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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!

@spikeynoob excellent news!~ We'll test the crap out of it and let you know if we find anything.

Thank you

I, for one appreciate the effort, folx.

"Learn Lua and be the change" is something you've almost tempted this zero-experience old-guy to try, but now is not the time in my life where I have the time, so thank you to those of you that do. Best I can do at this point is try to isolate things we find in our games and bring them up to smarter people.

Never underestimate the value of the participation marks.

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.

Can't wait to try it. Thanks for your time folx!

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

New 'Mod' version of Phantom-X worked great for a week or two, but now after the latest Dev patch, it's doing the same thing as the previous version and then some:

When ACU dies, player counts as dead, but units and buildings remain.
NEW sometimes players don't count as dead and can continue to play! (Game will never count as over).

https://replay.faforever.com/19423345

@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.

#SimCity Challenge.

FWIW, our playgroup digs this change. It's SO good being able to maneuver a couple of Atlantises while they continue to work on building planes. Big thumbs up to whomever we can credit with the idea.

No faults found! Everyone is dying again like they should... and somehow a longstanding issue where not everyone got the score graph is also fixed.

Thank y'all very much.

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

@jip Will definitely test it out. Thanks as always to you and @Uveso for getting on this stuff!