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The Release Candidates are available for Patch A27.1 You will find them at https://releases.wildfiregames.com/rc/ with the -rc1- infix. The list of fixes with respect to Alpha 27 are updated in the top post of the thread. The bug with flood maps is not being worked on, so it will not be fixed in A27.1, we do not wish to delay the patch release further. We may do a A27.2 for this issue depending on timing. The OOS experienced by ffm cannot be reproduced (after investigation in PM) and may have been caused by the local compilation environment. Let's keep eyes wide open for this one during the testing of RC1. Thanks for your help!

Wildfire Games is proud to announce the release of the Patch Release A27.1 for 0 A.D. Alpha 27: “Agni”. This is the first patch release of 0 A.D., made possible by the new development environment put into place last year. Easy download and install Download and installation instructions are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. 0 A.D. is free software. This means you can download, redistribute, modify and contribute to the application under the same licenses: GNU Public Licence version 2 (GPL v2) for code and Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA 3.0) for artwork. Although you might find some people selling copies of 0 A.D., either over the internet or on physical media, you will always have the option to download 0 A.D. completely gratis, directly from the developers. No “freemium” model, no in-game advertising, no catch. What is a patch release? A patch release is a minor release of 0 A.D., bringing a few selected fixes from the development version into the latest release of the game. All fixes of the patch release are already present in the development version (the future Release 28). There are two important aspects to a patch release: Patch releases are OOS-compatible with major releases. If your friend has not heard about the patch release, or cannot install it for whatever reason, they should still be able to play multiplayer with you. This limits the kind of fixes we can include in a patch release. Patch releases are prepared on the side, and do not take precedence over our work towards the next major release. We prepare and provide patch releases as our resources allow. This limits the scale of the fixes we can include in a patch release. Changelog Here are the changes included in A27.1: a fix for the large performance issue observed by some players on older hardware several small performance improvements in the calculation of simulation hashes (related to multiplayer stuttering) fixed support of Windows 7 a fix for modifying your lobby password when you have an uppercase letter in your username a fix for the distorted 3D models with GPU Skinning fixes for crashes with Vulkan and/or with GPU Skinning a fix for changing player perspective in replays a fix for an out-of-memory crash in the JS engine when generating random maps a fix for the game crash on pressing Fn key a fix for a crash in Atlas when the map generation fails a fix for a memory leak in the renderer fixes for multiplayer port forwarding package fixes for Linux desktop environments various build fixes for Linux (some sent by package managers) Thanks to all the community for your continued support and enthusiasm, which allow us to deliver these updates! Reporting issues If you experience a technical problem with the game, please report it at gitea.wildfiregames.com. This is also the first address to visit when you wish to dedicate some of your time to help patch the code. Got any further questions or suggestions? Discuss them with other players and developers at the forum or talk with us directly in the IRC chat rooms: #0ad and #0ad-dev on QuakeNet. Subscribe See our LinkTree. For press/media inquiries, please DM @play0ad on Bluesky or webmaster at wildfiregames dot com.

New Release Candidates are available for Patch A27.1 You will find them at https://releases.wildfiregames.com/rc/ with the -rc2- infix. New fixes (added to the top post): The Windows 7 support is fixed! A27 will be the last version supporting Windows 7, so it was a shame to have a bug in here. The engine version is updated, for better bug reports Two Unix build system fixes This should be good to go. Please test as much as possible, I am hopefully releasing this in the upcoming week (I'm thinking Wednesday 16th).

At this point, I no more believe that the cheaters are trying to have a reasonable discussion. It's just like "What could I write that would be reminiscent of an argument to possibly let me keep doing what I'm already doing?". Half of this is just trying to shift or relativize the topic, or telling fair players to either cheat too or go play elsewhere. Then, when a counter-argument is taken apart and proven as flawed, they will just repeat it unchanged in a new thread. Tell a lie often enough, right. Or, maybe even put the lie right in your bio. That way it gets automatically repeated after anything you write. Smart. So I see @Seleucids say "STOCKFISH DOESN'T CHEAT", and that's a really bold statement to put in your bio because of how hard it is to prove. Meanwhile, there are people like me who just do have the proof in the form of replays, eyewitness testimony, screenshots of chats discussing the usage of the mods (what is meant here by cheating anyway). So what is it now? It's just acting dumb and trolling.

