Multiplayer maps

[Zarniwoop]

Hello! If I'm wanting to play a downloaded map multiplayer, does everybody playing need the map in their game directory or just the host?

[xWare]

Everybody

[Zarniwoop]

thanks bud

[WinterShade]

Hate me if you will but you should check out http://www.faforever.com/ it's a client for SCFA that introduces new balance changes by the community on a near routine basis (some examples include fixing the UEF TMD to where it's useful, increasing the fire rate on the mongoose, lowering health on the Jester, or changing mass and energy costs.), co-op campaign, ladder matchmaking, a high player base (nears 1K at a time some days) a map and mod vault for easy access to hundreds of mods and maps, and an update server which makes sure every player has the same version of the client, auto-downloads mods and maps in a game that'll you need, and prevents desyncs from occurring most of the time. Along with all this is a rating system for both the ladder 1v1, and regular custom game systems. There are also tournaments held on a weekly basis, and community members who stream their games, record and commentate on games, and some people who are willing to train new players (FAF plays very different from Steam or Retail SCFA). FAF also introduces a clan system and a chat channel for your clan.

[grahamjc63]

Me and a friend of mine used to play games at forged Alliance Forever nearly every day, until they introduced certain patches and so-called upgrades which rendered a lot of the mods useless and caused really bad glitches during gameplay. We played a game only yesterday and still the shields bloom cannot be seen, even on the ACU, who's shield is a standard upgrade feature and not a mod. We also experience really bad lag which results in us playing different games within the same game. As a result we hardly ever log-in to FAF.

[Zarniwoop]

We still never got a game sorted over steam.. this post is like so old now but remains sadly unusuable...

[WinterShade]

Originally posted by grahamjc63:

Me and a friend of mine used to play games at forged Alliance Forever nearly every day, until they introduced certain patches and so-called upgrades which rendered a lot of the mods useless and caused really bad glitches during gameplay. We played a game only yesterday and still the shields bloom cannot be seen, even on the ACU, who's shield is a standard upgrade feature and not a mod. We also experience really bad lag which results in us playing different games within the same game. As a result we hardly ever log-in to FAF.

About the shield bloom, I always see it, maybe it's just a gaphics setting you have lowered?

[brbrbr]

if you friends use FAF - they download required map files automatically.

[Dustreaper]

Never seen any glitches like that the only bug i ever found was that alt tabbing sometimes makes the game freeze. you alt tab back and white screen.