Drop announcement in the discord with testing date and we should get enough people to stress test it. Hell, hit up @Strydxr or @Razana and we might even get CNN hosted on the new client for even better test.

I also don't think that the bandwidth requirements should matter at all, unless it were to really baloon. We are no longer in copper era of internet, so I would assume everyone would have that 1-2Mb/s of upload available for themselves. And considering how bandwidth intensive FAF is, I really don't think that doubling it will matter at all.

And if available I will also show up for some testing games.

I think there was some GW iteration played like "tabletop" or something? Or there were plans for it by Azraelians angel. So maybe it's that what Neytron thinks off?

It simply doesn't match the vibe of the game, as such it shouldn't be the default option. Still, should be a way to use it in custom lobbies if one wishes so without de-ranking the game.

Otherwise imagine you buy the game and you see this random ass wacky tombstones the moment someone dies. Ain't what you signed up for boss.

Another thing is that you can just jump into the 2v2 3v3 or 4v4 TMM Queue and un-rust there. Especially as from what I heard, the ratings there a quite more inflated, so it should be easier for you to regain your footing as you will be starting more or less from scratch there.

100$k dollars is not even gonna cut it. If remember correctly Visionik was willing to offer much more for the rights to the game and he still heard no.
There's also no reason for Linus to buy the IP or anything. If anything I think he would be more inclined with simply helping FAF do it's thing as a non-profit community project rather than try wrestling with Square enix for the rights to the IP and shit.

Experimental graphics option should alleviate that a little bit by pushing all lod's by another 20-30%. But the answer to why can't we have the game show everything all the time is performance that is gonna massively vary between the maps and the game states. A game that is fine at the beginning might easily drop below dozen FPS where there is bunch of broken crap on it, like tree groups or stuff as the game is gonna simply throw too many draw calls at your GPU.

You can see the performance hit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAqlgrOjy2Q

Also, could ask more technically inclined people if it's possible to edit this parts of lua yourself to see if it's possible to push the experimental graphics option even more by yourself.
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/develop/lua/ui/game/gamemain.lua#L351

Voice lines for some of the seraphim campaigns have been more or less recorded years ago. But dunno if I wasn't up to par as seraphim or some other technical stuff stopped them from being used.

Yes mr.officer. It's this man who doesn't pay the patreon bucks.

Always the same classic, something is unpopular for one reason or other but not due to being weak. And somehow everyone thinks that buffing that shit is gonna fix the problem...
Hell, people are still gonna play cybran and Uef due to them just being the cool dudes that people like thematically. Even if they were weak.

@Brutus5000
The font got bigger and is now hella "bolded". It's also way whiter than it used to be in the dark mode I use.
It's just burning my eyes at the moment, as it changed to being pitch black with 100% eye burning white font.

The only problem is the potential abuse. So unless you make it so there is definite pause limit per team, it can go wrong. Not per player, but per team. As otherwise it's possible for someone to go afk for a long time, and have his teammates/premades just prolong it as long as possible. Which imo is a no-go. And considering you can't have pause time allocated per team. I think it would be necessary to split say, 15 minutes of time on each team to it's players. So say, 2v2? Everyone get's 7.5 minutes, 3v3 5 minutes per player in team. 4v4 3.75 minutes. So that the possible wait time will never go above certain limit.

Why 15 minutes? Dunno, just shooting in the ballpark of what CS-2 offers with all it's possible timeouts being used. Obviously it up to debate how much time could be allocated in faf. But I think that 15 minutes is definitely the upper limit of time per team allowed. Though to be honest, I would Ctrl+k after just 5 minutes of waiting. I'm not here to look at my t1 mexes, but to play the game. Especially if it's global one. I guess ranked I could be inclined to wait lil bit more.

You can always use the new share option. One that kills the army with acu death. But leaves the base intact. Giving the player a good chance of at least defending the core of economy of the player who died.

Also, could use the tourney to promote it.

Another thing that is worth mentioning is that FAF association is an actual legal entity based in Europe. Privy to all it's laws. So it's not like this is just your standard mod you find on Nexus or somewhere.

What's predatory about it? What's malware about it? Genuine question, cuz I'm quite perplexed as to how you arrived at your conclusion. Especially as yes, you can delete your account by making single inquire about it to the [email protected] . Though it is done manually so it might take some time.

Also, just so you know. You won't be able to make new account and link it to the same game copy in the near future. So trying to do that is not gonna fly.

If you make it 10dps gun it won't matter. But will make it look cooler in-game where the BS will look like they can at least try to fend themselves off from the little bugs.

If you are playing the game then it seems to be in a decent state for pubs/custom games. But if you wanna just watch content like tournaments/high level casts/analysis then honestly it's pretty bad. Tuning in into the last tournament, just to see muted foley stream his beach excursions was pretty sad moment tbh.

Maybe I'm missing some YT casters etc, but I don't think we have anyone like Jagged at the moment.

And no, watching Gyle cast a "hIGh LEvEl" game doesn't count.

To be honest, I think it's based on weight.

Last wish, ban those 2.

@dorset said in Time to go:

I never understood leaving something you love rather than staying to help build it. Whatever makes you happy I suppose

If your SO slaps you in the face everyday, each day harder while gaslighting you that it's all your fault, then I'm not sure I wanna stay in such relationship. Especially when the reason for being slapped in the face is just having casual conversation with your neighbor in the hallway in front of your apartment door.

@thevvheelie said in Time to go:

goodbye hybrid

Loved being featured in your casts, especially rainbow cup!
Gonna miss them but alas new games await.

Been here for a while so might as well say goodbye for that one last time.

But yes, I'm cutting off FAF as it's current, soulless and corporate like direction killed any kind of involvement I want to have with the project. Sure, I was not really involved past this few years, as I would mostly come out to stream a game or two on FAFlive or play a game here and then. With most of time just being spent watching mr.streamer or lurking on discord.

But even then I found it kinda worthwhile to stay around, as there are great people here. Seeing people enjoy the content on FAF YT was pretty nice too. As it seemed like even I could give back something to community after all those years of digging salt on setons and RMG's.

But with the way things are going I just don't see reason to stay here and keep antagonizing the moderation team until I'm perma banned from discord anyway. Obviously, there are other reasons why I'm quitting. But the mishandling of the discord community is the biggest one for me. As it was still a place that I found fun to drop by every second day and catch up on the ongoing discussions.

Like honestly, SMD deribus.