Difference between FA and FAF

[Navras]

Hi guys,

So I've played a lot of Forged Alliance over LAN with friends and brothers but on a version I don't even think was ever patched so its quite old. I am just wondering what the differences are between the original Forged Alliance and Forged Alliance Forever.

Forgive me if this is a terribly noobish question

[ZLO_RD]

ha ha, would be nice if someone will post changes from 3599 to 362* in one post
As far as i know:
When you install FA it is 3596
Then goes pach to 3598
Then small pach to 3599 - last official version
Then community maked an unofficial 3603 beta - steam and most of the pirats running this version, but it was not availble for GPG
3603, 3604(v1 - v6), pachmod made by community BASED ON 3599 to play in GPG, so it bit hard to track changes for me. Those pachmods were used to play by FA-Ladder system that could replace GPG, but it did not.
Then FAF appears, there were said that it is based on 3604...
Pach logs from 3604 to 362* are availble on FAF wiki

I had some nice nostalgia here, i hope my english was ok.

Note: 3603 beta is shit.

[eXcalibur]

in short:
- FA is the game you play (updates were abandoned by the production company a long time ago)
- FAF is the online multiplayer client (which updates FA with patches, better graphics, new maps, some mods, 6v6 gameplay, a 1v1 ladder system, ...)

edit: you can play FAF on LAN as well (when you have installed FAF and hosted a game before you try it out in LAN): viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3629

[ColonelSheppard]

yeah well maybe i will make somekind of overview with important changes so people dont have to read through endless changelogs

i think most important is maybe
- less efficient shields
- better t3 land/navy
- t3 air nerfed

[Eukanuba]

Naval wreckage
Restorers no longer game-breaking
Mex upgrade bug fixed
Loads of other bugs fixed
Better graphics shaders

The list is pretty much endless but these are the ones that stand out most to me.

[X-Peri-MENTAL]

Biggest change for me when I first played on FAF was you need to build an Energy Storage before you can overcharge (IMO one of FAFs best changes) this might catch you out when a T1 land spam charges your ACU so include it in your early build queue.

[Gorton]

Biggest change for me when I first played on FAF was you need to build an Energy Storage before you can overcharge (IMO one of FAFs best changes) this might catch you out when a T1 land spam charges your ACU so include it in your early build queue.

Is this vanilla? I remember 3599 and the steam version both requiring a storage to overcharge as well.

[ZaphodX]

3599

No.

the steam version

Yes.

[Gorton]

Ah, ok; thanks.