This is not the latest version of Dash Faction! Newest version is available here: Installation Guide

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Installation instructions:
Installing Dash Faction with a Steam, GoG, or Discord copy of Red Faction
Installing Dash Faction with a physical (retail) copy of Red Faction

Dash Faction is Red Faction game modification designed to fix original game bugs, improve compatibility with modern
hardware and software, extend functionality and improve graphics quality and engine performance.

Features:
- levels auto-downloader (uses factionfiles.com just like Pure Faction)
- spectate mode (first person or free camera)
- wide-screen support
- windowed and stretched display mode
- better graphics quality (anti-aliasing, true-color textures, anisotropic filtering, higher scanner view resolution, disabled LOD models and more)
- improved security (enabled Data Execution Prevention, multiple Buffer Overflows fixes)
- removed limit of packfiles
- improved Scoreboard with Kills/Deaths column
- information about killer's weapon in chat
- option to disable level ambient sounds
- ui.vpp cheats prevention
- multiple fixes for high FPS (it is currently limited to 240), especially fix for well-known sub exploding bug
- country-specific edition support (properly handles game directory structure for German and French edition)
- improved game performance
- votes support for dedicated servers
- hit-sounds support for dedicated servers
- other usability and stability fixes

Changes in version 1.4.0/1.4.1:
- add free camera spectate mode support
- add vote system in server
- add hit-sounds support in server
- add weapons and items overrides in dedicated server configuration
- add support for running modded server without requiring client mod
- add new commands for server owners
- change default cutscene skip control to Multiplayer Stats (TAB key by default)
- add 'skip_cutscene_bind' command allowing to change the control used for skipping cutscenes
- sync kills/deaths statistics when joining Pure Faction servers
- add optional Win32 native console support in dedicated server mode (potentially useful to run dedicated server on Linux VPS without GUI using Wine)
- a lot of stability and performance fixes for client and server

See CHANGELOG for details.

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