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I saw love for AoE and AoE2 here today, so I decided it would be nice to mention the free, open-source 0ad!
The community is small and friendly, but there are always many games active at once. You can play the newest players and the absolute top players (like borg-) all in the span of a couple games
The game's completely wonderful but there are still new features added every release. Here's the link! https://play0ad.com/
EDIT: Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sy3v0PABnM
Starcraft and Starcraft II are those games that easy to learn but hard to master. It has one of the best single player campaign in RTS games, especially Starcraft I. The multiplayer though, it's already full of Korean veteran since 1998 so I'd rather not try. Oh, and Starcraft II is free-to-play! It won't hurt to try at least.
This is probably obvious, but have you tried.... Age of Empires III? I feel this is easier to play than AoE2, though I never try multiplayer. The setting is Colonial era and there are some meta-game about Home City that gives you periodical bonuses during battle, but my favorite thing about it is the graphics. Very beautiful.
0 AD was started as AoE2 modders. It's very similar to AoE2 but with some added features and in 3D. Soldiers can gather resources and many other twists. It has no single player campaign at this moment though, only multiplayer and random maps.
If you're bored with Total War there are many mods out there that offers different gameplay. I don't know which Total War game you have but there are mods from simple tweaking to historically accurate mods to mods set in Middle-Earth, Westeros, etc.
Nope. I would prefer to, but I quite enjoy Netflix, even if it means DRM and Chrome (which is generally the best browser, IMAO). Don't really play many games, but Steam and some closed-source games are nice. I think so far this year, I played ~10 hours of Postal 2, ~20 hours of 0 A.D (edit: which is open-source, and definitely worth checking out!, and ~10 hours of X-Com 2 or something like that. I also have an Xbone that I play a bit more (though not much more, due to lack of time).
I used to think that I prefer AoE 1 over AoE 2, but after I tried it recently..nope. So many QoL stuff missing, pathfinding is awful and units get stuck all the time, farms are full buildings, the start is very slow (or I just have no idea what the build order is), unit upgrades are insanely expensive to you're pretty much locked in to a strategy...
I'd recommend 0 A.D. for a game that plays in the antiques (or whatever the term is) that is still pretty similar to AoE: https://play0ad.com/
>Work on 0 A.D. began in 2001, first as a mod concept for Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.
https://play0ad.com/game-info/project-overview/
It is more than a HD remaster, so the project has probably strayed a bit from where it started out.
Also the fact that AoE 2 looks like this while 0 A.D. looks like this
J'étais passé complètement à côté de l'annonce de la sortie d'Age of Empires IV !
Après avoir lu quelques articles et vu des vidéos de gameplay, on sera beaucoup plus proches du 1 et du 2 que du 3 donc tout va bien, je suis assez impatient.
Par contre 60€ c'est vraiment pas donné.
Au passage pour les amateurs de RTS je glisse une petite pub pour <em>0AD</em> un RTS open-source dans le style d'AOE 2 et vraiment quali.
Don't get me wrong, even though I'm not a linguist as you are, I had my own share of troubles over the very same thing, working as a voluntary translator for 0 A.D., Blender and some other minor things. And I do recognize well made translations (Diablo III and Overwatch are extraordinary examples). So I can say I'm sympathetic to you, but things like these often give me bad surprises.
0 AD has 1v1 multiplayer.
It will run on that platform, and is the closest cousin to what you listed.
Stepping off into Sci-Fi puts you inline for: https://zero-k.info/ Zero K
https://play0ad.com/ "0 A.D. (pronounced “zero-ey-dee”) is a free, open-source, historical Real Time Strategy (RTS) game currently under development by Wildfire Games, a global group of volunteer game developers. As the leader of an ancient civilization, you must gather the resources you need to raise a military force and dominate your enemies."
I am on a similar quest, and it reminded me that I completely forgot about 0 A.D.. It's a free, open source, AoE-like strategy game, but it's there's still a lot of work left to be done.
