Wildfire Games has recently announced the release of the new version of proudly announcing the release of 0 AD Alpha 25: “Yaunā”. This new version comes with improvements to artificial intelligence, search, routes and more.
For those who are unaware of 0 AD should know that This is a real-time strategy game with high-quality 3D graphics and gameplay very similar to the games in the Age of Empires series. The game's source code was released by Wildfire Games under the GPL after 9 years of development as a proprietary product. The current version supports network play and bot single player play on pre-modeled or dynamically generated maps. The game covers more than ten civilizations ranging from 500 BC. C. until 500 d. C.
Non-code components of the game, such as graphics and sound, are licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA license, which may be modified and used in commercial products, provided derivative works are credited and redistributed under a similar license.
The game engine 0 AD has about 150 thousand lines of code in C ++, OpenGL is used to display 3D graphics, OpenAL is used to work with sound, and ENet is used to organize a network game. Other open source projects to create strategies in real time are: Glest, ORTS, Warzone 2100 and Spring.
Main new features of 0 AD Alpha 25
In this new version we present a initial implementation of a single player game, as well as various GUI improvements and advanced graphics settings added.
Also in this new version the synchronization between server and client in multiplayer has been improved a lot, since now the delays are reduced, in addition to the fact that the code performance was improved for the search of routes.
Another change that stands out from 0 AD Alpha 25 is the reworking of the implementation of biomes used to simulate visual environments by combining textures and natural objects such as trees and animals. The new version add new texture-based landscapes with 2k resolution.
In addition to the addition of the ability to restructure tasks, players can now move tasks to the top of the queue for execution.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- Enhanced AI implementation for units.
- Improved support for mods and filtering in the multiplayer roster.
- The balancing of the capabilities of civilizations has continued.
Finally if you are interested in knowing more about it of this new version, you can check the details In the following link.
How to install 0 AD on Linux?
AD 0 is a very popular game that has been included in the repositories of most distributions for quite some time, so its installation should not require anything additional. We will only have to open a terminal on our system and install the game with the following command according to the Linux distribution you are using.
Si you are a Debian, Deepin OS, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary user Among other distributions derived from these, you can find the game in your software center of your distribution or you can install the game with the following command:
sudo apt-get install 0ad
In the case of users of Arch Linux, Manjaro, Antergos, Arch Labs and any distribution derived from Arch Linux, we can install the game with the following command:
sudo pacman -S 0ad
While for those who are Fedora users, Korora or any distribution derived from Fedora can install with this command:
su -c dnf install 0ad
For the case of those who are users of any version of openSUSE they can find the game in the game repository that you can enable with the help of YaST.
In the same way, from the terminal you can add it with the following command:
Tumbleweed
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ games
sudo zypper in 0ad
Finally, for those who are Gentoo users install the game with:
emerge 0ad