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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.

Greetings my fellow gamers! I've decided to embark on a completely different kind of game development and I'd like to use this thread to share my progress, get feedback, take criticism, and share ideas! I'm going to develop a tabletop game based on the Greek gods, heroes, and monsters! This is going to be a huge project that will put to the test all of my creative abilities, whether it's designing characters, creating playing cards, creating map layouts (which can then be printed into large sheets for tabletop use), deciding gameplay rules, writing character bios, laying out a rule book (and have it printed) you name it. Over time, if anyone wants to contribute, then that will be very welcomed (and contributors added to the final credits). For now, I'm just putting a lot of pieces together and deciding how I want to tackle it. First things first: I've already acquired 20+ character pieces (!) and they will be arriving to my house piecemeal over the coming days. They range in height from 8.26 cm (3.25") to 9.65 cm (3.80") and will be played on a table approximately 1.33 m (4') x 1.83 m (6'). (Above: Some of the 'God' class of characters) There are God characters and there are Men and Monsters as well. For the sake of gameplay and character variety, demi-gods such as Hercules will be considered part of the Men category and figures such as Pan will be considered Monster class. (Above: Some 'Monster' class characters) (Above: Some 'Men' class characters) Some of the Gods, such as Athena, Dionysus, Atlas, and Asclepius, could have features that make them 'Friends to Man' for cool team combos: (Above: 'Friends to Man' characters) And one could imagine Gods such as Poseidon, who sired several monstrous offspring in myth, to be 'Friends to Monsters' for more team combos. Other ideas include making Hermes the fastest traveling character in the game. Leonidas could have the ability to summon a squad of Spartans to his aid. Both Leonidas and Alexander could have a special relationship with Apollo and Hercules as they are descended from both characters. The idea is to create rules for 2 players and up to 6 players. Each character has its own stats and abilities. The idea also is to create an extensive deck of cards that players can pick from and affect gameplay. This is a huge project and I expect it'll take years to complete and lots of my own money (such as getting maps and cards printed). That's okay, because I need a new obsession. lol

I love 0AD's basegame maps, dont get me wrong, but some of them look a little dated. This is where Map Remakes comes into play. This mod remakes the Base 0AD maps to fit right into the modern era! At the moment, four maps are complete- Mediterranean Coves, Gallic Fields, Gambia River and Two Seas (This map is rather scuffed from the begining, so there is a good chance that I will give it a complete overhaul at some point) Features of the remake(s) - Grass, New flora and fauna, and in general, more detail (The performance impact isn't much however) Also, if you notice any floating grass, this is an game bug and not something I can fix map-remakes.zip

Who can solve this ?

I think it's too hasty to say that Fanatics are OP and should be nerfed. I believe the adjustment made to them actually enriched the game and introduced a new strategy that forces all of us out of our comfort zones and encourages more creativity. As @chrstgtr mentioned earlier, I think what we’re seeing here is the typical panic from a player when a strategy they’ve perfected and repeated countless times is suddenly put at risk. I don’t feel the same way about champ cav, particularly Gauls and Seleucids, and I still believe it would be good to slightly adjust their stats or improve a unit that can serve as a counter to champ cavs. This doesn’t mean a nerf so strong that it renders a costly late-game unit useless — one for which a player clearly deserves to be rewarded — but in its current state it feels more like the endgame goal that everyone rushes to in order to decide the outcome of a match, and personally, I find that dynamic boring. A parallel reflection that comes to mind from this debate is that, in many multiplayer RTS games, a certain strategy often becomes the meta and seems unbeatable — and this leads other players to develop new strategies to counter it, which enriches the evolution of the game. There are many examples of this in 0 A.D., but I won’t go into detail to avoid making this too long. I believe the current dynamic in many multiplayer matches is to ‘play it safe’ — which basically means booming — and this stifles creativity and discourages players from trying new things out of fear of completely failing and being seen as weak players. What if u go play some multiplayer and see how it goes by yourself? No trolling intended here, but I find very difficult to achieve that players start sharing replays to make the point. Replays aren't even named, so it's a tedious job to identify them. And it's not very motivating to go through all that work just to show it to a singleplayer-focused player, since — at least with the current state of the game's AI — multiplayer and singleplayer feel like completely different games.