>It seems like the label is keeping people like me away because they associate "alpha" with "buggy",
One could argue this association is quite wrong. An alpha status can just as well mean that the software isn't feature complete yet. Or even that all the features and goals for a "proper" release aren't decided on yet, so we're still in an experimental/exploratory phase. Which seems to be the case for 0AD.
Also this is not a commercial game that needs to be rushed to market so a publisher can hope to rake in the profits as soon as possible. The developers can comfortably keep it in whatever state they like, for as long as they like.
As others have said it shouldn't keep you from playing the game because it's great fun. And if you are so inspired you can participate in its further development. This is a fantastic feature that only open source games offer.
Probably forgot it's enforced. It's illegal pretty much everywhere, but only a few places allow rights holders to go after seeders. Torrenting got a very bad reputation in Germany because of that. The other night I was downloading 0AD (a free and opensource game) for a friend and they freaked out when they realised it was a torrent.
Meh, the game is boring P2W that sucks up too much of your time and your only legitimate chances of succeeding are if you pay or if you've been playing for ages and have lots of credits saved up from selling resources.
I'm up for something like a game of a free, open source alternative to Age of Empires called 0ad. I have a few friends that I want to play it with already.
AoE used to be the shit back in the day.
> Age of Empires 2
There's an open source free game being made as a more modern AoE2 that doesn't make the changes that the later games did.
From the site:
> 0 A.D. (pronounced “zero-ey-dee”) is a free, open-source, historical Real Time Strategy (RTS) game currently under development by Wildfire Games, a global group of volunteer game developers. As the leader of an ancient civilization, you must gather the resources you need to raise a military force and dominate your enemies.
> Work on 0 A.D. began in 2001, first as a mod concept for Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. In 2003 development moved to a standalone game with its own engine, Pyrogenesis. In 2009-2010, the game was released as free, open-source software and and much of the codebase was rewritten.
Luckily for you there is a whole website where you can learn about the game: https://play0ad.com/game-info/project-overview/
> “0 A.D.” is a time period that never actually existed: In the usual calendar, one goes from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. and skips zero. This reflects the historical fiction in the game: Who would have won if all the factions were pitted against each other when each of them was at its prime?
> L'annuncio dell'arrivo di AoE4 al Gamescom è stato il momento apice della mia settimana.
Settimana di merda, eh? ;-)
Intanto per passare tempo puoi provare 0 A. D. che ha il vantaggio di essere multipiattaforma.
Try 0 A.D. - it's the spiritual successor to AoE. It's still a work in progress, but definitely worth playing. Best if you can get a couple friends together for LAN.
Best part: it's free!
Perhaps someone should suggest it to the makers of the open source game 0 A.D. It's quite similar to AOE. While it's still in Alpha it already plays very nicely.
Or some Vive developer here could make it VR compatible. After all the game is open source...
0AD is like a modern AOE2 that takes place in the classical age, but is not endless: https://play0ad.com/
If you want grand strategy, try a Total War series game, or if you want to include up-close action in an endless campaign, play Bannerlord.
CPU (Macbook) was around 26%, it started when the "cease fire" ended. The buidling up (first 30 minutes) went smooth. All minimun requirements are met https://play0ad.com/download/ and I'm not (yet) running any mods... I'm not playing online, but my Internet Connection runs smooth (1Ghz :-))
Great list! I would like to mention 0 A.D. as well! It's a FOSS RTS inspired by the Age of Empires series (and started as a AoE2 mod).
Also, Mineclone 2 might be interresting, although I haven't tried it out yet. It's mentioned on the Minetest wiki as a game that is more faithful to the Minecraft experience.
Edit: I just downloaded Minetest and MineClone 2 seems to be a mod for Minetest. You con find it in in-game under the "Content" Tab > Browse Online Content. It's the first one that show up for me.
