0 AD is a free and open source, ancient war time strategy game.
Wildfire Games has released recently the release of the new version of the popular game 0 AD Alpha 26: "Zhuangzi", version in which the addition of a new civilization is highlighted, as well as new maps, GUI improvements, optimizations and much 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 single player play with bots on pre-modeled or dynamically generated maps.
Main new features of 0 AD Alpha 26
In this new version of the game that is presented, it is highlighted that a new civilization was added, “the Han Empire”, which existed from 206 a. before 220 AD in China, in addition to being also new maps, “Tarim Basin and Yangtze”, have been added.
Another of the changes that stands out from the new version, ands the rendering engine that now provides the ability to adjust texture quality (low, medium to high) and anisotropic filtering (from 1x to 16x), as well as added support for FreeType fonts.
Besides that, we can also find improved object navigation, along with a movement of military formations and that a military formation can now be selected as a single entity with a single click.
On the part of the implemented performance optimizations, it is mentioned thatand for Windows, GPU acceleration is enabled by default.
in the GUI work has been done so that it now presents a field to search for players, as well as that a summary page has been added and new suggestions have been implemented and it also has the ability to adjust the size of the interface elements.
Of the other changes that stand out:
- Mods installed in drag and drop mode.
- Added settings for fullscreen and windowed modes.
- Improved Atlas Editor interface.
- Work has been done on improving textures, 3D models, landscapes and animations.
- Added 26 new music tracks.
- Added an option that allows allies to share information about each part of the open map.
- Added the ability to assign extraordinary tasks to units that require immediate execution, regardless of the presence of other tasks.
- Support for drive acceleration has been implemented.
Finally if you are interested in knowing more about it about this new release, 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