I did record a video quite a bit ago which I wanted to turn into an airguide. It's not flawless but an example of a nearly perfect air gameplay in a real game. Since I won't contribute to FAF anymore, I'll just leave the link to the non-audio version here if someone wants to take a look or if someone wants to make an airguide out of it. Plan was to simply pause the video smts and go over the gameplan and situations. ua-cam.com/video/mPtkddDG5Lo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Sladow
@@VexnoTheFox Of course, I'll try and break it down. 1) Not enough appreciation For the things I've done (the guides in collab with the trainer team and a shit ton of replay reviews over the last years) there was simply too much negativity. The ppl I made the reviews / guides for were thankful and I highly appreciated that, besides that there were a lot of unnecessary comments. I did have some beef with some people which definitely is also my fault, but I'm not referring to those. I'm more referring to comments from e.g. Archsimkat. After Bully switched his name to mine for memes, they apparently had a round and I just read on Discord (you can filter for the exact wording) "Oh you were Bully? I thought you were Sladow. Genuingely thought I had Sid and Sladow on my team so I was just like it's over anyways", which is just unnecessary. We never had beef (nor is he stronger than me but I never commented on that) so getting those random comments from different directions is just exhausting. 2) Man Power FAF lacks manpower. In every team. Dunno how much you followed me, but I was in the balance, matchmaker, association team and team lead of the trainers, yet in every team the activity was simply not given. My threads in the balance team got ignored for muiltiple months before I asked Jip to implement it, then suddenly ppl were like "nooo you cannot do that". Happened more than one time and Jip can probably tell you more about how frustrating it is to deal with some ppl there. I did sort out the trainer team by kicking any inactive trainer, together with advertising on other Discords some people joined. Together with the goals / to do list I've set up with them in a meeting trainer team is completely functional currently. The others are not (Shoutout to Storm for creating all the map pools on his own). 3) Moderators Some moderators really shouldn't be moderators or at least shouldn't have such a behaviour (Archsimkat - the dude I mentioned before - is a moderator btw). To understand the following part, a bit of context: The high ranks in FAF are a very small circle which only really play against each other all the time. The only lobbies you'd get were during weekends or when Farms was streaming. We meme'd around quite a bit, basically moderated ourselves (E.g. kicking people after they base ctrl+k'ed when others disapproved and even created an own rule document so the moderators leave us alone). Recently we changed names for fun, then the mods suddenly introduced a rename rule change which increases the time you can change your rename from 1 month to 1 YEAR. Worst thing is that they didn't have a single good reasoning (literally) for justifying that rule, nor did they listen to the insane critics. In short it was like ".. We cannot give you a good reason. But we'll introduce it anyway cuz fuck you, the silent majority wants it.", see the thread on the forum for details. I've counted and around 23 known high ranks left FAF / became inactive during the last year meaning even if Farms streams, the chance of getting a lobby definitely became smaller. Besides that the actions of the past months were just horrible. E.g. I had quite some friends on the FAF Discord and I mainly contributed cuz of the chill teams. Stryder and I always called each other "retard" for fun, apparently after doing that for over a year using the word "retard" is not allowed anymore. And the context doesn't matter. I can fully see giving ppl a timeout if they mean it as a serious insult, but Stryder getting one after calling me "retard" which was obviously a joke is just over the top. Those were just two examples, there are some good comments on the "Why everything sucks now"-thread made by BlackYps on the Forum. So overall, FAF's infrastructure is quite bad, the moderators got way worse and especially lately it seems their only goal is to enforce stupid rules "cuz why not" (again, for details check the Forum. I'm not exaggerating.). I cannot deal with the shit anymore of people arguing about balance like "revert old mercies!! balance team is elitist and ruins FAF!!" while not getting any support but negativity from the other sides as well. Hope that gave an insight. I *personally* do NOT recommend contributing to FAF. I've talked with other people (in and outside FAF) and projects like BAR are straight up superior in any given way when it comes to infrastructure etc. I'm still active on two FAF Discords (GreenSquier's included) where I'm still giving advice / training though.
