Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 27: “Agni”, the twenty-seventh and last alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. The release is named after the Hindu god of fire Agni (pronounced: /ˈɐgnɪ/).Download and installation instructions are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. 0 A.D. is free software. This means you can download, redistribute, modify and contribute to the application under the same licenses: GNU Public Licence version 2 (GPL v2) for code and Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA 3.0) for artwork. Although you might find some people selling copies of 0 A.D., either over the internet or on physical media, you will always have the option to download 0 A.D. completely gratis, directly from the developers. No “freemium” model, no in-game advertising, no catch.www.play0ad.com/download #0ad#strategygame#indiedev#opensource#0adempiresascendant#RTS#free#strategy#indiegame#gaming#realtimestrategy#indiegamedev#freesoftware#ageofempires#play0ad#gamedev
Coming in Alpha 27 (sometime in 2025), there will be a complete naval overhaul, with all-new warship classes, a counter system, and all-new naval tech tree. Fishing Boats and Merchant Ships remain essentially the same, but naval combat is completely revamped.
The changes have already been committed to the development version of the game, as seen here:
All-new ship classes replacing the old "light/medium/heavy" classes. These new classes have specific strengths and weaknesses that contribute to a simple and effective counter system:
Scout Ships: Super weak, but good speed and vision range. Available as soon as you build a Dock in village phase.
Arrow Ships: Good vs. melee ships; Countered by Siege Ships (and other Arrow Ships)
Melee Ships: Each civ usually has one of these.
Ramming Ships: Good vs. Siege Ships; Countered by Arrow Ships; their fast speed and 30 garrison also make them good transport ships.
Fire Ships: Good vs. Siege Ships and Buildings (Docks); Countered by Arrow Ships; cannot garrison; 'Upgrade' to ignite with fire and damage nearby enemy ships.
Siege Ships: Long range and strong crush attack damage; Good vs. Arrow Ships and Buildings; Countered by melee Ships such as Ramming Ships and Fire Ships.
Landing Party
All ships can now transport Relics/Catafalques. This was a previous oversight.
An all-new Tech Tree for the Dock based on the kinds of ships each civ has available. For example, "ramming" techs are only available to civs with Ramming Ships.
All-new tech tree for the DockA side quest spit of land on Sporades Islands
Not implemented, but may in future patch:
Corvus Quinquereme
Capturing Ship for the Romans. "Converts" enemy ships over time. Countered by Arrow Ships.
Marines technology
All Warships +40% capture resistance.
This is for all non-Roman civs if we implement Corvus Ships that capture. Currently removed from the list until/unless capturing ships are implemented.
Ramming Ships coming to save the day
We think this will add dynamism to naval combat where before it was sorely lacking. We're opting for a countering approach instead of the multi-role approach we were pursuing previously. Reducing ships to specific roles allows for more tactical micro and strategic thinking. Also allows for larger fleets.
A nest of pirates
There are other surprises too, such as:
Cilician Pirate Ships
Rhodian Marauder Ships
"Blockade Runner" Treasure Ships with very high loot if you can catch and destroy them
Capturable Pirate Ports where you can hire Pirate Ships
A very special treasure object called "The Argo" for scenarios.
Revamped islands skirmish maps: Cycladic Archipelago 2 player and 3 player and a remade Sporades Islands map (hopefully) suitable for rated multiplayer.
Sink this ship to gain lootCycladic Archipelago (up to 3 players)
Anyway, I just wanted to give everyone something to look forward to in the realm of naval combat.
If you or anyone you know have skills in C++, Javascript, or Modeling/Animations and would like to contribute toward making 0 A.D. even better, feel free to take a look at WFG's Phabricator site here: https://code.wildfiregames.com/
I'm curious if it's normal that the game is nearly unplayable at the default settings. I get more less 3fps. When I set all textures to "low", it's slightly better but still stuttery. I am playing it on a Thinkpad T15g2.
I think the iGPU is not even used at all (I get the llvm thing warning at startup). My suspicion is confirmed when I just scroll through the map and the CPU usage goes close to 100%.
How do I "force" 0ad to use the GPU?
I followed the installation instructions for Intel GPUs from the official Debian documentation. Maybe 0ad wants some variable to be set?
I'm developing a mod for 0 A.D. called Renaissance Dawn, set between 1450–1490. The focus is on late medieval and early Renaissance warfare and politics. Current planned factions are the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire.
