Release 28 Branch

[Atrik]

4 minutes ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

I went with Humans to make it clear that it doesn't affect buildings or siege.

Ah yes true, ideally it would also need to point out what classes it affects.

[ffm2]

Just as a suggestion, maybe call "Human sacrifice" of the seeres miasma or disease spreading or so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory

This would differentiate it from the tech "sacrificial ritual" and maybe make it clear that its something hostile (towards enemies).

But just to state my opinion / thoughts.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

@ffm2 we are past the string freeze, so changes to the description can't be made for R28. They can certainly be improved down the road tho.

[Gönndolsalv]

Another minor issue with the AppImage is that when you try to connect to a local game and it doesn't work, the game doesn't exit the Connecting to a game window.

You can always click 'Cancel' and try again.

Should I create an issue for that on Gitea? Is that description enough?

[Vantha]

40 minutes ago, Gönndolsalv said:

Should I create an issue for that on Gitea? Is that description enough?

Generally yes. But in this case, there is already an open issue tracking this: https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/8328

[ffm2]

On the Formation control "No override" setting: Is this now actively decided that it shall be in r28? I noticed it's still in there.

I'd vote against it if there would be a vote.

The highest effect of formations are currently at the mining and capturing. And it makes no sense. It doesn't require much skill. The player only needs to know there's a weird setting and then set the units at the mines on a formation. Like you just need to set "fast mining".

 

[Atrik]

I agree that it make things a bit weird. For capture also I don't like that currently, if for example you surround a building with walls/palisades, a tiny breach is enough for the enemy to fit 80 units capturing. 
However that would hold true if capture stay at is, which won't be the case. Next release you just ring the bell and females will be enough to prevent enemy from capturing. Back to the meta where nothing happens before min 15.... 

[phosit]

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

Two languages where added and some issues are fixed. Among them an issue in the new Germans' sandbox map.
While there are hopefully no new ones introduced.

[Gurken Khan]

On 04/12/2025 at 6:41 PM, phosit said:

There is a new RC

Got nothing to report after playing it. Except that I still think ""Neareastern" Badlands" is still a poor map name.

 

[fabio]

Tried the rc1 appimage, it is working fine, but there is an issue with Italian locale.

If I select Italian, the game still run in English. I also tried espanol and it is properly in spanish. So, the issue is just for Italian.

[Stan`]

5 minutes ago, fabio said:

Tried the rc1 appimage, it is working fine, but there is an issue with Italian locale.

If I select Italian, the game still run in English. I also tried espanol and it is properly in spanish. So, the issue is just for Italian.

Any errors ?

[phosit]

51 minutes ago, Gurken Khan said:

I still think ""Neareastern" Badlands" is still a poor map name.

We can't do that in string freeze. A PR for the next release would be welcome.

[hyperion]

1 hour ago, fabio said:

Tried the rc1 appimage, it is working fine, but there is an issue with Italian locale.

If I select Italian it works, just that the amount of translated strings seems very low. <- @Dunedan

[Obelix]

1 hour ago, phosit said:

A PR for the next release would be welcome.

For the moment I just created Issue #8590 over there.

[Gurken Khan]

1 hour ago, phosit said:

A PR for the next release would be welcome.

Definitely. As I don't know how to do that I'll just bring the topic up once a year.

[Dunedan]

2 hours ago, fabio said:

Tried the rc1 appimage, it is working fine, but there is an issue with Italian locale.

If I select Italian, the game still run in English. I also tried espanol and it is properly in spanish. So, the issue is just for Italian.

What about other languages than those two? What's the language you use for your operating system?

[Genava55]

[Dunedan]

12 hours ago, fabio said:

If I select Italian, the game still run in English.

We've figured out in the meantime that this is caused by vandalism of the Italian translation and we're working on fixing that.

[Itms]

10 hours ago, Genava55 said:

 

 

Yeah this will be fixed no worries.

[fabio]

I also got some:

WARNING: PlayerID 2 |   petra.findOverseaLand on a non-naval map??? we should never go there

Replay is attached.

metadata.json

commands.txt

[ervincypert]

Can i help in testing?

[Gönndolsalv]

sure, just download the newest release candidate for your system here:

https://releases.wildfiregames.com/rc/

If you find a problem this is how you report it:

https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/wiki/ReportingErrors

[Dunedan]

On 07/12/2025 at 7:52 AM, Dunedan said:

We've figured out in the meantime that this is caused by vandalism of the Italian translation and we're working on fixing that.

The Italian translation should be fixed now, so starting with the next nightly build and release candidate translations for Italian should show up properly again.

[Stan`]

Thank you for taking care of it.

[fabio]

In the past I remember a map filter for "new maps", but I cannot see it in 0.28-rc1. Are there no new maps in this release or the filter is just missing?