FAF Officaly Supports GOG

It's Been a long time coming but I can finally say FAF will support the GOG Verison of SupcomFA.

Ever since FAF enable the Steam link for us to verify that you own a copy of the game and the requirements were laid out here for why.

Next Leap

The work on the API side has been completed as you can see here if you are interested. As of the 11th of May, I finalise the frontend implementation that was provided by Geoserchef with a few minor text and link changes that need to be made.

The New release of the Website is ready and should be deployed Within the next week (I will Provide an Update here when live!). With this, it is time to welcome with open arm's new player who owns SupcomFA on GOG. With these changes you will only need to have the SupcomFA game on either platform to play faf Steam will no longer be the only Option!

Mentions

Thanks to Geoserchef for starting the process with Brutus & Sheikah on the Sever side.

Would also like to thank you for the help in testing that the linking process works:

• Sprouto
• P4Block

After Being a part of the FAF Community and going on 13 Years of being here pretty much from the start of FAFs existence, it's time for me to part ways for a while. Throughout my journey here I've met and talked with many people which has helped me grow in times where FAF has been an escape from stuff going on in my Person life.

Throughout the year, I've worked on many parts of FAF from becoming a Tournament Director and Mod maker to eventually Being on the FirstBoardd of the FAF Association and where my last few years have been spent on the Promotions team and Game team for faf and most recently the Balance Team with the latest patch.

I've Learnt So much with the infrastructures and technologies that we use at FAF which has helped me in my studies and future Career and aspirations.

As of today, I will be leaving FAF and all of the teams I was a part of as I now need a break to focus on my Final Year of Uni and Goals and projects I want to focus on.

You may see me around here and there in games when I feel like it but for now, this is Good Bye for a while.

For those who still would like to stay in contact with me, you can add me at mrrowey on Discord.

Thanks

Rowey

Hi It’s Rowey

You may have noticed over the last Month and half I have been absent and things in the Promotions have seemed to have slowed down / Grinded to a halt in some places. This has been one of the hardest directions I've had to make in a while, August of this year I’ve thought long and hard, at the the end of September I gave The FAF Board My Notice of Stepping down as Promo Lead which will be effective as of Dec 24th, I will no longer hold that role and my successor will take over as well as i will also be taking a break from faf as a whole.

My time as the Promotions Lead me and the team have accomplished a lot, From the increased content that was going up on the FAF YouTube channel which when i started only had 1.2k Sub and we grew that to 2.3k+ Subs as of writing this. We implemented the upgraded version of the client newshub with a more modern look and are working on a revamp of the FAF Website with a new look and feel.

After being a part of the FAF Community for 13 Years it was a huge part of my life at a point in time where I needed it, it became a Safe Haven for me where I could forget about the outside world. I will be moving to focus on other things in my life which will involve some personal stuff and trying out more development stuff I want to pursue. I will not be leaving the Team is Disarrays, Once I officially gave my notice to the board I worked with Javi to make sure he had everything he needed to take over as the new Promotions Lead.

Over the years being on FAF I've dipped my toes in much every area from Tournament Director, Mod and map creator, Was a part of the Initial FAF Association Board and to my final post The Promotions Lead.

With this said i will also be leaving FAF for sometime as it comes to the time where I'm looking forward to what’s next and the next steps i need to step away from what i know and take that leap. I'm sure you will probably see me here and there in some games or on the discord / forum. It has been a blast on all the stuff I've done and achieved throughout my time at FAF, As well as all the friends I've made along the way.

Finally before I finish up this post I would like to announce that Javi will be the Person who will be taking the seat as Promotions Lead and I wish him all the best in the post for all the hard work he has also put in over the years in the background that you may not have known about !

This is Rowey gating out one last time !

As many remember last year I said I was leaving faf and re appeared a few months later as at that time I still had some time free as I enjoyed contributing to faf.

Last week I notified both balance and game leads I will be no longer making anymore contributions to faf Thier are a few reasons for my decision

• No longer have the motivation.
• No longer enjoying it.
• Too much waiting around.
• No longer have the spare time.

This has definitely been coming for the last few months and the time I've spent contributing to faf has been enjoyable for the most part as well as made friends who I plan to keep in touch with as I adventure with in the next place I go.

Faf will allways be apart of me as it helps me decide the direction on what I want to do in life and was Thier when I need it to take my mind off thing.

GOG Link is Now Available on the website

Its that time of year when the Promotion Team is at work prepping all the materials for the Legends of the Stars Tournament and to kick thing off id like to extend the credit of the work to Promotions Team Associate Member Phong for using the style of older lots images to create a new and clean logo which we will be able to use beyond this years tournament.

Here are the Assets that have been created. If you have any feedback I'm sure @phong would appreciate it.

