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Posted September 11, 2014
Any of you guys try it out? It's pretty great, reminding me of how playing a Age Of Empires game for the first time feels.

It will be Freeware, and Open Source even when it goes to stable. It's already better then alot of games you have to pay for

Give it a shot if you haven't.

http://play0ad.com/
Post edited September 11, 2014 by sturryz
Posted September 11, 2014
I'm fairly certain there was no 0 AD year. From 1 BC we jumped directly to 1 AD.
Posted September 11, 2014
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HijacK: I'm fairly certain there was no 0 AD year. From 1 BC we jumped directly to 1 AD.
It's the secret hidden year.
Posted September 11, 2014
Its great! And the graphics are awesome! I can get it running at 35+fps with using barely 1 and a half od my six cores. So when they implement multithread-optimization, it'll be LEGENDARY. There are some unit/building power issues (it still takes a looooong time to build any building), but they'll fix that. And also considering it has more playability than most post alpha post beta releases makes me happy as well.

The main difference between it and AoE(2 WHICH IS THE BEST) ahmmm is that 0AD is more defense oriented while AoE2 is very offense oriented.
Posted September 11, 2014
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Shadowstalker16: Its great! And the graphics are awesome! I can get it running at 35+fps with using barely 1 and a half od my six cores. So when they implement multithread-optimization, it'll be LEGENDARY. There are some unit/building power issues (it still takes a looooong time to build any building), but they'll fix that. And also considering it has more playability than most post alpha post beta releases makes me happy as well.

The main difference between it and AoE(2 WHICH IS THE BEST) ahmmm is that 0AD is more defense oriented while AoE2 is very offense oriented.
Kinda like the slow build, since infantry can build just about anything, and your gonna be making lots of them, and the high population cap in general.
Posted September 11, 2014
Yeah, and military can gather as well, which will have interesting applications. Still, for an AoE2 player, waiting more than 30s for a house is difficult.............
Posted September 11, 2014
I've been following (no so closely) the development of this game for some time now, and I believe it will be a great piece of entertaining software once it reaches v1.0.
Haven't tried it yet, as I generally avoid spending any time (other then peeking XD) on anything that's not at least called "finished".
Posted September 11, 2014
This sounds very interesting, even for an unfinished game.

Downloading now, adding to backlog.

Thanks for the heads up :D
Posted September 14, 2014
The graphics are sublime, anyone disagree? XD
Posted September 14, 2014
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HijacK: I'm fairly certain there was no 0 AD year. From 1 BC we jumped directly to 1 AD.
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sturryz: It's the secret hidden year.
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Posted September 14, 2014
Are they planning on finishing this? I first heard about this project about the time that I found out about GOG, IIRC. I do admire their conviction though.
Posted September 14, 2014
It slowly grew form an AoE2 mod 10+ years ago to an independent game, and now they have their own engine(which is great) and they've released the alpha. So we can expect it to come out in 1-3 years(as slowly as it evolved) but we'll get a really polished game, and hopefully it uses a MP client and not Steam so we can have it here on GOG, or at least play it DRM-free.
Posted September 14, 2014
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Shadowstalker16: It slowly grew form an AoE2 mod 10+ years ago to an independent game, and now they have their own engine(which is great) and they've released the alpha. So we can expect it to come out in 1-3 years(as slowly as it evolved) but we'll get a really polished game, and hopefully it uses a MP client and not Steam so we can have it here on GOG, or at least play it DRM-free.
The alpha's been out for at least 4 years, it would be nice if it comes out in a few years, but given that it's been in development since 2000 and with code starting in 2003, I'm not optimistic about it being done any time soon.
Posted September 15, 2014
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sturryz: Any of you guys try it out? It's pretty great, reminding me of how playing a Age Of Empires game for the first time feels.

It will be Freeware, and Open Source even when it goes to stable. It's already better then alot of games you have to pay for

Give it a shot if you haven't.

http://play0ad.com/
Only if there´s hay! :P
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