Buenos días: -Estamos casi terminando las facciones americanas, en breve comenzaremos con las africanas: Adena (EE.UU/Ohio) Anishinaabe (Canada) Swift Creek (EE.UU,Georgia) Pámpidos: (argentina) Guaraní (Paraguay) Disculpen las moelstias*

I wanted to make a mod where the teams have a different line style. I spectate a lot, but never toggle team colors as it is clumsy and one has to untoggle soon enough anyway. I tried different line styles like dashed, dots and diamond. I think only the default + dashed works really well enough in my short tests. But in 99% of the games its just 2 teams anyway. Would be nice to just join a game and tell at first glance where the fronts are. The problem is art/textures/misc/territory_border.png is loaded in source/simulation2/components/CCmpTerritoryManager.cpp. So it's fixed in c++ code. I don't want to build a custom version. Would it make sense to move the path out in the future to be modifiable? How you like different line styles for teams?

This thread has been initiated to revisit the discussion concerning the historical accuracy of the Iberian civilization as depicted in the game. The aim is to consolidate relevant information, provide a comprehensive overview of the issue and its origins, and facilitate constructive dialogue focused on identifying potential solutions. At present, the primary concern regarding the Iberian civilization in 0 A.D. (A27 at the time of writing) is that it represents a composite of various groups from the Iberian Peninsula, encompassing populations with distinct languages and distinct historical backgrounds. This issue emerged early in the development of 0 A.D., largely because the Iberians were favoured by one of the project's key early contributors: https://play0ad.com/interview-of-tonto_real/ In this interview, there appears to be notable confusion between Celtiberians and Iberians, which may have been intentional. Geography and languages Unravel the origin of foreign assets The Iberian civ in 0 A.D. has three heroes: Caros is a Celtiberian chieftain leading the coalition during the second war, Viriato is Viriathus, a famous Lusitanian war leader who resisted Roman hegemony and finally Indibil is a chieftain of the Ilergetes, an Iberian people from the North-Eastern part of the peninsula. Therefore, only one of the three heroes is properly Iberian. The regular units are also making direct reference to other people with the skirmisher called “Lusitano Ezpatari” (which means Lusitanian swordsman but whatever), “Kantabriarko Zaldun” (Cantabrian cavalryman), the priestess of Ataekina/Ataegina (Ataegina was a goddess worshiped in the western part of the peninsula, probably a Lusitanian cult originally). There is also the “Leial Ezpatari” (loyal swordsman) which is a direct reference to the “devotio” reported by Romans to describe the vow of Celtiberian warriors to their patron/chieftain. There is also the issue that the chainmail body armor is used extensively by the units, while there is no evidence that the Iberians used it. It seems to have been adopted much later by a few Celtiberian and Lusitanian warriors, simply because those peoples have been subjugated after the Iberians. Both the wonder and the temple are based on the sanctuary of Cancho Roano, related to the Tartessian culture and abandoned around the 5th century BC. So, it is not purely Iberian, it depends on the interpretation of the Tartessian culture. It is a minor issue but I think it was important to mention it. For me, the problem with the current representation is that it is misleading. Players do not understand the differences between the various peoples mentioned, particularly the Lusitanians and the Cantabrians. Portraying them as an original component of the Iberians is awkward. Especially since it is historically confusing because the Lusitanians and Cantabrians appear quite late in the conflicts with Rome. Many wars between the Iberians and the Carthaginians and Romans never involved the Lusitanians or the Cantabrians. What are the possible solutions? 1. Clean up all foreign elements from the civilization and make it a purely Iberian civilization. This simply means removing and replacing assets. 2. Split the civilization into two or three. In particular, create a Lusitanian civilization and a Celtiberian civilization. This means removing and replacing assets for the Iberians. Then create new assets to make one or two other civilizations. 3. Keep the foreign elements within the Iberian civilization but separate them by having them appear in specific buildings, specific technologies, etc. to show that they belong to another culture neighboring the Iberians. My opinion Solution 3, keeping the foreign element but separating them and distinguishing them for the Iberian core, is the most compatible with the original vision of tonto_real (aka Ken Wood). It would also bring more diversity in the Iberian civ. We can for example add specific Lusitanian buildings to integrate them properly as allies, to distinguish them from the core roster. The effort is moderate.

The old 0 A.D. start screen/menu (alpha 6 Fortuna).

Hi @diagonalo! Thanks for your work on this mod. Since I recently worked on these panels for ModernGUI, I though I could try to see if they would be fit for your mod. @guerringuerrin also maybe wish to use or/and play around with these panels so this might help with a more minimalist mod to check out. In my version bellow there are a bunch more files modded there compared to the original mod for a26, however... You can see the changes bellow: BetterUIA27.zip

CallToArms unit action was meant to be usable in combination with the 'unit only' hotkey modifier. However it doesn't work anymore / never worked. I find CallToArms to be extremely useful, but when your units start attacking buildings, that can be very annoying. Most players I know remap the most hotkeys possible to avoid units attacking buildings in any circumstances. Here Is a mod I use to make CallToArms to by default attack units only. CallToArmsUnitsOnly.zip Note: This doesn't really fix the action, as it overwrite the default behavior entirely rather then fixing the original bug, however I'm sure no players ever want to use the normal attack-move that also make units attack buildings, so it's intended to simplify the hotkey usage.