The purpose of this mod is to allow access to options, hotkeys, or the last game summary directly from the lobby without having to exit to the main screen of the game. It’s especially useful if you want to adjust some settings while waiting in a host’s gamesetup without losing your spot. Other, more robust mods like ModernGUI or boonGUI offer the same functionality, but this option is suitable for those who prefer to keep things simple and like the original lobby interface. Just unzip LobbyMenu.zip and copy paste the LobbyMenu folder into your mod's folder and you are ready to go. If you have any suggestions or If you find any bugs, please contact me and I’ll fix them ASAP. Note: The small black lines visible on the buttons are not caused by the mod. On my 4K monitor, the GUI appears very small, so I had to scale it to 200% in the settings, which causes those small black lines to appear. Here are some screenshots:

The death of this game has been a long time coming and is truly inevitable. First, the heat death of the universe, something difficult to precisely calculate, will happen in roughly 10^106 years, which I doubt 0 AD will survive. Even if we prepare for that, there is the more immediate problem of the sun depleting its hydrogen reserves in approximately 5 billion years. Unless our team develops proper technology to survive in space, I think 0 AD will fail. In a similar vein, the Andromeda Galaxy's collision with the Milky Way in 4.5 billion years may pose a serious risk to the survival of the community. For these reasons, I regret to say that 0 AD is doomed.

Hey guys, I'm back with more news about my WorldRising project! I've created new resources and they're now functional! They are: bone, water, leather, clay and faith. Here's how to collect each of these resources: Water and clay can be found in the wild. Bone is passively created in hunting lodge buildings. Leather is produced in the primitive tannery. Faith is generated in ritual stones. In addition, I've implemented many new technologies, including new units such as the priest, archer and hero. I've re-textured many units and improved the textures of buildings. However, I've had some issues implementing certain technologies, such as promoting units when completing a specific technology or increasing the civic center limit by +1. I've also had trouble editing animals, even using existing models, due to issues with the skeleton. The same issue occurred when trying to implement flags on buildings. (If anyone can help me, I'd be very grateful!) I've now completed the Stone Age with all buildings and technologies. The Polished Stone Age is 60% complete and I will soon begin the Copper Age. Stay tuned for photos!

Indeed Boudica. Not even the market exploit is considered a cheat. Reza knows about quickstart, Seleucids knows reza considers it a cheat. I think its quite distasteful bringing up war or PTSD here. Reza had this stance before the war already. Reza probably doesn't really care but bringing this up does not show a interest in a reasonable discussion. Instead the sanity of the conversational partner is attacked.

Obviously, this makes you a better player because it masks your flaws. Being better or worse than another player requires several evaluation points, and one of them is the ability to manage everything that happens on screen, especially in an RTS game. If you use a script that does these things for you, it's obviously an advantage and shouldn't even be discussed. Your analogy exemplifies exactly what I said. A manual car may not be faster than an automatic, but there's a chance of shifting into the wrong gear and breaking gears in a manual car, which isn't possible in an automatic. That's exactly what you do when you use scripts to mask your mistakes.

Hello everyone! I'm here to share some amazing gameplay footage of our project! It's now possible to create riverside villages without the need for a civic center! Docks have territory space, and as they evolve, the territory increases. In addition, hunting lodges can be built anywhere on the map. And that's not all! The houses also passively generate leather, making resource management even more efficient. Now, we're working on the next step: creating defenses to protect our villages! Share your impressions and comment on what you think of the project! We're looking forward to hearing your opinions!

