ab604d No.14606768
>What is 0 A.D.?
0 A.D. is a free as in freedom, open source game, inspired by Age of Empires 2. It's avaible for Windows, OSx, GNU/Linux and BSD
>Why should I care?
Because it's one of the few good FREE games, it promotes historical accuracy, it's fun to play, it has multiplayer and anyone can contribute to the game, for example if you're an historian you can check the accuracy of the civilizations, propose and help create new ones of the time period, if you can program you can help the team or create a mod yourself, if you have 3D modeling skills you can create new models for the game, etc… without having to ask permission to anyone. The game has a free p2p multiplayer.
>Why do you posted it in this board?
To BTFO all the "hurr durr there is no gayming or leenooks!!!!!".
Personally, I'm not affiliated to the team, but I think the development would be faster if more people play and contribute. Also, it would be nice to have more opponents in multiplayer.
https://play0ad.com/
5f7c7b No.14606783
What's the difference between this and regular AoE?
ab604d No.14606787
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>14606783
0 A.D. is completely free, both as free beer and as in freedom. Meaning you can create mods, that could even get included in the original game.
The graphic is 3d, not isometric, and it's more historical accurate. The game started as a remake of AoE II but now it's completely different
11920b No.14606790
i've tried this and it's fun, but it runs pretty poorly
>>14606783
it's open source
other than that, it's minor differences in how you use your units
most noticable is that you can use some military units to build buildings, similar to civilian units
you also take over buildings instead of destroying them, but the opponent can choose to raise them if he thinks he won't be able to take them back later
ab604d No.14606791
>>14606790
It also fixes the good old AoE retardness, like stone walls on fire etc..
You can also send your soldiers on top of the walls to act as guards
5f7c7b No.14606795
Just done watching one of their video. I'm more interested in the tech trees. Anything new besides the technology trade-off they mentioned?
ab604d No.14606799
>>14606795
Every civilization has different units. There's no more "spearmen, pikemen, champions" etc.
Also it kinda depends from the civilizations, spartans have the possibility to create Spartiates, which are basically a mix between AoE II Teutonic knights and huskarls
c0e4d5 No.14606948
>>14606790
>it's open source
Not only open source, it's actually Free (as in freedom) and released under GPL.
bb2fee No.14607821
Apparently this was all started back in 2000 with the original AoE team wanting to create a new open mod platform, so this is mostly from the original AoE team?
2cb676 No.14607935
>>14606790
> but it runs pretty poorly
Bummer I may be SOL- I'm on a meh range laptop. If it runs I'd love to play with some Anons. I'd also be happy to donate to help the project since it's right up my alley.
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f17398 No.14608252
>>14606768
Oh fuck! I always wanted a modern day remake of aoe. Thanks OP, you weren't a fag for once.
986067 No.14608268
>>14608252
You're picking up the slack for him
0c9303 No.14608464
>p2p multiplayer
So I can DoS my opponent if I'm losing? Sweet, downloading now
087982 No.14609428
>>14606768
Did they ever fix the god-awful pathing algorithms that make a game with 2008-era graphics run like Crysis on a Pentium .?
ffb624 No.14609499
>>14609428
Apparently not. After a while it run like garbage at 20-40fps on an i5-4690k and R9 290
a7d8c5 No.14610400
>>14610340
Nice taste in anime/manga anon, though Gash's anime adaption is shiit, though i guess I should say manga/hope you've read the manga
0f5de9 No.14610435
>>14610400
That's about the best part of the adaption since Wakamoto voiced him, I don't think Toei's bothered wasted any money on anime adaptions since One Piece went widescreen..
a7d8c5 No.14610461
>>14610435
Nah, the best part of the anime adaption was the OST and song scenes: It's the one thing that did the manga justice.
Thankfully, some guy made videos showing the key scenes from the manga version of the faudo arc and clear arc with the anime OST playing as if it had gotten animated, which are pretty cool. They got taken down from youtube though, but I still have copies, which can be found in this zip here alongside a bunch of other shit, such as archives of the threads from when I dumped the whole manga on halfchan years ago
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0S_DLYOHozJcHRZSVpsYmhBdFk/view?usp=sharing
I should update this with more fanart I found and shit since then, really
ab604d No.14611126
35f6a6 No.14611214
>>14611126
How do I turn it off?
4161f5 No.14611429
The game is pretty good but it suffers from slowdown in anything that isn't a 1v1 from my experience. I'm keeping an eye on it, the devs update pretty frequently.
378e3d No.14611749
Are there any tutorials for this game?
011893 No.14612594
How's the singleplayer content these days? Will it ever get proper campaigns with some static narration screens at least? I hate people and am unlikable so no multiplayer games for me.
