I'd be interested

After some healthy discussion on Discord, a small FAQ that I'll update over time. Feel free to ask me questions either via the forums or via Discord. I unfortunately do not have all the answers though. Did it really start two years ago? And consistently over time? Yes, see for example these two announcements from 2023: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/6680/ddos-update https://forum.faforever.com/topic/6182/addressing-severe-connectivity-issues-what-has-happened And in general the server status page on Discord. Not all events are related to the malicious actors. Sometimes we just wrote an innocent bug. Or scheduled maintenance. But especially before we had Cloudflare, if a service went down ten times a day then that was not because we thought it would be nice to turn it off and on again . Initially our infrastructure was the primary target. Especially around tournament days. Individuals streamers have been a consistent target for more than a year. See for example the frustration shared here: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/9440/ddos-and-now-something-new-again/28 Do we know anything about motives? Yes and no. I mean the fact that it's been on going consistently for two years speaks chapters about their intentions. There have been occasionally some sort of talk between representatives of FAForever and someone who claims to be (one of) the attackers. But there's no way for us to verify this. Therefore I'm uncomfortable with sharing details of these talks. Do you have a link to the mentioned YouTube video and/or the Discord server? Unfortunately I reported the YouTube video and it got removed accordingly. I did not keep a recording of it. I also am not part of the Discord server that I mentioned. It was shown in the video. I've seen temporary Discord invites. Perhaps a screenshot. But it's impossible for me to verify a screenshot. I suppose it is nice to know that the report button on YouTube is, occasionally, somewhat functional. And yes, I could've done some rickrolling there but I did not. Even though the sentiment of the song suits the announcement in some fashion. Would more donations help? All donations are appreciated. But what we need can not be fixed with more funding. @Brutus5000 wrote a blog post about it in 2021: https://forum.faforever.com/topic/2413/the-complexity-of-the-faf-infrastructure-and-why-throwing-money-at-it-doesn-t-fix-shit/1 What we need are more contributors that are intrinsically motivated to help FAForever thrive. And specifically, experienced software developers that want to stick around for a while to help maintain the software and infrastructure of FAForever.

I think there might be a naming issue. People see "Brigadier Fletcher Tournament" and think "oh that's the mapping tournament, I already read about that". Not noticing that this is a separate (albeit related) gameplay tournament

I pinged our server admins to ask them to take a look.

The first hotfix is out. You can read more about it in this topic or on Github

I have received my prize (WM Indie license). Thanks again for hosting and organising!

@nex awesome

A hot fix has been released this evening, you can find the details in the second post

Here's a breakdown of each map's average in each category. [image: 1689051797505-cb63dbf4-7973-4cb7-bee3-83f31b7ff24a-image.png] Aside from AI, because Jip is the only one who assigned points in that category.

@zeldafanboy should be fixed now was a change i was trying out and it slipped through

[image: 1678545765616-lod1.png] I know the new lod1 speck team needs tweaking

@jip said in Redesign of the Aeon air factory: That is a problem yes, changing textures like that. They'd blip into view at the end Couldn’t we sell it as the lights being switched on at the end of the construction process and just leave the animation running with non player related neutral colors like black?

The mat black on the redesigned support factory pillars which support the fins over the build area looks wrong. At least add the lighting effects of white dots from the original model to break up the ugly texture.

Agreed (with above post). Additionally having visually striking differences between a support and HQ factory help gameplay. Making the differences too minor (or non-existent) has already been showcased with ACU's and SACU's.

It is underwater, yes

I used to play SupCom on four pc's, First pc had a E6300. Second one a E8500 (core2duo) Third one a 2500k And now a 13700k. Even the E6300 managed to run the vanilla game. Finnished all the campaigns on that pc. The e6300 was paired with a GeForce 7600 GS or GT.