Would it be possible to add a special bar for nuke load in battleship and submarines? There is the yellow recharging bar but it displays "at the same time" the nuke loading AND the main cannons.

Also (as I think it hasn't been seen): could it be possible to make a button in the lobby, close to each player that would ping it. In case of afk players when game has to be launched it would be usefull.

Yeah so my proposition was not necessarily to make the t3 subs really more powerful (hence the title is misleading, I just edited it to correct it) but to make the tactical missile they launch more "inside" of the gameplay.

For instance making the subs shooting in burst rather than 1 missile every x seconds like they do actually (to surprise an opponent). Or reducing the rate of launch but making missile more powerful in order to "snipe" stuff. By doing this trick maybe the DPS would be lowered in the end for balance purpose (it could be one possibility), but they will have some usefulness within the gameplay (which they lack now). I also like the idea from @H-master (it can be another alternative if it is technically possible).

The reason of all this is because I honestly never saw in any game those missiles being useful for anything (and I am a regular player since years, frequently playing navy). I think such proposition could really enrich the gameplay without making the unit too powerful if the changes are appropriately made.

This is a last attempt to give some pros to this feature ^^

Ok thanks!

Add a button close to where player "x" which sends them a notification asking them to "x" when they are not ready (instead of having to go on the desktop, to tell them to x).

@Eternal thanks!

It works. I hope it will be more stable on my computer than FAF.

Thanks again.

@LightBearer I agree with you. I currently do the same (and most player do this as well). This is because the tml are not worth it, people only use t3 sub for nukes. I think that a "sniping" tml option as suggested by H-master would be great to give the subs more strategic purpose. Like one powerful tml that can launched on rare intervals.

Hello

Another small suggestion: what about a warning message (audio & visual) if you are going to ctrl-K your commander?

It happened to me in a few games to have a friend that died because he ctrl-K his com while he wanted to ctrl-K a group of units near by. When it happens it really ruins the game =(

Thanks!

Personally I wouldn't change the "nuke behavior" of the subs. I think it is nice the way it is (even though I understand the logic behind this proposition).

I would only make the tml play a more active role in the gameplay. Today, they are almost exclusively used for nuke purposes, people always disable their tml ability to keep them stealth (making their tml obviously useless). I wouldn't see this change as making the sub more powerful as you would either use the sub for nuke launch (in this case you would reasonably not use the tml to keep the stealth behavior), or you would use it as a tml platform, never both for all practical purposes.

I believe this enhancement could really be beneficial: it would give you a choice in using your t3 subs: surprize nuke or sneaky tml. It could enrich the gameplay and lead to more interesting "behind the line" attacks. Their tml are today too weak to make anyone reasonably use the sneaky tml option.

Of course all this requires a wise decision about how to change the tml behavior. This would have to be discussed in further details.

Hello everyone

I don't know if what I am asking is technically possible, but I wanted to know if it is possible to restrict the damage done underwater by weapons which are not supposed to attack underwater.

For instance, killing coms that are underwater with strategic bombers, or killing t3 torpedoes defense by using battleship shooting at them.

For me it is very weird that this is made possible on the game.

Of course it would change quite a bit the gameplay.

What would you think about this?

Thanks a lot.

Hello everyone,

I am currently facing an issue with FAF Client: when I connect and look for hosted games, no games at all shows at first. In practice I have to put some filters (like hide private games), put them off and then the game list can finally appear, but sometimes this trick doesn't work.

Before I do this trick, I can guess that even though no games are appearing there are actually hosted games as there is the text saying (for instance) "0 games shown out of 15".

How can I fix this issue?

Thanks a lot.

Here is the full log file:

game_18496355.log

Thanks!

