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0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

by mfsch on 8/8/21, 4:01 PM with 27 comments

  • by cl42 on 8/8/21, 5:08 PM

    This game is awesome. I also love that they have support for reinforcement learning[1]. I wish all the research in RL and video games was on open source games. Slight bias on my end. :)

    [1] https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedReinforcem...

  • by mdaniel on 8/8/21, 5:22 PM

    Nice of them to include torrents, and I long for the day when the browser speaks it natively, choosing to seed for as long as the page stays open, as a good start

    I like both the tone and the content of the torrent FAQ page they made, too: https://play0ad.com/download/bittorrent-faq/

  • by philipswood on 8/8/21, 4:46 PM

    This game changed my mind about what is possible for an open source game.

    I'm also wondering when they will stop calling it alpha.

  • by ransom1538 on 8/8/21, 4:47 PM

    Hats off to the 0ad team. It is a great game with a fun AI to play against. Give it a try - however, it is pretty addicting.

    Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install 0ad

  • by heavyset_go on 8/8/21, 5:52 PM

    This is one of my favorite games. It's what AOE III should have been.

    I still think there should be some kind of Kaggle competition for training AI on this game.

  • by ummonk on 8/8/21, 4:36 PM

    We always see Hellenized / Romanized versions of other lands (e.g. "Persia", "India", "Africa") so it's nice to see the release nickname reference the eastern name for Ionia.
  • by YakBizzarro on 8/8/21, 5:12 PM

    I should give it a try again, last time the AI beat me so badly every try...
  • by squarefoot on 8/8/21, 7:38 PM

    I liked it a lot, however to me after the earliest scenarios it becomes really hard even at lowest difficulty levels, so I pretty much gave up on it until the low difficulty lower levels become playable by non gamers like me.

    A very different, way simpler, but easier and still enjoyable game is Megaglest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaGlest

    The homepage seems dead these days though. I hope they didn't abandon the project.

  • by Koshkin on 8/8/21, 7:15 PM

    Contrary to what some people might say, there was no zeroth year.
  • by kwere on 8/8/21, 9:26 PM

    Does someone know of a clone in paradox style?
  • by dmos62 on 8/8/21, 5:55 PM

    Can someone recommend a game that has challenging AI? An example would be Starcraft 2.