In this game: https://replay.faforever.com/25147672 at minute 18, Flying7dutch... plays a winning move by putting his UEF T2+TacMissile ACU in some water and sending tac missiles to take out a bunch of T2 mexes.

As I watch the replay, I'm surprised to see that some of those tac missiles pass right over Aeon defending TMDs. The TMDs let out their little round puff, but it doesn't get anywhere close to the tac missile before the missile is way away from it. It looks like the tac missiles is going way too high and way too fast, for that round puff to have any chance.

Is it intentional that TMDs can completely miss tac missiles that go straight over them? I don't recall seeing that before. In this game, this happened for 5-6 missiles.

I'm not sure how one should defend against tac missiles the way this works. Perhaps the ACU tac missiles are especially awesome like this? This made me think ACU tac missile should be my new favorite tool.

I'm not sure what changed, but today it works.

Wow. I never realized that was the case. You're right these missiles went way above the TMD.
I've always been placing TMD as a line of defense, and never been thinking of it as something I need to put next to things I'm protecting behind the front lines.

In this game: https://replay.faforever.com/25147672 at minute 18, Flying7dutch... plays a winning move by putting his UEF T2+TacMissile ACU in some water and sending tac missiles to take out a bunch of T2 mexes.

As I watch the replay, I'm surprised to see that some of those tac missiles pass right over Aeon defending TMDs. The TMDs let out their little round puff, but it doesn't get anywhere close to the tac missile before the missile is way away from it. It looks like the tac missiles is going way too high and way too fast, for that round puff to have any chance.

Is it intentional that TMDs can completely miss tac missiles that go straight over them? I don't recall seeing that before. In this game, this happened for 5-6 missiles.

I'm not sure how one should defend against tac missiles the way this works. Perhaps the ACU tac missiles are especially awesome like this? This made me think ACU tac missile should be my new favorite tool.

If you're having the same symptoms, including the map image never showing on the connection screen, then you might not have the same root cause (Windows 10 "controlled folder access" turned on). Something else might be preventing either the FAF client or the game from accessing the maps folder. Perhaps the two (FAF client and game) are looking for the maps in different locations. I would start trying to figure out if there is something going wrong with the map download, generation, or loading by the game.

As an aside, using Windows 7 at this point is pretty scary from a security perspective. I realize even installing the FAF client is also a kind of scary security issue, but using Win7 is next level. If you can update to an OS which gets regular security updates, that would be a good idea. Don't do any banking or such on that Win7 machine!

I figured this out. It's not due to any networking issue.
The problem was that somehow FAF or the java executable were blocked in some new way from accessing %USER_PROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\maps... There were java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException issues in multiple log files.
I turned off Windows Security "Controlled Folder Access", and things work. I think that had been turned on when I had the machine connected to work many years ago.
I have no idea why this lack of folder access became an issue now. I think it is due to some change with 2025.2.0. But it could be a change in the java executable or elsewhere.

I just tried ladder 1v1. That worked on the first try. But 3v3 has been failing at least 20 times over the past week with the above behavior.
With the 1v1, the map rendered on the connection screen, and then the game started.
I wish I had some idea about what the root cause might be. Perhaps it's related to the maps in 3v3 and my client not being able to render them?

Actually, I realized I'm not 100% sure those two logs are from a game that completed to the point where I got the screen above. It's possible it might have been from a game which didn't get that far (e.g. because some other player didn't turn green). Here are new logs which definitely come from a game which landed me in the state I describe above.

ice-adapter.log

game_24389665.log

@magge
ice-adapter.log
game_24389195.log

Are those the relevant logs?
I see some errors in the ICE log, but have no idea whether those are related to the issue I'm experiencing.

This started about a week ago, and still persists with FAF client 2025.2.1. It has reproed daily for at least 7 days. Before this, I've been playing FAF for years, both ladder and custom games.
I can get in the queue for ladder games as normal. When a game starts, I get sent to the connection screen with the table that shows connectivity between the players, and the square which should show the map, as normal.
But the map never draws.
The connectivity yellow/green squares change a bit as usual. After a while (when all is well) all the diagonal squares turn green. When they have pulsed green for a bit and just as I would expect the game to start, instead the green squares for the other players go dark/transparent. After that I can sit on this screen indefinitely. The ICE debug window looks like I'm still in contact with the other players when this happens (but the other players quickly drop off - I'm guessing that's because the game fails to start because my client isn't joining correctly).

I've tried uninstalling and re-installing the FAF client to address this.
I've been thinking about whether this could be due to the DDOS attacks of the coturn servers (since I do rely on coturn servers), but other players are telling me in chat that they use coturn servers and that they're able to get into ladder games most of the time at the moment.

Any ideas about what could be wrong, and steps to fix?

I'm not sure what changed, but today it works.

After installing 2025.1.0 about an hour ago I have been joined into games by matchmaker 4-5 times. Every time though, I see a new behavior in the table showing connectivity between the players:

• It starts out as usual from the past. A few players aren't connected to start with. After a few seconds more and more of them turn green.
• All diagonal cells end up showing green. I expect the game to start momentarily.
• Then, one by one, the diagonal cells go from green to black/see-through. After a few seconds they are all black/see-through.
• At this point the game doesn't start. But it also doesn't time out and abort.
  Are others experiencing this?