I've played SupCom on and off since its release back in 2007. A big appeal for me is that it has had something for a wide variety a play styles or level of investment. What I mean by this is that back in the GPGNet days I was playing some other games more competitively with some friends and didn't really take this game that seriously, I just liked having massive survival battles or going through the campaign with different and usually troll strategies or self imposed limits like air only or defensive structures only. On the opposite side of that, much more recently I've been on a kick to start getting better at this game instead of playing chill games with zero effort or improvement and it's amazing the amount of depth there is. There's something for every level or type of player in this game.

Some more specific stuff:

• The scale
• Strategic zoom. This is one of the biggest reasons I never got into Starcraft despite giving it a few tries. Feels so limiting to not be able to zoom all the way out.
• The amount of outplay and comeback potential in the game at all stages
• Huge skill cap - even the best players have room for improvement
• The community - for keeping the game alive and all the new content that is added to it
• The community - for the nice good players willing to help not as good people get better
• Still plenty of new strategies or builds to try if you're feeling creative

I'm down, Exselsior currently ~1600 global

@arma473 What you said is accurate, you can't make walls until pd is done and it takes extra click. But my point isn't to replace the pd with walls templates, it's if for some reason your templates break and you're in a tight spot for a game it's a slight improvement and a compromise from just starting every game with faf automatically adding pd with walls a template. It takes hardly any time or effort to actually create that template if you want it.

Also, I think walls are in an okay spot right now - they force you to think about unit mix and factional differences when dealing with pd and I think that is healthy gameplay.

For whatever it's worth as a lower rated player I'd also love to see map gen in ladder. Some of the most fun I've had on FAF recently has been playing map gen 1v1s, even when I'm vs people far better than me and I get crushed. I would 100% play more ladder if map gen was implemented in it, I've probably played over a dozen map gen games so far and all of them I've enjoyed more than certain human made maps in the ladder pool. It's also nice knowing I won't lose to some memorized BO on a map that I've never played before as a new ladder vs someone who only has cheesy map specific builds.

@Tagada I'd be interested in the 1v1 lesson as a reward for winning the lower bracket if there is one, though right now it looks like I'll be in the bottom of the totem pole in the main bracket getting crushed by you xD

What if we made it just like the mex assist feature where if you assist the pd it'll surround the pd with walls? This way we're not potentially messing with people's templates. It's not as efficient, but it's a less intrusive compromise and a stop gap if something goes wrong with your templates for a game. I also like the suggestion from @Eternal-. A potential issue I could see with adding a template is how would this interact with someone like me who has a pd template but it's more minimal with 4 walls instead of 8?

I'm fairly active and going to be more active now that I'm on better hardware. A mix of setons and some ladder recently https://www.twitch.tv/exselsior100

Honestly your hardware is massively overkill for the game and I would imagine if you're playing multiplayer you're not the one slowing the game down. It's an unfortunate downside of the game engine being largely single threaded while doing realtime calculations of all projectiles, pathing, veterancy, and so on. If you're doing unranked games then check out the quality of performance mod, and also take a look at this thread talking about an optimization you can do: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/123/guide-fake-fullscreen-and-optimisation/2

Love this idea and have thought about it before but was too lazy to ask about it. Nice for when my work day is winding down (like now) and I can check to see if there are interesting games to join without having to move over to my gaming pc.

Love this idea and have thought about it before but was too lazy to ask about it. Nice for when my work day is winding down (like now) and I can check to see if there are interesting games to join without having to move over to my gaming pc.

Wtf are you and tex talking about, the entire game is designed around the fact that factions are not the same and have defined strengh and weaknesses ?? Are you saying the existence of the aurora is bad game design ?

No I mean that it's bad design for Cybran to only be relevant if it's on a map where frigates are relevant. Auroras with good micro can be relevant on maps regardless of if their hover is useful even though they do have some significant weaknesses but Aeon has the longest range gun com to help offset some of their weaknesses. Of course there are maps that favor different factions and that's fine and expected, but imo it's a bit extreme if it's all around a single specific unit.

That being said, I do generally agree with what you said.