WeirdJokes: 100 score - plays 0AD too long to be nub - late stage game changer - la viva cows - I love his german accent on jitsi - Non toxic person

MarcAurel: 100 Score - plays 0AD since last milennium or something - OP player ("the borg butcher") - gives me at least a small percentage of all the resources which I need ingame - helps the community a lot (moderator, tournament organizer, active forum member)

I don't think it necessarily says anything. It's interesting, sure. But there is noise here that limits it's usefulness. Notably, this doesn't account for differences in player skill for each civ. You would need to control for player differences to make real conclusions. It also obviously lacks any data for military strength. For example, I personally find ptol to be one of the stronger civs. But, in my perception, it isn't chosen by highly skilled players that often while it is frequently chosen by lesser skilled players. Many players using ptol also build settlements before min 13, which naturally slows down their eco boom, but may give them a strategic advantage that isn’t captured in the statistics I would also consider iber to be a decent to good civ. But whenever it is chosen it automatically boosts other civs too, especially gauls, because of it's team skirm bonus. So it's relative value is depressed.

This map is designed to be played in singleplayer/2 players. VI century b.C., Sparta and Argo, are competing for control of the Peloponnese. The other faction starts as neutral, but you can sign alliances by paying the right amount. The map is designed to enjoy hoplite battles and strategy, putting a side the building part of the game (the map is quite full of cities/minor settlement: is there Corinth, Olympia, Messene, Mantinea and various villages). I still have to manage some issues with uploading the map here, but for now I want some comments on it. Let me know.

That story reminded me this Credits again for https://www.instagram.com/0ad_memes_eae/?hl=es-la

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

I'm here to bring you exciting updates on my project, Mod World Rising! This week, I've been diving headfirst into developing new buildings, units, and technologies that will revolutionize the gameplay experience. Improved Units Units in the game will be enhanced with cutting-edge technologies, such as primitive weapons that replace the crude weapons made of wood, stone, and animal bones. With these technologies, your units will gain lethal new weapons! Furthermore, their protection will also be reinforced with advanced armor, making your units nearly invincible. General Evolution Even your hero, priests, and citizens will evolve over the ages, reflecting the progress and development of civilization. Buildings will also have an upgrade and evolution system through technologies, allowing you to build increasingly impressive structures. New Content This week, I created approximately 10 new buildings, developed new textures, and brought to life about 10 new units with variations. Additionally, I've implemented new technologies and tweaked textures for a more immersive experience. To top it all off, I've added new music that reflects the rich Asian culture. What's next? I look forward to sharing more news soon! Stay tuned to find out what else is coming to Mod World Rising!

I proudly present my first game modification I've replaced the weird Hellenic infantry spearman portrait (found here) with a more aesthetically pleasing one (just a previous icon, really): Here is how it looks in-game: Now, let's see if I can replace that ugly old Barracks portrait. And maybe fix some bugs by backporting code to this version. EDIT: I've replaced the icons for both Barracks and the Roman Army Camp. Alpha 9 used Fortress portrait as a placeholder for the camp. EDIT2: Persian Barracks and stable portraits also backported. It's already much nicer to look at.

Because when 0ad was designed that was the trend and that was the last of the series with some setting in ancient times. Also some of the artists were AoM heaven modders.

Good News, I have a gaming PC now. I bought an Radeon RX 550 2gb, I´m very happy right now!

After unimaginatively grepping the credits [12] is:

To underline, the the CS, which cost 2000 in res, defeated the fana, which cost 1540 in res. The fana also cost more food, the slowest resource to gather, than the CS, so the 1540 vs 2000 res comparison understates how CS were fairly close in price and the below example shows it even more because that example has fana as more expensive. Moreover, the fana player had to build multiple temples, which cost adds extra cost and time, while the CS army was built those 20 units several minutes before the fana player even went p2. Consider that the CS player could easily push the fana player before this or get upgrades with those extra res cost and it is hard to imagine how anyone thinks fana are OP unless you let the fana player spam them or try to fight them with cav

