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Here: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/src/branch/release-0.28.0/ You probably looked at the main branch of the repo.

That's better! It's just not stated in the description I read (it mentions only structures as having the re-arm aura). Has this made melee more prevalent somehow? Or more considerations like the ones I've mentioned might be needed? I like your emphasis on realism (it's also my philosophy, doing it in a simple way to solve problems that otherwise would exist, instead of proposing bad and unrealistic band-aids). A few comments: -Regarding your priest rework, it's a good idea, but also some civilisations had field surgery (but should be done hand-to-hand, not by hand-waving like most games). -Field camps are great, but I see field surgery might render them useless. Field surgery should heal up to a percentage. Or better, check the next idea. -Wounded state is great, but maybe it should be way clearer to see it. I would use 3 health bars, a green bar (over a lighter hue of same color) to represent minor wounds (automatic healing, accelerated by surgeons anywhere), a yellow one for moderate wounds (with penalties, and healed by surgeons inside structures), and a red one for severe wounds (with more penalties, automatic draining, and healed by surgeons anywhere only up to start of yellow bar). -Regarding ammo, I wrote extensively in this thread about supplies already. -Your unit rebalance does what must be done… I’d be disappointed if the base game is so much different than that. -I don’t like the word “champions”, it sounds medieval, but it’s game jargon. I’d have done it with 10 ranks, like Total War if I remember correctly. -Secondary weapons are great, it would be nice to also have a button to control them. -You introduce Spies Networks, which is nice, but I’d go as far as making Spies part of the game. They would spy on statistics, and look to the other player like one of their own units (attack own units should be introduced), so it would be fun to imitate what his units are doing, or just set on following some army. He could disguise as basic enemy units, and garrison enemy buildings to hide. I’d add the possibility of hiding in places for units in general, under trees for example, to conduct ambushes. Spies should also be the ones conducting bribes, and maybe trying to open doors. Many things could be considered (assassinations, arson...). -Charge attacks are good, the more relevant abilities the better. I hope many of these concepts (and more) make it to the base game eventually... I don't understand the apparent prevailing philosophy of having yet another AoE clone (when the 0 A.D. Vision Document states the opposite).

Development continues on the game while we finalize R28. If you want the latest on R28, check out the release-0.28.0 branch.

I checked out the latest 0ad source code from gitea repo and I saw that we are on version 29, not 28. What happened here? Where is A28 and why are we skipping it?

Usually happens because you have vertices without weights.

Hi @AlexHerbert, I am not a MacOS user, but let me know if you would like to request a specific feature. This goes for anyone, I am currently porting autociv to A28 and please let me know if you have any ideas!

The mod has an ammo cart unit that resupplies other nearby units.

Solution found: 1. Try to force start 0ad once from the terminal with options (Cite vladislavbelov) $ 0ad -conf=rendererbackend:vulkan If 0ad window appears then it's an OpenGL bug. Proceed to the next step. 2. To fix this permanently, add to your user.cfg this line: rendererbackend = "vulkan" Then if you run 0ad again (using any calling method), it should use the Vulkan engine. 3. If there are still additional errors, you can force debug output by adding this list to your user.cfg then run 0ad: renderer.backend.debugcontext = "true" renderer.backend.debuglabels = "true" renderer.backend.debugmessages = "true" renderer.backend.debugscopedlabels = "true" renderer.backend.gl.enableframebufferinvalidating = "true" renderer.backend.vulkan.debugbarrierafterframebufferpass = "true" renderer.backend.vulkan.debugwaitidleafterpresent = "true" renderer.backend.vulkan.debugwaitidlebeforeacquire = "true" renderer.backend.vulkan.debugwaitidlebeforepresent = "true" renderer.backend.vulkan.deviceindexoverride = "-1" renderer.backend.vulkan.disabledescriptorindexing = "true" Explanation: Due to the recent Nvidia driver updates on Linux based OS, there are some OpenGL rendering issues and 0ad is one of the affected applications. If you force the backend to use Vulkan renderer then the bug is bypassed. However, you must ensure that your Vulkan layers are installed correctly. My Vulkan packages: lib32-vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.335.0-1 vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.335.0-1.1 vulkan-tools 1.4.335.0-1.1

@Perzival12 I made some changes to the Petra bot and committed it to the A28 code. Perhaps you can check it out there. Aside from that, there already exist some harder versions of AI bots around the forum, please have a go at digging around. Some may be outdated so require porting forward. For the easiest level of AI, it would be a good idea to add back P3 and all the advanced units + structures, but really decrease the aggression level of the bot. What kills the human noob is not the late game units but the frequent early aggression. On a separate note, let me know how well the AI bots perform with Hyrule Conquest

Well, nothing has to guarantee that a formation will be kept in the heat of battle, it’s just mostly for initial positioning. "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face". How much a formation would be kept could depend on unit experience for example. Also, I was thinking about formation-inclined civilisations like the Romans, for others like Gauls I'd remove lots of strict compact formations. And maybe in some cases some could be added after some research, if historically relevant. All this would enhance the differences between civilisations and the tactics that have to be used for each. But one wouldn't even know they are there unless using modifiers while choosing formation, it would be totally optional. Edit: and the panel wouldn't change size, what it's shown just switches between either formations, arrangements or priorities.

