In today's article we are going to take a look at Trigger Rally. This is a free and open source rally car driving game, that try to simulate those as well known as the Ford Focus of "Carlos Sainz" or the Mitsubishi Lancer of "Tommi Makkinen". After installing it, we will find a single-player racing game. This will be available for GNU / Linux and Windows.
With this application we will obtain a 3D rally simulation with a great physics engine for drifting. Will provide us more than 100 maps to play. It will also provide us with different terrain materials such as dirt, asphalt, sand, and ice among others, as well as various weather conditions such as light and fog that will give this rally simulation an extra point over others. free games of the same theme.
To play, you have to do it through the maps in the marked time limits. These times are often very tight so we can always try to improve even more to exceed the recorded scores. All available races must be finished in time to win the event, with which we will achieve unlock additional events and cars.
General characteristics of Trigger Rally
Low hardware requirements. Trigger Rally works well with less resourceful and underperforming teams. Let no one expect high-quality graphics or the like. If something like the snowflakes or the vegetation that we can see in the game demands a lot from our team, we will have the option to deactivate them in order to play more fluently.
Effects of weather, terrain physics or copilot voice are other cool features of the game. Most of the maps are equipped with spoken copilot notes and icons to help us while driving.
Un easy to modify game. The races are nothing more than XML files and textures so we can modify them to our liking. For this we can pull the following tutorial that they make available to us from the web page. We can also download other maps and events for the game, which are ready for download as plugins.
Tutorial map and XML reference available. most of configuration details for display and audio settings can be edited from the configuration file, which is plain text. We can open this file from the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and execute the following command with the editor that we like the most:
gedit ~/.trigger/trigger.config
The game has two modes, the first "window" and the second "full screen". This however does not mean that it can be configured during the game. There is no configuration option in it once it starts. To change it we will have to configure it in the file indicated above.
If someone wants to know more about this game, they can check all its features and requirements from their website.
Install Trigger Rally on Ubuntu and derived systems
In the most recent versions of Ubuntu (I have tried it in version 16.04 and it worked perfectly), Trigger Rally is available from the official system repositories. We will be able to install this game using the Program Center or using the command in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T):
sudo apt install trigger-rally
However, in old versions of the operating system, to install the game or if we want to be able to automatically receive future updates from it, we will have to install it from its corresponding PPA. For this we are going to use the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T). In it we will write the following orders:
If we still don't have it added the program repository, we will add it with the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:landronimirc/trigger-rally
At this point, we will update the package manager with the command:
sudo apt update
And now we can install the game using the following command:
sudo apt install trigger-rally
Uninstall Trigger rally
To uninstall this game from our operating system, we will only have to open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and write the following in it:
sudo apt remove trigger-rally && sudo apt autoremove
If you have added the repository to install the game and you no longer want it on your list, you can get rid of it by typing the following command in the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:landronimirc/trigger-rally
The game developers ask users who report bugs and potential feature requests using the ticket system from sourceforge.