This is a very good idea.

I think it's possible to improve upon the current state of affairs by quite a bit, and maybe even a construct a better default hotkey setup for newcomers.

A truly good, future proof and easily maintained hotkey setup/tutorial is probably a lot more work though.

A while back I cobbled together a tool to visualize all the hotkeys a player uses. Looks something like this:


(+ 6 more pictures for all the modifier key combinations )

After talking to a couple longtime players I sadly found out that they:

1. All have a weirdly different, kinda dysfunctional hotkey setup that works for them, but probably only them.
2. Use mod hotkeys and/or completely custom ones quite regularly.
3. Use hotkeys with basically meaningless names (which is mostly the fault of mods), so in addition to the name you also need a description of what the hotkey does.

My guess is that you'd want to focus on only implemented hotkeys for now (even though they miss a lot of functionality) and then maybe do a 2nd guide for all of the mod/custom stuff you can/want to do.

Maybe a dumb question and probably not the right thread for this, but regardless:

Why is the high level 1v1 ladder so dead?

High level team games seem to be doing mostly fine afterall.

Are there some gameplay changes that could make (high level) 1v1 more popular?

Big props to everyone actually testing out the new experimental ideas and giving constructive feedback!

Many of them will probably not work out and wont make it into the main game but that's what the testing is for afterall.

Personally, I don't care much about the rename feature.

I will probably never rename myself and I do get annoyed sometimes when I don't know who I'm playing with or when searching for replays that I now can't find because someone renamed themselves again.

Still though, at least from a player perspective, people renaming themselves to SNFPoopieButtholeWheelieNoob seems like harmless fun that quite a few people have fun with and seemingly feel strongly about keeping.

I think the best solution would be some version of what Archsimkat, BlackYps, Tagada and Brutus already laid out: Distinguish display name from account name/id and use the latter for when you really need to identify someone.

I would be much more hesitant to see this solution as viable, because it's yet more work for the devs, but considering @brutus5000 said in Username rules updates:

This would solve a lot of technical problems in the long run.

it might be useful to do anyway.

If all of this is truly a big problem I think the technical solution is the one to go with.

I had a similar experience sometime last week, but sadly didn't think of saving the game logs

@man_on_the_moon said in Seton's Clutch Tournament Best team of 2023:

Sign me up for cheeses slot, it seems like he wont be able to play
*2000 rating

Jup, sadly can't play on the 11th.

I vote for giving yudi 4 ACUs, one each per normal starting location, and actually have him signing up solo

I looove the proposed tele range nerfs!

Now tele actually requires correct execution and interaction with the rest of the map, while still being super strong when it works as it should be

As an idea, I'd propose to change the tele range from 350 to 410, for no other reason than 410 is the nuke sub range and having standardized ranges where possible is nice.

@syndicus said in Seton's Clutch Tournament Best team of 2023:

@CheeseBerry Please read thread again.

Yeah this is perfect, ty

@syndicus Isn't the team rating cap and minimum rating enough to achieve that? I mean the 2.3k rating cap only excludes like 5 relevant people, so you may as well allow them to sign up.

Stacking isn't really possible with the 6.7k team rating cap anyway. You need at least two 1ks leaving you with one 2.5k and one 2.2k, a team composition that's imo less desirable than a more balanced setup.

@syndicus said in Seton's Clutch Tournament Best team of 2023:

@cheeseberry Correct, players 2300 rating and below will be allowed to sign up.

Sry I'm still confused. Can e.g. farms with his 2.6k sign up for the tournament or not?

@syndicus The way you phrased the rating cap it sounds like >2.3k players are forbidden from joining. I assume you intended it to mean that >2.3k players will be counted as 2300 for the purposes of total team rating, right?

@cortana said in Seton's Clutch Tournament Best team of 2023:

In my opinion, as 2000 global, there is quite a lot of difference between 1900-2100/(some 2.2ks) and players that are 2300+.

Seconding this. Most of the >2.3k players are just significantly better than me at my 2k.

open to play, 2k rank

Check out this post on the discord for probably the easiest solution: https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/1164661950970613841/1164943577797886082

Note that you need to restart the game twice for any icon mod changes to go into effect.

Increasing all rating by a flat 1000 would also solve going into the negative. I don't think anyone has legitimately achieve a negative rating of -1000 before.

Although I guess the division system is already on track to hide the real rating a bit better, which is probably a better approach.

Some discussion happening on the discord too fyi: https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/1164661950970613841

@femtozetta said in Why would you have left FAF?:

All they get are the older established users yelling at them all the time, but refusing to tell them what they are doing wrong, and how to improve. A lot of the higher ranks are guilty as sin for this

There are multiple channels on the Discord where you get feedback from better player and tips or discussions on how to improve, so this is just wrong.

Those are not mutually exclusive.

There is for sure lots of incoherent screaming to be encountered in lower rank games, and its definitely not absent from higher ranked games either.

But yes, if one is able to tune out the unhelpful people there is lots of constructive criticism to be had too.

@Sylph_ The game.prefs file is a lua file, with a couple lua tables inside. This means you can add fields and subfields to the file like you could to any lua table. Phrased differently: you should be able to just copy-paste the UserKeyActions field inside and as long as the syntax is correct, it should work.

The relevant part of the game.prefs file, with everything else and all but two of the KeyActions deleted, should look something like this. UserKeyActions should just be another field, in this case next to the "LobbyOpt_AIEndlessGameLoop" and Notify_acus_disabled" fields:

profile = {
    profiles = {
        {
            LobbyOpt_AIEndlessGameLoop = 'off',
            UserKeyActions = {
                auxilliary = {
                    order = 1121,
                    action = 'UI_Lua import("/lua/keymap/hotbuild.lua").buildAction("Auxillary")',
                    category = 'hotbuilding'
                },
                ['Select split group 9'] = {
                    order = 19,
                    action = "UI_Lua import('/mods/UI-Party/modules/unitsplit.lua').SelectGroup(9)",
                    category = 'UI Party'
                }
            },
            Notify_acus_disabled = false,
        }
    }
}

Here also the file itself:
CheeseBerry_Game_just_UserKeyActions.zip

All of that is almost certainly pure coincidence.

That being said, post the replay number and if it happens again, post it here as well. Also post game and client and all of the other logs you can think of that might be helpful.