1f9621 No.14612597
Did they ever fix the game shitting itself when you had more than 50 villagers?
ab604d No.14616170
378e3d No.14617146
>>14611749
nvm, found it. It's hidden among the scenarios.
e5f2f4 No.14617470
>0 A.D. is a free as in freedom, open source game
The fact that you have to include that as part of your pitch for the game, and in fact that it's the first thing you say about it, suggests the game itself is probably crap and you expect us to support it purely for ideological reasons.
4786ef No.14617496
>>14617470
>people need to have strong ideologies to be attracted to the word "free"
You must have been born yesterday.
743684 No.14617598
>>14606791
>stone walls on fire
nigger that was cool as shit, fuck you
I also don't remember stone walls ever being on fire unless you're referring to castles, stone walls just fell into increasing amounts of damage
9ab09e No.14617609
Looks neat. I was never much into these games, but I might try this one.
a3582d No.14617631
Any anon willing to play multiplayer with me?
Playing against bot is 2hard4me
a7d8c5 No.14622885
>>14617627
The first image there with the Aztec buildings made me think: Is 0AD going t have the civilizations from the Americas at that time period?
500BC is right around when Mexico started to really have a lot of actual urban, state socities rather then just indivual proto-state cities, and 500 AD is right in the middle of the Classical perod when the Maya, Teotihaucan, Zapotec, etc were around at their height.
4786ef No.14623235
>>14622885
So far it's first-century Europe and Mediterranean.
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a7d8c5 No.14623957
>>14623937
Why not, you got shit taste or something?
>>14623235
Well, if I can do
> if you're an historian you can check the accuracy of the civilizations, propose and help create new ones of the time period,
For those regions, and have limited 3d modelling skills, could I feasibly contribute to adding them in? How many people are there that have programming skiills that help out with stuff like that?
4871b6 No.14624061
>>14623957
You actually like that?
6b3bfe No.14624776
well it runs at 15-18 fps for me, but it's still fun
anyone want to try multiplayer?
romans are best, fite me
8fec38 No.14624796
>>14624061
>implying there's anything wrong with pre-columbian american civilizations
0a7832 No.14624821
The one thing I like about this game is that you can set the resolution to anything you want and it'll still work. I'd love to try it on a 4k screen.
>>14623957
I've played around with the scenario editor and their website seems to have decent information on modding or adding assets.
I wanted to add a more modern army and it looks like the devs had the same idea. Select a building that trains units, hit enter, type in 'how do you turn this on?' and hit enter again to get a WW2 fighter plane.
8dbb6e No.14624865
>>14606768
>0 A.D.
>promotes historical accuracy
>Carthage still exists as faction after 146 B.C.E
>Ptolemaic Kingdom is a faction after 30 B.C.E.
>Any Greek factions between 146 B.C.E and 312 A.D.
>Gauls have a faction after 50 B.C.E.
Seriously, what are you doing? Change the name or change the factions. I imagine the former is easier.
6b3bfe No.14624963
so whats the meta gameplan here?
in aoe it's usually 20 minutes of setting up economy and occasionally sending raiding parties, after which you just start spamming town centers and whatever troops you can muster
here i can't decide whether i want to waste wood just so my workers can defend themselves
4786ef No.14625004
>>14624061
What's wrong with it?
375bdc No.14625018
>>14624963
Build comfy cities and watch them get fucking sacked.
Also, why is wood so god damn hard to accumulate? Do I really need a dedicated lumberyard separate from my other shit or am I just retarded?
129384 No.14625031
>>14624865
thanks autismo
>>14606768
looks fun, I''ll give it a try
01b410 No.14625069
>(((free))) game
what's the catch here
are they trying to steal my cp?
Don't trust this shit
6b3bfe No.14625150
well i beat the ai, i no longer feel like i can have fun with this
battering rams are incredibly overpowered, two of them and you pretty much annihilate his town
all you have to do is turtle until you can build a fortress, after that as long as you can sustain an army of around 30 you're solid
battering rams pretty much make taking over buildings obsolete
d1da73 No.14625174
>>14625069
You can build it from source you nigger. It's free as in libre.
26b30c No.14625193
Very nice, I remember playing an alpha version in like 2011 or so.
4786ef No.14625280
>>14625150
Sounds like the trebuchets from AoE2.
6b3bfe No.14625296
>>14625280
no, see those can easily be killed by melee units
here the battering rams are pretty much the heavily armored ones from aoe2, maybe even beefier
ranged units stand no chance of destroying them, melee units can do it but you need like 7-10 of them in order to do it fast enough
a7d8c5 No.14628207
>>14624061
Yes, the region's history, politics, society, and especially their urban design is all really, really interesting.
