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.

Dude what? Still no servers???

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

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.

Why is it always the guy who says "could have simply been refactored and improved" and "I doubt it would take much" that never contributed single line of code.

If it's all THAT simple, well, could you show us? We'd like to see.

listen pal, first you need to learn some manners

All the token weapons were much "stronger" in vanilla. But the whole balance was very different, if you've ever played it.
The weapons were stronger but they also missed a lot. When I've redone the Vanilla balance mod, any naval unit that has some AA (destroyer, battleship, frigate) became almost better at killing air than Cruiser, since it had bigger fire rate. And with the same stats, those AA weapons in FA rarely missed.
So with the improved targetting they had to nerf those weapons and they are useless on most of the units.

If you make a template just with the storages, it will be offset, since the centre will be one of the storages
But if you make it with T1 mex, you will have it centred. T1 mex so it can be build with any engineer

UserData will most probably be nonexistant category
Looking in the xshields.lua file, its mentioning categories.VILLAGESHIELD
I havent found this category in any of your units and its surely not a category from the base game units.

I must be blind, but I still dont see any proof that Im getting paid for posting here or that I got pmed to post here. Only nine saying Im helping with his project.

@biass said in Council of Setons EXPOSED - Part 1:

I’m of course happy for anyone to air out their issues either now, or when it actually appeared. My pms are open or you can forward it anonymously through a middleman.

However, for the interests of making an informed opinion about the topic, you need to be aware of the following:

Exotic_Retard
speed2
Tatsu
nine2

Have both:

A financial incentive to reply here - all part of a team developing a game that tatsu/nine2 co manage
A career incentive to post here (nine2 pays or organised the payment of their salary for the financial incentive)
They were directly asked to post here through private message.

Your opinions are your own about the topic, however I don’t think choosing to omit this information is particularly acceptable.

Are we gonna get any kind of proof or insights to this, other than your ridiculous claims?

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

C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe

Just wrong rounding really, one is most likely rounding the number to closest higher whole number, the other to lower.

Well the mod "works" now. The server guys are behind