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!

Never underestimate the value of the participation marks.

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

Minor issue, but the link to mod uploading rules in the mod vault seems to be coming up 404 for me.

I did want to read it, promise.

FWIW, I find PhantomX is the worst offender. We get scores in most of our multiplayer custom games, but Phantom is almost guaranteed not to give us one. (Tho when I watch the phantom replay, you get one.)

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

Never underestimate the value of the participation marks.

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!

okay, thanks for the confirmation.

Question in the title.

Some friends and I play every week and a couple of us finally got around to seeing if the co-op campaign missions were any fun. It was definitely an interesting change of pace, but trying to press ourselves to finish quickly, we noticed that our times weren't being recorded. We turned off all sim mods and tried again, still no.

I tried one last time solo, with all sim and ui mods turned off, on a different campaign map, and got a score that would have put me top 15, still nope.

So did something recent break the leaderboard, or is this a long time known issue? It's not something we usually play, but I saw other people starting games the whole time, and don't see anything here about it not working.

Thx.
And don't forget to scout.

@Brutus5000 said in Friend getting kicked for not having mods, despite DLing them each time:

There is an error on uploading a mod in the log. If you are playing this mod your friend has the newest version but the rest of you don't.

So worked on this last night and still no solution. The mods currently causing problems are BlackOps: Unleashed and BlackOps: EXUnits. (BlackOps: ACUs works for some reason). We have doublechecked that we are both on version 19 from the mod vault. At one point, I have even zipped up my mod folder and sent it to them to unzip -- Regardless of how we make sure the mods are installed, what happens is;

IF I HOST:

a) They attempt to join my game
b) FAF attempts to download the BlackOps mods (even though they have the them)
c) When they complete the DL, it installs it overtop the mods we already had installed.
d) They then join and are insta-kicked because it says they don't have the mods.

IF THEY HOST:

A) they cannot start a game with the BlackOps and EXUnits mods.. only BlackOps ACU. Mod manager in the lobby says they do not have the mod.

And Like I say, they have uninstalled, deleted all folders, and reinstalled.. we have zipped my mod folder up.. We have tried checking/unchecking vault fallback.

It's just that no matter what files are in the mod folder, it tries to DL files from the mod vault, and then can't see those files (or they're corrupt) or something.

Client log is attached to first post. There's some java error stuff in there. Not sure if that's relevant or important.

Most recently, they have attempted uninstalling everything again, and deleting every relevant folder they can find, and reinstalling (This time client 1.3 instead of 1.2.3). We were going to test on Friday but something came up. Will update if it's fixed or still a problem. Sorry I'm doing this 2nd hand. Troubeshooting logs is not their thing. It's barely mine as you can probably tell.

It's just a PITA that we played fine for ages and this one day it didn't work, with no idea what changed.

Thank you for responses, but still stuck on this.

@Rowey - We have tried ticking and unticking the Fallback Location, and friend still downloads the maps and mods upon joining game, but is kicked with the message that they don't have them when they load into the lobby.

@Resistance - We only use mods that are in the Mod Vault, and it is trying to download them (which should automatically get the correct version) but unless anyone comes up with a wizard explanation, I guess it's going to come down to helping them audit their system and see what they could have missed deleting the last time they removed and reinstalled everything.