make the faction consistent having every main battle unit feature a personal shield (obsidian and harbs being the other main battle units.)

@jip here is my wishlist of small changes!

1 - Change the sound of the SCU exploding to anything other than the sound an ACU explosion makes... this feels minor to me. This has been a thing causing both casters and player heart attacks for years. SCUs exploding and tricking us into thinking a com just died or a nuke landed is kinda annoying imo.

2- Adding a UI element to replays that shows more player stats (APM, Resources lost, idle engies.) would help casters a ton. I'm actually unsure how minor to major this is but gonna propose the idea.

3- Firebeetles should have both cloak and stealth. They feel so much more jank to use since the changes and adding stealth would allow us to use them at least a little more since you will need omni to see them.

4- Add some sort of reward for playing ladder (any of them) my suggestion is some kind of cosmetic Ego inflating thing that shows up by your name in custom lobbies for achieving higher ratings in ladder.

5- Integrate Nomads into base FAF mod. this change is totally a small one. /s

My favorite moment comes from one of my own videos, I know that may be considered cheap or wrong. I won't link it here because I believe the video is bad but in the last episode of my co-op campaign has a moment where I say "cougars fly south for the winter" and I now have this moment at least once a week when I'm feeling down where I think of a late 40s-50s woman flapping her arms and flying to florida and it's just an absurd thing that makes me smile. may not be funny to anyone else on earth but is to me.

@auriko said in Weekly Discussion #4 - Sexiest Unit:

Come on now let's be serious

Doesn't it have the sexiest legs ???
At the time of release, i remember thinking "nice this one is like the dope tripods in Half Life 2 !". What a better way to cleanse the city of your opponent but with giant guns on long legs ?

(but i'll have to admit, the crunchy sound of the fatboy, the mavor and the submit are all pretty dope, but that's more about the sound than the looks)

this is the only truth you need in life. harbie army for life. bout to start an onlyfans where I post pictures of beautiful sexy aeon units like this. bet it'll blow up.

@auriko said in Weekly Discussion #4 - Sexiest Unit:

Come on now let's be serious

Doesn't it have the sexiest legs ???
At the time of release, i remember thinking "nice this one is like the dope tripods in Half Life 2 !". What a better way to cleanse the city of your opponent but with giant guns on long legs ?

(but i'll have to admit, the crunchy sound of the fatboy, the mavor and the submit are all pretty dope, but that's more about the sound than the looks)

this is the only truth you need in life. harbie army for life. bout to start an onlyfans where I post pictures of beautiful sexy aeon units like this. bet it'll blow up.

(I'm an idiot and misread the prompt, so going to completely change my post. and leave the original at the bottom marked out.)

Allow the harbinger to use the sacrafice ability that all the engineers can do, with the cost of the harbinger it would make it a real strategy when you have large armies of harbs to use half of them to get a gc out quickly.

Give the Aurora a 50HP shield. I know it'll never happen but I love the idea of it the more I think of it. give it the ability to survive t1 bombers and make the faction consistent having every main battle unit feature a personal shield (obsidian and harbs being the other main battle units.)

My favorite moment comes from one of my own videos, I know that may be considered cheap or wrong. I won't link it here because I believe the video is bad but in the last episode of my co-op campaign has a moment where I say "cougars fly south for the winter" and I now have this moment at least once a week when I'm feeling down where I think of a late 40s-50s woman flapping her arms and flying to florida and it's just an absurd thing that makes me smile. may not be funny to anyone else on earth but is to me.

@jip here is my wishlist of small changes!

1 - Change the sound of the SCU exploding to anything other than the sound an ACU explosion makes... this feels minor to me. This has been a thing causing both casters and player heart attacks for years. SCUs exploding and tricking us into thinking a com just died or a nuke landed is kinda annoying imo.

2- Adding a UI element to replays that shows more player stats (APM, Resources lost, idle engies.) would help casters a ton. I'm actually unsure how minor to major this is but gonna propose the idea.

3- Firebeetles should have both cloak and stealth. They feel so much more jank to use since the changes and adding stealth would allow us to use them at least a little more since you will need omni to see them.

4- Add some sort of reward for playing ladder (any of them) my suggestion is some kind of cosmetic Ego inflating thing that shows up by your name in custom lobbies for achieving higher ratings in ladder.

5- Integrate Nomads into base FAF mod. this change is totally a small one. /s

@Blackheart The system is seemingly similar to the StarCraft 2 IEM Katowice tourney layout. they host weekly tournaments with smaller prize pools and literally anyone can enter, they call them open cups. meaning right now I could sign up for an open cup as some platinum scrub and get smashed by the pros. If I managed to win or place highly I get ESL points which qualify me for IEM katowice the biggest tourney of the year.

it's not an unreasonable system and since it's a $100-$150 prize pool it is quite reasonable and allows you the shot at a few extra bucks each month. if you are confident that you will place top 4 in every one you enter then why not enter every single one for the practically free money then?

Edit: spelling.

The tourney has been posted here for 21 days before it takes place with the specific time zone and time it took place on. no one brings it up as an issue until a day before the event. I cannot change my schedule tomorrow and for all the people who already made time in their schedule it would be unfair to change it last minute.

Event: The Dark Heart Tourney -2v2v2
Date: February 27th & 28th @ 5:00 PM Central (UTC-6)
Prize Pool sponsored by players Sergeant Syphilis & Admiral Aids
---$50 prize pool---
1st Place - $50 Avatar
2nd Place - Avatar
3rd place - Avatar

Structure
A Bo3 single elimination tournament
played on Various maps culminating to a final showdown on 'the dark heart - FAF version' map
This is a 2v2 tourney ending in a 2v2v2 so anyone signing up must sign up with their teammate.
There is a hard cap of 16 teams, We need a minimum of 12 teams to have the tourney take place.
Team Rating must not exceed 3200 global
The tournament will be held on the 27th and 28th

Team Rules
Teams must provide a name for their team.
Teams must register with @ https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/YK84Q2qkaD#/signup/7u25ld0cqs5
your team name should be 'Teamname (player1/player2) when you sign up.'

Seeding will be based off of the total global rating of the team at the start of the tourney.

use this command in the faf client chat on the day of the tourney /join #WillowsDarkHeart to join the IRC channel for the tourney.

The Games
These games will be played on the base FAF patch without any mods, Full share will be enabled.

map pool
round 1
Twin Rivers
Open Palms
Fields of Isis

round2
Adaptive Archsimkats Valley
Crossfire Canal - FAF version
Island zero

Semifinals
The Drunken Sailors Dance
Funeral Plains
Artic refuge

finals
The Dark Heart - FAF version