You should check out 0 A.D. it's an open source game from the ground up that's a lot like aoe, in fact it started as an aoe2 mod before the decided to go stand alone game with a new engine.
No single player campaign yet though.
- 0AD is a free open source RTS that is very similar to Age of Empires.
- Planetary Annihilation is a continuation of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander. Some people love it, some hate it.
- Warhammer 40K Dawn of War III is more of a return to the first DoW, but not quite as adored.
Wine is not a game, but allows you to run a lot of Windows games on a Mac (and on Linux). I installed Steam with it, and am able to play Warhammer 40K Dawn of War Soulstorm, Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander without any trouble. I have not tried it on BFME or Cossacks yet.
The closest to Warcraft III might be Ashes of the Singularity, but it's going to be a little while yet before that releases on Linux. <em>0 A.D.</em> is an RTS set in the historical era, but I've heard mixed things about the AI, so it might made a difference if you're playing single or multiplayer. <em>Battle for Wesnoth</em> is similar and also open-source, so definitely look at that one.
- My initial idea came from a game called 0 A.D. I wanted to build the Persian civic centre (number one in the image) in minecraft. I later expanded the idea and added extra things.
- You might wonder why I've chosen red and blue as a colour palette. As it turns out, Roman, Greek and I'm guessing Persian and Egyptian temples and other public buildings were painted in rather vibrant colours. Nowadays these colours have vanished resulting in our distinct idea of these buildings: white marble.
- I've used a lower than usual FOV, because I find that in combination with taking the screenshots from a distance, this results in a more realistic display.
- It's a creative build and I haven't yet decided how to fill the interior.
- Default texture pack, but optifine might have done some funky things to certain blocks.
It's not exactly Age of Empires, but for people that are interested in similar free fan-made games, I can recommend 0 A.D. It's got a similar feel and gameplay and it's such a great game overall !
There is a game speed option you can change so it takes less turns to progress through the ages etc. May be another option for you.
I did come across 0 AD the other day, I have been meaning to download it, looks like a modern age of empires, but it is free and opensource.
Game engine implementations (which require original game data being placed on a specific directory) such as scummvm and eduke32 are usually available on distro default repositories, along with some popular dated libre games like abuse, frets on fire, openttd.
And finally, for ubuntu, you have a huge game catalog available in the non-official repository http://playdeb.net with more recent (usually under development) games...
Edit: sauerbraten and 0ad are in ubuntu repos, but for 0ad you would be interested on a ppa since ubuntu takes ages to make updates, head to https://play0ad.com/download/linux/#Ubuntuprovidedpackages for more info.
I would definitely agree with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (and possibly 4, if you like that one).
Beyond that I would recommend the Age of Empires games (I only really played the first growing up, but have lots of friends who enjoyed the other 2), or Empire Earth. If you enjoy these types of games, you could also check out 0 A.D., which is a free and open source game in that vein.
Edit: I asked a friend, who also suggested any of the Age of Wonder games.
Uh... do games count?
It still amazes me that they are free and opensource. If they were paid games on steam or something, I might consider to buy them.
For personal projects, sky is the limit! And a deep well is the floor... ha
Seriously, even if it just making a PacMan game, or coding up a Raspberry Pi to turn on the bedroom light when it detects your cellphone's bluetooth is nearby during certain hours. Or whatever you might imagine! Just "something" is a good start.
As for Open Source projects, start with what interests you? Like I love RTS games, perhaps I'd like at 0AD and see where I can help?
https://play0ad.com/
Honestly even if I do zero coding and I simply just help improve the documentation on their wiki, then that's still something and better than wasting my summer doing nothing!
Hi,
This issue is purely after opening the 0AD from the application icon.
We were quite confident that it was version 25 having downloaded (both tor and direct links) from the main site: https://play0ad.com/download/mac/
Are you able to recommend another mac download link for 25?
Thanks for your quick replies!
