Galactic War

Remove? How about we add some more!

Have no fear speed is here!

this thread is meant to give you an overview of what is going on regarding the next game development/bugfix patch.

I will tag all Pull Requests for this patch with the 3718 milestones so you can easily filter and find them here.
The following changes are currently merged into the deploy/fafdevelop branch and thus available for public testing via the FAF client by playing the FAF Develop game mode:

• Improve BaseManager unit upgrades #3170 Coop related. Better options for AI to automatically upgrade ACU/sACU during the missions.
• Quantum optics facility fix #3174 Fix for broken vision entities that were not giving any vision (sera scout, uef arty, Coop missions, Rainmakers, etc...).
• Allow sending resources only to allies #3180 Fixed bug where you could send resources to your enemies.
• increase performance of table.empty and math.round #3184 Optimizing some Lua functions for better speed.
• Add option to hide resource markers on preview #3187 Support to hide resource markers from the lobby map preview, mostly for generated maps.
• UI Scaling fixes and improvements #3190 Fixes for UI scaling for various UI elements. Also fix for console missing a background.
• Reduce GetBlueprint() calls in weapons #3193 Refactor of weapons code for more speed2 (hehe).
• Remove useless GetBlueprint call #3195 Tiny code cleanup. Nothing interesting, but every bit helps.
• Improve build effects logic #3194 Code that handles UEF build effects was speed up. Also slightly changed behaviour when picking the build effects. Now the laser that goes at the edge of the build cube is properly shown only if the build cube exist. Before you would get it for any structure, even for other factions, or when assisting factories to build units, which looked weird.
• Simplify Sera effect flash at finished structure #3196 Code improvement for an old fix. The fix was for Sera structure build effect, at the very end, there's a flash that could be seen by enemy. While fixing this, Ive noticed there might be even more of these light flashes that can be seen by the enemy even without the vision. For example, when a unit is reclaimed, you can see the flash at the end of the reclaim effect even if you don't have a vision on that place. If someone feels adventurous, feel free to make a list of all these effects that should be fixed. (Since the fix is very simple.)
• Speed up Aeon shields death animation #3197 As title says, Aeon shield now turns into wreckage +- as the other factions, so you can start rebuilding it faster.
• Remove set up of build effect from TShield #3198 Just a small code improvement.
• Add link to the patchnotes to the changelog popup #3210 Changelog popup now has a button that links to the balance patchnotes that have some better description of why balance change XY happened and is good for you.
• Weather in Supreme Commander #3175 Huge code improvement for the weather effects. More info on how to use them on your map here.
• Fix for Sorian AI to be able to use support factories (#3173) It's in the title.
• Fixed unit cap displaying in coop #3213 Unit count is again displayed in coop as well.

Contributors:

• Azraeel
• Divran
• Jip
• KionX
• Sheikah45
• speed2

Please test these changes by playing FAF Develop featured mod and report any bugs you find.

This post will be updated whenever new changes are merged and thus available for testing in the FAF Develop game patch.
If anyone is interested in testing PRs that are not yet merged then you can do so by following this guide.

Microing massfabs adds 0 value to the game, they should have been automatic from day 1. They just need some warning when they're not running on 100%, so you don't build more of them just to find out they are all disabled.

@Resistance said in M&M Map Vault Plans for Fall 2020 and On:

@Morax if i knew how,i would put some nice likes for this one:P
good changes inc,i like it.

It was broken, taken down and then not compatible with the new server.
Its being slowly made, afaik Askaholik and Brutus are working on it, but slowly, so soon

https://github.com/FAForever/fa/pull/3197
That was easy to fix.

200% original icons https://mega.nz/file/lpAylBYJ#ULXA5vs4GYtpapADBWOd6lkDOTl68IUpZTjEyhLVu4c
dont get fooled by the name, it's just so the game loads it, since ASI is whitelisted
Place it here C:\ProgramData\FAForever\gamedata
Some icons might be missing

Btw. those code refactors and cleanups got me 5% sim speed increase on out ASF mayhem perf test map. It's gonna be less in a real life where there's less pew pew. But still better than before.

@Caliber Those are all valid points, it's not the best mission design wise, the thing I had in mind and what actually happened to be the mission does slightly vary.
It's way longer than its suppose to be, with too many mixed ideas is in (or good ideas with not so good execution).
Prothyon was my first mission made and also my first coding experience, so some jank is to be expected. My later missions are more overall balanced for sure.

@tankenabard https://youtu.be/JGQNCS6WU3w?si=urJ1ncw9C0n8ix0g&t=2021
33:41

https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/develop/engine/Sim/Entity.lua#L241-L246
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/develop/engine/Sim.lua#L635-L641

That would probably be https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/develop/engine/Sim/Projectile.lua#L174 Get/SetVelocity.
Acceleration is used for the projectile to reach it's max speed

Calling Destroy method on it will destroy it, but it wont remove it from a table you've added it to. Its gonna be there, just destroyed.

@brutus5000 Fixing this would help for sure https://github.com/FAForever/fa/issues/5833

Good points, the client could definitely use some love.

There's also this coop update with mission briefings that's been waiting to be fully released for over an year now.

As with the cheated times in leaderboards, while some things can be fixed, ppl will always find a way to cheat, so as with any speedrunning leaderboards, cheaters would have to be banned from them.

@freedom_ You are mistaking some things here. While it's true Im getting paid for making Sanctuary, it is my job, not my hobby. FAF is a hobby, and Im currently spending my free time on other nongaming related projects.

@vonkill Hey, Im glad you enjoy the missions

My next things on the list would be finishing the 5th Nomads mission and Fort Clark Assault, but I dont know when that would be, as Im very busy with real life.

Downvoting is toxic now? Are there that many snowflakes who wouldnt handle having their post downvoted by someone, so we must protect them?

If we have upvotes, I dont see a single reason why we shouldnt have downvotes as well. It serves the same purpose, quickly showing how many ppl agree or disagree with your post.
Replies are for everything else.