The version is not yet released. You can find the preview here. On the other hand it might already be released by the time you are reading this.

I am gonna quickly interduce new features:

• Client warns if you try to close it while FA is running
  

• Hide the chat user list
  

• See description of game featured mods
  

• Client can cache multiple versions of featured mods, so you don't need to redownload everything after you watched an old replay. Needs to be activated in the settings for now
  

• Client shows why games are not rated:
  

• The m&m map picks are rotated

• Admins can broadcast messages via the client

• Client short cut is called FAF Client

• Maps added to the map folder are automatically detected during runtime and added.

• Lots of bug fixes

• Client adds support to broadcast rating limits via server:
  
  You can add min/max rating and also enforce it. If enforced the game is only shown to players that match the rating boundaries. If not enforced only a warning is shown to players that do not match the boundaries.
  
  See the video how to use it.

Read the changelog for more information.

1. You can finally see what maps/mods you have installed directly
   
2. You can open the website to report a player from the context menu in chat.
   
3. Client writes separate log file for every game.
   
4. Hosting a game straight from the map vault with the map you are viewing finally works.
   
5. Country names are not only code but the full name:
   
   
6. Now shows the years in the graph that shows the rating.
   
7. Copy local replay info to clipboard:
   
8. A button to join discord:
   
9. Map icons are shown in chat of the map that is currently played:
   
10. You can delete and install maps/mods easily from the preview.
    
11. Online replays can we started from the preview:
    

A lot of bugs were fixed if you want a more detailed version of what else changed have a look in the release notes:
https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/releases/tag/v1.2.1

FAF tanks all contributors that contribute to FAF software. Be the next one and help us. See the project on Github.

Now the map generator has an option to set the map size and player count, would that not be a reason to try it in a tournament again? Now you can also make 2v2 1v1 or whatever you like. I would be interested. Also reclaim and a lot of other stuff was improved.

Hi guys, if you have got any questions concerning contributing to the FAF client fell free to ask here. Make sure you check out the wiki https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/wiki

Till now there was not really I way to update mods. There has always been a system to upload new versions but no way to update them. The update process only happened when u joined a game with a newer version. To make sure that players do not play old outdated versions the client will beginning from the next update pull the newest version when hosting. Updated is only what is currently selected for the game being hosted.

The corresponding change: https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/pull/2255

It can be turned off but is on by default.

For modders that means:

• Be aware that if you push new version that should be working because now ppl acctually get to play them.
• If you have a mod that has a huge download size, you should consider bundling changes so you maybe update at most once a month to avoid traffic for users(there is almost no mod that this applies to)

Btw guys if we merge @Downlord's PR then the new release would need java 14

I am playing Forged Alliance for a long time. I bought the game when I was 12 or 13 I guess. I was always interested in Informatics and programming. I think it did some first programming when I was 14 etc. but really only small things. I think often I was just missing a goal right? It is often easier if you have a concrete goal you wanna reach. I was 16 or 17 when I learned what GitHub and Open Source was. Suddenly I wondered if FAF was Open Source. So I just went ahead and searched for FAF on GitHib and who knew all the project where there.

So I looked at the client and it was python and that would have been fine cause I knew some python. But I discovered Downlord's-FAF-Client on GitHub. I had never heard of it before cause I was not really to invested into FAF. I just liked playing FAF, I did not engage into chat/forum or whatever there was. And I was shocked, it looked really good and worked, even if I need to admit it used to break a lot cause of external changes that did not consider it. And Java was maybe even better than Python I just liked it more. I really did not know much Java, I made one or two little things and knew the very basics. The thing that was different from before was I had a goal. My goal was to part of this awesome thing. Also this client seemed really major and this kind of made me want to spread the word about it.

@Downlord also had some wiki pages about the project. He had a list of technologies and also one to a chat with contributors. Also he offered some help to newbies.

Was a lot of work to get going cause the Java client is quite well engineered and uses a lot of technologies. But I made some Pull Requests(suggested changes) even if it took like 5 rounds of @Downlord requesting changes it worked out in the end. Over the years I contributed quite a bit.

I learned so much from @Downlord and others like @Brutus5000 , which I am really thankful for. Meanwhile I started studying Informatics at university and I am almost through. My plan was studying Math for some time but my positive experience at FAF made me study Informatics.

This year I have been the main contributor to the faf client.

My experience(not only FAF but mainly FAF) gives a huge advantage over other students, who in parts don't really know programming or software development looks like. I also had 3 jobs in software development besides my studies which I might not have had if it was not for FAF.

No skill is required to start doing stuff at FAF. The only thing you need is passion, motivation and dedication.

He would like to manage ppl yes you got that right. But that usually ends up with ppl getting upset

Puh that will be really hard to code. But it is open source if anybody feels like it go ahead

It is like a sports club dude. It is not that complicated. We all vote a head/board he decides. But in reality he gives most of his power away. But such things are not found in the rules because that makes it inflexible.

Alternative is a private person own everything and he decides(right now the case).

Done that a thousand times. We had documents explaining it. Conferences explaining it we have the rules of the association which are public

I was not at the preliminary(no time at the date) meeting of the association but there members voted on the rules. It was publically announced and everybody was invited.

I was talking about the number of games a player played a map. There is no way to pass that t the game....

Then the client allows themeing now:

If the theme is copied to the corresponding folder it can be selected in the settings and the UI instantly reloads. You can read more about it here

Since it is in game it is 99% not the client's fault. Probably hard to tell what the error is? Did you log in the game.log?

Tem match maker maybe

Assembly is fun

Hi guys,
I am gonna try write a little about what is new in new client versions. We also have change notes on the client releases but they are often no complete description and hard to read for outsiders. So maybe I'll try to write some text about new interesting changes. When I merge them in the corresponding topic of the upcoming release.

You can try the new features by either installing a Release candidate at the end of the development period or any time with a development set up. Read more here.

https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/releases/tag/v1.2.0-RC1 should be there ib´n a few minutes

Do you even remember the time before ICE?