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How do you do my fellow spring invitational qualifiers?

Just some ideas:
If bombers had a second larger aoe ring, e.g. doing 75 damage, they'd be able to kill all engies in at most two passes. The inner circle ring size could also be nerfed try and keep balance vs large armies. Now, if a bomber drops 4 bombs, it either gets 2-4 kills instead of 0-4. It's more consistent but not 100% predictable.

Another change, instead of increasing second ring size, is to shrink the inner aoe size and adding partial tracking to bombs, so they always hit with at least the weak aoe against engies. Bombers would be a bit worse against groups from the smaller inner ring, but hit more consistently.

One of these could also be combined with engies having larger turning circles to be worse at dodging, then maybe aoe wouldn't need to be changed to hit.

Keeping an inner damage ring with the same damage as current bombers would help to maintain current balance against larger, stationary, or unmicroed targets.

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thanks mister ftx

I am so exited. Please call it "THE STATE OF FAF".

Flare weapon's projectile lifetime is too short for ghetto's on uneven terrain.

Replays I guess.
Test game (min 1:30): #19701059.
Real game (min 5:00 exactly): #19652929.

Pic from test game showing point where it disappears.
Trans if floating above that tiny crater but it can't hit the engies.

I think an increase by 10-30% would fix it for most terrain.

The projectile has no drop off so it travels it's full distance in land fights when the lab misses but I don't think this matters much. It'll look bizarre if it's too high regardless.

Haven't checked other labs, but could be normalised according to muzzle velocity.

@Pearl12 think it was just for faction diversity (yep there it is again). I think at first, it was changed, as @Nari said, to be a short range mavor. It was half price, ~110k mass, and had about 8-10km range. Since no other faction had a 'cheap game ender', cybran had an uncontested win condition on 10km maps. It also overlapped with t3 arty at ~70k mass and outperformed. It was also useless on 20km maps, due to said short range, giving cybran no game ender on it.

But anyway, cybran needed a game ender different from mavor, and since scathis is a rapid fire artillery, they exaggerated what made it different to make it even more different, i.e. loads more aoe, very low accuracy, very low damage per shot (compared to mavor); this matched the style of cybrans other arties, treb and disruptor. I think the volley idea was just something someone came up with and it stuck.

I personally think it looks dumb for the canon to spin so fast. If they shot cluster projectiles instead, like how their bomber shoots 6 bombs, then it would look way less stupid and not like a modded unit. This change would even keep it's shot per volley the same. Also, it would split early unlike the aoen rapid fire.

Pros use kennels to assist fatboy on the frontline to make units.

I honestly quit team games partly due to this. It was happening most games and was always such a chore to pick up the slack. There is an alternate game mode 'supremacy' which allows you to continue if you have engies or factories, but it's not really played. My solution was to play 1v1 instead.

I like these types of flavour text names since they relate to the aesthetic and lore of the game in a fun way. A lot of the fps games I've played have used similar and I've like them every time. The star craft wannabe names and symbols have always grated on me, but I guess that ship has sailed.

People mention familiarity, but what about the FA campaign? 'Brigadier General Fletcher', 'Colonel Arnold', 'Elite Commander Dostya', 'Princess Burke', 'Evaluator Kael', 'Crusader Rhiza', 'Avatar-of-War Jaran Marxon'. It's literally in the FA lore and you would have experienced it if you played the campaign. You could mess around with this to great effect with the in game ranking system. Imagine faction specific rankings too. So much potential.

Is there really an issue with not knowing the order? Is the initial experience of not knowing rank names so bad that seeing someone ranked 'Major' would concern an actual player? To a kid playing the game, and from my experience from when I was younger, these types of things provoke curiosity of the type 'I wonder what it means to be Major. When you rank up and see a new player with a rank you haven't seen before, it's exciting. You want to see how they play. It's fun. I think the pseudo larp of having 'real' ranks is fun. Why do people keep bringing up some sterile platitude of accessibility?

Seriously, think about it. 'Brigadier coca', 'Elite Commander ovenman', 'Avatar of War Derick Bobjack', 'Commander FTXCommando'.