- 0 A.D. (homepage)
- Age of Empires 4
- Carrier Command 2
- Homeworld 3
- Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age
- Starship Troopers: Terran Command
- Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail
All I've got bookmarked so far.
I always apologize for my bias, but have a look at 0AD. Its origins lie with classic AOE but it's expanded beyond that into a decent single player and very competitive multiplayer game. And it's free and open source https://play0ad.com
This game reminds me of Rise of Legends, 3 factions, Vinci, Alin, and that "protoss" like race.
The unfortunate thing is that the update server shut down and the only way to get Rise of Legends is through torrents now.
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Neverless I created an account just to comment because I am usually a lurker. I see alot of potential improvements to the game, but neverless I recommend the developers take their time and let this game mature like Starcraft 2, Age of Empire, and/or Company of Hero.
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More AI difficulties, AlphaIronHarvest sponsored by Google??
Mod support (I like to change supply/resource in Starcraft 2)
Cheat mode (Like cheat codes for PvE)
Offline/LAN play mode (Starcraft 2 even so is free2play seems to not remove that DRM.)
This game?? 0 A.D. (Open source cross platform free RTS, development is SLOW because its free.) https://play0ad.com/0-a-d-financial-report-april-2020/#more-4686
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Anyways I haven't played that game yet, but I brought the Deluxe edition to revive the RTS genre. I am willing to pay monthly fee for the games competitive scene because I don't want to see another Rise of Legends.
Those are daunting engineering work so I don't expect the developers to make those!!
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On an unrelated discussion, do you guys think EA Games has reformed C&C remastered and won't add microtransactions in the future??
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My take on microtransactions is that esports require like a constant money source and Blizzard did it with Warchest. Right now if I want to support Starcraft 2 tournaments I will have to subscribe to WardiTV.
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Aww whatever I am disorganized, but lets see if this game will mature into Company of Heros!!
>These days you can get a used RX570 for about $50-$80
It depends on the country but yes that should be doable in France with patience to find one for 65-70 USD equivalent.
Unfortunately I would like to be able to aim lower. I'm playing very occasionally like a few hours every other month. Not worth investing much on GPU and my Phenom II X4 965 though overclocked will be a bottleneck to go further and no upgrade is planed.
A Vulkan 1.1 compatible card to replace my 11 years old HD 5770 is mostly to run GTA IV and get rid of Windows partition.
I don't have much money to spend to this and every 10€ splice would feel better spent on funding 0ad for example https://play0ad.com/community/donate/
I reckon you'd actually really enjoy 0AD Empires Ascendant. You can play it on a Mac, it looks beautiful, and it's origins lie very close to Age of Empires. And it's totally free :)
There is an open source game called 0 A.D (similar to Age of Empires and Clash of Clans). And in that game you do have an option to select an Indian king (but the game only has two kings: Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka The Great). In that indian kingdom, you can produce soldiers (called Khadagdhari, Kauntika and Dhanurdhar (archer)), elephants (called Gajendra for War elephants and Karmika Gaja for worker elephant), you can heal your injured soldiers using priests (called Brāhmaṇa Pujari) etc. They specifically use indian names for those characters if you select Mauryan empire in that game. Game is pretty epic considering it is an open source game. Check it out! https://play0ad.com/
Suite aux conseils de je ne sais plus qui ici, j'ai téléchargé et installé 0.A.D., un RTS (à la Age of Empires II) libre open source yada yada.
Bon il est plus complexe qu'AoE donc je galère un peu quand même, surtout que le tutoriel est pas trèèès complet et que l'IA est, euh… sans pitié (on m'avait prévenu !).
Mais ce qui me déçoit le plus c'est l'absence de campagne :(
Pour revenir sur l'IA, concrètement soit je la mets trop haut et je suis à la traîne tout du long (pas très fun), soit je la mets bas et militairement c'est équitable, mais ils font pas de marchés et de truc comme ça, donc je peux pas ouvrir de ligne commerciale alors que je trouve ça fun.