They are basically a Bronze to iron age tier set of civilizations that developed entirely independently, and it's really interesting to learn about how much they have in common with the egyptians, greeks, etc, and how much they are so utterly alien at the same time.
(All of what I've posted is stuff from the time period that this game covers, btw)
>>14624796
>>14625004
He probably fell for the "they were all tribes in a jungle" meme.
>>14624821
Right, but I mean, how much of the community is actually idle willing to work on project proposals/the devs to add new core content like new civilizations?
d10599 No.14628369
>>14624865
>replay history from 500 BC to 500 AD
0a7832 No.14628437
>>14628207
This game has been in development for almost 20 years now, it's been very slow thanks to horrendous state of Linux gaming but development has been constant. They have enough funds and momentum to do another 20 easily.
Checking out their forums someone already made a thread about what an Aztec faction would be like. That forum is a disaster to navigate through, their entire site feels like it's stuck in a bubble from 10 years ago. I'm guessing that like most of these types of projects 99% of their communications happens on IRC.
Looking for a mod to try out and the only one I can find hosted on their site is some MyLittlePony shit. And a whole lot of worthless threads made by idea guys.
a7d8c5 No.14628886
>>14628437
>Aztecs
>500BC to 500AD
6b3bfe No.14628916
so anyone want multiplayer?
i'm easily cheesing the AI, but the multiplayer lobby is too high skill for me
4786ef No.14635897
Does anyone know how to connect segments of wall that are built a different times?
6b3bfe No.14636391
>>14635897
either start or finish at a wall tower, they snap onto it
but if it's just a wall, instead of a wall tower, i don't think you can link that to anything
292117 No.14636674
>>14617496
All games are free. "muh open source / free as in freedom" is for the kind of autists that unironically put linux on their computers.
4786ef No.14636703
>>14636674
Is there a way to ironically install linux?
1d1a43 No.14636736
>>14636703
Yeah it's called Windows Subsystem for Linux
66ce8e No.14636828
>replay history from 500 BC to 500 AD
>Iberians is one faction
>not dozens of tribes with completely unique cultures and language
I really hope mods become a regular thing for this game so we can get at least the same amount of factions as Rome 2 Total War.
cbd65d No.14636936
>>14636828
This. I want to wreck stuff with lusitanian horsemen.
cf056c No.14636978
>>14636736
t. Someone salty, that GNU/NT works better than GNU+Linux
4786ef No.14637038
>>14636828
I'm hoping a lot more gets done with the factions. Aside from Iberians that make more sense, I'd also like to see the Greeks broken down into Dorians, Ionians, Aeolians, and Lacedeamonians instead of how they are now. I'd also like to see etruscans and babylonians added.
4786ef No.14637851
Have to admit this is pretty comfy.
ab604d No.14638240
>>14637038
The greek factions you presented didn't exist in the game time frame
ab604d No.14638243
>>14637851
Are you playing as a fucking poo?
4786ef No.14638259
>>14638240
Yes they did.
>>14638243
Yes I am.
7295cc No.14638318
>>14624865
>BCE
What is that? Before Charles Edinburg?
7295cc No.14638320
>>14636736
Why does it have that name anyway?
It should be called Linux Subsystem for Windows.
e416db No.14638328
>>14638318
>>14628347
Before Christ Existed
cc983f No.14638544
>>14638318
B.C.E. is Before Common Era. Anno Domini/Before Christ is uninclusive and problematic, so we found another term that conveniently matches the life of Jesus.
a7d8c5 No.14639636
>>14637038
Was babylon even still around by 500BC?
4786ef No.14640945
>>14639636
Yes. And they enjoyed a great deal of autonomy under the Persian Empire until their first uprising.
ab604d No.14643069
>>14638259
No they didn't.
acd08f No.14643123
>>14643069
Yes they did. Herodotus wrote his historians in the middle of the fifth century BC and he was a Dorian. So how can you say Dorians didn't exist? Lacedeamonian is the more correct term than Spartan and would include that entire country. Athenians were among the Aeolians, so why not include that entire culture instead of the one city? And while the majority of the Ionians were subjugated by the Persians, many Ionian islanders maintained their autonomy, including the Samians.
6b51da No.14643139
>>14624865
It's not historically accurate, 0 ad isn't a year, it went from 1 bce to 1 ad, it's about getting cultures from within a timeframe who would never have met into a single setting, It's on their website ffs.
>>14638544
That shit is retarded as well, it's a completely irrelevant value, it should start at the point where we stopped being nomadic.
acd08f No.14643150
>>14643139
>there was a single point where humans all stopped being nomadic
Some people still are nomads, brah.
