Game 0 AD is updated with numerous improvements

Although Linux is not the preferred system for gamers, some gems like AD 0 They have a multiplatform development that allows us to enjoy them in our favorite environment. 0 AD is a free and open-source game for multiple operative systems on historical wars and economic management that, while still under development, reaches its alpha 21 version and includes interesting new features.

Among the improvements that should be highlighted, is the inclusion of a new faction as is the Seleucid Empire, which was in force between 312 and 63 BC and new game modes that will provide a good number of hours to enjoy this title.

Codenamed «Ulysses», the game 0 AD, regarded as the "spiritual heir" of the famous saga of real-time strategy games Age of Empires, it is updated with numerous improvements towards an upcoming beta version that, we hope, will arrive in a very short time. At the moment the game leaves us very good feelings by improving the following aspects:

• Eleven new campaign maps and 2 skirmishes.
• New faction in the game, the Selucids, where all its units are included: barracks, wonders, markets, blacksmith shops, docks, libraries, corrals, walls, military colonies, and so on.
• New game modes as Heroicide / Regicide, where we will start our game with a hero and we will lose if he dies at some point in it.
• Victory for Wonders: From now on it is possible to set a victory time for Wonder. Thus, if the counter is set to 0, the player will win the game as soon as he builds a wonder. Other possibilities range from 1 to 120 minutes, allowing time for other opponents to destroy them before declaring victory.
• Last man standing mode: in this game mode only one player can be victorious, and it is that temporary alliances must be forged between all participants to be able to fight against the same opponent. As is logical, as the game progresses the difficulty increases since at any moment it is possible that the alliances are consolidated to defeat you. This game mode is compatible with the previous options indicated.
• All units have been balanced again for a more adequate balance of forces.
• Hereinafter, all buildings and units in the game can be upgraded.
• The configuration has been entered possibility of using arbitrary UDP ports for both hosting and players. This will avoid many inconveniences if your Internet providers perform any type of filtering on the traffic.
• They have also been made game interface improvements, such as providing general information about the games in multiplayer mode and new information windows where the objectives set in each game are described.

Of course, in this new version numerous detected bugs have been fixed and there have been other minor improvements that are not noteworthy. Even being in alpha version, the game is fully playable with some functions yet to be implemented. You can download it and check your successful graphics and his music, very rich and elaborate. Also includes a powerful map editor.

Some bugs detected at the moment in this version they are related to the use of very large maps, troop formations are disabled and there are some other lag when units are shifted. The game supports almost any contribution, be it at the level of programming, art, sound, documentation, etc.

Game installation

With very light requirements, for Linux environments we find the following:

• Processor: Intel 1 GHz Intel or x86 compatible
• Conference proceedings: At least 512 MB of RAM.
• Graphic card: Anyone that supports OpenGL 1.3 with 3D acceleration via hardware (eg Radeon 9000, GeForce 3 or similar) and at least 128MB of memory.
• Decision: at least 1024 x 768.

To install the game on Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 16.04, like Linux Mint 18, you can make use of its own PPA repository by adding it to your system. To do this, enter the following commands through the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad

sudo apt update

sudo apt install 0ad

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