AoE gérait beaucoup mieux ça je trouve (enfin j'ai pas beaucoup joué à 0.A.D.) donc mon expérience est pas forcément encore généralisable.
> je vais réinstaller Age of Empires aujourd'hui
Salut, si tu n'es pas réfractaire à la nouveauté je te conseille plutôt de tester 0A.D., un RTS libre dans l'idée des premiers AoE régulièrement mis à jour et avec plein d'idées novatrices.
L'IA est assez dure à battre, mais pour jouer entre amis c'est une dinguerie !
Which ever programming language you feel most comfortable with.
Building real tactics into a game of any scope is a very hard problem. There's a reason why most strategy games have shit AIs. However a few more places to look are 0 A.D. and OpenAge (AoI clone).
Don't forget the king of the hill: 0 A.D.!
"Hey we should write an open source mod for AoE!"
"Cool idea, let's do it."
"Hmm the AoE engine limits our mod development a bit. We should code an open source engine to run our mod!"
"Yeah seems logical. Let's do it!"
"Wait a second... did we just complete our own open source game?"
"Jup lol."
Hello,
would you be able to use the open source assets of the 0ad project?
https://play0ad.com/0-a-d-development-report-may-august-2019/
I'm afraid not.
However, the classic versions of Age of Empires should run just fine via Wine once it has been updated to support 64-bit, and 0 A.D. is a free, open-source alternative.
Join, play and contribute to 0AD[0], which is exactly that! It's leagues behind SC2 in terms of polish and glitz, but it's a very long-running and active open source RTS project.
Às vezes contribuo com o 0 A.D., que é um jogo como Age of Empires. Um bom ponto de partida é o forum do jogo. Não cheguei a contribuir com código, porém.
Tough call, the AoE style games tend to be during the same timeline (Rise of Nations, Age of Mythology, etc). Maybe Cossacks 3 would fit you, it's most often compared to the AoE series. 0 A.D. is a free open source game made in the AoE mold, and probably the closest you'll get in a modern game. The Total War series might be of interest but it features a deeper dive into diplomacy more so than the AoE series ever did.
In the meantime you could check out 0AD. Probably the closest you'll get to a new AOE until there's a new AOE.
Sometimes the pathing is funny, and using transport ships can have issues. Other than that it feels pretty solid.
You'll probably enjoy 0 A.D. then.
It originally started out as a mod for AoE2, and later became its own game, also incorporating some elements from Empire Earth. It's also completely free.
For the most part, I think RTS fans have largely split off and gravitated towards games that tickled their particular itches more. For real-time battles, you've got Total War. For supply chain management, you've got Factorio. For base-building, you've got Rimworld. For bigger-picture campaigns you've got Paradox's offerings; just as examples.
Traditional RTS games are made up of a variety of elements, and not many players are necessarily going to want all those elements in one package when they can get their cravings better catered to elsewhere.
You may want to check out 0 A.D. if you haven't already. It's basically a "for RTS fans, by RTS fans" open-source project.
0ad. It originally started as an age of empires 2 mod, but quickly turned into its own thing. It's been in development forever, but that's because it's a fully open source passion project.
You can download it and play it as is and it's fun, but what I like about it is just messing around with the scenario editor or turning on the dev tools, or even looking into the code and seeing what happens if I mess with stuff and how a game like that is built.
When Maxis ruined Sim City 5, Cities: Skylines was there to give players the game they wanted. I hope AoE4 will be good but if Microsoft ruins it with money grabs then another game like 0AD will step in. It wasn't a well-balanced game last time I played but it's just an example.
every time AoE is brought up, I tell people about 0 A.D., lots of people have tried and loved it
Free, open source, actively developed, tight-knit community with 6-10 multiplayer games running at any single time. you really can't get a better modern AoE-style rts
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Xonotic isn't that heavy, I've met people ingame saying they are playing on rasperry pis. I've never played 0 AD but the required specs they list aren't very heavy either: https://play0ad.com/download/
I've used nouveau with 980 Ti, and if I remember that worked nicely for 2d games and xonotic without me noticing any big difference, but it couldn't take AAA 3d games natively supported in gnu/linux.
