Have no fear speed is here!

this thread is meant to give you an overview of what is going on regarding the next game development/bugfix patch.

I will tag all Pull Requests for this patch with the 3718 milestones so you can easily filter and find them here.
The following changes are currently merged into the deploy/fafdevelop branch and thus available for public testing via the FAF client by playing the FAF Develop game mode:

• Improve BaseManager unit upgrades #3170 Coop related. Better options for AI to automatically upgrade ACU/sACU during the missions.
• Quantum optics facility fix #3174 Fix for broken vision entities that were not giving any vision (sera scout, uef arty, Coop missions, Rainmakers, etc...).
• Allow sending resources only to allies #3180 Fixed bug where you could send resources to your enemies.
• increase performance of table.empty and math.round #3184 Optimizing some Lua functions for better speed.
• Add option to hide resource markers on preview #3187 Support to hide resource markers from the lobby map preview, mostly for generated maps.
• UI Scaling fixes and improvements #3190 Fixes for UI scaling for various UI elements. Also fix for console missing a background.
• Reduce GetBlueprint() calls in weapons #3193 Refactor of weapons code for more speed2 (hehe).
• Remove useless GetBlueprint call #3195 Tiny code cleanup. Nothing interesting, but every bit helps.
• Improve build effects logic #3194 Code that handles UEF build effects was speed up. Also slightly changed behaviour when picking the build effects. Now the laser that goes at the edge of the build cube is properly shown only if the build cube exist. Before you would get it for any structure, even for other factions, or when assisting factories to build units, which looked weird.
• Simplify Sera effect flash at finished structure #3196 Code improvement for an old fix. The fix was for Sera structure build effect, at the very end, there's a flash that could be seen by enemy. While fixing this, Ive noticed there might be even more of these light flashes that can be seen by the enemy even without the vision. For example, when a unit is reclaimed, you can see the flash at the end of the reclaim effect even if you don't have a vision on that place. If someone feels adventurous, feel free to make a list of all these effects that should be fixed. (Since the fix is very simple.)
• Speed up Aeon shields death animation #3197 As title says, Aeon shield now turns into wreckage +- as the other factions, so you can start rebuilding it faster.
• Remove set up of build effect from TShield #3198 Just a small code improvement.
• Add link to the patchnotes to the changelog popup #3210 Changelog popup now has a button that links to the balance patchnotes that have some better description of why balance change XY happened and is good for you.
• Weather in Supreme Commander #3175 Huge code improvement for the weather effects. More info on how to use them on your map here.
• Fix for Sorian AI to be able to use support factories (#3173) It's in the title.
• Fixed unit cap displaying in coop #3213 Unit count is again displayed in coop as well.

Contributors:

• Azraeel
• Divran
• Jip
• KionX
• Sheikah45
• speed2

Please test these changes by playing FAF Develop featured mod and report any bugs you find.

This post will be updated whenever new changes are merged and thus available for testing in the FAF Develop game patch.
If anyone is interested in testing PRs that are not yet merged then you can do so by following this guide.

@Resistance said in M&M Map Vault Plans for Fall 2020 and On:

@Morax if i knew how,i would put some nice likes for this one:P
good changes inc,i like it.

https://github.com/FAForever/fa/pull/3197
That was easy to fix.

Im one of those who's silently leaving (and not some conversations, but contribution). So you have my full support nine

Btw. those code refactors and cleanups got me 5% sim speed increase on out ASF mayhem perf test map. It's gonna be less in a real life where there's less pew pew. But still better than before.

I like vet and I wouldn't mind to see it even improved. To add some extra damage on the weapons like in vanilla.

Yes, pay with your soul

Dude what? Still no servers???

To the FAF employees:
If you cant engineer yours to industry standards, you should resign.

Vanilla supcom campaign wasnt designed to teach you play, and it wasnt designed to teach you play FAF at all. It was designed to slowly introduce units.

It would be much better to create a new campaign or missions with FAF balance in mind and clear things you wanna teach the player, it's possible to combine it with some sort of story so it's a still fun mission.

@fringillus said in Seraphim Coop Campaign Suggestions:

Just having played the first mission "Fort Clarke Assault", I thought it was great, even tho it still felt a bit empty compared to the official campaign because it had no transmissions or voice acting at all.
Maybe an idea to make it a bit more lively would be to have the Seraphim listen in on some of the transmissions you would normally hear in the campaign (especially the death transmissions when failing) or just some of the Seraphim threats.

This would have the advantage of massively reducing development time by using already given elements and letting the player experience some of the content, they would normally not get (assuming that you won´t fail every campaign mission).

Yeah, I know what you mean, the thing is the mission isnt really finished. I never fully finished the last part. And dialogues are the last one to come one the gameplay is settled.

@sheikah Thats not true. They are included for the vanilla campaigns.
For taking content of FA, you dont even need to make players download it, since everyone already has it. So it's easier to use.

Current firing animation looks like a bad joke considering how massive the scathis is.

@seethinglong no

@askaholic said in Looking for Voice Actors to help with Tutorials:

Tbh I think it would just be better to buy some voice acting off of fiver or wherever like @Javi did. That will probably get better results than having some random person on FaF do it.

Like there is that one mission that has Gyle doing some of the voices but IMO it doesn’t fit at all (and also it’s way too quiet).

It was the first one, that's never perfect, if I was making it today it would sound much better, ever with Gyle's voice. The fact that it's too quiet is just caused by a wrong settings when packing the sounds for the game.

I dont see an easy way to lock the cursor, but what would might be possible would be to disable scrolling on the secondary view with a UI mod, that way you won't mess with your maximap when you accidentaly move there

Yes, pay with your soul

opai = FortClarke:AddOpAI('UEF_Fatboy_1',
    {
        Amount = 2,
        KeepAlive = true,
        PlatoonAIFunction = {SPAIFileName, 'PatrolThread'},
        PlatoonData = {
            PatrolChain = 'M4_UEF_LandAttack_Mid_Chain',
        },
        MaxAssist = 8,
        Retry = true,
        BuildCondition = {
            {'/lua/editor/otherarmyunitcountbuildconditions.lua', 'BrainsCompareNumCategory', {{'HumanPlayers'}, 1, categories.EXPERIMENTAL, '>='}},
        }
    }
)

FA missions dont have the map file with them, what you see in the folder is just a dummy text fle renamed to scmap. Cuz the server requires it for the map to be valid. And it was the easiest solution. So if you wanna open in the editor, you have to copy the scmap from your instalation folder.
You also have to change the path to the map in the scenario file.
The reason why the maps are not included is that the mission maps don't change and everyone has these maps, as they are part of the installation.

It belong to the game instalation folders, and fast few ppl having this issue resolved it by creating those folders