Atualização do Projeto: Novidades e Progresso! Boa noite, pessoal! Depois de um tempo distante por motivos pessoais, estou de volta com grandes novidades para compartilhar! O projeto avançou bastante, e trago aqui os principais destaques: Novas Construções e Mecânicas: Torres de Vigia: Agora é possível posicionar unidades dentro delas! Quem ataca são as próprias unidades, não a torre — trazendo mais estratégia à defesa. Muralhas e Estruturas Inéditas: Implementei as primeiras muralhas e novas construções, expandindo as possibilidades de defesa e urbanização. Unidades e Tecnologias: Unidades Exclusivas: Crie novas unidades desbloqueadas conforme a evolução do seu povo. Balanceamento Completo: Revisei todos os status de unidades e construções para garantir uma jogabilidade equilibrada. Tecnologias Organizadas: Adicionei diversas tecnologias novas e estruturadas por fases. Progresso das ERAs: ERA 1 (Pedra Lascada): 100% concluída! Todas as tecnologias e construções da cultura Jomon estão prontas e funcionais. ERA 2 (Pedra Polida): 75% finalizada — faltam apenas algumas tecnologias e ajustes em construções. Desafios Atuais: Portões: Estou resolvendo os problemas nas animações de abertura/fechamento . Evolução de Unidades: Algumas tecnologias de promoção ainda causam travamentos ( em correção ). Logo e Divulgação: Trabalhando em um logo animado e na criação de um canal no YouTube/redes sociais para compartilhar o desenvolvimento. Confira as Imagens! Abaixo, algumas prévias do que foi feito. Adoraria ouvir feedback, dúvidas ou sugestões de vocês nos comentários! Muito obrigado pelo apoio, e em breve trarei mais atualizações! Observação: Se alguém tiver experiência em animação de otimização ou otimização de tecnologias , dicas aceitas!

Almost every time you post a complaint it is because some unit/feature makes your Carth merc cav rush weak. Better players disagree. Not all cav requires metal. Others have given you examples on how fana can be countered but you just ignore it and repeat your same complaints. This doesn't really matter. Food is gathered more slowly and is also more vulnerable compared to metal. The only challenge with metal is that it sometimes runs out but that is less of a problem since the maps were redone to spam more metal. Games are rarely won because one side runs out of metal faster than the other, and when it does occur it is usually because the side running out of metal squandered their champs/mercs with a bad KD, which is the actual reason why they lost. Personally, I like that fana have different input costs because it allows for more diverse strategies. (@TheCJ: you aren't considering upgrades--metal and farms are both collected at the same rate without upgrades but food upgrades increase speed by 20% while metal upgrades increase speed by 25%. It nets out to where food is about 12% slower in p3 for most civs)

Food is the slowest resource to collect, easiest to interrupt, hardest to defend, and most difficult to relocate. If you regularly have too much food it’s because your economy is mismanaged. I agree with @Player of 0AD here. Fana don’t do particularly well in inf fights. But they shine in games where the enemy goes cav. If i know anything about Reza, he’s complaining because a handful of fana were able to easily defeat his much larger cav army. This is at least what happened last time I went fana against him.

Why would fanatics be OP? They are very expensive due to their high food cost. Also, temples are expensive and otherwise not as useful as a barracks. Fanatics have low armor and are not that fast. Also, if they would be OP, we would have seen them much more often.

sanafur: 99 +100pts for trying to make archers build works -100 pts for making archers when enemy is spamming champ cav +100pts is nice and teamworks -1pts cause he doesn't deserve perfect score

Against 1 very hard AI, all trees around the CC and even chicken preserved. All units including starting ones promoted. As of last save no death.

97 Score Is reasonable in discussions and likes my memes.

I love capturing as much infrastructure as possible. I even have an elite force to garrison those structures (my "tower guys", eight elite spearmen with a dedicated ctrl group.) For towers it helps consolidate your conquests and can also help eliminating roaming stragglers, saving you from searching for them. Barracks let me fill up my inf should I loose some, temples just because (and should I need a healing pause), and in most games (depending on the civ I RNGed) I use captured stables to ever increase my cav champs.

Release 28: Beta

Yes and no, It can give new players bad shackles with advice that is situational. Who will change these tips when the balance team decides to remake pikemen into tank unit? It is better for the player to discover his own strengths and weaknesses by instinct (reading statistics) and experience. ---- To determine the opponent's improvement progress and avoid memes (which are only identifiable by experienced players), we could consider a system of colors. stacked? Or a color system, for example, bronze, silver, and gold (this easily resonates with people). Tech 0: Grayed Tech 1: Bronze Tech 2: Silver Tech 3: Gold Tech 4 (Iberian and Maurya): Diamond To satisfy everyone, we have two display options accessible via a button: the arcade button with the bare minimum of vital information and the detailed button with the full list (stats and future idea like counter kill etc) example just for bronze color, but keep the design of 0AD of course

That's sad. But that problem has a solution. The moment it happens, you just collectively let a 4v1 on the cheater. Until he's out of the game, everyone is on cease fire.