@@sladow5975 Yeah i played BAR but its not supcom, its more of a Total Annihilation fan remake. I wished there was a better option than FAF for supreme commander. I personally hate how theres so many bugs, sometimes i need to connect with my friend for hours on end to play a single round against god damn bots. I looked for the bug, and there was no fix for it, and its known for it to be happening at least since 2015. Im speaking of the weird inability to play some maps, because they just dont download properly for some players at all, or players just cant connect to the game because the map is for some reason, bugged for them. Theres many weird bugs, pathfinding, even tho its said that its "better" than vanilla supcom, it works exactly the same. Its just weird
Huge thanks to @sladow5975 and L_to_the_Aeon for collabing on this one! If you want to ask Sladow specific questions or get free coaching, join my noob-friendly Discord here! discord.com/invite/xAyYEZuyut
If you take suggestions, A break down of a mid tier or high tier 1v1 ladder match would be great, I think. Love all the videos you have so far btw, please keep it up. I just back into FAF and am really trying to get decent at it, eventhough I haven't played any Ladder yet, so I am rank 0 but am having fun going through all the campaigns so far.
Great idea! Have you watched various casters like Gyle or TheDuelist? They typically narrate what’s going on, not a bad starting place for something like that
@@TheGreenSquier I am subscribed to Gyle and love his stuff, but he doesn't do what you do. You have a talent for breaking the concept down and making it to where new people understand it. So thank you.
that air role in team games sounds really linear. Thank you for the guide, but it doesn't sound motivating to more or less rush t3 air, spam t3 AAA and then try to get the air superiority, before you really start taking influence in the rest of the game.
It is 100% linear, yeah. There are some map specific exceptions (e.g. when your front players have to get a 20 mex corner while you have 6 mexes total in your airbase), but besides that t3 air simply dominates. We (aka. balance team) are trying to shift it a little so T1 intis are more viable (see latest ASF change), but ot's not an easy task. Ofc when you're more skilled you can have impact way earlier. E.g. open t3 gunship first and immediately have impact or build a couple of Gunships the moment you have just a few more ASF. I didn't mention it specifically as most low / mid ranked players tend to suicide air due to that, but possible.
I would say this example was 2 players equal mass equal bases, equal map but in regular games the game state changes so much that you have to adapt. Normally by 30mins coms have died, bases are inherited, front lines have shifted - you have a lot more influence on the front line than is shown here
I did record a video quite a bit ago which I wanted to turn into an airguide. It's not flawless but an example of a nearly perfect air gameplay in a real game. Since I won't contribute to FAF anymore, I'll just leave the link to the non-audio version here if someone wants to take a look or if someone wants to make an airguide out of it. Plan was to simply pause the video smts and go over the gameplan and situations.
ua-cam.com/video/mPtkddDG5Lo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Sladow
Could i ask why you dont want to contribute to FAF anymore? Just curious. Did something bad happen? Or you just got bored of it?
@@VexnoTheFox Of course, I'll try and break it down.
1) Not enough appreciation
For the things I've done (the guides in collab with the trainer team and a shit ton of replay reviews over the last years) there was simply too much negativity. The ppl I made the reviews / guides for were thankful and I highly appreciated that, besides that there were a lot of unnecessary comments. I did have some beef with some people which definitely is also my fault, but I'm not referring to those. I'm more referring to comments from e.g. Archsimkat. After Bully switched his name to mine for memes, they apparently had a round and I just read on Discord (you can filter for the exact wording) "Oh you were Bully? I thought you were Sladow. Genuingely thought I had Sid and Sladow on my team so I was just like it's over anyways", which is just unnecessary. We never had beef (nor is he stronger than me but I never commented on that) so getting those random comments from different directions is just exhausting.
2) Man Power
FAF lacks manpower. In every team. Dunno how much you followed me, but I was in the balance, matchmaker, association team and team lead of the trainers, yet in every team the activity was simply not given. My threads in the balance team got ignored for muiltiple months before I asked Jip to implement it, then suddenly ppl were like "nooo you cannot do that". Happened more than one time and Jip can probably tell you more about how frustrating it is to deal with some ppl there. I did sort out the trainer team by kicking any inactive trainer, together with advertising on other Discords some people joined. Together with the goals / to do list I've set up with them in a meeting trainer team is completely functional currently. The others are not (Shoutout to Storm for creating all the map pools on his own).
3) Moderators
Some moderators really shouldn't be moderators or at least shouldn't have such a behaviour (Archsimkat - the dude I mentioned before - is a moderator btw). To understand the following part, a bit of context: The high ranks in FAF are a very small circle which only really play against each other all the time. The only lobbies you'd get were during weekends or when Farms was streaming. We meme'd around quite a bit, basically moderated ourselves (E.g. kicking people after they base ctrl+k'ed when others disapproved and even created an own rule document so the moderators leave us alone). Recently we changed names for fun, then the mods suddenly introduced a rename rule change which increases the time you can change your rename from 1 month to 1 YEAR. Worst thing is that they didn't have a single good reasoning (literally) for justifying that rule, nor did they listen to the insane critics. In short it was like ".. We cannot give you a good reason. But we'll introduce it anyway cuz fuck you, the silent majority wants it.", see the thread on the forum for details. I've counted and around 23 known high ranks left FAF / became inactive during the last year meaning even if Farms streams, the chance of getting a lobby definitely became smaller.
