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https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-august-2025-alpha-released/

Again, a single distro may pitch in, but they're dealing with things like Pipewire, Xorg, Wayland, Mesa, a desktop environment, and much more they don't really have time to dedicate someone to help update a little old game, and the distros that are based on stability (like debian stable) won't even consider it because it's not their goal. I was gonna suggest that... It is kinda mean, but there is such a thing as a not very good Linux distro, by virtue that it's not really updated. he does, but he gets errors when using it. I wonder if it's because of how old PureOS's flatpak probably is.

I heard upper case [C] captures faster. And don't forget to say: Wololo!

This did not happen much with armies moving in formation like the phalanx, but in the game it does happen . Completely agree. I think this should be the goal

From what Brett Devereaux writes, this doesn't happen historically (except in very rare occasions); that's a modern misconception. Anyway archers should in some situations be able to shoot over their melee comrades, probably not (or with the risk of friendly fire) on the first rank of enemy soldiers engaged in melee, but on the rear ranks. And of course also on the first rank while they charge and are not already engaged in melee. Also if we want to have ancient battles and not napoleonian ones with swords and arrows, we probably should take kiting into account : yes, missiles can shoot quite far, but without any discernible impact on armored troops. Only at close range (where an enemy charge can wreak havoc to them too) can they be actually effective. The more armored the enemy is, the closest the range of effectiveness. That would make for very interesting tactical decisions, and make melee troops the kings of battles, as it was historically (while still allowing missile-heavy tactics like the Persians used, but only if done well, and prone to awful failures if done badly, as the Persians learned at Marathon and Plateia, or against the 10 000).

Indeed, but we also would need better control of our troops. Putting your archers to the side to shoot at reinforcements and then having them friendly firing at your troops because the AI decided it wanted to shoot at the melee would be very frustrating.

Here this current topic is in the section "Delenda Est". Are you asking for a dedicated topic for this mod or for another mod?

Was it? Not just a harmless weird joke?

We could trick it like Lordgood did. Basically inside the model you'd hide the fire. And using two bones to stretch it you could do something yeah. For now though, it does nothing. I think it was heavy sarcasm.

Do you know how to install through a flatpak?

There are distributions that have gaming as a core part. Then there are those that are just bleeding edge for being bleeding edge. Rolling distributions are also more likely to have the lasted versions around. On the other hand if it's a distribution meant to provide a solid and stable base to work of from then it usually takes time for versions to tickle down. Based on some Ubuntu telemetry 0ad has probably some 300'000+ installs on Linux. Single player don't need the latest version, certainly not zero day bumps. There is also the option to build from source. While that may sound daunting most long term linux users (or open source user on other platforms) will start doing it at some point and realize it's not harder then learning to drive a bicycle. That will allow you to use a fix to one of your issues right after it got committed without having to wait for a release (every day is release day ). Also instead of the some 20'000 packages your distro offers you have the whole world of open source software at your tip. That said, there is a Flatpack for 0ad and an AppImage will be provided for the next release as well.

This is the same issue:

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureOS In my opinion, it's time to choose something else. This is what the 0ad versions supported by Linux distributions look like. https://repology.org/project/0ad/versions I suggest stable Debian 13.1 Trixie: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/13.1.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ https://packages.debian.org/trixie-backports/0ad Regards.

0 A.D is always in this top.

Yes, but they don't focus on helping the few projects like these. There aren't many successful cross-platform open-source games. https://github.com/vi3itor/GameplayFootball This project has been abandoned several times. I don't even know who's developing it.

Open-source games. https://www.xda-developers.com/best-open-source-games-windows/

I'm a little confused what you mean by "projects like this" Also, Linux isn't a single entity, so I don't know what they on a whole would do. And sometimes some lesser known distros take longer with updates.

It'll be released.... Eventually. I'm working on two projects at the moment; one that features many non-human races (albeit not specifically fantasy) will probably come out first, since there's a whole world/lore there and that's been my favourite one to work on lol

A few weeks ago I researched other projects like this and there aren't many. I don't know why Linux doesn't get ready to incentivize gaming.

Funny, I like how they don't know the context yet. They're going by the title, and it's about a different game.

That would be something to contact PureOS about. You could open a bug tracker here: https://tracker.pureos.net/ and see what they say, though it seems pretty inactive. They'd have to implement a patch of some kind or get Debian to update the 0 A.D. version in testing (which is what I think PureOS pulls from)

I’ll just wait till one of them replies to this thread, rather than DM them all.

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@fabio maybe knows. @Obelix Know many things.