6b51da No.14643488
>>14643150
I never implied there was a single point, but around the time settlements started to prop up and agriculture started to come around for even the first few groups that used it, I guess it would be hard pinpointing such an event but it beats an arbitrary year only relevant to an arbitrary religion.
753717 No.14643590
>>14617470
>really
Spoken like a true nigger, anon. Being open source means you can literally do anything with it, modding-wise.
753717 No.14643607
>>14636674
So what you're saying is you fell for the Gentoo meme and ended up failing to install Ubuntu?
acd08f No.14643698
>>14643488
The entire human race is arbitrary.
But, regardless, it's a system that has been in place and used by historians for 2000 years now. The dates of every significant historical event has been recorded under this numbering system in every book and every newspaper in the western world for 2 millennia. It is hard-wired into our culture. It would take the utter annihilation of western civilization to do away with this year-numbering system, unless there was some impetus by some special interest for some reason. But it would take so much overhauling and rewriting and re-educating over something so minor that the act of changing the system now would be more arbitrary than the system itself, which is why no group has ever had the motive to push for it.
6b51da No.14643927
>>14643698
>the entire human race is arbitary
But the way we keep date isn't, it's completely relevant to humans, except the system we use for dating years, that's only relevant to an arbitrary religion. We should change our calendar to one that better represents major periods in human achievement, and religion is not one of them, language is, tools are, settling down is. I'm not calling for an instant change but a gradual change to a system that better represents human achievement over religious belief, changing dates isn't hard, other cultures have changed to our current calendar because it won out, but that doesn't mean we should just rest there, other cultures used different measurements for weight/distance/volume, but those have changed to the imperial and then metric system slowly over time, now a new calendar system isn't anywhere near as important over relevant standardization like the metric system, but it's something that should be changed to better represent humans as a whole.
>utter annihilation of western civilization
By no metric whatsoever would this be true.
acd08f No.14644005
>>14643927
But we replace old calendar systems when we discover something more accurate, easier to follow, or noticeably better in some way. Changing the years to represent these "periods of human achievement" (which, of course, would be completely subjective and decided upon by a board of "experts") would serve no function other than to satisfy your autistic butthurt towards religion or whatever. It wouldn't make recording the years easier or more accurate. It's just changing all the numbers around to reflect some new jumping-off point for no good reason other than the symbolic significance of said jumping-off point.
>By no metric whatsoever would this be true.
Well, you can say "I told you so" when it happens.
0ab35b No.14644149
>>14643927
>changed to better represent humans as a whole.
<hurr durr one race human race
t. you, an intellectual
6b51da No.14644353
>>14644005
It's a move to a more sane (not the same as human sanity) representation of human progress and an easier more straightforward way of cataloguing human achivement from the past going onwards, it would even be better and more easier to catalogue periods on their own with increasing calendar years instead starting anew each major event instead of counting backwards all of earths history which spans billions of years before 1ad. it would still remain relevant to earth as long as humans are alive, even in the case of a standardized galactic calendar a human calendar is still relevant due to the innately cloistered nature of planetary cultures and the significant divide of space.
There is of course the issue of not getting an accurate year based on when the first cultures settled due to discovering new settlements, but hey it's not like AD is accurate, jesus was born between 6-4bc.
>butthurt towards religion or whatever
Not at all, just interested in a more relevant way to catalogue history, as I stated different ages for different major periods before mankind could easily be added and it would therefore be easier to segregate eras, with a more logical upwards count beginning at each major earth changing event. It would even be easier to read, instead of throwing out the the 65 billion years bc/e or whatever you could start with an age that would then put that entire section into a better perspective relevant to the preceeding earth changing event rather than cataloguing based on an arbitary year. If you wanted to go before BC/E and segregate you would still have the issue of running into a backwards count then it missing a year and then going forwards.
fc563b No.14644785
>>14644353
>major earth changing event
What the fuck constitutes a "major earth changing event"? A meteor strike? The invention of the steam engine? Why would anyone want 500 different ways of referring to a year instead of one?
>There is of course the issue of not getting an accurate year based on when the first cultures settled due to discovering new settlements
And that is why your entire argument fails.
Fuck off and die you retarded double nigger.
6b51da No.14645360
>>14644785
>major earth changing event
Really just milestone ones that brought about significant change, we already have a listing of these and use these to describe periods of the earth already.
>your entire argument fails
Not really because we will get to a point where there will be no new ancient settlements discovered older than a certain date giving us an accurate point to place this, either way the gregorian calendar is already inaccurate, and is built around an insignificant event in human history. we could even just go for a round number for an easy conversion.
acd08f No.14646016
>>14644353
You're still missing the point… which is that there is no point to overhauling the way we number years. No point to it whatsoever.