Icons and Banners

YouTube Thumbnail

Stream Splash Art

Updated all the Balance Patchnotes to include the release date in the info section.

Current System

Ever since the new Leauge system was implemented and replace the standard leaderboards in the client the first few season people were proactivly playing to rise up thoght the ranks and more recently ve sen that for the 1v1 & 2v2 matchmaker space this has significaly droped of.

Aim of this post

The Aim of this posting it to preset My idea to update the leauge system into 4 Distiguised seasonal events thoughout the year were thier are some small insentives to actlault wanting to play.

• Give a reason to want to play 1v1 & 2v2
• Give a Goal to reach with custom avatars & prize pool
• More people playing the matchmaker

New Approach

For now the aim would be to trial this out with 1v1 and if it something the community like we can expand this to the 2v2 system in the new year.

The New approach to the league system will be to have 4 season:

• Winter : 1st January - 28/29th February
• Spring : 1st April - 31st may
• Summer : 1st July - 31st August
• Autumn : 1st October - 30th November

Each season would happen around the same time each year. Each Season would be a 2 month period with a 1 Month Grace period in-between were other bespoke tournament can take place and give players a breck from the grid over the last 2 months.

Avatars & Prize pool

Thanks to @Fichom we have custom avatars for the top 4 brackets of the league being

• Grandmaster
• Master I
• Diamond I
• Gold I

Winter

Spring

Summer

Autumn

And I've also spoke to the new Treasure of the association( @Deribus ) about using some FAF funds for a small prise pot for each event which would be $50 per event

Feedback

Were open to any feedback you can provide us on the setup as id like to start the first seasonal event on the 1st of July so see if it will bring people back to playing on the 1v1 matchmaker more if their is a goal to work towards

In my Free Time I am slowly working On Adding Improvements to the FAF Website and all Changes I have made are on the FAF Git Page.

Any Update / Changes I make will be list here as well as a Link to the GitHub Pull Request I have made.
I will Put in Square Brackets if the Change is Merged in the current version of the website or is a Pending Pull Request.

Trello Board to Manage New Feature/Update i would like to add to the Current FAF Website
https://trello.com/b/tbuvEoL8/faf-website

Improvements/Updates:

• Update News Link on website to NewsHub #258 [Merged]
  Change the Href Link to link to /newshub instead of /news as people are missing out on what is going on in the community as the old news page had no postings since Aug 2020

• Add Twitch Link to Top Navigation Bar #259 [Merged]
  Added Twitch Icon to link to the Supcom FA Category of Twitch

• Update to Contribution Page #260 [Merged]
  Update Streamer & Caster List & Add link to FAF Creative Discord

• Add Link to FAF IssuseHunt & Discord Links on Contribute Page #261 [Merged]
  Added Link to FAF IssuseHunt page : https://issuehunt.io/r/FAForever
  Added Links to FAF Related Discords :

  • Official Russian
  • Official French
  • ANZ #263[Merged]
  • Nomads Development
  • Ai-Development
  • FAF Promotions

https://patchnotes.faforever.com/fafbeta.html I've updated the beta Patchnotes page for what is live on FAFBeta

As many remember last year I said I was leaving faf and re appeared a few months later as at that time I still had some time free as I enjoyed contributing to faf.

Last week I notified both balance and game leads I will be no longer making anymore contributions to faf Thier are a few reasons for my decision

• No longer have the motivation.
• No longer enjoying it.
• Too much waiting around.
• No longer have the spare time.

This has definitely been coming for the last few months and the time I've spent contributing to faf has been enjoyable for the most part as well as made friends who I plan to keep in touch with as I adventure with in the next place I go.

Faf will allways be apart of me as it helps me decide the direction on what I want to do in life and was Thier when I need it to take my mind off thing.

you need to host or join a game first to download all the faf related changes

@mopeytotem the next meeting were going to trial a discord stage where people can join and listen in but game and balance team can still talk.

i talk with jip about this idea of custom presets but the issues it that it would require a rewithe to how the current presets are done due to they are hardcoded in the unit blueprints

@karl_marx the Sera regen field would stack with multiple sacus

@noble_ice they are getting a new damage arua

@noble_ice i will make a Post regarding that once we have more concrete decision on the SACU changes

@ctrl-k Ill Provide Description on the pr

@elusive Nano is geting a Addtional HP Buff

In the process of keeping the community up-to-date on what The Balance team is working on we are currently in the process of reworking how all the SACU work you can see the process and the decision is made via a collection of Github Pull requests.

Be mindful that they are all still subject to change.

• Base Stats
• Quantum Gate Changes
• UEF Enhancements
• Aeon Enhancements
• Cybran Enhancements
• Seraphim Enhancements

Please try and provide feedback either here or via the Github Pull Requests.