2026.7.1 is not a test version of the client and no changes to connection logic were made compared to 2026.7.0.

2026.7.1 should be able to play with anyone. Most likely it was just antivirus or some other network issue.

Yes it is because the client is trying to download the most recent version of the map generator from github. But Github has been having outages.

I also to be clear it isn't that the mod client doesn't know about the options it is that the server doesn't in w how to create map names given a set of options that the client can use to generate a map.

To support this effectively the entire client server communication with regards to generated maps in the matchmaker has to change.

It may work for some versions of the generator but there is no guarantee it continues to do so in future versions.

@Fichom said:

It'd be great if you had a separate sub-site, where you can give it a seed (if you like the map), but let it iterate through different settings for mex and reclaim.

Just so you know changing any setting can lead to an entirely different map. There is no guarantee that changing the number of mexes gives you the same map with a different number of mexes.

Yes I understand so he can use the steam account to reset the password on the old account if he forgot it.Otherwise he should log into the old account and change the email

He can recover his old account using his steam link by resetting the password on the account.

We use websockets to communicate from the client to the server. So if the proxy doesn't support long lived websocket connections then that could be the issue

The other option is antivirus stopping the child process of the browser

Could not read remote preferences means something is blocking your clients connection to content.faforever.com/dfc-config.json

The replay issue has been fixed in the latest version. You should update your client to at least 2026.4.0

When you say crash if you mean the client just closes then most likely it is some antivirus or some security software force stopping the client.

Almost certainly the game was hosted with union control by the host that allows teammates to control your units

See previous topics for the details.
https://forum.faforever.com/topic/6663/who-owns-the-rights-to-the-sc-fa-source-code?_=1769692069764
https://forum.faforever.com/post/65271

The only other thing I could think of is that your ip reached the github api rate limit. But I am not sure how the client by itself could do that

This means that either github or someone between you and github are blocking you. Can you get to https://github.com/FAForever/Neroxis-Map-Generator
at all? Maybe with a VPN?

This error is because of a bad install try deleting the client install and teinstalling

Most likely security software isn't letting you download the FAF patches or is removing the downloaded files in Program data/FAForever/bin

This should be fixed in https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/releases/tag/v2025.11.2

This is fixed in version 2025.11.1