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0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
- Morromist 8mo agoWow! Amazing work. This is an incredible accomplishement.
- cjbdndjc 8mo agoI mean, good news, but even going down the route of using pre rendered fonts in the first place seems misguided O_o Unless you prerender every sentence, kerning issues must have been unbearable even for latin scripts
- fxtentacle 8mo agoIt’s what everyone used back in the Quake 3 days.
- account42 8mo agoThis is an odd comment on a website where most users are happy working with mono-spaced text most days. Not everyone has kemingphobia.
- Dunedan 8mo agoFun fact: 0ad still doesn't support kerning. While I would've loved to see proper kerning support in r28, there is only so much a team of volunteers can do. If you're interested in progress in this area, I suggest you keep an eye on https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/7945 https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/7945
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- gspr 8mo agoGood thing for them they're at it to have fun, not to please you. And good thing for you they're not charging you for it if you do wanna try.
- Valodim 8mo ago...so? It's a hobby project, not a product. It's about the journey, not the result.
- edhelas 8mo agoTell me how many versions, extensions, remaster and patches World of Warcraft actually have today?
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- silisili 8mo agoI have no idea what you're ranting about. 0ad is fantastic. I've never played Fallout, but it seems you want it to release versions like that? Why? It's not a version/story game but an iterative design on the same game.
- cess11 8mo agoThe first two Fallout games are quite worthwhile, if you should find the time and can appreciate RPG:s with caustic jokes and satire.
- Mashimo 8mo ago> For example I remember playing some open source games in 2002 on my pentium 1, while the newest version of it requires much much much more memory and cpu, despite being the same game.. But why does not make 0ad bad? You want to play it on an pentium 1? I'm seeing you don't like the rolling release, but I can't see the "why".
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- jaapz 8mo agoThis game is in development for so long because it is driven by volunteers who don't work on this game full time. It doesn't have near the resources that the studio behind fallout has.
- account42 8mo agoSo keep the old version you liked? The nice thing about open source is that you even get to share that version with others - much better than commercial games where almost everything multiplayer is also a live service these days.
- piltdownman 8mo agoCounterpoint: Minecraft I could go on, but the argument doesn't really merit it.
- jnmandal 8mo agoIncredible work folks. Can't wait to try it out. The Germans look cool!
- ddtaylor 8mo ago0ad is a fun game but the last few times I have tried to play it with my friends it lagged very bad once a few units were moving around. I actually was able to get it to play kind of normal by hacking the pathfinding code to give up after a fixed iteration count that was low. It worked kind of, but broke path finding a lot, obviously. The crux of the issue is that their simulation is single threaded. It's a complicated problem to do both deterministic and multi-threaded, but I feel some of us could help them.
- decimalenough 8mo agoFor me the main problem with 0AD multiplayer is that if any player loses their connection even for a moment for any reason, the game either halts completely or forks so that they can't rejoin. Quite frustrating, especially for longer campaigns. It's also impossible to save and restore in multiplayer.
- t43562 8mo agoIt did save in a27 for me - I had the same forking problem but was able to go back to a previous save and the other player was able to rejoin at that point. This was in a local network game.
- x1f604 8mo agoThis is one of the problems that BAR solves beautifully - a player could leave and rejoin later and the game would continue running just fine. An existing player can choose to take their stuff or not, or take it and give it back when the player rejoins. Truly elegant.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoBAR in general is such a great showcase in A) FOSS games can be good, work great, scale nice and be fun and B) BAR is a game built by gamers who play and enjoy their own game, for other gamers, which seems more and more rare these days.
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- dvntsemicolon 8mo agoI tried to play this game once and sucked at it. There are people out there who are legitimately good at this, and that's awesome to see for an open source game
- rutierut 8mo agoI know what you mean, biggest gripe I have with this game is how important it is to play the meta and boom early if you want to win at anything other than easy mode.
- tasuki 8mo agoI've played perhaps tens of hours of 0AD. I boom early, try to create an unbeatable army, and then go win. When I saw competitive 0AD players on YouTube, they played completely differently: they train cavalry or cavalry archers and go hassle the booming opponents really early. Then retreat to go hunt some chickens for a bit, train some more cavalry, and go raiding again. They simultaneously attacked each other, all the while trying to continually improve their economy meanwhile. It seemed much more fun than the way I played tbh.
- Dunedan 8mo agoThe best players are incredible at microing (although horse rushs are just one of multiple strategies). It's also equally important to manage resources and units in a way that you use all of them all the time. That's especially important in early game.
- jiffygist 8mo agoI started playing not so long ago. Here's some good lists of tips that helped me. Although I had some headstart with SC2 experience :) https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/22257-a21-multiplayer-strategy-guide/ https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/22257-a21-multiplayer-... https://gitlab.com/mentula0ad/0ad-tips-and-tricks https://gitlab.com/mentula0ad/0ad-tips-and-tricks
- bandrami 8mo agoNerfing the Han minister unit makes me sad
- hulitu 8mo ago> 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix No system requirements. Does it run on Pentium II wirh 128 MB RAM ? Or does it need an 128 Cores Epyc with 64 GB RAM ?
- rand846633 8mo agoI love 0 A.D., and I’m endlessly grateful to all the developers and volunteers who made it happen. Your dedication and skill deserve a monument — my genuine admiration. I install it every few years, and it’s always a blast, somehow, and I do not know why I never do more than experiment with it.. Gameplay-wise, I find that Beyond All Reason is, as far as open-source RTS games go, a few orders of magnitude more fun and mature. I don’t think there’s any commercially available RTS that can compete with Beyond All Reason in terms of fun and performance.
