This is a borderline shitpost, but I have a job where my mind wanders sometimes, and I come up with lots of weird stuff. Last week, I was taken with the absurd idea of making a satirical song about FAF to the tune of 'My Favorite Things' from Sound of music. Don't ask why.

For better or worse, here is the result.

"ASFs spew from a surfaced Atlantis
Three engies lost to a single rushed Mantis
Point defence rapidly blasting their beams
These are a few of my favorite things!

2 minute bombers, and engineers juking
SMD snipes and the subsequent nuking
Seeing your enemies power-stalling
These are a few of my favorite things!

Fatboys out-ranging Galactic Colossus
Monkeylords stealthing and bloody Ahwassas
Allies and all their "assist me plz" pings
These are a few of my favorite things!

When the com snipes and CTRL-Ks
have me feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad!

Rapid-fire arty and tactical missiles
mass fabs exploding, reactors so fissile
Mazers and cloaking and teleporting
These are a few of my favorite things!

Soulrippers belching out plumes of pollution
Salvations finding their firing solutions
Flak tearing bombers apart by the wings
These are a few of my favorite things!

Walking destroyers and cruise missiles soaring
"Commander under attack" AI warnings
Cheap ghetto gunships full of mech marines
These are a few of my favorite things!

When the com snipes and CTRL-Ks
have me feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feeeeeeel... sooooo bad!

@uveso OH I guarantee you you did. I blasted the hell out of our resident Aeon player who didn't expect it to be working. That'll teach them to read the forums. Lol.

As a fun note, this getting fixed just in time to coincide with the TMD changes is interesting, because we always thought the Purifier was a little bit too hard to stop if you stacked multiples up and fired them together, but the TMD buff has made it a little more reasonable to stop multiple purifiers, so win/win.

And yes, it's on Assassination. lol.

But we've played several Phantom games now and every time a player dies, their stuff stays around. They are reported as dead, they count as an innocent or phantom death toward game victory, they cannot issue any orders -- but anything their base was doing continues to happen; factories still produce units, waypoints are followed, etc.

We usually play modded, but I can reproduce in vanilla with all mods off. Started a couple of weeks ago. Easily reproducable even with AI -- just build a few things and then ctrl-k your ACU. Your buildings will all remain. You will be able to select, but not issue any new orders.

If you want a replay, we did https://replay.faforever.com/18038205 last week. Takes 58 minutes for first death tho (dark green).

Let me know if you have any questions.

Never underestimate the value of the participation marks.

Crashes at the 40-minute mark and people with potato computers. What else?

#SimCity Challenge.

can confirm. Bought it on sale recently through GOG and switched so it frees up my steam library for family share when I'm playing FAF. Works great. Kids are quiet while daddy's killing fools with giant robots. lol

can confirm. Bought it on sale recently through GOG and switched so it frees up my steam library for family share when I'm playing FAF. Works great. Kids are quiet while daddy's killing fools with giant robots. lol

And yes, it's on Assassination. lol.

But we've played several Phantom games now and every time a player dies, their stuff stays around. They are reported as dead, they count as an innocent or phantom death toward game victory, they cannot issue any orders -- but anything their base was doing continues to happen; factories still produce units, waypoints are followed, etc.

We usually play modded, but I can reproduce in vanilla with all mods off. Started a couple of weeks ago. Easily reproducable even with AI -- just build a few things and then ctrl-k your ACU. Your buildings will all remain. You will be able to select, but not issue any new orders.

If you want a replay, we did https://replay.faforever.com/18038205 last week. Takes 58 minutes for first death tho (dark green).

Let me know if you have any questions.

@Jip ok, took a while before we could get together to see the issue.

It's probably not the ICE adapter, but it looks like it keeps the game client open behind the 'bad password' message, and if you try to reconnect, it will just stay 'connecting' forever without connecting.

To recreate:

1. Have someone start a lobby.
2. purposely join with wrong password.
3. you will get a bad password message and the FAF client will be on top.
4. attempt to rejoin the same game with the correct password

You will see 'connecting' but you will not connect, because the first client never closed, but someone who doesn't alt-tab or use task manager will not immediately see that anything is wrong; only the infinite connect window.

Solution is just to close all instances of FA and retry, but it might be what's catching people.

@Jip Our group has noticed some connection issues (we think with the ICE?) if you get a password to a lobby wrong. You then need to restart FAF or kill a bunch of processes.. I think it was ICE anyways. I host, so it's their problem, not mine. lol

I can try to get more info if you can't reproduce. We do play with BlackOps and a couple other sims, but we've just noticed this start happening.

#SimCity Challenge.

@uveso OH I guarantee you you did. I blasted the hell out of our resident Aeon player who didn't expect it to be working. That'll teach them to read the forums. Lol.

As a fun note, this getting fixed just in time to coincide with the TMD changes is interesting, because we always thought the Purifier was a little bit too hard to stop if you stacked multiples up and fired them together, but the TMD buff has made it a little more reasonable to stop multiple purifiers, so win/win.

Hey, nice! Some of us still play BlackOps all the time, so thanks for the fixes.

What do the changes to RULEUTL do anyways? Is that just UI stuff, or?

EDIT: NM. I found it in the wiki, thx.

I know BlackOps hasn't really been touched in a while, but we've noticed that a recent patch broke the Aeon T3 tactical missile launcher (Purifier).

The recent Game Update 3738 makes reference to "(#3946) Fix damage of child projectiles, such as Cybran tactical missiles after they split"

I'm assuming it's a related problem since the Purifiers use child projectiles too.

To Recreate:

Build Aeon Purifier in any game.
Fire purifier at enemy structures.
Purifier will strike and appear to explode, but no damage to structures.

Thanks in advance

Just bumping for acknowledgement. I don't know if we have an actual bug tracker. If so I'm happy to post there.

I know a lot of maps use this script, but maybe not a lot of people use random spawns?

Hoi mates!

I am not sure if something has changed at some point in one of the recent patches, but tried playing some Adaptive maps with the dynamic mex spawn options, and we're running into issues --

Trying to set up unused spawns to not spawn core mexes, but the random spawn option seems to be randomizing ACU location after the mex spawns are determined. It never used to do this. (We used to very frequently play 8-player "Phantom Fortress" map with 6 or 7 players, and the empty slot(s) would always reliably be the only to spawn with no core mexes).

To recreate:

• Take any Adaptive Map that allows for "Used Slots" selection under "Dynamic Spawn Of Resources" option.

• Turn on Randomize spawns

• add less than maximum players.

• Start game: ACUs will randomize, but core mexes appear to were enabled.

Not sure if there' s a fix needed or if I am overlooking something. Let me know if I can give more info.