Besides that the actions of the past months were just horrible. E.g. I had quite some friends on the FAF Discord and I mainly contributed cuz of the chill teams. Stryder and I always called each other "retard" for fun, apparently after doing that for over a year using the word "retard" is not allowed anymore. And the context doesn't matter. I can fully see giving ppl a timeout if they mean it as a serious insult, but Stryder getting one after calling me "retard" which was obviously a joke is just over the top.
Those were just two examples, there are some good comments on the "Why everything sucks now"-thread made by BlackYps on the Forum.
So overall, FAF's infrastructure is quite bad, the moderators got way worse and especially lately it seems their only goal is to enforce stupid rules "cuz why not" (again, for details check the Forum. I'm not exaggerating.). I cannot deal with the shit anymore of people arguing about balance like "revert old mercies!! balance team is elitist and ruins FAF!!" while not getting any support but negativity from the other sides as well.
Hope that gave an insight. I *personally* do NOT recommend contributing to FAF. I've talked with other people (in and outside FAF) and projects like BAR are straight up superior in any given way when it comes to infrastructure etc. I'm still active on two FAF Discords (GreenSquier's included) where I'm still giving advice / training though.
@@sladow5975 Yeah i played BAR but its not supcom, its more of a Total Annihilation fan remake. I wished there was a better option than FAF for supreme commander. I personally hate how theres so many bugs, sometimes i need to connect with my friend for hours on end to play a single round against god damn bots. I looked for the bug, and there was no fix for it, and its known for it to be happening at least since 2015. Im speaking of the weird inability to play some maps, because they just dont download properly for some players at all, or players just cant connect to the game because the map is for some reason, bugged for them. Theres many weird bugs, pathfinding, even tho its said that its "better" than vanilla supcom, it works exactly the same. Its just weird
Need a better microphone for Sladow-Noob ☺. Thanks a lot guys fo taking the time to explain everything you did. Good Job !
Funnily enough my microphone is fine (as you can check with any of my videos). I honestly cannot tell why this time the quality dropped.
Probably just insane audio compression in the voice chat
Huge thanks to @sladow5975 and L_to_the_Aeon for collabing on this one!
If you want to ask Sladow specific questions or get free coaching, join my noob-friendly Discord here! discord.com/invite/xAyYEZuyut
So rad, thank you GreenSquier, Sladow and L to the Aeon. Great cast. I love this insight into the game.
If you take suggestions, A break down of a mid tier or high tier 1v1 ladder match would be great, I think. Love all the videos you have so far btw, please keep it up. I just back into FAF and am really trying to get decent at it, eventhough I haven't played any Ladder yet, so I am rank 0 but am having fun going through all the campaigns so far.
Great idea! Have you watched various casters like Gyle or TheDuelist? They typically narrate what’s going on, not a bad starting place for something like that
@@TheGreenSquier I am subscribed to Gyle and love his stuff, but he doesn't do what you do. You have a talent for breaking the concept down and making it to where new people understand it. So thank you.
watching this while waiting in faf lobby makes me wishing to get opti air the first time ever
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that air role in team games sounds really linear. Thank you for the guide, but it doesn't sound motivating to more or less rush t3 air, spam t3 AAA and then try to get the air superiority, before you really start taking influence in the rest of the game.
It is 100% linear, yeah. There are some map specific exceptions (e.g. when your front players have to get a 20 mex corner while you have 6 mexes total in your airbase), but besides that t3 air simply dominates. We (aka. balance team) are trying to shift it a little so T1 intis are more viable (see latest ASF change), but ot's not an easy task.
Ofc when you're more skilled you can have impact way earlier. E.g. open t3 gunship first and immediately have impact or build a couple of Gunships the moment you have just a few more ASF. I didn't mention it specifically as most low / mid ranked players tend to suicide air due to that, but possible.
I would say this example was 2 players equal mass equal bases, equal map but in regular games the game state changes so much that you have to adapt.
Normally by 30mins coms have died, bases are inherited, front lines have shifted - you have a lot more influence on the front line than is shown here
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