How is it that you still come up with new strategies in FA 8 years after it's release?!?

...and unrelenting play by millions.

watch this .

Because of the insane amount of variety and diversity in the game. It pretty much all comes down to that simple fact.

-That was a pretty amazing gameplay

IKR!!!?

blew my hat right off!

It's stuff like this that makes me lament the fact that Starcraft 2 completely took the spotlight as the "RTS of choice" for e-sports

saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame

I am not seeing anything really new. Just something a little more unusual, so it doesn't happen as often.

find me ONE other video where you see this.

Tldw

What actually happened?

Art.

Aeon Support commanders can get upgrades to allow teleportation and an ability to sacrifice their own mass into constructing a building. Chosen built 4-5 of these support commanders, teleported them into the back of the enemy base, and sacrificed all their mass into constructing a Galactic Colossus (A really strong, but expensive experimental unit) almost instantaneously.

And I've never seen that combo ever before.

and judging by the reactions this video is getting so far noone else either.

1 minute.

one minute in from the point i linked and it's all done. you can stop watching then. some time way under 1 minute was too long for you.....

I dunno what to say that's a bit sad.

Oh trust me I have seen that kind of move somewhere around 2007 to 2008. Definitely remember clan mates doing that in some games. Sadly not every game I played/observed has been recorded. I might have a replay somewhere, but I have thousands of those and searching them takes years. It just doesn't happen a lot because well it's pretty late game. Also I dunno what balance changes FAF made.
FA's history is simply long enough already for people to forgot about stuff and others rediscover it years later.

Makes me wonder about how widely known are some exploits from back then. Or maybe they're fixed. Or everyone has forgotten. Does "hill climbing" or "terraforming" refer to any known heavily map dependent exploits? Is it still possible to reclaim the whole middle of blasted rocks with just an engineer, tricking the civilian defenses into not shooting it?

so many were fixed. even the remote reclaim kill. I doubt you could use a single one you knew today.

that one is fixed.

no.

I think the fact it happens one in a billion is impressive enough.

it's not that it's a bad strategy either. it absolutely crushes.

Not quite sure about terraforming, getting that right is a pain, but climbing hills can still be done.

with hundreds of units, you have hundreds to the power of hundreds of possible unit interactions. Add abilities and the amount of interactions skyrocket even further.

what do you mean.

spider being able to go through the mountain path in gap of rohan? that's intentional.

maybe i don't understand what you mean. could you make a short clip?

see replay

FAF format please I can't read this. real sorry about that.

you're talking about fixed FAF balance and you send me an FA replay ?

EDIT : and instead of uploading them you can hotlink them in your reply it's much more practical for both you and me :

Code:

http://content.faforever.com/faf/vault/replay_vault/replay.php?id=ENTERIDHERE

I played that locally and took the file from the respective folder. However if you open the file with notepad you'll see it is version 3650 Maybe the ending FAF uses has changed. I dunno. Fact is the file is a replay file of the FAF 3650.
So from what I understand the most recent FAF version.