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Enhancement to freehand formations: units now actually order themselves by distance, and don't cross each other's paths. Nice when microing ranged cavs. Before : After : Committed for integration in R29 too, as part of https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/pulls/8525 (use common sorting functions).

1100-1200: Pretty noob plays, always loses, except VS other noobs like him. 1300-1400: Can win if he really, really tries to, but still pretty noob. 1500-1600: Yeah, he is still a noob alright. Will lose a lot of 1v1 games, but win some 4v4s. 1700-1800: Finally starts winning some games, but it's still considered a noob by peers. 1800-2000+: A good player, someone who can be considered regular in 4v4s. 2000+: A literal God of 0 A.D., probably played the game since A17. As you can see, there is a fine line between being good and being a God here

I used chrome browser (instead of brave) to download the version 28 executable. I installed version 28 over version 27.1, without uninstalling version 27.1, now version 28 works. I don't understand why, but now it works. LOOOL Thank you very much ALL. Let's play !!

Screencast+from+2026-03-24+01-51-27.webm Would be nice along with some charging mechanics.

Yeah I probably should save some keystrokes but I'll repeat it again here: We are not ready for the influx of new players, on a forum/lobby moderation standpoint. We are not ready for the influx of new players with the current mod situation Regarding licensing we can't link with the steam api directly we would need to make a launcher. We haven't looked yet into the specific of submitting a cross platform game. We need to take what happened other games that did https://ftp.fau.de/fosdem/2020/K.3.201/gamedev_spring_steam.mp4 into account Regarding auto updates, the game is now on the Windows Store https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n5vvjr2dz9w?hl=fr-FR&gl=US which i believe supports it. I've merged this conversation with the other one.

So, uploaded DE r28 to mod.io tonight. It just needs to be approved. Thank you to all of the playtesters. There are still several things I could fix and improve for r28, but at some point you gotta move on to the next development cycle. Here's something I'm thinking of doing for Release 29 ( thanks to one of @vladislavbelov's latest pull requests):

I have a feeling steam wants 0AD on their platform, I doubt these recurrent posts are spontaneous gamers registering to make so nicely written comments, explaining the benefits it would have for an open source project.

@wowgetoffyourcellphone Scaled, changed proportions, the columns and the gate. I also added some more deco around the top and closed some supposedly "hidden" downward faces, because I could imagine a cutscene walking up the acropolis with the new camera path possibilities. The Nike sculptures are those from Athena Parthenos. temple_athena_nike.zip

The gaul trumpeters should make sound. I was just scrolling reddit on the trumpeters. Some user says it's somewhat altered and provides 3 other examples: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0eABuyDFXAM09jKd7MWPZh?si=vc-gGIsATEij3GbV-p0Ebg&t=1 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgk1p8xk7z7o https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU4spHMAM1H/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Improve the AI's personality rather then efficiency. Rather then a balanced army, make it so that they have a certain build in mind to play against you. Mass horseman, siege focused, spearman mania, ranger runner, champion gigachads build type of memes. The goal is to have fun rather then being competative all the time, as well as strategize many weird build to counter their army rather then booming, turtling and aggresive only, might as well introduce a new strategy called countering Sun-Tzu.

OH YEAH BRIDGE ME DADDY

storehouse and farmstead technologies apply only to civilians. thoughts?

I'm updating the mod this weekend. I hope to finish soon, so it will be available for the community to use and update Mod.io. https://github.com/0ADMods/aristeia

We currently calculate paths immediately for only 40 units, while the remainder figure out their path in time for the next turn. What this means unfortunately is that the remaining units have to stop for a whole turn and then accelerate from 0 m/s. Screen Recording 2026-03-28 195209.mp4 Instead, we can let units continue on their previous path so that they don't stop and have to re-accelerate. The downside here is that units will continue in the wrong direction a little if you tell them to make a 180 degree turn. Screen Recording 2026-03-28 194829.mp4 There are probably better long-term solutions, like giving large selections a really quick and dirty "guess" path before calculating the new paths. seem like an upgrade?

I'd really love to make them work like the Einherjar character from AOM.

This would 100% improve single player experience. We can also make the AI focus on certain units in future campaign scenarios, similar to how other RTS games have done it. Example, you would have 3 AI opponents and each opponent will focus on his own unique army. So, the player will have to adjust to 3 different armies at once and choose wisely which army to defeat first.

I’ve been happily testing modernGUI for R28, and this feature in particular is for me a huge improvement to the gameplay. Previously (or currently in vanilla R28), units were re-sorted based on their production age. And as someone who likes to use freehand formations in combat, I’ve lost countless units when, while retreating into a freely drawn U-shape around the enemy's army, some units ran straight across enemy fire to the other side of the arc instead of taking the logically shortest route to the next position into the drawn formation. Plus, the movements look much more natural now. Great work. I'd love to see this on R29

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Ah my bad It's an A27 mod signed for R28 --' Shouldn't do too much when I'm tired EDIT: Fixed.

Cause it doesn't change anything until it's live. if life gets in the way or it is never finished, then it's as good as not being done. Initial work on that started years ago...

OK I played 1v3 against very hard AI and it was easy for me. Case closed. metadata.jsoncommands.txt

I was wondering literally today why they overlap in the first place! this will be nice to have @Atrik I believe you used the wrong link for the pull request

You are good enough for TGs and I know how to balance you. That's all that matters.

after the ai bubble bursts,hopefully the prices come down enough for crowdfunded people like WFG to get smth like it

Anything that can prevent an update from running needs to go; if there's a question along the way that's fine, but the dialog should point out the potential downsides. Right now I don't think the game is very good at that. If a user agrees to keep the settings/config that's nice, but I believe our default approach at uninstalling should be "Thanks for trying us out, we will now delete anything without a trace". Wouldn't want all kinds of apps leaving dead files behind.

