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    • Official FAF Support for GOG

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      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
      posted in Announcements
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • Time to move on!

      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

      posted in General Discussion
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • Stepping Down as Promotions Lead

      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 !

      posted in Announcements
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • The final farewell.

      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.

      posted in General Discussion
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • RE: Official FAF Support for GOG

      GOG Link is Now Available on the website

      posted in Announcements
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • Lots 2022 Promotion Work Prep

      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

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      YouTube Thumbnail

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      Stream Splash Art

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      posted in General Discussion
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • RE: Add Time and Date to the Patch Notes page.

      Updated all the Balance Patchnotes to include the release date in the info section.
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      posted in Suggestions
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • New way of using the League System

      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
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      Spring
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      Summer
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      Autumn
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      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

      posted in General Discussion
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • FAF Webiste Updates/Improvements

      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
      posted in Contribution
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • RE: Pending Balance Changes Feedback Thread

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

      posted in Balance Discussion
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • RE: Improvement of Leaderboards

      i have asked for Global to be re-added to the leaderboard on the website 🙂

      posted in Suggestions
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • Promotions Team Update & Looking for help with a variety of things!!!!

      Internal Promotions Team Restructure

      The Promotions team lately has been hard at work with an Internal Restructure.

      • The Newshub is now back to a weekly news section. Google Form & Google Sheet for Organists the weekly news & for News Requests!

      • The FAF Patreon will be getting an Overhall in the new few weeks with a new Tier System for you to be able to pick how you want faf to allocate your donations.

      • FAF Youtube has been cleaned up and has had a few updates with the logo and banner images. As well as the FAF Casts Playlist adding as many faf casts to the list from all contributors.

      • For FAFLive we Just recently got a hold of the Overlays for the faf Live account and will be looking into how to make them a bit more user friendly and for the Promo Team to update any banners/images on the overlay for X tournament that is using the FAFLive account.

      • The FAF Facebook Will receive an overall and update once a few of the bigger projects have been completed first as it is not a big priory at the moment but it will not just be a gyle highlight channel !

      • The FAF Twitter Currently nobody seems to have access to any of the twitter's that have been created over the years, So I will be Requesting a new one to be set up using the FAF Admin email so that we have a Twitter account as another form of communication outside of the client & discord.

      • The FAF Wiki The Current wiki is so old and outdated nobody has put the time in to fix it as it is just not easy to work with as it uses an outdated version of MediaWiki from like 2016. Rowey and p4block have been working on setting up a new wiki with a lot more features built-in with more coming soon. This will allow us to have a wiki that has the most relevant and up to date information available to all the players.

      Help/Contribution needed

      We are looking for some help with some of the projects that were discussed in the section above.

      • Patreon - We are looking for someone to be able to create 3 Special Avatars in the FAF Chat when you support a Tier with this perk. This would be an Avatar for the Following: Patreon Free to use, Patreon Tournaments, Patreon Infrastructure. All avatar sizing is 40px X 20px

      • FAF Website - We are looking for a new Image/s to replace the current Supcom 2 Image that's on our website & any of the other images that you think should be updated as well.

      • New FAF Wiki - We are looking for people to go over the current wiki that is available and read an of the written guides/ posts/ tutorials and let us know if they are all still fine or could do with an update. if they need to be updated and you are willing to take the time to help re-write stuff Message me and we can work out how to get the correction information on the new wiki

      • Graphic Artists - We are also looking to add more people to be able to create posters for events/Article images for the new hub page & for posts on any of the other platforms we have control over.

      Many Thanks

      Rowey Promotions Team


      Update: 29/10/21

      Internal Updates

      • Newshub is continuing with the weekly updates along with the Google Form for requesting news posting is working well saving us time searching for news to post.

      • FAF Patreon new Tier System was Implemented and going some perks based on the tier you supported us on!

      • FAF Youtube has seen considerable growth since the promotions team took control over it and posted content on their weekly for the time being. if you have any idea on what other content we could have on there please let me know.

      • FAFLive as of yet noting changes on the FAFLive front from the promotions team at this moment in time.

      • FAF Facebook page has been getting updated posts on The weekly news and some extra video links to the FAFLive VoD on the Youtube channel.

      • FAF Twitter as of yet we still don't have a new Offical Twitter handle when this happens we will let you know.

      • The New FAF Wiki is making strides I would say it is about 45% done on the refactoring.

      Help/Contribution wanted

      We are still in demand of people who would like to help out with the following

      • FAF Website - We are looking for a new Image/s to replace the current Supcom 2 Image that's on our website & any of the other images that you think should be updated as well.