Bom dia ou tarde; -Finalizámos a Primeira fase ,da Primeira versão do mod, (a arquitetura) a primeira quota de facções já está fechada: 65 em todo o mundo. (Proporemos mais futuramente). -Agora estamos com as unidades (primeiro as americanas), aqui fica uma antevisão: Tupí Tiahuanaco Mapuche Desculpe-me pelas inconvenièncias*

AI is probably researching this thread to train itself to recognize mental breakdown patterns.

Any comments? If not, I'll go ahead and make the new icons.

Ok.

Thanks to the anonymous moderator for approving my previous post. I hope you'll like this one too.

This is clearly wrong. @guerringuerrin has already pointed this out as "awareness." I would go further to say this is actually multitasking, which @borg- has already identified as the primary skill in R(eal)T(ime)S(trategy) games. It is also not just "repetitive meaningless actions." First, your mod doesn't repeat the same thing. It optizimies based on how many you can make to reach your ideal population composition. Without the mod, you would have to decide what batch size to make and of what units to make. At all times, do you know how many jav inf you have at all times? Do you know how many sword cav you have at any moment? Do you know how many slingers you need to make to reach your ideal population percentage? I don't know. But I can make guesses informed by experience (i.e., skill). Your mod does this all for you. If you truly want something to eliminate repetitive clicks then that already exists as part of the base game. You have created something that does more and creates a competitive advantage. Most importantly, you've been told other players don't like it and choosing to use it anyways

you are the one bugging here. All it does is use an existing system to tell units to attack higher preference units if they are attacking a low preference unit without orders. aoe2 does this, not sure about other games. It is perfectly intuitive, and it is exactly what would be expected of a preference system in UnitAI. You just made up "damage spreading" out of thin air. PRs go to the game for everyone, and they effect everyone equally. Making and distributing automation mods to be used against those that don't have them (incompatibility checks off) because you think the game design is bad is very different.

Undisclosed. Players who use automation mods, and presumably map hacks (I’ve never observed someone use map hacks) do not disclose this before game start, and avoid/ignore any discussion of this. I think fair gameplay is fun gameplay so I don’t play when there is a cheater. 0ad does not need to be competitive like an esport but the game itself is a competition (we are trying to win right?) so yes it needs to be fair by default. If any player could select a 2.5% handicap without anyone knowing it would probably make the game less fun. We’ve had this discussion so many times, everything has already been said but the problem remains.

When the "sh1t ally" from the previous game is now facing you and winning

100 Food

That's wrong. You might have been thinking about interpreted languages which use a Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), like CPython, which results in them not being able to utilize multiple CPU cores when using threads, but that's a limitation of such languages and doesn't apply to C++. And as a side note: Even in languages which use a GIL, multiple threads can be faster than multiple processes, depending on the kind of work to be parallelized. Check out for example the commit linked below, where I speed up validation of entities. I compared using multiple threads vs. multiple processes, but as more time is spent loading data from disk than doing actual CPU heavy computation, using multiple threads instead of using multiple processes was significantly faster, thanks to threads having a much lower overhead than processes. https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/commit/e755ef715565409b93cecdb2d84b5098a518fef6

To be pedantic: Maurian champion archer (woman) add arrows. Most healers (men) don't add arrows. Also the hero Hippocrates does not add arrows. "Per Unit" might be changed to "Per Solidier" to clarify this.

I just make the PR https://github.com/JustusAvramenko/delenda_est/pull/70 that enable the summary work again and the game itsel work in current development phase :), let me know

When the support for up to 15-player team games is added

I have played many of the available maps and wanted to create something new. I like not only making attractive maps, but ones that add some new twist to the game play. I though of mazes and other ways to make maps more challenging. I sort of went that way, using terrain to control movement Here's what I've come up with. It would be great to get some feedback on this. Nile Delta Conquest 1.xml 1745219202_NileDeltaConquest1.pmp

One merchant ship with five garrisoned traders has the same efficiency as two merchant ships, however 1 ship + 5 traders costs 500 food and 500 metal, while 2 ships only cost 200 metal. As all the units count towards your population limit, 2 ships aren't just significant cheaper, but they only incur a population of 2 instead of 6, you'd have with 1 ship + 5 traders. Therefore garrison traders in merchant ships usually doesn't make sense at all and might be only helpful if you have land based trade at first and switch to merchant ships later on.