Might want to check if you need to install some sensor software or fancontrol stuff to make the card quiet down, but I don't know if that's even possible, never had any problems with that myself.
Maybe check out https://github.com/foucault/nvfancontrol though I doubt that will work with nouveau, but it might.
There’s an open source version of this game called 0 A.D. that’s still in development. It’s pretty much a full fledged game already, though. It looks like it may shape up to be even better.
The story of this game is interesting since it actually started out as a mod for Age of Empires 2.
0 AD is an open source version of classic RTS games like Age of Empires II, totaly worth a try. I still love AOE2 and 0 AD is the closest thing to a spiritual successor out there (sorry Age of Empires III)
Link: https://play0ad.com/
Civ V has been said to run fine by most of the low end folks around here.
Or
Northgard: http://store.steampowered.com/app/466560/Northgard/
Rebuild 3: http://store.steampowered.com/app/257170/Rebuild_3_Gangs_of_Deadsville/
0 AD (kinda RTS, kinda 4x and Free!) - https://play0ad.com/
Also, to illustrate the graphics difference (thanks doom_Oo7):
AoE 2: http://k41.kn3.net/taringa/6/8/2/6/2/9//tequila28/84F.jpg?3776
0 A.D.: https://play0ad.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/scaffolding_1080p.jpg
I' m not sure how welcome, or ill-considered this will be on /r/Tulpas, buu..
I would like to issue a plug on behalf of my patronage to the 'Church of EMACS' (a meme, if you look it up), as follows:
I'd recommend "Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead" as a brutally mortal (you will die; Dark Souls difficulty) rpg-inspired rogue-like, and Ryzom as an aged fantasy-isolate (otherworldly; Morrowind detail) mmorpg.
I'll also recommend 0 A.D., OpenTTD, Terrasology, and Xonotic, as very evolved clones of Age of Empires, Sims, Minecraft, and Halo respectively that have distinguished themselves.
But, most importantly, I recommend all these because they are free cultural works and won't be accomplice to our proprietary software overlords further enslaving us. ;)
Edit: Here lies, links-galore!
Https://libregamewiki.org/Cataclysm:_Dark_Days_Ahead
0 A.D comes to mind. It's free but in an early alpha stage so YMMV.
If you could get him to dual boot windows, there's Age of Empires II HD, Grey Goo, and the Dawn of War series.
I know you said you're looking for something different, but in case you missed it, Starcraft just became free and the remastered version is coming up in Q2.
0 A.D. It is very good community driven game. It is similar to age of gameplay. It is free to play. It has many historical different factions, different units, buildings for each factions etc...
Maybe we will get some official expansions one day, but I doubt, that we will see a second installment any soon, if at all.
Have you tried out " 0 A.D." ( https://play0ad.com/ ) ? It is a free open source game like age of empires. Although still in development, it is plays fairly well already.
I'll give a plug to 0 AD - doesn't tick all the nostalgia buttons but it's a great open sourced take on an AOE style formula, with some cool changes (your soldiers are also citizens and can work as vils)
0 A.D., a free open source RTS in the style of the first Age of Empires, has pretty nice graphics. You're not exactly creating an empire, but since you mentioned the AoE series, I thought you'd like this game.
I'd also include stuff like 0ad, the GRIT engine, and more notably, the massive modding communities around games like GTA and Elder Scrolls.
Edit: Also, I'm not saying that everything has to be FOSS all the time, just that I don't like how much pressure comes out of the venture-backed startups and massive companies trying to seize control of something. When VR becomes huge I want people to discover things for themselves and to explore things they personally want to explore. I don't want one company building what they think consumers want, and then having most people end up there.