      • New FAF Wiki - We are looking for people to go over the current wiki that is available and read an of the written guides/ posts/ tutorials and let us know if they are all still fine or could do with an update. if they need to be updated and you are willing to take the time to help re-write stuff Message me and we can work out how to get the correction information on the new wiki

      • Graphic Artists - We are also looking to add more people to be able to create posters for events/Article images for the new hub page & for posts on any of the other platforms we have control over.


      Update: 10/11/21

      Updates

      • FAF Twitter We have recent now set up a new official Twitter alongside the infrastructure to pass this on between Promo councillors so login credentials arent lost and have to create new Twitter every time.
      posted in Contribution
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • RE: Request / Suggestion: add "strategic launch detection" on-screen notify

      https://github.com/FAForever/fa/issues @KarlMarx420 This is a nice little feature that could be added so this doesn’t get lost I suggest making an Issue on the FA Repository on GitHub.
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      Selecting Feature Request, this is in a backlog of issuses that we check more often

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      posted in Suggestions
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • Summer League 2023 Event

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      It's that time for the new Summer League to begin on the 1st of July till the end of August.

      All you need to do to take part is play on the 1v1 ladder in the matchmaker tab.
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      The Top 4 Brackets will be rewarded at the end of the Season.

      Prizes
      Avatars
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      Total $50 Funded by FAF
      $50 - Grandmaster

      When the new season starts you can keep checking in on the Leaderboards tab to see where you are and other are in fighting your way towards that shiny new avatar
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      posted in Tournaments
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • New Map Veto System for Tournaments.

      New Map Veto System for Tournaments

      After Recent Discussions On Zulip I'm now going to Bring this to the attention of the community. Back in October I contacted a Site Called MapBan https://www.mapban.gg/en .
      This site Specialised in a Map Veto System. After seeing the way the veto system was being done in the Legends of the Stars Tourney i thought this would be the next logical step in make the FAF tournaments New and Refreshing as well as bringing it more upto day with how Most Current games do this. If you have just looked at the site you can see there is another RTS on this site “Starcraft 2” which was a recent addition to the site so there's no reason why we could not do this.

      The Developer of MapBan got back to me and said he could add Supreme Commander Forged Alliance to the Site and there was No Map Limit which is a big thing for us as there is possibly closest to 3-400 maps that could be needed for this to work to its full potential for us.

      The Site offers us some nice benefits. I will be using Rainbow 6 Siege(R6S) as an Example for what is possible on the site.

      Map Pools
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      With Mapban we can have Map Pools or Presets, As you can see above in the R6S part of the site there are 3 Presets and a Map Pool. The Presets allow us to have set maps for them so at a click of a button all the maps needed are selected. With the Custom pool you can just select the maps you want in your pool from the Bank of maps listed. New map-pools are able to be added within 24 hours.
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      Best Of X
      Once the Map preset or Custom pool has been decided your are then asked on how many games are to be played. the system allows for Best of 1, 2, 3, 5 or 7.
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      Lobby
      Once the Best of X has been selected you get prompted with this screen. here you delegate the links to Team 1 and Team 2, As well as a Like For Viewers to see. Also if you click on the more links at the bottom of this image there is a Browser Source for OBS that can be used for Casters to have show on Stream while the players pick the maps.
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      Team Link
      When you are given the team link you will be presented with this page. here is where you can set your Team name or Player Name, As well as Uploading a Team Logo which needs to be 150x150px and as a png.
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      Veto Process
      In the image below you can see the Maps that were Vetoed Out with a ‘X’ on the map name. and the maps that were picked by the players will show their MapBan Colored Logo or the Logo they Added when they set up their name in the previous step. so in this case Orange picked Theme park and Blue picked Tower.
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      Any questions
      Contact me Via the Forum Direct Messages, Aeolus or FAF Discord 🙂

      posted in General Discussion
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • MapBan System is Now Live!

      MapVeto Sytem is now Live

      After 2 Months we finally have the base layer for the 3rd party MapVeto System.

      A few weeks ago, i put out a post with an overview on what this system is going to look like and a Basic understanding of the feature.


      https://www.mapban.gg/en

      Current Map List
      https://forum.faforever.com/topic/783/mapban-system-map-list

      Request or Submit Maps

      Here is a Google Form Link for your to request maps to be added and for map Maker's you will also use this link to Submit you map to be assessed to be added to the system. Any request / Submissions that are approved you will be contacted before had to make sure you are happy with it still to be added.

      Form - https://forms.gle/wone7VhdxLbwCD7w5

      More Pool

      The aim is to get more Pool on the System in 2021.