Only real draw back is I only played in english. Not sure how the campaign translates these to other languages.

I want my gesamtkunstwerk.

DUDE I WANT TO PLAY BERMUDA LOCKET AGAIN OH MY GOD I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE ALL THE GOOD GAMES I'VE BEEN MISSING OUT ON IF BERMUDA LOCKET WAS THE ONLY MAP I WOULD PLAY FA EVERY DAY JUST SO I CAN ENJOY THE IMMENSE DEPTH OF GAMEPLAY IN BERMUDA LOCKET BERMUDA LOCKET ISN'T JUST YOUR TYPICAL MAP IT COMBINES LAND AIR AND NAVY FOR THE ULTIMATE VERTICAL SLICE OF THE FA EXPERIANCE WHEN I PLAY BERMUDA LOCKET I PLAY TO WIN I KNOW MOST CAN'T HANDLE THE FAST PACED HIGH IMPACT GAMEPLAY THAT BERMUDA LOCKET CREATES ONLY A STRETEGIC MASTERMIND HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO UNDERSTAND THE SUBTLTIES OF BERMUDA LOCKET AS THE GREAT MASTER SUN TZU SAID WAR IS WON ON A SOLDIERS STOMACH IN BERMUDA LOCKET THE REAL WAR THE REAL SOLDIER IS THE ENGINEER BERMUDA LOCKET IS WON BY THE COMMANDER WHO BETTER UNDERSTANDS THE NEEDS OF THE SOLDIERS AND THE RED ROCKS ONLY ENGINEERS FED ON A DIET RICH IN RED ROCKS WILL BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN THEMSELVES FOR THE BATTLES OF BERMUDA LOCKET WHEN TWO SOLDIERS ARE EVENLY MATCHED IT IS SAID THE SOUL IS WHAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE AND THE RED ROCKS ARE THE SOUL OF BERMUDA LOCKET ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE ALLIGNED THEM SELVES WITH THE WAY OF THE RED ROCKS OF BERMUDA LOCKET WILL SUCCEED FOR THEY ARE THE VITALITY OF THE SOLDIER AND THE VITALITY OF THE SOLDIER IS THE VITALITY OF THE COUNTRY

Sera shield:
I like sera shield rambo as a super tank for snipers to hide behind. If an army wants to get to the snipers behind, it has to go through ~45k of hp + regen + oc. I think of it as a bootleg ion storm. Chicken is ~30k mass for ~65k hp with ion storm. Sera is 10k mass for 45k hp. It's weaker of course, but also leaves less reclaim when it dies. Sure it's pretty niche/weird, but I still liked it. It should be easy to maintain the upgrade with the current changes.

Aeon sensor:
I've been curious about a sensor upgrade. Would be cool to see how it plays out. Will it have vision like aeon sensors, or just omni like the others?

To celebrate the summer invitational and heat wave I present Sentons summer, a setons themed around global warming. Commanders will have to survive in an arid land that's not quite the Setons they are familiar with.

Can you survive one of the hottest heatwaves in Setons history?

Isn't there a mechanic to rebuild a structure if it's destroyed while assisting it? How similar is that to this?

I honestly quit team games partly due to this. It was happening most games and was always such a chore to pick up the slack. There is an alternate game mode 'supremacy' which allows you to continue if you have engies or factories, but it's not really played. My solution was to play 1v1 instead.

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@sylph_ said in 2023 Summer Invitational Group Stage:

Were those colours chosen specifically to make observing difficult?

I'm trying to unlock the gold acu bonus.

I didn't see anything in https://forum.faforever.com/topic/203/list-of-banned-exploits-updated-22-03-2022 about this so I'll post this here. I was playing against 'Aix Sorian(galacticfear)' on setons clutch 1v1 duel and when I tried to scout his base he already had a battalion of mobile anti-air heading towards me which shot down my air scout. All I managed to see were two factories but no pgens and he was able to build because he had gold acu giving him infinite resources.

I've tried making two facs on setons and I always run out of energy.

How do I unlock gold acu on setons for infinite resources?