Red Faction Quick Start Guide
Welcome to the Red Faction Quick Start Guide!
Quick Links
- Discord - Invite link to join the Red Faction Community Discord: where the community lives, and the place to ask questions, receive assistance, or find players.
- Alpine Faction - Information and download link for the modern Red Faction client: Alpine Faction.
- Red Faction FAQ - FAQ page providing answers to common questions and solutions to common issues.
- FactionFiles.com - FactionFiles community file host, offering thousands of custom maps and mods.
- Red Faction Console Commands - Complete listing of all available console commands in Red Faction.
- Red Faction Command Line Parameters - Complete listing of all available command line parameters in Red Faction.
- RF1 Editing Main Page - Comprehensive community knowledgebase on custom level creation via the Red Faction Level Editor, and modification development.
- Red Faction Multiplayer Guide - Overview of the most important aspects of RF multiplayer.
- Red Faction Locations - Overview of all the levels in the RF stock single player campaign.
Essentials
- Recommended game version/client: Alpine Faction
- Alpine Faction is the most fully featured Red Faction client ever released, and is recommended for all purposes. It is free, open source, and community-developed.
- It resolves countless bugs with the game, fixes virtually all compatibility issues with modern computers, and adds many very useful features. Furthermore, the Red Faction Campaign, as well as many custom levels and mods, simply won't function properly without it. There is no downside to using Alpine Faction, and it is highly recommended you install it if you wish to play or host servers for Red Faction.
- You can read more about, and download Alpine Faction here: Alpine Faction
- Join the community! Red Faction Community Discord
- The community is approachable, and very welcoming to both new and old school players alike. If you like Red Faction, you'll fit right in.
- Join by clicking: Here
Settings
In-Game Settings
- Game Options
- Difficulty Level - Set difficulty for single player. Affects damage taken from enemy weapon fire, amount of ammo/health/armor obtained from pickups, and duration of countdown timers. Also configurable in-game via the sp_difficulty console command. (in Alpine Faction)
- Show 1st Person Weapon - Toggle visibility of first person weapon models.
- Autoswitch Weapons - Toggle autoswitch for non-explosive weapons (as per priority specified in Autoswitch Priority).
- Autoswitch Explosives - Toggle autoswitch for explosive weapons (as per priority specified in Autoswitch Priority).
- Autoswitch Priority - Priority for weapon autoswitch (if turned on, see above). When you pick up a new weapon, if autoswitch is turned on and the new weapon is higher in the priority list, switch to the new weapon. Move up and Move down move the selected weapon in the priority list.
- Video Options
- Detail Level - Set video options preset. Available options are Low, Medium, High, and Custom. Automatically changes to Custom if you edit any settings manually.
- Shadows - Toggle visibility of circle shadows under enemy player models.
- Decals - Toggle visibility of bullet and blast decals on geometry.
- Dynamic lighting - Toggle visibility of dynamic lighting (ie. muzzle flashes; light emitted from projectiles; glows coming from players with Damage Amplifier, Invulnerability, and CTF flags)
- Texture resolution - Set texture resolution. Available options are Low, Medium, and High. High renders textures at their native resolution, medium scales them down by a factor of 2, low scales them down by a factor of 4.
- Character detail - Set model detail level. Despite label, this option sets detail level for all models, not just characters. Available options are Low, Medium, and High.
- Filtering - Set filtering level. Available options are bilinear and trilinear. Also configurable in-game via the r_trilinearfiltering console command. (in Alpine Faction)
- Gamma/brightness - Sets gamma for the game window. Also configurable in-game via the r_gamma console command. (in Alpine Faction)
- Sound Options
- Sound Effects Volume - Set volume for any sounds that are not considered music or messages.
- Music Volume - Set volume for all music tracks in game. Note that in come custom multiplayer maps, music is configured to use Sound Effects Volume instead.
- Messages Volume - Set volume for HUD radio messages (from Eos, Hendrix, Capek, etc.)
- Controls Options
- Mouse Sensitivity - Set sensitivity modifier for mouse input. Also configurable in-game via the ms console command. (in Alpine Faction)
- Mouse Y-Invert - Invert Y axis for mouse input.
- Binds - Set available binds. Double click on a bind to set it, or select it and click Change Binding.
- Default - Reset all available binds to their default settings.