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Combat is very indirect with no direct control over any units and thus there is virtually no tactics other than trying to man your posts with more better equipped and better trained soldiers. Conflict arises because said point is usually in an opposing faction's territory and you have to take it by force. The game is better described as a base builder / city builder game with the goal of expanding one's own territory to cover a certain goal point. Widelands is pretty much a clone of Settlers II and stays close to its formula, including the graphical presentation which keeps the ca. Has anyone played both Widelands and 0 A.D.? How do they compare?ĭisclaimer: I loved the original Settlers II a ton as a kid and it still has a special place in my heart. has lots of C (24%) and some JavaScript (6%). Beyond that, Widelands has lots of Lua (27%) and some Python (3%). uses GitHub as a mirror for its main Trac deployment.
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Screenshots show Widelands has much simpler graphics.ĭevelopmentally, Widelands seems to use GitHub as its main source code repository and issue management system, whereas 0 A.D. It seems Widelands focuses more on economics and transport, and maybe less on combat. Overviews from the games' respective sites are, LibreGameWiki articles are, and source code repos are. lightly for about five years, and am excited to learn of another FLOSS RTS! I did a quick comparison of Widelands and 0 A.D. I will admit that my eyes glossed over when I first started the game and looked at all the new part types I had to learn though. Lots of meaningful trade-offs, with no "best solution".
In BTA/Roguetech you can take an XL engine to shave off a lot of weight, but that means your mech will die if you lose your side torso.
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In vanilla, you just optimize for free tonnage, and can put jump jets on everything, so there are just a few chassis in each weight class that are strictly optimal for most roles this makes it quite boring as there's little reason to pick other chassis. I really enjoy the MWO-style mech customization that both of these add (the mod) one critique I have of vanilla Battletech is that they simplified the mech construction mechanics a lot, and stripped out some of the tradeoffs that make mech design interesting in the canon. (Plus there's lots of difficulty sliders so you can probably tweak it to be about as forgiving as vanilla). It's definitely tougher, but not as impenetrable as Roguetech is. I can heartily recommend BattleTech Advanced if you don't want to go as far as Roguetech. Does anyone in the industry (or otherwise) have insight into what's holding us back here? In summary, I'm surprised at how few OSS games there are considering how much effort goes into modding.
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But could you get 80% of the way there in 10 developer-years if you strip out some of the features the mods eschew like story content? Plus, with Patreon, these days it seems viable for a small number of developers to work full-time on niche content like this.
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One issue is that most OSS games I've seen build an engine from scratch, which is fun but a massive time sink I wonder how much of this is due to professional engines having OSS-incompatible licenses? I noticed that Unreal Engine 4 was made open-source (royalty-based licensing, not FOSS) which might be compatible with an OSS free game?Īnother aspect is that it's just a lot of work to build an A-tier game (not even considering AAA) but with a good engine this floor is being reduced over time Battletech for example was I believe on the order of 100 developer-years of effort, which is huge for an open source project.
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I do wonder how far we are from having the default "community driven game" be implemented from the ground up in open source instead of being implemented as a mod on top of a closed-source commercial game. I've been thinking about this recently - there's a healthy mod community around the tactics game Battletech (Roguetech being the most expansive mod, but there are many others) and the modders all seem to agree that the base game is quite janky under the covers it's not a deep simulation nor is it graphically advanced, yet it suffers from poor performance, and it's also awkward to mod in some places, since there are some things that you just can't change with mods.
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