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Finally the campaign mode :-). Was desperately waiting for it. I like this game.

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Thanks for this very comprehensive review Samsai.

Quoting: buenaventuraI liked Undertale alot, it was really funny and moving, and surprising! I just wanted to contribute that you can use qjoypad (available in ubuntu repos, and probably elsewhere) to map the keyboard buttons to your gamepad (works with my SNES-like one). Useful software!

Antimicro is another popular choice for this task and the one I prefer.

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I liked Undertale alot, it was really funny and moving, and surprising! I just wanted to contribute that you can use qjoypad (available in ubuntu repos, and probably elsewhere) to map the keyboard buttons to your gamepad (works with my SNES-like one). Useful software!

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Sheepslaughter :O

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0AD: FOSS Empire Earth that only goes up to the bronze age. .. give or take a few epochs.

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i compiled it on fedora, and it downloaded some submodules about vulkan. But i can't see Vulkan engine on the settings, just OpenGL.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI'm waiting for the game to actually leave alpha. It has been in development for nearly a decade, which is notable in and of itself since open source game projects tend to be abandoned after a couple of years, but I'm still suspicious that it will never really be finished.

There's just so many improvements that can be made, they're not planning to go into Beta until they've finished with all the feature development (they're planning to just bugfix in Beta, so maybe Beta would be quite a short stage? Imho once they reach Beta you can bet on a release fairly soon, relatively speaking) which could take forever if they keep on thinking of new stuff yeah, but I can understand that it is nearly impossible for an open-source project (as awesome as this one is) with little funding to keep up with current proprietary game quality. Perhaps they should just jump to Beta, release, and patch from there (they could do fairly big gaps between releases (other than bugfix and balance updates), longer than between Alphas so that a metagame can develop over the course of each release) but perhaps they don't feel that it's really release quality.

I know they were planning to do a sequel once they've finished this game but imho they should release a Beta for 0AD sooner than they seem to be planning, ditch the sequel idea and just focus on making 0AD a great AAA-quality competitive game with regular balance updates and much less regular big feature releases.

Imho they should go something like this:
Whenever-its-ready: Instead of releasing Alpha 22, release Beta 1 (package version 0.1)
Every month: Release a new Beta (package versions 0.x)
When vast majority of bugs gone/bug-wise it's release-ready: Release 0AD Season 1 (package version 1.0.0, use semantic versioning for future releases)
Over each Season, make bugfix releases as (x.y.z) z updates and balance changes as y updates (if both in one release, release as a y update)
Every year or every two years - make a new Season (x update) with all the non-bugfix/balance changes they couldn't include before due to release policy. This should be forked off the master branch of development (where all these changes should've been pushed) with a few Betas and RCs released for stability (as x.0.0-beta1, -beta2, -RC1 etc)

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I also played a lot of it during early access when there wasn't much to do. I crafted the best armor and weapons and stopped playing, as that was about it.

The game is so much better now, but I couldn't get myself to play it, I lose interest after 10 minutes.

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Quoting: legluondunetIs the Vulkan gpu plugin finally available for Linux?

No and it's in medium term goals.

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Quoting: mas886This game is really amazing. I'm still waiting for someone making a Lord of The Rings mod for it.

I'm waiting for the game to actually leave alpha. It has been in development for nearly a decade, which is notable in and of itself since open source game projects tend to be abandoned after a couple of years, but I'm still suspicious that it will never really be finished.

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Quote...promised same-day Linux support!

I'll believe it when I see it.

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Little known fact about the Berlin wall: The Americans and Brits were doing large scale sabotage which was crippling East Berlin's efforts to recover and reindustrialize after the war (and killing quite a few people). The wall was originally as much a response to that as it was an attempt to stop people leaving.

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This game is really amazing. I'm still waiting for someone making a Lord of The Rings mod for it.

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I've been following 0AD since 2011. This is grand news; it's not the best RTS out there yet (Warzone 2100, in the repos, still takes that prize), but these new improvements look divine.

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There was a weekend that my friends and I planned a LAN party during the holidays. We decided to play Starbound as the first game in the morning and play action games later. We ended up playing Starbound for 7 hours before stopping. It was great.

