Hello, my name is bear, your personal helper companion.

Like any other RTS game, this game has resources you need to maintain, and units you need to make, also buildings.

For starters, i recommend going through the in-game tutorial. it is very basic.

There are 2 RESOURCES you need to maintain.

your resources are indicated on your top left UI (User Interface)

one is Mass, the green thing on your top left UI (User Interface)
the other is Power/ Energy, the yellow stuff below the mass bar.

to maintain or make them, you need Mass extractor and Power Generator (Mex and Pgen)

when you build something, your resource depletes gradually.

Mass
you can only put Mex on green mex thing, or the mass extraction point.
you can upgrade Mex all the way to t3. (tier 3, more about tiers will be explained later)

Power / energy
you can't upgrade Pgen.
but you can create higher tier with engineers that is that tier
for example t2 engy can create t1 and t2 Pgen.
t3 Engy can create t3 to t1 Pgen
this engineer can also make Mex.

Storage
it is a building that increase the max resources that you can store.
this is crucial when you start upgrading from t1 to 13 or 14.
YOU DON'T want to have Red Resources.
If you let the Red Resources get to you it will drag YOU DOWN.
thats why storage are also important, because it saves resources temporarily, so if you get minus resources, it won't Drag you down until it is fully depleted.

In Matchmaking/ Multiplayer, try to make factory as the first building you make from your ACU (your main robot)

this game has unit tier system. it goes from t1 all the way to t4/exp(experimentals)

t1= the lowest tier and the cheapest one to make.
t2= stronger than t1
t3= stronger than t2 also a bunch of these can destroy t4
t4= the most powerful unit. also SOO EXPENSIVE.

every factory is different :
-land factory needs atleast 2 mass extractors (Mex) and 2 Power Generator (Pgen) (t1)
-Air Factory needs atleast 2 Mex and 3 Pgen (t1)
-Naval Factory needs atleast 4 Mex and 5 Pgen (t1)

This game is completely different.

few mechanics are similar.

but the rest are different.

mainly, there is no Research system.
only Tier system.
All engies can help make one thing.
just progress through the game, and you'll see the difference.

this playlist has all the tutorials you needed!!!

click here

also some Common strategies.

-Rush t1 super Expansive (to do this you must expand quick, norush means no this strategy)
-Tech UP! (you wanna try getting to t3 as quickly as possible, don't forget defense, also this can lose againts rushers)


Other tips=

-Download UI mods, it will give you powerful tools in the game, to download you need FAF
https://www.faforever.com/client i recommend the Downloard Version.

Thanks for reading this guide.
Hope you'll get better at SCFA.

Add me on steam for further info and maybe some free private tutorial!

(this guide isn't finished yet)

Why you should download FAF?
- FAF continually balances the game and provide constant updates to keep it alive
- A lot more content: units, gamemode, mods
- Because of the ICE adapter technology, connection is more stable
- a big percentage of SCFA community are there to play with you

Why you should not download FAF?
- FAF will probably/sometimes make steam multiplayer matches desync (a problem which make one player see different things from other players) (for example: You have built a T4 monkey lord, but other players still see you at T1 building T1 Factory)
Note: This doesn't happen to everybody, but it may happen to a few. FAF tried their best to not interfere with the steam version.


you can download faf here: https://www.faforever.com/