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Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-08-10T22:23:17+02:00

I didn't even realize this but the Spiffing Brit was actually always an option, this is a video he just did on TA :
https://youtu.be/s9PhluGnXBM
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Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 10 Aug 2020, 22:23

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-08-01T22:23:32+02:00

SsethTzeentach wrote back to me today, he is planning to make a video on it just not straight away. so good news all around.

also the "new entry" The Happy Tau is talking about following up with another video about supcom/FAF.

and today we got another vid by Blaan Sarge :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yApMU6r0zYQ
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Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 01 Aug 2020, 22:23

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-31T21:48:22+02:00

So back on the topic of getting youtubers to talk about Supcom/FAF we do have a new entry I'm sure many of you have already seen it :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqKBMAqz_cA
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I'm pretty happy about that one plus he got complimented immediately by MandaloreGaming.

I on my own hit up GeneralsGentleman who got back to me with a very understandable reply that I don't know what to say to so I'll just make it public this way we can provide a united front of an answer :

Hello.

So sorry for the late reply.

I love Forged Alliance but I haven't touched it in ages. I'll always have a soft spot for it from all of my LAN's as a teenager.
We're not posting very often anymore due to me being busy with university now on top of work, so we're not going to have time to do FAF on top of our regular content. But if you would be interested in sponsoring a video/s we could organise something.

Regards,

So yeah I dunno... on one hand in their current situation of not making so much videos I guess that makes sense but for us to pull together a small fundraiser just to have a sponsored video (which audiences generally skip over because they feel they are disingenuous, yadda yadda...)

I dunno, I felt like I would just test the waters here to see if it's worth putting together.

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 31 Jul 2020, 21:48

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-08-01T22:23:43+02:00

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 13 Jul 2020, 20:42

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-13T19:39:24+02:00

so I just played a steam game and the very first thing that I noticed was that it LAGS.

HARD.

I don't know what exact combinations of things (the t1 engy spam wasn't that hard with the players I played with, the unit count was a bit higher than usual though) but the simspeed was abysmal. So either there's still a ton of i3s hanging out in steam FA or there have been significant performance improvement brought by FAF.

then the nukes. nukes were actually dodging anti nukes a BIGGER percentage of the time then being hit by them. I'd say around 80% of the time nukes would still connect with the ground in a field of anti nukes. (this may have been due to the simspeed lag)

so that was fun.

then there was the t2 and t3 gunships. which players didn't bother to have in aeon variant or protect with fighters. and yeah they absolutely dominate the mid-game.

and then yeah it was a total turtle-fest since spamming a buch of shields guaranteed you can deal with even a tp snipe in time. it's pretty nuts. there were also a ton of bugs, like after I died I was allowed to keep controlling my units and playing for like 30 mins even though it was on assassination and I'd seen another player's base dissapear after his death in the same game.

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 13 Jul 2020, 19:39

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-13T17:38:50+02:00

MMLs are better in steam balance than they are in FAF balance (but that has more to do with the completely revamped shield mechanics which both buff the early shields and nerf the late-game shields in FAF as a result)

And yeah t3 Air in steam balance is just mindbogglingly absurd. it can win any game

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 13 Jul 2020, 17:38

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-11T23:51:14+02:00

E8400-CV wrote:
TheKoopa wrote:Steam balance is unironically probably better than current balance

Make MML's and win?

Yeah right.

If my memory serves, T3 air rush is the way to win on every map. (MMLs are awful in Steam balance)

Statistics: Posted by FunkOff — 11 Jul 2020, 23:51

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-11T14:23:55+02:00

TheKoopa wrote:
Steam balance is unironically probably better than current balance

Make MML's and win?

Yeah right.

Statistics: Posted by E8400-CV — 11 Jul 2020, 14:23

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-10T12:18:14+02:00

armacham01 wrote:
Since LinusTech likes the game, maybe he would be open to promote it in some way that doesn't require him to do a lot of work. Like maybe he would end a stream by hosting someone else casting a game? You would just need to coordinate it in advance.

He already did : https://twitter.com/linustech/status/12 ... 8712251393. although he did so with the GOG version... it's always a gaffe with him.

About Mandalore: I checked his google docs for vid ideas and it's very reassuring : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... range=A341

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 10 Jul 2020, 12:18

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-10T03:58:56+02:00

I had tickets to LTX this year before COVID killed it, was going to ask Linus, James, and Luke to poke the team into a ChannelSuperFun FAF game on Setons... Maybe next year.

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 10 Jul 2020, 03:58

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-10T02:22:44+02:00

Since LinusTech likes the game, maybe he would be open to promote it in some way that doesn't require him to do a lot of work. Like maybe he would end a stream by hosting someone else casting a game? You would just need to coordinate it in advance.

Statistics: Posted by armacham01 — 10 Jul 2020, 02:22

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-09T22:57:06+02:00

Endranii wrote:
Mandalore have supcom on the list and is slowly getting to it.
I already gave annihilnime nod that he should try getting in touch with him, even more as Mandalore loved supcom.

plus he clearly loves to talk about the "atmosphere & community" of a game and there's a lot to go over there. it'll be a perfect fit. we just need to help him with his research.

Argor wrote:
Lowko: (407k subscribers. Nice guy and charismatic) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZNTsL ... j-5QRmqt_w

If Lowko made a FAF promo I'd cream my pants...

Statistics: Posted by tatsu — 09 Jul 2020, 22:57

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-09T22:21:46+02:00

What about trying to get certain Youtube SC2 casters to try FAF? You're more likely to get only refusals than any non-refusal, BUT if you get one of the big guys that'd be phenomenal.

Remember: Youtubers need content for their channel. Someone clever talk to them and see if you/we/they can figure out something the youtubers would agree to.

Lowko: (407k subscribers. Nice guy and charismatic) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZNTsL ... j-5QRmqt_w

WinterStarcraft: (153k subscribers. Young and elitistic) https://www.youtube.com/user/WinterStarcraft

BeastyqtSC2 (54k subscribers. Unknown to me) https://www.youtube.com/c/BeastyqtSC2/videos

I suppose there may be more out there. Go go find!

Statistics: Posted by Argor — 09 Jul 2020, 22:21

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-09T19:48:09+02:00

Mandalore have supcom on the list and is slowly getting to it.
I already gave annihilnime nod that he should try getting in touch with him, even more as Mandalore loved supcom.

Statistics: Posted by Endranii — 09 Jul 2020, 19:48

Re: The FAF Social Engineering Walapalooza

2020-07-09T10:05:35+02:00

So uh, I have an idea maybe. Some pretty big youtubers that specifically review obscure games like MandaloreGaming, and SsethTzeentach both actually have some hours in FAF already, especially SsethTzeentach who even included a screenshot from him playing FAF in his last video (https://youtu.be/JJd85HFq71c?t=474). Perhaps we could either get in touch with either of these boys, and maybe offer/ask them to make a promotional video about FAF? Also another surprisingly big influencer that plays/ed FAF was Linus from LTT, his FAF account is LinusTech, again could maybe see if they wouldn't mind doing some promotional stuff. On keeping new players, I reckon a really polished tutorial would be a great option, and let players press a button for queing in co-op matches vs bots, instead having to host themselves. But whatever, lets get some dank youtube promotion

Statistics: Posted by Darkym — 09 Jul 2020, 10:05