- nylonstrung 8mo agoBAR is incredible, probably best RTS right now
- cess11 8mo agoI haven't played Beyond All Reason but looking at the system requirements I'm not surprised it is more fulfilling. 0 A.D. runs on a potato if you look at it threateningly, which makes it a good option to have on a throwaway machine for kids or somesuch.
- rand846633 8mo agoMy experience is the opposite: 0ad will lag on my laptop once thing become big. BAR will warn that it’s not compatible with my low end intel integrated potato gpu, but it works just fine..
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- mhher 8mo agoI once randomly stumbled upon this in GNOME Software (alphabetical sorting). Was very happy to find such a quality title there.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoI first encountered it when I was looking at the biggest packages in the official repositories, in order to stress-test my own APT distribution implementation. Gave it a try, had fun too, and now part of the E2E tests of the mirror :D
- a1371 8mo agoThis game started slow for me many years ago but I now absolutely love this game. Not just because of all the open source effort that has gone into it, because of the strategy. You have to make yourself vulnerable to get stronger. Wanna grow fast? Train workers who can't fight, but are resource efficient to make. Risk being badly weakened if getting attacked, for the benefit of the workers giving you much more resources to then raise an army. Also watch out for the elephants!
- tasuki 8mo agoYa I don't really get elephants. They seem way too strong and always win. What is the effective elephant-counter?
- Dunedan 8mo agoWhen was the last time you played 0ad? Each release brings new changes to balancing and especially a27 contained a lot of them.
- tasuki 8mo agoI played whatever is in the Debian 13 repos. As far as I remember, elephants have always felt overpowered to me. Could be lack of skill on my part.
- avodonosov 8mo agoI used to like some of its music
- napsy 8mo agoI really love the iterative progress with 0 A.D. And every time the game shows up in news, it's always amazing to go through the changelog. I just wish I was a but younger with more time to play :) For an OSS project it's quite an achievement!
- dwighttk 8mo agoIt’s macOS not OS X unless you’re supporting a decade old system
- NoboruWataya 8mo agoLove this game, even if I routinely get my ass kicked on anything other than Easy.
- tasuki 8mo agoThe devs clearly put in a lot of effort. I'm a little surprised no one's created a campaign yet. I love the game anyway, just seems less effort and more fun to create a campaign (of course a different thing to keep the campaign balanced and up-to-date with new releases).
- Dunedan 8mo agoMaking a high quality campaign is quite some effort and the engine still lacks some features, which would be helpful for this. A dialogue system is one of them, which already has a PR available: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8614 https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8614 There is also a thread in the forum, where people are brainstorming about an official campaign: https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/123956-narrative-campaign-general-discussion/ https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/123956-narrative-campa...
- tasuki 8mo agoYes of course. I wasn't talking about a high quality campaign: I'm surprised there isn't even a low quality one. Perhaps that would be contrary to the 0ad philosophy.
- t43562 8mo agoI love 0ad - it has atmosphere. I was chuffed when a28 came out and the gutted when It crashed for me but it just got fixed and now I'm trying not to think about it until 5pm.....
- Dunedan 8mo agoIt crashed for you? You must be running Arch Linux. ;-) Arch Linux used system-provided SpiderMonkey which lacked a crucial bug fix. This issue should be solved by now, by Arch Linux switching back to vendored Spidermonkey. Check out https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/0ad/-/issues/6 https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/0a... and https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/8757 https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/8757 for details.
- cheat101 8mo agogift from the gods
- evolve2k 8mo agoLooking through earlier news, a July 2024 release note proudly proclaims “The git migration is on its way!”. But I’ve had a look around and can’t easily find any active git repo. Anyone know the current status around ‘moving to git’? Ref: https://play0ad.com/the-git-migration-is-on-its-way/ https://play0ad.com/the-git-migration-is-on-its-way/
- 13hunteo 8mo agoThey have a Gitea instance - https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad
- MattTheRealOne 8mo agoThis is such a high quality game that it is almost unbelievable that it is free and open source. The fact that it is also still seeing active development after more than 15 years shows just how passionate the developers are.
- dyingkneepad 8mo agoThose who like this game may also want to try open-source The Battle for Wesnoth, which is a turn-based hexgrid war game.
- chadrs 8mo agoI had been confusing this game with Unknown Horizons, another RTS but based on the game 1602 AD. Just realized they're totally unrelated.
- cdaringe 8mo agoI played online once with a friend. He immediately rushed to make one soldier and that sole solider obliterated my tiny base immediately. Lesson learned. Sheep can wait
- silveira 8mo agoI have been playing 0ad, single player, medium/hard difficulty, round-robing all maps, for years now. Great game. I have to try mods one of these days.
- jiffygist 8mo agoGermans are too op in my opinion. Appimage is much appreciated as the game is pain to compile. And it crashes less than previous version that's also good
- seabass-labrax 8mo agoI'm really looking forward to playing this! The new logic in Alpha 27, where units don't try to capture enemy structures by default, caught me out, but it was fun getting familiar with siege engines until I worked that out. As for the new capture attack for citizens, I imagine this could lead to some really risky endgame strategies where a player moves citizens from their base to attack the enemy's supporting buildings while the enemy is distracted.
- hungryhobbit 8mo agoThe game's creators need to focus on fixing core gameplay issues instead of new visual stuff.
- Koshkin 8mo agoCuriously, some people insist that the year zero AD was a thing.