Does anyone object to making the seagulls unselectable, so you don't accidentally click the wrong thing with ur fishing ship? before: Screen Recording 2025-07-10 224706.mp4 after:

20250707-1630-58.7562044.mp4 now sure how to fix the oars going backwards.

PIKES versus SPEARS!

Nice llamas!

You can sent yourself resources through a command. This might seem useless, but It is not cleanly programmed You can obfuscate the statistics

I'm not sure if it's placebo or not, but the patch release is much more smoother and performance is now better. No more lag in the mid game, only some in the late game, and that is bearable when compared to the initial release. This is only single player, I'm sure multiplayer is more noticeable.

@Gurken Khan it can be fixed by giving them a "selection group name". I'll make an issue.

i installed it and everything is working fine

Yes my friend, you do. Btw. the only buildings where archers add more arrows than other soldiers are walls.

I'd really love the ability to select the Phase in which the game commences. This would allow for a wider variety of singleplayer and multiplayer playing styles. It's a common feature of many games with technology or research phases. For me, I'd like to jump right into military composition, battle tatics, etc. without all the "boilerplate" of unlocking my civ's champion units and siege units. I'm wondering if there's a console command or config file I could tweak or some other hacky workaround. Also, as a programmer, I'd be okay with contributing this feature to the Matches UI.

@Thales The range in the description tells you how far his aura reaches. If you select a hero you can see it and the affected units have an aura overlay: (Don't believe "AI".)

ChatGPT wrote massive trash. When the hero dies, the bonus is gone forever. The line of sight of the hero is far greater than 45m. There is indeed a fixed radius. The cavalry unit doesnt have to be newly trained, it just needs to be a cavalry unit.

45 meter around this heroe all cav have +2 armor (take less damage) in french translate it type +2 attack but it wrong

Not at all. Who said that I'm going to remain in SP forever? Also, I care about the game enough to defend the fair-play. And to call out those players who blatantly lie how something obviously unfair like an automation script "isn't cheating". Maybe I also want to win some fair games when I DO decide to play MP?

So the short answer is: There is nothing to repent. Trying to have fun when playing a video game is not a sin.

I disagree, 0ad is very searchable. You pretty much cannot miss it in a google search unless you heard about it via word of mouth (zero ay dee, maybe). Using just three characters means the game is very easy to search and remember. While a full set of words might at first seem easy to remember, "Ancient Empires", "Empires at war", and even "Empires Ascendant" come across as fairly generic and thus not memorable. unfortunately this topic comes up very often in google searches of "0ad", maybe we should consider renaming it, since the discussion proves 0ad will not in fact die, at least not in the foreseeable future. If the name was "Ancient Empires", we would be in conflict with not only real history information, but also a history channel television series, books, and another videogame.

We really should show troops jumping onto enemy covered rams, hacking away at it. lol

JC carrying his team

UPDATE: Version 0.7.3 Changes: Fixed a bug with recruiting Champions Fixed a bug with recruiting Support units, set the limit to 50. Added recruitment of Cavalry and Infantry at the start of the game for more defense against early rushes. PETRA_Expert vs Base PETRA

"Good afternoon everyone! I'm here to share the latest news about my mod, World Rising! - *Technologies and Buildings*: I'm working on implementing technologies in buildings and creating new upgrades for houses and fireplaces. Houses now reach level 4 and fireplaces up to level 3, each bringing new technologies, buildings, and units. - *Custom Icons*: Each unit, building, and technology will have its own unique icon. - *Gameplay Adjustments*: I'm revamping the status of units and buildings to make the game more realistic. Construction and learning times will be longer in primitive eras and decrease as civilization evolves. - *Sneak Peek*: I'm sharing some images of what's been implemented so far. Hope you like it! - *Comment and Give Feedback*: Please leave your comments and questions. Your opinion is important to me!"