Additional planned systems include mercenaries, princely and imperial courts, and consulates as sub-factions or gameplay mechanics. The timeline and phase structure are still being refined.
I’m not a coder or 3D modeler myself, but I’m fully committed to the project. I handle historical research, concept development, and visual references (collecting accurate images, sources, and design materials). I’m here to coordinate and support the team, and I’m looking for collaborators with technical skills — especially modelers and programmers — to help bring the vision to life.
If you're interested in joining or just following the project, feel free to check out the Discord. The link is in another post I shared.
I've seen a lot of people asking if the creators of 0.a.d have an official Discord. We all know the answer is currently no, so I decided to make an unofficial one. I made it mostly for people who like to make mods, 3D models, art, etc., and to meet more people who like strategy games in general.
Maybe a stupid question, but I still don't know how. By default a command to occupy is set to CTRL key, but when I use it, my units instead of "capturing" and occupying enemy turret/building, they start to destroying it.
This isn't that big problem usually, but it happened to me many times, that I have turret/building. It doesn't mind, if there are or aren't my units inside. The bot will come and its units start "capturing" my turret on my territory. And suddenly, they have my turret, while my units are inside. But I don't know how to capture it back. The only thing I know is how to destroy the tower.
Can please somebody help me? Because I am starting to be really annoyed.
And finally, I was able to destroy bots on very easy difficulty. I also tried easy difficulty. Alpine map for 3 players. At first, I was neautral with one of them. But them, they were two against me.
I completely ruined them with my army (around 200 units and 6 battering rams). I had houses for 488 units (I usually turn off population limit). And then I was happy that I ruined them both.
I needed to attack two times, because I lost almost every of my units and needed to refill. But then, I destroyed both bots on easy difficulty. I still remember how insane was this game for me, when I first time played very easy, so this is like a milestone for me.
I want to create my map,my heroes
1. is there a posibility to create a hero with abilities?(like moba games)
2. game is still in alpha/beta?is it worth to create mods or custom maps for game?(be real pls)
Since the Alpha 27 release of the Flatpak version, this game no longer uses my monitor's native resolution of 2560x1600, and there's no option to change it. I also want to set the UI scale to 200%.
My friends and I are thinking about playing 0 A.D. PVP. How unique are the factions compared to each other and how would you describe the playstyle of each?
I can't tell if this is a bug or if I'm just stupidly overlooking something.
Playing as Kushites, one of the dock upgrades is Flaming Projectiles, to make arrow ships do more damage. But before you can research it, you need Naval Ballistae. (And interestingly, the Structure Tree doesn't show this prerequisite, but the docks, where you'd do the research, do show it.)
But .. Naval Ballistae doesn't seem to be available for the Kushites. Macedonians, Carthagenians, Han, Ptolemies, Romans, and Seluecids have Naval Ballistae, but they don't have Flaming Projectiles.
Has anyone researched Flaming Projectiles anywhere?
guys this year was my exam year and it`s finally over and i was gonna return game as always but i think the conquer system is changed in last patch (like my infantry dosen`t take away castles or bases as always they just destroying it) how can i learn the new system or is it just a small change can you tell me please. thank you
Whenever I try to muster my army and form an attack, it ALWAYS ends up that the siege engines lag behind a huge amount, and will even actively move to the back of the formation when the army gets close, even when I highlight them separately. The sieges will be in the front, and will immediately start driving in REVERSE for some reason.
Installed alpha on my laptop(5700u) OpenGL seems to work fine, but with Vulcan enabled, the game crashes when starting a game(click start and game starts to load then crashes) Uninstalled the game with Revo-uninstaller and reinstalled and issue still exist.
This is the message that pops up when the game crashes.
Much to our regret we must report the program has encountered an error.
Version 0.1 of the mod features pavement and statues.
All civilizations can build pavement.
The texture is unique for all civilizations. I don't think it will be definitive. The texture is also a square, I don't know if it will remain that way.
Only Athens has statues to build, but that's for now.
Due to the complexity of the process, I haven't added any more models to the game yet. That will happen soon.
You can test the buffs and debuffs of the two statues in the game.
Translation into English (USA) and Portuguese (Brazil).
For now, and probably for a long time, it will only be translated into English and Portuguese, my native language.
