Nomads Update!

[JJ173]

Hello Commanders,

Welcome to the new thread about Nomads, and the updates our team are making to them. As some of you may know, the Nomads is a fifth playable faction that is available through FAF, and has been favoured by a lot of the players for a long time. If you are a fan of the Nomads faction, then today is your lucky day. I have some great news. The faction is being worked on by a strong team of developers to bring them back to FAF with a massive bang. We have a lot in the making for the faction, and we cannot wait to share more of our work with you, the players!

Here are some teaser screenshots of our work, courtesy of our model makers:

Nomads T3 ASF:


Nomads LAB:


Nomads MML:


Nomads ACU:


We are working hard to bring the Nomads back with a new look, new challenges, and new balance changes. Nomads won't be brought back to multiplayer alone. We also have a coop campaign in the making, which is progressing well! Further updates of the campaign will be posted soon.

If you are interested in helping bring the Nomads Faction back to FAF with us, feel free to contact Exotic_Retard or myself with any offers.

Please keep track of this thread for further updates!

The Team:
- Exotic_Retard: Graphics Coordinator
- Apofenas: Balance Team
- biass: Coop Mission Team/Map Maker
- JJ173: Coop Mission Team/Voice Actor/Mission Scripter
- speed2: Coop Mission Team/Mission Scripter
- zesty_lime: Coop Mission Team/Voice Actor
- Wise Old Dog: Coop Mission Team/Voice Actor/Writer
- Armaster: Model Maker

A big thanks to everyone who has contributed so far!

[Endranii]

Ok, which one of you is fan of X universe and Xenons?

[Exotic_Retard]

i actually know what you are talking about but i promise thats absolutely not related xD

[Franck83]

Amazing ! I just started modelling 3 days ago, and i'm not sure to be really helpful. But i would try !

[PhilipJFry]

last time i looked at some nomads replay i noticed a lot of lag (iirc someone told me that the acu model was responsible for that)

are there any plans on improving the performance in nomads?

[Exotic_Retard]

absolutely there are, we have already identified a couple of lag points and are working through them, but they are not totally ready yet. expect performance to improve over time. we are going through the existing units and optimising a _lot_ of code as we go along, theres a few significant refactors being done, and we actually have code in places thats superior to faf :>>

Frank, feel free to PM me on discord or the faf forums, and let me know what you are interested on working on, we can set you up with nice things :>
this applies to anyone interested of course! we have plans regarding a more inclusive and transparent model of development which will be ready soon™ as well so stay tuned for that, too.

[PhilipJFry]

what about unit models?
i vaguely recall someone saying that the high polygon count was an issue?

[Morax]

Not going to comment on anything but looks, and have to say it is really nice to see this. This is an interesting UEF-Cybran mashup in my opinion, and am curious to see the up and coming work.

[Uveso]

are there any plans on improving the performance in nomads?

It's a bit laggy if you start he game with 10+ sim speed.
But i have played several AI games with Nomads now and the sim speed after 1 hour is the same as with the nomal FAF game.

After fixing the gfx stuff it should be ready to go

[JJ173]

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