The issue was on our side ( xd ) — we needed to remove the GitHub Copilot entries from the hosts file
thank you all!

/thread

@skrat ты можешь узнать это через бота достю в дискорде командой !Playerstats nickname
upd: а, ну только глобал и 1х1

When clicking the “Generate Map” button in the FAF launcher (version 2025.11.3), the operation fails with a 403 Forbidden error. The launcher attempts to fetch data from the GitHub API endpoint:
https://api.github.com/repos/FAForever/Neroxis-Map-Generator/releases
but receives a “403 Forbidden” response.
In a sample of 7 friends from russia, 4 have this problem =(

Client Version: 2025.11.3
org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.WebClientResponseException$Forbidden: 403 Forbidden from GET https://api.github.com/repos/FAForever/Neroxis-Map-Generator/releases
	at org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.WebClientResponseException.create(WebClientResponseException.java:323)
	Suppressed: The stacktrace has been enhanced by Reactor, refer to additional information below: 
Error has been observed at the following site(s):
	*__checkpoint ⇢ 403 FORBIDDEN from GET https://api.github.com/repos/FAForever/Neroxis-Map-Generator/releases [DefaultWebClient]
Original Stack Trace:
		at org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.WebClientResponseException.create(WebClientResponseException.java:323)
		at org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.DefaultClientResponse.lambda$createException$1(DefaultClientResponse.java:214)
		at reactor.core.publisher.FluxMap$MapSubscriber.onNext(FluxMap.java:106)
		at reactor.core.publisher.FluxOnErrorReturn$ReturnSubscriber.onNext(FluxOnErrorReturn.java:162)
		at reactor.core.publisher.FluxDefaultIfEmpty$DefaultIfEmptySubscriber.onNext(FluxDefaultIfEmpty.java:122)
		at reactor.core.publisher.FluxMapFuseable$MapFuseableSubscriber.onNext(FluxMapFuseable.java:129)
		at reactor.core.publisher.FluxContextWrite$ContextWriteSubscriber.onNext(FluxContextWrite.java:107)
		at reactor.core.publisher.FluxMapFuseable$MapFuseableConditionalSubscriber.onNext(FluxMapFuseable.java:299)
		at reactor.core.publisher.FluxFilterFuseable$FilterFuseableConditionalSubscriber.onNext(FluxFilterFuseable.java:337)
		at reactor.core.publisher.Operators$BaseFluxToMonoOperator.completePossiblyEmpty(Operators.java:2096)
		at reactor.core.publisher.MonoCollect$CollectSubscriber.onComplete(MonoCollect.java:145)
		at reactor.core.publisher.FluxMap$MapSubscriber.onComplete(FluxMap.java:144)
		at reactor.core.publisher.FluxPeek$PeekSubscriber.onComplete(FluxPeek.java:260)
		at reactor.core.publisher.FluxMap$MapSubscriber.onComplete(FluxMap.java:144)
		at reactor.netty.channel.FluxReceive.onInboundComplete(FluxReceive.java:413)
		at reactor.netty.channel.ChannelOperations.onInboundComplete(ChannelOperations.java:464)
		at reactor.netty.channel.ChannelOperations.terminate(ChannelOperations.java:518)
		at reactor.netty.http.client.HttpClientOperations.onInboundNext(HttpClientOperations.java:925)
		at reactor.netty.channel.ChannelOperationsHandler.channelRead(ChannelOperationsHandler.java:115)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:444)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:420)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:412)
		at io.netty.channel.CombinedChannelDuplexHandler$DelegatingChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(CombinedChannelDuplexHandler.java:436)
		at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.fireChannelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:346)
		at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:318)
		at io.netty.channel.CombinedChannelDuplexHandler.channelRead(CombinedChannelDuplexHandler.java:251)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:442)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:420)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:412)
		at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.unwrap(SslHandler.java:1519)
		at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decodeJdkCompatible(SslHandler.java:1377)
		at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decode(SslHandler.java:1428)
		at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.decodeRemovalReentryProtection(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:530)
		at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:469)
		at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:290)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:444)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:420)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:412)
		at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1357)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:440)
		at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:420)
		at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:868)
		at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:166)
		at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:796)
		at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:732)
		at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:658)
		at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:562)
		at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:998)
		at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74)
		at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30)
		at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1474)

I also duplicated it in the technical channel in the discord, because I'm not sure where to write it more correctly.

@Sheikah I forgot to mention this in the post, thanks for good point. I have access to GitHub both with and without a VPN; it isn’t blocked in Russia. However, the generator still doesn’t work, regardless of whether the VPN is on or off.