The Modern Era of Red Faction is here!
A fork of Dash Faction, Alpine Faction is the most fully featured Red Faction patch ever released.

Whether you want to enjoy the classic Red Faction single player campaign without annoying bugs, compete in intense multiplayer matches, develop an extensive total conversion mod - or anything in between, Alpine Faction is the best way to enjoy everything the game has to offer.

If you're ready to upgrade now, click the button below to download the installer.
If you'd like to learn more about the benefits, scroll down.



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What is Alpine Faction? Why should I upgrade?
Alpine Faction is an actively developed, free, and open source patch/modification for the 2001 FPS game Red Faction. It's not a source port, but its goals and features are similar to what you might expect from one. Alpine Faction is a fork of and uses Rafalh's incredible Dash Faction project as its foundation.

Alpine Faction endevours to fix bugs and resolve security vulnerabilities in the stock game, improve compatibility with modern systems, restore cut content, enhance engine performance and graphical quality, and modernize your experience by adding features that are expected in modern games.

Alpine Faction provides players, mappers, mod developers, and server operators with the tools to truly realize what their experience with this fantastic game can be.



Feature Highlights

Single player:
  • Autosaving
  • Fixed submarine explosion bug
  • Fixes for countless other bugs
  • Enemies explode into chunks
  • Enhanced campaign functionality
  • Player headlamp (flashlight)
  • Ability to skip cutscenes
  • Multiplayer:
  • Automatic level downloads
  • Fixed critical security vulnerabilities
  • Increased tick rate & fixed timers
  • Click-to-Join (rf:// protocol handler)
  • "Ready up" system for matches
  • First person & free look spectate
  • Map voting

  • Players:
  • Steam overlay & playtime support
  • Modern OS/hardware compatibility
  • Windowed & borderless modes
  • High resolution & widescreen support
  • Better mouse input
  • Full colour range lighting
  • Anti-aliasing & anisotropic filtering
  • Many performance improvements
  • Countless bug fixes
  • Uncapped FPS limit
  • Configurable camera FOV
  • High resolution HUD & vector fonts
  • Developers:
  • Many more options for clientside mods
  • Exposed previously hardcoded settings
  • Vastly improved debug features
  • Advanced logic systems with new events
  • Enhanced and immersive skyboxes
  • Dynamic lights in levels
  • Events work properly in multiplayer
  • Removed forced lightmap clamping
  • Playtest maps in multiplayer from RED
  • Removed annoying RED workflow issues
  • Level-specific config table files
  • DDS & OGG Vorbis support


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