Hello Resin, long time no see ! Glad you are still around. Loved your mod back in the day with Domino. Greatly appreciated the inventiveness of 4DC and DMS (holograms, shields, gc unit thrower, phasing, antistun etc...) . Still play with most of it in my homebrew compilation mod. Thank you for years of great gaming and happy to see you back.

The old design proposed new models and new shapes and I'll rather have them even with all their bad textures and bad lights than the new design which just feels bland and boring. The new design is paradoxically not an improvement to the visuals of the game.

What can I say, I understand your motives but the old design still looks way better than the new one even with stretched textures, bad ambient lightning etc... . And I agree with Angelofd347h, the new factories look unfinished. Get rid of a panel to make them different is just a cheap solution. In the old HQ factories at least there was an effort made at redesign and create a new model.
The new design is clearly not an improvement to the visuals or the game.

@jip You "prefer moving forward" and it is fine by me. Even if I do like the actual HQ models I'm not opposed to replace them with something better, graphically, gamewise but also visually. The people behind the Engie mod made the effort to create true HQ models visually striking and that you could clearly identify. The changes you are proposing are bland, half-baked and not an improvement visually speaking. They don't bring anything to the game visually on the contrary. HQ should look like HQ, the old ones did, whatever their graphical imperfections, yours don't. Replace the actual HQ models with new true HQ models and keep the original game factory models for the support factories. You are doing a fantastic job on FAF and I do support your work, the direction you have taken FAF and the changes made so far and I thank you for that. This needed to be said.

The old design was visually striking and original the new one is not.

@KaletheQuick
Hi,
tested the unit but doesn't seem to do anything to shields. No faster regeneration when they are hit.

I like old models better too. New ones are not doing it. It is a downgrade in terms of visuals not an improvement.

The "new" cybran air support factories just look plain ugly. I won't call cutting part of the original air factories model a "new design". Looks rather like a half-baked piece of work. If you have to replace HQ factories (I personally don't see the need too) make new models, distinguishable and grandiose, they are HQ after all.

Hi thanks for the video, very explicit.
I tested the shaman without any other mods activated on my retail version of the game and on FAF. I switched the shields off and on and compared those within the range to those autside. I also made some enemy AI units fire at the shields till depletion.

No effect at all all the shields regenerate at the same speed for me.

I think another tester is needed, this unit doesn't seem to work for me.

A pity I liked the concept and the model.

First of all thank you very much for the answer and the info. Much appreciated.
I didn't thought to look on Google, as I supposed it would be readily available on the wiki in a highlighted spot not lost in the FAQ, specially since it is not in the FAQ tab, but accessible via the "Play" section lost in the "Common questions"here : https://wiki.faforever.com/en/Play/Learning/New-To-FAF. Also some of the info is here : https://wiki.faforever.com/en/Play/Game-Modifications-(Mods)
And AFAIK some of the QoL changes are not present such as the new shaders.
Maybe creating a "changes from Steam" tab on the left side menu and gathering all the info in a single place would be a good idea ? Anyways just a suggestion.

Now it seems to be working again... God knows why.

Hello FAF client stopped working for me I can't access maps or mod vaults. The log shows some error messages like this ones :
checkpoint ⇢ 500 INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR from GET https://api.faforever.com/data/mapVersion [DefaultWebClient]

checkpoint ⇢ 500 INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR from GET https://api.faforever.com/data/mod [DefaultWebClient]

A few days ago everything was working fine and I didn't touch or changed anything.

Thanks for the help.

First of all thank you very much for the answer and the info. Much appreciated.
I didn't thought to look on Google, as I supposed it would be readily available on the wiki in a highlighted spot not lost in the FAQ, specially since it is not in the FAQ tab, but accessible via the "Play" section lost in the "Common questions"here : https://wiki.faforever.com/en/Play/Learning/New-To-FAF. Also some of the info is here : https://wiki.faforever.com/en/Play/Game-Modifications-(Mods)
And AFAIK some of the QoL changes are not present such as the new shaders.
Maybe creating a "changes from Steam" tab on the left side menu and gathering all the info in a single place would be a good idea ? Anyways just a suggestion.

I was curious to look at a summary of all the main changes FAF brought to vanilla SCFA since the begining (Engies mod, HQ factories, new shaders etc...). I looked through the wiki but could not find it. Does such a summary even exists ?

@resin_smoker said in 4DFAF Uploaded:
If you think what I've done was good, prepare to be shocked.

I am prepared, shoot !

@resin_smoker said in 4DFAF Uploaded:

So apart from feedback, what from DMS would folks like to see incorporated?

Maybe a list of what features are inside DMS would help feedback on what to incorporate ?

The game is not about apm "manual reclaim" but about strategy, building bases and fighting bots and vehicles. Keep area reclaim.

So many memories... love you r units still play with them.

Hello Resin, long time no see ! Glad you are still around. Loved your mod back in the day with Domino. Greatly appreciated the inventiveness of 4DC and DMS (holograms, shields, gc unit thrower, phasing, antistun etc...) . Still play with most of it in my homebrew compilation mod. Thank you for years of great gaming and happy to see you back.

OK I understand. But maybe as an enhancement with adequate costs that would give the Fatboy another wepon option. Otherwise just modify the model and get rid of the napalm turret because just now it looks weird, a weapon turret without any weapon on it.

Also, fantastic job on the Atlantis and very nice model for the Enforcer.