As further info: when I want to relaunch the game without restarting my computer it tells me "unable to create direct 3D":

Hello,

Recently the game is crashing more and more frequently (I would say once every 4 games).
Below is the latest error message:

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x005cbb6e
    attempted to write memory at 0x809e2000

Program : C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe
Cmd line arguments : /init init.lua /nobugreport /log C:\Users\Marco\AppData\Roaming\Forged Alliance Forever\logs\game_18496355.log /gpgnet 127.0.0.1:49533 /mean 1649.75 /deviation 99.792 /savereplay gpgnet://127.0.0.1:62871/18496355/freemp.SCFAreplay /country CH /clan FOE /numgames 2064 /numgames 2004

Callstack:
	Unknown symbol (address 0x005cbb6e)
	Unknown symbol (address 0x005c3a06)
	Unknown symbol (address 0x00929411)

Last 100 lines of log...

debug: (8892) Sending game result: 7 defeat -10
debug: Current gametime: 00:15:00
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff0007d) supplied in a pose update.
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: send Ptr: 7ACE0002
info: terminated
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff00012) supplied in a pose update.
debug: Current gametime: 00:15:30
warning: ACU kill detected. Rating for ranked games is now enforced.
debug: Matchstate - defeated: Knaak
debug: (9487) Sending game result: 11 defeat -10
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff0004d) supplied in a pose update.
debug: Current gametime: 00:16:00
info: send Ptr: B4F10002
info: send Ptr: B4F10002
info: send Ptr: B4F10002
info: send Ptr: B4F10002
info: send Ptr: B4F10002
info: send Ptr: B4F10002
info: send Ptr: B4F10002
info: send Ptr: B4F10002
info: send Ptr: B4F10002
info: terminated
debug: Current gametime: 00:16:30
debug: Current gametime: 00:17:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:17:30
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/confirmunitdestroy.lua").ConfirmUnitDestruction(false)
warning: Error running OnRelease script in <deleted object>: ...mdata\faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\maui\button.lua(101): Game object has been destroyed
         stack traceback:
         	[C]: in function `Play'
         	...mdata\faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\maui\button.lua(101): in function <...mdata\faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\maui\button.lua:94>
debug: Current gametime: 00:18:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:18:30
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("marker")
debug: Current gametime: 00:19:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:19:30
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff000c2) supplied in a pose update.
debug: Current gametime: 00:20:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:20:30
debug: Current gametime: 00:21:00
warning: Error running OnRelease script in <deleted object>: ...mdata\faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\maui\button.lua(101): Game object has been destroyed
         stack traceback:
         	[C]: in function `Play'
         	...mdata\faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\maui\button.lua(101): in function <...mdata\faforever\gamedata\lua.nx2\lua\maui\button.lua:94>
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff000a0) supplied in a pose update.
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff00034) supplied in a pose update.
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff00051) supplied in a pose update.
debug: Current gametime: 00:21:30
debug: Current gametime: 00:22:00
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("move")
debug: Current gametime: 00:22:30
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("marker")
debug: Current gametime: 00:23:00
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("move")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
debug: Current gametime: 00:23:30
info: UI_Lua import("/lua/ui/game/ping.lua").DoPing("alert")
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff000f0) supplied in a pose update.
debug: Current gametime: 00:24:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:24:30
debug: Current gametime: 00:25:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:25:30
debug: Current gametime: 00:26:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:26:30
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff000c3) supplied in a pose update.
info: CWldSession::DoBeat() unknown entity id (0x2ff00143) supplied in a pose update.
debug: Current gametime: 00:27:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:27:30
debug: Current gametime: 00:28:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:28:30
debug: Current gametime: 00:29:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:29:30
debug: Current gametime: 00:30:00
debug: Current gametime: 00:30:30

How can I solve this?
Thanks.

@Eternal thanks!

It works. I hope it will be more stable on my computer than FAF.

Thanks again.

Hello,

I would like to download the ethereal client as FAF crash sometimes on my computer.
I saw the link to the github reposit, but I don't understand how to download the .exe, it seems that the github is for programmer that want to update the code?

Is there a simple link to the .exe?

Thanks.

@eternal You mean I should check if I still have the bug with older versions of FAF Client?

@eternal You ask me to put 3277 MB there?

This is what I have currently (automatically chosen by the computer):

Ok, thanks anyway for your time. (I already reinstalled client but it didnt change anything, maybe reinstalling windows will be the only option). In any case it seems I am not the only one to have this issue though (given the post from @clint089 )

@katharsas said in Faf Client crash (it becomes unclickable or fully black):

Try disabling GPU / enabling software rendering by adding -Dprism.order=sw as an additional line to C:\Program Files\Downlord's FAF Client\downlords-faf-client.vmoptions, also remove -Dprism.forceGPU=true from the file.

I just did that, and it still crashs.

[edit]: This change seems to make the situation actually worse. Now it seems to crash each time I open FAF client.