After 10 months of development, released version 3.4.0 release of the free real-time strategy game "Warzone 2100", in which some new functions, configuration improvements and some other things stand out.
Those unfamiliar with the game should know that it was originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and was released in 1999. In 2004, the original texts were released under the GPLv2 license and the game continued with community development.
The game is fully 3D, mapped on a grid. Vehicles move around the map, adjusting to uneven terrain, and projectiles can be realistically blocked by mounds and hills.
The camera moves floating in the air with a lot of freedom, being able to rotate and zoom. Everything is controlled by the mouse or the numeric keypad in the course of battle.
The game will offer us campaign, multiplayer and single player modes. In addition, we will be able to use an extensive technology tree with more than 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, it will allow us to have a great variety of possible units and tactics.
The user will command the forces of 'The project'in a battle to rebuild the world after humanity has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles.
Warzone 2100 supports single game against bots and network games and the packages are ready for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Windows and macOS.
What's new in Warzone 3.4 version 2100?
Compared to the previous edition, 485 changes were made of which stand out graphics and user interface improvements including a fade effect when launching games, smoother mouse rotation, smoother zoom, interpolate frames in animation, environmentally occlude terrain
As well the map scale is highlighted to make them smoother, and a new level of T4 technology has been added (all studies have been completed) and the BoneCrusher, Cobra and Nexus bots have been implemented.
This is also without neglecting the addition of fast and automatic recording functions, the ability to change any setting through the game's pause menu, and a built-in notification display widget.
Moreover, we can also find many translation improvements, campaign bug fixes and balance adjustments and too many other bug fixes.
Of the other changes that stand out from the new version:
- Frontend option to «continue with last save»
- Quick save function
- Auto save function
- Add - way to change most game settings with in-game pause menu
- Shortcut to exit to main menu after victory
- Randomization of the game options button in skirmish / multiplayer games
- Add support for changing the hosting map, game name and player name after it is already hosted
- OpenAL-HRTF mode configuration
- in-game notification widgets
- Add key combination settings for panoramic camera
- Add: BoneCrusher! AI, Cobra AI, Nexus AI (ported from original)
- Add: Right click on the AI slot to quickly copy it to all other AI slots
How to install Warzone 2100 on Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those who are interested in being able to install this game on their system, they should know that users of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, as well as any other derivative of these, will be able to install the game from the snap package, such as flatpak or the version available in the distribution repository.
In the case of the installation by Snap, just execute the following command
sudo snap install warzone2100
O for those who prefer to download the deb file for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
wget https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2100/releases/download/3.4.0/warzone2100_ubuntu18.04_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
wget https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2100/releases/download/3.4.0/warzone2100_ubuntu20.04_amd64.deb
And they install with:
sudo apt install ./warzone*.deb
Finally for those who prefer the Flatpak package:
flatpak install flathub net.wz2100.wz2100