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Can't wait for Demon's Souls being fully playable. Maybe even moddable...

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It was a pain the last time I tried to to compile it. But I found a very good community support on her Github site.
Is the Vulkan gpu plugin finally available for Linux?

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last time I gave it a try it compiled fine but it needed a lower LLVM then the one I had, so at the end I was able to launch the emulator and so on but not to play any game (same errors and a black screen for everyone I tried).

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this is the update i've been waiting for, they plan to add in more extended play content. this game has been way to much fun :) I still play from time to time.

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i tried 0ad once and i cannot get in use with this territory-mechanics.

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Quoting: ZeloxDoesnt this have to do with how long the game has been in beta and the constant server wipes the game has after every update?
I hope the game becomes more alive when its released, Im not a founder but I will probably get this one when its released.

That's pure speculation on my part, but I think MMOs are a "hit business", where titles need to grab considerable attention to florish. Players generally don't like playing in "empty" MMOs, and leave them quickly when they get the impression that their game isn't as populated as they desire. Looking at past titles, a MMO that doesn't grab hundreds of thousands of players right away will not grow into a large game later on, either. It it starts as a niche game, it will remain one.

This particular game doesn't strike me as one with hit potential. Let's face the truth: It's geared at hardcore players, and there aren't that many of them around. I wouldn't expect this game to storm the sales charts anytime soon, really. In the end, I know that hardcore players tend to look down on so-called 'casuals', but you can't have the cake and eat it. A game not appealing to 'casuals' will not sell millions of copies and thus will probably not feel populated.

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Yeah, right.
I'll buy it when it's released, it does look good. I like that they say "PC first" and include Windows, Mac and Linux in that category.

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I bought this game when it was in Early Access, played 20 hours straight, it was fantastic, then "it should mature, lets wait", and I never played it again, and I hardly find the will to play it again, despite all the faboulous updates :(

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I played it a lot when it was just pre-cooked in Early Access (about 60+ hours), and then i never managed to like it again despite many returns. Maybe the next update will bring my pleasure back ?

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Quoting: ProfessorKaos64Hmm, I'll have to revisit building this. Had trouble in the past, even on Arch Linux. I'd love to get an early build up for Debian/SteamOS.

I just followed the basic instructions for Arch on the GitHub and it compiled fine, so perhaps this has been improved more recently.

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Quoting: ProfessorKaos64Hmm, I'll have to revisit building this. Had trouble in the past, even on Arch Linux. I'd love to get an early build up for Debian/SteamOS.

Although I haven't tried any of the previous versions, this last one compiled just fine on Arch.

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Hmm, I'll have to revisit building this. Had trouble in the past, even on Arch Linux. I'd love to get an early build up for Debian/SteamOS.

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Quoting: neowiz73

Quoting: LinuxwarperIs it me or is launching of apps in Unity much better than Gnome 3? I installed Gnome 3, to try it out, and it's app launching methods is lacking. Unity: Superkey+n (n= 0-9), Gnome: Super +Hover to app/Type and navigate with arrow key+Click/Execute key. Am I only one who have noticed this?

use the Dash to Dock extension on GNOME, not only can it give you a unity like launcher but it has the same functionality with superkey+n. it is highly configurable. you can even scroll the mouse wheel on the launcher to switch virtual desktops.

Cheers:)

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Java based game. If we download non-steam version for Linux, it download only .jar file, so we need install Java (Oracle or OpenJDK).
If we download Steam version, game come with bundled Java version from Oracle (don't know if this is legall - bundled proprietary java) but at latest it working out of box on Linux.

First launch on Ubuntu 17.04 Unity, it launch in windowed mode and half of game screen is cut off. Check in option - fullscreen mode is enabled, native resolution also set. WTF? Reboot game. Still the same. Uncheck fullscreen mode, and back again to fullscreen mode fix it.

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Quoting: Kuduzkehpani m founder for this game. and however streamers and playerbase is decreesed the game promising.

Doesnt this have to do with how long the game has been in beta and the constant server wipes the game has after every update?
I hope the game becomes more alive when its released, Im not a founder but I will probably get this one when its released.

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