I think there was a feature called "Attack as formation" in early alphas, there is still cadavers of it in the code. I'm not entirely sure but I'm guessing it was meant to do what you are imagining here : the formation keep a certain shape, even while attacking. Well I guess wasn't to successful. I think blobbing is a necessary evil in most cases. However some formation abilities like charge (picture cavalry wedge formation charging) and brace (picture infantry forming a spear/shield wall) would be nice to have at some point, and those would introduce behavior that could delay/reduce blobbing. We are kind of far from this at the moment thoughts. First we'll have to introduce support for managing battalions. Although it would be a good nice-to-have, it seems unlikely to be accepted to have such additional panel in the game, it's a bit complex relative to what you have for the rest of the very minimalist gui of 0AD.

I totally agree that formations should exist and be improved, but they would be more useful if units were more solid. Many times I get many units at the exact same place, which looks really bad, as do blobs fighting blobs. It unnecessarily cheapens the game and destroys immersion. Regarding formation order... Can't these be an option for the player? What if one could press ctrl+formation to turn the formation panel into an arrangement panel, showing the possibilities you have mentioned, for the clicked formation. One could alternate between arrangements for the chosen formation, and if done with ctrl it would turn the arrangement panel into the formation panel again. For example, to have hoplites and javelineers form in close order, first javelineers at the front, then behind, one should press ctrl + close order to form in some default arrangement and open the arrangement panel, and then if needed one chooses ranged infantry on the first row. When wanted, one chooses them on the second row, and they switch places with the hoplites. If done with ctrl, the panel would also switch back to the formation one (the default arrangement shown now being the last one selected). Unit symbols have to be clearer, I’d make hollow squares for infantry, triangles for cavalry, rhombuses for elephants, and circles for the rest (support), with a dot in the middle if ranged (Edit: actually, filled instead of dot could be better, and melee/ranged symbology could be switched, depending what's more intuitive). Different colors would help. I’d also rework “stances” (the ones below formations) a bit, units take too long to return to their positions. Edit: ugh, only now I noticed that you also want to deal with Heroes, Champions and Citizen-Soldiers... the problem is that they could be any kind of unit mentioned before. Combinations are needed. Well, shift+formation and shift+arrangement could open a... "priority" (or whatever) panel for this, with their ordering being indicated by other icons, like star, cross and dot, respectively. Ctrl+priority could return to formation panel, and shift+priority to arrangement panel.

@user1 knotchtheviking quit a rated game when he was losing. Attaching game files here. metadata.jsoncommands.txt

That's the anti AI filter, usually refreshing a couple time works.

thanks but I get this when I try to open gitea in my phone.. any help?

The way you phrase it is like intending to hypnotize me... XD, we all gotta sleep, go away and or do something~ but I get what you mean.

Stop exiting 0 A.D., keep on playing, if necessary keep it minimized ...

Man... if I knew, I could just download here the recent appimage. I tried to go with the nightly and gone to build it but its too complicated for me. Current issue is the middle mouse is clicking instead of its pointer but I found the temporary solution for the time being.

Thx, that helped with the newest appimage release. Only temporarily, so once exit need to do it again.

There are other concepts

There is a new release candidate at https://releases.wildfiregames.com/rc/.

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/commits/branch/release-0.28.0 always look at most recent commits between Update appdata for next RC

Do the alt+tab if you can see 0A.D menu, if you can see you see it, this is just idk testing. Can you try the flatpak version, you need flathub and maybe flatseal too so you can tweak the game. Open and see, otherwise if it still doesn't work go to terminal and type: flatpak run com.play0ad.zeroad Check any error, still nothing? Then I don't know, I'm using AMD. then again be sure to experiment with flatseal. Good luck, hope it works, sneeze* Edit: Potentially you could try the recent/any(click Releases there) appimage found in https://releases.wildfiregames.com/rc/ Another thing, click the 0ad icon and do alt+enter to try enter fullscreen. Edit Edit:

Angen and Freagarach, the last two to work seriously on it, both talked about rewriting in the past more than once. Difficulty levels are almost different bots. Petra isn't a bad bot at all, it just doesn't cover all players. If you change Petra you almost certainly just cater to a different crowd instead.

What did RC3 change??