      I would like to get some sort of the following pools

      • Ladder/TMM Pool
      • Custom Pool for Specific Tournament (Rule will apply but still TBD)

      FAFLive Account

      Using the FAFLive account for Tournament will be decided By FTX as he will have the Login Credentials for the account along with me.

      Using the FAFLive Account you can see this Video to run through how to use it.

      Video - Coming Soon

      Using the System Without FAFLive Account

      To use this new Tool, we have now you do not need to have access to the FAFLive Account to make the most of it, the account is there for Convenience due how the Plus account works.

      To Start creating your pool you need to head on over to https://www.mapban.gg/en on the front page you should see FAF.

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      Now Click on the FAF Section and as of 22nd Dec 2020 all you should see is Custom Map Pool (More to be added in the new Year).

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      Clicking into the Custom Map pool you will now have access to all the 108 Map in the First Upload.

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      on this page you can use the Search bar to see if the maps you want are on the system and then click on them to select them. As you can see once selected, they show as a highlighted.

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      Once you have selected your maps Right at the bottom of the page is a 'Submit' Button you want to click that.

      once you clicked submit Base on the number of maps you have selected you will be give Best Of X

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      As you can see here out the selection of map, I picked I can only go up to a best of 5. Update: FAF will be geting Both Best of 7 and Best of 9 Options.

      Once you have picked the Best of that you wanted for you Map Vetoing you will now get prompted with the Mapban Lobby, there is a lot to go on here.

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      The Top button that says ' Ban Order & More Options'

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      This is what you will see when you click into it. This will allow you to set how you want the maps to be picked or Banned and click submit once you set it to how you want it.

      The Next 2 parts are the Links you want to give to the 2 Player or teams that are competing.

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      This will take them to a Generated page.

      Opening up the Team 1 link you will get hit with this page.

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      Here is where you need to Put in your Team name or FAF Name & if you want you can put in a Team Logo. Now one you filled out the field's click start Banning.

      When you click Start Banning you will now get this screen,
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      this page will list all the maps you selected at the top of the page it will say what you need to do so to Pick & Ban you just need to click and hold on the map and it will add a 'X' if it is banned.

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      and when you select a map is will show your Mapban colour blue for team 1 and Orange for team 2 in the corner of the map.

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      Another Link is the Viewer Link.

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      this can be given out to people on a live stream so they could watch the banning processes and see what was being banned or picked.

      If you are Streaming the Tournament with Live Map Vetoing ( this will be different for FAFLive Account ACCSES) you want to click on the More Links.

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      this will open 2 more links. you can ignore the logs one but the last one 'Link for BrowserSource.

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      this link you want to create a Browser Source on OBS and Paste That link into the URL and it should allow you to see onscreen the map vetoing live on stream.

      If you will be using the FAFLive Account for MapBan there will be a Video to Cover how to use it as it has a different way to do thing with it being more used for Streams.

      FAFLive Accout Stream Overlays

      here are some Screenshort on the additional Ui elimets you can have for streams

      Note: the background is not aprt of the overlay jsut thier so you can see them 🙂

      For the Main Overlay thier a few extra toggle that can be enabled

      Break will show current score on the games that have played

      Start

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      Main

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      **Main With Show Played Maps **

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      Main with Show ActiveMap

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      MapVeto

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      Break

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      posted in General Discussion
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • RE: Weekly Discussion #30 - Discord Reorganization

      As @Deribus Mentioned ive been working on convering thecnial help over to a forum to make it easyer to find infomation regaring common issuse and how to fix them and then for any other issuse a new post can be created with guidlines on what makses a good post to get to the solution the quickest. 78204416-e8bd-4122-b177-e98c3e20397e-image.png

      Here is what I've got so far all the information that was in the pins has been migrated over into its own Post. Were only have to have 1 Pined post in a Forum so the top pin post is where were able to list links to all the most common issues that happen and the link their will take you to the corresponding Forum post. All these channels are read only.

      If you have any suggestions for any other common issues please let me know here and we can add them.

      posted in Weekly Discussions
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • RE: 2023 Spring Invitational

      https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0nxuIUIjpFv0zxf3lSCHtWBcNZiWpKmP The Official Playlist for all the games casted on the YouTube this playlist will continue to grow till all the games from the stream have been published 🙂

      posted in Tournaments
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • RE: Make reclaiming more intuitive

      the Factory Attack move has been around for so long now id just call is a Feature at this point not a bug as it so well know by people I would not even call it a bug

      posted in Balance Discussion
      RoweyR
      Rowey
    • RE: Removing A Pink

      I don't see why we need to remove this colour. I've had no issues telling them apart

      posted in General Discussion
      RoweyR
      Rowey