More background images.

Currently the keywords are somewhat inaccurate. I suppose if you play enough 0ad it could become a lifestyle.

This needs a custom decal and a new ao without the plants. It's a little dark inside so I'll try to bake it without the roof. Would you make a pull request then@wowgetoffyourcellphone? I can't really follow, the proportions are looking fine to me? I can add details to the back but I'm afraid it might look overcrowded.

Yep. I think the Parthenon could use that treatment too. And Greek docks.

I've seen several posts that suggest that the current Petra is too difficult, after my changes to its behaviour. My question is, should I make new PRs to nerf it Also what about creating more granular difficulty levels? For example we can lower the very easy to even lower and add some more extreme levels. Currently the only cheat of Petra is in terms of eco. We can give the extreme levels other cheats such as bonus to atk, unit hp, building hp, unit movement speed, training time discount, projectile accuracy, armour, price discount...

asia.xmlasia.pmp This map has 1024x1024 size. The first step was to add rivers correctly without geo-reference. I used this guide: Rivers are intentionally not crossable to make the map strategically more captivating so there are some bridges that are strategically pivotal. For biome assignment I started from a coarse reference map: and then I refined it zone by zone with Koppen-Geiger classification: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koppen-Geiger_Map_v2_Asia_1991–2020.svg For fauna and flora, I used Claude AI as a lookup tool: I sent screenshots of the entities available in the game and asked it to match them to each biome and region. The results below reflect that process, with occasional liberties where the asset library has no close equivalent. For more infos: https://github.com/Baelish03/0ad-maps/blob/main/docs/Asia.md I attach .xml and .pmp files here and I will update mods on mod.io as soon as possible

1984 "big brother" was actually Petra all along

Even that one cheat is enough, when combined with all-seeing eye of the AI. We don't need more. I am actually fine with the difficulty of AI. Medium AI should play like a half-competent player, that's the point. It's just a fair challenge without any bonuses. People just got used to weak AI in the past releases, so they will have to adjust their strategy. Proper booming is now a hard requirement to beating the Medium AI, and players need to learn how to do that. It should be nearly impossible to beat the AI 1vs2, otherwise the AI is very weak. Honestly, it's boring to always curb-stomp the AI without a challenge. People need good introduction to the meta, and your changes to the AI achieve that well.

WHY DO YOU SAY SUCH A BIG THING SO NONCHALANTLY?

No, medium AI is fine. It's about the level a somewhat competent player can beat consistently after 1-3 tries. AI can be made easier by decreasing how many units they produce (e.g. Very Easy AI stops producing units when it hits 1/4 of max population), and only advancing to Town Phase / City Phase when the majority of human player clicked on the update. Giving units / buildings bonuses to their combat stats is a terrible idea. It makes it virtually impossible to learn the game. You cannot learn to gauge the strength of your opponent's army, and learn how strong different unit classes are if AI units "behave" differently. Discounts seem pointless when you already have an eco bonus. The only one that looks acceptable is training time discount.

this scale is okayish as well but it seems a bit too generous. in your scale you assume them a bit better than I do,which is close enough to be still almost same as mine

but if i were a host doing TG i would judge rating like as follows: <1000 as useful as maginot line in WW2 (complete new,as useful as a tiny roadbump) <1200 knows how to get full pop at some point <1300 can get 200 pop at min 17 with a few forge upgrades <1400 mature enough to play the "elite" TG if hes lucky. can get 200 pop in 15 mins and all forge upgrades in 17, but dumb at choosing what fights to take,how to fight in a battle,that (actual fight) sort of thing <1500 has enough IQ to understand what is rushing and how to play with/against it pretty well. has eco good enough to reach 200 pop before min 12 and all forge upgrades in min 15, can be officially considered as a "strong player" in most TG games these days <1600 old enough player to know what is OP,what is gimmicky,what works great in a given specific situation, what is bad asf, and etc. <1700 knows the very rarely known things (e.g what type of army to make against a certain civ, what kind of resources your particular civ takes up a lot, how to heal heroes at giga fast speeds without any temple) and knows how to play atleast one civ perfectly well, in the best way that civ can be played tactically 2000+ right now = vinme,vali,borg,wolf

Obviously, but the truth is that...

We have added more diversity and complexity in our version of an "Expansion" Classical Warfare AEA! That's one of the reasons the project was started. @Grautvornix I wasnt able to edit and add in your quote as well But there is already a mod (plenty actually) out there that add variety and complexity.

It's buggy but there is a setting for this to happen. Options > Game Session > Formation control > No override

Thanks, I knew it! And sorry for the change in topic..... There was a lot of discussion in the past if walls protect at all except against direct access, i.e. they block movement but nothing else.As a consequence, you should ideally build your walls around your buidings/troops at a distance that exceeds enemy firing range (might cost a lot of stone). Would it be possible to provide walls with an aura that reduces firing range by some margin? (from any side, except if positioned on that wall)

Yeah I've updated the scripts and ported that mod to test. I need to publish 28.1 on mod.io

Git is trolling me again. Wanted to PR this fix for rally points errors. rally.diff @Stan` thanks for the port.

They shouldn't be deleted automatically. The uninstaller needs to ask the user if he/she wants to remove the config and data files. Maybe the user will want to install the game later, so preserving config is beneficial.

That long Sorry for the delay, should be fixed now (thx for the report) glad people are using it.

I think they should be deleted, so I suggest to change it.

Sounds like something is cooking for the community mod

De is now available through mod.io