Trying to check enemy’s military tech

Yeah i mean, only way i know to see units stats is right click on the unit portrait and u got a fixed position window which covers the whole center of the screen with every stats of the unit. Also If you want to know the military upgrades of your enemy you need to check their damage and do the maths to know how many upgrades they have ( yeah, I know you can memorize this stuff for every unit......) It's OK to have all this info here but we might want to have the Combat stats in a more accesible and direct way. boonGUI had something like that (which I think you ported to ModernGUI) on the bottom bar. Very useful. I share two other examples from SC2 and AOE2 boonGUI version got some combat stats here. aoe2 example. U got Damage + Damage Upgrades Melee Armor+Upgrades/Range Armor+Upgrades SC2 U got those stats portraits which are for Armor, Ground Damage, Air Damage, and the three 0s tells you the upagrades it have. Then If you want more detailed info you can hover your mouse and that green square displays Damage, Attack Types (2 in this case), Range, and so on. The "Armored - Mechanical - Massives"are for the unit classes, as some classes are more resistant against other classes and so on

I think this is one of those things that does not need to be universal/standard across civs.

I know you're tired of hearing it, but I feel I have to repeat it here once more: Using smurf accounts is a violation of the Terms of Use. If you encounter smurfs or players using duplicate accounts for other reasons, please report them to a lobby moderator.

My thinking on this one: farms are usually placed next to deposit sites already, and you build storehouses directly near the mines, for in these cases, you dont benefit from less time spent to return with gathered resources, in fact one can argue you introduce an indesirable delay in receiving the resources to your stockpile. I see these mainly as a boost to wood gathering, since the walking time to the storehouse increases over time as harvested trees disappear.

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You don't have enough melee. You also didn't snipe with those ranged units. Otherwise, it's an easy win for CS.

I've already given my opinion and I understand perfectly well that there is confirmation bias at work, so I'm not going to be a pain in the neck and start a crusade over such a minor detail. I'll let others debate if this is an important topic for them.

Who'd have thought that @diagonalo would do well here when the words are all just vertical-o and horizontal-o. Anyway, I think the missing words are still the main part of the challenge.

Yes, @Dakara The mod ensures the seed for map generation to be reset so you don't play always the same map when you have Persistant map settings enabled on Options and you play exactly the same settings again. Notice that if you change some of the map settings, like biome (this should be check) or size, the seed will be reset. But if you keep the things same as game before you will playing the same seed until the end of times. You just need to copypaste the .zip content into your mod's folder like \mods\ResetSeed I think you can also just copypaste the .zip like: \mods\ResetSeed.zip but im not sure

It's not that easy to display so much stats on limited space. I also disliked that units had stats that you cannot know unless you check the xml, such as the splash radius. I've just added a bunch more details to ModernGUI tooltips.

Sure. But we're talking vanilla. Com mod is also disliked for that reason, among others, so I don't see that being implemented. And, if it is then @guerringuerrin's complaints will be even more valid. This just leads to booming and turtling. Makes more sense to make an offensive tech be some place else. No reason to give turtling offensive advantages in addition to defense ones.

I never thought of it like that but you're right. I dislike it because it makes wtf much more unattainable--you have have resources to build a fort, you have actually build the fort, you lose eco time while building, then you have to research and wait for a very expensive tech. All my same complaints about wonders. Hoops just to have hoops to jump through. Agree. Although a lot of people just build a fort anywhere and it serves little strategic defensive purpose. This is especially true with current building AI/strength. Yeah. But there is not real reason for any of this other than being "different." All this could just as easily be put in any other existing buildings or new buildings all together. A more cohesive framework would be something like iber, a defensive civ, is the only civ to get heroes from the fort , a defensive building, while Rome, an offensive civ, could only get heroes from an army camp, an offensive building. Something else could be Mace being able to train it's siege hero from the siege factory while other heroes are trainable from the CC with longer train times. Right now, it just seems that the building any particular civ uses to train their heroes is random and without any actual purpose (aside from Sele that get heroes from CC more quickly than other civs can).

I really appreciate that you guys took the time to verbally appreciate my memes. I'll now make a few more, with a progressively declining standard of quality.