Looking for an MMO to play on Linux? Well, Tibia [Official Site] has a Linux version and it's been around for quite a long time. They did drop Linux support at one time, but they revived it after community requests.
This year, the game actually turned 20 years old! Over that time, they've seen 30 million accounts created to play.
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The Linux version has an "Unsupported" status, meaning they don't make any Linux-specific fixes right now, but it's updated along side the Windows version. It requires a little tinkering to get it working on Ubuntu 17.10, with it requiring "libpcre16.so.0". I managed to solve it by installing the latest available version:
sudo apt install libpcre16-3
Then, I made a link to it inside the "bin" folder where I extracted the Tibia download like so:
ln -s "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre16.so.3" "/your download/tibia-11.49.6030/bin/libpcre16.so.0"
Once that was done, it was smooth sailing from there.
As for the game itself, it does still have a pretty active community. Checking on it again earlier, over six thousand people were logged on playing the game. If you're after an MMO that's a little on the slower side, a little retro in the graphics and UI then it might be a nice choice for you.
While the basic game is free to play, if you enjoy it they do have a premium account option which includes accessing more areas, rentable houses, brand new spells and more.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: slaapliedjeI still maintain Ultima VI was the best game (engine wise, story line it's hard to decide, the whole series from U4-9 was pretty good, with 8 being the weakest.)
Ultima 7 was awesome, though I never completed it (got really far, then lost my save game).
Hmm was thinking to try the Ultima games.
Back when i was in college and my windows PC was virused i had to make due with a potato laptop.
A game I played was called Dark Disciples which is somewhat inspired by Ultima and that's where the interest arose in the series.
I did torrent Ultima 9 and played it a bit since I liked 3rd person RPGs like Gothic at the time.
I want to give a few Ultima games a go , just not sure which to try.
The first few ones look a bit bland.
I normally don;t care for graphics much , but even I have my limits ...
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stretch611 Dec 1, 2017
Quoting: razing32I want to give a few Ultima games a go , just not sure which to try.I have played the first 6 ultimas... I don't think that I ever finished the 6th one, but I did finish the others.
The first few ones look a bit bland.
I normally don;t care for graphics much , but even I have my limits ...
I think at least through Ultima 7, they are all DOS games... not sure about later titles. So they work through DOSbox. (I actually own 1-7 on Gog... in addition to buying the first 6 originally.) I think GOG discounts the series regularly so you may want to check every few days during the holiday season.
Storyline... I started with 3, 4, then 5, before getting 1 & 2. No real loss. The first 3 are pretty separate in the fact that the story really does not add much to sequels... Essentially you killed the evil wizard in the last one and now a new evil wizard is back.
Ultima IV was the quest of the avatar... V and VI follow up on that. I think VII does as well. IV,V,VI all have the same map too... though admittedly, there are a few changes due to storyline. (at least the overland map is the same... even though things like old dungeons are blocked, cities are in the same location.) Ultima I II and III all had unique maps... even if the city names were reused.
As for the graphics... they're rocking... At least they were 20+ years ago when I first play them ;)
In all seriousness, they are all a bit dated now... Remember that that the first 5 were all 8bit titles. I first saw ultima 1-3 on an Apple II computer back in the 80s. The first one I played was Ultima III on a Commodore 64 followed by V and VI on a Commodore as well. They actually were decent graphics at the time. I and II were a bit dated when I first played them and I remember the stick figure I would control in the town.
If you can get past the graphics... they did have some good stories.
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slaapliedje Dec 2, 2017
To add to that. Ultima 1-3 do have a story line that matters at least in giving some background to the later Ultima games. For example, in the first game, you have to defeat the evil wizard Mondain. Then in Ultima 4, you find Mondain's Skull...
Without giving any spoilers, 1st is killing Mondain, 2nd is The Enchantress, which apparently was hooking up with Mondain and wants revenge. 3rd is Exodus, which I think was revealed to be the 'son' of Mondain and The Enchantress. (I never really played the second one).
Then starts the next trilogy, 4-6. Quest of the Avatar, which is the first CRPG I've seen where your choices affect the outcome. Well okay, it's the first game where you morally had to be perfect. Like the shop where you buy spell components all have blind shopkeepers, and you have the option to only pay them 1 gold instead of the correct price. 5th game is Warriors of Destiny (I never completed this either, as I think the pirated copy my friend had was broken after you got to a certain point in the game). This was the hunt for Lord British. Then the 6th one is my favorite... False Prophet.
Then is the 'Guardian' Trilogy, 7-9.
All very good, well except 8 which for some UNKNOWN reason, they decided to make it a isometric platformer, and it was BUGGY as hell. Not sure how anyone could tolerate it long enough to complete the game.... 9 had it's share of bugs, and apparently there were some large chunks of the story cut out due to massive delays because they started out isometric, then went full on third person.
Of note, Ultima 9 is one of those games that initially was released with software rendering and 3dfx, then later on managed to get directX support.
I think U9 was the first game I ever actually registered, and I think I still have the Patch CD they sent me in the mail!
Without giving any spoilers, 1st is killing Mondain, 2nd is The Enchantress, which apparently was hooking up with Mondain and wants revenge. 3rd is Exodus, which I think was revealed to be the 'son' of Mondain and The Enchantress. (I never really played the second one).
Then starts the next trilogy, 4-6. Quest of the Avatar, which is the first CRPG I've seen where your choices affect the outcome. Well okay, it's the first game where you morally had to be perfect. Like the shop where you buy spell components all have blind shopkeepers, and you have the option to only pay them 1 gold instead of the correct price. 5th game is Warriors of Destiny (I never completed this either, as I think the pirated copy my friend had was broken after you got to a certain point in the game). This was the hunt for Lord British. Then the 6th one is my favorite... False Prophet.
Then is the 'Guardian' Trilogy, 7-9.
All very good, well except 8 which for some UNKNOWN reason, they decided to make it a isometric platformer, and it was BUGGY as hell. Not sure how anyone could tolerate it long enough to complete the game.... 9 had it's share of bugs, and apparently there were some large chunks of the story cut out due to massive delays because they started out isometric, then went full on third person.
Of note, Ultima 9 is one of those games that initially was released with software rendering and 3dfx, then later on managed to get directX support.
I think U9 was the first game I ever actually registered, and I think I still have the Patch CD they sent me in the mail!
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slaapliedje Dec 2, 2017
Also, Ultima IV was given away a LONG time ago for free, and you can get the updated / modified graphics for it too.
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heh didn't know they have a linux client...
it's now in my queue to check out.
it's now in my queue to check out.
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I have been playing this game on linux since 2004. We had linux support without any interruption all this years. Well.. we had a interruption around 2005 of few months. Now they launch the new client Tibia 11 and linux is not supported anymore. When it was all those years. Really bad decision.
About who talk about ultima. Tibia was a student project when startef and they used ultima vi graphic set. They redraw all items and graphics. But if you play tibia and ultima vi you will see that almost all ultima vi items are in tibia.
This game for me is one of the best game i ever played. But as like all mmorpg and old players i dont like to much last updates. And this new client is worst on performance on linux than the lastest we had.
About who talk about ultima. Tibia was a student project when startef and they used ultima vi graphic set. They redraw all items and graphics. But if you play tibia and ultima vi you will see that almost all ultima vi items are in tibia.
This game for me is one of the best game i ever played. But as like all mmorpg and old players i dont like to much last updates. And this new client is worst on performance on linux than the lastest we had.
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Hey! Any update to this? Doesn't seem to work anymore :/
Anyone have a clue what might have changed?
Anyone have a clue what might have changed?
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