Time for another adventure? OpenMW, the free and open source game engine for Morrowind just had a brand new release. Do note, this release does not include the long-awaited Shadows implementation.
There's various AI improvements, shader water is rougher during bad weather, more options in the launcher, 360° screenshot support, you can now deal critical hits to unaware enemies with ranged weapons, performance improvements, multiple issues with spell-casting fixed for scripted events, hit detection improvements and so on. Of course it also includes tons of bug fixes, solving around 200 issues. See more on the OpenMW website.
Their release video:
Direct Link
Constantly amazed by this, once shadows are in I will be personally giving it a play through. This is why I love the open source community making game engines like this, so many games I didn't get a chance to finish when I was younger that I can now. It's not just that though, some games don't age well so getting them improved in this way is fantastic.
It does need a copy of Morrowind to play, you can find it any time on GOG and Steam. However, right now it's also free to grab from Bethesda using the code "TES25TH-MORROWIND" until March 31st.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
If you want to help us test these features (and more), feel free to grab one of our dailies:
https://launchpad.net/~openmw/+archive/ubuntu/openmw-daily
Keep in mind, these are built from master so things are still in development. If you see anything you see as suspicious or downright bugging, be sure to report it to us so we can track it and fix it!
https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/issues
Enjoy! :)
PS: on our forums are links to MacOS and Windows dailies as well.
Quoting: ScooptaI really want a project like this for Skyrim.
That's what OpenMW is shooting for... have a read from one of our recent blog posts:
https://openmw.org/2019/followers-of-shadows/
If you're still not convinced... then head to the forums and look at the youtube links showing OpenMW running (bits of) Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout3.
https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3017&start=280#p62043
There is still more work to do, so obviously many hands makes small work. Join us! Let's make this happen! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWPAGuPsQ4A <-- OpenMW's Whiterun
Last edited by psi29a on 28 March 2019 at 5:08 pm UTC
Quoting: psi29aTbh I don't do C++ otherwise I'd love to. That language is like demon spawn haha. Just my opinion.Quoting: ScooptaI really want a project like this for Skyrim.
That's what OpenMW is shooting for... have a read from one of our recent blog posts:
https://openmw.org/2019/followers-of-shadows/
If you're still not convinced... then head to the forums and look at the youtube links showing OpenMW running (bits of) Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout3.
https://forum.openmw.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3017&start=280#p62043
There is still more work to do, so obviously many hands makes small work. Join us! Let's make this happen! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWPAGuPsQ4A <-- OpenMW's Whiterun
legluondunet Mar 28, 2019
Quoteright now it's also free to grab from Bethesda using the code "TES25TH-MORROWIND" until March 31st.
And you have to install the "Betheeda Launcher"...no thanks, I prefer to use the Gog version, without installer.
Uplay, Origin, Epic...to much games clients that are not Linux compatible.
Quoting: legluondunetThe method really doesnt matter for things like this.Quoteright now it's also free to grab from Bethesda using the code "TES25TH-MORROWIND" until March 31st.
And you have to install the "Betheeda Launcher"...no thanks, I prefer to use the Gog version, without installer.
Uplay, Origin, Epic...to much games clients that are not Linux compatible.
qptain Nemo Mar 28, 2019
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