Long time no see!

[AdmiralZeech]

Hi, dropping by the forums after a long absence

How is FAF these days? Does it play much differently than vanilla FA?

Are the things people used to complain about (ASFs, T1 Engie spam, useless units / T4s, etc) better now?

Do we have mod/map/replay vault of some sort?

What do high level matches look like these days? Much different from before?

Just wondering how my favorite RTS is going

[Herbert]

Its almost a different game, you got some catching up to do!

[ZLO_RD]

You missed TON of things
Engy mod, SCU rebalance, money tourneys, big skill improvement of all players, new top/good players like Blackheart pachuriko and others, missed weeks of scfa streams, 1000+ people in chat times, missed 3603v6 to 3632 patches and rebalances and bug fixes (about 30 patches), also missed epic galactic war beta fights, and 6v6 games, and coop campaing , and coop multiplayer (coop 1v1 games)
Missed 5th faction nomads, new mods, ui mods, maps

[nine2]

"Are the things people used to complain about (ASFs, T1 Engie spam, useless units / T4s, etc) better now?
Still problems but yes, better

"Do we have mod/map/replay vault of some sort?
Yes, all three

"What do high level matches look like these days? Much different from before?
Watch a cast... random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCo7Rb8 ... xMIFwtf2bw

[AdmiralZeech]

Sounds great! I bought a new gfx card after my old one died, so maybe it's time to reinstall and check out the new shiny

All I ever wanted was for Novax to be viable, though

[Plasma_Wolf]

In that case you got what you wanted. The Novax is viable. Still no use if you try to beat shields with just one of them, but that's not supposed to happen. I'd say that the Novax has become viable mostly because of the changed shield behavior.

[AdmiralZeech]

\o/

Oh, another question - are there any fan-made maps that have become competitive standard?
Just wondering if the science of map design has progressed to the point where people make more competitively interesting maps than GPG.

[ZLO_RD]

\o/

Oh, another question - are there any fan-made maps that have become competitive standard?
Just wondering if the science of map design has progressed to the point where people make more competitively interesting maps than GPG.

aren't all not standart maps are made by fans?
there are many many many many many fan made maps
http://www.faforever.com/?p=1361
http://www.faforever.com/faf/vault/maps.php - map vault
also maps in faf are downloaded automaticly when you try to join game and do not have map

[Zock]

Few custom maps are competitivly interesting, and many of thoose were already arround in GPGNet aswell (loki). They can match official quality maps, some more, some less, but i wouldn't say they are better.

Map making is not very active anymore, and there are very few people who produce decent maps, but it is not completly dead either.