I personally agree more with the idea of the UEF frigate getting a small buff. Cybran in general needs love in other areas and I'd hate to see one of the few things they actually have going for them get nerfed, even though other factions getting their frigate buffed is still an indirect nerf to Cyrban. Granted, I also agree with your point that it's not good game design to have a faction that's only good on some maps and not others, but I'd really like to see Cybran in a bit of a better spot before they're nerfed even more. I think overall the whole hover and t1 navy issue needs some work it does not feel like it's in a good place right now so it's more of a bandaid fix to buff/nerf one or two units here

I've played SupCom on and off since its release back in 2007. A big appeal for me is that it has had something for a wide variety a play styles or level of investment. What I mean by this is that back in the GPGNet days I was playing some other games more competitively with some friends and didn't really take this game that seriously, I just liked having massive survival battles or going through the campaign with different and usually troll strategies or self imposed limits like air only or defensive structures only. On the opposite side of that, much more recently I've been on a kick to start getting better at this game instead of playing chill games with zero effort or improvement and it's amazing the amount of depth there is. There's something for every level or type of player in this game.

Some more specific stuff:

• The scale
• Strategic zoom. This is one of the biggest reasons I never got into Starcraft despite giving it a few tries. Feels so limiting to not be able to zoom all the way out.
• The amount of outplay and comeback potential in the game at all stages
• Huge skill cap - even the best players have room for improvement
• The community - for keeping the game alive and all the new content that is added to it
• The community - for the nice good players willing to help not as good people get better
• Still plenty of new strategies or builds to try if you're feeling creative

Honestly your hardware is massively overkill for the game and I would imagine if you're playing multiplayer you're not the one slowing the game down. It's an unfortunate downside of the game engine being largely single threaded while doing realtime calculations of all projectiles, pathing, veterancy, and so on. If you're doing unranked games then check out the quality of performance mod, and also take a look at this thread talking about an optimization you can do: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/123/guide-fake-fullscreen-and-optimisation/2

Not necessarily an error, mostly just an annoyance that I am wondering if there's an easy fix for.

I run a dual monitor setup, one monitor is a high refresh 1080p display that I use for games and the other is a bigger 4k screen that I use for everything else. Usually I have the FAF client open on my 4k display. My issue is this: the buttons along the title bar stop working for the most part after the client has been open for a little bit. Meaning I can't click the chat/game/replay tabs and I also can't minimize or close it without alt f4 or managing to click in the exact right spot on the buttons, gradually getting to the point where there is nowhere I can click for it to work. At that point I have to either use windows key to move it to the 1080p display or just alt f4 and restart it. If I move it to the 1080p display it instantly starts working as expected.

It's not a super big deal as there are a number of work arounds for me, but I figured I'd ask on here to see if anyone else has this issue and if there was an easy fix. I'm guessing this has to do with Windows lovely management of display scaling interacting with the client, though it's weird it usually works fine when I first load up the client.

I'm fairly active and going to be more active now that I'm on better hardware. A mix of setons and some ladder recently https://www.twitch.tv/exselsior100

For whatever it's worth as a lower rated player I'd also love to see map gen in ladder. Some of the most fun I've had on FAF recently has been playing map gen 1v1s, even when I'm vs people far better than me and I get crushed. I would 100% play more ladder if map gen was implemented in it, I've probably played over a dozen map gen games so far and all of them I've enjoyed more than certain human made maps in the ladder pool. It's also nice knowing I won't lose to some memorized BO on a map that I've never played before as a new ladder vs someone who only has cheesy map specific builds.

@PheatherNoob Hmm, are there any custom OEM programs running that might be overwriting windows sounds settings? I've had laptops in the past that ran custom audio programs which might cause an issue.

I pulled this from a Steam thread about this issue, but might be worth a shot:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/9420/discussions/0/1739968490550491239/?l=norwegian&ctp=4#c3397295779063983998

Edit: Also I've seen issues with USB headsets and bluetooth headsets doing weird things with faf audio. 3.5mm headset don't seem to have those same issues, not sure what you're using for speakers.

@arma473 It would work like capping the mexes works currently - repair then make walls unless you cancel the assist on the pd.

That being said after thinking about it slightly more I don't see as much of a point to my idea and I can't think of any downsides to what @Deribus is suggesting. I like that for both the QOL reasons and for what I said earlier about now having a default template that new players will see so there's an example for them already created.