Forged Alliance ForeverA word from Nordic Game :
http://steamcommunity.com/app/9420/discussions/0/540734792951519813/
A word from Total Biscuit (starting at 12 min 27)
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And of course the store page link to forward to all your friends :
For now, Forged Alliance Account were tied to computers. It was not possible to create or log in a second account on a single computer.
This protection is there to reduce the amount of smurfs.
Smurfing is utilizing an account with a lower ranking than usual to beat up on lesser players.
It is now possible to use an additional method to ‘validate’ your account, using your Steam Id.
It will tie your FAF account to your steam Id, using steam openid authentication (http://openid.net/). Using that, your Steam login and password will be never asked and/or linked to the database.
Only your steam Id will be used (http://steamidfinder.com/). It only allow the access to your Steam public profile, as well as your list of owned game.
FAF only check the presence of Forged Alliance in that list once, and doesn’t save any game or public profile information in the database.
Doing this allow:
Restrictions:
The Steam Linker page : http://app.faforever.com/faf/steam.php
If you are using Steam, you can now subscribe to the Steam Community Group !
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ForgedAllianceForever
This way, you will get the latest news about Forged Alliance Forever directly into steam, as well as automatic reminder for various events (tournaments, live casts, ….).
It means that you can now use a 3603 installation as a base to patch FA up to 3608.
The gamedata folder is compatible. But the exe are not (as explained here).
It’s up to you to find a retail exe to make the patching possible.
The method is the same that the one explained here : http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1517248.
I won’t provide the files, even it seems that Steam kind of allow these sort of things.
We are currently changing the way FAFInstaller (and the update system) works.
Here is how it will work :
The steps done by the update server and clients :
That way, you will be able to upgrade from any version to the latest, if the original files are known by the server.
That also means that you can downgrade your version in order to play an old replay (in that case, it will create a folder with these old binaries and game datas).
The next patch (3609) will be compatible with 3603, and so with steam version of the game.
BUT
The exe and dll files from the steam version are totally differents from the retail version, in two major points :
As we are using GPGNet protocol for FAF, that version is incompatible. The solution would be to update the Steam version to the Retail version.
But because of point 1, that operation will be illegal : I can’t distribute a patch removing a DRM protection !
It’s still possible to mix a (legally owned) retail version with the Steam version by yourself. But FAF team can’t be held responsible for any damage caused by such manipulation (non-working copy or an possible steam ban – Unlikely but possible).
If you want a digital copy of Forged Alliance, FAF team recommends you to buy it at http://www.impulsedriven.com/forgedall as that version is totally compatible with FAF.
Mostly bug fixes, 3603 support, and Sorian AI integrated.
You can see the commits done to the codes here : https://bitbucket.org/thepilot/forged-alliance-forever-lua/changesets
When it’s done. Maybe this week, maybe the next week.